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WikiLeaks Leaves Names of Diplomatic Sources in Cables
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: August 29, 2011


A sampling of the documents showed that the newly published cables included the names of some people who had spoken confidentially to American diplomats and whose identities were marked in the cables with the warning “strictly protect.”

State Department officials and human rights activists have been concerned that such diplomatic sources, including activists, journalists and academics in authoritarian countries, could face reprisals, including dismissal from their jobs, prosecution or violence.

Since late 2010, The New York Times and several other news organizations have had access to more than 250,000 State Department cables originally obtained by WikiLeaks, citing them in news articles and publishing a relatively small number of cables deemed newsworthy. But The Times and other publications that had access to the documents removed the names of people judged vulnerable to retaliation.

WikiLeaks published some cables on its own Web site, but until the latest release, the group had also provided versions of the cables that had been edited to protect low-level diplomatic sources. ...........................>>>>.........................................>>>>.................................http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/us/30wikileaks.html?_r=1

Pfc Bradley  Manning is in jail for giving this video to wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CollateralMurder.ogv

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WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says
dead children in ishaqi iraq



This cell phone photo was shot by a resident of Ishaqi on March 15, 2006, of bodies Iraqi police said were of children executed by U.S. troops after a night raid there. A State Department cable obtained by WikiLeaks quotes the U.N. investigator of extrajudicial killings as saying an autopsy showed the residents of the house had been handcuffed and shot in the head, including children under the age of 5. McClatchy obtained the photo from a resident when the incident occurred. |

By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers

A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi.

The unclassified cable, which was posted on WikiLeaks' website last week, contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials, who demanded some kind of action from their government. U.S. officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred.

But Philip Alston, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said in a communication to American officials dated 12 days after the March 15, 2006, incident that autopsies performed in the Iraqi city of Tikrit showed that all the dead had been handcuffed and shot in the head. Among the dead were four women and five children. The children were all 5 years old or younger...............................>>>>..............................>>>>..............Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122789/wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-us.html#ixzz1WhLdgBmG

We will probably never know who did this. This info doesn't prove it was on of our troops. Sad story anyways, war is hell, I wish we would get out of all these othe countries.

I chose to believe that this is just a 'set up'. If these kids were shot in the head...........where is all the blood?

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I chose to believe that this is just a 'set up'. If these kids were shot in the head...........where is all the blood?

this is an ' old ' story too- but you can fine better pics and video on youtube showing the bullet holes - even with the father crying while holding his child

Sorry.....still don't buy it!