Papers: Leaks show hidden Afghanistan war details

Two newspapers are reporting that 90,000 leaked U.S. military records amount to an blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported killings of Afghan civilians as well as covert operations by special operations forces against Taliban figures.

The New York Times and The Guardian of London say the documents were made available to them, as well as the German weekly Der Spiegel, by the online whistle-blower organization Wikileaks.

A U.S. official it may take days to comb through all the documents. The source of the leak is believed to be a U.S. Army analyst who was arrested in Iraq and has been charged with leaking classified information.

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