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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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07KHARTOUM939 | OFFER TO SELL RADIOACTIVE URANIUM [...] (Secret) On May 31, 2007, ARSO Bleu Lawless was contacted by a Sudanese-American, identified as Abuobaida A. Mohed, who claimed to have access to radioactive uranium. During a subsequent interview conducted by ARSO Lawless and SIMO representatives, Mohed claimed that his uncle, who is a Sudane [...] | 2007-06-14 07:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | ASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER |
07KHARTOUM97 | DEMONSTRATION AGAINST GUANTANAMO DETENTIONS [...] On January 23, the Government of Sudan sanctioned a peaceful demonstration to protest the continuing detention of Sudanese nationals at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (GTMO). Approximately 100 protesters took part in the march, which included a riot police escort. A smaller grou [...] | 2007-01-23 13:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PINR PHUM KAWC KPAO SOCI ASEC SU |
07KIGALI1112 | INFORMATION ON TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] (U) Embassy Kigali submits the following information on our Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Deputy TFCO: TFCO: Richard Kaminski Title: Chief, Political/Economic Section Phone: 250 505 601 x3304 Unclassified email: KaminskiRM@state.gov SIPDIS Classified email: Kaminski [...] | 2007-12-10 14:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN RW |
07KINGSTON1116 | JAMAICA: ENDORSEMENT OF FY08 SECTION 1206 NDAA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-18 19:03:00 | Embassy Kingston | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER MASS MARR JM XL |
07KINGSTON1170 | JAMAICAN REACTION TO GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY [...] (SBU) The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) is required to report on security related aspects of Caribbean Basin Ports. On June 29, 2007 the GAO released a report, "Information on Port Security in the Caribbean Basin", in which they identified three likely modes of attack an [...] | 2007-07-27 13:55:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ASEC EWWT PGOV GAO JM XL |
07KINGSTON1171 | JAMAICAN AND FEDERAL AGENCIES REACTION TO [...] (U) The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) is required to report on security related aspects of Caribbean Basin Ports On June 29, 2007 the GAO released a report, "Information on Port Security in the Caribbean Basin", in which they identified three likely modes of attack and th [...] | 2007-07-27 14:24:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER ASEC EWWT PGOV GAO JM XL |
07KINGSTON1270 | JAMAICA: POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS OF HURRICANE DEAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-19 22:38:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR SOCI ASEC CASC JM |
07KINGSTON1419 | JAMAICA: NEWLY INAUGURATED PRIME MINISTER BRUCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-17 20:48:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PTER SOCI ASEC MARR OFDP UNDP |
07KINGSTON1626 | JAMAICA/BAHAMAS: ARGENTINA IS APPROACHING HOST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 20:59:00 | Embassy Kingston | SECRET | PTER ASCEC KJUS PREL PGOV IR JM XL |
07KINGSTON215 | JAMAICA/VENEZUELA: FORMER PRIME MINISTER WARNS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 11:50:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON SOCI CARICOM KCOR JM |
07KINGSTON256 | JAMAICA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE RE TERRORIST [...] DCM raised the problem of illicit cash courier activity during a meeting with Financial Secretary Colin Bullock of the Ministry of Finance and Planning on February 15, and provided background information paragraphs seven through thirteen of Reftel. 2. Bullock expressed thanks, assured us [...] | 2007-02-22 11:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER JM |
07KINGSTON352 | JAMAICA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] Per Reftel, EmbOff delivered points to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT)'s Director for International Organizations, Ms. Angela Brown, during a private meeting on the afternoon of March 8. 2. Ms. Brown expressed appreciation, and said that MFAFT would consider the [...] | 2007-03-13 20:35:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL JM |
07KINGSTON43 | JAMAICA: CRICKET WORLD CUP (CWC) CRISIS MANAGEMENT [...] The following is keyed to Reftel, paragraph six: A. POST'S SCHEDULE OF EVENTS ---------------------------- Monday, Jan. 29 --------------- -- arrival of CMT Team Leader John Haralson in Kingston Tuesday, Jan. 30 ---------------- 0900-0950: In-brief with Ambassador, DCM/Chair EAC, an [...] | 2007-01-10 20:48:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR ASEC KESS KCOM OTRA PTER JM XL |
07KINGSTON442 | JAMAICA: ELIMINATION OF FY-08 FMF WILL HAVE SEVERE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-29 20:54:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL PTER SNAR ASEC CASC MOPS OMB VZ CH |
07KINGSTON624 | JAMAICA: NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ [...] In Embassy's estimate, the Government of Jamaica (GoJ) has neither the will nor the ability to contribute military or civilian resources to Iraq. Given Jamaica's severe crime problem, the risk of violence in the run-up to impending national elections, and the country's heavy debt burden (app [...] | 2007-04-30 19:10:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER JM |
07KINGSTON69 | JAMAICA: APIS; POSSIBLE ELECTION VIOLENCE; CRIME & [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-16 19:11:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR PGOV SOCI SNAR PTER ASEC PHUM CASC |
07KINGSTON803 | JAMAICA: OPPOSITION LEADER HOPES TO WIN AT LEAST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-24 16:30:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON SOCI ENRG KCOR JM |
07KINGSTON843 | JAMAICA HOSTS WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1540 [...] SUMMARY: The first outreach event on implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 (2004) in the Caribbean was held in Kingston, Jamaica on May 29-30, 2007. Representatives from 11 Caribbean states attended. The workshop was successful in increasing participants' kno [...] | 2007-05-31 17:23:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ETTC KNNP PARM PREL PTER XL XM JM |
07KINSHASA1134 | GDRC RESPONSE ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO LEBANON TRIBUNAL [...] (U) PolOff spoke September 20 with Oscar Matondo, director of the Fffice of International Organizations at the DRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding reftel request for contributions to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. 2. (U) Matondo said the GDRC certainly wished to see those responsib [...] | 2007-09-21 11:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV UNSC PTER LE CG |
07KINSHASA207 | THE NKUNDA VIEW ON "MIXAGE" AND NORTH KIVU'S [...] (C) Summary: While the GDRC has portrayed North Kivu's military "mixage" as an interim solution to the region's security problems, dissident General Laurent Nkunda and his advisers view the process much differently. They see Nkunda's December 2006 agreement with the GDRC as an opportunity to a [...] | 2007-02-21 11:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC MOPS PTER CG |
07KINSHASA320 | DRC FEBRUARY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] (U) Summary. - The World Bank will spend up to USD 180 million on quick-impact reconstruction projects in the DRC. - The IMF conducted a visit to the DRC to review the status of its current program with the GDRC. - The GDRC has not yet drafted a 2007 budget. - Dredging work is underwa [...] | 2007-03-16 10:53:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ENRG PTER CG |
07KINSHASA339 | COAST GUARD FINDS DRC PORTS STILL NOT SECURE [...] Summary. The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has determined the DRC's international maritime ports do not comply with U.S. or international security requirements. The main causes are inadequate funding and political will, and upper-level mismanagement. The USG will re-introduce restrictions on ships [...] | 2007-03-21 12:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT ECON PTER ASEC CG |
07KOLKATA109 | SUSPECTED NEPALI MAOISTS ATTACK VILLAGE IN INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Violence from Nepal's Terai region is spilling over to the neighboring Indian state of Bihar. On March 31, about 200 suspected Nepali Maoists attacked a small village block in the Sitamarhi district of North Bihar, killing one security guard and injuring a dozen civilians. Thi [...] | 2007-04-04 06:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN NP |
07KOLKATA114 | ASSAM: ULFA BLAST DURING PM VISIT. PROSPECT OF PEACE TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 8, a bomb carried by boys working for the secessionist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) accidentally detonated earlier than planned and killed one person in Guwahati, Assam. The explosion took place during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's April 8-9 to the state. [...] | 2007-04-09 12:29:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM CASC IN |
07KOLKATA144 | INDIA'S MAOIST MENACE GROWS [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent large scale attacks by Maoist insurgents in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and other states reflect growing Maoist strength and organization in India. Mostly operating under the banner of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist),India's Maoists now maintain a [...] | 2007-05-03 12:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER SOCI PHUM ECON IN NP |
07KOLKATA149 | ASSAM ROCKED BY TWO BOMB ATTACKS, 26 INJURED [...] (U) On Friday May 4 and Sunday May 6 at least 26 persons were injured in two separate bomb attacks in India's Northeastern state of Assam. In both incidents, the bombs were improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The Assam Police suspect that ethnic separatist group the United Liberation Front o [...] | 2007-05-07 11:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PTER ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA166 | TERRORIST GROUP UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM KILLS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16, ethnic Assamese terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) gunned down three Hindi-speaking market traders in two different incidents in Golaghat district in Upper Assam. These attacks came soon after ULFA's killing on the previous day, May 15, of six H [...] | 2007-05-17 05:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN BG |
07KOLKATA167 | INDIAN AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO DETAIN INDEFINITELY HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 11 Manipuri human rights activist Irom Sharmila was summoned to New Delhi to face charges of attempted suicide stemming from her six-year hunger strike against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Sharmila has been protesting the continued human rights violation [...] | 2007-05-17 11:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN PGOV SOCI PTER IN |
07KOLKATA177 | SIX DEAD AS VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN ASSAM [...] On Sunday May 27 six persons were killed and over 25 injured in a blast, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) at Athgaon in the capital district of Guwahati in Assam. A time device planted in an auto-rickshaw parked in a busy area went off around 10.4 [...] | 2007-05-30 02:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN BG |
07KOLKATA189 | SIX KILLED IN ASSAM BLAST [...] (SBU) On June 23 six persons were killed and nine injured in a blast, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),in the capital city of Guwahati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. The death toll included two minors. The blast, which took place in t [...] | 2007-06-25 11:47:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM ASEC KCRM IN BG |
07KOLKATA191 | MAOISTS BLOCKADE JHARKHAND TRANSPORT [...] Summary: (SBU) Beginning June 26 the two-day east India economic blockade called by the Communist Party of India-Maoist to protest against the setting up of special economic zones (SEZs),adversely affected the movement of all minerals from the mineral-rich state of Jharkhand. The majority [...] | 2007-06-29 08:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PTER PHUM ASEC KCRM IN |
07KOLKATA196 | 200 MAOIST INSURGENTS KILL SEVEN, INCLUDING FIVE POLICE, IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 30 an estimated 200 Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoists) insurgents killed seven people, including five policemen, in separate but simultaneous attacks on two police stations in the Rohtas district of the eastern Indian State of Bihar. On the same day, the Bihar [...] | 2007-07-05 11:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA209 | MEGHALAYA STATE POLICE SEIZE 5 KILOS OF HEROIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6 in Northeast India, Meghalaya state police reportedly recovered 5 kilograms of heroin in the state capital Shillong. Two persons have been arrested in connection with the seizure. One suspect is an Indian federal government employee, the other is Moulvi (Muslim prea [...] | 2007-07-12 10:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER SNAR ASEC KCRM IN BG BM |
07KOLKATA218 | MAOISTS BOMB STATE GOVT OFFICE BUILDING TO "SPUR" POLICE [...] (U) Summary: On July 17th Maoists set off an explosion at a government office in Jharkhand's Bokaro district. A portion of the office building was damaged but no injuries were reported. A note left by the Maoists at the scene claimed that the explosion was in protest against the state governm [...] | 2007-07-23 11:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM IN |
07KOLKATA242 | ULFA AGAIN TARGETS HINDI SPEAKING MIGRANTS WHILE RESENTMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In the run-up to India's Independence Day on August 15, insurgents from the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) have killed at least 27 Hindi-speaking migrants in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. Simultaneously with thi [...] | 2007-08-14 21:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM PINR IN BG |
07KOLKATA324 | MAOIST INSURGENTS TARGET FORMER JHARKHAND CHIEF MINISTER'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27 in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football (soccer) match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkha [...] | 2007-10-30 13:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC SOCI IN |
07KOLKATA325 | MAOISTS IN JHARKHAND STRIKE AT ANOTHER LOCAL FOOTBALL MATCH, [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkhand-Bihar border. The GOI and Jharkhand government [...] | 2007-10-30 15:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA327 | MAOIST INSURGENTS TARGET FORMER JHARKHAND CHIEF MINISTER'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27 in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football (soccer) match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkha [...] | 2007-11-01 07:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PGOV SOCI IN |
07KOLKATA378 | KOLKATA HOLIDAY EAC MEETING [...] (SBU) On December 13, the Principal Officer convened an EAC meeting in Kolkata in response to reftel. Post is not aware of any threat information that is aimed at American interests in Eastern India. Post employees were reminded to provide their supervisors with contact information if traveli [...] | 2007-12-17 03:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER CASC IN |
07KOLKATA382 | NAGA INSURGENTS SEEK UNITY PRIOR TO NAGALAND STATE ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Summary. December 3-7, ConGen and Embassy New Delhi PolCouns visited Nagaland and discussed with officials and contacts the Naga insurgencies and preparations for the February 2008 state assembly elections. While many decried the internecine violence among the insurgent factions, most [...] | 2007-12-19 11:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM ASEC BM IN |
07KOLKATA386 | MAOIST INSURGENTS IN EASTERN INDIA EXPAND INFLUENCE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Development projects in rural India including India's Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have provided the country's Maoist insurgents (or Naxalites) with an opportunity to solidify their base and to increase their reach into more semi-rural areas. In the extensive "red corridor" o [...] | 2007-12-26 11:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM EIND ECON EINV ASEC IN |
07KOLKATA391 | KOLKATA EAC-BHUTTO ASSASINATION [...] (SBU) On December 28, the acting Principal Officer convened an EAC meeting in Kolkata in response to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The SD Team and Local Guard Force have been reminded to remain vigilant and to report all security anomalies immediately. 2. (SBU) Post reviewed exist [...] | 2007-12-28 11:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER CASC IN |
07KOLKATA74 | MAOISTS BRAZENLY KILL JHARKHAND PARLIAMENTARIAN DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday March 4 Maoist rebels shot and killed Sunil Mahto, a Member of Parliament (MP) from the city of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and General Secretary of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) political party. The attack occurred at a football tournament in the village of Ghatshila, [...] | 2007-03-05 12:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV IN |
07KOLKATA84 | ASSAM -- NATIONAL GAMES OVER, ULFA CONTINUES ATTACKS [...] (U) Summary: On March 9, the terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) continued its campaign of bombs and attacks in Assam, setting off a bomb in a crowded marketplace. The group also indicates that it will step up its attacks, including by targeting Congress Party officials, ho [...] | 2007-03-13 04:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM CASC IN |
07KUALALUMPUR1001 | GENERAL PACE'S JUNE 4 MEETINGS WITH PM ABDULLAH [...] (C) Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi and Deputy Prime Minister/Defense Minister Najib Tun Razak endorsed current military-to-military cooperation with the U.S. in their separate meetings on June 4 with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace and the Ambassador. DPM Na [...] | 2007-06-08 05:37:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER KISL OVIP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1059 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF 13TH AIR FORCE [...] (C) Welcome to Malaysia. Malaysia is important to us because it is a successful, moderate, predominantly Muslim country that, over the longer term, may be able to support us more strongly in places like the Middle East. It is strategically located on the Straits of Malacca, through which one [...] | 2007-06-20 10:36:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PREL PTER OVIP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1071 | CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR 1206 FUNDING -- MALAYSIA [...] (C) Post has reviewed the FY 2007 section 1206 proposals for the Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) program in support of Eyes in the Sky. Post reiterates its support for the proposed 1206 funding for MDA and requests that it be notified to Congress. 2. (C) Post also renews its support for ad [...] | 2007-06-22 08:43:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MARR MASS MOPS MCAP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR122 | 1206 FUNDING FINAL REVIEW -- MALAYSIA [...] (SBU) Post has reviewed the FY 2007 section 1206 proposals to install radar facilities in Eastern Sabah and CENTRIX stations (reftel). We approve the proposals and recommend that they be notified to Congress. 2. (C) Post proposed the radar facilities project based on our understanding dir [...] | 2007-01-19 09:02:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MARR MASS MOPS MCAP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1225 | MALAYSIA SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL CASEY'S [...] (C) Malaysia is important to us because it is an economically successful, stable, predominantly Muslim country that, over the longer term, may be able to support us more strongly in places like the Middle East. It is strategically located on the Straits of Malacca, through which one quarter o [...] | 2007-07-31 09:24:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PREL PTER OVIP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1234 | MILF PEACE TALKS: OTHMAN SEEKS RESTRAINT AFTER [...] (S) Malaysian facilitator for the Philippines/Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace talks Othman Abdul Razak used his recent travel to the Philippines to urge both the GRP and MILF to avoid resuming hostilities in the wake of the July 10 killings and mutilation of Filipino marines in Bas [...] | 2007-08-02 08:22:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | PREL PINR PTER MOPS EAID KISL RP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR125 | MALAYSIAN PARTICIPATION IN 1540 ARF WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-19 09:47:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM AORC KPAO PTER UNSC OSCE KNNP ETTC PGOV ARF |
07KUALALUMPUR1328 | SCENESETTER FOR LTG MAPLES' VISIT TO MALAYSIA FOR [...] (C) Malaysia is important to us because it is an economically successful, stable, predominantly Muslim country that, over the longer term, may be able to support us more strongly in places like the Middle East. It is strategically located on the Straits of Malacca, through which one quarter o [...] | 2007-08-23 09:03:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PREL PTER OVIP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1485 | MALAYSIA DECLINES INVITATION TO OBSERVE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 00:07:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL OPDC KHLS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1497 | MALAYSIA'S INTERNAL SECURITY ACT (ISA) DETAINEES, [...] (SBU) Malaysia held eighty-seven persons under Internal Security Act (ISA) detention in the Kamunting prison as of September, according to a normally reliable source. Fifty-four of those held are terrorist suspects. The Malaysian government commonly releases a number of ISA detainees each ye [...] | 2007-10-05 08:52:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PINR KISL KJUS ASEC MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1506 | MILF TALKS: OTHMAN USES IMT THREAT AND PREVIOUS [...] (C) Malaysian facilitator for the Philippines (GRP)/Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace talks Othman Abdul Razak employed previous GRP negotiator Silvestre Afable and the threat of Malaysia's pull-out from the International Monitoring Team (IMT) to push Manila during a September 25-26 [...] | 2007-10-10 07:45:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PTER MOPS EAID KISL RP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1609 | TERRORIST FINANCE: MALAYSIA DINGED ON ILLICIT CASH COURIERS [...] Summary: This cable responds to reftel requesting information on cash couriers in Malaysia. The Financial Action Task Force Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (FATF/APG) conducted a Mutual Evaluation of Malaysia in February 2007. "Cross Border Declaration and Disclosure" of cash was the o [...] | 2007-11-09 08:05:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER MY |
07KUALALUMPUR163 | UPDATE ON 1206 FUNDING -- MALAYSIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 08:24:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MARR MASS MOPS MCAP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1652 | SCENESETTER FOR VADM CROWDER AND MGEN REMINGTON'S [...] (C) Malaysia is important to us because it is an economically successful, stable, predominantly Muslim country that, over the longer term, may be able to support us more strongly in places like the Middle East. It is strategically located on the Straits of Malacca, through which one quarter o [...] | 2007-11-27 09:22:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PREL PTER OVIP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1720 | 1207 - MALAYSIA'S TRI-BORDER CAPACITY BUILDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy Kuala Lumpur seeks to utilize USD 1 million in allocated FY 2007 Title 1207 funding during FY 2008 to conduct civilian maritime law enforcement training and to enhance border control capability in the tri-border region of Malaysia's eastern state of [...] | 2007-12-14 09:06:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ID RP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1721 | AMBASSADOR RAISES ISA CONCERNS WITH LAW MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on December 14 with de facto Law Minister Nazri Aziz and raised U.S. concerns over Malaysia's use of the Internal Security Act (ISA) in light of the December 13 detention of five ethnic Indian activists. Minister Nazri vigorously defended use of ISA as necessar [...] | 2007-12-14 11:02:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM KJUS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1729 | MALAYSIA -- TERRORISM REPORT 2007 DRAFT [...] (SBU) The draft text of Malaysia's 2007 Terrorism Report is provided in paragraph 2. This text has been posted to Intellipedia: http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/ East Asia and Pacific Terrorism Reports#Malaysia 2. (SBU) Begin text: Malaysia New provisions to Malaysia's Penal Code a [...] | 2007-12-19 07:25:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER MY |
07KUALALUMPUR184 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF PACOM COMMANDER [...] (C) Admiral Fallon, we welcome your visit to Malaysia. Malaysian-American relations rest on a range of common interests and have improved in the three years since Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi took the helm. This moderate Muslim-majority state is our tenth-largest trading partner worldwide. [...] | 2007-01-31 10:18:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PREL PTER OVIP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR263 | HONORARY CONSUL NOTES MALAYSIA AS SAFE HAVEN FOR [...] (S) The Honorary Thai Consul in Langkawi, Malaysian businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah (protect throughout),described Thai Malay separatist use of Malaysian territory as a safe haven and insurgents' views of the conflict during a February 5 meeting with polchief. Eskay, who was a leading Ma [...] | 2007-02-13 08:13:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR MOPS ASEC TH MY |
07KUALALUMPUR318 | MALAYSIANS ON BORDER CONCERNED, BUT NOT ALARMED [...] (S) Malaysian politicians and police officials in northern border states, in meetings with polchief February 5-9, expressed concern but not alarm over continued violence in Thailand's ethnic Malay south. Interlocutors viewed the violence in Thailand as having little or no spill-over effect i [...] | 2007-02-21 07:17:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR MOPS ASEC TH MY |
07KUALALUMPUR447 | FIGHTING, NOT TALKING - SOUTH THAI MILITANTS NO LONGER INTERESTED IN DIALOGUE, SAY FORMER MEDIATORS [...] (S) Southern Thai militants recently asserted they will pursue more violence and reject talks, according to two Malaysian mediators from the defunct Mahathir peace process. The Honorary Thai Consul in Langkawi, Shazryl Eskay Abdullah (protect throughout),joined by retired head of the Malaysian [...] | 2007-03-08 09:01:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR MOPS ASEC TH MY |
07KUALALUMPUR458 | TRILATERAL COUNTERTERRORISM MEETING WITH AUSTRALIA [...] (SBU) The Australian High Commission hosted a trilateral meeting with U.S. and Japanese embassies on January 17 to discuss CT cooperation and assistance issues in Malaysia. Each mission was represented at the DCM level and included representatives from political, economic, defense, and securi [...] | 2007-03-09 09:39:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR496 | PHILIPPINES/MILF: OTHMAN CONTINUES SHUTTLE [...] (S) Malaysian facilitator for the Philippines/Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace talks Othman Abdul Razak told polchief March 14 he remained focused on shuttle diplomacy, although he also expressed serious concern over March 5-7 fighting in Mindanao. His efforts between the MILF and [...] | 2007-03-15 09:48:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | PREL PINR PTER MOPS EAID KISL RP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR651 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF PACOM COMMANDER [...] (C) Admiral Keating: Welcome to Malaysia. Malaysia is important to us because it is a successful, moderate, predominantly Muslim country that, over the longer term, may be able to support us more strongly in places like the Middle East. It is strategically located on the Straits of Malacca, [...] | 2007-04-11 09:22:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PREL PTER OVIP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR758 | IRAQ: MALAYSIA WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO COALITION, [...] (C) Summary: Although Malaysia clearly would reject any approach to provide military resources to support the Iraq Coalition, it might consider a request by the Iraqi government for modest civilian assistance if this were made directly to the GOM by the Iraqi government itself. End Summary. [...] | 2007-04-25 09:20:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR MASS MOPS EAID KISL IZ MY |
07KUALALUMPUR878 | TRILATERAL COUNTERTERRORISM MEETING, APRIL 18 [...] (C) DCM chaired an April 18 meeting with Japanese and Australian counterparts on trilateral counterterrorism cooperation, the second such meeting in Kuala Lumpur. The delegations discussed the potential for trilateral cooperation in Malaysia and possible recommendations to be presented for co [...] | 2007-05-17 07:01:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR901 | MALAYSIA NOTIFIED OF FINAL DISPOSITION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-22 00:39:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER PINR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR902 | PROSECUTING TERRORISTS IN MALAYSIA: LOOKING BEYOND [...] (S) Assisting Malaysia to develop the capacity to successfully investigate and prosecute terrorists would support key U.S. law enforcement and political objectives in this strategic Muslim-majority country. Malaysia has used an intelligence approach and the Internal Security Act (ISA),inclu [...] | 2007-05-22 02:02:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV PINR KISL KJUS ASEC MY |
07KUALALUMPUR924 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF GENERAL PACE, [...] (C) General Pace: Welcome to Malaysia. During your meetings here with the Deputy Prime Minister and other senior officials, we recommend in your discussions you: -- Applaud Malaysia's success in the reduction of piracy attacks in the Straits of Malacca and inquire what are the next steps Ma [...] | 2007-05-24 09:36:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PREL PTER OVIP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR947 | MALAYSIA DEFENSIVE REGARDING SHARING OF FINANCIAL [...] (U) Summary. Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey visited Kuala Lumpur May 11 to meet with GOM officials and local financial institutions to discuss implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) 1737 and 1747 and the risks of doing bus [...] | 2007-05-31 07:32:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KFTN UN IR MY |
07KUWAIT1001 | FOREIGN MINISTER INQUIRES ABOUT RETURN OF [...] (S/NF) At a June 26 meeting with Ambassador, Kuwait Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah asked how the Government of Kuwait (GOK) could be part of the solution regarding the remaining four Kuwaitis detained at Guantanamo Naval Base. He expressed doubt about the strength of the evide [...] | 2007-06-27 11:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT1008 | FOREIGN MINISTER INQUIRES ABOUT RETURN OF [...] (S/NF) At a June 26 meeting with Ambassador, Kuwait Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah asked how the Government of Kuwait (GOK) could be part of the solution regarding the remaining four Kuwaitis detained at Guantanamo Naval Base. He expressed doubt about the strength of the evide [...] | 2007-06-27 14:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT1027 | UNCERTAINTY OVER KUWAITI SIGNATORY FOR MOU ON CEIP [...] (S/NF) Ambassador met with Security Decision Follow-up Committee (SDFC) Chairman General Mohammed Al-Bader on June 24 to discuss next steps towards forming a Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) Joint Working Group (JWG) following the June 12-13 visit by a USG CEIP team (ref A). ( [...] | 2007-07-01 06:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC EPET KCIP KU PTER |
07KUWAIT1056 | AMBASSADOR STRESSES CUTTING OFF FOREIGN FIGHTERS [...] (C/NF) The Ambassador met 3 July with MFA Under Secretary Khalid Al-Jarallah to emphasize the importance of cutting off foreign fighters going to Iraq. The Ambassador emphasized that the foreign fighters make up a majority of the suicide bombers and thus have a disproportionate destabilizing [...] | 2007-07-03 14:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN IZ KU PREL PTER ECON PGOV KTFN |
07KUWAIT1057 | KUWAITI FACILITATOR AL-JALAHMAH DETAINED, RELEASED [...] (S/NF) On June 24, U.S.-designated terrorist facilitator Jaber Al-Jalahmah was taken into custody by GOK authorities for questioning regarding his involvement in the recruitment of Kuwaiti jihadists. He was released on July 1 on a KD 300 (USD 1050) bond. (Background: Jaber Al-Jalahmah is a [...] | 2007-07-03 14:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN |
07KUWAIT1061 | KUWAITI FACILITATOR AL-JALAHMAH DETAINED, RELEASED [...] (S/NF) On June 24, U.S.-designated terrorist facilitator Jaber Al-Jalahmah was taken into custody by GOK authorities for questioning regarding his involvement in the recruitment of Kuwaiti jihadists. He was released on July 1 on a KD 300 (USD 1050) bond. (Background: Jaber Al-Jalahmah is a [...] | 2007-07-03 14:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN |
07KUWAIT1062 | AMBASSADOR STRESSES CUTTING OFF FOREIGN FIGHTERS [...] (C) The Ambassador met 3 July with MFA Under Secretary Khalid Al-Jarallah to emphasize the importance of cutting off foreign fighters going to Iraq. The Ambassador emphasized that the foreign fighters make up a majority of the suicide bombers and thus have a disproportionate destabilizing in [...] | 2007-07-03 14:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN IZ KU PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT1073 | KEEPING THE KUWAITIS FOCUSED ON FOREIGN FIGHTERS [...] (S/NF) During a July 7 farewell call on Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, the Ambassador emphasized the need to keep up the pressure on the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq and Afghanistan and go after those who facilitate and fund them. Th [...] | 2007-07-07 15:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER IZ KU DEMARCHE PGOV KTFN ECON |
07KUWAIT1094 | MINISTER OF DEFENSE/INTERIOR ON GCC MINISTERS [...] (C/NF) First Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister, and Minister of Defense Shaykh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah told the Ambassador July 7 that the major focus of the GCC meeting in Riyadh was to discuss Iraq and put some "imagination" into trying to address regional security implica [...] | 2007-07-09 09:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EPET KU MAS PHUM PREL PTER ASEC KCIP |
07KUWAIT1101 | KUWAIT: WHERE WE ARE AND CHALLENGES AHEAD -- [...] (C) This message summarizes my parting thoughts on key issue areas in the U.S./Kuwait relationship. It draws heavily on input provided by Matt Tueller, who recently concluded a distinguished tour as Deputy Chief of Mission and is en route to service at Embassy Baghdad. The report covers fiv [...] | 2007-07-10 13:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ECON PGOV PTER KU |
07KUWAIT1104 | KUWAITI AMIR ON GUANTANAMO AND IRAQ/IRAN [...] (C/NF) Summary: During a July 10 farewell meeting, the Ambassador and the Amir of Kuwait Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah discussed Kuwaiti detainees in Guantanamo, Iraq and Iran, GCC security, and visa issuances. The Amir said he planned to write President Bush soon to provide assurances tha [...] | 2007-07-10 15:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CVIS ECON IZ KU PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT1145 | GOK NOMINEES FOR FDIC COUNTERTERRORISM FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) The following Government of Kuwait officials have been nominated for the FDIC Counterterrorism Financial Regulatory Training in Arlington, VA from August 6-10, 2007 (reftel): Abdullah Ali Al-Sabah Financial Controller and Acting Head of AML Section Central Bank of Kuwait DOB: unknow [...] | 2007-07-18 13:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PTER ECON EFIN PREL |
07KUWAIT124 | KUWAITI SPEAKER TELLS CODEL PELOSI DIALOGUE WITH [...] (C/NF) Summary: During a January 25 meeting with Kuwaiti Speaker of Parliament Jassem Al-Khorafi, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah, and Deputy Speaker Dr. Mohammed Al-Bousairi, CODEL Pelosi expressed gratitude for Kuwait's support for OIF and emphasized the importance to the U.S. [...] | 2007-01-29 08:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | OVIP PREL PTER CVIS IR IZ KU |
07KUWAIT1310 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW U.S. LAW ON MARITIME CARGO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-29 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EWWT AMGT PTER KU DEMARCHE |
07KUWAIT1312 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC USG DESIGNATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-29 12:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KTFN EFIN PREL PTER DEMARCHE KU |
07KUWAIT1314 | KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DOE A/S KEVIN [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for DOE A/S Kevin Kolevar, and DOE employees Sarah K. Magruder and Patrick A. Willging to travel to Kuwait September 6-9 to meet with Kuwaiti Energy Officials. 2. (U) This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; [...] | 2007-08-31 13:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | SA KU KCIP OTRA PTER ASEC ENGR PREL |
07KUWAIT1337 | COMMUNICATIONS MINISTRY ON BLOCKING ARABSAT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-04 10:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KU SA IZ |
07KUWAIT1371 | GOK TO DOE A/S KOLEVAR: PROGRESS ON CEIP; WANT [...] (S/NF) Summary: On 9 September, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Kevin Kolevar participated in a series of site visits, briefings, and meetings with GOK and oil sector officials to promote further USG-GOK cooperation on Critical Energy Infrastructure [...] | 2007-09-11 13:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC EPET PTER KCIP KU |
07KUWAIT1435 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ENCOURAGING CONTRIBUTIONS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-23 14:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KU LE |
07KUWAIT150 | UPDATE ON CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION [...] (C/NF) On 10 January, Acting Chairman of Kuwait's Oil Sector Services Company (OSSCo) Ali Al-Obaid contacted Econoff to request assistance in arranging a visit to U.S. energy facilities to observe security programs, systems, and practices. Al-Obaid said that Kevin Kolevar, Director of the D [...] | 2007-02-01 10:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG PTER EPET KU OIL SECTOR |
07KUWAIT1534 | KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BORDER [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr.Stephen Mangino, Mr. Souad Al-Atar, and Mr. Mark Samuel Riley to travel to post on October 19-24, 2007 to attend a Border Security Experts Meeting. 2. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor will meet and assi [...] | 2007-10-18 09:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ KU OTRA PBTS PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT1556 | TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE: DESIGNATION OF THREE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 09:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | SA KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL |
07KUWAIT1588 | TERROR FINANCE: REPORTED PROGRESS IN DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: A/DCM and Econoff met recently with Nasser Al-Ammar, Director of the Charities and Philanthropic Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL) to discuss GOK efforts to strengthen oversight of Kuwaiti charity organizations. Al-Ammar was encouraged by the progres [...] | 2007-11-05 10:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KU PGOV PREL PTER KTFN |
07KUWAIT1607 | TERRORIST FINANCE: RESPONSE TO FOLLOW-UP ACTION [...] (SBU) In response to reftel post provides the following responses. 2. (SBU) Status of host nation laws specifically criminalizing bulk cash smuggling: On March 10, 2002, the Amir (Head of State) of Kuwait signed Law No. 35/2002, which criminalized money laundering. Law No. 35 crimina [...] | 2007-11-08 15:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN |
07KUWAIT1651 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: USG CONCERNS REGARDING GOK [...] (S) On November 20, Charge presented reftel points to Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Suliman Al-Jarallah. 2. (S) Jarallah reacted with surprise and incredulity to the reftel point that Sa'd Al-Azmi had taken up residence in Yemen. He stated that he shared USG c [...] | 2007-11-21 08:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER KU |
07KUWAIT1656 | IRANIAN FM TO VISIT KUWAIT [...] (C) In a November 20 meeting (issues raised reported septel),Kuwaiti MFA U/S Khaled Suliman Al-Jarallah informed CDA that on or around November 30, Iranian FM Manoucher Mottaki is scheduled to visit Kuwait to meet with senior GOK officials. 2. (C) Al-Jarallah said that in his upcoming me [...] | 2007-11-22 07:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IZ IR KU |
07KUWAIT1674 | IRAQ/KUWAIT: TALABANI VISIT; FUEL; BORDER [...] (C) On November 20, CDA met with U/S Al-Jarallah to discuss Ref A points, Ambassador Crocker's October 29 visit and other related issues. The U/S demonstrated no objection, in principle, to USG requests for an additional border crossing, but expressed concern at the close proximity of Camp B [...] | 2007-11-29 07:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR EAID IPET IZ IR TU KU |
07KUWAIT1684 | KUWAIT PRACTICES-INFORMATION COLLECTION, [...] (U) Post's response to Department inquiries in State 133931 follows. Watchlisting ------------ 2. (SBU) - The GOK maintains watchlists. The number of records is unknown. - The Kuwait Immigration Service of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and Kuwait State Security (KSS) maintain li [...] | 2007-11-29 14:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL PGOV KU KVPR PTER PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS |
07KUWAIT1701 | TREASURY DEPSEC KIMMITT ADVOCATES SWF [...] (C) During a dinner meeting with Amiri Economic Adviser and former Finance Minister Dr. Yousef al-Ebraheem on December 2, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt strongly urged the GOK to engage positively in the international effort to develop voluntary best practices for sovereign wealth f [...] | 2007-12-05 13:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV PTER KTFN KU IZ |
07KUWAIT1711 | GOK HOSTS AML/CTF CONFERENCE, DISCUSSES DRAFT [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: Several recent events in Kuwait have given some impetus to Kuwait's anti-money laundering capabilities. The Central Bank of Kuwait hosted a conference on anti-money-laundering and terror finance on December 2-3 attended by over 400 professionals from government, l [...] | 2007-12-11 08:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN KU |
07KUWAIT1715 | KUWAIT TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 13:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PTER KTFN KU |
07KUWAIT1717 | DEPUTY CHIEF OF KUWAIT NATIONAL GUARD ON CURRENT [...] (C) On December 10, Charge d'Affaires, Defense Attache and Poloff met with Shaykh Mish'al Al-Ahmed Al Sabah, Deputy Chief of the Kuwait National Guard (KNG). Shaykh Mish'al is the half-brother of both the current and former Amirs as well as the Crown Prince, and is considered to be one of the [...] | 2007-12-13 07:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EPET KCIP KU PGOV PINR PTER |
07KUWAIT1736 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 10:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KU KJUS KPRP PHUM PTER |
07KUWAIT1756 | AMIRI DIWAN MINISTER ON GOVERNMENT-PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA met with Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs and eldest son of the Amir, Shaykh Nasser Al Sabah, on December 11 and discussed a range of issues including Kuwait's participation and contribution at the Paris Donor Conference (Ref. A),Kuwaiti domestic politics and Critical Energy [...] | 2007-12-26 13:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EPET KCIP KU PGOV PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT1757 | AMIRI DIWAN MINISTER ON GOVERNMENT-PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA met with Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs and eldest son of the Amir, Shaykh Nasser Al Sabah, on December 11 and discussed a range of issues including Kuwait's participation and contribution at the Paris Donor Conference (Ref. A),Kuwaiti domestic politics and Critical Energy [...] | 2007-12-26 13:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EPET KCIP KU PGOV PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT177 | CENTCOM TEAM ASSESSES SECURITY OF CRITICAL ENERGY [...] (C/NF) Summary: At the invitation of Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC),the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation subsidiary responsible for all downstream oil operations, the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) facilitated a CENTCOM-led multi-disciplinary vulnerability assessment [...] | 2007-02-07 11:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET PTER ASEC KU OIL SECTOR |
07KUWAIT178 | TERROR FINANCE: PROGRESS BUT CHARITIES "STALLING" [...] (C/NF) Summary: Following up on the Ambassador's January 16 meeting with the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL, ref A),Econoff met with Nasser Al-Ammar, Director of the Charities and Philanthropic Department at MOSAL on February 3 to discuss ongoing GOK efforts to strengthen overs [...] | 2007-02-07 11:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN |
07KUWAIT197 | DISCUSSION OF KUWAITI GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (C) Summary. In a February 11 meeting with MFA Director Maqamis, visiting NEA/ARP Director Misenheimer discussed GOK's request that Kuwait's remaining four detainess at Guantanamo be transferred to Kuwaiti custody as soon as possible. Misenheimer noted that the four would face a more exactin [...] | 2007-02-13 11:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT219 | TERRORIST FINANCE: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN [...] (C/NF) The following response is keyed to ref A. 2. (S/NF) Effectiveness of Tranche I Designations: Tranche I designations have had little discernible impact on the three Kuwaitis identified as terrorist facilitators -- Hamad Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalamah, and Mubarak Al-Bathali -- though we [...] | 2007-02-14 13:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | KU QA KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT241 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARABSAT AND NILESAT BROADCAST [...] (C) During a February 11 meeting with Shaykh Ali Abdullah, the Acting Director of the Americas Department at the MFA, the Charge d'Affaires and visiting NEA/ARP Office Director Alan Misenheimer reiterated U.S. concerns about the continued broadcast of Al Manar Television and the potential broad [...] | 2007-02-19 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC ETTC KPAL KPAO PTER KU DEMARCHE |
07KUWAIT278 | AL-ZAWRAA DEMARCHE RECEIVES MUTED KUWAIT RESPONSE [...] (C) In light of ongoing concern about Al-Zawraa broadcasting, post wishes to recap our discussions to date with the GOK on this issue. 2. (C) During a February 11 meeting with Shaykh Ali Abdullah, the Acting Director of the Americas Department at the MFA, the Charge d'Affaires and visiting [...] | 2007-02-24 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ASEC ETTC KPAL KPAO PTER KU DEMARCHE |
07KUWAIT281 | KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED: KUWAIT CRITICAL [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for the following Kuwait Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection Survey Team (ATA 6156) members traveling to Kuwait from March 13-21, 2007: Richard Soler - DS/T/ATA; Kevin Maloy - DS/T/ATA; Patrick Willging - U.S. Dept. of Energy; [...] | 2007-02-27 10:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KU QA KCIP ASEC ENRG OTRA PTER |
07KUWAIT319 | TWO GUANTANAMO RETURNEES ACQUITTED [...] (U) The Kuwait Criminal Court on March 3 acquitted two former Guantanamo detainees of terror related charges. Abdullah Kamel Al-Kandari and Omar Rajab Amin, who were transfered from Guantanamo to Kuwait in September, 2006, were found not guilty of intent to commit hostile actions against the f [...] | 2007-03-04 14:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT40 | TERROR FINANCE: EMBASSY KUWAIT VIEWS ON POSSIBLE [...] (S/NF) Through recent actions and private comments to us and senior USG officials, the GOK has made clear its opposition to the designation of the Kuwaiti charity Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). Going back almost a year, to the April 2006 visit of Treasury U/S Levey and our trans [...] | 2007-01-11 08:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN |
07KUWAIT406 | KUWAIT CONFIRMS DATE FOR NEXT GULF SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 14:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL KU DEMARCHE |
07KUWAIT409 | SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL ON GITMO, CT EFFORTS, REGIONAL [...] (S/NF) Summary: MFA U/S Jarallah told Ambassador 3/20 the GOK is prepared to receive an interagency team to discuss Kuwaiti commitments on possible transfer of further detainees to Kuwaiti custody. Ambassador stressed the higher threat from the remaining individuals and thus the need for th [...] | 2007-03-21 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER EFIN KU IR |
07KUWAIT416 | SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL ON GITMO, CT EFFORTS, REGIONAL [...] (S/NF) Summary: MFA U/S Jarallah told Ambassador 3/20 the GOK is prepared to receive an interagency team to discuss Kuwaiti commitments on possible transfer of further detainees to Kuwaiti custody. Ambassador stressed the higher threat from the remaining individuals and thus the need for the [...] | 2007-03-24 06:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER EFIN KU IR |
07KUWAIT419 | CRITICAL ENERGY ASSESSMENT TEAM VISITS KUWAIT, [...] (C/NF) Summary: A multi-agency USG Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) team visited Kuwait March 13-22 to assess security vulnerabilities in Kuwait's energy infrastructure and make recommendations on improvements (see para 8 for a complete list of the U.S. delegation). The team [...] | 2007-03-24 13:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC BEXP ECON ENRG EPET KCIP KU PTER |
