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2010-07-28 Home Front: WoT

Leaked War Files Expose Identities of Afghan Informants

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Posted by tipper 2010-07-28 15:18|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Extradite, convict, and hang him for war crimes. How is Abu Ghraib any worse than exposing the identities of informants, some of which will be killed?

Posted by anymouse 2010-07-28 15:51|| 2010-07-28 15:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Extradite, convict, and hang him for war crimes. No, I think other methods are far more appropriate. The leak has become an act of war.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-28 16:12|| 2010-07-28 16:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Julian Assange, illegal combatant.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-28 16:17|| 2010-07-28 16:17|| Front Page Top

#4 A comment on Wretchard's blog:
"Those named are now officially chum and the taliban are sharks. Kipling has some advice:

When youre wounded and left on Afghanistans plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An go to your Gawd like a soldier.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-28 16:23|| 2010-07-28 16:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Assange in his own words, from Spiegel Online's interview with him:
I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.
I expect there will be further episodes of this story, along the lines of
The Bastards Strike Back

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-28 16:29|| 2010-07-28 16:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Would be a riot if a number of these leaks were purposefully wrong, and tracable back to certain individuals.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-07-28 16:52|| 2010-07-28 16:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Assange is really a world class piece of shit.

Posted by tu3031 2010-07-28 17:03|| 2010-07-28 17:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Makes you wonder why the Obama administration didn't move more forcefully to prevent this from happening.

Oh, oh, I already know.

They wanted it. The Pentagon didn't, the CIA didn't, but the White House is okay with it.

Why? Because they don't want to be in Afghanistan any more. It's no longer the good war. So if there are a bunch of leaks and it gets to be too hard to fight, why we'll just have to leave and spend all the money on Obamacare instead.

Posted by Steve White 2010-07-28 17:04|| 2010-07-28 17:04|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 tu

So, the security of states is no concern of this bastard Assange? Perhaps his personal security is no concern of the state's.
If governments will not or cannot act against him, perhaps private individuals can.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-07-28 20:39|| 2010-07-28 20:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Sleep well, Assange. Know that you do not nor ever will have any fatwahs issued against you.

Is your family in hiding yet?

Posted by gorb 2010-07-28 21:39|| 2010-07-28 21:39|| Front Page Top

#11 There should be an "accident" arranged for his benefit.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-07-28 23:31|| 2010-07-28 23:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Charge him of one count of contributing to murder for each and every informant killed.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-07-28 23:32|| 2010-07-28 23:32|| Front Page Top

#13 He claims his "organization" vetted the documents.

Kinda makes you wonder how many people are involved, or if he just grepped out the documents with the word "informant" in them and called it good.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-28 23:35|| 2010-07-28 23:35|| Front Page Top

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