Media News - Monday, November 29, 2010
WikiLeaks releases 250,000 US diplomatic cables
Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday
revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging
candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional U.S.
pressure tactics aimed at hot spots in Afghanistan, Iran and North
Korea. The classified diplomatic cables released by online
whistle-blower WikiLeaks and reported on by news organizations in the
United States and Europe provided often unflattering assessments of
foreign leaders, ranging from U.S. allies such as Germany and Italy to
other nations like Libya, Iran and Afghanistan. The documents published by The New York Times, France’s Le Monde,
Britain’s Guardian newspaper, German magazine Der Spiegel and others
laid out the behind-the-scenes conduct of Washington’s international
relations. The documents were again available on the WikiLeaks website Sunday
afternoon. The site was inaccessible much of the day, and the group
claimed it was under a cyberattack.
(AP)
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