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08BAGHDAD2660	ERBIL: NEW KURDISH COMMITTEE ON ARTICLE 140, AND [...] (C) Summary: KRG Minister of Extra-Regional Affairs Mohammed Ihsan told RRT Deputy Team Leader (DTL) that all previous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) committees on Article 140 have been abolished, and one committee, called the High Committee on Article 140 (Committee),has been establish [...]	2008-08-20 06:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PTER IZ

08BAGHDAD2661	GRAND AYATOLLAH FAYYADH ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) On August 4, senior Shi'a cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Ishaq al-Fayyadh issued a statement asserting his neutrality in the upcoming provincial elections, claiming that he did not support any list or favor any particular party. Lamenting the disappointing performance of the parties tha [...]	2008-08-20 09:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD2663	DIYALA SOUTH: U.S. CITY COUNCIL WORKS WITH IRAQI [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 10 the New Bedford, Massachusetts City Council (Council) participated in a video teleconferencing (VTC) event with Iraqi officials from the local and district levels of Diyala Province. The Council held a mock council meeting for the benefit of the Iraqis followed by [...]	2008-08-20 12:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD2664	QADISIYAH UNDER PIC - PROVINCIAL ISCI CONTROL [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-20 12:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2665	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-08-20 13:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD2666	NINEWA: ASSYRIAN MAYOR SAYS QARA QOSH IS SAFE AND [...] (C) Summary: Nisan Yousif, the Assyrian Christian mayor of Qara Qosh, in Hamdaniya district, described his town as safe and secure, yet also apathetic about upcoming provincial elections. With regard to the Article 140 process, Yousif expressed a personal preference that Qara Qosh remain part [...]	2008-08-20 13:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2667	MAYSANI SHEIKHS: EXPECT MORE ATTACKS [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In an August 19 meeting with U.S. officials, Maysani sheikhs Ali Hasan Sajar Al-Fartusi and Saha, Jabar Suhail Al-Buzaid warned of a "second phase" in local reactions to the U.S. presence in the governorate, predicting that released detainees and militants returning fro [...]	2008-08-20 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PTER MOPS PINS IR IZ
08BAGHDAD267	OPERATIONS IN MOSUL DOMINATE JANUARY 27 MCNS [...] (S REL MNF-I) Following brief remarks from MOD on Army escorts for fuel deliveries, Prime Minister Maliki moved the discussion from the scheduled topics to the situation in Ninewa province, especially in Mosul (ref. A). MOD painted a picture of disorganized security forces in Mosul and outlin [...]	2008-01-29 17:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER PHUM SY IZ
08BAGHDAD2682	ENTRENCHED CORRUPTION IN KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-21 13:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2683	A MONTH AFTER PIC - WHAT,S DIFFERENT ABOUT [...] (C/NF) Summary: Coalition Forces transferred authority in Diwaniyah (Qadisiyah) Province to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) on July 16 after months of negotiations, assessments, poltical maneuvering, and a last-minute weather delay. Though not always a certainty, the Polish-led Coalition Force [...]	2008-08-21 14:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2684	RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN CABLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Based on apparent deficiencies in the accounting for night vision devices (NVDs) provided to Iraqi Security Forces (ISF),the Multi-National Security Transition Command in Iraq (MNSTC-I) is currently conducting a comprehensive field inventory of NVDs. The intent of this invent [...]	2008-08-21 14:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC IZ
08BAGHDAD2688	NINEWA: ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: The Assyrian Catholic communities of Kermalais and Bartala in northeast Ninewa are focused on their future political status and the security of their communities. Their stated demand for some form of autonomy under the Article 140 process reflects a desire for control of local g [...]	2008-08-21 15:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2689	PDS UPDATE: "DIFFICULT, COMPLICATED AND SLOW" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reform of the Iraqi Public Distribution System (PDS) may be delayed "by months, not years," according to Trade Minister Al-Sudani. The MOT had hoped to reduce the PDS roles by 25 percent beginning in January 2009. However, it has run into political opposition, as well as concerns [...]	2008-08-21 15:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAGR ETRD EAID ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD269	CHALABI VIEWS ON THE PITFALLS OF DE-BA'ATH [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with PolCouns on January 24, Dr. Ahmed Chalabi, the current Commissioner of the Higher National De-Ba'athification Committee and the Chair of the PM's Essential Services Committee, shared his views on the passage of the Law of Accountability and Justice. While noting [...]	2008-01-30 06:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2699	ASSIGNMENT OF DIPLOMATIC ZONE PROPERTIES: GOI [...] (C) Summary: We have been pushing the Iraqi government to allocate definitively properties for foreign embassies, but the process here is slow-moving and contentious at best. PolMinCouns and MGT Counselor met with Ambassador Srood Najib of Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on August 19 t [...]	2008-08-22 11:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2702	PARLIAMENTARY ALLIANCE FRAGILE AMIDST KURD-SHI'A [...] (C) SUMMARY: While bitter feelings linger toward the Kurds over the election law/Kirkuk impasse, mainstream Shi'a political leaders (particularly ISCI) appear to recognize that their political self-interest requires a continuation of their alliance with the Kurds. Kurdish interlocutors have v [...]	2008-08-22 11:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2703	PARLIAMENTARY ALLIANCE FRAGILE AMIDST KURD-SHI'A [...] (C) SUMMARY: While bitter feelings linger toward the Kurds over the election law/Kirkuk impasse, mainstream Shi'a political leaders (particularly ISCI) appear to recognize that their political self-interest requires a continuation of their alliance with the Kurds. Kurdish interlocutors have v [...]	2008-08-22 11:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2704	CONFIDENT TO SUNNI ARAB VICE PRESIDENT BLAST PRIME [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-22 12:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2707	PRT SALAH AD-DIN: SAD VOTER REGISTRATION GOING [...] (C) Voter registration in Salah ad Din (SaD)is proceeding smoothly, but many other SaD residents are uninformed about the elections and not aware that voter registration is taking place, SaD Governorate Electoral Officer (GEO) informed PRT members on August 18 The GEO believed many people who [...]	2008-08-22 13:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2708	CONFIDANTE TO SUNNI ARAB VICE PRESIDENT BLASTS PM [...] (C) Summary: A senior advisor to (Sunni) Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi complained August 21 that Prime Minister Maliki, emboldened by the success of this spring's security operations in Basra and Sadr City, was increasingly dropping the pretense of partnership with the ruling coalition's Sunn [...]	2008-08-23 11:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD2712	MOPDC MINISTER BABAN ON MATCHING, BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: At an August 18 meeting with Ambassador Ries and Ambassador Wall (CETI),Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Ali Baban said that DPM Barham Salih was circulating a draft letter related to the "commitment to obligate funds" for GOI ministerial approval. Baban o [...]	2008-08-24 06:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EPET PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2713	SALAH AL DIN: PROGRESS IN THE ECONOMIC SITUATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. (U) Summary ------------ 2. (SBU) Improved security conditions have had a positive impact on the economic situation in Salah-ad-Din (SaD); it is easier for goods to reach markets; produce prices are dropping and progress is being made i [...]	2008-08-24 08:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV EAGR IZ
08BAGHDAD2714	SAMARRA RECONSTRUCTION EXTENDS BEYOND GOLDEN MOSQUE [...] (C) Reconstruction of the Al-Askari Mosque continues to advance. The Shi'a Mosque recently opened to local citizens for the first time since the terrorist bombing in February 2006. Additionally, reconstruction efforts are now expanding more noticeably beyond the Mosque with an increased focus [...]	2008-08-24 10:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD2719	KIRKUK: PIC ESTABLISHED; PC CHAIRMAN ADDRESSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Months of negotiations between the different blocs of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC) ended on 18 August with an agreement signed by representatives of each of the major ethnicities (Kurds, Arabs, Turkomen) establishing the Kirkuk Provincial Investment Commission (PIC). The [...]	2008-08-24 12:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV PGOV ETRD ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2720	NEED TO GENERATE PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF AL QAEDA,S [...] (C) Summary: Al Qaeda activity in Iraq over the last four weeks has shown that the organization is changing its tactics in response to the blows it has been dealt by the surge. We have seen a pattern of attacks using suicide bombers to target each of Iraq,s ethnic communities in an attempt to [...]	2008-08-24 12:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV KISL KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD2721	DEMARCHE REPORT: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper on August 23 to Mohammed al-Humaimidi, MFA's Deputy Director for International Organization Affairs and primary POC for threat finance coordination. Treasury Attache and POLMIL are also in possession of talking points to be distributed to [...]	2008-08-24 12:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2724	SINIORA/ABDULLAH: A TALE OF TWO VISITS [...] (C) Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's August 20 visit to Baghdad ran longer than expected and focused on economic (trade, investment, and reduced-tariff oil sales) rather than political issues. Meeting with the Secretary on August 21, a clearly pleased Prime Minister Maliki praised th [...]	2008-08-25 06:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2725	MAYSAN ISCI HEAD: IRAN'S NOT SO BAD [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Local ISCI head and PC member Sayyid Hashim al-Shauki called the Maysani provincial government "ineffective" in an August 21 meeting with U.S. officials, blaming in part militant pressure on Sadrist politicians. He identified provincial elections as the sole means of i [...]	2008-08-25 06:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2726	FADILAH PARTY LEADER ON "SADR'S AMBASSADORS" [...] (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary: Fadilah party spiritual leader and Wasit university professor Shaykh Abbas al-Zaydi predicted that ISCI would commit widespread fraud in provincial elections in an August 17 meeting with U.S. officials. He also discussed his new youth-focused organization, "Sadr's [...]	2008-08-25 06:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2727	UPDATE ON INVESTMENT IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the recent months, Iraq has seen some early but significant successes in attracting foreign (and, to a lesser extent, domestic) investment. The Ministry of Industry and Mining has moved several SOEs toward point of sale or joint venture status and received 56 JV bids. The [...]	2008-08-25 07:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD2728	MIDDLE EAST QUINT POLICY PLANNING DIALOGUE: IRAQ [...] (C) Speaking with PolMinCouns August 21, Foreign Minister Zebari welcomed participation in a Middle East policy planning meeting with Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. He thought Iraqi participation would help improve Iraqi relations with those states. The notional agenda looked acceptable to [...]	2008-08-25 09:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV JO SA EG IZ
08BAGHDAD2729	IRAQI NSC ON AUGUST 17 REVIEWS MOSUL [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chaired the August 17 meeting of the National Security Council (I-NSC) that focused on reconstruction efforts in Mosul, MOD's logistics modernization, and protection of infrastructure. The Council also reviewed operations in Diyala, protec [...]	2008-08-25 10:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD2730	SUNNI CHARGES GOI "DOING AL-QAEDA A BIG FAVOR" [...] (C) Summary: Dhia Mahdi (strictly protect),a senior aide to (Sunni Arab) Deputy Prime Minister al-Issawi, recently complained that the GOI had "(done) Al-Qaeda a big favor" through its recent security operations in Diyala province, which he alleged targeted Sunni political rivals rather than [...]	2008-08-25 11:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS MOPS KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD2731	ENTRENCHED CORRUPTION IN KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ [...] (S) Anti-Corruption Coordinator, Lawrence Benedict, Embassy Baghdad Anti-Corruption Coordination Office (ACCO) and Erbil RRT officers met August 11-14 with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials, non-governmental organizations, and representatives of the private sector to gauge the corr [...]	2008-08-25 11:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2738	CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST: GRATIFIED THE "U.S. IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Asserting that intra-Iraqi Christian discord is the result of political competition between church leaders, CoR Speaker Mashadani's human rights advisor urged the USG to engage with nonpolitical lay people. She complained that the government was not providing adequate assistan [...]	2008-08-26 06:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD2739	MINISTER OF STATE SEEKS TO PULL PROVINCES INTO [...] (C) "We must teach the provinces the meaning of centralization," the new Minister of State for Governorate Affairs told PolMinCouns and DepPolCouns (notetaker) during their August 24 courtesy call. Mrs. Khulud Sami 'Azarah Al Ma'jun, who was confirmed in late July to fill a long vacant cabine [...]	2008-08-26 06:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2740	KIRKUK ELECTION DEBATE CONTINUES TO CAUSE [...] (C) Summary: There has been no parliamentary action to develop a new election law since the August 6 parliamentary recess. The parliament seems unlikely to take any action before the first week of September at earliest. The Kirkuk issue remains a thorny one, and an influential Shia Coaliti [...]	2008-08-26 08:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2741	A GREEN LINE AND A RED LINE DIVIDE THE SHIA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdish-Shia Islamist tensions about Kirkuk complicate passage of a new election law but also reflect a deeper dissatisfaction among some important Shia Islamists about Kurdish policies. An influential Shia parliamentarian ranted to us on August 24 about alleged Kurdish selfis [...]	2008-08-26 10:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2751	NINEWA: A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CONSIDERS ITS FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Two prominent Assyrian Christian leaders in Tel Kaif district told the PRT they want to remain a part of Ninewa Province, believing that the KRG is increasingly authoritarian, likely to split on tribal lines, and more prone to Islamic extremism than is currently apparent. By cha [...]	2008-08-27 07:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2758	MAYSAN DA'WA HEAD: WE ARE THE PEACEMAKERS [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Latif Abud, the head of the Da'wa party in Maysan and a Provincial Council (PC) leader, painted his party as a major conciliator in an August 26 meeting with the PRT. He expressed cautious satisfaction with improved security since Operation Good Tidings of Peace and empha [...]	2008-08-27 17:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2759	PRT DIYALA: PROTESTS IN KURDISH AREA AMID CALLS [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Demonstrators at Khanaqin, a Kurdish majority city on the Iranian border, protested August 26, against the possible deployment of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) elements near the city as part of "Operation Benevolent Diyala." [...]	2008-08-27 18:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2764	CENSURED PC MEMBER LEADS ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Hakim Khazal Khashan, the recently censured Provincial Council (PC) Integrity Chairman, led a peaceful demonstration in Samawah on Aug 24 protesting government corruption. Violence was anticipated, but did not materialize. Chief among the group's demands were an indepe [...]	2008-08-28 08:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ EFIN
08BAGHDAD2768	WORLD BANK OFFICIALS ON ENERGY STRATEGY, WORLD [...] (C) SUMMARY: While the World Bank has the expertise to assist the Iraqi Government develop a national energy strategy and believes a strategy is important, working level staff in the World Bank's headquarters will not expend resources on this effort until the GOI demonstrates a genuine commit [...]	2008-08-28 13:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG SENV EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD2769	IRAQ MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SEEKING [...] (C) Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Ra'id Fahmi Jahid told EMBOFFs on 25 August that one of the Government of Iraq's biggest problems is that the Ministries have no effective mechanism to coordinate their strategies. Fahmi said he thus requested the UNCTAD science, technology, and i [...]	2008-08-28 13:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	TPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA
08BAGHDAD2770	ELECTRICITY MINISTER OBTAINS RUSSIAN SUPPORT; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Outgoing Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq (CETI) Ambassador Charles Ries and incoming CETI Ambassador Marc Wall met with Electricity Minister Karim Wahid al-Hasan on August 24. Karim, who had just returned from Moscow, reported that the Russians would be sending a te [...]	2008-08-28 14:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EINV PREL RS IZ
08BAGHDAD2771	PM MOVING TO REINSTATE BAGHDAD DEPUTY MAYOR NAEEM [...] (C) Summary: Sadrist-linked Naeem Aboub al Kaby looks poised for reinstatement as Deputy Mayor of Baghdad by order of Prime Minister Maliki. Naeem,s return follows his politically motivated dismissal in February 2008. Baghdad Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Mueen has voiced disapproval of [...]	2008-08-28 14:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2772	PRT SALAH AD DIN: MICRO-FINANCE PROGRAM STALLED [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: On 11 August, the PRT met with the Director General of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA) loan program for Salah ad Din (SaD) to gauge the status of the MOLSA credit program in the province. The MOLSA loans in [...]	2008-08-28 14:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD2773	GOI MAKES FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT TO MEK CAMP; IRAQI [...] (S) SUMMARY: A GOI team led by Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim and including an MFA official made its first visit to the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) at Camp Ashraf on August 18 to prepare for a transfer of security responsibility. The team toured Camp Ashraf and heard from MEK members that [...]	2008-08-28 14:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINS PTER PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD278	SITREP 2: OPERATIONS RESUME AT THE CENTRAL BANK OF [...] (SBU) The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has resumed operations following the January 28 fire by moving a skeleton staff to two separate buildings within the CBI complex, and the staff has already reconstituted its data center in a new building. The core banking system has been made operational w [...]	2008-01-30 15:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EAID ECON EFIN
08BAGHDAD2781	SUNNI ARAB INSIDER WARNS PM MALIKI WILL REIGNITE [...] (C) Summary: Tens of thousands of Sunni Arab "Sons of Iraq" and Sahwa ("Awakening") fighters, who were instrumental in pushing Al-Qa'ida out of Anbar Province, and on the defensive elsewhere, will not be absorbed into the Iraqi Security Forces and vocational training programs as projected, a [...]	2008-08-29 12:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PTER MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD2782	MALIKI CONFIDANTE CAREFUL ON SOFA AND DISPUTES [...] (C) SUMMARY: One of Prime Minister's closest confidantes told us August 28 that the Prime Minister will keep asserting the Baghdad government's right to deploy the Iraqi army up to the Green Line. He acknowledged Kurdish sensitivities over towns like Khanaqin and Kirkuk but insisted they a [...]	2008-08-29 12:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2783	SUNNI SHEIKHS FEELING EXCLUDED FROM THE PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Many Sunni tribal views of the GOI are defined by perceptions of corruption, and the belief that political and sectarian motives drive a Shi'a-dominated government that utilizes the Iraqi Security Forces (both police and military) as a political tool. Sunni tribal contacts are ge [...]	2008-08-29 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2784	IRAQI NSC ON AUGUST 24 REVIEWS READINESS OF [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: The National Security Council (I-NSC),chaired by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, focused its discussions August 24 on the readiness of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to provide security for Iraq and command and control of Ports of Entry (POEs). The council also heard [...]	2008-08-29 13:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD2785	MUTHANNA BORDER AUTHORITIES CONCERNED OVER GOI [...] (C/REL USA, GBR) Summary: Iraqi Military officials complained of dwindling resources from the central government, poor infrastructure, and aggressive and pervasive Iranian influence throughout Iraq in August 26 meetings with U.S. officials. A high-ranking general, who was responsive to both [...]	2008-08-29 14:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2786	IRAQ'S HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDEES FOR 63RD UNGA [...] (U) The following is a list of Iraq's high-level attendees for the 63rd UNGA: A. Head of State: President Jalal Talabani may attend (depending on health) --Arrival date: already in the U.S., will arrive in NY 21 September --Departure date: 04 October --Currently in Washington --May att [...]	2008-08-29 14:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2787	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Army who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3. The n [...]	2008-08-30 12:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2788	WASIT GOVERNOR ENDORSES NOV 1 PIC [...] (C) Summary: "I do not want a political decision on PIC, but I believe it should happen before the end of 2008," said Wasit Governor Abdel Turfa, referring to the transfer to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) in an August 14 meeting with U.S. officials. He endorsed a U.S. proposal to put Wasit o [...]	2008-08-31 06:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2791	SADR EXTENDS JAM FREEZE INDEFINITELY [...] (SBU) "The freeze on the activities of the al-Mahdi army...shall continue to be in effect for an indefinite period of time," said Muqtada al-Sadr in a hand-written statement released on August 26. In the statement Sadr emphasized the importance of obeying the program of "Al-Muhmahidoon," the [...]	2008-08-31 09:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2792	ERBIL: MORE BELLIGERENT KURDISH RHETORIC SIGNAL [...] (C) Summary: Increasingly heated rhetoric from Kurdish interlocutors is a sign of the strain placed on the Shia/Kurdish alliance following the failed effort to pass the provincial elections law and the GOI demand that the 34th Peshmerga unit withdraw from Diyala. In an August 21 meeting, a [...]	2008-08-31 11:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2795	PRT ANBAR: ANBAR PROVINCE ON THE EVE OF PIC [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Security responsibility in Anbar Province is scheduled to be transferred from the Coalition Forces (CF) to Iraqi national and provincial authorities in a ceremony in Ramadi on September 1. Called Provincial Iraqi Control [...]	2008-08-31 13:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2796	MAYSAN FADILAH HEAD: WE'RE 100 PERCENT IRAQI [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Ali Kadhem Khalaf, the leader of Fadilah in Maysan and a deputy Provincial Council (PC) chairman, presented his party as nationalistic, anti-extremist, anti-militia, and free of foreign influence in an August 30 meeting with PRT leader. He provided additional color on t [...]	2008-08-31 14:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD280	FM ZEBARAI ON NEIGHBORS PROCESS; SFA FRAMEWORK; [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 29 meeting, Foreign Minister Zebari told PolCounselor he expected a complete round of Neighbors Working Group meetings to take place in February and a Baghdad PrepCon (level to be determined) to be held in March. He said another top MFA priority was to appoint car [...]	2008-01-30 18:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2801	NINEWA: SHEBAK LEADERS FROM BARTALA TOWN RESIST [...] (C) Summary. Shebak political leaders from Bartala town told us that they prefer to remain a part of Ninewa Province in an August meeting. Shebak Democratic Assembly representatives said that the short-term security benefits of existence under KRG control are not worth the dangers of the com [...]	2008-09-01 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER ECON KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2802	GENERAL OTHMAN TALKS TRIBES, SECURITY, IRAN [...] (C) General Othman, Commander of the Iraqi Army (IA) 8th Division (responsible for all five Middle Euphrates provinces),spoke openly with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on August 27 regarding political dynamics in the region, particularly developments that will impact the security situation. Key [...]	2008-09-01 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2803	BASRA GOV WAELI MAKES CASE FOR ONE-PROVINCE REGION [...] (C) Basra Governor Wa'eli (Fadhilah) confidently outlined for Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on August 30 the progress made toward forming a regional government in Basra. The Governor emphasized that Basra would pursue a referendum on a one-province region in early 2009, with the possibility of a [...]	2008-09-01 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2804	ENGAGING GOI ON DRAFT UNSCR FOR TERRORIST [...] (C) Per Reftel A instructions, Econoff met August 31 with MFA Deputy IO Director Mohammed al-Humaimidi to urge the GOI to accept a different formulation of preamble Paragraph 10 of subject draft UNSC resolution, and to seek GOI agreement on the list of seven names provided by the USG for inclu [...]	2008-09-01 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC EFIN PREL PTER IZ RU UK
08BAGHDAD2806	MAYSAN SADRIST CHIEF: MUQTADA MISUNDERSTOOD [...] (S/NF) Summary and comment: The Sadr Trend is a peaceful movement committed to helping humanity and developing a strong Iraq free of foriegn influence, according to Mohammed Wahid, leader of the Sadrist-affiliated Hussein Ideology Front (HIF). Steadfastly denying that Muqtada al-Sadr (MAS) w [...]	2008-09-01 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV IR IZ PINR
08BAGHDAD2807	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR GENERAL DAVID [...] (C) Post requests country clearance for General David Petraeus and delegation to travel to Paris 22-27 September 2008. The purpose of the visit is to meet with French leadership to discuss strategic goals and opportunities for cooperation. 2. (C) REQUEST TRAVEL CLEARANCES FOR THE FOLLOW [...]	2008-09-01 15:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	OTRA APER FR IZ
08BAGHDAD2808	DEMARCHE EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) On September 1, Deputy Political Counselor delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs U/S for Policy Planning Labeed Abbawi. Abbawi said he would pass the points to Foreign Minister Zebari's office. BUTENIS [...]	2008-09-01 15:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2809	ERBIL: S/A KRAJESKI MEETS WITH ANGRY KRG LEADERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: KRG officials are frustrated with the stagnation in the implementation of Article 140, dismayed about recent Iraqi Army attempted deployments into Khaneqin and other disputed territories, and fearful for their future within a federal Iraq if the perceived anti-Kurd sentiment gro [...]	2008-09-01 16:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD2811	NIC CHAIRMAN OPTIMISTIC DESPITE CHALLENGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Investment Commission (NIC) Chairman-Designate Ridha continues to aggressively court foreign investors, even though the GOI has not promulgated implementing regulations for the 2006 Investment Law to support his mission. Ridha is creative and well-intentioned, but he is [...]	2008-09-02 06:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD PGOV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2812	KARBALA: IRAN EXERTS HEAVY INFLUENCE THROUGH [...] (S) Summary: Since Iraq's liberation, Tehran has sought to increase its sway within Karbala and other key Shi'a holy cities. Iranian agents make use of direct payments and business favors to ensure that provincial government figures remain compliant and favorably inclined to Iranian interests. Sham [...]	2008-09-02 06:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2815	ERBIL AND KIRKUK: MURDER AND INTIMIDATION [...] (C) Summary: Credible death threats from the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Iranian intelligence service may force one of the Kurdistan Region's boldest independent media outlets, Lvin magazine, to move its operations to Europe, according to Lvin's Editor-in-Chief Ahmad Mira. Mira [...]	2008-09-02 12:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2819	CETI: DPM BARHAM SALIH WANTS CONTINUED [...] (C) Summary: At his introductory meeting with EMIN Wall on September 1, DPM Barham Salih provided a tour d'horizon of economic issues. He noted that Iraq is in a transitionQperiod; key challenges include: political reorganization (including the status of Kirkuk),energy -- especially hydroc [...]	2008-09-02 14:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ETRD EAID ECON
08BAGHDAD2820	DIYALA STANDOFF RECEDES BUT GOI-KRG TENSIONS [...] (C) The standoff in the northeastern Diyala province town of Khanaqin between Kurdish Peshmerga and the Iraqi Army (IA) forces appears to have passed its most dangerous phase, but an armed showdown between KRG and GOI security forces in this or another disputed territory remains a threat. Dep [...]	2008-09-02 14:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2828	NINEWA: MINORITY COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES SHARE [...] (C) Summary: Ninewa,s minority communities are divided between and among themselves over the article 140 process. Some claim that their communities will be better off under Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) rule; others prefer to remain part of Ninewa Province. Some cite the KRG as their pri [...]	2008-09-03 03:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2829	MINORITIES COMMITTEE ON CONFERENCE PLANNING, WHAT [...] (C) Summary: While there is general consensus among Iraq's Christians on economic and cultural issues requiring ameliorative GoI action (e.g., de-Islamicising the national educational curriculum and removing religious identification from national ID cards),the community is divided on polit [...]	2008-09-03 06:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2830	LIGHTING A FIRE UNDER IRAQ'S WTO ACCESSION PROCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GoI continues to make halting progress toward WTO accession. The Council of Representatives has approved some WTO-compatible legislation, but several complicated bills (including IPR, TBT, and SPS) are either stalled in the drafting phase or stuck with the Iraqi WTO Nationa [...]	2008-09-03 09:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON TWRO USTR BEXP IZ
08BAGHDAD2831	SUNNI LEADER PESSIMISTIC ABOUT GOI INTENTIONS WITH [...] SUMMARY (C) According to Sahwa leader Abu Azaam, the GOI and Shi,a have opposed Sahwa and the Sons of Iraq (SOI) since its establishment, and transitioning the Sahwa to GOI administration would lead to its dissolution. This will increase the sense of betrayal among Sunni Arabs, and could lead [...]	2008-09-03 12:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2832	SISTANI CALLS ON IRAQIS TO REGISTER TO VOTE [...] (U) On August 27, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husayni al-Sistani called on Iraqis to register to vote in the upcoming provincial elections. Through a statement delivered by an official representative of the Najaf-based cleric, Sistani "called on Iraqis to register their names as the (electoral) list i [...]	2008-09-03 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD2837	PRT DIYALA: KURDS AND SUNNIS CLAIM GOI SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Top Kurdish and Sunni political leaders in Diyala view the recent security operations in the province (Operation Benevolent Diyala) as a GOI sectarian campaign designed to suppress Kurdish and Sunni participation in the [...]	2008-09-04 07:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL PINS PHUM MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD2838	PRT DIYALA: IRAQI ARMY ACTIONS IN KHANAQIN RAISE [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Diyala Provincial Council Chairman Ibrahim Bajellan (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK) told us that negotiators, who have met the past few days in Baghdad, have worked to defuse the tense confrontation between Kurdish fo [...]	2008-09-04 14:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL PREL PTER PINS PINR MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD284	NINEWA: MOSUL UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT PROPOSES BROAD [...] (S/REL ACGU) Summary: Mosul University President Dr. Obay al-Dewachi told us he was open to broad cooperation with the PRT. Although the university was a bastion of the Ba'athist system and is a known safe haven for terrorists, as one of the best universities in Iraq the PRT will begin immedia [...]	2008-01-31 08:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2851	Michael Wareing Visits Basra [...] (U) Summary: Michael Wareing, CEO of KPMG International and Co-Chairman of the Basra Development Commission (BDC),visited Basra on August 27 and was pleasantly surprised by the favourable conditions he found in the city. He visited the Abu Al Khasib Vocational Training Center and then co-cha [...]	2008-09-05 04:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD2854	IRAQI DINAR CASH CRUNCH: TIGHT BUT MANAGEABLE [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's vastly increased public spending combined with bureaucratic delays in the purchase of new cash supplies by the Central Bank of Iraq, an antiquated and not-yet interconnected banking sector, and continued reliance on cash payments for government salaries has caused a cash c [...]	2008-09-05 10:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2857	SOUTHERN SHEIKH ALLIANCE ASKS U.S. TO BROKER A [...] (S/REL MCFI) Two tribal leaders who represent a nascent nationalist, cross-sectarian political movement continued their dialogue with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray about their motives, Iranian influence, and the need for U.S. financial support. When informed that the U.S. could not sponsor or [...]	2008-09-05 13:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	POL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2859	GOI REVERTING TO HARD LINE ON KHANAQIN STANDOFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Shia-led GOI position on Kurdish security forces in the Khanaqin district of Diyala governorate appears to be hardening since an August 31 agreement to allow Kurdish security forces to remain in Khanaqin city. Shia leaders close to Prime Minister Maliki have stressed that th [...]	2008-09-05 14:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2860	IRAQI NSC AUGUST 31 DISCUSSES COUNTERING [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki chaired the August 31 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC) that followed up on the previous week's (reftel) discussion of preventing assassinations, detainee releases, and operations in Diyala. The Council also spent consi [...]	2008-09-05 15:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MASS MARR ENGR ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2862	PRT SALAH AD DIN: KIRKUK ISSUE HEIGHTENS TENSIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) For Salah ad Din (SaD) residents, the Kirkuk Provincial Council's (PC's) call for Kirkuk to join the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has proved to be a very emotive issue. This is a particularly sensitive issue [...]	2008-09-05 19:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2864	NINEWA - DROUGHT PUSHES AGRICULTURAL SECTOR TO [...] (C) Summary. Ninewa,s farmers are facing the fourth year of a serious drought and need agricultural inputs for next season and basic subsistence until then. Farmers, especially in the Sunni western regions, feel abandoned by the provincial and central governments. Our experience thus far ha [...]	2008-09-06 06:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR SENV EAID PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2866	NINEWA: TRAVELING JUDGES ARE A SHORT-TERM FIX BUT [...] (S) Summary. A panel of four traveling Baghdad trial judges did what the provincial justice system has failed to do over the last year: convict and sentence defendants guilty of terrorism-related offenses. Staying on the PRT, travelling to the Mosul court in 3rd ACR convoys, and working unde [...]	2008-09-06 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PTER KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD2867	ISCI MOUNTS PEACEFUL COUNTER-PROTEST AFTER [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: ISCI party leader Lateef al-Hassani led a group of 250 protesters in a peaceful September 3 march aimed at counterbalancing an anti-corruption protest led one week earlier by independent Provincial Council (PC) members. Banners claimed that Hakim Khazal Khashan (censured [...]	2008-09-06 13:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2868	DIWANIYAH: DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE SHEIKHS [...] (C) Summary: Sheikh Hussein al-Shaalan, arguably the most influential tribal sheikh in Diwaniyah and a member of the Council of Representatives (CoR),met with the PRT on September 3. Shaalan was critical of both his Kurdish colleagues for disrupting the passage of the elections law and of P [...]	2008-09-06 13:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2869	NINEWA: HAMDANIYA MAYOR ARGUES THE SKY IS NOT [...] (C) Summary: The Assyrian Christian mayor of Ninewa,s Hamdaniya district told us that security in his community is sufficient and that there is less to the debate over whether to affiliate with the Kurdish region or Ninewa province than meets the eye. Mayor Nissan Karumi professes no allegi [...]	2008-09-06 15:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2875	SOUTH PREPARES FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS; ISCI AND [...] (C) In a series of discussions with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, leaders of all major Shi'a political affiliations expressed a preference that provincial elections occur in December 2008, though they doubt that the soon-to-reconvene Council of Represenatives (CoR) will pass a law in time for el [...]	2008-09-07 08:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2878	NINEWA: PROVINCIAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION OFFERS [...] (SBU) Neither the GOI nor the Ninewa Governorate have taken the steps necessary to stand up the Provincial Investment Commission (PIC). We met with an enthusiastic staff, but one comprised of people with limited experience in investment promotion and who seek from us the basic infrastructure [...]	2008-09-07 11:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ETRD PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD288	IRAQI PARLIAMENT SPEAKER MASHADANI ON PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: COR Speaker Mashadani told us on January 30 that he expects the Provincial Powers law to pass the CoR on February 4. He does not agree with those arguing that a date for elections should be in the law but does believe that elections should be held as soon as possible, hopefully [...]	2008-01-31 11:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINR PROV
08BAGHDAD2883	MAYSAN SADRISTS, ISCI PRESS U.S. TO PRESSURE THE [...] (C) Sadrist and ISCI provincial leaders in Maysan asserted to Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on September 3 that they are not associated with militias and that they want to work with the U.S. to promote security and development. Sadrist leaders leveled sharp criticisms at Prime Minister Maliki, c [...]	2008-09-07 11:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2884	BAGHDAD CAPITAL LAW WORKING GROUP MAY CALL FOR NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to apparent inaction within the Council of Representatives (CoR),a group of Baghdad stakeholders has taken the initiative and started discussions on a draft Baghdad Capital Law (BCL). Although passage is a constitutionally mandated requirement, the BCL has fallen [...]	2008-09-07 13:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ

08BAGHDAD2889	IRAQ MINISTRY CIO PHASE ONE TRAINING A SUCCESS [...] A two-week intensive Chief Information Officer training workshop held in Erbil, Iraq, 18 - 28 August has been completed successfully. Twenty-eight CIOs and information technology (IT) managers from across the Government of Iraq (GOI) attended the Iraq Transition Assistance Office (ITAO)-funded [...]	2008-09-07 15:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS EINT KGIT KWIR PGOV TINT TSPL IZ
08BAGHDAD289	NINEWA: KURDS AND ARABS TAKING STEPS TOWARD [...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary: Provincial Vice Governor and President of the Ninewa Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Khasro Goran told PRT Leader January 21 that the Kurdish parties had made strides with the Arab Sunni parties in Ninewa Province in working together toward political reconciliation. Gor [...]	2008-01-31 12:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ECON PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2890	STATE OF DETENTION FACILITIES IN IRAQ: SOUTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There are still big problems with overcrowding in detention facilities in southern Iraq, with the consequent effect on supplies of food and medicine and judicial processing delays. There is an immediate need for more facilities, especially prisons, and more trained correctio [...]	2008-09-08 07:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KJUS PINS IQ
08BAGHDAD2891	SHELL LOOKS TO ESTABLISH A PRESENCE IN BASRA [...] This is a Regional Embassy Office Basra cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: A Shell International executive team visited Basra between August 28 and September 1 as part of its negotiations on a potential joint venture with the Iraqi government. Under the multi-billion dollar, 25-year agreement, She [...]	2008-09-08 07:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD2897	KURDISH REPS CLAIM AQI LINKS AT NEW IRAQI POLICE [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C/NF) Summary: Diyala Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Ibrahim Bajellan has alleged a newly set-up police force at Jaloula in the Khanaqin district has links to Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and threatens Kurdish and regional security. He charged t [...]	2008-09-08 14:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PTER PINS PINR MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD2898	CETI: MOT AL-SUDANI DISCUSSES TARIFFS, WTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Trade Minister Al-Sudani told EMIN that the GOI remains fully committed to WTO accession, even though some in government "who still cling to a regime mentality" continue be skeptical about the process. He confirmed once again that reform of the Public Distribution System wou [...]	2008-09-08 14:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV EAGR ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD290	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - January 29 [...] SUMMARY: At this week's regularly held Provision of Services Committee meeting, the committee met for 2.5 hours to discuss issues ranging from trash collection privatization and re-opening previously closed streets to electrical supply for pumping stations and service problems in specific qadas [...]	2008-01-31 15:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD2900	RRT ERBIL: ONE IRAQ: THE JUDICIARY CROSSES THE GREAT DIVIDE [...] (SBU) Summary: Chief Justice Medhat on August 29 led a delegation of nine judges from the Iraq High Judicial Council (HJC) to meet with thirteen judges from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq who were selected by the Kurdistan Judicial Council (KJC). This was the first meeting between representative [...]	2008-09-08 15:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KJUS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2902	IRAQI OIL MINISTER'S FAILED RAID ON SOUTH OIL [...] (SBU) In a September 4 decision, Oil Minister Shahristani appointed Jabbar al-Luaibi to a new position within the Ministry of Oil that will oversee the new Maysan Oil Company, the South Gas Company, and the South Oil Company, rather than simply reinstating him to his old position as director g [...]	2008-09-08 16:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2904	SOUTHERN ELECTIONS FORECAST: MORE OF THE SAME [...] (C) Summary: Provincial elections are unlikely to result in a radical shift of the southern political map. Despite concerns about voter fraud and low voter registration numbers the overwhelming majority of southern Shi'a say they intend to vote in the elections. Iraq's Shi'a remain deeply d [...]	2008-09-09 05:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2905	IRAQI REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT: UPWARD TREND [...] (C) Summary: The arrival of the UAE Ambassador to Iraq on September 4 - the first Arab Ambassador to return to Iraq in several years - and the apparently imminent posting of a Bahraini ambassador later this month provide a concrete demonstration that Iraq's engagement with its Arab neighbors [...]	2008-09-09 05:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ BA AE
08BAGHDAD2906	IRAQ PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE CHAIRS ON CAPACITY [...] (C) Summary: Council of Representatives (COR) Economic Committee Chairman Haider al-Abadi and COR Finance Committee Chairman Ayad al-Sammarai told EMIN in separate meetings that the overall situation in Iraq has greatly improved. Abadi warned that these improvements have led Iraqis to have hig [...]	2008-09-09 07:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB EPET PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD291	PROGRESS IN TRANSFER OF IRAQ SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: The fourth quarterly meeting of the High Level Working Group held January 24 to discuss the Joint Committee for Accelerating the Transfer of Iraq Security indicated progress. Consistent Iraqi themes were to reduce the number of supporting committees either through closure or con [...]	2008-01-31 15:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV MOPS PTER PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2912	IRAQ MOVING FORWARD WITH NATIONAL ENERGY STRATEGY [...] (C) Iraqi PM Advisor Thamir Ghadhban informed Energy Attach on Sept. 4 that efforts were underway to advance Iraq's National Energy Strategy (NES). Mr. Ghadhban said a five member Committee has been formed to develop the NES, with Ghadhban the Chairman and the Ministers respectively of Oil, El [...]	2008-09-09 11:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN ENRG IZ
08BAGHDAD2913	STATE OF DETENTION FACILITIES IN IRAQ: NORTH AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Similar to conditions in southern and central Iraq, there are serious problems with overcrowding in detention facilities in northern and western Iraq. Ongoing GOI military operations and a lack of sufficient facilities, especially prisons, have exacerbated overcrowding in Diy [...]	2008-09-09 11:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KJUS PINS IQ
08BAGHDAD2914	MOHR CAUTIONS GOI WILL MOVE SLOWLY ON MEK AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim recognizes the need for the GOI to formulate a comprehensive plan for the transfer of security authority for Camp Ashraf and the post-transfer stage, but said the GOI has not yet reached consensus on modalities for the transfer and how the cam [...]	2008-09-09 13:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM KJUS PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2915	CHINESE EMBASSY ON WASIT OIL DEAL AND BUSINESS IN [...] (C) Summary: Negotiations between the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and the China National Petroleum Company to develop the al-Ahdab oil field in Wasit province are not yet complete, despite an August signing ceremony in Beijing, said Chinese Embassy Economic and Trade Counselor Zhue Yuesheng on Sept [...]	2008-09-09 13:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON EAID PREL PINR CH IZ
08BAGHDAD2926	COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES RETURNS THIS WEEK TO [...] (C) The Iraqi Parliament started its fall session on September 9 with an agenda that its deputy speaker called quote really hot unquote. The Council of Representatives will meet every day but Fridays for the rest of September in order to make progress on a list of urgent legislation that in [...]	2008-09-10 09:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2927	IRAQI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AL-ISSAWI ON ESSENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Rafi Al-Issawi met with EMIN Ambassador Wall on September 8. A confident Al-Issawi assured EMIN of his continued focus on the need to improve the Goverment of Iraq,s (GOI) delivery of essential services, including energy and water, as well as improving [...]	2008-09-10 10:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG EAID PGOV PREL EAGR TU IZ
08BAGHDAD2928	IRAQ NOT IN A TIME OF CHOLERA [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq Ministry of Health (MoH) officials said September 9 that there have been a total of 26 cases of cholera reported in 2008; according to health officials, this is far below the number of cases reported by this time last year and falls well short of the threshold of an outbreak [...]	2008-09-10 11:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI KSCA IZ
08BAGHDAD2929	PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: ELECTIONS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: Senior Iraqi election commission (IHEC) officials told us September 9 that they require 135 days of lead time between passage of an election law and the holding of elections to organize credible provincial elections. They indicated that January 2009 was the earliest date an ele [...]	2008-09-10 11:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD293	BLUEBLOOD SHIA CLERIC COMMENTS ON "BACKWARD" [...] (C) Summary: Scion of a prominent Najafi clerical family and related to both Grand Ayatollah Sistani and Moqtada al-Sadr, Emad Klanter told us January 30 that bumbling Iraqi politicians fail to make progress of any sort but actively encourage a public perception of "American Occupation" throug [...]	2008-01-31 15:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2930	PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: ELECTIONS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: Senior Iraqi election commission (IHEC) officials told us September 9 that they require 135 days of lead time between passage of an election law and the holding of elections to organize credible provincial elections. They indicated that January 2009 was the earliest date an ele [...]	2008-09-10 12:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2933	NSC SEPTEMBER 7: STEMMING ASSASSINATIONS AND [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Rafi Isawi chaired the sparsely attended September 7 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC). The Council considered plans to tackle the rising number of assassinations in Baghdad, reconstruction coordination, and the achievements of [...]	2008-09-11 06:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2935	FORMER TRADE MINISTRY DIRECTOR GENERAL DETAILS [...] (S) SUMMARY: A Director General with 34 years of experience at the Ministry of Trade detailed to us September 7 allegations of widespread corruption within the Ministry of Trade including complicity by the Minister and the Deputy Inspector General. He also described some of the schemes used [...]	2008-09-11 10:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	STATE FOR INL CP NEA AND
