The United States has demanded that the whistle-blower website Wikileaks hand over all classified US military documents it has not yet published and remove existing material posted online, indicate emerging reports.
According to Al Jazeera-English, Pentagon has also asked for a halt in all future releases.
"We are asking them to do the right thing," said Geoff Morrell, a Pentagon spokesman, as he made a public request for WikiLeaks to hand over the US documents and delete material it had put on the Internet.
"We hope they will honor our demands," he said, adding that the US government was the rightful owner of all the classified material in WikiLeaks' possession.
According to CNN, Morrell denied reports that WikiLeaks has asked the Pentagon to review some 15,000 documents it has yet to publish from leaked Afghanistan military reports.
Wikileaks sparked controversy last month when it published more than 70,000 military documents relating to the war.
In a related report, WikiLeaks has posted a link to something it calls an "Insurance file" of 1.4 gigabytes on its Afghan documents page, prompting speculation that wikiLeaks wanted to pre-empt any American action against it.
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