August 14, 2010 8:59 AM

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Afghan war logs: US warns Wikileaks against further release

In the United States, Pentagon has renewed pressure on whistleblower site Wikileaks not to release new secret documents on the Afghan war. The Australian founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange said the website planed to release a final batch of 15,000 classified files on the Afghan war. Wikileaks last month released 76,000 classified documents about the war, which included accounts of civilian casualties and purported links between Pakistan's intelligence service and Afghanistan's Taliban. Media rights group 'Reporters Without Borders', which has supported some past work by Wikileaks, has criticised the website saying that revealing the names of people working with the coalition forces could put lives at risk . White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said all of the documents leaked by the website have been troubling.

August 14, 2010 8:59 AM

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Afghan war logs: US warns Wikileaks against further release

In the United States, Pentagon has renewed pressure on whistleblower site Wikileaks not to release new secret documents on the Afghan war. The Australian founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange said the website planed to release a final batch of 15,000 classified files on the Afghan war. Wikileaks last month released 76,000 classified documents about the war, which included accounts of civilian casualties and purported links between Pakistan's intelligence service and Afghanistan's Taliban. Media rights group 'Reporters Without Borders', which has supported some past work by Wikileaks, has criticised the website saying that revealing the names of people working with the coalition forces could put lives at risk . White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said all of the documents leaked by the website have been troubling.

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