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The continuing value of Wikileaks (ignored, naturally by the media, which is no longer populated with journalists) is it exposes the shadow world of government actions that we, their ostensible bosses, are not allowed to see.

Case No. 9,208,395, Saudi Arabia versus Iran

Iraqi government officials see Saudi Arabia, not Iran, as the biggest threat to the integrity and cohesion of their fledgling democratic state, leaked US state department cables reveal.

The Iraqi concerns, analysed in a dispatch sent from the US embassy in Baghdad by then ambassador Christopher Hill in September 2009, represent a fundamental divergence from the American and British view of Iran as arch-predator in Iraq.

But for Wikileaks we'd never hear thing fucking one about this.