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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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08ISLAMABAD1655PAKISTAN'S NEW HEARTS AND MINDS CAMPAIGN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-23 14:30:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD1678GOP RESPONSE TO SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 REGIME
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-25 12:39:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETKTFN PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD1679GROWING CONCERN OVER JUDGES' RESTORATION
[...] (C) Summary. There is growing concern over the continued deadlock between the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz over how to resolve the issue of the deposed judiciary. A new court petition attempting to prevent the National Assembly from considering a legislative [...]
2008-04-25 14:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD172USG MEDIA LEAKS HAVE PAKISTANI MILITARY "REVIEWING CONTINGENCIES"
[...] (C) Summary. Foreign Secretary Riaz Khan and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Tariq Majid separately called in Ambassador January 8 and 9 to express their concern about repeated media reports stating senior USG officials were considering unilateral action within Pakistan. Both official [...]
2008-01-11 10:24:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR KPAO PK
08ISLAMABAD1828CODEL SMITH MEETS PRIME MINISTER GILANI
[...] (C) Summary: Codel Smith visited Pakistan April 27-28. In their meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani, U.S. Representatives Adam Smith (D-WA),Mac Thornberry (R-TX),Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ),Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Mike Conaway (R-TX) stressed the U.S.'s continued commitment to our long [...]
2008-05-12 12:51:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER PINR
08ISLAMABAD1905PAKISTAN: ACTING CENTCOM COMMANDER MEETS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Acting USCENTCOM Commander, Lieutenant General Martin Dempsey visited Pakistan May 12. In his meeting with Secretary of Defense Kamran Rasool, Dempsey stressed the U.S.'s continued commitment to our long-term relationship with Pakistan and made assurances regarding continuity o [...]
2008-05-21 07:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PGOV PHUM PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD1906PAKISTAN: ACTING CENTCOM COMMANDER MEETS WITH JCSC
[...] (C) Summary: Acting USCENTCOM Commander, Lieutenant General Martin Dempsey visited Pakistan May 12. In his meeting with General Tariq Majid, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Committee, Dempsey stressed the U.S.'s continued commitment to our long-term relationship with Pakistan and made [...]
2008-05-21 07:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PGOV PHUM PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD1934ANP'S KHAN LOBBIES FOR SWAT AGREEMENT; DISAVOWS
[...] (C) Summary: Peshawar Principal Officer (PO) Lynne Tracy met Awami National Party (ANP) leader Asfandyar Wali Khan in Islamabad May 23 to discuss the peace agreements being negotiated in Swat and in South Waziristan, separately. Khan was emphatic that the ANP would only take responsibility for [...]
2008-05-23 16:14:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD1956PAKISTAN: ACTING CENTCOM COMMANDER MEETS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Acting USCENTCOM Commander, Lieutenant General Martin Dempsey visited Pakistan May 12. In his meeting with General Ashfaq Kayani, Chief of Army Staff, Dempsey stressed the U.S.'s continued commitment to our long-term relationship with Pakistan and made assurances regarding contin [...]
2008-05-28 12:26:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PGOV PHUM PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD1957CODEL FEINGOLD MEETS WITH PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 26 meeting with President Musharraf, Senator Russ Feingold discussed Pakistan's current political and economic climate as well as efforts to combat extremism in Pakistan. Describing his current personal status as "confused," Musharraf reported that he would not become a "usele [...]
2008-05-28 13:02:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR ECON PK
08ISLAMABAD1959CODEL FEINGOLD MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER GILANI
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 26 meeting with CODEL Feingold, Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani expressed gratitude for U.S. support for democracy and reiterated Pakistan's commitment to combat terrorism. Gilani believes that there is an opportunity for a multi-dimensional U.S.-Pakistan relationship and sou [...]
2008-05-28 13:27:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR ECON PK
08ISLAMABAD1968CODEL NELSON MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER GILANI
[...] (C) Summary. In a meeting May 27 with Pakistan Prime Minister Gilani, Codel Nelson discussed the political and economic situation and efforts to combat extremism in Pakistan. Gilani expressed appreciation for U.S. assistance, particularly in the tribal areas, but said more was needed. He ou [...]
2008-05-29 14:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD1999CODEL NELSON MEETS PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF
[...] (C) Summary. In a meeting May 27 with Pakistan President Musharraf, Codel Nelson discussed the political and economic situation and efforts to combat extremism in Pakistan. Musharraf expressed appreciation for U.S. assistance and understanding on the strategic issue of terrorism and hoped clo [...]
2008-05-30 16:23:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD2003CODEL FEINGOLD MEETS WITH PML-N PARLIAMENTARY LEADER NISAR
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 26 meeting with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentary leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Senator Russ Feingold discussed Pakistan's current political situation and efforts to combat extremism. The PML-N, Nisar insisted, considers the U.S. to be a friend but took [...]
2008-05-31 11:06:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR ECON PK
08ISLAMABAD2006CODEL SCHIFF MEETS WITH PM GILANI: PUSHING
[...] (C) Summary: Codel Schiff -- U.S. Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA),Allyson Schwartz (D-PA),and Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) -- met May 27 with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. The Prime Minister reiterated Pakistan's full support for the war on terror and noted improving relations [...]
2008-06-02 04:52:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD2019 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 03, 2008
[...] "Blast Rocks Danish Embassy In High-Security Area: 8 Killed" "Dawn" (06/03) "A car-bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in Islamabad in one of the most high-security residential districts on Monday, killing eight people and injuring more than 25 others." 2. "Terrorism Remains A Real [...]
2008-06-03 09:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD2020NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR DURRANI ADDRESSES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-03 10:29:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD2021NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR DURRANI DISCUSSES FATA
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On May 29, Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistan's new National Security Advisor (NSA),addressed counties with troops in Afghanistan on Pakistan's strategies for combating terrorism and enforcing peace agreements within the tribal areas. He stressed that it was important not only to him [...]
2008-06-03 10:40:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD2050CODELS LEVIN AND CASEY DISCUSS SECURITY AND
[...] (C) Summary: Senator Carl Levin and Senator Robert Casey met May 25 with Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Zardari, National Security Advisor Mahmud Ali Durrani and Ambassador-designate to the U.S. Husain Haqqani to discuss recent negotiations with militants, counterterrorism effo [...]
2008-06-05 14:27:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PTER ECON PK
08ISLAMABAD2101FOREIGN SECRETARY CONDEMNATION OF RECENT
[...] (C) Summary: On the evening of June 11, Ambassador was called by Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir to protest the U.S. Coalition strike earlier that day, which reportedly killed eleven Pakistan civil armed forces, injured eight, and resulted in an undetermined number of missing personnel. Bashir [...]
2008-06-12 08:59:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD2104USDP EDELMAN DISCUSSES SECURITY AND TERRORISM WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary for Defense Eric Edelman met with President Pervez Musharraf June 2 to discuss U.S. concerns regarding recent peace agreements in the border areas, Pakistan's counterterrorism efforts and U.S. security assistance. Portraying civilian government leaders as soft on [...]
2008-06-12 13:36:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PHUM MASS ECON PK
08ISLAMABAD2201SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CARDIN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Pakistan's newly elected civilian government remains a fragile coalition beset by differences over how to restore the deposed judiciary and President Musharraf's future. Continuing political deadlock over the judiciary has seriously undermined the GOP's ability to tackle grow [...]
2008-06-23 12:42:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD2203PARLIAMENT SETS SYMBOLIC PRECEDENT WITH DEFENSE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 17, Pakistan's parliament debated the defense budget for the first time in the nation's history. Although details were sparse and debate limited, this marked a symbolic move toward greater civilian oversight of the armed forces. Chief of Army Staff General Kayani supp [...]
2008-06-23 12:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PK PREL MARR ECON
08ISLAMABAD226NSA TARIQ AZIZ ON A NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-15 13:15:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD2303PRIME MINISTER GILANI AND CODEL CARDIN DISCUSS BILATERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 30 meeting with Codel Cardin, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Gilani requested increased cooperation with the U.S. on security and economic assistance. He also firmly asserted that Pakistan's nuclear assets are protected and expressed hope for greater international focu [...]
2008-07-07 07:04:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID PTER IN PK
08ISLAMABAD2304PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF AND CODEL CARDIN DISCUSS BILATERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 30 meeting with Codel Cardin, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf explained the importance of concluding agreements with the tribal groups in the border areas to secure peace. He also expressed hope for stronger military and intelligence cooperation with the U.S as well [...]
2008-07-07 07:04:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID PTER IN PK
08ISLAMABAD2305BOUCHER AND GILANI DISCUSS BORDER SECURITY AND
[...] (C) Summary: During a July 1 meeting, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told Assistant Secretary Boucher that his government was serious about the need to confront militant extremists, establish a foundation for sustainable development and address Pakistan's growing economic crisis. Gilani al [...]
2008-07-07 07:04:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ECON PK
08ISLAMABAD2316USDP EDELMAN DISCUSSES SECURITY WITH PRIME
[...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary for Defense Policy Eric Edelman and Ambassador met with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on June 2. USDP Edelmen stressed the U.S.'s long-term commitment to Pakistan and discussed how the U.S. might assist Pakistan in addressing the growing security threat posed [...]
2008-07-07 13:30:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MASS PREF PK
08ISLAMABAD2323 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 08, 2008
[...] "Fear Grips Citizens As Seven Blasts Rock Karachi" "The News" (07/08) "A series of seven bomb blasts rocked Karachi on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring more than 40, the state-run television reported. Intelligence sources claimed that the criminals wanted to provoke ethnic [...]
2008-07-08 09:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD2328WALI KHAN'S STRATEGY FOR CONTAINING MILITANCY
[...] (C) Summary. Awami National Party (ANP) leader Asfundyar Wali Khan told Ambassador July 7 that security in Peshawar was under control. He questioned the seriousness of the recent Khyber operation in Bara, but said that if the Pakistani security forces can continue to push the militants int [...]
2008-07-08 12:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD2336PRIME MINISTER GILANI AND CODEL GREEN DISCUSS BORDER ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 4 meeting with CODEL Green focused on cross-border issues with Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gilani explained his views on the causes of terrorism in Pakistan and his government's three prong counter-terrorism policy. He also requested additional Parliamentary exchanges [...]
2008-07-09 11:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD2337CODEL GREEN DISCUSSES MADRASSAS, EXTREMISM WITH PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 4 meeting with President Musharraf, CODEL Green discussed extremism in Pakistan and their support for madrassa reform. The CODEL cited a specific case of two young U.S. citizens apparently being held against their will in a Karachi madrassa; the Embassy is facilitating [...]
2008-07-09 11:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD2365AMBASSADOR BRIEFS MOD ON SECURITY ISSUES
[...] (S/NF) Ambassador, RAO and the Office of Defense Representative July 9 briefed Defense Minister Mukhtar on U.S. intelligence cooperation, military cross border operations and U.S.-Pakistan security assistance. Mukhtar noted that press reports about impending unilateral military action, civil [...]
2008-07-11 12:05:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD238NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT: A NON-STARTER
[...] (C) Summary. The trial balloon launched to test the idea of a national unity government combined with an election delay (reftels) was shot down very quickly. President Musharraf and all the major political parties have firmly rejected the idea. However, the political and security uncerta [...]
2008-01-16 10:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD2462PAKISTAN MILITARY ARRIVE AT KHYBER BORDER
[...] (C) Pakistan's first six man military contingent arrived July 21 at the Khyber Border Coordination Center (BCC) for an initial 3-6 month tour. This long-awaited development will allow ISAF, Pakistani and Afghan military together to monitor real-time intelligence on border activity to help avoi [...]
2008-07-22 12:04:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD2464UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH PAKISTAN'S FM QURESHI
[...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery visited Pakistan July 17-19. On July 19, U/S Jeffery and the Ambassador met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who was also named acting Minister of Petroleum following Pakistan Musl [...]