08BAGHDAD2936	CG DISCUSSES PESHMERGA-GOI CONFLICT, FORCE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In their regular weekly meeting on 4 September 2008, Commanding General MNF-I GEN David Petraeus and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (joined by CDA) discussed disposition of Kurdish forces (Peshmerga) near the city of Khanaqin and the Green Line, Iraqi military force struct [...]	2008-09-11 11:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER ENGR EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD2937	SISTANI FEARS PROVINCIAL COUNCIL VALIDITY IN [...] (S/NF) Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani worries provincial councils will lack legal standing without new elections by end 2008, Senior Advisor Gordon Gray learned in a UNAMI read-out of SRSG De Mistura's September 6 meeting with the Najaf-based cleric. DSRSG Andrew Gilmour (protect),joined by [...]	2008-09-11 12:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2944	FINANCE MINISTER JABR ON KUWAIT DEBT ISSUES: LET'S [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para seven. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Finance Minister Jabr told EMIN September 11 that "as a politician" he hoped that the Kuwaiti government would understand (and hear from the USG) that the future relationship between the people of Iraq and Kuwait i [...]	2008-09-11 18:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ECON KU IZ
08BAGHDAD2945	VISAS VIPER MANDATORY STATUS REPORT AND WATCHLIST [...] (U) VISAS VIPER 2. (U) POST: BAGHDAD MEETING DATE: SEPTEMBER 7, 2008 CHAIR: DCM PATRICIA A. BUTENIS COORDINATOR: CONOFF MATT CHESSEN ATTENDEES: CONS, DOJ, EXEC, ORA, PAO, MNF-I (CJ9),RSO, POL/MIL, DHS, FBI, POL, MNF-I (DBETT) 3. (U) ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS: 4. (S/NF) The following [...]	2008-09-12 02:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2946	ICRC STATE OF PLAY ON MEK [...] (S) SUMMARY: ICRC conducted its first official visit to the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) at Camp Ashraf from August 24-26 in line with its agreement to increase ICRC involvement in the transfer of responsibility for the MEK from the USG to the GOI. ICRC Iraq delegation head Juan Pedro Schaerer s [...]	2008-09-12 09:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM PINS PTER ICRC KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD295	IRAN-IRAQ BORDER NEGOTIATIONS TO RESUME IN FEBRUARY [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: At a January 28 meeting with Acting PolMil Counselor, Iraqi MFA Under Secretary Mohammad Hamoud discussed GOI preparations for a further round of bilateral talks with Iran regarding their shared border. He indicated talks would take place on February 19, since negotiations pla [...]	2008-02-01 06:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PBTS IR IZ KU
08BAGHDAD2953	TENSIONS SIMMER BETWEEN ANBAR,S GOVERNOR AND THE [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Long submerged tensions between the Provincial Council (PC) and Governor Ma'amoun surfaced in Ramadi September 9, with a threat to remove Ma'amoun from office unless he improves essential services. Published minutes of a [...]	2008-09-13 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2958	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-09-14 10:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD2959	IRAQIS DESPERATE TO LEARN ENGLISH [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-14 10:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD296	SADRIST SWEEP OF SOUTH NOT A GIVEN [...] (C) This is a joint Baghdad POL - ePRT, PRT, and REO reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Contrary to popular opinion, it is not a foregone conclusion that the Sadrist Trend will sweep the southern governorates in the next round of provincial elections. Numerous PRT engagements suggest that [...]	2008-02-01 13:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2960	GOI LAUNCHES PROPERTY RESTITUTION PROGRAM; POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI's policy on property restitution and evictions coincides with improved security in some neighborhoods and has the potential to encourage increased returns of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees to those districts. According to the GOI, over 7,500 families, [...]	2008-09-14 10:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD2962	AMB, CG AND PM DISCUSS ELECTIONS, GOI/KRG [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In the regular weekly meeting held on September 11 with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Ambassador and Commanding General MNF-I General David Petraeus discussed the elections law, relations between the KRG and GOI, foreign business investment in Iraq, crude oil processing [...]	2008-09-14 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER ENGR EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD2963	IRAQI-KUWAITI BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C/REL MNFI) Deputy Foreign Minister Hamoud told us on September 11 the Kuwaiti Prime Minister would visit Iraq shortly after Ramadan concludes. He said a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on clearing the Khor Abudllah waterway of shipwrecks remained 'stuck' in the Prime Minister's [...]	2008-09-14 15:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR
08BAGHDAD2964	TRADE ONE-WAY ON IRAQ/IRAN BORDER AT ZURBATIYAH [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Trade is one way on the Iran-Iraq border crossing at Zurbitiyah as Iraqi cargo trucks arrive empty and collect cargo from Iran. Turnaround for cargo takes about half a day. U.S. military visual inspection for incoming cargo trucks is 100 percent but still rudimentary. N [...]	2008-09-14 15:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ETRD PREL MARR PTER ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2966	NINEWA: SHREWD AND MERCURIAL GOVERNOR FAVORS KRG, [...] (S/NF) Summary: Ninewa provincial governor Kashmoula is a pro-KRG Sunni Arab whose administration has contributed to the socio-economic decline of the province. Elected with US support by Kurdish and pro-Kurdish members of the Provincial Council following the 2004 assassination of his cousin, [...]	2008-09-14 17:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2967	KARBALA: DA'WA, ISCI COMPETE FOR APATHETIC VOTERS [...] (S) Summary: Amid widespread voter apathy among Karbalans concerning the political process, members of the two dominant parties -- Da'wa and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) -- are jockeying for position in the run-up to provincial elections. Da'wa increasingly appears to have the u [...]	2008-09-15 06:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR
08BAGHDAD2968	DPM SALIH PLEDGES TO TRY TO DEFUSE KHANAQIN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Although the Kurds say they have complied with the August 30 agreement by withdrawing additional "new" Peshmerga from the Khanaqin area, the situation remains tense. DPM Barham Salih agreed to continue defusing the situation. Salih believes that Prime Minister Maliki,s decision [...]	2008-09-15 09:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2969	VP HASHIMI: DEFENDING THE SOFA WILL BE DIFFICULT, [...] (S) SUMMARY: On September 7, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi told the Ambassador that he anticipated major problems trying to defend the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in parliament, and he worried about the destabilization that would result if the Iraqi government mishandled the Sons of Ir [...]	2008-09-15 09:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD297	PRT MAYSAN: MAYSAN'S TRIBAL LANDSCAPE [...] (U) The material in this cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. SIPDIS 2. (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 3. (SBU) Summary: Maysan,s tribal landscape is primarily made up of five tribal confederations and over thirty tribal organizations. The B [...]	2008-02-01 13:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ
08BAGHDAD2972	KARBALA'S PROVINCIAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION [...] (C) Summary: Karbala's Provincial Investment Commission (PIC) is composed of seven university professors who focus more on where investments should be placed than on how to accommodate and advocate for investors. Because the PIC has as yet received no funding from Baghdad, it relies on its me [...]	2008-09-15 13:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2973	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR GENERAL DAVID [...] (SBU) Post requests country clearance for General David Petraeus and delegation to travel to London, United Kingdom on 27 September- 1 OCT 2008. The purpose of the visit is to meet with English Leadership to discuss strategic goals and opportunity for cooperation. 2. (SBU) REQUEST TRAVEL [...]	2008-09-15 13:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	APER OTRA IZ UK
08BAGHDAD2975	PARLIAMENT YANKS IMMUNITY AFTER DEPUTY VISIT TO [...] (C) Sunni Arab Parliamentarian Mithal Alusi told us September 14 that the Parliament had stripped him of his parliamentarian immunity after a bare knuckle exchange between him and other deputies earlier that day. Alusi said that the fight had started when several deputies accused him of brea [...]	2008-09-15 15:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2979	Security Hampers, But Does Not Quash, Baghdad 9-Nissan [...] (U) Summary: On August 29-30, Baghdad EPRT-2 funded the 9-Nissan Trade Show, which was organized by the Iraqi American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IACCI),at the Palestine Hotel. This was Baghdad's fourth district-level trade show this year, all organized as spin-offs of the February B2 [...]	2008-09-16 03:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD298	SUCCESSFUL ICRC VISIT TO CAMP BUCCA [...] (C) An ICRC inspection team visited the MNF-I Theater Internment Facility at Camp Bucca January 8-28. This trip, the first major ICRC inspection of Camp Bucca since November 2006, came after several months of high-level pressure on the ICRC, including direct requests from Ambassador Crocker an [...]	2008-02-01 15:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM PREL PTER ICRC IZ
08BAGHDAD2981	IRAQ-IRAN BORDER NEGOTIATIONS TO MOVE AHEAD - MAYBE [...] (C) Iraq and Iran appear ready to commence work soon to resolve outstanding border issues, assuming PM Maliki and other key GOI constituencies give the political green light and make available necessary funding. Senior MFA officials who participated in late-August bilateral talks in Tehran s [...]	2008-09-16 09:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS IZ IR
08BAGHDAD2984	SADR CITY UPDATE: BOSS SHAMA,S RETURN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-16 11:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2987	SEPTEMBER 13TH CAR BOMB IN AD-DUJAYL: A SETBACK [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) A car bomb exploded in the predominantly Shi'a Ad-Dujayl district of Salah Ad Din (SaD) province on September 13, 2008, shattering a period of relative calm and economic improvement over the past year. According to [...]	2008-09-16 12:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2988	MASHADANI: JULY 22 BLOC AND KIRKUK ARE CRITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY Parliament Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani told the Ambassador September 10 that he had formed a special committee to resolve the provincial elections law standoff. He claimed that the primary concerns of the July 22 bloc involve the status of Kirkuk, the need for special elections for t [...]	2008-09-16 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ KU
08BAGHDAD299	ARTICLE 140: WHERE ARE WE NOW? [...] (C) Summary: The issue of Article 140 and the status of Kirkuk and the disputed territories is solidly in the middle of the national debate, although there are significant disagreements on all sides in terms of addressing this complex problem. A fair, transparent and agreed resolution to the [...]	2008-02-01 16:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2990	IRAQ CBI GOVERNOR ON POST-SBA RELATIONS, CASH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with EMIN and Treasury Attache September 14, Central Bank Governor Sinan Shabibi offered a tour d'horizon of issues concerning the CBI. Shabibi looked forward to the final tranche of Paris Club debt write off. He was open to a follow on "precautionary" Standby Agreem [...]	2008-09-16 13:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD2991	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-09-16 14:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD2993	SADR CITY UPDATE: BOSS SHAMA,S RETURN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Hassan Shama, the Sadr City politician wounded in the June 24 blast that killed several EPRT members and U.S. military personnel, returned to work on August 12 and, after a small public wrangle, resumed his role as District Council (DC) chairman. Since then, Shama has moved aggr [...]	2008-09-16 14:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PTER PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2995	DIYALA BUDGET EXECUTION DELAYED BY CIVIL STRIFE [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable 2. (SBU) Summary: Reports on budget execution show Diyala last or near last among provinces in regard to disbursements against its 2006 and 2007 development budgets. Improvements in performance are needed and PRT Diyala is working on those it has id [...]	2008-09-17 06:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2996	WOMEN'S AFFAIRS MINISTER CRITICIZES MALE-DOMINATED [...] (C) Minister of State for Women's Affairs (MoSWA) Dr. Nawal Hamed Majed Al-Samara'e did not mince words in her criticism of Iraqi politicians and the male-dominated GOI. Al-Samara'e asserted that few men in the GOI regard women's issues as even a second-tier priority and believes the exploita [...]	2008-09-17 09:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2997	BAYJI OIL REFINERY DEALING WITH HFO AND CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: On September 10, 2008, senior Ministry of Oil (MoO) officials, accompanied by Embassy and MNF-I staff, visited Bayji Oil Refinery (BOR) and discussed the situation at the refinery, including measures to cope with a build-up of heavy fuel oil (HFO) levels, which currently restrict [...]	2008-09-17 11:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ETRD IZ PREL SY TU
08BAGHDAD3	AMBASSADOR AND FM ZEBARI DISCUSS URGENT TOPICS [...] (S) Summary. In a December 30 meeting, the Ambassador reviewed with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA),suggesting that the GOI establish a negotiating team parallel to the U.S. delegation. On the Tuwaitha shipment, FM Zebari agreed to send a letter to the [...]	2008-01-02 06:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL MARR ENRG PHUM MOPS NBTS IZ
08BAGHDAD300	DOWN BUT HARDLY OUT: ISCI 2008 ELECTION PROSPECTS [...] (U) This is a joint southern PRT, REO, ePRT and Baghdad POL reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Public opinion is turning against the religious parties, including Da'wa, ISCI, and the Sadr Trend, throughout the south. This reflects widespread disappointment with the performance and corrupti [...]	2008-02-01 18:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3002	USAID/IRAQ HELPS CAPTURE $1 BILLION PER YEAR [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: With elections approaching and essential services still lagging, improved service delivery of electricity is critical. Yet every day Iraq's southern oil fields burn off gas associated with oil production, gas that could drive 3,500 megawatts (MW) of generator power worth $9 b [...]	2008-09-17 14:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL ECON SOCI PINS SNAR ENRG
08BAGHDAD3003	PRT SALAH AD DIN: SAD DEPUTY GOVERNOR FOCUSED ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) The Salah ad Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein al-Jubara told PRT officers that private sector investments and development are the best way to create further economic progress in SaD. Abdullah reported that [...]	2008-09-18 09:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD PGOV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3004	A TALE OF TWO NEIGHBORHOODS - IDP RETURNS IN [...] (C) Summary: In the past two months, security gains and GOI evictions of illegal tenants have contributed to return of internal displaced persons (IDP) in Baghdad, but progress is far from uniform. Hurriya, a district in western Baghdad, and Doura, on the city's southern flank, both suffere [...]	2008-09-18 09:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF IZ
08BAGHDAD3006	UNPRECEDENTED BILL AIMS TO ADDRESS CHRISTIAN [...] (C) Non-Muslim Endowments Office Director Abdullah Al-Naufali and associates are drafting a new law that will aim to protect the personal status rights of Christians. According to one of the drafting committee lawyers, the nearly completed draft will be submitted to the Shura Council by the e [...]	2008-09-18 10:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3007	PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW: MORE CHURNING BUT NO [...] (C) A parliamentary committee came close to agreement September 16 evening on language for the disputed Kirkuk election language of the draft provincial elections law. Proposed changes by Arab and Turcoman members about this disputed text for Article 24 of the draft law scuttled consensus a [...]	2008-09-18 10:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3008	ANBAR'S AWAKENING AT TWO YEARS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) The Anbar's "awakening movement" was founded in September 2006, a date that arguably marks the turning point in the battle against Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). It is now a political party, the Iraq Awakening Conference (Muatam [...]	2008-09-18 14:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3009	VISIT REQUESTED BY HOLY SEE LIKELY TO LEAD TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 10, the Holy See asked the USG to arrange for a human rights attorney from Rome to meet with former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who was the highest ranking Christian in Saddam Hussein,s government and is now on trial before the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT). On S [...]	2008-09-18 15:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3010	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-09-18 15:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3021	FORMER PM ALLAWI: IRAQ NEEDS PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: During a September 15 meeting, Iyad Allawi, former Prime Minister and current leader of the secular "Iraqiya" parliamentary bloc, told the Ambassador that Iraq needs its political leaders to develop a greater consensus about key issues like provincial elections, constitutional re [...]	2008-09-19 10:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3022	NSC SEPTEMBER 14 REVIEWS NINEWA SECURITY [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister (D/PM) Barham Salih chaired the September 14 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC). The Council heard short follow-up reports from the MOD on Civil-Military Operations Centers, from the MOI on continued difficulties in securing fund [...]	2008-09-19 12:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3023	ISCI/BADR FEELING UNDER THREAT, RAISING INTER-SHIA [...] (S) The influential Shia Islamist party ISCI/Badr has become increasingly isolated among Shi'a parties in the past month, and its governing practices have become increasingly restrictive. Tensions have risen dramatically between ISCI/Badr and its fellow Shi'a Islamist coalition partner Da'wa [...]	2008-09-19 13:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3024	WASIT ISCI PARTY CHIEF SLAMS DA'WA, SADRISTS, AND [...] (C) Summary. PRT met on September 14 at al-Kut's ISCI headquarters building with Wasit ISCI party chief Ahmed al-Hakim. Al-Hakim is vehemently critical of Da'wa and the tribal support council concept, and mildly negative about ISCI's electoral prospects given public irritation over the lack [...]	2008-09-19 13:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3026	EMBASSY PRESSES GOI TO RESTORE ALUSI'S IMMUNITY [...] (C) Following the Parliament's decision September 14 to remove Mithal Alusi's parliamentary immunity after Alusi's visit to Israel and public criticism of Iraq politicians' ties to Iran (reftel),the DCM expressed USG concern over this action to the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Tariq Abdu [...]	2008-09-19 15:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3028	PRT SALAH AD DIN: AD-DUJAYL CITY COUNCIL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (S) The September 16 Ad Dujayl City Council criticized GOI and provincial responses to the September 12 car bombing (reftel). The Council thanked Coalition Forces (CF) for their quick response and support, complained abo [...]	2008-09-20 14:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3029	NINEWA: GEO PREDICTS HIGH TURNOUT FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: The GOI,s chief elections officer in Ninewa Province is optimistic that Sunni Arab participation in provincial elections will be high. GEO Director Adel-Haleq Dabbagh based his optimism on local conversations he has had with Sunni leaders and the more than half million Ninewa ci [...]	2008-09-21 11:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3030	SENIOR KURDISH OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGES KURDISH [...] (C) Summary: In a September 21 meeting, Senior KRG official in Baghdad Mohamed Ihsan admitted to Senior Advisor Krajeski that Kurds had mismanaged their political alliances and were partly to blame for widespread anti-Kurd sentiment. But he also blamed PM Maliki for seeking to roll back feder [...]	2008-09-21 12:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3031	AMB, CG AND PM DISCUSS SOFA, SOI, AMBASSADOR'S [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In the regular weekly meeting held on 18 September 2008, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Ambassador and Commanding General (CG) MNF-I General Raymond Odierno discussed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),Sons of Iraq (SOI),the Ambassador's trip to KRG and relations bet [...]	2008-09-21 13:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER ENGR EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD3032	KARBALA: TRIBAL FEUD RESOLUTION IN OFFING [...] (C) Summary: Resolution of the long-simmering dispute between Shi'a tribes in Karbala's eastern Ayn al-Tamr district and Sunni tribes in neighboring al-Rahaliyah in al-Anbar Province now appears possible. In response to a request from PRT Karbala, a prominent mediator has brought leaders fro [...]	2008-09-21 14:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PREL PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3033	KARBALA: LOCAL UNEASE AT IRANIAN ACTIVITIES [...] (S) Summary: Many tribesmen and others in Karbala are mistrustful of Iranian activities here, and Iran's Consul in particular is held in low regard. Some would like to express publicly their displeasure with Tehran's machinations, but refrain from doing so out of fear of retribution. Althou [...]	2008-09-21 14:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3035	NINEWA: MURDER OF ASSISTANT GOVERNOR WILL FURTHER [...] (C) Summary: Assailants gunned down Ninewa's Assistant Governor for Technical Affairs September 17 outside his mosque. Shamil Younis was a prominent Sunni Arab working for Governor Kashmoula and a close contact of PRT Mosul. A distraught Kashmoula told us that Younis was the seventeenth of [...]	2008-09-21 16:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3038	MOD REINSTATEMENT INITIATIVE BRINGS IN THOUSANDS [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Ministry of Defense initiated September 6 a program to reinstate or retire remaining officers and NCO's from the pre-2003 Iraqi Army. The initiative is being administered jointly by the Ministry of Defense and the Prime Minister's Implementation and Follow-up Committee [...]	2008-09-22 05:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3039	63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: US GOALS AND PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) On September 21, Poloff conveyed refel points on US UNGA goals and priorities to Ambassador Talal al-Khudairi, the head of the MFA's International Organizations Department. Al-Khudairi did not provide any substantive response but promised that the MFA would study the points carefully. [...]	2008-09-22 05:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA IZ
08BAGHDAD3040	SENIOR AYATOLLAH JITTERY ABOUT U.S. SECURITY RAMP [...] (C) Summary: Ayatollah Hussein Al-Sadr, Baghdad's senior Shi'a cleric, warned PMIN on September 19 that the Iraqi government was extremely fragile and would be quickly toppled if the U.S. withdrew forces too quickly. Generally supportive of the U.S., he criticized the USG's current course and [...]	2008-09-22 05:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3041	CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE PLANNING MOVING FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: The senior officials responsible for organizing the MFA,s Christian Conference are confident that the Prime Minister,s Office will soon approve their proposed list of planning committee members. In the meantime, they are moving forward with drafting the conference,s agenda, wh [...]	2008-09-22 07:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3045	DIPLOMATIC UPDATE: MOMENTUM ON ARAB AMBASSADORS, [...] (C) Summary: According to a senior MFA official, Syria's appointment of an ambassador to Iraq might set the stage to enable the two countries to engage on security and other issues. The official is hopeful that the Syrian ambassador-designate's intelligence background will advance Neighbor [...]	2008-09-22 12:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR SY
08BAGHDAD3051	BAGHDAD REQUESTS PARTICIPATION IN THE RHYTHM ROAD AMERICAN [...] (U) Embassy Baghdad requests participation in the Rhythm Road American Music Abroad Program during the winter of 2009, preferably at the end of February. Post would like to host a Jazz quartet, for a total of six programming days. Our audience will consist of important mission contacts, includ [...]	2008-09-22 14:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD3052	KARBALA ISF COMMANDER OUSTED [...] (C) Summary: Karbala ISF commander MG Ra'ad Shaker Jawdat al-Hasnawi has been ousted. He reportedly will be reassigned to serve as IP chief for Diyala Province. Ra'ad's take-no-prisoners style and penchant for self-promotion apparently were viewed by Da'wa Party rival Governor Aqeel Mahmoud [...]	2008-09-22 14:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3054	BASRAH REGIONAL COURTHOUSE NEARING COMPLETION [...] (C) Summary: The Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region South (GRS) will complete construction of the new Basrah Regional Courthouse on September 25 and plans to transfer possession to the Iraqi government on that date. After some debate, the Iraqi High Judicial Council (HJC) has agreed to ass [...]	2008-09-23 12:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3059	(S) MAYSAN PC CHAIR RUBBED WRONG BY ISF [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In his first meeting with American representatives or Coalition Forces (CF) in several years, Abdul Jabar Wahid, the devout Sadrist chairman of Maysan,s Provincial Council, expressed intense dissatisfaction with this summer's "Operation Good Tidings of Peace," describing [...]	2008-09-23 13:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3060	IRAQ VICE PRESIDENT AL-MAHDI - LACK OF STRATEGY [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraqi Vice Predident Adel Abdul Al-Mahdi told EMIN on September 16 that progress in the energy sector was impaired by a lack of overall strategy, but is now moving ahead with large contracts. Problems in the Nasariyah water supply plant were gradually being addressed, he added. [...]	2008-09-23 14:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EAIR EINV EAGR PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3062	PRESIDENT BARZANI - NOTHING IS AS IT SHOULD BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 16, an agitated Kurdistan President Barzani told the Ambassador that he had lost trust in Prime Minister Maliki and if the Prime Minister pushed too far with Iraqi army units there would be armed conflict. Barzani inferred that Maliki has betrayed their friendship [...]	2008-09-23 15:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ IR TU
08BAGHDAD3063	DEMISTURA VISIT TO IRAN: OPPOSITION TO SOFA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Iranian leaders told SRSYG DeMistura during his recent visit to Iran that, given improved security conditions, there is no longer a need for a foreign troop presence in Iraq. The Iranians were adamantly opposed to the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and said [...]	2008-09-23 15:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PTER
08BAGHDAD3065	IRAQI OIL MINISTRY'S PENDING HUMAN RESOURCES CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: With the retirements in the next few years of its top cadre, who are on one-year waivers of the mandatory 63-year-old retirement age, the Ministry of Oil will lose a generation that has the international exposure and experience to lead the Ministry during a period when it restr [...]	2008-09-24 06:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EAID SOCI PGOV KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD3066	SRSG DEMISTURA ON PROSPECTS FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: SRSG DeMistura told the Ambassador that revalidating the 2005 election law could work as a Plan B if the CoR does not pass a new election law, but that IHEC would still need 135 days to prepare for an election. He said that IHEC could promulgate regulations under the 2005 law t [...]	2008-09-24 06:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TU
08BAGHDAD3067	DPM SALIH ON 2009 BUDGET, OIL LAW, AND A NEW [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 16. 2. (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told EMIN September 22 that he would like to host a second session of Dialogue on Economic Cooperation before the end of 2008 to bring both senior U.S. government and business leaders [...]	2008-09-24 07:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD307	ZEBARI URGES INCREMENTAL ACTION ON 140; COMPLAINS [...] SUMMARY. (C) In a short January 31 meeting, Foreign Minister Zebari told Special Adviser Pearce that to create momentum that would facilitate resolution in areas with more complex problems, the USG and UNAMI should focus their Article 140-related work on disputed territories where the issue [...]	2008-02-02 14:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3070	UNAMI CONTEMPLATING GREATER ROLE IN FACILITATING [...] (C) Summary: In the face of some skepticism from UN Headquarters, SRSG de Mistura believes the UN should be more proactive in ameliorating tensions between Baghdad and Erbil. He is worried by rising Arab-Kurd tensions, concerned by news of a reported Turkish-Iranian agreement to stifle Kurdi [...]	2008-09-24 08:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UN IZ
08BAGHDAD308	PRT WASIT: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIR AIRS SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary: In a 29 Jan meeting with PRT Team Leader (TL),Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Mohammad Hassan Jabir expressed fear that potential Sadrist election victories and the advent of Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) in Wasit wo [...]	2008-02-02 14:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV MOPS IZ

08BAGHDAD3081	ADVANCING CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IN IRAQ [...] SUMMARY: The Prime Minister is leading a new Civil Service Reform Committee to overhaul federal personnel management in Iraq. The Iraqi Government has requested USG help to make this happen. The goals are to have merit- based appointment and promotion; performance management, grading, and p [...]	2008-09-24 14:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL ECON SOCI PINS SNAR ENRG EPET
08BAGHDAD3082	PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW PASSES COUNCIL OF [...] (SBU) The provincial election law passed the Council of Representatives on September 23, after unanimous approval of compromise language on the final sticking point about the eventual election in Kirkuk province. The Council also voted on other items that had been vetoed by the Presidency Co [...]	2008-09-24 15:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3086	GOI ON NEIGHBORS PROCESS SECURITY WORKING GROUP: [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi told Political Military Counselor and Deputy Political Counselor September 18 that the GOI is moving ahead on plans to host the next Expanded Iraq Neighbors Ministerial meeting in Baghdad in November. He said that Jordan had just notified the MFA tha [...]	2008-09-25 08:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3087	INSPECTORS GENERAL SEEK TO CLARIFY THEIR ROLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Numerous Iraqi Inspectors General (IGs) have voiced to us confusion about their oversight role and frustration with other Iraqi entities either at the ministerial or national level to usurp the IGs' monitoring authorities. How the IGs develop is subject to pending legislation [...]	2008-09-25 09:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3088	IRAQ MINISTERIAL PARTNERSHIPS RE-START WATER [...] SUMMARY: In the midst of Iraq's struggles with a crippling drought, the USAID-funded Tatweer and Inma programs have facilitated a partnership between the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) and Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) to help secure a rehabilitation budget allotment to keep the water flow [...]	2008-09-25 10:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL ECON SOCI PINS SNAR ENRG EPET
08BAGHDAD3089	MAYSAN WANTS PRIVATE INVESTMENT, BUT IN WHAT? [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a September 20 meeting with seven members of the Investment Committee of Maysan,s Provincial Council,s (PC) and the head of the provincial Chamber of Commerce, the Maysanis presented a unified plea for PRT assistance in attracting foreign private investment to the prov [...]	2008-09-25 11:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD3096	NSC REVIEW SEPTEMBER 21, 2008: SECURITY OPTICS, [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary. The September 21 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC) opened with the Ministry of the Interior asserting its control of the Petroleum Security Police (PSP). Emphasizing his desire both to improve optics in the international zone for the Iraqi public, [...]	2008-09-25 16:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3097	DPM SALIH ON: THE SOFA, KURDISH ISOLATION, THE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met September 20 with DPM Barham Salih for an exchange of views that included: the status of the SOFA negotiations, increasing Kurdish isolation, the crisis of confidence resulting from recent tensions between the Kurds and the GOI, and the need to tackle the core issu [...]	2008-09-25 17:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3099	IDP RETURNS - WHAT WE SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of 2008, over 125,000 Iraqis have returned to their homes out of a total displaced population of 4.8 million persons (internally displaced and refugees). About half of the returns have been to Baghdad. All measures show the numbers are increasing, albeit slowl [...]	2008-09-25 17:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF
08BAGHDAD3101	SHELL-SOUTH GAS JOINT VENTURE -- ENDING NATURAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The headline-grabbing signing ceremony on September 22 between Royal Dutch Shell and the Ministry of Oil only finalized a Heads of Agreement that must be followed within a year or so by a joint venture agreement between Shell and the South Gas Company to gather and market associ [...]	2008-09-26 10:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EPET ENRG SENV EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3106	IRAQ NEIGHBORS PROCESS: UNAMI PLANNING FOR [...] (C) Summary: GOI preparations are moving forward for an expanded neighboring countries ministerial in Baghdad this fall but, according to a senior UNAMI advisor, the Neighbors Process is a weak mechanism that falls short of its goals. This is due, he said, to the lack of a coherent Iraqi re [...]	2008-09-26 11:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET PREF IZ TU SY JO
08BAGHDAD3107	TOP SHI'A LEADER DEMANDS DECENTRALIZATION, FRETS [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad is not delivering, complained Ammar Al-Hakim, leader-in-waiting of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),the country's largest Shi'a political grouping. The government's failure to deliver services and distribute resources points to the need for wholesale decentraliza [...]	2008-09-26 12:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD3108	IDP RETURNS - WHAT WE SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of 2008, over 125,000 Iraqis have returned to their homes out of a total displaced population of 4.8 million persons (internally displaced and refugees). About half of the returns have been to Baghdad. All measures show the numbers are increasing, albeit slowl [...]	2008-09-26 12:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF
08BAGHDAD3109	IDP RETURNS - WHAT WE SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of 2008, over 125,000 Iraqis have returned to their homes out of a total displaced population of 4.8 million persons (internally displaced and refugees). About half of the returns have been to Baghdad. All measures show the numbers are increasing, albeit slowly [...]	2008-09-26 12:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF
08BAGHDAD3111	IRAQ WTO ACCESSION: BETTER NEWS ON CUSTOMS LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to Iraqi officials, political differences over the stalled draft Law on Customs and Tariffs appear to have been resolved, and it could be enacted as early as January. Passing a WTO-compatible customs law would mark a significant step forward on Iraq's WTO Legislative Ac [...]	2008-09-26 14:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIN EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3124	SETTING THE SCENE FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS IN TUZ [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) While the situation remains reasonably calm in the Tuz district of Salah ad Din province, background tension exists among the different ethnic groups present there. Even though Tuz is not formally a "disputed area," [...]	2008-09-27 14:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINS PTER PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3128	FUEL AVAILABILITY IN ANBAR PROVINCE IMPROVES, BUT [...] (SBU) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Anbar Province experienced severe fuel shortages during the Sunni insurgency in 2006-2007. Fuel supplies have now increased, notably with the re-establishment of security, the reopening of a small refinery in the wester [...]	2008-09-28 07:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EINV ELTN
08BAGHDAD3134	IRAQ WTO ACCESSION: BETTER NEWS ON CUSTOMS LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to Iraqi officials, political differences over the stalled draft Law on Customs and Tariffs appear to have been resolved, and it could be enacted as early as January. Passing a WTO-compatible customs law would mark a significant step forward on Iraq's WTO Legislative Ac [...]	2008-09-28 11:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIN EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3139	ERBIL: KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (KDP) POLITBURO [...] (C) Summary: In a September 23 courtesy call, KDP Politburo head Fadhil Merani expressed the view that a political solution could be found to resolve the Article 140 impasse, and stated that in the absence of agreement, a delay was better than resorting to violence. He made a number of obse [...]	2008-09-28 12:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3142	PRT WASIT: SADRIST PC MEMBERS DELIVER DOCUMENT TO [...] Prepare for the coming religious state 2. Prepare the people spiritually 3. Guide society by spreading a correct Islamic awareness 4. Teach people about God and Islamic laws 5. Spread social equality and justice through the Islamic system 6. State and spread human rights according to Isl [...]	2008-09-29 08:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3143	MOVING FORWARD FROM UNMOVIC/UNSCR 1762: THE BALL [...] (C) Responding to reftel points on Iraq's normalization of its civil nuclear program and lifting UNSCR restrictions, Minister of Science and Technology (MoST) Ra'id Fahmi told EMIN that "the ball is in Iraq's court." Betraying limited understanding of the international nonproliferation regime, [...]	2008-09-29 08:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	TPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA
08BAGHDAD3144	PRT WASIT: SADRIST PC MEMBERS DELIVER DOCUMENT TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: On September 14, Sadrist Trend Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Hasan E'barah delivered a statement to the PRT from Muqtada al-Sadr ordering his followers to turn away from armed struggle and enter his new pro [...]	2008-09-29 13:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3148	FINALLY, SIX IRAQI AMBASSADOR APPOINTMENTS TO [...] (C) Summary: While Foreign Minister Zebari has been in New York, the Prime Minister's office announced the pending retirement of two dozen members of the Iraqi MFA and the Prime Ministry also named six ambassadors to states in the region. The naming of six ambassadors is an important gestur [...]	2008-09-29 16:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3149	KARBALA: PERSIANS PIRATING PUBLICATIONS [...] (SBU) A QRF project to provide a number of badly needed English engineering books to the Provincial Engineering Department illustrates Iran's violation of intellectual property rights. Of the 175 titles delivered by a local supplier to the PRT for inspection, all were counterfeits. Although a [...]	2008-09-29 17:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON KIPR IQ IZ
08BAGHDAD3160	NEXT STEPS FOR MINORITIES IN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has agreed to assist parliament with resolving the issue of minority representation for the upcoming provincial council elections. UNAMI is hoping that this can be achieved through a political agreement and an election commi [...]	2008-10-01 07:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF IZ
08BAGHDAD3162	KARBALA UNIVERSITY FAST-BREAK A SLAM DUNK [...] (SBU) Summary: PRT Karbala hosted Karbala University representatives to an iftar on September 15. The PRT described its activities and the Karbala guests explained their needs. In cooperation with Karbala University, PRT Karbala hopes to assist Iraq regain its tradition of academic excellenc [...]	2008-10-01 08:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3165	POPULAR KARBALA ISF COMMANDER SURVIVES OUSTER [...] (C) Summary: Karbala ISF commander MG Ra'ad Shaker Jawdat al-Hasnawi,s reassignment as security chief in Diyala Province was rescinded. In response to Provincial Council pressure, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reversed an earlier decision to transfer Ra'ad. Ra'ad is credited with ushering [...]	2008-10-01 10:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3166	BAYJI OIL REFINERY DG TAKING ACTION AGAINST FUEL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) In a September 18 meeting Bayji Oil Refinery (BOR) Director General Ali Obeidi (protect throughout) told PRT and Joint Security Station officers (JSS) that he has made progress in shutting down corruption and black ma [...]	2008-10-01 11:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL KCOR PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD317	MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP: BREAKING THE LOGJAM [...] (C) Post believes that there now exists an opportunity to make progress on the closure of Makhmour refugee camp, given a more positive attitude by the GOI, and what appears to be political breathing space in Ankara. Post read with great interest Ref A on the probability of closing Makhmour re [...]	2008-02-04 08:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL IZ TU
08BAGHDAD3172	UNAMI TO OPEN OFFICE IN RAMADI [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. A UNAMI delegation led by Special Representative for the Secretary de Mistura visited Ramadi on September 29 to announce the formal opening of UNAMI operations in the province. The delegation met with Governor Ma'amoun and some tw [...]	2008-10-01 14:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL IO IZ
08BAGHDAD3174	PROPOSED U.S.-IRAQ CONFERENCE ON INVESTMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Embassy proposes a one-day conference on Iraq,s business and investment climate in late October/early November. This is in response to DPM Salih's requests for a bilateral dialogue before the end of the year. However we do not [...]	2008-10-02 02:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3175	IRAQ READY TO PAY $300 MILLION TO SETTLE KUWAIT [...] (C) Summary: On September 29, EMIN and Treasury Attache met with Finance Minister Jabr to discuss Kuwait's efforts to attach GOI assets, transfer of assets from the USG to the GOI, and the 2009 budget. Jabr said the GOI was willing to pay $300 million to settle claims by Kuwait Airways, not th [...]	2008-10-02 02:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3184	INTERNAL DEBATE ON IRAQ'S PDS REFORM [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Trade and the Prime Minister's Advisory Board are actively debating how to reform the Public Distribution System (PDS),but there is no consensus on the way forward. Failure to reconcile the two sides could impede the GOI's ability to phase out the PDS in accordance with [...]	2008-10-02 13:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR ETRD ELAB PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3185	SOUTHERN PROVINCES AIR CONCERNS WITH DPM AL-ISSAWI [...] (SBU) On September 17-18, Deputy Prime Minister Rafa Al-Issawi hosted a conference on "Providing Services to the Southern and Middle Provinces" in Baghdad. Governors and Provincial Council members from the nine southern provinces and Anbar directly presented their concerns about essential ser [...]	2008-10-02 13:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD ENRG ELTN EAGR PREF EAIR SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD3188	RETURNEE PROCESSING IN EASTERN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: The recently-opened returnee registration center in Karada has processed approximately 3,000 returnee families to the entire Baghdad province since it opened in late July, a rate of 100-200 per day. These are in addition to the 5,600 returnee families that the MoDM has registered [...]	2008-10-02 15:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF IZ
08BAGHDAD3189	IRAQI ARMY COMMANDEERS RETURNEE PROCESSING IN [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Army's Karkh Area Command (KAC) has established a Returnee Processing Center (RRC-West) to address IDP returns. RRC-West is in its fourth week of assisting returnees move back into their western Baghdad homes. The KAC assumed the lead in this process, after it assess [...]	2008-10-03 03:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF IZ
08BAGHDAD3192	MUTHANNA TRIBAL LEADERS SUPPORT FOR SOFA, [...] (C) Summary: A delegation of Shia tribal leaders from southern Iraq told Special Advisor Gray on September 24 they supported the SOFA and expanded relations with the U.S. and expressed concern about Iranian influence in the South. The sheikhs looked forward to the upcoming provincial electi [...]	2008-10-03 11:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3194	UNAMI WANTS TO DECONFLICT ARTICLE 140 REPORTS FROM [...] (C) Summary: The UN will finish its Article 140 reports on the Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) issues by early November, but UNAMI Deputy Gilmour told S/A Krajeski October 2 that they want to avoid disturbing the political atmosphere prior to conclusion of U.S.-Iraq SFA negotiations. He h [...]	2008-10-03 13:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UN IZ
08BAGHDAD3195	DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ESSAWI CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Riad Al Essawi, meeting September 25 with Senior Refcoord and PolMinCouns, voiced dismay at the GOI,s paltry assistance to Iraqi refugees, but is unlikely to be able to influence the GOI to boost assistance. Essawi expressed concern about whether the GOI wa [...]	2008-10-03 13:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF
08BAGHDAD3198	RRT ERBIL: CHRISTIANS IN THE KURDISTAN REGION [...] (SBU) Summary: Long-term Christian residents of the Kurdistan Region enjoy unique material and political advantages, but this has failed to stem the tide of emigration in search of better economic conditions. Christians do not feel that they suffer discrimination as a result of religious and [...]	2008-10-03 15:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3204	NINEWA: YEZIDI SEEK CONTROL OF SHAIKHAN DISTRICT [...] (C) The Yezidi Prince Tahseen Beg told us that his community seeks political control of Shaikhan district plus guaranteed rights as a religious minority under the KRG constitution. He believes that the KRG seeks to engineer demographic changes that will make Sunni Kurds the majority in Shai [...]	2008-10-04 11:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3210	RRT ERBIL: JOURNALISTS GIVE NEW KRG MEDIA LAW A TENTATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Key independent media editors in the Kurdistan Region have cautiously welcomed passage September 22 of a new KRG Press Law, with one veteran editor characterizing it as "80 percent good." Our interlocutors were pleased with revisions in the law that cap defamation fines, prohib [...]	2008-10-05 02:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3211	PRT SALAH AD DIN: POLITICAL TENSIONS INCREASE AS [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------------ 2. (C) As provincial elections approach, the PRT is hearing more complaints of political infighting, and accusations against provincial officials in Salah ad Din (SaD). One key duel is between two of the most powerful [...]	2008-10-05 06:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3216	IRAQ SIGNS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH [...] SUMMARY: Iraq's Minister of Electricity, Dr.Karim Hasan, and Christopher Crowley, Mission Director for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Iraq, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 10 September 2008, in support of the Ministry's vision to strengthen its managemen [...]	2008-10-05 12:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV ECON PINR ENRG EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD3218	NEW ARAB AMBASSADORS TO IRAQ: SETTING PARAMETERS [...] (C) Action Request: This message provides Embassy Baghdad's assessment of logistical and other support we are able to offer newly arriving ambassadors from neighboring Arab countries. We seek the Department's concurrence with this approach and request that Embassies Abu Dhabi, Amman, Manama, [...]	2008-10-05 15:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3219	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES WAY FORWARD ON MINORITIES [...] (C) Summary: According to the Papal Nuncio to Iraq, Iraq's Christian religious leadership is stunned and distressed over the exclusion of Article 50 from the Provincial Elections Law (PEL),which would have guaranteed minority quotas in provincial councils (Ref A). He noted that Christian l [...]	2008-10-05 15:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3231	PRT KIRKUK: IFTAR CELEBRATIONS REFLECT BOTH [...] (C) Summary: At a 25 September PRT-hosted iftar that brought together community leaders from all ethnicities in Kirkuk Province, attendees had the opportunity to socialize and to share views on the just-passed provincial election law. The overall tone was optimistic. Arabs were most positi [...]	2008-10-06 14:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3232	IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS TIMELINE UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Shortly after parliament passed the provincial election law, UNAMI Chief Electoral Advisor Sandra Mitchell began working closely with the Independent High Electoral Council (IHEC) and the International Electoral Assistance Team (IEAT) to develop a timeline to hold provincial el [...]	2008-10-06 15:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3238	D PRESSES PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER ON SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Speaker Mashadani told DepSec Negroponte that a majority in the parliament supported the bilateral security agreement, but that many deputies would not support it publicly. Noting that other countries benefit from security agreements with the U.S., he said the continued American [...]	2008-10-07 05:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3239	IRAQ'S ARAB ENGAGEMENT: EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) On October 5 with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Aboul Gheit made a surprise visit to Baghdad. Accompanied by Egyptian Oil Minister Sameh Fahmy, Aboul Gheit met with Prime Minister Maliki, Foreign Minister Zebari and Defense Minister Mufriji in Baghdad. He then traveled with Zebari to [...]	2008-10-07 07:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ EG
