Thursday, July 29, 2010

Karzai calls WikiLeaks disclosures 'shocking' and dangerous to Afghan informants - washingtonpost

KABUL -- President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that the disclosure of the names of Afghan informants in the trove of classified U.S. military documents posted online by the WikiLeaks Web site was "extremely irresponsible and shocking."

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has said that his organization chose not to publish 15,000 of the more than 90,000 documents in order to protect the names of Afghan informants. But such information is easily found in the documents that were posted online.

In his news conference on Thursday, Karzai also urged the U.S. to do more to confront insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan. ... - Karzai: Leaks are dangerous to Afghan informants

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