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THE CABLES

AMERICAS

The hand of U.S. officials in Haitian politics from 2004 to 2006.

ASIA

The United States is anxious about China's growing influence in Cambodia.

EUROPE

U.S. officials worried that Norway was unprepared for a terrorist attack.

Lithuania's wayward press.

 

THE NEWS

Is Prince Andrew the latest WikiLeaks casualty?

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, under investigation by President Robert Mugabe's government for his statements in WikiLeaks cables, is cleared.

Fourteen people are arrested for a cyberattack on PayPal in solidarity with WikiLeaks.

How two LulzSec hackers got caught.

Julian Assange lawyer Mark Stephens may have been a target of News of the World's phone hacking.

Slavoj Zizek: Julian Assange "is like the boy who tells us the emperor is naked."

The U.S. Library of Congress no longer classifies WikiLeaks as an "extremist" website.

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FAVIOLA RIDGEWAY

2:23 AM ET

August 17, 2011

The WikiWeek: July 22, 2011

Terri is in the corner weeping ceaselessly and quietly, the terror on her face literally unspeakable; the gray-haired attending doctor (whose name has vanished from my mind, though his face stares at me daily) is issuing orders as residents take turns compressing Isabel’s chest, because her heart has stopped beating. The bring her back, as I wail, “My baby! My baby! My baby!”Nine years, seven months, and twenty days after September 11th, an American was a trigger pull from ending bin Laden’s life.The first round, a 5.56-mm. bullet, struck bin Laden in the chest. As he fell backward, the SEAL fired a second round into his head, just above his left eye. On his radio, he reported, “For God and country—Geronimo, eva angelina, Geronimo.” After a pause, he added, “Geronimo E.K.I.A.”—“enemy killed in action.

 

AXELBROOK

10:29 AM ET

August 19, 2011

Her "expert" health care

Her "expert" health care almost cost her husband his re-election to the presidency. She fumbled her health care bill big time. Her foreign policy experience must have been getting drunk and imagining that she was under sniper fire. RIO She believes she is smarter than economists who are, as she says "elite", but with a track record like this it isn't hard to see why she has fooled herself into believing all of this..

 

WikiLeaked is FP’s blog dedicated to sorting through and making sense of the more than 250,000 State Department cables acquired by WikiLeaks.

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