08BAGHDAD3240	IRAQIS CONDEMN PKK ATTACK ON TURKISH ARMY OUTPOST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Both GOI and Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) leaders were quick to publicly condemn the October 3 evening terrorist attack by Kongra-Gel (PKK) rebels on a Turkish military outpost situated on the Iraq-Turkey border. KRG leaders firmly denied a subsequent Turkish accusation that [...]	2008-10-07 08:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER IZ TU
08BAGHDAD3241	IRAQ MINISTRY OF OIL PREPARES TO INVITE IN FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Iraq will launch talks with international oil and gas companies on long-term Technical Service Contracts (TSCs) at a conference in London on October 13. Oil Minister Shahristani will meet with representatives of 41 pre-qualified companies to invite their participation in six oil [...]	2008-10-07 09:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EPET ENRG EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3244	DWINDLING SABAEAN-MANDAEAN COMMUNITY VICTIMIZED BY [...] (C) Zahroon Toma, Sabaean-Mandaean Representative in the Non-Muslim Endowments Office, told Poloff on October 5 that he holds out no hope that the killers of several members of a Mandaean family will ever be caught, much less brought to justice. The Ministry of the Interior (MoI) is investig [...]	2008-10-07 14:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3250	IRAQ ATTENDING ISTANBUL TRILATERAL GAS TALKS; [...] (C) Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani assured EMIN Wall October 6 that a Ministry of Oil (MoO) Director General would attend the October 12 U.S.-Turkey-Iraq trilateral meeting on natural gas in Istanbul. He noted that, in general, the process of consultations with Turkey needed to be streaml [...]	2008-10-08 09:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG TU IZ
08BAGHDAD3251	PRT WASIT: LOCAL LEADERS ALONG IRANIAN BORDER: [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Local leaders, in towns along and near the Iraq- Iran border, report stable security situation voiced concerns about government services and local economic development. The upcoming provincial elections provoked criticism of the c [...]	2008-10-08 10:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3252	BULGARIAN AMBASSADOR: WE WANT TO SUPPORT IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Bulgaria is proud of its service in the Coalition and wants to remain engaged in Iraq, regardless of the probable departure of its 155 troops from Iraq at the end of the year, according to Bulgarian Ambassador Valeri Ratchev. Ratchev, who has just begun a three week visit to Bagh [...]	2008-10-08 12:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ BG
08BAGHDAD3256	Current Economic Challenges and Opportunities in Muthanna [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary: The current economic landscape in Muthanna is largely characterized by small-scale farming and animal husbandry, with only a few factories and other industrial plants. With an unemployment rate between 23 and 32 percent, employment [...]	2008-10-09 02:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIN EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3257	JORDANIAN HIGH-VALUE DETAINEE DIES OF NATURAL [...] (S) SUMMARY. A High-Value Detainee (HVD) died in MNF-I custody of natural causes October 6 in Iraq. Despite calls for his compassionate release to live his last days in freedom with his family in Jordan, the Government of Iraq (GOI) did not grant his release because of pending criminal charg [...]	2008-10-09 02:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV IZ JO
08BAGHDAD3258	NINEWA: MINORITY COMMUNITIES OPPOSE DELETION OF [...] (C) Summary: Shaikhan Christians aligned with the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) are angry over the omission of minority set-asides in the recently-adopted provincial election law. In a September 30 meeting in Tel Keif, they said that, although they prefer a form of &virtual autonomy,8 [...]	2008-10-09 06:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KIRF IZ
08BAGHDAD3263	SAHWA LEADER ABU AZZAM AN AMBITIOUS POLITICAL [...] (C) Sahwa leader Thamir Al Tamimi, aka Abu Azzam, said that the Sahwa issues are not yet over for the government of Iraq (GOI),despite his own claims in the press that the process is going smoothly. This is not the only time Abu Azzam has issued contradictory statements weeks. He has also [...]	2008-10-09 12:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3267	NINEWA: DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH NINEWA [...] (S) Summary: Ninewa,s political and military leadership outlined security, development and political challenges facing the province during an October 6 meeting with Deputy Secretary Negroponte. Governor Kashmoula said that the GOI has failed to adequately equip Iraqi Army units in the provi [...]	2008-10-09 14:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS ECON PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3269	KIRKUK: DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE HEARS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Deputy Secretary Negroponte's October 4 visit to Kirkuk, local political leaders expressed support for the provincial elections law and denounced the removal of Article 50 that contained quotas for minority representation. They also demonstrated support for the committee t [...]	2008-10-09 14:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3272	MINISTER OF INTERIOR AL-BULANI RECEPTIVE TO RETURN [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-10 03:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR IZ US
08BAGHDAD3276	IRAQI MOT EXPECTS BETTER RESULTS FROM REORGANIZED WTO UNIT [...] (SBU) Ministry of Trade (MOT) officials have informed us that Trade Minister Al-Sudani is seeking to reorganize his WTO unit and "raise its profile" -- a move that he hopes will revitalize the unit's work and improve interagency coordination in advancing Iraq's WTO accession bid. The Minister [...]	2008-10-10 11:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIN EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3282	ZFR ZFR ZFR MINISTER OF INTERIOR REITERATES GOI [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-10 14:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PINR IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3283	ENCOURAGING LARGER WORLD BANK AND IMF IRAQ PRESENCE [...] (U) This is an action message, see para three. 2. (C) We believe the upcoming Bank/Fund meetings in Washington, which will be attended by Iraqi Finance Minister Jabr and Central Bank of Iraq Governor Shabibi, present a golden opportunity to press the World Bank and IMF to increase thei [...]	2008-10-10 16:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID OFDP IZ
08BAGHDAD3285	MINISTER OF INTERIOR REITERATES GOI ASSURANCES [...] (S) SUMMARY. Minister of Interior al-Bulani reiterated October 6 the importance placed on security and humanitarian assurances for the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) residents at Camp Ashraf. The Minister noted that the GOI would deal with the residents in accordance with international human rights [...]	2008-10-11 11:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PHUM PINR IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3288	AYATOLLAH TELLS NEGROPONTE: U.S. MUST STAY UNTIL [...] (C) Baghdad's leading Shi'a cleric Ayatollah Hussein Al Sadr told Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte October 6 that the United States and Iraq are "working toward a greater good" to establish a "strong, free, and prosperous" Iraq, but he urged the U.S. to "ensure we reach this goal," an [...]	2008-10-11 13:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3291	DPM ISSAWI TO DEPUTY SECRETARY: "IRAQI DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) On October 6, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte met with Deputy Prime Minister for Essential Services Rafae Issawi in the DPM's Residence. Ambassador Marc Wall, Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, and Sunni Tawafaq parliamentarians Salman al-Jumaili and Dhafer al-Ani al [...]	2008-10-12 10:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3294	IRAQI CLERICS AND THE BILATERAL SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Recent conversations with prominent Iraqi Islamic clerics revealed support for a bilateral security agreement from several interlocutors, but another expressed strong reservations. In our conversations, only one prominent Islamic figure indicated a willingness to publicly advocat [...]	2008-10-13 06:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD3295	WASIT PROVINCIAL COUNCIL (PC) CHAIR: WASIT [...] (U) This is a Wasit PRT reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) In a slew of recent meetings and phone conversations with PRT, Wasit PC Chair Mohammed Hassan Jabbar, a friendly but normally circumspect PRT contact, has been increasingly frank with TL about his displeasure with Governor [...]	2008-10-13 07:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3296	SWEDISH ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAQ INCREASING; SWEDISH [...] (C) Summary: Sweden has made a large commitment to Iraq and intends to do more, particularly as it looks ahead to its July 2009 European Union (EU) Presidency. In an October 8 meeting, visiting Swedish Ambassador Niclas Trouve and Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Deputy Director G [...]	2008-10-13 07:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EINV ETRD IZ SE
08BAGHDAD3301	MUTHANNA: ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) An arrest warrant was issued for Abdul Hussein Dhalimi, the Muthanna provincial council chairman, following an argument he had with a doctor at Samawah General Hospital. Verbally abusing a government employee [...]	2008-10-13 14:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	POL PGOV EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD3305	IRAQI DPM SALIH ON OIL PRODUCTION AND OIL MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with EMIN, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih complained bitterly about the performance of Minister of Oil Shahristani. Salih is worried by signs that output from the southern oil fields is declining, although he does not anticipate short-term cash flow problems. H [...]	2008-10-14 06:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL KU IZ
08BAGHDAD3309	IRAQ OIL MINISTER ON OIL INVESTMENTS, KRG, FUEL [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with EMIN, Iraqi Oil Minister Shahristani blamed international oil firms for the end of negotiations on short-term contracts, and said the Ministry of Oil (MoO) would try to raise crude oil production by 250,000-300,000 barrels per day by 2009 on its own. Shahris [...]	2008-10-14 08:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG MOPS EINV PGOV PREL KU IZ
08BAGHDAD3310	ERBIL: DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES SOFA, PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 4 meeting in Sulaymaniyah with Iraq's Presidency Council and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, Iraq President Jalal Talibani told visiting Deputy Secretary Negroponte and Ambassador Crocker that the Presidency Council would propose adding Article 50 (election quo [...]	2008-10-14 08:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3311	IRAQI TURKOMAN ALLEGE KURDISH MISRULE AND US BIAS [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Turkoman both in and out of government in late September broadly agreed that Kurdish oppression is their community's largest problem and that the U.S. sytematically discriminates against Turkoman and in favor of Kurds. Contacts generally criticized the Iraqi Turkoman Front [...]	2008-10-14 08:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3318	AL-KUT CELEBRATES EID WITH PLAY HIGHLIGHTING RULE [...] (SBU) Summary: The cast of the popular Iraqi TV sitcom Mud House performed a free outdoor public play in downtown al-Kut, sponsored by PRT Wasit, as part of the Eid celebrations on October 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The hour-long play, a secular patriotic performance, hammered away at the themes of [...]	2008-10-14 15:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SCUL KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD3320	ICRC ON MEK, PLANS TO EXPAND ACTIVITIES IN IRAQ, [...] (S) Summary: In an October 8 meeting with the Ambassador, ICRC Iraq head of delegation Juan Pedro Schaerer said that ICRC will increase its detention monitoring, hospital training, staffing, and other projects in Iraq in 2009. ICRC has stepped up its inspections of GOI detention facilitie [...]	2008-10-14 17:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM PREL PREF PTER IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3324	KARBALA: EXPLOSION RAISES CONCERNS DURING TIMES OF [...] (S) Summary: An explosive device killed an employee of the Karbala Provincial Council (PC) on October 9, 2008, raising concerns about the safety of provincial officials. Emerging evidence suggests that the deadly explosion might have been intended to threaten council members in advance of a [...]	2008-10-15 06:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3325	I-NSC OCTOBER 12 REVIEWS SITUATION IN MOSUL, [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary. The October 12 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC) opened with the Prime Minister setting aside the prepared schedule and calling for a briefing on the situation of reported Christian persecution in Mosul City, Ninewa. All members of the NSC wanted to [...]	2008-10-15 06:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3328	ADHAMIYA SUNNI SHEIKH CONCERNED ABOUT RECENT [...] (S) Summary: On October 12, poloffs, met with Sunni Arab sheikh Amir Hamid Al-Izaawi to discuss security and reconstruction efforts in Baghdad's Adhamiya district. As a prominent local figure connected to the tribal support council, Izzawi said he has yet to receive GOI financial support. [...]	2008-10-16 10:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3329	IMPROVING IRAQI DELIVERY OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With significant improvements in security, the Iraqi public is becoming increasingly impatient with electricity and fuel shortages and deficiencies in delivery of essential services. The GOI must be seen as recognizing the problem and working to improve essential services. To d [...]	2008-10-16 10:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI EINV ECON ENRG IZ
08BAGHDAD333	IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE PART 2: [...] (C) Summary: We believe Iraq will have the technical capability to conduct credible, nationwide provincial elections in early fall of 2008. However several political obstacles must be overcome over the next seven months, including the passage of a well-crafted elections law, a start to reso [...]	2008-02-05 17:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3330	MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS ON MOSUL RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Communications Farouk Abdul-Rahman claims to have spent all of the USD 100 million provided by the Central Government for reconstruction in Mosul. He said that Provincial Government budget-execution lags behind, and he has asked Prime Minister Maliki to reassign some [...]	2008-10-16 10:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EAID ECPS EINT EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3331	MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS ON MOSUL RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Communications Farouk Abdul-Rahman claims to have spent all of the USD 100 million provided by the Central Government for reconstruction in Mosul. He said that Provincial Government budget-execution lags behind, and he has asked Prime Minister Maliki to reassign some [...]	2008-10-16 10:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EAID ECPS EINT EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3332	IRAQ MINISTRY OF OIL QUIETLY OFFERS CONTRACTS [...] (S//NF) Summary: Iraqi Deputy Minister of Oil (MoO) for Upstream Affairs, Abdul Sahib Al-Qutub, sent three identical letters to Repsol YPE, Nippon Oil Exploration Limited, and Eni S.p.A. requesting a detailed proposal for developing the Nasiriya oil field under a two-year Engineering, Procurem [...]	2008-10-16 14:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	EINV ENRG EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD3341	SAHWA LEADER TO AMB CROCKER: WE MUST HAVE [...] (C) Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, the leader of Anbar's Iraqi Awakening Conference (Sahwa) party, and prominent Anbari politician Sa'adoun Duleimi, told Ambassador that Anbar province needs investment from U.S. companies. Sheikh Ahmed bemoaned the current weak state of the economy in Anbar, partic [...]	2008-10-16 15:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3349	DIP NOTE FROM IRAQI PRIME MINISTER NURI AL MALIKY [...] On October 18, Embassy Baghdad received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Iraq which forwarded a letter from Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliky to President George W. Bush. Below is the text of the letter. Begin text: Republic of Iraq Nuri K. Al Maliky [...]	2008-10-18 10:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL OPDC IZ
08BAGHDAD3350	MUTHANNA: LEADING SHEIKH OFFERS TO ORGANIZE SHI,A [...] (C) On October 11 Muthanna-based Sheikh Abu Chefat reaffirmed his desire to see the SOFA approved by the Iraqi government and offered to mobilize his tribal colleagues to build support for the agreement. Chefat,s discussion with PRT leader took place in the context of follow-up to a September [...]	2008-10-18 13:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3351	PM MALIKI TO MOVE ON INVITATIONS TO FOUR COALITION [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Nuri al-Malaki has agreed to the U.S. request to formally invite four countries - Australia, El Salvador, Romania, and Estonia - to maintain forces in Iraq for non-combat purposes following January 1, 2009. End Summary. 2. (SBU) In a letter dated October 1 [...]	2008-10-19 03:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AS EN ES IZ MOPS PREL RO
08BAGHDAD3353	CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS COOPERATE ON ARTICLE 50 [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-19 09:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3355	JORDAN'S NEW AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ: WE'RE COMMITTED [...] (C) Jordan's new Ambassador to Iraq, Nayef Fantoul al-Zeidan, told Ambassador Crocker October 18 that Jordan sees Iraq's stability as key to its own. Al-Zeidan, who arrived October 15 and presented credentials to Foreign Minister Zebari and President Talabani October 16, said that King Abdu [...]	2008-10-19 11:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ JO
08BAGHDAD3357	CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS COOPERATE ON ARTICLE 50 [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's two Christian parliamentarians, political bloc leaders, and other minority representatives are redrafting Article 50, which was excluded from the Provincial Elections Law (PEL) parliament passed on September 24 (reftel). (Note: Article 50 would have established set-aside [...]	2008-10-19 15:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3364	US-IRAQ DIALOGUE ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION: A PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY / INTRODUCTION: In preparation for the early November U.S.-Iraq Dialogue on Business and Investment Climate, this cable looks back at the February 2008 Dialogue on Economic Cooperation (DEC); reviews what was agreed then; and takes stock of what has been achieved in the interim. [...]	2008-10-20 11:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIN EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3365	GOI ACTS DECISIVELY TO PROTECT DISPLACED [...] (S) Summary: At the October 19 Iraqi National Security Council meeting, Prime Minister Maliki demanded quick action to end the intimidation and fear that had driven thousands of Christians from their homes in Ninewa and said he wanted measures taken to ensure that this would not happen again [...]	2008-10-20 12:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	KIRF PGOV PHUM PTER PREF IZ
08BAGHDAD3366	MAYSAN: SADRIST FRICTION TOWARD GOI OVER [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Sadrist Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi, Maysan Provincial Director of Reconstruction and Development and a leading aspirant to the Governor,s office, expressed frustration to the PRT about how the central government has managed $104 million earmarked for the province in the wake of [...]	2008-10-20 13:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IZ IR PINR
08BAGHDAD3373	NINEWA: CHRISTIAN IDPS FLEE MOSUL FOR SAFER [...] (C) Summary: Christian IDPs who fled Mosul in the last two weeks are currently out of grave danger and there is currently no humanitarian crisis. It appears that local authorities in the safe-haven communities, with assistance from UNHCR and NGOs, have the capacity to supply food, water, an [...]	2008-10-21 13:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF MOPS PTER KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3374	RSO MEETING WITH THE COMMANDER OF THE PESHMERGA [...] (C/NF) Summary: On 10/13/2008, the RSO met with the Commander of the Peshmerga to extend courtesies, brief him on RSO's roles and responsibilities, solicit his support, and forge a strong working relationship to safeguard U.S. interests in Northern Iraq. (Note: The Peshmerga is also referred [...]	2008-10-21 13:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ASEC IZ PTER AMGT
08BAGHDAD3381	SOUTHERN OIL EXPORT PIPELINES: IRAQ'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: More than ninety percent of Iraq's revenues come from its crude oil exports. Iraq's southern export pipelines account for greater than eighty percent of that total. The two 48-inch pipelines feeding the Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT) platform were installed in 1975 with a 20 y [...]	2008-10-22 07:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL SENV EWWT IZ

08BAGHDAD3382	SOUTHERN OIL EXPORT PIPELINES: IRAQ'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: More than ninety percent of Iraq's revenues come from its crude oil exports. Iraq's southern export pipelines account for greater than eighty percent of that total. The two 48-inch pipelines feeding the Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT) platform were installed in 1975 with a 20 y [...]	2008-10-22 07:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL SENV EWWT IZ
08BAGHDAD3383	PM DEMANDS ACTION TO PROTECT CHRISTIANS IN MOSUL [...] (S) Summary. In an uncharacteristically short meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC),Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki demanded quick action by the Government of Iraq (GOI) to end the intimidation and fear that had driven thousands of Christians from their homes in Ninawa Provinc [...]	2008-10-22 08:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ KIRF MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER SY
08BAGHDAD3385	SECRETARY LEAVITT PRESSES PM MALIKI FOR QUICK [...] (C) In their October 20 meeting in Baghdad, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt and Iraq Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki agreed on the importance of continued U.S.-Iraq health cooperation in "solidifying" the two countries' partnership. Encouraging quick passage of the S [...]	2008-10-23 10:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO PREL PGOV OVIP SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3389	PRT SALAH AD DIN: EXPATS FROM THE PROVINCE KEEN [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-23 13:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3394	CAPITAL BUDGET SNAPSHOT: Dhi-QAR. [...] Summary. Dhi Qar Capital budget planning is marked by a mild trend towards transparency and input from local government. While party politics politicized budget negotiations at the Council and Sub-district level, the negotiation of a Provincial Development Plan and Strategy helped focus the e [...]	2008-10-24 06:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3397	IRAQ OIL MINISTER LAUNCHES FIRST LICENSING ROUND [...] (C) Summary: During an October 13-14 session in London, Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani presented terms and conditions for 20-year Technical Service Contracts to develop six oil fields and two gas fields to representatives of the 41 oil and gas companies that had qualified to bid. The cont [...]	2008-10-24 14:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3398	PRT SALAH AD-DIN: EXPATS FROM THE PROVINCE KEEN TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad-Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) PRT Econ Section chief met with Hassan Ahmad Mahjoob al-Qaisy (strictly protect throughout),October 13 to discuss the investment climate in Salah ad-Din province. Mahjoob, the owner of a fuel transportation company [...]	2008-10-24 17:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON EIND EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3402	RRT ERBIL: ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT BARZANI CITES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurdistan Region's chief advisor on Turkish matters believes that the recent killing of 15 Turkish soldiers by PKK forces increased public and military pressure on the Turkish government and so precipitated the revival of the dialogue between Turkey and the Kurdistan Regiona [...]	2008-10-25 10:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER TU IZ
08BAGHDAD3405	KARBALA JAM CASES UNDERSCORE JUDICIAL PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: A Karbala court on October 20 convicted two Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) members of possessing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and sentenced them to life in prison. Days earlier, the same court acquitted five JAM members accused of setting fire to police vehicles during the violen [...]	2008-10-25 13:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS PHUM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3412	MAYSAN: SUB-PROVINCIAL LEADERS ENGAGE WITH PRT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-26 10:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ PGOV PINR
08BAGHDAD3413	WASIT: OMS/SADRIST REPRESENTATIVE SEEKS OUT U.S. [...] (S / / REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: On October 23, Sadrist Trend Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Hassan E,barah, who recently delivered to the PRT Moqtada al-Sadr,s statement renouncing violence, contacted the PRT and requested an appointment at the U.S. Military medical clinic at FOB Delt [...]	2008-10-26 10:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3417	WITH CITI DEAL, WARKA POSITIONED TO LEAD IRAQ'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Citibank and Iraq's Al Warka Bank for Investment and Finance (Warka) announced establishment of a correspondent relationship on October 22. This is good news for Iraq as Warka is leading the way in revitalizing Iraq's private banking industry. This is also good news for the USG [...]	2008-10-26 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3418	IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ VISITS SAMARRA [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah Ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The Iranian Ambassador to Iraq recently paid an unannounced visit to the Al-Askari (Golden) Mosque in Samarra, Salah Ad Din (SAD) province. The Mayor of Samarra complained to PRT SaD that there had been no advance [...]	2008-10-26 15:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3419	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-10-27 06:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD342	IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEBRUARY 1 [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Maliki chaired the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al Qanoon ) FAQ) Iraq Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) on 1st February. The meeting included much discussion of the role that that the decentralization and the private sector can play in Iraq's development - incl [...]	2008-02-06 08:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD3420	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-10-27 06:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3421	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Higher Institute, Ministry of Interior who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no deroga [...]	2008-10-27 06:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3422	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Higher Institute, Ministry of Interior who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no deroga [...]	2008-10-27 06:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3423	HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVEMENTS IN INTERIOR AND DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: Due to recent changes in their organizational structures, the Human Rights Offices in the Ministries of Defense (MoD) and Interior (MoI) now face fewer restrictions in pursuing their human rights agendas. The Human Rights Directorate in the MoD was placed under the ministry's [...]	2008-10-27 09:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3424	NINEWA: SMALL-SCALE RETURNS TO MOSUL OF CHRISTIAN [...] (C) Summary: The commander of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) in Ninewa, LTG Riyad, told us October 26 that 130 displaced Christians have returned to the city. Ninewa governor Kashmoula said all Christian civil servants who work in Provincial Hall are back on the job. One of his deputies told u [...]	2008-10-27 13:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3425	PM'S COMMISSIONS TO INVESTIGATE ATTACKS ON [...] (C) In an October 27 meeting with poloffs, Gorges Bakoos, Political Advisor for Christian Affairs to Prime Minister Maliki, intimated that Kurdish politics lay behind the attacks on Christians in Mosul earlier this month. He provided no specific evidence, but cited the interest of "political [...]	2008-10-27 14:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KIRF IZ
08BAGHDAD3428	IRAQ ENACTS CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION [...] (SBU) After long administrative delays, legislation authorizing the Government of Iraq to accede to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (Chemical Weapons Convention - CWC) was published in the Offici [...]	2008-10-27 15:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL OPCW CWC IZ
08BAGHDAD343	CHARGE AND CG MEET PM TO DISCUSS MOSUL SECURITY, [...] (C) MNF-I Commanding General (CG) David Petraeus and CDA Patricia Butenis met Thursday, January 31, 2008 with Prime Minister Maliki. In a cordial and relaxed hour-long meeting, they discussed security operations in Mosul, Turkish cut-off of electricity deliveries, implications for current GOI [...]	2008-02-06 10:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER EINV ENGR KU TU IZ
08BAGHDAD3430	MAYSAN: SUNNI DPM PROMISES RENEWED GOI ASSISTANCE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Admitting previous GOI neglect, Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Rafae al-Issawi promised a crowded auditorium of provincial, local, and tribal leaders on October 22 that the GOI would fully back reconstruction and basic se [...]	2008-10-28 06:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3431	KARBALA ISF COMMANDER SHOWN THE DOOR [...] (C) Summary: Karbala ISF commander MG Ra'ad Shaker Jawdat al-Hasnawi, whose ouster by Governor Aqeel Mahmoud al-Khazali on September 22 was reversed days later by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, has been shown the door. He departed Karbala in mid-October following Aqeel's survival of a no-co [...]	2008-10-28 06:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3432	WASIT PC CHAIR AND GOVERNOR TRADE SHOTS [...] (C) Summary. Wasit Provincial Council (PC) Chair Mohammed Hassan Jabber remains very much at odds with Governor Abd al-Latif Hamad Tarfah over the allocation of the 2008 ARDP budget. The battle has been joined and Jabber's grousing has included PIC terms as a target of opportunity. In the las [...]	2008-10-28 07:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3433	UNAMI COMMEMORATION FEATURES KARBALA PRT SPEAKER, [...] (U) At an October 25 commemoration of the U.N.,s 63rd anniversary, Karbala PRT Team Leader was among several speakers asked to give remarks. Others included Karbala Governor Aqueel Mahmoud Kareem al-Khazali and Provincial Council Chairman Abd al-Yasiri. The Iranian consul Ridha Kodha Ward [...]	2008-10-28 07:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3438	BUDGET EXECUTION CHALLENGES IN MUTHANNA PROVINCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna Reporting Cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Current budget execution difficulties in Muthanna are caused by insufficient training, a shortage of certified accountants working for the government, a lack of clear guidance from Baghdad, and funding delays from the Ministry o [...]	2008-10-28 11:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3439	SECURITY FOR THE 233RD USMC BIRTHDAY-BAGHDAD, IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Per REFTEL, Embassy Baghdad,s Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on 11/26/2008 to assess the security risk of hosting a USMC Birthday Ball at the New Embassy Compound (NEC) on 11/10/2008. The EAC concurred that the event could be conducted with minimal risk given that it [...]	2008-10-28 11:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT ASEC KMSG
08BAGHDAD3443	NOMINATIONS FOR 2009 SECRETARY'S WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] (SBU) Per Reftel, Embassy Baghdad is pleased to submit its list of nominees for the Secretary's 2008 Award for International Women of Courage, keyed to the priorities in the reference. Embassy Baghdad is submitting four (4) nominees, but understands that only three of them will be considered [...]	2008-10-28 15:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3444	EPET, ENRG, PGOV, EINV, IZ [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-28 16:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG IZ
08BAGHDAD3445	UPDATE ON MEK TRANSFER [...] (S) Summary: In preparation for the transfer of security authority from the USG to the GOI for the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) at Camp Ashraf, the USG is encouraging MEK leaders to begin planning for the transition and pressing the GOI to formulate a plan for when it takes over responsibility. [...]	2008-10-28 18:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM PTER KJUS PINS PREL UN IZ
08BAGHDAD3446	BRIEF MOVEMENT OF IRAQI HYDROCARBONS LAW [...] (C) Summary: The long-delayed Hydrocarbons Framework Law saw brief movement in recent days; it is not yet clear if this signifies a genuine thaw and some possibility of the legislation actually moving toward approval in the near future. The bill was unexpectedly forwarded to Parliament late l [...]	2008-10-29 06:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3447	BAGHDAD BUDGET EXECUTION PROBLEMS START AT THE [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad's municipal authorities, at the lowest level, suffer from a host of weaknesses that sharply constrain their ability to deliver essential services effectively. The list is long: insufficient budgets and resources, poor management skills, human resource deficiencies, limit [...]	2008-10-29 07:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3448	SALAH AD DIN OFFICIAL: GREATER DECENTRALIZATION [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: According to Salah-ad-Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) member Suleiman Yousif Ahmad, limited provincial authority over budgets and projects contributes to local residents' lack of confidence in the SaD PC. He maintains that [...]	2008-10-29 07:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD3453	IRAQ GROPING FOR LONG-TERM NATIONAL PLAN FOR [...] (C) Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) officials told EmbOffs on October 23 that while MoST and Ministry of Health (MoH) officials have agreed to try and import new Cobalt-60 (Co-60) sources to meet short-term demands for cancer therapy (reftel),they have as yet not reached a consensus [...]	2008-10-29 13:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO KNNP PGOV OVIP SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3454	GOI DISCUSSES COMPENSATION FOR DISPLACED [...] (S) Summary. Prime Minister al-Maliki opened the October 26 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (NSC) with an appeal for Iraqi and Coalition Forces to do everything to avoid use of excessive force while continuing to conduct operations against insurgents. The NSC went on to discus [...]	2008-10-29 14:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3455	ECA A/S GOLI AMERI'S MEETING WITH IRAQI HIGHER EDUCATION [...] (U) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih hosted A/S Goli Ameri and Iraq's most important higher education officials for a roundtable discussion in his home on October 20. The participants from both countries stressed their commitment to revitalize higher education in Iraq and their [...]	2008-10-29 14:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD3456	PRT SALAH AD DIN: IRANIAN VICE PRESIDENT VISITS [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) Summary: Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Ali Akbari visited the Golden Mosque in Samarra October 24, accompanied by the Iraqi Minister of Youth and Sports. This is the second visit by a high-ranking Iranian official this month; local [...]	2008-10-30 06:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3457	MUTHANNA: CIU CHIEF SAYS IRANIAN-BACKED HIT [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable 2. (C) Summary: Brigadier General Ali, Muthanna,s Criminal Investigative Unit (CIU) Chief told PRT in two late October meetings that alleged hit squads funded by the Iranian government have entered Muthanna and are preparing to strike during prov [...]	2008-10-30 06:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL PGOV EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD3458	NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE PROVIDING SUPPORT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Heather Therrien, Political Party Development Director for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Iraq, outlined NDI's political party training and election observer training efforts to an inter-agency provincial election working group at Embassy Baghdad on October 28, 2 [...]	2008-10-30 11:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3460	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PRIVATE BANKS DEVELOPING [...] (U) This is a reporting cable from PRT Salah ad Din. 2. (SBU) Summary: It is difficult to imagine a provincial business or economic sector that has more fully exploited the vastly improved security environment than has the private-banking sector within Salah ad Din. The calculated exploitat [...]	2008-10-30 12:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3464	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING QR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-10-31 09:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3465	PM PROMISES TO PROVIDE A "SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT" TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-31 13:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ UN
08BAGHDAD3467	IRAQI HYDROCARBONS LEGISLATION: PERHAPS STILL [...] (C) Summary: There are conflicting stories about why the hydrocarbons legislation briefly moved to parliament in recent days. Confusion also remains about which is the "right" version of the law. Parliamentary Committee on Oil and Gas Chairman Ali Balo believes that a political decision on h [...]	2008-10-31 15:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3468	DEFENSE UNDER SECRETARY EDELMAN MEETS LEADERS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman engaged Arab, Turkoman and Christian provincial leaders of Kirkuk on 20 October 2008 to discuss ethnic cooperation and Article 23 of the provincial elections law. Kurdish leaders declined to attend due to the inclusion of Sheik A [...]	2008-11-01 06:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD347	NINEWA: WEST MOSUL SHEIKHS EXPRESS DISSATISFACTION [...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary: Sheikhs from west Mosul, an area of the city where terrorists are entrenched, told PRTOff and military representatives January 30 that only through provincial elections would the city see progress. The current provincial government focused only on small repair projects [...]	2008-02-06 12:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD3474	BASRA LEADERS VOICE QUIET SUPPORT FOR SOFA [...] (C) Summary: Basra politicians, security officials, and community leaders voiced quiet support for the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) during a visit October 26-29 by Gordon Gray, Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq Affairs. Basrah Governor Mohammed Wa'eli predicted that the SOFA would lead to [...]	2008-11-02 02:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3475	BASRAH RESIDENTS ANGRY, WORRIED ABOUT IRANIAN [...] (C) Basrawis blame Iran for the Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) violence and intimidation that ended in April following Operation Charge of the Knights, community leaders and security officials told Senior Advisor Gray during a visit October 26-29. With the exception of an Islamic Supreme Council of Ir [...]	2008-11-02 02:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3476	PLANNING MINISTER BABAN'S BUDGET AND ICI CONCERNS [...] (C) EMIN and Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Ali Baban met October 26 and discussed Baban's concerns about the 2009 budget, the International Compact with Iraq (ICI),and future assistance. Baban believes that the GOI's favoring the operational portion of the pared-do [...]	2008-11-02 05:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD3477	BAGHDAD AMANAT CONTRACT SPECIALISTS TO INTERN WITH [...] SUMMARY: On October 19, the Baghdad Amanat signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Joint Contracting Command Iraq/Afghanistan (JCCI/A) to have two of their contract specialists intern with JCCI/A. This signing is a result of a partnership between JCCI/A, Provincial Reconstruction Team-Bag [...]	2008-11-02 09:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD3478	FALLING OIL PRICES FORCE TOUGH IRAQI BUDGET [...] (C/NF) Summary: Given the sharp fall in the price of oil and declining exports, Iraq's budget situation had radically changed and cuts would be made to both Iraq's FY 2009 capital expenditures and operating costs, according to Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr in an October 27 meeting with EMIN. [...]	2008-11-02 09:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON PREL EPET EINV IZ KU
08BAGHDAD3479	UNHCR DOUBLES PROGRAMMING AND SUPPORTS RETURNS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant UN High Commissioner for Refugees for Operations Judy Cheng-Hopkins briefed the Ambassador October 28 on UNHCR,s new strategy to sharply increase engagement inside Iraq to support returns. Ambassador Crocker encouraged UNHCR to continue direct engagement with the Iraq [...]	2008-11-02 11:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PHUM PREF PREL
08BAGHDAD348	PRT MAYSAN: MAYSAN'S TRIBES SEEK POLITICAL ROLE [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Tribal members in Maysan are asserting their political relevance by occupying key positions and creating independent advocacy groups. Members of several local tribes, including the Bani Malik, the al-Fartusi, and the al-Gharrawi, [...]	2008-02-06 12:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3480	WASIT: DAWA COURTING TRIBAL SHEIKHS [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C //REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: On October 18, Al Kut's Special Weapons and Tactics (KSWAT) leader Major Aziz hosted a meeting of tribal sheikhs from across Wasit Province. While nominally a security-related meeting set up by Aziz to gain tribal [...]	2008-11-02 12:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3484	RSO MEETING WITH THE MINISTER OF INTERIOR TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: On 10/31/2008, RSO met with the Minister of the Interior (MOI) to discuss further specifics regarding the integration of Iraqi forces into RSO's protective security operation. The RSO updated the Minister on recent progress and underscored the need to accelerate the VIP train [...]	2008-11-03 04:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ASEC IZ PINS PTER
08BAGHDAD3487	UNAMI INTERESTED IN "GRAND BARGAIN" FOR KIRKUK, [...] (C) Summary: In a November 2 meeting with S/A Krajeski, UNAMI's Andrew Gilmour said UNAMI will finish its second round of reports on the disputed internal boundaries (DIBs) areas by mid-December, but delay issuing them until after the provincial elections because of the currently tense politic [...]	2008-11-03 10:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UN IZ
08BAGHDAD3488	PRINCE OF THE MARSHES ON SOFA AND MAYSAN,S FUTURE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion, prominent Maysani Sheikh Abed al-Kareem al-Mohammedawi of "Prince of the Marshes" fame explained that he was pitching the SOFA to local and tribal leaders to counter attempts by Iran and others [...]	2008-11-03 12:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3489	COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES MINORITY QUOTAS [...] (U) On November 2, the Council of Representatives (CoR) passed an amendment to Article 50 of the Provincial Elections Law. The amendment specifies quotas for seats in the Provincial Councils of three provinces for several minority groups. The vote came after lengthy committee deliberations [...]	2008-11-03 12:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF IZ
08BAGHDAD3492	MUTHANNA: IRANIAN IRON AND STEEL INVESTMENT [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna Reporting Cable. 2. (C/REL) SUMMARY: Muthanna Provincial Investment Committee (PIC) Chairman Adel Dakhel al-Yasiri told local media that the PIC has nearly completed negotiations with an Iranian company to build a 100 million USD iron and steel plant near t [...]	2008-11-03 15:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3493	PRT DHI QAR HOSTS NUNCIO AT INTERFAITH PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Papal Nuncio visited Ur on October 23 accompanied by senior Embassy officials. Although weather conditions compressed the party's time on the ground, it had the opportunity to meet with the small Christian community, which [...]	2008-11-04 02:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KRIF PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3497	IRAQI OIL PRODUCTION: WILL THE SOUTH RISE AGAIN? [...] (S) Summary: Oil Ministry officials estimate production in Iraq's southern oil fields has declined by approximately 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) so far this year, bringing the target production rate to 1.8 million bpd. The main culprits are the reliance on mismanaged enhanced recovery techni [...]	2008-11-04 11:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EPET ENRG EINV EFIN PGOV PREL SENV EWWT IZ
08BAGHDAD3498	IRAQI TRADE MINISTER DISCUSSES GRAIN IMPORT [...] (SBU) FAS and FCS Attaches met October 27 with Minister of Trade Dr. Abdul-Falah Hassan Al-Sudani and other MoT officials to discuss the Iraqi grain import situation, planned GOI renovations at the port of Umm Qasr, and the Public Distribution System (PDS),the GOI's subsidized food distributi [...]	2008-11-04 13:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD35	NINEWA: BETTER SUPPLY AND MANAGEMENT REDUCE SOME [...] (C/REL AUS, GBR, CAN) Summary: Black market benzene and diesel prices in Mosul have fallen since August but still remain above the government price for each fuel. Increases in benzene supply, a slight seasonal reduction in benzene demand, and improved Iraqi discipline and management of fuel [...]	2008-01-03 15:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3502	MOU BETWEEN BAGHDAD AMANAT AND USG [...] (U) The Baghdad Amanat signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with USG that marks a turning point in the coordination of U.S. reconstruction efforts in the Capital. The MOU is the result of a six month long coordinated effort on the part of the Provincial Projects Management Section of th [...]	2008-11-04 14:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3503	OMS LEADER REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT, MUQTADA CALLS [...] (S/NF) Sheikh Mohammed al-Faraji, self-described Office of the Martyr Sadr (OMS) representative for Basra and the surrounding provinces, met with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray to demand that the U.S. engage more directly with Iraqi-born Shi'a clergy. In the October 28 meeting, Faraji argued that [...]	2008-11-04 15:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3504	IRAQI NSC MEETING ON NOV 2 REVIEWS SITUATION IN [...] (S) Summary. At the November 2, 2008 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki received the reconstruction report for Mosul. The report indicated that while many infrastructure projects were planned, implementation was slow and the province appeared una [...]	2008-11-04 16:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3506	CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISAPPOINTED IN QUOTAS OUTCOME; [...] (C) Several prominent Christian leaders expressed bitter disappointment over the single-seat minority quotas in the Provincial Elections Law (PEL) passed on November 3 (reftel),and several minority groups issued a joint protest statement on November 4. While all were frustrated, views on [...]	2008-11-05 11:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3508	IRAQIS WELCOME OBAMA VICTORY, BUT EXPRESS CONCERN [...] (C) Summary: In discussions following the November 4 election of Barack Obama, Iraqi contacts have reacted positively but cautiously. While some expressed surprise at Obama's victory, all contacts were congratulatory and positive, recognizing the historic significance of the election of the [...]	2008-11-05 17:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3509	GOI AGREES UPON MODALITIES FOR IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. [...] (S) Summary: Iraq has agreed to participate in proposed trilateral security talks with Turkey and the U.S. to begin as early as November 14 or 15 in Ankara, according to the GOI spokesman, reporting privately on his talks in Istanbul. The meetings should be at the ministerial level, and GOI [...]	2008-11-06 02:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ TU PREL MARR
08BAGHDAD351	DHI QAR: OFFICE OF THE MARTYR SADR TELLS PRT TO [...] This is a PRT Dhi Qar reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: January 30, Dhi Qar PRT met with Sheikh Haider Ali Ghizi, the head of the Office of the Martyr Sadr (OMS) in Nassiriyah. Ghizi mirrored PRT views that training should be a "top priority" for the province. Ghizi called for the PRT [...]	2008-02-06 13:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PINR PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3511	KRG VIEWS ON SOFA, MALIKI, KIRKUK, MOSLAWI [...] (C) Summary: In a November 5 meeting, KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani was critical of PM Maliki's "double game" on the SOFA but believes Iraqi leaders will eventually sign it. He told how KRG President Masoud Barzani disappointed his Iranian hosts on his most recent visit to Tehran by p [...]	2008-11-06 13:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PTER MOPS TU IZ
