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WikiLeaks near release of secret US war documents (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

File - The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington, in this March 27, 2008 file photo. The WikiLeaks website appears close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history — hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In a message posted to its Twitter page on Thursday Oct. 21, 2010, the organization said there was a 'major WikiLeaks press conference in Europe coming up.' (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - The WikiLeaks website appears close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history — hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports…

Documents suggest Demjanjuk link to 2nd Nazi camp (AP)

August 11th, 2010

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2009 file picture defendant John Demjanjuk lies on a stretcher, prior to the second day of his trial in the country court in Munich, southern Germany. A German judge ordered John Demjanjuk to appear in court on Monday Aug. 9, 2010 for his trial over allegations that he was a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, despite the 90-year-old's complaints about health problems. The former Ohio auto worker was informed Monday morning that he was being ordered to attend the trial, presiding judge Ralph Alt said. Demjanjuk is on trial on charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp. (AP Photo/Christof Stache,File)AP - A German historian on Wednesday presented evidence at the trial of John Demjanjuk that suggested he worked as a guard at the Nazis’ Flossenbuerg concentration camp.


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WikiLeaks: Group vows to put more documents online (AP)

July 26th, 2010

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a press conference in London Monday July 26, 2010. Assange said Monday he believes there is evidence of war crimes in the thousands of pages of leaked U.S. military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. The remarks came after WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing group, posted some 91,000 classified U.S. military records over the past six years about the war online, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings and covert operations against Taliban figures. (AP Photo/Lizzie Robinson, PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - It has no headquarters and its public face — a wiry, silver-haired Australian with a physics Ph.D. — carries his desktop computer in a backpack as he moves…

WikiLeaks: More US documents coming on Afghan war (AP)

July 26th, 2010

An Afghan soldier stops a mini bus as a U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) checks its passengers during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - The release of some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on the Afghanistan war is just the beginning, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promised Monday, adding that he still has…

WikiLeaks says evidence of war crimes in documents (AP)

July 26th, 2010

An Afghan soldier stops a mini bus as a U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) checks its passengers during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says there appears to be evidence of war crimes in the thousands of pages of leaked U.S. military documents relating to the war in…

Russia posts Katyn massacre documents on Internet (AP)

April 28th, 2010

AP - Russia’s state archives posted documents on the Internet for the first time Wednesday about the Soviet Union’s World War II massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers and…

Documents of Auschwitz death camp doctors found (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

FILE - In this file photo of Wednesday April 22, 1998, young Israelis walk under the sign at Auschwitz concentration camp reading 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' (Work sets you free) during a tour of the site. A Polish court on Thursday, March 18, 2010 convicted three men of the theft of the notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December. The men, two of whom are brothers, were given prison sentences ranging from 18 months to 2½ years. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File)AP - Food coupons for some of the notorious Nazi doctors at the Auschwitz death camp — including perhaps the sadistic Dr. Joseph Mengele — have been found in the…

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