15-08-2010, 08:28 AM
This probably qualifies for inclusion in Research Tools as well. An impressive search and browse site for the entire afghan War Diaries database:
As an aside, WikiSpooks has had several hundred visits from Arrse (Army Rumour Service) forum readers following an updated Richard Tomlinson article. I couldn't help but notice the traffic and so did them a special article gleaned from the Wilileaks Afghan database - a bit of UK squaddie humour or a ministerial death threat?
Interesting that most come from the thread that discusses the Tomlinson article, but a small subset come from a page that is accessible by administrators only - Hmmm, maybe they think I'm a bloody subversive or something. :afraid:
Quote: DiaryDig.org is an independently produced website which provides an easy way to search through the Afghan War Diaries, which were made public by Wikileaks on 25th July 2010. The documents are a set of over 76,000 reports (with more coming in the future) which cover the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2009.All the usual cautions apply but I've cross-checked a few entries with my own Wikileaks download and they tally exactly. Also - the software is open source with what appears to be a thriving forum community linked from the site.
From here, you can browse through all of the documents that have been released, organized by type, category, date, number of casualties, and many other properties. From any document page, clicking on the green underlined text will open a popup that links to other documents that contain those phrases, making it possible to see important search terms and connections that you might not otherwise notice.
Our hope is that this tool will be helpful to reporters and researchers who are interested in learning more about the US's war in Afghanistan and making sense of this important database. If you wish to support this work, we encourage you to make a donation to wikileaks or the Bradley Manning legal defense fund.
As an aside, WikiSpooks has had several hundred visits from Arrse (Army Rumour Service) forum readers following an updated Richard Tomlinson article. I couldn't help but notice the traffic and so did them a special article gleaned from the Wilileaks Afghan database - a bit of UK squaddie humour or a ministerial death threat?
Interesting that most come from the thread that discusses the Tomlinson article, but a small subset come from a page that is accessible by administrators only - Hmmm, maybe they think I'm a bloody subversive or something. :afraid:
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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