07KUWAIT431 | NEXT STEPS AFTER CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C/NF) Following the March 13-22 Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) assessment jointly conducted by the Department, DOE, and DHS (Ref A),Post is actively encouraging Kuwaiti officials at both senior and working levels to implement the team's recommendations, including near-te [...] | 2007-03-26 13:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET KCIP ASEC ENRG PTER KU |
07KUWAIT440 | KUWAIT NSB DEPUTY AIRS VIEWS ON IRAN AND IRAQ AT [...] (C) Summary. NATO member embassies met March 21 to discuss NATO cooperation with Kuwait under the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) and the upcoming visit of a NATO Parliamentary Assembly delegation. The Poles briefed on the March 5-6 Contact Point Embassy meeting in Brussels highlightin [...] | 2007-03-28 11:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MNUC PTER NATO PGOV IZ IR KU |
07KUWAIT446 | KUWAIT BRINGS TOGETHER IRANIAN AND ARAB SHI'A, [...] (C/NF) Summary: Kuwait hosted March 26-27 a conference that brought together Shi'a Awqaf officials from around the region. The discussion highlighted what some Shi'a, especially in the Gulf, see as a disconnect between centralized, distant Awqaf authorities and ordinary Shi'a donors. Some [...] | 2007-03-28 14:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KISL PTER KTFN IR IZ LE BA SA KU SHI |
07KUWAIT455 | U.S.-GOK DISCUSS SECURITY MEASURES NECESSARY FOR [...] (S) Summary. A visiting USG interagency delegation discussed concerns about possible transfer of the four remaining Kuwaiti detainees at Guantanamo with GOK officials on March 24. USG delegation told the GOK officials that the remaining detainees were significantly more dangerous than those [...] | 2007-04-01 10:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT47 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: KUWAIT AGREES TO LOOK INTO [...] (C) On January 8, PolOff called on Hamad Al-Mashan of the MFA's America's Department and delivered reftel demarche on U.S. concern over the use of Arabsat and Nilesat to broadcast Hezballah's Al-Manar satellite channel and the reported plan for Arabsat to broadcast Hamas' Siraj Al-Aqsa satel [...] | 2007-01-14 14:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ASEC ETTC KPAL PTER KU |
07KUWAIT478 | FIVE GUANTANAMO NOT GUILTY VERDICTS UPHELD BY HIGH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-04 10:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT506 | CHARGE DISCUSSES CEIP NEXT STEPS WITH INTERIOR [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see paragraph 4. 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On April 7 and 8, CDA and Econoff met separately with Ministry of Interior (MOI) Under Secretary Nasser Al-Othman, Deputy Director of the Kuwait SIPDIS Coast Guard (KCG) Colonel Abdullah Bin-N [...] | 2007-04-08 12:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET ASEC PTER KCIP KU |
07KUWAIT570 | PENINSULA LIONS PROSECUTION OVERVIEW: CASE NEARS [...] (S) Summary. With a hearing date before Kuwait,s highest court set for May 15, 2007, the terror trials arising out of January 2005 armed clashes between the Peninsula Lions, a Kuwait-based extremist group, and Government of Kuwait security forces are nearing their conclusion. The December 200 [...] | 2007-04-18 07:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV IZ KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT59 | MINISTER OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND LABOR: WE WILL [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah told Ambassador January 16 that in March his Ministry would begin a campaign to bring Kuwaiti charities into compliance with existing laws regulating charitable contributions so that the Ministry could better [...] | 2007-01-18 07:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN |
07KUWAIT594 | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-23 12:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT595 | NOTIFICATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-23 12:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PHUM KU |
07KUWAIT598 | AMBASSADOR RAISES CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (S/NF) Summary: During meetings on April 23 and 24, the Ambassador raised the need for follow-up on critical infrastructure protection with the President of the National Security Bureau, the Prime Minister and Oil Minister, respectively. With each, the Ambassador praised the cooperation at th [...] | 2007-04-24 10:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET ASEC PTER KCIP KU |
07KUWAIT615 | AMBASSADOR AND DEFENSE/INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (S/NF) Summary: During an April 24 meeting with Defense/Interior Minister Shaykh Jaber Al-Mubarak, the Ambassador emphasized USG readiness to provide security assistance to Kuwait, stressed the need to continue investigating suspected terrorist financiers, and urged follow up on the recommend [...] | 2007-04-26 12:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC KTFN KU TERROR FINANCE |
07KUWAIT639 | KUWAITIS PRAISE SAUDI TERROR ARRESTS; PROMPTS SOUL [...] (C/NF) Summary: Kuwaitis welcomed the recent terrorist arrests in Saudi Arabia and condemned those involved. So far, no Kuwaitis have been implicated in the plots, but Kuwait is working with Saudi officials to investigate any possible connections. One local daily reported that the Saudis ar [...] | 2007-04-30 13:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PTER KCIP ASEC SA KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT729 | MOSAL MINISTER ON TERROR FINANCE, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: MOSAL Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled told Ambassador May 9 that recent Saudi investigations underscore the shared concerns of Kuwait and the U.S. about terrorist financing, though the GOK needs more evidence to move against RIHS. He is pleased with recent cooperation between K [...] | 2007-05-09 13:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER EFIN KU |
07KUWAIT749 | REMOVAL OF AL ZAWRAA SATELLITE CHANNEL ON AGENDA OF [...] (SBU/NF) Summary and comment: The Ambassador met on May 9 with recently-appointed Minister of Information Abdullah Al-Muhailbi. The Ambassador pressed the Minister for action to remove the insurgent Iraqi channel Al Zawraa from Arabsat's offerings. (The GOK is a minority stakeholder.) Al-Muha [...] | 2007-05-13 07:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO KU PINR PTER |
07KUWAIT800 | COURT ACQUITS THREE DEFENDANTS IN PENINSULA LIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-21 09:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR IZ KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT808 | TERRORIST FINANCE: TREASURY A/S O'BRIEN ENGAGES [...] (S/NF) Summary: On April 23-24, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Sipdis Patrick O'Brien met with senior GOK officials on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance (AML/CTF) issues. He conveyed USG concerns about the activities of the Kuwait-based [...] | 2007-05-22 09:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT816 | TERRORIST FINANCE: GOK RELEASES RIHS FINDINGS [...] (C/NF) On May 19, Embassy Kuwait received a long-promised report from the MFA (drafted by the Department of Follow-up and Coordination headed by Khalid Al-Maqamis) containing the findings of its investigation into the international activities of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) [...] | 2007-05-23 07:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT821 | (C) DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMMO TO LAF; KUWAIT AN [...] (C/NF) The Ambassador made reftel demarche to the Defense and Foreign Ministries on May 23. The Ambassador sent a message to Defense Minister Shaykh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah requesting material or financial aid. He also advised MFA Acting Minister Faisal Al-Mashan of the importance of Kuwai [...] | 2007-05-23 13:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER MARR MASS LE KU |
07KUWAIT832 | TERROR FINANCE: ANOTHER RUN AT THE MFA ON [...] (C/NF) Summary: Econcouns met with MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination Khalid Maqamis on May 27 to hand-deliver a diplomatic note pressing our case on the designation of three Kuwaiti terrorist facilitators in light of their continued freedom of movement and access to international me [...] | 2007-05-28 12:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | EAID EFIN ETTC IZ KU PREL PTER KTFN |
07KUWAIT851 | APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS ACQUITTAL OF TWO FORMER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 13:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT862 | NEPALESE CONTRACTORS KIA IN IRAQ -- ALLEGATIONS OF [...] This is an Action Request. Please see final para. 2. Emboff met Riyadh-based Nepalese Charge d'Affaires Prakash Suvedi at his request on May 28, 2007 to discuss allegations of non-payment of death benefits by companies operating in Iraq for the USG. He requested any assistance the USG co [...] | 2007-06-02 12:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER MOPS SOCI NP IZ |
07KUWAIT871 | KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CEIP TEAM: [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for S/CT Senior Coordinator Bruce A. Averill, DS/ATA officer Kevin A. Maloy, Sandia National Laboratory employee Byron H. Gardner, and USCG CAPT Donald C. Grant to travel to Kuwait June 11-15 to discuss Critical Energy Infras [...] | 2007-06-04 13:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC KCIP KU OTRA PREL PTER ENRG |
07KUWAIT875 | KUWAIT'S ISLAMIC MODERATION INITIATIVE UNDER THE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Kuwait recently launched a public relations campaign to further its "moderation" initiative, which seeks to foster tolerance and moderation among Muslims and to convey a moderate image of Islam to non-Muslims. The materials used in the campaign are of high quality [...] | 2007-06-05 08:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PTER KISL EG MR SU KU ISLAMISTS |
07KUWAIT888 | GUANTANAMO ARB III NOTIFICATION [...] (C) Poloff delivered notification of the upcoming ARB hearing to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) official Feisal Al-Eneizi on June 6. 2. (C) Poloff inquired about the development status of a Government of Kuwait (GOK) threat mitigation plan for use with detainees transferred from Guantana [...] | 2007-06-06 13:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL PHUM PINR SA KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT892 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MESSAGE ON MUQTADA AL-SADR [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) official Feisal Al-Eneizi on June 6. Al-Eneizi said he was unaware of any planned visit to Kuwait by Muqtada al-Sadr and that he would communicate the message to senior MFA officials. 2. (C) Ambassador also raised the [...] | 2007-06-06 14:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER IZ KU |
07KUWAIT921 | USG CEIP TEAM DISCUSSES JOINT WORKING GROUP AND [...] (S/NF) Summary and Comment: A USG Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) team visited Kuwait on 12-13 June to review recommendations from the two previous CEIP assessments this year, conduct a follow-up maritime assessment, and discuss the formation of a USG-GOK Joint Working Group [...] | 2007-06-14 07:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC EPET KCIP KU PTER |
07KUWAIT953 | FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE REGARDING CONTINUED ARABSAT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Information Assistant Under Secretary for Technical Affairs Nasser Al-Safar on 18 June. Al-Safar said the points would be forwarded to the Information Minister prior to his departure for the meeting of Arab League Ministers of Information in Cairo [...] | 2007-06-19 14:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | SA KU TC KPAL KPAO ETTC PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT957 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRAQI WMD SCIENTIST [...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of Coordination and Followup Khaled Al-Maqamis on June 19. Maqamis expressed limited interest in the program noting that further information would be needed about the background of any fellowship recipien [...] | 2007-06-20 12:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINR PINS PARM PREF XF IZ KU |
07KUWAIT965 | COURT COMMUTES FOUR DEATH SENTENCES IN PENINSULA [...] On June 19, Kuwait's highest court, the Court of Cassation, commuted the death sentences to life imprisonment for four defendants in the Peninsula Lions case. The Peninsula Lions came to prominence in January 2005 following armed clashes with Kuwait security forces. Under Kuwaiti law, a lif [...] | 2007-06-24 05:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV IZ KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT991 | AFGHANISTAN: AMBASSADOR URGES NEW ENVOY TO [...] (C) During a June 26 courtesy call with Ambassador LeBaron, new Afghan Ambassador to Kuwait Abdul Rahim Karimi sought U.S. assistance in facilitating stronger ties between Afghanistan and Kuwait. Karimi said the Kuwaiti leadership had not forgotten that Afghan President Karzai had not attend [...] | 2007-06-26 14:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EAID ECON EFIN KU PREL PTER |
07KYIV2272 | UKRAINE: GOU AGREES IN PRINCIPLE TO SCANNING [...] On September 6, EconOff delivered reftel points to Viacheslav Voloshyn, Director of Ukraine's Maritime Security Agency. Voloshyn stated that in principle the State Maritime Agency, under the direction of the Ministry of Transport, supported future cooperation with the Departments of Homeland [...] | 2007-09-12 06:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ETRD EWWT PTER UP |
07KYIV2753 | UKRAINE: PSI Eastern Shield Exercise, October 29-31, Odesa, [...] (U) Summary: Ukraine and Poland sponsored a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Eastern Shield demonstration, with Romanian, Georgian, Moldovan, and Bulgarian participation, October 29-31 in Odesa, Ukraine. The demonstration, planned as the first PSI exercise in the Black Sea region, empl [...] | 2007-11-06 09:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PTER KCRM PREL KNNP UP |
07KYIV2871 | UKRAINE: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism -- [...] This is an action cable. See para 6. 2. We used talking points and delivered the proposed outline for a global nuclear detection architecture model guidelines document November 21 to MFA Political Department Political Planning Division chief Oleh Klynchenko. In doing so, we emphasized the n [...] | 2007-11-26 11:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM PTER EAIR EWWT KNNP KGIC US UP |
07KYIV3087 | UKRAINE: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism -- [...] The Ukrainian MFA responded to the delivery of the proposed outline for a global nuclear detection architecture model guidelines in diplomatic note 411/20-011-2060 dated December 14, 2007. The diplomatic note observed that the Ukrainian side supported the draft guidelines. The diplomatic note [...] | 2007-12-18 13:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM PTER EAIR EWWT KNNP KGIC US UP |
07KYIV3088 | UKRAINE: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism -- [...] The Ukrainian MFA responded to the delivery of the proposed outline for a global nuclear detection architecture model guidelines in diplomatic note 411/20-011-2060 dated December 14, 2007. The diplomatic note observed that the Ukrainian side supported the draft guidelines. The diplomatic note [...] | 2007-12-18 13:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM PTER EAIR EWWT KNNP KGIC US UP |
07LAGOS117 | PRESIDENT OBASANJO AVERTS OIL SECTOR STRIKE [...] (C) Summary: President Obasanjo averted an oil sector strike on February 8 by assuring unions the GON would seek to improve security in the Niger Delta, according to Executive Secretary of Nigeria's Ministry of Labor and Productivity, SIPDIS Timiebi Koripamo-Agary. Peter Akpatason, Preside [...] | 2007-02-14 16:40:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET PTER ENERG NI |
07LAGOS134 | NGOS TO RECLAIM THE NIGER DELTA STRUGGLE; PUSH FOR [...] (C) Summary. On January 25 Niger Delta experts described to AF/W Deputy Director Don Heflin a pan-Delta manifesto to be presented to presidential candidates in an effort to begin serious national dialogue on the Niger Delta. Similarly, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has brought si [...] | 2007-02-21 16:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS172 | MILITANT THREATS, BUNKERING & INSECURITY PLAGUE [...] (C) Summary. Managing Directors (MDs) of American oil majors Chevron and ExxonMobil both received a similar email threat purportedly from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The threat listed the names of the company's rigs as potential targets for militant activity. [...] | 2007-03-12 11:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS197 | DELTA ACTIVISTS PREDICT ELECTORAL UNREST [...] (C) Summary: Ledum Mitee, President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP),told AF/W Director Phillip Carter that free and fair elections are unlikely. Both the People's Democratic Party Governorship candidates in Rivers and Delta states are unpopular with the large Ija [...] | 2007-03-15 14:28:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS20 | HOSTAGES TO BE RELEASED, BUT DELTA "ALMOST IN [...] (C) Summary: Bayelsa State Secretary Godknows Igali said January 11 that the hostage takers agreed in negotiations to release the three Italian and one Lebanese employees of Agip kidnapped December 7. This group claims disinterest in money and that they committed the kidnappings due to polit [...] | 2007-01-11 19:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS217 | EXPECT POLITICIANS TO HIRE ARMED GROUPS [...] (C) Summary: Some armed groups in Rivers State are for hire this election season; Ateke Tom's group will be employed by Governor Peter Odili while Soboma George will be employed by opposition groups, says Miabiye Kuromiema, Rivers indigene and former Secretary General of the Ijaw Youth Counci [...] | 2007-03-22 11:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS240 | EDO: CLOSE GUBERNATORIAL RACE SPARKS VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: Adams Oshiomole, the Edo State Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate, told Poloffs the People's Democratic Party (PDP) orchestrated an attack on the Edo State AC Chairman, who lost an eye, during a recent rally in Edo Central, his opponent's home territory. Professor Oser [...] | 2007-03-30 14:28:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS241 | ELECTION DAY DETAILS HAZY; EDO INEC PREPARING FOR [...] Summary: The Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (ESIEC) has not yet received guidance from the Independent National Electoral Commission on how to conduct the April 14 or 21 elections. ESIEC is preparing for the elections by identifying and training polling station agents and by mer [...] | 2007-03-30 14:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS253 | PROGRESS ON OIL AND GAS-RELATED LEGISLATION HALTED [...] (SBU) Before the five-week recess was called unexpectedly on March 21 by the National Assembly, observers predicted pending legislation of interest to the oil and gas industry would pass before the legislature adjourned sina die on May 29. Now however, observers decline to predict what bill [...] | 2007-04-10 18:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EPET NI PTER ENERG |
07LAGOS260 | FORGET FREE & FAIR ELECTIONS; SMALL STEPS TO [...] (C) Summary: The People's Democratic Party (PDP) would take the presidency and most governorships as a result of the elections while the Action Congress (AC) would take the majority of the legislature, predicted Francis Sheen, a Bayelsa State official working on the PDP's presidential campai [...] | 2007-04-13 09:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS29 | TRADITIONAL RULERS KILLED IN NIGER DELTA; OIL [...] (C) Summary: Armed militants attacked the Ekuonoma flowstation owned by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Rivers State on January 16. Expatriate and local staff from that station had already been evacuated; there has been no decline in production as of yet. The attack on the flows [...] | 2007-01-16 16:00:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS31 | TWO INCIDENTS IN THE NIGER DELTA [...] (C) Summary: Security sources reported two separate incidents in the Niger Delta, occurring on January 16 and 17. The first incident was an attack by militants on a boat carrying Hyundai employees. One Dutch expatriate and one Joint Task Force (JTF) officer were killed and four others on the [...] | 2007-01-17 13:23:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS310 | NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT IN YAR'ADUA'S HANDS; [...] (C) Summary: Dimieari Von Kemedi, Program Head of the NGO Our Niger Delta and informal adviser to Vice-President-elect Goodluck Jonathan, told Poloffs that prospects for peace in the Niger Delta region hinge on whether the incoming administration has the political will to spend the time and [...] | 2007-05-03 14:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS325 | PDP INSIDER: LISTS MENU OF OPTIONS FOR PACIFYING [...] (C) Summary: The People's Democratic Party (PDP) should seek new elections in some areas to appease the political opposition rather than allow the opposition to challenge the party's candidates in court. Judicial challenges would expose the depth of election rigging, Francis Sheen, PDP insi [...] | 2007-05-10 07:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS33 | NIGER DELTA: 1 ITALIAN, 5 CHINESE RELEASED [...] (C) Italian Consul General Maurizio Bungaro confirmed the January 17 release of Italian Agip employee Roberto Dieghi after 41 days in captivity. One Lebanese and two Italian employees of Agip remain in captivity. According to security sources, Dieghi was released because he was in poor healt [...] | 2007-01-18 14:39:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS339 | CHEVRON DRAWS DOWN NON-ESSENTIAL WORKERS THROUGH [...] (C) On May 11, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) drew down non-essential staff on three rigs operating offshore in the Niger Delta. According to Femi Odumabo, Chevron General Manager for Government and Public Affairs, the drawdown includes both expatriate and Nigerian staff. It includes both e [...] | 2007-05-14 17:28:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ASEC PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS348 | IJAW RULER: ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE 2-3 MONTHS AS [...] (C) Summary: A paramount Ijaw Ruler from Warri, Delta State, described the recent spate of militant attacks as a "send off" gift for President Obasanjo and a warning to the incoming Administration that Niger Delta Ijaws would not abide the status quo. "Jomo Gbomo" and "Cynthia White" are sp [...] | 2007-05-16 16:45:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS38 | 6 FILIPINOS KIDNAPPED, AMCITS & BRITS NEXT, [...] (C) Summary. Six Filipino nationals were taken hostage from a vessel near Okerenkoko in Delta State on January 20. The following day, militants met in Okerenkoko and agreed to target American and British citizens for kidnapping, a security source and local newspapers reported. Governor Jame [...] | 2007-01-22 17:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS435 | TANKER DRIVERS MOLLIFIED WITH PARKING LOT [...] On June 6, the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) union under the Nation Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Employees (NUPENG) suspended their strike which began on June 4. According to a NUPENG representative, the lack of a parking area forced tanker drivers to park along bridges outside Lagos c [...] | 2007-06-07 11:39:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM NI |
07LAGOS436 | FORMER DELTA STATE OFFICIAL APPLAUDS GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with Poloff, Chief Evance O. Ivwurie, former Commissioner for Special Duties (Project Monitoring) under Governor James Ibori's administration in Delta State, lauded the state government's efforts to provide potable water and education and blamed the federal an [...] | 2007-06-07 13:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS452 | DELTA STATE GOVERNOR TO SEEK AMNESTY FOR MILITANTS [...] (C) Summary: On June 4, Amaju Melvin Pinnick, a Delta State government official, told Poloff that Ijaw militants in Delta State offered their support to current Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan when he was campaigning in the state in April. Many militants want to leave the creeks and r [...] | 2007-06-15 14:19:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS459 | ASARI'S RELEASE IS NOT A PANACEA FOR THE NIGER [...] (C) Summary: Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) leader, Dokubo Asari, was released on bail by the Abuja High Court on June 14. Despite the release of 10 Indian national hostages on June 15, militants have warned the federal government and multinational companies that Asari's release [...] | 2007-06-20 13:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS47 | 1 AMERICAN, 1 BRITON TAKEN HOSTAGE IN PORT HARCOURT [...] (C) Summary: American citizen Billy Ray Graham and Briton Neil Robert Mirrlees were kidnapped going to work at approximately 7:00 AM on January 23 in Port Harcourt. Graham and Mirrlees work for Pivot Engineering Company Ltd., a small oil service firm. A Port Harcourt police contact said a g [...] | 2007-01-23 16:24:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS480 | YAR'ADUA & LABOR RELATIONS MAY IMPROVE [...] (C) Summary: It was not until President Yar'Adua directly negotiated with the NLC and TUC labor leaders in a closed-door session that the 2007 national labor strike was resolved, according to Denja Yaqub, Assistant Secretary to the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC). Yar'Adua reportedly told the l [...] | 2007-06-28 11:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM NI |
07LAGOS481 | EDO STATE ELECTION TRIBUNAL POSSIBLY BRIBED BY PDP [...] (U) Adams Oshiomole, Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate and former President of the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC),has challenged recently-elected Governor Oserheimen Osunbor of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the Edo State Election Tribunal. Oshiomole was largely viewed as one [...] | 2007-06-28 11:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS485 | VP JONATHAN MEETS MILITANT & COMMUNITY LEADERS IN [...] (C) Summary: On June 28, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan visited the Gbaramatu riverine community in Delta State and discussed ways forward with militant and traditional leaders. An Ijaw youth leader from Delta State offered prescriptive efforts the government could take to bring peace to th [...] | 2007-07-02 15:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS492 | BRITISH GIRL RELEASED; 2 EXPATS KIDNAPPED OFFSHORE [...] (SBU) On July 8, three-year-old British national Margaret Hill was released near Ogbakiri, Rivers State, after being abducted three days earlier in Port Harcourt (Reftel). No further details are known regarding her release; however, press reports suggest no ransom was paid to secure Hill's r [...] | 2007-07-09 15:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS493 | POLITICAL INSIDER ON NIGER DELTA & EFCC [...] (C) Summary: On July 1, Oronto Douglas, human rights lawyer and confidant of Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, said Jonathan will continue to meet with Delta and Bayelsa state militants throughout July in order to gain community input on how to improve the Niger Delta. The Niger Delta Develo [...] | 2007-07-10 11:39:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS53 | SITREP #2: FIRST PIVOT HOSTAGE CRISIS MANAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of Pivot-GIS, executives of the Honeywell Group Limited (Pivot's parent organization; not affiliated with the U.S.-based Honeywell Company),representatives of the U.S. and British Embassies and a representative of Control Risks Group (CRG) met January 23 regardi [...] | 2007-01-26 10:28:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS54 | SHOUTING IN THE EAR OF A DEAF GOVERNMENT: [...] (C) Summary: Bunkerers tapping into crude oil pipelines, vandalized refineries too costly and dangerous to repair or maintain, organized looting of downstream pipelines, complicated import procedures that encourage corruption and force importers to bear the costs of the fuel price subsidy, c [...] | 2007-01-26 12:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS57 | SITREP #3: PROOF OF LIFE FOR KIDNAPPED PIVOT [...] (C) Summary: Control Risks Group representative told the Pivot-GIS Crisis Management Group (CMG) that the number and kinds of contacts between Amcit Bill Graham and individuals who know him well can be considered to meet the criteria for proof of life. End Summary. 2. (C) The Crisis Man [...] | 2007-01-29 16:10:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS58 | TRAFFIC STOP OF FUGITIVE SOBOMA GEORGE LEADS TO [...] (C) Summary: After the inadvertent arrest of their leader, Soboma George, a band of armed criminal militants attacked at least one police station in Port Harcourt. Details are sketchy and we have in hand conflicting reports whether George escaped. Apparently, the melee resulted in some casu [...] | 2007-01-29 16:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER KCRM NI |
07LAGOS60 | SHELL'S BAD DAY: NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT PULLS OIL [...] (C) Summary: Shell Managing Director Ann Pickard told visiting Deputy Director for West African Affairs Don Heflin the Government of Nigeria (GON) has notified the company that one of its oil blocks will be given to a Nigerian company. Unless the GON pays USD 1.2 billion in arrears Shell beli [...] | 2007-01-30 15:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS601 | OSHIOMHOLE DISCUSSES TRIBUNAL, ECONOMICS, YAR'ADUA [...] (C) Summary: Adams Oshiomhole was granted access to voting materials by the Edo State Election Tribunal; he expressed interest in hiring foreign forensic analysts to examine the ballots to prepare his case. Oshiomhole predicted the Tribunal would decide his claim to have won the April guberna [...] | 2007-08-29 10:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS61 | SITREP #4: PROOF OF LIFE SOUGHT FOR THIRD PIVOT [...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group met January 26. There had been no contact with the hostages in the last 24 hours. A third hostage, Ezekial Akwa, a Nigerian national employed as a driver by Pivot, has not been mentioned by either the kidnappers or the hostages in conversations; proof o [...] | 2007-01-30 15:51:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG CASC ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS63 | SITREP #6: AMCIT & BRITISH NATIONAL REMAIN IN [...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group met February 1. Wole Osinupebi of Pivot and John Walker of Control Risks traveled to Port Harcourt January 31 and met with Director of the State Security Services (SSS) Alhaji Kola Adeshina. Osinupebi and Walker spoke to American citizen Billy Graham and [...] | 2007-02-01 15:57:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG CASC ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS73 | WILLBROS PLANS TO LEAVE NIGERIA, LABOR DISPUTE [...] (C) Summary: Due to myriad challenges, ranging from labor difficulties to diminution of business caused by militant activity in the Delta, U.S. oil service contractor Willbros plans to exit Nigeria by March. The company executives hope to sell its Nigerian subsidiary to Ascot Drilling. The [...] | 2007-02-05 10:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ELAB ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS92 | FUEL CRISIS IMMOBILIZES SECTIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST [...] (SBU) Summary: A visit by Poloff to the Southwest showed traffic sharply reduced and long fuel queues in every major city. With suppliers ordered to give priority to Lagos and Abuja, other cities had to grapple with not knowing when more fuel was coming. One distributor admitted to hoarding [...] | 2007-02-08 07:03:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAPAZ1223 | BOLIVIA FIRMLY AGAINST U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-03 16:33:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ BL |
07LAPAZ2085 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNIVERSAL ADOPTION OF NTC [...] (SBU) On July 25, Poloff met with the Ministry of Foreign Affair's director of international organizations and delivered reftel demarche. The director responded that the GOB was reviewing the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (NTC) but could not explain [...] | 2007-07-30 17:40:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL BL PTER |
07LAPAZ259 | MOD MEETING READOUT, COUNTERRORISM CONFERENCE [...] (C) The National Defense University (NDU),via its Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS),co-sponsored a January 23-25 security and defense workshop which focused on counter-terrorism (CT) in La Paz with the Ministry of Defense. Participants identified the top four threats to Bolivian [...] | 2007-02-01 21:15:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL PINR MARR MASS MOPS BL |
07LAPAZ2746 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW MARITIME CARGO SCANNING [...] Emboff demarched Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations Ruben Vidaurre on October 11th regarding The SAFE Port Act. Vidaurre acknowledged the new law and understood that all cargo leaving foreign ports for the US would need to be scanned for the presence [...] | 2007-10-12 13:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EWWT AMGT PTER BL |
07LAPAZ500 | TERRORISM FINANCE: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarches to Bolivia's Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) on February 1. The UIF conducted a search of its database and told Econoff on February 23 that it had discovered no information on the names and organizations mentioned in refs A and B. (Note: The UIF's databa [...] | 2007-02-23 20:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KTFN PREL PTER SNAR BL |
07LAPAZ918 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-05 19:22:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KGIT KNNP PREL AR BR OM KS SN SF IAEA |
07LIBREVILLE480 | GABON: ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR INTERPOL APPROVAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 13:51:00 | Embassy Libreville | SECRET | PTER ASEC KJUS PREL PGOV IR GB |
07LILONGWE165 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] Poloff met with MFA Director of Political Affairs Paul Chiunguzeni on March 1, 2006 to discuss reftel talking points. Chiunguzeni, after looking through the Statement of Principles, stated that he did not see anything in the statement that would lead to the GOM objecting to their ratification. [...] | 2007-03-02 09:51:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PTER MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL |
07LILONGWE330 | MALAWI: NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-30 16:04:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER |
07LIMA1063 | PERU MOD PROMOTES RAPID REACTION FORCE TO ASSURE [...] (C) Defense Minister Alan Wagner has been promoting the idea of a multi-service rapid reaction force since September 2006. Dubbed the "Effective Basic Nucleus" (Nucleo Basico Eficaz, NBE),the proposal calls for the creation of a self-sufficient force that can operate in the air, on land and at [...] | 2007-03-28 21:46:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV MARR PE |
07LIMA1264 | PRESS BREAKS STORY OF PERU ARMS TO FARC [...] Peru daily La Republica ran a front-page story on 4/1 that detailed how a "Mafia" within Peru's Armed Forces (FAP) and the Police (PNP) had robbed Peru's arms stocks to sell weapons to the FARC. The account summarized news reports since 2005 in an analytical piece detailing a weapons smugglin [...] | 2007-04-04 20:57:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV SNAR PE |
07LIMA1587 | GOP CN POLICIES: MORE GOOD NEWS THAN BAD [...] (SBU) The last month has seen a series of lurches in GOP counternarcotics policy. On March 15, Agricultural Minister Juan Jose Salazar signed a unilateral accord with cocaleros in Tocache, promising, among other things, to suspend eradication pending the general registration of coca growers. [...] | 2007-04-30 20:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV SNAR PE |
07LIMA165 | HUMAN RIGHTS COURT DECISION CAUSES GARCIA TO [...] (C) Summary: An Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) decision requiring the Peruvian government to pay reparations and to apologize for the May 1992 killing of 41 prison inmates (associated with the Shining Path terrorist group) has caused the Garcia administration political problems. [...] | 2007-01-19 19:46:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER PE |
07LIMA1767 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TSA JOSEPH G. OCHOA III [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Transportation Security Administration Attache, Joseph G. Ochoa III, from May 22-28, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to meet with Ministry of Transportation and Communication Civil Aviation Security counterparts in preparatio [...] | 2007-05-17 14:42:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ASEC OTRA PTER AR PE |
07LIMA1841 | HUMALA PATRIARCH LAYS OUT STRATEGY FOR "REVOLT OF [...] (SBU) Isaac Humala, patriarch of the clan that produced Ollanta Humala, recently described to us his movement's plans to undermine the Garcia Government. Humala (pere) has created a philosophy called "Ethnocacerism" holding that Peru's oppressed masses must bring back a pro-indigenous, pro-c [...] | 2007-05-23 17:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PINR SNAR PE |
07LIMA1854 | SPECIAL LEBANON TRIBUNAL DEMARCHE: NO OFFICAL [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde in the afternoon of May 23. Garcia Belaunde, who had just emerged from a cabinet meeting at the time, said he had not yet had the opportunity to review the GOP's position on the Lebanon Tribunal and [...] | 2007-05-23 22:08:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC LE PREL PTER PE |
07LIMA1862 | CLOCK TICKING FOR GARCIA IN THE HIGHLANDS [...] (SBU) Residents of Apurimac, a southern highlands region and former Humala stronghold, have seen few benefits from the Garcia government, according to interlocutors interviewed by poloffs during a May 13-15 visit. Despite a pro-Humala history, most elected local leaders are non-ideological t [...] | 2007-05-24 17:21:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR SNAR PE |
07LIMA1918 | LIMA CONFERENCE ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (U) Peru hosted a 108-nation conference on cluster munitions at the Sheraton Hotel in Lima, 5/23-25. Peruvian Vice Minster of Foreign Relations Ambassador Gonzalo Gutierrez opened the event, which was dedicated to promoting an eventual international agreement that would ban the production, t [...] | 2007-05-31 21:49:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV SNAR PE |
07LIMA1940 | GOP RESOLVES POTENTIAL CONFLICT OVER MARKET [...] (SBU) In a near-flawless May 29 operation, several thousand Peruvian Police peaceably removed close to one thousand merchant squatters from Santa Anita market in central Lima. The success of the Santa Anita operation sent a powerful message that the GOP is serious about enforcing the rule of [...] | 2007-06-01 17:57:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PROG SNAR PIN PE |
07LIMA2000 | BOLIVARIAN INFLUENCE IN PUNO [...] (SBU) Summary: The southern highlands region of Puno has emerged as the focus of Venezuelan proselytizing in Peru, with the Venezuela-funded "Bolivarian Alternative for Latin American and the Caribbean (ALBA)" center representing the latest evidence of deepening ties. While Regional President [...] | 2007-06-07 19:21:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CU PE PGOV PINR PTER SNAR VE |
07LIMA2052 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AVIATION SECURITY INSPECTORS [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Kevin Yap-Sam, Rosemary Austin and Anthony Rivera from July 10 - 17, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to assess security conditions as required by 49 USC, Section 44907, formerly known as the International Security and Develop [...] | 2007-06-12 22:16:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ASEC OTRA PTER PE |
07LIMA2129 | REFORM WITHOUT REVOLUTION: THE VIEW FROM PUNO [...] (SBU) Comment: Despite grinding poverty, bumbling local government, and flaring racial animosities, revolutionary political action in the altiplano department of Puno is unlikely, even though Puno is an historic center of Peruvian radicalism. Regional officials describe themselves as pragmat [...] | 2007-06-19 17:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CU PE PGOV PINR PTER SNAR VE |
07LIMA3163 | IEDS IN ERADICATION OPERATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 23:45:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM PTER PREL PE |
07LIMA3231 | FORMER PRESIDENT FUJIMORI RETURNED TO PERU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the surprise decision by Chile's Supreme Court to approve his extradition (Ref A),former President Alberto Fujimori was returned to Peru September 22 -- spirited to a suburban Lima police base in a carefully managed transfer that left little opportunity for political [...] | 2007-09-24 15:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER PE |
07LIMA3646 | PERU: ANOTHER DEADLY ATTACK ON POLICE [...] (C) Summary: Four Peruvian National Police (PNP) officers were killed November 13 in an ambush in northern Huancavelica region by presumed narco-trafficking interests. Whether the culprits were narco-thugs or Sendero Luminoso remnants remains unclear, and in any case, the distinction between t [...] | 2007-11-16 14:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER SNAR PE |
07LIMA3673 | ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS SEES PROGRESS IN PERU'S WAR [...] (C) Summary: ONDCP Director Walters met with Interior Minister Luis Alva Castro and Drug Policy Agency (DEVIDA) head Romulo Pizarro during a November 5-6 visit to Lima. Alva Castro characterized Peru's anti-drug efforts as an urgent fight to which U.S. assistance was critical. Pizarro credite [...] | 2007-11-20 13:37:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR PE |
07LIMA3707 | GOP DEALS ANOTHER BLOW TO SL REMNANTS [...] (U) A Peruvian National Police (PNP) operation, carried out in the early morning hours of November 27, killed one and captured eight members of the "Shining Path" (Sendero Luminoso) organization in the Upper Huallaga River Valley (UHV) in Huanuco Region. Epifanio Espiritu Acosta, known as "Co [...] | 2007-11-27 22:13:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PTER SNAR PE |
07LIMA3764 | NARCO-TERRORISM CAUSING NATIONAL DEBATE IN PERU [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 11:46:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PTER PREL PGOV PE |
07LIMA487 | PERU: GOVERNMENT PLAN TO TAKE BACK ITS TERRITORY [...] (S) Summary: The Garcia government has developed a comprehensive plan that, successfully implemented, could end the continuing threat to Peru's peace and security represented by Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso -- SL) remnants while blunting the FARC and narcotraffickers. The four-part plan fo [...] | 2007-02-20 22:45:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET | PGOV PINR PTER SNAR PE |
07LISBON1211 | PORTUGAL WARMS TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (U) Portuguese interlocutors told us they expect to sign on to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. A Ministry of Foreign Affairs official told us that the relevant office was preparing a decision memorandum for the Minister in which they recommend joining the Global Initiative. [...] | 2007-05-04 17:01:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP PARM PREL PO |
07LISBON1508 | PORTUGAL JOINS GLOBAL INITIATIVE; URGES EU [...] On May 30 Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of the Non-Proliferation Office Pedro Sousa Abreu provided diplomatic notes to us and to our Russian counterparts to endorse the Statement of Principles for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Sousa Abreu noted that his off [...] | 2007-05-30 13:46:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP PARM PREL PO |
07LISBON218 | PORTUGAL: SUPPORTIVE OF TFTP AND SWIFT "INFORMED [...] (SBU) In response to Embassy outreach on the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) and SWIFT per reftel a, Ministry of Finance Chief of Staff Goncalo Castilho dos Santos responded via a Jan 10 letter acknowledging the program's important role in fighting terrorist finance, encouraging cont [...] | 2007-01-24 15:45:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PTER KTFN PO |
07LISBON2328 | PORTUGAL SIGNED NUCLEAR TERRORISM CONVENTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-11 08:45:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PO |
07LISBON2368 | PORTUGAL: 9/11 ACT COSTLY TO IMPLEMENT & [...] On September 7, Pol/Econ Officer delivered reftel talking points on Title XVII of the 9/11 Act which calls for 100% scanning of all US-bound shipping containers by 2010 to Jose Figueiredo, Deputy Director-General for Customs and Special Taxes. Figueiredo stated that Portugal does not have the [...] | 2007-09-13 10:01:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EWWT AMGT PTER PO |
07LISBON2605 | EU JHA INFORMAL MINISTERIAL [...] Summary. EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers met informally in Lisbon October 1-2. An embassy officer attended to follow discussion of such topics as the elimination of land and sea travel barriers in December, the establishment of a counternarcotics analysis and operations center, the sub [...] | 2007-10-11 13:48:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS MOPS PO PREL PTER EUN |
07LISBON2720 | AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON SEEKS PORTUGUESE SUPPORT ON [...] (S/NF) Ambassador Williamson (S/WCI) met on October 10 with senior MFA leadership to seek Portuguese agreement to accept some Guantanamo detainees. He emphasized that Portuguese acceptance of even a limited number of individuals as a humanitarian gesture might provide cover for other EU Memb [...] | 2007-10-25 15:24:00 | Embassy Lisbon | SECRET | PREL PTER PO |
07LISBON3114 | NOVEMBER US-EU COTER MEETING ENHANCES DISCUSSION [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. and EU counterterrorism (CT) experts shared their assessments, concerns, and cooperation agendas at the November 29 working group meeting on terrorism (COTER). In response to the U.S. briefing on the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TS/CTP),the Portuguese presid [...] | 2007-12-07 16:08:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EUN PO |
07LJUBLJANA134 | SLOVENIA: IMPLEMENTING ANTI-TERRORIST FINANCE [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points to Andrej Plausteiner, Acting Director of the Office of Money Laundering Prevention at the Ministry of Finance. Plausteiner is also the point of contact for terrorist finance issues. The Government of Slovenia (GOS) is in the process of harmonizing its la [...] | 2007-03-07 13:57:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER LE SI |
07LJUBLJANA18 | TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] (SBU) At Embassy Ljubljana the following people are the Terrorism Finance Coordination Officers (TFCOs): Terrorism Financing Coordinating Officer (TFCO): Maryruth Coleman, Deputy Chief of Mission Office number: 01-200-5588 Unclassified email: colemanMX@state.gov Cla [...] | 2007-01-12 14:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER SI |
07LJUBLJANA186 | SLOVENIA CONCERNED ABOUT ITS ABILITY TO INTEGRATE [...] (C) DCM presented reftel demarche points March 26 to Ambassador Roman Kirn, Director of the Division for the Americas at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kirn listened carefully to our request for Slovenia to accept detainees ready for release, and remarked that this is an important developmen [...] | 2007-03-28 05:15:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC |
07LJUBLJANA187 | SLOVENIA: TALIBAN PRISONER EXCHANGE REVEALS NEED [...] (C) DCM presented reftel demarche March 26 to Ambassador Roman Kirn, Director of the Division for the Americas at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kirn concurred that the release of Taliban prisoners set a bad precedent and could encourage further hostage-taking and undermine the coalition's se [...] | 2007-03-28 05:16:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER |
07LJUBLJANA230 | SLOVENIA DEMURS ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-13 14:37:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PTER PHUM PREL |
07LJUBLJANA285 | SLOVENIA'S WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ [...] (U) This is an action cable, please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Slovenia is a standout ally in NATO - currently 11% of its active duty forces are deployed in support of NATO, EU, and UN operations abroad - and is making small, but concrete contributions to coalition efforts in Iraq. I [...] | 2007-05-04 14:03:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER SI |
07LJUBLJANA3 | SLOVENIA LOOKING TO EU FOR GUIDANCE ON TERRORIST [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel points to the head of Economic Diplomacy, Robert Kokalj, and Bostjan Jerman, member of the Security Division, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They appreciated the information provided. The Government of Slovenia (GOS) has yet to encounter any terrorist entities [...] | 2007-01-03 13:52:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER |
07LJUBLJANA344 | SLOVENIA WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE MAY 31-JUNE 1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 10:01:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN OSCE PREL PTER RS SI |
07LJUBLJANA454 | SLOVENIA ENDORSES GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (U) On July 4, the GOS officially endorsed the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Statement of Principals. Post received a diplomatic note regarding the endorsement on July 9. 2. (SBU) A subsequent conversation between Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security Policy Office Director [...] | 2007-07-16 15:16:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL SI |
07LJUBLJANA581 | SLOVENIA: TERRORIST FINANCE - PRE-NOTIFICATION OF [...] (S) Pol/Econ Chief shared reftel's points with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Americas Division on a close hold basis. The MFA appreciated our pre-notification; however, they indicated that it was very doubtful that any of these individuals were active in Slovenia. COLEMAN [...] | 2007-09-06 05:20:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SA SI |
07LJUBLJANA607 | SLOVENIA CONSIDERING CONTRIBUTING TO THE SPECIAL [...] (C) On September 20, CDA delivered reftel's talking points to Blaz Masle at the MFA's Division for Near East and Africa and encouraged Slovenia to contribute to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. During a September 21 discussion, Matjaz Kovacic, head of the MFA's International Organizations Di [...] | 2007-09-21 12:37:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC LE PTER SI |
07LJUBLJANA683 | SLOVENIA: ALIGNED WITH EU POLICY ON COMBATTING PKK [...] (S) In an October 26 meeting with Ambassador Andrej Grasseli of the MFA's Department for Southeastern Europe and Turkey, A/DCM drew upon reftel's points to raise U.S. concerns about the rise in PKK attacks and the need for concrete actions to stop this terrorist threat. After condemning the P [...] | 2007-10-26 15:34:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN SI |
