WikiLeaks Prompts U.S. Alert to Iraqis

WASHINGTON—A Pentagon team has been reviewing copies of Iraq war documents the website WikiLeaks may release in coming days and plans to notify Iraqis named in the documents in an effort to minimize potential damage from the security breach, defense officials said.

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This photograph shows a magnifying glass held in front of a computer screen, displaying an Afghan War Diary on the Wikileaks website. The Pentagon scoured through an Iraq war database to prepare for potential fallout from an expected release by WikiLeaks.

The Pentagon set up a 120-person Information Review Task Force originally to look at Afghanistan war documents released by WikiLeaks, and to identify people who were named in the intelligence reports.
Pentagon officials fear the leaked documents could be used by the Taliban to hunt down those identified as working with the U.S.-led war effort. More at:
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