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03ABUDHABI5438
2003-12-30 11:34:00
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Embassy Abu Dhabi
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MEDIA REACTION: REBUILDING CONTRACTS IN IRAQ

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UNCLASSIFIED

SIPDIS
TELEGRAM December 30, 2003


To: No Action Addressee 

Action: Unknown 

From: AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI (ABU DHABI 5438 - UNKNOWN) 

TAGS: OIIP, KMDR 

Captions: None 

Subject: MEDIA REACTION: REBUILDING CONTRACTS IN IRAQ 

Ref: None 
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UNCLAS ABU DHABI 05438

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UNCLAS ABU DHABI 005438 

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STATE FOR NEA/ARP; NEA/PPD; NEA/RA; INR/R/MR; PA;
INR/NESA; INR/B; IIP/G/NEA-SA
WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESS OFFICE; NSC
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA
USCINCCENT FOR POLAD
LONDON FOR GOLDRICH; PARIS FOR O'FRIEL

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR TC
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: REBUILDING CONTRACTS IN IRAQ


UNCLAS ABU DHABI 005438

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/ARP; NEA/PPD; NEA/RA; INR/R/MR; PA;
INR/NESA; INR/B; IIP/G/NEA-SA
WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESS OFFICE; NSC
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA
USCINCCENT FOR POLAD
LONDON FOR GOLDRICH; PARIS FOR O'FRIEL

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR TC
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: REBUILDING CONTRACTS IN IRAQ



1. SUMMARY: UAE COLUMNIST ABDULLAH RASHEED WROTE IN ABU DHABI
BASED SEMI-OFFICIAL ARABIC DAILY "AL-ITTIHAD" 12/29 THAT THE U.S.
ENJOYS EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS IN THE REBUILDING CONTRACTS IN IRAQ. HE
NOTED THAT BECAUSE THE U.S. SACRIFICED ITS PEOPLE AND RESOURCES
AND MANAGED TO RID IRAQ FROM THE BAATHIST REGIME, IT HAS FULL AND
EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS IN ALL REBUILDING CONTRACTS IN IRAQ. END
SUMMARY.


2. UNDER THE HEADLINE "A VERY LOGICAL BANNING," UAE COLUMNIST
ABDULLAH RASHEED WROTE IN AL-ITTIHAD 12/29:

"IT IS NATURAL THAT THE U.S. WOULD BAN COUNTRIES THAT OPPOSED THE
WAR AGAINST THE DICTATOR'S REGIME IN IRAQ FROM ANY REBUILDING
CONTRACTS. IT IS ALSO LOGICAL THAT THE AMERICAN COMPANIES WOULD
HAVE THE LION'S SHARE OF THOSE CONTRACTS. ARE NOT AMERICA AND
THE UK THE TWO COUNTRIES THAT ADVENTURED THEIR SOLDIERS AND
RESOURCES AND PROVIDED TENS OF THEIR CHILDREN TO EXPEL THE
BAATHIST REGIME AND RID THE IRAQIS OF ITS SUPPRESSION? IS IT
LOGICAL THAT AMERICA AND BRITAIN PAY HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS AND LIVES OF THEIR CHILDREN AND THOSE WHO OPPOSED THEIR
ACTION COME TO GET PART OF THE CAKE SO EASILY?"


3. "I WAS ASTONISHED BY MANY ANALYSTS, MILITARY EXPERTS AND EVEN
ECONOMISTS WHO PROTESTED THE DECISION BY WASHINGTON TO BAN
GERMAN, FRENCH AND EVEN ARAB COMPANIES FROM ANY REBUILDING
CONTRACTS IN IRAQ. NOT ONLY THIS, SOME EVEN DARED TO ASK FOR
SOME OF THE CONTRACTS FOR ARAB COMPANIES IN COUNTRIES THAT
OPPOSED THE WAR AGAINST SADDAM. I DO NOT WANT TO GET INTO
DETAILS, BUT ONLY TO ASK THOSE ANALYSTS HOW WOULD YOU REQUEST
REBUILDING CONTRACTS FOR COUNTRIES THAT DEFENDED THE TYRANT'S
REGIME? WHAT KIND OF LOGIC AND PRINCIPLE IS THIS?"


4. "THOSE WHO BROUGHT THEIR FLEETS ARE AMERICANS AND BRITISH,
WHO ALSO MOBILIZED THEIR FIGHTERS AND MISSILES TO TOPPLE SADDAM'S
FORTRESSES. THEY HAVE ENDANGERED THE LIVES OF THEIR CHILDREN AND
EVEN LOST SOME OF THEM AND OTHER MILITARY EQUIPMENT IN THE
BATTLEFIELD. FOR GOD'S SAKE, AFTER ALL THESE LOSSES AND BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS, HOW WOULD SOMEONE WHO STAYED IN HIS OWN HOUSE
WATCHING THE WAR ON SATELLITE CHANNEL TO GET A SHARE THE
REBUILDING WHAT THE BATH MAFIA DESTROYED?"


5. `WHEN THE SECOND WORLD WAR ENDED WITH JAPAN'S SURRENDER ON
AUGUST 14, 1945. THE U.S. BEGAN REBUILDING JAPAN AND PLACED AN
AMBITIOUS PLAN TOWARDS THIS END, BUT NO ONE OF THE JAPANESE OR
THOSE WHO SUPPORTED THEM IN THE WAR AGAINST AMERICA DARED TO
FORCE WASHINGTON TO INCLUDE THEM IN THE REBUILDING CONTRACTS.
THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH GERMANY ON AUGUST 7 OF THE SAME
YEAR. THE U.S., THEN, DRAFTED MARSHAL PLAN TO REBUILD EUROPE
FOR WHICH IT ALLOCATED 20 BILLION DOLLARS. NO ONE DARED TO ASK
THE U.S. TO INCLUDE NAZI COMPANIES OR COMPANIES THAT BELONGED TO
COUNTRIES THAT FOUGHT THE WAR AGAINST THE U.S. IN REBUILDING
EUROPE. THE U.S. FOUGHT THE WAR AND SACRIFICED 292 THOUSAND OF
ITS CHILDREN TO RID EUROPE AND THE WORLD FROM NAZISM AND
THEREFORE, IT HAD THE RIGHT TO TAKE THE LION'S SHARE OF THE
REBUILDING CONTRACTS ION EUROPE AND JAPAN, AND THAT WAS LOGICAL.
THE SAME LOGIC REMAINS TRUE IN THE REBUILDING CONTRACTS IN IRAQ
WHERE THE U.S. HAS EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS IN ALL CONTRACTS."


WAHBA