The Taliban is 'hunting down informants' named on Wikileaks

[bobbyw24]

The Taliban has issued a warning to Afghans whose names might appear on the leaked Afghanistan war logs as informers for the Nato-led coalition.

In an interview with Channel 4 News, Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said they were studying and investigating the report, adding “If they are US spies, then we know how to punish them.”

The warning came as the US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen said that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, may already have blood on his hands following the leak of 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by his website.

"Mr Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family," he said.

Information from the documents could reveal:

* Names and addresses of Afghans cooperating with Nato forces
* Precise GPS locations of Afghans
* Sources and methods of gathering intelligence

The US government has called in the FBI to help hunt those responsible for leaking tens of thousands of secret documents about the Afghanistan war.

Robert Gates, the US Defense Secretary, warned that sources identified in the documents now risked being "targeted for retribution" by insurgents in Afghanistan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...hanistan-Taliban-hunting-down-informants.html

 

[constituent]

When you snitch, just know what's comin'.

Simple as that. No different here than Afghanistan.

 

[Danke]

The warning came as the US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen said that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, may already have blood on his hands following the leak of 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by his website.

"Mr Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family," he said.

Probably not nearly as much blood on his hands as you, Admiral Mike Mullen.

 

[olehounddog]

The warning came as the US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen said that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, may already have blood on his hands following the leak of 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by his website.

Who has blood on their hands? With drone attacks having a 15 to 1 civilian to supposed bad guy kill ratio.

 

[Bruno]

The warning came as the US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen said that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, may already have blood on his hands following the leak of 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by his website.

Who has blood on their hands? With drone attacks having a 15 to 1 civilian to supposed bad guy kill ratio.

Sshhhh...you're spoiling their diversion

 

[specsaregood]

the taliban have computers and internet access?

 

[constituent]

the taliban have computers and internet access?

Actually, there's one guy with a sat. phone, a modem that translates the signal into morse code, and one bad-ass with an abacus.

Sure, it's slow, but it gets the job done!

 

[UnReconstructed]

Who in the Taliban appointed Zabihullah Mujahid as a spokesman? Petraeus? Gates? Ted Tuner himself?

 

[charrob]

Friday, July 30, 2010
WikiLeaks vs. The Death Machine

It’s a very strange and maddening world in which two men responsible for the deaths of thousands of people can cast blame on others for leaking information about their vicious actions. Yesterday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, made comments to the news media about WikiLeaks’ release of information related to the U.S. assault on Afghanistan. When Mullen said WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange and WikiLeaks’ source for the documents “might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family,” I assume the press corps covering the press event burst into wild laughter over such an absurd and obscene comment. But I’ve watched some video of the comments by Mullen and Gates, and I couldn’t detect any gasps or guffaws coming from the media contingent.

What happened yesterday at the Pentagon would be comparable to former BP CEO Tony Hayward holding a press conference following the blowout of the Gulf of Mexico well, as the gallons of oil were gushing forth, and then proclaiming the real environmental villains are the motorists who let gasoline spill when topping off their tanks at their local service station. Actually, that’s a bad analogy because motorists should avoid spillage when filling up, and, actually, should eschew driving cars altogether. What WikiLeaks and its source(s) did is heroic. There’s nothing heroic about letting gasoline spill on your shoes when pumping gas.

A better analogy to the Gates-Mullen gag-fest is U.S. federal prosecutors holding a press conference to announce the arrest and planned prosecution of four animal rights activists for engaging in “terrorist” acts by chanting, leafleting, chalking on public sidewalks in front of animal researchers’ homes. Once again, I hope the media contigent gathered for such a prosecutor’s press conference would burst out in laughther in response to such insanity. But, again, I doubt the media dupes would be astute enough to recognize the absurdity of charging activists with “terrorism"-related acts for engaging in peaceful action while researchers across the nation are terrorizing, torturing and killing nonhuman animals on a daily basis. Once again, the activists who are shining light on these despicable acts are the true heroes, while the real “terrorists” are free to ply their trade.

