Category: War

  • Martin Adler: The War Reporter – Telegraph

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    Martin Adler: The War Reporter A documentary about the photojournalist and filmmaker Martin Adler, who was murdered in Somalia in 2006. via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8028060/Martin-Adler-The-War-Reporter.html The 52 minute documentary film by director Thomas Nordanstad is almost exclusively based on raw footage, rushes and DV tapes from the reporter’s camera, building up narrative stories with elements that…

  • Military thwarted president seeking choice in Afghanistan

    Military thwarted president seeking choice in Afghanistan

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    Military thwarted president seeking choice in Afghanistan Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/26/AR2010092603766.html?wprss=rss_world President Obama was on edge. For two exhausting months, he had been asking military advisers to give him a range of options for the war in Afghanistan. Instead, he felt that they were steering him toward one outcome and thwarting his search for an exit plan.…

  • Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by WikiLeaks | Threat Level

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    Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by WikiLeaks A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed. The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever oc via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/iraq-war-docs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29 The documents…

  • Afghanistan: Whistleblower Claims Many US Interpreters Can't Speak Afghan Languages – ABC News

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    Exclusive: Whistleblower Claims Many U.S. Interpreters Can’t Speak Afghan Languages More than one quarter of the translators working alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan failed language proficiency exams but were sent onto the battlefield anyway, according to a former employee of the company that holds contracts worth up to $1.4 bi via ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/afghanistan-whistleblower-claims-us-interpreters-speak-afghan-languages/story?id=11578169 “There…

  • Watching a Teenage Girl Die by Mortar in Afghanistan – Lens

    Watching a Teenage Girl Die by Mortar in Afghanistan – Lens

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    Watching a Teenage Girl Die by Mortar In war, emotions run high. Adam Ferguson has found that can help as well as hinder, Eirini Vourloumis reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/watching-a-teenage-girl-die-by-mortar/ Adam Ferguson believes that facing difficult moments honestly — without emotionally separating himself from the situation at hand —yields more engaging photographs. Easy to say?…

  • Embedded with troops in Afghanistan – Framework

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    By Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times Cameras. Check. Passport. Check. Bullet proof vest.  Check. And so it begins. My ninth trip into Afghanistan, a captivating country where I’ve now spent about two years of my life. Link: Embedded with troops in Afghanistan – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles…

  • The Face That Launched a Thousand Drones? – The Vigilante Journalist

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    The much talked about August 9 Time magazine cover, unabashed in its aim to shore up support for the war effort in Afghanistan, has left many still shaking their heads in disbelief at such brazen exploitation of a woman’s suffering. It’s not the first time the plight of Afghan women has been used to manipulate…

  • In Afghanistan, a Personal Perspective – Lens

    In Afghanistan, a Personal Perspective – Lens

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    In Afghanistan, a Personal Perspective Dima Gavrysh spent several weeks embedded with the United States Army in Afghanistan last summer. He spoke to James Estrin about his experience. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/showcase-197/ Dima Gavrysh, who was born in Ukraine, is a New York-based photographer. He has photographed for a number of major publications worldwide and…

  • Rolling Stone reporter Afghan embed approval rescinded | dvafoto

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    Rolling Stone reporter Afghan embed approval rescinded

  • Afghanistan, July, 2010 – The Big Picture

    Afghanistan, July, 2010 – The Big Picture

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    Afghanistan, July, 2010 This past month, much of the attention focused on Afghanistan centered on the release of thousands of classified documents from the war effort by WikiLeaks. While the consensus appears to be that nothing significantly new was revealed by the release, the via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/afghanistan_july_2010.html This past month, much of the attention focused…

  • Op-Ed – Protecting America’s Afghan Allies

    Op-Ed – Protecting America’s Afghan Allies

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    Opinion | No Afghan Ally Left Behind How to learn from our failure to help our Vietnamese friends. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/opinion/31topping.html?_r=1 A TALIBAN spokesman announced Thursday that the group is poring over the tens of thousands of classified military documents published by WikiLeaks this week, looking for the names of pro-American Afghans. As in the past,…

  • Insurgent Leader On WikiLeaks: Now You Tell Us | Danger Room

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    Insurgent Leader On WikiLeaks: Now You Tell Us There’s been a lot of talk about the danger posed by WikiLeaks’s disclosure of tens of thousands of military documents from Afghanistan. But so far, our cyber-sleuths aren’t seeing a lot of chatter on the Takfiri side of the internet. One notable exceptio via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/insurgent-leader-on-wikileaks-now-you-tell-us/ so…

  • Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: "largest intelligence leak in history"

    Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: "largest intelligence leak in history"

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    Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: “largest intelligence leak in history” An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghani… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/25/wikileaks-releases-c.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 An archive of classified U.S. military logs…

  • The War Logs – NYTimes.com

    The War Logs – NYTimes.com

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    The War Logs – WikiLeaks Documents Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html A trove of military documents made public on Sunday by an organization called WikiLeaks reflects deep suspicions among American officials that Pakistan’s military spy service has for years guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from…

  • Unembedded in Saddam’s Iraq – At War

    Unembedded in Saddam’s Iraq – At War

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    Embedistan: Unembedded in Saddam’s Iraq I didn’t want the Pentagon to write this story like a screenplay, with expert scene-setting, and the temptation, irresistible in conflict, to manipulate reality. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/unembedded-in-saddams-iraq/ I didn’t want the Pentagon to write this story like a screenplay, with expert scene-setting, and the temptation, irresistible in conflict,…

  • Speak No Evil: A Post-McChrystal Press Clampdown – At War

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    So I started to chat up soldiers. Just as I had finished the formalities of name, age, rank and hometown with a young private from Michigan, I was interrupted by an officer who explained that a handful of soldiers had been chosen to speak to the press, and that the remainder of the group was…

  • Embedistan – At War

    Embedistan – At War

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    Embedistan What skeptics fear is that reporters come to identify with the military to such an extent that they no longer have the will, even if they have the means, to report bad news. Whether conscious of it or not, they self-censor. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/embedistan-2/ What such skeptics fear is that reporters come…

  • Remembering the Korean War, 60 years ago – The Big Picture

    Remembering the Korean War, 60 years ago – The Big Picture

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    Remembering the Korean War, 60 years ago This Friday, June 25th, it will have been sixty years since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950. After decades of Japanese occupation, Korea was divided in two by Allied Forces at the end of World War II, with the south administered by the U.S. and th…

  • Uzbin Valley – VII

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    Eric Bouvet: Deep within the treacherous terrain of the Uzbin Valley, young soldiers of the French International Security Assistance Force had a mission to fulfill: to take the valley, the same valley that saw a dozen French soldiers killed in an ambush by Afghan militants in August 2008. During the course of six months, the…

  • “Restrepo” and the Imagery of War – Lens

    “Restrepo” and the Imagery of War – Lens

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    ‘Restrepo’ and the Imagery of War With the premier nearing of his documentary, “Restrepo,” Tim Hetherington takes time to talk with Michael Kamber about the future of photojournalism. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/behind-44/ The documentary “Restrepo,” directed by Mr. Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, will open Friday. Last week, Mr. Hetherington sat down with Mr. Kamber in…