Wikileaks Revealing Truth about Conflicts – Iraq War Logs
The founder and chief editor of whistle blowing website Wikileaks Julian Assange, an Australian citizen and belonging to profession of IT field and publishing 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 and secret planning and US mission to which public is not aware.
The “war logs” suggest evidence of torture was ignored, and detail the deaths of thousands of Iraqi civilians. According to Iraqi Prime Minister the release of Wikileaks Iraqi War Logs will show the political interference and death of those people we think are innocent.
A statement given is given from Nouri al-Maliki’s office accused Wikileaks of trying to sabotage his bid to form a new government by stoking up anger “against national parties and leaders, especially against the prime minister”. Mr. Maliki is a Shia Muslim who is struggling to keep his job after inconclusive general elections in March. His Sunni opponents said the Wikileaks documents highlighted the need to establish a power-sharing government, rather than one in which all the power was in Mr. Maliki’s hands.
Iraq War Casualty:
Both US and UK have condemned the leak, the largest in US military history, with both US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the UK’s Ministry of Defense suggesting the disclosures put lives at risk. After its release a Pentagon spokesman dismissed the documents as raw observations by tactical units, which were showing only snapshots of tragic, mundane events. He called their release a “tragedy” which aided enemies of the West. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen – the top US military official – criticized the disclosure via the social networking site Twitter:
“Another irresponsible posting of stolen classified documents by Wikileaks puts lives at risk and gives adversaries valuable information which has defamed the US role in World.
In a news conference in London, Mr. Assange defended the release of the documents, saying there were no reports of anyone coming to harm following the release of 90,000 documents on the war in Afghanistan earlier this year. He said the documents had been edited to remove any information that could harm individuals.
Assange Said “The deaths of one or two individuals made up the “overwhelming number” of people killed in Iraq”.
Citizens Death Figures
The new documents and new deaths contained within them showed the range and frequency of the “small, relentless tragedies of this war” added Prof John Sloboda of Iraq Body Count, which worked with Wikileaks to analyze the material. In log document its showing that there were more than 109,000 violent deaths between 2004 and the end of 2009. Calculated these revealed that among these deaths in Iraq included 66,081 civilians, 23,984 people classed as “enemy”, 15,196 members of the Iraqi security forces, and 3,771 coalition troops.
These figures appear to contradict earlier claims that the US did not keep records of civilians killed. Iraq Body Count for deaths , which collates civilian deaths using cross-checked media reports and other calculated figures such as morgue records, said that based on an analysis of a sample of 860 logs, it estimated that around 15,000 previously unknown civilian deaths would be identified in Iraq logs. Wikileaks published the US army Significant actions which clearly showing the apparent torture of Iraqi detainees by Iraqi authorities using electric shocks, electrocution and using electric drills. According to Wikileaks report US Government and Defence, military departments new of abuses but according to chain of command its was told no further action to be taken. Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad Al-Bolani said Iraqi justice court will take the charge against crucial acts of Iraqi authorities to its citizens for human rights.
In an another case shown under Wikileaks Iraq war logs, US soldiers suspected army officers of cutting off a detainee’s fingers and burning him with acid, a totally against human rights war and fight by US army and their lies told about peace. The documents also reveal many previously unreported events of war in which US forces killed civilians at checkpoints and during operations in cities.
Murders and escalation of forces
• More than 34,814 people were recorded as murdered in 24,840 incidents
• the worst month was December 2006 with 2,566 murders – and 2006 was the worst year with 16,870 murders in Iraq during war.
• The database records 12,578 escalation of force incidents because of fast driving toward base and crushed the poor citizens resulted in 778 recorded deaths