Petraeus denounces ‘reprehensible’ WikiLeaks

THE top US military commander in Afghanistan yesterday blasted as “reprehensible” the release of Afghan war documents, saying that US partners named in them have been put at risk.

General David Petraeus’s comments came in response to a threat by the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, to make public another batch of secret documents in a “couple of weeks” despite Pentagon protests.

WikiLeaks has already released 76,000 military documents from the Afghan conflict, but is still holding another 15,000 classified files.