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WikiLeaks Reveal Secret U.S. Activity in Afghanistan

Noah Shachtman
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Noah Shachtman Former Brookings Expert, Executive Editor - The Daily Beast

July 28, 2010

Editor’s Note: In an interview for Wired magazine’s Danger Room blog, Noah Shachtman offers his take on the recently released WikiLeak documents on the war in Afghanistan.

Noah Shachtman: There has been all kinds of crazy stuff [revealed in the WikiLeak reports]. There have been killings of civilians that we did not know about before. There have been accounts of secret units and how they move. There have even been reports of suspected chemical weapon attacks [in Afghanistan], which we had no idea was going on over there. 

Watch the full interview at wired.com/dangerroom »