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Sat 08 Aug 2010Pentagon orders website to return 'stolen' reports
ELEVEN DAYS after the renegade website WikiLeaks publicly disclosed more than 70,000 classified US field reports from the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon says it wants them back.
Press secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters yesterday the Pentagon was formally demanding – through the news media – that WikiLeaks return the reports, as well as 15,000 additional records the website says it might release soon.
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