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Taliban Says It Will Target Names Exposed By Wikileaks......

source: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/30/taliban-says-it-will-target-names-exposed-by-wikileaks.ht...

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"Taliban Says It Will Target Names Exposed by WikiLeaks

Militants were alerted to the leaked documents, which reveal details of informants, by news reports.

The U.S. military has already accused WikiLeaks of having "the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family" on its hands after leaking 92,000 classified documents. The Taliban has now confirmed it is poring through the documents, and intends to hunt down and punish any suspected spies named......"

"The Taliban has recently pursued a policy of intimidating those who cooperate with the NATO forces in an attempt to undermine efforts at governance. Many local officials have been killed, and most have been threatened. The militant group is known to execute informants, reports Channel 4, by hanging, beheading, and shooting. It has even, on one recent occasion, strapped "two alleged traitors to explosives before detonating them in public." "

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/30/taliban-says-it-will-target-names-exposed-by-...

Read the article. By releasing the information, Wikileaks, Manning and anyone else involved in this treasonous act should be held entirely responsible for any deaths to those who were working with our military. The Taliban will surely retaliate in a most vicious way.
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61 comments // Taliban Says It Will Target Names Exposed By Wikileaks......

  • pinkpanther
  • pakazak
  • corndog67
    • -1
      corndog67  

    • Once again some dick wad betrays the US, getting a bunch people killed in the process, and some misguided dumbfucks thinks it's a good thing. I hope he gets the firing squad.

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • oppressed1
    • -4
      oppressed1  

    • I hope the fucking kill this private. Nothing worse than a fucking traitor. They should just put him in my squad. He wont make it till the end of this weekend.

    • 1 year ago
  • ampersand
    • +1
      ampersand  
    • oppressed1:

      Pat Tilman was very vocal in his opposition to the war in Afghanistan even as he was serving there. As you know, he was murdered by someone in the US military in his command. Your squad wasn't by chance, anywhere near there at that time, was it?
      Just curious.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • ampersand
    • 0
      ampersand  
    • congoboy:

      I feel so special being called a traitor by "congoboy."
      Can you really make my day and send along some gruesome death threats with that?
      Political discussions are SO much fun when folks like "congoboy" join in!

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • ampersand:

      sorry to disappoint you but death threats are a left wing ploy, just ask obama. you must have missed the latest study proving the left more hateful and angry than the right. we're a happy bunch!

    • 1 year ago
  • ampersand
  • pakazak
  • 2helenahandbasket
    • 0
      2helenahandbasket  
    • congoboy:

      The left don't like to admit they have their own little hate groups who go around threatening and terrorising people. Anyone remember PETA, for one? The left likes to insist that they are all about diversity and embracing those who are different from us, and if you don't like it that way they'll punch your lights out. Oh, and those who have a different way of looking at life, those who lean more toward the middle or right? Well in that case the left proves what hypocrites they are because their mantra of "tolerance" is out the window. They tolerate no one except those who are just like themselves.

    • 1 year ago
  • NaranjaCabeza
  • artemis6
    • +1
      artemis6  

    • Tha Taliban kill anyway , it is we who are are having trouble accepting the fact , that we are no better than they . Women are supressed by the taliban , because they are the cornerstone of civilization . We blow them up with predator drones . If we had built schools for them in the beginning , the Taliban would already loosing hold of thwir power . Education is the only real antidote to extremists . The hand thet rockes the cradle does rule the world . Educated mothers do not raise extremists . Fact is , this great country is in the grip of the military industrial complex . Yeah , the truth hurts .

    • 1 year ago
  • oppressed1
  • ampersand
  • artemis6
  • thetrimsmith
    • 0
      thetrimsmith  

    • Yes, the Tal-blah-ban have computers. They are currently pouring over the documents, and any angle will be exploited. WeakyLunks has murdered many people with this betrayal. Now no one in Afganistan will "tattle on the Tali" again, giving the Trailerbahn an edge. While we shouldn't be there in the first place, people are in harms way...

    • 1 year ago
  • Einsam_Data_Old
  • toyotabedzrock
  • Prijedor
    • +5
      Prijedor  

    • How many civilians do we kill a month there? and now we are mad that talban might kill some (not that they are not killing them anyway)
      This is nothing but a twist to try and make wikileaks look bad

    • 1 year ago
  • ampersand
    • +9
      ampersand  

    • Talk about spin and counter-spin.
      Yesterday's proclamations by the Pentagon was that this was all "old news" from before the Obama Administration and all their strategies have changed and moved on.
      Now they're postulating that because the Taliban have the ability to read, (having made great progress since the 12th century where the Pentagon and western media previously placed them) and that they DO punish collaborators, this is a terrible thing putting oh so many troops, (or possibly local hired helpers) at risk.

