Fonte http://www.altrenotizie.org/
di Carlo Musilli
Incidenti causati dalla polizia locale, stragi ai posti di blocco americani, torture disumane nelle carceri. Più di 109 mila morti, of which over 66 000 civilians. A simpleton consumed between 2004 and 2009. Until last Friday, the world knew nothing. Three months after the publication of secret files on Afghanistan, returns to being the voice of Wikileaks. The website created by the Australian Julian Assange time points the finger at the other U.S. war, the Iraq war. In
400 000 new documents taken from the secret military operations unknown to reconstruct accidents and sanded, with lots of dates and geographical coordinates. Most importantly, it gives a complete list of victims. First and last names of the dead, including those thrown into mass graves. The United States had always refused to keep records of civilians killed. Mind, now that you register on the Internet.
The new material published is the work coordinated by Wikileaks, New York Times, Washington Post groups and activists as "Iraq Body Count". Some revelations in the dossier were advanced by al-Jazeera Arabic television that forced Assange arrange travel a press conference in London. "We want to correct the truth - says the founder of Wikileaks - these documents reveal six years of war in Iraq with details from the ground. The troops on the ground, what they saw, did and said. " We speak of "a death toll five times higher Afghanistan ".
Among the atrocities revealed, the most impressive are those on torture of prisoners. Men whipped, hung from hooks, electrocuted by electric shock, sexually abused. The abuse has been substantiated by medical reports. At least six people died this way in the hands of Iraqi soldiers. Cracks that continue unabated even after the scandal of Abu Ghraib in 2004. Thousands then the victims of summary executions. The United States knew, but have opted for silence. Even when they learned that the police had their allies amputee all the fingers of a prisoner, and then dissolve them in acid in front of his eyes. According to the New York Times on some episodes, the Americans have done surveys, but most of the reported cases have been simply ignored.
The dossier also reveals the horrors that American soldiers used to use Iraqi civilians as a "trailblazer." That is to say, he sent them out on the roads and fields infested by landmines. Among the specific cases, the Apache helicopter: the same means of war involved in the killing of two journalists of Reuters, documented by Wikileaks in summer, with bursts of machine gun had killed two Iraqi gunmen who had already surrendered.
Assange The site even reveals some details about the death of Nicola Calipari, the Italian agent killed the Earthquakes in 2005 by an American soldier at a checkpoint near Baghdad. In the car with him was Giuliana Sgrena, the journalist kidnapped Manifesto and recently returned to freedom. Wikileaks is listed in the files of the interview which the Jordanian intelligence services have put Sheik Husain, former leader of al Qaeda cell in Baghdad. Husain would have revealed that the release of Sgrena would have been paid a ransom of $ 500,000.
He himself, after having collected the money, he telephoned the Iraqi Interior Ministry, saying that the machine on which the journalist and Calipari traveled to the airport was padded d’esplosivo. Un motivo sufficiente a far premere il grilletto di un marine. Ma un particolare non torna ed è quello del colore della macchina: nei nuovi documenti si parla di una Chevrolet blu, ma Calipari è morto in una Toyota Corolla bianca.
Quali reazioni ha suscitato tutto questo? Le più prevedibili in assoluto. “Nessuna sorpresa - secondo il ministro dei Diritti Umani di Bagdad - avevamo già dato notizia di molte cose che sono accadute”. Anche il Pentagono sceglie il low profile, cercando di minimizzare: “Molti episodi - si legge in una nota - erano stati a suo tempo ampiamente riportati in servizi di cronaca”. Il segretario di stato Hilary Clinton, invece, opta the second solution normally used against the rhetoric of war journalism, condemning "the disclosure of documents that endanger the lives of soldiers and American citizens." Maybe they did not notice the contradiction. If it is not a scoop, why would endanger anyone?
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