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Authorities in Sweden Saturday withdrew rape and molestation charges filed a day earlier against Julian Assange, the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks.
The move comes just ahead of the expected release of thousands more secret U.S. military documents by the online whistleblower group, causing its supporters to speculate that the charges were part of a smear campaign aimed at discrediting Assange and interfering with the release.
Julian is one of the most watched, and hunted men on the planet, and hounded by sycophants, head hunters, wanna be's, star **uckers, so he's "target of the hour." I hope he finds some peace, and gets on with his work. I am in support of what he's doing. I will never admire the Pentagon reptiles.
Source? I thought that he removed names from the documents.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Mullen: WikiLeaks release endangers troops, Afghans
A Washington Post search of the 76,000 reports released by WikiLeaks turned up at least 100 instances dealing with Afghan informants. In some of the reports the informants' names and villages are listed along with the names of the insurgent commanders that they had discussed with U.S. and Afghan officials. The secret reports also include the name of at least one U.S. intelligence operative. Afghan informants' lives at risk from documents posted on WikiLeaks | The Australian HUNDREDS of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documents to WikiLeaks because the files identify informants working with NATO forces.
In just two hours of searching the WikiLeaks archive, The Times found the names of dozens of Afghans credited with providing detailed intelligence to US forces. Their villages are given for identification and also, in many cases, their fathers' names.
WikiLeaks document release endangers Afghan lives: US - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100728/wl_sthasia_afp/uspakistanafghanistanmilitaryintelligenceinformant s - broken link)
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Informants whose names appear in the documents posted on the whistleblower site WikiLeaks have reason to fear for their lives, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.
At least one person who named appeared in the documents has already complained to US officials in Afghanistan, said Colonel David Lapan.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Mullen: WikiLeaks release endangers troops, Afghans
A Washington Post search of the 76,000 reports released by WikiLeaks turned up at least 100 instances dealing with Afghan informants. In some of the reports the informants' names and villages are listed along with the names of the insurgent commanders that they had discussed with U.S. and Afghan officials. The secret reports also include the name of at least one U.S. intelligence operative. Afghan informants' lives at risk from documents posted on WikiLeaks | The Australian HUNDREDS of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documents to WikiLeaks because the files identify informants working with NATO forces.
In just two hours of searching the WikiLeaks archive, The Times found the names of dozens of Afghans credited with providing detailed intelligence to US forces. Their villages are given for identification and also, in many cases, their fathers' names.
WikiLeaks document release endangers Afghan lives: US - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100728/wl_sthasia_afp/uspakistanafghanistanmilitaryintelligenceinformant s - broken link)
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Informants whose names appear in the documents posted on the whistleblower site WikiLeaks have reason to fear for their lives, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.
At least one person who named appeared in the documents has already complained to US officials in Afghanistan, said Colonel David Lapan.
I am very shocked. I don't think he should he endanger the lives of so many innocent Afghans.
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