US says WikiLeaks release gives Al Qaeda a hit list

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WASHINGTON — In a disclosure of some of the most sensitive information yet revealed by WikiLeaks, the website has put out a secret cable that lists sites worldwide that the US considers crucial to its national security.

US officials said the leak amounts to giving a hit list to terrorists.

Among the locations cited in the diplomatic cable from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are undersea communications lines, satellite communication stations, mines, vaccine and antivenin factories, and suppliers of food and manufacturing materials.

The Pentagon declined to comment yesterday on the details of what it called stolen documents containing classified information. But a spokesman, Colonel David Lapan, called the disclosure damaging and said the 2009 cable gives valuable information to adversaries.

The State Department echoed the Pentagon’s statement. “Releasing such information amounts to giving a targeting list to groups like Al Qaeda,’’ agency spokesman P.J. Crowley said.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/12/07/us_says_wikileaks_release_gives_al_qaeda_a_hit_list/

[2Design]

1. they are just sitting back and laughing at us destroy ourselves

[lob1]

2. Wikileaks has put out a "secret cable"? What is that?

If it was secret, how does the U.S. know about it? Who was it sent to? What are "suppliers of food" doing that Al Qaeda would want to kill them? I'll have to hear more before I condemn it. It sounds like the same old CIA crap they say about every Wikileaks dump.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. The US exaggerates. nt

[Raksha]

4. Yeah, sure. When all else fails, play the terrorism card.

Maybe there are still a few brain-dead teabaggers dumb enough to believe you.

[TheMadMonk]

5. I wonder if the US cribbed the list off AQ in the first place.

Nothing that couldn't be assembled by anyone with a selection of buiness mags & Yellow Pages and google maps.

[EFerrari]

8. LOL. And didn't Brad Manning find it (if he found it)

on a small secure network of 600,000 users?

PJ can go Cheney himself.

[Write Left]

6. I'm pretty sure bogus wars of aggression gave al-Qaeda a hit list.

[DearAbby]

7. Al Queada, Bin Laden, and Number 2 guys OH MY

Al Queada, Bin Laden, and Number 2 guys OH MY
(walking faster)
AL QUEADA, BIN LADEN, AND #2 GUYS OH MY!
(walking faster)
AL QUEADA, BIN LADEN, AND #2 GUYS OH MY!
(RUNNING)
AL QUEADA, BIN LADEN, AND #2 GUYS OH MY!

[snagglepuss]

9. Atta and his cohorts devised their plan without wikileaks.

Gee I wonder how they knew to target the Pentagon. Hmmm?

[notesdev]

10. Pfft

If AQ wants a hit list they can get it right off DHS.gov.