"How crazy is hopefully-soon-to-be-deposed Libyan dictatorMuammar Qaddafi? Why don't we check Wikileaks to find out? (Spoiler alert: He is pretty crazy.)
Wikileaks, the secrets-sharing website that began to release a huge cache of classified diplomatic cables last year, has several messages about Qaddafi and Libya. As, we guess, some kind of retrospective of corruption, despotism and derangement, both The New York Times and ABC Newscombed through the state department's Qaddafi-related cables, trying to flesh out our picture of Qaddafi's regime. And, wow! It's pretty awful. Obviously, there is some charmingly flamboyant eccentricity, as in this now-classic cable:"
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