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A brief history of Wikileaks
Al-Qaeda:
- revealed how Iran devised suicide weaponry for Al-Qaeda use in Iraq
- detailed Al-Qaeda’s use of chemical weapons in Iraq
- revealed Al-Qaeda’s deadly exploitation of children in Iraq
- shown how US-funded Iraqi militias switched their allegiance to Al-Qaeda
CIA & Guantanmo Bay:
- revealed how the CIA kidnapped an innocent German and tortured him for months, then attempting to stop Germany from arresting its operatives
- showed how the U.S. tried to thwart Spanish probes into Gitmo torture and CIA ‘extraordinary rendition’ cases
- clarified the terms of operation at Guantanamo Bay, one of the most controversial detention centers in the world
- revealed how the CIA and Hillary Clinton ordered U.S. diplomats to spy on UN leadership, even collecting DNA data
Afghanistan:
- revealed the previously unreported deaths of four Canadian soldiers at the hands of U.S. friendly fire in Afghanistan
- exposed hidden logs of the Afghanistan war showing high rates of civilian casualties and other facts previously denied by the US
- revealed hundreds of significant Afghanistan war incidents that were hidden by the U.S. government
Iraq:
- The WikiLeaks Iraq war logs have caused the UN to urge for a full U.S. torture investigation
- revealed how U.S. forces killed hundreds of innocent civilians at checkpoints in Iraq
- released a video showing a U.S. army helicopter slaughtering Reuters journalists and Iraqi children in cold blood
- exposed a U.S. chopper that slaughtered surrendering Iraqis after ruling that surrendering to a helicopter was “illegal”
- revealed how U.S. soldiers used Iraqi civilians as human bomb detectors
- revealed how U.S. troops were specifically ordered to turn a blind eye to torture in Iraq
- exposed how the U.S. pressured Spain to drop the case of a cameraman that was killed in a 2003 attack on journalists in Baghdad
- shown how U.S. troops repeatedly failed to detail civilian deaths in Iraq, even in large-scale seiges
- detailed December 2006, the bloodiest month in Iraq’s war, with 103 civilians dying every day
- revealed allegations of U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners even after Abu Ghraib
- convinced the European Parliament to form a transatlantic inquiry into torture cases in Iraq
- convinced the UN to call for investigations into human rights violations
- revealed more than 15,000 civilian deaths in Iraq that had previously been concealed by the U.S. government
Internationally:
- exposed 217 cases of UN peace-keepers being accused of sexually abusing and impregnating girls in eastern Congo
- revealed the National Socialist Movement’s neo-nazi internal workings
- revealed covert Australian Internet censorship
- ended the corrupt rule of the Arap-Moi family in Kenya
- revealed how Trafigura, an African oil company, caused widespread illness through a toxic gas dump
- revealed illegal government wiretapping in Canada
- uncovered the truth behind Iceland’s 2009 financial crisis, bringing many corrupt managers to justice
- revealed how scientists manipulated global warming research data in order to make it seem more consequential
AND WHILE DOING ALL THIS:
has never exposed a source and has provided lawyers and financial backing for the trial of alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning.
(This post is a summary of all the information I could find on sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com)
