Letter: Wikileaks and Iraq war

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange rightly said that the first casualty of war is always truth. Now after eight years of the Iraq war, thousands of leaked documents show horrible pictures of the Iraq war.

Recent leaked documents of the Iraq war also show the real face of those countries that called themselves champions of human rights.

The reports reveal how torture was organized in Iraqi jails under the cover of the US and its allies, and how ordinary civilians paid the price of the Iraq war.

Raids, searches, roadside bombings, arrests, killings of innocent people at checkpoints – everything happened with the approval of US high command.  

Now British and US media are shedding crocodile tears after death of only single British aid worker in Afghanistan sitting silent after killing thousands Iraqi civilians.

The leaked data shows that the US has been keeping records of Iraqi deaths and injuries throughout the war.  

 The recent leak of the Iraq war secret document has also become big test for human rights organizations and the conscience of the modern world.

The files record horrifying tales of abuse and inhumane behavior of occupied forces in Iraq such as a pregnant women who was shot dead at a checkpoint.

Private security guards belonging to the notorious Black Water killed innocent people throughout the Iraq war. Iraqi prison guards are using electric drills to torture prisoners. Several prisoners have died due to inhumane behavior in Iraqi jails.

 
Khawaja Umer Farooq
Jeddah