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Iraq War logsThe Iraq War documents leak is the unsanctioned disclosure of a collection of 391,832 United States

Army field reports, also called the Iraq War Logs , of the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009 to several international

media organizations and published on the Internet by WikiLeaks on22 October 2010.[1][2][3]

The filesrecord 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths .The leak resulted in the Iraq Body Count

project adding 15,000 civilian deaths to their count, bringing their total to over 150,000, with roughly 80% of

those civilians. [7] It is the biggest leak in the military history of the United States ,[1][8] surpassing the Afghan War

documents leak of 25 July 2010 .[9]

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The logs contain numerous reports of previously unknown or unconfirmed events that took place during thewar.

According to the Iraq Body Count project , a sample of the deaths found in about 800 logs, extrapolated to

the full set of records, shows around 15,000 civilian deaths that had not been previously admitted by the

US government. 66,000 civilians were reported dead in the logs, out of 109,000 deaths in total. [8][10]

The Guardian stated that the logs show "US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse,

torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers"; the coalition, according to The Guardian , has

"a formal policy of ignoring such allegations", unless the allegations involve coalition forces .[2]

A number of the documents, as defined by Al Jazeera English , describe how US troops killed almost 700

civilians for coming too close to checkpoints, including pregnant women and the mentally ill. At least a half-

dozen incidents involved Iraqi men transporting pregnant family members to hospitals. [14]

According to an editorial in The Washington Post , the leak "mainly demonstrates that the truth about Iraq

"already has been told", while it "has at least temporarily complicated negotiations to form a new

government". The editor also charged that "claims such as those published by the British journal The

Lancet that American forces slaughtered hundreds of thousands are the real 'attack on truth.'" [20]

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The UN's chief investigator on torture, Manfred Nowak , states that "if the files released through WikiLeaks

pointed to clear violations of the United Nations Convention Against Torture the Obama administration had

an obligation to investigate them

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In preparation for the leak, the Pentagon created an Information Review Task Force, comprising 120

people led by the Defense Intelligence Agency. [24] A spokesperson for the Pentagon said the reports

were considered to be simple observations and reports by military personnel and civilian informants,

but nevertheless called their release a "tragedy," and the US Department of Defense requested the

return of the documents. [26] WikiLeaks founder Assange dismissed the Pentagon's concerns that the

publication of the documents could endanger US troops and Iraqi civilians, asserting that the Pentagon

"cannot find a single person that has been harmed" due to WikiLeaks previous release of documents

related to the US-led war in Afghanistan .[25]

Media coverage

Wikileaks made the documents available under embargo to a number of media organisations: Der Spiegel , The

Guardian , The New York Times , Al Jazeera , Le Monde , the Bureau of Investigative Journalism , and the Iraq

Body Count project .[47] Upon the lifting of the embargo, the media coverage by these groups was followed by

further coverage by other media organisations.

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The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. [3] The website was unveiled, andpublished its first document, in December 2006. [20][21] WikiLeaks has been predominantly represented inpublic since January 2007 by Julian Assange , who is now generally recognised as the "founder of WikiLeaks"

WikiLeaks relies heavily on volunteers which is a mix of Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians,

and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan , Europe, Australia , and South Africa .[24] The site was originally launched as a user-editable wiki (hence its name), but has progressively movedtowards a more traditional publication model and no longer accepts either user comments or edits. As of June 2009, the site had over 1,200 registered volunteers [24] and listed an advisory board comprisingAssange and eight other people,

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The purpose

To publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see

evidence of the truth."

Another of the organisation's goals is to ensure that whistleblowers and journalists are not jailed for

emailing sensitive or classified documents.

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The internal conflict

Daniel Domscheit-Berg of leaking information to Newsweek, claiming the WikiLeaksteam was unhappy with Assange's leadership and handling of the Afghan war

document releases.[243] Domscheit-Berg left with a small group to startOpenLeaks.com, a new leak organisation and website with a different managementand distribution philosophy.

During that time , Herbert Snorrason, a 25-year old Icelandic university student,resigned after he challenged Assange on his decision to suspend Domscheit-Bergand was bluntly rebuked.Iceland MP Birgitta Jonsdottir also left WikiLeaks, citinglack of transparency, lack of structure, and poor communication flow in theorganisation. According to The Independent (London), at least a dozen keysupporters of WikiLeaks left the website in 2010.

OpenLeaks was created by a former WikiLeaks spokesperson. Daniel Domscheit -Berg said the intentionwas to be more transparent than WikiLeaks. OpenLeaks was supposed to start public operations in early2011 but despite much media coverage it is still not functioning

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