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By not in system - AOL NewsSEATTLE -- Graphic photos showing U.S. troops and dead Afghans that the Army was keeping under wraps for a war crimes probe were carried by a German news organization Monday, with one showing a soldier smiling as he posed with a bloodied and partially clothed corpse. The photos published by Der Spiegel were among several seized by Army investigators looking into the deaths of three unarmed Afghans last year. Five soldiers based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle, have been charged with murder and conspiracy in the case. Der Spiegel did not return calls seeking comment Monday, and ...
Julian Assange: Sex Criminal or Political Refugee?
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyWikiLeaks creator Julian Assange appeared before a London court Tuesday fighting extradition to Sweden on charges of "sex by surprise." He's been accused by two women of taking consensual sex and turning it into nonconsensual sex, of pushing women past their point of comfort, of forcibly having sex without a condom. His lawyers, who are fighting extradition, claim that sending him to Stockholm means condemning him to illegal rendition by the United States to prison in Guantanamo Bay or, even, to death row. Assange, for his part, claims no wrongdoing. He claims this is a set up, orchestrated by ...
Germany Knew Eichmann's Hiding Place Years Before Capture
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsAfter 15 years on the run, justice finally caught up with Adolf Eichmann on May 11, 1960. The Nazi war criminal -- who organized the deportation of millions of Jews to death camps in German-occupied Poland -- was kidnapped outside his Buenos Aires home by Mossad agents and brought to trial in Israel. He was found guilty of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962. But Eichmann's capture needn't have been so long in the making. German newspaper Bild this weekend published a secret service document that revealed West German intelligence officials knew about his Argentine hideout as early as ...
US Tries to Contain Damage From Leaked Cables
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WASHINGTON (Nov. 29) -- The release of more than 250,000 classified State Department documents forced the Obama administration into damage control, trying to contain fallout from unflattering assessments of world leaders and revelations about backstage U.S. diplomacy. The publication of the secret cables amplified widespread global alarm about Iran's nuclear ambitions and unveiled occasional U.S. pressure tactics aimed at hot spots in Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea. The leaks also disclosed bluntly candid impressions from both diplomats and other world leaders about America's allies ...
Leaking of Secret U.S. Cables Sparks Diplomacy Crisis
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- A large batch of secret American diplomatic cables over the past three years offers an unusual look at back-channel discussions by embassies around the world, unflattering views of world leaders and stark evaluations of nuclear and terrorist threats, The New York Times reported Sunday. The disclosures in the Times and four other major world news organizations could fuel a worldwide diplomacy crisis with the United States at its center. "It is nothing short of a political meltdown for U.S. foreign policy," said Der Spiegel, the German publication that, like The Times, obtained the ...
WikiLeaks 3: New Docs May 'Wreak Havoc,' Pentagon Warns Congress
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 24) -- Will it be any worse this time? On Tuesday, officials at the Pentagon briefed members of Congress on the imminent release of a new trove of classified U.S. government documents set to be made public by WikiLeaks, the European-based watchdog group. The potentially dangerous intelligence information could be made public through The New York Times, Der Spiegel (Germany), Al-Jazeera and The Guardian (U.K.) as soon as Friday. The number of documents that Julian Assange's group plans to expose to public view is said to dwarf the 400,000 pages released in October that dealt with the ...
WikiLeaks Iraq: The 4 Most Shocking Revelations So Far
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(Oct. 22) -- WikiLeaks today released nearly 400,000 classified U.S. military documents from the war in Iraq, the largest such leak in American history. The documents were simultaneously sent to The New York Times, The Guardian newspaper in Britain, the Arabic TV network Al Jazeera and Germany's Der Spiegel. The news organizations immediately began scouring the documents for potentially damning information. The Pentagon decried the release. "We deplore WikiLeaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the ...
WikiLeaks' Biggest Document Dump Yet Coming Monday: What to Expect
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 15) -- It's happening again ... only bigger. On Monday, the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks will release nearly 400,000 pages worth of classified U.S. Army documents on the war in Iraq, making it the single largest military leak in U.S. history. The number of documents will dwarf the 77,000 pages of sensitive material on the war in Afghanistan that WikiLeaks released in July. In preparation for the arrival of the as-yet-unspecified material, the US military has set up a 120-person task force to begin reviewing a cache of classified documents it believes might be found in what ...
WikiLeaks Mastermind Julian Assange: Evil Genius or Visionary Hacker?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyAs they said about John Galt in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged:" Who is Julian Paul Assange? He is, of course, the lean, tall, and pale 39-year-old Australian master hacker at the white-hot center of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and, after revealing thousands of secret Afghan battlefield reports this week, the subject of investigation by U.S. authorities. By now we've heard quite a bit about the Assange mystique and his cutesy-named website. WikiLeaks devotes itself to obtaining and posting secret government documents and information from unidentified sources. With WikiLeaks' heightened ...
Leaks Give Ground-Level Account of Afghan War
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 25) -- Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures. The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks posted the documents on its website Sunday. The New York Times, London's Guardian newspaper and the German weekly Der Spiegel were given early access to the documents. The White House condemned the document disclosure, saying it "put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk." In a ...
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