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I don't think the Taliban have any secret documents to be released. Their organisation simply hasn't advanced to that of a bureaucracy yet.

dctoedt 16y ago
> I don't think the Taliban have any secret documents to be released. It was reported a couple of years ago that "Taliban maps, manuals and propaganda have been discovered at training camps in Pakistan showing the sophistication of the insurgent's operations in the country's tribal areas." See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3441968/Taliban-documents-reveal-scale-of-operations-in-Pakistan.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3441....
- Andrew_Quentin 16y ago
  The article does not mention whether those were in paper format or digital. It mentioned student notes so I would think it to be more likely that they were in the former format. As such, except for actually posting the documents, I can not see how they can be leaked. That is very different from the download and send, which protects anonymity much more I would think perhaps, as well as being more convenient. To address the point of the parent, I do not think Wikileaks chooses which documents to leaks. It is more a supply thing rather than someone sitting on a pile of documents sifting through them to see which serves their own political agenda if they were leaked. Though I hardly know anything of wikileaks, the wiki part in the leaks sort of suggests that it is kind of like wikipeia, so that anyone can leak whatever they want straight away I guess without going through some sort of filtering system.
  - arst 16y ago
    Though I hardly know anything of wikileaks, the wiki part in the leaks sort of suggests that it is kind of like wikipeia, so that anyone can leak whatever they want straight away I guess without going through some sort of filtering system. This is not how WikiLeaks works, though it was the original idea behind it and the source of the name. Today all submitted documents go through a series of reviewers, with Julian Assange ultimately having the final say on what gets published.

dctoedt 16y ago

> I don't think the Taliban have any secret documents to be released. It was reported a couple of years ago that "Taliban maps, manuals and propaganda have been discovered at training camps in Pakistan showing the sophistication of the insurgent's operations in the country's tribal areas." See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3441968/Taliban-documents-reveal-scale-of-operations-in-Pakistan.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3441....

Andrew_Quentin 16y ago
The article does not mention whether those were in paper format or digital. It mentioned student notes so I would think it to be more likely that they were in the former format. As such, except for actually posting the documents, I can not see how they can be leaked. That is very different from the download and send, which protects anonymity much more I would think perhaps, as well as being more convenient. To address the point of the parent, I do not think Wikileaks chooses which documents to leaks. It is more a supply thing rather than someone sitting on a pile of documents sifting through them to see which serves their own political agenda if they were leaked. Though I hardly know anything of wikileaks, the wiki part in the leaks sort of suggests that it is kind of like wikipeia, so that anyone can leak whatever they want straight away I guess without going through some sort of filtering system.
- arst 16y ago
  Though I hardly know anything of wikileaks, the wiki part in the leaks sort of suggests that it is kind of like wikipeia, so that anyone can leak whatever they want straight away I guess without going through some sort of filtering system. This is not how WikiLeaks works, though it was the original idea behind it and the source of the name. Today all submitted documents go through a series of reviewers, with Julian Assange ultimately having the final say on what gets published.