07LJUBLJANA684 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE SAUDI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 15:26:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PTER ETTC PREL KTFN SI |
07LJUBLJANA688 | SLOVENIA CONSIDERING THEMES FOR FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) In an October 30 meeting with Andrej Svetlicic from the Legal Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Emboffs invited Svetlicic and other senior Slovenian officials attending the Lisbon financial sanctions workshop to meet on November 28, immediately after the Portuguese-hosted wo [...] | 2007-10-30 15:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PREL PTER KTFN EUN SI |
07LJUBLJANA764 | SLOVENIA: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] (SBU) At Embassy Ljubljana the following people are the Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officers (TFCO): Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officer (TFCO): Maryruth Coleman, Charge d'Affaires Office Number: 01-200-5588 Unclassified email: ColemanMX@state.gov Classif [...] | 2007-12-17 08:32:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN SI |
07LOME774 | TOGO: SUPPORTING ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR INTERPOL [...] On October 31, RSO delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Koudouovoh Teko Mawuli, the Deputy Director of the Togolese National Police and the Togolese delegate to the Interpol conference. Mawuli stated that he was not aware of the issue and that Togo would vote responsibly on any terrorism issue. DI [...] | 2007-11-02 16:12:00 | Embassy Lome | SECRET | IR PTER TO |
07LONDON1062 | BTEX FORENSIC EPIDEMIOLOGY WORKSHOP CATALYZES G8 EFFORTS AGAINST BIOTERRORISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UK and Germany co-hosted, with U.S. co-sponsorship, the G8 "Forensic Epidemiology Workshop," in London March 13-15, 2007 (Ref A). Although the U.S. was the primary source for workshop design and facilitation, all three nations worked collaboratively to plan and execute the [...] | 2007-03-20 11:09:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER TBIO CA FR GM IT JA RS UK EUN |
07LONDON1835 | (S/NF) UK CONDUCTING STUDY OF IMPACT OF IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) Summary. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is doing a Top Secret study -- likely to get widespread attention within Her Majesty's Government -- of the real impact of Iranian financial measures. The study, which is intended to draw upon both open and closed sources, is intended to in [...] | 2007-05-14 16:13:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PARM PTER ETTC IR UK |
07LONDON263 | HMG REQUESTS POLONIUM TESTING FEEDBACK FROM CDC; [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The UK Health Protection Agency requests the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide laboratory test results on the U.S. residents potentially exposed to polonium in London. The UK Health Protection Agency de [...] | 2007-01-23 13:15:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC PTER UK |
07LONDON2984 | (S) TERRORIST FINANCE:UK SUPPORTS USG SUBMISSION [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper July 31, 2007 to Clive Hughes, Desk Officer Multilateral and Strategic Allies Section Counter Terrorism Policy Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Hughes said the UK favors co-sponsoring U.S. submissions to the UN 1518 a [...] | 2007-08-03 06:30:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | EFIN FI IZ JO KTFN PREL PTER SA UK UNSC |
07LONDON3175 | IRAN: BROTHER OF IRGC'S SAFAVI SAYS A U.S. TERROR [...] (C) Summary. xxxxxxxxxxxx Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) xxxxxxxxxxxx told London Iran Watcher xxxxxxxxxxxx that Iran's cooperation on security in Iraq, though not yet evident, would be forthcoming, but in the same breath argued that a U.S. terrorist designation of the IRGC would prevent any [...] | 2007-08-17 08:34:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KPRP PGOV PHUM PREL BA KU IR IS UK |
07LONDON3571 | UK WORRIED ABOUT IRAN, THEY TELL TREASURY A/S [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: British officials told Patrick O'Brien, A/S for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, Treasury, on September 6, that they are very worried about Iran. Both sides agreed we should continue to turn up the pressure on Iran within the context of the United Nations Security Cou [...] | 2007-09-17 18:16:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN PTER IR LY UK |
07LONDON4045 | EUR SENIOR ADVISOR PANDITH AND S/P ADVISOR COHEN’S [...] (C) Summary. EUR Senior Advisor for Muslim Engagement Farah Pandith and S/P Member Jared Cohen met with a wide range of UK government leaders, community activists, think tanks, artists, and Muslim youth during their October 9-14 visit to the UK. Government officials stressed that the UK's problem w [...] | 2007-10-25 16:38:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL PTER SCUL UK |
07LONDON4189 | FINSBURY PARK MOSQUE -- AFTER THE STORM [...] (C) Summary. A visit to the Finsbury Park Mosque -- once the home of the notorious extremist Imam Abu Hamza al-Masri and formerly exhibit A in the case for the threat from "homegrown" British radicalization -- found the Mosque apparently cleansed of its extremist past and working hard to counter ra [...] | 2007-11-08 17:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SCUL KISL PGOV UK |
07LONDON4311 | POSSIBLE NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/OFFER OF [...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in and possible offer of nuclear and/or radiological materials. This report came to post's attention via call-in and email. Inform [...] | 2007-11-21 08:54:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER UK |
07LONDON4327 | DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S MEETING WITH HOME [...] (C/NF) Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about her concern about turbulence SIPDIS in Pakistan and explained the future use of biometrics at UK borders at their meeting November 14 in London. The two also conferred about ways to counter radicaliz [...] | 2007-11-21 16:01:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PINS PTER PK UK |
07LONDON4328 | (C/NF) UK SHARES U.S. GOALS ON IRAN; WE SHOULD RE-FOCUS UK DOMESTIC EFFORTS AND INCREASE COORDINATION REF: A. STATE 156409 B. STATE 157039 LONDON 00004328 001.2 OF 006 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 16:16:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MNUC EFIN PTER KTFN IR UK |
07LONDON4465 | IRAN: UK GOVERNMENT APPEALS MEK DE-LISTING ORDER [...] (C) Summary: The FCO told Embassy London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that the Mujaheddin-e-Khalk (MEK) will continue to be listed as a terrorist organization under UK law, and its UK accounts frozen, until the outcome of HMG,s appeal of the administrative order issued by the UK's Prohibited Organi [...] | 2007-12-04 16:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IR UK |
07LONDON4512 | UK OFFICIALS TELL U/S LEVEY THAT WILL ON IRAN IS [...] (C/NF) Summary: Senior UK officials told Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey November 30 that international action SIPDIS against Iran has increased pressure on the regime and made life "significantly uncomfortable" for Iranian leadership, but has not so far succeeded in changing Iran's nu [...] | 2007-12-10 12:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER IR UK |
07LONDON4680 | IRAN: ALLEGED EX-IRGC MEMBER LISTS QUDS FORCE [...] (S/NF) Summary. Mohammed Ali Khatami (please protect),claiming to have been in the past a long-term operative for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC),provided London Iran Watcher (Poloff) detailed written allegations concerning long-term IRGC-Quds Force involvement in de-stabilizing Ira [...] | 2007-12-28 15:41:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER IR UK |
07LONDON4688 | (SBU) PAKISTAN: UK URGES ELECTIONS WITHOUT [...] (SBU) HMG "agrees completely" with the USG that Pakistan's elections should proceed on schedule if possible, and if not, the postponement should be to a specified new date, according to Laura Guy, Head of FCO's Pakistan Section. Responding to reftel, Guy said HMG is keen on "as much electio [...] | 2007-12-31 11:26:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER PK UK |
07LONDON515 | TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL [...] (S/NF) Summary. Embassy London believes that HMG would object to a UN listing of the Human Appeal International (HAI) in its entirety unless we were able to provide it with specific information linking the UK branch to al Qaida or demonstrating that HAI-UK operated under the direction of HAI [...] | 2007-02-09 15:29:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL ECON |
07LONDON519 | TERRORISM FINANCE: REQUEST FOR POSTS ASSISTANCE IN [...] (S/NF) In response to reftel, Embassy contacted officials in the international organizations and counterterrorism policy departments at the Foreign Office to request feedback on the first tranche of terrorist facilitators and inciters designations. Both officials with whom we spoke commented that, [...] | 2007-02-09 16:22:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UK |
07LONDON52 | UK CONSIDERING BANK SADERAT OPTIONS [...] (S/NF) Summary: An HMG intra-agency group met with U.S. Treasury officials to review new "evidence" of illicit activities by Bank Saderat Iran and its London-based subsidiary, Bank Saderat PLC. HMG officials requested further information indicating the London subsidiary is controlled by the [...] | 2007-01-05 18:04:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER ETTC IR UK |
07LONDON6 | TERRORIST FINANCE: DOCKRAT PRENOTIFICATION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Embassy delivered reftel prenotification to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on December 22. On January 3, Rod Mackenna of the FCO's Counter Terrorism Policy Department notified us that the UK will support a UN 1267 designat [...] | 2007-01-03 15:17:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZU UK |
07LONDON71 | TERRORIST FINANCE: REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC HERITAGE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Unless the U.S. has compelling information which either: a) demonstrates that the London branch of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) is under the operational control of Kuwait-based headquarters or b) shows a clear linkage between the London branch and al-Qaida, we [...] | 2007-01-09 14:02:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC KTFN PTER PREL EFIN UK |
07LONDON794 | UK ANNOUNCES TERRORISM FINANCE STRATEGY [...] (S/NF) Summary and Comment: The UK's new strategy to tackle financial crime and terrorism does not represent a dramatic point of departure, but rather confirms an evolutionary trend towards a more aggressive approach to countering terrorism finance. The strategy, announced by Economic Secreta [...] | 2007-03-01 16:21:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC KTFN PTER EFIN UK |
07LUANDA1243 | TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] TFCO and contact information: Francisco J. Fernandez, DCM, 244 (222) 641-618; cell 244 923-404-618. Unclassified e-mail - fernandezfj@state.gov SIPDIS Classified e-mail - fernandezfj@state.sgov.gov 2. Deputy TFCO and contact information: Mark D. Schall, Econ-Commercial Officer, 244 ( [...] | 2007-12-14 07:19:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC PTER KTPN AO |
07LUANDA29 | ANGOLA: EX-FLEC SOLDIERS INCORPORATED INTO ANGOLAN ARMED [...] (U) Summary: On January 6, 2007 the GRA and the Cabindan Forum for Dialogue (FCD) announced the conclusion of the second phase of the peace process outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding for Peace and Reconciliation, which included the full disarmament and demobilization of the Front for t [...] | 2007-01-12 09:42:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF PTER AO |
07LUANDA783 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRESSING FOR UNIVERSAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-31 21:19:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL |
07LUSAKA1239 | ZAMBIA WILL SUPPORT ARGENTINA AT INTERPOL GENERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 10:16:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PTER IR ZA |
07LUXEMBOURG116 | LUXEMBOURG VISAS VIPER REPORT FOR MARCH 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-30 09:46:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KHLS KVPR ASEC PTER PINR LU |
07LUXEMBOURG127 | RESPONSE TO REFTEL REQUESTING RESETTLEMENT OF TWO [...] (SBU) Acting Pol/Econ chief delivered demarche points contained reftel A and B to the MFA Transatlantic Affairs Officer. There was no immediate response. 2. (C) COMMENT: We assess that we will not receive any response from the GOL until 17 April at the earliest because of the ongoing dis [...] | 2007-04-06 12:32:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PTER PREL PHUM LU |
07LUXEMBOURG154 | LUXEMBOURG ON NEW WAY FORWARD IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER LU |
07LUXEMBOURG156 | LUXEMBOURG REPRESENTATION AT THE COALITION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 13:55:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER LU |
07LUXEMBOURG159 | LUXEMBOURG VISAS VIPER REPORT FOR APRIL 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 15:37:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KHLS KVPR ASEC PTER PINR LU |
07LUXEMBOURG218 | VISAS VIPER: LUXEMBOURG VIPER REPORT FOR MAY 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-04 10:16:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KHLS KVPR ASEC PTER PING LU |
07LUXEMBOURG225 | LUXEMBOURG TO JOIN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (C) The MFA informed us on 29 May that Luxembourg had tentatively agreed to join the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terror (reftel). The MFA had prepared a briefing paper making this recommendation which the FM was going to present to a Government Cabinet meeting "in the near future." W [...] | 2007-06-05 15:59:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KNNP MCAP PREL PARM LU |
07LUXEMBOURG269 | VISAS VIPER: LUXEMBOURG VIPER REPORT FOR JUNE 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-02 12:01:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KHLS KVPR ASEC PTER PING LU |
07LUXEMBOURG332 | VISAS VIPER: LUXEMBOURG VIPER REPORT FOR JULY 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-08 09:18:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KHLS KVPR ASEC PTER PING LU |
07LUXEMBOURG354 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SAUDI FIVE PRE-NOTIFICATION [...] (C) Econoff delivered points and names contained reftel to the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on 29 August 2007. There was no immediate comment from the MFA. The FIU informed Post on 30 August that "it would take the necessary actions in due time. [...] | 2007-08-30 15:26:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN PTER ETTC PREL KTFN LU |
07LUXEMBOURG366 | VISAS VIPER: LUXEMBOURG VIPER REPORT FOR AUGUST [...] (U) Post convened its monthly Visas Viper Committee on 15 August 2007. No Visas Viper submissions were presented at that time. 2. (U) The Visas Viper Committee held an ad hoc meeting on 07 September 2007. The following submission was presented: Name: Sulejman ((KOJIC)) aka Kojic ((S [...] | 2007-09-07 15:03:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL | CMGT CVIS KVPR ASEC PTER PING LU |
07LUXEMBOURG416 | VISAS VIPER: LUXEMBOURG VIPER REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-11 14:27:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KHLS KVPR ASEC PTER PING LU |
07LUXEMBOURG454 | LUXEMBOURG: DEMARCHE DELIVERED AND IDENTIFICATION [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ officer delivered points contained reftel to Claude Faber, MFA desk officer for security and defense affairs. Faber had no immediate comment but promised to provide Post with the appropriate contact information for Luxembourg's GI POC after internal GOL consultations have ident [...] | 2007-11-07 15:13:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGIC PARM PREL PTER LU |
07LUXEMBOURG456 | VISAS VIPER: LUXEMBOURG VIPER REPORT FOR OCTOBER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 13:22:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KHLS KVPR ASEC PTER PING LU |
07LUXEMBOURG486 | VISAS VIPER: LUXEMBOURG VIPER REPORT FOR NOVEMBER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 07:57:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KHLS KVPR ASEC PTER PING LU |
07LUXEMBOURG95 | LUXEMBOURG VISAS VIPER REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 2007 [...] Post convened its monthly Visas Viper Committee meeting on 21 February 2007. No Visas Viper telegrams were submitted during the reporting period of February 2007. The VVC had no new information to report since Post's last report. 2. Posts VVC coordinator is Jason Chiodi. WAGNER [...] | 2007-03-07 09:55:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR KHLS CMGT ASEC PTER PINR LU |
07MADRID1074 | TERRORISM FINANCE: SPAIN'S RESPONSE ON MAHAMEDOU [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-04 15:47:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER SP EUN PREL |
07MADRID1078 | SPAIN: ETA ANNOUNCES THE END TO ITS "PERMANENT [...] (C) Summary. In the early morning hours of June 5, the terrorist group ETA published a communiqu in the electronic editions of key Basque media outlets, announcing that it would end its 14-month "permanent cease-fire" beginning at midnight on June 6, and threatening to "reopen its activities [...] | 2007-06-05 12:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SP |
07MADRID1107 | SPAIN/ETA: RUPTURE OF ETA CEASEFIRE BECOMES [...] (SBU) Even as Spain braces for a new round of attacks in the wake of the Basque terrorist group ETA's June 6 decision to break its 15-month ceasefire (REFTEL A),Spanish government officials and opposition leaders have traded barbs and blamed each other for the breakdown in the peace process. [...] | 2007-06-08 09:33:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL |
07MADRID1241 | SPAIN: GOVERNMENT DENIES RUMORED ETA TALKS [...] (U) On June 19 conservative Spanish media outlets ABC and El Mundo claimed that Deputy Foreign Minister Bernardino Leon participated in negotiations with the Basque terrorist group ETA after the group ended its "permanent" cease-fire on June 6. The news reports sparked strong condemnations fro [...] | 2007-06-21 07:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER SP |
07MADRID1244 | SPAIN/ETA: SECURITY FORCES FIND LARGE EXPLOSIVES [...] (U) On June 21 Spanish media outlets reported that 130 kilos of explosives (reportedly enough to make eight bombs) were found in Huelva, Spain, two kilometers from the Portuguese border, in an abandoned Ford Focus allegedly belonging to the Basque terrorist group ETA. The vehicle contained de [...] | 2007-06-22 11:14:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV SP |
07MADRID1272 | SPAIN/CT: THREE ALLEGED MEMBERS OF AL-QAEDA IN THE [...] (SBU) The Spanish National Police on June 26 arrested three young Moroccans in Barcelona suspected of having links to the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Press reports suggest that their objective was to recruit and indoctrinate young Muslim extremists and facilitate t [...] | 2007-06-28 10:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV SP |
07MADRID1291 | SPAIN/ETA: FALSE ALARM AT IBIZA AIRPORT [...] (U) Spanish media outlets reported on June 30 that a bomb threat was called in by a member of the Basque terrorist group ETA to the Basque publication "Gara" warning of an explosive device at the airport on the Spanish island of Ibiza, a big international tourist destination. ETA frequently u [...] | 2007-07-03 07:37:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV SP |
07MADRID1326 | FOREIGN FIGHTERS/IRAQ: SPAIN SUPPORTS GROUP [...] (S) The DCM met with Spanish Political Director Rafael Dezcallar July 5 to discuss the issue of foreign fighters transiting Arab nations to join the Al Qaeda insurgency in Iraq. The DCM stressed that the majority of foreign fighters were working with Al Qaeda, that Al Qaeda is responsible for [...] | 2007-07-05 14:45:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | PTER PREL SY SP IZ |
07MADRID1328 | FOREIGN FIGHTERS/IRAQ: SPAIN'S NSA SUPPORTIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-06 07:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | PTER PREL SP SY IZ |
07MADRID1331 | SPANISH POLDIR ON KOSOVO, HIZBALLAH, YEMEN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 5 meeting on a separate issue, Spanish MFA Political Director Rafael Dezcallar and the DCM discussed key bilateral issues going forward. Dezcallar said that a crucial priority in coming months should be avoiding a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo. [...] | 2007-07-06 14:29:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHSA PBTS EWWT SP LE YM VE YI |
07MADRID1361 | SPAIN: MFA WILL LOOK AT FOREIGN FIGHTERS DEMARCHE [...] (U) This message contains an action request. Please see para. 4. 2. (S) Poloff met with Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for Terrorism Miguel Garcia-Herraiz on July 11 to share talking points on a potential Spanish demarche to Arab governments on stemming the flow of foreign fighters i [...] | 2007-07-13 06:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | PREL PTER SY IZ SP |
07MADRID1430 | SPAIN/ETA: DESPITE RECENT GOVERNMENT SUCCESSES, [...] (U) SUMMARY: As Spaniards settle into summer vacation mode, the government, the press, and the public continue to focus on the likelihood of a significant attack by the Basque terrorist group ETA. Since ETA broke its self-declared cease-fire on June 6, the government has showed a strong hand [...] | 2007-07-20 14:09:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SP |
07MADRID1469 | SPAIN HAS SIGNED AND RATIFIED NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] (SBU) On July 24 Poloff delivered REFTEL to Ignacio Sanchez, MFA Deputy Director General for Nonproliferation and Disarmament. Sanchez confirmed that Spain was one of the 23 states to have signed and ratified the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (NTC). [...] | 2007-07-25 15:57:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL SP |
07MADRID1486 | TERRORISM FINANCE: SPAIN ON DOMESTIC USG [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-30 10:27:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER LE SP ECON |
07MADRID1489 | MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) The opposition Popular Party recently proposed tax cuts on the order of euros 20 billion. The budget surplus this year is euros 7 billion - Solbes says any tax cuts should amount to considerably less than this figure given future health and pension commitments. The Minister also critici [...] | 2007-07-30 14:29:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN EIND ELAB ENRG ETRD KIPR PTER |
07MADRID1510 | MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) Both the GOS and the IMF agree on a 2007 growth forecast of 3.8% and a 2008 forecast of 3.3%. However, the GOS is somewhat less apprehensive of the possibility of overheating in 2008 and plays up increased capital goods spending and slight productivity improvements as evidence that there [...] | 2007-08-03 14:49:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN EIND ELAB ENRG ETRD KIPR PTER |
07MADRID1555 | MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) The Madrid exchange lost 2.59% of its value on Friday. Banks and real estate groups lost most value. What is happening in Spain is similar to what is happening in other major equities markets. The major Spanish banks continue to say they are not overly exposed to the American subprime m [...] | 2007-08-13 08:53:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN EIND ELAB ENRG ETRD KIPR PTER |
07MADRID1607 | SPAIN/GI PORTAL CONFERENCE: GOS WILL ENCOURAGE [...] Poloff delivered REFTEL request on August 16 to Ignacio Sanchez de Lerin, MFA DDG for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, to inquire whether Spain would be willing to conduct regional outreach with European GI partner nations to bolster attendance at the Garmisch conference. Poloff also inquir [...] | 2007-08-21 11:11:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KGIC PARM PREL SP |
07MADRID1611 | TERRORISM FINANCE: SPAIN ON AL-SALAH SOCIETY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 14:44:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER IS SP ECON |
07MADRID1643 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MEETING ON COLOMBIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-28 14:37:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR PREF PTER PARM EAID ECON OPDC CO SP |
07MADRID17 | ETA ATTACK: FIRST DEATH CONFIRMED, ZAPATERO FACING [...] (C) Summary. Authorities confirmed late on January 3 that they had located the body of Ecuadoran immigrant Carlos Alonso Palate in the wreckage of the airport parking garage bombed by ETA on December 30. Alonso Palate becomes the 818th victim of ETA terrorism and the first ETA victim since Ma [...] | 2007-01-04 16:37:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SP |
07MADRID1709 | TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION TO SPAIN OF [...] (S) On August 30, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ivo Pascual Herrera, desk officer within MFA's Terrorism Sub-Directorate. Pascual told EconOff that his office would notify Post next week on Spain's position as well as on any information GOS may have regarding the referenced individuals. [...] | 2007-08-31 16:22:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | PREL EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC SP |
07MADRID173 | SPAIN/CIA FLIGHTS: JUDGE ORDERS DECLASSIFICATION [...] (C) Summary. National Court Examining Magistrate Ismael Moreno requested on January 31 that the Spanish Ministry of Defense and the National Intelligence Center (CNI) declassify any information related to the transit of CIA aircraft through Spanish territory, as well as any information indicating w [...] | 2007-02-01 17:43:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR SP |
07MADRID1774 | SPAIN/CT OVERVIEW: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Mr. Ambassador, the visit to Madrid of your interagency delegation comes during a time when the Spanish government is already in a heightened state of terrorist alert, both from the Basque terrorist group ETA and from Islamist extremists threatening to strike at the heart of t [...] | 2007-09-13 13:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL SP |
07MADRID1795 | SPANISH MUSLIM LEADER'S 9-11 MESSAGE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-17 11:00:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER KISL PGOV SP |
07MADRID1805 | SPAIN STILL INTERESTED IN GUANTANAMO DETAINEES, [...] (S/NF) Based on Reftel A request, Embassy Legatt on September 4 met with Javier Zaragoza, Chief of the Spanish National Court, to discuss the case of Guantanamo detainees Jamil El Banna and Omar Deghays. Legatt reminded Zaragoza that the GOS requested the extradition of El Banna and Deghays in 2004 [...] | 2007-09-18 07:56:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM PREL PTER PINR SP UK JO LY |
07MADRID1835 | SPAIN EQUIVOCAL ON RCFS REGISTRATION, BUT MAY DO [...] (C) Charge spoke September 20 with Jose Maria Pons, Director General for North America and Europe, about the need for Spain as Chair-in-Office (CiO) to allow the registration of the Russian Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) for the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM). Charge expres [...] | 2007-09-21 17:14:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER OSCE RS SP |
07MADRID1839 | SPAIN WILL ATTEND COLOMBIA MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-24 17:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL PTER PHUM UNGA CO SP |
07MADRID1840 | DISRUPTING TALIBAN FINANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-25 08:44:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | PTER KTFN EFIN KPAO SP |
07MADRID1914 | SPAIN/CT: PROPOSAL TO CREATE A SOUTHERN EUROPEAN [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. In order to confront the sustained terrorist threat to the United States and our European allies, we must find innovative, flexible and proactive approaches to strengthen the effectiveness of international cooperation in the fight against terrorism. My Mission inter-agency team has [...] | 2007-10-02 15:47:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER SNAR SP |
07MADRID1916 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SPAIN ON SAUDI FIVE UPDATE [...] (C) On October 1, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ivo Pascual Herrera, desk officer within MFA's Terrorism Sub-Directorate. Pascual expressed appreciation for the update and reported that Spain had no position concerning the designations of the reftel A Saudi nationals under domestic and U [...] | 2007-10-03 08:58:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER SA |
07MADRID1918 | SPAIN STRAPPED FOR FUNDS FOR LEBANON TRIBUNAL, MFO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-03 15:28:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PTER PREL KMFO XT LE IS IT JA EG |
07MADRID1996 | TERRORISM FINANCE: SPAIN NOTIFIED OF DESIGNATION [...] (U) As requested, Post informed the GOS via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Terrorism Sub-directorate of the UN listing of the three Saudi nationals (reftel). EconOff had previously provided identifying information on these individuals but re-supplied that information. EconOff requested tha [...] | 2007-10-22 07:10:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SA SP |
07MADRID2018 | SPAIN/CT: S/CT COORDINATOR DAILEY DISCUSSES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-23 13:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV SP |
07MADRID2023 | SPAIN/CT: S/CT COORDINATOR DAILEY DISCUSSES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 11. 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY. Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Dell Dailey led an interagency delegation to Madrid on September 21 for meetings with Spanish security, law enforcement, diplomatic and intelligence officials to discuss the evolving [...] | 2007-10-24 07:58:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV SP |
07MADRID2033 | SUPPORTING ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR INTERPOL [...] (S) DCM delivered ref A demarche October 25 to Spanish Secretary of State for Security Antonio Camacho. Camacho was SIPDIS quick to say the red notices were fully justified and that Spain had supported Argentina in the INTERPOL Executive Committee earlier this year. He said Argentina could [...] | 2007-10-25 15:36:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC KJUS PGOV PREL PTER IR SP |
07MADRID2035 | COUNTER-TERRORISM: DCM'S OCTOBER 25 CONVERSATION [...] (S) DCM met October 25 with Spanish Secretary of State for Security Antonio Camacho and congratulated him on the Guardia Civil's October 23 arrest in Burgos of six suspected Islamic terrorists from the self-proclaimed "al-Ansar" group. The six are accused of fund raising, recruiting terrorists [...] | 2007-10-25 16:49:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | PREL PTER SNAR SP |
07MADRID2041 | SPAIN: NATIONAL COURT VOTES IN FAVOR OF THE [...] (C) On October 26, the Fourth Section of the Criminal Division of the Spanish National Court made public its 2-1 vote to accept the extradition to the U.S. of Syrian arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar. Judge Teresa Palacios presided over the October 4 extradition hearing and voted against remanding [...] | 2007-10-26 15:27:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | CJAN CIVS KCRM PGOV PREL PTER SP |
07MADRID2044 | SPAIN CONCERNED WITH NEW U.S. MARITIME CARGO [...] (SBU) Summary. Although GOS officials are in favor of increasing security measures at Spanish ports, they are concerned that their ports will be unable to comply with the new scanning requirements mandated under Title XVII of the 9/11 Act. Spanish officials have told Post that the requiremen [...] | 2007-10-29 10:44:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ETRD AMGT PTER SP |
07MADRID2055 | SPAIN: RESPONSE TO S/CT REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON [...] (SBU) Embassy Madrid offers the following responses to REFTEL request for information on the government of Spain's policies toward and capabilities for collection of biographic and biometric data for terrorist screening purposes. For ease of reading, we have opted to rewrite each question set [...] | 2007-10-31 17:18:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CIVS ASEC KHLS SP |
07MADRID2058 | SPAIN: VERDICTS HANDED DOWN IN THE TRIAL OF THE [...] (U) Spain's National Court on October 31 returned guilty verdicts on 21 of the 28 people accused of involvement in the March 11, 2004 train bombings in Madrid (known in Spain as 11-M),which killed 191 and injured over 1,800. An additional seven individuals were acquitted. A 29th defendant h [...] | 2007-10-31 18:07:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL SP |
07MADRID2063 | DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION DISCUSSES PKK TERRORISM, [...] (C) PKK: DCM met October 31 with MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar and delivered reftel points. Dezcallar said Spain shared U.S. concerns regarding the PKK and understood the delicacy of the situation between Turkey and Iraq. He emphasized that Spain wanted to be helpfu [...] | 2007-11-02 15:16:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN SP |
07MADRID2072 | TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassfied. 2. (SBU) The information provided in this message is keyed to the questions in reftel's para. 5. 3. (U) The June, 2006 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) mutual evaluation of Spain found that Spain's "structures for dealing with terrorist [...] | 2007-11-06 15:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER SP |
07MADRID21 | ETA ATTACK: POLICE FIND SECOND BOMB, RESCUERS FIND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Basque police located a second vehicle containing explosive material in Vizcaya on January 4; they believe the vehicle had been abandoned by ETA. President Zapatero visited the airport bombing site and expressed his continued resolve to achieve an end to violence in Spain. Z [...] | 2007-01-05 15:49:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PGOV SP |
07MADRID2101 | MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade sponsored a November 7-8 "Conference on Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Environment" that included representatives from the USG (Associate Register of Copyrights David Carson),France, the UK and Korea, as well as representatives of c [...] | 2007-11-14 15:35:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD KIPR PTER SOCI TBIO |
07MADRID2129 | MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE - NOVEMBER [...] (U) The 0.7% quarter-on-quarter GDP growth figure was lower than the second quarter's 0.9%, so it tracks with other signs of a slowdown. The Spanish government forecasts full-year 2007 growth of 3.8%. (Comment: The big question is how much lower growth will be in 2008. The opposition conser [...] | 2007-11-19 10:38:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD KIPR PTER SOCI TBIO SP |
07MADRID2135 | TOP SPANISH LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL GETS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Joan Mesquida, Director General of Spain's Unified Command of the Spanish National Police and Civil Guard, traveled to Miami and Washington the week of November 5 to meet with various members of the U.S. interagency involved in the fight against terrorism and narcotics traffickin [...] | 2007-11-20 06:52:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SNAR SP |
07MADRID2155 | MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE - NOVEMBER [...] (U) There is much media speculation that Second Vice President and Finance Minister Solbes will run for a parliamentary seat, perhaps as the number two to President Zapatero in the Madrid area. (Comment: Getting Solbes to stay, and to run, is all about shoring up the PSOE's centrist and center [...] | 2007-11-26 13:25:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD KIPR PTER SOCI TBIO SP |
07MADRID2189 | SPAIN/ETA: RARE POLITICAL UNITY IN WAKE OF ETA [...] (U) Spanish political leaders from virtually every stripe have presented a united front in the aftermath of the December 1 shooting in the French town of Capbreton that left one Spanish Civil Guard officer dead and another in a coma. The officers, part of a bilateral counterterrorism initiativ [...] | 2007-12-04 09:18:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV SP |
07MADRID2251 | SPAIN: AL-KASSAR NEARING EXTRADITION TO U.S., BUT [...] (U) The Penal Section of the Spanish National Court approved on December 13 the extradition of Syrian arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar to the U.S. The decision of the panel was 11-1 in favor of extradition, with the lone dissension coming from the head of the tribunal Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez. [...] | 2007-12-14 17:56:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SP |
07MADRID2272 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SPAIN ON DOMESTIC DESIGNATION [...] (C) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Area Specialist Laura Martinez from the MFA's Directorate of Counter-Terrorism on December 18. Martinez expressed appreciation for the information and said that she would share it with law enforcement and intelligence channels. She agreed to provide a [...] | 2007-12-19 18:06:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SP |
07MADRID2282 | AMBASSADOR’S MEETING WITH SPAIN’S CELEBRATED AND [...] (C) The Ambassador met on December 14 with Judge Baltasar Garzon, a high-profile investigative magistrate in Madrid's powerful National Court (Audiencia Nacional). Garzon was upbeat in his comments and said that he has a good understanding of U.S. law enforcement and counterterrorism policy, even t [...] | 2007-12-21 12:04:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SP |
07MADRID391 | SPAIN ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] (U) This is an action request for ISN/WMDT -- see paragraph 3. 2. (C) ESTHOFF passed reftel points February 26 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez, urging Spain to endorse the Global Initiative's Statement of Principles and to participate in the third meet [...] | 2007-03-02 16:20:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL KNNP SP |
07MADRID432 | SPAIN/ETA: RELEASE OF PRISONER TRIGGERS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Just two months after ETA's December 30 bomb attack at Madrid's airport set off a bitter debate regarding the Zapatero Government's handling of the Basque issue, Zapatero has drawn fresh criticism for allowing a hunger striking ETA member to serve the remainder of his sentence in house [...] | 2007-03-08 09:27:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SP |
07MADRID457 | AMIA CASE: SPAIN WILL SUPPORT ARGENTINE POSITION [...] (C) Per reftel instructions, the Ambassador contacted Argentine Ambassador Carlos Betinni on March 8 to advise him that the USG planned to approach the Spanish Government to express support for the Argentine position on the AMIA case at Interpol. On March 9, the DCM, accompanied by Legat and [...] | 2007-03-09 16:50:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KJUS SP |
07MADRID49 | SPAIN: ADDENDUM TO 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON [...] (SBU) As stipulated in Reftel A, post is providing an addendum to Reftel B that updates significant terrorist-related developments in Spain that occurred after submission of the Spain section of the 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism. 2. (SBU) On December 30 the terrorist group ETA exploded [...] | 2007-01-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC SP |
07MADRID51 | SPAIN: ADDENDUM TO 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON [...] (SBU) As stipulated in Reftel A, post is providing an addendum to Reftel B that updates significant terrorist-related developments in Spain that occurred after submission of the Spain section of the 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism. 2. (SBU) On December 30 the terrorist group ETA exploded [...] | 2007-01-11 14:28:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC SP |
07MADRID578 | SPAIN ON VIOLATIONS OF UNSCR 1701 ARMS EMBARGO [...] (S) Poloff delivered REF A points to MFA Middle East Desk Officer Sergio Carranza on 3/23, sharing the points that were marked as releaseable to the Government of Spain. Carranza inquired as to the reliability of the information, noting that Spain was highly sensitive to information of this na [...] | 2007-03-29 13:55:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | PARM PREL PTER UNSC LB SP |
07MADRID596 | SPAIN ON TAKING GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-02 15:16:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC XG SP |
07MADRID606 | SPAIN/HSPD-6: CONSULAR AFFAIRS AND TSC VISITORS [...] (SBU) Alcy Frelick of CA/P/IP and Richard Kopel and Mary Draper of the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) visited Madrid March 27 to meet with officials from Spain's National Center for Anti Terrorist Coordination to discuss implementation the HSPD-6 terrorist lookout data exchange between the U. [...] | 2007-04-03 16:21:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER CVIS KHLS PREL PGOV SP |
07MADRID71 | SPAIN: UNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE RAISES AWARENESS [...] (U) UNVIE Ambassador Greg Schulte visited Madrid January 10-11 to raise the awareness of GOS officials and the public regarding the threat posed by the ongoing Iranian nuclear weapons program. On the government side, Schulte met with National Security Advisor Carles Casajuana, Deputy Foreign [...] | 2007-01-12 17:32:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL MNUC MASS PINS PTER SP |
07MADRID81 | SPAIN/ETA POLICY: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION FIND [...] (U) In a lengthy and oftentimes vitriolic debate in the Spanish Parliament on January 15, President Zapatero and opposition Popular Party (PP) leader Mariano Rajoy traded verbal blows over the GOS' anti-terrorism policies and the way forward on forging an anti-terrorism pact among the parliame [...] | 2007-01-16 16:57:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER SP |
07MADRID859 | ENGAGING THE NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT ON FOREIGN POLICY: FIVE IMMEDIATE ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign policy played only a negligible role in the presidential election campaign that concluded May 6, and Sarkozy has relatively little experience in foreign affairs, despite his tenures as Interior and Finance Minister. Nonetheless, Sarkozy's personality is such that he wil [...] | 2007-05-10 13:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV SP |
07MADRID973 | SPAIN POINT OF CONTACT INFORMATION FOR GLOBAL [...] (SBU) ESTOFF and POLOFF delivered REFTEL A points on May 10 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez and met again on May 18 with Sanchez and MFA Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Carlos Torres to discuss Spain's participation in the Global Initi [...] | 2007-05-21 11:43:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KGIC PARM PREL SP |
07MADRID979 | SPANISH PARTICIPATION IN OSCE PPP CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-21 14:59:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PTER SP RU |
07MANAGUA1273 | NICARAGUA'S IRAN-VENEZUELA RELATIONS [...] (S) Summary: Given President Daniel Ortega's close relationship with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the restoration of diplomatic ties with Iran, and the visit of President Ahmedinejad to Nicaragua, the Embassy has not formally engaged the Nicaraguans on the Venezuelan-Iranian alliance (Ref [...] | 2007-05-16 21:06:00 | Embassy Managua | SECRET | PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE IR NU |
07MANAGUA1431 | NICARAGUA: FACING CHALLENGES IN ADDRESSING CASH [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 24, Econoff delivered reftel demarche on illicit cash couriers to representatives of the Nicaraguan inter-agency Anti-Terrorism Working Group (ATWG). ATWG representatives responded that cash couriers are an issue of growing concern in Nicaragua, but current laws and the [...] | 2007-06-05 20:55:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL NU |
07MANAGUA1825 | NUCLEAR TERRORISM CONVENTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED: [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-30 23:06:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL NU |
07MANAGUA1873 | EMBASSY MANAGUA ASSESSMENT OF CENTRAL AMERICA [...] (C) Due to recent political changes in Nicaragua, it remains to be seen whether the GON will continue to cooperate with the U.S. on broad high-level security policy. Even so, day-to-day operational cooperation remains strong, particularly with the National Police and the military. We believ [...] | 2007-08-08 23:46:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PREL XK |
07MANAGUA2351 | Persuading Nicaragua to Create an FIU [...] (U) Summary: Speeches delivered by the Ambassador, Nicaraguan Superintendent of Banks Victor Urcuyo, and Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) President Willie Zapata at the opening ceremony of an Embassy-hosted financial investigation training seminar sparked renewed public debate and [...] | 2007-10-17 22:58:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER PGOV SNAR ECON NU |
07MANAGUA2544 | NICARAGUA: IRANIANS AND LIBYANS WELCOME -- NO [...] (C) According to a November 28 circular memo sent to all airlines operating out of Managua's international airport, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) now will allow all Libyan and Iranian passport holders (diplomatic, official and regular) to enter Nicaragua without visas. The GON states that [...] | 2007-12-08 00:59:00 | Embassy Managua | SECRET | CVIS IR LY NU PREL PTER VE |
07MANAGUA2567 | NICARAGUA RECEPTIVE TO U.S. CASH COURIER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 20:35:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER ASEC NU |
07MANAGUA2577 | FRAUD SUMMARY - MANAGUA, NICARAGUA [...] (SBU) The following is Managua's quarterly report on the fraud situation at post for the fourth quarter FY 07. Headings follow reftel information requests. a. COUNTRY CONDITIONS In the last few months Nicaragua has been impacted by natural disasters, political instability and rising oil [...] | 2007-12-12 22:43:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS ASEC CPAS CMGT PREL PTER XK NU |
07MANAGUA2593 | CENTRAL AMERICAN SECURITY REQUIREMENTS: NICARAGUA [...] (U) Please find attached Post's updated assessment of Nicaragua's current and medium-term security needs as requested in reftel. A Chance to Build on Success ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) In the past year, Nicaragua achieved its highest level of annual narcotics seizures to date [...] | 2007-12-14 15:57:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PINS SNAR NU |
07MANAGUA2609 | NICARAGUA: NEW PENAL CODE UPDATES ANTI TERRORISM AND MONEY [...] (U) Summary: In November, Nicaragua's National Assembly passed a new Penal Code that includes new language on terrorism finance, money laundering, and crimes against the financial system. This language will allow Nicaragua's law enforcement to prosecute cases of financing of terrorist entities [...] | 2007-12-18 16:12:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER ECON PGOV SNAR NU |
07MANAGUA2621 | Educating Nicaraguans on FIU Operations [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 29, Embassy Managua held three separate seminars to educate members of the media, GON, and the private sector about the role and operation of a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to dispel fears that the FIU would become another law enforcement tool which the GON could [...] | 2007-12-20 21:29:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER ECON PGOV SNAR NU |
07MANAGUA357 | ORTEGA ACTIONS TEST TRIPWIRES [...] (C) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: With less than one month in office, President Daniel Ortega and Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) lawmakers have already touched off a number of our tripwires and placed opposition parties and civil society, international financial institutions (IFIs),and [...] | 2007-02-07 14:52:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN KDEM MARR NU PARM PINR PREL PTER |
07MANAGUA436 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL NELSON [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post welcomes members of CODEL Nelson to Nicaragua February 18 to 20. With the return of Daniel Ortega to the presidency and changes in the National Assembly, your visit comes at a most propitious time. The United States remains committed to supporting Nicaragua's democratic an [...] | 2007-02-15 23:57:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL PTER SMIG SNAR NU |
07MANAGUA632 | NICARAGUA WILL CONSIDER SUPPORTING GLOBAL [...] (C) On March 8, Deputy Chief of Mission Peter Brennan and Russian counterpart Valeriy Bobrov delivered the joint reftel demarche to Nicaraguan Vice Foreign Minister Manuel Coronel Kautz, Acting Foreign Minister in Foreign Minister Samuel Santos' absence. Coronel, who recently returned from an [...] | 2007-03-09 20:57:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL NU |
07MANAGUA914 | NICARAGUAN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH IRAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Three days after signing a series of cooperation agreements with Venezuela, Nicaragua played host to Islamic Republic of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on January 14. In a southern barrio of Managua, Ortega informally presented Ahmadinejad to the public in a two-hour event [...] | 2007-04-11 15:16:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR PTER EAID EFIN EINV ETRD EPET |
07MANAGUA983 | NICARAGUA: MISSTEPS BY NEW AVIATION ADMINISTRATION [...] (SBU) Summary. In a March 28 meeting with Econoffs and the TSA representative for Central America Victor Guardia, country managers and security directors from American, Continental, TACA, and Delta airlines hesitated to criticize new administrators at Empresa Administradora de Aeropuertos Int [...] | 2007-04-19 15:45:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PTER EIND ECON NU |
07MANAMA1052 | TERRORIST CELL TRIAL CONTINUES [...] (U) The trial of five suspects charged under Bahrain's 2006 counter-terrorism law (reftels) resumed November 20 in Manama's High Criminal Court. The prosecution and defense presented opening arguments, and the court adjourned until December 12. 2. (U) Defense attorneys told media that the [...] | 2007-11-21 17:31:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER KISL ASEC BA |
07MANAMA1089 | CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR UNDERSCORES COMMITMENT TO DOLLAR REMAINS FIRM --------------------------------- [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-09 14:38:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ECON IR BA |
07MANAMA155 | BAHRAIN: UNSCR 1737 - FREEZING ASSETS OF IRANIAN [...] (U) NEA/ARP Office Director Alan Misenheimer and Econoff February 14 delivered reftel demarche concerning U.S. suggestions on how states can most fully implement the asset freeze required under UNSCR 1737 to Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) Director of Financial Institution Supervision Abdul-Rahm [...] | 2007-02-19 08:32:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PTER BA CTR ECTRD |