08BAGHDAD3512	BIOMETRIC DATA FOR IRAQI GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (S) Biometric data (photos and fingerprints) for four Iraqi Guantanamo (GTMO) detainees approved for transfer to Iraq was received at Post October 30 (REF A). Taking advantage of the visit to Baghdad of the Deputy Director (DepDir) of the Secretary's Office of War Crimes Issues (S/WCI),Milbe [...]	2008-11-06 14:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR IZ US
08BAGHDAD3513	ARAB LEAGUE TO SEND OBSERVERS TO MONITOR [...] (C) The Arab League (AL) plans to send 70-80 election observers to Iraq for the January 2009 provincial elections, according to newly arrived AL Ambassador Hani Al-Khallaf. In a November 5 meeting with Ambassador Crocker, Al-Khallaf said that Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHE [...]	2008-11-06 15:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ EG
08BAGHDAD3516	RRT ERBIL: DISSENSION IN PUK POLIBURO [...] (C) Summary. Four distinguished PUK members living abroad fiercely condemned the party's leadership for its corruption, its violation of democratic principles, and its mismanagement of government affairs. The group,s stated goal is not to create a new party, but rather to further the cause [...]	2008-11-07 13:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3517	KARBALA WELCOMES IRANIAN TOURISTS BUT WARY OF [...] (C) Summary: Karbala business leaders and government officials discussed their concerns about Iranian influence and reliance on tourism revenue from Iranian pilgrims in a visit November 2-3 by Senior Advisor Gordon Gray. Governor Aqeel al-Khazali (Da,wa) hinted that the Iranians were behind [...]	2008-11-07 13:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER EFIN IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3526	SUNNI AND SHIA POLITICIANS EXPRESS OPPOSING VIEWS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Secretary's Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues, Ambassador James Foley, visited Baghdad October 22-27 to review Iraqi refugee admissions and special immigrant visa (SIV) programs and to assess the role the U.S. can play in facilitating refugee and IDP returns. Dep [...]	2008-11-08 12:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
08BAGHDAD3527	KARBALA OFFICIALS SEEK TO BALANCE FOREIGN [...] (C) During a November 2-3 visit to Karbala, Senior Advisor Gordon Gray discussed investment in the province with several local leaders, including Governor Aqeel Mahmoud Kareem al-Khazali (Da'wa),three members of the Karbala Provincial Council (PC),and Restaurant and Hotel Association Presiden [...]	2008-11-08 12:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CASC PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD353	DIWANIYAH PRT: GOVERNOR REACHES OUT TO PRT [...] (C) Summary: During a January 30 meeting with PRToffs, Diwaniyah Governor Al-Khudari stressed that he wants to improve cooperation between his government, coalition forces and the PRT and would like to see more private, particularly U.S., investment in the province. He focused on the needs o [...]	2008-02-06 15:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3530	UAE AMBASSADOR: OUR PRESENCE BOOSTS IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: The growing presence of Arab Ambassadors in Baghdad is boosting Iraqi confidence that improved security will last and that Iraq's neighbors are committed to its future, according to the UAE Ambassador to Iraq. UAE engagement on the economic front is also expanding, with large [...]	2008-11-09 04:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EINV IZ AE
08BAGHDAD3532	VISAS VIPER MANDATORY STATUS REPORT AND WATCHLIST [...] (U) VISAS VIPER 2. (U) POST: BAGHDAD MEETING DATE: 02NOV2008 CHAIR: DCM PATRICIA BUTENIS COORDINATOR: CONOFF MCHESSEN ATTENDEES: RSO, POL/MIL, EXEC, DOJ, ORA, PAO, FBI, POL, CONS, MNF-I (CJ9) 3. (U) ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS: 4. (S/NF) The following subject was denied access to refug [...]	2008-11-09 09:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3538	AMBASSADOR PRESSES CHRISTIAN LEADERS TO [...] (C) During a November 5 meeting, the Ambassador pressed four Christian leaders to consolidate the gains from the November 3 Article 50 vote and avoid the Sunni disaster of 2005 by not boycotting the upcoming provincial elections. The Ambassador acknowledged that the paucity of seats allocated [...]	2008-11-09 10:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD354	BAGHDAD PC CHAIRMAN FIGHTS TO STAY ON TOP [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. The Chairman of the Baghdad Provincial Council, Mueen al-Khademy (ISCI/Badr) is working overtime to shore up his position in the increasingly uncertain environment of provincial politics in Baghdad. Chairman Mueen must prepare for [...]	2008-02-06 18:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3542	CERTIFICATION OF CONSULAR MANAGEMENT CONTROLS [...] Post's review of Consular Management Controls was completed on November 8, 2008. Jeff Lodinsky, FS-02, Consular Chief, conducted the review and certified its completion. Items in para 2 below are keyed to para 5(a) of reftel. 2. a. Standard Operating Procedures: All officers have access [...]	2008-11-09 13:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT CVIS CASC KFRD
08BAGHDAD3545	ERBIL RRT: STANDING ROOM ONLY AUDIENCES FOR U.S. ELECTION [...] With the strong support of Embassy Baghdad's Public Affairs Section, RRT Erbil's Public Diplomacy Section brought University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Mike Hannahan to the Kurdistan Region October 26-November 7 for a series of lectures at major universities. Hannahan, the Director of [...]	2008-11-09 15:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL SOCI PGOV OEXC OIIP KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD3549	KARBALA SECURITY STABLE; MILITIAS DISCREDITED [...] (C) Karbala's security situation remains good, with no sign that militia-inspired violence, which last flared in 2007, will return. Nevertheless, the province -- which local officials reckon as "the world Shi'a capital" -- remains a tempting target for malefactors. During a November 3 meeting [...]	2008-11-10 08:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD355	JANUARY 2008 UPDATE ON IRAQ'S INTERNALLY DISPLACED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The latest reports on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the United Nations (U.N.) Cluster F and Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MoDM) show an increase in the number of IDPs in the past 3 months. This increase likely reflects a lag in data processing and a spi [...]	2008-02-07 06:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOG PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3550	KARBALA STIRRED BY PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Karbala is beginning to stir in response to news that the Prime Minister wants to hold provincial elections on January 31. Government and religious authorities are encouraging participation, while the security forces are focusing on protecting the process. In a rare show of unity, Da'wa [...]	2008-11-10 09:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3551	GOI PLEDGES $50 MILLION OVER TWO YEARS TO FUND NEW [...] (C) UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura told us (and the Prime Minister's office confirms) that the Prime Minister has agreed to contribute $25 million towards the construction of the new UNAMI compound in 2009. The GOI will also pay an additional $25 million in 2010 for a total of $50 million ov [...]	2008-11-10 10:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3553	PROGRESS ON CAMP ASHRAF (MEK) TRANSITION [...] (S) SUMMARY. EmbOffs recently met with senior GOI stakeholders, including Minister of Interior (REF A),Minister of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Minister of Human Rights, regarding the transfer of security responsibility for the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) residents of Camp Ashraf. In [...]	2008-11-10 11:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3555	KARADA AND COUNCIL BLUFFS - SISTER CITIES [...] Summary: A new sister-city partnership between Council Bluffs, Iowa and the Karada district of Baghdad promises to be a foundation for cooperation between the two cities. Leaders from Council Bluffs and the Karada District Council, joined up by videoconference on October 28, committed themse [...]	2008-11-10 14:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD3556	ICRC VISITS MEK; PM LEGAL ADVISOR ON MEK LEGAL [...] (C) Summary: ICRC officials met with EmbOffs on November 4 to discuss their second visit to Camp Ashraf, during which they noted the Mujahedin el-Khalq (MEK) members' desperation over the impending transfer of security authority. The ICRC team delivered letters from family to some members, [...]	2008-11-10 16:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PREF IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3558	KARBALA: NOT MUCH SOFA TALK [...] (SBU) SOFA is not a hot topic in Karbala. Among the Provincial Reconstruction Team,s (PRT,s) contacts who have a view on the matter, opinions range from hardline nationalism ("Send all the Americans home now") to profit-oriented pragmatism ("Let Washington pay to stay however long it wants") [...]	2008-11-11 11:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3560	MAYSAN GOVERNOR DESCRIBES INTER-SHIA TENSIONS, [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Maysan,s Sadrist Governor Adel Mohder Maliki described tensions between Shi'a elements as he detailed a November 5 attack on Iraqi Police (IP) elements south of Maysan and a subsequent attack on the Amarah Office of the Mart [...]	2008-11-11 13:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3561	THE SADRIST PROGRAM FOR KARBALA [...] (SBU) Summary: The PRT obtained in early November a copy of an Arabic-language pamphlet titled The General Program of the Martyr al-Sadr Office in Karbala, signed by Shaykh Muhannad Abd al-Hussein al-Karbala'i, Manager of the al-Sadr Office in Karbala, and dated 2008. We have sent a scanned c [...]	2008-11-11 13:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PREL PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3562	NAJAF: ISCI LOOKS STRONG BUT FACES WELL-ORGANIZED [...] (C) Summary. Days before the release of the open list candidates for January provincial elections, the relative surface calm of Najaf,s ISCI domination of the provincial government is beginning to reveal turbulent anti-ISCI undercurrents. ISCI officials, led by Deputy Governor Abtan, continu [...]	2008-11-11 13:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3563	MAYSAN: THE VIEW FROM RESTIVE MAJAR AL-KABIR [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Stating &we have great needs,8 Majar al-Kabir (MAK) city officials told PRT PolOff that they have almost no modern infrastructure and all sectors are in need of assistance. City officials cited these and other problems as t [...]	2008-11-11 13:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3564	IRAQ-KOREA ECONOMIC RELATIONS -- SECURITY STILL A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Korean Embassy Counselor Kwang Yong Chung said, during an October meeting with EconOffs, that virtually the only Korean business activity in Iraq is in the KRG, with the Korean National Oil Company holding interests in eight exploration and production blocks. One problem hamperi [...]	2008-11-11 14:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EINV ENRG EPET EAID KS IZ
08BAGHDAD3565	ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY GETS BOOST FROM NEW LAW [...] (C) Minister of Environment Narmin Othman told EmbOffs on November 3 the Council of Representatives (CoR) had ratified the new law establishing the Ministry of Environment (MoEnv). She claimed the Prime Minister told the Cabinet to enlarge MoEnv funding, "even if it means taking money away fro [...]	2008-11-12 04:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EPET EWWT ECIN KHDP KRAD KSCA IZ
08BAGHDAD3566	IRAQ PRESSES FOR OIL FOR FOOD MEETING [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 7. 2. (C) EMIN met November 10 with Ambassador Srood Najib, Director of the Iraqi MFA Americas Department, to discuss the Oil-for-Food (OFF) program. This was EMIN's first meeting and Najib, who has covered this issue for years, spent much of his t [...]	2008-11-12 07:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN UNSC UN IZ

08BAGHDAD3567	KIRKUK ARABS LINE UP BEHIND AHMED OBEIDI IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Arab leaders in Kirkuk chose Ahmed Obeidi to represent their interests to the committee established under Article 23 of the Provincial Elections Law to make recommendations on the future of Kirkuk. Obeidi has formed secretive "cells" to collect information on issues such as jo [...]	2008-11-12 07:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3569	SHEIKH CLAIMS IRAQI TRIBES ASKING SAUDIS FOR [...] (C) In a November 10 meeting, Muthanna tribal sheikh Hakim Khazal Khashan repeated his claims to Senior Advisor Gordon Gray that he is working with Anbar sheikh Abu Risha to develop a common platform for tribal parties running in the provincial elections. (See reftels for background.) Hakim [...]	2008-11-12 08:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SA IZ
08BAGHDAD357	IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS ON PERSONAL [...] (C) This cable is the third update of Embassy Baghdad,s implementation of the relevant eighteen recommendations of the Secretary,s Panel on Protective Services. The following recommendations have been implemented by Post (reftel D): A. (C) Kennedy Recommendation 12 - Joint Review Board B. ( [...]	2008-02-07 07:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT ASEC PREL PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3571	KARBALA: MUQTADA AL-SADR PREACHES PATIENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The PRT recently obtained a half-page flyer from Muqtada al-Sadr that was being distributed near the al-Husayn and al-Abbas shrines in Karbala. In the half-page, photocopied message, Muqtada urges his followers to "practice calmness with the government -- but not with the occupi [...]	2008-11-12 09:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL KISL PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3579	THE NATIONAL INVESTMENT COMMISSIONER WHO NEVER WAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI dismissed National Investment Commission Chairman-Designate Ahmed Ridha the first week in November. Ridha had become deeply unpopular in senior Iraqi political circles, and rumors of his possible removal had been circulating for many weeks. Thamir Ghadban, head of the PM [...]	2008-11-12 11:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON PGOV IQ
08BAGHDAD358	INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ: BAGHDAD PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Both the GOI and UNAMI are working to enhance the prospects of meeting the benchmarks outlined in the International Compact with Iraq (ICI). The GOI is building the size and capacity of the small ICI secretariat, and has embarked upon a serious effort to pull together its dr [...]	2008-02-07 08:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID EAGR IR
08BAGHDAD3580	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRAN AND BURMA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) On November 12 we contacted the MFA's Deputy Director for International Organizations, Mohammed Alhmaimidi, to convey reftel request that Iraq be absent for the upcoming UNGA Third Committee votes on the Iran Human Rights no-action motion and substantive resolution, and that Iraq vote ag [...]	2008-11-12 11:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3581	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-11-12 12:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3585	STATE OF FREEDOM OF PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Journalists and freedom of press organizations in Baghdad raised concerns during recent meetings about the decreasing independence of the media and continued violations against the press. They said a lack of freedom of press hinders journalists' ability to report independent [...]	2008-11-12 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD3586	MITHAL ALUSI REMAINS DEFIANT DESPITE THREATS [...] (C) SUMMARY: As of November 9, 2008, Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal Alusi remained vigilant in the face of threats against him and his party, and said ISCI operatives have approached his personal security detail. Alusi retains approximately 70 security guards, and reported threats and intimidati [...]	2008-11-12 13:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3587	RRT ERBIL: LVIN EDITOR DETAILS KDP ATTEMPT TO KILL [...] (C) During a November 5 meeting with Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq Krajeski, Sulaimaniya-based Lvin Magazine Editor-in-Chief Ahmad Mira provided details on what he said was a recent attempt by the KDP to kill him. Mira explained that PUK Asayeesh officers told him they arrested two men Sep [...]	2008-11-12 13:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS KDEM SOCI SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD3589	UNAMI'S DE MISTURA CONCERNED OVER POSSIBLE PRT [...] (C) In a brief meeting with the visiting Joint Campaign Plan Assessment Team (JCPAT) on October 20, UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura expressed considerable concern over the negative impact of possible military/PRT drawdowns on UNAMI operations in the provinces. He pointed out that UNAMI's expa [...]	2008-11-12 13:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3590	NINEWA CHRISTIANS SLOWLY RETURN [...] (C) Estimates of the number of Mosul Christians killed in early-October attacks range between eight and 15, with military sources (ISF and CF) giving lower figures than the Christian IDPs who fled the city. Since then, a well-coordinated humanitarian assistance effort has provided for appro [...]	2008-11-12 13:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3591	USG-FUNDED DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS [...] (U) This cable was drafted jointly by Embassy Baghdad and visiting DRL staff from Washington. 2. (SBU) Summary: Poloffs and visiting DRL officers conducted an intensive round of field visits to DRL-funded democracy and human rights projects in Iraq from Oct 14-22, touring and meeting wit [...]	2008-11-13 06:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3596	SIX INSPECTORS GENERAL RELIEVED OF DUTIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Ministers issued orders in mid-October firing one Inspector General and putting five others into early retirement following performance audits of the IGs conducted by the Board of Supreme Audit. Another IG expects to be relieved of his duties, while the head of the [...]	2008-11-13 12:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3597	KARBALA'S PREPARATIONS FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) PRT members met with the Government Elections Officer (GEO) on November 6 and the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) Representative on November 9 to discuss preparations for the provincial elections, expected to be on January 31. The GEO believed that Karbala was on track [...]	2008-11-13 12:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3598	GOI AGREES UPON MODALITIES FOR IRAQ-TURKEY-USA [...] (S) Summary: GOI spokesman told Ambassador and MNF-I CG November 11 that GOI needs more time to make arrangements for the security trilateral with Turkey and the U.S. He explained the idea is the GOI's and that the goals are to both achieve tangible results (absent from Turkish visits to B [...]	2008-11-13 13:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ TU PREL PTER KSEC MARR MOPS
08BAGHDAD3599	EUJUST LEX TO EXPAND HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINING IN 2009 [...] (C) Summary: An EU Integrated Rule of Law Mission for Iraq (EUJUST LEX) team spent ten days in Baghdad examining how best to restructure its current training programs for the extension of its mandate in mid-2009. For the next mandate, the EUJUST LEX program for Iraq wants to offer more sub [...]	2008-11-13 14:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PREL EU IZ
08BAGHDAD36	TUWAITHA UPDATE: MEETING AT MOST -- GOI LETTER TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-04 12:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON PARM PREL IAEA IZ
08BAGHDAD360	PRT-WASIT; MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-07 08:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3600	CHRISTIAN ELECTION BOYCOTT THREATS: A ROAD TO [...] (C) Christian religious and political leaders continue to sound off against the paucity of guaranteed seats -- one each for Baghdad, Basrah, and Ninewa -- allocated to them following the Council of Representatives' November 3 vote on Article 50. The threat of a boycott of the provincial elec [...]	2008-11-13 14:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3601	CHRISTIAN ELECTION BOYCOTT THREATS: A ROAD TO [...] (C) Christian religious and political leaders continue to sound off against the paucity of guaranteed seats -- one each for Baghdad, Basrah, and Ninewa -- allocated to them following the Council of Representatives' November 3 vote on Article 50. The threat of a boycott of the provincial elec [...]	2008-11-14 03:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3602	BASRA REGION FORMATION SUPPORTERS SUBMIT [...] (C) Summary: On November 10, allies of Basra Governor Mohammed Wa'eli (Fadhilah) submitted 35,000 signatures in favor of a referendum to form a one-province Basra Regional Government. Several additional steps will be needed, however, to force a referendum, and it is unlikely that a referendu [...]	2008-11-14 03:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3614	WASIT SADRISTS FRACTURING; SOME MAY SUPPORT PRIME [...] (C) In separate November 9 discussions with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray in Wasit, Sadrist Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Hassan E'barah and independent PC Chairman Hassan Jabbar described further splits among Sadrists in Wasit and other southern provinces. E'barah, who recently delivered [...]	2008-11-14 13:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3616	HOPE FOR THE FUTURE: IRAQI BUDGET EXECUTION [...] Summary. Budget execution in Iraq remains a challenge as the GOI strives to develop infrastructure, provide essential services to the populace and devolve authority to provincial governments. Although vestiges of the Saddam-era command economy and the loss of skilled workers complicate matter [...]	2008-11-14 14:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON SOCI PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3620	ANBAR GEO UPDATE: ONGOING ELECTION PREPARATIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On November 2, PRT and MNF-West staff met with Anbar Governorate Electoral Office Director (GEO),Khalid Rajab, for a second time in Ramadi. The GEO noted that there are 52 registered entities for provincial elections in [...]	2008-11-15 12:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3622	US-IRAQ DIALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS IMPEDIMENTS TO BUSINESS AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-15 12:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV CVIS IZ
08BAGHDAD3623	KARBALA VIEWS ON OBAMA ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: With the assistance of one of our Locally Employed Staff (LES),PRT Karbala conducted an informal survey of Karbala residents to get a sense of local views concerning the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States. Although not a scientific sampling, t [...]	2008-11-16 03:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3626	ANBAR GEO DIRECTOR'S PREPARATIONS FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. This message is Sensitive But Unclassified; handle accordingly. Not for distribution on the Internet. SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) On October 25, Anbar Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) Director Khalid Rajab met with PRT PolOff and MNF-West to discu [...]	2008-11-16 05:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3628	US-IRAQ DIALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS IMPEDIMENTS TO BUSINESS AND [...] (SBU) On November 1, Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt, Deputy Commerce Secretary John Sullivan, and Assistant US Trade Representative Mike Delaney participated in the Iraqi-U.S. Dialogue on Business and Investment (DBIC). During the day-long event, which also included American and Iraq [...]	2008-11-16 06:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV CVIS IZ
08BAGHDAD3629	BAGHDAD REQUESTS PARTICIPATION IN IIP'S STRATEGIC SPEAKER [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Baghdad requests participation in the Speaker and Specialist Program by hosting Walter Russell Mead in early January. Post would like to organize a program which utilizes Mead to engage Iraqis who are interested and engaged in international issues. Our audience will consis [...]	2008-11-16 06:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD363	QASSIM DAOUD ON POSSIBLE ALLIANCE TO END ALL [...] (C) Summary: Shia Independent CoR member Qassim Daoud told us February 5 that he has had several meetings in recent days with senior ISCI leaders about the formation of a "National Front" CoR grouping that would alter Iraq's current political landscape and end the government of Prime Minister a [...]	2008-02-07 14:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3630	IRAQI GOVERNMENT REQUESTS AUSTRALIA, ROMANIA, EL SALVADOR AND ESTONIA PROVIDE "NON-COMBAT ASSISTANCE" BEYOND 31 DECEMBER [...] (C) On November 13, Iraqi National Security Advisor (NSA) Dr. Mowaffaq Rubaie issued invitation letters to Australia, El Salvador, Estonia and Romania, thanking them for their "selfless sacrifices in assisting Iraq in establishing itself as a democracy" and inviting their continued support and [...]	2008-11-16 08:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ ES RO AS EN
08BAGHDAD3631	SHIA FADHILAH PARTY SUPPORTIVE OF SOFA, SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: Continuing his intensive diplomatic outreach to gather support for the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),the Ambassador updated the Fadhilah party's Secretary-General, Hashim al-Hashimi; Council of Representatives (CoR) bloc leader Hassan al-Shimmari; and CoR member Karim Yacoubi [...]	2008-11-16 10:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD3632	KIRKUK LEADERS' DISCUSSIONS WITH SPECIAL ADVISOR, [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) This is the first of two cables on November 10 meetings Senior Advisor (S/A) Krajeski had with Kirkuki Arab, Turkmen, and Kurdish provincial leaders' views on Kirkuk-specific issues. This cable reports on Kirkuki comments on the SOFA and A [...]	2008-11-16 10:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3633	COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER NOT KEEN ON INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary: Iraq Minister of Communications Farouk Abdel Qadir told ECOUNS on November 5 that "Iraqi people suffer from poor quality of service," so the Ministry of Communications (MoC) must provide not only infrastructure and clear laws, but also strict monitoring of service quality. Admitti [...]	2008-11-16 11:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON ECPS KINT IZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD3634	MAYSAN DEPUTY PC CHAIR LAUDS CONTINUED USG PRESENCE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Da,wa provincial party head and Deputy Provincial Council Chair Latif Abud Kaseem told PRT members that Maysan has benefited from the increased USG presence in the province, and emphasized the need for continuing USG traini [...]	2008-11-16 12:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR PINR EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3636	IRAQ PRT TEAM LEADERS CONFERENCE: TRANSITION IN 2009 (SBU) [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14-15, 2008, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Team Leaders convened in Baghdad for the quarterly Team Leaders Conference. The theme of transition animated this Team Leaders Conference. Presenters highlighted the need for continuing State Department-Department o [...]	2008-11-16 13:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREZ IZ
08BAGHDAD3638	KIRKUK LEADERS' DISCUSSIONS WITH SPECIAL ADVISOR, [...] (SBU) This is the second of two PRT Kirkuk cables reporting meetings of Senior Advisor (S/A) Krajeski with Kirkuki Arab, Turkmen, and Kurdish provincial leaders. This message reports their views on the dispute over agricultural land contracts under Article 140, and on Prime Minister Maliki's [...]	2008-11-16 14:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3639	KARBALA TRIBES DEMONSTRATE IN FAVOR OF SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 1,500 tribesmen demonstrated in downtown Karbala on the morning of November 15 to show their support for the Support Councils favored by Prime Minister Maliki and his provincial protege, Governor Aqeel Mahmoud al-Khazali. The demonstration -- apparently organized [...]	2008-11-16 14:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD364	BARZANI: NO PEACE, NO STABILITY WITHOUT ARTICLE 140 [...] (S) Masood Barzani February 4 warned that external and internal pressures were aligning to stall the Constitution's Article 140 process for resolving the status of Kirkuk and other disputed territories. The Kurds would not accept this. If Article 140 was dead, the KRG President said, the Con [...]	2008-02-07 15:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU IZ
08BAGHDAD3643	ELECTION COMMISSIONERS ASSURE AMBASSADOR BASRAH [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Chair Faraj al-Haydari and Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Judge Kasim al-Aboodi told the Ambassador on November 11 the Basrah region formation initiative (reftel) would not derail provincial elections and that preparations for [...]	2008-11-18 02:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3646	UPBEAT FM ZEBARI HAILS CABINET SOFA APPROVAL "A [...] (S) Summary: A beaming Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari greeted Ambassador Crocker with a hearty "Mabruk" November 16, a few hours after the Iraqi Council of Ministers (CoM) had approved the SOFA by a near-unanimous vote. Zebari, in a decidedly upbeat mood that was a striking contrast from hi [...]	2008-11-18 06:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3649	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT DISCUSSES THE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a pull-aside at the Dialogue on Business and Investment Climate (DBIC) on November 1, 2008, Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt met with the Government of Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Services, al-Issawi, and members of his staff. Discussion focused on al-Issa [...]	2008-11-18 13:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD3650	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS WITH SRSG [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 1, 2008, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt, accompanied by Deputy Assistant Secretary Andrew Baukol and Treasury Attache Ged Smith, met with UN Secretary General Special Representative Staffan de Mistura and members of his team in the United Nations offices [...]	2008-11-18 13:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PREF IZ
08BAGHDAD3651	KARBALA RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY AND STRUCTURE [...] (U) Summary: The imams of the al-Husayn and al-Abbas Shrines are the most-senior religious figures in Karbala. They were appointed by Iraq's highest Shi'a authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who delegates the selection of imams at other mosques and husayniyahs to a committee. Except at [...]	2008-11-18 14:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KISL PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3652	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT,S DISCUSSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Secretary of Treasury Robert Kimmitt had a series of meetings with key Iraqi economic officials at events surrounding the Dialogue on Business and Investment Climate (DBIC),including a large dinner hosted by Finance Minister Bayan Jabr at his home in the International [...]	2008-11-18 14:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD3653	D/S KIMMITT AND MINISTER SHAHRISTANI REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 1, 2008, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt, accompanied by Deputy Assistant Secretary Andrew Baukol and Treasury Attache Ged Smith, met with Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq's Minister of Oil at his office in the International Zone. A wide range of topics were [...]	2008-11-18 14:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN ENRG IZ
08BAGHDAD3654	LOCAL TRIBAL SUPPORT COUNCIL SHEIKHS STAGE [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL) Summary: On November 15, a variety of influential tribal leaders incited a demonstration to protest recent Kurdish statements against the tribal Support Councils (SC). The peaceful demonstration of more than 1,000 people was designed to [...]	2008-11-19 05:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3655	KARBALA, IRAN DUEL OVER PILGRIMS [...] (C) Summary: In October, after Karbala's Hotel and Restaurant League raised prices on Iranian visitors to the province, Tehran reportedly closed access by its own citizens to two of the three major border crossings used by pilgrims. The flow of Persian pilgrims into Iraq fell from an average [...]	2008-11-19 06:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3664	DIWANIYAH RESIDENTS' OPINIONS ON PROPOSED SOFA [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable summarizes comments about the proposed SOFA agreement made to the PRT by Diwaniyah city residents, including local officials. Some remarks were made during meetings scheduled by the PRT for other purposes, while most were made during conversations with PRT Locally Em [...]	2008-11-19 14:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3665	KIRKUK: IRAQI TURKMEN FRONT CUTS LOOSE MINOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leaders of the Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) have decided to dissolve their coalition with other Turkmen political parties. ITF leaders apparently think the ITF brand is strong enough they can go it alone in the upcoming provincial elections. The main cause of the split was financi [...]	2008-11-20 03:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL TU IZ
08BAGHDAD367	PRT-WASIT; MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE [...] (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary. On Jan 31 at FOB Delta PRT Team Leader (TL) met two Sadrist Trend representatives: Ahmed Hasan Ebrah, Deputy Chairman of the Wasit Provincial Council (PC),and Ahmed Khazaim, Chairman of Al Kut City Council. Ebrah (1) relayed a message from Sadrist Trend leadershi [...]	2008-02-07 15:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3671	IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES NTM-I AND OTHER ISSUES AT [...] (S) Summary. At the November 16, Iraqi NSC meeting, NSA Rubaie unexpectedly raised the future of the NATO Training Mission Iraq (NTM-I). When the NSC became bogged down on the issue of the wide range of other possible areas of cooperation proposed by NATO in addition to the training already [...]	2008-11-20 10:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3673	MAYSAN GOVERNOR'S ADVISOR TO BE SADRIST CANDIDATE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Sadrist Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi, Maysan Provincial Director of Reconstruction and Development and close advisor to the Governor, admitted to PRT Team Leader (TL) that he will be the Sadrist candidate for Governor of Maysan. [...]	2008-11-20 12:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3674	PRT SALAH-AD-DIN: SUNNI TRIBAL SHEIKS DEMONSTRATE [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah-ad-Din reporting cable. It is sensitive but unclassified; protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Sunni tribal sheikhs from across Salah-ad-Din (SaD) province staged a peaceful demonstration in support of the Status of Force [...]	2008-11-20 12:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3677	ANBAR GEO: PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS WILL GO WELL [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Anbar Governorate Electoral Office Director (GEO) believes upcoming provincial elections will go well in Anbar. The GEO is conducting public meetings in Anbar to educate candidates in the parties and the public about [...]	2008-11-21 07:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3678	NEW GOI AMNESTY LAW VOTED DOWN BY MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki proposed a new amnesty law during the November 4 Cabinet meeting, but ministers voted against it during the November 18 Cabinet meeting. According to Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim, although the PM was supporting the law, key ministers spoke agains [...]	2008-11-21 12:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PINS PHUM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3679	NAJAF SADRISTS DISORGANIZED BUT STILL HAVE [...] (C) Security in Najaf Province remains stable, but recent IED attacks suggest that the province's Sadrist militants are still active, albeit weakened. In a series of meetings with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on November 17-18, local Iraqi Security Forces (ISF),politicians, and tribal sheikhs [...]	2008-11-21 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD3680	PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION AND FOOD SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Improved physical security in Iraq has led to dramatically improved food security, with the number of "food insecure" Iraqis falling to 930,000 in 2008 from a high of more than 4 million in 2005. Although Iraq's Public Distribution System (PDS) is expensive and woefully ineffici [...]	2008-11-21 13:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREF EAID ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD3681	ANBAR: THE COWS COME HOME [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary: Respected women in the community pitched a plan to form a women's cooperative for dairy products to help widows and divorcees in the Anbar province, in an effort to raise up this marginalized sector of society that is considered parti [...]	2008-11-21 13:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD3682	PROVINCIAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION PRIORITIES IN MUTHANNA [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: On November 17, the Muthanna Provincial Investment Commission (PIC) met with the PRT's EconOff and business development adviser to discuss the PIC's priorities and investment strategy. In contrast to the agricultural focus in Mut [...]	2008-11-21 13:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREF EAID ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD3695	SENIOR SISTANI REP IN DHI QAR EXPRESSES CITIZEN [...] (C) Summary: PRT met with Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,s senior representative in Dhi Qar, Sayyid Majeed Jassim, on November 18. Sayyid Majeed and PRT had agreed at a previous lunch to collaborate to assist mosques in poor neighborhoods. After discussing the mosque project, Sayyid Majeed expressed [...]	2008-11-23 13:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD3698	2009 BUDGET: FALLING OIL PRICES MEAN CUTS, DEFICIT, DFI [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite pressures from key members of the Maliki Government for fiscal largesse, Finance Minister Bayan Jabr cut the proposed 2009 budget while it was under consideration by the Council of Ministers (CoM),where it secured approval before moving on to the Council of Representa [...]	2008-11-23 16:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3699	SOFA: VIEWS FROM OUTSIDE THE GREEN ZONE -- IRAQIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three longstanding Iraqi contacts, representing a cross-section of Iraqi society (director-general, police chief, and tribal sheikh) based outside the Green Zone, said Iraqi people wanted, and deserved, more details on the SOFA under discussion in the Iraqi parliament. The grou [...]	2008-11-23 16:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD3701	KARBALA RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: PREPARATORY LEVEL [...] (U) Summary: Karbala has seven Islamic preparatory academies, whose all-male students often go on to attend one of the 21 religious schools comprising the Hawza, or seminary center, in Najaf. The academies provide free education to their students, some of whom also receive room and board. En [...]	2008-11-24 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD3703	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-11-24 17:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3704	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Air Force who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3. [...]	2008-11-24 17:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD371	PRT MAYSAN: GENERAL MEHDI ANGLES TO BE NEXT POLICE [...] (C) On 01 February 2008, the Maysan PRT met with Major General Mehdi al-Gharrawi at his Baghdad residence. Mehdi, a former commander of the Public Order Brigade in Fallujah, hails originally from Maysan province and also has a home in al-'Amara. Discussion focused on security in Maysan, notab [...]	2008-02-08 15:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3710	IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. DECIDE TO ESTABLISH COORDINATING [...] (C) The November 19, Baghdad, Turkey/Iraq/U.S. security trilateral on combating the PKK resulted in an agreement to form a trilateral committee to be based in Baghdad within ten days to share intelligence and discuss operational coordination and also saw successful participation by KRG repres [...]	2008-11-25 05:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ TU PREL MARR GR
08BAGHDAD3712	SONS OF IRAQ TRANSITION IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary. Transition of Sons of Iraq contracts and payment of the 50,135 registered Baghdad SOI is nearly complete, with only a few reports of dicrepancies or problems. Beginning in December, the GOI will proceed with SOI registration in Diyala, Qadisiya, Wasit and Babil in preparation f [...]	2008-11-25 08:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3718	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate of the Iraqi Armed Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3. [...]	2008-11-25 10:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3722	WASIT: SADRIST LEADER SUPPORTS SOFA, MALIKI [...] (C / / REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: Over 1,000 people participated in a November 20 pro-SOFA rally in Kut, organized by Sheikh Mohammed Reda al-Numani, an associate of Prime Minister Maliki and a long-time friend of the al-Sadr family. On the preceding day, PRT, 41st Fires Brigade, and Iraqi A [...]	2008-11-25 13:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3723	KARBALA'S TRIBES AND THE SUPPORT COUNCILS [...] (C) Summary: Karbala's tribes are an enduring source of order and security. They participate in the tribal Support Councils initiated by Prime Minister Maliki, but should be viewed as "rented" rather than "owned" by the Da'wa Party. Tribal backing, key to candidates' success in the provincial [...]	2008-11-25 13:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3725	COR PASSES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: The Iraqi parliament passed the previously languishing High Commission of Human Rights law on November 16. After little movement since the February 13 second reading and some opposition since then, the law passed with the vast majority of the votes, likely due to members' fo [...]	2008-11-25 15:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD3729	IRAQI OIL MINISTER STRIKES A DEAL ON KRG OIL [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi and KRG officials have reached a preliminary deal that will allow the first oil from KRG fields to be exported. Critical details, including final agreement on revenue sharing, apparently remain to be finalized. The deal does not cover the broader question of the hydrocarbo [...]	2008-11-25 17:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV EINV EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD3730	63RD UNGA: DEMARCHE ON FIRST COMMITTEE COMPLIANCE [...] (SBU) On November 23, we conveyed reftel points to Ambassador Talal Al-Khudairi, MFA's IO Chief, urging that Iraq support the First Committee resolution on Compliance when it comes before the UNGA Plenary. In a November 25 follow-up phone conversation, Al-Khudairi said Iraq had followed th [...]	2008-11-25 17:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MNUC PARM PREL UNGA IZ
08BAGHDAD3731	USAID IRAQ MISSION WAIVERS AND EXCEPTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID/Iraq requests waivers to collocation and setback requirements required by the Secure Embassy Construction and Counter-Terrorism Act (SECCA) of 1999. Additionally, USAID/Iraq requests exceptions to the following OSPB standards: 12 FAH-5 H-433.1-1 paragraph (c),clear z [...]	2008-11-25 17:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC AMGT ABLD EAID
08BAGHDAD3734	TREBIL PORT OF ENTRY: YET A LONG ROAD TO SECURITY [...] (C) Investigating reports of orphaned radiation sources at the Trebil Port of Entry (POE),a joint USG/GOI interagency team conducted a POE assessment on November 6, 2008. Although it faces a long list of infrastructure and budgetary woes, Trebil POE sends approximately 12 billion Iraqi Dinar [...]	2008-11-26 12:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ETRD PREL PARM MARR PTER ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3736	IRAQ BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP OVERSHADOWED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The third session of the Iraq Neighbors Border Security Working Group (BSWG) produced little forward motion toward practical measures to improve security on or within Iraq's borders, although its final communiqu did include some proposed measures that will be helpful if implemente [...]	2008-11-26 17:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ SY TU IR
08BAGHDAD3744	SUPPORT COUNCILS: WHAT THEY ARE [...] (U) In recent months, Support Councils (majilis al-isnad) established by Prime Minister Maliki in various regions have become an important and controversial part of Iraq's political landscape. Their implications for the United States range from the strategic (the balance of central and provi [...]	2008-11-28 15:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3747	IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES TRILATERAL MEETING WITH U.S. [...] (S) Summary. At the November 23 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (NSC),with Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Rafi Essawi sitting in as chair for the Prime Minister, the Council received a report from Minister of State for National Security Affairs Shirwan Waeili on the recent U.S.- [...]	2008-11-28 16:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3749	FIRST YEAR WRAP UP: OPA'S QUICK RESPONSE FUND HELPS PRTS [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Baghdad's Office of Provincial Affairs (OPA) recently concluded the first year of its $135 million Quick Response Fund (QRF) program. QRF was created to finance Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) projects designed to promote socio-economic development and stability througho [...]	2008-11-29 09:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SOCI PREL ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD375	FEBRUARY 3 MCNS EXAMINES SECURITY IN MOSUL AND [...] (S REL AS UK) Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki opened the meeting by outlining the agenda and asking for a report from MOD on the security situation in Mosul and the outcome of the Crisis Action Cell (CAD) held in Mosul on Saturday, February 2. The MCNS also discussed reform of the administrati [...]	2008-02-09 09:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3751	DA'WA RISING IN THE PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS? [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa party appears poised to make gains in the provincial elections in Najaf and Wasit provinces at the expense of its Baghdad coalition partner, ISCI. November meetings between Senior Advisor Gray and candidates in these provinces indicate that almost everyone ex [...]	2008-11-29 15:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3752	KARBALA: OFF THE SOFA, ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL [...] (C) Summary: With the SOFA having been approved by the Council of Representatives (CoR),Provincial Council (PC) candidates in Karbala are poised to launch their campaigns. Few incumbents, including Da'wa-affiliated Governor Aqeel Mahmoud al-Khazali, are running directly under the aegis of es [...]	2008-11-29 17:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3758	MUTHANNA OFFICIALS' MEASURED OPINION OF TRIBAL [...] (C) Local government officials in Muthanna expressed their concerns about the legality of how the Maliki government established the tribal support councils (SCs) to Senior Advisor Gray during his November 24-25 visit, while tribal sheikhs stressed how important SCs are to assuring a voice for [...]	2008-11-30 11:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3759	MUTHANNA GOVERNOR AND PC CHAIRMAN DISCUSS [...] (C) The governor and Provincial Council chairman told Senior Advisor Gray and Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Muthanna staff on November 24 that the elections will be successful and free of violence, the SOFA agreement should pass, and foreign investment will continue to be a top priorit [...]	2008-11-30 11:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ ECON EINV
08BAGHDAD376	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY GATES VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (S) Mr. Secretary: Since your visit in December (reftel),we have seen further progress on security: CLCs, now renamed the Sons of Iraq, continue to flourish; and the Iraqi people's confidence in the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) is increasing, evidenced by greater commercial activity in urban [...]	2008-02-09 11:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD3763	EPRT BAGHDAD: IDP RETURNS IN SAB AL BOUR -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two years ago, Sab al Bour was a virtual ghost town, with fewer than 2,000 people of a population that had numbered 58,000 in 2003 (and an almost equal mix of Sunni and Shia). The village could now be a model of reconstruction and reconciliation for other Iraqi cities. Over 3,5 [...]	2008-11-30 16:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL PREF
08BAGHDAD3764	IRAQI-KUWAITI BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (S/REL MNFI) In a November 26 meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Haj Hamoud told Senior Advisor Gordon Gray that the proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for notifying Kuwait prior to undertaking a wreck-clearing project in the Khor Abdullah (KAA) waterway remained mired in the bureaucracy [...]	2008-11-30 16:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU
08BAGHDAD3765	SALAH AD-DIN RESIDENTS WORRIED ABOUT PERCEIVED [...] (S/NF) Summary: Judges and community activists in the mostly Sunni province of Salah ad-Din expressed concern about Iranian meddling in Iraq during a visit by Iran Watcher to the province Nov. 22-25, but struggled to point to specific instances of Iranian influence aside from Iranian products [...]	2008-11-30 17:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD377	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-02-09 12:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3771	PRT SALAH AD DIN: INDEPENDENT MEDIA FACE [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Government officials and insurgents continue to intimidate and harass journalists in Salah ad Din (SaD). Many journalists associate themselves with powerful clients who can offer protection, such as political part [...]	2008-12-01 15:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KPAO PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3772	SUPPORT COUNCILS MAY IGNITE KIRKUK'S POWDER KEG [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) On November 3, a delegation of Arab leaders from Kirkuk province met with PM Maliki in Baghdad to propose forming Tribal Support Councils (referred to as "Majlis Al Isnad") in Kirkuk province. Arab leaders claim [...]	2008-12-01 16:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3773	SISTANI PRESSURES IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO CONDUCT SOFA [...] (C) We have seen various statements in recent days claiming to represent Grand Ayatollah Sistani's dissatisfaction with the bilateral SoFA recently approved by the Iraqi parliament. Some of the reporting appears to be false. However, a sermon by a Sistani aide that noted problems - from the [...]	2008-12-01 16:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3774	SALAH AD DIN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS PART I: PARTIES [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Political entities in Salah ad Din (SaD) province have been working intensively to forge alliances for upcoming provincial elections. The Governor, Deputy Governor, and Provincial Director of Police (PDOP) a [...]	2008-12-01 17:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3775	SALAH AD DIN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS PART II: [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) In addition to National Sunni Arab political entities, Shi'a and Kurdish parties, representing minority populations in Salah Ad Din (SaD) province, are preparing for provincial elections there (ref C). Form [...]	2008-12-01 17:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3776	KRG DIVIDED: SPECIAL ADVISOR KRAJESKI DISCUSSES [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) During Senior Advisor Krajeski's recent visit to the Kurdistan Region, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and non-KRG interlocutors suggested that the power struggle between the two dominant Kurdish political pa [...]	2008-12-01 18:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3778	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Air Force who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3. The [...]	2008-12-02 08:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL

