Wikileaks founder Julian Assange holds up a copy of a newspaper during a press conference at the Frontline Club in central London, July 26, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Andrew WinningLeaked War Files Expose Identities of Afghan Informants -- FOX News
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.
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Update: US Braces for Blowback Over Afghan War Disclosures -- ABC News/AP
My Comment: Kudos to FOX News/ABC News/AP for reporting this part of the Wikileaks story .... the realization that these informers have now been exposed and that they (and their families) are now in grave danger from Taliban murder squads makes me sick. Wikileaks is denying that the names of Afghan informers have been released, but I have already scanned a few hundred documents, and the names of Afghan informers/allies in certain villages are clearly spelled out.
Wikileaks lied .... people died.
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