Wikileaks Ready To Release Secret Iraq Documents

WikiLeaks Prompts U.S. Alert to Iraqis -- Wall Street Journal

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.

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.

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