Barack Obama

Wikileaks: Japan To Obama: Don't Apologize For Hiroshima

Brian Fung | October 13, 2011, 5:00AM

The Japanese government urged the Obama administration in 2009 not to apologize for the American nuclear attack on Hiroshima during World War II, according to a secret diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks last month.

Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka told American diplomats ahead of a presidential trip to Japan that an American apology would be a "non-starter" and that a simple visit to Hiroshima -- "without fanfare" -- would be sufficiently symbolic.

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Wikileaks: Are 'Jamaicans' The Next Great Terror Threat?

Brian Fung | October 10, 2011, 5:03AM

Forget fundamentalist Wahhabi Muslims. Could bands of roving Rastafarians be far from wreaking havoc and fear on American society?

That's what a secret U.S. diplomatic cable written in 2010 and shared by Wikileaks alleges. The cable, issued by an unnamed State Department official from the bureau's outpost in Kingston, Jamaica, warns that the country's dizzying domestic crime rate has already had ill consequences for the United States -- and it could get worse.

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Topics: Terrorism, Wikileaks