WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs': 'I Enjoy Crushing Bastards' -- Spiegel Online
In a SPIEGEL interview, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, 39, discusses his decision to publish the Afghanistan war logs, the difficult balance between the public interest and the need for state secrets and why he believes people who wage war are more dangerous than him.
SPIEGEL: You are about to publish a vast amount of classified data on the war in Afghanistan. What is your motivation?
Assange: These files are the most comprehensive description of a war to be published during the course of a war -- in other words, at a time when they still have a chance of doing some good. They cover more than 90,000 different incidents, together with precise geographical locations. They cover the small and the large. A single body of information, they eclipse all that has been previously said about Afghanistan. They will change our perspective on not only the war in Afghanistan, but on all modern wars.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
What the WikiLeaks Documents Really Reveal -- Leslie H. Gelb, Daily Beast
Pakistan coverage of US issues -- Huma Yusuf, Dawn
Stalled help for Pakistan -- Washington Post editorial
Why Arab regimes don’t do more -- Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post
Lawrence Of Eurabia? -- Rashmee Roshan Lall, Times of India
The Spies Were No Joke -- Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Foreign Policy
The START debate -- Washington post editorial
Black Sea challenge by U.S. set to keep Russia on edge -- Sentaku Magazine
U.S. falls short in helping Mexico end its drug war -- Jackson Diehl, Washington post
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