Wikileaks release new secret documents of US diplomacy (28-11-2010)

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Tens of thousands of confidential U.S. government communications spanning several years were published Sunday after being leaked by the whistle-blower website Wikileaks.
Reports on the documents' contents, and in some cases the documents themselves, were posted on the websites of five newspapers around the world -- The New York Times, The Guardian in England, Le Monde in France, Der Spiegel in Germany and El Pais in Spain -- that had prior access to them.

Some of the major topics included:
-- Pressure from U.S. allies in the Middle East for decisive action to neutralize Iran's nuclear program. According to one cable, King Hamad of Bahrain told the Commander of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus, that the United States must curb Iran's nuclear program by whatever means necessary. "The danger of letting it go on is greater than the danger of stopping it," the king is quoted as saying. Similarly, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia implored Washington to "cut off the head of the snake" while there was still time, according to a cable cited by the Guardian newspaper.
-- Washington's efforts to have highly enriched uranium removed from a Pakistani research reactor. In a cable sent in May 2009, the U.S. ambassador in Islamabad said Pakistan was refusing to schedule a visit by American technical experts. The ambassador said that a Pakistani official had told her: "If the local media got word of the fuel removal, 'they certainly would portray it as the United States taking Pakistan's nuclear weapons.' "
-- Negotiations with governments over the transfer of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. According to The New York Times, "Slovenia was told to take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President (Barack) Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions of dollars to take in a group of detainees."
-- Concern that the Chinese government was involved in global computer hacking. One cable cited by the New York Times said a Chinese contact had told the U.S. Embassy in Beijing that the Politburo had directed "the intrusion into Google's computer system" earlier this year.

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[solarpanels3]

GOOGLE IS JEWISH

[DrInfidel]

think what is shocking about this is that none of it is shocking at all.

China, annoyed with a north Korean state that is like a petulant violent child?

Saudi afraid of Iran?

The US spying on the UN and it's allies - as they have been doing since WWII?

And the US scared that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are going to ultimately fall into the wrong hands?

Never. Who'd have thunk it.