WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden killing: Information about courier and location appeared in Gitmo Files release ad t →
Damning evidence that Wikileaks really can damage American and international security in a meaningful way. For those of you who consider Wikileaks an unambiguous force for good, consider this. It could have led to bin Laden getting away again.
This document could not have provided any actionable information about Bin Laden’s whereabouts. Let’s not go overboard because it simply mentions “Abbottabad, PK” and Bin Laden in the same paragraph.
Really? It says that the courier “is the official messenger between UBL and others in Pakistan” and that he “worked between Abbottabad and Peshewar.” How much more would you like it spelled out? If you were UBL or one of UBL’s security people and saw this leaked document how would you react?
This is as serious a leak as if the Germans found out we broke Enigma or the Japanese learned that we broke Purple. This is no joke.
Am I missing something? It says he moved to Abbottabad in 2003 to be UBL’s courier. I think my only point is that this piece of information is small, and that given all the noise that comes out of these type of leaked documents, doesn’t strike me as being enough info to blow the raid. Perhaps you are right and the alarm bells for UBL’s team would be calibrated the same as yours and UBL would have jumped ship had they found it (or maybe they did find it and he just didn’t see it as threatening?).
tl;dr: Epilogue: I am not an intel expert
(Source: soupsoup, via mikehudack)
