Wikileaks strikes once again, publishing docs on Guantanamo and other detention centers

WikiLeaks website on Thursday started published more than 100 US Department of Defense documents including the first prisoner treatment manual for Guantanamo Bay.                  

The latest release by the anti-secrecy site comes as founder Julian Assange faces charges of rape and sexual assault in Sweden. He remains in the Ecuadoran embassy in London. Assange said in a statement that the newly released documents exposed military detention policies at camps in Iraq and at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, AFP reported. ·                     

Among the documents is the 2002 manual for staff at Camp Delta at Guantanamo, shortly after it was set up by US President George W. Bush to house alleged Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees from the "war on terror".                

US President Barack Obama vowed within hours of taking office in January 2009 that he would close Guantanamo Bay, saying it was acting as a recruiting tool for Islamist extremists.                

 WikiLeaks first enraged Washington in 2010 by publishing a flood of secret military files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a huge cache of diplomatic cables from US embassies across the world.             

Assange, 41, walked into the Ecuadoran embassy in London on June 19 seeking asylum in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning over alleged rape and sexual assault.                  

He was granted asylum on August 16 but Britain has refused to grant him safe passage out of the country, and he remains in the embassy.