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Pakistan Spy Service Aids Insurgents, Reports Assert — Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan's military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington …
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wikileaks.org:
Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 — 25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary (AWD), an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. — The reports, while written by soldiers …
Guardian:
Massive leak of secret files exposes the real war in Afghanistan — • Hundreds of civilians killed by coalition troops — • Covert unit hunts leaders for ‘kill or capture’ — • Steep rise in Taliban bomb attacks on Nato — • Read the Guardian's full war logs investigation
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New York Times:
Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan — This article was written and reported by C.J. Chivers, Carlotta Gall, Andrew W. Lehren, Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, and Eric Schmitt, with contributions from Jacob Harris and Alan McLean.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
W.H. condemns ‘irresponsible’ leaks, dismisses stories — The White House responded swiftly and sharply to publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents painting a bleak picture of the Afghanistan war, calling the leak “irresponsible” and saying that the source …
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Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
WikiLeaks Drops 90,000 War Docs; Fingers Pakistan as Insurgent Ally — Turns out “Collateral Murder” was just a warmup. WikiLeaks just published a trove of over 90,000 mostly-classified U.S. military documents that details a strengthening Afghan insurgency with deep ties to Pakistani intelligence.
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New York Times:
Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish — The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports — records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan — that were made public on Sunday on the Internet.
David Leigh / Guardian:
Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths
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Alana Goodman / NewsBusters.org:
Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish-Dominated Media’ Prevents Hitler from Being Portrayed ‘in Context’ — Director Oliver Stone belittled the Holocaust during a shocking interview with the Sunday Times today, claiming that America's focus on the Jewish massacre was a product of the “Jewish domination of the media.”
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TheAustralian:
White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi — THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya. — Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
W.H. deploys operatives to Fla. to boost spill response — BP negotiates Hayward exit - Donna Brazile, Maureen Dowd: Obama needs more outreach — Matt Miller gift to groomsmen: Johnny Cash cufflinks — Good Sunday morning. THE SHOWS, on FAST FORWARD: — ANDREW BREITBART is referred …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Who Cooked the Planet? — Never say that the gods lack a sense of humor. I bet they're still chuckling on Olympus over the decision to make the first half of 2010 — the year in which all hope of action to limit climate change died — the hottest such stretch on record.
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Alexander Marlow / Big Government:
Shirley Silenced: Sherrod Shut Out of Sunday Talk-shows — She was likened to a modern day Rosa Parks or Nelson Mandela, but the former Ag official, according to the Washington Post, was not interviewed on a single major Sunday morning talk-show following a week that can only be described as a Shirley Sherrod media frenzy.
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES — Did Media Jump the Gun on Shirley Sherrod Story? ; Vast Left- Wing Conspiracy? ; Race and the Media — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Let's face it. Nobody looked good in the firing of Shirley Sherrod.
Agence France Presse:
White House denies Obama to holiday in Spain — WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House denied reports from Spanish media that US President Barack Obama and his family would take a holiday early August in the posh southern Spanish resort city of Marbella. — A White House official told AFP …
Darren Goode / The Hill:
Dean calls Fox News ‘absolutely racist’ for aiding Sherrod ouster — Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean accused Fox News of promoting racism, including in the recent fracus over the Obama administration's forced resignation of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod.
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