WikiLeaks' Biggest Document Dump Yet Coming Monday

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WikiLeaks' Biggest Document Dump Yet Coming Monday:
What to Expect

By David Knowles

October 16, 2010 "AOL" --  On Monday, the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks will
release nearly 400,000 pages worth of classified U.S. Army documents on the war
in Iraq, making it the single largest military leak in U.S. history. The number
of documents will dwarf the 77,000 pages of sensitive material on the war in
Afghanistan that WikiLeaks released in July.

In preparation for the arrival of the as-yet-unspecified material, the US
military has set up a 120-person task force to begin reviewing a cache of
classified documents it believes might be found in what WikiLeaks' embattled
founder, Julian Assange, will make public, the AFP reported.

What will the documents say?
While it is unclear which documents WikiLeaks plans to release, officials in the
Department of Defense believe they will likely be compiled from the "Significant
Activities" files from the Iraq war, Wired reported.

According to GlobalSecurity.org, SigActs, as they are known, refer to "all
incidents reported to Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) through daily
Significant Activity Reports." In other words, the documents might contain
information on potentially damning incidents in Iraq that were reported to the
military, but not made public.

Wired also speculates that the documents might shed light on a range of issues,
from possible instances of ethnic cleansing in Baghdad to lost U.S. guns to more
secret U.S. prisons. A source also told Newsweek that some of the documents
detail the involvement of U.S. forces in what was described as a "bloodbath."

Who leaked the documents to WikiLeaks for leaking?
Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning allegedly confessed in May to
supplying WikiLeaks with classified videos and documents that the website
subsequently made public. Currently being held in solitary confinement at a
military prison in Virginia, Manning is suspected in the Afghan war leak, as
well as in the forthcoming Iraq war document dump, Wired reported. An
investigation remains ongoing, however.

Where can one read the documents?
In addition to being made available on WikiLeaks' website, the classified
material will also be released by The New York Times, The Guardian (U.K.), Der
Spiegel (Germany) and Newsweek.

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