08BAGHDAD378	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-02-09 12:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3782	PARLIAMENT'S REFORM RESOLUTION PRESENTS REBUKE TO [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On November 27 Iraq's parliament passed a non-binding political reform resolution in conjunction with the U.S. - Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA). This resolution was a key element of a political deal to reassure the Sunni [...]	2008-12-02 14:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3783	IRAQ BUDGET EXECUTION TO IMPROVE WITH NEW ACCOUNTING [...] Summary: The GOI will soon release a new accounting manual that will establish uniform accounting practices at all levels of public administration. The manual is the work of experienced Iraqi civil servants, supported by U.S. Treasury advisors and experts from the UK and World Bank. Making of [...]	2008-12-02 15:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3784	THE SIMMER BEFORE THE BOIL? SPECIAL ADVISOR [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Senior Advisor (S/A) for Northern Iraq Thomas Krajeski engaged Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and non-KRG interlocutors on KRG relations with the Government of Iraq (GOI),upcoming provincial elections, arti [...]	2008-12-02 16:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3785	BASRA CALM AFTER SOFA APPROVAL [...] (U) This is an REO Basra reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Basra province remains calm after the approval of SOFA by the Council of Representatives (CoR) on November 27. Immediately after passage, the Iraqi Army 14th Division Commander had placed his troops on high ale [...]	2008-12-02 16:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ASEC KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD3787	RRT ERBIL -- THE LIGHTS ARE ON -- KRG BENEFITS FROM PRIVATE [...] Summary: Electricity supply has jumped in Erbil Province, thanks partly to a privately-owned power plant fueled by gas from the Dana Gas/Crescent Petroleum gas field. Private power generation could produce as much as 1,900 MW by 2010 when plants in Dohuk and Sulaimaniyah are projected to come [...]	2008-12-03 08:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ENRG ECON EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3789	IRAQI POLITICS: SHIFTING ALLIANCES AND THE [...] (C) Summary: The grueling Iraqi political debates that eventually yielded consensus on the provincial elections law and the ratification of the Status of Forces Agreement pointed to an evolution in Iraqi politics in late 2008 as opposed to the way they worked in 2004-06. The contrasts are ge [...]	2008-12-03 12:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3791	IRAQI POLITICS: SHIFTING ALLIANCES AND THE [...] (C) Summary: The grueling Iraqi political debates that eventually yielded consensus on the provincial elections law and the ratification of the Status of Forces Agreement pointed to an evolution in Iraqi politics in late 2008 as opposed to the way they worked in 2004-06. The contrasts are ge [...]	2008-12-03 12:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3793	TURKISH-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS: FIRST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi, Turkish and U.S. officials met November 29 in Baghdad to discuss modalities of the trilateral Turkey-Iraq-U.S. security committee/working group established at the November 19 ministerial security trilat (reftel). The failure of Kurdish Regional Government and Iraqi Border [...]	2008-12-03 13:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ TU PREL MARR
08BAGHDAD3794	STATUS OF COALITION PARTNERS IN IRAQ; RECOMMENDED DEMARCHE FOR AUSTRALIA [...] (S) This is an action request, see paragraph 11. 2. (S) Summary: As the GOI moves beyond the process of gaining agreement for the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement, it is focusing on the terms for the continued presence of four Coalition partners (Australia, Romania, El Salvador and Estonia) be [...]	2008-12-03 15:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ ES RO AS EN
08BAGHDAD3795	KUWAITI AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON THE TASKS AHEAD [...] (C) Kuwaiti Ambassador to Iraq, Ali Al-Mou'min, told Senior Advisor Gordon Gray November 29 that Iraq and Kuwait must move quickly -- at least on issues where they agree in principle -- to show their respective publics the benefits of strengthened bilateral ties. Al-Mou'min expressed some f [...]	2008-12-04 06:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ KU IR
08BAGHDAD3796	GOI DELIVERS ASSURANCES TO MEK, TAKES CUSTODY OF [...] (C) Summary: A GOI delegation led by Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim conveyed the GOI's humanitarian assurances to the USG to the Camp Ashraf (Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK)) leadership during a November 26 visit. The GOI had been reluctant to officially convey the assurances, concerned tha [...]	2008-12-04 06:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PTER PINS PREF IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3798	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Force who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3 [...]	2008-12-04 08:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3799	IRAQ AGRICULTURE: RAIN FUELS EXPECTATION OF NORMAL GRAIN [...] (SBU) Substantial general, at times locally very heavy, rain arrived 29 November, providing much needed moisture for rain-fed wheat and barley production in the 2009/10 crop year. Based on accumulated rainfall data from the Ministry of Agriculture, this event provided ample moisture for seedi [...]	2008-12-04 08:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD3804	HIGH COMMISSIONER GUTERRES BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON [...] (C) November 25, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres met with the Ambassador to discuss UNHCR's assessment of refugee returns to Iraq, the plight of internally displaced persons and the UN's plan to increase activities countrywide. High Commissioner Guterres announ [...]	2008-12-04 12:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3806	KARBALA: JAAFARI'S CAMPAIGN STARTS EARLY [...] (C) Summary: Former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's National Reform Party (Islah) papered three Karbala neighborhoods with handbills on December 1. Other parties here plan to sue Islah for jumping the gun; the official start date for campaigning is December 15. Among Islah's candidates [...]	2008-12-04 12:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3807	IRAQ WTO ACCESSION UPDATE: BACK TO SQUARE ONE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Customs and tariff legislation, a key but politically sensitive component of Iraq's WTO Legislative Action Plan, is once again apparently stalled within the Ministry of Finance (MOF). An exhaustive tariff schedule is nearly ready. However, senior MOF officials oppose the schedul [...]	2008-12-04 12:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3808	KURDISH WAR OF WORDS WITH MALIKI ESCALATES OVER [...] (C) Summary/Comment: A war of words between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG),precipitated by Maliki's plan to create Tribal Support Councils in areas disputed by the KRG and the GOI, has steadily escalated in the past week, drawing attention to a range [...]	2008-12-04 13:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3811	COUNTERING HOSTAGE-TAKING IN IRAQ [...] (S) SUMMARY. Embassy Baghdad's Office of Hostage Affairs (OHA) has provided critical support to the Embassy and MNF-I in the recovery of hostages captured by a multitude of criminal/insurgent organizations in Iraq. Formed in 2004 as the Hostage Working Group (HWG),OHA has three primary role [...]	2008-12-04 14:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ASEC IZ MOPS PGOV PINS PTER
08BAGHDAD3818	A TALE OF TWO TRADE SHOWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over back-to-back weeks in November, the Iraqi Ministry of Trade (MOT) hosted two dramatically different trade shows. The six-day International Investment and Reconstruction Workshop (IIRW),aimed at both entrepreneurs and the average Iraqi consumer, showcased Iraqi products and [...]	2008-12-05 12:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL EINV PINR IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3819	TURKISH ENVOY DISCUSSES VISIT OF PRESIDENT GUL TO [...] (C) During a two-week stint in Iraq in which he focused mainly on supporting efforts to gain a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, Turkish Special Envoy for Iraq Murat Ozcelik told the Ambassador that leading Shi'a cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani agreed to a visit by Turkish President Gul to [...]	2008-12-05 14:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ TU PREL
08BAGHDAD3825	RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN PROTEST OF U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN [...] (S) Summary: The Russian MFA has filed protests in Washington and Moscow regarding a November 19 traffic accident on the Baghdad airport highway in which the GoR alleges a U.S. military vehicle forced a Russian diplomatic vehicle off the road, resulting in injuries to the passengers. After a [...]	2008-12-07 07:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ RS
08BAGHDAD3826	ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT: MAINTAINING IRAQ'S "UNDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Embassy continues to make progress on its action plan concerning the Arab League Boycott (ALB) of Israel. To date in 2008, U.S. firms have reported five requests from Government of Iraq (GOI) entities to comply with this foreign boycott, down significantly from previous yea [...]	2008-12-07 07:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KBCT ETRD PREL EFIN ECON EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3827	MAYSAN: FADHILAH LEADER UPBEAT ON ELECTIONS [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Ali Kadhem Khalaf, Fadhilah provincial party head and one of two Deputy Provincial Council Chairmen, told the PRT that future elections will strengthen democracy in Iraq as newly-elected local and provincial officials continue to imp [...]	2008-12-07 09:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON EINV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD383	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-02-10 02:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3833	KARBALA SECURITY FORCES IN HUMAN RIGHTS SPOTLIGHT [...] (C) Summary: Karbala's Iraqi Police (IP) commander has suspended from duty 134 personnel, including six senior officers, for alleged human-rights abuses. The local head of former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's Islah (Reform) Party has also claimed that police beat and verbally abused 12 [...]	2008-12-07 15:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD3834	BUDGET EXECUTION: WHAT THE IRAQIS SAY, OR FAIL TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite improved results in provincial budget execution in 2008, the Government of Iraq (GOI) and provincial government offices continue to be hampered by insufficient staffing levels, unclear policies and poor communication. Representatives from the two groups briefed PRT and [...]	2008-12-08 08:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV SOCI PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3835	ENCOURAGING CREDIBLE VOICES TO COUNTER VIOLENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Few places have suffered the ravages of violent extremism more than Iraq. There is a wealth of powerful and persuasive Iraqi voices that speak out against this violence. In coordination with Mission elements, the Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) and Provincial Reconstruction Tea [...]	2008-12-08 11:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD3836	TALABANI GIVES PUK DEPUTIES EQUAL AUTHORITY - TALK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leaders have denied press reports that PUK General Secretary Jalal Talabani has been removed from power. As a result of recent PUK leadership meetings, Talabani empowered both KRG VP Kosrat Rasoul and DPM Barham Salih with equal authority to ma [...]	2008-12-08 13:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3842	MUTHANNA OVERVIEW OF PRESS FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Muthanna Province, while not suffering from high-profile overt violations of human rights and press freedom, shows serious deficiencies in each area. The province's media are controlled by either the national government, p [...]	2008-12-10 09:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3843	MUTHANNA'S ONLY PRISON: OVERCROWDED AND [...] This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: The PRT's acting Rule of Law (RoL) Advisor conducted an initial capacity and needs assessment at Muthanna's only prison and found an old, overcrowded, and ill-equipped facility. The prison's management is eager to accept coalition [...]	2008-12-10 09:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL PGOV EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD3844	NINEWA: KEROSENE SHORTAGE THREATENS AGAIN [...] (C) Over the last two winters, Ninewa residents suffered from a severe shortage of kerosene, which they use for cooking and home heating in the province's sub-freezing winters. Despite efforts by the Director of the Northern Oil Products Distribution Company (NOPDC) to obtain either larger al [...]	2008-12-10 09:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG PGOV PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3845	KIRKUK: CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS FORCE OBEIDI TO [...] (C) Summary: Ahmed Obeidi from the Iraqi Republican Gathering (IRG) was removed as Coordinator of the Arab Unity Bloc (AUB) in Kirkuk, due to allegations of stealing IRG funds targeted to the AUB. Obeidi's membership in the IRG was also revoked. Sheikh Khary al-Assi took his place as the new [...]	2008-12-10 09:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3847	TURKISH-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS: FIRST [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-10 09:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ TU PREL MARR
08BAGHDAD3849	MAYSAN MARSH PRINCE DISCUSSES POST-SOFA ISSUES [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a December 6 meeting with PRT members, prominent Maysani Sheikh Abed al-Kareem al-Mohammedawi (aka the Prince of the Marshes) lauded the timely passage of the SOFA and recommended that the U.S. should now look for opportu [...]	2008-12-10 09:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3851	CORRECTED COPY: MAYSAN MARSH PRINCE DISCUSSES [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a December 6 meeting with PRT members, prominent Maysani Sheikh Abed al-Kareem al-Mohammedawi (aka the Prince of the Marshes) lauded the timely passage of the SOFA and recommended that the U.S. should now look for opportu [...]	2008-12-10 12:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3852	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD BRIEFS VP HASHIMI ON IRAQI [...] (C) On December 2, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad told Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi that Iraq must request a new United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to extend Chapter VII protection over its financial assets. Claiming that "no one is satisfied [...]	2008-12-10 12:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3853	KHALILZAD AND ISCI LEADER AL-HAKIM DISCUSS IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: Leading Shi'a politician Abdelaziz al-Hakim, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),told visiting USUN Amb. Khalilzad that his party would step up political reform efforts in the coming year, hinting that ISCI might support a vote of no-confidence against the Mali [...]	2008-12-10 12:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3855	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD DISCUSSES PROTECTION OF IRAQI [...] (C) On December 1, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad discussed with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki next steps to protect Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) assets through a new United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR). Khalilzad urged Iraq to quickly submit a dr [...]	2008-12-10 13:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ
08BAGHDAD3856	RRT Erbil: Nawroz TV Co-Op Makes News [...] (U) A two-week TV co-op project in the United States gave millions of people in Iraq's Kurdistan Region an extraordinary window into the workings of American democracy. From October 27 to November 7, the three-person crew from Kurdistan's Nawroz TV visited Washington, Chicago, and San Diego, [...]	2008-12-10 13:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL SOCI OEXC OIIP KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD3857	IRAQ-TURKEY-US TRILATERAL: SIGNS OF COMMITMENT; NO [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-10 15:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ TU PREL MARR
08BAGHDAD3859	MINISTRY OF PLANNING HOSTS THIRD PROVINCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 5-6, the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) held its third conference on provincial development entitled "Provincial Development Strategy and Provincial Development Plan Institutionalization Conference." During the conference, each province was [...]	2008-12-11 07:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV EFIN EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD3860	BABIL: WILL MODERATE SADRISTS EMERGE IN ELECTIONS? [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Sadrist leaders in Babil Province believe that a more moderate Sadrist presence may emerge if Muqtada al-Sadr's followers comply with his recent directive to participate in the upcoming provincial elections. Da'wa provincial leaders are hopeful about the prospects for co [...]	2008-12-11 08:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3861	SADRIST MAYSAN PC CHAIR: WE WANT TO WORK WITH THE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Meeting with the PRT and Coalition Forces Commanders on December 4, Sadrist Maysan Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Abdul Jabbar Wahid Homaydi expressed the PC's appreciation for U.S. reconstruction assistance. He said th [...]	2008-12-11 08:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3865	CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS DESTRUCTION (CWD) ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: With one of the highest levels of landmine and unexploded ordnance contamination in the world, and possibly millions of small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) in the hands of insurgent groups, militias and private citizens, Iraq has struggled to make progress in reducin [...]	2008-12-11 11:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3869	ANBAR GEO HOLDS PRE-ELECTION TOWN HALL MEETING [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Political leaders, candidates, and local notables attended a pre-election town hall meeting led by the Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) in Ramadi on December 4. The GEO called the meeting to discuss the rules and responsibilities o [...]	2008-12-11 13:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3870	BASRA REGION REFERENDUM SUPPORTERS SEEK SIGNATURES [...] (C) Meetings held in early December between Senior Advisor Gray and a range of Basra leaders suggest that organizers of one-province region formation will have difficulty gathering enough signatures to force a referendum and are unlikely to achieve their ultimate objective of winning a referen [...]	2008-12-11 13:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3871	ANBAR GEO HOLDS PRE-ELECTION TOWN HALL MEETING [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Political leaders, candidates, and local notables attended a pre-election town hall meeting led by the Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) in Ramadi on December 4. The GEO called the meeting to discuss the rules and responsibilities o [...]	2008-12-11 13:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3874	RRT ERBIL: BUYING SOCIAL CONSENSUS IN THE KRG [...] (U) This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Government oversight over religious affairs and civil society organizations in the Kurdistan Region is cemented by financial ties that bind these organizations to the government in a client/ [...]	2008-12-11 14:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3875	NINEWA: GEO CHAIRMAN CONCERNED OVER PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-11 15:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3880	FIVE COMMITTEE TALKS - POSSIBLE ROADMAP FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Participants in the Five Committee Talks on constitutional issues have told us the process has been positive, hard-hitting and honest. Heightened Shia-Kurd tensions, the confrontation in Khanaqin (reftel A,B,C and D) led to a Kurdish President Barzani visit to Baghdad at the end [...]	2008-12-12 13:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3881	FIVE COMMITTEE TALKS - POSSIBLE ROADMAP FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Participants in the Five Committee Talks on constitutional issues have told us the process has been positive, hard-hitting and honest. Heightened Shia-Kurd tensions, the confrontation in Khanaqin (reftel A,B,C and D) led to a Kurdish President Barzani visit to Baghdad at the end [...]	2008-12-12 14:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3891	EXTENSION OF INCIRLIK HUB AGREEMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-14 05:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	TU IZ PREL PARM MARR EPET
08BAGHDAD3893	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PLOT THICKENS IN DEPUTY [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Questions surround the potential disqualification of Salah ad Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein Jebara from running as a candidate in the upcoming provincial elections. The Government of Iraq's (GOI) Commission on [...]	2008-12-14 06:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3896	VP MAHDI PRAISES POLITICAL BLOCS FOR OVERCOMING [...] (C) U.S. Representative to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad on December 1 reported to Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi that Iraq must request a new United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to protect its financial assets. Mahdi characterized the post-SoFA political environme [...]	2008-12-14 09:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ
08BAGHDAD3897	URGING U.S. NGOS TO OBSERVE IRAQI PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-14 10:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD39	ANBAR POLITICAL LEADERS DISCUSS POLITICAL AND [...] (C) Summary: Four Anbari leaders met with the Ambassador December 31, to highlight the newly formed Anbar Higher Committee (AHC) as a conflict-resolution mechanism in the province. Anbar is eager to pursue an economic zone (EZ),perhaps in the city of al-Qaim. The Anbaris noted the lack of [...]	2008-01-04 14:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3903	INSPECTOR GENERAL UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following an article in the New York Times suggesting a slew of firings and early retirements of Iraq's Inspectors General (IGs) were politically motivated, the heads of the Commission on Integrity (COI) and the Board of Supreme Audit (BSA) strenuously defended the integrity of t [...]	2008-12-14 11:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3904	UPDATE ON INVESTMENT IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Industry and Minerals (MIM) has successfully concluded negotiations with a Japanese and an Egyptian consortium on joint venture (JV),production-sharing agreements for two state owned enterprises -- Beiji Fertilizer and Diyala Electric. MIM senior officials are confident [...]	2008-12-14 12:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON EIND ETRD PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3905	SADR CITY: WITH U.S. COMBAT TROOP DRAWDOWN AHEAD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Sadr City, home to almost 40 percent of Baghdad's total population of five million, has benefited from dramatically improved security since last spring's joint coalition and Iraqi Security Force (ISF) efforts to stabilize the area. The area also stands, since then, as a t [...]	2008-12-14 12:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ PREL
08BAGHDAD3906	UPDATE ON INVESTMENT IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Industry and Minerals (MIM) has successfully concluded negotiations with a Japanese and an Egyptian consortium on joint venture (JV),production-sharing agreements for two state owned enterprises -- Beiji Fertilizer and Diyala Electric. MIM senior officials are confident [...]	2008-12-14 13:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON EIND ETRD PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3917	URGING U.S. NGOS TO OBSERVE IRAQI PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (SBU) Iraq's provincial elections, scheduled for January 31, 2009, will be vital in determining the shape of local government in Iraq for the next four years. The provincial councils to be elected will also hold greater powe [...]	2008-12-15 06:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3918	WASIT TRIBES, SHEIKHS AND THE ELECTIONS [...] (C / / REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: In meetings with the PRT held December 5 and 7, leading representatives from three Wasit tribes explained Prime Minister Maliki's growing popularity in terms of his ability to provide security and stand up to Iran. Sheikhs who were active in the province's S [...]	2008-12-15 07:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3919	MAYSAN: ISCI DEPUTY GOVERNOR ON SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Maysan Deputy Governor Abdul Hussein Abdul Radha (ISCI) told PRT members ON December 3 that the recent ratification of the Security Agreement (SA) would ensure stability in Iraq and facilitate bilateral [...]	2008-12-15 07:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD392	NINEWA: BAGHDAD JUDGES COMPLETE ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ninewa Major Crimes Court (MCC),which tries the most difficult terrorism and corruption cases, completed another successful panel in Mosul. With strong support from the PRT, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and 1st Armored Division, senior Baghdad judges returned January 22 to [...]	2008-02-10 15:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD3921	NINEWA: ADM TO PARTICIPATE IN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) will participate in the upcoming provincial elections. Deacon Adid Yusif al-Sahq of Shaikhan said that ADM will contest the seat reserved for the Christian minority, although it has yet to decide whether it will field candidates for seats no [...]	2008-12-15 07:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3922	BASRA RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES SHARE COMMON [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-15 11:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3923	RRT ERBIL: THE PLIGHT OF THE SMALL: YAZEIDI COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The supreme leader of the Yazeidis believes that association with the Kurdistan Region (rather than the central Iraqi government) is better for his community, but resents the top-down imposition of KDP-chosen authorities in local communities and the diminution of his own powers [...]	2008-12-15 11:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3924	JURASSIC PARK ON THE TIGRIS: SAVING BAGHDAD'S [...] Summary: The Baghdad economy depends heavily on state-owned enterprises (SOEs),but these dinosaurs have uncertain prospects in Iraq,s nascent free-market economy. Poor leadership and daunting capital needs are their biggest challenges. We need to have realistic expectations for the restructu [...]	2008-12-15 12:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND EINV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3926	HJC REJECTS EFFORT TO REFORM PERSONAL STATUS LAW [...] (C) Summary: The Higher Judicial Council (HJC) has rejected a Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR)-drafted amendment that would have abrogated a provision in the 1972 Personal Status Law that requires minors to convert to Islam if one of their parents converts to Islam. The MoHR had sought the [...]	2008-12-15 16:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD3927	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TRAINING FOR GOI [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Baghdad hosted a three-day conference for Iraqi Government officials on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC),building knowledge and relationships that will help Iraq to implement the CWC after it accedes to the treaty. The GOI has ratified and signed the CWC - the pri [...]	2008-12-16 03:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KTIA KLSO CWC IZ
08BAGHDAD3928	TRIBES AND TECHNOCRATS MARK PRE-ELECTION [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Several months ago, outsiders looking at the electoral line-up in Anbar Province saw what appeared to be a head-on match up between the governing Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) and its nemesis, the Iraq Awakening Conference (MSI). Today th [...]	2008-12-16 06:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3929	BASRA RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES SHARE COMMON [...] (C) Senior Advisor Gordon Gray and REO Director met with leaders of Basra's minority Christian, Sunni, and ethnic African communities during three separate meetings November 30 to December 2. Leaders of all three communities called for job creation, expressed caution toward regionalism, and [...]	2008-12-16 12:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3931	SRSG AND AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD DISCUSS IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura and U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad strategized ways to assist Iraq with Chapter 7 status as well as UNAMI's future in Iraq at a December 2 meeting. Ambassador Khalilzad pointed out three separate issues with Ch [...]	2008-12-16 12:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3932	KEY BABIL SHEIKH ON SUNNI PERSPECTIVES, BABIL [...] Summary (C) In a two-hour meeting on December 10 with PRT Leader and DCG-S, Sunni Sheikh Adnan Janabi painted a largely positive picture of the Sunni community's outlook in Babil. His candidate slate of largely Sunni tribal sheikhs has engaged in discussions with a wide variety of other parti [...]	2008-12-16 13:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3933	INCREASING FINANCIAL PRESSURE ON IRAN - JOINT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Italian, French, British and US Chiefs of Mission (COM) delivered subject demarche to Iraqi Foreign Minister (FM) Zebari, emphasizing their governments' unified commitment to implementing rigorously all relevant UNSC, EU and bilateral sanctions and to pressuring Iran to turn away [...]	2008-12-16 14:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN MNUC IR GM KNNP
08BAGHDAD3942	ABU GHRAIB IDPS: A NEW DAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former residents of Abu Ghraib qada (district) highlight improvements after years of sectarian violence, ruthless attacks by Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and heavy-handed counterattacks led by Brigadier General Nassir al-Hiti's "Muthana" Brigade. Despite five months of targeted house [...]	2008-12-17 07:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3947	FIRST USG/GOI MEETING ON SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (S) Summary: In the first meeting on implementation of the detainees article of the USG-GOI Security Agreement on December 10, the CG detailed the USG plan for releasing and/or transferring up to 1,500 detainees per month. Barham Saleh, the head of the existing GOI detention committee, pro [...]	2008-12-17 13:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PINS PTER KJUS PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3948	MOHR HOSTS FOUR-DAY HUMAN RIGHTS EVENTS [...] Summary: The Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) hosted four days of events throughout the country to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the declaration of human rights. The highlight of the events was the first annual human rights conference in Baghdad on December 3. The conference focused on [...]	2008-12-17 13:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV UN IZ
08BAGHDAD3949	THE NEED FOR OPIC FINANCING OF PROJECTS IN IRAQ [...] (U) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy Baghdad strongly urges the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to increase its participation in projects in Iraq. Specifically, the Board should consider on an urgent basis debt financing for the Summit Group's hotel [...]	2008-12-17 15:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD395	AQI USES WOMAN WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME TO ATTACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: District Council chairmen in Baghdad told poloff February 2 that Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) detonated bombs in two popular markets on February 1 as part of a desperate bid for attention on the one year anniversary of the launch of the Baghdad Security Plan and the second anniversary o [...]	2008-02-10 20:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINR PINS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3950	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Force who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3 [...]	2008-12-17 15:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3951	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Force who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3 [...]	2008-12-17 15:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3954	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Air Force who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3. Th [...]	2008-12-18 12:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3956	FINANCE MINISTER JABR ON BUDGET ISSUES, GE [...] (C) Summary: At an informal dinner on December 12 with CETI and the newly-arrived Treasury Attache, Finance Minister Jabr described a "shadow budget" that would trim expenditures by USD 8 billion by noting that "we are in a crisis." He noted that while he would facilitate the sale of General [...]	2008-12-18 12:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3959	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Army who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3. The nam [...]	2008-12-19 10:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD396	NINEWA: BAGHDAD JUDGES COMPLETE ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ninewa Major Crimes Court (MCC),which tries the most difficult terrorism and corruption cases, completed another successful panel in Mosul. With strong support from the PRT, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and 1st Armored Division, senior Baghdad judges returned January 22 to [...]	2008-02-11 06:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PTER KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD3960	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate of the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3 [...]	2008-12-19 10:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3977	PM VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE ON HOLD FOR NOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. There is plenty of talk about a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Maliki, but it appears unlikely that his opponents will force action any time soon. There was more discussion about removing Maliki among the Kurdish, Sunni Arab and one Shia Islamist party during the Musl [...]	2008-12-19 16:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD398	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - February 5 [...] SUMMARY: ITAO Director and CFO met with Dr. Chalabi in advance of the Provision of Services Committee meeting to provide an overview of USG reconstruction funding. Immediately afterwards, the committee meeting commenced and members discussed water in Ghazaliya and Nahrawan, the Karkh water trea [...]	2008-02-11 07:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD399	US MISSION IN IRAQ IS SEEKING FDA EXPERT; HEALTH [...] SUMMARY: The US Mission in Iraq is currently seeking a food and drug safety expert and CFO health care administrator to fill two established ministerial capacity positions. These positions will serve as senior advisors to the Iraqi Ministry of Health (MoH) on strategic planning and implementati [...]	2008-02-11 07:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL APER AMED AMGT IZ
08BAGHDAD3992	SALAH AD-DIN ANALYSIS: TRIBAL POLITICS IN LOCAL [...] (C) Tribal influence will play an important role in the upcoming provincial elections in Salah ad Din (SaD). That said, there are substantial divisions within the tribes, and limits on the ability of leaders to mobilize political support. The influence of most sheikhs or tribal leaders is lo [...]	2008-12-21 07:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3993	FURTHER INDICATION THAT IRAQI PDS REFORM WILL NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A senior Iraqi MOT official has indicated that significant reforms to the Public Distribution System (PDS) would be "unrealistic" in 2009, mainly because it is an election year. But he also expressed optimism that limited monetization could be phased in starting as early as 2010 [...]	2008-12-21 07:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EAGR EAID ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD3994	(C) PRT SALAH AD DIN: IRANIAN INVOLVEMENT IN [...] (SBU) Over the last six months, Samarra residents have grown increasingly concerned that Iranian interests are coordinating to influence the reconstruction of the Al Askari shrine (Golden Mosque) in Samarra, as well as the overall development of the city itself. People fear that the GOI and [...]	2008-12-21 11:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3999	PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS ON TRACK, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: Preparations for the January 31 provincial elections are on track. Iraq's electoral commission has overcome political pressure and in-fighting among the commissioners to approve ballot design and the methodology for seat allocation, although the quota for female representation [...]	2008-12-22 10:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD400	ANBAR PROVINCIAL COUNCIL RECOMMENDS LEGAL ACTION [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Anbar Provincial Council (PC) voted February 9 to recommend prosecuting two local figures, Hameed Al-Heiss and Sheikh Ali Hatim Suleiman, for allegedly threatening to use violence to loosen the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) grip on po [...]	2008-02-11 09:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD4000	PROGRESS IN ADHAMIYAH [...] (U) This is an EPRT Baghdad reporting cable. 2. (SBU) As many as 1857 families have returned this year to the once strife-torn district of Adhamiyah, according to GOI figures available at the end of November. (Coalition figures differ slightly.) The overwhelming majority of returnees are [...]	2008-12-22 11:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD4003	TURKISH-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS: [...] (S) SUMMARY: The third meeting of the Iraqi-Turkish-US security committee/working group on Dec. 20 ended without an agreement on terms-of-reference for the group or an exchange of intelligence, although the increased level of participation, organization, and orderly discussion indicated that [...]	2008-12-22 13:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR PINR PREL TU IZ
08BAGHDAD4004	SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS A CONCERN FOR BAGHDAD'S [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT Reporting Cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial elections in Baghdad involve big numbers, a wide range of conditions and complicated planning -- like most things in the capital area. Over 2,400 candidates will compete for the 57 positions comprising the next Baghdad [...]	2008-12-22 14:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD4005	MINISTER OF FINANCE ON NON-SOVEREIGN DEBT ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: EMIN and TREASATT reviewed the status of Iraq's non-Paris Club country sovereign debts in a meeting with Minister of Finance Jabr on December 17. Iraq owes between USD 50-80 billion to non-Paris Club countries, though some of these countries, such as China and Poland are modeling [...]	2008-12-22 14:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON IZ

08BAGHDAD4006	GOI TO ASSUME REPONSIBILITY FOR CAMP ASHRAF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 16. 2. (S) SUMMARY. National Security Advisor (NSA) Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie led a joint GOI-USG delegation to Camp Ashraf December 20 to discuss the assumption of security responsibility for the camp, home to over 3000 Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) [...]	2008-12-22 14:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD4007	CONTROVERSY OVER SPEAKER MASHHADANI COMMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Shia and Kurdish parliamentarians are demanding the ouster of Speaker Mashhadani because of his insulting comments last week, delaying a vote on an Allied security agreement. Mashhadani's political future looks grim as he loses his Sunni allies with every controversial outburst [...]	2008-12-22 16:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD401	PRT SALAH AD DIN: NEW PROVINCIAL RECONCILIATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) Summary: During its inaugural meeting on February 6, members of the recently-formed 24-member Salah ad Din (SaD) Provincial Committee for the Promotion of National Reconciliation - the provincial-level equivalent of the GoI's Implem [...]	2008-02-11 10:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ECON PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD4014	IRAQI OIL MINISTER ON HIS MEETING WITH KRG [...] (C) Summary: Oil Minister Shahristani told UN Ambassador Khalilzad December 1 that oil issues took up "only 10 percent" of his two-hour meeting with KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani on November 24 (ref A),but that he and Barzani had agreed to allow Ministry of Oil employees back to work [...]	2008-12-23 08:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV EINV EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD4015	(C) PRT SALAH AD DIN: BAYJI OIL REFINERY DG [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Bayji Oil Refinery (BOR) Director General Ali Obeidi informed JSS BOR officers on December 18 that he had submitted a letter resigning his position to the Ministry of Oil (MOO) and requesting that he be reassigned to a technical or advi [...]	2008-12-23 09:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD4018	"THE AX IS ALREADY IN THE HEAD": RURAL BAGHDAD [...] (U) This is an ePRT Baghdad-5 reporting cable. It is Sensitive but Unclassified; handle accordingly. Not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings over the past month with political, tribal and governmental leaders throughout three of Baghdad's rural qadas (distri [...]	2008-12-23 13:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD4019	PARLIAMENT APPROVES ALLIED FORCES RESOLUTION AFTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Shia, Kurd and Sunni parliamentarians successfully joined together in forcing mercurial Speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani to resign his position as speaker and member of the Iraqi Parliament. And while most of the day was taken up with behind-the-scenes negotiations to oust him from powe [...]	2008-12-23 18:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ MARR PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD402	PRT DIYALA: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala Reporting Cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Security in Diyala Province has long adversely impacted the ability of the provincial government to provide services for its citizens. Thanks to recent security improvements, both the provincial council and the executive branch [...]	2008-02-11 11:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EAID SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD4024	IRAQI POLITICOS TRAINED ON CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The International Republican Institute (IRI) has expanded its candidate-training program in Iraq to include sessions in Baghdad. IRI is providing political party training to 43 parties competing for seats in the Iraqi provincial council elections scheduled for January 31, 2009 [...]	2008-12-24 07:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IZ PGOV PREL KDEM
08BAGHDAD4026	RRT ERBIL: EFFORTS TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Violence against women in the Kurdistan Region (KR) is widespread, including honor killings, provoked "suicide" by burning, and female genital mutilation. Tackling this issue requires combining law enforcement and education; it will take time. We don't know whether there is mo [...]	2008-12-26 03:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD4033	IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES INSURGENT FINANCING, AGREEMENT [...] (S) Summary. At the December 21, 2009 meting of the Iraqi National Security Council (NSC),Prime Minister (PM) Nouri al-Maliki received a detailed report from the Minister of Defense (MoD) on the internal sources of financing for Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and other insurgent organizations. Accor [...]	2008-12-26 14:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD4037	MAYSAN: AMBASSADOR URGES SADRIST PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT TO [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT report. 2. (SBU) During a December 18 meeting in the provincial capital Amarah, the Ambassador encouraged the Sadrist Provincial Council Chair and the ISCI Deputy Governor to work to improve the provincial government's strained relationship with the GOI and to take [...]	2008-12-27 12:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD4042	RRT ERBIL: ANOTHER INDUSTRY ENDANGERED BY KRG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The sole foreign insurance broker in the Kurdistan Region (KR) says that he would like to provide a wider array of insurance products to the Kurdish market, but has faced numerous hurdles due to the party/family-dominated Kurdistan Regional Government's vested interest in margin [...]	2008-12-28 08:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD4043	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-12-28 10:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD4044	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-12-28 10:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD4046	SADR CITY'S NATIVE SON AND HIS SHOES: MUTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reactions in Sadr City to its native son's Muntader al-Zaidi's shoe-throwing incident during President Bush's recent press conference in Baghdad led to varied -- though mostly muted -- reactions in the capital's largest district, home to approximately 40 percent of the city's pop [...]	2008-12-28 13:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD4047	LABOR IG DETAILS MASSIVE SOCIAL WELFARE FUND FRAUD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hameed al-Zaidi, the Inspector General of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, announced to the Iraqi press the widespread corruption within his ministry in which, he estimated, 70 percent of funds allocated to the ministry's social welfare program were siphoned off. Al-Za [...]	2008-12-28 14:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD4057	PRT SALAD AD-DIN: MATTRESS MILLIONAIRES LOOK TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad-Din reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Balad's newly rich want to get richer, but the opportunities they see look too risky. At a December 16 meeting with the PRT, a dozen wealthy sheikhs said they did not know where to put the millions they had amassed since 200 [...]	2008-12-29 13:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD4058	SUMMING UP IRAQ'S YEAR OF ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih declared in January that 2008 was to be Iraq's year of combating corruption but Iraq has made only incremental gains in doing so. Salih issued an 18-point plan to fight administrative corruption that was issued in the PM,s name, of which four [...]	2008-12-29 14:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD4060	GOI BEGINS WIDENING LABOR RIGHTS IN ANTICIPATION OF NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI is determined to bring its labor code into compliance with international standards, but is still struggling to move a new ILO-compatible draft bill through the legislative process. The constitutional review is nearly complete, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs [...]	2008-12-30 03:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ETRD EFIN EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD4064	PRT SALAH AD DIN: APPREHENSION OVER COMING SOI [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial leaders are concerned that the upcoming transition of responsibility for Sons of Iraq (SOI) contracts from Coalition Forces (CF) to the Government of Iraq (GOI) could undermine security improvements in Salah ad Din ( [...]	2008-12-30 14:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD4067	AMBASSADOR AND DPM SALIH DISCUSS FALLING OIL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and EMIN delivered a letter from Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt to Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on December 28. In a wide-ranging discussion, Salih noted with alarm that the GOI's oil exports in 2009 will most likely not exceed 1.6 million barrels per day [...]	2008-12-30 15:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV KCOR EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD4068	IRAQ APPROVES ACCEPTANCE OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES; [...] (S) SUMMARY. Prime Minister (PM) Nuri al-Maliki has approved the transfer of four Iraqi detainees from USG custody at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO; REF C) to the control and custody of the Government of Iraq. The PM has authorized the Director of the Prime Minister's National Operation Center (PMNOC [...]	2008-12-30 17:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US
