There has been fierce reaction in Washington to the release on the Wikileaks website of classified documents about detainees in Iraq, but how have they been received in the country itself? Correspondent Jim Muir reports from Baghdad where prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused Wikileaks of trying to sabotage his bid to form a new government by alleging he was linked to Shia death squads.

This report contains descriptions of torture which some listeners might find disturbing.

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