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Wikileaks has dominated headlines this week after it published more than 90,000 classified US military documents in a co-ordinated release with the New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel papers.

This is being described as one of the biggest leaks ever of US military intelligence, with the raw intelligence revealing details of the war in Afghanistan and the States’ relationship with Pakistan.

Australian-born Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (pictured) has defended the release of the documents saying they show the true nature of the Afghan conflict.

Mr Assange has claimed his organisation doesn’t know who sent it the documents, as ''we never know the source of the leak… our whole system is designed such that we don't have to keep that secret.''

Yesterday, Mr Assange explained to the London Journalists’ club that he told Der Spiegel he “loved crushing bastards” because he liked “stopping people who have created victims from creating any more”.

But America’s top military commander Admiral Mike Mullen has spoken out today saying Assange “can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is that they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family.”

US President Barack Obama has also said Wikilieaks’ leak of classified information ''could potentially jeopardise individuals or operations'.