Wired: Taliban Pays Its Troops Better Than Karzai Pays His

Are the Taliban shelling out more money for their fighters than the U.S. and the international community are for Afghan security forces? The American military says no, and e-mails the chart below to make its case. But it’s not the most persuasive document. And it’s undermined by one of the reports in WikiLeaks’ trove of war logs. [more...]

New York Times: The War Logs

Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports to be made public Sunday. [more...]

Spiegel Online: Die Afghanistan-Protokolle

The Guardian UK: The Afghanistan WAR LOGS

WikiLeaks: Kabul War Diary

Wired: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe - Geheimes Irakvideo - Armee Analyst verhaftet -

Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. [more...]

Spiegel Online: Ex-Hacker soll WikiLeaks-Quelle an Militär verpfiffen haben