that's how Julian Assange founder of Wikileaks will have fundamentally changed the face of the war in Afghanistan, which will not be another 'Vietman'. It can be expensive to fight for one's beliefs. But even if the data is no longer available (the server is there, but 1,6 MB out of 75 MB downloaded) on the wikileaks site. Surely dozens of other channels will be happy to serve the 75MB of documents, documents which are currently dissected and analyzed by all the press. Too bad the link is no longer active, because Internet users could have participated in their analysis. Because there is apparently information that involves the French army. Once again the technical censorship is active.
Site specializing in the publication of official documents, mainly of American origin, Wikileaks has just uploaded a huge file containing an incredible amount of secret documents downloadable here (note, the compressed file is 75 MB!) on the war in Afghanistan. There are more than 91! This leak is an event of historic dimensions. It will undoubtedly have effects comparable to those produced by the publication of the Pentagon Papers by the New York Times in 1971. Of diplomatic and military origin, these documents recounted the explosive underside of relations between the United States and Vietnam, and had been "released" by Daniel Ellsberg, an analyst at the Rand Corporation.
The publication, 39 years later, of the War Diaries will in turn be a milestone, not only by its massive appearance, but also by the illustration it provides of this reality: most of the secrets, including the most considerable are only temporary. In the United States, of course...
The ambivalent Pakistan
It will probably take months for specialized analysts to dissect all of these documents. But, as of Sunday, the New York Times raised the most controversial element: the confirmation of the central role of the Pakistani secret services in supporting the Afghan insurgents. The reality is this: on the one hand, Pakistan and its leaders are officially part of the "Western" camp seeking to support the reconstruction of a viable state in Afghanistan, and receive more than a billion dollars a year of the United States. And on the other hand, secretly, the very active Pakistani secret services, the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), help and finance the insurrection, when they do not lead it directly.
The documents show in particular that the Deputy Director of the CIA, Stephen Kappes, provided Pakistani leaders with evidence showing that the ISI had helped to organize the attack against the Indian Embassy in Kabul on 7 July 2008. Result: 41 dead and dozens injured. The following month, the ISI was plotting to have President Hamid Karzai assassinated by the Taliban... Currently, the ISI is "working" to actively support Afghan warlords Jaluluddin Haqqani and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The latter is considered to be the organizer of the Uzbin ambush in August 2010, which caused the death of ten French soldiers. He would also be involved in the kidnapping of two French journalists, Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier.
source: The Point
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