Monday November 29, 2010
The Book of Revelation:
Wikileaks Releases 'Damaging' US Embassy Cables
Wikileaks have released 250,000 US diplomatic cables that contain revelations bound to embarrass the American administration.
As well as indiscreet comments about the conduct of global figures such as Silvio Berlusconi, the cables also contain evidence that diplomats may have been asked to engage in espionage.
From The Guardian:
At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables – many designated "secret" – the Guardian can disclose that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN leadership.
These two revelations alone would be likely to reverberate around the world. But the secret dispatches, which were obtained by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowers' website, also reveal Washington's evaluation of many other highly sensitive international issues.
These include a shift in relations between China and North Korea, high-level concerns over Pakistan's growing instability, and details of clandestine US efforts to combat al-Qaida in Yemen.
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