Germany to assess WikiLeaks publication of US files on Afghan war
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, July 26, IRNA -- Germany is to assess the secret US military documents released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks, defense ministry spokesman Christian Dienst said on Monday.
Pointing to Wikileaks' publication of a record 92,000 secret US military documents on the Afghanistan war dating from 2004 to 2009, Dienst warned the report could endanger the national security of US and other international troops.
He added that his ministry was evaluating whether the documents would also jeopardize the security of German troops in Afghanistan.
Germany is the third-largest contributor in the controversial NATO-led mission with around 4,500 troops based mostly in northern Afghanistan and Kabul.
Dienst stressed the Wikileaks' report did not include any new findings on the Afghan war.
The German official refused to comment on the role of a US special force in the report that hunts down Taliban leaders.
The American elite force, called 'Task Force 737', is operating from an area in northern Afghanistan which is under German military command.
The secret US documents detailed six years of the Afghanistan war divulging damning details of unreported cases of Afghan civilian deaths and a widening insurgency abetted by Pakistan.
The secret US military records about the war in Afghanistan were leaked to the media by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks, and published by the New York Times, British daily the Guardian and German weekly Der Spiegel.
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