Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks

[Pavulon]

Source: Wall Street Journal

A group of human-rights organizations is pressing WikiLeaks to do a better job of redacting names from thousands of war documents it is publishing, joining the list of critics that claim the Web site's actions could jeopardize the safety of Afghans who aided the U.S. military.


A group of human-rights organizations is pressing WikiLeaks to do a better job of redacting names from thousands of war documents it is publishing, joining the list of critics that claim the Web site's actions could jeopardize the safety of Afghans who aided the U.S. military.

Erica Gaston, program officer for OSI's Afghanistan-Pakistan regional policy initiative, said: "Our concern was that the Taliban had announced it was going through the data looking for names and that it would begin targeting that. It's a very real threat that they're making. They have demonstrated over and over that if they have the name of someone that has in any way been affiliated with the international community, they will find them, they will kill them in most cases."

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Speaks for its self.

[Ian David]

1. I guess The Taliban WANTS us to stay in Afghanistan forever? n/t

[Bodhi BloodWave]

2. What i consider sad about the naming of the informants

Aside from them possibly being killed is that a minority on DU actually seem to be of the view that their deaths is an acceptable cost to get an early end to the war(or so they hope I guess)