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WikiLeaks has been forced to shut down its secret-divulging operations until it can raise cash, the organization announced today.

The organization's founder, Julian Assange, continues to insist that WikiLeaks is vital to holding governments and corporate power accountable.

"PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity,"

Military documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian bloodletting and criminal violence unleashed by the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

400,000 purported Iraq war logs

"We hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war, and which has continued on since the war officially concluded," said Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, at a news conference Saturday morning in London.