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## Re: Der Spiegel on Iraq War Logs

Released on 2012-02-28 15:00 GMT

Email-ID | 968422
Date | 2010-10-23 00:55:13
From | marko.papic@stratfor.com
To | analysts@stratfor.com
List-Name | analysts@stratfor.com

So what is new about that? Abu-G has already been detailed. Besides, what
is US going to do about Iraqi on Iraqi?
On Oct 22, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Sean Noonan <sean.noonan@stratfor.com> wrote:
Humanitarian-wise the Iraqi prisoner abuse will be one of the big
issues. Al-J points out FRAGO 242 and FRAGO 039, fragmentary orders
that require not reporting or reporting prisoner abuse by Iraqi security
forces. The above sample from the documents mentions them.
DET ABUSE SUMMARY
Date
May 16 2005, 1115
Type/Category
Other/Other
Location
Al-Musayab, Babylon (MND-C)
Coordinates
32.9061584473, 44.1552238464,
Summary: This is the first mention of fragmentary order (FRAGO) 242,
which prohibits US forces from conducting any more than a preliminary
investigation of alleged detainee abuse, unless coalition forces are
allegedly involved. (The order can be overridden by higher headquarters,
but there is little evidence that it was in more than a handful of
cases.)
NO COALITION FORCES WERE AWARE OR INVOLVED IN THE ABUSE. IRAQI ON IRAQI
DETAINEE ABUSE SUMMARY 3 18 MAY 2005
1. IRAQI ON IRAQI (NO US FORCES PERSONNEL WERE INVOLVED) NOTE: MNCI
FRAGO 039 DTD 29 APRIL 2005 HAS MODIFIED FRAGO 242 AND NOW REQUIRES
REPORTS OF IRAQI ON IRAQI ABUSE BE REPORTED THROUGH OPERATIONAL
CHANNELS. INCIDENTS OF DETAINEE ABUSE COMMITTED BY IRAQI FORCES FALL
WITH MNF-IS CCIR #8. REPORTING WILL BE MADE USING THE FORMAT ATTACHED TO
MNCI FRAGO 039. PROVIDED THE INITIAL REPORT CONFIRMS US FORCES WERE NOT
INVOLVED IN THE DETAINEE ABUSE, NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION WILL BE
CONDUCTED UNLESS DIRECTED BY HHQ.
ACTION REQUIRED: INITIAL REPORT FORWARDED TO HHQ. ACTION TAKEN: INITIAL
REPORTS FOR ALL OF THE INCIDENTS DESCRIBED BELOW ARE ATTACHED AND WILL
BE FORWARDED TO MNCI.
A. DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT INVOLVING DETAINEE #0484: DETAINEE #0484,
[REDACTED], WAS RECEIVED AT RDF KALSU BY GYSGT QUIROZ AT APPROXIMATELY
0915, 16 MAY 2005. SND WAS TRANSPORTED TO RDF KALSU BY [REDACTED] OF B
CO. 1-155 INFANTRY FROM FOB ISKANDARIAYAH. SND WAS BROUGHT TO THE RDF
KALSU WEARING A SLING ON HIS LEFT ARM. SND WAS MEDICALLY EXAMINED BY HM3
BELIN WHO FOUND SND HAD HIS LEFT ARM HYPER-EXTENDED BY IRAQI POLICE. NO
COALITION FORCES WERE INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT. GYSGT QUIROZ REPORTED
THE INCIDENT TO 1ST LT VARGAS, OIC, RDF KALSU. SND STATED THAT HE WAS
CAPTURED BY IRAQI POLICE ON 13 MAY 2005 AND TAKEN TO THE MUSAYYIB POLICE
STATION WHERE HE WAS BEATEN BY IRAQI POLICE.
B. DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT INVOLVING DETAINEE #0487: DETAINEE #0487,
FASIL ALI KLAB WAS RECEIVED AT RDF KALSU BY GYSGT QUIROZ AT
APPROXIMATELY 0915, 16 MAY 2005. SND WAS TRANSPORTED TO RDF KALSU BY SFC
WILLIAMS OF B CO, 1-155 INFANTRY FROM FOB ISKANDARIAYAH. SND WAS BROUGHT
TO THE RDF KALSU WITH BRUISES TO HIS BUTTOCKS. SND WAS MEDICALLY
EXAMINED BY H
On 10/22/10 5:43 PM, Sean Noonan wrote:
Al Jazeera first video:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/20101022202210771944.html
On 10/22/10 5:40 PM, Sean Noonan wrote:
10/22/2010
The WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs
Greatest Data Leak in US Military History
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,724845,00.html
In the greatest leak in the history of the United States military,
WikiLeaks plans to publish 391,832 classified documents on the Iraq
on the Internet. The field reports from soldiers cast a new light on
the war -- documenting in a unique way how the highly armed American
military was helpless in the conflict for years. By SPIEGEL Staff
First there were hundreds of thousands of documents from the
Afghanistan conflict, and now there are hundreds of thousands from
the Iraq war. WikiLeaks intends to publish a massive collection of
internal war logs from the United States military early Saturday
morning. They include some 391,832 field reports from US soldiers
from a Pentagon database. Taken together, they represent a kind of
diary of the Iraq war between 2004 and 2009.
