Publication of the war diary of the Iraq war by WikiLeaks
The publication of the war diary of the Iraq war (English: Iraq war logs ) happened on October 22, 2010 on the Internet platform WikiLeaks . It is a collection of 391,832 classified documents related to the Iraq war from 2004 to 2009. According to the documents, 66,081 civilians were among the 109,032 victims . It is the largest publication of military documents in United States history , larger than that of the Afghan War Diary on July 25, 2010.
Publication and content
The publication of the war diary was first mentioned on its online platform at half past ten local time by the Arab television station Al-Jazeera . Thereupon WikiLeaks announced that the broadcaster had gone public by half an hour too early, but that the other media should now follow suit. This was followed in quick succession by the New York Times , the Guardian , Le Monde , Spiegel Online and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism . What is new is that the Guardian and Der Spiegel published the reports on an interactive map (for a link, see the Web Links section).
The war diary shows that American forces knew of and ignored the serious torture and ill-treatment of civilians by Iraqi security forces. The documents would help provide a more accurate estimate of the dead in the war.
Reactions
Iraq
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced on the day of the publication that the documents were a public relations campaign by political opponents. The next day, however, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani announced a close examination of the war diaries and the formation of a committee.
United States
Chief of Staff Mike Mullen announced that "irresponsible disclosure of stolen classified documents puts lives at risk and gives enemies valuable information." Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell describes the publication of the war diaries as "a gift to terrorist organizations". Hillary Clinton , the Secretary of State, condemned the publication because it put the lives of soldiers and civilians at risk.
Defense and Justice Ministries examined days after the release whether Julian Assange had violated the 1917 Espionage Act.
Web links
- Wikileaks homepage
- List of mirrors from Iraq was logs on wikileaks.info
- The Iraq Protocols 2004–2009 , interactive map with all reports - Spiegel Online
- Wikileaks publishes secret military documents , detailed articles on the publications - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wikileaks.org WikiLeaks Iraq War Diaries , October 22, 2010
- ↑ a b Hans Hoyng, Cordula Meyer, Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Friederike Ott, Marcel Rosenbach , Gregor Peter Schmitz, Holger Stark : revelations of secret US documents: the Iraq protocols. In: Spiegel Online . October 22, 2010, accessed October 23, 2010 .
- ^ Adrian Croft: WikiLeaks says logs show 15,000 more Iraq deaths. Reuters , October 23, 2010, accessed on October 23, 2010 (English): “The Pentagon decried the website's publication of the secret reports - the largest security breach of its kind in US military history, far surpassing the group's dump of more than 70,000 Afghan war files in July. "
- ↑ a b Marin Majica: The preparation of the data. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. October 24, 2010. Retrieved October 25, 2010 .
- ↑ a b c d Barbara Klimke and Dietmar Ostermann: The details of the war. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . October 24, 2010. Retrieved October 25, 2010 .
- ↑ Julia Gerlach: The documents divide Iraq. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. October 24, 2010. Retrieved October 25, 2010 .