WikiLeaks has begun publishing hundreds of documents from the U.S. Department of Defense that depict questionable practices towards detainees in American camps such as the one in Guantanamo, while simultaneously providing security profiles of detainees that illustrate the strengthening of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan during the preparations for the terrorist attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
The founder of WikiLeaks, an organization that encourages the publication of secret compromising government documents, Julian Assange, stated in a press release that the newly released documents reveal the treatment of detainees in military camps in Iraq and the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following the terrorist attack on the U.S. in 2001. One of the published documents – the regulations for the treatment of detained Taliban and al-Qaeda members in Guantanamo from 2002 – is historically significant, Assange notes, as “Guantanamo has rightfully become a symbol of systematic human rights violations in the West.”
The documents show how detainees behaved during their time in custody and contain security assessments of each of the 779 who have passed through Guantanamo since 2002, writes the Washington Post.
