Watch a video clip related to Iraq's Secret War Files, from Channel 4 News. In the biggest official files leak in history nearly 400,000 Iraq war logs reveal the massive scale of civilian deaths and new torture allegations following an investigation by Dispatches. Channel 4 News has accessed the data in the classified documents via The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and WikiLeaks but has been unable to independently verify their authenticity. Warning: You may find some of the details in this report and the accompanying video disturbing.
In total 391,832 individual logs, written by American troops in combat, tell the story of the Iraq war during the period 2004 to 2009. The documents were leaked by whistleblowers' website WikiLeaks and obtained by Channel 4 News via The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) ahead of an exclusive report in Iraq's Secret War Files on Channel 4's Dispatches tonight at 8pm. They catalogue every aspect of the conflict; from checkpoint 'escalations of force' and apparent surrender killings to the rising profile of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The files contain precise locations and the identities of civilians, suspected insurgents and the troops involved. Their names have been redacted for their safety.
