Iraq War documents leak

Not to be confused with 2004 Iraq document leak.

The Iraq War documents leak is the disclosure to WikiLeaks of 391,832[1] United States Army field reports, also called the Iraq War Logs, of the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009 and published on the Internet on 22 October 2010.[2][3][4] The files record 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths.[3][4][5][6][7] The leak resulted in the Iraq Body Count (IBC) project adding 15,000 civilian deaths to their count, bringing their total to over 150,000, with roughly 80% of those civilians.[8] It is the biggest leak in the military history of the United States,[2][9] surpassing the Afghan War documents leak of 25 July 2010.[10]

  1. ^ "Iraq War logs". WikiLeaks. 22 October 2010. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b "The WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: Greatest Data Leak in US Military History". Der Spiegel. 22 October 2010. Archived from the original on 23 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  3. ^ a b Davies, Nick; Steele, Jonathan; Leigh, David (22 October 2010). "Iraq war logs: secret files show how US ignored torture". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  4. ^ a b Carlstrom, Gregg (22 October 2010). "WikiLeaks releases secret Iraq file". Al Jazeera English. Archived from the original on 23 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  5. ^ "WikiLeaks website publishes classified military documents from Iraq". CNN. 22 October 2010. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  6. ^ "Enthüllung von US-Geheimdokumenten: Die Irak-Protokolle". Der Spiegel (in German). 22 October 2010. Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  7. ^ "Nya dokument avslöjas från Irak-kriget" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 22 October 2010. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  8. ^ Paul Reynolds (27 October 2010). "Wikileaks: Iraq war logs increase pressure for openness". BBC. Archived from the original on 8 November 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  9. ^ Ackerman, Spencer; Shachtman, Noah (22 October 2010). "Chemical Weapons, Iranian Agents and Massive Death Tolls Exposed in WikiLeaks' Iraq Docs". Wired. Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  10. ^ Stewart, Phil (23 October 2010). "WikiLeaks data shows U.S. failed to probe Iraqi abuse cases". Reuters. Archived from the original on 26 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.