The Guardian
August 24 2010
with Marie Louise Sjolie
Swedish prosecutors say they hope to announce today whether they will pursue two cases of alleged sexual assault involving Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks.
Prosecutors say they are considering a complaint of sexual molestation from Ms A, who has previously been an active supporter of Assange. They say they [...]
The Guardian
July 26 2010
A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.
The disclosures come from more than 90,000 records [...]
The Guardian
July 26 2010
Behind a screen of misinformation, the Nato coalition in Afghanistan have been using an undisclosed ‘black’ unit of special forces, Task Force 373, to hunt down targets for death or detention without trial. Details of more than 2,000 senior figures from the Taliban and al Qaeda are held on a ‘kill or [...]
The Guardian
July 26 2010
The Americans have known for weeks that they have suffered a haemorrhage of secret information on a scale which makes even the leaking of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war look small by comparison.
The Afghan war logs, from which the Guardian reports today, consist of 92,000 internal records of actions by [...]
May 3 2010
The Guardian
David Cameron’s close adviser, Andy Coulson, last night came under ferocious attack after the disclosure of new evidence of the News of the World’s role in the illegal interception of the royal household’s voicemail messages during his time as editor.
The evidence is contained in the outline for a book which was planned [...]
