Taliban prepare to punish WikiLeaks Afghan informers

Source: Sunday Telegraph (UK)

A spokesman for the militant movement said it would scour the files for the names of Afghan intelligence sources who had given the Nato-led coalition information on the insurgents.

If found and captured the informers would be tried and punished by the Taliban's shadow system of courts which extends throughout Afghanistan.

The spokesman would not say what punishment the movement would exact, but Taliban fighters routinely behead, hang or shoot dead those considered to be spies or associated with foreign troops.

Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Taliban told the Daily Telegraph. "We read everything and we will read these documents. "We will look for the names of people, but it will be a judge who decides. We won't act unless we are 100 per cent sure. We are not just going to trust these documents, we will make our own inquiries. I cannot tell you what the judge will do." The threat echoes similar warnings made after the release in July of 92,000 intelligence reports and field assessments on the Afghan war.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8166084/Taliban-prepare-to-punish-WikiLeaks-Afghan-informers.html

As if...

This is not a news story, it is an obvious smear.

"The threat echoes similar warnings made after the release in July of 92,000 intelligence reports and field assessments on the Afghan war."

The field reports did not use the real names of confidential sources and neither would embassy cables, which are vastly unlikely to contain anything of interest to the taliban. This is just part of the 'kittens will die' attack on wikileaks.

And, to be honest, I can't see any benefit either of us will get out of going over it all again.

FWIW I respect your opinion.

"64% of Telegraph readers intended to support the Conservative Party"

Nuff said.

"The threat echoes similar warnings made after the release in July of 92,000 intelligence reports and field assessments on the Afghan war."

Pure coincidence, no doubt.

Apparently. Not sure if that proves anything or not, though: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/world/asia/27cnd-cheney.html