2008-07-22 12:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EAID ENRG EPET PK
08ISLAMABAD2466UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 18 meeting with Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery, Acting Minister of Finance Naveed Qamar described this year as one of the most difficult in Pakistan's economic history. He highlighted recent steps taken by the Government of [...]
2008-07-22 13:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD2505 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 24, 2008
[...] "Coalition Leaders Go For Talks In FATA; Parliament To Evolve Greater Consensus Against Extremism" "The News" (07/24) "Leaders of the ruling coalition in their meeting here on Wednesday resolved to pursue dialogue rather than military operation in the militancy-hit FATA, saying force would b [...]
2008-07-24 09:29:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD2515COALITION SECURITY MEETING: FOCUS ON NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: PM Gilani chaired a seven hour meeting of coalition partners on July 23 to discuss the security situation. It produced a predictable statement affirming the GOP's three-pronged strategy of political engagement, economic development and force when needed. The public accent was o [...]
2008-07-24 14:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD2524SCENESETTER FOR PM GILANI'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON
[...] (S/NF) Summary. Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani will be anxious to prove that he is committed to fighting "Pakistan's war" on terrorism and will outline the GOP's partial response to the July demands presented by CJCS Mullen/DDCIA Kappes. Gilani will publicly support the coaliton's "neg [...]
2008-07-25 13:26:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD2608 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 02-04, 2008
[...] "SAARC Accord To Curb Terror, Fight Hunger" "Dawn" (08/04) "South Asian leaders signed a legal cooperation pact on Sunday to combat terrorism and agreed to set up a food bank to fight hunger in the face of rising food prices in one of the world's poorest regions. But the South Asian Associat [...]
2008-08-04 11:15:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD2862THE 2008 U.S.-PAKISTAN ECONOMIC DIALOGUE
[...] (C) Summary: The U.S.-Pakistan Economic Dialogue was held in Islamabad on August 11, co-chaired by Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs Dan Sullivan and Pakistani Minister of Finance Syed Naveed Qamar. A topic of particular concern was the current state of th [...]
2008-08-29 09:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV EAGR ENRG PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD293SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL FALLON
[...] (C) Summary. Benazir Bhutto's assassination and its potential to oust Musharraf's party in delayed parliamentary elections, electricity and flour shortages, a disturbing increase in suicide bombings throughout the country, and emboldened attacks by militants in the tribal areas are combinin [...]
2008-01-19 10:35:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MARR PK
08ISLAMABAD3008PAKISTAN MILITARY DECLARES IT HAS ORDERS TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. GOP leaders are falling beyond Chief of Army Staff General Kayani's September 10 statement defending Pakistan's sovereignty and denying the agreed rules of engagement allow U.S. forces to conduct operations inside Pakistan. The Pakistani military spokesman declared that the [...]
2008-09-12 11:27:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3010CORRECTED COPY: THE 2008 U.S.-PAKISTAN ECONOMIC
[...] (U) This is a corrected copy of reftel. 2. (C) Summary: The U.S.-Pakistan Economic Dialogue was held in Islamabad on August 11, co-chaired by Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs Dan Sullivan and Pakistani Minister of Finance Syed Naveed Qamar. A topic of partic [...]
2008-09-12 12:09:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV EAGR ENRG PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3012PROGRESS ON PAK-AFGHAN JIRGA; HINTS AT
[...] (U) Summary: On September 11, Pakistani and Afghan Foreign Ministers agreed to a re-engagement plan between the two countries and to convene a mini-jirga shortly after the Eid holiday (early October). Relations between the two countries had soured after the bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kab [...]
2008-09-12 14:29:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PK PREL PTER AF
08ISLAMABAD3014PAKISTAN MILITARY DECLARES IT HAS ORDERS TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. GOP leaders are falling beyond Chief of Army Staff General Kayani's September 10 statement defending Pakistan's sovereignty and denying the agreed rules of engagement allow U.S. forces to conduct operations inside Pakistan. The Pakistani military spokesman declared that the [...]
2008-09-13 05:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3035DEVELOPING PAKISTANI COIN CAPABILITY
[...] (C) Summary: To help Pakistan roll back an increasingly virulent combination of foreign terrorists and domestic insurgents, the U.S. is implementing a three-part strategy to improve governance, provide economic development and fight extremism in the tribal areas along the Afghanistan border. [...]
2008-09-16 09:52:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER PGOV MOPS PK
08ISLAMABAD3070OUTREACH TO ASFUNDYAR WALI KHAN AND CHAUDHRY NISAR
[...] (C) Summary. In separate discussions with Ambassador September 19, Awami National Party leader Asfundyar Wali Khan and Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Chaudhry Nisar both said they were encouraged by signs that some local tribes had decided to rise up and fight militants. Khan said candidly [...]
2008-09-19 14:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV MOPS PK
08ISLAMABAD3071PAKISTANIS REMAIN DEFENSIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The September 3 raid into South Waziristan has drawn greater attention to alleged U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's border areas. Strikes that previously generated regular but tepid press now prompt bold headlines. Pakistani papers and political statements have focused on the Se [...]
2008-09-19 15:37:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PK
08ISLAMABAD3076SITREP 03, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: ISLAMABAD QUIET,
[...] (C) As of September 22, 1000 hours (local time),two TDY staff remain missing. Pakistani media report at least 60 dead and over 200 injured. Media also reports that the Marriott hotel is structurally compromised and may collapse. 1200 kilos of explosives were used in the attack. Due to extr [...]
2008-09-21 04:50:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREL AMGT CACS ASEC PTER PINR PK
08ISLAMABAD3106ISLAMABAD EAC MEETING 09/23/08
[...] (SBU) DCM chaired the EAC on 09/23/08 to review Mission security posture. All sections/agencies were represented. 2. (S/NF) RSO briefed EAC on the status of the recovery efforts at the Marriott. A joint inter-agency team got access to and searched the upper floors of the Marriott on 9/23. [...]
2008-09-23 13:22:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNASEC PTER CASC PK
08ISLAMABAD3137 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
[...] "Pakistan, US Blow Hot and Cold Over Flare-Up" "Dawn" (09/26) "Security forces fired on two NATO helicopters which had intruded into Pakistan territory on Thursday, forcing them to turn back to Afghanistan, officials said. "Two helicopters from the Afghanistan side crossed into Saidgai, Ghul [...]
2008-09-26 09:44:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3168ISLAMABAD EAC MEETING 09/30/08
[...] (C) DCM chaired an EAC meeting on 09/30/08 to review Mission's security posture in light of recent threat information (ref A) and imminent visit of the Secretary to Islamabad. All sections/agencies were represented. 2. (S/NF) RSO and GRPO reported on the latest threat information (ref A) a [...]
2008-09-30 11:12:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNASEC PTER CASC PK
08ISLAMABAD3176U.S.-PAKISTAN COUNTER-TERRORISM BILATERALS
[...] (C) Summary: On August 22, a delegation led by Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Dailey met with a delegation led by Minister of the Interior Malik for a counter-terrorism bilateral, the first such dialogue since 2006. The topics of discussion included security forces training, terro [...]
2008-10-02 11:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD3177A SETBACK TO OUR COIN STRATEGY
[...] (U) This is an action cable, please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary. Funding to train and equip Pakistan's Frontier Corps has been reduced to $25 million in the 2009 DOD Authorization bill. (It was $75 million in the FY08 DOD Supplemental. There is no FMF available.) Since a better trai [...]
2008-10-03 10:59:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MARR PK
08ISLAMABAD3182REVISED COPY: U.S.-PAKISTAN COUNTER-TERRORISM
[...] (C) Summary: On August 22, a delegation led by Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Dailey met with a delegation led by Minister of the Interior Malik for a counter-terrorism bilateral, the first such dialogue since 2006. The topics of discussion included security forces training, terro [...]
2008-10-06 05:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD3186TOUR D'HORIZON WITH ZARDARI
[...] (C) Summary: In a discursive conversation with President Zardari on October 2, Ambassador again encouraged the appointment of a czar for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). She stressed that the federal and provincial governments were not working well together to confront the is [...]
2008-10-06 10:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3219KAYANI EXERCISES INFLUENCE WITH NEW MILITARY APPOINTMENTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-08 09:40:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNMOPS PGOV PINR PK PTER
08ISLAMABAD3231 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 09, 2008
[...] "Military Seeks Politicians' Support to Fight Militants; Opposition Dissatisfied" "Dawn" (10/09) "The military took elected representatives of the nation into confidence on Wednesday about the worsening situation in FATA, NWFP and Balochistan and the U.S.-led 'war on terror' during a joint [...]
2008-10-09 10:08:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3240 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 10, 2008
[...] "Bomber Runs Down Anti-Terror Office In Islamabad" "The News" (10/10) "At least eight people were injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the central office of anti-terrorist squad (ATS) located in the premises of Police Headquarters, Islamabad on Thursday." [...]
2008-10-10 10:38:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3248PAKISTAN'S PARLIAMENT BEGINS TERRORISM DEBATE
[...] (C) Summary. The October 8-9 closed joint session of parliament convoked by President Zardari to address the security situation has been widely praised as a good first step in convincing Pakistan's elected leadership to take ownership of the fight against extremism; this effort now should be extend [...]
2008-10-13 09:43:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD327FORMER PUNJAB CHIEF MINISTER PERVAIZ ELAHI OPPOSES
[...] (C) Summary: During a courtesy call on former Punjab Chief Minister and Punjab Pakistan Muslim League (PML) leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Thursday January 17 by CDA, Elahi dismissed this week's speculation of establishing a new national consensus government and postponement of elections as [...]
2008-01-22 13:37:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PTER ECON PK
08ISLAMABAD3350BOUCHER OUTLINES WAY FORWARD FOR "FRIENDS OF A
[...] (C) Summary. At an October 20 meeting in Islamabad hosted by President Zardari, representatives of Pakistan, the U.S., the UK, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and China discussed the organization and possible goals of the Friends of Democratic Pakistan group. They agreed to Foreign Secretary Bashir's s [...]
2008-10-22 13:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3363KASHMIR TRADE OPENS BETWEEN PAKISTAN AND INDIA FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Official trade between Pakistan and India across the Line of Control (LoC) separating Kashmir commenced on October 21 for the first time in over sixty years. The exchange of trucks carrying goods, mostly produce, was limited in scale but not in significance. It heralds what m [...]
2008-10-24 03:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER IN PK
08ISLAMABAD3373BOUCHER REVIEWS COUNTER-TERRORISM EFFORTS WITH
[...] (C) Summary. In two separate wide-ranging discussions with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Boucher, Interior Minister Malik reported that the Pakistani government remained firmly committed to completing military action against extremists in Bajaur. Malik expressed co [...]
2008-10-25 08:06:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD3402DURRANI TELLS BOUCHER OF SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO INDIA
[...] (C) Summary. During an October 20 meeting with Assistant Secretary Boucher, National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister Durrani said military progress in Bajaur was slow because militants were being reinforced with fighters from Afghanistan, neighboring tribal areas and from Arab and North A [...]
2008-10-28 12:42:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3418AMBASSADOR CONVOKED OVER U.S. ATTACKS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-29 13:28:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PTER PREL TFIN ETRD
08ISLAMABAD3463PROTESTS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MUSHARRAF'S STATE
[...] (C) Summary: Lawyers commemorated the November 3 anniversary of last year's State of Emergency (SOE),demonstrating in front of bar association offices and court houses across the country. They blasted the current government for reinstating only some of the judges removed by former President [...]
2008-11-03 12:55:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PK
08ISLAMABAD3533ZARDARI REACHES OUT TO BALOCHISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a marked change from the previous government, President Zardari has been reaching out to the oft forgotten province of Balochistan. Especially after the October 29 earthquake, Zardari is intensifying GOP efforts to settle a long-simmering Baloch rebellion through political reco [...]
2008-11-10 03:25:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD3586GILANI TO CODEL SNOWE: HELP US HIT TARGETS
[...] (C) Summary: Codel Snowe met November 11 with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani. Gilani thanked the USG for its support in helping transition the country to a full democracy and congratulated the U.S. on its recent election. Gilani reiterated that the struggle against extremism was "Pakistan' [...]
