"It is time the United States opened up instead of covering up," said Julian Assange, the founder of the website, which has released classified documents pointing to major breaches of human rights by the US military.
Wikileaks has blown the cover off around 500,000 of secret documents, which detail US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It says the tally of the Iraqi fatalities outnumbers that of the US' by 15,000.
Wikileaks has released around 400,000 classified documents on the presence of the US military in Iraq following the invasion of the country in 2003.
One of the documents suggests that the American forces had decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, who bore personal grievance against the victim.
Washington has launched, what Assange referred to as, an "aggressive investigation" into his apparatus.
He singled out for criticism, the US authorities' imprisonment of a former army intelligence analyst, who reportedly leaked to the website a video, featuring a 2007 US helicopter attack on the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The material showed trigger-happy troops killing 12 people, including two Reuters employees, in a shooting spree.
"The only action to date has been to threaten this organization, to place the alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning into prison," Assange said. A 52-year jail sentence hangs over Manning.
Wikileaks says it could release around 15,000 more documents on the war in Afghanistan as well as an Afghanistan video file.
An estimated 655,000 civilians have been killed since the US-led invasion.
Iraqi people have blamed rising civilian casualties on the continued presence of foreign troops.
OK Readers why a probe/investigation has not happened is because of us - we make no demands - why? The truth is in our faces - are we all so frightened to act?
Always questions I can not find the answers but I will not give up trying.
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