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Iraq War Logs: Secret Files Show How US Ignored Torture
• Massive leak reveals serial detainee abuse • 15,000 unknown civilian deaths in war
A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes.
Insurgent suspects are led away by US forces. Some of those held in Iraqi custody suffered appalling abuse, the war logs reveal. (Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian) Almost 400,000 secret US army field reports have been passed to the Guardian and a number of other international media organisations via the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
The electronic archive is believed to emanate from the same dissident US army intelligence analyst who earlier this year is alleged to have leaked a smaller tranche of 90,000 logs chronicling bloody encounters and civilian killings in the Afghan war.
The new logs detail how:
• US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers whose conduct appears to be systematic and normally unpunished.
• A US helicopter gunship involved in a notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after they tried to surrender.
• More than 15,000 civilians died in previously unknown incidents. US and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities.
The numerous reports of detainee abuse, often supported by medical evidence, describe prisoners shackled, blindfolded and hung by wrists or ankles, and subjected to whipping, punching, kicking or electric shocks. Six reports end with a detainee's apparent death.
As recently as December the Americans were passed a video apparently showing Iraqi army officers executing a prisoner in Tal Afar, northern Iraq. The log states: "The footage shows approximately 12 Iraqi army soldiers. Ten IA soldiers were talking to one another while two soldiers held the detainee. The detainee had his hands bound … The footage shows the IA soldiers moving the detainee into the street, pushing him to the ground, punching him and shooting him."
The report named at least one perpetrator and was passed to coalition forces. But the logs reveal that the coalition has a formal policy of ignoring such allegations. They record "no investigation is necessary" and simply pass reports to the same Iraqi units implicated in the violence. By contrast all allegations involving coalition forces are subject to formal inquiries. Some cases of alleged abuse by UK and US troops are also detailed in the logs.
In two Iraqi cases postmortems revealed evidence of death by torture. On 27 August 2009 a US medical officer found "bruises and burns as well as visible injuries to the head, arm, torso, legs and neck" on the body of one man claimed by police to have killed himself. On 3 December 2008 another detainee, said by police to have died of "bad kidneys", was found to have "evidence of some type of unknown surgical procedure on [his] abdomen".
A Pentagon spokesman told the New York Times this week that under its procedure, when reports of Iraqi abuse were received the US military "notifies the responsible government of Iraq agency or ministry for investigation and follow-up".
The logs also illustrate the readiness of US forces to unleash lethal force. In one chilling incident they detail how an Apache helicopter gunship gunned down two men in February 2007.
The suspected insurgents had been trying to surrender but a lawyer back at base told the pilots: "You cannot surrender to an aircraft." The Apache, callsign Crazyhorse 18, was the same unit and helicopter based at Camp Taji outside Baghdad that later that year, in July, mistakenly killed two Reuters employees and wounded two children in the streets of Baghdad.
Iraq Body Count, the London-based group that monitors civilian casualties, says it has identified around 15,000 previously unknown civilian deaths from the data contained in the leaked war logs.
Although US generals have claimed their army does not carry out body counts and British ministers still say no official statistics exist, the war logs show these claims are untrue. The field reports purport to identify all civilian and insurgent casualties, as well as numbers of coalition forces wounded and killed in action. They give a total of more than 109,000 violent deaths from all causes between 2004 and the end of 2009.
This includes 66,081 civilians, 23,984 people classed as "enemy" and 15,196 members of the Iraqi security forces. Another 3,771 dead US and allied soldiers complete the body count.
No fewer than 31,780 of these deaths are attributed to improvised roadside bombs (IEDs) planted by insurgents. The other major recorded tally is of 34,814 victims of sectarian killings, recorded as murders in the logs.
However, the US figures appear to be unreliable in respect of civilian deaths caused by their own military activities. For example, in Falluja, the site of two major urban battles in 2004, no civilian deaths are recorded. Yet Iraq Body Count monitors identified more than 1,200 civilians who died during the fighting.
Phil Shiner, human rights specialist at Public Interest Lawyers, plans to use material from the logs in court to try to force the UK to hold a public inquiry into the unlawful killing of Iraqi civilians.