07MANAMA157 | CROWN PRINCE REPORTS POSSIBLE IRANIAN ENRICHMENT [...] (S) Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa told the Ambassador February 19, during a meeting covering several subjects (septels),that outgoing Iranian Ambassador to Bahrain Mohammed Farazmand had told him a day earlier during a farewell call that he expected Iran to announce soon a [...] | 2007-02-20 08:42:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL MARR KNNP PTER MNUC BA REGION |
07MANAMA158 | SCHEDULING THE NEXT U.S.-BAHRAIN GULF SECURITY [...] (C) The Ambassador February 19 delivered reftel proposal to hold a Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) session on March 8 in Washington to Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, during a meeting covering several subjects (septels). The Crown Prince agreed to hold the session on March 8, n [...] | 2007-02-20 08:43:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PTER BA IR BILAT REGION |
07MANAMA168 | BAHRAIN: USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH COURIERS [...] (U) NEA/ARP Office Director Alan Misenheimer and Econoff February 14 delivered reftel demarche concerning the threat posed by cash couriers and bulk cash smuggling used to finance terrorism and other illicit activity to Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) Director of Financial Institution Supervisio [...] | 2007-02-22 13:27:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL BA CTR ECTRD |
07MANAMA173 | FOREIGN MINISTER TO DELIVER "TOUGH MESSAGE" TO IRAN [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told the Ambassador February 22, in a meeting covering several subjects (septels),that his planned trip to Tehran (Ref B) was now set for February 24. He expects to meet with Foreign Minister Mottaki and President Ahmadi-Nejad. The Am [...] | 2007-02-22 14:50:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC KNNP PTER BA REGION |
07MANAMA180 | BAHRAIN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-26 10:16:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER KNNP BA ROW CTR |
07MANAMA209 | BAHRAIN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-06 10:04:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KNNP PARM BA ROW CTR |
07MANAMA446 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, we warmly welcome your May 28 visit to Bahrain. Your visit will offer an excellent opportunity to follow up on the March visit to Washington of Minister of Interior Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al-Khalifa, demonstrate our interest in and commitment to strengthening our cooper [...] | 2007-05-17 09:58:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL MARR MASS PTER ASEC BA OFFICIALS BILAT |
07MANAMA473 | BAHRAIN: URGENT REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief May 23 forwarded reftel demarche points concerning assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. In a subsequent conversation May 24, Shaikh Abdul Aziz said he had alr [...] | 2007-05-24 11:54:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER BA LE REGION |
07MANAMA519 | BAHRAIN: MESSAGE ON MUQTADA AL SADR OUTREACH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-07 13:47:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL PTER BA IZ REGION |
07MANAMA554 | BAHRAINI GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS SAMARRA MOSQUE BOMBING [...] (U) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa June 13 issued a public statement denouncing and condemning the "criminal aggression" on the Samarra mosque earlier the same day. He said that targeting holy and religious places, whether those of Muslims or other faiths, is a brutal cri [...] | 2007-06-14 13:11:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS BA REGION |
07MANAMA560 | BAHRAIN: IRAQI WMD SCIENTIST REDIRECTION PROGRAM [...] (S) Pol/Econ Chief June 17 delivered reftel demarche concerning the Iraqi WMD scientist redirection program to MFA Director for Bilateral Affairs Dhafer Al Umran. Al Umran said that Bahrain would like to help and he pledged to brief more senior levels of the ministry on the program. However, [...] | 2007-06-17 14:07:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PTER PINS PARM PREL PREF BA IZ REGION |
07MANAMA575 | EXTREMISTS ACCUSE HIGH-PROFILE SALAFI OF BEING AN [...] (U) The previously unknown Supporters of the Caliphate group has accused Salafi leader and prominent member of parliament Adel Al Moawada of being an infidel. In early June, Al Moawada had publicly warned against the spread of "takfeer" ideology, the belief of some extremist Sunnis who consi [...] | 2007-06-20 14:04:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PTER BA POL |
07MANAMA580 | BAHRAIN: CONTINUED ARABSAT BROADCAST OF AL ZAWRAA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-21 13:36:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL PTER BA REGION |
07MANAMA619 | BAHRAIN: SEEKING REGIONAL SUPPORT TO STOP FLOW OF [...] (S) The Ambassador July 3 delivered reftel demarche concerning regional support to stop the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Nezar Al Baharna. Al Baharna said that the MFA had not heard of any specific cases of Bahraini citizens traveling to Syria [...] | 2007-07-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL PTER BA IZ REGION |
07MANAMA781 | BAHRAIN: PRESSING FOR ADOPTION OF CONVENTION FOR [...] (U) Econoff August 1 delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director for Bilateral Affairs Dhafer Al Umran. Al Umran said that the GOB had signed the NTC, but had not yet ratified it. He expressed support for the NTC and said the GOB was working to ratify it soon. 2. (C) "Our biggest worry is B [...] | 2007-08-13 15:04:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KNNP MCAP KTIA IR BA REGION |
07MANAMA803 | TREASURY U/S LEVEY WARNS AHLI UNITED AGAINST [...] (C) Treasury Undersecretary Levey August 8 cautioned Ahli United Bank (AUB) officials on the bank's ties with Iranian state-owned banks. Through Future Bank, AUB was virtually the only bank in the world to be joint-ventured with Bank Melli and Bank Saderat. Bank Melli Iran had used deceptive [...] | 2007-08-22 16:10:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN PTER PARM MNUC IR BA |
07MANAMA876 | DEMONSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF SUNNI EXTREMISTS FALLS [...] (SBU) Summary: A demonstration outside Manama's Grand Mosque in support of extremists rounded up in August (reftels) drew little support. Only 50-60 people attended, most of them families of the detainees. By comparison, recent protests over power cuts, fishing rights, and teachers' salary d [...] | 2007-09-14 13:00:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KISL ASEC BA |
07MANAMA891 | ENCOURAGING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 13:54:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PTER LE BA |
07MANAMA913 | MORE SUNNI POLITICIANS RALLYING TO EXTREMIST [...] (U) Local media reported the September 30 release of three more of the Sunni extremists whom the Bahraini authorities have been rounding up since early August. A member of parliament for the Salafist Asala bloc, Hamoud Khalil Muhannadi, sought to claim credit for the releases. He said the go [...] | 2007-10-02 08:20:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PTER ASEC PGOV BA |
07MANAMA932 | TERRORIST CELL SUSPECTS FORMALLY CHARGED; JUSTICE [...] (C) Summary: The Minister of Justice confirmed that the prosecutor presented to a judge his case against five extremist defendants October 1, and that their trial will begin on October 23. While cautioning that the defendants may challenge the constitutionality of the new counter-terrorism la [...] | 2007-10-10 14:10:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KISL ASEC KPAO BA |
07MANAMA967 | TERRORIST CELL TRIAL BEGINS [...] (U) The trial of five suspects charged under Bahrain's 2006 counter-terrorism law (reftels) began October 23 in Manama's High Criminal Court. The three present entered pleas of "not guilty"; two others remain at large and are being tried in absentia. The court denied a defense request for ba [...] | 2007-10-24 14:10:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KISL ASEC BA |
07MANILA1017 | STRENGTHENING THE CASE AGAINST THE RAJAH SOLAIMAN [...] (S/REL AUS/UK) Summary. USG cooperation has helped strengthen the Philippine initiative to seek a listing of the Rajah Solaiman Movement with the UN 1267 Committee. The Philippines intends to consult Australia, Great Britain, Japan, and Indonesia about co-sponsorship, along with the U.S. T [...] | 2007-03-29 09:07:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PTER EFIN ETTC PREL KTFN PINR AS ID JA UK RP |
07MANILA102 | PHILIPPINE MILITARY KILLS ASG URBAN TERRORIST [...] (C/REL AUS) In follow up to the successful January 6 operation that led to the deaths of five Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) terrorists and one suspected Jemaah Islamiyah operative near the southern island of Tawi-Tawi (ref a),elements of Military Intelligence Group-9, the Intelligence Service of th [...] | 2007-01-10 09:15:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL RP |
07MANILA1033 | ICITAP TRAINING PAYING OFF [...] (U) Funded by State's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, staff from the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) of the Department of Justice has been in place in Manila since August 2006. Initially with only one Senior Law Enforc [...] | 2007-03-30 08:44:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL EAID KCRM RP |
07MANILA1034 | SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL MIXTER [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy warmly welcomes members of Staffdel Mixter to the Philippines! We have a packed schedule for you that includes meetings on counterterrorism, U.S.-Philippine military cooperation, unlawful killings, and Peace Corps issues. You are coming to the Philippines at an import [...] | 2007-03-30 09:09:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PHUM PTER EAID RP |
07MANILA105 | PHILIPPINES WELCOMES ASEAN-RELATED SUMMITS ANEW [...] (C) In a discussion with Charge on January 8, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo reiterated the Philippine Government's determination to host successful ASEAN-related summits, including the East Asia Summit, in Cebu January 13-15 following their postponement from the original December dates d [...] | 2007-01-10 09:33:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN PTER ASEAN RU XE CH JA KN KS BM |
07MANILA1086 | NO LET UP IN COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATIONS ON JOLO [...] (C/REL AUS) SUMMARY. Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General Esperon announced April 1 the end of "Operation Ultimatum," the successful months-long effort targeting the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah leadership on the island of Jolo. General Esperon, however, intends no let [...] | 2007-04-04 04:30:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS MASS MCAP PREL RP |
07MANILA1087 | REGIONAL 1207 FUNDING PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Section 1207 funds offer a potentially extremely valuable tool to help consolidate the post-conflict environment in the Philippines' Sulu Archipelago and in the neighboring areas of Indonesia. Our joint Manila-Jakarta $15.5 million proposal would seek to build upon existing p [...] | 2007-04-04 04:34:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PTER MOPS PREL ID MY RP |
07MANILA1094 | AMBASSADOR VISITS JOLO TO HIGHLIGHT ASSISTANCE [...] SUMMARY. The Ambassador and senior Embassy officials focused attention on U.S. assistance programs with a visit to Jolo Island in Mindanao's Sulu Province. The highlight was the inauguration of the Jolo Consumers' Cooperative rebuilt through the combined efforts of members of the Armed Force [...] | 2007-04-04 07:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER EAID SOCI MOPS RP |
07MANILA1099 | A PROVINCIAL VIEW OF THE COMMUNIST INSURGENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Communist forces remained active in Bulacan province, but military and police efforts, together with relative prosperity, increasingly limit their sphere of influence. Police in particular face an overall lack of resources. Civil-military relations and the overall human righ [...] | 2007-04-04 08:48:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PHUM RP |
07MANILA1169 | TRILATERAL COUNTERTERRORISM DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) Summary. Australian, Japanese, and U.S. diplomats on April 12 gave briefings on existing counterterrorism programs in the Philippines and agreed to continue such consultations, most notably with an upcoming Model Ports project but also potentially on greater coordination on Philippine [...] | 2007-04-13 08:36:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS EAID AS JA RP |
07MANILA1187 | ROGUE MNLF COMMANDER ON THE RUN [...] (C) Summary. The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) raided and occupied several rogue Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) camps on Jolo Island on April 15 after a rogue MNLF commander launched mortar attacks and ground assaults that killed two Marines and one civilian. MNLF Commander H [...] | 2007-04-16 09:25:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS KISL RP |
07MANILA1206 | UPDATE ON FIGHTING IN JOLO [...] (C) Summary. Rogue elements of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) under Commander Habier Malik continue to clash with government security forces on Jolo. Among the casualties during heavy fighting on April 17 reportedly were Malik's brother and cousin. The Philippine National Red Cr [...] | 2007-04-17 09:00:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS KISL RP |
07MANILA1231 | BOUNTY FOR ROGUE MNLF COMMANDER; NO OIC MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary. The Armed Forces of the Philippines has offered a 1-million peso reward for the capture of rogue Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Commander Habier Malik. Sporadic fighting continues between Malik's followers and government security forces on Jolo. A total of seven men, inc [...] | 2007-04-18 11:03:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS KISL RP |
07MANILA1285 | ASG BEHEADS SEVEN HOSTAGES ON JOLO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Abu Sayyaf Group has reportedly beheaded seven Philippine hostages on Jolo. Rogue MNLF Commander Habier Malik remains on the run, but defiant. The AFP has reiterated it is only after him and his lawless followers, not the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). MNLF Vice- [...] | 2007-04-20 09:34:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS KISL RP |
07MANILA1298 | PHILIPPINE MUSLIM LEADERS DENOUNCE ASG BEHEADINGS [...] (SBU) Summary. Government security forces on Jolo have recovered the headless bodies of seven workers, whom elements of the Abu Sayyaf Group had recently decapitated. Muslim political and religious leaders in Mindanao, including the Moro National Liberation Front, are strongly denouncing the [...] | 2007-04-23 08:48:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS KISL RP |
07MANILA1301 | PHILIPPINES SEEKING CO-SPONSORS FOR 1267 LISTING [...] (S/REL AUS/JA/UK) Summary. Philippine officials informally briefed representatives from U.S., Australian, Japanese, and British Embassies on April 23 seeking a listing of the Rajah Solaiman Movement and some of its key members with the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee and to explore possible co-sp [...] | 2007-04-23 09:39:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PTER EFIN ETTC PREL KTFN PINR AS ID JA MY |
07MANILA1366 | MISUARI REPORTEDLY ORDERS CAPTURE OF JI MEMBERS ON [...] (C) Summary: The Armed Forces of the Philippines overran a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) camp in Indanan during an April 25-26 assault on the Abu Sayyaf Group. Government security officials requested MNLF Chairman and Sulu gubernatorial candidate Nur Misuari to assert his leadership [...] | 2007-04-30 05:41:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS RP |
07MANILA1608 | SCENESETTER FOR EAP ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL [...] (SBU) Summary. A warm welcome again to the Philippines! As you arrive, the Philippines will still be focused on recent mid-term election for the Senate, House, and provincial positions. Final national results will not be available until as late as June 14. In the counter-terrorism realm, t [...] | 2007-05-17 06:48:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER ECON RP |
07MANILA1614 | ARF: PHILIPPINES TO LOOK AT U.S. PROPOSALS [...] (C) The Philippines will look closely at the United States' proposals for the May 25 ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in Manila, according to Office of the Undersecretary for Policy Special Assistant Hans Siriban on May 16. 2. (C) In discussing the Inter-Sessional [...] | 2007-05-17 09:19:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PARM ARF RP |
07MANILA179 | SUCCESSFUL ASEAN-RELATED SUMMITS IN CEBU [...] (U) Summary. The 12th ASEAN Summit, 2nd East Asia Summit, and related leaders' meetings concluded in Cebu on January 15. Participants appeared highly satisfied with the outcomes, which included a new ASEAN convention on terrorism, tough language to North Korea, a pledge for greater East As [...] | 2007-01-16 08:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ECIN XE CH JA KS KN RP |
07MANILA1814 | ARROYO'S DOWN UNDER DIPLOMACY [...] (SBU) Summary: President Arroyo presided over the signing of a number of bilateral security and economic agreements during her recent visits to Australia and New Zealand, most significantly a landmark Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Australia, which nonetheless will likely face a diff [...] | 2007-06-01 07:39:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON MCAP PTER AS NZ RP |
07MANILA192 | SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL COORDINATION [...] (C) Working closely with U.S. Pacific Command representatives and counterparts from regional Missions, Post developed an integrated series of proposals for Section 1206 funding that would bolster maritime security in the Sulu and Sulawesi Seas, the critical area through which Jemaah Islamiyah [...] | 2007-01-17 08:14:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP RP |
07MANILA1928 | NPA ELECTION EXTORTION: BICOL REGION 2007 [...] (C) Summary. In Bicol, the Communist New People's Army (NPA) reportedly garnered unprecedented sums from its extortion activities in the run-up to the May 14 mid-term elections. Local politicians have criticized security forces for failing to protect them during the campaigning. The good n [...] | 2007-06-08 08:41:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PHUM RP |
07MANILA1930 | REWARDS FOR JUSTICE PAYOUT A POWERFUL TOOL IN THE [...] (U) Summary. In a June 7 Rewards for Justice ceremony on Jolo Island, Ambassador awarded four Filipino citizens their shares of a total US$10 million reward for providing information that led to the successful Philippine military operations against the top two leaders of the terrorist Abu Say [...] | 2007-06-08 10:00:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ASEC CASC RP |
07MANILA1939 | AFP-MILF MEET TO SEEK SUPPORT FOR MINDANAO PEACE [...] (SBU) Summary: Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) officers exchanged views on the peace process and cease-fire mechanisms during an unprecedented roundtable discussion on June 9. Participants cited the MILF's expeditious rescue and turnover of four [...] | 2007-06-12 08:16:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PTER MOPS KISL MY RP |
07MANILA1947 | PM A/A/S MULL'S VISIT UNDERSCORES COOPERATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: Acting Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Stephen Mull met with top Philippine civilian and military leaders during his June 6-8 visit to the Philippines. He also traveled with the Ambassador to Jolo to attend a major Rewards for Justice ceremony (ref a). In hi [...] | 2007-06-13 06:25:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS MCAP PTER PINS RP |
07MANILA196 | PHILIPPINE ARMED FORCES ANNOUNCE KILLING OF ASG [...] (U) Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon announced on January 17 that Philippine troops had killed Abu Sayyaf Group leader Jainal Sali AKA Abu Solaiman in an encounter on Jolo Island on January 16. Abu Solaiman was under U.S. indictment for his role in the kidnap [...] | 2007-01-17 08:43:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL ASEC RP |
07MANILA1983 | US DELIVERS TEN UH-1H HELICOPTERS TO ARMED FORCES OF THE [...] On June 9, the Philippine Government and the United States celebrated the official transfer of 10 U.S. newly refurbished UH-1H helicopters to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). The helicopters fulfilled an earlier commitment made by President Bush to Philippine President Gloria Macapa [...] | 2007-06-15 04:21:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PREL PTER RP |
07MANILA2052 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL KEATING'S VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to the Philippines! I am looking forward to seeing you here. US Pacific Command is an essential partner in our efforts to defeat terrorism and help the Philippine military reform itself. The USS Peleliu is now in the Philippines as part of our effort to conduct civil [...] | 2007-06-20 10:31:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL PTER RP |
07MANILA2099 | STATUS OF EFFORTS TO FREE ITALIAN PRIEST BOSSI [...] (U) Following the June 10 abduction in Zamboanga del Sur of Italian priest Father Giancarlo Bossi by ten armed men possibly associated with the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has worked closely with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to pinpoint his [...] | 2007-06-22 07:27:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL RP |
07MANILA2121 | NEW AUSTRALIAN/PHILIPPINE STATUS OF FORCES [...] (C) Summary: The Philippine-Australia Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed in May currently awaits ratification by the Philippine Senate and the Australian parliament. The Australian SOFA differs from the U.S. Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) in that it gives the host nation custody of v [...] | 2007-06-25 09:10:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PTER AS RP |
07MANILA214 | PRESIDENT ARROYO PRAISES U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Arroyo effusively thanked Ambassador Kenney for U.S. help during the recent Armed Forces of the Philippines operation to eliminate the Abu Sayyaf Group leader Abu Sulaiman. She called ongoing counterterrorism cooperation on Jolo a "triumph" in the war on terror. She [...] | 2007-01-18 09:33:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP RP |
07MANILA2233 | PACOM COMMANDER KEATING CALLS ON PRESIDENT ARROYO [...] (C) President Arroyo warmly congratulated and welcomed PACOM Commander Admiral Keating during a meeting at the Presidential Palace June 28. Secretary of Foreign Affairs Romulo, Defense Secretary Ebdane and Chief of Staff General Esperon also participated, together with Ambassador Kenney, DC [...] | 2007-07-02 08:39:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MCAP PINS PTER MASS RP |
07MANILA2258 | RENEWED REQUEST FOR INL FUNDING FOR MARITIME [...] (U) This is an action request - see para 10. 2. (U) Summary. After thorough review by all involved agencies and consultations with the Philippine National Police (PNP),Embassy would like to renew its $2 million funding request from FY2005 funds of the Bureau for International Narcotics a [...] | 2007-07-03 07:55:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PREL ASEC PBTS SNAR RP |
07MANILA2284 | LIKELY DELAY IN START OF NEW COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (C) Summary. Doubts are growing that the Philippines' landmark counter-terrorism legislation will come into effect on July 15, due to complications over the drafting of implementing regulations, the need to translate and distribute the legislation and the regulations, and the necessity of e [...] | 2007-07-06 08:07:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PHUM RP |
07MANILA2327 | DEADLY COMMUNIST INSURGENCY CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Communist insurgency continues to take its deadly toll in the Philippines, with the reported deaths in military operations since June 7 of at least 20 military and police personnel as well as approximately 25 Communist insurgents. Many of these incidents took place in Minda [...] | 2007-07-10 08:19:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PINS PREL MOPS PTER RP |
07MANILA2344 | NEW MILF/AFP ENCOUNTER LEADS TO BEHEADINGS [...] (U) Officials of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have claimed a July 10 encounter with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) left fourteen Philippine Marines dead, which AFP sources subsequently confirmed. The encounter reportedly began when the AFP entered a camp near the villag [...] | 2007-07-11 09:36:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER MOPS RP |
07MANILA2358 | JOINT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ARMED CLASHES IN [...] (C) Summary. A new joint committee will investigate the situation on Basilan in the wake of the tragic July 10 encounter between some armed elements and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and will work to restore peace on the ground. The determination of both the Philippine government and [...] | 2007-07-12 08:44:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA2369 | ARROYO ORDERS RULE OF LAW FOR PERPETRATORS OF [...] (C) Summary: Peace Panel sources speculate that the ambush and beheadings of the ten Philippine Marines in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan may have been triggered by the murder of a Muslim cleric. Muslim and Christian leaders throughout the Philippines are condemning the beheadings. President Arroyo ha [...] | 2007-07-13 07:33:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA238 | INTERIOR SECRETARY PLEDGES CONTINUED COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. In a January 19 meeting, the Ambassador thanked Interior Secretary Puno for his role in the transfer of LCpl Smith back to the Embassy, commended his Department for preparing a draft Executive Order on police/prosecutor cooperation, and stressed the need to implement the Philipp [...] | 2007-01-19 09:25:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER RP |
07MANILA241 | CONFIRMED DEATH OF ABU SAYYAF GROUP LEADER [...] (C) DNA testing by FBI laboratories, in consultation with Philippine experts, confirmed on January 19 that a corpse recently uncovered on Jolo Island in the course of the ongoing "Operation Ultimatum" by the Armed Forces of the Philippines was that of Khaddafy Janjalani, the leader of the te [...] | 2007-01-20 05:09:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS MCAP PREL CASC RP |
07MANILA2428 | AFP NEXT STEPS IN BASILAN AND JOLO OPERATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The senior leadership of Armed Forces of the Philippines' Western Mindanao Command plans a measured response to the July 10 Moro Islamic Liberation Front ambush that killed 14 Philippine Marines on Basilan. They are at the same time concerned by the concentration of senior Abu [...] | 2007-07-19 09:28:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MASS MOPS MCAP PREL RP |
07MANILA243 | PRESS GUIDANCE ON DEATH OF TERRORIST LEADER KHADAFI [...] (U) At the instruction of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines General Esperon confirmed to the media on January 20 that FBI laboratories, working together with Philippine experts, had confirmed that a corpse uncovered in December on Jolo Is [...] | 2007-01-20 06:52:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER MOPS KPAO PREL RP |
07MANILA2440 | KIDNAPPERS RELEASE ITALIAN PRIEST [...] (C) Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Special Concerns Rafael Seguis on July 20 confirmed to Pol/C press reports that kidnappers had freed Italian priest Father Giancarlo Bossi late on July 19 in Karumatan, Lanao Del Norte Province after 39 days of captivity. He insisted that the Philip [...] | 2007-07-20 07:45:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL IT RP |
07MANILA2443 | ADDING FOUR NEW TERRORISTS TO THE REWARDS FOR [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE - SEE PARA 2. 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Zulkifli Bin Hir (a.k.a. Marwan) has joined fellow Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leaders Dulmatin and Umar Patek in the rough mountainous terrain of western Jolo. Recent intelligence information indicates that these [...] | 2007-07-20 09:03:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PINR PINS ASEC PREL RP |
07MANILA2473 | PRESIDENT ARROYO FORMALLY LAUNCHES NEW [...] (U) In a gala televised event July 20 attended by leading Cabinet and Congressional figures, members of the diplomatic corps, police and army officers, and victims of terrorism and their families, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo formally launched the Philippines' new anti-terrorism law, Repu [...] | 2007-07-24 09:09:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM RP |
07MANILA2474 | GOVERNMENT DELAYS PUNITIVE ACTION ON BASILAN [...] (C) Summary. Senior government officials say they will delay punitive military operations against the suspected perpetrators of the July 10 beheadings of ten Philippine Marines in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan. We have urged restraint and protection of the peace process to senior government and Moro I [...] | 2007-07-24 10:58:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA2503 | PRESERVING PEACE PROCESS IN WAKE OF BEHEADINGS ON [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador, DCM and country team are urging Government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leaders to preserve the peace process by exercising maximum restraint in the wake of the beheadings of ten Philippine marines on July 10. After many interventions, we understand Presi [...] | 2007-07-26 09:12:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA2519 | REGIONAL ENDORSEMENT FOR FY08 1206 PROPOSAL FOR PACOM [...] (SBU) Summary: Chiefs of Mission of Embassies Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Dhaka and Colombo fully support the FY2008 regional proposal developed by U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). This year's $143 million package builds upon last year's submission to improve regional m [...] | 2007-07-27 06:22:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP BG CB CE ID MY TH |
07MANILA255 | THE USG IS HELPING DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS ON JOLO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The deaths of Abu Sayyaf Group leaders Khadaffy Janjalani and Jainal Antel Sali AKA Abu Solaiman at the hands of the Philippine Armed Forces represent a significant victory for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the people of the Philippines. This achievement is also a tes [...] | 2007-01-22 09:47:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL EAID RP |
07MANILA2575 | JOINT COMMITTEE IDENTIFIES FIVE PERPETRATORS OF [...] (C) Summary. The Philippine government has adopted a more measured approach to bring to justice the perpetrators of the beheadings of ten Philippine Marines in Tipo Tipo, Basilan. Philippine officials hope that the visible deployment of troops -- rather than use of force -- will be sufficie [...] | 2007-08-01 06:20:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA2586 | THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SRI LANKA FM [...] (C) Summary: The government of Sri Lanka (GSL) is committed to the political agenda of devolution, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama and Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa told Deputy Secretary Negroponte in a July 31 meeting on the sidelines of ASEAN. The FM emphasized Sri [...] | 2007-08-01 09:14:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEAN ETRD PREL EXBS PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS RP |
07MANILA2629 | GOVERNMENT ADOPTS JOINT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (C) Summary. In a continuing effort to preserve the Mindanao peace process, senior Philippine national security officials decided August 2 to emphasize the use of police forces rather than military units in tracking down suspects in the recent beheadings of 10 Marines. Tensions on Basilan a [...] | 2007-08-03 10:17:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA2688 | DESPITE PRESSURE AND PROVOCATION, ARMED FORCES [...] (C) Summary. Despite provocations on its soldiers and significant pressure from media and some political leaders to avenge the July 10 beheadings of ten marines on Basilan island, the Armed Forces is exercising restraint to prevent a wider war, thereby derailing the peace process. Chief of [...] | 2007-08-09 10:00:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA2714 | ARMED CLASHES ON JOLO LEAVE AT LEAST 26 PHILIPPINE [...] (SBU) Summary. The security situation in Jolo remains fluid with at least 26 Philippine soldiers killed and over 19 wounded since August 7 during armed clashes with the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group as operations against high value terrorists continue. The military claims to have killed 27 mil [...] | 2007-08-10 10:07:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA2732 | PRESIDENT ORDERS MAJOR OFFENSIVE AGAINST ABU [...] (C) Summary. In a tough response to August 7-9 clashes on Jolo that left 26 Philippine soldiers and 27 militants dead, President Arroyo ordered a stepped-up offensive against Abu Sayyaf terrorists on the island and directed her Army chief to the front lines to oversee the campaign. Stressing [...] | 2007-08-13 09:56:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA2733 | MILF AGREES TO PERMIT ARMY OPERATIONS ON BASILAN [...] (C) Summary. In a significant show of cooperation with Philippine military forces, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has agreed to relocate MILF communities on Basilan to give the army greater freedom to pursue Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) terrorists responsible for the July 10 beheadings o [...] | 2007-08-13 12:24:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA2828 | MEASURED MILITARY RESPONSE HELPING TO PRESERVE [...] (C) Summary. While the Philippine armed forces continue efforts to track down Abu Sayyaf terrorists on Basilan and Jolo, operations are being kept limited and focused in an effort to fulfill President Arroyo's directives to contain casualties and preserve two key peace processes. Despite hi [...] | 2007-08-17 11:23:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA2839 | ABU SAYYAF TERRORISTS KILLED ON BASILAN [...] (C) Summary: As part of continuing operations to track down terrorists in Mindanao, Philippine troops attacked and killed a number of Abu Sayyaf members on Basilan August 18, including two significant local commanders suspected of involvement in the killing of U.S. citizens in 2001-2. Philip [...] | 2007-08-21 10:52:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PINS PTER RP |
07MANILA2856 | PHILIPPINES UPDATE ON CONVENTION FOR SUPPRESSION [...] (SBU) As requested (reftel),post met with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and urged the Philippines to sign and ratify the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (NTC). 2. (SBU) Leah Ruiz, Director for International Political, Legal, and Securit [...] | 2007-08-22 10:03:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL RP |
07MANILA2925 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL OLSON'S VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Admiral Olson, welcome to the Philippines! You are coming to the Philippines at an important time. The Armed Forces of the Philippines is demonstrating impressive combat prowess in ongoing operations against terrorists on the island of Jolo. Under the leadership of Philippi [...] | 2007-08-29 01:31:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL PTER RP |
07MANILA2926 | TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION [...] (S) Embassy delivered reftel demarche and background paper to Philippine Anti-Money Laundering Council Compliance and Investigation Head Richard Funk on August 29. Funk agreed to relay the information to other members of the Council and inform us of any responses. KENNEY [...] | 2007-08-29 05:32:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL RP |
07MANILA2963 | REQUEST FOR PM/WRA FUNDING FOR WEAPONS DESTRUCTION [...] This cable contains an action request for PM/WRA. See para 4. 2. The Small Arms and Light Weapons destruction program was designed to reduce and remove the armed threat posed by terrorists, insurgents, and criminals. The program is currently undertaking demilitarization, decommissioning, [...] | 2007-08-31 07:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PARM PREL PTER RP |
07MANILA2982 | BREAFAST WITH SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (SBU) Summary: At a pivate breakfast on September 3, Secretary of Forign Affairs Romulo told me that the SIPDIS Philippines hares our concerns over the situation in Burma. Te Philippine government is concerned about the recnt crackdown, feels the Burmese potential "new cnstitution" is a sh [...] | 2007-09-04 06:45:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER RP |
07MANILA299 | U/S HUGHES CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT ARROYO ON [...] (C) Summary. U/S Hughes voiced U.S. praise for recent Philippine counterterrorism successes to President Arroyo, who vowed to continue these operations as well as defense modernization and reform. President Arroyo called on the U.S. to sign ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation this year [...] | 2007-01-29 00:29:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID ECON KPAO RP |
07MANILA2997 | FIGHTING TERROR AND SPARKING GROWTH: LIKELY TOPICS [...] (C) Summary: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo hopes that she and President Bush will have a few minutes to talk at the September 7 APEC meeting in Sydney, Australia. Palace Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita (equivalent of the White House chief of staff) and Foreign Minister Alberto Romulo [...] | 2007-09-05 05:22:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PTER RP |
07MANILA3044 | NEW U.S. LAW ON MARITIME CARGO SCANNING REQUIREMENTS [...] Econ officers presented reftel talking points to Philippine Bureau of Customs Attorney James F. Enriquez and Attorney. Ramon G. Cuyco on 8/29. Econ officers also sent letters to American President Line, Maersk Line and the Association of International Shipping Lines. 2. The initial respo [...] | 2007-09-10 05:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EWWT AMGT PTER RP |
07MANILA3051 | AMNESTY FOR COMMUNIST INSURGENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: In an effort to undermine the Philippine Communist Party and its military wing, President Gloria Arroyo announced a broad amnesty plan for Philippine Communists September 7. At the same time, legal proceedings got underway in the Netherlands against Jose Maria "Joma" Sison, the [...] | 2007-09-10 22:35:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PHUM RP |
07MANILA3279 | AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES FOUR ASSISTANCE PROJECTS IN [...] SUMMARY: The Ambassador highlighted continued U.S. assistance to conflict areas in the southern Philippines with a visit to Jolo City on September 24 to inaugurate four assistance projects, three of which were conducted in partnership with the British government. Traveling with UK ambassado [...] | 2007-10-01 02:49:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MOPS PREL PTER RP SOCI |
07MANILA3543 | SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ESPERON'S VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) Tim, I know you will have a mountain of excellent briefing paper for the CHOD conference, but I wanted to offer my input on Jun Esperon, who will arrive in Hawaii on Monday. Jun is a strong ally, and he understands the delicate balance that military operations play in the ongoing peace p [...] | 2007-10-26 08:50:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL PTER RP |
07MANILA3577 | PHILIPPINES TO SUPPORT ARGENTINA'S POSITION AT [...] (S) Maria Aguinaldo, Director of the Social Development Issues Division for the Office of United Nations and International Organizations of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),informed poloff October 31 that the Philippine government would send a delegation of five to seven representativ [...] | 2007-10-31 09:14:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PREL IR PTER ASEC PGOV KJUS RP |
07MANILA3580 | THE NEW AUSTRALIAN/PHILIPPINES STATUS OF FORCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post is tracking progress on the Philippine-Australian Visiting Forces Agreement, which has been passed by the Australian Parliament and awaits approval by the Philippine Senate. While the agreement will facilitate the Australian military's important anti-terrorism and training a [...] | 2007-10-31 09:58:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PTER RP AS |
07MANILA3649 | DEATH OF A CONGRESSMAN: BASILAN'S COMPLEX CURRENTS [...] (C) Summary: The death of controversial Basilan Congressman Wahab Akbar in an explosion outside the Congressional building November 13 was perhaps least a surprise to him. While a powerful politician with strong public support on his island province, he also acknowledged that he had many en [...] | 2007-11-14 08:15:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA3693 | SECURITY FORCES TAKE OUT TERRORISTS SUSPECTED IN [...] (S) Summary: Acting swiftly on information from internal and external sources, Philippine security forces raided an Abu Sayyaf terrorist safe house in Metro Manila November 15 and killed or captured six individuals suspected in the bomb assassination of Congressman and local warlord of the s [...] | 2007-11-16 08:31:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA3707 | PHILIPPINE RSM 1267 NOMINATION [...] (S) Summary: Philippine National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) Director General Cesar Garcia told emboffs at a November 16 meeting that the Philippines had submitted three months ago its nomination package to the United Nations 1267 Committee to designate the Rajah Solaiman Movemen [...] | 2007-11-19 08:29:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PTER UNSC RP |
07MANILA3891 | UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-11 01:06:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER |
07MANILA3947 | ABU SAYYAF CONVICTIONS UNDERSCORE DETERMINATION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Philippine judge handed out multiple life sentences this month to 14 Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members convicted of kidnapping 20 persons, including U.S. citizens Gracia and Martin Burnham and Guillermo Sobero, from a resort in May 2001. The decision underscored the government's [...] | 2007-12-17 09:10:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS MOPS PINS PTER RP |
07MANILA3994 | PHILIPPINES: 2007 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Summary: The Philippines, one of the earliest supporters in the global coalition against terrorism, continues to cooperate with the United States on bilateral and multilateral counterterrorism efforts. In 2007, eight of 140 bombings that occurred in the Philippines were ascribed to terr [...] | 2007-12-20 08:52:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC RP |
07MANILA4 | THE PHILIPPINES: YEAR IN REVIEW 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Arroyo has emerged in a stronger position at the end of 2006, but faces challenges ahead in preserving control of the House in the May 2007 bi-elections. Arroyo has been helped by a buoyant economy in 2006, but the country will have to deal with power privatization and [...] | 2007-01-03 01:21:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON EAID MOPS PHUM RP |
07MANILA407 | MNLF FREES "GUESTS" IN EXCHANGE FOR TRIPARTITE [...] (SBU) Elements of the Moro National Liberation Front under Commander Habier Malik on February 4 released Brigadier General Benjamin Dolorfino (commander of the Armed Forces' National Capital Region command and the highest ranking Muslim army officer),Undersecretary for the Peace Process Gen [...] | 2007-02-05 08:22:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR RP |
07MANILA465 | NEAR PASSAGE OF MAJOR COUNTER-TERRORISM LEGISLATION [...] (U) Summary. Passage of long-awaited counterterrorism legislation moved closer to adoption with the approval on February 8 by a bicameral committee of an agreed-upon version. The lower House will have to vote on it when Congress resumes in June, and the President, who expressed delight at t [...] | 2007-02-09 08:30:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KCRM RP |
07MANILA533 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CONGRESSMAN CHABOT [...] (U) Congressman Chabot, a warm welcome to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines remain strong. The unique bond shared between U.S. and Philippine veterans further strengthens our ties, as the memory of our partnership in Wor [...] | 2007-02-15 10:25:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL EAID PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP RP |
07MANILA560 | CONGRESS PASSES MAJOR COUNTER-TERRORISM LEGISLATION [...] (U) In a special session called by President Arroyo, the House of Representatives on February 19 approved the bicameral conference version of the Human Security Act of 2007, major counter-terrorism legislation that gives the Philippine government greater ability to investigate and prosecute t [...] | 2007-02-20 09:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KCRM RP |
07MANILA599 | NEW COUNTERTERRORISM LEGISLATION NOT PERFECT, BUT [...] (C) The "Human Security Act of 2007," which President Arroyo will soon sign into law following its recent passage by the Philippine Congress (ref a),reflects the Philippine government's determination to improve its arsenal of tools in going after terrorists who continue to inhabit or transit [...] | 2007-02-22 09:03:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM RP |
07MANILA699 | PHILIPPINES LIKELY TO JOIN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (SBU) The Philippines will likely become a partner nation in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (reftel),according to Alan Deniega, Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA) Director for International Political, Legal, and Security Affairs in the Office of United Nations and Intern [...] | 2007-03-02 08:44:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER RP |
07MANILA72 | ARROYO SHOWCASES US-PHILIPPINE PARTNERSHIP ON JOLO [...] (SBU) President Arroyo invited Charge Jones to accompany her on a January 8 trip to the southern island of Jolo, where the Philippine military, with the help of U.S. Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P) and USAID, continues to battle terrorists of the Abu Sayyaf Group and [...] | 2007-01-09 09:33:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL EAID MOPS MARR RP |
07MANILA752 | PRESIDENT ARROYO SIGNS LANDMARK COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (U) At a highly publicized ceremony featuring half the Cabinet, Congressional leaders, senior military and police officials, and the diplomatic corps at Malacanang Palace on March 6, President Arroyo signed the final version of the "Human Security Act of 2007," long-awaited counterterrorism [...] | 2007-03-08 08:11:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PHUM KCRM RP |
07MANILA781 | TERRORISM FINANCE: PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT READY TO [...] (U) This is an action message -- see para 8. 2. (S) SUMMARY. The Philippine government is ready to move soon on listing the Rajah Solaiman Movement and a selected number of its members with the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee. The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency has prepared a sepa [...] | 2007-03-09 08:25:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PTER EFIN ETTC PREL KTFN RP |
07MANILA856 | USG AND PHILIPPINE MILITARY STAND [...] (U) The top brass of the Philippine military joined U.S. Ambassador on the southern Philippine island of Jolo for ceremonies marking the end of "Balikatan" (shoulder-to-shoulder),the annual set of joint military exercises between the U.S. and the Philippines that has occurred since 1981. Alt [...] | 2007-03-15 10:13:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL EAID RP |
07MAPUTO1320 | REQUEST TO RE-OBLIGATE INL FUNDING FOR MOZAMBIQUE [...] INL proposes to de-obligate Mozambique Border Security Technical Assistance funds of FY04 $191,418 and FY05 $216,000. These currently obligated funds support the highly successful training and equipment program for Mozambican border guards and supervisors. Mozambique's borders are lengthy a [...] | 2007-11-14 15:18:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER SNAR PREL MZ |
07MAPUTO26 | MOZAMBIQUE - REPORT OF PREPARATIONS TO ASSIST [...] (S) In a brief conversation in the morning of January 5, a Muslim religious figure in Maputo relayed the following information to emboff: 2. (S) According to his sources, three 20-foot containers of supplies -- including beans, rice, blankets, salt, sugar, tea, used clothing for males, and [...] | 2007-01-08 13:02:00 | Embassy Maputo | SECRET | PREF PTER MZ |
07MAPUTO29 | MOZAMBIQUE - REPORT OF PREPARATIONS TO ASSIST [...] (S) In a brief conversation in the morning of January 5, a Muslim religious figure in Maputo relayed the following information to emboff: 2. (S) According to his sources, three 20-foot containers of supplies -- including beans, rice, blankets, salt, sugar, tea, used clothing for males, and [...] | 2007-01-08 14:14:00 | Embassy Maputo | SECRET | PREF PTER MZ |
07MAPUTO31 | MOZAMBIQUE - REPORT OF PREPARATIONS TO ASSIST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-08 15:25:00 | Embassy Maputo | SECRET | PREF PTER MZ |
07MAPUTO491 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ: MAINTAINING PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-25 12:24:00 | Embassy Maputo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER MZ |
07MASERU105 | PERSPECTIVE OF IEC CHAIR ON RECENT ATTACKS OF U.S. TARGETS [...] (SBU) Following the February 27, 12:30 a.m. grenade and heavy gun shot attack on the residence/office of Partners-In-health (PIH) staffed by a U.S. citizen (and Canadian spouse) (Ref A),Ambassador received a call from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Chair Thoahlane. With this atta [...] | 2007-03-01 11:20:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PTER PT |
07MASERU107 | PERSPECTIVE OF IEC CHAIR ON RECENT ATTACKS OF U.S. TARGETS [...] (S) Following the February 27, 12:30 a.m. grenade and heavy gun shot attack on the residence/office of Partners-In-Health (PIH) staffed by a U.S. citizen (and Canadian spouse) (Ref B),Ambassador received a call from the Independent Electoral Commission Chair (IEC) Thoahlane. With this attack [...] | 2007-03-01 15:30:00 | Embassy Maseru | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PTER LT |
07MASERU159 | NOMINEES FOR ATA-6125, COMBATING TERRORISM: MAY 14-18, 2007 [...] Post submits the following information on the eight (8) candidates from Lesotho who are nominated to participate in REFTEL course. All candidates serve with the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). A) SURNAME TAU OTHER NAMES TLALI ALEXIS RANK [...] | 2007-03-16 09:11:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER LT |
07MASERU282 | LESOTHO: UNSCR 1267 AND UNHRC DEMARCHES [...] On May 16, Poloff spoke with Acting Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs P.P. Makosholo regarding continued implementation of UNSCR 1267 (ref A) and Bosnia's candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (ref B). Regarding UNSCR 1267, Makosholo stated that he would encourage a representative o [...] | 2007-05-16 19:00:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC LT |
