Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06ABUDHABI2971
2006-07-19 12:54:00
SECRET//NOFORN
Embassy Abu Dhabi
Cable title:
TFLE01: UAE REPORTEDLY ADVISED ISRAEL OF DETAILS
how-tonull Diana T Fritz 08/26/2006 04:53:40 PM From DB/Inbox: Search Results Cable Text: S E C R E T ABU DHABI 02971 SIPDIS CXABU: ACTION: POL INFO: RSO AMB DCM MEPI P/M ECON DISSEMINATION: POL CHARGE: PROG APPROVED: AMB:MJSISON DRAFTED: POL:AMAGLEBY CLEARED: ECON:OJOHN VZCZCADI896 OO RUEHC RUEHTV DE RUEHAD #2971 2001254 ZNY SSSSS ZZH O 191254Z JUL 06 FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6237 INFO RUEHTV/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV PRIORITY 0494
S E C R E T ABU DHABI 002971
SIPDIS
NOFORN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/19/2031
TAGS: PREL KPAL EAID LE IS AE
SUBJECT: TFLE01: UAE REPORTEDLY ADVISED ISRAEL OF DETAILS
ON MEDICAL CONVOY THAT CAME UNDER ATTACK
REF: A. ABU DHABI 2956
¶B. ABU DHABI 2940
Classified By: Ambassador Michele J. Sison, reasons 1.4 (B) and (D).
(S/NF) Director of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies
and Research, Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi, told EconOff July 19
that the humanitarian convoy (medical supplies and ambulances
donated by the UAE to Lebanon) which came under attack by
Israeli rockets the previous day was particularly upsetting
because "we told them" directly all the details of the
convoy. He said the UAE had advised Israel "through our
friends" all about the delivery in advance. Al-Suwaidi
acknowledged that Syria was known to put Katyusha rockets on
some convoys, and thus he understood why the IDF may view
such processions as "full of rockets." Nonetheless, he
argued, this delivery was clearly marked and its contents
were known to Israel.
SISON