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Wide of news conference2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief:\"'The first casualty of war is the truth.' But the attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief:\u003cbr/\u003e\"'The first casualty of war is the truth.' But the attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends. In our release of these 400,000 documents about the Iraq war, the intimate details of that war from the US perspective, we hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war and which has continued on since the war officially concluded.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of news conference \u003cbr/\u003e4.  SOUNDBITE: (English) John Sloboda, Iraq Body Count:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Most surprisingly of all we have found a huge number of names recorded in these logs. It is unclear to us why the US army wanted to go to such lengths in its recordings, but it is of huge public importance and interest that it did. Names are the gold dust of casualty recording enterprise and the only certain route to a full and final death toll that will satisfy all parties including bereaved families.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kristinn Hrafnsson, WiliLeaks spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are confident now that the documents in the highly redacted form contain no information that could be harmful to individuals. Having said that I would like to add that every system contains flaws but that the likelihood of any flaw in our approach is truly minimum.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pull out from Phil Shiner (from Public Interest Lawyers) to wide of news conference  \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief: (laid over previous shot):    \u003cbr/\u003eReporter's question: \"The Pentagon's spokesman said last night  that the names of 300 Iraqis have been released as part of the Iraq war logs and their lives could now be in danger. Are you worried that the careful vetting that you outlined this morning maybe wasn't careful enough and that those lives have been put at risk?\"\u003cbr/\u003eAssange's answer: \"No, I'm worried that the press chooses to credibly report statements like that from the Pentagon. In fact the Pentagon would not have been able to review our material in those few hours. It is simply logistically impossible.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Most wars that are started by democracies involve lying. Vietnam war and the Gulf of Tonkin incident involved lying. The start of the Iraq war involved very serious lies which were repeated and amplified by some parts of the press. Which leads us to say what? Not that isn't the world terrible because there is a lot of lying by officials but rather it leads us to a great hope that democracies don't start wars unless there's lies so if there's enough truth early on enough, then perhaps we won't see these kind of wars.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The lessons of Iraq which are ongoing - remember this material covers significant abuses occurring during the first year of the Obama administration - can be applied to Afghanistan and can be applied to other places I think western governments may choose in isolation or in coalition to invade.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Medium of news conference \u003cbr/\u003e14. Medium of news conference \u003cbr/\u003e15. Daniel Ellsberg, journalist and whistleblower, talking  \u003cbr/\u003e16. Assange commenting on report projected on screen \u003cbr/\u003eMilitary documents in the biggest leak of secret information in US history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian bloodletting and criminal violence unleashed by the 2003 US-led invasion.\u003cbr/\u003eThe accounts of civilian deaths among nearly 400-thousand purported Iraq war logs released on Friday by the WikiLeaks website include deaths unknown or unreported before now - as many as 15-thousand by the count of one independent research group.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In our release of these 400-thousand documents about the Iraq war, the intimate details of that war from the US perspective, we hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war and which has continued on since the war officially concluded,\" WikiLeaks founder and editor-in chief Julian Assange said during a news conference in London on Saturday. \u003cbr/\u003eCasualty figures in the US-led war in Iraq have been hotly disputed because of the high political stakes in a conflict opposed by many countries and a large portion of the American public.\u003cbr/\u003eCritics on each side of the divide accuse the other of manipulating the death toll to sway opinion.\u003cbr/\u003eIraq Body Count, a private British-based group that has tracked the number of Iraqi civilians killed since the war began, said it had analysed the information and found 15-thousand previously unreported deaths, which would raise its total from as many as 107,369 civilians to more than 122-thousand civilians.\u003cbr/\u003eIt said most of the newly disclosed casualties included targeted assassinations, drive-by shootings, torture, executions and checkpoint killings.\u003cbr/\u003eA member of the organisation, John Sloboda, said at the news conference that the war logs revealed an unprecedented level of detail about the day-to-day conflict, including the names of many victims.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Names are the gold-dust of casualty recording enterprise and the only certain route to a full and final death toll that will satisfy all parties including bereaved families,\" Sloboda said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe field reports from US forces and intelligence officers also indicate US forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed their\u003cbr/\u003ecaptives as they battled a violent insurgency.\u003cbr/\u003eAlthough the documents appear to be authentic, their origin could not be independently confirmed, and WikiLeaks declined to offer any details about them.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Pentagon has previously declined to confirm the authenticity of WikiLeaks-released records, but it has employed more than 100 US analysts to review what was previously released and has never indicated that any past WikiLeaks releases were inaccurate.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 391,831 documents date from the start of 2004 to January 1, 2010, providing a ground-level view of the war written mostly by low-ranking officers in the field. The dry reports, full of\u003cbr/\u003emilitary jargon and acronyms, were meant to catalogue \"significant actions\" over six years of heavy US and allied military presence in Iraq.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Iraqi government has issued a tally claiming at least 85,694 deaths of civilians and security officials killed between January 2004 and October 31, 2008.\u003cbr/\u003eIn July of this year, the US military quietly released its most detailed tally to date of the deaths of Iraqi civilians and security forces in the bloodiest years of the war.\u003cbr/\u003eThat US body count, reported by The Associated Press this month, tallied deaths of almost 77-thousand Iraqis between January 2004 and August 2008. \u003cbr/\u003eThe new data was posted on the US Central Command website without explanation.\u003cbr/\u003ePentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell called the release of the Iraq war material by WikiLeaks \"shameful\" and said it \"could potentially undermine our nation's security\".\u003cbr/\u003eHe said that about 300 Iraqis mentioned in the documents are \"particularly vulnerable to reprisal attacks\" because of the documents' release and that US forces in Iraq are trying to\u003cbr/\u003eprotect them.\u003cbr/\u003eWikiLeaks denied that claim.\u003cbr/\u003eAsked about the Pentagon's allegations by reporters, Assange added that he is \"worried that the press chooses to credibly report statements like that from the Pentagon. In fact the Pentagon would not have been able to review our material in those few hours. It is simply logistically impossible.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKristinn Hrafnsson, WiliLeaks spokesman, said they \"are confident now that the documents in the highly redacted form contain no information that could be harmful to individuals.\"\u003cbr/\u003eA review of the documents by the AP found no names.\u003cbr/\u003eWikiLeaks gave the AP a version of the files with some names of people, countries and groups redacted. \u003cbr/\u003eAssange stressed that the purpose of the leaks is to established the truth about the Iraq war so that \"the lessons of Iraq which are ongoing (...) can be applied to Afghanistan and can be applied to other places Western Governments can choose in isolation or in coalition to invade.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Most wars that are started by democracies involve lying,\" he added. \"Vietnam war and the Gulf of Tonkin incident involved lying. 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