The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.

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U.S. Department of Defense Current Photos posted a photo:

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, left, meets with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad, Iraq, July 27, 2010. Mullen's stop in Iraq wraps up a ten-day, around-the-world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terror. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Colonel Killgore posted a photo:

Snapped this by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Colonel Killgore posted a photo:

One of the very first things that the reconstruction effort repaired.

The U.S. Army posted a photo:

Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff greets the various commanding generals of U.S. Forces, Iraq in Baghdad on July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up the ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism. DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visits Baghdad, Iraq on July 28, 2010. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

BoogaFrito posted a photo:

A 3-D stereogram. (Instructions for viewing.)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visits Baghdad, Iraq on July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up the ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff addresses the media at the Combined Press Information Center in Baghdad, Iraq on July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up the ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Deputy Secretary of State Jacob Lew address the media at the Combined Press Information Center in Baghdad, Iraq on July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up the ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff meets with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad on July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up the ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff greets service members assigned to the Combined Press Information Center in Baghdad, Iraq on July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up the ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visits Baghdad, Iraq on July 27, 2010. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, commanding general, U.S. Forces, Iraq bid farewell to Gen. Babaker Zibari, Iraqi Armed Forces chief of staff in Baghdad, Iraq on July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up the ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff bids farewell to Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul Qadir in Baghdad, Iraq on July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up the ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Gen. Babaker Zibari, Iraqi Armed Forces chief of staff are inteviewed by Iraq television in Baghdad, Iraq on July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up the ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted a photo:

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff greets the various commanding generals of U.S. Forces, Iraq in Baghdad on July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up the ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

solevargasb posted a photo:

US Marines of the 1st Division raid the house of a city council chairman in the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004. The Marines arrested the city council chairman of Nasar Wa Sulaan, Baghdad, Taha Rasheed and other council members following the raid. American forces are preparing for a major assault on Fallujah in an effort to restore control to a swath of Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital ahead of crucial national elections due by Jan. 31. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

solevargasb posted a photo:

A Iraqi man begs for help for himself and his friend after failing to stop as they approached a coalition tank in Baghdad, Tuesday, April 8, 2003. The man lying on the road in the background was shot several times, but was alive and transported to medical help by Charlie Company's 1-64 3rd Infantry Division. Two other men in the car were killed. (Brant Sanderlin/The Atlanta Journal-Consitution via Cox News Service)

solevargasb posted a photo:

This video image released by Iraqi state television shows Saddam Hussein's guards wearing ski masks and placing a noose around the deposed leader's neck moments before his execution Saturday Dec. 30. 2006. Clutching a Quran and refusing a hood, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows before sunrise Saturday, executed by vengeful countrymen after a quarter-century of remorseless brutality that killed countless thousands and led Iraq into disastrous wars against the United States and Iran. (AP Photo/IRAQI TV, HO)

solevargasb posted a photo:

A photo obtained by the Washington Post and released Thursday, May 6, 2004, shows a soldier identified as U.S. Army Spc. Lynndie England, 21, of the 372nd Military Police Company with a naked detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad date unknown. (AP Photo/The Washington Post)