WikiLeaks: The revelations at a glance

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Last updated at 8:03 AM on 29th November 2010

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The release of more than 250,000 classified U.S. embassy cables has laid bare America's diplomatic secrets.

The U.S. was having to patch up relations with the international community today after thousands of embarrassing secrets were revealed.

Here at a glance are some of the highlights:

Diplomatic storm: Barack Obama (right) and Hillary Clinton with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Both Clinton and Obama will today start trying to repair the U.S. standing in the international community

• 'Inappropriate remarks' made by Prince Andrew about a foreign country and UK law enforcement agency. He is said to have shocked the Americans with his 'rude behaviour abroad'.
• Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah repeatedly asked the U.S. to attack Iran and destroy their nuclear weapons programme, urging them to 'cut the head off the snake'.
• A Labour government minister was described as a 'hound dog' around women and was ordered to apologise after sexually harassing a female, the files revealed. He was also said to be a 'manic depressive' with matrimonial difficulties.
• Hillary Clinton and Condoleeza Rice ordered officials to spy on UN diplomats and obtain fingerprints and DNA data. She could be in breach of international law.
• French President Nicholas Sarkozy was compared with an 'emperor with no clothes' while Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is labelled 'feckless, vain and ineffective as a modern European leader'.
• North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is described as a ‘flabby old chap’ and there are plans to reunite Korea after the eventual collapse of the Communist north.
• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is described as being 'like Hitler'.

 

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• The files allege that the Russian government employing mafia bosses to carry out criminal operations - and the country is described as a 'virtual mafia state. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is described as an ‘alpha-dog’.
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  Obama aides offering deals in return for countries taking Guantanamo Bay detainees. Slovenia were told to take a prisoner in return for a Presidential visit.
• Fears in Washington and London over Pakistan’s nuclear programme with the U.S. caught in a dangerous stand-off with the Pakistanis over enriched uranium.
• Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi is accompanied everywhere by a ‘voluptuous blonde’ Ukranian nurse.
• Afghan President Hamid Karzai is described 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’.
• A Chinese spy claims the Politburo in Beijing was behind Internet hacking attacks on Google, Western governments and the Dalai Lama. A senior member of the administration apparently put his name into the search engine and found critical articles, sparking the operation.
• German leader Angela Merkel ‘avoids risk and is rarely creative,’ according to one dispatch.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ‘elegant and charming’ – but never keeps his promises, reported a U.S. diplomat.

 

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