08BAGHDAD4070	PETRAEUS DISCUSSES MASHADANI, SYRIA, WITH VP [...] (S) SUMMARY: The replacement for Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani, GCC relations generally and Syrian relations specifically, and concerns about Saudi relations were topics of conversation in a December 26 meeting between US Central Command General David Petraeus and [...]	2008-12-31 09:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD4075	PROMINENT MUTHANNA CANDIDATE ACCUSES FOES OF VOTE [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Independent Provincial Council (PC) member Hakim Khazal Khashan is campaigning in earnest for re-election. In a meeting with the PRT Muthanna Team Leader, Hakim discussed his party's list, alleged that provincial officials are u [...]	2008-12-31 13:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD4076	MUTHANNA SHEIKH SAYS TRIBAL SUPPORT COUNCILS [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Team Leader met with Sheikh Abu Chefat to discuss current political issues in Muthanna, including Tribal Support Council (SC) activities in the province. Chefat stated that despite the lack of Provincial Council (PC) support, [...]	2008-12-31 13:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD4077	REVISED 2009 BUDGET ENDORSED BY COUNCIL OF [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: A further revised proposed GOI budget for 2009 endorsed by the Council of Ministers on December 23, reflects the reality of lower oil prices. Revenues are projected to be USD 42.5 billion based on exports of 2 mbpd at USD 50 per barrel, expenditures planned to be US [...]	2008-12-31 14:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD4078	ERBIL RRT: Movement on the KRG Provincial Powers Law [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The KRG Council of Ministers (COM) and the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) are discussing the latest draft of the KRG Provincial Powers Law. In a sign of the KNA's limited but growing political independence from the KRG executive branch, the KNA rejected the previous draft on [...]	2008-12-31 15:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD409	GOI SEEKS LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) PM Reconstruction Advisor Haq al-Hakim told us on February 7 that the GOI expects reconstruction on the Shia Golden Mosque of Samarra to be in full swing by October or November 2008. EmbOffs joined a delegation led by al-Hakim to Samarra in Salah ad Din (SaD) Province for February 6 me [...]	2008-02-11 19:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD410	(S) TUWAITHA UPDATE: PREPARING FOR PARIS MEETINGS [...] (S) Summary: Energy Attach Parks and DOE/NNSA Representative Boudreau met with Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Raid Jahid (FAHMI) on Tuesday evening, Feb 5, 2008, at the Al Rasheed Hotel. The key points included moving the material as quickly as possible after completing repackaging, [...]	2008-02-12 07:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON ENRG PARM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD411	NINEWA: PRT EMERGENCY PLANNING EFFORTS BEAR FRUIT [...] (U) After months of hard work to raise the profile of emergency preparedness among government officials in Ninewa, the PRT's efforts paid off January 23 when a large group of provincial and local officials, led by Provincial Governor Duraid Kashmoula, convened to outline the initial steps for [...]	2008-02-12 12:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER EAID SOCI ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD42	WAIVER REQUESTED -- Section 565 Waiver of Prohibition [...] (SBU) Section 565 of Title V, Part C of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (PL 103-236, 22 USC 2679c) prohibits the Department of State from entering into any contract, except real estate leases and contracts below the small purchase threshold (currently $100,00 [...]	2008-01-04 14:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KBCT ABLD PHUM AL ECON AMGT ASUP AFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD422	MALIKI CABINET APPROVES MOSUL CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: On February 7, Prime Minister Maliki convened a cabinet-level Crisis Action Cell (CAC) to review the concept of operations for the upcoming campaign against al-Qaeda (AQI) in Ninewa province. Major General Riyadh, Commander of the Ninewa Operations, briefed a three-phased plan tha [...]	2008-02-13 06:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER
08BAGHDAD425	IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY HITS BACK AT THREATS BY ANBAR [...] (S) During a February 11 meeting with the Ambassador (septel),Vice President Tareq al-Hashimi raised the issue of recent public threats made by controversial Anbar figures Hamid al-Heiss and Ali al-Hatim against the Iraqi Islamic Party (reftel). Hashimi confirmed that legal actions were bei [...]	2008-02-13 07:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD427	TUWAITHA UPDATE: MOST GOES TO PARIS [...] (S) Summary. Ambassador Ries met with Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Minister Raid Jahid (FAHMI) on Feb 8 to provide an updated calibration of the US position on issues such as cost sharing. Fahmi asked for the estimated total US cost for removal and transporting the yellow cake and [...]	2008-02-13 12:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON ENRG IZ PARM PREL
08BAGHDAD428	PRIME MINISTER MALIKI UPDATES AMBASSADOR AND CG ON [...] (S) During a February 11 meeting with the Ambassador and General Petraeus, Prime Minister Maliki blamed the Kurds for the present budget impasse, insisting their behavior was a challenge to his governance that required a firm hand lest other provinces be so emboldened. The Ambassador encourag [...]	2008-02-13 13:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD429	IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEBRUARY 8 [...] SUMMARY: In place of an absent PM Maliki, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih chaired the 8 February Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh Al Qanoon - FaQ). The meeting featured calls to limit political and religious interference menacing co [...]	2008-02-13 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD430	FCO'S HOWELLS:BRITISH ELECTORATE MONITORING IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 9 meeting, UK Foreign Office Minister of State Kim Howells told Ambassador Crocker that he had not gotten the sense from intense U.K. Cabinet discussions that the British were going to relinquish responsibility in Basrah. Howells was clear, however, that the U.K. [...]	2008-02-13 15:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ UK
08BAGHDAD431	SMALL KURDISH PARTIES TAP FRUSTRATION WITH KDP AND [...] (C) Summary: Islamist and other small parties in Iraqi Kurdistan are attempting to exploit growing public frustration with the dominant Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Based on anecdotal evidence, the two parties appear to be losing popularity, though [...]	2008-02-13 19:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD433	IRAQ AWAKENING MOVEMENT CHOOSES NEW DEPUTIES, [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Anbar-based Awakening Movement of Iraq took a step toward transforming itself from a tribal security force into a political party February 12 when 300 supporters met to elect new deputy leaders and to signal their intention to att [...]	2008-02-14 14:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD434	FRENCH DIPLOMATS WELCOME VISIT; GUARDED ABOUT IRAQ [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. In a February 12 meeting - the first on French Embassy premises with U.S. Emboffs in at least 18 months, if not since 2003 -- French DCM Alexandre Garcia and Political Counselor Sylvain Fourriere (protect both) told DepPolCounselor that ongoing security concerns and pervasive [...]	2008-02-14 14:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD436	CLC JOB PLANS WIN EARLY BACKING IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Government of Iraq (GoI) officials won initial support from Baghdad Mayor Saber Al-Assawi and Baghdad Provincial Council Chairman Mueen Al-Khademy for two new employment plans for Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs) during a series of meetings in late January and early February. Bot [...]	2008-02-14 15:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD437	VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI UPDATES AMBASSADOR ON [...] (S) During a February 11 meeting, the Ambassador and Vice President Hashimi discussed the Executive Council (Ex-Co),the Political Council for National Security (PCNS),Tawafuq's return to government, legislation, threats by Anbar sheikhs directed at the Iraqi Islamic Party, and Hashimi's U.S. [...]	2008-02-15 10:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD438	VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI: SISTANI "VERY NERVOUS" ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on February 10 that his recent meetings in Najaf with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Iraq's other three leading Shia clerics revealed great unease over current economic and social conditions in Iraq, but the four Maraja offer [...]	2008-02-15 10:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD44	ALI AL-ADEEB CONFIRMS THAT DA'WA WILL SUPPORT [...] (C) Ali al-Adeeb, the Da'wa party bloc leader at the CoR, told us January 2 that Da'wa would support the Accountability and Justice Law (i.e., the de-Ba'athification Law) when it comes to a vote, adding that Da'wa would like to see the law amended -- not for substantive reasons, but to persuade [...]	2008-01-05 11:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD448	MCNS ON FEBRUARY 10 DISCUSSED AIRPORT SECURITY, [...] (S REL UK AS) In a meeting chaired by D/PM Barham Salih, the MCNS received a concise, well-organized briefing on 2007 force generation results for the Iraqi Army, discussed at length the administrative direction and security command at the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP),and briefly revi [...]	2008-02-15 13:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD449	INITIAL ANALYSIS OF COR-APPROVED 2008 FEDERAL [...] (C) Begin Summary: After more than two and a half months of legislative branch deliberations, the Council of Representatives (CoR) voted to pass the 2008 General Federal Budget law on February 13 as part of an overall package which included Amnesty and Provincial Powers laws. The Presidency Co [...]	2008-02-15 16:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD450	IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE PART 3: TIMING [...] (C) Summary: Passage of "The Law of the Governorates Not Organized Into a Region (Provincial Powers)" on February 13 has set into motion a timetable for holding provincial elections in Iraq this year. While we believe the elections deadline as outlined in the law is overly ambitious given its [...]	2008-02-16 05:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD451	SRSG DE MISTURA ON HYDROCARBONS/ARTICLE 140, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 14 SRSG Staffan de Mistura discussed with A/DCM Ries U.S. and UN approaches toward the GOI to promote movement on the hydrocarbons laws, which will be necessary to open political space for progress on Article 140 issues. Additionally they discussed the upcoming first [...]	2008-02-16 07:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREF PREL IR
08BAGHDAD456	TALABANI, SALIH AND SHAWAYS ON LTSR, GOVERNMENT [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador met with President Talabani, DPM Barham Salih and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) representative Rowsch Shaways in two separate meetings on February 12. All noted that the Prime Minister will oversee the technical team's negotia [...]	2008-02-17 11:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD457	PRT ANBAR: ANBAR POLITICAL FIGURES DEMAND COUNCIL [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Sheikh Ali Hatim Suleiman and Hameed Al-Heiss aired their grievances with the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) in a meeting with MNF-West and the PRT at Camp Fallujah on February 16. Both disavowed any support for political violence, alt [...]	2008-02-17 17:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD458	PRT MAYSAN: ABU HATIM THE PRINCE OF THE MARSHES [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan biographical reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary and comment: Kareem Mahood al-Muhammadawi, aka Abu Hatim or 'The Prince of the Marshes,' is a charismatic and controversial figure in Maysani politics. A former guerilla who fought against the Saddam regime, Abu Hati [...]	2008-02-18 04:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD459	UNAMI CHIEF ON ELECTIONS AND UPCOMING MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: UNAMI Special Representative of the Secretary General to Iraq Staffan de Mistura told the Ambassador on February 15 that UNAMI's decision to assist the CoR in filling eight vacant Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) director positions, rather than firing all GEO directors and selec [...]	2008-02-18 05:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD465	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-02-18 13:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD470	NEA/DAS BUTLER MEETING WITH FM ZEBARI [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 14 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told NEA DAS Lawrence Butler that he thought Iran postponed the trilat scheduled for February 15 because of the February 12 assassination in Damascus of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyah. Zebari confirmed that Iranian Pre [...]	2008-02-19 07:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD471	FINE TUNING OUR POSITION ON OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Oil has announced plans to sign technical service agreements in 2008 with major international oil companies to increase production in its giant oil fields. While comprehensive legislation to protect the interests of foreign companies doing business in Iraq will [...]	2008-02-19 08:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD472	EPRT FALLUJAH: CITY COUNCIL BECOMING LEGITIMATE [...] (U) This is a joint ePRT Fallujah/POL reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Nearly non-existent only eight short months ago, the Fallujah City Council (FCC) is developing into a legitimate governing force that is building political capacity and driving economic development in Fallujah. The Co [...]	2008-02-19 08:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD473	GOI FIGHTS KEROSENE CORRUPTION, MILITIA RACKETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sayid Nemah Jabour of the office of the Iraqi National Security Advisor told poloff February 15 that the new Project Clean Delivery (PCD) kerosene distribution system had significantly diminished militia revenue from the theft and sale of kerosene. Jabour said that an Iraqi inte [...]	2008-02-19 10:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PINR PINS PTER IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD474	MALIKI RECONSIDERS CABINET RE-SIZING, MAKES [...] (S) SUMMARY: At the weekly security meeting with the Ambassador and General Petraeus on February 14, Prime Minister Maliki expressed optimism on the return of the Tawafaq and Iraqiyya parties to the government, but noted their objection to reducing the number of ministries. On services, Maliki [...]	2008-02-19 10:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER
08BAGHDAD477	THE PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW: A HARD COR BATTLE WON, [...] (C) Summary. CoR members passed the provincial powers law February 13 as part of an omnibus package with the 2008 budget and amnesty law. Among the three pieces of legislation, the provincial powers law was the most controversial, as it delineates the authorities between Iraq's central and [...]	2008-02-19 14:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD48	PASSENGER RAIL'S RETURN HINTS AT CHALLENGES AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 16 the Iraqi Republic Railway (IRR) renewed scheduled passenger service between Baghdad and Basrah for the first time since before the 2003 invasion. The first week of service was marred by two attacks--one suicide bomb and one IED--and a train-automobile collision und [...]	2008-01-07 08:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELTN IZ
08BAGHDAD480	IRAQ CABINET DEFERS KOSOVO RECOGNITION; PREFERS TO [...] (C) On February 19, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told PolCounselor that Kosovo recognition was the first item on that morning's Cabinet meeting agenda and the Cabinet generally was in favor of recognition. However, several (unidentified) participants argued that Iraq should not get out a [...]	2008-02-20 02:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KFLO AEMR ASEC CASC MARR PREL PINR AMGT YI
08BAGHDAD481	IRAQ: UN LAUNCHES 2008 HUMANITARIAN APPEAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 12 February, the United Nations (UN) launched a humanitarian appeal for Iraq in Baghdad and requested $265 million for humanitarian activities for vulnerable Iraqis. The UN faces challenges related to its security stance to increasing its presence in Iraq, but may modify the [...]	2008-02-20 05:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PREF PGOV UN IZ
08BAGHDAD484	AFTERMATH OF DE-BA'ATHIFICATION LAW PASSAGE [...] (C) Summary: Although the Law of Accountability and Justice was ratified by the Presidency Council on February 3 and awaits publication in the official gazette, the GoI still has a significant amount to accomplish before the law can be implemented in any meaningful way. VP Hashimi's unrealized [...]	2008-02-20 07:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD485	VP ADEL MULLING VETO OF PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW [...] (C) Summary: In a February 19 meeting, the Ambassador urged Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi to put aside misgivings about the recently-passed Provincial Powers law and not to veto the bill, a move that would also block enactment of the 2008 GOI budget and an Amnesty law (all were approved as a [...]	2008-02-20 11:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD486	ZEBARI PESSIMISTIC ABOUT KOSOVO RECOGNITION; [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 16 meeting, Foreign Minster Zebari told Ambassador Crocker he pushed visiting UNHCR High Representative Guterres to expand UNHCR's Baghdad office and to stress positive developments in Iraq. The GOI/GOR MOU Zebari signed in Moscow provides no preferential treatment [...]	2008-02-20 11:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD49	CODEL COLEMAN DISCUSSES 2008 OUTLOOK WITH HAKIM [...] (C) On January 5 CODEL Coleman (Sens. Norm Coleman (R-MN),John Cornyn (R-TX),Johnny Isakson (R-GA)) met with ISCI Leader Abd al-Aziz Al-Hakim. MPs Hadi al-Amri and Redha Taki also attended the meeting. Hakim opened by saying 2007 ended on a better note than it began, citing a "20-25%" dec [...]	2008-01-07 13:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD495	IRAQ'S COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES [...] (C) Its powerful constitutional role notwithstanding, Iraq's parliament remains a weak institution. Its problems are Iraq's problems: deep-seated sectarian, ethnic and personal animosities that inhibit and frequently prevent compromise, cooperation and agreement. Given the magnitude of thes [...]	2008-02-21 09:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD50	SEEKING KUWAITI CONCURRENCE ON MNF-I SALVAGE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. On December 18, 2007, the Kuwaiti Navy ordered two vessels contracted by the Multi-National Force in Iraq (MNF-I) to depart disputed waters in the Khawr Abd Allah (KAA) waterway. These contracted vessels were surveying tw [...]	2008-01-07 15:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT KU MARR MCAP MOPS PBTS PINS PNAT PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD501	BAGHDAD ZOO -- RESPITE FROM THE URBAN JUNGLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Baghdad Zoo has reportedly become the most popular destination for family outings in Baghdad. Attendance increased dramatically in 2007, and continues to rise. The Zoo Director told visiting poloff on February 11 that approximately 8,000 people visit the Zoo every weekend, with fam [...]	2008-02-21 13:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD502	MCNS FEBRUARY 17 DISCUSSES IRAQI PSDS, FORCE [...] (S REL UK AS) The weekly MCNS discussed supervision and management of Personal Security Details (PSDs),force generation success for the Ministry of Interior (MOI) forces, needs of the Directorate of Border Enforcement (DBE),security for elections and the approaching visit of Iranian Presiden [...]	2008-02-21 13:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD503	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL AND ITS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) After months of meeting sporadically and without achieving quorum, the Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) has been increasingly active, meeting with quorum and efficiently conducting its business. PC Chairm [...]	2008-02-21 15:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS PINR KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD507	COUNCIL OF MINISTERS ISSUES REGULATIONS TO IMPROVE [...] (U) According to internal GOI memoranda, the Council of Ministers (CoM) agreed in a January 27 meeting to a package of reforms aimed at improving Iraq's capital budget execution performance. The new regulations stipulate formation of internal ministerial contracting committees (chaired by the [...]	2008-02-22 09:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD508	MESSAGE TO PRTS: PROVINCIAL INVESTMENT BUDGET [...] The Council of Representatives passed the 2008 federal budget on Wednesday, February 13 (Reftel A),and ratification by the Presidency Council is imminent. Buoyed by record oil earnings, the 2008 budget is the most ambitious in Iraq's history. Totaling USD 49.9 billion, it contains USD 13.1 bi [...]	2008-02-22 09:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD509	NEIGHBORS PROCESS: UNAMI ROLLS UP ITS SLEEVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: At his February 20 introductory call at Embassy Baghdad, Ambassador Gerard Sambrana, Special Political Advisor to SRSG de Mistura, exchanged views on the Neighbors Process with PolMil M/C and PolCouns. Sambrana communicated de Mistura,s commitment to try to improve the "process" [...]	2008-02-22 09:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EG IR IZ KU TU UN SY
08BAGHDAD511	GOI ASSASSINATIONS ON THE RISE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Despite the significant decrease in violence in the past six months, attacks against Iraqi officials, professionals, and local leaders are hindering the development of ministerial capacity and undermining reconciliation efforts. The troop surge has stemmed the incidence of high-p [...]	2008-02-22 10:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINS PINR ASEC KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD512	FORMER PRIME MINISTER AYAD ALLAWI IS BACK ON THE [...] (S/NF) Summary. Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi emphasized with the Ambassador in a dinner meeting on February 19 that Iran's growing interference is deterring Iraq's Arab neighbors from establishing stronger diplomatic ties. He received a request to meet with President of Iran Mahmoud Ahm [...]	2008-02-22 11:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD513	HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES MEETS WITH [...] (S) SUMMARY: On February 16 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres and his party were hosted for dinner by Ambassador Crocker. Guterres also held a morning meeting with CG Petraeus who was joined by the Ambassador. Guterres told the Ambassador that UNHCR would be ass [...]	2008-02-22 11:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PREF IZ
08BAGHDAD518	CHIEF JUSTICE OFFERS VIEWS ON AMNESTY [...] (C) Summary: At a February 20 meeting with members of the MNF-I and Embassy communities, Iraqi Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud offered his views on the recently passed General Amnesty Law. Commenting that the entire law could not be applied to those in MNF-I detention, he reiterated that arti [...]	2008-02-22 16:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD527	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-02-24 02:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD528	NINEWA: TIGRIS BRIDGE CLOSURES SQUEEZE KURDISH [...] (C/REL ACGU) Insurgent attacks in the last year on Tigris River bridges north of Mosul have constrained the Kurdish Democratic Party's (KDP) ability to deliver food and fuel from Dohuk province to the contested Sinjar District of Western Ninewa, in which the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) [...]	2008-02-24 02:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON MARR PREL PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD53	SALIH AND RUBAIE SAY 2008 THE YEAR OF ECONOMIC, [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and National Security Advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie met January 5 with Senators Norm Coleman, John Cornyn, and Johnny Isaksen in Salih,s home. All agreed that Iraq has made important security strides in the last year, a fact which Salih hoped the Senators [...]	2008-01-08 17:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD530	IRAQ'S CENTRAL BANK LOWERING POLICY INTEREST RATE [...] (SBU) The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) is continuing to drop the policy interest rate as inflation slows, announcing February 22 that as of March 2 its main policy rate would decrease from 19 to 17 percent. The CBI cited the drop in core inflation (which does not include energy prices) from a 3 [...]	2008-02-24 06:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG
08BAGHDAD533	BAGHDAD EPRT: SHEIKH ALI-HATEM SPEAKS ON AQI, [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-24 12:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SOCI SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD536	VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI ON NATIONAL GOVERNANCE, [...] (S) During a February 21 meeting, the Ambassador and Vice President Tareq al-Hashimi reviewed the status of Provincial Powers legislation, the Executive Council, Mosul, and Kurdish issues. Responding to the Ambassador's request to help pressure Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi to avoid vetoing [...]	2008-02-24 17:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD537	BAGHDAD EPRT: SHEIKH ALI-HATEM SPEAKS ON AQI, [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: During a February 12 meeting with MNF-I Officers and E-PRT Team Leader, Sheikh Ali Hatem al-Suleiman, a controversial Anbar Province figure, condemned the February 11 VBIED attack against him, which he attributed to AQI, and de [...]	2008-02-24 17:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SOCI SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD539	DPM SALEH'S GRAND BARGAIN--KURDS NEED SUNNIS; [...] (C) During a two-and-one-half hour discussion on February 20, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Saleh told Ambassador Crocker and Special Adviser Pearce that both Massud and Nechirvan Barzani would shortly arrive in Baghdad for lengthy stays. Saleh emphasized that the USG must act as the mae [...]	2008-02-25 02:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD54	CODEL COLEMAN URGES VP HASHIMI TO CONSIDER [...] (C) Summary: CODEL Coleman pressed VP Hashimi on national reconciliation on January 5. VP Hashimi responded he is open to compromise to enable Tawafuq's return to the GOI, but blamed PM Maliki for the lack of progress. VP Hashimi hopes the IIP-KRG Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be a g [...]	2008-01-08 17:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD540	DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER HAMOUD ON LONG-TERM [...] (C) PolMil Minister Counselor (PMMC) Marcie Ries called on Deputy Foreign Minister Hamoud February 16 to discuss preparations for negotiations on the Long-Term Strategic Relationship (LTSR),including a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). She used the opportunity to inquire about efforts to en [...]	2008-02-25 07:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ETRD EU EWWT IZ KISL MARR PREF PREL TU KU
08BAGHDAD542	THE STATE OF JUSTICE IN MAYSAN PROVINCE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Maysan PRT met with Maysan Chief Justice, Ja,afer Mohsin Ali Mahmoud, the province's driving force on rule of law, in order to discuss upcoming training this March. Chief Justice Ja'afer is. Chief Justice Ja,afer highlighted t [...]	2008-02-25 11:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD544	IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEBRUARY 15 [...] SUMMARY: An assertive Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki chaired the 15 February Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh Al Qanoon - FaQ). The meeting featured praise of FaQ on its one year anniversary; discussions of remedies to the shortage of [...]	2008-02-25 13:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD547	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - February 19 [...] SUMMARY: The February 19th meeting for the Provision of Services Committee heard concerns, including fiscal, from the Baghdad Sheraton Hotel and the Babil Hotel. The Baghdad General Manager for the Ministry of Transportation was there to discuss bus shortages and transportation costs. For the s [...]	2008-02-25 15:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD553	ABDEL AZIZ AL-HAKIM ON "TIRESOME" SADRISTS, IDPS, [...] (C) Summary: Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Chairman Abdel Aziz al-Hakim told the Ambassador on February 24 that, despite contrary claims by "tiresome" Sadrists, the ISCI-Sadrist non-aggression agreement remains valid, though Hakim remains concerned about Sadrist thuggery and militia v [...]	2008-02-26 07:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD556	AL-SISTANI REPRESENTATIVE CONTINUES CRITICISM OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-26 12:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD557	MINISTER OF HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION EXPLAINS [...] (C) In a cordial 90 minute meeting on February 24, Minister of Housing and Construction Bayan Diyazee told Ambassador Charles Ries, the Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, and Major General Kevin Bergner, Deputy Chief of Staff for MNF-I Strategic Effects, that foreign investment was a [...]	2008-02-26 13:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EFIN SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD562	BAGHDAD: LOCAL COUNCILS AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary. Recent security gains and progress toward reconciliation have opened a window for greater cooperation between local councils and the authorities responsible for delivering services to Baghdad residents. As national leaders work to [...]	2008-02-26 16:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PTER KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD57	MCNS FOCUSES ON IRAQI MINISTRY OF INTERIOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: At the Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) on January 6, Prime Minister Maliki and security ministers set aside most of the prepared agenda and focused on two issues raised by MinInt Bolani--apprehension about foreign ownership of Iraqi communications companies and dis [...]	2008-01-09 02:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	KU MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD570	MCNS ON FEBRUARY 24 DISCUSSES TURKISH INCURSION, [...] (S/REL AS UK) Deputy Prime Minister (D/PM) Barham Saleh opened the February 24 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) meeting with a discussion of the Turkish incursion into northern Iraq (ref. A). National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwaffaq Rubaie presented a list of intelligence col [...]	2008-02-27 13:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ TU
08BAGHDAD571	MALIKI REASSESSES ONGOING CABINET NEGOTIATIONS, [...] (S) SUMMARY: During his weekly security meeting with the Ambassador and General Petraeus on February 21, Prime Minister Maliki said he was discouraged by lack of progress in negotiations with the Tawafaq and Iraqiyya parties on rejoining the government, blaming their senior leadership for ever [...]	2008-02-27 13:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR MOPS MCAP PGOV PTER PINS PNAT IZ
08BAGHDAD572	VP ADEL RETURNS PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW TO COR: [...] On February 26, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi, acting in his capacity as a member of the GOI Presidency Council empowered to ratify or reject legislation passed by Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR) within a prescribed period of review, formally notified the CoR Secretariat in writing [...]	2008-02-27 14:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IZ

08BAGHDAD573	VP ABDEL MEHDI VETOS PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW [...] (C) Summary: On February 26, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi vetoed on constitutional grounds the Provincial Powers Law passed February 13 as part of a three-item package by Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR). The other two items of the package -- a 2008 GOI budget and an Amnesty bill -- [...]	2008-02-27 19:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD575	BAGHDAD: RIVALRY HEATS UP AMONG SHIA PARTIES [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Over 75 percent of Baghdad's ISCI-dominated Provincial Council (PC) voted February 19 to dismiss Baghdad's three Deputy Mayors, one of whom was the highest-ranking Sadrist in Baghdad's city government. PC members announced publicly that the Amanat needs more "effort and [...]	2008-02-28 02:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PTER KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD576	PRT DIWANIYAH HAS RELOCATED TO THE PROVINCE [...] On February 22, the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Diwaniyah moved from REO Hillah and into temporary quarters at Camp Echo, a base operated by Coalition Forces. This move will greatly enhance the team's effectiveness to engage more frequently with Iraqi counterparts, and will relieve t [...]	2008-02-28 06:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREZ IZ
08BAGHDAD578	GOI BEGINS TO MAKE SOME PROGRESS IN IMPROVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has begun to make some progress on addressing overcrowding in the juvenile justice system in Baghdad. The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA) has identified a suitable site and has begun planning for a new juvenile facility in the 9 Nissan neighborhood and has b [...]	2008-02-28 08:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD581	KIRKUK PRT: LION DAY MARKET-WALK RESTORES KIRKUK LEADERS [...] This is a PRT Kirkuk cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) and the Arab Bloc continue to work together to identify mechanisms for the implementation of the last of the 13 points cited in the agreement between the two blocs that resulted in the Arab bloc's return to the [...]	2008-02-28 12:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD582	PRT-WASIT: UPDATE FROM WASIT POLICE CHIEF [...] (U) This is a PRT-Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary. Wasit Iraqi Police (IP) Chief, Major General Abdul Haninn Hamud expects Sadrist elements to honor the Muqtada al Sadr (MAS) ceasefire extension, but expressed the need to mount operations with CF in Jaysh al Mahdi (JAM)-controlled [...]	2008-02-28 12:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD583	AYATOLLAH HUSSEIN AL-SADR ON IRAQ'S POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: In a February 27 dinner meeting held in his house adjacent to Baghdad's Kadhimiyah Shia shrine, Ayatollah Hussein al-Sadr lamented to the Ambassador that Iraq is poorly led by its political class, warned that Arab-Kurd tensions are increasing, and complained of markedly increasing [...]	2008-02-28 13:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD585	NINEWA: IRAQI GOVERNMENT SAYING THE RIGHT THINGS [...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary and Comment: The Iraqi Government is focused on Mosul security and reconstruction. The massive explosion in January in West Mosul's Zanjali market and ongoing military operations served as catalysts to focus the Iraqi Government at the highest level on the critical import [...]	2008-02-28 14:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PREL ECON MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD586	PRT KIRKUK: KURDISH BROTHERHOOD VIEWS ON THE [...] (U) This is a Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Kirkuk Provincial Council members Ali Al-Salhi and Awad M. Ameen (Kirkuk Brotherhood League-KBL) told us February 14 that the KBL had accepted the Turkman bloc's request to resume negotiations [...]	2008-02-28 14:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD587	ZEBARI THINKS TURKS WANT BUFFER ZONE IN NORTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 28 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told PolCounselor Matthew Tueller and NSC Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk that he held "direct, candid and open" discussions with Turkish PM Advisor Ahmet Davutolgu's during Davutoglu's February 27 [...]	2008-02-29 07:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD59	MANAGING CLC ACTIVITIES [...] (C) Post has met with MNF-I to discuss REF B cable. This is a joint DOD/DOS/USAID response. There is no longer a requirement for USAID to execute any pilot program under the Community Stabilization Program (CSP) for former Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs). Receipt by DOD of the USD 155 millio [...]	2008-01-09 02:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IZ MARR PTER
08BAGHDAD590	BAGHDAD TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS RESPONSES [...] (U) This is post's summary of trafficking in persons activities for the period April 2007-April 2008. Little progress has been noted since the previous report, and post strongly recommends that Iraq continue to be treated as a special case during this rating period. The government of Iraq co [...]	2008-02-29 09:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IZ
08BAGHDAD591	TUWAITHA BUYER UPDATE: POST PARIS MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-29 12:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON ENRG PARM PREL POL EXEC
08BAGHDAD593	U/S JEFFERY MEETS WITH IRAQI FINANCE MINISTER TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 26 meeting with U/S for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery and Iraqi Finance Minister Bayan Jabr, Jabr indicated his main goals for 2008 are to secure debt relief from Gulf state debtors, restructure state banks, and further increase budget exe [...]	2008-02-29 14:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG
08BAGHDAD594	TURKISH ENVOYS AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS GOI [...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkish PM Advisor Ahmet Davutoglu asserted to Ambassador that Turkish ground operations were inevitable after the October kidnapping of Turkish soldiers and refused to predict when the operation would end. Ambassador pressed for operations to end before they upset the fragile [...]	2008-02-29 18:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD595	DE-BA'ATH PUBLISHED -- CLOCK NOW TICKING [...] (C) Summary: Two separate sources report that the Law of Accountability and Justice (De-Ba'ath Reform) was published in the official gazette approximately two weeks ago (around February 14). Its publication begins the countdown on a 60-day (or 90-day) window for former Ba'athists covered by t [...]	2008-02-29 18:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD596	ZAAB TRIANGLE: EXPANDED PRT OPERATIONS TARGET KEY [...] (C) The Zaab Triangle, a region bounded by the Tigris and Zaab rivers in southern Ninewa and northern Salah ad Din provinces, is a focal point of counter-insurgency operations. In collaboration with PRT Salah ad Din, and with superb support from the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, PRT Ninewa [...]	2008-02-29 18:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON MARR EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD600	KIRKUK PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIR DESCRIBES ROLES AND [...] This is a PRT Kirkuk cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Chairman of the Kirkuk Provincial Council Rizgar Ali convened an information sharing session on February 17 with the district and sub-district councils of the predominantly Arab areas. Regarding the Provincial Powers Law (PPL),he said it woul [...]	2008-03-01 07:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD601	FOREIGN MINISTER PROVIDES AHMEDINEJAD VISIT [...] SUMMARY. During a February 28 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told Political Counselor Matt Tueller and NSC Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk that he would urge the Iranians to avoid making inflammatory statements directed at the United States during President Ah [...]	2008-03-01 07:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD602	IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEB 22 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki and Deputy Prime Minister Salih co-chaired the Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (FaQ). The meeting featured PM Maliki calling for the reestablishment of defunct neighborhood councils in Sunni areas; the deci [...]	2008-03-01 08:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD608	PRT NINEWA: VP HASHIMI FOCUSES ON POLITICAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Ninewa reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashimi visited Ninewa on February 23 and 24 to meet with provincial government and security officials, members of his Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),university students and professors, an [...]	2008-03-02 02:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR EAID MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD610	DPM ON OIL, SOFA AND TUWAITHA [...] (S) SUMMARY: DPM Barham Salih on February 25 urged Under Secretary Jeffrey to sustain USG engagement to help Iraq pass SIPDIS the hydrocarbon framework legislation, and while he agreed with Ambassador Loftis on the need to move quickly on a new strategic relationship and status of forces a [...]	2008-03-02 02:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL EPET ECON ENRG PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD613	AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 1 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) In a March 1 meeting with the Ambassador, President Talabani said the Turkish withdrawal from the north opens the door for a political solution; said he hopes to visit Turkey March 10-12 to talk frankly with them about the PKK as well as come away with an agreement to restart the trilateral [...]	2008-03-02 11:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IR IZ
08BAGHDAD614	PRT MAYSAN MEETS WITH GOVERNOR FOR FIRST TIME [...] (SBU) THIS IS A PRT MAYSAN REPORTING CABLE. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: ON FEBRUARY 25 MAYSAN PRT MET WITH GOVERNOR ADIL MOHUDER RADI AL-MALIKI AND HIS SENIOR ADVISOR, ZAID HOSHI AL-KALLAF TO DISCUSS SECURITY, ONGOING PROJECTS, AND TEAM ACCESS TO THE PROVINCE. THE PRT PRESSED THE GOVERNOR ON THE I [...]	2008-03-02 12:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD615	HUGE SHIA ARBA'EEN COMMEMORATION REFLECTS [...] (C) Summary: As many as several million Iraqi and foreign Shia pilgrims converged on the central Iraq city of Karbala February 26-29 to mark the end of the symbolic forty-day "Arba'een" commemoration to honor the seventh-century death of Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who is ento [...]	2008-03-02 13:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD618	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - February 26 [...] SUMMARY: In the regular weekly meeting, the committee discussed issues ranging from electricity in Sabi' Al Bor, to Amanat Clean Up days and a host of issues related to Haifa Street. Despite being a holiday week, the meeting was well attended. Representatives from the Ministries of Electricity, [...]	2008-03-03 04:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD620	PRT NINEWA: PROVINCIAL BUDGET EXECUTION: HARD-WON [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Despite corruption in provincial budget execution in 2006 and delays in 2007, Ninewa was the first province to submit its 2008 capital budget to the Government of Iraq, for which it received special [...]	2008-03-03 08:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD621	(C) PARLIAMENT SPEAKER ON PROVINCIAL POWERS LEGISLATION, IRANIAN VISIT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-03 08:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IR IZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD622	JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER MAY VISIT IRAQ IN APRIL; [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. IN A SHORT MARCH 1 MEETING, JAPANESE PAGE 02 RUEHGBA0622 C O N F I D E N T I A L BAGHDAD 000622 AMBASSADOR KENJIRO MONJI TOLD AMBASSADOR CROCKER THAT IF JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER KOMURA ATTENDS THE APRIL 22 KUWAIT NEIGHBORS MINISTERIAL, MONJI WOULD ALSO ENCOURAGE HIM TO [...]	2008-03-03 08:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV JA IZ
08BAGHDAD623	PRT KIRKUK: MAJOR CRIMES COURT RESUMES TRYING [...] (U) THIS IS A PRT KIRKUK REPORTING CABLE. SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) THE KIRKUK MAJOR CRIMES COURT (MCC) RESUMED OPERATIONS FEBRUARY 28 HEARING A SECOND DOCKET OF 42 CASES. CREATED IN OCTOBER 2007, THE MCC HAS TRIED 26 CASES AND CLEARED A TWO-YEAR BACKLOG OF MAJOR CRIMES CASES, INCLUDING [...]	2008-03-03 09:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD63	(S) GOI PROVIDES PAPER ON ALTERNATIVE IRRADIATION [...] (S) In a Jan 8, 2008 meeting held at Iraq's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST),Minister Raid Jahid (FAHMI) provided NNSA Representative Boudreau a paper outlining the agricultural purposes for which Iraq used the four irradiation sources the US has prepared for shipment from the Tuwait [...]	2008-01-09 14:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON IZ PARM PREL
08BAGHDAD631	AHMADINEJAD VISIT MOSTLY PR; STRONG SIGNAL THAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's overnight visit largely confirmed its advance billing as a PR exercise. The substance, centered around the signing of seven MOUs, including a USD 1 billion loan package, will require time to evaluate. The trip did send a strong visual that shoul [...]	2008-03-03 18:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD632	SADRISTS DECRY VETO OF PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW [...] (S) A roundup of mosque sermons from different parts of Iraq indicates that the Sadrist/JAM faction is on the offensive against the Presidential Council's "veto" of the Provincial Powers Law (PPL). In Baghdad, Sheikh Abd al-Zahra al-Suwaydi, an imam at the al-Hikmah Mosque in Sadr City, compla [...]	2008-03-04 03:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD633	ISCI IMAMS PRAISE ARBA,EEN SECURITY IN FRIDAY [...] (S) Summary: In their Friday, February 29, 2008, sermons, two leading Islamic Supreme Council for Iraq (ISCI)-affiliated imams paid tribute to the security that marked this year's Arba'een commemorations. At the Buratha Mosque in Baghdad, Sheikh Hamid al-Mu'allah al-Sai'di thanked the people [...]	2008-03-04 03:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD636	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS BRACE FOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) With the clock ticking on the implementation of the Accountability and Justice Law, Provincial leaders have begun to look ahead at how they can make their case to Baghdad on how and why the law should b [...]	2008-03-04 12:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD638	SOME PROGRESS ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: The High Commission on Human Rights law received its second reading in the Council of Representatives (CoR) on February 13, almost a year after its first reading. According to members of the CoR Human Rights Committee, the third and final reading should take place shortly after t [...]	2008-03-04 13:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD642	SRSG DE MISTURA DISCUSSES UNAMI'S PLANS ON ARTICLE [...] (C) Summary: On February 20, Counselor Eliot A. Cohen met with Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) to the UN Assistance Mission for SIPDIS Iraq (UNAMI),to discuss UNAMI's plans for negotiating disputed internal boundaries and assisting with provinci [...]	2008-03-05 02:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD643	Dialogue on Economic Cooperation Ends With Follow-Up [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Iraq (GOI) hosted the U.S. Government (USG) at the Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad February 27-28, 2008 for the U.S.-Iraq Dialogue on Economic Cooperation (DEC). Senior officials from both governments discussed the nature of the bilateral economic relationship, its [...]	2008-03-05 07:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAID EFIN EINV EAGR ENRG IZ
08BAGHDAD646	Input for New Required Reports to Congress on Energy [...] (U) This report is prepared per reftel request under Sections 931(b) and (d) of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, requiring a description of the Department of State personnel who are dedicated to energy matters at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, a major energy producer. The p [...]	2008-03-05 08:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV APER ABUD IZ
08BAGHDAD647	OIL MINISTER PRESENTS DEVELOPMENT PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Oil has presented to the Council of Ministers his three-part plan for oil field development in the absence of a national hydrocarbon law: to sign 2-year technical service agreements in 2008 with major international oil companies (IOCs) to increase production in f [...]	2008-03-05 08:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON ENRG IZ
08BAGHDAD649	IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEB 29 [...] Summary. PM Maliki and DPM Salih co-chaired the 29 February 2008 IESC in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh Al-Qannon). The meeting featured lengthy discussion of steps being taken to improve electricity in Baghdad, PM Maliki's number one priority. More optimism than usual was sou [...]	2008-03-05 13:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD65	NINEWA: SUCCESSFUL HAJJ FLIGHTS CREATE HOPES FOR [...] (C) Sumamry: Mosul Airport in December successfully processed thousands of Hajj pilgrims, arousing a sense of local pride and hope that commercial flights will continue for the betterment of the Ninewa economy. While there are many logistical hurdles to dividing Ninewa,s airport and airspace [...]	2008-01-09 15:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EAIR EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD650	THE IRAQI FPS - A MISSING SECURITY LINK? [...] SUMMARY: Prior to the fall of Saddam's regime, the Facility Protection Services (FPS) was directly controlled by the Ministry of Interior (MoI) but was decentralized during the CPA's administration. The MoI has recently introduced a FPS Reform Law that is considered critical in guaranteeing [...]	2008-03-05 13:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ MCAP PGOV PINS
