Cables show undiplomatic US take on world leaders
US dubbed Russian leaders as ‘Batman and Robin,’ according to WikiLeaks
Wikileaks: US allies unruffled by embassy cable leaks
BBC News
There are also details of US efforts to support Turkey in its fight against Kurdish insurgents, and unfavourable comments about Turkey’s bid to join the
Wikileaks sparks anger in Europe
Morning Brief: Wikileaks reveals hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables
from FP Passport by David Kenner
WikiLeaks: US diplomats make fun of EU leaders, spy on EU citizens
from EUobserver.com – Headline News
Wikileaks: Israel wanted Musharraf to stay in power
The Express Tribune
Dagan met Burns to provide his assessment of the Middle East region, Pakistan and Turkey. According to leaked documents: Dagan provided his assessment of
WikiLeaks’s unveiling of secret State Department cables exposes U.S. diplomacy
A vast treasure trove of secret State Department cables obtained by the Web site WikiLeaks has exposed the inner workings of U.S. diplomacy, as well as bluntly candid assessments by American diplomats, according to news organizations granted advance access to the more than 250,000 confidential do…
ABS CBN News
The US embassy in Ankara, Turkey, is the origin of most cables among the diplomatic posts, with 7918 memos. The US Secretary of State has 8017 cables coming
India is concerned about WikiLeaks leaked documents
Examiner.com
Apart from India, Turkey, Israel, Canada, Russia, and Britain have also been warned. Krishna said, ?India is not actually concerned about a new potentially
Wikileaks Hyperventilation or “Transatlantic Brainwashing”
According to Spiegel, Wikileaks reveals that US diplomats consider Foreign Minister Westerwelle to be incompetent and Chancellor Merkel to be risk averse. So what? Most Germans think the same. Of course, US diplomats are more candid in secret cables than in public statements. Everybody is.
WikiLeaks defies US demands on leaked files
GulfNews
Washington: US State Department documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks provided candid views of foreign leaders and sensitive information
MAIN FOCUS: Wikileaks embarrasses US | 29/11/2010
The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks started on Sunday night with the dissemination of roughly 250,000 diplomatic US dispatches through international media. The documents weaken US diplomacy, commentators write, and urge a responsible approach to this new transparency.
Is WikiLeaks harming US interests?
Palm Beach Post (blog)
For example, documents might show that Turkey, a NATO ally, allowed arms to flow across its borders to terror groups in Iraq. That kind of revelation can
NZ Wikileaks Cables May Embarrass — PM
Voxy
The earliest involving New Zealand is from the US embassy in Rome in October 1993 and also refers to Turkey. That is likely to be about New Zealand’s new
US briefs governments on WikiLeaks ‘dump’
“Global diplomatic crisis” sparked by cables: U.N. spied on; Saudis want US to attack Iran; British royalty misbehaves; military incompetence
from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza
Cables out: Korea unification plan; Illicit Pakistan nukes; U.S. threatened Germany over CIA kidnapping
from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza
Wikileaks: Red faces, but no crisis
by Mark Mardell (the Reporters)
Wikileaks secret US Embassy cable site live
Wikileaks has begun publishing the leaked “embassy cables” at its website, with a handy ‘explorer’ at cablegate.wikileaks.org. In total, the cache includes 15,652 secret documents, 101,748 confidential ones, and 133,887 that are unclassified. Iraq is the ‘most discussed’ country, while Ankara, Turkey, produced the most cables. External political relations and internal government affairs account for most of the cache, but more than 100,000 items concern human rights and economic conditions. 28,801 concern terrorism.
US foreign policy gets enhanced patdown: oddities from the leaks
from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza
US believed moderates would prevail during Iranian revolution
Optimism of American diplomats in Tehran was cut short after they were taken hostage during the US embassy siege
Embassy cable tells of elderly American’s escape from Iran
Man, 75, rode horse over freezing mountain range into Turkey after officials confiscated his passport
When Hossein Ghanbarzadeh Vahedi, a 75-year-old American of Iranian descent, decided to visit relatives in Tehran in May 2008, he took a flight from Los Angeles in the normal way. When he returned home, his means of transport was somewhat less orthodox.
Fear of ‘different world’ if Iran gets nuclear weapons
Embassy cables reveal how US relentlessly cajoles and bullies governments not to give succour to Tehran
Sitting in the Rome office of Franco Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, in February this year, Robert Gates, the veteran US defence secretary and former CIA chief, issued a chilling warning of war in our time.
US embassy cables: Israel grateful for US support
from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk
US embassy cables: American citizen’s amazing ‘escape’ from Iran
from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk
US embassy cables: French and Americans exchange views on Iran
from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk
State Department warning to WikiLeaks
Files will risk ‘countless’ lives, Obama administration warns Wikileaks
Sunday, November 28, 2010
The United States government has urged Wikileaks not to publish new files because they will risk “countless” lives. In a letter to Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, the Obama administration said that releasing the documents, rumoured to be seven times the size of the Iraq War Logs, would be in breach of U.S. law, and would result in “grave consequences.” Assange replied by stating that the U.S. did not want to be held to account.
WikiLeaks Hit By DDoS Attack Just as Its Newest Leak is Leaked Early
from Mashable! by Ben Parr
We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 28, 2010
Has WikiLeaks finally gone too far?
from FP Passport by Blake Hounshell
Wikileaks’ massive cable leak expected today: Wikileaks.org “under attack,” Der Spiegel out early
By various reports, today at 430pm ET is the expected go-live point for Wikileaks‘ latest coordinated “radical transparency” dump: some 250,000 US State Department diplomatic cables, with partnered coverage expected again, as with prior releases, in Der Spiegel, The New York Times, and the Guardian. This time, El Pais and Le Monde are part of the early access club, according to a Wikileaks tweet.
Wikileaks to release thousands of secret documents; ‘international embarrassment’ likely
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks is preparing to leak thousands of documents detailing correspondence between U.S. embassies around the world. American diplomats have contacted international allies, briefing them on the planned disclosure.
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