BEC中级阅读：the Pentagon and the War in Afghanistan _ 商务英语考试 _

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　　This week, the website WikiLeaks published more than seventy-five thousand American military documents on the war in Afghanistan. These documents from the Army and Marine Corps included secret reports from the past six years.
　　Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the problems they describe are not new. But he says their release could harm troops and damage American relationships in that part of the world.
　　He says intelligence sources and methods will become known, and Afghans who have helped American forces may now be in danger.
　　Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, criticized the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange.
　　MICHAEL MULLEN: "Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing. But the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."
　　WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a press conference in London on MondayJULIAN ASSANGE: " This material doesnt just reveal abuses, this material describes the past six years of war, every major attack that resulted in someone being detained or someone being killed."
　　WikiLeaks is a nonprofit organization that publishes documents from governments and businesses. It released the military documents on Sunday. It gave early copies to three news organizations in the United States, Germany and Britain.
　　The White House is urging WikiLeaks not to not publish any more classified documents about the Afghan war.
　　In April, the site posted video of an American helicopter strike in Iraq in two thousand seven.