07MASERU351 | LESOTHO: EAC CONSIDERS JULY 4 POSTURE, RECENT ATTACKS ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: Charge d'Affaires convened an EAC meeting on June 15 to assess security policies and potential threats associated with the Embassy's planned official July 4 reception. The EAC also reviewed the mission's general security posture in light of recent attacks on the properties of GOL [...] | 2007-06-15 10:14:00 | Embassy Maseru | SECRET | ASEC PTER CASC PREL PGOV LT |
07MASERU356 | LESOTHO: EAC ASSESSES GOL CURFEW, SECURITY DETERIORATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge convened the EAC twice on June 18 to assess mission security policies and potential threats following the GOL's after hours announcement on June 15 of a daily curfew, several violent security incidents over the weekend of June 16-17 (including the carjacking of a U.S. missio [...] | 2007-06-18 18:33:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER CASC PREL PGOV LT |
07MASERU487 | THE LESOTHO LIBERATION ARMY (LLA): BACK FOR MORE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Lesotho Liberation Army, or LLA, is an aging insurgent group dating back to the 1970's which appeared to rest in obscurity until several of its former members were recently implicated in attacks on ministerial residences. Born out of opposition to the dictatorship of post-i [...] | 2007-08-14 23:01:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC PINS PTER LT |
07MASERU488 | THE LESOTHO LIBERATION ARMY (LLA): BACK FOR MORE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Lesotho Liberation Army, or LLA, is an aging insurgent group dating back to the 1970's which appeared to rest in obscurity until several of its former members were recently implicated in attacks on ministerial residences. Born out of opposition to the dictatorship of post-i [...] | 2007-08-14 23:01:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC PINS PTER LT |
07MASERU533 | LESOTHO: ILEA COURSE ATA-6503: POLICE EXECUTIVE'S ROLE IN [...] Embassy Maseru confirms that the GOL has agreed to identify five (5) police executives from the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) to participate in reftel course. 2. As requested, post will provide ILEA Gaborone and DS/ATA/RSS the complete participants list, flight itineraries, and cos [...] | 2007-09-24 14:16:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER LT |
07MASERU561 | LESOTHO INTERESTED IN WIREC, VAGUELY SUPPORTIVE ON UN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 2, Poloff met Lesotho's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Europe and Americas Director P.P. Makoaholo to discuss the upcoming WIREC conference and various UN issues. Makoaholo expressed interest in recruiting a high-level delegation for the WIREC conference and was vague bu [...] | 2007-10-10 14:02:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENEG SENV TRGY UN PHUM KWMN SOCI PTER UNSC |
07MASERU616 | ATA-6503: LESOTHO NOMINEES - POLICE EXECUTIVE'S ROLE IN [...] Post submits the names of five (5) candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in REFTEL course. All candidates are members of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). Their flight itinerary and cost of their airfare are also indicated below. 2. The names and ranks of the cand [...] | 2007-12-03 10:44:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER LT |
07MASERU64 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS CONCURS WITH U.S. ON SEVERAL ISSUES; [...] (S) On February 7 ( and over the course of the past 3 weeks) Ambassador raised key U.S. policy issues with Foreign Minister Moleleki. We also discussed the issues facing the February 17 general elections. On the new U.S. Africa Military Command, Moleleki was in complete agreement with the U [...] | 2007-02-08 15:40:00 | Embassy Maseru | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM PTER MARR KNNP EFIN LT |
07MEXICO1119 | TERRORIST FINANCE: MEXICAN OFFICIAL DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) The head of Mexico's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU),Luis Urrutia, called Econoff on March 5, 2007 about the non-paper she sent him on illicit cash couriers (Refs A and B). Urrutia told Econoff that Mexico understands the threats associated with illicit cash courier activity and that [...] | 2007-03-06 14:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER MX |
07MEXICO1181 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 23:45:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER MX |
07MEXICO1466 | APPROVAL FOR MILITARY INFORMATION SUPPORT TEAM [...] (U) This is an approval message. 2. (S) Ambassador approves MIST concept under USSOCOM Trans-regional PSYOP (TRP) Execution authority and Rewards Information Program (RIP),and executed through the USNORTHCOM Information Operations (J39) for planning, coordination, product development, prod [...] | 2007-03-23 21:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | MARR MOPS PTER OPRC MX |
07MEXICO2653 | MEXICO NOT LIKELY TO VOICE CONCERN OVER [...] (C) Summary: Political Counselor met with Mario Arriola Woog, SRE's Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean, on May 21 to emphasize that growing political, economic and commercial ties between Venezuela and Iran not only served to undermine international sanctions against the l [...] | 2007-05-23 22:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE IR MX |
07MEXICO2724 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPORTANCE OF INTL SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-25 21:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC MX |
07MEXICO351 | MEXICAN FINANCE SECRETARY DISCUSSES REFORM AGENDA, [...] (C) Ambassador Garza met with Mexican Finance Secretary Agustin Carstens on January 22, 2007. The Ambassador began the meeting by congratulating Carstens for the Calderon administration's strong start -- highlighting their counterdrug and anticrime efforts. Carstens told the Ambassador that [...] | 2007-01-24 14:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN PGOV PTER PINR MX |
07MEXICO3703 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JUNE 22 - JULY 13 [...] (SBU) The Calderon Administration is working with the Mexican Legislature to promote a fiscal reform initiative, possibly a prelude to a series of other reforms (energy, labor, education, etc.). Over the past two weeks, we have spoken with officials outside and inside the Congress to get a s [...] | 2007-07-13 16:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG MX PGOV PTER |
07MEXICO3839 | ZAPATERO VISIT BOOSTS CALDERON [...] (SBU) Summary: During his four-day visit to Mexico, Spanish PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and President Calderon agreed to cooperate on apprehending ETA members and other extremists, develop infrastructure and the tourism sector, increase people-to-people contacts through a "Dialogue Forum," [...] | 2007-07-20 16:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON MX |
07MEXICO3899 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN CONVENTION AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-24 15:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS PTER SNAR PG |
07MEXICO4062 | DEMARCHE REGARDING NTC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 19:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL MX |
07MEXICO4696 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO PRE-BRIEF MEXICO ON UNDER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-30 19:58:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR PREF PTER PARM EAID ECON OPDC CO MX |
07MEXICO4916 | READ-OUT OF BILATERAL MEETINGS ON MEXICO'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 16-17, Department of Commerce/Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) senior technical and policy representatives participated in a bilateral technical exchange in Mexico City, Mexico. This meeting was in response to a specific request by the Mexican Government seeking a [...] | 2007-09-11 21:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PARM PTER MX |
07MEXICO5466 | MEXICAN CONGRESS BUILDS CONFIDENCE DURING ACTIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mexico's legislature has moved beyond its rubber stamp role of years past and begun playing a formative role in the advancement of critical bills. Strong inter-party and party-government dialogue, as well as the powerful impetus provided by the three senior party leaders in the S [...] | 2007-10-16 17:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB ENRG PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SENV |
07MEXICO5535 | SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY'S TRIP TO MEXICO [...] (C) Ambassador Garza and Mission Mexico warmly welcome you to Mexico City. Your visit is an opportunity to underscore the broad, deep relationship between the U.S. and Mexico and our appreciation for Calderon's demonstrated leadership. His administration is prioritizing security and economic [...] | 2007-10-20 18:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR PTER PINR ECON ELAB ENRG PHUM |
07MEXICO5793 | TERRORIST FINANCE: MEXICO CITY'S RESPONSE TO [...] (SBU) This cable is Mexico City's response to Ref A. -- Status of laws specifically criminalizing bulk cash smuggling, and key elements of those laws 2. (SBU) The Government of Mexico continues efforts to implement an anti-money laundering program according to international standards such [...] | 2007-11-09 18:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER MX |
07MEXICO5846 | FOREIGN SECRETARY ESPINOSA COURTS CONGRESSIONAL [...] (U) Summary: Responding to Congressional calls for the Executive to clarify the Merida Initiative, Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa testified before the Senate on October 22 and before the Chamber of Deputies on October 31. She was clear the Merida Initiative is not a formal accord requirin [...] | 2007-11-14 22:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR PTER SMIL MX |
07MEXICO6009 | RE: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON HOST GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Below please find Post's responses regarding host government's policies toward and capabilities for collection of biographic and biometric data for terrorist screening purposes. The resonses are keyed to the questions per reftel. A. Watchlisting: -- If host government maintains a "w [...] | 2007-12-03 22:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC CVIS ECON KVPR MX PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
07MEXICO6099 | TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICERS IN [...] (SBU) As per reftel's request, the Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) at Embassy Mexico City is Manuel Larragoity, Deputy Attache for DHS/ICE. He may be reached at (52-55) 5080-2384 or via e-mail at manuel.larragoity@dhs.gov. 2. (SBU) Post TFCO Deputy is Laura M. Lausier, Economi [...] | 2007-12-11 14:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER MX |
07MEXICO961 | TERRORIST FINANCE: EMBASSY RAISED PROBLEM OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-26 21:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER MX |
07MEXICO965 | DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF IN MEXICO, FEBRUARY 15-16: [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary Chertoff's February 15 meetings with GOM Interior (Gobernacion) officials occasioned broad-ranging discussions of ongoing bilateral cooperation and yielded several specific proposals to broaden it, including: --A commitment to work together closely in shaping and [...] | 2007-02-26 22:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR |
07MEXICO966 | DHS SECRETARY FEBRUARY 15TH MEETING WITH MEXICO'S [...] (SBU) During a two-day trip to Mexico City, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff met February 15 with Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit Agustin Carstens. Both secretaries reaffirmed long-standing cooperation between the U.S. and Mexican customs officials. 2. (SBU [...] | 2007-02-26 22:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR MX |
07MINSK1026 | TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-14 16:23:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN BO |
07MINSK1052 | Terrorism Finance - Syria/Lebanon Designation Information [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-26 16:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER LE SY BO |
07MINSK1053 | Terrorism Finance - Domestic Designation of Former Regime [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-26 16:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER KTFN IZ BO |
07MINSK401 | MAY 31-JUNE 1 COUNTERTERRORISM CONFERENCE DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On May 15, Vladimir Tararov, Minister Counselor from the Russian Embassy, and Dep Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel talking points, agenda and timetable to Vladimir Serpikov, Director of the MFA's European Cooperation Department. 2. (SBU) Serpikov said Oleg Anatolyevich Chernyshev, head [...] | 2007-05-16 14:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OSCE PREL PTER AFIN RS SP BO |
07MINSK727 | TRUSTBANK REQUESTS RECONSIDERATION BY TREASURY [...] (C) Trustbank requested a meeting with post to seek a means to remove the bank from the Department of Treasury's list of money laundering concerns. Bank officials conceded its continued profitability remained highly doubtful without rehabilitation, and they offered to consider any recommendat [...] | 2007-08-24 12:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL BO |
07MINSK818 | LEBANON DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BELARUS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-25 15:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC LE PTER BO |
07MONROVIA1302 | LIBERIA WILL NOT ATTEND INTERPOL GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 15:13:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS PTER ASEC PREL PGOV IR LI |
07MONROVIA1359 | LIBERIA: GOL AND UNMIL RESPOND QUICKLY TO LAC [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Executive Mansion has called the murder of Liberian Agriculture Company (LAC) General Manager Michael Bruno "unacceptable" and vowed to find and prosecute the perpetrators as soon as possible in order to protect Liberia's investment climate. The Mansion also expressed concer [...] | 2007-11-21 15:35:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC AMGT EAGR PTER LI |
07MONROVIA580 | LIBERIA: DEMARCHE ON IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL [...] Embassy delivered reftel demarche May 16 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Minister for American Affairs Moiba Fofana. Emboff promised to send Fofana the texts of UNSCR resolutions 1267 and 1735. Fofana said he would brief Minister of Foreign Affairs George Wallace on the demarche. Mazel [...] | 2007-05-17 10:05:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC LI |
07MONROVIA961 | LIBERIA: GOVERNMENT REVOKES DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 10:56:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CVIS PREL PTER LI |
07MONTERREY334 | UNPRESCEDENTED ESCALATION OF NARCO-VIOLENCE IN MONTERREY [...] (S) SUMMARY. Monterrey has experienced an unprecedented escalation of narco-related violence with the assassination of six police officers in five separate incidents over the course of one week. On March 20 and 21, the dead bodies of two unidentified men were found with notes attached to t [...] | 2007-03-23 21:14:00 | Consulate Monterrey | SECRET | SNAR PGOV PTER ASEC MX |
07MONTEVIDEO1072 | POROUS BORDERS AND DRUG TRAFFICKING IN URUGUAY [...] (SBU) This telegram supplements information provided in reftel B. AmEmbassy Montevideo remains concerned over the future implications of Uruguay's porous borders, unprecedented levels of drug-trafficking, and potential money laundering. The Government of Uruguay (GOU) does not have adequat [...] | 2007-12-31 14:47:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER SNAR ASEC UY |
07MONTEVIDEO287 | EX-GUERRILLA'S INVOLVEMENT IN US BUSINESS DEAL [...] (C) This telegram contains an action request for the Department in paragraphs 1 and 6. 2. (S) Summary: It has recently come to our attention that a promising counter-trade deal between the GOU and U.S. firm General Electric (GE) includes the key participation of a nefarious former Tupamaro guerri [...] | 2007-03-20 19:34:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET | PTER PREL ETRD ASEC UY |
07MONTEVIDEO414 | URUGUAY WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN IRAQ COALITION [...] (S) Embassy privately discussed reftel issue with senior GOU civilian and military officials. Officials said that Uruguay is generally very much interested in UN peacekeeping operations, but will not consider military or other contributions to the Iraq Coalition because of domestic and regiona [...] | 2007-04-30 19:46:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER |
07MONTEVIDEO445 | URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA [...] (S) On May 8, Polcouns delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Acting Director General for Political Affairs Gerardo Prato. Prato was keenly attentive to all of the general, political, military, economic and social points presented. He lamented that a paper copy of the demarche could not be left [...] | 2007-05-09 14:16:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET | PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER PINS VE IR UY |
07MONTEVIDEO699 | CONSTRUCTIVE GOOD WILL: U/S BURNS' JULY 10-11 [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns, densely-packed visit to Uruguay substantially advanced our bilateral relations and key U.S. foreign policy objectives. Trade, the fight against poverty, UN peacekeeping operations (PKO),MERCOSUR, Venezuela, WTO, e [...] | 2007-07-27 15:13:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ASEC OVIP PTER UY |
07MONTEVIDEO707 | SUBSTANTIVE ENGAGEMENT: A/S SHANNON JULY 10-11 [...] (C) Summary. Arriving in Montevideo several hours ahead of U/S Burns on July 10, A/S Shannon,s pre-visit to Uruguay was very successful and advanced important U.S. foreign policy objectives. The pulp mill dispute with Argentina, Uruguay,s $20 million Haiti proposal, trade, Bolivia, Venezuela [...] | 2007-07-31 18:51:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ASEC OVIP PTER UY |
07MONTEVIDEO735 | AMMUNITION TRANSFER FROM VENEZUELA RAISES [...] (S) Summary: The Uruguayan media has raised questions about the purpose and origin of a shipment of Venezuelan ammunition to Uruguay. The issue centers around an attempt by the Uruguayan Ambassador to Venezuela to have a UY naval vessel pick up two hundred kilograms of "materials" from Venezu [...] | 2007-08-09 17:53:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET | PGOV PREL PARM PINS PTER KCRM UY |
07MONTEVIDEO836 | CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON [...] (SBU) Issues contained in reftel demarche request were raised with Third Secretary Gabriela Sibila, Department of Multilateral Affairs, on September 19, 2007. The GOU had no comment. 2. (C) Concurrently, Acting DCM contacted the Dutch Ambassador to Uruguay, who indicated that the Dutch had [...] | 2007-09-21 12:31:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PTER LE UY |
07MONTEVIDEO947 | URUGUAY ON HOST GOVERNMENT PRACTICES - INFORMATION [...] (C) Introduction: This telegram responds to reftel action request for information. Methodology and sources used to compile this report included an in-depth interview by regional LEGATT (Buenos Aires) with Dra. Carmen Conte, Director, Direccion Nacional de Migracion and with Comisario Jorge Sce [...] | 2007-11-01 16:00:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KVPR PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS PBTS |
07MONTREAL132 | Mosaic under pressure: Quebec's identity and religious [...] (SBU) An undercurrent of social conflict has emerged between Quebec's identity as a "secular" province and the more overt expressions of faith, particularly by immigrants whom Quebec has received in recent years. While "reasonable accommodation" originated in jurisprudence of labor relations b [...] | 2007-03-19 18:43:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PHUM PINS KDEM KWMN SOCI CA |
07MONTREAL137 | Mosaic under pressure (part 2 of 2): Politicians Enter the [...] (SBU) This is the second part of our examination of the debate over "reasonable accommodation," the political catch-all term for the building tension between Quebec's identity as a "secular" society and the perceived need to shape its rules and values to "accommodate" religious or cultural cons [...] | 2007-03-23 19:26:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PHUM PINS KDEM SOCI CA |
07MOSCOW105 | RUSSIA REACTS TO IRAQ STRATEGY, IRANIAN [...] (C) Summary: The GOR publicly reacted to the President's policy address by repeating the need for "broad and real" dialogue among Iraqi groups and neighboring countries, including Iran and Syria, and indicating concern over the perceived reliance on a military solution. The MFA told us it r [...] | 2007-01-12 15:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR IZ IR |
07MOSCOW1239 | BILATERAL BIOTERRORISM LETTER DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On March 21 we delivered Ref A letter regarding the proposed bilateral bioterrorism working group meeting to Sergey Belousko, Attache, and Mikhail Shurgalin, the Director of the Information Section of the MFA's Department of New Challenges and Threats. Shurgalin said he would share the [...] | 2007-03-22 15:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER TBIO RS |
07MOSCOW1355 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A US-Russia working-level meeting at the MFA March 27 discussed the June 11-12 meeting in Kazakhstan of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),and considered recruitment efforts with both the EU and the OSCE to broaden participation in the Global Initiative. [...] | 2007-03-28 11:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL PTER PINR KGIT RS |
07MOSCOW1413 | RUSSIA TO REVIEW TALIBAN LIST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-30 10:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | AF RS EFIN ETTC KTFN PGOV PREL PTER UNSC |
07MOSCOW1551 | RUSSIA INTERESTED IN G8 BIOTERRORISM DECONTAMINATION [...] (SBU) On April 2 we delivered reftel information about the June 2007 G8 Bioterrorism Decontamination Workshop and the related EPA Decontamination Workshop to the MFA's Department of New Challenges and Threats. In a follow-up conversation April 6, Sergey Belousko, an attache within that departm [...] | 2007-04-06 15:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PTER PINS RS |
07MOSCOW185 | IRAQ: MFA INFORMED OF U.S. RESPONSE TO ATTACK ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-18 16:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PTER IZ RS |
07MOSCOW1877 | US-RUSSIA STRATEGIC SECURITY TALKS, APRIL 17 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Missile Defense (MD) dominated the all-day Strategic Security talks in Moscow April 17. The Russian side, led by Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak, contended that the proposed placement of MD interceptors and a radar in Poland and the Czech Republic, respectively, occurred along [...] | 2007-04-23 14:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MARR PINS PREL PTER RS |
07MOSCOW2253 | RUSSIA ON REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC HERITAGE SOCIETY [...] (C) Post delivered reftel points on the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) to the MFA's Department of International Organizations and the Department of New Threats and Challenges. Vladimir Prokhorov, Senior Legal Advisor in the Department of New Threats and Challenges, responded that [...] | 2007-05-15 14:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL ECON RS |
07MOSCOW2317 | RUSSIANS ALREADY DEMARCHING OSCE CAPITALS ON [...] (SBU) On May 16 we delivered reftel demarche to Vladimir Andreyev, Deputy Director for the MFA's Department of New Challenges and Threats, regarding the proposal to conduct joint demarches to OSCE member states to solicit high-level participation in the May 31-June 1 Conference for Public-Pri [...] | 2007-05-18 10:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER OSCE ABUD AFIN RS |
07MOSCOW2438 | APEC: INVITATION TO APEC FOOD DEFENSE WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-24 14:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER TBIO EAGR APEC RS |
07MOSCOW2633 | RUSSIAN POSITION ON EU AS OBSERVER IN GLOBAL [...] (U) On June 4 we contacted Amelia Siderova, in the MFA's Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR),and asked her to clarify (REFTEL) Russia's position on the potential participation of the European Union in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT). Siderova resp [...] | 2007-06-04 15:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KGIC KNNP PREL RU |
07MOSCOW2733 | IRAN: INFORMATION ON MISSING AMCIT PASSED TO MFA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-08 08:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL KISL KJUS PTER RS |
07MOSCOW3567 | AFGHANISTAN: MOSCOW STIRS [...] (C) Summary: Russia has sharply stepped up its engagement with the Afghan government since FM Lavrov's February visit to Kabul. Moscow intends to finalize its debt relief agreement with Kabul by the end of the month and is actively weighing increased arms supplies and initiating a program [...] | 2007-07-20 12:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS EAID SNAR AF RS |
07MOSCOW381 | AFGHANISTAN: TIME TO REENGAGE WITH RUSSIA? [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Lavrov's February 2-3 Washington consultations provide an opportunity to seek support for the new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan's security and reconstruction. While Moscow has been critical of U.S. and Western efforts in Afghanistan, it has also expressed inte [...] | 2007-01-30 16:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ETRD SNAR AF RS |
07MOSCOW3842 | G8 DECONTAMINATION WORKSHOP SUMMARY DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On July 16, 2007, we shared reftel summary of the Bioterrorism Decontamination Workshop with Vladimir Andreyev, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of New Challenges and Threats. On July 31, we also shared the workshop summary with Vladimir Prokhorov from the same office, who attende [...] | 2007-08-06 14:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PTER PINS EAGR RS |
07MOSCOW3935 | NON-PAPER ON UN'S ROLE IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-10 14:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KTFN RS |
07MOSCOW3996 | "PEACE MISSION 2007": SHANGHAI COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 9-17 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) anti-terrorist exercise -- Peace Mission 2007 -- is the largest in the history of the SCO. Approximately 6,500 troops are participating, the bulk from Russia and China. SCO Heads of State, including Chinese President Hu, ar [...] | 2007-08-15 11:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PTER RS CH |
07MOSCOW4044 | RUSSIA SAYS NO TO FUNDING INFORMATION ACTIVITY IN GARMISCH [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, on August 16 we discussed the upcoming Information Portal Activity in Garmisch, Germany under the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),with Alexander Bulychov from the MFA's Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR). Bulychov told us [...] | 2007-08-17 12:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KGIC PARM PREL RS |
07MOSCOW4120 | RUSSIA NONCOMMITTAL ON UNSCR 1540 SOUTH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-23 04:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP ID SF RS |
07MOSCOW4141 | "PEACE MISSION 2007": SCO MILITARY LINKS GROWING, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Experts told us that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) Peace Mission 2007 anti-terrorist exercises, while deemed a success by many Russians, do not necessarily point to increased integration among SCO member states. The 6,500 soldiers involved in the exercises repor [...] | 2007-08-24 02:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PTER RS CH |
07MOSCOW437 | FSB REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON AL-QAIDA ACTIVITY [...] (C) On January 22, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) passed a note to Embassy Moscow ORC requesting information the USG might have regarding Al Qaida financial activity in the Russian Federation. Below is an unofficial Embassy translation of the note. A copy of the original Russian-la [...] | 2007-02-01 14:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN PTER PREL RS |
07MOSCOW4410 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE PRE-NOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-07 12:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | KTFN PTER ETTC PREL RS |
07MOSCOW4469 | Nunn-Lugar Roundtable: Russians Praise CTR, Call for More [...] (U) Summary: At an event co-hosted by the Carnegie Moscow Center and the Center for Policy Studies to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction, the Russian guest speakers broadly praised the Program, acknowledging its popularity and success. Some argue [...] | 2007-09-12 05:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER OREP ENRG MNUC |
07MOSCOW4485 | RUSSIA WILL SUPPORT US POSITION ON UNSCR 1540 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-13 02:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP ID SF RS |
07MOSCOW4831 | RESPONSE TO PKK TERRORISM IN EUROPE DEMARCHE: [...] (SBU) In an October 2 meeting, we delivered reftel demarche to MFA New Threats and Challenges Senior Counselor Vladimir Prokhorov. Prokhorov expressed dismay over the flight of Riza Altun and disappointment with the lack of cooperation between France and Austria. He told us that he would pa [...] | 2007-10-02 14:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN OSCE TU IZ EU RS |
07MOSCOW4893 | ENCOURAGING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] We delivered reftel demarche on October 4 to MFA Middle East and North Africa Department First Secretary Timur Zabirov. Zabirov expressed GOR support for the Tribunal mission, although he could not specify the level of GOR funding. Zabirov warned against the use of the Tribunal as a means to [...] | 2007-10-05 06:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PTER LE RS |
07MOSCOW494 | Russia: G8 BTEX Forensic Epidemiology Workshop Invitation [...] (SBU) In coordination with British and German diplomatic colleagues, on January 26 we shared Ref A invitation letter and logistics details for the March 2007 G8 BTEX Forensic Epidemiology Workshop in London with the MFA's Vladimir Andreyev, Deputy Director of the Department of New Challenges an [...] | 2007-02-05 16:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PTER PINS RS |
07MOSCOW5031 | BIOTERRORISM: ENHANCING BILATERAL EFFORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Department biodefense experts met in Moscow October 10 to discuss bilateral bioterrorism cooperation with the MFA Department of New Threats and Challenges. MFA reported some confusion about the topics and experts needed for a proposed second bilateral meeting of bioterrorism ex [...] | 2007-10-17 04:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PTER RS |
07MOSCOW5183 | UPDATED DEMARCHE TO EUROPEAN CAPITALS ON COMBATING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 08:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN RS |
07MOSCOW5391 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-15 11:58:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EUN LE RS SY |
07MOSCOW5434 | KOSOVO: RUSSIAN FORECAST FOR "THE DAY AFTER;" [...] (C) Summary. Russia's Kosovo Troika Envoy Botsan-Kharchenko told us that FM Lavrov is preparing a letter to Rice, FM Steinmeier, and EU Solana raising concern over a possible unilateral Kosovar declaration of independence on December 11. The letter will also underscore the rise of radical Al [...] | 2007-11-17 12:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KS RS |
07MOSCOW5448 | BILATERAL BIOTERRORISM LETTER DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On November 9, we provided reftel letter from State Department Bioterrorism Senior Adviser Ostfield to Deputy Director Titorenko in the MFA's Department of New Challenges and Threats (DNV). On November 16, DNV Senior Adviser Vladimir Prokhorov advised us that S/CT Coordinator Dailey and [...] | 2007-11-19 14:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PTER PINS RS |
07MOSCOW5481 | GICNT: DETECTION ARCHITECTURE MODEL GUIDELINES [...] (SBU) We met November 21 with Senior Counselor Vladimir Prokhorov of the MFA's New Challenges and Threats Department to present reftel nonpaper regarding the proposed January 22 Detection Architecture Model Guidelines conference. Prokhorov said that he would pass the nonpaper to relevant agen [...] | 2007-11-23 04:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PTER EAIR ETRD EWWT PARM RS |
07MOSCOW5734 | CHECHEN PRESIDENT REACHES OUT TO THE MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary: Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov is looking to the Middle East to finance the reconstruction of Chechnya. Kadyrov met recently in Moscow with the visiting Saudi Crown Prince and traveled to Saudi Arabia and Jordan earlier this year. Kadyrov plans to visit Mecca in December, part [...] | 2007-12-06 16:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SOCI JO SA RS |
07MOSCOW5819 | EMBASSY MOSCOW'S TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] Embassy Moscow's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer is: Kathleen Doherty, Deputy Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs, 7 (495) 728-5179, DohertyKX@state.sgov.gov, DohertyKA@state.gov. 2. The Deputy Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer is Clayton Hays, Financial Economist, 7 (49 [...] | 2007-12-14 13:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN RS |
07MOSCOW5969 | POINTS DELIVERED ON U.S. POLICY ON PAKISTAN'S [...] We delivered reftel points to the office of MFA Second Asia Department Director Aleksandr Maryasov. The MFA is closed for the holidays, but Maryasov's staff promised to pass the points to Maryasov immediately. RUSSELL [...] | 2007-12-31 10:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SHUM PK RS |
07MOSCOW673 | THE CHECHEN PRESIDENCY: KADYROV PROPOSES, BUT [...] (C) Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, seeking to be president, is pushing hard against President Alu Alkhanov. Kadyrov aims either to force Alkhanov to make way for him and resign, or to persuade Putin to remove Alkhanov. Press articles inspired by one or another side appear frequently b [...] | 2007-02-15 14:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER MOPS RS |
07MOSCOW693 | PUTIN DISPOSES: ALKHANOV DISMISSED, KADYROV ACTING [...] (C) President Putin dismissed Chechen President Alu Alkhanov late February 15, acting before the escalating tensions between Alkhanov and strongman PM Ramzan Kadyrov (Ref. A) got out of hand. Alkhanov was given a sinecure as Deputy Justice Minister. 2. (C) Putin named Kadyrov acting Presid [...] | 2007-02-16 12:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PTER MOPS RS |
07MUMBAI38 | MUMBAI GOES TO THE POLLS ON FEBRUARY 1 [...] (SBU) Residents of Mumbai and several other cities in Maharashtra will go to the polls on Feb. 1 to elect the 277 members of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC),the city's main municipal body. As in the past, the urban poor, swayed by opportunistic politicians who deliver the pork sh [...] | 2007-01-23 05:53:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KDEM KISL IN |
07MUMBAI39 | BJP, SHIV SENA FACE TROUBLES HEADING INTO MUMBAI ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Since 1992 a "saffron alliance" of Shiv Sena and the BJP has controlled the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC),Mumbai's main municipal body. By all accounts, both parties will struggle to maintain power in the BMC in the elections scheduled for February 1 (ref A). The Shiv Sena w [...] | 2007-01-23 07:09:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KDEM KISL IN |
07MUMBAI81 | SHIV SENA/BJP DEFY EXPECTATIONS, RETAIN CONTROL OF MUMBAI [...] (SBU) Defying nay-sayers, the Shiv Sena/BJP alliance retained control of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation in the February 1 elections (ref A). The alliance will return to power with a smaller majority, however. The result cemented Uddhav Thackeray's claim to succeed his aging father and Shiv [...] | 2007-02-08 11:19:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KDEM KISL IN |
07MUNICH218 | BECKSTEIN LEADS BAVARIA'S GET-TOUGH APPROACH TO ISLAMIC [...] (SBU) Guenther Beckstein, Germany's longest-serving state Interior Minister and presumptive future Bavarian Minister President (REF A),has for years identified Islamic terrorism as the greatest risk to domestic security in Germany. According to Beckstein, about 50 people living in Bavaria ha [...] | 2007-04-11 09:34:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM KISL GM |
07MUNICH258 | MUNICH PROSECUTOR DOES NOT ANTICIPATE EXTRADITION [...] (SBU) ConGen Munich contacted Munich Deputy District Attorney August Stern on April 24 in an effort to clarify whether the "request for provisional arrest" by his office in the Al Masri case (Ref A) would lead to a request for extradition under Article 16 of the bilateral extradition treaty b [...] | 2007-04-25 09:14:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PREL PTER GM |
07MUNICH325 | MUNICH G-8 JUSTICE AND INTERIOR MINISTERS MEETING [...] The below text is the concluding declaration from the G-8 Justice and Interior Ministers Meeting held in Munich May 23-25. The U.S. was represented at the meeting by Attorney General Gonzales and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jackson. 2. Begin text: During our meeting in Munich on [...] | 2007-05-25 15:24:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM KISL GM |
07MUNICH409 | ANSAR AL-ISLAM MEMBERS CONVICTED BY BAVARIAN COURT [...] (SBU) The Bavarian Supreme Court sentenced Ansar al-Islam member Farhad Kanabi Ahmad to five years and six months in prison on July 9 following the sentencing of Dieman Abdulkadir Izzat to three years and three months in prison on June 25. Prosecutors had asked for sentences of six years for [...] | 2007-07-11 07:54:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC ETTC PGOV PREL KCRM KISL KVPR GM |
07MUNICH646 | PROPOSED BAVARIAN ISLAMIC ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) A controversial proposal for an Islamic academy in Munich illustrates some of the challenges of balancing integration and security concerns in a conservative German state. The academy, to be funded by the UAE, would be a first-of-its-kind proposal by IVLP grantee Imam Benjamin Idriz of t [...] | 2007-12-18 11:18:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | GE KCRM KISL PGOV PREL PTER SOCI |
07MUSCAT101 | TERRORIST LIST: OMAN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-31 13:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER MU |
07MUSCAT103 | OMANI-SAUDI INITIATIVE TO CONVENE SOMALIA [...] (C) During a January 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Omani Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al Busaidi said that Sultan Qaboos and Saudi King Abdullah had discussed and tentatively agreed to convene a conference in Riyadh to help stabilize Somalia and shore up the Somali Transitio [...] | 2007-01-31 14:40:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SO MU |
07MUSCAT1065 | OCTOBER 31 U.S.-OMAN GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (S/NF) During the October 31 U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) in Muscat, Omani officials -- led by MFA Secretary General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi -- claimed that SIPDIS current U.S. policy towards Iran, including the use of sanctions, was pushing the region into a crisis and emboldenin [...] | 2007-11-20 14:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER MASS KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT1079 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT GATES' [...] (SBU) Secretary Gates: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. We have requested an audience for you with Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Oman's head of state, as well as a meeting with your Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Harib al-Busaidi, Minister Responsible for Defense Affa [...] | 2007-11-27 10:14:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP KNNP |
07MUSCAT1092 | OMAN CLOSE TO ESTABLISHING FIU, IMPLEMENTING [...] (SBU) Oman continues to move closer toward the formal establishment of a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the promulgation of a new "Law to Combat Terrorism Financing." Both initiatives are part of the government's broader efforts to strengthen its anti-money laundering and counter-terrori [...] | 2007-12-04 07:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PTER MU |
07MUSCAT1140 | OMANI GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS BHUTTO ASSASSINATION [...] (U) On December 27, Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a public statement condemning the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Characterizing the act as "brutal" and "criminal," the government expressed its "deep sympathy and condolences" to Bhutto's family and the Pakistani people. The Min [...] | 2007-12-29 14:08:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR PTER SHUM MU |
07MUSCAT129 | SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL JOHN P. [...] (S) General Abizaid: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Sultan Qaboos and your colleagues in the Omani armed forces look forward to seeing you and hearing your perspective on activities in the region, especially in Iraq and Iran. Oman remains a strong friend and ally in [...] | 2007-02-06 15:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP |
07MUSCAT136 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel points and related documents on February 11 to Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi. The Ambassador noted that becoming a partner nation of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (Global Initiative) would complement Oman's cu [...] | 2007-02-12 11:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KGIT KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT137 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER SHARES VIEWS ON SOMALIA [...] (C) During a February 11 meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi, the Ambassador delivered the U.S. response to the Omani-Saudi proposal to convene a regional foreign ministers' meeting on Somalia (refs A and B),and also raised ref C points seeking support for [...] | 2007-02-12 11:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS SO MU |
07MUSCAT152 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS DAMASCUS; PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs reported that Syrian officials were preoccupied with the large number of Iraqi refugees in Syria during his recent visit to Damascus. The Syrians, he contended, were hopeful for an amicable resolution to the political crisis in Beir [...] | 2007-02-14 13:54:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PTER IR IZ LE MU |
07MUSCAT153 | OMAN ADOPTS NEW ANTI-TERRORISM LAW [...] (U) On January 23, the Omani government announced that Sultan Qaboos had issued a Royal Decree the previous day promulgating a comprehensive new anti-terrorism law. The full text of the law was published in Oman's official gazette on February 3 and entered into force the following day. The [...] | 2007-02-14 14:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PGOV PTER EFIN ASEC MU |
07MUSCAT155 | SCENESETTER FOR NAVCENT COMMANDER VADM PATRICK [...] (S) Vice Admiral Walsh: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Oman remains a strong friend and ally in the Global War on Terrorism. Like other GCC countries, it is becoming increasingly concerned with Iranian intentions in the Gulf. Oman expressed high-level interest i [...] | 2007-02-18 08:41:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP |
07MUSCAT201 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-28 13:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT254 | FAREWELL WISHES FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL [...] As you conclude your exceptional career of service to our nation, I extend to you my personal best wishes and sincere thanks. I and many others have greatly appreciated your service to our country, particularly in this critical part of the world. From my experience, I know that both the King [...] | 2007-03-13 04:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS MNUC MOPS PARM PREL PTER KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT263 | WELCOME MESSAGE FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL [...] (S) Admiral, I warmly welcome you in your new command. Though I know your immediate attention will be focused on critical issues elsewhere in the region, I want to take this opportunity to highlight some issues related to one of our longest standing and most reliable allies in the region. [...] | 2007-03-14 05:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MASS MNUC MOPS PARM PREL PTER KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT28 | ENGAGING OMANI AUDIENCES ONLINE [...] (SBU) In response to Ref A, Embassy Oman provides the following information on trends and patterns in Internet usage in Oman. In the general absence of reliable official statistics on the subjects requested, the information is based on extensive surfing by Embassy staff and on information gat [...] | 2007-01-09 11:21:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | ECPS KPAO KISL OIIP PTER MU |
07MUSCAT305 | OMAN CONSIDERS JOINING GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief met on March 21 with Mohammad Al-Hassan, Deputy Director of the Office of Political Affairs for Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs bin Alawi, and Abdullah al-Riyami, Deputy Director of the International Affairs Department at the MFA, to continue ongoing discussions (r [...] | 2007-03-27 08:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT309 | DOD ACTING A/S MARY BETH LONG REVIEWS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 20 meeting with Acting DoD A/S Mary Beth Long, Omani MFA Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi emphasized the need to find a "political solution" to the situation in Iraq, noting that violence there was fueling the spread of extremist ideology. He urged the U.S. to [...] | 2007-03-27 13:47:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL PTER KPAL IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT416 | SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM [...] (S) Admiral Fallon: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you and your wife to Oman. Sultan Qaboos and your colleagues in the Omani armed forces look forward to meeting you and hearing your perspective on events in the region, especially in Iraq and Iran. As one of our oldest allies in the Mid [...] | 2007-04-29 13:11:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP |
07MUSCAT435 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ -- OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 12:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MAPS MOPS PREL PTER IZ MU |
07MUSCAT468 | OMAN CONFIRMS DATE FOR GSD TALKS [...] (SBU) The office of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi has confirmed that the Under Secretary will be available to conduct the next round of Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) talks in Washington, D.C. the morning of June 18. Sayyid Badr has requested that he b [...] | 2007-05-13 13:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER IR MU |
07MUSCAT488 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER TO [...] (C) Summary: Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi is looking forward to his visit to Washington, and particularly to his meeting with the Secretary. As the long-time de facto Foreign Minister for SIPDIS one of our oldest and most reliable friends in the Gulf, he [...] | 2007-05-16 11:36:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KNNP KPAL IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT504 | CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. FALLON [...] (C) Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin-Said met May 12 with Admiral William Fallon, commander of U.S. CENTCOM. On Iraq, the Sultan spoke positively about Prime Minister Maliki, but noted that Maliki and his ministers needed to do more to govern for "all Iraqis." He also indirectly criticized the atti [...] | 2007-05-20 12:45:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KISL IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT553 | INVITATION FOR OMANI DEFENSE UNDER SECRETARY TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-03 07:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IR MU |
07MUSCAT561 | OMANI SUPPORT FOR U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAN ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-03 13:02:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT595 | OMAN WILL CONSIDER PARTICIPATION IN IRAQI WMD [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) The Ambassador delivered reftel information on June 11 to Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi and requested that the Omani government agree to accept Iraqi WMD/missile scientists for one-year professional [...] | 2007-06-12 12:14:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PARM PINR PINS PREF PREL PTER IZ MU |
07MUSCAT602 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER SHARES VIEWS ON IRAN [...] (C) During a June 2 meeting with Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs, the Ambassador raised ref C concerns over a reported invitation by Iran to GCC states to inspect its Bushehr nuclear reactor. Bin Alawi responded that Iran had not issued a "formal invitation" to conduct such an [...] | 2007-06-12 13:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KNNP IR MU |
07MUSCAT627 | DELIVERY OF NON-PAPER ON U.S. EXECUTIVE ORDER [...] Post delivered ref A non-paper on additional designations under Executive Order 13382 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on June 18, 2007. In accordance with Oman's previous responses to similar notifications, the Central Bank will publish and distribute the names of the i [...] | 2007-06-18 09:03:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER MU |
07MUSCAT634 | ARABSAT BROADCASTS OF AL-ZAWRAA AND AL-MANAR: OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-19 13:21:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL PTER KPAO MU |
07MUSCAT671 | STOPPING FLOW OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS TO IRAQ: OMAN [...] (S) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche on July 3 to Humaid al-Maani, Office Director for Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Sayyid al Badr al-Busaidi. (Note: Al-Maani had recently returned to Muscat from Washington after participating in the U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue. E [...] | 2007-07-03 10:26:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL PTER SY IZ MU |
07MUSCAT737 | OMAN DELIVERY OF TERRORIST FINANCE DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-30 15:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PREL PTER UNSC MU |
07MUSCAT870 | SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM [...] (C) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Since your visit here four months ago, Oman continues to be concerned with regional issues, especially events in Iraq and Iran, participated in the June Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) meeting in Washington, D.C., and was struck by a m [...] | 2007-09-11 12:22:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP KNNP |
