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WikiLeaks secrets lead to dramatic diplomatic crises.

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Welcome to the new world crises.

Things aren’t going down to well between Saudi Arabia and Iran and for that matter a number of states in the Western alliance, as WikiLeaks has made good on its promise to reveal embarrassing secrets in its dossier, the outcome having produced a diplomatic nightmare in the Middle East and potentially potent repercussions.

UK Telegraph: The King of Saudi Arabia privately urged the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear weapons programme, according to diplomatic cables leaked by the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks.

The first tranche of more than 250,000 classified cables released by the WikiLeaks site says American officials were also told to spy on the United Nations’ leadership and get biometric information on its secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

Which immediately has us wondering how will the world deal with Iran in the future and has the expose given Iran expedient leverage and new found abilities to deflect demand on its own nuclear programs now that it is understood that such measures have perhaps been covert missions linked more to hyperbole than perhaps any real threat? Iran to put it mildly must be smiling all the way to the proverbial bank…

The leaked memos also disclose how American diplomats compared Iran’s President Ahmedinejad with Adolf Hitler and labelled France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy as the “emperor with no clothes”.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel was depicted as “risk aversive”, while the Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin was an “alpha dog”. Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai was “driven by paranoia”. The unguarded comments were contained in the classified cables from US embassies, details of which were published by several newspapers on the internet last night.

One can only imagine the next dinner party members of the working west coalition might find a number of fish bones stuck in their throat. Our guess of course is the fish bones may end becoming whale bones by the time this ‘special’ fan club get to munch on their charbroiled crudites…

But the main course only gets better…

American diplomats were also asked to compile a profile of Alan Duncan, the homosexual former oil trader who is now the international development minister.

The Americans particularly asked for information on the relationship between Mr Duncan and William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, with whom he used to share a flat, and also Mr Cameron.

Then there’s delicious morsel in the event you’re looking for seconds…

Washington asked for credit card numbers, email addresses, phone, fax and pager numbers and even frequent-flyer account numbers for UN figures and

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  1. Who’s the asshole? Have not read the report, but if I understand correctly, the VIPs are grumbling because they’ve been outbid by the king and moved to coach, from where presumably the plebes have been moved to other areas of the hospital because their standard wards were needed as private rooms for the displaced VIPs. Perhaps at the end of the day some poor people were rolled out into the street. So what? Somewhere in this model, the king has created jobs, I’m sure.

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