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.
The letter from five human-rights groups sparked a tense exchange in which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange issued a tart challenge for the organizations to help with the massive task of removing names from thousands of documents, according to several of the organizations that signed the letter. The exchange shows how WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange risk being isolated from some of their most natural allies in the wake of the documents’ publication.
The human-rights groups involved are Amnesty International; Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, or CIVIC; Open Society Institute, or OSI, the charitable organization funded by George Soros; Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission; and the Kabul office of International Crisis Group, or ICG.
The groups emailed WikiLeaks to say they were concerned for the safety of Afghans identified as helping the U.S. military in documents obtained by WikiLeaks, according to several of the groups. WikiLeaks has already published 76,000 of the documents and plans to publish up to 15,000 more.
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I do not know the man's nationality but if he is a US citizen then I consider him a Traiter and that he should be shot. If he is not a citizen then he certainly should be guilty of warcrimes!
Seems to me that these people at Wikileaks have violated the law on purpose or inadvertently but they broke the law and if you can write, E mail or call them daily and often then they can be sure to know that the American citizens are displeased and the legal agencies should be included to find out how they are handling this breech…..looks like activism is going to have to play a part in law enforcement.
In regard to the leak I am sure the muslim communist in the oval office is very happy this has happened. He will look at it in this respect that his brothers will be able to kill more of our military young men and women. Look at what he is doing now to our military. What is so sad those worthless bastards in both houses of congress is letting him get away with doing just that. If some one does not stop this sleezy piece of s–t it will not be to long before our America no longer exists!!
It sure doesn't take a heavy mental weight to know that if there are names within these documents THAT will bring down the Talibans upon the Afgan citizens that has helped the US, then this boy is dumber than a stick to have let this information out for the world to see. And, if it bring death to some of the Afgan citizens that are mentioned, then this boy should be hunt down and brought up on charges of murder by any nation that is involved with the conflict or the united nation. It is hard to believe that this boy didn't think about what could happen if he did not delete names. He has got to be one big dumb ass with NO sensitivity to what war is and to those involved. He thought only of what he could have been if he had a more positive result to his assine idea. This boy doesn't hate war, he evidently like the idea of innocent people being killed along with families. What an asshole.
I was with you until you listed the UN. I would love the see the UN evicted from the US and to never hear of that organization again.
I agree, but the reality is, the UN is still with us, but I along with millions of others are in agreement, we all wish the UN would get the hell out.
Julian Assange & WikiLinks need to be eliminated via counter intelligence agencies from unknown countries of origin. Simply Put! They should be assasinated and thus eliminated permanently from the face of the earth!
So does that mean those who post the link to the documents also should be punished? Such as American Free Press, for example?