DER SPIEGEL, the London Guardian and the New York Times have
analyzed and reviewed the documents together with other media
sources. As was the case with the around 77,000 Afghanistan war logs
published by WikiLeaks in July, SPIEGEL has taken every measure
possible to ensure that lives are not put at risk. This includes
redacting the names of those individuals who could be targeted for
revenge or of those places at risk of being targeted for collective
reprisals. The danger publication of the reports could create for
informants and soldiers in Iraq is the primary concern of the US
government, which is currently seeking to take action against
WikiLeaks.
"We deplore WikiLeaks for inducing individuals to break the law,
leak classified documents," the Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff
Morrell told SPIEGEL (see the box below, "US Reaction to Iraq War
Logs," for the full statement), "and then cavalierly share that
secret information with the world, including our enemies."
US REACTION TO IRAQ WAR LOGS
Click on the headlines to read the responses to SPIEGEL provided by
Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell ...
On the Planned WikiLeaks Publication
"We deplore WikiLeaks for inducing individuals to break the law,
leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret
information with the world, including our enemies. We know terrorist
organizations have been mining the leaked Afghan documents for
information to use against us and this Iraq leak is more than four
times as large. By disclosing such sensitive information, WikiLeaks
continues to put at risk the lives of our troops, their coalition
partners and those Iraqis and Afghans working with us. The only
responsible course of action for WikiLeaks at this point is to
return the stolen material and expunge it from their websites as
soon as possible."
On the Episodes Detailed in the Documents
"We strongly condemn the unauthorized disclosure of classified
information and will not comment on these leaked documents other
than to note that 'significant activities' reports are initial, raw
observations by tactical units. They are essentially snapshots of
events, both tragic and mundane, and do not tell the whole story.
That said, the period covered by these reports has been
well-chronicled in news stories, books and films and the release of
these field reports does not bring new understanding to Iraq's
past."
"However, it does expose secret information that could make our
troops even more vulnerable to attack in the future. Just as with
the leaked Afghan documents, we know our enemies will mine this
information looking for insights into how we operate, cultivate
sources, and react in combat situations, even the capability of our
equipment. This security breach could very well get our troops and
those they are fighting with killed."
WikiLeaks, the Pentagon argued, continues to put at risk the lives
of troops, their coalition partners and Iraqis. In addition, Morrell
added, the reports are "initial, raw observations by tactical units.
They are essentially snapshots of events, both tragic and mundane,
and do not tell the whole story." Besides, the Pentagon added, the
period covered in the reports has already been well-chronicled in
news stories, books and films.
A War that Lasted Longer than WWII
SPIEGEL nevertheless decided to publish the documents because they
expose additional dimensions to the war. The brief, matter-of-fact
incident reports offer an unusual perspective on a war that lasted
longer than World War II.
They show the everyday aspects of the campaign as US soldiers
experienced it. The thousands of threat analyses, attack reports and
arrest records allow a very precise reconstruction of the escalation
of the sectarian battle between the Shiites and Sunnis, how it
brutalized Iraqi society and how kidnappings, executions and the
torture of prisoners became routine practices. The reports also
provide some evidence that neighboring countries including Syria and
Iran were involved in the war. SPIEGEL ONLINE will be running a
series of stories in the coming days shedding additional light on
aspects of the war, and readers can also browse the complete
WikiLeaks database in an interactive Iraq map prepared by SPIEGEL
ONLINE. On Monday, SPIEGEL ONLINE will publish this week's WikiLeaks
Iraq cover story in English.
PHOTO GALLERY
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15 Photos
Photo Gallery: Images of a Bloody War
The documents included in the WikiLeaks database aren't of the
highest level of classification -- at most, they are "secret," but
not "top secret." As such, many of the most sensational events in
the Iraq war don't make an appearance, including the torture scandal
at Abu Ghraib. There are other weaknesses, as well -- they are
one-sided and subjective, unverifiable and, in many cases, were
produced on the battlefield, making it easier for errors to slip
through.
However, they have the cumulative effect of painting a precise
picture of an asymmetrical war, one in which a superpower equipped
with state-of-the-art weaponry often stands helpless on the
battlefield against individual fighting units, as brutal as they are
nimble. The material shows how the constant state of fear paralyzed
the world's last remaining superpower. Is the next bomb about to go
off? Is it around the corner? On the side of the road? Or strapped
to the body of an insurgent?
'Bomb Explosion,' 'Under Enemy Fire,' 'Discoveries of Weapons'
The war logs begin on Jan. 1, 2004, a day on which seven explosions
were reported between Kirkuk in northern Iraq and Basra in the
south, and end on Dec. 31, 2009, when three attacks were reported.
