Публикуваха секретни документи за войната в Ирак

Както се казва в сайта, 391 хиляди 832 отчета са получили названието „Иракското досие”. Те обхващат периода от 1 януари 2004 до 31 декември 2009 година. “Отчетите показват детайлната информация за станалите в Ирак събития, чийто свидетели са военнослужещи от САЩ и за първи път истински позволяват да се погледне в секретната история на войната, която правителството на Съединените щати е знаела”, се казва в сайта.

В публикуваните документи се посочват данни за смъртта на 110 хиляди човека от които 66 хиляди „мирни граждани”, почти 24 хиляди „противник”, повече от 15 хиляди „приемащата страна”- (иракските военни) и 3,7 хиляди „приятелски загуби”-(американски военни). Както отбелязва агенция Ройтерс “Уикилийкс” е предоставил на някои световни медии достъп до документите преди публикуването им. В документите са публикувани отчети за не по-малко от 15 хиляди необявени загуби. “Ал Джазира”, от своя страна твърди, че публикуваните документи свидетелстват за това, че военното командване на САЩ си е затваряло очите за мъченията и убийствата на хора в иракските затвори и не е провеждало разследване на тези факти. Пентагонът неведнъж е призовавал ръководството на “Уикилийкс” да се откаже от публикацията на подобни документи, тъй като това може сериозно да застраши сигурността на гражданите на Ирак, които са сътрудничили с иракските военни.

Американският държавен секретар Хилари Клинтън разкритикува оповестяването на документите: “Трябва да заклеймим възможно най-ясно разкриването на каквато и да е класифицирана информация от индивиди или организации, която поставя на риск живота на американските военни и цивилни, както и живота на предствители на съюзниците ни, и застрашава не само нашата национална сигурност, но и сигурността на страните, с които работим”, съобщи Българското Национално Радио /БНР/.

Документите бяха оповестени в момент, когато американската армия се готви да изтегли и последните 50 000 военни от Ирак до края на 2011. Насилието в страната е намаляло драстично през последните две години, но бомбите и престрелките са ежедневие. 

ОРИГИНАЛНИТЕ ПУБЛИКАЦИИ //ENGLISH/

http://wikileaks.org/ :

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports (‘The Iraq War Logs’), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a ‘SIGACT’ or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.

The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 ‘civilians’; 23,984 ‘enemy’ (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 ‘host nation’ (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 ‘friendly’ (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths.That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period. For comparison, the ‘Afghan War Diaries’, previously released by WikiLeaks, covering the same period, detail the deaths of some 20,000 people. Iraq during the same period, was five times as lethal with equivallent population size.

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WikiLeaks says logs show 15,000 more Iraq deaths

U.S. officials said the leak endangered U.S. troops and threatened to put some 300 Iraqi collaborators at risk by exposing their identities.

„We deplore WikiLeaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the world,“ said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary.

Britain’s Ministry of Defense condemned the release of classified material, saying it could put the lives of British soldiers at risk.

By Adrian Croft/REUTERS
LONDON | Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:50am EDT

(Reuters) – WikiLeaks said on Saturday its release of nearly 400,000 classified U.S. files on the Iraq war showed 15,000 more Iraqi civilians died than previously thought.

Uploaded on the WikiLeaks’ website, the files detailed gruesome cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces that the U.S. military knew about but did not seem to investigate.

In Baghdad, Iraqi officials responded to WikiLeaks’ move by pledging to probe any allegations that police or soldiers had committed crimes and any culprits would be prosecuted.

The whistle-blowing website’s founder, Julian Assange, who was sharply criticized by the Pentagon for publishing the secret reports, said the release should throw light on what had happened in Iraq, thwarting an official „attack on the truth.“

„We hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war and which has continued on since the war officially concluded,“ he told a news conference in London.

Working with Iraq Body Count, a group run by academics and peace activists that estimates Iraq casualties, WikiLeaks had calculated that the documents revealed about 15,000 previously unknown civilian deaths, Assange said.

„Adding in the combatant deaths reported in these logs … we are now able to say that more than 150,000 people have been killed in total since 2003, of which about 80 percent were civilians,“ Iraq Body Count co-founder John Sloboda said.

The Pentagon decried the website’s publication of the secret reports — the largest security breach of its kind in U.S. military history, far surpassing the group’s dump of more than 70,000 Afghan war files in July.

PENTAGON DEPLORES LEAK

U.S. officials said the leak endangered U.S. troops and threatened to put some 300 Iraqi collaborators at risk by exposing their identities.

„We deplore WikiLeaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the world,“ said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary.

Britain’s Ministry of Defense condemned the release of classified material, saying it could put the lives of British soldiers at risk.

WikiLeaks said it had edited out sensitive information and was confident the documents contained no detail that could lead to anyone being harmed.

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak urged U.S. President Barack Obama to order an investigation.

„There is an obligation to investigate whenever there are credible allegations that torture has happened and those allegations are more than credible, and then it is up to the courts,“ he told the BBC.

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