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Submission + - Wikileaks releases their cache of US Iraq War Docs (guardian.co.uk) 3

Caelesto writes: Today around 21:00 GMT, Wikileaks declared an end to their media embargo of over 400,000 Iraq War documents after Al Jazeera released their story 30 minutes ahead of schedule. These documents, which have been kept under wraps by Wikileaks for months, may reveal tortures and murders ignored by coalition forces during the fighting and occupation in Iraq. The pentagon maintained that releasing these documents represented a danger to US troops, but already dozens of news outlets are scrambling to report on what could be a devastating blow to the US Armed Force's already tattered image.

Comment Angst Rodents (Score 1) 190

Lemmings are actually just misunderstood.

The suicide myth was further propagated by Walt Disney documentary White Wilderness in 1958 which includes footage of lemmings migrating and running head-long over a ledge. An investigation in 1983 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Brian Vallee, showed that the Disney film makers faked the entire sequence using imported lemmings (bought from Inuit children), a snow covered turntable on which a few dozen lemmings were forced to run, and literally throwing lemmings into the sea to show the alleged suicides.
The Disney corporation is well known for their innovation. Their rodent launcher, predating Outpost.com by around 48 years, is further proof of this.

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