With terms like "bomb explosion," "under enemy fire" and
"discoveries of weapons," the Iraq logs try to make the war fit into
the rough grid of military terminology. But there is one key
difference between the Afghanistan war logs and these: The Iraq
reports are all from a war that had already been officially declared
as having been won. George W. Bush, the US president and commander
in chief at the time, declared on May 1, 2003 on the aircraft
carrier USS Abraham Lincoln that "major combat operations in Iraq
have ended." The field reports show that his statement proved to be
untrue for years to come.
The soldiers' reports sometimes have a very reserved tone -- for
example, when it comes to the deployments of their fellow soldiers
who are hunting suspected insurgents, when patrols are ambushed or
when weapons caches are discovered. They are everyday scenes from a
war.
And often the horrors that occurred are hidden in military
abbreviations. The numbers and letters "13xAIF KIA," for example,
stand for 13 enemies killed ("13 anti-Iraqi forces killed in
action") -- as happened on July 12, 2007, when US attack helicopters
became notorious around the world for the "Collateral Murder"
operation in which they fired on innocent Iraqis. The fact that
something must have gone awry in the mission is clear in the
classified document because there were also "2xLN children WIA" --
"3 local national children wounded in action."
But other reports express the extent of the horror of the war more
clearly. As tensions mount within the Iraqi population starting in
2004, acts of the greatest cruelty take place. In June 2005, for
example, the death of six members of a family near Baqouba are
documented, a typical incident at that time. The killers tied the
victims' hands behind their back and then cut off their heads,
laying them next to their corpses on the ground. The nine-year-old
grandson was forced to die the same way as his grandfather. At
another point, US soldiers report that a commander with the Shiite
Mahdi militia killed his wife. She evidently saw him commit an
"extra-legal killing" -- a murder -- and she filmed him doing it on
a mobile phone.
The documents show hundreds of thousands of times what can happen to
a society at war -- how it gradually slips to the point of
self-destruction and the verge of breakdown. During those years, a
full-blown civil war between ethnic groups in Iraq was only barely
prevented.
INTERACTIVE MAP: THE DEADLY EVENTS OF NOV. 23, 2006
One Day in Iraq: SPIEGEL ONLINE documents the 70 deadly events of
Nov. 23, 2006, as they are depicted in the WikiLeaks war logs.
Murders, executions, attacks -- they show a picture of the brutal
daily life in a country torn by civil war. Now you can read about a
day that was just like many others in Iraq -- from the perspective
of American soldiers. Visit the interactive map ...
Recently, Bush's successor, Barack Obama, also officially declared
the end of combat operations. On September 1, Operation Iraqi
Freedom was replaced by Operation New Dawn. But aside from the
excessively optimistic terminology, there were no signs of triumph
to be seen. There were no flag-bedecked aircraft carriers or
returning veterans being cheered as they marched up Broadway in New
York.
President Obama, long an opponent of what he once called a "dumb
war," pointed out that the war had not only cost many lives, but had
also come at a high financial cost. "We spent a trillion dollars at
war, often financed by borrowing from overseas," he said. At the
very same place where his predecessor had announced the start of the
war, Obama declared its end in a tone suggesting that a completely
different, considerably more humble nation had emerged from the
conflict.
Devastating Effects
According to official figures, 3,884 US soldiers died between 2004
and 2009, an additional 224 soldiers from allied nations, well over
8,000 members of the Iraqi security forces (reasonably reliable
figures are missing for 2004) and 92,003 Iraqi civilians whose
deaths are documented by at least one source. Together, this makes
more than 104,111 deaths, a figure that approximates the number of
victims reported dead in these documents, namely 109,032. And
although this war wasn't nearly as devastating in terms of the sheer
number of casualties as the Vietnam War, with its 3 million deaths,
its effects on the standing of the United States in the world have
been no less devastating.
One month before the beginning of the invasion, Bush had blustered
that the overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein and "a new regime in
Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for
other nations in the region." But the military that withdrew after
seven years of war was a demoralized force that had long since
ceased to believe in the noble goals of the campaign.
The documents faithfully reflect this change. In the roughly 400,000
documents, the word "democracy" appears only eight times. The
"improvised explosive devices" which instilled fear in the hearts of
American soldiers, however, are mentioned 146,895 times.
Editor's Note: The next issue of DER SPIEGEL is currently in
production and the magazine's main feature article on the WikiLeaks
Iraq war logs will be published on SPIEGEL ONLINE International in
English on Monday.
--
Sean Noonan
Tactical Analyst
Office: +1 512-279-9479
Mobile: +1 512-758-5967
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com
--
Sean Noonan
Tactical Analyst
Office: +1 512-279-9479
Mobile: +1 512-758-5967
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com
--
Sean Noonan
Tactical Analyst
Office: +1 512-279-9479
Mobile: +1 512-758-5967
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com