Taliban Prepare To Punish WikiLeaks Afghan Informers -- The Telegraph
Taliban courts are preparing to try and punish any Afghan informers identified in thousands of sensitive documents due for imminent release by the WikiLeaks whistleblower website.
A spokesman for the militant movement said it would scour the files for the names of Afghan intelligence sources who had given the Nato-led coalition information on the insurgents.
If found and captured the informers would be tried and punished by the Taliban's shadow system of courts which extends throughout Afghanistan.
The spokesman would not say what punishment the movement would exact, but Taliban fighters routinely behead, hang or shoot dead those considered to be spies or associated with foreign troops.
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My Comment: With U.S. secrets compromised .... the consequences from these disclosures will be with the U.S. for a very long time. And for those Afghan informers that are revealed in these dispatches .... their consequences will (if the Taliban get their hands on) be permanent.