BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The release of classified U.S. military documents about security operations in Iraq is leading to more political instability, Iraq leader Nouri al-Maliki said.
The prime minister said in a statement Saturday opposition groups are poised to use the data released by the WikiLeaks group on Friday against him, The Washington Post reported.
The nearly 400,000 documents allege prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces and claim U.S. soldiers killed at least 700 Iraqi civilians.
Maliki's statement said the allegations would be taken "into consideration in order to achieve justice for our citizens."
In elections last March, Maliki's Shiite Muslim-dominated government didn't win enough seats for a majority against opposition Sunni Muslims and the country has foundered politically.
Omar al-Jubouri, a Sunni politician, told the Post the release of the documents claiming abuse and neglect proved what Sunnis have been saying since the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
"These releases haven't brought anything new to us, because for four or five years we have been calling for these practices to stop," al-Jubouri said.
