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Sunday, 8th August 2010

Canada: Database: Afghanistan War Incidents From the Wikileaks Files

From the Database Website:

The six-year archive of reports was available in a file so large that older versions of Excel couldn’t handle the quantity, so the CBC decided to whittle it down by focusing only on Canada-related incidents. A searchable database has been created from the resulting data.

Though the military reports are written by Americans, they include numerous references to Canadian counterparts and offer an on-the-ground glimpse into the daily lives of Canada's soldiers.

As the New York Times noted, the incident reports, dating from 2004 to 2009, are incomplete, and questions still remain. WikiLeaks withheld about 15,000 of the 92,000 reports it obtained, due to concerns some of the data could put people at risk or reveal military capabilities.

Some of the raw information was incomplete, and some of it is just unclear. In some instances, the CBC copied column names from the news outlets — the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel — that have spent the past month studying the military reports. In one case where no name was supplied, we simply labelled the column "More on event."

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+ Date
+ Region
+ Keyword

Source: CBC

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