Weeks to assess damage from document leak, US military says  

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July 27: US officials believe that the intelligence agency of ally Pakistan, that gets billions of dollars in aid from Washington, has been secretly supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to leaked records. 

An online whistleblower organisation published more than 90,000 secret US military documents Sunday, revealing an unedited account of the nearly nine-year-old war in Afghanistan. 

The unverified files say that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, the country's spy service, has been holding strategy sessions with Taliban leaders to aid their efforts in Afghanistan. 

An ISI spokesman denied the allegations, saying they were "far-fetched and unsubstantiated," but said the agency would be examining the files. 

The documents, which cover a period from January 2004 to December 2009, include descriptions of a covert US special operations unit formed to target high-level al-Qaeda and Taliban figures.

They say more than 2,000 leaders are on a "kill or capture" list, but missions to hunt them down have led to unreported civilian deaths. 

The US military says it could take weeks to determine the damage from the huge leak. 

Source: Internet/rm/1000hrs