Monday, August 2, 2010

A Personal Message to Wikileaks

Blackfive "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.
"The violence may just be beginning."

Report: Taliban seeking revenge against informants after Wikileaks doc dump "...Which, ironically, turns these people into the same sort of collateral damage vis-a-vis Julian Assange that Assange’s ilk typically lay at the feet of the United States: Innocents cut down in the course of pursuing some alleged greater good."

UK: Heroic Sniper Sues Army Is Forced to Leave Britain Because of Jihadist Threats, Sues Army For Failing To Protect Him "The soldier received huge media coverage when it was reported he had shot dead several Taliban fighters at a range of 1.5 miles during his tour of Afghanistan. The publicity, which he says he never agreed to, meant that police feared he could be the victim of a reprisal attack by British-based Islamists and he was forced to leave the country with his family."

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