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Re:WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List by steveklabnik on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @09:17AM (#1957924)
Of course it _might_ make things more difficult. What I'm saying is this: We know how our informants are, so we'd know if they died. The government would _love_ to find more stuff to pin on Wikileaks. Therefore, if 50 informants got killed, as your sibling says, Obama'd be on TV talking about it tomorrow.

But we haven't. So until someone shows that they have been killed, I presume that they haven't. That doesn't mean that it won't happen in the future.

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Re:WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List by tomhoward on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @11:13PM (#1960989)
So the US has done a good job of protecting them. (You don't _seriously_ think the Taliban has just turned a blind eye, do you?)

Still, it'll hardly embolden anyone who might've been considering becoming an informant.

So, fair enough of you to presume no killings have eventuated _yet_, but it's a diversion from the main point: you can't call it a step forward in the struggle for freedom and democracy in Afghanistan.

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