WikiLeaks: 'Voluptuous' nurse cable costs diplomat his job
Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy
WASHINGTON — In what appears to be the first diplomatic casualty from the latest WikiLeaks revelations, the U.S. ambassador to Libya has returned to Washington and is likely to leave his post, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Ambassador Gene Cretz, a veteran American diplomat, authored several secret cables to Washington that speculated on long-time Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's health, and described his personal proclivities, including his reliance on a "voluptuous" Ukrainian nurse.
The documents are among about 2,000 that have been publicly released from a cache of more than 250,000 State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks.
While the Libyan government has not commented publicly on them, the leaked cables can only have complicated Cretz's task in dealing with the notoriously prickly regime in Tripoli, which the mercurial Gadhafi has ruled since a 1969 military coup.
(More here.)
McClatchy
WASHINGTON — In what appears to be the first diplomatic casualty from the latest WikiLeaks revelations, the U.S. ambassador to Libya has returned to Washington and is likely to leave his post, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Ambassador Gene Cretz, a veteran American diplomat, authored several secret cables to Washington that speculated on long-time Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's health, and described his personal proclivities, including his reliance on a "voluptuous" Ukrainian nurse.
The documents are among about 2,000 that have been publicly released from a cache of more than 250,000 State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks.
While the Libyan government has not commented publicly on them, the leaked cables can only have complicated Cretz's task in dealing with the notoriously prickly regime in Tripoli, which the mercurial Gadhafi has ruled since a 1969 military coup.
(More here.)
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