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04ABUDHABI219
2004-01-20 14:09:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Abu Dhabi
Cable title:
Iraqi police training: German Interior
how-tonull Diana T Fritz 03/15/2007 04:06:21 PM From DB/Inbox: Search Results Cable Text: CONFIDENTIAL SIPDIS TELEGRAM January 20, 2004 To: No Action Addressee Action: Unknown From: AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI (ABU DHABI 219 - UNKNOWN) TAGS: PREL Captions: None Subject: IRAQI POLICE TRAINING: GERMAN INTERIOR MINISTER IN ABU DHABI Ref: None _________________________________________________________________ C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 00219 SIPDIS CXABU: ACTION: POL INFO: RSO DCM P/M ECON AMB DISSEMINATION: POL CHARGE: PROG APPROVED: AMB:MMWAHBA DRAFTED: POL:JFMAYBURY CLEARED: DCM:RAALBRIGHT VZCZCADI788 OO RUEHC RUCNRAQ RHMFISS RUEHRL DE RUEHAD #0219 0201409 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 201409Z JAN 04 FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3068 INFO RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE IMMEDIATE RHMFISS/HQ COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTH BAGHDAD IMMEDIATE RUEHRL/AMEMBASSY BERLIN IMMEDIATE 0067
C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 000219
SIPDIS
STATE FOR NEA/NGA AND NEA/ARP
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/19/14
TAGS: PREL IZ TC
SUBJECT: Iraqi police training: German Interior
Minister in Abu Dhabi
Ref: (A) Berlin 149, (B) Berlin 23, (C) 03 Berlin 4692
Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons
1.5 (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 000219
SIPDIS
STATE FOR NEA/NGA AND NEA/ARP
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/19/14
TAGS: PREL IZ TC
SUBJECT: Iraqi police training: German Interior
Minister in Abu Dhabi
Ref: (A) Berlin 149, (B) Berlin 23, (C) 03 Berlin 4692
Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons
1.5 (b) and (d).
1. (C) Summary: German Interior Minister Otto Schily
met January 19 with senior Emirati law enforcement
officials as well as with Deputy Prime Minister and de
facto Foreign Minister Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ)
and reached an understanding on the German proposal to
train Iraqi police in the UAE. Schily, who had met
two days earlier in Amman with a senior CPA advisor to
the Iraqi Interior Minister, provided long-awaited
details about the Iraqi trainees. In a nutshell,
German police experts will begin providing forensics
training to about 150 Iraqi police in the UAE. The
first session will begin in March at an Emirati police
training facility. The following message is based on
a January 20 readout of Schily's meetings with the
Emiratis given to us by German Chargi Christian Buck.
End summary.
2. (C) Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily,
accompanied by several high-level German law
enforcement officials, was in Abu Dhabi on January 18
and 19. He had meetings with UAE Minister of Interior
Mohammed bin Saeed Al Badi and senior members of his
staff, with Interior Ministry Under Secretary Shaykh
Saif, and with Deputy Prime Minister and de facto
Foreign Minister Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayed.
3. (C) According to a visit readout provided by the
German Charge to Polchief and British Embassy Poloff,
Schily told the Emiratis that the first batch of Iraqi
police to be trained in the UAE will consist of 100
criminal police officers and 54 members of Baghdad's
Institute of Criminal Technology. The forensics and
related skills training curriculum (discussed in refs
B and C) has yet to be finalized. The Germans found
that the Iraqis have a lot of outdated knowledge about
forensics, and their institute had been looted.
4. (C) The Emiratis have yet to decide where the
training will take place, although Abu Dhabi, Sharjah,
and Al Ain have been mentioned as possibilities.
Germany will pay for the training expenses and for the
German police experts while the UAE will cover local
expenses (e.g. housing and feeding of trainees) and
transportation costs between Iraq and the UAE. The
German Charge offered what he called a very rough
estimate of the training costs -- $10 million per year
but cautioned that the actual amount would depend
on several factors, including the training courses
selected, and numbers of participants. Germany hopes
to have trained about 200 Iraqi forensics experts when
the program concludes at the end of 2005.
5. (C) Schily had stopped in Amman on January 17 to
meet with the CPA Senior Interior Ministry Advisor
Steve Casteel to go over details of the proposal and
to see how it fits into the overall CPA training plan,
including portions in Jordan and Iraq (see ref A).
Three days earlier, on January 14, an advance team
from the German Interior Ministry met in Amman with
two other members of the CPA/Iraqi Interior Ministry
team, also to sort out the details. The Germans
decided against having an Iraqi Interior Ministry
representative accompany Schily on his visit to the
UAE. "Our priority was to get the information to the
Emiratis," the German Charge said. He expressed
appreciation for the information on the Iraqi police
that CPA provided to the Emiratis.