2008-11-13 11:34:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID PK
08ISLAMABAD3593ZARDARI TO PETRAEUS: "DEFEAT IS NOT AN OPTION"
[...] (C) Summary. During a November 3 meeting with CENTCOM Commander Petraeus, President Zardari repeated his commitment to fight terrorism, saying "defeat is not an option." He renewed his request for U.S. economic support, indicated he could support some unilateral U.S. military actions if they w [...]
2008-11-15 05:02:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3595CJCS MAJID HOSTS CENTCOM CMDR PETRAEUS
[...] (C) Summary. During a November 3 meeting and lunch, CENTCOM Commander General Petraeus and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Tariq Majid discussed bilateral relations, the need to improve military-military cooperation, and Pakistan's efforts to combat extremism. End Summary. [...]
2008-11-15 05:24:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3627FATA UPDATE - 13 NOVEMBER 2008
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistani military and Frontier Corps have made progress in clearing the main north-south corridor in Bajaur and forces are poised to move into Mohmand Agency to begin operations. The latest attack on the Salarzai tribe served to underscore the need for adequate post-conflict se [...]
2008-11-18 10:31:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER MOPS PK
08ISLAMABAD3640 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 19, 2008
[...] "U.S. Commander Says Pakistan Backed Raid" "Dawn" (11/19) "The U.S. military has launched a coordinated operation with Pakistani forces to put pressure on insurgents on both sides of Afghanistan's wild eastern frontier, a U.S. military commander said on Tuesday. Dubbed "Operation Lionheart," [...]
2008-11-19 10:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3671 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 21, 2008
[...] "Suicide Attack on Mosque: Lashkar Chief Eliminated" "Dawn" (11/21) "The chief of a tribal lashkar and eight other people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in Bajaur Agency on Thursday. According to an official claim, 17 militants, including 11 foreigners, were k [...]
2008-11-21 10:47:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3712JANG GROUP'S BEHAVIOR MAKES WORKING WITH GEO TV UNTENABLE
[...] This is an action request see paragraph 15. 2. Summary: Post believes the time has come to end the contract the BBG holds with "GEO TV Network" and move it to a responsible organization. GEO is owned by the "Jang Group," a multimedia corporation owning Urdu and English language newspape [...]
2008-11-26 14:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PK
08ISLAMABAD3716PAKISTAN REACTIONS TO TERROR IN MUMBAI
[...] (S) Summary. President Zardari, PM Gilani and FM Qureshi have made all the right public statements condemning the November 27-28 militant attacks in Mumbai; Gilani has agreed to an Indian request and is sending ISI Chief MG Pasha to India to participate in the investigation. Interior Minister Malik [...]
2008-11-28 12:01:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER IN UK PK
08ISLAMABAD3718CHARGE URGES FM QURESHI TO SEND ISI MG PASHA TO INDIA
[...] (S) Summary. In a November 29 meeting with FM Qureshi, Charge urged Pakistan to send ISI Director MG Pasha to India, as agreed publicly, to participate in investigations of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. If Pasha did not go to India, this would be seen as a bad sign that Pakistan was retreating [...]
2008-11-29 07:27:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3719ZARDARI PROMISES TO SEND AN ISI DIRECTOR TO INDIA
[...] (S) Summary. Pakistani leaders and media remained defensive November 30 about accusations of Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai attacks and demanded evidence from India. Zardari, Qureshi and an unnamed senior defense official are quoted as denying involvement and promising to take action again [...]
2008-11-30 09:41:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3722 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 28, 2008
[...] "Mumbai Death Toll Rises To 125; India Blames Neighbors" "The News" (11/28) "Indian commandos killed the last three gunmen at the Taj Hotel late Thursday and were sweeping another luxury hotel in search of hostages and trapped people after militants stormed targets across Mumbai, leaving 125 [...]
2008-12-01 02:08:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3733PAKISTAN: MUMBAI SITUATION UPDATE
[...] (C) Ambassador has returned and will see Chief of Army Staff General Kayani at 3 pm local time. Zardari is unavailable for meetings today. 2. (C) UK PM Gordon Brown is trying to call President Zardari today. 3. (C) NSA Durrani advised DCM that Zardari is meeting this evening with all of the Pak [...]
2008-12-01 11:04:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3744 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 02, 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-02 09:59:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3783FM BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON MUMBAI; GOI EMBASSY
[...] (S) Summary. FM Qureshi briefed the diplomatic corps December 2 on the GOP reaction to the Mumbai attacks. He complained about the negative effect of Indian media hype and announced that Pakistan was proposing a joint investigation led by the two National Security Advisors. He reiterated that Pakis [...]
2008-12-05 10:40:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3791PM GILANI TELLS CODEL MCCAIN PAKISTAN WILL ACT
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Gilani told Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham the GOP will take action against individuals implicated in the Mumbai attacks as Secretary Rice had urged. On December 6, the Prime Minister, joined by Foreign Minister Qureshi, said the government h [...]
2008-12-08 08:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER IN PK
08ISLAMABAD3811 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 06-09, 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-11 11:52:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD382STAFFDEL BLAZEY MEETS WITH PAKISTAN'S 11TH CORPS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. StaffDel Blazey traveled to Peshawar January 18-19 to meet with the leadership of Pakistan's 11th Corps and the Deputy Director General (DDG) of the Frontier Corps. Discussions centered on efforts to combat the growing insurgency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA [...]
2008-01-25 10:05:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALOREP PGOV MASS PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3820THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S DECEMBER 11 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary. Deputy Secretary John Negroponte met with Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi to discuss the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and relations with India, progress being made on border cooperation with Afghanistan and upcoming multilateral and bilateral meetings. End summary. [...]
2008-12-12 09:05:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3827ALL PARTIES COMMUNIQUE ON INDO-PAK RELATIONS
[...] (U) Late December 2, in Islamabad, Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani convened an "all political parties conference" to discuss Pakistan's unequivocal condemnation of the October 29 Mumbai bombings and their unified position vis-a-vis Pakistan's relations with neighbor India. The text of the unanim [...]
2008-12-12 14:31:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IN PK
08ISLAMABAD3837PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: December 15, 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-15 10:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3886 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 19, 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-19 09:57:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3902LAWYERS POLITICIZED, BLAME U.S. FOR MUMBAI ATTACKS
[...] (C) Since the ouster of President-General Pervez Musharraf, the lawyers' movement has become less and less an independent force on Pakistan's political scene. Many of its original leaders are looking for dignified exits, ceding ground to some die-hard firebrands (reftel). The opposition Paki [...]
2008-12-22 08:30:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KJUS EAID PK
08ISLAMABAD3943 MUMBAI ATTACKS: PAKISTANI MOI HESITANT TO MOVE
[...] (C) Summary. MOI State Secretary Kamal Shah expressed concern about moving the Mumbai bombing investigation into law enforcement channels. A successful prosecution, especially of the organizers, would demand significant levels of admissible evidence, which the Pakistanis do not now feel they h [...]
2008-12-25 04:54:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV KJUS PK
08ISLAMABAD3945BHUTTO ASSASSINATION COMMEMORATED: A YEAR NO ONE
[...] (C) Summary: On the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) -- in control of government again -- prepares to commemorate the life of its slain leader. This December 27 will see day-long speeches and memorials across the country. Bhutto's [...]
2008-12-26 08:12:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER EAID PINR PK
08ISLAMABAD405AMBASSADOR’S CONDOLENCE CALL ON ASIF ZARDARI
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-28 09:30:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD420AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON MUNIR MALIK
[...] (C) Summary. In a meeting January 26, former Supreme Court Bar Association President Munir Malik advised Ambassador that his health had improved and he no longer needed a kidney transplant. He confirmed that the Pakistani lawyers' movement is struggling to remain united behind a boycott as [...]
2008-01-29 13:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD469MOTOROLA AND MOI SIGN 11.8 MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Motorola signed an $11.8 million dollar contract on January 21 with MOI for implementation of a secure police radio system in five major cities of Pakistan. Motorola will provide training to GOP personnel at a facility that it is building in Lahore as part of a recently signed Wi [...]
2008-02-01 09:43:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EINV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD482PUBLIC SHRUGS AFTER RETIRED GENERALS CENSURE
[...] (U) In a January 31 meeting, a group of retired army officers urged Musharraf to step down and hand over power to deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Chaudhry, who could then create a national unity government. The group also endorsed the lawyers' movement, demanded the government appoint forme [...]
2008-02-01 12:43:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD525SCENESETTER FOR CJCS ADMIRAL MULLEN
[...] (S) Summary. We look forward to your visit to begin the process of strengthening and refocusing our military to military relations with Pakistan's CJCS General Majid and COAS Kayani. This has become increasingly urgent because of the expanding insurgency in the tribal areas and attacks against [...]
2008-02-05 14:32:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD614PAKISTAN ELECTIONS: MANAGING EXPECTATIONS
[...] (C) Summary. Regardless of who "wins" the February 18 elections in Pakistan, the challenge will be managing expectations of the Pakistani public, the political parties and the international community. Despite assumptions that Bhutto's assassinaton will propel her party to a big victory, we [...]
2008-02-11 12:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD635PAKISTAN: CJCS MULLEN MEETS PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with Pakistan President Musharraf February 9 to emphasize the critical importance of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship and his personal commitment to strengthening that relationship. Admiral Mullen conveyed two mess [...]
2008-02-12 11:57:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS PHUM PK
08ISLAMABAD70FRENCH AMBASSADOR BRIEFS FM KOUCHNER VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met January 4 with French counterpart Regis de Belenet to discuss the recent visit to Pakistan of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. Kouchner intended to meet with Asif Ali Zardari, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, but the GOP recommended against the trip [...]
2008-01-05 07:06:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD786PPP AND PML-N AGREE TO TRY AND FORM A GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-Chair Asif Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif announced February 21 that they planned to form a coalition government. However, this is an agreement in principle; details on key issues including a choice for Prim [...]
2008-02-22 12:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PK
08ISLAMABAD808MUSHARRAF DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, HIS ROLE, AND EFFORTS IN THE
[...] (C) Summary: President Musharraf discussed elections, set out his vision for a President whose party is in the minority, and explained the GOP's continuing efforts to combat extremism in the FATA to CODEL Hutchison on February 22. Regarding elections, Musharraf thought that the most importa [...]
2008-02-25 14:40:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD809ZADARI EXPLAINS HIS VISION TO CODEL HUTCHISON
[...] (C) Summary: CODEL Hutchison met February 22 with Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Zadari. The CODEL expressed its condolences for Bhutto's assassination and admiration for her courage and vision. In response to Senator Hutchison's question, Zadari explained his ideas for str [...]
2008-02-25 14:43:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD822FATA IMPLEMENTATION PLAN UPDATE 2/22/08
[...] (U) This cable covers this week's developments in USG programs in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along its border with Afghanistan. 2. (C) FATA Briefings --------------------- The Ambassador, the Deputy Chief of Mission, ODRP Chief, and the Deputy Director of USAID [...]
2008-02-26 13:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID MASS SNAR PK
08ISLAMABAD835AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ANP LEADER WALI KHAN
[...] (C) In a February 22 meeting with the Ambassador, Awami National Party (ANP) Chairman and Member of National Assembly-elect (MNA) Asfundyar Wali Khan, whose name has come up as potential Prime Minister, eschewed any desire to head a national coalition government. The ANP leader is counseling [...]
2008-02-27 09:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD89POLITICAL FALLOUT FROM BHUTTO'S ASSASSINATION
[...] (C) Summary. Ten days after Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Pakistan is slowly recovering, and the various political parties are gaming out the way forward. Before Bhutto's death, it was clear that no one party would win enough votes to form a government, and even a pro-Pakistan People's P [...]
2008-01-07 12:26:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
08ISTANBUL147LONG-TIME AKP-ER HAS WEATHERED THE STORMS, DEBATES
[...] (C) Summary. Nureddin Nebati, a leading businessman associated with religiously-tied Independent Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (MUSIAD) and a founding member of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Istanbul branch, along with AKP's Istanbul Deputy Chairman of Economic Affa [...]