In our modern industrial society, what we have is the operation of an out-of-control, bloodthirsty machine, with a large number of thugs in government and the private sector working hard to fine-tune the machinery.

Through its invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. government has killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people. And now one of the thugs directly responsible for these atrocities has the nerve to claim that someone involved in the heroic release of information about the U.S.-led rampage in Afghanistan might have blood on his hands. Such comments, along with President Barack Obama’s call for an investigation into the document leak rather than an inquiry into the atrocities outlined in the documents, are the height of absurdity.

During the same news conference, Gates said: “The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies and Afghan partners, and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that key part of the world.”

In response to the comments, WikiLeaks wrote on Twitter: “Gates, who killed thousands in Iraq, Afg and Iran-Contra says we might have ‘blood on our hands’.”

WikiLeaks is spot-on in its retort. Also, the U.S. government’s reputation has long been in the dirt in “that key part of the world.” And let’s hope the “consequences” are “severe” for the U.S. military and that disclosure of its atrocities compels it to hightail out of Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the U.S. machine has a rapacious appetite for death and likely won’t halt its rampage until it’s too late for millions more unfortunate souls.

http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/wikileakshero07302010/

 

[pcosmar]

Who in the Taliban appointed Zabihullah Mujahid as a spokesman? Petraeus? Gates? Ted Tuner himself?

I wonder how much of it is fear mongering speculation. Is there any fact? or just theory?
Though it is possible that there would be retaliation against the traitors in that country,,Tactically, it would be better to use them for disinformation.

 

[JoshLowry]

The warning came as the US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen said that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, may already have blood on his hands following the leak of 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by his website.

Blood on HIS hands!?

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

This is spin and dis-information. They are counting on most people not looking at the documents and the news media pre-chewing their info diet.

As spelled out on the web site, in the press conference and in every interview, WikiLeaks REDACTED peoples names.

-t

 

[charrob]

cannot open wikileaks file...???

They are counting on most people not looking at the documents...
-t

i actually tried downloading the HTML format at: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010 but instead of an HTML file it downloaded an HTML.7z file which i cannot open.

Does anybody know what an HTML.7z file is, and what program can open it?

 

[fisharmor]

Sshhhh...you're spoiling their diversion

Hey, didn't you get the word?
They're non-American brown people. Plus, they dress funny. That's not really blood, it's concentrated evil. Therefore, the eagle god wants us to terminate those carbon units.

 

[specsaregood]

i actually tried downloading the HTML format at: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010 but instead of an HTML file it downloaded an HTML.7z file which i cannot open.

Does anybody know what an HTML.7z file is, and what program can open it?

It says on that page at the bottom:

To decompress the files you will need the program 7zip. A free client for Windows can be downloaded here. Please use your favorite search engine to find clients for other operating systems; these include p7zip for Unix/Linux and EZ7z for Mac.

And includes links to free clients that will extract it.
http://www.7-zip.org/

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

It says on that page at the bottom:

And includes links to free clients that will extract it.
http://www.7-zip.org/

you can also read it online sorted by category.

-t

 

[MelissaWV]

Yes, Josh, blood on his hands.

You can rest assured one or two "informants" will turn up dead sooner rather than later. It really won't matter what they died of. It won't matter if they were one of a hundred people who died during a car bomb at a market. It won't matter if they died in a plane crash. It won't matter if they choked on breakfast. It will be blamed on the Taliban!!! They're crafty!!!

Oh and it also won't matter if they were shot by bullets that look curiously like US/UN forces bullets. Nope. It's because of WikiLeaks.

 

[specsaregood]

It won't matter if they died in a plane crash. It won't matter if they choked on breakfast. It will be blamed on the Taliban!!! They're crafty!!!

If I was an "informant" I'd be crazy paranoid about meeting up with my CIA handler anytime in the near future.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

interesting thread, thanks.

 

[charrob]

It says on that page at the bottom:

And includes links to free clients that will extract it.
http://www.7-zip.org/

got it and extracted it! -thanks specsaregood!