He also plans to sue the British government over its failure to stop the abuse and torture of detainees by Iraqi forces. The coalition's formal policy of not investigating such allegations is "simply not permissible", he says.
Shiner is already pursuing a series of legal actions for former detainees allegedly killed or tortured by British forces in Iraq.
WikiLeaks says it is posting online the entire set of 400,000 Iraq field reports – in defiance of the Pentagon.
The whistleblowing activists say they have deleted all names from the documents that might result in reprisals. They were accused by the US military of possibly having "blood on their hands" over the previous Afghan release by redacting too few names. But the military recently conceded that no harm had been identified.
Condemning this fresh leak, however, the Pentagon said: "This security breach could very well get our troops and those they are fighting with killed. Our enemies will mine this information looking for insights into how we operate, cultivate sources and react in combat situations, even the capability of our equipment."
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Oh just shit loads. First we went to war based on lies. WMD. It is to the rest of the world a war crime to attack and invade a country that has not attacked your homeland.
Therefore from shock and awe to the first boot on the ground every fucking American that was there as part of the attack are criminals. Even those back here in the states that did anything to cause murder and misery in Iraq are also war criminals.
By war criminal I mean think gas camp commander. Does not matter to me if a person opens the gas valve or pulls the trigger in a warthog or apache helicopter in an illegal war. A war crime is a war crime. One does not get to gauge or put on a scale the right or wrong in the commission of a crime. The driver of the get away car is just as guilty as the guy with a gun robbing the bank.
Anything we, as a country, did in Iraq is a war crime.Period. On going seven year crime spree. The criminals are wearing desert camo. Trying to hide from their crimes. Memorialize that America.
Wow, totally agree, the karmic payback for fascist amerika IS difficult to conceive of, BUT it IS there, and it IS pulling amerika into the abyss...so necessary for World Paz !
That Karma is already here and causing havoc. If you wanna see it, do a quick Goggle search (at your own risk) under "shootings" - it's all there for you to see, in case there are any doubts. The bastards are killing each other faster than any "terrorist" ever could.
Plus those in the Media,NYT, NPR, AP etc. who promoted the War Agenda are also War Criminals just as the Nazi propagandists were tried and found guilty.
Also all citizens who provided material support are in the same classification as the "Good Germans".
Just finishing "Escape from Davao" which tells of Japanese torture and starvation of Allied POWs.
It seems much of the reason the Japanese recieved two A bombs was because of their inhumane treatment of the Yanks.
Karma can be tough.
Dissolve the Dimos today and the Repugs tommorrow.
Glenn, you would enjoy Ghost Soldiers. Group of POWs forgotten in the Phillopines and tortured by the Japenese. I read it some time ago but I think many survived The evil that humans do to each other is shocking.
"Plus those in the Media, NYT, NPR, AP etc. who promoted the War Agenda are also War Criminals..."
–(Glenn Ford)
–Correct. This level of culpability and responsibility is often overlooked, as blame is usually delimited to individuals and not the grandest of American institutions.
The key point in this observation is that it correctly identifies the systemic and layered guilt, which makes the revelations even more damning. Even then it is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to America. 90% of the cancer remains invisible and unnamed.
Say it again since it is true: The august New York Times as an institution of war criminality!
I like to put in a few cents
After 911 Bin Laden was on the TV screen within the first 24 hours
When Bush said the US is going to war on Bin laden in Afganistan then Iraq on a revenge spree, most of the people in the US were supporting him and went along
Never mind that ALL this was preplanned, a set up and a huge fabricated lie including the fals flag operation of 911 itself. Btw must have been a insde job why is anybody arguing with this when there is huge amount of evedence (perhaps 40.000 pages like the wikilee report)
people who forget or ignoring this are also to blame.
this was ALLL part of the plan
This was a start of a much bigger problem to come to change history and leading to more power and world domination for corporate profits and the hell with the regular people , we shall scare them enslave them to this wicked system
just about everybody in this country went along with this supposedly out of self defence for the US
What a bunch of crap this all is.
"the Japanese recieved two A bombs" -
because the yanks wanted to scare the shit out of the ruskies.
