But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has vehemently criticized the largest leak of classified documents in US history.
Earlier in the year, WikiLeaks began exposing the darker side of the Iraq conflict with the release of a cockpit video of an attack by a US helicopter in which a number of civilians were killed, including two journalists working for the Reuters news organization.
Then 75,000 documents, which shed new light on the conflict in Afghanistan, were released by the whistleblower website in July.
The Pentagon subsequently claimed terrorists had analyzed those documents, which put US troops' lives in jeopardy.
However, analysts say WikiLeaks provides a service needed to expose the truths behind the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whistleblower website, Wikileaks once again made headlines by releasing new intelligence reports on the US atrocities in occupied Iraq. It has released 400,000 intelligence documents this time making it the biggest leak in US history. Wikileaks had previously disclosed tens of thousands of classified military documents of crimes committed by US occupation froces in Afghanistan.
Press TV news network annoucned in a report that the new Wikileaks documents show that the US had registred civilain death tolls in Iraq and this is while the US had earlier denied registering the number of civilian deaths in Iraq, which total almost 1.2 million over the past seven years.
US president, Barack Obama, Secretary of Defesne, Robert Gates and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, are angry at the release of classified documents, although they have feigned shock at their crimes in a bid to absolve the current administration of complicity in this organized massacre. At the same time, US officials have expressed concern over the disclosure of these reports while describing them as dangerous for the security of US and NATO occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wikileaks had also earlier released video footage of an American helicopter attack in Iran which a number of civilians including two local journalists working for Reuters' news bureau were killed.
AFP annoucned in a report from Washington that the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has said the newly released documents present images of killings in iraq in a more transparent way.
Julian Assange told CNN reporter that documents relating to the war in Iraq show the killings of about 1,040,000 Iraqi people in the course of 7 years which is a five-fold amount of civilian deaths compared to the American killings of civilians in Afghanistan.
The released documents on the massacre of Iraqis not only show the number of those killed but also specifies the details of the massacres with geographic and operational details.
In reaction to this massive leak of military documents, NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said the disclosure of these reports could bring about negative security consequences.
Spokesman for the US Defense Department, Geoff Morell also announced that these documents include reports which military units have presented to their top officials.
Also, in order to defelct world public opinion and portary an unimportant image of these documents, US Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates wrote in a letter to the Senate military services committee that the release of these documents has not disclosed any intelligence strategy.
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