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The World A15 Iraq’sMaliki:Opponentswill useU.S. leaks against him BY ERNESTO LONDOÑO
baghdad — Iraqi Prime Minis- ter Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that his opponents are using leaked classified U.S. military reports to discredit his adminis- tration as he struggles to secure a second termin office. Maliki’s government also said
in a statement in response to the trove of documents released Fri- day night by the whistleblower group WikiLeaks that it would investigate newly disclosed shootings by employees of the American security company for- merly known as Blackwater. “We need to take these docu-
ments into consideration in or- der to achieve justice for our citizens,” the statement said. Referring to details of cases in
which U.S. forces had killed Iraqi civilians, the statement said the U.S. military’s “permissive” rules of engagement had led to a “point of crisis” between the two coun- tries. The documents show that U.S.
soldiers killed at least 700 Iraqi civilians in situations where the troops felt threatened. They also suggest that U.S.
soldiers were ordered to refrain fromformally investigating cases of inmate abuse by Iraqi police and soldiers. While the nearly 400,000 doc-
uments disseminated by WikiLeaks have not produced major revelations, Iraqi politi- cians are likely to seize on newly disclosed details for political gain as negotiations over the formation of a new government drag on. Neither Maliki nor Ayad Al-
lawi,hismainrival intheMarch7 parliamentary elections, has been able to form a coalition large enough to govern. Jamal al-Battikh, a leader in
Allawi’s Iraqiya alliance, said se- curity agencies under Maliki’s control are to blame for the sort of inmate torture detailed in the leaked files. “In our dialogue with all the
other blocs, we have demanded the disbandment of the security agencies that were causing viola- tions of human rights,” he said. “These kinds of security agencies
are causing all the harm.” Some Sunni leaders said the
information in the reports detail- ing torture in Iraqi prisons was a vindication of claims they have beenmaking for years. “These releases haven’t
brought anything new to us, because for four or five years we have been calling for these prac- tices to stop,” said Omar al-Ju- bouri, a Sunni politician. “Maybe they will give more credibility to what we have been saying, be-
Iraq war deaths Total number of U.S. military
deaths since 2003 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Iraq war, as announced by the Pentagon:
4,429
In hostile actions:
Fatalities 3,494
In non- hostile actions:
935
Tallies may be incomplete because of lags in reporting.
l Sgt. Philip C. Jenkins, 26, of Decatur, Ind.
l Pvt. James F. McClamrock, 22, of Huntersville, N.C. The two soldiers were assigned to 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Advise and Assist Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, based at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. They died Sept. 7 in Balad of wounds suffered in Salahuddin province.
l Pfc. Dylan T. Reid, 24, of Springfield, Mo; 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, based at Fort Carson, Colo. Died Oct. 16 in Amarah of noncombat injuries.
All troops were killed in action in Afghanistan unless otherwise indicated.
Total fatalities include civilian
employees of the Defense Department.
A full list of casualties is available online
at6washingtonpost.com/nation
SOURCE: Defense Department’s
www.defenselink.mil/news
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causenowthePentagonconfirms it while before they were just citizens’ claims that were de- nied.” Baghdad residents inter-
viewed Saturday did not show much interest in the leaks, saying the little they have heard about them on television sounded like old news. “I only saw the subtitles,” Ad-
nanMehdi, 62, said while sitting outside an electronics shop in downtown Baghdad. “We’re used
to violence. We don’t care any- more about what happens.” Across town, in the predomi-
nantly Sunni neighborhood of Dora, Khattab Musli, 23, said government forces will continue to be heavy-handed,with orwith- out U.S. intervention, regardless of who prevails politically. “Right now, we have the law of
the jungle,” he said. “The strong will eat the weak.” In London, meanwhile, WikiLeaks founder Julian As-
sange heralded the release of the documents as a major step to- ward accountability in the Iraq war. He also strongly defended the whistle-blowing Web site against criticismfromthe Penta- gon and elsewhere that the dis- closures represent a security risk. “This disclosure is about the
truth,” he said at a news confer- ence. John Sloboda, co-founder of
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Correspondent Anthony Faiola in London and special correspondents Aziz Alwan and Jinan Hussein contributed to this report.
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The cleanup begins at a blood-soaked home in Ciudad Juarez where 13 people were killed Saturday during a birthday celebration.
13 partygoers killed by gunmen in attack in Ciudad Juarez
A dozen are wounded; interior secretary pledges to investigate
BY WILLIAM BOOTH
mexico city — Gunmen stormed a birthday party in em- battled Ciudad Juarez and killed 13 young people, the latest out- rage in a city crippled bywarring drug gangs. State Attorney General Carlos
Salas told reporters at a news conference at the crime scene that the dead ranged in age from 13 to 32 and included six women and girls. A dozen people were wounded in the attack late Fri- day in a lower-middle-class bar- rio of Juarez. Salas said that investigators
found 70 bullet casings at the scene and that the attackers escaped. He offered no possible motive. Gunmen killed 15 people at a
birthday party attended by teen- age football players in a similar attack in the city in January. The deaths captured the atten-
tion of the nation and forced President Felipe Calderon to promise to restore order. At pub- licmeetings back then in Juarez, he was heckled by audiences and confronted by the angrymothers of the dead. Calderon, supported by U.S.
Ambassador Carlos Pascual, committed large investments to mend the tattered social fabric of the city by building schools, parks and clinics and offering work to the tens of thousands of underemployed youth in pro- gramcalled “We Are All Juarez.” The Mexican government also
vowed to replacemilitary troops, which had been in the streets since January 2008, with federal police. Federal police are in the lead-
ership position in the city, but army troops actively patrol the city. Social spending has soared, but most projects have not been completed. The Juarez surge, as it has
been called by state security experts, has largely failed to calm the violence.Many days, a dozen people are shot dead in Juarez— in cafes, bars, hospitals and parks but mostly on the street. More than 2,500 people have been killed this year. Mexico’s secretary of the inte-
rior, Francisco Blake Mora, con- demned the killings in a state- ment and promised to help the families of the victims and inves- tigate the crimes. Calderon, in a statementmade
through his Twitter account, said his government was outraged by the deaths and “expresses its strongest protest against the murder of the young people in Ciudad Juarez.”
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