The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks posted some 91,000 U.S. military records of six years of the war

Описание: (26 Jul 2010) HEADLINE: Wikileaks: 'War crimes' evidence in Afghanistan
CAPTION: The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks posted some 91,000 U.S. military records of six years of the war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings and covert operations against Taliban figures. (July 26)
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London, England - 26 July 2010
1. Wide of news conference, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds up the Guardian newspaper, UPSOUND: Assange talking about amount of coverage given to the story in the Guardian newspaper, and in Der Spiegel (German weekly magazine)
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder
"So, this is the story of the war since 2004. And, like most of the accidents that occur on the road are as a result of cars, not of buses, most of the deaths in this war are as a result of the everyday squalor of war, not the big incidences. That said, of course, there are reports with high kill counts."
3. Cutaway journalists
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder
"We have no reason to doubt the reliability of these documents. We should say what they don't include. They don't include top secret reports. They don't include most reports from US special forces. They don't include reports by the CIA. They don't include reports by other coalition partners. However, they do include the majority of regular US Army activity. And where regular US Army overlaps in the activities of other forces in Afghanistan, it includes reports about their activities."
5. Wide of news conference
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder
"The US Army is an enormous boat that is extremely hard to turn around, and the cover-up of those sorts of crimes begins at the bottom and moves its way to the top. So it is quite hard to enact a new policy and have it filter down to a change in practice. A new policy by Obama does not mean a change of practice the US military, any more than a new policy by (US General Stanley) McCrystal meant a change in practice by US forces."
7. Wide of news conference
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FILE: Tangi Valley, Afghanistan - 28 April 2009
8. Wide of US soldiers entering Tangi valley
9. Afghan villagers looking at soldiers patrolling
10. Close-up of US soldier pointing his gun, focus to bushes
11. US soldiers pointing their guns, taking position on a wall
By Associated Press Writer@
LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says there appears to be evidence of war crimes in the thousands of pages of leaked U.S. military documents on the war in Afghanistan
The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks on Sunday posted some 91,000 U.S. military records of six years of the war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings and covert operations against Taliban figures.
Assange told reporters Monday "it is up to a court to decide really if something in the end is a crime. That said ... there does appear to be evidence of war crimes."
He said what's been reported so far has "only scratched the surface."
The White House, Britain and Pakistan have all condemned the documents' release.
(The Associated Press) (from Broadcast News Ltd.) 7/26/2010 8:18 AM

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