Diplomats’ commentary on world leaders [WikiLeaks]

Der Spiegel (english) has released several great articles and slideshows concerning the now infamous WikiLeaks of American diplomat cables.

Here is a slideshow entitled “How the U.S. sees select World Leaders” with U.S. diplomats’ commentary on Merkel, Ahmadinejad, Putin & Berlusconi and others.

The magazine also posted a slideshow focused on German leaders and a story on how Berlin is going into “damage-control mode” after the release of the cables.

As always, Der Spiegel is offering some excellent reporting mixed in with some amusing parts including the commentary on Azerbaijan’s ‘First Lady’:

She has had so much plastic surgery that it is possible to confuse her for one of her daughters from a distance, but that she can barely still move her face.

Of course sending stuff like that over the secure wires was unprofessional and quite unnecessary, but who doesn’t love good gossip like that?