Via Belmont Club
CBS News reports that Times of London reporters “scanning the [Wikileaks] reports for just a couple hours found hundreds of Afghan names mentioned as aiding the U.S.-led war effort.”
Recently Radio Netherlands described what Afghans who are suspected by the Taliban can expect to endure. The Taliban have cut off the hands of construction workers who build government-funded projects; sent a suicide car bomb against a district chief believed to have been working with US special forces. Death in many forms will be their lot. One informant Radio Netherlands described “holds a thick yellow sheet tightly around his face” to preserve his anonymity. Now it turns out he shouldn’t have bothered. If the London Times is right, his name might be one of the several hundred the British reporter has found in just a few hours.
Yet the dead are the lucky ones. The more unfortunate may wind up in a torture chamber similar to one found by Coldstream Guards. It features such amenities as chains to hang prisoners from walls. Not that the inmates would want to walk on the floor: that features broken glass. And there is limb amputation, kneecapping with an electric drill, eye gouging, bone-breaking or ritual rape to smash the will. Where the offender is not himself available punishment will be visited on his relatives.
It would be cosmic justice if a son or daughter of one of those Afghans who dies as a result of Julian Assange's self absorbed obsession were to hunt down and kill this little bastard, slowly and painfully. I, for one, would not mourn.
1 comment:
I don't know. i am NOT in love with the war in Afghanistan and I at the end hated Iraq BUT I would NEVER NEVER NEVER expose my country or those who help us to the possibility of beyond extreme torture. Whatever the US does is like a walk in the park compared to the Taliban who are without remorse for brutality.
I simply would NEVER betray this country no matter how much I opposed its policy. I just would not do that. There is no comparison between the Nuremberg of WWII and the US. None whatsoever so I think one should think TWICE before ever doing that. There are proper avenues to oppose a war and to elect a Congress which does not fund it but to expose classified info and put our guys and our allies in danger? NO way. Try living among the Taliban for a year ESPECIALLY if one is a woman. come on NO comparison!
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