Identifier
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03SANAA1546
2003-06-30 06:36:00
SECRET
Embassy Sanaa
Cable title:  

FORMER IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO AZERBAIJAN REQUESTS

Tags:  PREL ASEC IZ AJ YM 
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S E C R E T SANAA 001546 

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/30/2013
TAGS: PREL ASEC IZ AJ YM
SUBJECT: FORMER IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO AZERBAIJAN REQUESTS
ASYLUM

REF: A. SANAA 1414

B. STATE 163627

C. SANAA 1351

D. SANAA 1260

E. SANAA 1259

F. SANAA 1139

G. SANAA 898

H. STATE 102827

Classified By: Ambassador Edmund J. Hull, for Reasons 1.5 (b,c,d)

S E C R E T SANAA 001546

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/30/2013
TAGS: PREL ASEC IZ AJ YM
SUBJECT: FORMER IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO AZERBAIJAN REQUESTS
ASYLUM

REF: A. SANAA 1414

B. STATE 163627

C. SANAA 1351

D. SANAA 1260

E. SANAA 1259

F. SANAA 1139

G. SANAA 898

H. STATE 102827

Classified By: Ambassador Edmund J. Hull, for Reasons 1.5 (b,c,d)


1. (S/NF) On 6/21 Abdul Hakim al-Iryani, Advisor to Foreign
Minister Qirbi, asked for USG assistance in vetting the
asylum request of former Iraqi Ambassador to Azerbaijan,
Ghalib Abdu Husayn al-Tamimi, his wife, and their six
children. PolOff delivered USG response provided by ORCA
(para 2) on June 25. Iryani was pleased by the timeliness of
the reply, but felt the response lacked the decisiveness ROYG
requires. He noted that this request is currently being
handled by the Yemeni Ambassador to Turkey. In response,
PolOff re-affirmed the firm USG position that al-Tamimi
should not be granted asylum.


2. (S/NF rel Yemen) Begin text:

Ghalib Abdu Husayn al-Tamimi has served as Iraqi Ambassador
to Azerbaijan in Baku since approximately 1998. We also have
information that subject may also be an Iraqi Intelligence
Service Officer who worked as a torturer in the General
Security Directorate. This information, however, has not
been confirmed. Subject attended university in Moscow and
subsequently worked in Russia for several years as First
Secretary in Iraq's Moscow embassy from 1989-1993. He was

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part of an Iraqi commercial delegation that arrived in Moscow
to confer with a Russian team of negotiators in October 1994
and also worked in the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Third Political Department. He is in his late 40s or early
50s, married, and has six children. The 2002 Azerbaijani
Diplomatic List showed Tamimi's wife as Afrah Tamimi. He is
Shi'a and speaks Russian fluently.

End text.

HULL