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The US is preparing for a major reshuffle at several US embassies and consulates, following WikiLeaks revelations of private but embarrassing comments made by some of its top diplomats about world leaders. The US Department of State, the Pentagon and the CIA have all begun paving the ground for this move, involving diplomats, military officers and intelligence operatives. Among those involved in the scandal are the cream of the foreign service crop, such as Gene Cretz, the ambassador to Libya, and Karl Eikenberry, the ambassador to Afghanistan, reports said. The former noted Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi's penchant for always traveling with his "voluptuous blonde" Ukrainian nurse, while the latter was criticized for his harsh assessments of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other senior officials in Kabul. "We're going to have to pull out some of our best people - the diplomats who best represented the US and were the most thoughtful in their analysis," a senior US national security official said. Since November 28, WikiLeaks has released 1,100 of the roughly 250,000 secret documents it obtained. Monday, it divulged a secret list compiled by Washington of key infrastructure sites around the world that represent core interests for US security, including the British locations of undersea cables, satellite systems and defense plants. Meanwhile, the website's Swedish servers came under suspected attack again Monday, though its current website, wikileaks.ch, didn't seem to be affected, the AP reported. AFP |
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