WikiLeaks releases Iraq War logs

Saturday, October 23, 2010 

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange (March 2010)
Image: Espen Moe.

On October 22, WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 United States military field reports detailing events of the Iraq War between 2004 and 2009.

That amount of documents makes it the largest leak in the history of the United States military. The documents report 109,000 deaths during the 2004–2009 period, including 66,000 civilians deaths.

The war logs describe scenes of torture and abuse asserted to have been committed by Iraqi security forces.

Sources

• Der Spiegel. "The WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: Greatest Data Leak in US Military History" — Der Spiegel, October 22, 2010
• David Leigh. "Iraq war logs: an introduction" — The Guardian, October 22, 2010
• The Associated Press. "US: Iran took hikers on Iraq side of border" — The Washington Post, October 22, 2010
• Larry Shaughnessy. "WikiLeaks redacted more information in latest documents release" — CNN, October 22, 2010
• Tony Capaccio. "Pentagon Documents Show U.S. Ignored Torture, Abuse Reports, Guardian Says" — Bloomberg, October 22, 2010
• CBSNews.com. "NYT: WikiLeaks Reveal Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias" — CBS News, October 22, 2010
• Sabrina Tavernise and Andrew W. Lehren. "A Grim Portrait of Civilian Deaths in Iraq" — New York Times, October 22, 2010
• Eric Walsh. "Factbox: Some facts about WikiLeaks" — Reuters, October 22, 2010
• MICHAEL R. GORDON and ANDREW W. LEHREN. "Leaked Reports Detail Iran’s Aid for Iraqi Militias" — The New York Times, October 23, 2010
• Jonathan Steele. "Iraq war logs: Iran accused of plotting attack on Green Zone" — The Guardian, October 23, 2010
• Nick Collins. "Wikileaks: Iraq war logs claim Iran supplied chemical weapons to Iraq" — Telegraph, October 24, 2010

External links

• "The War Logs" — The New York Times, October 23, 2010
• "Iraq: The War Logs" — The Guardian, October 23, 2010