WikiLeaks cables, day 21: summary of today's key points

Day 21, Sunday 19 December The Observer • The UN offered Robert Mugabe a lucrative retirement overseas : a source in the MDC told American officials that the Zimbabwe president rejected the offer from Kofi Annan. • Julian Assange is like a hi-tech terrorist, says US vice-president Joe Biden . • Egypt "turned down" black-market nuclear weapons deal. • WikiLeaks cables reveal that a Tanzania official investigating BAE "fears for his life" . El País • In an August 2008 cable, US diplomats in Madrid establish that the Spanish government is putting too much energy in its regional nationalist issues and not enough trying to address the economic crisis. New York Times • How WikiLeaks uses specialsied software to hide the origins and destinations of data .