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http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/

WikiLeaks today released over 75,000 secret US military reports covering the war in Afghanistan.

The Afghan War Diary an extraordinary secret compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reports describe the majority of lethal military actions involving the United States military. They include the number of persons internally stated to be killed, wounded, or detained during each action, together with the precise geographical location of each event, and the military units involved and major weapon systems used.

Nine British soldiers have died there [AFGHANISTAN] in the last seven days, taking the total to 307. June has become the worst month for NATO  
fatalities since the war began, and if you're a British soldier  you are four times more likely to be killed than your US  counterpart (see http://bit.ly/9vr3AE ).

The father of Richard Hollington, the 300th British soldier to be  killed, asked the question that arises every time another  fatality is reported: What for? Robin Hollington wants an  explanation from David Cameron and defence secretary Liam Fox to  justify his son's death

(SEE ITV interview on the Stop the War home page: http://bit.ly/14uRwZ ).

The almost comical sacking of General Stanley McChrystal, the US  commander in Afghanistan, is just one more sign of Nato's utter  
disarray, but Obama and Cameron used the occasion to stress that  there would be no deviation from McChrystal's patently failing

Dozens of Afghan schoolgirls fell ill after a suspected poison gas attack on their school, local authorities said today, blaming the incident on the Taliban who oppose education for girls.

Provincial police chief Abdul Razzaq Yaqubi said about 48 girls and several teachers became ill suddenly and many collapsed after smelling poison gas at the school in the northern city of Kunduz, where there has been an upsurge in insurgent violence.

Mr Yaqubi blamed the Taliban for the attack.

"I was in class when a smell like a flower reached my nose," said Sumaila (12), one of the girls hospitalised after the attack. "I saw my classmates and my teacher collapse and when I opened my eyes I was in hospital," she said.

Azizullah Safar, head of the Kunduz hospital, said many of the girls were still suffering from pain, dizziness and vomiting.

The Taliban banned all education for girls when they ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001 and it remains a disputed issue in much of Afghanistan.

Similar attacks have been carried out in other parts of Afghanistan over the past few years, including areas where there is little Taliban presence. Mr Yaqubi said 20 girls had fallen ill in a suspected poison attack on another Kunduz school last week.

Amid increasing civilian deaths and resurgent warlordism, Afghan women's leader Malalai Joya writes that Hamid Karzai and the US are losing credibility in Afghanistan day by day.

By Malalai Joya | Daily Beast | 21 April 2010

Almost every day, the NATO occupation of our country continues to kill innocent people. Each time, it seems, military officials try to claim that only insurgents are killed, or they completely deny and cover up their crimes. The work of a few courageous journalists is the only thing that brings some of these atrocities to light. Full Story >>>