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Name a civilian whose name was disclosed by Wikileaks who has since been killed by enemy combatants. Surely to god some journalist somewhere has looked this information up and written an article about it.



Wouldn't that be ironic if it takes a wikileaks release to find out if there were casualties caused by earlier wikileaks releases.


Well, that's it - assuming the likely scenario that nobody Wikileaks has named has come to harm, you don't really have a story.

Even if you had a story, it still doesn't stop the FUD if it suits the news outlet's agenda. That much is obvious from casual analysis of most stories among different news sources.

Defenders never win in the media.


How would you find out? Information coming out of Afghanistan is sketchy, there are very few journalists on the ground, we don't have lists of every civilian who gets killed.


Well, you'd expect the US Secretary of Defense to have an idea about it, and he says he doesn't know of any civilian killed for appearing in the previous documents ( http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/10/16/wikileaks.assessment/ ).


Really? You think the US Secretary of Defense has a list of every civilian killed by Al Qaeda/Taliban forces in Afghanistan?




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