07MUSCAT900 | RESPONSE TO 100% SCANNING REQUIREMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Contacts at Port of Salalah expressed concern that new scanning requirements for maritime cargo under the USG's 9/11 Act will negatively affect trade at the port. They mentioned specifically that scanning 100% of U.S.-bound cargo for radioactive material and components of weapo [...] | 2007-09-19 12:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EWWT AMGT PTER MU |
07MUSCAT915 | ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. FALLON MEETINGS WITH OMANI [...] (C) Admiral Fallon, USCENTCOM Commander, met with Lieutenant General (LTG) Ahmed bin Harith Nabhani, Chief of Staff of the Sultan's Armed Forces (COSSAF) and with Minister Responsible for Defense Affairs Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Harib al-Busaidi on 19 September in Muscat. Both the COSSAF and [...] | 2007-09-29 05:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT984 | SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-OMAN GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (U) Embassy Muscat warmly welcomes Ambassador Mull and the U.S. delegation to the next round of the U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) in Muscat. Post expects that the meeting will increase understanding and strengthen bilateral cooperation on mutual security issues facing the Gulf region [...] | 2007-10-24 12:40:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PARM PREL PTER MASS KNNP MU |
07NAIROBI1015 | AML BILL TO BE TOP GOK PRIORITY IN MARCH [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya Anti-Money Laundering Task Force (AMLTF) officials say they adopted many of USDOJ's suggested amendments to the anti-money laundering bill, including the critical definition of criminal offense, and that the bill will be one of the Government of Kenya's top priorities in th [...] | 2007-03-02 11:05:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER KCRM KE |
07NAIROBI103 | SOMALIA: JANUARY 5 MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recent meeting of the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia centered on supporting Somalia at this crucial moment, in particular with respect to consolidating stability through an inclusive political process, security, and humanitarian and development assistance. Th [...] | 2007-01-08 06:54:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI1041 | Civil Society Meetings on Reconciliation [...] (C) Civil Society groups, and the Hawiye/Haber Gedir/Ayr clan, have met and discussed specific recommendations for the planned National Reconciliation Congress. In the meantime, the Transitional Federal Government is proceeding with plans for the Congress. President Yusuf announced a start d [...] | 2007-03-05 14:29:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1042 | Civil Society Meetings on Reconciliation [...] (C) Civil Society groups, and the Hawiye/Haber Gedir/Ayr clan, have met and discussed specific recommendations for the planned National Reconciliation Congress. In the meantime, the Transitional Federal Government is proceeding with plans for the Congress. President Yusuf announced a start d [...] | 2007-03-05 14:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1127 | Somali Insurgents Attack Arriving Ugandans [...] (C) Summary. Mortars interrupted the welcoming ceremony on Tuesday (3/6) for the first contingent of arriving Ugandan troops. Ethiopian troops engaged in a firefight with unknown gunmen the same day, and insurgents attacked a Ugandan vehicle convoy on Wednesday (3/7). As many as 16 Somali [...] | 2007-03-09 09:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID ASEC MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1133 | Somalia - Hawiye Clan Meeting [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 10:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL ASEC SO |
07NAIROBI1134 | AMISOM Equipment Plane Afire on Mogadishu Landing [...] (U) A cargo plane carrying military equipment for Uganda's AMISOM contingent reportedly landed while on fire at Mogadishu International Airport this morning, March 9. According to the African Union's representative in Nairobi, who was in contact with Ethiopian and Ugandan military officers a [...] | 2007-03-09 10:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1135 | SOMALIA EMBASSY MEDIA OUTREACH [...] (U) On March 7 the Embassy of the Somali Republic in Nairobi held a media conference and issued the following statement. Begin Text: Embassy of the Somali Republic Nairobi -Kenya GOOD MORNING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MEMBERS OF THE PRESS: First I would like to take this opportunity t [...] | 2007-03-09 10:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1173 | TFG Plans To Disarm Mogadishu [...] (C) TFG security chief Mohamed Warsame Farah told EmbOffs on Tuesday (3/13) that TFG troops, in conjunction with Ethiopian and Ugandan military forces, will begin a large-scale security operation on Wednesday (3/14) in Mogadishu aimed at blunting the ongoing insurgency. According to Farah, 1 [...] | 2007-03-13 14:40:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1198 | AMISOM Plane Fire--Update [...] Per reftel, an IL-76 cargo plane ferrying equipment for the Ugandan army's AMISOM mission caught fire while landing in Mogadishu on Friday, March 9. Numerous press reports indicate--alternately--that the IL-76 was hit by a "missile" or rocket propelled grenade (RPG) or that it experienced mec [...] | 2007-03-14 14:31:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1302 | Somali TFG Arms Sweep Begins--Heavy Fighting [...] (U) Multiple sources report that heavy fighting between TFG forces and insurgents began in Mogadishu around 0600 this morning, March 21. Press reporting indicated that Ethiopian troops and tanks were supporting TFG troops; but by mid-afternoon, contacts in Mogadishu were reporting that the [...] | 2007-03-21 15:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1303 | Somali TFG Arms Sweep Begins--Heavy Fighting [...] (U) Multiple sources report that heavy fighting between TFG forces and insurgents began in Mogadishu around 0600 this morning, March 21. Press reporting indicated that Ethiopian troops and tanks were supporting TFG troops; but by mid-afternoon, contacts in Mogadishu were reporting that the E [...] | 2007-03-21 15:31:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1318 | KENYA PRESIDENT REOPENS PARLIAMENT: FOCUSES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Opening the final session of Parliament before December's general elections, President Kibaki on March 20 delivered a speech strongly focused on his government's development accomplishments. While he noted that the government will reintroduce the anti-money laundering bill and [...] | 2007-03-22 12:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM PGOV ASEC PTER KE |
07NAIROBI1322 | Somali Clan Warfare Threatens Reconciliation [...] (C) An analysis of the Mogadishu neighborhoods in which yesterday's fighting occurred (3/21) indicates that the armed Hawiye opposition to the TFG has expanded from primarily the Ayr sub-clan to a variety of sub clans from the Hawiye/Habr Gidr (including the Saad and Duduble) and the Abgal su [...] | 2007-03-22 15:12:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1335 | SOMALIA - HAWIYE/ETHOPIAN "TRUCE" [...] (C) After heavy fighting midweek (reftels),Ethiopia opened talks yesterday with Hawiye leaders in Mogadishu. Reportedly the Hawiye told the Ethiopians they see three options: the Ethiopians can remain in Somalia as a neutral force while Somalis work out their own problems; the Ethiopians can [...] | 2007-03-23 11:51:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1336 | Ambassador?s call to Somali TFG President Yusuf [...] (C) Ambassador Ranneberger spoke with TFG President Yusuf the evening of March 22 to discuss the security situation and to urge restraint. The Ambassador noted that the TFG draft framework for the national reconciliation conference is positive and a basis for maintaining momentum to build an [...] | 2007-03-23 12:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1359 | Somalia--Belarus IL-76 Probably Shot Down [...] (U) A Belarus registered IL-76 crashed after taking off from Mogadishu airport on Friday, March 23. All 11 passengers and crew were killed. Though the plane was not affiliated with AMISOM, it reportedly had brought engineers and parts to repair the AMISOM- chartered IL-76 damaged while land [...] | 2007-03-26 12:27:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PTER ASEC MOPS SO BO |
07NAIROBI1429 | Somali Truce Breaks Down -- Heavy Fighting [...] (U) According to multiple sources, early this morning, March 29, Ethiopian troops began deploying in Mogadishu neighborhoods while Ethiopian armored vehicles and "technicals" (pick-up trucks with mounted heavy weapons) took up positions at strategic intersections. Around 0530, militia fighte [...] | 2007-03-29 15:58:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1440 | Somali -- Heavy Fighting Continues [...] (C) Fighting continues today (3/30) in Mogadishu between Ethiopian forces and militia of the Hawiye/Haber Gedir sub-clan, and it appears to remain concentrated around the stadium in the northern part of the city. The Ethiopians do not appear to be advancing and may be surrounded in some loca [...] | 2007-03-30 10:31:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1456 | Somali Security Chief on Fighting [...] (C) In the context of a meeting at the Embassy on April 1 with DS agents regarding future VIP travel to Somalia, Transitional Federal Government (TFG) security chief Mohamed Warsame Farah (AKA Darawish) discussed the current fighting in Mogadishu with Poloff. He stated that he had been in Ye [...] | 2007-04-02 11:16:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER ASEC MOPS PGOV PREL EAID SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1463 | Somalia -- Update on Fighting [...] (C) Heavy fighting continued in Mogadishu on Saturday (March 31) resulting in considerable damage to involved neighborhoods and innumerable casualties. Ethiopian forces made more effective use of tanks and artillery to take advantage of the difficulty opposing forces had in countering thes [...] | 2007-04-02 16:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1636 | Somali Truce Holds Despite Fighting [...] (U) The truce between Hawiye clan militia and Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu appears to be holding despite relatively heavy small arms and mortar fire since Tuesday evening (4/12). The fighting was mainly between Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces and Hawiye/Abgal militia, with occa [...] | 2007-04-13 11:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1639 | MUSLIM LEADERSHIP VIEWS: HASSAN OLE NAADO [...] (SBU) Summary: The national chairperson of the Kenya Muslim Youth Alliance (KMYA) depicts "African Islam" under siege from "Wahabi extremist foreigners." HKMYA favors moderate, modern, indigenous Islam with an emphasis on education as a means of uplifting the Muslim community. He also advoc [...] | 2007-04-13 11:51:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KE KISL KPAO PGOV PHUM |
07NAIROBI1715 | Somalia Fight Sharp but Short [...] (U) Press reporting and Embassy sources indicate fighting in Mogadishu last night (4/17) between Ethiopian forces and Hawiye/Haber Gedir militia, concentrated between the stadium and the presidential palace compound (Villa Somalia). According to the sources, there was heavy artillery and mort [...] | 2007-04-18 13:38:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1748 | KENYA: IMPORTANT VISIT OF SECURITY MINISTER MICHUKI [...] (C) Summary: Ensuring success of the April 25-7 visit to Washington of Kenyan Minister of Security Michuki is vitally important to U.S. interests with respect to Somalia, broader efforts to fight insecurity (both crime and terrorism),and keeping the Kenyan democratic process on track. This [...] | 2007-04-19 13:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC AFIN PINS PREL KE SO |
07NAIROBI1867 | SOMALIA--THE WAY FORWARD [...] (U) Summary. Building on Nairobi 1401, this message lays out a roadmap for influencing Somalia towards security and stability. Many of the elements we delineated in reftel remain relevant to current developments. End summary. 2. (C) The fighting in Mogadishu in recent weeks has clouded effo [...] | 2007-04-30 14:03:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID SO ET |
07NAIROBI1905 | Somalia--TFG/Hawiye Talks and Appointments [...] (SBU) On April 29, Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf met with members of the Hawiye Leadership Committee in his headquarters, Villa Somalia. The meeting was initiated by Ethiopian military commanders and included TFG Prime Minster Ali Gedi and Ethiopian General [...] | 2007-05-02 15:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1918 | Somalia--Peace Is Not Yet at Hand [...] (C) Since the termination of fighting in Mogadishu last Thursday (4/26),the city has been unusually calm, in terms of combat; and the daily mortar, RPG, and small arms attacks have ceased--for the time being. Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Ethiopian troops reportedly are moving f [...] | 2007-05-03 14:04:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1930 | Somalia-Ambassador's Telecon with Hawiye Elder [...] (U) On May 2, the Ambassador spoke with Haji Abdi Iman (Imaam) Omar, chairman of the Hawiye Leadership Committee. The Ambassador contacted Omar because of the leadership role he and his colleagues are playing in discussions with the Ethiopians and, most recently, with President Abdullahi Yusu [...] | 2007-05-04 09:24:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1931 | Somalia-Ambassador's Letters to TFG President and [...] (U) Following telecon with Hawiye Leadership Committee Chairman Haji Abdi Iman Omar, and in an effort to support the critical dialogue process, the Ambassador sent the following letters to Transitional Federal Government President Abdullahi Yusuf and Chairman Haji Abdi Iman (Imaam). 2. (C) [...] | 2007-05-04 09:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1959 | Somalia-Telcon with NGRC Chairman Ali Mahdi [...] (SBU) On May 3, Somalia Political Unit staff had a conference call with National Reconciliation and Governance Committee (NGRC) Chairman Ali Mahdi on current developments in the planning for the upcoming National Reconciliation Congress. 2. (SBU) In the conversation, we emphasized that with [...] | 2007-05-08 12:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1996 | Somalia--Round Two of TFG/Hawiye Talks [...] (C) Summary. Transitional Federal Government President Abdullahi Yusuf met with elders from the Hawiye clan for a second time since the fighting ended on April 28. The talks were reportedly cordial although PM Gedi evidenced continued hostility towards the elders. There appear to be indicatio [...] | 2007-05-09 15:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI2069 | Somalia - Meeting with President Yusuf [...] (C) Summary. During a May 15 meeting, TFG President Yusuf told the Ambassador that he is pursuing dialogue with various sub-clans and is committed to power-sharing to be worked out in the context of the National Reconciliation Congress. He indicated his intention to replace Prime Minister Gedi [...] | 2007-05-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO |
07NAIROBI2098 | Somalia - Meeting with Solana Envoy [...] (C) On May 14 the Ambassador met with Jean-Christophe Belliard, the Personal Envoy for Somalia of Javier Solana, EU Secretary-General. Belliard first visited Cairo and Addis Ababa before coming to Nairobi. In Addis Ababa Belliard met with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who reportedly expressed [...] | 2007-05-16 11:14:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO |
07NAIROBI2099 | Somalia--Divide and Conquer Dialogue [...] (U) Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Yusuf met with politicians, intellectuals, and officials of the Hawiye/Haber Gedir/Ayr sub-clan on May 10 at the presidential palace in Mogadishu. Among the Ayr were Justice Minister Hassan Dimbil, political leader Mohamed Ulusow, and two m [...] | 2007-05-16 11:14:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI213 | ICRC LETTER ON SOMALIA [...] On January 11 Embassy Nairobi received a letter from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) informing the USG that the ICRC considers U.S. actions in Somalia to be governed by the rules applicable to situations of non-international armed conflict. Full text follows in para 2. [...] | 2007-01-12 05:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI2135 | Somalia--Attempt on PM's Life [...] (U) Assassins attempted to kill Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Gedi yesterday (5/18). According to press reports, Gedi and his entourage were returning from a ceremony marking the departure of the bodies of four slain Ugandan peacekeepers at Mogadishu Inter [...] | 2007-05-18 10:20:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SO |
07NAIROBI2136 | Somalia--Attempt on PM's Life [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-18 10:20:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SO |
07NAIROBI2151 | Somalia - Meeting with Ethiopian State Minister [...] (C) Summary: As requested, the Ambassador met May 20 with Tekeda Alemu, Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs to discuss a joint U.S.-Ethiopian approach on Somalia. Tekeda pressed on a U.S.-Ethiopia meeting with Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Yusuf to be held i [...] | 2007-05-21 14:18:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2209 | Somalia--Security a Long Way Off [...] (C) Summary. The level of violence has risen in Mogadishu and the provinces since the Ethiopian/TFG action against the Ayr sub-clan and Courts' radicals in late April 2007. Attacks tend to be more focused than earlier in the year. While this violence could be laid at the feet of Islamic ex [...] | 2007-05-23 14:58:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC EWWT EAID SO ET UG KS |
07NAIROBI2215 | MUNGIKI: KENYA'S LARGEST CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Mungiki, a large criminal organization operating within the Kikuyu community, has a network of supporters within the government bureaucracy and political leadership. It's use of extreme violence to amplify its influence through terror and its parallel government weakens th [...] | 2007-05-24 07:41:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KDEM KE PGOV PREL PTER |
07NAIROBI2238 | MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FROM MUNGIKI-LAND: "I'M [...] (C) Summary: Member of Parliament Elias Mbau recounts his own intimidation by the Mungiki in his constituency. He frankly admits that he was forced to change his tune after initially publicly opposing the criminal organization. He also confirms reports that the Mungiki have supporters in gov [...] | 2007-05-25 09:58:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC KCRM KDEM KE PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
07NAIROBI2240 | OPINION LEADERS TALK POLITICS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of conversations with visiting Ambassador Johnnie Carson, opposition leaders, government officials and civil society interlocutors agreed that there was still much uncertainty surrounding the strength of Kenyan political coalitions and President Kibaki's health, that t [...] | 2007-05-25 10:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PINR PHUM KCOR PTER KE |
07NAIROBI2263 | Ali Mahdi on the Somalia Reconciliation Congress [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Ali Mahdi, Chairman of the National Governance and Reconciliation Committee (NGRC) to discuss planning and preparations for the National Reconciliation Congress (NRC) that will begin June 14. Mahdi confirmed that the NRC will cover social, political, and tr [...] | 2007-05-29 14:17:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI23 | SOMALIA - - OVERVIEW OF CURRENT ISSUES [...] (C) Somalis across the spectrum ) including TFG officials, members of civil society, the business community, clan elders, and even moderate members of the Islamic Courts ) are all telling us that they deeply appreciate the positive role that the U.S. has been playing since the start of the Eth [...] | 2007-01-03 18:56:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI2351 | KENYAN NOTABLES DISCUSS THE NEIGHBORS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his recent visit to Kenya, Ambassador Johnnie Carson, National Intelligence Officer for Africa, discussed developments in Somalia and Sudan with Kenyan interlocutors. From the Kenyan perspective, instability in both countries is of significant concern for Kenya's well-b [...] | 2007-06-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV PTER KE SO SU |
07NAIROBI2406 | Travel to Somalia [...] (SBU) Summary. This message lays out proposed plans for travel by USG personnel to Somalia during the next 6 months. End Summary. -------------------------------- National Reconciliation Congress -------------------------------- 2. (C) The Somalia National Reconciliation Congress (NRC) [...] | 2007-06-08 15:50:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2421 | Somalia -- Delay in Reconciliation Congress [...] (C) Ali Mahdi, Chairman of the National Governance and Reconciliation Committee (NGRC) told the Ambassador on June 10 that the kickoff for the National Reconciliation Congress (NRC),planned to begin on June 14, has been delayed by two weeks. Mahdi said the delay was inevitable because much re [...] | 2007-06-11 13:59:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2452 | SOMALIA -- COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (S/NF) As described in current threat assessments, travel of USG personnel into Somalia, particularly in Mogadishu, remains problematic (Ref A). However, attendance by an appropriately high level USG official at the opening of Somalia's Nation [...] | 2007-06-12 14:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER MOPS SO |
07NAIROBI2525 | MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KIBAKI [...] (SBU) Summary: During a June 9 meeting, the Ambassador discussed with President Kibaki the expanding bilateral partnership, the problem of insecurity, governance issues, the elections set for later this year, and regional issues (Somalia and Sudan). Kibaki emphasized his desire to work closel [...] | 2007-06-18 12:17:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EFIN KCRM KE PINR PREL PTER SO SU |
07NAIROBI2575 | Ambassador's Visit to the Kenyan Coast [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-21 10:03:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KE PGOV KCRM KWMN SNAR PHUM PTER |
07NAIROBI2578 | Somalia - Conversation with President Yusuf [...] (C) The Ambassador, at his request, spoke with President Yusuf by phone on June 20 to raise the following: the amnesty, concerns about recent arrests, expansion of the national reconciliation committee, and the desire to have a more extended conversation with Yusuf during his next visit to Na [...] | 2007-06-21 13:05:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI2606 | Tour d'Horizon with Prime Minister Gedi [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador and Special Envoy John Yates met Prime Minister Ali Gedi on June 21 to discuss the June 18 announcement of a general amnesty, preparations for the National Reconciliation Congress, the current security situation, and the PM's upcoming travel to Washington and New Y [...] | 2007-06-22 13:06:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2614 | Somalia - Response Letter from Yusuf [...] Following on the transmission of a letter to TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf, the Ambassador received a response on June 22. 2. The text of the letter from Yusuf reads as follows: Dear Mr. Ambassador: Your letter of June 21, 2007, is clearly in line with other previous letters that showe [...] | 2007-06-25 13:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SO |
07NAIROBI2618 | Ali Mahdi on National Reconciliation Congress [...] (C) Summary: On June 22 Ali Mahdi, Chairman of the National Governance and Reconciliation Committee, and other committee members and advisors briefed the Ambassador and Special Envoy on delegate selection for the Congress, his meetings with the Hawiye, the status of security service and the sit [...] | 2007-06-26 04:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER KPAO SO ET |
07NAIROBI263 | PRIME MINISTER GEDI PROMISES A "NEW SOMALIA," ACTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 7 meeting in Nairobi with Assistant Secretary Frazer, Somali Prime Minister Ali Gedi was confident a "new Somalia" was on its way, and appealed for immediate donor support. The rosy picture Gedi painted did not mask the very serious problems which remain within the [...] | 2007-01-17 05:44:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI2630 | Somalia -- Update on AMISOM [...] (C) The following (paras 2-14) is a retransmission in Department format of Reftel titled "Ugandan Peacekeeping Presence in Somalia, mid-June 2007" disseminated by Embassy Nairobi's Defense Attache Office (DAO) on June 25. 2. (S/REL TO USA, ACGU) SUMMARY. As of mid-June 2007, the AU Mission in [...] | 2007-06-26 15:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2631 | Somalia -- Update on AMISOM [...] (C) The following (paras 2-14) is a retransmission in Department format of Reftel titled "Ugandan Peacekeeping Presence in Somalia, mid-June 2007" disseminated by Embassy Nairobi's Defense Attache Office (DAO) on June 25. 2. (S/REL TO USA, ACGU) SUMMARY. As of mid-June 2007, the AU Mission in [...] | 2007-06-26 15:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2632 | Somalia -- Update on AMISOM [...] (C) The following (paras 2-14) is a retransmission in Department format of Reftel titled "Ugandan Peacekeeping Presence in Somalia, mid-June 2007" disseminated by Embassy Nairobi's Defense Attache Office (DAO) on June 25. 2. (S/REL TO USA, ACGU) SUMMARY. As of mid-June 2007, the AU Mission in [...] | 2007-06-26 15:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2640 | Somalia -- Update on AMISOM [...] (C) The following (paras 2-14) is a retransmission in Department format of Reftel titled "Ugandan Peacekeeping Presence in Somalia, mid-June 2007" disseminated by Embassy Nairobi's Defense Attache Office (DAO) on June 25. 2. (S/REL TO USA, ACGU) SUMMARY. As of mid-June 2007, the AU Mission in [...] | 2007-06-27 13:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2974 | KENYA POLICE: REFORMS APLENTY, BUT PERFORMANCE LAGS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kibaki administration has implemented significant reforms of the Kenya Police Service and greatly increased its resources. The worst police abuses of the Moi-era have been eradicated. However, reforms and increased resources have not yet yielded a dramatic rise in police [...] | 2007-07-19 12:45:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASIG KCRM KE PREL PTER |
07NAIROBI3100 | Kenya Will Allow Somalia Flights, But Via Wajir Only [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Kenya (GOK) announced that, effective August 1, it would end its suspension of flights to/from Somalia, but that all flights from Somalia must stop first at Wajir Airport for immigration, customs and security processing before proceeding to their final Kenyan de [...] | 2007-07-30 11:03:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PTER KCRM ECON ETRD KE |
07NAIROBI3175 | Somalia - Travel Plan and Security Assessment [...] (S/NF) This is an action request. See para 10. This message proposes travel to Somalia during the next three months. I consider this travel essential to advance the high USG foreign policy priority to promote security and stability in Somalia. The travel is aimed at: facilitating our inter [...] | 2007-08-06 11:32:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI3257 | Somalia - PM Gedi on Reconciliation [...] (SBU) See para 15 for action recommended. The Ambassador met August 11 with Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Prime Minister Ali Gedi to discuss reconciliation efforts, security in Mogadishu, and TFG efforts to secure Arab support. End Summary. -------------------------------- [...] | 2007-08-13 13:06:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI3313 | Somalia - Norwegian Diplomacy [...] (C) We met August 15 with Brynjulf Mugaas, Norwegian Counselor for Somalia, to discuss Norwegian regional diplomacy focused on Somalia. Mugaas told us he spoke at length August 14 with Ibrahim Addow (Hawiye/Haber Gedir/Sa'ad),the former "Foreign Secretary" of the Council of Islamic Courts (CIC [...] | 2007-08-16 13:47:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI3373 | Somaliland -- Foreign Minister on the Way Forward [...] (C) Summary. On August 20, the Ambassador held consultations with Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Mohamed Duale (at his request) to discuss the full range of issues in the U.S.-Somaliland relationship. Topics included the arrest of opposition political leaders, elections and recognition [...] | 2007-08-22 09:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI3375 | Somalia -- President Yusuf on the Way Forward [...] (C) Following the U.S.-TFG consultations on August 16 (Ref A) President Yusuf privately discussed with the Ambassador and Special Envoy Yates the way forward on national reconciliation and other issues. 2. (S/NF) Yusuf said that some members of the TFG, including Prime Minister Gedi, want t [...] | 2007-08-22 09:26:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI3463 | Somalia - NRC Closing and Next Steps [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-28 14:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI3564 | Somalia-After the Reconciliation Congress [...] (SBU) Summary: As anticipated the NRC closed on August 30. Chairman Ali Mahdi recognizes the reconciliation process will be ongoing, and he expects to continue playing a pivotal role. (See Septel text of NRC Communique) President Yusuf has committed the TFG to moving forward with the transitio [...] | 2007-09-07 10:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI3664 | Somalia: Alleged Assassination Threat [...] (S/NF) Summary: Somalia Transitional Federal Government President Abdullahi Yusuf allegedly told Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles in Addis that he intends to remove Somalia TFG Prime Minister Gedi on October 14 or 15. Meles warned Yusuf against doing so, and told Yusuf to maintain the current TF [...] | 2007-09-14 11:02:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI3738 | 17 SEPTEMBER 2007 NAIROBI WALK-IN REPORTS URANIUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 17 September 2007, at approximately 1300, an individual visited Embassy Nairobi claiming to have information of a security nature and provided a photo of an alleged "container of uranium stolen from Germany or Belgium". Reporting Assistant Regional Security Officer (ARSO) co [...] | 2007-09-21 07:24:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC KCRM KE KNNP MNUC PARM PTER |
07NAIROBI3795 | Somalia: Gedi/Yusuf Tensions Intensify [...] (C) Arrests, detentions, and firings marked the latest developments in the growing tension between Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Ali Gedi as dividing lines are reportedly being drawn in Mogadishu. An Ethiopian intervention may in the works, [...] | 2007-09-25 14:52:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI3797 | Puntland/Somaliland Border Fighting [...] (SBU) On September 24, InterPeace, a U.S. funded peace-building and reconciliation NGO, alerted supporters within the international community in Nairobi that the long-standing conflict between sub-clans in the Las Anod region of western Somaliland appeared likely to escalate into open fighting [...] | 2007-09-25 15:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI3968 | Delta Announces New York-Nairobi Service Starting June [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: U.S. carrier Delta Airlines has announced plans for Nairobi-New York service via Dakar starting in June 2008. Since Kenya is an FAA Category 2 country, Nairobi passengers, luggage and cargo must be offloaded, checked, and re-load [...] | 2007-10-04 14:42:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR AGOA ECON ETRD PTER KE |
07NAIROBI3992 | Somalia - Tour d'horizon with Minister Hurreh [...] (C) Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Minister of Education Ismael Hurreh told the Ambassador October 3 that on or about October 12 the government of Prime Minister Gedi will be dissolved by Parliament. There is no leading candidate to replace Gedi. End Summary. ----------------------- [...] | 2007-10-09 10:26:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI4262 | DHS/TSA MANPADS TEAM VISIT SUCCESSFUL [...] (SBU) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Officers, Mr. Santo Polizzi and Mr. David Thomas, completed a successful October 22-26 visit to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to assess the airport for vulnerabilities related to Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS). [...] | 2007-10-31 09:00:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PTER ECON DHS KE |
07NAIROBI4416 | KENYA TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON [...] (SBU) In response to ref A, the situation in Kenya regarding cash smuggling has not improved or changed from that described in ref B. The 2007 INCSR text remains accurate: Kenya has little in the way of cross-border currency controls. GOK regulations require that any amount of cash above $5,000 [...] | 2007-11-09 08:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER KE |
07NAIROBI4510 | SOMALIA PRIME MINISTER -- Yusuf Changes His Mind [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nur Hassan Hussein "Adde" will likely be announced as the new Prime Minister of the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) November 20 rather than Sheikh Hassan Ali Nur who had been presented to us as the presumptive candidate just one week ago. We were told that Nur's ca [...] | 2007-11-20 13:48:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI4511 | SOMALIA PRIME MINISTER -- Yusuf Changes His Mind [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nur Hassan Hussein "Adde" will likely be announced as the new Prime Minister of the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) November 20 rather than Sheikh Hassan Ali Nur who had been presented to us as the presumptive candidate just one week ago. We were told that Nur's ca [...] | 2007-11-20 14:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI4550 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] (SBU) U.S. Mission Kenya provides the following on host government practices in response to REFTEL. A. Watchlisting: -- If host government maintains a "watchlist," how many records does the watchlist contain, and how many are terrorist-related? Answer: The GoK/Immigration has approximate [...] | 2007-11-23 11:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS KE |
07NAIROBI4569 | NAIROBI WALK-IN REPORTS URANIUM INFORMATION - [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 06 November 2007, at approximately 1100, Assistant Regional Security Officer/Investigator (ARSOI) and Post officials coordinated a follow-up interview of Subject detailed in RefTel to answer additional questions regarding the alleged "container of uranium" for sale. Reportin [...] | 2007-11-27 10:21:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC KCRM KE KNNP MNUC PARM PTER |
07NAIROBI4720 | EMBASSY NAIROBI TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS [...] The terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) in Embassy Nairobi is Economic Counselor John F. Hoover, 254-20-363-6050, hooverjf@state.gov (unclass) and hooverjf@state.sgov.gov (class). Hoover is scheduled to depart Nairobi summer 2008, probably in June. 2. The Deputy TFCO in Embassy Na [...] | 2007-12-11 07:56:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN KE |
07NAIROBI4812 | KENYA AVIATION AGENCIES PICK UP THE BALL TO MOVE TOWARDS [...] (SBU) Summary: During December 6-7 meetings in Nairobi, Kenyan aviation officials and officials from the U.S. DOT and FAA committed to renewed close cooperation to enable Kenya to meet ICAO requirements for Category 1 within 18 months. They also agreed to work with the resident U.S. Transporta [...] | 2007-12-20 03:46:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PTER ETRD PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI5401 | SOMALIA DISCUSSIONS WITH TFG FOREIGN MINISTER HURRE [...] (C) As the Somalia crisis has unfolded, TFG Foreign Minister Hurre, who has been in Nairobi throughout, has been a useful source of information and insights into TFG actions. While he does not have much political clout within the TFG, he is in close contact with Yusuf and Gedi and reliably p [...] | 2007-01-02 10:22:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5402 | SOMALIA TFG PARLIAMENT SPEAKER HASSAN'S ROLE [...] (C) As the current situation in Somalia has unfolded, we have been in close touch with TFG Parliament Speaker Hassan. Hassan left Baidoa over a month ago, stating that Parliament could not deliberate with freedom given pressures coming from President Yusuf and PM Gedi. He has insisted that Ged [...] | 2007-01-02 10:22:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5403 | SOMALIA - SHEIKH SHARIF AND THE FUTURE ROLE OF [...] Although Sheikh Sharif, the head of the Islamic Courts, executive branch has sometimes made harsh public statements, he is considered by most knowledgeable observers to be a moderate (the Ambassador took away that impression from his late August 2006 meeting with Sharif). Sharif is a respected [...] | 2007-01-02 10:24:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5404 | SOMALIA - KENYAN INTERDICTION OF TERRORISTS AND [...] (C) As the leadership of the Islamic Courts and the high value targets of interest to us fled towards Kismayo, we urged the Kenyan government to reinforce security along the land and sea borders to interdict/deter/apprehend any of these individuals seeking to cross into Kenya. 2. (C) The Ke [...] | 2007-01-02 10:24:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5405 | SOMALIA - CONVERSATIONS WITH TFG PRESIDENT YUSUF [...] (C) Since the start of the Ethiopian intervention in Somalia, the Ambassador has been in close contact with TFG Prime Minister Gedi by phone, first from Baidoa and, during the past three days, from Mogadishu, and with President Yusuf. Yusuf from the outset has indicated that he understands th [...] | 2007-01-02 10:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5406 | "CORRECTED COPY TO INCLUDE PARAGRAPH [...] (S) Although Sheikh Sharif, the head of the Islamic Courts, executive branch has sometimes made harsh public statements, he is considered by most knowledgeable observers to be a moderate (the Ambassador took away that impression from his late August 2006 meeting with Sharif). Sharif is a resp [...] | 2007-01-02 11:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5407 | SOMALIA - US CITIZENS [...] A variety of reporting indicates that there are a significant number of U.S. citizens in Somalia (particularly in Mogadishu),although we have no reliable statistics. Our clear impression is that most are duel nationals. A number of Amcits are in parliament and/or are players elsewhere on th [...] | 2007-01-02 12:10:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC CASC SO KE |
07NAIROBI5408 | IN THE CIC'S WAKE, WARLORDS SEEK TO REASSERT THEIR [...] (C) Summary and comment: Following the swift withdrawal of CIC forces from central and southern Somalia, several of Somalia's more notorious warlords are seeking to reassert their influence. The resurging warlords are reportedly assuming control of the weapons turned over by the CIC to the s [...] | 2007-01-02 17:33:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI588 | ACTION REQUEST: IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE TO PROMOTE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Increased violent crime over the past several months -- highlighted by the January 27 killing of two American Mission family members in a carjacking -- has heightened my concern about the Government of Kenya's ability to adequately respond to both criminal and [...] | 2007-02-05 11:22:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PINS KCRM PTER KE |
07NAIROBI67 | SOMALIA: KENYAN PUSHBACK OF ASYLUM SEEKERS [...] (C) The Ambassador raised reftel points with Foreign Minister Tuju the morning of January 4. The Ambassador emphasized the need for Kenya to cease the involuntary return of refugees (400 from Liboi and another 291 from Lamu) and meet its international humanitarian obligations to open its bord [...] | 2007-01-04 13:42:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL PHUM EIAD PTER KE SO |
07NAIROBI733 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PARTNERSHIP WITH PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the successful delivery of the presentation of the U.S.-Kenya partnership to President Kibaki in December, a Mission team led by the Ambassador on February 7 gave the Mission's "Partnership Presentation" to the leadership of Kenya's Parliament. During the well-attend [...] | 2007-02-13 10:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL EAID PTER ASEC KE |
07NAIROBI762 | Somalia Security Highlights [...] (C) Two Somali groups have emerged claiming to lead the resistance to the TFG and its Ethiopian supporters. One of the groups has threatened to attack aircraft attempting to use Mogadishu International Airport, though it may be satisfied for the time being with disrupting TFG revenue flows. [...] | 2007-02-14 13:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI790 | TFG Appointments [...] (U) In the last few days, TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf has appointed more than 70 local and regional administrative positions in Galgudud, Lower Juba, Middle Juba, and Bakool regions. According to sources in Mogadishu, on February 13 the TFG nominated commissioners for the 16 districts in the [...] | 2007-02-15 15:57:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI87 | DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON REFOULEMENT DELIVERED TO THE [...] Embassy Nairobi sent a diplomatic note to the Kenyan MFA on January 5 expressing concern over reports of refoulement of Somali asylum seekers, the text of which follows. Begin Text of Diplomatic Note: The Embassy of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Ministry of Fo [...] | 2007-01-05 10:12:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PREF PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI875 | Kenya Terrorist Finance: Illicit Cash Couriers [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenyan officials share USG concern over cash couriers and money laundering, partly because of cash smuggling over the Somali border. Kenya's draft anti-money laundering (AML) bill contains provisions requiring declaration of monetary instruments over USD 5,000, criminalizes will [...] | 2007-02-23 10:04:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER KCRM KE |
07NAIROBI905 | Somali Insurgents Attack Ethiopians [...] Somali insurgents attacked Ethiopian forces camped at the former Defense Ministry building in Mogadishu on February 23 between 1730 and 1800 local time. In what sources describe as a well-planned attack, insurgents caught the Ethiopians off guard with mortars and automatic weapons fire. The [...] | 2007-02-26 13:14:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI906 | Somalia Security: A Stagnant Insurgency [...] (C) The Somali insurgency in Mogadishu remains deadly but does not appear to be spreading significantly throughout the country. Perpetrators include Islamic Courts remnants, marginalized Hawiye clan members, disaffected warlords, and common criminals; and they continue to terrorize the city's [...] | 2007-02-26 13:31:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI91 | COMMUNIQUE OF JANUARY 5 INTERNATIONAL CONTACT [...] The International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia met on January 5 in Nairobi, Kenya, co-chaired by Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer and Kenyan Minister for Foreign SIPDIS Affairs Raphael Tuju. Details of the meeting will follow septel. The text of the communique issued following the ICG [...] | 2007-01-05 14:40:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI990 | Somali Insurgents Switch to Assassinations [...] (C) Summary. Following a mortar and RPG attack last week on an Ethiopian encampment, insurgents this week have only attacked with hand grenades and personal weapons. The TFG Prime Minister's brother-in-law was among the assassinated. Banditry appears to be a growing problem in Mogadishu a [...] | 2007-03-01 14:45:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NASSAU1399 | AMBASSADOR SIEGEL PRESENTS CREDENTIALS [...] Summary: Ambassador Siegel presented his credentials to Governor General Arthur Dion Hanna on November 14 in a ceremony at Government House. Prior to the ceremony, the Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Brent Symonette, who affirmed the government's desire to maintain the best possible rel [...] | 2007-11-16 22:10:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | APER PREL PTER UNGA BF |
07NASSAU549 | BAHAMAS NOT CAPABLE OF ASSISTING NEW WAY FORWARD [...] (C) The Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas does not have the capacity to contribute military or civilian resources to support the New Way Forward on Iraq. The Bahamian military consists of only 1000 troops, two ships and no air force. The entire military budget for The Bahamas is [...] | 2007-04-30 20:30:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ BF |
07NASSAU610 | FOREIGN MINISTER SYMONETTE PLEDGES NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge paid his first official courtesy call on new Bahamian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Brent Symonette May 13, outlining U.S. priorities including the upcoming Conference on the Caribbean, elections to the UN Human Rights Council, a Proliferation Security Agreem [...] | 2007-05-15 22:08:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC EAIR ETRD PTER BF |
07NASSAU753 | PRIME MINISTER INGRAHAM SEEKS CLOSE TIES WITH U.S. [...] (C) On June 13, the Charge called on Prime Minister Ingraham to congratulate him on his recent election and to review U.S. and Bahamian priorities in advance of the June 18-21 Conference on the Caribbean. In a productive 45-minute meeting, Ingraham promised to consider a Proliferation Securi [...] | 2007-06-15 22:49:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR PTER MCAP PHUM CU VE BF |
07NASSAU967 | TERRORISM FINANCE: MARTYRS FOUNDATION AND AS-QARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 22:22:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN PREL PTER PGOV BF |
07NDJAMENA206 | CHAD: RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST ON CT ACTIVITIES [...] (C) Summary: Chad actively cooperates with the U.S. on counterterrorism activities and programs. Chad has been a consistent participant in the PSI and TSCTI programs, and remains the only TSCTP country to host a Joint Planning and Advisory Team (JPAT). Due to porous borders and lack of immi [...] | 2007-03-05 17:26:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EAID MASS PTER CD |
07NDJAMENA445 | CHAD: ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD III [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 16:27:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL PTER CD |
07NDJAMENA553 | TRANSFORMING CHAD: A CAUTIONARY TALE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the last three years the United States has devoted more attention and resources to Chad than at any time since the joint fight against Libyan aggression in the 1980's. Chad is a major beneficiary of the Trans Saharan Counter-Terrorism Partnership initiative. It receive [...] | 2007-07-03 20:54:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN EPET KDEM KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
07NDJAMENA66 | SUDANESE COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT HIJACKED TO N'DJAMENA [...] A Sudanese Air West passenger aircraft reportedly en route from Khartoum to El Fasher and Niyalla January 24 was hijacked by a young Sudanese man and diverted to N,Djamena. The Minister of Public Security,s chief of staff, who was at N,Djamena Airport when the aircraft arrived around 10:30 t [...] | 2007-01-24 15:17:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC EAIR PTER CD SU |
07NDJAMENA689 | CHAD SCENESETTER FOR CODEL JACKSON LEE [...] (U) U.S. Embassy N'Djamena warmly welcomes CODEL Jackson Lee to Chad August 26-27, 2007. Chad is a landlocked, impoverished nation situated in the geographical "heart" of Africa. Violent regime change has been the rule since independence in 1960. Chad's estimated 9.4 million people are prim [...] | 2007-08-23 09:01:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CD |
07NDJAMENA807 | CHAD: NO PROGRESS ON DETAINED AMCIT [...] (SBU) No progress has been made in the more than five days of contacts between members of the Chadian Tubu community and the MDJT rebel group currently holding Amcit Steve Godbolt in Zoumri, northern Chad. The local Radio France International (RFI) reporter had agreed to temporarily hold off [...] | 2007-10-17 15:37:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PGOV PTER PREL CD LY |
07NDJAMENA819 | CHAD:1206 FUNDED PROPOAL "IMPROVE PARTNER NATION [...] (SBU) Post has reviewed information containd in ref-email concerning 1206-funded activities o improve partner nation intelligence. The actiities are designed to developa self-sustaining indigenous intelligence capacity capable of detecting, tracking, reporting and sharing intelligence on te [...] | 2007-10-22 14:12:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER CD |
07NDJAMENA822 | CHAD REBEL GROUP ISSUES PRESS RELEASE CONCERNING SEIZED [...] The Paris-based Chad opposition web site "Al-Wihda" (alwihdainfo.com) has carried a number of postings concerning American Cash Steven Godbold, seized by the MDJT on October 12 in Zoumri, Chad, including one by the group which claims to have seized him. We cannot attest to the authenticity of [...] | 2007-10-23 11:06:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL CASC CD LY |
07NDJAMENA823 | CHAD: 10/23 UPDATE ON GODBOLD SEIZURE [...] (SBU) According to colleagues of seized Amcit Cash Steven Godbold, Godbold has been moved some 12-15 kilometers away from the town of Zoumri. Chadian Tubus have reported to Godbold's N'Djamena colleagues that the MDJT guards with Godbold are standing watch in shifts, and are concerned that a [...] | 2007-10-23 15:37:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER CASC CD LY |
07NDJAMENA825 | CHAD AMCIT CASE: REPORTED MDJT REQUEST [...] (SBU) CDA and other Emboffs met with Mr. Hadir Adji, President of the Associations Friends of the Tibesti and two of his colleagues on October 19 to pass on the message that the case of seized American Cash Steven Godbold was being followed with a great deal of interest and concern in Washingt [...] | 2007-10-24 11:40:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC PTER CD LY |
07NDJAMENA832 | GOC OFFICIAL SAYS BE PATIENT ON GODBOLD CASE [...] (SBU) CDA met with the Secretary of State for the Interior Djasnabaille on October 25 to discuss the situation of seized Amcit Cash Steve Godbold. Djasnabaille said that the Government of Chad (GOC) strongly condemned the act. He said that they were in touch with Tubu "notables" from Bardai [...] | 2007-10-25 13:59:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER CASC CD LY |
07NDJAMENA849 | CHAD: GODBOLD UPDATE 10/30 [...] (SBU) Summary: Seized Amcit Cash Steve Godbold has been moved to a location deeper in the heart of the Tibesti, but his colleagues in N'Djamena are still confident that he is in good health and being well treated. The Red Cross has been contacted and is ready to facilitate his release, but t [...] | 2007-10-31 18:14:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PTER LY CD |
