Wikileaks reveals civilian deaths and torture in Iraq
The United States may consider the Iraq War to be a closed chapter in their combat role in the Middle East, but Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has just put their role in that conflict back on centre stage. On the weekend Assange released 400,000 field reports collated by the US military, reports that include a much larger number of civilian deaths than previously reported, and a US acceptance of torture by Iraqi security forces. It’s considered to be the biggest leak in the US military’s history, and the Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, was quick to condemn wikileaks for publishing the reports. But will the loud political denunciations silence the overwhelming evidence of human rights abuse and civilian casualties from the war in Iraq?