Assange was accused of receiving and publishing hundreds of thousands of war logs and diplomatic cables that included details of US military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the files was a video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack by American forces in Baghdad that killed 11 people.

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