Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
03ANKARA7727
2003-12-17 11:45:00
SECRET
Embassy Ankara
Cable title:
TERRORIST FINANCE: POST VETTING
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S E C R E T ANKARA 007727
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR EB/ESC/TFS (GGLASS),S/CT (TNAVRATIL),
EUR/SE, EUR/PPG (LREASOR),IO/PHO (APEREZ),NSC (GPETERS),
TREASURY GENERAL COUNSEL (DAUFHAUSER),OFAC DIRECTOR
(RNEWCOMB),TREASURY (JZARATE)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/15/2013
TAGS: EFIN ETTC PREL PTER TU
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE: POST VETTING
REF: STATE 341277
(U) Classified by DCM Robert Deutsch. Reasons: 1.5(b) & (d).
(S/NF) From the U.S. point of view, we have no difficulty
designating IBDA-C, based on activities several years old
with the leadership still in Turkish jails but with a loose
group of supporters with questionable capabilities at large.
If we proceed to designate IBDA-C, there may also be grounds
to consider designating Turkish Hizbullah. However,we also
note the following: First, Post does not have, and considers
it unlikely that it can obtain, any documentary information
establishing that IBDA-C was responsible for the Istanbul
bombings of 20 November. Second, IBDA-C's claimed
responsibility for the bombings is simply not credible at
this point in the investigation. Third, the GOT may find a
great deal of irony in the EU's designation of IBDA-C, given
the EU's failure to designate KADEK and the various other
aliases of PKK, which GOT (rightfully) considers a far more
dangerous organization.
EDELMAN
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR EB/ESC/TFS (GGLASS),S/CT (TNAVRATIL),
EUR/SE, EUR/PPG (LREASOR),IO/PHO (APEREZ),NSC (GPETERS),
TREASURY GENERAL COUNSEL (DAUFHAUSER),OFAC DIRECTOR
(RNEWCOMB),TREASURY (JZARATE)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/15/2013
TAGS: EFIN ETTC PREL PTER TU
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE: POST VETTING
REF: STATE 341277
(U) Classified by DCM Robert Deutsch. Reasons: 1.5(b) & (d).
(S/NF) From the U.S. point of view, we have no difficulty
designating IBDA-C, based on activities several years old
with the leadership still in Turkish jails but with a loose
group of supporters with questionable capabilities at large.
If we proceed to designate IBDA-C, there may also be grounds
to consider designating Turkish Hizbullah. However,we also
note the following: First, Post does not have, and considers
it unlikely that it can obtain, any documentary information
establishing that IBDA-C was responsible for the Istanbul
bombings of 20 November. Second, IBDA-C's claimed
responsibility for the bombings is simply not credible at
this point in the investigation. Third, the GOT may find a
great deal of irony in the EU's designation of IBDA-C, given
the EU's failure to designate KADEK and the various other
aliases of PKK, which GOT (rightfully) considers a far more
dangerous organization.
EDELMAN