07NDJAMENA852 | CHAD: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED: [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in November. Post will report any substantive response septel. TAMLYN [...] | 2007-11-05 09:10:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA854 | CHAD: TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 09:30:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA856 | GODBOLD CASE: RED CROSS REPORTS LIKELY RELEASE [...] (SBU) International Red Cross Deputy Director Nikolai Panke contacted Charge D'Affaires on November 5 to inform her that he had spoken with MDJT splinter group leader Choa Dazi by phone. Dazi told him that Amcit Cash Steven Godbold would be released in the next couple of days. Dazi called Godb [...] | 2007-11-05 11:51:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PTER CD LY |
07NDJAMENA876 | CHAD: FOREIGN MINISTRY RESPONDS ON GUANTANAMO CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: President Deby has directed his Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take steps to seek the liberation of Chadian Guantanamo detainee Mohamed Algharani (aka Yousef Abkir Salih Al Qarani). Department guidance requested (see para 5). End summary. 2. (SBU) On November 5, Post rece [...] | 2007-11-09 10:33:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL PTER CD |
07NDJAMENA877 | PRESIDENT DEBY SIGNS "THE LAST PEACE AGREEMENT" [...] (C) Summary. President Deby signed what he called "the last peace agreement" with the remaining Chadian rebel groups at large in Libya on October 25. The formation of a new Government is still expected but other events (in particular, the Zoe's Ark Affair) have taken up government attention. [...] | 2007-11-13 08:22:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER CD |
07NDJAMENA886 | CHAD: MIXED SIGNALS ON GODBOLD CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite indications that he might be released shortly, seized American missionary Steve Godbold is still in the hands of MDJT rebels in the Tibesti region of Chad. End summary. 2. (SBU) On November 8 the Al-Wihda website announced that the MDJT splinter group claiming to ho [...] | 2007-11-15 15:50:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PTER CD LY |
07NDJAMENA888 | CHAD: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NTC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 10:21:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PTER PARM CD |
07NEWDELHI1050 | INDIA AND U.S. HOLD COUNTER-TERRORISM JOINT [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Additional Secretary (International Organizations) K.C. Singh and Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic chaired the 8th U.S.-India Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) on February 28th in New Delhi. Calling the timing "late, but better late than ne [...] | 2007-03-02 14:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK |
07NEWDELHI1098 | CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS RE-EMERGES IN INDIA - MAN VS. [...] (U) Summary: After a 32 year hiatus, the chikungunya virus is making a comeback in India. While the Government of India (GOI) estimates over 180,000 cases of chikungunya infection since December 2005, the actual number of cases is difficult to assess. The GOI,s lack of transparency in reporti [...] | 2007-03-06 13:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV AMED EAGR IN KFLU ECON PREL SENV TBIO PTER |
07NEWDELHI1216 | DEMARCHE ON ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR USG ASSISTANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-13 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR IN |
07NEWDELHI1275 | HIZBOLLAH AND HAMAS DELEGATES PARTICIPATE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Delegates of the "International Conference on War, Imperialism and Resistance: West Asia," held in New Delhi March 12-14, adopted a resolution urging the Indian government to change its Middle East policy, break ties with Israel, and promote dialogue with Iran. Hizbollah spokes [...] | 2007-03-15 13:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IS IR IN |
07NEWDELHI1295 | KASHMIRI REJECTIONIST HARDLINER GEELANI SEEKS U.S. [...] This is an ACTION REQUEST for CA, S/CT, DS, PA, SCA and others. Please see paragraphs 15 and 16. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani applied March 16 for a visa to travel to the United States for medical treatment for cancer in his one remaining kid [...] | 2007-03-16 11:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER CVIS ASEC PREL PGOV PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL |
07NEWDELHI1297 | NAXALITES KILL 55 IN ATTACK ON SECURITY FORCES IN [...] (C) Summary. Hundreds of Naxalite insurgents stormed a heavily-fortified security post in the Dantewada district of southern Chhattisgarh during a pre-dawn raid on March 15. After three hours of fighting, 55 security and police personnel were killed. This unfortunate and gruesome attack co [...] | 2007-03-16 12:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IN |
07NEWDELHI1532 | DCM REVIEWS FULL SLATE OF BILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (C) In a courtesy call on new Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta on March 30, the DCM recalled their long-standing friendship, briefed Gupta on the many ways that the USG works with the Home Ministry to advance our bilateral agenda, and sought Gupta's help to improve Embassy interactions with his M [...] | 2007-03-30 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PHUM |
07NEWDELHI1620 | KARZAI TELLS BOUCHER THAT AFGHANISTAN IS GROWING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting Afghan President Hamid Karzai April 3 on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit, Assistant Secretary Boucher noted that Pakistan had given Karzai a warm welcome into the organization. A Joint Jirga session last week was succe [...] | 2007-04-04 12:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MOPS PTER AF PK IN |
07NEWDELHI1643 | SRI LANKA'S FOREIGN MINISTER ASSURES BOUCHER THAT HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES WILL BE ADDRESSED AND REQUESTS MORE SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his meeting with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, Assistant Secretary Boucher emphasized that it was vital that the forthcoming devolution package reassure moderate Tamils about their future place in Sri Lankan society and guarantee that their rights are protected. [...] | 2007-04-05 13:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER CE IN |
07NEWDELHI1699 | DESPITE WILD SPECULATION, UTTAR PRADESH ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary: Uttar Pradesh (UP) completed its first phase of polling on April 7. Due to the active involvement of an effective Election Commission (EC),the vote went smoothly and was violence free. Notoriously unreliable exit polls predict that the SP and BJP will lose seats, while Congre [...] | 2007-04-10 13:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1702 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER REVIEWS SOUTH ASIAN [...] (C) Summary: During a one hour meeting on April 5, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon reviewed political and economic developments with Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. When it comes to the region, New Delhi a [...] | 2007-04-11 07:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR PREF ECON ETRD AF |
07NEWDELHI1704 | INDO-PAK DISCUSSIONS ON SAARC SIDELINES HINT AT [...] (C) Summary: The recently concluded SAARC Summit (April 3-4) was notable for its lack of major tension over the perennially contentious issues between India and Pakistan. Indo-Pak experts on the sidelines of SAARC saw signals that a proposal may be just around the corner to try to resolve l [...] | 2007-04-11 09:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI1715 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER AND GAITRI KUMAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-11 11:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD MOPS KPAO ENRG PARM PTER |
07NEWDELHI1720 | DELHI DIARY, MARCH 29-APRIL 11 [...] (C) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for March 8-29, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Naxalites Looking to Join the Fray in Kashmir -- BJP Coalesces Its Strategy of Attack on Congress -- Civil Society Holds SAARC Accountabl [...] | 2007-04-11 12:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PK IR JA IN |
07NEWDELHI1723 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER AND GAITRI KUMAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: South and Central Asian Affairs Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher met Ministry of External Affairs SIPDIS Joint Secretary Gaitri Kumar April 5 to review progress and obstacles on key U.S.- India bilateral issues, including defense, military relations, education, the Agricult [...] | 2007-04-11 12:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD MOPS KPAO ENRG PARM PTER |
07NEWDELHI1727 | PDP WINS PUBLIC BATTLE OVER JAMMU AND KASHMIR [...] (S) Summary: People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mufti Muhammad Sayeed rather astutely and with exquisite timing caused a major dilemma that threatened to unravel the Congress-PDP coalition government of Jammu and Kashmir state. In negotiations before the SAARC Summit and on the eve of Ut [...] | 2007-04-12 05:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI188 | INDIA KEEN TO BAN KUWAIT'S REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC [...] (C) India is likely to support strongly US efforts to designate domestically and under UNSCR 1267 Kuwait's Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) as a financier of international terrorism. Indian officials have previously expressed their fear of spillover of the group's activities in Bang [...] | 2007-01-12 12:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER KTFN ETTC PREL EFIN KISL PAK IN |
07NEWDELHI1885 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of April 16-20, 2007. ---------------------------------- New FDI Regulations Go into Effect ---------------------------------- 2. (U) India's new FDI regulations in telecom were officially notified by the [...] | 2007-04-20 12:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV PTER KTFN ETRD IN |
07NEWDELHI1915 | RAHUL GANDHI JUMPS INTO THE U.P. ELECTORAL FRAY [...] (C) Summary: Rahul Gandhi, the heir apparent of the Gandhi family dynasty, has made a number of gaffes, suggesting an uneven start to his active political career. During a series of ""roadshows"" meant to jump-start the Congress campaign in ongoing Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections, Rahul made ellipti [...] | 2007-04-23 11:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN PK |
07NEWDELHI1920 | RECORD CROWD ATTENDS HARDLINE SEPARATIST GEELANI'S [...] (C) Summary: In a show of force as well as strength, hardline separatist Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani held a rally in Srinagar on April 22nd to mark his return to the Valley following cancer surgery in Mumbai. Our interlocutors say the rally was attended by several thousand mostly young people -- [...] | 2007-04-23 13:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI1946 | NO CLEAR LEADER EMERGES FROM THE FOURTH PHASE OF [...] (C) Summary: The fourth phase of the contentious Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections came off without a hitch in a remote area of the state bordering on Nepal, which has been a stronghold of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP). An influential caste leader from the area split from the SP and launched h [...] | 2007-04-24 12:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1974 | INDIA CAPABLE BUT UNWILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN IRAQ [...] (C) The Government of India (GOI) is capable of sending both military and civilian resources to help accomplish the mission in Iraq, but the will to do so does not exist. In 2003, when the U.S. first approached the GOI to contribute troops to Iraq, then-Prime Minister Vajpayee's initial reac [...] | 2007-04-25 12:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS PTER IZ IN |
07NEWDELHI1977 | DELHI DIARY, APRIL 20-25 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for April 20-25, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Mid-Election Scandal Could Shake Up Politics -- Bhutan,s Voters Elect "Yellow" in Mock Polls -- Another Bomb Found and Defused in Bhutan [...] | 2007-04-25 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS KCRM KDEM PHUM SOCI PTER MOPS |
07NEWDELHI2036 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of April 23-27, 2007. ------------------------------ OIL AND GAS MINISTER DISCUSSES LNG WITH TEHRAN ------------------------------ 2. (SBU) India's Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora met [...] | 2007-04-27 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV PTER KTFN ETRD IN |
07NEWDELHI2072 | G-8 SEEKING IMPROVED CT COOPERATION WITH INDIA [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns attended a meeting of the G-8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) in New Delhi, which is now chaired by the German Political Counselor. The group attempts to coordinate G-8 efforts to partner with the Indian government against terrorism. The group discussed each coun [...] | 2007-05-01 08:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI209 | MUKHERJEE'S PAKISTAN TRIP YIELDS LITTLE FOR INDIA [...] (C) Summary. Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee met with Pakistani leaders in Islamabad on January 13th and 14th, announcing that Pakistani Foreign Minister Kasuri will visit New Delhi in February, inaugurating the next round of composite dialogue with Foreign Secretary talks on March 13th a [...] | 2007-01-16 10:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2092 | LATEST UTTAR PRADESH POLL CONFIRMS CONTINUED [...] (C) Summary: The fifth phase of seven phases of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) election concluded on April 28, with a growing consensus that this election will likely spell the end of SP rule. An effective Election Commission has prevented the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) from using dirty tricks to [...] | 2007-05-02 11:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI2101 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH INCOMING MEA JOINT SECRETARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A TOUR D'HORIZON WITH INCOMING MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN) JOINT SECRETARY T.C.A. RAGHAVAN MAY 1, POLCOUNS RAISED PETROLEUM SIPDIS AND NATURAL GAS MINISTER MURLI DEORA'S RECENT STOPOVER IN TEHRAN. RAGHAVAN SAID HE HAD NOT RECEIVED DETAILS, [...] | 2007-05-02 12:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EPET ETRD MARR PINR MOPS IR |
07NEWDELHI2102 | PM HOSTS THIRD JAMMU AND KASHMIR ROUNDTABLE AS [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh chaired a third Roundtable Conference in New Delhi with Kashmiri leaders on April 21st, although separatists from both moderate and hard-line political camps refused to attend. The Prime Minister sat through more than 10 hours of presentations by Kashmiri p [...] | 2007-05-02 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2117 | INDIAN DEOBANDIS SAY PAKISTANI JUI-F WILLING TO BROKER PEACE TALKS WITH TALIBAN [...] (S) Summary: Poloffs met on April 27th with Pandit N. K. Sharma -- who once headed Muslim Outreach for the Rao government and who claims close ties to the Gandhi family -- as well as Maulana Mahmood Madani, a member of Parliament and prominent leader of the Deobandi political organization Jamiat U [...] | 2007-05-03 10:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2140 | BSP MAINTAINS ITS LEAD IN UTTAR PRADESH SIXTH [...] (U) The sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) election took place without significant problems on May 3. Polling was conducted in 52 constituencies in nine districts in a remote area of southeastern UP. Three of the districts are home to Naxalite activity, but they did not emerge from their [...] | 2007-05-04 11:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI2149 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of April 30 - May 4, 2007. PAKISTAN CUTS INTO INDIAN WHEAT MARKET -------------- 2. (SBU) For the first time in history, India is importing wheat from Pakistan as of April-May 2007. Taking advantage o [...] | 2007-05-04 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV PTER ETRD IN |
07NEWDELHI2203 | UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS CONCLUDED; RESULTS ON MAY [...] (U) On May 8, polling concluded in the seventh and final phase of the protracted election in Uttar Pradesh (UP). The voting took place in 59 constituencies in East UP. Approximately 45 percent of the electorate cast their votes and there were no reported security incidents. The East UP dist [...] | 2007-05-09 07:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI2223 | INDIA-PAKISTAN STILL STUCK ON SIACHEN TALKS [...] (S) Summary: Indian Defense Minister A K Antony traveled to the Army's Siachen base camp to demonstrate his administration's ongoing tough stance toward Pakistan in negotiations over troop withdrawal from the peaks surrounding the glacier, as well as to set a marker by which India can claim v [...] | 2007-05-09 12:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2225 | DELHI DIARY, MAY 5-9 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 5-9, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- GOI Responds to LTTE Air Attacks in Sri Lanka with Increased Vigilance in the South -- Think-tanker: Lantos Letter "Less Than Diplomatic" [...] | 2007-05-09 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR MNUC PTER PINR BT CE UK |
07NEWDELHI2247 | INDIA REQUESTS FORMAL TERRORISM WATCH LIST EXCHANGE [...] (S) This is an ACTION request for the Department S/CT and SCA. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Summary: Indian MEA Counter-Terrorism Cell Director I M Pandey passed a request to Poloff that the U.S. and India sign an agreement to create a formal and continuous channel to exchange terrorism [...] | 2007-05-10 11:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL ASEC |
07NEWDELHI2258 | TERRORIST INFILTRATION FALLING IN INDIAN KASHMIR, INCREASING IN INDIAN HEARTLAND [...] (S) Summary: The Indian Home Ministry released its finding on May 10th that terrorist infiltration from Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir into Indian Kashmir fell to an all time low from January through March of 2007. Although these winter months are often considered a low period in violence and infil [...] | 2007-05-10 13:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2266 | A MAYAWATI LANDSLIDE IN UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS [...] (U) Although the EC has not yet released the final vote tally in the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Legislative Assembly Elections, initial analysis indicates a clear victory for the BSP party of former Chief Minister Mayawati, and Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has already conceded defeat. NDTV proj [...] | 2007-05-11 06:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI2268 | MAYAWATI VICTORY IN UTTAR PRADESH ELECTION [...] (C) Mayawati's decisive victory in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections will reverberate throughout India and has serious implications for the UPA government in New Delhi and for India/US relations. Projections now place her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) party just a hair's breath away [...] | 2007-05-11 08:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI2313 | AFTER UTTAR PRADESH ELECTION DOMESTIC POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh (UP) on May 11 and the state and India's domestic politics will never be the same. Mayawati, the new Chief Minister of UP, handed decisive defeats not only to her bitter rivals the Samajwadi Party (SP),but t [...] | 2007-05-14 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PTER SCUL KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI2360 | DELHI DIARY, MAY 10-17 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 10-17, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Handicapping the Presidential Race -- The Mysterious Process of Indian Presidential Elections -- Next Phase of India-Pakistan Composite Di [...] | 2007-05-17 14:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MASS PINR SOCI PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2456 | POINTS ON UNSCRS 1267 AND 1735 DELIVERED [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel points to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar May 21. Kumar reconfirmed the Government of India's (GOI) commitment to implement fully all UN Security Council Resolutions. She said she had discussed these demarches with ME [...] | 2007-05-23 11:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC IR IN |
07NEWDELHI2460 | DELHI DIARY, MAY 18-23 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 18-23, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Crude Bombs in UP Point to Internal Politics -- India Gives the Green Light for Civil Servants to Visit China -- Indian Army Chief Begins [...] | 2007-05-23 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MARR PHUM BT PK CH IN |
07NEWDELHI2475 | THE UPA AT THREE YEARS - MIRED IN MEDIOCRITY [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released a "Report to the People" on May 22, outlining the achievements of his UPA government at the three year point. The PM acknowledged that inflation is a problem, providing assurances that his government would take measures to keep it from hur [...] | 2007-05-24 10:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM PINR PTER KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI2553 | GOI BRIEFED ON AIR DEFENSE CONSULTATIONS WITH SRI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) expressed appreciation for the briefing provided by the Defense Attache (DATT) regarding the recent U.S. military survey of the Government of Sri Lanka's (GOSL) air defense capabilities. MEA requested the USG to apprise the GOI of radar equipmen [...] | 2007-05-30 09:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM CE BM |
07NEWDELHI2583 | TENSIONS IN RAJASTHAN ESCALATE AND SPREAD [...] (SBU) The Gujjar community continues it demands to be socially demoted from the Other Backward Castes (OBC) category to the Schedule Tribe (ST) category to access job and education benefits reserved for STs. Violent Gujjar demonstrations have escalated and spread to neighboring states over th [...] | 2007-05-31 15:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR ASEC PTER SCUL CASC IN |
07NEWDELHI2621 | KASHMIRI PARAMILITARY SEEKING US VISA [...] (S) This is an ACTION Request for the Department. SCA please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Summary: Kashmiri paramilitary leader and J&K State MLA Usman Abdul Majid is seeking a U.S. visa to attend functions hosted in Washington by the United States Institute of Peace starting on June 7th. Majid is a le [...] | 2007-06-04 11:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2792 | HOT, TENSE SUMMER AWAITS JAMMU AND KASHMIR [...] (S) SUMMARY: An unknown group claiming to be Al Qaeda's Indian wing has made and distributed in Jammu recorded statements declaring jihad on India. The Indian Army and several trusted analyst and journalist sources have scornfully dismissed the claim as a hoax, similar to last year's publici [...] | 2007-06-15 01:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2830 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR 123 CONCLUSION, SIGHTS ON [...] (C) Summary. In a June 15 meeting with National Security Advisor MK Narayanan, the Ambassador: -- pressed for the earliest possible conclusion to 123 Agreement negotiations and pressed the Indian to clarify their notion of a stand-alone fully safeguarded reprocessing facility; -- urged for [...] | 2007-06-18 10:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KNNP TSPA SENV SCUL IN EAGR |
07NEWDELHI2912 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 18-22, 2007. FIRST ROUND ON INDIA/EC FTA TALKS TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK -------------- 2. (SBU) European Commission Trade Counselor Bermejo told us that the first round of negotiations for an Indian [...] | 2007-06-22 11:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV EAIR PTER KTFN PREL ENRG ECON IN PK IR |
07NEWDELHI2935 | KASHMIR ANXIOUS WITH LITTLE SHORT-TERM HOPE FOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: Unknown terrorists threw a grenade at a bus stop in Doda in J & K June 25, wounding 15, three critically. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims, both Shi'a and Sunni, staged minor, non-violent street actions and chanted anti-US slogans June 14 and 15 to protest the Iraq Samarra Mosque bom [...] | 2007-06-25 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI3034 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 25-29, 2007. COMING SOON - EFFORTS TO AMEND THE MONEY LAUNDERING ACT --------------------------------------------- --- 2. (SBU) During a meeting with Econoff on June 29, Joint Secretary of Reve [...] | 2007-06-29 11:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV EAIR PTER KTFN PREL ENRG ECON IN PK IR |
07NEWDELHI306 | INDIA ON ALERT AS USUAL FOR REPUBLIC DAY THREATS [...] (C) Summary. As India's Republic Day fast approaches, security in the capital and the country's largest cities has increased to its highest level as Indians prepare for a significant national holiday. Airports remain on alert as press reports surfaced of threats, over the January 13-14 week [...] | 2007-01-19 12:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ASEC KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI310 | INDIA SET TO INCREASE PLEDGED AID TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (S) Summary. PolOffs met with Afghan Second Secretary Asadi to discuss Foreign Minister Mukherjee's January 22nd to 23rd visit to Afghanistan, including press reports that India is considering increasing its aid to Afghanistan by $100 million. Asadi, speaking through an interpreter, also gav [...] | 2007-01-19 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER EAID ETRD MOPS KDEM KISL PK |
07NEWDELHI3132 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 2-6, 2007. Foreign Banks Report High Profit Growth, Yet Opportunity Costs are Extreme ----------------- 2. (U) Major foreign banks in India have reported a healthy growth in net profits in the [...] | 2007-07-09 10:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ETRD EAIR PTER KTFN PREL ENRG ECON IN IR |
07NEWDELHI3134 | INDO-PAK TALKS ON TERRORISM AND NARCOTICS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Indian Home Minister Madhukar Gupta and Pakistani Secretary of the Interior, Syed Kmal Shah, met July 2-3 for the fourth round of Home Secretary-level talks on Terrorism and Drug Trafficking as part of the continuing Composite Dialogue process. Major topics were an exchange of [...] | 2007-07-09 11:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR PINR PK IN |
07NEWDELHI3248 | DELHI DIARY, JULY 6-16 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for July 6-16, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Sweet Success in Ethiopia: India Invests in Ethiopian Sugar and Wins African Support for a Security Council Seat -- India Looks East with [...] | 2007-07-16 11:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS MARR KUNR EINV PTER MCAP AS |
07NEWDELHI342 | BJP DOWNPLAYS IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The UPA's January 3 luncheon meeting with the BJP leadership proved to be largely a flash in the pan. Subsequent events and statements by BJP insiders confirm that little of substance took place at the meeting, which consisted primarily of a briefing by Minister of External Affa [...] | 2007-01-22 13:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PINR PTER KDEM IN PK BT |
07NEWDELHI343 | INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN UPBEAT ON PAKISTAN, CAUTIOUS [...] (S) Summary: National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan expressed optimism about the general trajectory of talks with Pakistan during a January 22nd meeting with Ambassador Mulford, although he said Prime Minister Singh was unlikely to schedule a trip to Islamabad before the SAARC summit in Ap [...] | 2007-01-22 13:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK |
07NEWDELHI346 | UTTAR PRADESH MUSLIMS - DISILLUSIONED AND MORE [...] (C) Summary: The Muslims of Uttar Pradesh (UP) are increasingly fed-up with the corruption and poor governance of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, with many ready to desert to Congress and the rival BSP. Lucknow's Shias have historic and cultural tie [...] | 2007-01-23 06:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM KISL SCUL IN IZ IR |
07NEWDELHI364 | INDIA CHOOSES NATIONAL INTERESTS OVER HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee visited Burma on January 19-22 to enlist the junta's help in India's counterterrorism efforts in the Northeast, to cooperate on the erection of border fences, and to attempt to secure a natural gas supply. The visit was trumpeted as a su [...] | 2007-01-23 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IN CE |
07NEWDELHI406 | INDIA MULLING TALKS WITH KASHMIRI SEPARATISTS [...] (S) Summary. Deputy PolCouns met with one of India's chief negotiators with the Kashmiri separatists, Union Cabinet Minister for Water Resources Professor Saifuddin Soz, himself a Kashmiri, to discuss Mirwaiz Omar Farooq's visit to Pakistan, New Delhi's response to the Mirwaiz's statements de [...] | 2007-01-25 11:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI4414 | DELHI DIARY, SEPTEMBER 15-27 [...] (U) This week's product is a joint effort of Embassy New Delhi and Consulate General Mumbai in conveying items of interest for September 15-26, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India to Launch Israeli Spy Satellite? -- BJP President Urges UN Resolution 1373 Sa [...] | 2007-09-28 05:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL PTER MARR MOPS PHUM IS PK TI |
07NEWDELHI4756 | NEW DELHI NERVOUSLY WATCHING DEVELOPMENTS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: India-Pakistan relations continue to exude positive vibrations, but officials in New Delhi are closely watching developments in Pakistan for storm clouds on the diplomatic horizon. The Composite Dialogue process continues unabated despite distractions at the political level in [...] | 2007-10-26 11:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER PK IN |
07NEWDELHI4822 | MEA SLAMS UNMIN, URGES ELECTIONS AT THE SOONEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (for Nepal and Bhutan) Preeti Saran conveyed in an SIPDIS October 30 meeting with Acting PolCouns her government's disappointment with the electoral delay in Nepal, emphasized the need for New Delhi and Washington to pressure [...] | 2007-10-31 13:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PREF KDEM UN BT NP IN |
07NEWDELHI4843 | ARGENTINE AMBASSADOR ON INTERPOL REQUEST [...] (C) Argentina's Ambassador to India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, Ernesto Alvarez, has conveyed his opinion -- without elaboration -- that it could be counterproductive for the Embassy to deliver the remarks supporting Argentina's position on the upcoming Interpol vote to the Indian gov [...] | 2007-11-02 14:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV IR IN |
07NEWDELHI4902 | INDIA PREFERS QUIET APPROACH ON FATF STATEMENT AND [...] (SBU) Econoff and Poloff delivered the demarche and background paper (reftel A) to the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) Director Anand Bajaj at the Ministry of Finance on November 7 and to Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar at the Ministry of External Affairs on November 2, respectiv [...] | 2007-11-08 06:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC ECON KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC IN |
07NEWDELHI5026 | INDIA WANTS TO STAY QUIET ON ITS WESTERN (IRAN AND [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told the Ambassador November 19 that the Indian government had not yet determined how it would express its concern about the IAEA Director General's Iran report. Although he conveyed the Indian government's continuing concern with the lack of t [...] | 2007-11-20 11:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR EPET ENRG EINV IR PK IN |
07NEWDELHI5047 | DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 16-21 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for November 16-21, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Concerns about Negotiating with the Taliban -- PM Singh Uses ASEAN to Urge Burma to Expedite the Reconciliation Process -- Three [...] | 2007-11-21 09:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IR PK AF CH SN KS JP |
07NEWDELHI511 | SEPARATISTS CONTEMPLATING JOINING 2008 JAMMU AND [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for SCA. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Summary: Moderate Kashmiri separatist Bilal Lone met with Deputy PolCouns on January 31st to discuss his January 19 to 27 trip to Pakistan with All Parties Hurriyat Council (APHC) leader Mirwaiz Omar Farooq. Bilal told [...] | 2007-02-01 15:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI5127 | A/S SAUERBREY VOICES CONCERN OVER SRI LANKA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey's points regarding the status of Sri Lanka's Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),the Government of Sri Lanka's (GOSL) slow pace of identification and prosecution of human rights abusers, allegations of child recruitment into the [...] | 2007-11-29 05:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER CE IN |
07NEWDELHI513 | SEPARATISTS CONTEMPLATING JOINING 2008 JAMMU AND [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for SCA. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Summary: Moderate Kashmiri separatist Bilal Lone met with Deputy PolCouns on January 31st to discuss his January 19 to 27 trip to Pakistan with All Parties Hurriyat Council (APHC) leader Mirwaiz Omar Farooq. Bilal told [...] | 2007-02-02 01:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI5157 | DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 22-30 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for November 22-30,2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India Freezes Arms sales to Burma -- India votes against the UN's draft resolution on Burma -- PM Singh to Visit China -- Indian is Fi [...] | 2007-11-30 13:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER SENV ECON CH BM IN |
07NEWDELHI5158 | TERRORISTS USE U.P. NODES TO SWIFTLY REACT TO [...] (C) Summary: The November 23 terrorist bombings in Varanasi, Lucknow and Faizabad in response to the arrests of three alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) members seeking to kidnap Rahul Gandhi killed at least thirteen people and injured many more (Ref A). Politicians quickly scrambled to blame e [...] | 2007-12-03 01:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER AESC PGOV CASC PREL KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI5228 | DELHI DIARY, DECEMBER 3-7 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for December 3-7, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Delhi Police on Terror Alert -- Babri Masjid: Continues to Cast Shadow -- India Conducts New Missile Defense Tests. -- Minor Demonstra [...] | 2007-12-07 11:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KISL MCAP PINR SOCI IN |
07NEWDELHI5422 | INDIAN REACTION TO BHUTTO ASSASSINATION: UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION, AND WORRY OVER CONTROL OF PAK-BASED TERRORISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-28 12:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IN KISL PGOV PK PREL PTER |
07NEWDELHI574 | INDIA PREPARING FOR US-INDIA COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (S) Summary: Deputy PolCouns met on February 1st with the new Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Director for India's Counter-Terrorism Cell, Indra Mani Pandey, as well as Director (Military Affairs) Brig. AS Nundal, who is acting as a coordinator for the India-U.S. Counter-Terrorism Joint Wo [...] | 2007-02-06 09:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER EFIN PINR MOPS KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI636 | KASHMIRIS IRATE OVER CUSTODIAL KILLINGS; PM SINGH TAKING ACTION [...] (S) Srinagar was once again gripped with protests on February 7th, as police officials announced that they had dug up five unmarked graves in an ongoing investigation of custodial killings. Our interlocutors say Prime Minister Singh is influencing the investigations as a confidence building [...] | 2007-02-08 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI701 | INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN DISCUSSES RUSSIAN MIG-35, [...] (S) Summary: Lieutenant General Maples, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, met with Indian National Security Advisor MK Narayanan on February 8th to discuss joint efforts to increase U.S.-India defense cooperation. NSA Narayanan explained India's longstanding concern about Chinese d [...] | 2007-02-12 14:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI779 | INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER DEMANDS DEMARCATION ON [...] (U) Speaking to Indian reporters on February 10th on the sidelines of a conference on India and the ASEAN sponsored by the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, Indian Defense Minister AK Antony reiterated that any agreement with Pakistan over Siachen would be unacceptable to the Indian [...] | 2007-02-15 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI783 | GUTIERREZ WEIGHS IN WITH FM MUKHERJEE ON BELL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even while extolling the significant growth in U.S. ) India economic and political ties and assuring the GOI,s continued support, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee stubbornly defended to Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Under Secretary Frank Lavin, and Ambas [...] | 2007-02-15 13:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI849 | SAMJHAUTA EXPRESS TRAIN BOMBINGS UNEXPECTEDLY [...] (C) Summary: Indian and Pakistani officials rushed to mobilize joint efforts in response to the February 18th attack on the New Delhi to Lahore Samjhauta ("friendship") Express train, which killed 67 Indian and Pakistani nationals. Indian press reports point out that this may be the first ti [...] | 2007-02-20 14:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI872 | INDIA AWASH WITH SPECULATION ABOUT FRIENDSHIP [...] (S) Summary. As the death toll in the February 19th Samjauta Express bombing continued to rise on February 21st, press reports in India began to hint at rumors that the likely culprits were Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Muhammad. Police and Indian officials, however, continue to join their Pakis [...] | 2007-02-21 14:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI909 | SCENESETTER: INDIA COUNTER-TERRORISM JOINT WORKING [...] (S) Summary: Embassy New Delhi warmly welcomes the visit of Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic, and looks forward to adding dynamism to the India-U.S. Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) and developing an atmosphere where ideas and information are easily exchanged by b [...] | 2007-02-23 11:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL KTFN |
07NEWDELHI946 | STAFFDEL FARKAS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, [...] (C) On February 23, Senate/House Armed Services Committee staffdel Farkas met with Dilip Sinha, Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, then separately with Brigadier AS Nundal, MEA Director for Military Affairs, and Avinash Pandey, MEA Director for Co [...] | 2007-02-26 14:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER NATO IN |
07NIAMEY123 | ISLAM IN NIGER (3): FAITH FOLLOWS THE DOLLAR IN [...] (C) NOTE: This is the third in a series of cables (reftels A&B) reporting on the changing nature of Islam in Niger. END NOTE During recent travel to Agadez, Poloff and AIDoff tried to square an interesting circle. Traditional authorities - the Sultan and Grand Mosque Imam - claimed that the Nig [...] | 2007-02-12 10:00:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR EAID SOCI KDEM NG |
07NIAMEY1418 | NIGER: FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Summary. Government of Niger (GON) Foreign Minister Mindaoudou convoked the diplomatic corps ambassadors and resident representatives of international organizations on November 29 to discuss the insecurity in northern Niger. The discussion focused on the GON position with regard to negot [...] | 2007-11-30 14:08:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC CASC NG |
07NIAMEY1446 | NIGER SECURITY UPDATE [...] (U) A vehicle struck a landmine the evening of December 10 near the wrestling stadium in Tahoua. We have heard reports that one person was killed and two people were injured. 2. (U) Tahoua is the site of this year's December 18 Republic Day festivities. President Tandja, a large number of [...] | 2007-12-11 12:44:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS ASEC PGOV PTER NG |
07NIAMEY1453 | NIGER SECURITY UPDATE -- DECEMBER 12 [...] (U) On postings on its web site, the MNJ has denied planting the landmine in Tahoua and blamed the Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) for the mine, as it had previously done regarding the Maradi landmine (ref A). It also warned against the GON going ahead with the December 18 Republic Day festivitie [...] | 2007-12-12 15:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PTER PGOV NG |
07NIAMEY62 | NORTHERN NIGER POST KIDAL: UN STAFF / VOLUNTEERS [...] (C) During recent travel to Tahoua, a city in north-central Niger, Poloff interacted with several United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) who work with Tuareg and Arab ex-combatants in the country's northern Azaouagh region. The Azaouagh borders Mali's Kidal region, and is an area of concern for sev [...] | 2007-01-24 11:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PTER NG |
07NIAMEY728 | NIGER: KORANIC SCHOOLS CALL FOR HELP [...] (C) During recent travel across southern Niger, Poloff interacted with traditional and religious leaders and religious educators. In each instance, they were concerned by the quality and diversity of instruction they were able to offer in their madrassas. Religious leaders felt that many Niger [...] | 2007-05-24 13:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PINR SCUL SOCI PGOV PREL PTER NG |
07NIAMEY739 | ISLAM IN NIGER (4): ATTITUDES TOWARD IZALA IN [...] (U) NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of cables (reftels A,B,C) reporting on the changing nature of Islam in Niger. END NOTE ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Previous cables in this series examined the rise, in Niger, of a Wahhabist-inspired form of Islamic fundamentalism from the Sha [...] | 2007-05-29 15:48:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV PINR PTER SOCI KISL NG |
07NIAMEY76 | ISLAM IN NIGER (2): STUMBLING BLOCKS FOR IZALA IN [...] (C) Reftel offered several themes to be examined in a series of cables on Islam in Niger. In this edition, Poloff reports on conversations with a prominent Imam that illuminate the extent of fundamentalist penetration into the central Nigerien region of Tahoua - an area linked by proximity and [...] | 2007-01-26 08:52:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR EAID SOCI KDEM NG |
07NIAMEY847 | NIGERIEN PRESIDENT CONCERNED WITH SMUGGLING -- [...] (C) CHG Koran and RSO (Acting) Phillip met with Amadou Moumouni, Director General de la Police Nationale, at AmEmbassy Niamey on June 25, 2007 to discuss the matters addressed in reftel. The Director General confirmed that Nigerien authorities had seized some 10 tons of drugs since the begin [...] | 2007-06-26 11:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET | ASEC PTER CASC |
07NIAMEY848 | NIGERIEN PRESIDENT CONCERNED WITH SMUGGLING -- [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-26 11:12:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET | ASEC PTER CASC |
07NICOSIA411 | CYPRUS WELCOMES GI INVITATION, WILL ATTEND [...] (SBU) In response to Ref A, the Embassy May 10 delivered the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) "invitation" to Marios Kountarides, the Cypriot Foreign Ministry's deputy chief for multilateral affairs. In his remarks, PolChief welcomed Cyprus as a new GI partner nation and vo [...] | 2007-05-14 11:47:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PARM PREL CY |
07NICOSIA577 | CYPRUS WILL CONSIDER SENDING MESSAGE TO NEIGHBORS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-10 04:05:00 | Embassy Nicosia | SECRET | CY PREL PTER IZ |
07NICOSIA886 | CYPRIOTS WILL SUPPORT RED NOTICES AGAINST IRANIAN [...] (C) Per Reftel, the Embassy November 1 demarched Foreign Ministry and Cypriot Police interlocutors to win support for the Government of Argentina's attempt to secure Interpol Red Notices against suspects in the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires. On November 2, Maria Charalambous, head of the P [...] | 2007-11-02 15:14:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PTER ASEC PREL PGOV IR CY |
07NICOSIA940 | WELCOME TO CYPRUS, CODEL SIRES [...] (SBU) Welcome to Cyprus, Representative Sires, my home since December 2005 and an island whose complexity belies its small size. We have crafted a program that contains calls on President Tassos Papadopoulos and other high ranking Republic of Cyprus officials, contact with both Turkish Cyprio [...] | 2007-11-26 15:07:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON KCRM PTER CY TU |
07NICOSIA970 | CYPRUS SUPPORTS ARCHITECTURE MODEL GUIDELINES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-11 14:43:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PTER EAIR ETRD EWWT PREL PINR PINS CY |
07NOGALES100 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT FROM NOGALES MARCH 2007 [...] Visas Viper Monthly Report - March 2007. 2. Post did not submit any Viper Reports to the Department during this month. 3. Post's Visas Viper Coordinator is: John Ibarra, Consular Section Chief, 011-52-631-311-8150, fax: 011-52-631-313-4652, Ibarrajj@state.gov. SHARPE [...] | 2007-04-04 17:52:00 | Consulate Nogales | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER PINR ASEC MX |
07NOGALES139 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT FROM NOGALES APRIL 2007 [...] Visas Viper Monthly Report - April, 2007. 2. No Visas Viper reports were submitted to the Department by Post during April 2007. 3. Post's Visas Viper Coordinator is: John Ibarra, Consular Section Chief, 011-52-631-311-8150, fax: 011-52-631-313-4652, Ibarrajj@state.gov. SHARPE [...] | 2007-05-03 02:01:00 | Consulate Nogales | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER PINR ASEC MX |
07NOGALES202 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT FROM NOGALES MAY 2007 [...] Visas Viper Monthly Report - May 2007. 2. The Visas Viper monthly meeting was held on May 7, 2007. No Visas Viper reports were submitted to the Department by post this month. 3. Post's Visas Viper Coordinator is: John Ibarra, Consular section Chief, tel: 011-52-631-311-8150, fax: 01 [...] | 2007-06-04 22:16:00 | Consulate Nogales | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER PINR ASEC MX |
07NOGALES276 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT FROM NOGALES JUNE 2007 [...] Visas Viper Monthly Report - June 2007. 2. The Visas Viper monthly meeting was held on June 4, 2007. No Visas Viper reports were submitted to the Department by Post this month. 3. Post's Visas Viper Coordinator is: John Ibarra, Consular Section Chief, tel: 011-52-631-311-8150, fax: 0 [...] | 2007-08-02 19:41:00 | Consulate Nogales | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER PINR ASEC MX |
07NOGALES29 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT FROM NOGALES JANUARY 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-02 18:13:00 | Consulate Nogales | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER PINR ASEC MX |
07NOGALES330 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT FROM NOGALES FOR AUGUST AND [...] Visas Viper Monthly Report for August and September 2007. 2. The Visas Viper monthly meetings were held on August 13 and September 10, 2007, respectively. No Visas Viper reports were submitted to the Department by post on either month. 3.Post's Visas Viper Coordinator is: John Ibarra, C [...] | 2007-10-02 22:09:00 | Consulate Nogales | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER PINR ASEC MX |
07NOUAKCHOTT407 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ -- MAURITANIA [...] (C) Mauritania lacks the capability to provide military contribution to the Coalition at this time. Mauritania has a small contingent n the AMIS peacekeeping forces in Sudan (a 20-memer liaison unit). We have proposed that Mauritani join the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISM),but have [...] | 2007-04-30 18:39:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS PTER IZ MR |
07NOUAKCHOTT566 | FOREIGN MINISTRY REFUTES ALLEGATIONS OF SECRET CIA [...] (U) This an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) A spokesman from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation has categorically denied what he called "baseless" allegations, published in the New Yorker, that the government of Colonel Ely Vall had allowed the creation of secre [...] | 2007-06-21 17:36:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET//NOFORN | MR PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
07NOUAKCHOTT584 | CHARGE MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER ZEINE OULD [...] (C) Summary: In a tour d'horizon meeting June 21, Prime Minister Zeine Ould Zeidane assured Charge that Mauritania would continue to work closely with the United States on counter-terrorism despite the recent release of suspects thought to pose a threat to United States interests. He indicated [...] | 2007-06-26 14:56:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ETRD MR PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
07NOUAKCHOTT700 | COURT SENTENCES FIVE FOR TERROR RELATED CRIMES [...] (U) The trial of the remaining 14 detainees accused of belonging to "Al Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb," formerly the Groupe Salafist pour la Predication et le Combat(GSPC) (reftel),concluded on July 31 with five convictions and nine acquittals. 2. (U) The Criminal Court condemn [...] | 2007-08-02 17:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CASC MR |
07OSLO1008 | TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF SEVEN IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 14:37:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER ETTC PREL KTFN NO |
07OSLO1099 | PAKISTANI NORWEGIANS RIPE FOR RADICALIZATION? [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 23. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Norway is increasingly a land of immigrants, with over twenty three percent of the capital city,s population now designated as non-Norwegian,. The largest non-Western group is Pakistani, a population that has established deep [...] | 2007-11-08 15:28:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINR KCRM KPAO PK NO |
07OSLO1118 | TERRORISM FINANCE: TRO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 12:38:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER PREL KTFN NO |
07OSLO1151 | TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS (TFCO): [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 14:27:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN NO |
07OSLO1152 | TERRORISM FINANCE: SYRIA/LEBANON DESIGNATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 14:27:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL PTER KFIN NO |
