Showing posts with label Wikileaks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wikileaks. Show all posts

Saturday, December 25, 2010

East and South continues to simmer in Afghanistan

The Wikileaks reveal the location of trouble spots in Afghanistan. Compiled from the app. 72,000 cables is the breakdown of violence by region in Afghanistan. It turns out that Afghanistan’s South and East continue to be violent places where the number of militants (enemy) and civilians either killed in action (KIA) or wounded in action  (WIA) are much larger than the rest. Again, these are the parts of Afghanistan inhabited by the Pushtuns, who constitute the overwhelming majority of the Taliban resistance in Afghanistan.

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Searchable Wikileaks, 76911 cables

The following interactive map is searchable. Zoom and click on the red dot to see details about the  incident.