      Why not reduce the risk to zero and stop this pointless war?
      It's an opened-ended disaster with no clear goal and no end game.
      We've been waging this war at insane expense in lives and treasure for NINE Years, longer than the Second World War. If you check you can find out we've dropped more bombs just on Iraq alone than all the ordinance in WWII, and I don't imagine Afghanistan is far behind in that figure now itself.
      US Military commanders are privately admitting it's an un-winnable war and the troops themselves don't know why we're fighting it.
      The release of this documents on Wikileaks is the sound of the air going out of the tires of this war effort.
      Remember, this came from a US military employee involved in the war in Afghanistan. He wasn't paid and he did this at great risk to himself.
      That should tell you something meaningful about where support for this psychotic effort is now.

    • 1 year ago
  • Buddha2112
    • +2
      Buddha2112  
    • ampersand:

      I agree this is more ridiculous spin. I figure it as more hype to rally people against wiki leaks and stem more hatred toward someone fed up with being an underfed attack dog.

      I doubt the Taliban has enough power and tech to really trace each name and 'hunt them down'. The threats were probably written by a few members who are literate and have internet access... Or by someone over here feeding the fire.

      I don't really think the soldier who got the documents (how does one soldier get all that info by himself anyway? sounds fishy) or wiki leaks should be held accountable for any loss of life. If anyone should be held accountable it should be our government officials who sent our boys into harms way in the first place.

    • 1 year ago
  • 2helenahandbasket
    • 0
      2helenahandbasket  
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    • Buddha2112:

      You're just fooling yourself if you think the Taliban is so weak this is all just empty rhetoric. Perhaps you shuld do a little reading to find out who they are and what they can and cannot and will do. Here's a place you can start:

      Aren't those leaks just great?

      http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/02/taliban-seeks-vengeance-in-wake-of-wikileaks....

      "Taliban Seeks Vengeance in Wake of WikiLeaks

      "Leaked U.S. Intel documents listed the names and villages of Afghan collaborators—and the Taliban is starting to retaliate.
      After WikiLeaks published a trove of U.S. intelligence documents—some of which listed the names and villages of Afghans who had been secretly cooperating with the American military—it didn’t take long for the Taliban to react. A spokesman for the group quickly threatened to “punish” any Afghan listed as having “collaborated” with the U.S. and the Kabul authorities against the growing Taliban insurgency. In recent days, the Taliban has demonstrated how seriously those threats should be considered. Late last week, just four days after the documents were published, death threats began arriving at the homes of key tribal elders in southern Afghanistan. And over the weekend one tribal elder, Khalifa Abdullah, who the Taliban believed had been in close contact with the Americans, was taken from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province’s embattled Arghandab district, and executed by insurgent gunmen."

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
    • +3
      CalgarC  

    • lol the American government can't control the leak, yesterday it was at 90,000 documents now its a 92,000...

      and as for wikileaks... "may the source be with you"

    • 1 year ago
  • Omnomynous
    • +1
      Omnomynous  

    • I don't know how much was exposed, and wouldn't be surprised if a lot of names were. And in all honesty if a bunch of Afghan soldiers names were released, even if it were only on the internet, it was a bad call. And it sounds like shared responsibility between WikiLeaks, and those they released the information to.

      Part of their reason for the 911 attacks was broken promises by the US military, and CIA, releasing those names will just add more fuel to the fire.

      No we don't need to know the names of individual Afghan soldiers.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
    • +4
      kennymotown  

    • The really sad thing about this article is the fact that the BUSH administration dropped the ball in Afghanistan and these guys (Taliban) still have an effective opposition in the field. Going into Iraq for OIL and Halliburton is a real treasonist crime that has yet to be prosecuted! Bitch, bitch you idiots on the right are very good at just letting an administration off the hook for outing a CIA agent (Valeri Plame) for political reasons.

    • 1 year ago
  • pakazak
  • wellhunggimp
  • kennymotown
  • 2helenahandbasket
  • kennymotown
  • congoboy
  • toyotabedzrock
    • +5
      toyotabedzrock  

    • Wikileaks made sure that names wouldn't be exposed.

      And how would they go threw 91,000 documents? They gonna print it all out?

      Or does the Taliban have a huge number of computers hidden in the mountains.

      Where are they going to find enough recruits who can read English and can figure out military acronyms.

      Perhaps we will see a drop in suicide attacks while they try to read all of it?

    • 1 year ago
  • 2helenahandbasket
    • -1
      2helenahandbasket  
    • toyotabedzrock:

      Sorry to burst your bubble, but the papers were first offered to the news and the New York Times and The Guardian, a British paper, printed some of it but covered the names of everyone. WikiLeaks then offered the papers online without hiding the names of anyone. The names of many Afghan citizens who were working with our troops have been released by WikiLeaks. You can kiss those folks, and probably their families, too, goodbye.