2008-03-24 12:45:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU
08ISTANBUL156SATTERFIELD AND DAVUTOGLU ON BASRAH, NORTHERN
[...] (S) Summary: In an April 1 meeting with Turkish Prime Ministerial advisor Ahmet Davutoglu, S/I David Satterfield reviewed the state of play in Basrah and urged Turkey to give full support to Maliki and the GOI. Davutoglu said GOI stability was in Turkey's strong interest, and also agreed to [...]
2008-04-02 13:09:00Consulate IstanbulSECRETPGOV PINS PREL MOPS TU IZ IR
08ISTANBUL199CUKUROVA MEDIA SAYS U.S. BEARS IMAGE BURDEN OF
[...] (C) Summary. In an April 11 meeting, Consul General and senior management and editors from the Cukurova Media Group discussed US-Turkey relations. The media representatives identified Kurdish Northern Iraq as a major source of negative public opinion about the U.S., as well as a more "conte [...]
2008-04-22 17:13:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ISTANBUL437CG'S COURTESY CALL ON IBRAHIM YILDIZ, CUMHURIYET
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Editor-in-chief Ibrahim Yildiz displayed little of the staunchly secularist, anti-AKP and isolationist rhetoric which has become the stock and trade of Cumhuriyet, Turkey's "paper of Ataturk." Cumhuriyet, once the paper of the social democrats, bureaucrats and labor un [...]
2008-08-15 15:24:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI TU
08ISTANBUL51UMRANIYE ROUND-UP TARGETS DEEP STATE
[...] (C) Summary. The January 22 police round-up of scores of people in Istanbul and other cities, related to the discovery of a weapons cache in Istanbul's Umraniye district last June, may be a battle in the war to fight the "deep state" in Turkey. The "deep state" is a vague, ill-defined networ [...]
2008-01-30 07:20:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
08ISTANBUL540IRANIAN AND AFGHAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY: A SNAPSHOT
[...] (C) Summary: We met October 8-10 with UNHCR, provincial, municipal, and police officials, an NGO, and Iranian Baha'i families in Van province in southeast Turkey, to look at conditions facing Iranian refugees. Van hosts between 1700 and 2100 registered refugees, mostly Iranian and Afghan. So [...]
2008-10-23 05:17:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV PINS PREL IT TU
08ISTANBUL594DINK LAWYER OPTIMISTIC DESPITE CONCERNS OF GROWING
[...] (C) Summary: The Prime Ministry Inspection Board's report summarizing the findings of its investigation into the murder of Hrant Dink concludes that security officials could have prevented Dink's murder had they acted on available intelligence. Dink family lawyer Fethiye Cetin told us she [...]
2008-11-25 12:59:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM AA OSCE TU
08JAKARTA112AMID NEW REVELATIONS, COURT CONTINUES REVIEW OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 15 Jakarta court hearing attended by poloff, prosecutors strengthened their case implicating the Indonesian National Intelligence Agency (BIN) in the 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir. In the meantime, the Supreme Court is continuing its review of its high [...]
2008-01-18 07:04:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PHUM ID
08JAKARTA1135PDAS FEIERSTEIN ENGAGES GOI ON SUCCESSFUL CT
[...] (U) This message requests Washington's approval--Please see para 4. 2. (S) SUMMARY: S/CT PDAS Jerry Feierstein discussed counterterrorism issues with Mission and Indonesian officials on June 4-5 in Jakarta and explored ways to improve the already solid cooperation in this area. Indonesi [...]
2008-06-10 23:02:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPTER PGOV PREL ID
08JAKARTA1174PAPUA -- GOI PLANNING FOR CONGRESSMAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior Indonesian official told Congressman Faleomavaega that President Yudhoyono supported the idea of the Congressman's returning to Indonesia's restive Papua province. Indonesian legislators have also invited Mr. Faleomavaega to Papua and plan to press the GOI that they, to [...]
2008-06-16 09:38:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ID
08JAKARTA1207FORMER GENERAL ARRESTED FOR ACTIVIST'S MURDER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 19, Jakarta police arrested retired general and former Deputy of the Indonesian National Intelligence Agency (BIN) Muchdi Purwopranjono for the 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. The arrest marks the first time a retired military general has been c [...]
2008-06-20 09:38:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PREL ID
08JAKARTA1247NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH UNIT -- LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) held hearings June 23 and 25 to discuss the future of the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU 2) based in Jakarta. The DPR heard testimony from high-level representatives of the Ministry of Health, the military, and the Departme [...]
2008-06-26 10:04:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR TBIO AMED ID
08JAKARTA1252MUNIR CASE -- GOI CONTINUES TO PRESS INVESTIGATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian President Yudhoyono has publicly called on the GOI's National Intelligence Agency (BIN) to cooperate fully in the investigation into the 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. The President's statement comes against the backdrop of last week's dramati [...]
2008-06-27 01:57:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS ID
08JAKARTA1290BLUE LANTERN RESULTS 05-050016544, 05-988470, 05-990843
[...] Summary. The Indonesian National Defense Forces Headquarters, Strategic Intelligence Agency (BAIS) confirmed receipt of telecommunication equipment listed in reftel and that they are being used for the purpose stated on the license. We conducted a site visit to Indonesian firm PT Ciptaarta Ha [...]
2008-07-02 05:09:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC ECON ID SN
08JAKARTA1298INDONESIAN POLICE ARREST SUSPECTED JI MEMBERS IN
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On July 2, an Indonesian National Police counterterrorist unit raided a house in South Sumatra and arrested at least nine suspected Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorists. During the raid, the police also seized several Im [...]
2008-07-03 06:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PTER PREL ID
08JAKARTA1306CORRUPTION UPDATE -- ANOTHER LEGISLATOR ARRESTED;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI's independent Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) arrested another Member of Parliament (MP)--the eighth this year--on accusations he assisted a company win a contract worth more than $3 million. In other corruption-related news, the former Governor of the Bank of I [...]
2008-07-07 08:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
08JAKARTA1342GOI BUILDS CASE AGAINST FORMER GENERAL IN SLAYING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI continues to build its case against a former general in the 2004 slaying of Munir Said Thalib, a well-respected human rights activist. The former general--who was an intelligence official at the time of the murder--remains under arrest while the investigation continues. [...]
2008-07-14 07:09:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS ID
08JAKARTA1377PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO'S RE-ELECTION CHANCES DIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) possesses many of the attributes which Indonesians respect in a leader--intelligence, integrity, and honesty. However, he faces widespread criticism for being indecisive. Lacking a united Cabinet and strong political base, SBY's cautious [...]
2008-07-17 06:40:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL PREL ID
08JAKARTA1396SE Asian Hot Topics at Regional AML-CFT Meetings
[...] (SBU) The annual meetings of the regional Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG),held in Bali July 7 to 11, helped highlight the challenges facing Southeast Asian countries and clarify many acute training needs. The APG discussed and adopted three joint Mutual Evaluation Reports (MERs) [...]
2008-07-21 09:24:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL KCRM KTFN KCOR ID MY
08JAKARTA1435TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS -- USG TRAINING ASSISTS
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 19, Indonesian National Police (INP) rescued 111 Indonesian women and girls from three Jakarta establishments involved in prostitution. The District Police Chief told us that the three [...]
2008-07-25 08:09:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KWMN ID
08JAKARTA1594FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL STANDS TRIAL IN MUNIR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The trial of former Indonesian Intelligence Agency (BIN) Deputy Director Muchdi Purwoprandjono began August 21 in Jakarta. Muchdi--who is also a former commander of Kopassus (Army special forces)--is charged with complicity in the premeditated murder of well-known human rights [...]
2008-08-22 07:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PHUM ID
08JAKARTA1614NOTORIOUS FORMER GENERAL TRIES TO MAKE MARK IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prabowo Subianto, a retired general with a poor human rights record, has formed his own political party and announced that he plans to run for president. Prabowo's case is similar to that of Wiranto (one name only),another former general who is a candidate for president and als [...]
2008-08-26 06:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM ID
08JAKARTA1655LABOR/HUMAN RIGHTS CONTACTS ALLEGE HARASSMENT,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A prominent Indonesian freelance writer--and former fellow at Harvard--told Labatt that he believes that he has been under surveillance by GOI intelligence agencies. He says this could be because of his investigative reporting on human rights issues. He asked that the USG keep [...]
2008-09-02 08:25:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ELAB PHUM ID
08JAKARTA1678MUNIR CASE -- COURT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST FORMER SPY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 2 and 4, court proceedings began for retired general and former Deputy of the Indonesian National Intelligence Agency (BIN) Muchdi Purwopranjono. He pleaded not guilty for the murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. At the hearing, prosecutors maintained [...]
2008-09-05 10:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS ID
08JAKARTA1680REQUEST FOR DOD COUNTERDRUG SUPPORT
[...] This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) This is a request for Fiscal Year 2009 DoD counterdrug support in Indonesia, to be provided as authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act of 1991 (as amended). See action request in para four. 3. [...]
2008-09-07 22:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SNAR MASS KCRM ID
08JAKARTA1711DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING PREVENTING
[...] (S) Summary: Indonesian government interlocutors confirmed that Bank Melli had inquired about the rules for establishing operations in Indonesia, but had not submitted any application to open a branch, subsidiary or to form a joint bank with Bank Panin or any other Indonesian financial instit [...]
2008-09-10 08:58:00Embassy JakartaSECRETECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER PINR IR ID
08JAKARTA1727INDONESIA AND MCC COMPACT ELIGIBILITY SUMMARY CABLE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia continues its transformation into a modern, free-market and democratic nation. It is the largest democracy in the world to have emerged in an essentially peaceful manner from decades of authoritarian rule. And it plays a positive role in the international community. [...]
2008-09-11 08:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYID ECON
08JAKARTA1728SUCCESS OF INDONESIA'S MCC THRESHOLD PROGRAM
[...] Summary: Indonesia's Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Program is in full-stride, exceeding expectations in both its areas of focus, Control of Corruption and Immunization Rates. Since being awarded the largest MCC Threshold Program in November 2005, the Government of Indonesia [...]
2008-09-11 08:35:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDID ECON PGOV MCC
08JAKARTA173COURT REINSTATES CONVICTION IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a landmark ruling for accountability, the Supreme Court on January 25 reinstated the conviction of the chief suspect and sentenced him to 20 years in prison for the murder of human rights activist Munir. Immediately after the ruling, the Indonesian National Police (INP) annou [...]
2008-01-28 09:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PREL ID
08JAKARTA1758MUNIR CASE -- NOOSE STEADILY TIGHTENS ON ACCUSED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A key witness in the trial involving the alleged mastermind behind the October 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir Thalib directly linked the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) to the murder in September 16 testimony. This witness also provided compelling evidence tying [...]
2008-09-17 05:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS ID
08JAKARTA1761MUNIR CASE -- ACCUSED MASTERMIND'S BACKGROUND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Former BIN Deputy Muchdi Purwopranjono--accused of masterminding the murder in 2004 of human rights activist Munir (Ref A)--is a decorated veteran who spent most of his career commanding troops in the Suharto-era's most difficult conflict zones. He was also at the heart of one [...]
2008-09-17 08:48:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPINR PHUM ID PGOV
08JAKARTA1779ADVANCING U.S. RELATIONS WITH INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Now is the time to lock in place the positive directions that U.S.-Indonesian relations have taken since 2001 and to make more progress. Seven years ago, Indonesia was highly vulnerable to terrorist threats, but Indonesian resolve and U.S. assistance have reduced these risks g [...]
2008-09-19 03:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV SENV PREL KDEM ID
08JAKARTA1814PRESIDENT'S CHOICE FOR NATIONAL POLICE CHIEF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono's choice as chief of the Indonesian National Police (INP),Bambang Hendarso Danuri, sailed through his parliamentary confirmation hearings this week. Police contacts told us Danuri will be officially installed as head of the INP, a huge entity with over 300 [...]
