| [Pak Daily Times] Iraq's prime minister is accusing WikiLeaks of releasing documents of prisoner abuse by Iraqi security forces to sabotage his re-election hopes. A statement released on Saturday by Nouri al-Maliki's office says the timing of the documents' release raises questions about whether it was motivated by politics. Earlier, on the same day main political rivals charged that documents serve as a warning against keeping Maliki in power. The trove of nearly 400,000 WikiLeaks documents detail reports by the US military of alleged abuse by Iraqi security forces after al-Maliki, a Shia, became prime minister in May 2006. |