      And you entire post is childish. All they have to do is read it at WikiLeaks. There are no acronyms for names. They're spelled out for all to see, not only the allies names but also the names of their fathers.

    • 1 year ago
  • pakazak
  • freecrack
  • freecrack
  • wellhunggimp
  • toyotabedzrock
  • treewolf39
    • +1
      treewolf39  
    • 2helenahandbasket:

      Spreading lies. Names were redacted. If there is truth in your comment post the proof. Newsweek is reactionary and wrote a story that would be hard to disprove because who is going to check their Taliban source?

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
    • +1
      littlwarrior  

    • And didnt they vow to kill every western soldier that stepped on their soil? Lots of words and blah blah blah, we need to hurry up and kill this stupid little infestation of power hungry monsters.

    • 1 year ago
  • pakazak
    • +2
      pakazak  
    • littlwarrior:

      or leave them to their little insanity.
      how many 'empires' have attempted to control this god-forsaken piece of rock and failed?
      maybe we should be thinking of an 'isolation dome' over afghanistan

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
    • +4
      littlwarrior  
    • pakazak:

      Alexander the great managed just fine, maybe thats the solution we need to put a gay man in charge. Im just saying the biggest empire the world ever knew and the one to grow the fastest and the only westerner to conquer the entire middle east.

    • 1 year ago
  • Omnomynous
    • +4
      Omnomynous  
    • littlwarrior:

      Damn you sure know how to insult the military.... I can just picture R. Lee Ermey ("Gunny") going on about how a bunch of homosexuals of the past make today's military look like a bunch of girls.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
    • +3
      littlwarrior  
    • Omnomynous:

      Well its kinda true though isnt it? 300 spartans, homos by the by, held off a persian army of a million, it took us way more than that to get some unorganized men with explosives under contril. Alexander the great conqered some of the greatest empires and military's in history and we struggle to control a bunch of uneducated underfed hill folk. Im just saying the gays were better at this whole take over the world than the heteros.

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
  • toyotabedzrock
  • toyotabedzrock
    • +2
      toyotabedzrock  

    • Wikileaks made sure that names wouldn't be exposed.

      And how would they go threw 91,000 documents? They gonna print it all out?

      Or does the Taliban have a huge number of computers hidden in the mountains.

      Where are they going to find enough recruits who can read English and can figure out military acronyms.

      Perhaps we will see a drop in suicide attacks while they try to read all of it?

    • 1 year ago
  • 2helenahandbasket
  • 2helenahandbasket
    • -5
      2helenahandbasket  

    • Julian Assange, Manning and anyone else involved in this are no more than traitors to their country and should be tried as such.

      Is freedom of information worth more than lives, the lives of our soldiers and those they are working with? Did it help anything at all that the papers were leaked, or change anything at all? No. But you can bet there will be plenty of deaths because of it.

    • 1 year ago
  • pakazak
  • 2helenahandbasket
    • -2
      2helenahandbasket  
    • pakazak:

      READ the Newsweek article. Even the New York Times, when they printed excerpts, blacked out the names. But Wikileaks has no such scruples and printed any and all names and now the Afghan citizens who were helping us will be killed. Read the article and you will see what happens to Afghans who are accused of treason. No cushy little jail cell for them.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • freecrack
    • +6
      freecrack  

    • isnt that like when we were going to invade iraq various muslum fanatic groups declared if we did we would be subject to terrorism.

      too late taliban, you are already playing your trump card of "we will kill you".had your weapon been say sarcasm, then the threat of death would be an escalation, otherwise it is just a reaffirmation of your already existing policy wich is kill em all.

      out of curiosity exactly how is it that we can recieve messages from the taliban that are credible but cant find them.it snt as if they have a media outlet

    • 1 year ago
  • pakazak
  • freecrack
  • pakazak
    • +1
      pakazak  

    • because, as we all know, the taliban always check wikileaks for info.
      "recently" pursued a policy of intimidating those who cooperate with the NATO forces in an attempt to undermine efforts at governance?
      like they just thought of that?
      bullshit.
      like any good gang, they know how to extort, intimidate and cause fear. they could've learned that from the GOP and the neocons.

    • 1 year ago
  • 2helenahandbasket
    • -2
      2helenahandbasket  
    • pakazak:

      How DARE you compare the ANY political group in this country with the Taliban. The Taliban, and the things they do to their own countrymen, is not a joke. And you're a complete fool if you see ANY resemblance of ANY polital side to the Taliban.

    • 1 year ago
  • pakazak
  • maxjunk
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