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enthalten würden. Nach Darstellung des Guardian haben die US-Militärs insbesondere Berichte über Folter, Vergewaltigung und Mord ignoriert, die von irakischen Truppen und der irakische Polizei ausgingen. Insgesamt sollen über 300 Vorfälle dieser Art dokumentiert sein. Auch sollen die Einsatzberichte der US-Truppen belegen, dass Gegner getötet wurden, obwohl sich diese zuvor ergeben hatten. In einer ersten Reaktion auf die Veröffentlichung der Dokumente hat US- Außenministerin Hillary Clinton empört reagiert. Der Schritt gefährde Leben, erklärte sie. Die nationale Sicherheit der USA und die ihrer Verbündeten seien bedroht. Genau diesem Eindruck traten die Journalisten des Guardian auf der Pressekonferenz entgegen. Zitiert wurde ein Brief des US-Verteidigungsministers Gates zu den Afghanistan-Dokumenten, in denen dieser die Veröffentlichung als Harmlos einstufte. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikileaks-veroeffentlicht-Irak- Protokolle-1124155.html 3433/2010 --------------------------------------------------------------- SPIEGEL: Echo eines verdrängten Kriegs --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (SPIEGEL) Hunderttausende geheime US-Militärprotokolle zum Irak-Krieg sind enthüllt - WikiLeaks-Gründer Assange weist alle Vorwürfe zurück, mit dieser Veröffentlichung Menschenleben zu gefährden. Die US-Regierung ist trotzdem verärgert. Kann die Aktion eine neue Debatte über die Grauen des Feldzugs auslösen? (a) http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,724880,00.html (b) Die Irak-Protokolle im SPIEGEL: http://www.spiegel.de/thema/irak_protokolle_2010/ 3434/2010 --------------------------------------------------------------- Guardian: Iraq war logs: secret files show how US ignored torture --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Guardian) A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes. Almost 400,000 secret US army field reports have been passed to the Guardian and a number of other international media organisations via the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. The electronic archive is believed to emanate from the same dissident US army intelligence analyst who earlier this year is alleged to have leaked a smaller tranche of 90,000 logs chronicling bloody encounters and civilian killings in the Afghan war. The new logs detail how: • US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers whose conduct appears to be systematic and normally unpunished. • A US helicopter gunship involved in a notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after they tried to surrender. • More than 15,000 civilians died in previously unknown incidents. US and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties ACIPSS-Newsletter 43a/2010 2
exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities. The numerous reports of detainee abuse, often supported by medical evidence, describe prisoners shackled, blindfolded and hung by wrists or ankles, and subjected to whipping, punching, kicking or electric shocks. Six reports end with a detainee's apparent death. (a) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/22/iraq-war-logs-militaryleaks?utm_source=lalatube+blog&utm_medium=facebook (b) Iraq War Logs at the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraqwar-logs 3435/2010 --------------------------------------------------------------- NYT: In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks ‘Transparency’ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (New York Times) WikiLeaks.org, the online organization that posted tens of thousands of classified military field reports about the Afghan war on Sunday, says its goal in disclosing secret documents is to reveal “unethical behaviour” by governments and corporations. The trove of war reports posted Sunday dwarfs the scope and volume of documents that the organization has made public in the past. WikiLeaks withheld some 15,000 documents from release until its technicians could redact names of individuals in the reports whose safety could be jeopardized. WikiLeaks’ critics range from the military, which says it jeopardizes operations, to some open government advocates who say the organization is endangering the privacy rights of others in favour of self promotion. (a) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/26wiki.html?_r=5 (b) The War Logs at the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html 3436/2010 --------------------------------------------------------------- Al jazeera: The Secret Iraq Files, Interactive --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (aljazeera) IED use dropped off markedly in 2008 and 2009, with only about 12,000 of the devices detonated over that two-year period. Their effectiveness plummeted as well: IEDs killed slightly more than 5,300 people during those two years, according to the leaked documents, down from nearly 17,000 in the previous two-year period. The decrease doesn't appear due to better American tactics, since the number of IEDs found and cleared each year remains roughly proportional to the number detonated. Instead, it seems to be a consequence of the generally improved security situation in Iraq: As the insurgency waned, it planted fewer bombs. http://english.aljazeera.net/secretiraqfiles/2010/10/20101022172059236587.h tml ACIPSS-Newsletter 43a/2010 3
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