Tuesday, March 6, 2012
The Secret Iraq Files
In the biggest leak of military secrets in history, WikiLeaks, the
whistleblower website, has released 400,000 secret US files detailing
every aspect of the war in Iraq, copies of which have been obtained by
Al Jazeera. The sheer magnitude of data contained in the secret
files reveals a graphic narrative of the war that goes far beyond any
information about the conflict ever released into the public domain. Using
thousands of classified US military reports, Al Jazeera is now able to
tell the inside story of a war which left thousands dead and a country
fractured along sectarian lines. Working with the Bureau of
Investigative Journalism in London for the past 10 weeks, Al Jazeera has
analysed tens of thousands of documents, finding facts the US has kept
hidden from public scrutiny. What has been uncovered often
contradicts the official narrative of the conflict. For example, the
leaked data shows that the US has been keeping records of Iraqi deaths
and injuries throughout the war, despite public statements to the
contrary. The latest cache of files pertains to a period of six
years – from January 1, 2004, to December 31, 2009 – and shows that
109,000 people died during this time. Of those, a staggering 66,081 –
two-thirds of the total – were civilians.
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