Saturday, October 23, 2010

Iraq war logs: secret files show how US ignored torture


• Massive leak reveals serial detainee abuse

• 15,000 unknown civilian deaths in war

Full coverage of the Iraq war logs

The Guardian

"A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes.

Almost 400,000 secret US army field reports have been passed to the Guardian and a number of other international media organisations via the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

The electronic archive is believed to emanate from the same dissident US army intelligence analyst who earlier this year is alleged to have leaked a smaller tranche of 90,000 logs chronicling bloody encounters and civilian killings in the Afghan war.

The new logs detail how....

Although US generals have claimed their army does not carry out body counts and British ministers still say no official statistics exist, the war logs show these claims are untrue....
WikiLeaks says it is posting online the entire set of 400,000 Iraq field reports – in defiance of the Pentagon......"

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