WikiLeaks has published an independent organization on Saturday night a new series of classified material. If, however, in July released by the organization archives shed light on the unknown facts of the last six years of war in Afghanistan (when it was published 92 thousand documents), but now we are talking about the war in Iraq, ITAR-TASS.
The so-called "Iraqi dossier represents 391,832 documents showing the events of the period from 1 January 2004 to December 31, 2009, and reveal previously unknown facts, including the deaths of civilians, prisoner abuse and the role of Iran.
According to documents from the U.S. waged war in Iraq, killed 109 of 32 people, of whom more than 66 thousand appear in the reports as "citizens", almost 24 thousand - the "enemy", 15,2 thousand - as a "host" ( Iraqi military and government officials) and 3,8 thousand - as "friendly forces" (allied forces).
In this case, more than 15 thousand civilians were killed in earlier incidents of unrecorded and, apparently, have remained unidentified. Darkest days, wrote in connection with this New York Times, which is one of the first to receive the materials WikiLeaks, fell on 31 August 2005, when an explosion was heard was summoned to the bridge in Baghdad, panic and stampede that killed 950 people.
Two years later - on Aug. 14, 2007 by bombing the border with Syria, the region has killed more than 500 people. Only in December 2006 killed three thousand eight hundred Iraqi civilians.
"The documents also tell us about the numerous, previously unknown cases of killings of citizens by the U.S. military - at checkpoints, from helicopters during operations - says the publication. - It is because of such incidents, the residents were opposed to U.S. presence on its territory country, and this situation is repeated now in Afghanistan. "
The materials featured the name of a private U.S. security firm Blackwater, whose employees were accused of murdering 14 civilians in Iraq in 2007. "Secret documents show the U.S. that guards Blackwater, now changed its name to" XE ", opened fire on ordinary citizens. But against them have not even been indicted," - said in a statement, Al-Jazeera on the subject.
Archives testify that during the war, not just American soldiers, "practiced" inhuman attitude towards the Iraqis held in prison (the prison of Abu Ghraib ").
In addition, as is evident from the materials on WikiLeaks, commanders in some cases, prevented further progress reports of abuses by the Iraqi military and intelligence services, acting with the same methods that the Saddam regime, including extrajudicial executions of men in the town of Talafar in the north Iraq and the use of cruel torture of suspects, including amputation of fingers, burning with acid, electric shocks and an electric torture.
"The Americans turned a blind eye to it - writes New York Times. - In reports there is evidence of at least about six deaths in prisons of Iraq, have occurred only in recent years."
Facts beatings, burns and stab, violence and murder are contained in hundreds of reports indicating that torture is carried out systematically. Only in November 2005, U.S. soldiers found in one of the Iraqi police centers for internment of citizens blinded 95 prisoners with multiple injuries and fractures.
Commenting on the papers, New York Times also writes that "the Iranian army is a much more active than expected, supported the Shiites in Iraq, training them, supplying arms, providing shelter, and in some cases, directly taking part in operations against the American military." In particular, given the facts WikiLeaks mention the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which provided training Shiite fighters and the Lebanese Islamic fundamentalist Hezbollah, supporting the insurgents.
The materials referred to and the case of detention by Iranian security forces in July 2009 on espionage charges of three American tourists, one of which was recently released on home. On the day of their arrest in Pentagon documents indicated that detainees were citizens, indeed, ignored warnings about the features of travel in the region, but the borders with Iran have not crossed, though, and approached her too close. "
In the records even contain the assumption that Tehran may soon bring detainees charged with spying, which is what happened. While Iranian officials have insisted that the Americans were captured on the territory of Iran.
Conventional materials, "the Iraqi dossier was handed over to a number of Western media, including USA, UK, Germany and France for publishing on Saturday night. U.S. Secretary of State has called the documents "untested", stressing that they "endanger the lives of U.S. troops and allies, as well as harm the national security of our country and those with whom we work."
For its part, the Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell also denounced the action WikiLeaks, noting that by doing so it "encourages and convinces some people to violate laws and provide classified material, which then thoughtlessly extended to the whole world."
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