Taliban 'hunting down informants'

[Scurrilous]

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.

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"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.

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.

He pledged a "thorough, aggressive investigation" to identify the leakers and said that steps were being taken to restrict access to classified documents in future.

Bradley Manning, a 22-year old intelligence analyst, is the prime suspect in the leak inquiry. He is currently already in custody in Kuwait after being arrested for allegedly leaking other information earlier this year."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7917955/Wikileaks-Afghanistan-Taliban-hunting-down-informants.html

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1. Interesting. Guess this guy had a point --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8842349

:shrug:

[tblue]

2. Okay. Sure. Let's blame it all on the Bradley Manning.

The Taliban, et al, is hunting down a lot of people because of this godforsaken war. So is the CIA. It is horrible, I agree, but it's all part and parcel of this stupid war that should have ended before it even started. Candidate Obama said he would fight to protect whistleblowers. Here's the perfect opportunity for him to keep that promise.

[spoony]

3. Fuck you, Mullen. How much blood is already on your hands?

How the fuck can a man like that even sleep at night? For that matter, how can the President?

[Scurrilous]

4. Soldier in WikiLeaks video case transferred to US

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"A US soldier accused of leaking a military video from Iraq and suspected in the release of thousands of secret documents on the Afghan war has been moved to a US military jail, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Private First Class Bradley Manning arrived at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia late on Thursday, the Pentagon said, after his court martial proceedings were transferred from Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.

Manning is facing four charges related to the leak to the website WikiLeaks of a video showing a US Apache helicopter strike in Baghdad in July 2007 that killed several people.

He now is also suspected of possible involvement in the bombshell leak to the same website of tens of thousands of classified documents related to the war in Afghanistan."

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5. we've got our informant. we hunt them, too.

[Javaman]

6. LOL oh and they wouldn't hunt down informants if they weren't on the list? LOL

Priceless, simply priceless. Who in the pentagon comes up with this shit anyway?