Five international news outlets published a selection of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, provided by the website WikiLeaks.\u00a0 The disclosure of the cables, most of them from the past 3 years, offers a rare view of the secretive world of high-level diplomacy.\u00a0 As such, it could complicate relations with a host of friendly and unfriendly nations.<\/p>\n
Here are the top 10 revelations from the cables:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Many Middle Eastern nations are far more concerned about Iran’s nuclear program than they’ve publicly admitted.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 Afghan Vice President Ahmed Zia Massoud took $52 million in cash when he visited the United Arab Emirates last year, according to one cable.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ordered diplomats to assemble information on their foreign counterparts.<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0 The State Department labeled Qatar the worst country in the region for counterterrorism efforts.<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0 Russian Prime Minister Vladimar Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are tighter than was previously known.<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0 Hezbollah continues to enjoy the weapons patronage of Syria.<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0 Some cables reveal decidedly less than diplomatic opinions of foreign leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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