The WikiWeek: April 1, 2011

THE CABLES Nothing new on the WikiLeaks site this week, but they’ve been trickling out elsewhere: AFRICA State Department cables about defected Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa describe him as "the rare Libyan official who embodies a combination of intellectual acumen, operational ability and political weight." U.S. diplomats worried about Islamist extremism in eastern Libya ...

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THE CABLES

THE CABLES

Nothing new on the WikiLeaks site this week, but they’ve been trickling out elsewhere:

AFRICA

State Department cables about defected Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa describe him as "the rare Libyan official who embodies a combination of intellectual acumen, operational ability and political weight."

U.S. diplomats worried about Islamist extremism in eastern Libya in 2008.

AMERICAS

The U.S. government wasn’t telling the truth about the health care it offered Guantánamo detainees.

U.S. diplomats thought that the United States’ and India’s 2005 spat over U.N. Security Council reforms was a "public relations train wreck."

ASIA

American diplomats didn’t see much of an upside of getting involved in Kashmir.

EUROPE

U.S. officials think Romania isn’t prepared for an accident at the country’s biggest nuclear plant.

Bulgaria’s struggles with organized crime.

MIDDLE EAST

Yemeni General Ali Mohsen, the most prominent backer of Yemen’s anti-government protesters, is "the second most powerful man in Yemen."

THE NEWS

U.S. Ambassador Gene Cretz (above), pulled from his post in Libya in January over WikiLeaks revelations, is back in the game.

McDonald’s launches a Wikileaks-pegged ad campaign in China.

A group of security policy experts supports Twitter in its defense against the U.S. Justice Department’s WikiLeaks-prompted lawsuit.

Pfc. Bradley Manning’s troubled youth.

Former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley stands by his comments about the Pentagon’s treatment of Manning.

A WikiLeaks imitator strikes the pornography industry.

Julian Assange is still making the rounds of interviews, televised and otherwise, in Europe.

Assange (or someone who looks an awful lot like him) dancing again, this time with video:

Charles Homans is a special correspondent for the New Republic and the former features editor of Foreign Policy.

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