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Taliban Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members
ABC News ^ | Nov. 16, 2012 | MUHAMMAD LILA

Posted on 11/16/2012 4:58:34 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny

In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference.He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his mailing list.

The names were disclosed in an email by Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Taliban spokesperson, on Saturday. The email was a press release he received from the account of Zabihullah Mujahid, another Taliban spokesperson. Ahmedi then forwarded Mujahid's email to the full Taliban mailing list, but rather than using the BCC function, or blind carbon copy which keeps email addresses private, Ahmedi made the addresses public.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: email; media; taliban
I've spent some time today looking for a copy of the mailing list. No luck finding it. Is it being squashed by the media?
1 posted on 11/16/2012 4:58:43 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: IndispensableDestiny

They had to pull it fats before people saw Odungo’s name on the list...


2 posted on 11/16/2012 5:00:36 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: IndispensableDestiny

That wacky Islamoterrorists! I guess their email guy will now want to go on Leno and Letterman to explain what happened.


3 posted on 11/16/2012 5:01:00 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We need Comprehensive Election Reform, NOW!)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

Do any of the addies end in @whitehouse.gov?


4 posted on 11/16/2012 5:03:15 PM PST by null and void (America - Abducted by Aliens...)
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To: IndispensableDestiny
Those silly talib guys....

Always goofing off....
....playing practical jokes on each other...

Pass the popcorn...

5 posted on 11/16/2012 5:08:38 PM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

How could anyone tell? These guys all seem to have the same name. (Slapping myself. Oh, that’s so racist!)


6 posted on 11/16/2012 5:23:01 PM PST by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: IndispensableDestiny
I wonder if the "General's girls" were on the list!
7 posted on 11/16/2012 5:23:06 PM PST by wesagain (The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

two bits says this was not accidental. The names are most likely names of people they want to throw under the bus.


8 posted on 11/16/2012 5:40:24 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

Full of .gov, media, and DNC addresses I’m sure


9 posted on 11/16/2012 5:46:11 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Wings-n-Wind

10 posted on 11/16/2012 8:09:13 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: elpadre
two bits says this was not accidental. The names are most likely names of people they want to throw under the bus.

You mean "under the camel?

11 posted on 11/16/2012 11:35:05 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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I wonder if the "General's girls" were on the list!

So do I.
12 posted on 11/16/2012 11:50:55 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. GOTV<GOTF)
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To: Slings and Arrows

They just love to goose one another with an rpg.


13 posted on 11/17/2012 12:59:15 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Makes for amusing bloopers videos.


14 posted on 11/17/2012 1:09:57 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

So, does anyone know where the list is? Shouldn’t it receive a bit more publicity?


15 posted on 11/18/2012 9:21:08 AM PST by seanrobins
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