2008-09-25 06:09:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL ASEC ID
08JAKARTA1825MUNIR CASE -- TESTIMONY CONTINUES IN CASE OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In September 23 testimony, a witness offered evidence linking the former head of Indonesia's main intelligence agency (BIN) to the 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir. Testifying at the trial of a former BIN official, the witness talked about how the former head of BIN a [...]
2008-09-26 05:40:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PHUM ID
08JAKARTA1847DOE Megaports Initiative on the Table, but Has Hurdles to
[...] (U) Summary. After over 2 years of limited bilateral talks on the Megaports Initiative, the Department of Energy (DOE) presented anew the Initiative to the Indonesian government and offered a draft agreement to implement the program in Indonesia. DOE's proposal for future cooperation includes [...]
2008-10-03 03:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EWWT KNNP KTIA ID
08JAKARTA1873WAY FORWARD ON TRAINING INDONESIAN SPECIAL FORCES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This message provides input for the upcoming meeting between EAP A/S Hill and DRL A/S Kramer regarding a way forward in determining whether Indonesian security units previously associated with human rights violations have been sufficiently rehabilitated for purposes of Leahy vet [...]
2008-10-08 08:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MARR ID
08JAKARTA1891MUNIR -- MORE COMPELLING COURT TESTIMONY IN CASE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In compelling--if sometimes bizarre--court testimony, magic potions and poisons were the weapons of choice in the 2004 murder of well-known human rights activist Munir. Prosecutors put this information on the record at the trial of the former intelligence official charged in the [...]
2008-10-10 07:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PHUM ID
08JAKARTA1951MUNIR -- CASE OF MURDERED ACTIVIST CONTINUES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Another key witness in the 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib recanted his testimony to police in an October 21 court appearance. This is the fourth intelligence agent to withdraw testimony damaging to the accused mastermind of the murder, a former deputy of [...]
2008-10-22 07:50:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS ID
08JAKARTA1999PARLIAMENT REOPENS INVESTIGATION INTO MISSING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A special House of Representatives (DPR) committee has begun an inquiry into the 1997-98 abductions and disappearances of 13 pro-democracy activists. The inquiry could lead to legislation establishing an ad hoc human rights court to try retired generals--some of whom are curren [...]
2008-10-29 10:37:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PHUM ID
08JAKARTA204INDONESIA'S 2009 ELECTIONS AND IMPACT ON U.S.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's 2009 presidential election campaign is underway and issues we care about such as counter-terrorism, commodity prices, anti-corruption, and Iran will play a role. President Yudhoyono (SBY) will respond to election pyrotechnics by minimizing risk to preserve his curre [...]
2008-01-31 09:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PTER ID IR
08JAKARTA2049SAUDI ARABIA -- A PRESENCE TO RECKON WITH IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Saudi Arabia enjoys a positive image among Indonesians and is ramping up its already robust educational assistance. In addition to the annual flow of pilgrims to Mecca, Saudi religious groups are active here. While few have direct links to extremism, Saudi religious influence i [...]
2008-11-06 02:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KISL ID SA
08JAKARTA207IN POSITIVE STEP, MILITARY PROMISES TO WORK WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The national human rights commission (Komnas HAM) and the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) recently met to discuss ways to work together. In the course of the meeting, the new TNI Commander promised cooperation and invited the Commission to craft a program of human rights training [...]
2008-02-01 05:26:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ID
08JAKARTA2101MUNIR CASE -- EVIDENCE IMPLICATING FORMER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Testimony continues in the case of a former top intelligence official implicated in the 2004 murder of well-known human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. Damaging testimony was recently brought into evidence against Muchdi Purwopranjono, the defendant. In the meantime, the def [...]
2008-11-14 09:34:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KDEM ID
08JAKARTA2156Indonesian corruption prosecutors experience first-hand how
[...] (SBU) Summary: Twelve prosecutors from the Indonesian Attorney General's Office Anti-Corruption Task Force participated in an INL-funded two-week visit to the U.S. to learn how the U.S. investigates and prosecutes public corruption cases. The delegation, led by DOJ/OPDAT Resident Legal Advisor [...]
2008-11-24 10:49:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
08JAKARTA2221IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM -- URGING INDONESIA TO RAMP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Together with European counterparts, Mission delivered reftel message regarding Iran's nuclear program to key Indonesian officials. Emboffs and counterparts underscored the need for increased vigilance in implementing UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions regarding Iran's nucl [...]
2008-12-10 09:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP EFIN MNUC ID IR
08JAKARTA2222USG TRAINING BOLSTERS INDONESIA'S ANTI-TRAFFICKING
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: USG assistance is making a difference in helping the GOI combat trafficking. A joint RSO-DOJ/ICITAP program focused on training Jakarta police and prosecutors on human trafficking law enforcem [...]
2008-12-10 10:21:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SMIG ASEC ID SNAR
08JAKARTA2244CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN CASE INVOLVING MURDER OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prosecutors and the defense are making closing arguments in the trial of Muchdi Purwoprandjono for conspiring in the 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. Prosecutors recommended a 15-year prison sentence for the former intelligence official and Army Special F [...]
2008-12-12 09:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KDEM ID
08JAKARTA2251 INDONESIA 2008-2009 INCSR PART II, MONEY LAUNDERING AND
[...] The following information was previously relayed via unclassified e-mail with tracked changes from the 2007-2008 INCSR (ref A),as requested by ref B. 2. As noted in ref A, report provided the USD equivalent figures reflecting an exchange rate of IDR 12,000/USD. The rupiah has been extre [...]
2008-12-15 02:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR ID
08JAKARTA2269INDONESIA/COUNTER-NARCOTICS -- TWO NEW AGREEMENTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has entered into two new agreements focused on counter-narcotics and combating transnational crime. The first agreement involves the Indonesian National Narcotics Board (BNN) and the Philippines Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). The other involves BNN and the Indonesian [...]
2008-12-16 06:05:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR ID
08JAKARTA2295MUNIR MURDER CASE -- COURT SAYS IT WILL RENDER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Closing arguments have concluded in the trial of former intelligence official Muchdi Purwoprandjono for conspiring in the 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. The South Jakarta Court announced that it will render its verdict on December 31. Despite problems i [...]
2008-12-19 08:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KDEM ID
08JAKARTA2354MUNIR MURDER CASE -- FORMER OFFICIAL ACQUITTED;
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassifed--Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 31, a Jakarta court acquitted former intelligence official Muchdi Purwoprandjono of conspiracy to commit the September 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. The Cour [...]
2008-12-31 08:13:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS ID
08JAKARTA247INDONESIAN COUNTERTERRORISM AND DERADICALIZATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DCM met Indonesia's chief counterterrorism coordinator, Inspector General Ansyaad Mbai, on January 30. Mbai reviewed Indonesia's CT cooperation with Pakistan, and expressed frustration over what he considered a lack of cooperation from other Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia [...]
2008-02-06 10:27:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPREL PGOV PTER ID PK
08JAKARTA268DEFENSE COOPERATION -- A ROBUST AGENDA FOR FY-2009
[...] (C) SUMMARY: USPACOM and the Indonesian military (TNI) agreed to an agenda of bilateral mil-mil activities for FY2009 at their annual discussions held in Jakarta on February 5-6. The event included U.S. presentations on the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI),and GOI presentations on [...]
2008-02-08 09:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PGOV ID
08JAKARTA279HUMAN RIGHTS -- A SECOND CONVICTION IN MUNIR CASE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 11, a Jakarta Court handed down a second conviction in the murder of well-known human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, sentencing a former airline executive to a year in prison for his role in abetting the October 2004 murder. The Court referred to a "higher cons [...]
2008-02-11 09:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PREL ID
08JAKARTA334USG-FUNDED PATROL BOATS MAKE WAVES AGAINST
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: USG-provided patrol boats are making a difference in the GOI's campaign against transnational crime. Over the past several weeks, Indonesian Police Marine Units have seized vessels involved in [...]
2008-02-20 10:32:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER ID
08JAKARTA356BANK INDONESIA SCANDAL - OUSTING THE OLD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The scandal involving Bank Indonesia (BI) senior officials paying "grease money" to the Parliament (DPR) to pass bank legislation is regarded by some insiders as politically motivated to prevent Burhannudin Abdullah from continuing in a second term as BI Governor. The Anti-Corru [...]
2008-02-24 07:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON KCOR PGOV ID
08JAKARTA376RULE OF LAW -- DEPUTY AG UNDERSCORES SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At a February 21 meeting with the DCM, Deputy Attorney General Arifin underlined his support for a new, reformed Criminal Procedure Code. Arifin admitted that the AG's institutional relationship with the Indonesian National Police (INP) was weak and requested Mission assistance [...]
2008-02-26 04:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KJUS ID
08JAKARTA385COUNTERTERRORISM -- PERSONNEL MOVES POSITIVE FOR
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The Indonesian National Police (INP) are making various personnel moves involving senior officers. Of key importance, Brigadier General Suprapto--who heads the elite counterterrorism unit Special Detachment 88--is being transferred to become Police Chief for North Sulawesi. [...]
2008-02-26 09:41:00Embassy JakartaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER PREL ASEC ID
08JAKARTA421IRAN/BURMA -- GERMAN FM PRESSES INDONESIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: German FM Steinmeier visited Jakarta February 26-28 and pressed the GOI on Iran's nuclear program and on Burma. Indonesian FM Wirajuda said publicly that the Burmese opposition and ethnic minority groups should participate in the upcoming referendum. Wirajuda also said that Ir [...]
2008-02-29 08:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP ID BM GM
08JAKARTA517IAGGA INDONESIA REPORT
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in STATE 18836, regarding the International Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Act. Below is the text of Embassy Jakarta's report. Government Efforts ------------------ 2. (U) The Government of Indonesia (GOI) is in the process of a significant [...]
2008-03-13 08:53:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID
08JAKARTA526UPDATE ON MEGAPORT INITIATIVE IN INDONESIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-14 09:19:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EWWT ID KNNP KTIA PREL TRGY
08JAKARTA619PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO MEETS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In a March 26 meeting, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono assured a group of victims of human rights violations that they would find justice. He pledged to hold a special Cabinet meeting to discuss their cases, which included Suharto-era massacres and the 2004 murder of human r [...]
2008-03-27 11:01:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ID
08JAKARTA624INDONESIA PARTICIPANT LIST - BULK CASH SMUGGLING WORKSHOP
[...] Below please find details of Embassy Jakarta's nominees for the South East Asia Regional Bulk Cash Smuggling Workshop to be held in Semarang, Indonesia on April 21-24, 2008, jointly funded with Australia. If you require additional information on the nominee's educational or work history, their [...]
2008-03-28 05:01:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ECON PREL EFIN ID
08JAKARTA687USG-SUPPORTED TASK FORCE PIONEERS NEW LAW
[...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: A year and a half after its founding, the USG-supported Attorney General's Task Force on Terrorism and Transnational Crime has evolved into a highly effective tool for prosecuting terrorists and oth [...]
2008-04-04 09:29:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER KJUS ID
08JAKARTA734U.S. MILITARY TRAINING OF INDONESIAN POLICE IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian National Police (INP) have sent mixed signals regarding USG counterdrug training slated for early May -- first canceling it then seeming to reverse that decision. The Indonesian military has long opposed U.S. military training of Indonesian police. The matter has [...]
2008-04-10 09:12:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SMAR ID
08JAKARTA743KEY POLICE UNIT REVIEWS CIRCUMSTANCES OF SULAWESI
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with ConGen Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Mission approached the GOI's key anti-terror unit, SD-88, and asked about the recent shooting death of a Muslim sect leader in central Sulawesi. SD-88 claims the individual in question--who was wanted for alleged inv [...]
