WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- The Web site WikiLeaks said Sunday it was posting 91,000 secret Afghan war reports by military personnel and intelligence officers.
WikiLeaks says the documents it calls the "Afghan War Diary" cover "lethal military actions" by the U.S. military in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. They also include logs of meetings with political figures, the Web site said.
WikiLeaks said the reports, obtained from an undisclosed source, do not generally cover top-secret operations, or those of European or other international coalition members.
WikiLeaks said it has delayed the release of about 15,000 reports "as part of a harm minimization process demanded" by its source.
"After further review, these reports will be released, with occasional redactions, and eventually, in full, as the security situation in Afghanistan permits," the whistle-blower organization said.
The New York Times, The Guardian newspaper in Britain and the German magazine Der Spiegel published portions of the reports Sunday.
The Guardian said a team of investigative reporters, regional specialists and database experts spent weeks authenticating and reviewing the materials for matters of public interest.
The British newspaper said the team dismissed some intelligence reports as unfounded and determined some aspects of the coalition's recording of civilian deaths to be unreliable.
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