Iraq War Logs Every Death Mapped - From Wikileaks and Guardian MIRROR. Apache crew killed insurgents who tried to surrender. A US gunship crew was cleared to attack two insurgents on the ground even though the pilots had reported that the men were trying to surrender, the leaked Iraq war logs reveal.
The Apache helicopter pilots killed both Iraqi men after being advised by a US military lawyer that they could not surrender to an aircraft and therefore remained valid targets. A leading military law expert consulted by the Guardian has questioned this legal advice. The Guardian can also reveal that the helicopter involved in the incident in 2007 had the same call sign – Crazyhorse 18 – as the Apache whose crew later mistakenly killed two Reuters journalists and injured two children in a notorious shooting in urban Baghdad.
The killings drew worldwide condemnation in April this year when WikiLeaks obtained video footage taken from the helicopter's gun camera and released it on the internet. It has not been possible to establish whether the same personnel were involved in both attacks. 15,000 previously unlisted civilian deaths. Leaked Pentagon files obtained by the Guardian contain details of more than 100,000 people killed in Iraq following the US-led invasion, including more than 15,000 deaths that were previously unrecorded.
British ministers have repeatedly refused to concede the existence of any official statistics on Iraqi deaths. US General Tommy Franks claimed in 2002: "We don't do body counts. " The mass of leaked documents provides the first detailed tally by the US military of Iraqi fatalities. Troops on the ground filed secret field reports over six years of the occupation, purporting to tot up every casualty, military and civilian.
Iraq Body Count, a London-based group that monitors civilian casualties, told the Guardian: "These logs contain a huge amount of entirely new information regarding casualties. The logs record a total of 109,032 violent deaths between 2004 and 2009. No fewer than 31,780 of the total deaths are attributed to the improvised landmines laid around Iraq by insurgents. Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Tax Dollars Fund Child Sex Slavery in Afghanistan. Wikileaks documents 'reveal new deaths' Irak : l'horreur ordinaire révélée par Wikileaks. Le Monde, conjointement avec le New York Times, le Guardian, le Bureau of investigative journalism et le Spiegel, a pu consulter en avant-première 400 000 rapports de l'armée américaine en Irak, rendus publics ce vendredi par le site Wikileaks, spécialisé dans la publication de documents confidentiels.
Il s'agit des rapports d'incidents, rédigés par les officiers sur le terrain, qui constituent le fichier SIGACTS ("significant activity") des forces américaines de janvier 2004 à décembre 2009. Une masse de documents qui décrivent, jour à près jour, les attentats, les échanges de tirs, les fouilles de caches d'armes, les arrestations, et les violences contre les civils. Confidentiels, les "rapports d'incidents" ne sont pas classés secret défense. Les documents publiés par Wikileaks ne contiennent pas les rapports des forces spéciales américaines, ni les mémos des services de renseignement. Pour en savoir plus : Tommy Franks. Tommy Franks Sourced[edit] We don't do body counts.
News conference at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan (March, 2002) in reference to Afghan deaths due to invasion; quoted in Edward Epstein, "Success in Afghan war hard to gauge," The San Francisco Chronicle (2002-03-23) External links[edit] Iraq Body Count.