6. (C) In his meeting with HbZ, Schily reviewed the
German proposal to offer police training, and the two
covered a range of security and immigration issues,
including Emirati concerns about the Schengen visa
program. HbZ told Schily that the UAE was prepared
for extensive law enforcement cooperation with
Germany. HbZ stressed the UAE's unwavering commitment
to fight terrorism. He said the UAE had received a
message from Al Qaida saying that the UAE is a target.
HbZ told Schily that Al Qaida is a threat to all of us
and that the type of terror attacks that occurred in
Turkey and Indonesia could just as easily happen in
the UAE. The German Charge said it was not clear from
what HbZ said whether the message from Al Qaida was
recent, or whether it was just his way of expressing
solidarity in the war on terrorism.
WAHBA
SIPDIS
STATE FOR NEA/NGA AND NEA/ARP
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/19/14
TAGS: PREL IZ TC
SUBJECT: Iraqi police training: German Interior
Minister in Abu Dhabi
Ref: (A) Berlin 149, (B) Berlin 23, (C) 03 Berlin 4692
Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons
1.5 (b) and (d).
1. (C) Summary: German Interior Minister Otto Schily
met January 19 with senior Emirati law enforcement
officials as well as with Deputy Prime Minister and de
facto Foreign Minister Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ)
and reached an understanding on the German proposal to
train Iraqi police in the UAE. Schily, who had met
two days earlier in Amman with a senior CPA advisor to
the Iraqi Interior Minister, provided long-awaited
details about the Iraqi trainees. In a nutshell,
German police experts will begin providing forensics
training to about 150 Iraqi police in the UAE. The
first session will begin in March at an Emirati police
training facility. The following message is based on
a January 20 readout of Schily's meetings with the
Emiratis given to us by German Chargi Christian Buck.
End summary.
2. (C) Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily,
accompanied by several high-level German law
enforcement officials, was in Abu Dhabi on January 18
and 19. He had meetings with UAE Minister of Interior
Mohammed bin Saeed Al Badi and senior members of his
staff, with Interior Ministry Under Secretary Shaykh
Saif, and with Deputy Prime Minister and de facto
Foreign Minister Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayed.
3. (C) According to a visit readout provided by the
German Charge to Polchief and British Embassy Poloff,
Schily told the Emiratis that the first batch of Iraqi
police to be trained in the UAE will consist of 100
criminal police officers and 54 members of Baghdad's
Institute of Criminal Technology. The forensics and
related skills training curriculum (discussed in refs
B and C) has yet to be finalized. The Germans found
that the Iraqis have a lot of outdated knowledge about
forensics, and their institute had been looted.
4. (C) The Emiratis have yet to decide where the
training will take place, although Abu Dhabi, Sharjah,
and Al Ain have been mentioned as possibilities.
Germany will pay for the training expenses and for the
German police experts while the UAE will cover local
expenses (e.g. housing and feeding of trainees) and
transportation costs between Iraq and the UAE. The
German Charge offered what he called a very rough
estimate of the training costs -- $10 million per year
but cautioned that the actual amount would depend
on several factors, including the training courses
selected, and numbers of participants. Germany hopes
to have trained about 200 Iraqi forensics experts when
the program concludes at the end of 2005.
5. (C) Schily had stopped in Amman on January 17 to
meet with the CPA Senior Interior Ministry Advisor
Steve Casteel to go over details of the proposal and
to see how it fits into the overall CPA training plan,
including portions in Jordan and Iraq (see ref A).
Three days earlier, on January 14, an advance team
from the German Interior Ministry met in Amman with
two other members of the CPA/Iraqi Interior Ministry
team, also to sort out the details. The Germans
decided against having an Iraqi Interior Ministry
representative accompany Schily on his visit to the
UAE. "Our priority was to get the information to the
Emiratis," the German Charge said. He expressed
appreciation for the information on the Iraqi police
that CPA provided to the Emiratis.
6. (C) In his meeting with HbZ, Schily reviewed the
German proposal to offer police training, and the two
covered a range of security and immigration issues,
including Emirati concerns about the Schengen visa
program. HbZ told Schily that the UAE was prepared
for extensive law enforcement cooperation with
Germany. HbZ stressed the UAE's unwavering commitment
to fight terrorism. He said the UAE had received a
message from Al Qaida saying that the UAE is a target.
HbZ told Schily that Al Qaida is a threat to all of us
and that the type of terror attacks that occurred in
Turkey and Indonesia could just as easily happen in
the UAE. The German Charge said it was not clear from
what HbZ said whether the message from Al Qaida was
recent, or whether it was just his way of expressing
solidarity in the war on terrorism.
WAHBA