..and because the Japanese were yellow not white, thus eligible for such slaughter.
This is merely a brief summary. Much more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq-war-logs
i've heard first person testimonies about much worse - though similar in kind - things done by the US and its thugs in other parts of the world in the past.
nothing in what is leaked would surprise me.
Just unbelievable how evil and insane the U.S. has become!! Next month the completely naive, stupid, and brainwashed/braindead electorate will pathetically vote in another set of monsters and criminals who will continue to bring the American image to the lowest pit of depravity in the history of humankind!
As German I can say only one thing. It's progressive. Stop it while you can!
If you think you have reach the bottom, better rethink. It can go worse.
What's happening to the U.S. helped me to understand my own history and why things spun so out of control. It's self-interest masqueraded in wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. It's the driving engine of corruption. As long people don't care and act out of self-interest, things will become worse. Looking in the other direction just to protect your status quo will do no good.
We are all one!
We are one planet!
Well said. It's like alcohol addiction. It requires more and more brutality to feed increasing depravity. No society is immune to it.
Alcohol use in general may allow much of the depravity we see.
" They could get our troops killed" ???WTF Why are US lives more important than an Iraqi's? Are WE are the ones that illegally invaded their country. Are most Americans really this stipid to continue to believe the lie that we are liberating them? The answer is yes. I live in stUTpidsville by an air base. Most of my coworkers have a spouse or husband in this invasion. They all call the Iraqis Hajis.
I hope that these reports will finally wake up the rest of the world. The US is no different then Hitler. But I know this won't happen cuz so many countries have a dog in this fight.
What a horrible, despicable country that does so much harm. Always have. I am so damn mad at TPTB that send our stupid soldiers into these wars. And at those same that go.
Reverend Wright was right. Listen to his whole speech.
Just to drive the point home even further: "Our enemies will mine this information looking for insights into how we operate."
Christ, they weren't our friggin' "enemies" till we invaded their friggin' COUNTRY, you a**hole!
How would you like it if someone invaded YOUR country, you did the honorable thing and busted a gut to get the invaders OUT of your country, and for that you were classified as an "enemy" or an "insurgent" or a "militant" -- all "bad" things -- by the invading country's press and military?!
Can't believe the only politician who keeps emphasizing that is RON friggin' PAUL! He did it in the Republican Primary debates -- and got raked over the coals for it, by the Giuliani's and the Romney's and the Huckabee's and the McCain's of this world -- and he's still doing it today! You go, Libertarian! You may be bats**t-crazy about everything else in this world, but on that one subject, you're spot-on!
And if someone can demonstrate to me how the Shock and Awe we gifted the people of Iraq with on March 19/20, 2003, was any different than the Blitzkrieg Germany visited on Poland on September 1, 1939, I am, as Ross Perot so ably stated, "all ears!"
If we are NOT the worst country in the history of the Earth, we're damn sure running a close second to whoever is!
"The US is no different then Hitler."
I would argue this one two points. One is pure semantics. Hitler was one man,the US is many people. So, to compare the US to Hitler's Germany would negate this objection.
The other point tho is more important. Hitler's Germany actually worked to prevent Ecocide along with their Genocide. They developed fuel efficient cars (the VW Beetle, for instance was designed under Hitler's orders.) They spent large amounts of resources investigating alternative energy sources. The list goes on. Don't get me wrong, I am by no means a Nazi sympathizer, but I am not dishonest enough to ignore the fact that along with their horrors, they actually did have some positions that were good, like the whole environmentalist thing. (Which is why many on the "Right" equate environmentalism with totalitarianism)
I believe the typical mantra of the right is that environmentalism is a communist plot, not a fascist one....
The United States needs a new medal called the "Custer".
I have heard stories like these since this damn war started. There were many articles written about torture and other atrocities committed by US troops. Jeez - there were photos. And video. And the first round of Wikileaks documents. Soldiers returned with first hand stories. People don't seem to care. Or maybe they just don't believe. Don't want to believe.
