Wikileaks Gives Taliban Hitlist Of Afghan Collaborators

8:49 am EST August 3rd, 2010 | Foreign Policy | 7 Comments

Heck of a job, Julian Assange. Your move is getting more Afghans killed.

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.

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7 Responses to “Wikileaks Gives Taliban Hitlist Of Afghan Collaborators”

  1. bayville says:
    August 3, 2010 at 10:38 am

    Couldn’t agree with you more here, Jonah.

    Julian Assange is the main reason more Afghans are getting killed. Not Obama, Not the drones, Not the 90,000 U.S. soldiers on the ground…but Wikileaks.

    You are a great Patriot – and Obamacrat – Jonah!

  2. White Whale says:
    August 3, 2010 at 11:31 am

    Just my opinion, but Julian Assange appears to be an anarchist or someone with political axe to grind. On the one hand, I think some of the information he leaked was neccearry in shining light on the issue of Afghanistan but it largely consisted of what we knew….Pakistan hates us and isn’t a real ally. My problem lies with his flippant attitude towards military intellegence. Simply posting government secrets and classified information that helps or aids enemy forces or puts others in harms way is beyond the pale.

    I have seen Assange interviewed twice and his arrogance is telling. He isn’t providing a service with this information. In typical anarchist fashion he spills the beans and watches everyone else burn.

  3. sigh says:
    August 3, 2010 at 5:06 pm

    It’s better than bombing civilian towns, and then burning their fields so that any survivors starve. We need more people like Manning and Assange, who put basic humanity ahead of their personal safety and even that of their own side. Killing ten thousand “enemy” civilians to save one “friendly” is not something we can tolerate. They must be stopped, whatever the cost.

  4. White Whale says:
    August 3, 2010 at 9:55 pm

    So I guess the ends justify the means right? Its all good that Julian’s info could get people killed because its far less than what happens in war. I can’t be down with that.

  5. isms says:
    August 3, 2010 at 10:28 pm

    Who should pay the price in war? Innocent civilians or those who choose to fight the war in the first place? There’s always a “cost” to any war and it best paid by those who fight it!

  6. Prodigal says:
    August 3, 2010 at 11:56 pm

    Assange gave those who put their own side far above basic humanity a list of people to murder. He must be so proud of himself.

  7. jrfunkenstein says:
    August 4, 2010 at 1:12 am

    Knowing full well that publishing this enormous volume of documents might well put those Afghans who are aiding the ISAF forces in real jeopardy, but putting his own interests and self promotion ahead of that risk, puts Assange in the same category as Breitbart, as far as I’m concerned.

    I don’t support this conflict, but I sure as Hell wouldn’t use that to justify putting a bullseye on someone else’s back in order to push my self righteous position and gain media attention, especially as the vast bulk of these documents don’t reveal anything those who have followed this travesty haven’t known for years.