Wikileaks published "Iraqi dossier" - 15 thousand killed are not identified

The independent organization Wikileaks published a series of new secret materials on Saturday night. However, if in July the archives published by this organization shed light on unknown facts of the last six years of the war in Afghanistan (then 92 thousand documents were published), now we are talking about the war in Iraq, ITAR-TASS reports.

The so -called "Iraqi dossier" is 391,832 documents testifying to the events of the period from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2009 and revealing previously unknown facts, including the death of civilians, mockery of prisoners and the roles of Iran.

According to the documents, as a result of the US unleashed war, 109,32 people died in Iraq, of which more than 66 thousand are in the reports as “citizens”, almost 24 thousand are “opponents”, 15.2 thousand - as “hosts” (Iraqi military and officials) and 3.8 thousand - as “friendly forces” (allied forces ”(allied forces).

At the same time, more than 15 thousand civilians were killed in previously unprotected incidents and, apparently, remained unidentified. The most terrible days, in connection with this, writes New York Times , which was one of the first to receive the Wikileaks materials, fell on August 31, 2005, when the sounding explosions called a panic and a crush on the bridge in which 950 residents died.

Two years later - on August 14, 2007, more than 500 people died from the bomb explosion in the border area with Syria. In December 2006 alone, 3 thousand 800 peaceful Iraqis were killed.

"The documents also talk about numerous, previously unknown, cases of the murder of citizens with the American military - at the blocks, from helicopters, during operations, the newspaper writes." It is because of such incidents that residents were opposed to the American presence in their country, and this situation is repeated now in Afghanistan. "

The materials are the name of the private American security company Blackwater, whose employees were accused of killing 14 civilians in Iraq in 2007. "The US secret documents show that the Blackwater guards, who now replaced the name to" he ", opened fire on ordinary citizens. But accusations were not even made against them," the al -jazeera statement on this occasion said.

Archives also indicate that during the war not only American soldiers "practiced" an inhuman attitude to the Iraqi (Abu Graib prison).

In addition, as it appears from materials on WikiLeaks, the command in some cases did not give further movements about abuse of the Iraqi military and special services, acting the same methods as under the Saddam regime, including about the hopeless execution of a man in the city of Talafar in the north of Iraq and the application to suspects of brutal torturing, Including fingers, cauterization of the body with acid, electric shock and torture with an electric drill.

“The Americans turned a blind eye to this,” writes New York Times. “The reports have data, at least about six cases of the death of prisoners in Iraq prisons that have occurred only in recent years.”

The facts of beating, producing burns and strokes with daggers, cases of violence and murders are contained in hundreds of reports indicating that torture was carried out systematically. In November 2005 alone, American soldiers discovered 95 blinded prisoners with numerous wounds and fractures in one of the Iraqi police centers for interned citizens.

Commenting on the documents, the New York Times also writes that "the Iranian army was much more active than expected, supported the Shiites in Iraq, teaching them, supplying them with weapons, providing refugees, and in some cases and directly taking part in actions against the American military." In particular, the facts cited by Wikileaks mention the Iranian revolutionary guard, which conducted the training of Shiite fighters, as well as the Lebanese organization of Islamic fundamentalists “Hizballlah”, which supports the rebels.

The materials also say the case of the detention of Iranian intelligence services in July 2009 on charges of espionage of three American tourists, one of which was recently released to their homeland. On the day of their arrest in the Pentagon documents, it is noted that detained citizens, indeed, "ignored warnings about the features of the trip in this region, but the borders with Iran were not crossed, although they came to it too close."

At the same time, the reports even contain the assumption that Tehran may soon present the accusations of espionage for the detainees, which happened. At that time, the Iranian authorities insisted that the Americans were already captured in Iran.

The common materials of the Iraqi dossier were transferred to a number of Western media, including in the USA, Great Britain, France and Germany for publication on the night of Saturday. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has already called these documents “unverified”, emphasizing that they “put a life in the life of US military and allies, and also harms the national security of our country and those with whom we work.”

For his part, the Pentagon Secretary Jeff Morrell also condemned the WikiLeaks action, noting that thereby it "encourages and convinces some persons to violate laws and provide secret materials, which then thoughtlessly spread to the whole world."