BAHRAINI WITNESSES PREPARED TO DELIVER WRITTEN

C O N F I D E N T I A L MANAMA 001611 SIPDIS STATE FOR NEA/ARPI, S/WCI E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/23/2014 TAGS: PREL KAWC PTER PHUM PINR BA SUBJECT: BAHRAINI WITNESSES PREPARED TO DELIVER WRITTEN TESTIMONY ON BEHALF OF DETAINEES AT GTMO REF: A. MILLER-WORMAN E-MAIL OF 10/19/04 ¶B. MILLER-WORMAN E-MAIL OF 10/13/04 ¶C. MANAMA 1528 Classified by DCM Susan L. Ziadeh for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). ¶1. (C) This is an action request; please see paragraph 3. ¶2. (C) Per Ref B, Pol/Econ chief discussed with MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow-Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa October 18 possible options for Bahraini witnesses to deliver testimony on behalf of Guantanamo detainees Shaikh Salman Ebrahim Mohammed Al Khalifa and Abdullah Al Noaimi. He said that the best way would be written testimony. He asked that the USG provide specific written questions in Arabic to the MFA, which would forward the questions to the witnesses. The MFA would then give us the written responses in Arabic, which we would send to Washington. ¶3. (C) Action Request: We request that State: (a) be specific as possible in the questions. Ref A describes the types of information the witnesses might provide, but does not ask any specific questions of the type that would be used in a courtroom; and (b) give us the questions in both English and Arabic, and we will transmit the responses back to State in the language in which we receive them. MONROE