WikiLeaks papers detail Iraq torture, US killings
DUBAI (AFP) – Al-Jazeera on Friday released what it called "startling new information" from US documents obtained by WikiLeaks, alleging state-sanctioned Iraqi torture and the killing of hundreds of civilians at US military checkpoints.
It said that the major findings included a US military cover-up of Iraqi state-sanctioned torture and "hundreds" of civilians deaths at manned American checkpoints after the US-led invasion of 2003 that ousted Saddam Hussein...
[Full Article]WikiLeaks: At Least 109,000 Killed During Iraq War
Nearly 400,000 Military Documents Reportedly Contain Details on Iraqi Torture, U.S. Misdeeds
The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks today released a trove of classified reports that it said documented at least 109,000 deaths in the Iraq war, more than the United States previously has acknowledged, as well as what it described as cases of torture and other abuses by Iraqi and coalition forces...
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Wikileaks: Iraq war logs 'reveal truth about conflict'
The founder of whistleblowing website Wikileaks has defended the release of almost 400,000 classified US documents about the war in Iraq.
Julian Assange said the "intimate details" of the conflict were made public in an effort to reveal the truth about the conflict.
The "war logs" suggest evidence of torture was ignored, and detail the deaths of thousands of Iraqi civilians...
[Full Article]Website Claims 15,000 Unreported Iraq War Deaths
A cache of nearly 400,000 U.S. military documents from the Iraq war has revealed about 15,000 civilian deaths that were not previously documented, the publisher of the documents, WikiLeaks, said Saturday.
The civilians died from a range of violent action, including targeted assassinations, drive-by shootings and checkpoint killings, WikiLeaks and Iraq Body Count, a group that tracks civilian deaths from the war, told a news conference in London on Saturday...
[Full Article]Iraq war logs: UN demands Obama investigate torture
Massive leak of military files exposes abuse and killings, 15,000 concealed deaths and shocking carnage
