WikiLeaks: Is latest leak irresponsible?
- October 25, 2010 11:50 AM |
- By POV
Founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, poses prior to a press conference in London, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. (Lennart Preis/Associated Press)
Newly disclosed military documents show a higher Iraqi death toll than previously acknowledged during the years of Iraq's sectarian war that raged after the U.S.-led invasion of the country in 2003.
The information released Friday by the WikiLeaks website reveals about 15,000 previously unreported deaths, according to one independent research group that analyzed the numbers.
The Pentagon has previously declined to confirm the authenticity of WikiLeaks-released records. But it has never indicated that any past WikiLeaks releases were inaccurate.
WikiLeaks said Saturday it will soon publish 15,000 additional secret documents from the war in Afghanistan. The group previously published some 77,000 U.S. intelligence reports about that war.
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