2008-04-14 06:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS ASEC ID
08JAKARTA749ADMIRAL KEATING'S MEETINGS WITH KEY GOI OFFICIALS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: USPACOM Commander Admiral Keating met President Yudhoyono and key defense officials on April 10-11 in Jakarta. He stressed support for Indonesia's progress on military reform, the desire to expand cooperation further, and Indonesia's strategic importance. GOI officials express [...]
2008-04-15 08:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PGOV ID XB
08JAKARTA804U.S. NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER DRAWS FURTHER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari paid a surprise visit to the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Jakarta (NAMRU-2) on Friday, April 18. Although the visit went without serious incident, Supari escalated her criticism of NAMRU in subsequent media interviews. Several legisla [...]
2008-04-22 09:44:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR TBIO AMED ID
08JAKARTA806NAMRU-2 -- MEDICAL RESEARCH UNIT'S DAYS MAY BE
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: The days of the Naval Medical Research Unit in Jakarta (NAMRU-2) may be numbered. The Minister of Health is actively campaigning against it, the media are giving increasing play to her wild accusations and legislators are calling for the unit's closure (ref a). [...]
2008-04-22 10:10:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPREL MARR TBIO AMED ID
08JAKARTA825EAST TIMOR/INDONESIA FINAL REPORT HOLDS GOI
[...] (S) SUMMARY: According to the Executive Summary of the Timor Leste-Indonesia Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF)--shown to DepPol/C by an insider on April 22--the final report holds the GOI institutionally responsible for gross human rights violations in East Timor in 1999. The report [...]
2008-04-24 08:59:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPREL PHUM PGOV TT ID
08JAKARTA866SYRIAN CLANDESTINE NUCLEAR PROGRAM -- REVIEWING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission reviewed reftel points regarding Syria's clandestine nuclear facilities with the Department of Foreign Affairs. GOI contact basically took our points on board, but expressed concerns about Israeli actions. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) On April 29, Poloff reviewed reftel poi [...]
2008-04-30 08:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP ID SY KN
08JAKARTA876COUNTERNARCOTICS: USG ASSISTS GOI AT JAKARTA'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The USG and Australia have worked with GOI law enforcement agencies to create a counternarcotics coordination facility at Jakarta's international airport. The facility shares information and targets airline passengers and cargo fitting criminal profiles. Since its inception in [...]
2008-05-02 08:02:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR PREL ID AS
08JAKARTA979WEST JAVA -- GOI CRACKS DOWN ON ISLAMIST GROUP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Police in West Java--a province adjacent to Jakarta--on May 12 arrested 35 reported members of the Indonesian Islamic State (NII),an underground Islamist group. Thirteen of the group were charged with subversion. There is no evidence that those arrested have links to terrorism [...]
2008-05-16 07:27:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS KISL PTER ID
08JAKARTA99COUNTERTERRORISM -- INDONESIA SHOWS RESULTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Three years into the Yudhoyono Administration, Jakarta remains stalwart in its commitment to put terrorists behind bars. Vigorous efforts by GOI law enforcement during the past year have dismantled several Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terror cells and further reduced the ability of ra [...]
2008-01-17 03:29:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
08JAKARTA992EAST TIMOR -- HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SUPPORTIVE OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Timor Leste-Indonesia Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) has invited the Presidents of the two countries to Bali on May 26 to receive its final report. The CTF's Summary--presented to the two governments in April--has been leaked to human rights activists who tell us p [...]
2008-05-19 08:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV TT ID
08JEDDAH361SAUDI FM AND NSC HEAD DISCUSS INTEL COOPERATION,
[...] (S) SUMMARY. During a Congressional Staff Del meeting with both Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and Head of the National Security Council Prince Bandar bin Sultan on Aug. 20, both princes presented their broad views on successful USG-Saudi intelligence cooperation; distress over C [...]
2008-08-25 14:37:00Consulate JeddahSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL EU GB IAEA IR IS IZ MNUC PK SA
08JERUSALEM1008JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/13): AN "APOLOGY" FROM BUSH TO
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial under the headline, "The status of Bush's vision" (6/12): "... Bush has six more months in the White House. Let's assume that the American President and his team have made every possible effort to make progress on the Road map, meanwhile the Israeli [...]
2008-06-13 08:23:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1135JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/01): HAMAS AT A CROSSROADS -
[...] Al- Quds independent prints its daily editorial entitled, "In view of the truce...where does Hamas stand now?" (07/01): "...I think that Hamas today realizes the meaning of practicing authority... Hamas authorities must... know how to run internal Palestinian affairs in the Gaza Strip without [...]
2008-07-01 11:01:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1279PA CLAIMS SUCCESSES IN PUBLIC ORDER/ANTI-HAMAS
[...] (SBU) Summary. National Security Forces (NSF),police and General Intelligence (GI) contacts told PolOff and POL FSN July 16-17 that the PA has arrested 17 Hamas activists and criminals in an intensification of ongoing security efforts in Qalqiliya and villages near Tulkarm and Salfit. Secur [...]
2008-07-18 13:03:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER PGOV IS
08JERUSALEM1308JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/21): WHICH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-21 11:21:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1309CORRECTED COPY - JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/21):
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-21 11:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1365FUGITIVES: PA STRUGGLES TO MANAGE DISGRUNTLED
[...] (C) Summary. Preventive Security (PSO) contacts told POL FSN that eight al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades fugitives intentionally sickened themselves by drinking shampoo on July 22 to protest their continued detention, IDF threats to target them, and prison conditions, while another fugitive threaten [...]
2008-07-29 13:13:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PTER IS
08JERUSALEM1381PA CRACKS DOWN ON HIZB AL-TAHRIR, BANS PLANNED
[...] (C) Summary. PM Salam Fayyad told the Consul General July 28 that Hamas is supporting Hizb al-Tahrir's attempt to create unrest in the West Bank in a "marriage of convenience" between the Islamist groups. PA security contacts told PolOff and POL FSN July 27-29 that PA Interior Minister Abd [...]
2008-07-30 15:21:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG IS PGOV PTER KISL
08JERUSALEM1406PA DENIES REPORT OF HAMAS DETAINEE RELEASE,
[...] (C) Summary. After press reported that PA President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) ordered the release of all Hamas members arrested in the West Bank since July 25, PM Salam Fayyad told the Consul General July 31 that the PA has not ordered a mass release and PA security forces (PASF) will contin [...]
2008-08-01 12:40:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG IS PGOV PTER ASEC
08JERUSALEM1446PA POLICE CHIEF OUTLINES FORCE PRIORITIES, DECRIES
[...] (C) Summary. PA police chief MG Hazim Attallah told PolOff that GOI-PA security coordination is unsatisfactory, with twice as many IDF incursions and increased clearance delays for police operations since July 1. While PA police are increasingly effective at fighting crime, the PA General I [...]
2008-08-07 13:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG IS PGOV PREL
08JERUSALEM1474PA NATIONAL SECURITY COMMANDER ASSESSES SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary. In August 2-7 conversations, National Security Forces (NSF) commander MG Thiab Mustafa Ali (Abu al-Fatah) told PolOff and POL FSN that the NSF is leading small-scale/local security efforts throughout the West Bank targeting armed/organized criminal and terrorist suspects, and ha [...]
2008-08-08 10:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PTER PGOV IS
08JERUSALEM1498"POSITIVE BUT INCOMPLETE" ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SECURITY COORDINATION MEETING IN JENIN
[...] (S) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) commanders told PolOff and POL FSN August 11-12 that they had a positive meeting with IDF commanders in Jenin on August 11. PM Salam Fayyad told the Consul General August 11 that the meeting was "positive and important." National Security Forces (NSF) commande [...]
2008-08-14 07:59:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETKWBG PGOV IS PREL PINS
08JERUSALEM1527NEW JENIN-AREA IDF INCURSIONS; PA CONDUCTS LOCAL
[...] (C) NSF and General Intelligence (Mukhabarat) contacts told PolOff and POL FSN that the IDF entered Rummana village (Area B, NW of Jenin) late August 16 and detained four members of the Mukhabarat. The four were operating inside the village when the IDF entered and were released after one ho [...]
2008-08-19 07:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV IS PREL PTER
08JERUSALEM1533PA CLOSES MORE HAMAS-LINKED CHARITIES
[...] (S) Summary. PA security contacts report that they closed 10 Hamas-connected NGOs August 14-18, detained 12 Palestinians for NGO activity linked to Hamas, and will impose management and governing board changes before the NGOs are allowed to operate again. Some of the closed NGOs appear to b [...]
2008-08-20 09:05:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETKWBG PTER PGOV IS
08JERUSALEM1557JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/25): IF THE SHIPS BREAK THE
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by regular columnist Talal Al-Sharif entitled, "The Two Ships--So Breaking the Siege is not in One Direction!" (8/25): "[T]he sailing of the two ships [to the Gaza Strip] is a good step, but political [aspirations] cannot be achieved without pure national [...]
2008-08-25 07:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1596JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/27): Guarded Optimism following
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "The Settlement Activity Should Be Condemned with Clear Cut Sentences" (8/27): "[T]he U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, talked, after her meeting with [the Palestinian Authority (PA)] President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, about the expans [...]
2008-08-27 07:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1611PA CARRIES OUT LOCAL SECURITY CAMPAIGNS IN TOWNS
[...] (C) PA security contacts told PolOff and Pol FSN August 26-27 that National Security Forces (NSF) units with police and intelligence support led patrols and arrest raids near Hebron in al-Dhahiriya (Area A) and Bayt Awa (Area B) from August 24-27. PA spokesmen told local press August 24 that [...]
2008-08-28 10:48:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PTER PGOV IS
08JERUSALEM1627JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/02): WHITHER INTERNAL
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by Gaza political scientist Dr. Naji Sadiq Sharab, entitled, "Whither the [Internal] Division..." (9/02): "[T]his internal division [between Fatah and Hamas]...will mean the disappearance of the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state ... it strips [...]
2008-09-02 10:13:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1685JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/10): ALTERNATIVES TO THE
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by daily columnist Dr. Hasan Abdullah entitled, "The success of Cairo talks Could save our communal ship from sinking" (9/10): "[C]airo talks must lead to an agreement...the agreement should pave the way for presidential and legislative Palestinian electio [...]
2008-09-10 10:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1719IDF TENTATIVELY APPROVES 150 NSF TROOPS FOR
[...] (C) Summary. National Security Forces (NSF) West Bank Commander Diab al-Ali Abu al-Fatah told PolSpec that the IDF has tentatively approved the transfer of 150 NSF officers to Hebron. The IDF also approved three new Palestinian police stations in villages near Janin. End Summary. IDF OFF [...]
2008-09-15 13:55:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM172PM FAYYAD TALKS ROAD MAP WITH LTG FRASER,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Salam Fayyad told LTG William Fraser January 29 that freezing settlement construction is the top Palestinian priority for Roadmap implementation. He said the PA will be pragmatic and also seriously address Israeli security concerns. He urged GoI compliance with the obligati [...]
2008-02-01 09:29:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PBTS PREL PINS IS
08JERUSALEM1791MOI AL-YAHYA FORMALLY TO REQUEST HEBRON DEPLOYMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Minister of Interior Al-Yahya told USSC LTG Dayton September 16 that the PA has verbal GOI approval to deploy 150 National Security Force (NSF) troops to Hebron and now seeks the approval in writing. Al-Yahya requested USG assistance to obtain Israeli permission to garrison the 3 [...]
2008-09-25 05:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALIS KWBG PGOV PREL MASS
08JERUSALEM1880JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/15): AN ASSESSMENT OF
[...] Al Quds editorial opines under the title, "Freezing negotiations is an Israeli strategy" (10/15): "Almost a year has elapsed since the Annapolis peace conference... an entire year that has totally failed to produce any real progress in the peace process. Reaching a peace agreement, as recomm [...]
2008-10-15 12:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1919JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/22): THE ROAD MAP "HAS LOST
[...] Al Quds editorial is titled "Palestinians embrace their olives despite settler aggression" (10/22): "No one, regardless of his barbarism and cruelty, can separate the Palestinian from his olive tree, which he considers to be one of his sons... the world and so-called international community s [...]
