WikiLeaks to release more war files

Australian founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange,
holds up a copy of the Guardian newspaper during
a press conference in London in July 2010.

Source: Press TV
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WikiLeaks says it will publish the last batch of classified documents on the Afghan war within weeks, despite the Pentagon's efforts to stall the release.

The whistle-blower website is planning to release 15,000 more classified files on the Afghan war, which the Pentagon says will be even worse than WikiLeaks' initial release of some 76,000 war documents.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has warned of the "potentially very severe" consequences the release of the documents may have on American and allied soldiers as they "convey a huge amount of information about our tactics, techniques and procedures" which the Taliban and al-Qaeda may take advantage of.

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, however, told reporters in Sweden on Saturday that "this organization will not be threatened by the Pentagon or any other group."

"For the Pentagon to be making threatening demands for censorship of a press organization is a cause for concern, not just for the press but for the Pentagon itself," Assange told AP.

He further pointed out that WikiLeaks will be working with media partners in releasing the remaining documents.

According to Assange, all the documents will be reviewed "line by line" and the names of "innocent parties" will not be disclosed.

While no country has tried to shut down WikiLeaks, Assange says some countries, including Australia and the UK, have been gathering intelligence on the organization.

This comes after over 76,000 secret military files containing highly confidential information about the US-led war in Afghanistan were published last month.

The documents included accounts of how the coalition forces had killed or wounded Afghan civilians in unreported attacks.

Assange argues that the US secret war files show a systematic pattern of criminal behaviors by the US military forces.

Meanwhile the United States is scared that these documents will put their national security at risk.

Gilani lashes out at Cameron's stance

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani



Source: Press TV
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has dismissed remarks by his British counterpart that Islamabad is guilty of exporting terrorism.

In an address to Pakistan's Senate on Thursday, Gilani noted that his government will take up the issue with Britain via diplomatic channels.

He also sharply criticized David Cameron's remarks questioning Pakistan's sincerity in the war on terror, saying that US-led NATO forces could not bring peace in Afghanistan. The prime minister pointed out that the sacrifices of Pakistani armed forces personnel in war-battered Afghanistan are much greater than those of the multinational force.

"They should assist for capacity building of our law enforcement agencies. Such a criticism would cast negative impact on war on terror," Gilani said.

Cameron risked provoking a diplomatic row with Pakistan on Wednesday when he came close to accusing Islamabad of exporting terrorism.

“We should be very, very clear with Pakistan that we want to see a strong, stable and democratic Pakistan," Cameron said.

“We cannot tolerate in any sense the idea that this country is allowed to look both ways and is able, in any way, to promote the export of terror, whether to India or to Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world," Cameron said in a speech to Indian business leaders in Bangalore, India.

In the past, Britain had warned against the threat of terrorism that emanates from Pakistan. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown once said that the bulk of the threat of terrorism to Britain came out of Pakistan's restive tribal regions near the Afghan border.