WikiLeaks: The five strangest stories...so far

The release of US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks contains some serious stuff. Other cables are not so earth-shaking, but they nonetheless reveal personalities and events that are comical, surprising, or just plain weird. Here's our top five.

2. Implanting tracking chips?

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Moose #294 is fitted with a radio collar after being examined by research biologists in Ely, Minnesota in 2008. According to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, Saudi King Abdullah suggested that the US do basically the same thing to detainees freed from Guantanamo.

In March 2009, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia suggested to Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, that the US government track detainees freed from Guantanamo Bay by surgically implanting electronic tracking chips in them, adding that it is commonly done with horses and falcons.

Brennan's response: "Horses don't have good lawyers."

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