It was a big day in my life when I realized the truth of what my country does in my name. It's disgusting. It's not human. I had previously worked in the Military Industrial Complex, supporting the build of the death machine known as the Apache Attack Helicopter (mentioned regularly in these reports). Then I became a peace activist. I've been trying to make up for my legacy actions every since.
I haven't figured out how to get through to people who just don't want to hear the truth, and can't believe it. It was a life changing moment for me.
The Pentagon released a document saying the first round of Wikileaks documents didn't put any individuals at risk. Wikileaks stated they put a lot of effort into removing such personalized information.
The people who have put others at risk, and have killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians, are the sociopathic "leaders" who initiated and continue to promote and fund this war.
Haven't enough people been killed for no reason?
Haven't we spent enough money trying to force our ways on people who don't seem to want them?
Bin Laden said he wanted to destroy the United States by bankrupting us. He is succeeding monetarily, and seems to have gotten a bonus - he is bankrupting our soul.
And we all know how the us gov't will respond, don't we? The Wikileaks people just hate freedom and america, they're putting the lives of the soldiers at risk, and finally, the war in Iraq is over. So let's just put the past behind us and look forward to the brave new war in Afghanistan, and it's proposed 'sideshow' in Iran.
America is neither a Christian or a free nation.
We have become a Fascist controlled empire.
We have our own Stazi spy networks, and the media is controlled by the war profit machine.
Thank You
Wikileaks ,,, Real Free Press.
Freedom of the Press is something that has become a wisp in the Wind in America,it does not exist to expose the ills of our Government or Fascist controlled empire, it exists only to remind us of what America used to be, a free nation , a Democracy, a land once ruled by constitutional law with checks and balance.
We have become the mobs of Rome,entertain us with sports, the illusion of living in the greatest country in the world, a six pack, the Main Stream Media, and an ounce of freedom.
Fear of terrorism will keep this country in lockstep with the empires program, put a fork in us, we have become enslaved by Fascist imperial rule.The economy,low wages, 20 percent unemployment,outsourcing, lack of financial regulation that led to the banksters stealing us blind , bailouts bonus's and no leadership to build new solar and wind technology industries.
War is the only thing we do better than anyone else in the world, and it costs us 800 billion a year, over 3 trillion in wars.
Now, that's legacy, and I am proud of our military and its technology. But, it can only be used in War, and if we have it , we will be in Wars, hence the never ending War on Terror.
Bush took us from 4 trillion in debt to 10 trillion, and no one talks about that, especially the right wing Republicans or the the Tea Party gang.
The truth is lost, and the Free Press is what lost it in the first place.
Actually, bornfreemen, the Free Press is not"what lost it in the first place"; ignoring truth in media, buried within the FCC Fairness Doctrine, destroyed a Free Press. In 1987, President Reagan voided the FCC Fairness Doctrine, therefore, also destroying the statement that the truth in media be "accurate." Wouldn't you say that "accurate" also means "truthful"?
The media, since 1987, has NO obligation to tell the truth. People have tried to sue media conglomerates for libel and slander, but, according to court documents, media is a "Public Forum," and, therefore, people in the media are not liable for lying, under the First Amendment. Anyone and everyone within the media, can say ANYTHING and EVERYTHING with no threat of having to take responsibility for what is said.
There are still, fortunately, Investigative Reporters who are bent on telling the truth, and they do! All is not lost in the Free Press. When someone says that FOX Cable News and its "Pundits" are lying--they ARE, but why don't people go to credible sources to find the truth for themselves? Just find the court records; they are available to you on the Internet. There is additional work in researching news, and, I believe, there are, also, many people who don't WANT to know the truth, and don't WANT to know that the propaganda they believe in, is JUST NOT TRUE!
In addition to Common Dreams, check out investigative reporting websites by just "Googling:" "Investigative Reporting and/or Journalism)." None of us will be able to continue and participate in this democracy, if we don't learn the truth about our Representatives in Congress and our credible news sources. We need THIS before anything else! Without truth, we are also without democracy.
By the way, truth in media is one of Obama's prime goals in this coming year--returning truth to media. Check Obama's promises and progress at the Website: PolitiFact. You may be surprised by his progress in less than two years!
