Documents show darker side of conflict‎ - The Financial Times

This commentary, published in the New York Times, is one of the most chilling strands in the torrent of 75,000 documents released by WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing website, that give a raw, uncensored picture of six years in America’s longest war.

The documents also shine a light on a darker side of the conflict normally fought beyond public scrutiny, detailing the covert activities of US special forces and the growing role – and fallibility – of aerial drones.
Some of the most embarrassing revelations for the US military concern reports of civilian casualties that were never made public. -- Yet the documents reveal cases of Afghan civilians dying singly or in pairs in mistaken shootings at check-points or in cross-fire that have stirred deep alienation from US forces, once seen as liberators. .... More
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