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WikiLeaks cables reveal personal details on world leaders

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Leaked U.S. cables reveal sensitive diplomacy
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 overseas.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010; 8:57 PM

Analysis of world leaders gets personal


The U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks offer unvarnished insights into the personal proclivities of world leaders and how American diplomats privately view them.

According to one such memo, Moammar Gaddafi, the leader of Libya, has an intense dislike of staying above the first floor of hotels and cannot climb more than 35 steps. His fear of flying creates logistical headaches for his staff, who make great attempts to avoid long flights over water.

And Gaddafi is reportedly obsessively dependent on traveling with a Ukrainian nurse described as a "voluptuous blonde" because she alone "knows his routine."

The details on Gaddafi were included in a State Department cable in September 2009 during the leader's visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

In the cable, Gene A. Cretz, U.S. ambassador to Tripoli, concluded: "While it is tempting to dismiss his many eccentricities as signs of instability, Qadhafi is a complicated individual who has managed to stay in power for forty years through a skillful balancing of interests and realpolitik methods."

This is one of many distinctly undiplomatic sketches of the world's leading statesmen contained in the documents released Sunday. Among the highlights, as reported by Britain's Guardian newspaper:

- U.S. diplomats quoted sources describing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as a "flabby old chap" and someone who had suffered "physical and psychological trauma" as a result of his stroke.

- French President Nicholas Sarkozy, in the view of U.S. diplomats in Paris, has a "thin-skinned and authoritarian personal style" because of his tendency to rebuke his team and the French prime minister.


- An official at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow wrote in late 2008 about the relationship between Russian President Dimitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that Medvedev "plays Robin to Putin's Batman."

- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is "feckless, vain and ineffective as a modern European leader," according to a U.S. official in Rome. Another cable remarked on Berlusconi's "frequent late nights and penchant for partying hard."

- Afghan President Hamid Karzai is described in one cable from Kabul as "an extremely weak man who did not listen to facts but was instead easily swayed by anyone who came to report even the most bizarre stories or plots against him."

- Philip Rucker

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Top 10 revelations from WikiLeaks cables
By Zachary Roth
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On Sunday, five international news outlets published a selection of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, provided by the website WikiLeaks. The disclosure of the cables, most of them from the past three years, offers a rare unfiltered view of the secretive world of high-level diplomacy. As such, it could complicate relations with a host of friendly and unfriendly nations.

But what did we actually learn? Here are 10 key revelations from the cables:

1. Many Middle Eastern nations are far more concerned about Iran's nuclear program than they've publicly admitted. According to one cable, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly asked the U.S. to "cut off the head of the snake" -- meaning, it appears, to bomb Iran's nuclear program. Leaders of Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and other Middle Eastern nations expressed similar views.

2. The U.S. ambassador to Seoul told Washington in February that the right business deals might get China to acquiesce to a reunified Korea, if the newly unified power were allied with the United States. American and South Korean officials have discussed such a reunification in the event that North Korea collapses under the weight of its economic and political problems.

[Related: WikiLeaks docs reveal U.S. diplomats insulting world leaders]


3. The Obama administration offered sweeteners to try to get other countries to take Guantanamo detainees, as part of its (as yet unsuccessful) effort to close the prison. Slovenia, for instance, was offered a meeting with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions.

4. Afghan Vice President Ahmed Zia Massoud took $52 million in cash when he visited the United Arab Emirates last year, according to one cable. The Afghan government has been plagued by allegations of corruption. Massoud has denied taking the money out of the country.

5. The United States has been working to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani nuclear reactor, out of concern that it could be used to build an illicit nuclear device. The effort, which began in 2007, continues.

6. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ordered diplomats to assemble information on their foreign counterparts. Documents in the WikiLeaks cache also indicate that Clinton may have asked diplomats to gather intelligence on U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's plans for Iran, and information on Sudan (including Darfur), Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Iran and North Korea.

7. The State Department labeled Qatar the worst country in the region for counterterrorism efforts. The country's security services were "hesitant to act against known terrorists out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the U.S. and provoking reprisals," according to one cable.

8. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are tighter than was previously known. Putin has given the high-living Berlusconi "lavish gifts" and lucrative energy contracts, and Berlusconi "appears increasingly to be the mouthpiece of Putin" in Europe, according to one cable.

[Related: The Guardian gave State Dept. cables to the NY Times]

9. Hezbollah continues to enjoy the weapons patronage of Syria. A week after Syrian president Bashar Assad promised the United States he wouldn't send "new" arms to the Lebanese militant group, the United States said it had information that Syria was continuing to provide the group with increasingly sophisticated weapons.

10. Some cables reveal decidedly less than diplomatic opinions of foreign leaders. Putin is said to be an "alpha-dog" and Afghan President Hamid Karzai to be "driven by paranoia." German Chancellor Angela Merkel "avoids risk and is rarely creative." Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi travels with a "voluptuous blonde" Ukrainian nurse.

The cables were obtained, via WikiLeaks, by the New York Times, the Guardian of Britain, Der Spiegel of Germany, Le Monde of France and El Pais of Spain.

