The details from the cables being released -- among 250,000 illegally taken from secret State Department records -- include discussions on the U.S. being unable to stop Syrian arms to Hezbollah, its disappointment in Qatar to stop funding terrorism and hacking by the Chinese government of U.S. computers
¶ Clashes with Europe over human rights: American officials sharply warned Germany in 2007 not to enforce arrest warrants for Central Intelligence Agency officers involved in a bungled operation in which an innocent German citizen with the same name as a suspected militant was mistakenly kidnapped and held for months in Afghanistan. A senior American diplomat told a German official that our intention was not to threaten Germany, but rather to urge that the German government weigh carefully at every step of the way the implications for relations with the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp
that's no way a threat LOL
-- 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.
I'm sure the regular Iran apologists will be here shortly.
And everyone working for wikileaks should be shot. No judge. No jury.
Wikileaks operatives should have been assassinated long before this has come to this point, the fact these people are still out there shows CIA, MI6, etc went off guard. No doubt, in retrospect, they'd have done that if they only could.
Now, while I do enjoy reading that, and the stuff being uncovered only reinforces my take on global politics, the fact this level of material is in the public domain is insane.
Obviously Mr. Manning or whoever responsible for this on the US side should get the chair.
it's a Sunni v Shiite thing.LOL Even Muslims don't trust Muslims
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/11/28/wikileaks.documents.published/?hpt=T1
Why is it called "cables"? Or rather, what are "cables"?
it's a Sunni v Shiite thing.
I thought the point Saudi Arabia made about the Iraqi invasion basically giving the country to Iran was pretty accurate (because Sunni Saddam Hussein agreed with Sunni Saudi Arabia on the necessity of containing Shiite Iran, whereas the post-Saddam Shiite Iraq is in Iran's pocket)
Wikileaks operatives should have been assassinated long before this has come to this point, the fact these people are still out there shows CIA, MI6, etc went off guard. No doubt, in retrospect, they'd have done that if they only could.
Now, while I do enjoy reading that, and the stuff being uncovered only reinforces my take on global politics, the fact this level of material is in the public domain is insane.
Obviously Mr. Manning or whoever responsible for this on the US side should get the chair.
maybe a hold-over from the days of like telegrams and morse code?Why is it called "cables"? Or rather, what are "cables"?