At that time there was strong censorship and repression of all press, culture, book publishing and the internet. The libraries were requisitioned, and there could not be books among them that favored "terrorism", for example the Koran was banned . There were no images of the Iraq War, television networks like CNN were prohibited from showing images. On April 5, 2010, WikiLeaks published a video from July 14, 2007 in which US soldiers were seen shooting Reuters reporter Namir Noor-Eldeen, his assistant and 9 people from an Apache helicopter, a publication that shocked to the world and put the US military apparatus in check.
On July 25, 2010, the newspapers The Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel made public a set of some 92,000 documents on the Afghanistan War from the years between 2004 and 2009, which came to them through WikiLeaks. The documents included events that until now were not known, such as civilian casualties caused by United States soldiers, connections between Pakistani intelligence and the Taliban. The United States accused WikiLeaks of endangering civilian lives, but Julian Assange responded that the White House was informed a week before publication.
On October 22, 2010, WikiLeaks made public the " Iraq War Logs" , 391,831 documents leaked from the Pentagon (headquarters of the United States Department of Defense) about the Iraq War and its occupation between on January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2009. These documents revealed the systematic use of torture, death tolls in Iraq, and death tolls in the invading coalition forces. The Guardian reported that on October 21 it had received all the documents, and on October 22, 2010 Al Jazeera, half an hour ahead of schedule, released the leak to the entire world, considered "the largest leak of classified documents in history."
According to Julian Assange, the published Iraq War documents reflect the truth of the Iraq War with hundreds of reports alleging abuse, torture, rape and even murder systematically carried out by the police and army allied to the invading forces. The reports, supported by medical evidence, describe the situation of prisoners being blindfolded, tied up, receiving blows, lashes and enduring electric shocks, all of which is known to the Pentagon, the military and political authorities of the United States and NATO.