"Check Obama's promises and progress at the Website: PolitiFact. "
I remember his promises about things like Guantanamo. His "promises" are not worth the magetic storage media they reside on.
There is simply no way that the United States of America will tolerate anything less than first place in the historical record no matter how hard or how long it has to work to surpass all others.
Wikileaks is just doing its bit to help out in the Guinness Book of War Crimes department.
Here's a letter in response to one of its editorials that the New York Times wouldn't print today:
This editorial against continued war in Afghanistan should be conflated with the article about executing chickens run by The Times on this, the same day.
While anyone whose thought or actions lead to continuance of the war, should, in a more idealized world, be gassed to death or have their throats slit, neither means is satisfactory or even would be a good idea.
A better solution would to be to elect chickens to the stewardship of the Afghan War. They could hardly do a worse job than the human beings who preceded them.
"...even the capability of our equipment."
I think they know that all too well already.
let's not forget a corporate entity has no soul, only a balance sheet and a short-term profit motive to consider. the mic, sells wars on some ill-defined "american interests," but the wall street wizards have corporate headquarters and bank accounts all over the place. yes, they give all of us a bad image, but they're no more a part of this nation as the man in the moon.
most ameicans either don't know what's going on, or don't feel connected with events in far away nations. too many really believe we're better by birth while others feel intimidated and impotent to act against the power grid. sadly, a lot even if they catch wind of this will do the "patriotic thing" and not read these releases.
we should do everything possible to support assange, ellsberg and all. like franklin (i think?) said something like, "we better hang together or we'll hang separately."
the evil ones hate the truth that sets us free!
just about everyone knows the truth now.
many have known it all along.
the US and its allies have been committing the same kind of crimes against humanity for centuries.
not that the rest of the world has been perfect angels.
Just curious. Anyone want to be $1 that this story will be un-reported in the MSM or that it will be a lead in to the stories about Assange's sex accusations?
I bet it will just go into the background. Fade away into the maw of the beast.
Here's what Ellsberg had to say about the release, beforehand, on Democracy Now: http://www.alternet.org/news/148584/wikileaks_on_the_verge_of_largest_intel_leak_in_us_history_--_daniel_ellsberg_previews_the_release/.
Interesting comments.
Besides his relief that it's happening, the key point he makes is that the Obama administration has already prosecuted more whistleblowers than any other admin., and is threatening to use the Espionage Act to prosecute publication of such leaks. All this besides its FBI attack on the peace movement. We're moving into a budding dictatorship, folks. It's time to understand that the Democrats are MORE of a threat to democracy than the Republicans. If you don't have a Green or other progressive to vote FOR, vote "none of the above" on federal offices. I'll leave it to your judgment what exceptions to make (Well, I'll mention Feingold).
There has to be a backlash to this, or it will only get worse. Much worse.
Feingold was one of the congress / senate signatories of the 2009 letter
protesting Obama administration's position that Israel should stop new settlement construction.
whenever it counts, he folds like a cheap suit.
whenever he needs votes, he votes against a conservative bill just so as to claim his "progressive credentials" without doing any effective work to defeat the bill.
He does what he can in a completely toxic environment. The fact that's he's survived this long considering his policy positions is cause for some praise in itself. Had he taken more uncompromising positions, he'd probably no longer be in office.
I'm definitely not a fan of the benefits of political compromise, but some realities in America are simply too solidly entrenched to deny or single-handedly attempt to take down.
That being said, I hope that Feingold, were he to lose his seat in the upcoming election, has his nose enough to the wind to realize the future is not with the Democrats, but with a viable third party. He, and any representative that truly considers themselves progressive, must leave if they are to convince me of their sincerity since Democrats have become just as much an obstruction to our goals (maybe moreso) as the opposition has been.
The Dems stand to lose so much next month... if progressives, and the 'professional left' get any of the blame for it, I will consider any progressive who stays loyal to the party to have their interests far outside those of the people. This includes Feingold, Kucinich, Franken – any of them. I will not consider a self-defeatist a representative of mine.
–SS
so Feingold serves himself and his tribe well, and you're not a progressive. no surprise there.
