New York Times Top Online Stories: Mon 11/29/10

The New York Times lead headline online early Monday morning says "Leaked Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy." The paper says in the most popular story a cache of confidential diplomatic cables amounts to a secret chronicle of the United States’ relations with the world in an age of war and terrorism.

It says a trove of a quarter-million State Department cables, obtained by WikiLeaks, offers an extraordinary look at back-room bargaining by embassies, candid views of foreign leaders and assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.

The paper says cables show how two presidents have dealt with Iran and how President Obama built support for harsher sanctions.

The Times says after the United States and South Korea began naval exercises as a warning to North Korea, China called for a meeting of six nations.

It says Arturo Gallegos Castrellón, leader of the gang Los Aztecas, claimed to have ordered 80 percent of the killings in Juárez in the last 15 months.