2008-10-22 12:04:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1942IDF, PA AGREE ON HEBRON SECURITY DEPLOYMENT; PA
[...] (C) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) commanders told ConGenOffs October 23 that the IDF approved a PASF deployment of about 580 troops to the Hebron Governorate, starting late October 24, for 30 days. PA commanders said the IDF laid down conditions for the deployment's approval as well as [...]
2008-10-23 14:06:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG IS PINS PGOV
08JERUSALEM1952PA STARTS SECURITY OPERATION SOUTH OF HEBRON;
[...] (C) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) commanders told ConGenOffs October 26-27 that joint PASF patrols entered Yatta and al-Samu'a (Area A towns south of Hebron) early October 27, arresting 23 criminal fugitives and Hamas activists and detaining 30 other suspects. The PA National Security [...]
2008-10-27 15:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG IS PINS PGOV PTER LE
08JERUSALEM2128JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/26): "GLOATING OVER AMERICAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-26 08:44:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2153FAYYAD MEETS PA SECURITY CHIEFS IN HEBRON; PASF
[...] (C) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) commanders told ConGenOffs that they met with PM Salam Fayyad in Hebron on November 26 to review progress and discuss challenges. The National Security Forces (NSF) commander said PASF have arrested 110 security and criminal suspects in/around Hebron s [...]
2008-11-26 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETKWBG IS PINS PGOV PTER
08JERUSALEM2154PA PREPARES BETHLEHEM SECURITY PLAN TO SUPPORT
[...] (C) PA National Security Forces (NSF) commander MG Thiab Mustafa Ali (Abu al-Fatah) told PolOff/PolFSN November 26 that PA security forces will begin a Christmas-period deployment in early December that will continue through early 2009. He said the operation will rotate 800-1000 NSF, police [...]
2008-11-26 15:22:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG IS PGOV PTER ASEC
08JERUSALEM2175JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/02): ADMIRING THE U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-02 09:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2238JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/15): EXPECTATIONS AND FEARS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-15 11:14:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2278JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/22): OBSTACLES TO PEACE
[...] The main editorial in Al Quds, "Prisoners once again," opines: "It is time for the Palestinian side to reject the Israeli position that deals with prisoners of freedom as criminal prisoners...it is time for European mediators, who always demand the release of [abducted Israeli soldier Gilad] Sh [...]
2008-12-22 09:58:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2314SENIOR IDF, PASF COMMANDERS MEET TO DISCUSS WEST BANK SECURITY SITUATION
[...] (S) PA security chiefs met with top IDF and COGAT officers late December 29 at Bet El (outside Ramallah) to discuss the West Bank security situation in light of Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip. PA security chiefs told ConGenOffs that the PA urged the IDF to avoid Palestinian demonstrations and [...]
2008-12-30 15:28:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETKWBG IS PGOV PTER ASEC
08JERUSALEM2322HAMAS ALLEGEDLY EXECUTES SEVEN FATAH PRISONERS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Fatah contacts told PolFSN on December 30 that, in the wake of IAF bombings on December 28, Hamas executed seven Fatah members who had been held prisoner at al-Saraya prison in Gaza City. Three additional Fatah members are reportedly missing. Local human rights organizations [...]
2008-12-31 13:55:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KWBG IS
08JERUSALEM244MILITANTS BREAK OUT OF PA PRISON IN NABLUS, ONE
[...] (C) General Intelligence (Mukhabarat) contacts report that one prisoner (Muhammad Abu Ramih, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades) remains at large after five al-Aqsa and PIJ fugitives broke out of Junayd Prison in Nablus on February 7. 15 fugitives in the PA prison have been on a hunger strike for two [...]
2008-02-08 15:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PTER IS PREL
08JERUSALEM317NABLUS GOVERNOR AND PA SECURITY CHIEFS ASSESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. At a February 11 meeting with USSC LTG Dayton in Nablus, Governor Jamal Muhaysin, National Security Forces (NSF) commander MG Thiab Mustafa Ali (Abu al-Fatah) and the local security chiefs assessed the recent Nablus campaign. They said clear and consistent PA political backin [...]
2008-02-20 16:12:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PTER IS PINS PGOV
08JERUSALEM362IDF OPERATION IN NABLUS ON FEBRUARY 27
[...] (C) Summary. PA security sources reported February 27 that an undercover IDF unit opened fire at five Palestinians in Nablus. Four were arrested and one died of his wounds. According to PA security sources, three were al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades activists whom the PA had sought to include in th [...]
2008-02-28 12:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PREL PTER PHUM IS
08JERUSALEM454FATAH ELECTIONS SUSPENDED IN JERUSALEM
[...] (C) Summary. The Fatah Central Committee's (FCC) Mobilization and Discipline (MAD) Committee organized a meeting of 935 Fatah members from East Jerusalem and 26 surrounding villages in Ramallah on March 8 to elect the Jerusalem regional committee and Secretary. After a heated discussion bet [...]
2008-03-13 15:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM54431 FATAH-LINKED FUGITIVES GRANTED AMNESTY FOR
[...] (C) Summary. Deputy Minister of Interior (MoI) Raji al-Najmi told ConGen Pol Specialist on March 26 that the GOI ISA (Shin Bet) agreed to remove 31 Fatah-linked fugitives from Israeli wanted lists as part of the disarmament/amnesty deal. Al-Najmi said the ISA told him that 5 other fugitives [...]
2008-03-27 15:56:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PTER IS PREL PGOV
08JERUSALEM549HAZIM ATTALLAH APPOINTED PA POLICE CHIEF
[...] (C) Hazim Attallah (formerly PM Salam Fayyad's military secretary and a security advisor in the Office of the SIPDIS President) was appointed PA police chief effective March 24, replacing MG Faysal "Kamal" al-Shaykh. As part of the appointment, President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) promoted h [...]
2008-03-28 07:23:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETKWBG PINS PINR PGOV IS
08JERUSALEM568FATAH ELECTS JERUSALEM COMMITTEE
[...] (C) Summary. On March 30, the Fatah Central Committee's (FCC) Mobilization and Discipline (MAD) Committee succeeded in its second attempt to organize a meeting of 921 Fatah members from East Jerusalem and 26 surrounding villages to elect 23 Jerusalem regional committee members. Nearly all of [...]
2008-04-02 09:25:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM639AL-AQSA BRIGADES GUNMEN TORCH NABLUS GOVERNOR'S
[...] (SBU) According to Fatah and PA security contacts, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades gunmen Tha'ar Tirawi and associates attacked Nablus Governor Jamal Muhaysin in Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus on April 13, torching Muhaysin's vehicle. Four Palestinians, including one of Muhaysin's bodyguards, were in [...]
2008-04-14 09:38:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER IS PGOV
08JERUSALEM653ABBAS CHAIRS PA'S WEEKLY CABINET MEETING IN PUBLIC
[...] (C) Summary. President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) chaired the PA's weekly Cabinet session April 14 in a public show of support for PM Salam Fayyad's government. Local press gave the Cabinet session favorable coverage emphasizing the theme of Palestinian unity. End summary. Abbas Chairs Cab [...]
2008-04-15 15:36:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV KWBG IS ECON EFIN ELAB
08JERUSALEM726JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/29): VIOLENCE IN GAZA AND
[...] In its main editorial entitled, "Why are women and children being killed?", independent Al-Quds opined (4/29): "The Palestinian public may have its own criticisms of Hamas, but the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and West Bank alike make one wonder about the Israeli logic. Israel not [...]
2008-04-29 09:00:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM733PA SECURITY CHIEFS, IDF COMMANDERS COORDINATE
[...] (C) Summary. Following an April 28 meeting with senior IDF officers in Bet El, PA security forces (PASF) commanders report progress in coordination for security operations in Jenin, shortening deployment clearance times, and reopening police stations in Area B. They report IDF criticism of t [...]
2008-04-30 08:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER
08JERUSALEM734JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/30): "DISAPPOINTMENT AND
[...] Official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida carries an op-ed entitled, "Resistance and the Evolution of Peace ideas" (4/30): "... lately, [there has been] disappointment and pessimism expressed over the outcomes of the meeting between [Palestinian] President Abbas and the President of the U.S. George Bus [...]
2008-04-30 10:01:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM744PALESTINIAN PLANS FOR EARLY MAY SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary. According to PA National Security Forces (NSF) commander MG Thiab Mustafa Ali (Abu al-Fatah) and Joint Security Committee (JSC) chief BG Samir Makhzumi Qaysi, the PA has completed logistical preparations for a 400-man deployment to Jenin and plans to start security operations in [...]
2008-05-01 14:15:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETKWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER
08JERUSALEM751JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/05):
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "What is wanted is core Israeli changes on the ground" (5/05): "Once again, Secretary Rice returned to the region and we heard her say... [the] SIPDIS exact same comments that we heard her say during her many previous visits. She talke [...]
2008-05-05 10:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM753PA OPERATION BEGINS IN JENIN: PASF WELCOMED BY
[...] (C) Summary. A 485-man force of Presidential Guards (PG),National Security Forces (NSF) and police entered Jenin early May 2. PM Salam Fayyad visited Jenin May 4 with the NSF and police commanders and directed local security officers to be "firm in enforcing the law without discrimination. [...]
2008-05-05 14:35:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER
08JERUSALEM757JENIN: PASF EXCHANGE FIRE WITH GUNMEN IN QABATIYA,
[...] (C) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) clashed with gunmen in Qabatiya on May 6, with a bystander killed and two PIJ activists injured in separate exchanges of gunfire. Security contacts report that a PASF patrol was attacked with a pipe bomb and pelted with stones. West Bank National Secur [...]
2008-05-06 15:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER
08JERUSALEM778PA MOI AL-YAHYA DISCUSSES SECURITY TRAINING, JENIN
[...] (C) PA Minister of Interior (MOI) Abd al-Raziq Al-Yahya told USSC LTG Dayton on May 7 that he intends to station the National Security Forces (NSF) battalion currently training at JIPTC in Jericho upon its return, and employ it as a reserve force. Al-Yahya said discussion of stationing an add [...]
2008-05-09 14:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PINS IS PGOV
08JERUSALEM789JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/12): LEBANON - IRANIAN EFFORTS
[...] Al-Quds independent carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Faisal Abu-Khadra entitled, "Sixty years after the catastrophe... Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are at a stand-still" (5/12): "Almost fifteen years have passed since the Palestinian-Israeli agreement [Oslo] and Israel is still the on [...]
2008-05-12 09:43:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM810JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/13): BUSH WILL FIND THE REGION
[...] Independent Al-Quds carries an op-ed by Tayseer Khaled, member of the PLO Executive Committee and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine entitled, "The commemoration of the catastrophe is the wrong time to visit" (5/13): "President Bush is on his way to the region, which is exper [...]
2008-05-13 09:08:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM817JENIN: PA ARRESTS TWO PIJ MILITANTS; NEW IDF
[...] (SBU) PA General Intelligence (Mukhabarat) officers arrested PIJ militants Ra'ad Abu al-Rub and Yusif Kmayl in Jenin May 12, according to a PIJ spokesman, who said another militant, Ala'a Abu al-Rub, escaped a PA arrest attempt in Qabatiya also May 12. National Security Forces (NSF) contacts [...]
2008-05-13 13:27:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PINS IS PGOV PTER
08JERUSALEM852JENIN: PASF CONCENTRATES ON TUBAS AREA; MULTIPLE
[...] (SBU) National Security Forces (NSF) commanders report detaining 31 criminal suspects and seizing 21 stolen/unregistered vehicles in Tubas and nearby villages May 17-19. Security contacts report that PIJ spokesman Abd al-Fatah Khzaymiah turned himself over to the PA General Intelligence (Muk [...]
2008-05-19 14:13:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG IS PGOV PTER
08JERUSALEM865JENIN: VILLAGE PATROLS AND ARRESTS CONTINUE
[...] (SBU) Summary. PA security forces (PASF) continue patrols in Jenin area villages as of 1400 local on May 20. PA security commanders plan new patrols and raids across the Jenin Governorate in coming days. PIJ suspects remain in custody, but have not been formally charged. End summary. PAS [...]
