Wikileaks has done it again. After their stunning exposé of reporter deaths, the site has released a new flood of documents onto the internet. In their ‘Afghan War Diary’ they publish over 91000 incident reports from intelligence officers on the ground.

The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail.

– Wikileaks

What’s more, they provide a Google Earth KML link so you can view them on Google Earth. The map includes loads of reports of civilian casualties as well as accidents and other reports. Afghanistan is often referred to as ‘The Hidden War’, but no longer apparently.

Newspapers from all around the world have picked up on this instantly as the Guardian website shows. They’ve put up a Google Map with the data overlaid on it.

Click on the image to go to the Guardian's Afghan War Diary page

It is hard to say what effect the release of these documents will do to current security for the troops stationed in Afghanistan, but it’s safe to say that this will not go down well in the U.S. and the U.K., where most of the troop casualties suffered in Afghanistan are from. Ill feeling towards Pakistan is due to mount as well.

The New York Times notes:

Some of the reports describe Pakistani intelligence working alongside Al Qaeda to plan attacks. Experts cautioned that although Pakistan’s militant groups and Al Qaeda work together, directly linking the Pakistani spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, with Al Qaeda is difficult.

Whoops. That won’t go down well.

In any case, well done to Wikileaks for putting the war into perspective for us at home.