Baghdad priest: City’s Jews must leave after names in WikiLeaks

[vminfla]

-- The nine Jews remaining in Baghdad must leave because their names appeared in a WikiLeaks cable, an Anglican priest in the Iraqi capital said.

The priest said he is working with the U.S. Embassy to get the Jews to emigrate, the McClatchy news service reported. The embassy told the news service that it would work to protect the named individuals and that the United States would help to relocate them.

The names were made public after the publication of a password that opened the encrypted versions of the cables available on the WikiLeaks website.

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/10/09/3089775/baghdad-jews-in-danger-after-names-in-wikileaks

[bemildred]

1. Were their names secret or something before?

Have they been threatened? It doesn't say, it just assumes that they are endangered. I mean, they didn't just move there recently, and they have survived ten years of occupation and civil war with fundy nuts running in all directions, why the need to finish the ethnic cleansing? They ought to move some more Jews in so they can form a minyan and set up a congregation and all that.

[azurnoir]

2. seems your right about that

from the article

An official from a Jewish organization familiar with the situation told JTA that he doubts that the release of the Wikileaks cables has changed the security situation for Baghdad's Jews. Over the last decade or so, various Jewish organizations and governments have offered Iraq's Jews opportunities to leave, but they repeatedly have turned the offers down, the official said.

if I remember correctly there was a simila4r situation earlier this year after the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, when 1500 Tunisian Jews told Israel 'Thanks but no Thanks' about making Aliyah

[bemildred]

3. It just seems completely wrong-headed to me.

These places need more Jews, not less.

[azurnoir]

4. The whole thing is wrong headed

and your right

[vminfla]

5. Wikileaks fall out again.

Who is to say what the specific details are. All that I know is we have another case here where Julian Assange's arrogance results in the safety of human lives being threatened.