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With no direct proof, as far as I know.

But they do refer to the complete publishing of the diplomatic cable, where apparently quite some irakian sources were mentioned in plain text, or with enough information to identify them.

So it is possible, that indeed people died of it. (killed by ISIS or alike) And this point is also the weakest in the defence of Assange in my point of view. (generaly speaking. I am not in favor of extradicting him)

Because the goal of the leaks was to uncover war crimes etc. But by just publishing everything, even though wikileaks worked with newspapers before to especially prevent informants from being exposed, he went over the line.

On the other hand, the whole invasion of iraq was against all international right. So from that point of view Assange did not care for informants for the US. (he actually said so, said some press people involved)




It was German journalists who revealed the names in the leaks, not Wikileaks/Assange.

In fact, Assange made extra efforts to warn the White House that the leaks had been published with cleartext names.

So no, nobody died because Assange published leaked data. If anybody got into trouble at all because their names were revealed, its because German journalists published the password to decrypt the files containing the names of informants involved.

So, this is an even worse travesty of justice on top of the existing torture, already.


After reading Wikipedia about it ... not quite correct.

"It was German journalists who revealed the names in the leaks, not Wikileaks/Assange."

British, not german:

"In August 2010, Assange gave Guardian journalist David Leigh an encryption key and a URL where he could locate the full Cablegate file."

And he also did only revealed the password.

"Leigh disclaimed responsibility for the release, saying Assange had assured him the password would expire hours after it was disclosed to him"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cable...

And after that password was revealed, Assange said, now state actors could decrypt it, it is better to just publish it, so everyone can read it.




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