Shame on you -- all that participated in the WikiLeaks Afghan release.
The blood is now on your hands and it is just starting.
From Newsweek:
Taliban Seeks Vengeance in Wake of WikiLeaksAnd of course either way, the Taliban will move into the power vacuum created by the elders absence and we will have lost what we spent years trying to achieve. Worse, it makes us look weak which is not what you want to do if you are trying to win hearts and minds over there. I do not see people volunteering any information in the future if this is how we treat people's identities. Added joy is that the son of a pig and monkey who is making these threats was once in our hands and safe at Gitmo. So Assange and presumably Manning are deserving of a special place in Hell but we must also hold a spot for some folks at the White House and the Media. Two weeks before the release of the data, Assange sent it to the White House to see if they wanted any information redacted. No reply. One week before the release, Assange sent it to members of the Media. No reply. This is unconscionable. Treason comes to mind. Murderer is another word that can be justly applied...
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.
The violence may just be beginning. According to Agha Lali, the deputy head of Kandahar's provincial council, threatening letters have been delivered to 70 elders in Panjwaii district. While it is unknown whether any of the men were indeed named in the WikiLeaks documents, it's clear the Taliban believes they have been cooperating with Western forces and the Afghan government. One short handwritten note, shown to NEWSWEEK, said: "We have made a decision for your death. You have five days to leave Afghan soil. If you don't, you don't have the right to complain." The screed, written on the letterhead of Mullah Mohammed Omar's defunct Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, bore the signature of Abdul Rauf Khadim, a senior Taliban official and former inmate at the American lockup in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who had been released into -- and subsequently escaped from -- Kabul's custody last year.
