THE CABLES
AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST
When Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman met Muammar al-Qaddafi
in 2009 -- and promised
to help him get military equipment from the United States.
The Obama administration urged
McCain and Lieberman not to bring up the Lockerbie bomber at the meeting. (They
did anyway.)
Qaddafi's weird inauguration
letter to Barack Obama.
FP contributor
Issandr El Amrani's WikiLeaks
debut.
The U.S. Embassy in Manama requested
talking points for answering questions about an allegedly tortured Bahraini
Guantanamo detainee in 2005.
AMERICAS
Meet the Coast Guard officer who serves as a back-channel
emissary to Havana.
ASIA
U.S. diplomats worry that China is dropping the ball on pollution
monitoring and nuclear
safety.
A U.S. diplomat went
undercover as a Korean tourist to visit a Chinese tiger farm.
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou told
U.S. embassy officials in 2009 that People's Liberation Army activity in the
Taiwan Strait could push Taiwan and China toward political talks.
An April Fools Day cable from the U.S. Embassy in Delhi.
THE NEWS
WikiLeaks drops a giant tranche of nearly
100,000 new cables -- we're still working through them -- and is reportedly
unhappy with the media's mounting disinterest in its work. (A bit of advice
from your humble Wikiblogger: Not releasing thousands of cables during the fall
of Tripoli might help.)
WikiLeaks dissident Daniel Domscheit-Berg tells
Wired he destroyed thousands of
WikiLeaks documents "in order to ensure that the sources are not compromised."
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