Chapter 6
• Theft of 92000 documents including videos and audios from safe vaults was not a
day’s work. It must have taken the thief considerable length of time to steal the
desired documents. He must have been moving in and out of store room umpteen
times to lift folders containing incriminating documents about conduct of Afghan
war. He could not have possibly done so singly but in connivance with some of
the persons deputed to act as custodians of top secret documents. Does it imply
that the sole super power and its premier institutions have no foolproof system of
safety and security of classified documents or they are too careless and
irresponsible?
• There must have been a time lapse between the documents whisked away and
their publication by WikiLeak. Taking into account the fact that revealed
documents cover the period up to December 2009 and not up to June 2010, one
cannot rule out the possibility that after the theft during 2009 and January 2010, it
took Julian Assange five months to be able to get it published through WikiLeak.
It is strange that none among the huge security apparatus learnt about the theft
until it was disclosed by WikiLeak. If so, it implies there is no system in existence
to carryout spot inspections by duty officers/security officers of files/folders
locked up in vaults.
• In any military unit/HQ of the armed forces, even loss of one classified document
creates a massive stir and the concerned unit doesn’t rest till the missing
document is traced and culprit punished. Rationally, a red alert should have been
sounded in USA and all resources geared up to find out all possible details about
this embarrassing scandal expeditiously. Oddly, all US officials are in a
complacent mood and have adopted a laidback approach, giving an impression to
outsiders that the wardens were part of the crime and leak was intentional to
corner Pakistan; or else Pentagon wants to cover up its officials who were in
league with Assange or Bradley Manning.
• While lot of hue and cry has been made over 180 anti-Pakistan source reports,
western media, think tanks and analysts are quiet about 91820 reports, videos and
audios portraying inhuman barbarities of American and coalition forces against
people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Why the champions of democracy and human
rights are tight lipped and why US officials are downplaying this security lapse as
if nothing significant has happened?
• Why these documents came to light at a critical time when occupation forces in
Afghanistan are in dire strait; war on terror has become highly unpopular; demand
to end the war is surging; Taliban are carrying out daily attacks and inflicting
deaths/ injuries to ISAF troops? July has been the worst month in which 66 ISAF
fatalities took place. What is the hidden motive?
• Is it that the real motive is to put the entire blame of US defeat in Afghanistan at
the doorsteps of Pakistan? If so, what next?