The British government has warned that its citizens in Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and other parts of the Muslim world could be targeted in a violent backlash over "anti-Islamic" views expressed in diplomatic documents being leaked this week, media reports said on Sunday.
The whistle-blower website WikiLeaks is to release almost 3 million documents on the internet, including thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables sent to Washington from the American embassy in London,
The Sunday Times reported.
It said the British government has warned that its citizens in Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and other parts of the Muslim world could be targeted in a violent backlash over "anti-Islamic" views expressed in diplomatic documents. Some disclosures may put pressure on Britain's "special relationship" with the US by revealing the private views of diplomats on former premier Gordon Brown, the present Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg.
Brown's rocky relationship with US President Barack Obama that included a visit to New York in September 2009 during which the White House was accused of "snubbing" the former prime minister, is almost certain to be mentioned as is Britain's troop withdrawal from Iraq,
The Sunday Telegraph said.
But officials said the real damage could be done by the disclosure of cables in which American diplomats refer to candid British views of key figures in the Muslim world.
According to
The Mail Today, 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa is among world leaders believed to have been criticised in a leak of US diplomatic files.
Other world leaders who have clashed with the US, including Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai, Libya's Colonel Gaddafi and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, also come off badly in the no-holds barred private cables to the White House from scores
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