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维基解密十大电缆及其启示
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上周日，5个国际新闻媒体发表了超过25万美国外交电报的选择，由网站提供维基解密。电缆的披露，其中大部分来自过去三年，提供了一个高层次的外交秘密世界上罕见的未过滤的看法。因此，它可以用复杂的友好和不友好的国家主人的关系。

但是我们实际上学什么？这里有10个来自电缆的关键启示：

1。许多中东国家都更加担心伊朗的核计划有关的比他们已经公开承认。据一根电缆，沙特国王阿卜杜拉曾多次要求美国“切断蛇头” - 意思是，它出现时，要炸毁伊朗的核计划。卡塔尔，约旦，阿联酋和其他中东国家的领导人表示了类似的看法。

2。美国驻汉城告诉华盛顿二月正确的商业交易可能会得到中国默许朝鲜的统一，如果新的统一功率等与美国结盟。美国和韩国官员讨论了这样一个统一的事件，朝鲜在其经济和政治问题的重量倒塌。

[相关：维基解密文件显示，美国外交官侮辱世界各国领导人]


3。奥巴马ZF提供的甜味剂，试图让其他国家采取关塔那摩被拘留者的（尚未成功）为了进一步缩小与监狱的一部分。斯洛文尼亚，比如，获得一个与美国总统奥巴马会晤，而岛国基里巴斯提供了价值数百万奖励。

4。阿富汗副总统艾哈迈德齐亚马苏德了5200万美元的现金时，他访问了阿拉伯联合酋长国，去年，根据一个电缆。阿富汗ZF一直困扰着腐败的指控。马苏德否认接过钱离开这个国家。

5。美国一直努力消除从巴基斯坦的核反应炉高浓缩铀出于关心，它可以用来建立一个非法的核装置。的努力，于2007年开始，继续进行。

6。国务卿希拉里克林顿下令外交官聚集在他们的外国同行的信息。维基解密缓存中的文件也表明，克林顿可能会问外交官，搜集有关伊朗的联合国秘书长潘基文的计划的情报，以及关于苏丹（包括达尔富尔），阿富汗，巴基斯坦，索马里，伊朗和北朝鲜。

7。国务院标示为卡塔尔在地区反恐努力最差的国家。该国的安全服务包括“不愿对已知恐怖分子的行为出于关心看来是与美国和挑起报复对齐，”据一位电缆。

8。俄罗斯总理弗拉基米尔普京和意大利总理西尔维奥贝卢斯科尼是比以前更严格而闻名。普京给予了很高的生活费贝卢斯科尼“奢侈礼物”和丰厚的能源合同，而贝卢斯科尼“似乎越来越多地成为普京的喉舌”在欧洲，根据一根电缆。

[相关：监护了国家部电缆纽约时报]

9。真主党继续享受叙利亚武器的使用量。后一周叙利亚总统巴沙尔阿萨德承诺美国将不会派他的“新”武器给黎巴嫩激进组织，美国表示，它已信息，叙利亚是继续提供日益尖端武器组。

10。某些电缆揭示断然比外国领导人外交的意见少。普京说是“阿尔法狗”和阿富汗总统哈米德卡尔扎伊是“偏执狂驱动的。”德国总理默克尔“避免风险，也很少创意。”利比亚领导人卡扎菲的旅行一个“丰满金发”乌克兰护士。

得到的电缆，通过维基解密，由纽约时报，英国的卫报，德国明镜周刊，法国世界报乐和El西班牙国家报。

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WikiLeaks cables point to China in Google hack
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Much has been written and broadcast over the past 24- hour news cycle about the diplomatic fallout of the latest WikiLeaks caper.

Today, some news outlets are focusing on a subset of the leaked cables that point to China's Politburo as the orchestrator of last January's Operation Aurora, the systematic hacking of the internal networks of at least 30 high-profile corporations, especially Google.

That revelation underscores the notion that nation-state cyberspying goes beyond snooping for military advantage, says Mandeep Khera, a senior executive at web security firm Cenzic.

Cyberspies are "also targeting corporations and influential individuals in an attempt to unravel the infrastructure of the targeted country," says Khera. "Whether it is trade secrets, intellectual property, or government secrets, foreign perpetrators will continue to cause chaos for the U.S. cybersecurity infrastructure, unless we can anticipate these attacks."

Operation Aurora came to light last January after Google went public about it, intimating that the Chinese government played a role in hacking into its databases as part of a campaign to persecute political dissidents. The incident set off an international furor, as we reported in this cover story, and Google ultimately shut down its Beijing operations.

Among the 250,000 U.S. Embassy cables released by WikiLeaks are exchanges between a Chinese contact and the U.S. embassy in Beijing; one dispatch describes a Chinese source informing the U.S. Embassy that China's Politburo sanctioned the attack on Google.

By Byron Acohido

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维基解密电缆点到中国黑客在谷歌
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许多已被写入，在过去的24播出 - 关于维基解密跳跃的最新外交后果小时新闻周期。

今天，一些新闻媒体都集中在一个子集的泄漏电缆这一点在去年一月的运作极光，内部网络中至少有30个高知名度的公司，尤其是谷歌系统的黑客Orchestrator可以中国的政治局。

这启示的概念，强调民族国家的军事优势超越cyberspying去窥探说，Mandeep Khera，在网络安全公司Cenzic高级行政人员。

网络间谍是“还瞄准，企图破坏该国基础设施的目标公司和有影响力的个人，说：”Khera。 “不管是商业秘密，知识产权，或ZF机密，外国肇事者将继续引起美国网络安全基础设施的混乱，除非我们能够预见到这些攻击。”

操作极光去年一月被揭发后，谷歌走遍它公开，暗示，中ZF在将其数据库的黑客攻击，广告活动的一部分，迫害持不同政见者的角色。这一事件引发了国际愤怒，因为我们在这个封面故事报道，谷歌最终关闭了其在北京的业务。

其中250,000维基解密美国大使馆发布的电缆之间的接触和中国在北京的美国大使馆的交流;一介绍了中国派遣源，通知美国大使馆的中国政治局批准了关于谷歌的攻击。

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