U.S.-led troops not protecting civilians enough: study
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan still do not adequately protect civilians and their operations are plagued by a reluctance to share intelligence information, a study prepared for the U.S. military says.
Activists from the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks downloaded the unclassified report from a military website, which they said was public.
The U.S. military shut down the site, which U.S. forces used to share information with allies in Afghanistan, after Wikileaks published several NATO documents last week.
The report said that while U.S.-led forces now widely accepted that local populations were key to defeating an insurgency, "too little attention is given to protecting members of the noncombatant community."
"Too often, the friendly force is also perceived as a threat, negatively influencing civilian willingness to cooperate with coalition intel (intelligence) collection and other initiatives," said a summary of the report's findings.
Activists from the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks downloaded the unclassified report from a military website, which they said was public.
The U.S. military shut down the site, which U.S. forces used to share information with allies in Afghanistan, after Wikileaks published several NATO documents last week.
The report said that while U.S.-led forces now widely accepted that local populations were key to defeating an insurgency, "too little attention is given to protecting members of the noncombatant community."
"Too often, the friendly force is also perceived as a threat, negatively influencing civilian willingness to cooperate with coalition intel (intelligence) collection and other initiatives," said a summary of the report's findings.
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