The online platform for political indiscretions Wikileaks has worked with several media partners391 832 documents in connection with the Iraq war from 2004 to 2009 published from. "This publication is an act of truth," said Wikileaks Assange-founder Julian on the Internet streamed press conference held in London today. "It shows that the attack on the truth of the war will be long ago and even longer to stop. But we do not need to wait 40 years and longer that the archives are opened, we have Wikileaks."
Assange called the numbers of 109,000 dead, including 66 000 civilians by Wikileaks in cooperation with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Project and the Iraq Body Count were determined. The official figures of the U.S. military command spoke of 40,000 civilians.

Compared to the military reports from Afghanistan three months ago, the publication of the Mirror, the Guardian and the New York Times were involved in, was Wikileaks down considerably, which regards the number of media partners. Next to the Mirror, the Guardian and the New York Times TV this time are also of Al Jazeera and the Jerusalem Post it, also the Swedish Television, the British Channel 4 and BBC Radio.

Despite the very different treatment of the documents by the media shows that especially gets the discussion of torture and unlawful killings in Iraq war new food. In the press conference stressed Assange that the documents "evidence of war crimes" would contain. According to the Guardian, the U.S. military in particular, reports of torture, rape and murder ignored emanating from Iraqi troops and Iraqi police. In total, over 300 incidents of this kind to be documented.