Is that's supposed to be a paraphrase of what I said? And what is it that excludes me from being progressive? That I'm able to see issues outside of the two tones of black and white?
You don't equivocate if you believe in justice and the truth.
You don't last a minute in politics if you aren't willing to play the game at least once in a while. Lets not be naive. Can you name one prominent politician in America that not only believes in justice and truth, but has never compromised their ideals, or frustrated their most ideological constituents? Just one.
–SS
SS,
That's just it--this should NOT be a "game" as lives/liberty are at issue.
I'm tired of fake Dems--just throw them out with the Repugs.
Feingold and the other so-called "progressives" voted for that Health Care DEFORM bill--that alone, deserves an ass kicking and NO VOTES for a Dem.
Feingold is a proud and unapologetic supporter of Genocide.
I do not see why anyone considering themselves "progressive" would support someone who actively promotes Genocidal ideology.
Just noticed, "His tribe".
How curious, Steve.
You judge a person's politics based upon how closely they follow your own beliefs. Neither a smart way to live nor way to progress.
by the "logic" that progressives use in supporting Feingold, in spite of his outspoken support of the Genocide in Gaza, it seems frighteningly suggestive that they would have supported Hitler because his policies were "Good for the Environment" and give the same sort of reprimand as the last commenter when other people refused to support him due to his treatment of Jews (and Roma, and Homosexuals, and people of conscience).
Change one nationalistic symbol for another and it is almost an identical situation.
(BTW, real Jews use the Menorah as a symbol, the Star of David is a Zionist symbol that did not have widespread use till a mentor of the Zionist movement started requiring Jewish people to wear it)
Well said.
Fake Dems are worse than Repugs--all bad news.
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, condemned the release of almost 400,000 secret US army field reports by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks claiming the disclosure could put lives at risk.
Speaking to reporters in Washington before the documents had been posted on the website, Clinton said she condemned "in the most clear terms the disclosure of any information by individuals and or organisations which puts the lives of United States and its partners' service members and civilians at risk"
But she and Obama would never put innocent peoples' lives at risk with their policy decisions! Nor have either of them given a pass to those responsible for the mass deaths of foreign civilians and American soldiers!
No, NEVER!! No hypocrisy here, folks... just move along.
I really can't wait to see both the Republicans and Democrats fall. Our founders corpses must have been reduced to fine dust from all the spinning they've been doing these last few decades.
–SS
"I really can't wait to see both the Republicans and Democrats fall." –(Salusa Secundus)
–No doubt, since both deserve much worse than mere 'failure. Anyone around this blog, with half a brain, feels similarly– but what does this mean, since neither of them will fall? Do you mean that they would be 'voted' from office? In America, that means less than nothing.
That would be like spanking a kennel of murderous pit bulls with sparrow feathers, saying they have learned moral contrition, and have made promises not to tear anyone's throats out in the future, or terrorize defenseless civilian populations,in foreign lands, with Predator drones.
To be serious here, one must countenance what 'justice' for state terrorists, war criminals and apologists for torture, really means? Slapping them on the wrist at the ballot box?
The American malaise is the existence of America itself, no more, no less. What needs to be determined is what will constitute the end of America and how will it be accomplished? One thing is certain, is that this beneficent desire cannot be effected as a product of its politics and the exercise of its fatuous democracy. The remedy is not 'homeopathic.' It cannot be 'cured' or rehabilitated as if it were a garden variety psychopath, from within the organism.
Perhaps one day it will be seen that being a Democrat or a Republican in America is actually a criminal act in itself? That may be what constitutes that little matter of 'justice?'
And justice should start with the wretched harpy, the blood ghoul herself, Hilary Clinton.
"People do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void."
–(Maximilien Robespierre)
The fall of the Democrats and the Republicans, though much to be wished for, will result in fascism– a fascism little different from the fascism which is now all but endemic to America– and cannot be severed from it.
The transition to fascism in America will be seamless, for in truth it is not 'transiting,' but already there.
War criminal clinton has so much blood on her hands, it will never fade.
Indeed.
Torturing people to death, just to make money. You can't go lower than that.