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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 Channel 4’s Dispatches.
The secret files show that two-thirds of deaths 2004-09 were civilians and that significantly more ordinary people were killed at checkpoints than enemy fighters.
Iraq’s war logs published by WikiLeaks reveal US troops appeared to abuse Iraqi prisoners after the Abu Ghraib scandal, turned a blind eye to Iraqi-on-Iraqi torture and imprisoned one in 50 Iraqi men.
Iraq’s secret war logs published by WikiLeaks show Iraqi civilians were attacked by US Apache Hellfire missiles and in some instances fighters were killed when trying to surrender.
Washington correspondent Sarah Smith on claims that Bill Clinton “lost” vital nuclear codes for several months during his time in the White House.
A well-timed leak of the juiciest bits to the Washington Post and the New York Times guaranteed Bob Woodward’s book a slot on the bestseller lists. Job Rabkin looks at the revelations in detail.
From the attacks on the United States on 9/11 to the growth of Islamist radicals in Yemen, the global terrorist threat has continued to grow despite the efforts of western intelligence agencies.
Commemorations mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks as a pastor, who planned to burn copies of the Koran, travels to New York to challenge a proposed Islamic cultural centre.
Jon Snow
The gaping sore that is 9/11 in the American psyche remains unhealed. We who covered the co-ordinated attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, and the Pentagon in Washington underestimated how deep, how searing, and how long lasting this event would prove to be. Today this secular nation, whose refusal to either favour or…
War files: the Taliban issues a chilling warning to Afghans, alleged to have worked as informers for the Nato-led coalition, telling Channel 4 News ‘US spies” will be hunted down and punished.
War as we have never been allowed to see it: WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange speaks to Channel 4 News about his decision to publish 90,000 US military files – the biggest leak of its kind in history.
It’s behind the biggest leak of secret information since the Vietnam “Pentagon Papers” were made public nearly 40 years ago. But what is Wikileaks? Channel 4 News examines the whistleblowers’ website.
It is one of the biggest security breaches in US military history. The man responsible – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – speaks exclusively to Channel 4 News about the Afghanistan war logs.
Gary Gibbon
The White House is feeling a bit “bounced” by the suggestion that Gary McKinnon, accused of hacking into the Pentagon computers, might be allowed to serve his sentence in a British jail, reports Gary Gibbon
The former head of MI5 says that Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war “radicalised young people”, as Channel 4 News’ Jonathan Rugman reports on Baroness Manningham-Buller’s “haunting” statement.