WikiLeaks focus on Iraq war

The whistle blowing website WikiLeaks  released  nearyly 400,000 secret American documents on the Iraq war detailing graphic accounts of torture, killing of over 66,000 civilians and Iran' role in the conflict. The latest leaked documents chronicling the Irag war from 2004 to 2009 provide a new picture of how many Iraqi civilian were killed, open a new window on the role that Iran played in supporting Iragqi militants and give many accounts of abuse by the Iraqi army and the police.

WikiLeaks, which released the papers despite Pentagon's warning that it count endanger informants and reveal war strategy, called the document drop" the largest classified military leak in history.The Iraqi docuements were made available  to The New York Times, the British newspaper The Guardian, the French newspaper Le Monde and the German magazine Der Spiegel on the condition that they be embargoed until now