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    Shaidar Haran Senior Member SAM Site Champion Myrddraal's Avatar
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    Default Wikileaks reveals identity of Afgan informants

    In the times, but I can't get the online article. I found this instead:

    Leaked details put informant lives in danger

    Leaked War Files Expose Identities of Afghan Informants

    In just two hours of searching the WikiLeaks archive, The Times found the names of dozens of Afghans credited with handing intelligence to US forces. Their villages are given for identification and, in many cases, their fathers' names.

    US officers recorded detailed logs of the information fed to them by named local informants, particularly tribal elders. Julian Assange, the Australian WikiLeaks founder, claimed all the files released through his organisation had been checked for named informants and that 15,000 such documents had been held back.
    More in the link. So, has wikileaks gone too far? Is there anything which can/should be done?
    Last edited by Myrddraal; 07-29-2010 at 03:48.

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