* Polish intelligence warned of Taliban attack on Indian embassy in Kabul
* NYTimes dedicates "The War Logs" Blog to leak featuring updated responses.
* The New York Times has created a detailed summary of the documents and provided an explanation on how they pieced the reports together and decided what to publish.
* US Elite Unit - Task Force 373 Targeted Assassination Squad - Could Create Political Fallout for Berlin (Der Spiegel)
* Afghanistan war logs: Task Force 373 - special forces hunting top Taliban
* Security Advisory Gen. James Jones on Wikileaks Leak
* Statement of John Kerry, Chair Senate Foreign Relations Comm:
"However illegally these documents came to light, they raise serious questions about the reality of America's policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan. Those policies are at a critical stage and these documents may very well underscore the stakes and make the calibrations needed to get the policy right more urgent."
* Newsweek: The Pentagon Papers, Redux
* Antiwar.com: Bradley Manning's Gift
* The 7 Most Shocking Secrets from the Wikileaks Files
1) Pakistan's spy service, according to revealed documents, is a major supporter of insurgents in Afghanistan, allowing its members to meet secretly with the Taliban, offering strategy advice, organizing groups to fight coalition troops, and plotting the assassinations of members of the Afghan government.
2) A top-secret group of American forces, nicknamed the "black" unit, is specially tasked with hunting down top Taliban leaders and either killing or capturing them on the spot--without a trial. The Obama administration has apparently increased the missions even though some have gone awry, killing civilians.
3) NATO troops are relying on remote-controlled Predator drones more and more heavily, controlling them from a base in Nevada and using them to kill an increasing number of Taliban targets.
4) The Taliban has access to heat-seeking missiles and has used them against American aircraft, a fact never before disclosed publicly. Many of the missiles aren't successful, but Americans are forced into dangerous retrieval operations when the missiles crash, so that Taliban do not recover them.
5) Several documents detail the frustrating disappearance of money meant for humanitarian aid, such as the case of an orphanage erected with much fanfare and donations in Gardez. A year after its opening, American visitors reported that there we no orphans at the site, and that many had been called home for the holidays. (In Afghanistan, an orphan is defined as having no father, but many still have mothers.)
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