08BAGHDAD656	IRAQ OIL MINISTER OUTLINES PLANS TO U/S JEFFERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Oil (MOO) Shahrishtani, in a February 25 meeting, told Under Secretary of State Jeffery that the MOO and the Cabinet are prepared to proceed with the February 07 draft hydrocarbon law (HCL),but said that the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) should cancel its post-F [...]	2008-03-05 15:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD657	GOI OFFICIALS DISCUSS HYDROCARBONS LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq officials told Under Secretary Jeffery in a series of meetings held February 24-28 in Baghdad that the time is ripe to move forward on the hydrocarbon legislative package (septels). VP Adil Mahdi agreed to place the item on the agenda for the next Executive Council meeting, [...]	2008-03-05 15:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON PGOV EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD658	WHY VP ABDEL MEHDI REFUSED TO SIGN THE PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Abdel Mehdi plans to send Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mashadani a paper outlining sixteen specific objections to the Provincial Powers Law (PPL),along with proposed changes. While there is nothing in VP Abdel Mehdi's paper that would necessarily delay [...]	2008-03-05 16:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD659	AL-FADHILA BLOC CHAIRMAN, OFFICIALS WEIGH IN ON [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Embassy officials on March 4 at the Council of Representatives, al-Fadhila bloc chairman Hassan al-Shammari and other al-Fadhila CoR members expounded on several topics, including Vice-President al-Mehdi's recent veto of the Provisional Powers Law, the feasibility [...]	2008-03-05 16:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD66	KURDS STILL SEEKING CHANCE TO REPLACE MALIKI [...] (C) Summary: Kurdish leaders have agreed not to remove Prime Minister Maliki in the short term, but have little faith in him and probably would move to replace him if not for the Secretary,s strong message that Iraqi leaders must focus on issues instead of personalities. While that message r [...]	2008-01-09 15:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD660	PRT KIRKUK: THE TURKMAN BLOC PRESENTS ITS DEMANDS [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. At a February 24th negotiation session, the Turkman bloc, led by Ali Mahdi, presented again its seven item demand list in the hope of using President Talibani's recent endorsement as a lever to success. The negotiation session wa [...]	2008-03-05 20:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD661	PRT KIRKUK: NEGOTIATIONS TO END TURKMAN BOYCOT OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) met with the Turkman Bloc on March 2 to continue discussions on a resolution to the Turkman Bloc's boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council. The KBL arrived prepared to sign on five of [...]	2008-03-05 20:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD662	PRT DHI QAR: CONFLICT BETWEEN GOV AND PC [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: In the past two weeks Aziz Alwan, the ISCI Governor of Dhi Qar, has openly clashed with non-ISCI members of the Provincial Council (PC). The PC initially angered the Governor by refusing to allow funding for a road project whi [...]	2008-03-06 07:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PTER PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD663	PRT NINEWA: RAIN AND JOBS - NOT SECURITY - ARE [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. Summary ------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) Even as the 29 February kidnapping of Chaldean Christian Archbishop Faraj Rahu from a neighborhood in east Mosul remains unresolved, community leaders and municipal officials in the outlyi [...]	2008-03-06 13:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EAGR PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD664	AMAR AL-HAKIM ON SFA, AHMADINEJAD VISIT, AND [...] (S) Summary: In a March 4 meeting, ISCI heir apparent Amar al-Hakim expressed support for the concept of a Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) as a broad expression of our shared interests and vision. He said he and his father, ISCI Chairman Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, frequently talk about the impo [...]	2008-03-06 13:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD665	VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI ON VETO, SFA, AND AHMADINEJAD [...] (C) Summary: In a March 4 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi defended his decision to veto the Provincial Powers Law (PPL) and said he would work closely with CoR leaders and bloc heads to effect a compromise bill that would be passed by the Presidency Council without another CoR vote. [...]	2008-03-06 13:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD666	JAM FREEZE ENTERS "PHASE OF DOCTRINAL AND [...] (S) Summary: After a flurry of mixed public signals regarding the future of his "freeze" on the Jaysh al-Mehdi (JAM) militia, Muqtada al-Sadr announced a ceasefire extension through August 16 via Sadrist prayer leaders on February 22. At the same time, Sadrist officials appear to have embark [...]	2008-03-06 15:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD67	TIME FOR TALKS BETWEEN KRG AND TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: Despite their strong reaction to Turkish airstrikes, including Massoud Barzani,s refusal to meet Secretary Rice (reftel),Iraqi Kurdish leaders are continuing SIPDIS to implement the anti-PKK measures they had previously imposed. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Kurdistan Regio [...]	2008-01-09 15:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD675	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - March 4 [...] SUMMARY: Following a February 29 discussion at the I-ESC, Dr. Chalabi convened a special meeting to discuss water availability in Baghdad. Participants included representatives from the National Plastics Industry (NPI),the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works (MMPW),the Baghdad Water A [...]	2008-03-07 04:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD678	ICI: BAGHDAD DONOR MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNAMI convened an informal donor meeting March 4 to: a) update Baghdad-resident donor reps on GOI preparation for the ICI first anniversary, b) brief on the January 23 IRFFI meeting in Naples, and c) brief a visiting EC delegation on a and b. UNAMI Deputy Guy Siri and World B [...]	2008-03-07 11:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD679	TALABANI ON HIS UPCOMING VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) In a March 4 meeting with the Ambassador, President Talabani confirmed he will visit Turkey March 7-9, accompanied by a large number of ministers, emphasized his desire to re-establish trilateral (Iraq-Turkey-U.S.) discussions while acknowledging the need for bilateral channels, and said h [...]	2008-03-07 12:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD68	AMBASSADOR'S JANUARY 7 MEETING WITH IRAQI [...] (S) During a January 7 meeting with Ambassador Crocker, Samir Sumaidaie, the Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S., sought to establish shared U.S.-GOI priorities in the lead up to the Ambassador's upcoming testimony to Congress. The Ambassador told Sumaidaie the most significant bilateral issue at han [...]	2008-01-10 03:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS ECON KCOR IZ
08BAGHDAD680	PRESIDENT TALABANI DISCUSSES DISSATISFACTION [...] (C) In a March 4 meeting with the Ambassador, President Talabani said he will meet with PM Maliki on March 5 to talk about the impasse surrounding Tawafuq,s return to the government, and said he understood that many in the IIP leadership are dissatisfied with Hashimi and plan to talk to Maliki [...]	2008-03-07 12:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD684	THE PARTY OF PRIME MINISTERS: DAWA UNITY REMAINS [...] (C) Summary: The Islamic Dawa Party, the grandfather of Iraq's Shia religious-based political parties, is no stranger to division, and the latest fissure pits a faction led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki against a smaller but scrappy camp headed by former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaffri. F [...]	2008-03-08 09:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD691	PRT NINEWA: MOSUL MUSEUM, CLOSED AND WITH A [...] (C) PRT Leader, Public Affairs Officer, and other PRT staff visited the Mosul Museum February 21 to meet Museum Director Muzahem Hussein (please protect) and assess conditions at this important cultural institution, which has been closed since 2003 because of security. The museum is housed in [...]	2008-03-08 19:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SCUL EAIR PINR PREL MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD692	MONEY, DEATH, AND LIES: SHIA MODERATE ON SOUTHERN [...] (C) In a March 6 meeting with Poloff, Sheikh Abid Faisal identified positive and negative aspects to the prospect of provincial elections. Although he acknowledged public appetite for governmental change, he said the power of the religious parties made it likely they would consolidate their [...]	2008-03-09 07:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD695	PRT KIRKUK: COUNCILS CONVOCATION II - [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Rizgar Ali, Chairman of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC),convened a second information sharing session on February 24 with the primarily Kurdish and Turkman district and sub-district councils to discuss council operations, rol [...]	2008-03-09 10:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD699	PRT WASIT: WASIT'S MODERATE ALTERNATIVES [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. Poor performance from elected representatives and the likely demise of the closed list system may open the door a crack to Wasit independents. At least three small self-described &technocrat8 groups are seeking to organize, educ [...]	2008-03-09 13:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD70	TROUBLES ABOUND FOR TAWAFUQ LEADER ADNAN DULEIMI [...] (S/NF) In a January 7 meeting with the Ambassador, a grieving and somewhat incoherent Adnan Duleimi ranted about his troubles. Earlier in the day, Duleimi had lost his son-in-law, Thia al-Hadithi (the husband of Duleimi's daughter, CoR member Asma Duleimi) in an attack on the Sunni Endowment [...]	2008-01-10 10:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD700	MALIKI CHASTISES JUDICIARY, REQUESTS HELP ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: At the Prime Minister's weekly security meeting with Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus, Maliki immediately turned to the acquittal of the former Deputy Minister of Health. Maliki lamented the failure of the judiciary to promote justice and promised to seek redress. During [...]	2008-03-09 16:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR MOPS MCAP PGOV PTER PINS PNAT IZ KU
08BAGHDAD701	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR EQUIPPING NINE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S Embassy Country Team concurs with the full and immediate equipping of nine additional Iraqi army units via Foreign Military Sales (FMS) as a part of the force generation plan. The GOI will generate these units [...]	2008-03-09 16:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IZ MARR MASS MCAP PREL
08BAGHDAD702	PRT KIRKUK: DEPUTY GOVERNOR RECEIVES OFFICIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Governor Rakan Saeed Ali Radwan al-Jubori received his official duties and authorities in an official communiqu from Kirkuk Governor Abdul Rahman Mustafa Fatih on February 27. The document cites each responsibility in ver [...]	2008-03-09 21:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD705	NSA RUBAI ON SOFA, SFA, AND GETTING APPROVAL [...] (C) In a wide-ranging March 5 conversation, National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwaffaq al-Rubai shared his views on the Strategic Framework (SF) and the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Embassy PolMil MinsCouns Marcie Ries and NSC's Brett McGurk. Rubai stressed the delicate political clim [...]	2008-03-10 03:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD706	IRAQI NSA RUBAI ON AHMEDI-NEJAD'S VISIT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-10 03:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PRGO IR IZ
08BAGHDAD713	PDS INEFFICIENT, BUT POTENTIAL ELECTORAL AND [...] (C) Summary. For Iraqis, timely and full receipt of their Public Distribution System (PDS) benefits is a Government of Iraq (GOI) performance indicator. The World Food Program estimates that 60 percent of Iraqis wholly or partially depend on PDS rations; deliveries, however, are often late, [...]	2008-03-10 12:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD717	IRAQ FY08 REPORT ON FISCAL TRANSPARENCY [...] (U) As requested in reftel, Embassy Baghdad's submission for the congressionally-mandated report on fiscal transparency for countries receiving USG assistance follows: 2. (SBU) Begin text: The Government of Iraq (GoI) recently reiterated its commitment to fiscal transparency in the U.S.-Ira [...]	2008-03-10 15:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD724	SUMMARY OF GOI MEETINGS ON RULE OF LAW, DETENTIONS [...] This is an update on the continuing Ministerial Committee on the Rule of Law and Detention meetings (MCROLD). Since our last summary the MCROLD has been marked by more senior participants - most ministries or agencies are now represented at the deputy minister level - and more organized meeti [...]	2008-03-11 14:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KJUS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD726	UPDATE ON AMNESTY IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) Summary: The General Amnesty Law passed by the COR on February 13 is now in effect, and Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud continues to issue implementing regulations that address only administrative aspects of the law. Already families and concerned individuals have lined up at courthouses [...]	2008-03-11 18:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD727	PRT SALAH AD DIN: LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Local district and subdistrict governments have over the last several months shown increasing signs of engagement with the Salah ad Din Provincial Government and a commitment to meeting the basic needs of thei [...]	2008-03-11 19:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD730	AMBASSADOR AND FM DISCUSS SFA AND SOFA PREPARATION [...] (C) In a March 3 meeting with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Ambassador Ryan Crocker delivered the U.S. concept for diplomatic rollout of the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). It was apparent that the Iraqis were thinking of the SFA and SOFA as [...]	2008-03-12 07:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD732	ONE HAND CANNOT CLAP: SADR'S PERIOD OF ISOLATION [...] (C) In a March 7 statement Shi'a leader Muqtada al-Sadr distanced himself one step further from contemporary Iraqi politics, telling his followers he was in a state of "corporeal separation" due to their continuing disobedience. Immediately afterwards Sadrist leaders sought to reassure confus [...]	2008-03-12 09:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD734	SHAWAYS GUARDED ABOUT SFA/SOFA PROCESS [...] (C) In a March 8 meeting, KDP Baghdad Representative (and former Deputy Prime Minister) Rosch Shaways told Ambassador Crocker, Senior Advisor to the Secretary on Iraq Satterfield and NSC Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan McGurk that KRG leadership was prepared to take positive, practi [...]	2008-03-12 09:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD735	(C) SUNNI POLITICAL BLOC (TAWAFUQ) SEEKS EMBASSY [...] (S) On March 8, a senior member of the Iraqi Islamic Party and Tawafuq Bloc, Parliament Member Dr. Alaa al-Mekki, presented poloff with a letter clarifying the bloc's demands in ongoing but stalled negotiations with the Prime Minister's office. In the letter's cover note, Mekki requests Embass [...]	2008-03-12 11:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREF IZ
08BAGHDAD736	DEMARCHE: URGING ATTENDENCE AT MARCH 14 BEIRUT [...] (U) On March 11, PolOff conveyed reftel points via e-mail to Foreign Minister Zebari's Chief of Staff Qusay Alkoubaisi, who is accompanying the Minister to the March 13-14 Dakar OIC Summit. Post will report response septel. CROCKER [...]	2008-03-12 14:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IS PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER MASS PARM
08BAGHDAD739	U.S./IRAQ SOFA: NEGOTIATING ABOUT NEGOTIATING [...] (S) Summary: The first meeting of the full U.S. and Iraqi Status of Forces Agreement negotiating teams on March 11 was largely a ceremonial affair in which the two sides introduced themselves and their opening positions. The press was not present. The Iraqis continued to press their vision [...]	2008-03-13 03:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD742	UNAMI SRSG DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, ANKARA TRIP, SOFA [...] (C) Summary: On March 9, the Ambassador met with UNAMI Special Representative (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura upon his return from Ankara. The Ambassador and the SRSG discussed the veto of the Provincial Powers Law, provincial elections, and the SRSG,s thoughts on a way forward. De Mistura said [...]	2008-03-13 11:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD743	IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - MARCH 7 [...] (C) Summary. In the absence of Prime Minister Maliki, the Minister of Defense Abdul Qadir (MoD) Chaired the Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (FaQ). The meeting featured complaints from representatives of Sadr City about the extremely poor state [...]	2008-03-13 12:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD744	TALABANI'S ANKARA VISIT STRESSES PKK, GOI-GOT [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi President Talabani met on March 10 with Ambassador Crocker, S/I Satterfield, Pol-Mil Minister-Counselor Ries, and NSC Senior Director McGurk. Talabani told the Ambassador he was quite satisfied with his visit to Turkey and especially with progress on Northern Iraq. In fran [...]	2008-03-13 12:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD747	MND-C ECONOMIC SITUATION: A VIEW FROM MND-C POLAD [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- ENTIRE TEXT. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. In the Multi-National Division Center (MND-C) area of responsibility (AOR) improved security, the return of stability and normalcy, the emergence of economic activity and our increasing ability to engage with Iraqis have combined [...]	2008-03-13 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD748	PRT WASIT: PRT INCREASES SADRIST ENGAGEMENT [...] (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary. In a meeting with Wasit PRT on 1 March, Sadrist Trend Provincial Council member Ahmed Hasan Ebrah and Deputy PC Chairman Nisar Kathim Fraieh described the continued adherence to the ceasefire in al Kut by "true" Jaysh al Mahdi and applauded perceived changes in the [...]	2008-03-13 15:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD749	AWAKENING LEADER ABU AZZAM ON GOI COOPERATION [...] (S) Summary: Abu Ghraib Awakening movement leader Abu Azzam told FSEC that the Awakening movement continues to progress, though some GOI and ISF elements remain opposed to them. In Abu Ghraib, Iraqi Army units target Awakening members for harassment, even after the GOI hired 1500 local men [...]	2008-03-13 15:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD755	DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON GOI PLANS FOR REFUGEE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 13 meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Haj Hamoud said that the Iraqi Ambassador in Amman would disburse the USD 8 million Iraq had pledged to help its refugees in Jordan within a day or two, but did not mention any additional GOI funding initiatives for refugees. [...]	2008-03-13 18:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD756	KIRKUK BOYCOTT NEGOTIATIONS STALL [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Turkman Bloc met with the Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) on March 9 as part of their ongoing negotiations to end the 15 month-long boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council by the Turkman Bloc. Negotiations stalled after the tw [...]	2008-03-14 09:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD763	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - March 11 [...] SUMMARY: Despite the Chairman's absence, the Provision of Services Committee met this week, hosted by the Deputy Minister of Electricity (DMoE). The meeting was well attended - the Baghdad Governor and a representative from the National Reconciliation Committee attended for the first time. The [...]	2008-03-14 10:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD764	ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT: STRATEGY FOR IRAQ [...] This is an action request (see para 16). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's status as a "boycotting country" under the League of Arab States' boycott of Israel (Arab League Boycott -- ALB) has been listed as "under review" since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003. Some elements in [...]	2008-03-14 12:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KBTC ECON ETRD PREL EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD767	2008 IAGGA: IRAQ'S Anti-Corruption Efforts in 2006-2007 [...] Summary. While the corrosive effects of public corruption continue to plague Iraqi society, the Government of Iraq (GOI) recently has taken a number of positive steps aimed at ameliorating this problem. Cognizant of the fact that corruption endangers the stability and security of the state, [...]	2008-03-14 13:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL
08BAGHDAD768	IRAQI DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF SURVEYS IRAQI JOINT [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) At the monthly Defense Attach Association of Iraq (DAAI) meeting on March 4, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff (DCOS),General Nasier Abadi, presented a frank overview of the Iraqi military and the challenges it faces in the coming years. He observed that the current counte [...]	2008-03-14 14:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PINS PNAT PTER
08BAGHDAD769	MCNS MARCH 9: SECURITY OPERATIONS IN MOSUL, [...] (S REL MNFI) LTG Jalal Tawfiq Riyadh, Ninewa Operations Command and former commander of the Iraqi Army 9th Division, presented a well-organized and thorough brief on preparatory measures for tackling Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in Ninewa province. The MCNS dealt again with instructions to the Mini [...]	2008-03-14 14:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD780	TALABANI VISIT TO TURKEY: PURSUING THE POLITICAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: The successful March 7/8 visit of President Talabani to Turkey has changed dramatically the political atmosphere between the two countries, and created the space for setting in motion diplomatic steps that can lead to concrete cooperation on the PKK problem. To be successful, th [...]	2008-03-15 13:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS PGOV PREL PTER IZ TU
08BAGHDAD782	AL-FADHILA AND THE REGIONS LAW: STAY TUNED. [...] (C) Summary: On Tuesday, March 11, Poloff met with Dr. Basim al-Hechaimi, a member of the Council of Representatives (COR) from the al-Fadhila bloc. During this informal and cordial meeting, Dr. Basim opined on several topics, including Vice-President Adil Abd al-Mehdi's recent veto of the Pro [...]	2008-03-15 13:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD784	ARAB PARLIAMENTARY SUMMIT FLAUNTS KURDS' [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Arab Parliamentary Union (APU)'s semi-annual conference convened March 11-13 in Erbil. Kurdistan Regional Government officals called the event immensely important for the Kurdish region for three reasons: it advertised Erbil as an investment haven, demonstrated the KRG's comm [...]	2008-03-15 14:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD785	COR SPEAKER MASHADANI DISCUSSES PROVINCIAL POWERS [...] (S/NF) Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani told the Ambassador on March 15 he hopes VP Adil Abdul Mehdi will withdraw his veto of the provincial powers law. As Mashadani told the Ambassador in their previous meeting (reftel),his own "Shura Council" is reviewing the leg [...]	2008-03-15 17:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREF PGOV IZ

08BAGHDAD786	AN ODE TO COR SPEAKER MASHADANI [...] (C/NF) Summary: CoR Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani is becoming more comfortable in his role as leader of Iraq's parliament, though he continues to breed controversy on a regular basis and is prone to emotional outbursts in the CoR chamber. Behind the scenes, Mashadani has become a legislative "deal [...]	2008-03-15 17:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD789	TRADE MINISTRY PLANS RADICAL PDS REFORM 2008-2010 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Trade (MoT) has indicated that the Public Distribution System (PDS) will remain essentially untouched this year, fully funded either through the 2008 budget alone or with supplemental appropriations as well. The MoT has, however, provided Emboffs a cogent plan it [...]	2008-03-16 08:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD79	VENICE COMMUNIQUE TEXT ON ARTICLE 140 [...] During a January 9 meeting with Ambassador Crocker, Italian Ambassador to Iraq Maurizio Melani mentioned a December 18-22 conference in Venice focused on Article 140. He noted that the conference included participation by members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives and Kurdish National As [...]	2008-01-11 13:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD799	AMBASSADOR RAISES SOFA/SF AND ICI WITH D/PM BARHAM [...] (S) Ambassador met March 13 with Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih to discuss the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Strategic Framework (SF) negotiations, the Prime Minister's participation in the International Compact for Iraq (ICI) ministerial, and security at Umm Qasr port and in Basra [...]	2008-03-17 08:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PGOV MASS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD8	PRT-WASIT: IRAN PAYS FOR WASIT SHEIKHS' TOUR [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL TO ACGU) Summary: According to numerous tribal and government contacts, from 21 November to 6 December approximately 60 sheikhs and family members visited Iran for fifteen days to tour Tehran, Qom and Mashad. An Iraqi tour company named [...]	2008-01-02 10:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD802	PRT SALAH AD DIN: SAMARRA HAS NEW CITY COUNCIL [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) After weeks of backroom maneuvering, and with the full support of the Provincial Council (PC),Samarra has a new 21 member City Council (CC) that was selected by the consensus of the Samarra Mayor, local Sheik [...]	2008-03-17 12:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD803	MFA U/S HAMOUD ON THE KHWAR ABD ALLAH WATERWAY [...] (C) Deputy PolMil Counselor passed to MFA Undersecretary Hamoud on March 15 proposed points for inclusion in an Iraqi-Kuwaiti MOU on the salvage operation related to the Khwar Abd Allah waterway project. Also conveyed was the information contained in ref A regarding Kuwaiti willingness to mee [...]	2008-03-17 12:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PBTS PTIA IZ KU
08BAGHDAD805	PENSION REFORM IMPLEMENTATION ONGOING, REINSTATED [...] (C) Begin Summary: Ali Awayed Abbas, head of the Pension Reform Steering Committee and Director General for the State Pension Department, told Econoffs March 13 that the first pension payments incorporating the new benefit formula as outlined in the pension amendment passed by the Council of R [...]	2008-03-17 12:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD806	DFM ABBAWI ON BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP, THE [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a March 16 call on Pol-Mil M/C, Iraqi DFM Labeed Abbawi discussed preparations for the next Border Security Working Group in Damascus and Iraqi participation in the Arab League Summit. PM Maliki would lead Iraq's delegation to the latter in what Abbawi attempted to portray as [...]	2008-03-17 14:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PBTS PREL PTER EG IR IZ LE RU SY
08BAGHDAD807	BAHA AL-ARAJI: LACK OF TIMELINE IS BIGGEST U.S. [...] (C) Summary: In a March 16 meeting with Poloffs, Sadr Trend bloc leader Baha al-Araji acknowledged common U.S. and Sadrist interests but catalogued a long list of what he said were mistakes in America's handling of the post-regime period. Foremost among these, he claimed, is the failure to s [...]	2008-03-17 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD817	DIWANIYAH GOVERNOR AND PC CHAIR TALK [...] (C) Summary: PRT Team Leader, REO Hillah RSO, and PRT Offs met with Diwaniyah Governor Khudari (ISCI) on March 9 to discuss the overall situation in Diwaniyah province, future engagements between the governor and PRT, the need for economic development, and the prospect of provincial election [...]	2008-03-18 11:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR
08BAGHDAD823	PRT ANBAR: EMBASSY KABUL DCM DISCUSSES AWAKENING [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar Reporting Cable. 2. (C) Summary: On March 12, Embassy Kabul DCM, Ambassador Chris Dell, met with Sheikh Ahmad, the leader of the tribal-based anti-Al Qaeda Awakening Movement of Iraq (SAI),to discuss the origins and success of SAI and what lessons could potentially [...]	2008-03-18 15:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD830	MEETING WITH GOI/MFA ON MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP [...] (C) Summary: In a March 15 meeting with MFA U/S Hamoud, MNF-I DCS for Strategic Effects and Deputy PolMil Couns briefed Hamoud on their March 6 trip to Makhmour Refugee camp, and sought to get GOI views on closing the camp and the way ahead. Hamoud suggested that the GOI, GOT and UNHCR meet [...]	2008-03-19 06:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREF PREL
08BAGHDAD831	PRT MAYSAN: JAM AND THE TRIBES, URBAN-RURAL DIVIDE [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The extent of Mahdi Army influence on dense urban and sparse rural populations in Maysan remains in dispute. Most evidence points to an elected and JAM-dominated provincial government controlling Maysan,s urban centers balanced ag [...]	2008-03-19 08:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD832	WARKA BANK REQUESTS U.S. CORRESPONDENT BANKING [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see para 8. - - - - Summary - - - - 2. (C) Mohammed Kemal Issa, Deputy Managing Director for International Affairs at Warka Bank, asked EMIN during a March 7 meeting for our help in encouraging U.S. banks to form correspondent banking relations [...]	2008-03-19 09:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD833	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-03-19 11:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD834	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-03-19 11:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD841	COR SPEAKER MASHADANI CALLS ARAB PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) This is an action request, see para 5. 2. (C) Summary: Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani hailed the Arab Parliamentary Union (APU) Conference as a success in his meeting with the Ambassador on March 15. Mashadani recounted his discussions with representatives o [...]	2008-03-19 14:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD842	PRT WASIT: STATUS OF SADRIST CEASEFIRE IN KUT [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary. In a 13 March meeting and 13-14 March phone conversations with PRT Team Leader (TL),Wasit Provincial Council Chairman Mohammad Hassan Jabir (independent) spoke at length of the political effects of IP and CF operation [...]	2008-03-19 14:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD844	PRT KIRKUK: ASAYISH DETAINEES FACE POSSIBLE [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Iraqi Chief Justice has agreed to begin reviewing 229 cases of Asayish detainees in Sulimaniyah for possible transfer to Kirkuk. The Kirkuk Chief Judge has received a written order from the Chief Justice to begin reviewing t [...]	2008-03-19 18:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD845	TUWAITHA YELLOW CAKE SALE NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Energy Attache Parks (Parks) (together with Energy Officer Albert Walgreen (3/7) and MNFI's Colonel Henderson (3/14)) met with Science & Technology Minister Fahmi (Fahmi) on March 7 and 14, respectively, to receive updates on GOI's sale contract negotiations for the yellow cake ma [...]	2008-03-20 05:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PARM PREL EXEC POL
08BAGHDAD848	VP ABD AL-MEHDI ON INVESTMENT ISSUES, CORRUPTION, [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, March 14, the Ambassador met with Vice President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) compound in Baghdad. During the meeting, the Ambassador and Adel discussed a host of issues, including foreign investment in Iraq, the activities of the GOI [...]	2008-03-20 06:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD849	UNAMI SRSG VISITS NAJAF [...] (C) Summary: On March 11, UNAMI Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura made a quiet, one-day visit to Najaf, Iraq's holiest city and home of the much-revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The SRSG and Deputy for Political Affairs Andrew Gilmour provided [...]	2008-03-20 08:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD850	VISIT TO MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP [...] (C) MNF-I coordinated a March 8 visit for senior UNAMI, Embassy, and PRT Ninewa officials to the UNHCR refugee camp in Makhmour, Ninewa Province. Refugee representatives at the camp said the residents unanimously want to return to Turkey. Local Kurdish Iraqi officials said the camp and its r [...]	2008-03-20 09:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREF PREL
08BAGHDAD851	PRT SALAH AD DIN: ANXIETIES BUILD AMID QUESTIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) With anxieties building as the April 14 application deadline set in the Justice and Accountability Law approaches, Salah Ad Din (SaD) provincial officials have begun to collect data on former Firqah and Shuba [...]	2008-03-20 11:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD854	VP HASHIMI ON TAWAFUQ'S RETURN: THE PROBLEM IS [...] (C) Summary: VP Tariq al-Hashimi told the Ambassador on March 16 "the problem is not with us" with respect to negotiations for Tawafuq's return to the GOI. Other parties also fed up with PM Maliki, he said, include Iraqiyya, the Kurds, the Sadrists, and the Fadhila Party. On the Strategic Fra [...]	2008-03-20 14:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD855	WEEKLY MEETING WITH PM, MARCH 13: SOFA/STRATEGIC [...] (S) In a cordial meeting March 13 at Prime Minister Maliki's weekly security meeting with Ambassador Crocker and GEN Petraeus, Ambassador briefed Maliki on the dual-tracked, concurrent negotiation of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and the Strategic Framework (SF) by a technical experts [...]	2008-03-20 14:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PGOV MASS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD856	PRT TEAM LEADERS CONFERENCE - LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE [...] On March 3 and 4, the embassy's Office of Provincial Affairs (OPA) hosted the second quarterly Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Team Leaders Conference in Baghdad. The conference details are found in SEPTEL. Within the body of the conference, however, a separate closed-door session was he [...]	2008-03-20 15:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREZ IZ
08BAGHDAD857	PRT TEAM LEADERS CONFERENCE - BRINGING TEAMWORK AND [...] Summary. On March 3 and 4, the embassy's Office of Provincial Affairs (OPA) hosted the second quarterly Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Team Leaders Conference in Baghdad. This gathering of nearly every PRT, ePRT, and RRT team leader provided an ideal venue for State, DoD, and interagency [...]	2008-03-20 15:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREZ IZ
08BAGHDAD859	UNAMI ELECTIONS PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On March 16, UNAMI election advisors Sandra Mitchell and Richard Gee apprised representatives of the diplomatic community of the status of UNAMI's elections assistance programs. Sandra Mitchell broke down the assistance into two tracks -- political and technical. On the polit [...]	2008-03-20 17:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD864	CODEL LEVIN MEETING WITH VP ABD AL-MEHDI [...] (C) Summary: On Sunday, March 16, CODEL Levin met with Vice-President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Hakim Compound in Baghdad. In a civil yet frank exchange, Senator Levin and Adel discussed a host of topics. Focusing initially on the political and security environment in Iraq, Senator Levin pres [...]	2008-03-21 13:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OREP IZ
08BAGHDAD865	CODEL LEVIN MEETS WITH DPM SALEH [...] (S) In a cordial meeting on March 16, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh told Senator Carl Levin that recent political developments were proof that the Iraqi political system was working. He expressed confidence that provincial elections would take place in October. Saleh acknowledged there [...]	2008-03-21 13:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PARM XF IZ IR
08BAGHDAD866	TURKISH ENVOY VISITING IRAQ TO IMPROVE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkish Special Envoy to Iraq Murat Ozcelik told Ambassador March 20 that he will stay flexible with how long he remains in Iraq during this visit in the hopes of holding a meeting with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani next week, which the GO [...]	2008-03-21 14:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD867	NEXT STEPS ON PROVINCIAL POWERS [...] (C) On March 19, 2008 the Presidency Council released a statement announcing that after deliberations with the leaders of the Council of Representatives (CoR) and party blocs, it has unanimously decided to withdraw its objections to the Provincial Powers Law (or PPL; see ref A). It is our und [...]	2008-03-21 14:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ PGOV POL
08BAGHDAD87	TALABANI ON RESTARTING THE 3+1 AND MODERATING [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on January 9 met with the Ambassador on the occasion of Talabani,s return to Baghdad from the Kurdistan region. Talabani said he is ready to move forward on the 3 1 mechanism now that all the principals are bac [...]	2008-01-12 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD873	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-03-23 12:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD875	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - March 18 [...] SUMMARY: Dr. Chalabi's March 18 Provision of Services Committee meeting focused primarily on potable water theft around Baghdad, with Dr. Chalabi stressing the importance of prosecuting those responsible. Additional discussion centered on problems with ground transportation in the country, and [...]	2008-03-23 12:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD877	UN ANTI-CORRUPTION CONFERENCE (MARCH 17-18, 2008) [...] (U) Summary. As part of its portfolio of activities to support good governance, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP),in coordination with the office of Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, organized an international Anti-Corruption Conference in Baghdad on March 17-18, 2008 at al-Rash [...]	2008-03-23 12:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID IZ KCOR PGOV PREL SOCI
08BAGHDAD878	IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: OBSTACLES BUT A WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: The withdrawal of the Presidency Council veto of the Provincial Powers Law (septel) has removed one potential obstacle to rapid progress on an electoral law when the Council of Representatives convenes in late March. However, significant legislative, logistical, and political hu [...]	2008-03-23 14:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD88	THREE STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES FIND STRATEGIC PARTNERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three cement plants in Iraq have found joint venture partners in consortia built in each case from different European firms joining with separate Iraqi partner companies. The deals are not final -- negotiations may take several more months -- and are to be developed around produ [...]	2008-01-13 02:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND ECON EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD880	MCNS MARCH 16 DISCUSSES BASRAH SECURITY, TAJI [...] (U) The March 16 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on dealing with security in Umm Qasr port and Basrah Province, implementation of the 2008 budget, and mine action. MNF-I briefed on the now operational Taji Maintenance Facility. End Summary. Umm Qasr/Basrah Securit [...]	2008-03-23 15:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD881	RRT ERBIL: DOHUK PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ON [...] (C) RRTOff met with the Chairman of Dohuk's Provincial Council (PC),Dr. Fadl Omar, on March 19 in Dohuk City, in order to discuss the March 17 meeting in Erbil among the Chairmen of the three Kurdish PCs (i.e. Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dohuk). At that meeting, the Kurdish PC leaders agreed to [...]	2008-03-23 16:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD886	IRAQI NSA RUBAI ON AHMEDI-NEJAD'S VISIT - [...] (S) National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwaffaq al-Rubai shared his views on the purpose and meaning of the Iranian President Ahmedi-Nejad's recent visit with Embassy PolMil MinsCouns Amb. Marcie Ries and NSC's Brett McGurk in two hour-long conversations, one each on March 5 and March 7. (S/I Amb [...]	2008-03-24 08:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PRGO IR IZ
08BAGHDAD887	THE AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 23 MEETING WITH VP ABDEL [...] (S) Summary: In a March 23 meeting with the Ambassador, VP Abdel Mehdi shared his analysis of the latest IDF strikes on the International Zone; discussed the reasons for his withdrawal of his veto of the Provincial Powers Law; speculated on the CoR's priorities when it reconvenes; described a [...]	2008-03-24 12:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD890	CORRECTED COPY (REFTEL): MCNS MARCH 16 DISCUSSES [...] (U) The March 16 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on dealing with security in Umm Qasr port and Basrah Province, implementation of the 2008 budget, and mine action. MNF-I briefed on the now operational Taji Maintenance Facility. End Summary. Umm Qasr/Basrah Securit [...]	2008-03-24 16:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD894	WARKA BANK REQUESTS U.S. CORRESPONDENT BANKING [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see para 8. - - - - Summary - - - - 2. (C) Mohammed Kemal Issa, Deputy Managing Director for International Affairs at Warka Bank, asked EMIN during a March 7 meeting for our help in encouraging U.S. banks to form correspondent banking relations [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD895	NEXT STEPS ON PROVINCIAL POWERS [...] (C) On March 19, 2008 the Presidency Council released a statement announcing that after deliberations with the leaders of the Council of Representatives (CoR) and party blocs, it has unanimously decided to withdraw its objections to the Provincial Powers Law (or PPL; see ref A). It is our und [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ PGOV POL
08BAGHDAD896	CODEL LEVIN MEETS WITH DPM SALEH [...] (S) In a cordial meeting on March 16, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh told Senator Carl Levin that recent political developments were proof that the Iraqi political system was working. He expressed confidence that provincial elections would take place in October. Saleh acknowledged there [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PARM XF IZ IR
08BAGHDAD897	CODEL LEVIN MEETING WITH VP ABD AL-MEHDI [...] (C) Summary: On Sunday, March 16, CODEL Levin met with Vice-President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Hakim Compound in Baghdad. In a civil yet frank exchange, Senator Levin and Adel discussed a host of topics. Focusing initially on the political and security environment in Iraq, Senator Levin pres [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OREP IZ
08BAGHDAD898	UNAMI SRSG VISITS NAJAF [...] (C) Summary: On March 11, UNAMI Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura made a quiet, one-day visit to Najaf, Iraq's holiest city and home of the much-revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The SRSG and Deputy for Political Affairs Andrew Gilmour provided [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD899	TUWAITHA YELLOW CAKE SALE NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Energy Attache Parks (Parks) (together with Energy Officer Albert Walgreen (3/7) and MNFI's Colonel Henderson (3/14)) met with Science & Technology Minister Fahmi (Fahmi) on March 7 and 14, respectively, to receive updates on GOI's sale contract negotiations for the yellow cake ma [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PARM PREL EXEC POL
08BAGHDAD9	HAKIM OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 2008 IN MEETING WITH AMB [...] (C) Summary: In a December 31 meeting with the Ambassador, ISCI leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim agreed that significant security, economic, and political progress had been made in 2007. He expressed hope that provincial elections would be held in 2008 but was noncommittal over the possibility of [...]	2008-01-02 11:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD90	DE FACTO NON-IMPLEMENTATION OF ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy's quiet diplomacy on the issue of Iraq's implementation of the Arab League Boycott (ALB) has borne fruit. The Council of Ministers (CoM) has agreed to allow trademark applications submitted by PepsiCo to be registered, and the first five were officially registered on Jan [...]	2008-01-13 06:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD900	CORRECTED COPY (REFTEL): MCNS MARCH 16 DISCUSSES [...] (U) The March 16 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on dealing with security in Umm Qasr port and Basrah Province, implementation of the 2008 budget, and mine action. MNF-I briefed on the now operational Taji Maintenance Facility. End Summary. Umm Qasr/Basrah Securit [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD901	THE AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 23 MEETING WITH VP ABDEL [...] (S) Summary: In a March 23 meeting with the Ambassador, VP Abdel Mehdi shared his analysis of the latest IDF strikes on the International Zone; discussed the reasons for his withdrawal of his veto of the Provincial Powers Law; speculated on the CoR's priorities when it reconvenes; described a [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD903	RRT ERBIL: DOHUK PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ON [...] (C) RRTOff met with the Chairman of Dohuk's Provincial Council (PC),Dr. Fadl Omar, on March 19 in Dohuk City, in order to discuss the March 17 meeting in Erbil among the Chairmen of the three Kurdish PCs (i.e. Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dohuk). At that meeting, the Kurdish PC leaders agreed to [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD904	MCNS MARCH 16 DISCUSSES BASRAH SECURITY, TAJI [...] (U) The March 16 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on dealing with security in Umm Qasr port and Basrah Province, implementation of the 2008 budget, and mine action. MNF-I briefed on the now operational Taji Maintenance Facility. End Summary. Umm Qasr/Basrah Securit [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD905	TURKISH ENVOY VISITING IRAQ TO IMPROVE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkish Special Envoy to Iraq Murat Ozcelik told Ambassador March 20 that he will stay flexible with how long he remains in Iraq during this visit in the hopes of holding a meeting with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani next week, which the GO [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD906	PRT SALAH AD DIN: ANXIETIES BUILD AMID QUESTIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) With anxieties building as the April 14 application deadline set in the Justice and Accountability Law approaches, Salah Ad Din (SaD) provincial officials have begun to collect data on former Firqah and Shuba [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD907	VISIT TO MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP [...] (C) MNF-I coordinated a March 8 visit for senior UNAMI, Embassy, and PRT Ninewa officials to the UNHCR refugee camp in Makhmour, Ninewa Province. Refugee representatives at the camp said the residents unanimously want to return to Turkey. Local Kurdish Iraqi officials said the camp and its r [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREF PREL
08BAGHDAD908	VP ABD AL-MEHDI ON INVESTMENT ISSUES, CORRUPTION, [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, March 14, the Ambassador met with Vice President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) compound in Baghdad. During the meeting, the Ambassador and Adel discussed a host of issues, including foreign investment in Iraq, the activities of the GOI [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD909	WEEKLY MEETING WITH PM, MARCH 13: SOFA/STRATEGIC [...] (S) In a cordial meeting March 13 at Prime Minister Maliki's weekly security meeting with Ambassador Crocker and GEN Petraeus, Ambassador briefed Maliki on the dual-tracked, concurrent negotiation of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and the Strategic Framework (SF) by a technical experts [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PGOV MASS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD91	VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI: KEEP PRESSURE ON MALIKI [...] (S) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told S/I Satterfield January 12 that ISCI fully supports the USG position that the Maliki government must reform in order to operate in a more inclusive and effective manner. However, Adel opined that Prime Minister Maliki is misreading USG attitu [...]	2008-01-13 08:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD910	PRT KIRKUK: ASAYISH DETAINEES FACE POSSIBLE [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Iraqi Chief Justice has agreed to begin reviewing 229 cases of Asayish detainees in Sulimaniyah for possible transfer to Kirkuk. The Kirkuk Chief Judge has received a written order from the Chief Justice to begin reviewing t [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD912	WARKA BANK REQUESTS U.S. CORRESPONDENT BANKING [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see para 8. - - - - Summary - - - - 2. (C) Mohammed Kemal Issa, Deputy Managing Director for International Affairs at Warka Bank, asked EMIN during a March 7 meeting for our help in encouraging U.S. banks to form correspondent banking relations [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD914	UNAMI ELECTIONS PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On March 16, UNAMI election advisors Sandra Mitchell and Richard Gee apprised representatives of the diplomatic community of the status of UNAMI's elections assistance programs. Sandra Mitchell broke down the assistance into two tracks -- political and technical. On the polit [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD915	IRAQI NSA RUBAI ON AHMEDI-NEJAD'S VISIT - [...] (S) National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwaffaq al-Rubai shared his views on the purpose and meaning of the Iranian President Ahmedi-Nejad's recent visit with Embassy PolMil MinsCouns Amb. Marcie Ries and NSC's Brett McGurk in two hour-long conversations, one each on March 5 and March 7. (S/I Amb [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PRGO IR IZ
08BAGHDAD916	VP HASHIMI ON TAWAFUQ'S RETURN: THE PROBLEM IS [...] (C) Summary: VP Tariq al-Hashimi told the Ambassador on March 16 "the problem is not with us" with respect to negotiations for Tawafuq's return to the GOI. Other parties also fed up with PM Maliki, he said, include Iraqiyya, the Kurds, the Sadrists, and the Fadhila Party. On the Strategic Fra [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD917	IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: OBSTACLES BUT A WAY [...] (C) Summary: The withdrawal of the Presidency Council veto of the Provincial Powers Law (septel) has removed one potential obstacle to rapid progress on an electoral law when the Council of Representatives convenes in late March. However, significant legislative, logistical, and political hu [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD918	IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: OBSTACLES BUT A WAY [...] (C) Summary: The withdrawal of the Presidency Council veto of the Provincial Powers Law (septel) has removed one potential obstacle to rapid progress on an electoral law when the Council of Representatives convenes in late March. However, significant legislative, logistical, and political hu [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD92	PROVINCIAL OPERATIONS CENTERS CHANGING THE PREMISE [...] (C) On December 16th, Basrah become the second province to transfer to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) with a federally-mandated provincial operations command in charge of the province,s security forces. Established in several volatile provinces by Prime Minister Maliki, these operations comma [...]	2008-01-13 11:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD920	MALIKI TAKES ON BASRAH MILITIA [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki on 24 March traveled to Basrah to announce the beginning of military operations to regain control of the city from armed militias. Interior Minister Bolani, Defense Minister Abdul Qadar and Minister of State for National Security Waeli are with the PM. Fighting between [...]	2008-03-26 02:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PINS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD921	NSA RUBAIE ON UPCOMING DIPLOMATIC OUTREACH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a March 21 meeting with the Ambassador, Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowafuq Rubaie reviewed a series of upcoming diplomatic engagements including his trip to Saudi Arabia, possible PM attendance at the Arab League Summit, the Prime Minister's trip to Brussels, and the Expan [...]	2008-03-26 02:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ KU SA SY