07OSLO163 | (C) NORWEGIANS NOTE FATF COMPLIANCE; PAKISTAN [...] (C) On February 14 we delivered reftel points to MFA Legal Department Deputy Director Martin Sorby, who confirms that Norway has fully implemented FATF recommendations. Norway is also currently implementing follow-up recommendations associated with a 2005 review of its FATF compliance. Sorb [...] | 2007-02-20 06:10:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC LE PREL PTER KTFN |
07OSLO187 | RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO NORWAY DENIES REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met on February 26 with Russian Ambassador to Norway Sergey Andreev to discuss reftel request for a joint approach to the GON to endorse the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Statement of Principles. Andreev declined on grounds that he had no official instruc [...] | 2007-02-27 16:15:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL NO |
07OSLO195 | NORWAY'S VIEWS ON SRI LANKA PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. On February 28, DCM and Pol Officer met with Norwegian Special Envoy to Sri Lanka Jon Hanssen-Bauer and Sri Lanka Adviser Tomas Stangeland at the MFA. The Norwegians stressed the importance of USG involvement in the peace process, outlined views on the Indian and the U.K. pers [...] | 2007-03-01 16:36:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER CE NO |
07OSLO289 | NORWAY WILL CONSIDER REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-23 15:27:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC PREL PTER PHUM PINR NO |
07OSLO290 | NORWAY SURPRISED AND CONCERNED OVER RELEASE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-23 15:30:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER AF NO |
07OSLO296 | FM STOERE PLEDGES TO TALK WITH AFGHANISTAN AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 12:31:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER AF NO |
07OSLO454 | NORWEGIAN UPDATE: SRI LANKA PEACE EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary. On April 30 Sondre Bjotveit, MFA Adviser in the Peace and Reconciliation Section, updated us on Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka. He described MFA Special Envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer's recent meetings with UK and South African government officials, in addition to sharing perso [...] | 2007-05-02 12:28:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER CE NO |
07OSLO584 | NORWEGIANS RECEIVE SLAHI POINTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-05 09:58:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC EUN PREL PTER KTFN NO |
07OSLO706 | BOUCHER DOES BUSINESS IN OSLO ON MARGINS OF [...] (C) Summary. On the margins of the June 26 Sri Lanka Co-Chairs meetings, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with high-level Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense officials, covering a broad range of matters including Afghanistan, Pakistan, [...] | 2007-07-02 07:29:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PARM PREL IN PGOV PHUM PTER NP CE |
07OSLO708 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE INVITATION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-02 14:30:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KGIC NO |
07OSLO713 | NORWEGIANS RECEIVE FOREIGN FIGHTER POINTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-03 13:25:00 | Embassy Oslo | SECRET | PREL PTER NO |
07OSLO723 | SRI LANKA CO-CHAIRS MEET IN OSLO [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of the Sri Lanka Co-Chairs (United States, European Union, Japan, and Norway) met in Oslo on June 29, to discuss the latest developments in Sri Lanka. All participants agreed that the situation is bleak with few small signs of opportunity. Assistant Secretary Ric [...] | 2007-07-06 11:08:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER CE NO |
07OSLO779 | TERROR FINANCE: MARTYRS FOUNDATION AND AL-QARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-26 13:04:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER EFIN KTFN NO |
07OSLO787 | (S) NORWEGIANS CONSIDER DESIGNATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-30 11:47:00 | Embassy Oslo | SECRET | EFIN PREL PTER UNSC KTFN NO |
07OSLO874 | NORWEGIANS REVIEW MEETING ON COLOMBIA POINTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-28 13:29:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PREF PTER PARM EAID ECON OPDC CO NO |
07OSLO878 | TERROR FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE PRENOTIFICATIO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-29 14:29:00 | Embassy Oslo | SECRET | EFIN PTER ETTC PREL KTFN NO |
07OSLO959 | NORWAY CONSIDERING COLOMBIA MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-21 15:16:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPDC PREL PTER PHUM UNGA CO NO |
07OSLO963 | NORWAY REVIEWING SPECIAL TRIBUNAL POINTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-21 15:21:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC LE PTER NO |
07OSLO989 | NORWEGIANS REVIEW SAUDI PRE-NOTIFICATION UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-01 13:02:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN NO |
07OTTAWA1030 | CANADIAN AGREEMENT ON IMPORTANCE OF INTL SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered points in reftel to Yves Beaulieu, Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFAIT's) International Crime and Terrorism Division, and Georges Flanagan Whalen, Policy Advisor in the same division. Whalen said Canada had attended the May 22 UN briefing on ef [...] | 2007-05-31 19:32:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PTER UNSC |
07OTTAWA105 | MEETING WITH FINANCE CANADA OFFICIALS RAISES [...] (SBU) Summary and action request: A meeting with the Director General, Financial Sector Policy Branch of Finance Canada allowed ECON Minister-Counselor to raise USG concerns about mischaracterizations of USG policy that have recently appeared in the Canadian press after disclosure that the Ro [...] | 2007-01-19 23:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA EFIN KTFN PINS PTER |
07OTTAWA1063 | CANADA'S RESPONSE: AKA MAHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-05 18:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER |
07OTTAWA1651 | NEW U.S. LAW ON MARITIME CARGO SCANNING [...] (U) Although Embassy Ottawa is so far unaware of any official Canadian reaction to the new U.S. law, media reports indicate that administrators of Canada's posts are meeting this week in Montreal to figure out how exactly the law will affect their operations. George Malec, vice president of o [...] | 2007-08-28 20:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EWWT AMGT PTER CA |
07OTTAWA1868 | (S) TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF SEVEN IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 17:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | CA EFIN ETTC IZ KTFN PREL PTER |
07OTTAWA1872 | CANADA AND NASREDDIN 1267 DE-LISTING REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Econcouns delivered ref A message that the USG has tentatively determined that it would be appropriate to de-list Ahmed Idris Nasreddin from UNSCR 1267, contigent on certain actions by Nasreddin, to Yves Beaulieu, Counter Terror [...] | 2007-10-05 18:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | CA EFIN KTFN PREL PTER USUN |
07OTTAWA1954 | GOC RESPONSE RE 2008 US-CANADA BILATERAL [...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche regarding the upcoming Bilateral Consultative Group (BCG) meeting in Washington, Deputy Director for Counterterrorism Yves Beaulieu and Policy Advisor Neil Brennan from the International Crime and Terrorism Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and [...] | 2007-10-22 18:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL CA |
07OTTAWA1961 | GOOD PROSPECTS FOR REVISED SECURITY LEGISLATION [...] (U) Summary: The Harper government on October 22 introduced a bill to amend Canada's long-standing system of immigration security certificates in response to a February 2007 Supreme Court ruling that had struck down key provisions as unconstitutional. The certificates provide the government t [...] | 2007-10-23 19:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL CA |
07OTTAWA2029 | INFORMATION ON HOST GOVERNMENT PRACTICES - [...] (SBU) Officials of the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) declined to meet with Emboffs to discuss elements of their border practices in time to meet the deadline for responding to reftel. The entire issue of "Watch-listing" is extremely politically sensitive in Canada. Therefore, respo [...] | 2007-11-05 14:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL KVPR PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS CA |
07OTTAWA2062 | TERRORIST FINANCE: CANADA'S PROVISIONS AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-08 20:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PTER CA |
07OTTAWA2107 | (C) CANADA STILL CONSIDERING DESIGNATION OF TRO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 20:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL CE CA |
07OTTAWA2150 | CANADIAN ATTENDANCE AT G-8 INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director of Crime and International Terrorism Evelyn Puxley will lead the Canadian delegation to the Third Annual G-8 International Kidnappers Conference, accompanied by officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian Security [...] | 2007-11-27 12:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM CA |
07OTTAWA2209 | CANADA'S RESPONSE TO U.S. CASH COURIER INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-04 21:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER ASEC CA |
07OTTAWA2227 | EMBASSY OTTAWA'S TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-07 16:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER |
07OTTAWA2251 | MINISTERS CITE MEASURABLE RESULTS IN AFGHAN MISSION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 20:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PTER AF CA |
07OTTAWA2269 | CANADIAN HELP ON MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs Director General for the Middle East and North Africa Gordon E. Venner promised PolMinCouns on December 14 that Canada would "certainly do what we can in concert with other like minded Embassies in Teheran" to seek information from the Iranian government abo [...] | 2007-12-17 13:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CASC PTER IR CA |
07OTTAWA247 | CANADIAN NOMINEES FOR CONFERENCE IN EUROPE ON [...] (U) Embassy Ottawa nominates the individuals identified in paras 2-6 to attend the conference on modern insurgency in Munich, 26-27 March 2007. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) --------------------------------------------- ---------------- 2. (SBU) DFAIT nomin [...] | 2007-02-08 21:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PROP PTER MARR KISL |
07OTTAWA272 | WMD Foreign Consequence Management MoU [...] Summary: The Embassy believes that the suggested MoU between DFAIT and State is not necessary because existing arrangements already address its intent. These include a 1986 treaty-level all-hazards mutual assistance agreement; the 1999 Canada-U.S. "Guidelines Concerning Cooperation on Chemica [...] | 2007-02-09 21:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA PTER TBIO CA |
07OTTAWA753 | CANADA'S PROVISIONS AGAINST CASH COURIERS [...] (SBU) Although econoff delivered the points in reftel to an official from Finance Canada in February, that official had no comment but offered to set up a meeting for the Embassy with Canadian officials who are better acquainted with the problems of illicit cash couriers. To that end, the Eco [...] | 2007-04-25 20:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER CA |
07OTTAWA915 | CANADA'S APPROACH TO MAY 25 ARF MEETING IN MANILA [...] (SBU) Summary. Canada and the U.S. agree on most of the important issues to be addressed at the upcoming ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in Manila. Canada is enthusiastic about the U.S. draft UNSCR 1540 implementation statement, agrees that the inter-sessional meet [...] | 2007-05-16 21:15:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER PARM KNNP ARF XB CA |
07PANAMA1052 | PANAMA POST: EDITION II [...] (U) Welcome to edition II of the Panama Post! We hope that our readership will enjoy the following items and that they will enhance your understanding of Panama's political environment: -- Terrorist possible next National Assembly President; -- Balbina Herrera may be Revolutionary Democrat [...] | 2007-06-21 20:55:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM PM |
07PANAMA1177 | PANAMA: NO TO GITMO DETAINEES [...] (C) The GOP was unlikely to reconsider its previous decision to not accept Chinese Uighur detainees currently being held in Guantanamo, Panamanaian MFA Sub-Director for Political Affairs Vladimir Franco told POLOFFs on July 10 in response to delivery of reftel demarche. Franco asked for clari [...] | 2007-07-11 16:16:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PM PREL PTER |
07PANAMA1198 | PANAMA: UIGHUR DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO 1ST VP AND FM [...] (C) Panamanian First VP and FM Samuel Lewis undertook on July 11 to check to see if Panama's position regarding acceptance of Uighur detainees from Guantanamo had changed; "I doubt that it has." Lewis made these comments in response Ambassador's delivery of REFTEL A demarche. Lewis, who dep [...] | 2007-07-13 21:43:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINO PTER PREL PM |
07PANAMA1346 | PANAMA POST: EDITION VIII [...] (C) The latest edition of the Panama Post reports on a relatively slow week in Panamanian politics, though with some important movement on efforts to block a terrorist from becoming National Assembly President. Highlights include: -- President Torrijos gets message on Pedro Miguel Gonzalez, [...] | 2007-08-10 20:04:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KJUS KCRM EWWT PM |
07PANAMA1408 | PANAMA: WANTED FELON/TERRORIST CLOSER TO SECURING [...] (C) "President Torrijos and (1st VP and FM) Samuel Lewis informed (National Assembly President) Elias Castillo and (National Assembly President aspirant) Deputy Pedro Miguel Gonzalez on August 14 at the Decameron resort that Torrijos would back Gonzalez to be the next President of the Nationa [...] | 2007-08-21 17:58:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER KCRM KJUS ETRD PM |
07PANAMA1410 | PANAMA: NONPROLIFERATION DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1540 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 18:55:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KPAO PTER KNNP UNSC ID SF PM |
07PANAMA1471 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE PRE-NOTIFICATION - [...] (C) Econ Chief delivered ref points and background on Aug. 30 to Delia Villamonte, Director General for International Organizations, and Leoncio Hernandez, Director for Anti-Terrorist Issues, both with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Neither Villamonte nor Hernandez offered any imme [...] | 2007-08-31 20:31:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PM |
07PANAMA1738 | PANAMA: SOMBER 1ST VP & FM UNLOADS PRIVATELY WITH [...] (S) "I do not trust Pedro Miguel Gonzalez (PMG)," First VP and FM Samuel Lewis confessed to Ambassador while conceding that President Martin Torrijos was unlikely to dissuade PMG from stepping down from the Presidency of the National Assembly thereby clearing the way for the U.S. Congress to [...] | 2007-11-02 18:55:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET | PGOV PREL ECON KCRM KJUS PTER CU VE MX PM |
07PANAMA1742 | PANAMA: LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS DEMARCHE [...] Bonagas had no substantive response, but expressed his pleasure regarding continued USG efforts to engage the MFA on matters that were before the UN Security Council, such as the current situation in Lebanon. EATON [...] | 2007-11-06 20:46:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER LE SY EUN PM |
07PANAMA221 | PANAMA: IO PDAS WARLICK'S UNSC CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) "Panama wants to be a constructive and pragmatic partner of the U.S. on the UN Security Council," 1st VP and FM Samuel Lewis told visiting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (IO PDAS) James Warlick on February 5. Mr. Warlick expressed app [...] | 2007-02-13 15:38:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC PM |
07PANAMA490 | PANAMA: DEMARCHE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-30 19:53:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL PM |
07PANAMA511 | PANAMA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN CORRUPTION AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-04 17:26:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KJUS PTER SNAR PG PM |
07PANAMA782 | PANAMA: CONCERNED ABOUT VENEZUELA DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) With uncharacteristic candor, Panamanian MFA DG for International Affairs Javier Bonagas expressed Panama's concerns with Venezuela's increasing activity with Iran, its unconstructive behavior in the hemisphere, and troublesome meddling in Panama. Bonagas shared these views with POLCOUNS [...] | 2007-05-14 20:19:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER SOCI ELAB IR PM |
07PARAMARIBO136 | TERRORIST FINANCE: USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH [...] (U) Per reftel, Pol/EconOff raised USG concern over illicit cash couriers with GOS Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Division Head, Terence Craig. Craig agreed that cash smuggling is a serious problem, and said his government enforces money laundering laws whenever possible. He acknowledg [...] | 2007-03-20 20:08:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER |
07PARAMARIBO384 | US EMBASSY PARAMARIBO CONCURS WITH 1206 FUNDING [...] (C) Embassy Paramaribo endorses the FY-08 1206 OEF-CCA funding proposal (with total cost estimate of $2,470,617 for equipment),which was received from CDR Gregory Ross, US Southern Command as e-mail attachment on July 20, 2007. Suriname lacks the resources to properly outfit and train its c [...] | 2007-07-24 18:35:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MAS MCAP PREL PTER NS |
07PARAMARIBO403 | INFORMATION DELIVERED: MARTYRS FOUNDATION AND [...] Per reftel, post delivered demarche to Nalinie Sewpersadsingh, Head of the International Organizations Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Suriname (GOS),and to Deputy Head of the Americas Division, Eurydice Hofwijks. Sewpersadsingh and Hofwijks acknowledged rec [...] | 2007-08-02 19:26:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PREL PTER LE NS |
07PARAMARIBO405 | SURINAME NOT DECIDED YET ON ADOPTION OF NUCLEAR [...] Per reftel, post delivered demarche to Government of Suriname (GOS) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Head of the Americas Division Eurydice Hofwijks on July 31, and to Nalinie Sepersadsingh, Head of the International Organizations Division, on August 1. Sewpersadsingh said the Government o [...] | 2007-08-02 19:27:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP PINS PARM PREL NS |
07PARAMARIBO522 | SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON DEMARCHE NOT DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Post deemed reftel counterproductive in the Surinamese operating environment, and chose not to deliver. Post will continue to cooperate with the Government of Suriname on the issue of terrorism in other areas. SCHREIBER HUGHES [...] | 2007-09-25 20:26:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC LE PTER NS |
07PARAMARIBO548 | KTFN TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE SAUDI [...] (U) Per reftel, post delivered message October 15 to Terence Craig, Head of the Americas Division of Suriname's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Craig had no immediate reaction but said he will pass the information to the Ministry of Justice and Police. 2. (U) Post will report any substant [...] | 2007-10-16 17:04:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SA NS |
07PARAMARIBO598 | SURINAME: FOOT AND MOUTH (FMD) ERADICATION IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 13:45:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR PTER KSCA XR |
07PARAMARIBO619 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CASH COURIER INITIATIVE [...] (U) Per reftel, post delivered message to Rosita Hubard, head of the International Organizations Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Suriname. The Government of Suriname had no immediate reaction. 2. (U) Post will report any substantive response from the Government of Surina [...] | 2007-12-04 14:59:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER ASEC NS |
07PARAMARIBO661 | UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-21 20:05:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN NS |
07PARAMARIBO663 | EMBASSY PARAMARIBO CONCURS WITH SOCSOUTH JCET TOR [...] (S) Post provides initial concurrence with the Terms of Reference (TOR) provided by Special Operations Command South (SOCSOUTH) with the following caveats noted: A.(S) Timeline: the following modifications are requested: (1) Pre-deployment site survey (PDSS): 3rd week of January 2008 [...] | 2007-12-21 21:35:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC MARR PINS PREL PTER NS MASS |
07PARAMARIBO668 | U.S. EMBASSY PARAMARIBO CONCURS WITH 1206 FUNDING [...] (C) Embassy Paramaribo reiterates its endorsement (REF B) of the FY-08 1206 OEF-CCA funding proposal (with total cost estimate of $2,470,617 for equipment),which was received from CDR Gregory Ross, U.S. Southern Command as e-mail attachment on July 20, 2007. Suriname lacks the resources to [...] | 2007-12-28 15:35:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR MAS MCAP PREL PTER NS |
07PARIS1154 | TALIBAN EXCHANGE: FRANCE AGREES SERIOUS; [...] (C) POL Deputy delivered reftel demarche March 23 to DAS-equivalent for Security Affairs Pierre Thenard and desk officer Francois Revardeaux, highlighting (also to dispel some press rumors that have circulated) failed U.S. attempts to dissuade the Italians and Afghans from proceeding with suc [...] | 2007-03-23 16:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER PREL AF IT NATO FR EUN |
07PARIS1157 | UNSCR 1267: FRENCH REACTION TO UPDATING TALIBAN NAMES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-23 16:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER ETTC KTFN PGOV PREL UNSC FR |
07PARIS1228 | A/S O'BRIEN MEETINGS ON IRAN SANCTIONS [...] (S) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Patrick O'Brien consulted March 15-16 with French officials to discuss implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1737 on Iran sanctions, share information on individuals and entities involved in Iran's nuclear weapons program, learn the status of [...] | 2007-03-27 16:27:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL EFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP IR FR |
07PARIS1306 | FRENCH IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747: BANK SEPAH [...] (S) France clamped down on Bank Sepah just before adoption of UNSCR 1747, ensuring no capital flight would occur and thereby allow Iran to elude an asset freeze. The French Banking Commission acted in advance of French or EU implementing texts. END SUMMARY. Bank of France Pre-Action ----- [...] | 2007-04-02 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL EFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP IR FR |
07PARIS1361 | A/S C/T COORDINATOR TALKS PKK TO THE FRENCH [...] (S) SUMMARY: Acting S C/T Coordinator Frank Urbancic and a U.S. interagency delegation met March 29 with a French interministerial group to discuss strategies for dismantling the capabilities of the PKK to finance and recruit in Europe. The French delegation provided a comprehensive overview o [...] | 2007-04-05 15:41:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER EFIN KCRM PINR PREL TU GM FR |
07PARIS1424 | FRANCE NOT INITIALLY ENCOURAGING ON RECEIVING GTMO [...] (C) POL Deputy delivered reftel demarches March 22 to MFA DAS-equivalent for Security Pierre Thenard and, following the meeting, provided ref B points March 23 as an aide memoire. Recalling the MFA's reaction to a U.S. approach several months ago to accept Uighers as "completely negative," Th [...] | 2007-04-10 15:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR PTER PHUM PINR KAWC XG EUN |
07PARIS151 | COUNTERTERRORISM CONSULTATIONS WITH THE FRENCH [...] (S) SUMMARY: A USG Delegation led by Ambassador-at-large for Counterterrorism, Hank Crumpton, held strategic counterterrorism consultations with senior French officials December 7. The two delegations exchanged views on the overall threat situation, improvements to both countries' counterterr [...] | 2007-01-16 07:34:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL FR |
07PARIS1592 | FRANCE WANTS TO PLAY MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN GLOBAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: After welcoming reftel demarche, MFA nuclear non-proliferation expert, Delphine Hournau, requested Washington's views on a larger role for the GOF in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. France is particu [...] | 2007-04-19 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KGIC PARM PREL AM CB MK RO FR |
07PARIS1659 | FRENCH PARTICIPATION IN THE IRAQ COALITION [...] (S) Embassy Paris has regularly engaged the GoF on possibilities for French participation in the Iraq coalition, but has made little headway given President Chirac's original, adamant opposition to the war. Although the French have generally tried since then to avoid provoking the U.S., and t [...] | 2007-04-25 15:53:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL IZ MARR MAS MOPS PTER |
07PARIS1692 | (S) TERRORIST ABDALLAH IN THE HOSPITAL; SIGNS GOOD [...] (S) SUMMARY: Convicted terrorist and political assassin, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, remains in prison. His parole request is not likely to be decided until June 2007. The Ministry of Justice has assured the Ambassador that it opposes parole. Abdallah's worsening health, however, could potent [...] | 2007-04-27 05:16:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PGOV PTER FR |
07PARIS1885 | DETAINEE RESETTLEMENT INFORMATION ON FRANCE EXPAT [...] (U) John L. Espinoza is Paris Embassy Point of Contact for detainee issues. He can be contacted by classified email at EspinozaJL@state.sgov.gov, by unclassified email at EspinozaJohnL@state.gov, and by phone at 33(0)1-43-12-25-75. ------------------------------- RELEVANT EXPATRIATE COMMUNI [...] | 2007-05-11 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PINR FR |
07PARIS1946 | IRAN-VENEZUELA: FRANCE TOUGH ON NUCLEAR ISSUE, [...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In response to ref A demarche, MFA DAS-equivalent for South America Pinard assured us May 16 that President Chirac had taken a hard line with Chavez on Iran's nuclear weapons program during their last phone conversation before Chirac leaves office on May 16, and surm [...] | 2007-05-15 14:20:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL FR EUN MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE IR |
07PARIS2113 | FRENCH DEMARCHING UNSC MEMBERS ON CHAPTER VII [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 10:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR LE UNSC PREL PTER |
07PARIS261 | FRANCE: TSA BRIEFS DATA PRIVACY AUTHORITY ON [...] (SBU) Summary: TSA provided an extensive briefing on U.S. aviation security arrangements to the French Data Privacy Authority (CNIL) in a meeting January 12. Because of the current risk that the CNIL may wish to review all U.S. airlines' aviation security practices regarding implementation of [...] | 2007-01-23 11:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PTER FR |
07PARIS2884 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SEEKING REGIONAL SUPPORT TO [...] (S) Reftel demarche was delivered on July 3 to Gilles Bonnaud, MFA PDAS-equivalent for Middle East affairs. Bonnaud commented that he was not surprised that Damascus had failed to demonstrate the good will it offered at Sharm Al Shayk. He agreed to consider the request to conduct a joint dema [...] | 2007-07-03 15:33:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PTER SY IZ FR |
07PARIS3062 | FRENCH-HOSTED LEBANESE GATHERING MEETS LOW [...] (U) The French-hosted "inter-Lebanese meeting" just outside Paris concluded the evening of July 15 with no dramatic breakthroughs and in accord with the modest expectations French officials had expressed in the days leading up to it. French FM Bernard Kouchner told a July 15 press conferenc [...] | 2007-07-16 15:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PARM PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07PARIS3107 | FRANCE/LEBANON: TO DAMASCUS AND BEYOND [...] (U) The unexpected July 17 visit to Damascus by French envoy for Lebanon Jean-Claude Cousseran has for the past couple of days vied with news about an expected imminent visit to Libya by President Sarkozy in connection with the "Bulgarian medics" case as the top international story. This wa [...] | 2007-07-19 16:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PARM PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07PARIS3183 | FRENCH MFA NEA A/S-EQUIVALENT ON LEBANON, JULY 24 [...] (C) The French are starting to worry about the clock ticking down in Lebanon and the decreasing likelihood of a carefully sequenced settlement that addresses the need to elect a successor to President Lahoud as well as form a new government representing the different factions. NEA A/S-Equiv [...] | 2007-07-25 17:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07PARIS3184 | FRENCH MFA NEA A/S-EQUIVALENT ON LEBANON, JULY 24 [...] (C) The French are starting to worry about the clock ticking down in Lebanon and the decreasing likelihood of a carefully sequenced settlement that addresses the need to elect a successor to President Lahoud as well as form a new government representing the different factions. NEA A/S-Equiv [...] | 2007-07-25 18:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07PARIS319 | PARIS HOSTS INAUGURAL W. MED RSI CONFERENCE [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Stapleton hosted the inaugural Western Mediterranean Regional Strategic Initiative (RSI) Conference on December 5-6 in Paris. U.S. Chiefs of Mission and Embassy representatives from France, Italy, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Portugal and Malta gathered as a first [...] | 2007-01-26 16:34:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PGOV ASEC OTRA PTER FR AG LY IT MT SP |
07PARIS3210 | FRENCH MFA NEA A/S-EQUIVALENT ON LEBANON, JULY 24 [...] (C) The French are starting to worry about the clock ticking down in Lebanon and the decreasing likelihood of a carefully sequenced settlement that addresses the need to elect a successor to President Lahoud as well as form a new government representing the different factions. NEA A/S-Equiv [...] | 2007-07-27 17:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07PARIS322 | C/T JUDGE ON FRANCE, RWANDA, PAKISTAN, AND HIS [...] (S) SUMMARY: France,s chief counterterrorism judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, told us on January 19 that a recent surge in overall GSPC activities worried French counterterrorism officials, who are convinced there is now a significantly higher threat against France and its interests abroad. Tunisi [...] | 2007-01-26 16:37:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PREL INTERPOL KJUS TS AG MO RW |
07PARIS3237 | FRENCH MFA PUTS SARKOZY'S JULY 10-11 NORTH AFRICA [...] (C) Summary: President Sarkozy's first visit outside Europe July 10-11 to Algeria and Tunisia underscored his determination to proceed with his still vague Mediterranean Union initiative, establish his own relationships with the leaders in those countries, and pave the way for state visits in 20 [...] | 2007-07-31 14:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM PTER PBTS ETRD FR AG TU MO |
07PARIS3250 | FRANCE WILL BEGIN RATIFICATION PROCESS FOR THE [...] (SBU) French MFA counterterrorism official, Francois Revardeaux, told poloff at the end of July that the MFA will begin working in September 2007 on ratification of the UN International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism. The Convention's ratification, Revardeaux said [...] | 2007-08-01 17:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL FR |
07PARIS3298 | FRENCH NEXT STEPS ON LEBANON AWAIT CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary: As of August 3, France was waiting until after the August 5 parliamentary by-elections to decide what to do next in Lebanon, including the possibility of a restricted meeting of Lebanese factions in Beirut per reftel. The MFA's Syria/Lebanon desk officer thought the weekend of [...] | 2007-08-06 08:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM PTER FR LE SY IR |
07PARIS3340 | THE WAR ON TERROR: FRANCE ON U.S. PROPOSALS FOR [...] SUMMARY: (C) Poloff shared reftel non-paper in late July with Louis Blin, Acting MFA DAS-Equivalent for Security and Counterterrorism in the Bureau of Strategic Affairs. Following up in an August 7 meeting, Blin told poloff that the GOF was particularly impressed with the U.S. initiative, espe [...] | 2007-08-08 11:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KTFN FR |
07PARIS3344 | COUNTERTERRORISM IN FRANCE: PKK, LTTE, ETA, [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: Poloff met on August 7 with Louis Blin, the MFA's Acting DAS-equivalent for security and counterterrorism in the Bureau of Strategic Affairs, to discuss current U.S./France counterterrorism cases. Blin expressed disappointment (but not surprise) at Vienna's release and assist [...] | 2007-08-08 15:11:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL EFIN PGOV AU IZ PO SP TU FR |
07PARIS34 | FRENCH ATTENDANCE AT LIBERIA PARTNERS FORUM [...] (U) We passed the information about the February 13-14 Liberia Partners Forum to our contacts in the French Finance and Foreign Ministries. At the MFA, our contacts lauded USG plans to host the Forum, but regretted that a timing conflict with the biennial Africa-France summit of heads of stat [...] | 2007-01-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM EFIN PTER ECON FR |
07PARIS3402 | MUSLIM OUTREACH -- SENIOR ADVISOR FARAH PANDITH'S [...] (SBU) In meetings in Paris July 25 - 26 with a wide range of figures from France's large and diverse Muslim community and France,s new government, EUR Senior Advisor Farah Pandith underlined U.S. interest in respectful dialogue and exchange of ideas with France's Muslim population, the larges [...] | 2007-08-14 07:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PTER PGOV EUN FR PINR ECON |
07PARIS3480 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO UNSCR 1540 COMMITTEE DEMARCHE [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) The Embassy delivered reftel demarche to both the Strategic Affairs/ Non-proliferation and the United Nations bureaus at the French MFA. Our interlocuters were unfamiliar with the South African and Ind [...] | 2007-08-21 16:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ID KNNP PREL PTER SF KPAO |
07PARIS3663 | NEAR-TERM ANTI AL-QAIDA COMMUNICATION ACTIONS [...] This is Embassy Paris Anti Al-Qaida Communication Plan (ACAP) report number 1, as tasked reftel A. Task 1 (Encouraging French CT Internet effort) No activities to report. Task 2 (Support to surrogates, "credible voices") Post currently provides small PA program grants to French NGOs [...] | 2007-09-04 18:22:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER OIIP KPAO FR |
07PARIS3750 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-10 12:18:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL FR |
07PARIS379 | FRENCH MFA MULLS NEW APPROACH ON PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-31 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PBTS PTER NATO FR AF PK |
07PARIS380 | FRENCH MFA MULLS NEW APPROACH ON PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-31 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PBTS PTER NATO FR AF PK |
07PARIS3827 | TERRORIST FINANCE: FRENCH FOLLOWUP ON SAUDI FIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-14 15:32:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL |
07PARIS384 | FRENCH MFA MULLS NEW APPROACH TO PAKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French MFA, based on its perception of widespread international exasperation with Pakistan's failure to control the Taliban insurgency that operates within its borders, is considering a proposal to encourage NATO allies -- particularly the U.S. and the U.K. -- to push Pakistan [...] | 2007-01-31 17:05:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PBTS PTER NATO FR AF PK |
07PARIS3941 | FARC HOSTAGES: GOF LEAVING "NO STONE UNTURNED" TO [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. The French determination to explore all options that could lead to the release of Franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt has led them to support Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez,s offer to mediate a humanitarian accord between the Colombian government and FARC guerillas. MFA officials a [...] | 2007-09-19 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PINR FR CO |
07PARIS3971 | INVITATION LETTER DELIVERED -- UNDER SECRETARY [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel letter of invitation to MFA September 20. PolOff also spoke with Lionel Paradisi, Senior Country Officer equivalent for Colombia at Quai d'Orsay who assured us that GoF sincerely appreciated the invitation and would send a formal reply as soon as possible. Please vi [...] | 2007-09-21 16:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL PTER PHUM UNGA CO FR |
07PARIS408 | FRENCH SUPPORT FOR THE TERROR FINANCE TRACKING PROGRAM [...] (C) France's Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, replied to the Ambassador's letter encouraging continued support for the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP, per reftels) on January 16. Sarkozy underscored the need to balance terrorism concerns with privacy concerns, and that the program [...] | 2007-02-01 15:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER ECON FR |
07PARIS4223 | TERRORIST ABDALLAH DENIED PAROLE; APPEAL EXPECTED [...] (SBU) Embassy Paris was informed by Embassy Counsel Georges Kiejman on the afternoon of October 10 that the Paris Tribunal refused parole for convicted terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. We expect that Abdallah will file an appeal with the Paris Court of Appeals within the next ten days (the [...] | 2007-10-10 13:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL FR |
07PARIS4320 | NON-COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1267 OBLIGATIONS: HASSAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-19 16:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PREL PTER UNSC |
07PARIS4393 | LUKEWARM FRENCH INTEREST IN ISTANBUL MINISTERIAL [...] (C) We contacted French FM Kouchner,s adviser on NEA issues, Christophe Bigot, October 29, who indicated that Kouchner,s priority was to have a one-on-one with the Secretary to discuss Lebanon as well as the SIPDIS Israeli/Palestinian peace process (before the Secretary,s next visit to Is [...] | 2007-10-30 15:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER FR LE |
07PARIS4401 | PKK: GOF AGREES WITH U.S. AND WANTS INFO ON ALTUN [...] (S) Embassy delivered ref A talking points to MFA counterterrorism officials on October 26. The GOF fully agrees with the U.S. assessment of the PKK and promised to continue encouraging its European partners to take action against PKK operatives in Europe. Poloff was told in the meeting that [...] | 2007-10-31 17:55:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN FR |
07PARIS4511 | TERRORIST FINANCE: ILLICIT CASH COURIERS [...] SUMMARY: France has had measures in place and investigative units dedicated to money laundering detection and prosecution since 1990. Cross-border movements of cash and other negotiable instruments worth 10,000 euros or more must be declared to Customs. In 2006, Customs seized 126 million eu [...] | 2007-11-16 12:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KCRM KTFN PREL PTER FR |
07PARIS4533 | FRENCH MFA OVERVIEW OF NORTH AFRICAN ISSUES [...] (S) Summary: We reviewed a number of North African issues with French MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa Nathalie Loiseau earlier this month. She called President Sarkozy,s state visit to Morocco positive and, despite the failure to sell the Moroccans Rafale fighters, excellent for French comm [...] | 2007-11-20 16:11:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ETRD PINR FR MO AG TU LY |
07PARIS4549 | CHAVEZ DISAPPOINTS IN PARIS: IN MEETING WITH [...] (S/NOFORN) SUMMARY. Venezuelan President Chavez's November 20 discussions with French President Sarkozy focused "99 percent" on the FARC hostages. Chavez's unfilled promise to bring "proof of life" of Ingrid Betancourt disappointed the French, and left the GOF with lowered expectations for pro [...] | 2007-11-21 18:52:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PREL PINR FR CO |
07PARIS4650 | SARKOZY EAGER TO ACT ON COLOMBIA HOSTAGE SITUATION [...] (S/NOFORN) SUMMARY. Franco-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt's "proof of life" letter had a profound impact on President Sarkozy and only reinforced his personal engagement, according to Presidential Advisor for the Americas' Damien Loras. Sarkozy is reviewing options following a December 1 telep [...] | 2007-12-06 10:35:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR SNAR PINS CO FR |
07PARIS4751 | FORMER GTMO DETAINEES CONVICTED IN FRANCE; GOF [...] (U) SUMMARY: Five of six French nationals transferred from the Guantanamo detainee facility to France were convicted in Paris on December 19 of "criminal conspiracy with a terrorist organization." A sixth defendant was acquitted. The court ruled entirely in accordance with the (less than maxi [...] | 2007-12-20 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER FR |
07PARIS484 | FRENCH POLICE ARREST KEY EUROPEAN PKK TERRORISM [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On February 7 French authorities confirmed to us that French national counterterrorism police had arrested on February 5 ten individuals who are suspected of having links with Kurdish separatist movements in Turkey and Iraq. French police refer to these groups variously as the [...] | 2007-02-07 16:55:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER EFIN PINR PREL KCRM TU FR |
07PARIS508 | FRANCE: NOMINEES FOR CONFERENCE IN EUROPE ON [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy Paris nominates the following individuals to participate in the March 26-27 European conference entitled, "A Comprehensive Approach to Modern Insurgency: Afghanistan and Beyond." a.) Philippe Carre, A/S-Equivalent Director for Strategic Affairs, Security and Disarma [...] | 2007-02-08 15:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PINS PREL PROP PTER NATEU MARR MOPS KISL |
07PARIS540 | US-DESIGNATED TERRORIST GROUP SUING WIESENTHAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The public trial for defamation brought against Dr. Shimon Samuels, Director for International Affairs of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, by the Committee for Welfare and Aid to the Palestinians (CBSP) concluded on February 2, after two days and 13 hours of testimony. The CBSP, [...] | 2007-02-09 15:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PTER PREL PREF PINS PHUM EAID FR IS |
07PARIS542 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMABT NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche about plans for outreach regarding the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism to MFA Arms Control Department official Philippe Errera on February 9. Russian interlocutors were unavailable to deliver the demarche jointly. GoF officials provided no res [...] | 2007-02-09 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KGIC MCAP PTER KNNP RU CH |
07PARIS575 | FRANCE: GOF TO PERMIT AIR FRANCE TO SCREEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reversing several years of reticence, the French Civil Aviation Authority indicated in an e-mail January 29 that it was now prepared to allow Air France to fully implement TSA Emergency Amendments concerning No-fly, Selectees, and the Master-Crew List. This is good news. The G [...] | 2007-02-13 13:56:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PTER FR |
07PARIS600 | PKK MEMBERS REMAIN IN CUSTODY; MFA COMMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: DCM spoke with the Foreign Minister's Chief of Staff, Pierre Vimont, on February 12, and with Political Director Gerard Araud on the 13th to express appreciation for the government's arrest of suspected PKK terrorist financiers and to encourage a successful prosecution. French MFA [...] | 2007-02-15 16:23:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER EFIN PINR PREL KCRM TU FR |
07PARIS652 | TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL (HAI) [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-21 09:56:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL ECON FR |
07PARIS692 | FRENCH SEEKING TO OPEN STRATEGIC DIALOGUE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: After five years of cool relations, France hopes to open a "strategic dialogue" with Pakistan based on shared security concerns. Notwithstanding the 2002 terrorist attack in Karachi that killed 11 French nationals, the Pakistan desk officer said the MFA now believes it would only [...] | 2007-02-23 16:02:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AF PK FR MASS KNNP |
07PARIS711 | SECURITY OFFICIALS VIGILANT IN ADVANCE OF [...] (S) SUMMARY: Christophe Chaboud, Director of the Ministry of Interior,s Coordination Unit for the Fight Against Terrorism (UCLAT),told us February 21 that the terrorism threat in France remains elevated, and that security officials are especially vigilant in the run up to the French president [...] | 2007-02-26 14:13:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL FR |
07PARIS775 | ACTION REQUEST; TERRORIST ABDALLAH UNDER [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) On February 27 we were contacted by, and subsequently received a letter to the Ambassador from Georges Kiejman who was legal counsel for the USG (as a civil party) during the prosecution of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. Abdullah was con [...] | 2007-02-28 16:01:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER FR |
07PARIS792 | EU C/T LIST IN TROUBLE; SOMALIA; PANDITH VISIT [...] (S) SUMMARY: French diplomats from the MFA,s strategic affairs, security directorate expressed concern on February 27 about the future of the EU terrorist designations list, and explained their rationale for seeking the UN 1267 committee's designation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM). Officials [...] | 2007-03-01 13:35:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV EU PTER FR |
07PARIS864 | BOUCHER AND FRENCH POLITICAL DIRECTOR ARAUD TALK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 1 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Political Director Gerard Araud offered frank views on Afghanistan, counter-narcotics in Central Asia, and France-Turkey relations and offered reco [...] | 2007-03-07 07:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PBTS PREL PTER SNAR NATO MOPS FR AF PK |
07PARTO7 | (U) SECRETARY RICE'S FEBRUARY 17 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Classified by: Arnold Chacon, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) SIPDIS 2. (U) February 17, 2007; 12:30; Baghdad, Iraq. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad S/I David Satterfield Shayna Steinger (Embassy [...] | 2007-02-21 23:53:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | SECRET | OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PGOV PINS PTER |
07PESHAWAR169 | NWFP: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON NWFP GOVERNOR [...] (S) Summary. Ambassador paid a farewell call on March 7 on Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Ali Jan Mohammad Orakzai. The Governor's Secretary Azmat Hanif and PO (notetaker) also attended. Pakistan's and Afghanistan's jirga commissions will meet on March 12 or 13 in Islamabad to [...] | 2007-03-13 13:04:00 | Consulate Peshawar | SECRET | PREL PTER EAID PK AF |
07PESHAWAR714 | FATA: PRIMER - JUDICIAL PROCESS AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION [...] This is the fourth in a series of primers on Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). This cable describes how tribesmen in the FATA and Frontier Regions (FRs) resolve disputes in an area that is not subject to the laws that govern the rest of Pakistan. The concentration of judi [...] | 2007-11-09 11:25:00 | Consulate Peshawar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER EAID MOPS PK |
07PESHAWAR716 | NWFP: MILITANTS EXPANDING THEIR HOLD ON SWAT [...] (C) Swat's militants are expanding their hold, moving north and east in the district. Security forces and local residents have been demoralized by militant gains. Local officials acknowledge the task of re-establishing government control of the district is becoming increasingly difficult. Wh [...] | 2007-11-09 15:03:00 | Consulate Peshawar | SECRET | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
07PESHAWAR717 | CONSULATE PESHAWAR EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITEE MEETING [...] (U) On 11/09/2007 at approximately 15:40 (local),an explosion occurred in Peshawar's Hayatabad suburb (approx. 5 miles west of the Consulate) at the residence of Amir Muqam, Federal Minister for Political Affairs and Northwest Frontier Province President for the Pakistan Muslim League - Qaid [...] | 2007-11-09 15:19:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PK ASEC |
07PHNOMPENH191 | CAMBODIAN VIEWS OF THE ASEAN AND EAS SUMMITS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. Cambodia came away from the Cebu meetings pleased with the ASEAN declaration on migrant workers, the Convention on Counterterrorism, and the shortened timeframe from 2020 to 2015 for the establishment of an ASEAN economic community. Cambodia remains keen to see comprehensive [...] | 2007-02-02 10:04:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PTER SMIG CB |
07PHNOMPENH455 | CAMBODIA SAYS YES TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] On March 21, Ambassador and Russian Ambassador Valery Tereshchenko jointly presented the demarche on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (reftel) to Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong. The Foreign Minister reiterated Cambodia's commitment to fighting terrorism, d [...] | 2007-03-22 06:57:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL CB |
07PHNOMPENH535 | TRILATERAL COUNTERTERRORISM DIALOGUE IN CAMBODIA [...] (C) Summary. At the Australian High Commission's invitation, representatives of the U.S., Japanese and Australian missions met on April 5 for a Cambodia-specific trilateral counterterrorism (CT) dialogue. Australia framed the dialogue as part of the follow-up to the October 2006 high-level [...] | 2007-04-10 09:35:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EAID CB AS JA |
07PHNOMPENH537 | CAMBODIAN DIP NOTE ON NUCLEAR TERRORISM INITIATIVE [...] On April 10, Embassy received the RGC diplomatic note dated April 4 indicating their desire to join the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Post has included the complete text below: BEGIN TEXT OF NOTE (As Writte [...] | 2007-04-11 07:59:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL CB |
07PHNOMPENH560 | CAMBODIA AND THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (SBU) On April 19, A/DCM and Russian DCM Vladen Semivolos met with MFA Director for International Organizations Sun Suon to pass on the Global Initiative documents sent to each respective mission. Prior to the meeting, A/DCM and Semivolos conferred on the documents sent by their respective [...] | 2007-04-19 10:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PARM KGIC PREL CB |