Wikileaks releases 4 lakh papers on Iraq war

In the largest classified military leak in the US history, whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has released nearly 4 lakh secret American documents on Iraq war detailing graphic accounts of torture, killing of over 66,000 civilians and Iran's role in the conflict.
The latest leaked documents, chronicling the Iraq war from 2004 to 2009, provide a new picture of how many Iraqi civilians were killed, open a new window on the role that Iran played in supporting Iraqi militants and give many accounts of abuse by the Iraqi Army and police. This was disclosed by the 'The New York Times', one of the news organisations which got early access to the papers.
WikiLeaks, which released the papers despite Pentagon's warning that it could endanger informants and reveal war strategy, called the document drop the largest-classified military leak in history.
In a news release, the group said the documents detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, encompassing 66,081 civilians, 23,984 insurgents, 15,196 Iraqi government forces and 3,771 coalition forces, according to the classifications used by the US military.
The Pentagon strongly condemned the unauthorised disclosure of classified information contained in 392,000 documents.
WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange told CNN that the new round of field reports shows "compelling evidence of war crimes" committed by forces of the US-led coalition and the Iraqi government.
Earlier this year, WikiLeaks had released 92,000 Afghan war-related documents.