08BAGHDAD922	SADR ENRAGED BY PM'S APPEAL TO IRAN [...] (S) In a brief pull-aside with Sadirst CoR member Baha al-Araji this morning, Baha said that he had personally advised PM Maliki several days ago not to travel to Basra. "I knew about his trip, even though it was supposed to be a secret." Al-Araji told the PM that no matter how long his SIP [...]	2008-03-26 10:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD926	IRAQ OIL MINISTRY ASKS BIDS FOR 3-D SEISMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 24 Iraq's Ministry of Oil (MOO) announced, via its website, its request for tenders (RFT) for technical assistance for three specific oil and gas fields, the Akkas Gas Field, Kirkuk Oil Field, and Rumaila Oil Field. (COMMENT: Thamir Ghadban on 3/24 informed Parks and G. H [...]	2008-03-26 11:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD927	GOT SPECIAL ENVOY AND S/I DISCUSS TURKEY-IRAQ [...] (S/NF) GOT Special Envoy Murat Ozcelik told S/I Satterfield that he has met a wide-range of contacts during this visit, including Foreign Minister Zebari, ISCI CoR leader Hummam Hammoudi, Vice Presidents Abdel Mehdi and Hashimi, Speaker Mashadani and Prime Minister's advisor Sadiq Rikabi. He [...]	2008-03-26 11:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ
08BAGHDAD928	BASRAH/BAGHDAD SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 25-26, [...] (U) The following is a situation report on Basrah, Baghdad, and the southern provinces as of 14:00 local time, drawn from Embassy contacts, REO Basrah, and local press reporting. PM Taking Control in Basrah --------------------------- 2. (C) At present, PM Maliki, Defense Minister Abdel [...]	2008-03-26 13:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PINS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD930	FADHILA AND THE REGIONS LAW: DRINKING FROM THEIR [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-26 16:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD931	VP HASHIMI TO CODEL MARSHALL: WE ARE STRUGGLING, [...] (C) Summary: VP Tariq al-Hashimi told CODEL Marshall (Jim Marshall, D-GA; Christopher Shays, R-CT; Ted Poe, R-TX; and Patrick Henry, R-NC) on March 22 Tawafuq did not participate in PM Maliki's National Reconciliation Conference (Tuesday, March 18) because "he did not receive an official noti [...]	2008-03-26 18:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD933	SOUTHERN IRAQ SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 26, 23:00 [...] (S/NF) Summary and comment: The below is a situation report for Basrah and other southern provinces, reflecting reporting from PRTs and REOs, open-source media, and Embassy Baghdad. In Basrah, militants have entrenched themselves in several neighborhoods in response to the ISF offensive. Tens [...]	2008-03-26 20:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV IZ PINS MOPS
08BAGHDAD94	RECENT IRANIAN ECONOMIC INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-13 12:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON IR IZ
08BAGHDAD942	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FINANCIAL PROVISIONS OF UNSCR [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-27 11:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD IZ KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV
08BAGHDAD944	DPM SALIH ON VIOLENCE IN SHIA AREAS, ECONOMIC [...] (S/NF) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told Ambassador March 25 that he believes Moqtada al-Sadr has decided to try to bring down the government. They discussed developments around the south and in Baghdad regarding the increased violence since March 23. Ambassador asked Salih to [...]	2008-03-27 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON TU KU IZ
08BAGHDAD945	SOUTHERN IRAQ SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 27, 13:00 [...] (S/REL MCFI) SUMMARY: The below is a situation report for Basrah and other southern provinces, reflecting reporting from PRTs and REO Basrah, open-source media, and Embassy Baghdad. In Basrah, JAM continues to occupy its traditional strongholds and conduct harassing attacks on ISF throughout [...]	2008-03-27 15:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS PGOV PINS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD947	OPIC FINANCE: IRAQ MIDDLE MARKET DEVELOPMENT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-27 16:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD948	JAM CONTROLLING BAGHDAD'S SHIA NEIGHBORHOODS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Jaysh Al-Mahdi (JAM) militants have seized control of many of Baghdad's Shia neighborhoods, according to Embassy, Baghdad PRT, and Baghdad EPRT contacts. JAM has taken over key streets and public spaces, limiting movement between and within Shia-majority neighborhoods on both sid [...]	2008-03-27 21:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ
08BAGHDAD95	TRADE MINISTER PLANS LIMITED PDS REFORM IN 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade Abdul Falah al-Sudani met with EMIN and Econoff January 11 to discuss his plans for the Public Distribution System (PDS) in 2008. Notwithstanding recent calls in the Council of Representatives (CoR) for greater PDS funding, the Trade Minister expects to receive [...]	2008-01-13 13:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAGR IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD951	HAKIM AND S/I DISCUSS BASRAH, PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 27 meeting with S/I Satterfield, ISCI leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim agreed that the current ISF offensive needs to be seen as directed against criminals rather than any particular party. Hakim was vague on the particulars of the election law, saying only that it needed t [...]	2008-03-28 09:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD952	PRT WASIT: POLITICAL MOTIVES BEHIND RECENT ISF [...] (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary. Throughout March, violence escalated in Wasit, fueled by loosened JAM cease-fire restrictions, stepped-up IP operations and the arrival of national police forces. The fighting caused a flurry of political activity and commentary, including visits from CoR members [...]	2008-03-28 09:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS IR PGOV
08BAGHDAD953	PM ADVISOR: MALIKI NEEDS REALISTIC GOALS IN BASRAH [...] (S) In a March 27 meeting punctuated by explosions and sirens in the background as indirect fire pummeled the International Zone, PM Maliki's political advisor, Sadiq Rikabi, predicted that Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) would gain the upper hand in Basrah within the next two to three days, an ou [...]	2008-03-28 10:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD956	Iraq Programs Rescission [...] SUMMARY: In compliance with FY 2008 appropriations language, $76 million of prior-year Economic Support Funds (ESF) for Iraqi programs will be subject to rescission. Two key ESF programs will specifically be affected: the Provincial Reconstruction Development Councils (PRDC's),and the Infrast [...]	2008-03-28 10:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD958	PRESIDENCY COUNCIL'S BASRAH STATEMENT [...] (U) Below is an unofficial translation of the statement on Basrah released March 27, 2008 by the Presidency Council. Begin Text: Press Release of the Presidency Council on the events in Basrah. The Council of the Presidency issued a statement on recent events in the Governorate of Bas [...]	2008-03-28 13:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD959	SOUTHERN IRAQ SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 28, 1300 [...] (S REL MCFI) Fighting continues in numerous areas of Basra city and the surrounding province. Sporadic violence is also reported in other southern provinces as well as Baghdad, which is now under curfew until March 30, 0500 local. Council of Representives (COR) Speaker has called for an emerg [...]	2008-03-28 17:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	IZ KU MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD960	SOUTHERN PROVINCES MARCH 28 UPDATE AS OF 2100L [...] (S/NF) Summary: Despite ongoing clashes in Basrah, the other southern provinces remain tense but relatively stable, with incremental security improvements through the day reported in Dhi Qar, Maysan, Karbala and Wasit. Muthanna remains stable. Periodic clashes have occurred in Diwaniyah, an [...]	2008-03-28 18:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV MOPS IR
08BAGHDAD961	FADILA ON THE SADRIST INSURRECTION: MILITARY [...] (C) In a telephone conversation with Poloff on March 28, Dr. Basim al-Hechaimi, Fadila bloc and COR member, shared his opinions on the Sadrist insurrection with Poloff. Stating that a "military solution is not the answer," Dr. Basim suggested that a parliamentary committee be formed to resolve [...]	2008-03-28 18:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD962	BAGHDAD BATTENING DOWN, TENSIONS SIMMER [...] (C) Iraqi contacts of various Mission elements report that Baghdad's neighborhoods were generally quiet March 28, with most residents staying at home due to a combination of the GOI-imposed 24-hour curfew, JAM intimidation, and the typical Friday closure of businesses and schools. JAM remained [...]	2008-03-28 20:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ
08BAGHDAD963	VP ABD AL-MEHDI, AMB, AND S/I DISCUSS SADRIST [...] (S) Summary. In a March 27 meeting with Ambassador Crocker and S/I Satterfield, VP Adel Abd al-Mehdi weighed in on the current Sadrist insurrection, labeling the Sadrists as "fragmented and weak." He also highlighted the incredible restraint that the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) has [...]	2008-03-29 12:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD968	RUBAIE ON CURRENT SECURITY AND POLITICAL SITUATION [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a March 28 call on National Security Advisor Mowafuq Rubaie, the Ambassador discussed the current security situation in Baghdad, Basrah, and the southern provinces, all of which were the scenes of intensified conflict with criminal elements associated with Moqtada al-Sadr [...]	2008-03-29 13:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS PGOV PREL PTER EG IR IZ JO SA SY
08BAGHDAD969	MILITARY AND POLITICAL DEADLOCK IN BASRAH [...] (S/NF) Summary: Basrah is gripped by military and political deadlock six days into Maliki's "Charge of the Knights" offensive. PM Maliki seems unwilling to compromise his hard-line stance against JAM even as the militia consolidates its position in Basrah's neighborhoods; on March 28 he reb [...]	2008-03-29 16:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV IR MOPS PINS
08BAGHDAD97	ERBIL: KRG PRESIDENT AND PM CRITICIZE GOI [...] (C) During their meetings on January 6 in Erbil with U.S. Senators Norm Coleman (R-MN),John Cornyn (R-TX) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA),the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) President and Prime Minister expressed their continued strong support for national reconciliation and passage of a natio [...]	2008-01-13 17:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU IZ

08BAGHDAD970	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]	2008-03-30 02:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD971	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - March 25 [...] SUMMARY: Dr. Chalabi's March 25 Provision of Services Committee meeting focused on a variety of topics covered in previous weeks. While he did briefly discuss ongoing events in southern Iraq and Basra, the remainder of the meeting was divided between violations on potable water lines, Ministry [...]	2008-03-30 02:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD976	SPECIAL IESC MEETING MARCH 29 [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih chaired a special session of the Iraq Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (FAQ) at his residence March 29. Normally a weekly session held on Fridays, the March 28 session had been cancelled. During this [...]	2008-03-30 18:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD977	THE AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 29 MEETINGS WITH MASHADANI, [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador met separately on March 29 with Sheikh Khalid Al-Attiya, Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR); Mahmoud Mashadani, Speaker of the CoR, and Sadiq Rikabi, political advisor to Prime Minister Maliki. The Ambassador stressed that failure in Basrah was [...]	2008-03-30 18:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD981	NINEWA: CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN TURKISH [...] (C) Over the past six months, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ninewa and the Turkish Consulate General for northern Iraq, based in Mosul, have combined efforts across a variety of fields to advance our common interests for stability, development and peace in Ninewa. We have been fortunat [...]	2008-03-31 11:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL ECON TU IZ
08BAGHDAD983	NINEWA: TURKISH SPECIAL ENVOY ELABORATES ON GOT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Turkish Special Envoy Murat Ozcelik told PRT officers, Multi-National Division-North Deputy Commanding General BG Thomas and 3 Armored Cavalry Regiment Commander COL Bills at a March 26 meeting at the Turkish Consulate General in Mosul that ongoing Turkish military opposition wa [...]	2008-03-31 14:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER PINR ECON ENRG TU IZ
08BAGHDAD984	REQUEST TO CLOSE DOWN AL-RAFIDAYN SATELLITE TV [...] (SBU) The Al-Rafidayn Satellite Channel is a Cairo-based Iraqi television channel that appears to be affiliated with the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) -- a group of Sunni clerics led by Harith al-Dari -- and which adopts a pro-resistance, anti-U.S., anti-Iraqi Government, and anti-Iran [...]	2008-03-31 15:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PROP PTER EG IZ
08BAGHDAD987	GOI SUPPORT FOR PROPOSED UNSCR [...] EMIN, accompanied by Acting Economics Counselor and Deputy Treasury Attach, met with National Security Advisor Mowaffak al-Roubaie on Sunday, March 30, to discuss GOI interest to either revise the scope of UNSCR 1518 or to take the lead in lobbying for the passage of a new UNSCR that will targe [...]	2008-03-31 15:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ETTC IZ PREL PTER XF
08BAGHDAD988	PRT SALAH AD DIN: SALAH AD DIN CLAMORS FOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: With the withdrawal of the veto of the Provincial Powers Law by the Presidency Council, Salah Ad Din leaders, as well as the public, are enthusiastically anticipating provincial elections. Interlocutors almost without [...]	2008-03-31 16:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD989	ASSET TRANSFER: MINFIN AND EMIN AGREE WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Ries met on March 27 with Finance Minister Byan Jabr and MoF Advisor Azez Jafar at Adnaan Palace in Baghdad. A wide range of topics were covered, with particular emphasis on the issue of transferring the substantial assets built by the U.S. in Iraq. Jabr resisted EMI [...]	2008-03-31 16:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD990	PM CHIEF OF STAFF ABDALLAH TELLS AMBASSADOR GOI [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador met March 30 with Prime Minister Maliki's Chief of Staff Tariq Abdallah to counsel the GOI to add political and economic measures to its military efforts in Basra. He also expressed concern that the PM's decision to pursue operations to take control of Umm Qasr port ha [...]	2008-03-31 16:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PGOV MASS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD991	COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SECRETARY-GENERAL DISCUSSES [...] (C) During their weekly meeting at the Council of Ministers Secretariat (COMSEC) on March 31, 2008, Council of Ministers Secretary-General Ali Ala'aq and Poloff followed up on several issues that had been raised in a previous meeting (Reftel). Ala'aq told Poloff the COM had some issues with [...]	2008-03-31 17:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD994	MINFIN SUPPORTS BASRAH HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, WANTS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 31 meeting, Iraqi Minister of Finance Jabr told EMIN that he would make funds available to address the immediate humanitarian needs created by the violence in Basrah as well as to create short-term employment opportunities. In addition, the GOI supplemental budget prop [...]	2008-04-01 05:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL PGOV PTER ETTC IZ
08BAGHDAD995	MCNS ON MARCH 23 REVIEWED RECENT BAGHDAD ATTACKS, [...] (S REL MNFI) Prime Minister Maliki opened the March 23 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) by soliciting comments on responding to recent rocket and other attacks in Baghdad. Following discussion, all agreed with GEN Petraeus that intelligence to target the perpetrators and thei [...]	2008-04-01 07:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER KU AE SA IZ
08BAGHDAD996	SURREAL END TO KIDNAPPING OF GOI SPOKESMAN [...] (C) Poloffs, the director of the Embassy Office of Hostage Affairs (OHA),and MNF-I Colonel Timothy Clapp of the Energy Fusion Cell greeted a gleeful Dr. Tahseen Sheikhly as he arrived at Assassins Gate on March 31 at 2100, minutes after his kidnappers released him. Sheikhly, Government of I [...]	2008-04-01 08:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IR IZ
08BAGHDAD997	MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON NEW CLAIMS COMMITTEE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 25, the Ambassador met with Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim. They discussed a variety of issues, including the impending establishment of a central claims committee; the need for minorities to be represented in the elections and in the provincial councils; allega [...]	2008-04-01 08:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD998	PM'S ADVISORS DISCUSS BASRAH EXIT STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: In separate March 30 conversations with S/I Satterfield and Polmilcouns, both National Security Advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie and Political Advisor Sadiq Rikabi acknowledged the seriousness of the current crisis facing PM Maliki and the need to provide him with a face-saving exit bu [...]	2008-04-01 08:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINS MOPS IR IZ
08BAGHDAD999	NINEWA: PROVINCE'S CHIEF JUDGE MOVING AHEAD ON [...] (SBU) Chief Judge (CJ) for Ninewa Province Faisal Sadeeq Hadeed told PRToffs March 16 that preparations for implementation of the Amnesty Law were well underway in this northern province. CJ Faisal said he had formed committees that had already begun receiving and reviewing applications for a [...]	2008-04-01 10:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CJUS PHUM MARR PREL IZ
08BAKU10	IMPLICATIONS OF FSA BUDGET REDUCTION FOR AZERBAIJAN [...] (U) As we have started to implement our FY08 assistance programs, we are beginning to appreciate in very real terms the magnitude of the FY08 budget cuts. The 40 percent reduction in our FSA budget in a single year will have a serious impact on our ability to advance our political and econom [...]	2008-01-04 11:38:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV AJ
08BAKU1012	SOCAR WILLING TO PROVIDE GAS TO GEORGIA BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to Azerbaijan's State Oil Company, Azerbaijan is prepared to provide necessary volumes of gas to Georgia during the winter months, but prefers to do so on more commercial vice concessionary terms. According to SOCAR and BP Azerbaijan sources, Georgian winter gas needs a [...]	2008-10-22 12:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AZ ENRG GA
08BAKU1013	AZERBAIJAN: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador reviewed with President Aliyev's International Relations Advisor Novruz Mammadov USG comments on Azerbaijan's October 15 presidential election and shared observations on the assessment of the elections by international observers. The U.S. will continue to support a [...]	2008-10-22 13:03:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ
08BAKU1018	HAIDAR ALIYEV'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS ADVISOR ON IRAN [...] (S) During a wide-ranging tour d'horizon with Embassy Iran watcher, former President Haidar Aliyev's chief foreign relations advisor, and regionally prominent international affairs commentator, Vafa Guluzadeh provided recommendations for USG Iran strategy and discussed Iran's economic "Achille [...]	2008-10-24 08:57:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PREL ECON PGOV IR RU AJ
08BAKU1026	SCENESETTER FOR DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE DEPURTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit to Baku comes on the heels of Azerbaijan's October 15 presidential election, which resulted in a landslide victory for President Ilham Aliyev. This fall also marked a troublesome time for the region, with Russia's invasion of Georgia casting a shadow on security and [...]	2008-10-27 14:07:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EINV ENRG PREL AJ GG
08BAKU1027	AZERBAIJAN: NOMINATION FOR 2009 SECRETARY'S AWARD [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Baku would like to nominate Arzu Abdullayeva for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Woman of Courage. Ms. Abdullayeva is the chairwoman of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Azerbaijan National Committee and has been an vocal advocate for human rights for over 20 years [...]	2008-10-27 14:40:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KPAO PREL PHUM
08BAKU1029	POPULAR AZERBAIJANI MOSQUE MAY REOPEN [...] (C) On October 27, a Baku municipal court ruled in favor of the Abu Bakr Mosque in its case against the local Narimanov police station, which sought to keep the mosque closed. The decision may allow the mosque's religious leaders to re-open. Per reftels, local authorities closed the popular [...]	2008-10-28 10:31:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF AJ
08BAKU1038	VISIT TO JAILED JOURNALIST SAKIT ZAHIDOV [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27 Embassy official visited jailed journalist Sakit Zahidov in prison colony #14 south of Baku along with representatives from the OSCE, and French and Norwegian Embassies. Zahidov, who is serving a sentence for drug possession stemming from a 2006 arrest that many ob [...]	2008-10-29 12:21:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU1039	PRESIDENT ALIYEV TELLS BENS HE SEEKS GREATER US [...] (C) Summary: Just ahead of his inauguration, President Aliyev told visiting U.S. business executives that Azerbaijan is a force for stability in an insecure neighborhood. During his second administration, Nagorno-Karabakh will remain "issue number one." By occupying Azerbaijan's territories, [...]	2008-10-29 12:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ AM
08BAKU1049	ELECTION WRAP-UP WITH CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 31 Embassy officials met with Central Election Commission Chairman Mazahir Panahov to wrap up issues related to Azerbaijan October 15 presidential election. Overall, Panahov was proud of CEC's work during the election period and grateful for the aid received from the [...]	2008-11-03 12:17:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU1050	NEW CABINET OF MINISTERS ALMOST SAME AS OLD [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 31 Azerbaijan completed the process of appointing the next cabinet of ministers after the October 15 presidential election. According to Azerbaijan's constitution, all ministers must resign after a president is inaugurated. The President then appoints a prime ministe [...]	2008-11-03 12:27:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR AJ
08BAKU1062	GOAJ MAY TAKE RADIO LIBERTY AND VOA OFF AIRWAVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 4 Embassy officials met with Nushiravan Maharramov, Chairman of the National Television and Radio Council, regarding his announcement that foreign broadcasters would be banned from Azerbaijan's airwaves starting in 2009, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and V [...]	2008-11-06 07:29:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU1068	PRESIDENT ALIYEV, COMMERCE DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev told Commerce Deputy Secretary Sullivan October 28 that economic reform and diversification would be among his top priorities in a second term. The GOAJ, while facing lower oil prices and declining revenues, will continue to promote the Azerbaijan Investment Com [...]	2008-11-07 11:55:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV ENRG PREL PGOV AJ
08BAKU1069	IRAN-AZERBAIJAN SNAPSHOT AND OVERVIEW [...] This cable provides a general unclassified snapshot of Iranian political, economic, and commercial activities in Azerbaijan, outlining apparent evolving Iranian regional priorities and recent and pending developments in bilateral political and economic relations. Many issues noted in the cab [...]	2008-11-07 13:31:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ENRG ECON RU IR AZ
08BAKU1083	MINISTER SHARIFOV DISCUSSES EPC, BUDGET AND ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan Minister of Finance Sharifov heads to Washington next week for EPC meetings and WTO discussions with views on the international financial crisis -- and lower oil prices -- formed in part by Russian Minister of Finance Kudrin, who recently hosted a CIS financial summit. [...]	2008-11-12 08:53:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV EIND PGOV AJ
08BAKU1089	EXPORT-IMPORT BANK DIRECTOR VISIT BUILDS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Export-Import Bank Director Bijan Kian visited Baku October 13-16 to follow-up on his February 2008 trip, checking in on U.S. based companies, their partners and projects, and to reassure interlocutors of the Bank's ability to continue to support those projects in spite of the rec [...]	2008-11-13 12:52:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR ECIN AJ
08BAKU109	GOAJ LIST OF ATTENDEES TO UN.GIFT AND THE VIENNA FORUM TO [...] Azerbaijani MFA Americas Desk Officer Akram Zeynalli informed the Embassy that Azerbaijan will send a nine-person delegation to UN.GIFT and the Vienna Forum on Human Trafficking. Hijran Huseynova, the head of the State Committee on Family, Women, and Children's Problems will head the delegati [...]	2008-02-08 07:06:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG AJ
08BAKU1091	AZERBAIJAN BEGINNING TO CONSIDERING FUTURE NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Envoy Frank Mermoud met with the Minister of Emergency Situations during his November 10-14 trip to Baku. They discussed successful past projects, as well as areas for future cooperation and trade in both goods and services, including possible projects for soil remediati [...]	2008-11-14 13:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ENRG EFIN PARM ECIN SENV
08BAKU1094	SENATOR CORKER MEETS MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 11 the Ambassador held a dinner for Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) and five members of Azerbaijan's parliament. These MPs represent a wide range of political opinions. While all guests agreed that Azerbaijan has to further reform its education system and to fight corrupt [...]	2008-11-17 04:52:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU1097	BAKU ENERGY SUMMIT ADVANCES U.S. EURASIAN ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 13-14 Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev hosted the IV Energy Summit in Baku, following up on previous energy summits in Krakow (May 2007),Vilnius (October 2007) and Kyiv (May 2008). Prominent attendees included the Heads of State of Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine, Lithuan [...]	2008-11-17 13:54:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG AJ TK
08BAKU1098	SECRETARY BODMAN'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] (C) Summary. Secretary Bodman, accompanied by Ambassador and DAS Matthew Bryza, met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on November 12 in Baku before the opening of the Baku Energy Summit. During or in the weeks following the Summit, Azerbaijan intends to sign a memorandum of intent with Turke [...]	2008-11-18 03:37:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	AJ AM PREL PGOV RU TU TX
08BAKU1100	EDITOR SAYS USG DEFENSE FOR FOREIGN BROADCASTS [...] (C) Summary: During lunch with the Ambassador, leading independent daily Zerkalo editor Elchin Shikhlinsky characterized efforts to preserve foreign radio broadcasts as a do-or-die moment for Azerbaijan,s media. Providing a rather bleak overview for the prospects of free-and-fair media, he p [...]	2008-11-18 10:32:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ KDEM PGOV PREL
08BAKU1108	FIRST MEETING WITH NEW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his November 11-12 visit to Baku Senator Corker met with the newly appointed Minister of Economic Development Shahin Mustafayev. In his first meeting with USG officials, the new minister stuck closely to his prepared talking points, emphasizing GOAJ plans to improve the [...]	2008-11-20 11:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR ECIN AJ
08BAKU1117	TRANSCOM GEN MCNABB SECURES SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Commander USTRANSCOM General Duncan McNabb, USAF met Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov in Baku on November 17 to discuss GOAJ support for overland transport of supplies to U.S. and Coalition forces in Afghanistan. The Minister responded enthusiastically to the concept, and als [...]	2008-11-25 05:27:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PGOV PREL AF AM AJ IZ TX KZ
08BAKU1118	TRANSCOM GEN MCNABB MEETS AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE [...] (C) On November 18 Commander USTRANSCOM General Duncan McNabb, met Azerbaijani DefMin General Colonel Safar Abiyev to discuss GOAJ support for overland transport of supplies to U.S. and Coalition forces in Afghanistan. Abiyev responded favorably to the concept, but steered the discussion on al [...]	2008-11-25 09:55:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF AM AJ IZ TX KZ
08BAKU1125	AZERBAIJAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST HOSTS GEORGIA [...] (C) Poloff met with prominent Azerbaijan Human Rights activist Novella Jafaroglu (aka Novella Jafarova) about preparations for the upcoming (partially USG-funded) regional meeting she is co-sponsoring in Istanbul. Jafaroglu has an international reputation as a women,s rights and human rights [...]	2008-11-26 07:36:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AM GG RU AJ
08BAKU1127	DRAFT POTUS LETTER TO PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-26 13:44:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG
08BAKU1130	SPECIAL ENVOY SADA CUMBER,S VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Summary: On 21-22 November, U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Sada Cumber met with Azerbaijan's envoy to the OIC Deputy Foreign Minister (DFM) Vagif Sadikhov. The DFM was receptive to Special Envoy Cumber,s call for increased Azerbaijani leadership b [...]	2008-11-28 11:56:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL IR AJ
08BAKU1131	SPECIAL ENVOY CUMBER'S MEETING WITH THE LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: On 22 November, U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Sada Cumber met with Gamet Suleymanov, head imam of the Abu Bakr mosque, and the lawyer representing the mosque, Javanshir Suleymanov. The participants outlined the long and short range history [...]	2008-11-28 12:26:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KIRF IR AJ
08BAKU1135	DRL A/S KRAMER BATTLES WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: On November 18 DRL A/S David Kramer and the Ambassador met with Head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev. After A/S Kramer explained U.S. requests for more media freedom in Azerbaijan, Mehdiyev first read a detailed list of unfulfilled GOAJ expectations from the Un [...]	2008-12-01 05:15:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ
08BAKU1136	DRL A/S KRAMER, PRESIDENT ALIYEV DEBATE PACE OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On November 18 DRL A/S David Kramer and the Ambassador met with President Ilham Aliyev for a two-hour discussion of democracy and human rights issues. Most of the discussion centered on the deteriorating state of media freedom in Azerbaijan, including the jailed journal [...]	2008-12-01 05:15:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU1138	USAID ADMINISTRATOR FORE - PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] (C) Summary: In a November 24 meeting with USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore, President Aliyev welcomed intensified cooperation with USAID, especially in five key areas: water and sanitation, agriculture, IT/telecoms, environmental remediation and anti-corruption. Azerbijan,s leadership fee [...]	2008-12-01 07:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO AJ
08BAKU1140	AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT GIVES GREEN LIGHT FOR [...] (C) Commander USTRANSCOM General Duncan McNabb and Ambassador Derse met Azerbaijani President Aliyev in Baku on November 17 to discuss proposed overland transport of supplies through Azerbaijan to U.S. and Coalition forces in Afghanistan. The President responded enthusiastically to the concep [...]	2008-12-02 03:50:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF AJ IZ TX KZ
08BAKU1147	PRESIDENT GUL TELLS SECRETARY BODMAN OF SOUTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 13 meeting with President Gul, Energy Secretary Bodman stressed U.S. support for the region and the Southern Corridor, with Gul expressing appreciation for USG support and noting its importance to future projects. Gul indicated that Turkey and Azerbaijan are close t [...]	2008-12-03 12:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU ENRG
08BAKU1148	DRL A/S KRAMER: DIALOGUE ON DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: On November 19 DRL A/S David Kramer and the Ambassador attended a marathon meeting at the Foreign Ministry with a wide range of government and non-government officials, chaired by a Deputy Foreign Minister, on the full realm of democracy and human rights issues. Attendees gave b [...]	2008-12-04 04:27:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ
08BAKU1152	LATVIA TO PUSH FOR EU EASTERN PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 1 the Ambassador met with the Latvian MFA's Undersecretary of State Peteris Ustubs to discuss the EU's proposed Eastern Partnership. Ustubs stressed that while it is a multilateral proposal, all six countries will not receive the same engagement. Expanded EU engage [...]	2008-12-05 07:24:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM LG AJ
08BAKU1153	BBG VISIT TO BAKU TO SUPPORT USG BROADCASTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 3 a delegation from the Broadcasting Board of Governors and Radio free Europe/Radio Liberty visited Baku to discuss the GOAJ's possible removal of Voice of America and Radio Liberty broadcasts from national frequencies. The delegation met with the chairman of the Nat [...]	2008-12-05 08:26:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU1156	IRAN/AZERBAIJAN: DISPARATE IRANIANS NETWORK AT [...] (C) Baku Iran watcher met for two and a half hours on December 3 with prominent Azerbaijani human rights activist Novella Jafaroglu and fourteen other Azerbaijan residents who had just returned from participating in a November 28-30 Iran-Turkey-Azerbaijan women,s rights conference in Istanbul [...]	2008-12-05 09:14:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL TU AZ IR
08BAKU1157	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR GUARDEDLY [...] (C) Ambassador Derse, accompanied by EUR/CARC Office Director Baxter Hunt, met Novruz Mammadov, chief foreign policy advisor at the Presidential Apparat, on December 3. Ambassador unequivocally warned Mammadov that closure of United States-sponsored broadcasting in Azerbaijan would cause a ser [...]	2008-12-05 09:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ
08BAKU1158	USAID ADMINISTRATOR AND DIRECTOR OF [...] SUMMARY: The visit of USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore to Azerbaijan capitalized on the existing USG strong host-country counterpart relationships. During her three-day visit, Administrator Fore held meetings with AzerbaijanQs President (see reftel),[...]	2008-12-05 09:25:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EPET ADPM AJ
08BAKU1167	(ZFR CANCEL) FORMAL REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE CONCERNING [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-12 11:36:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AJ IR ENRG
08BAKU1168	CORRECTED COPY -- FORMAL REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (U) On November 26, 2008 the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) identified the National Iranian Oil Company (aka NIOC),Naftiran Intertrade Company Ltd (aka NICO) and Naftiran Intertrade Company Co. SARL [...]	2008-12-12 12:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ IR ENRG
08BAKU1174	SOCAR HOSTS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) hosted a conference entitled "Rehabilitation of Contaminated Soils-Suggested Methods" in Baku on November 3-4. SOCAR's Vice President of Ecological Affairs, Mukhtar Babayev, moderated the event and acknowledged the many challenges f [...]	2008-12-17 05:02:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON EINV EAGR AJ
08BAKU1176	AZERBAIJAN: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-17 11:27:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PREL AJ
08BAKU1178	AZERBAIJANI OFFICIAL EVASIVE ABOUT WHETHER VOA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 15 PAO met with National Television and Radio Council Chairman Nushiravan Maharramov to hand over a letter from the Broadcasting Bureau of Governors and restate the USG expectation that the NTRC will not during its December 25 meeting follow through on threats to rem [...]	2008-12-17 12:32:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU1183	AZERBAIJAN: POSSIBLE REFERENDUM ON PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Several recent reports have surfaced in the Azerbaijani press of proposals in the Milli Majlis (Parliament) for a referendum on removing the constitutional prohibition against an individual serving more than two terms as president, which at present requires President Aliyev to st [...]	2008-12-18 11:30:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AJ
08BAKU1185	AZERBAIJAN: PARLIAMENT CALLS REFERENDUM ON TERM [...] (C) Summary: As expected (Reftel),the Milli Majlis today approved a measure calling for a referendum on changing Azerbaijan's constitution to remove the present two-term limit on the President. For such a referendum to pass, over fifty percent would have to vote for passage in a turnout of [...]	2008-12-19 12:16:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AJ
08BAKU1186	AZERBAIJAN: WHERE WE ARE WITH SHAH DENIZ PHASES [...] (C) SUMMARY (CONT): As 2008 ends, the 16-month long stasis surrounding the marketing of Shah Deniz Phase Two (SD2) gas continues, as Turkey and Azerbaijan remain unable to agree on a gas marketing mechanism which would allow them to agree on volumes, prices, and transit. Price negotiations f [...]	2008-12-19 13:33:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TU
08BAKU1192	AFGHAN ELECTION SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-23 11:25:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MORS MARR AJ
08BAKU1193	AFGHAN ELECTION SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-23 11:25:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MORS MARR AJ
08BAKU1195	AZERBAIJAN: CENTRAL AZERI PLATFORM IN ACG OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: After having been shut down since September 17, the Central Azeri (CA) Platorm in Azerbaijan's offshore ACG oil mega-field has begun to resume production, leading to an overall increase of production in the ACG field to approximately 690,000 bpd. However, limits on handling any [...]	2008-12-23 12:53:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG
08BAKU1196	AZERBAIJAN: CIVIL NUCLEAR ENERGY SECTOR OVERVIEW [...] SUMMARY: In response to Ref. A tasking, this report summarizes the structure plans and potential players in Azerbaijan's nascent civil nuclear energy sector. End Summary. OVERVIEW OF CIVIL NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAM --------------------------------------- 2. As noted in Azerbaijan's 2004 r [...]	2008-12-24 06:25:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO AJ
08BAKU1197	DEMARCHE ON PROPOSED GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-24 08:26:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EAGR TBIO EAID PGOV
08BAKU12	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL WEXLER'S VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN [...] (SBU) Azerbaijan's pro-Western foreign policy orientation, geopolitical setting -- sandwiched between Iran and Russia -- and ability to provide alternative energy supplies to Europe make it an important U.S. partner. It is in our interests to have a reforming, stable, pro-western Azerbaijan, [...]	2008-01-04 11:47:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG EPET MARR MASS PTER KDEM AJ
08BAKU1205	AZERBAIJAN: READOUT OF PRESIDENT ALIYEV NOVEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Italian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, during President Aliyev's November 25 visit to Italy he expressed a clear preference for the Turkey-Greece-Italy pipeline project over the Nabucco one, citing it as achievable in the short-term. It is unclear to Embassy how accu [...]	2008-12-30 12:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TK
08BAKU122	SCENESETTER FOR S/CT FRANK URBANCIC'S VISIT TO BAKU [...] (C) Frank: My team and I look forward to your February 13-16 visit. Your visit provides a valuable opportunity to address key security issues with the GOAJ, particularly extending our non-intelligence CT cooperation and pushing the GOAJ to address its energy infrastructure gaps. 2. (C) [...]	2008-02-11 14:03:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV ENRG KTFN KISL AJ
08BAKU123	CORRECTED COPY: AZERBAIJAN: INVESTMENT CLIMATE [...] This cable contains post's Investment Climate Statement for 2008. The Statement includes the following sections: Introduction A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment A.2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A.3. Expropriation and Compensation A.4. Dispute Settlement A.5. Performance Requir [...]	2008-02-12 06:59:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD OPIC PGOV AJ
08BAKU126	CORRECTED COPY OF SCENESETTER FOR S/CT FRANK [...] (C) Frank: My team and I look forward to your February 13-16 visit. Your visit provides a valuable opportunity to address key security issues with the GOAJ, particularly extending our non-intelligence CT cooperation and pushing the GOAJ to address its energy infrastructure gaps. 2. (C) [...]	2008-02-12 12:59:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV ENRG KTFN KISL AJ
08BAKU127	AZERBAIJANI MINDEF REQUEST USG ASSISTANCE IN [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 2. 2. (C) During a meeting between Minister of Defense Safar Abiyev and Ambassador Derse on February 12, Abiyev officially requested USG assistance to locate a downed MiG-29 fighter jet, which crashed into the Caspian Sea in late January. He ad [...]	2008-02-12 14:02:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS AJ
08BAKU128	THE ELECTION MONITORING CENTER RECEIVES [...] (SBU) On February 12, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) approved the Election Monitoring Center's (EMC's) registration application. This was the EMC's seventh registration application; the NGO previously had applied for registration six times over the past five years. The MOJ denied each of the [...]	2008-02-12 14:21:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID AJ
08BAKU129	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: LIKELY AZERBAIJANI REACTION [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel points on Kosovo's anticipated declaration of independence in a February 12 meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov (other topics septel). Noting that he had discussed this issue with EUR Assistant Secretary Fried in Munich, Mammadyarov [...]	2008-02-12 14:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS UNAUS UNMIK OSCE AJ
08BAKU132	AZERBAIJAN COMMERCIAL UPDATE, January 15, 2008 - January [...] SUMMARY: This information is drawn primarily from the Azerbaijani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. END SUMMARY. - VAT RATE MAY BE REDUCED - KAPITAL BANK TO BE FULLY PRIV [...]	2008-02-13 11:38:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ETRD ENRG EFIN AJ
08BAKU135	EU TROIKA VISIT FOCUSES ON ENERGY, DEMOCRACY AND [...] (C) Summary: During a February 4 visit to Baku, the EU Troika opened the European Commission Delegation and discussed energy, democracy and human rights and the NK conflict with President Aliyev and Foreign Minister Mammadyarov. Foreign Minister Mammadyarov and EU embassy contacts separatel [...]	2008-02-13 13:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG EAID AJ
08BAKU136	AZERBAIJAN ENERGY PLAYERS GIVE STATUS UPDATE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Key Azerbaijan energy interlocutors agree the key to timely development of the Shah Deniz Stage Two gas project is settling issues of gas transit through Turkey. BP and Statoil claim that the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) is moving too slowly in signing commercial cont [...]	2008-02-13 15:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL PGOV PBTS TU AJ
08BAKU14	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHUSTER'S VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN [...] (SBU) Azerbaijan's pro-Western foreign policy orientation, geopolitical setting -- sandwiched between Iran and Russia -- and ability to provide alternative energy supplies to Europe make it an important U.S. partner. It is in our interests to have a reforming, stable, pro-western Azerbaijan, [...]	2008-01-04 12:38:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG EPET MARR MASS PTER KDEM AJ
08BAKU140	AZERBAIJAN'S OIL COMPANY UPBEAT ON COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: SOCAR President Abdullayev was very upbeat upon hearing of Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov's willingness to increase bilateral cooperation with Azerbaijan and looked forward to follow up discussions with the USG as soon as possible. He denied European charges that SOCAR was no [...]	2008-02-14 14:36:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG PBTS TU TX AJ
08BAKU146	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: AZERBAIJANI REACTION TO [...] (C) DCM delivered ref a points regarding possible Russian recognition of Abkhazia in a February 15 meeting with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalaf Khalafov. Noting that Georgia is a neighbor with whom the GOAJ maintains close cooperation on a number of areas of mutual, strategic inter [...]	2008-02-15 13:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS GG RU YI AJ
08BAKU147	AZERBAIJAN KEEPING WARY EYE ON ARMENIAN ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Senior Azerbaijani leaders are keeping a wary eye on Armenia's February 19 presidential election, worrying that the hotly contested election could have implications for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Minister of National Security Mahmudov confirmed that the GOAJ has information [...]	2008-02-15 13:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV PINR AM AJ
08BAKU149	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BROWNBACK'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Azerbaijan's pro-Western foreign policy orientation, geopolitical setting -- sandwiched between Iran and Russia -- and ability to provide alternative energy supplies to Europe and to use its energy resources to drive growth and development in the region, make it an important U.S. partne [...]	2008-02-15 15:02:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG ECON AJ
08BAKU150	AZERBAIJANI REACTION TO KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) The GOAJ's initial response to Kosovo's declaration of independence is to reject Kosovo's decision. MFA spokesperson Khazar Ibrahimov's February 18 statement was the first official reaction to Kosovo's independence. In the statement, Ibrahimov characterized Kosovo's independence as a "u [...]	2008-02-19 13:47:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KPAO AJ
08BAKU151	AZERBAIJANI REACTION TO KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) The GOAJ's initial response to Kosovo's declaration of independence is to reject Kosovo's decision. MFA spokesperson Khazar Ibrahimov's February 18 statement was the first official reaction to Kosovo's independence. In the statement, Ibrahimov characterized Kosovo's independence as a "u [...]	2008-02-19 13:47:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KPAO AJ
08BAKU152	GTIP VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN, JANUARY 28-31, 2008 [...] (C)Summary: From January 28-31, 2008, Jennifer Schrock Donnelly, Foreign Affairs Officer, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),visited Baku to meet with local NGOs, International Organizations and GOAJ agencies that deal with the issue of trafficking in persons in [...]	2008-02-20 11:29:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL OTRA KCRM KWMN CY AJ
08BAKU153	AZERBAIJAN INPUT FOR NEW REQUIRED REPORTS TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-20 13:38:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG SENV APER ABUD AJ
08BAKU154	FARHAD ALIYEV'S HEALTH SEEMINGLY STABLE, NO SIGNS [...] (C) More than two weeks since jailed former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev's February 5 transfer to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) Boyuk Shore medical facility (reftel),there is no evidence that he suffered a heart attack. ICRC Protection Coordinator Susana Lopez (strictly pro [...]	2008-02-20 14:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ
08BAKU156	BFIF FY2008 PROJECT PROPOSALS FOR AZERBAIJAN [...] For FY2008, the Embassy proposes a set of commercial outreach programs to engage more actively in support of our commercial interests overseas. For FY 2008, Embassy requests a total of USD 9,500 five projects. We believe that the funding received through the BFIF program has enhanced our abi [...]	2008-02-21 09:40:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP BTIO ETRD EINV ABUD AJ
08BAKU159	IRAN REPORTEDLY LAUNDERING MONEY IN AZERBAIJAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-21 14:57:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON EFIN PTER IR AJ
08BAKU160	KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AZERBAIJANI DEPUTY [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Azimov on February 20 (FM Mammadyarov was out of the country). Despite Azerbaijan's opposition to Kosovo's independence, Azimov said, he had instructed the MFA to be "measured" in its public statements, making only two [...]	2008-02-21 15:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS UN AZ
08BAKU163	THE EMPRESS HAS NO CLOTHES: A LOOK AT THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A 2007 press report speculating that a "new" pro-government party, the Democratic Azerbaijan World Party, was being created to support the First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva's 2013 presidential bid continues to resonate, creating rumors that Aliyeva is launching a move against the rulin [...]	2008-02-22 13:42:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR AJ
08BAKU164	VISIT OF AZERBAIJANI MINISTER OF DEFENSE TO IRAN [...] (C) Azerbaijani Minister of Defense Safar Abiyev visited Iran February 18-19, his first visit to the Islamic Republic since 2004. During a February 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Abiyev noted that he was preparing for the trip. In addition to Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar [...]	2008-02-22 14:03:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PGOV PREL IR AJ
08BAKU167	OPPOSITION JOURNALIST PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED IN [...] (C) On February 22, two unknown assailants physically assaulted opposition Azadliq newspaper correspondent Agil Khalil. According to Khalil on February 25, on February 22 he was the newspaper's investigative journalist on duty; at approximately 1700, he received reports that trees were being [...]	2008-02-25 15:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ
08BAKU171	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ADVANCING THE U.S. POSITION [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-26 14:05:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM CU AJ
08BAKU172	AZERBAIJAN: 2008 SPECIAL 301 REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (U) Based on the GOAJ's endeavors to improve intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, enforcement, and human capacity in 2007, and the lack of nominations and complaints from the private sector, Embassy Baku recommends that Azerbaijan remain off the Special 301 Watch List in 2008. Bui [...]	2008-02-27 05:37:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETDR ECON KIPR USTR WTRO PGOV PREL AJ

08BAKU178	S/CT URBANCIC DISCUSSES ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (S/NF) Summary: S/CT Principal Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator Urbancic's February 14-15 visit to Baku reaffirmed USG appreciation for Azerbaijan's cooperation in the war on terror and underscored USG interest in deepening bilateral CT cooperation. GOAJ officials confirmed they are work [...]	2008-02-29 10:44:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV ENRG KTFN KISL AJ

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