In the largest-ever revelation of secret US military documents, Wikileaks released nearly 400,000 classified reports about the US-led war in Iraq.
The leaked documents, which cover the period between January 1, 2004, and January 1, 2010, have shed light on a myriad of crimes and offences committed in Iraq over the past few years, including assassinations, murders, torture and rape.
“It seems that these [revelations] are made upon the order of the US,” Secretary-General of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Mohammad-Javad Larijani said on Monday at the summit for reviewing the human rights situation in the US.
“The message of Wikileaks documents is that the Iraqi people have been tortured by Iraq’s security forces, and the only wrongdoing of Americans is that they witnessed the incidents and remained silent,” IRNA quoted Larijani as saying.
“This is while the US had the main role in these incidents and is the defendant,” the Iranian diplomat added.
Larijani said unfortunately the Internet, which was supposed to provide all people with vast information, is being used for publishing anti-information in the world.
The head of Iran’s human rights council stressed that the US and certain Western countries take advantage of human rights violations and that “it is necessary to prevent and resist these political abuses.”
The new Wikileaks documents comprise the second such release from the controversial website, which accused the United States of “war crimes” after earlier releasing some 92,000 similar secret military files detailing operations in Afghanistan.
These documents charge the United States Defense Department with instructing American troops to ignore reports recounting torture; they also suggest “hundreds” of civilians have been killed at US military checkpoints since the beginning of the war.
Refusing to discus the Wikikeaks disclosures, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton merely condemned the leak of any document “putting Americans at risk.”
“We should condemn in the most clear terms the disclosure of any information by individuals and or organizations which puts the lives of United States and its partners’ service members and civilians at risk,” she said.
Press TV – October 25, 2010Submitted by Aletho News on Tue, 2010-10-26 00:06
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I tend to think Iran is correct. Wikileaks is a very clever propaganda stunt. And the proof is rather simple. Nowhere in those supposed leaked documents is there any mention of Israelis taking part on the torture of captured prisoners, and yet we know that this did indeed happen.
The "leaked" documents also support the US agenda against Iran in numerous ways, from the claims that Iran is backing the Iraqi opposition (not that anyone would blame them if they were) to the already discredited claim that the three "hikers" were captured by Iranians on the Iraqi side of the border!
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continues to attack the 9-11 truth movement, insisting that all suggestions that the official story is not accurate are "false" and "annoying."
The events of the recent threat to arrest Assange have some thinking he is genuine and trust worthy. some even think if the government is after him he must be a truther... Silly thinking. Your first clue is the name WikiLeaks. The second clue is the content. The third clue is the man Assange himself. Nothing happens on the net that the persons who administer it don't have some hand in allowing or not. If they really wanted to nab him they would grab him. That he managed to leak these not too damming and otherwise un-useful documents is also a clue. The wikileaks thing is a stinky bit of HTML after you have a day or two to sift through it. I had many many days look see and i don't even bother to bookmark it let alone visit anymore. I would suggest the whole thing is a ruse to do damage control. The NET's are getting chock full of this crapola and surfing over it all is just improving the ability of the masses to spot the BS faster and clearer. Propaganda FAIL!