Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Leaked War Files Expose Identities of Afghan Informants

If this is all true ,
Then these Documents are a Death Sentence for Hundreds of Afghanistan Natives who have already risked their lives for helping the U.S. towards the goal of defeating the Taliban !

And as Afghanistan officials say ,

The U.S. is both morally and legally responsible for any harm that the leaks might cause to the individuals, particularly those who have been named.

Then we should hold the founder of Wikileaks , Julian Assange , responsible for every last death resulting from his releasing of the Documents also !



Foxnews
Hundreds of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documents to WikiLeaks because the files identify informants working with NATO forces.

In just two hours of searching the WikiLeaks archive, The Times of London found the names of dozens of Afghans credited with providing detailed intelligence to U.S. forces. Their villages are given for identification and also, in many cases, their fathers' names.

U.S. officers recorded detailed logs of the information fed to them by named local informants, particularly tribal elders.

Julian Assange, the Australian founder of WikiLeaks, claimed on Monday that all the documents released through his organisation had been checked for named informants and that 15,000 such documents had been held back.

The Afghan Government has reacted with horror to the volume of information contained in the files.

A senior official at the Afghan Foreign Ministry, who declined to be named, said: "The leaks certainly have put in real risk and danger the lives and integrity of many Afghans. The U.S. is both morally and legally responsible for any harm that the leaks might cause to the individuals, particularly those who have been named. It will further limit the U.S./international access to the uncensored views of Afghans."

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