Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08MANAMA449
2008-07-08 14:04:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Manama
Cable title:
BAHRAIN NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO BAGHDAD
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UNCLAS MANAMA 000449
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
BAGHDAD FOR TUELLER AND ERELI
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PINR IZ BA
SUBJECT: BAHRAIN NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO BAGHDAD
UNCLAS MANAMA 000449
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
BAGHDAD FOR TUELLER AND ERELI
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PINR IZ BA
SUBJECT: BAHRAIN NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO BAGHDAD
1. (SBU) Ambassador Saeed Al-Faihani, an advisor to
Bahrain's Foreign Minister, confirmed to Charge an al Jazeera
report that Bahrain had nominated an ambassador to Iraq.
Faihani said the GOB requested Iraq's agrement July 7 for
Salah Ali Al-Maliki. Faihani said al-Maliki works in the
ministry's international organizations department, and
recently returned from a two-year tour in New York.
2. (SBU) A former MFA colleague of Maliki's described him to
poloff as a Sunni, in his mid-thirties, and married to a
Qatari woman who lives in Qatar with their two children.
3. (SBU) In recent weeks, the MFA has offered the job to at
least three others, who declined. One was Saeed Al-Majed,
foreign affairs director for the opposition (Shi'a) Wifaq
party. Bahrain's last chief of mission in Baghdad, CDA
Hassan Malallah Al-Ansari, was withdrawn after being injured
in a July, 2005 attack.
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Visit Embassy Manama's Classified Website:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/manama/
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HENZEL
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
BAGHDAD FOR TUELLER AND ERELI
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PINR IZ BA
SUBJECT: BAHRAIN NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO BAGHDAD
1. (SBU) Ambassador Saeed Al-Faihani, an advisor to
Bahrain's Foreign Minister, confirmed to Charge an al Jazeera
report that Bahrain had nominated an ambassador to Iraq.
Faihani said the GOB requested Iraq's agrement July 7 for
Salah Ali Al-Maliki. Faihani said al-Maliki works in the
ministry's international organizations department, and
recently returned from a two-year tour in New York.
2. (SBU) A former MFA colleague of Maliki's described him to
poloff as a Sunni, in his mid-thirties, and married to a
Qatari woman who lives in Qatar with their two children.
3. (SBU) In recent weeks, the MFA has offered the job to at
least three others, who declined. One was Saeed Al-Majed,
foreign affairs director for the opposition (Shi'a) Wifaq
party. Bahrain's last chief of mission in Baghdad, CDA
Hassan Malallah Al-Ansari, was withdrawn after being injured
in a July, 2005 attack.
********************************************* ********
Visit Embassy Manama's Classified Website:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/manama/
********************************************* ********
HENZEL