Release of Afghan war documents

The web site WikiLeaks, which posted the docs late Sunday, supplied them ahead of time to the New York Occasions, the Guardian newspaper in London and the German magazine Der Spiegel, and journalists from individuals organizations asked the White Property for comment. The Los Angeles Occasions and other Tribune newspapers have not thoroughly reviewed the documents nor verified their authenticity.

Matching to the New York Occasions, the papers, which it received several weeks ago, refer to previously unreported incidents of Afghan civilian deaths in the NATO military operations.

The paperwork also appear to consist of classified cables and other communications among military leaders, and describe in detail long-documented U.S. fears that some intelligence officials in Pakistan had been really helping the Taliban in Afghanistan, even as the U.S. poured foreign aid into each nations.

Matching to the New York Occasions, the papers as a full advise that Pakistan has let representatives of its intelligence agency strategize with the Taliban and even plot to assassinate Afghan leaders.

Of particular note is that the paperwork reportedly say the Taliban has acquired surface-to-air missiles. If accurate, that could support explain latest crashes of NATO and U.S. helicopters in Afghanistan and could have a significant effect on ground operations.

The paperwork posted by WikiLeaks reportedly cover the period from January 2004 to December 2009, shortly just before Obama announced a strategy of focusing on Al Qaeda and Taliban havens in the semiautonomous region of Pakistan along the Afghan border.

"Some of the disconcerting issues noted are exactly why the president ordered a 3-month policy review and a alter in method," stated a single administration official, who couldn't confirm that the docs had been authentic but mentioned that at least some accounts align with info given Obama and his staff last summer.

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Unrelenting rainfall — 15 inches in the past 48 hours, according to Jeremy Sands of the Delhi Fire Department — caused the early afternoon breaching of the 83-year-old dam. “The dam wasn’t unsafe,” Firefighter Sands said. “It’s just one of those acts of God.”

A section of earth about 125 feet wide and 40 feet deep gave way, said the Delaware County emergency manager, Mike Ryan. “It’s the worst damage I’ve been associated with,” he said.

Rising waters washed out the berm, and large chunks of the road on the dam broke off. “It just peeled off eight-foot sections and dumped them,” said Shirley Helmrichs, the Delaware County supervisor. “The light poles started falling like matchsticks; they just started snapping over. You could hear this crunching, this rumbling. It was like the dam was just growling.”

The vortex on the lake side of the dam shredded boats, docks and trees, Ms. Helmrichs said. “It just took seconds to shuck them through,” she said. “From perfect to tiny crumbs.”
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Storm threatens recovery efforts

Work on the relief wells which BP hopes to use to permanently stop the leak is due to be suspended.

But incident commander Adm Thad Allen has allowed the damaged well to remain capped while the site is evacuated.

He said ships monitoring the sea bed for signs of problems will be the last to leave the site and the first to return.

"The seismic survey vessels, the acoustic vessels and the vessels operating the ROVs [remote-operated vehicles] will stay as long as possible," said Adm Allen.

"And if conditions allow it, they will remain through the passage of the storm."
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A House ethics subcommittee Thursday charged New York Rep

The panel did not detail the charges against Rangel, who was forced to step down as chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee this year over his long-running ethics troubles.

The charges, however, will be debated at a rare public hearing of the ethics panel on July 29. Usually, its proceedings are conducted behind closed doors.

"I've waited a long time, and at long last, the sun will be piercing the cloud that I have been carrying," Rangel told USA TODAY. "As it relates to my election, I'm glad and hope this will be aired before the September primary and certainly before the November election."

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said the decision to charge Rangel indicates the "process is working as it should."

Republicans, who are trying to capture control of the House in November, seized on the announcement to slam Democrats. House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio called it "a sad reminder" of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "most glaring broken promise: to 'drain the swamp' in Washington."

Even so, Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran Democratic consultant in New York, said Rangel remains a formidable force in the Sept. 14 primary. Rangel faces Adam Clayton Powell, the son and namesake of the legendary lawmaker whom Rangel defeated 40 years ago to launch his career in the House of Representatives.
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On the Baker County, Georgia, farm where the Miller family grew corn, peanuts, cotton and cucumbers and raised hogs, cows and goats, oldest daughter Shirley despised the work.

"I swore I would never have anything to do with a farm past high school," she said Wednesday with an easy chuckle. "I would talk to the sun as I picked cotton and picked cucumbers and worked out there in that hot field, and [say], 'This is not the life for me.' I didn't want to have anything to do with agriculture ever again."

On the night in 1965 when her father, Hosie Miller, a black man and a deacon at Thankful Baptist Church, was shot to death by a white farmer in what ostensibly was a dispute over a few cows, Sherrod -- then 17 years old -- changed her mind.
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Reconsiders employee ouster over race

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he will reconsider the department's decision to oust a black employee over racially tinged remarks after learning more about what she said.

Vilsack said in a statement early Wednesday morning that he will "conduct a thorough review and consider additional facts" about his decision to ask Shirley Sherrod to resign.

Sherrod, who was the Agriculture Department's director of rural development in Georgia, criticized the administration for pushing her to resign Monday after a blogger posted an edited video of her saying that she didn't give a white farmer as much help as she could have 24 years ago.

Sherrod says her remarks were part of a story about racial reconciliation, not racism.
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The bomber struck around 8 a.m. on Sunday — the first day of the work week here — in Radwaniya, a largely Sunni neighborhood southwest of central Baghdad. The latest casualty figures from an official at the Ministry of the Interior was 43 killed and 40 wounded. The dead also included Iraqi army soldiers.

About two hours later another attacker blew himself up in Al Qaim, a city in western Iraq near the Syrian border, also killing Awakening members. According to a police official, a man walked in to a building where Awakening members had gathered, opened fire with a rifle and then detonated a suicide vest. According to the official, seven were killed and 11 wounded.

The latest violence against members of the Sunni Awakening, now backed by the Iraqi government, follows a series of assassinations and attacks in recent months against the former members of Al Qaeda in Iraq whose decision to switch loyalties was pivotal in quelling the apocalyptic violence of 2006 and 2007.

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