2008-05-20 14:14:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG IS PGOV PINS PTER
08JERUSALEM917TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT AND PMA GOVERNOR
[...] (C) On May 22, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert M. Kimmitt and Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) Governor Jihad al-Wazir met on the sidelines of the Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem where they discussed recent developments in the banking sector in the West Bank and Gaza. Kimmitt [...]
2008-05-30 15:07:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KFTN KWBG IS
08KABUL1030AFGHAN POLICE: FDD UPDATE FROM ZABUL PROVINCE
[...] (SBU) The Focused District Development (FDD) program to reform Afghan police at the local level has yielded positive results in the southern province of Zabul. Elite, national units provided an effective backstop as local units were rotated out for training. The highway was cleared of over 20 [...]
2008-04-26 11:12:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINS MARR AF
08KABUL1114SPANTA'S APRIL 22-23 COUNTERPARTS TRIP TO ISLAMABAD
[...] (SBU) Summary. The MFA's Pakistan desk said Foreign Minister Spanta made his April 22-23 trip to Islamabad to "open a new chapter in relations with the GoP." Spanta invited his Pakistani counterpart, Foreign Minister Qureshi, to Kabul. Spanta pressed Qureshi to name representatives to a Peac [...]
2008-05-06 07:30:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PTER PK AF
08KABUL1162LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: CANDIDATE FOR SENIOR MANAGEMENT
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the name of one Afghan national selected to attend senior management training at the Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters in Maryland. Post possesses [...]
2008-05-12 12:31:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
08KABUL1223UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR TAKES AIM AT THE COALITION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, concluded a 12-day fact-finding visit to Afghanistan May 15. The main themes of his preliminary report are: increasing the transparency of international military forces' investigations of co [...]
2008-05-19 14:00:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PHUM PREL AF
08KABUL1239LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: INL CORRECTIONS SYSTEM SUPPORT
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of eighty-one (81) Afghan nationals selected to participate in INL's Corrections System Support Program (CSSP). When there are individuals wit [...]
2008-05-20 18:42:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
08KABUL1254NANGARHAR POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE PARTIES
[...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: In Nangarhar, the most influential political institutions are the Jihadi parties, which capitalize on bonds formed between Jihadi commanders and tribal leaders during the Mujahadin period of the 1990s. In the fight against the Soviets, the Jihadi commanders pro [...]
2008-05-22 05:53:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL AF
08KABUL1449BUILDING AFGHANISTAN'S AIR CORPS
[...] (C/REL ISAF) SUMMARY and COMMENT: Since September 2007, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan,s (CSTC-A) Combined Air Power Transition Force (CAPTF) has made significant progress in developing an appropriately sized, sustainable, and effects-capable Afghan National Army Air Corps (A [...]
2008-06-12 13:06:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR SNAR PGOV AF
08KABUL1482KARZAI THREATENS PAKISTAN AND MEANS IT
[...] (C//REL UK, CAN) Summary: A Palace advisor implied Karzai would not retract his June 16 threat to strike at insurgents harboring in Afghanistan. The MFA said Karzai had not directed his threat against Pakistan's sovereignty or territorial integrity, but against the Inter-Services Intelligence [...]
2008-06-16 15:39:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PTER PREL PK AF
08KABUL1813VOTER REGISTRATION SECURITY PLAN EMERGES
[...] (SBU) The Independent Electoral Commission's security advisor, a seconded Canadian military officer, presented his voter registration security plan (emailed to SCA/A) to the elections security working group on July 17. It includes a threat assessment, spells out the roles of the Ministry of [...]
2008-07-19 07:36:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PREL MARR AF
08KABUL1816SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL REED TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Afghanistan remains a complex counterinsurgency environment, in which maintaining strong U.S. support for the Afghan government and robust U.S. leadership of international community assistance efforts is critical to ensuring that momentum for victory remains with us. Press reporting em [...]
2008-07-19 11:52:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON PTER EAID AF
08KABUL1898CODEL REED'S JULY 20 DISCUSSIONS WITH KARZAI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During the CODEL,s July 20 office call and subsequent working lunch with President Karzai, Senator Obama reaffirmed both major American political parties, long-term commitment to Afghanistan. He emphasized the Afghan leadership,s obligation to demonstrate determination in fighti [...]
2008-07-24 02:14:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER SNAR MOPS AFIN IR PK
08KABUL1992SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL REID TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Afghanistan remains a complex counterinsurgency environment, in which maintaining strong U.S. support for the Afghan government and robust U.S. leadership of international community assistance efforts is critical to ensuring that momentum for victory remains with us. Press reporting em [...]
2008-08-03 11:02:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON PTER EAID AFIN OREP
08KABUL2001DEMARCHE TO KABUL AND ISLAMABAD: TAKING STEPS TO
[...] (C) Drawing from reftel talking points during their July 22 discussion, the Ambassador urged President Karzai to ensure that the July 14 Council of Ministers decision suspending three meetings between Afghanistan and Pakistan be strictly limited in scope and duration. The Ambassador called fo [...]
2008-08-03 14:31:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR AF PK
08KABUL2094KARZAI HOPES TO BOLSTER GILANI IN FACE OF AFGHAN
[...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Engineer Ibrahim Spinzada told us August 5 Karzai hopes his SAARC Summit rapprochement with Pakistani Prime Minister Gilani would bolster Pakistan's new civilian leadership in its contest with the military and the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (IS [...]
2008-08-07 08:23:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PTER AF PK
08KABUL2104KARZAI TELLS CODEL REID THE USG HOULD INCREASE
[...] (SBU) On August 6, Prsident Karzai told Codel Reid that Pakistan hs permitted terrorist sanctuaries in its teritory and the ISI has a clear role in supportng terrorists entering Afghanistan to kill Ameican troops and Afghan people. He urged the USG to increase pressure on Pakistan to act agai [...]
2008-08-09 13:47:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PREL AF PK
08KABUL2402PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT REGARDING THE GOA'S SHINDAND
[...] (U) The following is Embassy's translation of the Office of the President's August 31st statement detailing the results of a GOA investigation of the Shindand operation. 2. (U) Begin text: Nimatullah Shahrani, the Minister for Hajj and Endowment Affairs was assigned as the head of the del [...]
2008-09-03 06:53:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PREL AF
08KABUL2473WILLIAMSON-HODGKINSON: MOVING FORWARD ON
[...] (U) Summary: On September 6-7, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson and DOD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs Sandra Hodgkinson led a delegation to Afghanistan to discuss the way forward for a number of remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO). End sum [...]
2008-09-12 10:03:00Embassy KabulSECRETKAWC MARR PGOV PHUM PINS PREL PTER
08KABUL2645UPDATE ON KIDNAPPED AMCIT ALFRED GEISER
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On 20 August 2008, AMCIT Alfred GEISER and local national (LN) and partner Abdul SHAKOR were abducted by armed gunman in the Deh-Pak Village in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Over the past five weeks, RSO Personnel Recovery Center (PRCC) and LEGATT have coordinated efforts to [...]
2008-09-29 06:23:00Embassy KabulSECRET//NOFORNASEC CASC PTER AF
08KABUL2746U.S., U.K., FRENCH AND GERMAN AMBASSADORS DISCUSS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 9, French Ambassador Jean de Ponton d'Amecourt met with U.S., British and German Ambassadors to discuss his October 6 briefing by President Karzai on the recent reconciliation meetings in Saudi Arabia. The Ambassadors agreed that the publicity and lack of clarity surro [...]
2008-10-12 12:12:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER AF
08KABUL2782QAYUM KARZAI AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS SAUDI
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 13, Abdul Qayum Karzai described to the Ambassador the potential Saudi reconciliation process. He and Abdullah Anas developed the current initiative a year ago and secured Taliban engagement through Anas' connection to Mullah Abdul Salam Zaif (former Taliban Ambassador to P [...]
2008-10-18 10:06:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL AF
08KABUL2785ATTA RAISES SPECTER OF INSECURITY IN NORTH
[...] (U) Summary: In his remarks at an International Peace Day event, Balkh Governor Atta Mohammed Noor predicted greater insecurity in the northern provinces within a year's time if the north does not receive its share of development projects and if there continues to be what he deems a lack of coo [...]
2008-10-18 11:58:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ETRD EFIN SNAR AF TI
08KABUL2839ISAF AND PAKISTAN MILITARY AGREE TO BEGIN PLANNING
[...] (S) Summary: At a Border Security Subcommittee Meeting (BSSM) on October 18, Pakistani Army and Frontier Corps, ISAF, Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan Border Police (ABP) commanders agreed to begin planning coordinated offensive operations designed to deny safe haven to insurgents on ei [...]
2008-10-25 09:58:00Embassy KabulSECRETMOPS PREL PGOV AF PK PTER
08KABUL2840PARWAN PROVINCE: GOVERNANCE, ELECTIONS, SECURITY,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Parwan, one of two provinces that form the northern gateway to Kabul, is relatively free of violence and poppy but remains woefully lacking in development and economic growth due to a lack of human capacity. Governor Taqwa prioritizes development efforts in Charikar, the prov [...]
2008-10-25 10:13:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF
08KABUL2842IMPROVING OPERATIONAL COORDINATION WITH PAK-MIL
[...] (C) Summary. Combined Task Force Currahee leadership held a Border Flag Meeting with Pakistani Military (Pak-Mil) officials in southern Paktika province as part of an ongoing process to enhance dialogue between the forces along the border, build trust and improve the flow of information and c [...]
2008-10-26 06:23:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF
08KABUL2972HEZB-E-ISLAMI ON VOTER REGISTRATION, IRAN CONCERNS
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan is continuing to organize a nation-wide political movement and distance itself from its origins as a mujahideen military force under the leadership of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The party has organized members in half of the country's provinces, but recent [...]
2008-11-11 02:24:00Embassy KabulSECRETKDEM PGOV PTER AF IR
08KABUL3020LEARNING LESSONS, LOOKING AHEAD ON ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: As noted reftel, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Afghan security forces continue to improve their cooperation on voter registration security. In the wake of an attack on completed voter registration materials in Wardak province, representatives from the IEC, [...]
2008-11-19 06:02:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV AF
08KABUL3025KUNDUZ GOVERNOR NERVOUS AS SECURITY TRENDS NEGATIVE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although the violence in Kunduz Province has not reached levels found elsewhere in Afghanistan, security incidents are on the rise. Increasingly organized and deadly insurgent attacks throughout the summer and autumn have frayed the nerves of officials in Kunduz Province. Regu [...]
2008-11-20 13:10:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ETRD EFIN AF
08KABUL3096CROSS-BORDER CALL FOR HELP -- KURRAM AGENCY PASHTUNS AND THEIR AFGHAN BROTHERS SEEK ASSISTANCE FROM THE AMBASSADOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-01 06:45:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALAF PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER
08KABUL3175NATO SECGEN VISIT TO AFGHANISTAN, NOVEMBER 26 -
[...] (SBU) Summary: NATO Secretary General (SYG) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer followed a shortened schedule during his November 26-27 visit to Afghanistan but achieved his substantive purposes. He met with President Karzai and other senior Afghan leaders, UNAMA head Kai Eide, and a visiting UN Security [...]
2008-12-08 09:20:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV NATO AF
08KABUL3176SCENESETTER FOR DECEMBER 10-11, 2008 VISIT TO
[...] (C) Embassy Kabul warmly welcomes your visit to Afghanistan. The overall state of the security situation here is more nuanced than the negative drumbeat coming from the media. Steady advances in success by Coalition and Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) do not grab the headlines that a spectac [...]
2008-12-09 03:21:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL PTER AFIN
08KABUL3187AFGHAN LEADERS TELL AMB. KHALILZAD THEY ARE
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. USUN Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad met with a broad array of Afghan political leaders, civil society activists, and government officials on the margins of his participation in a UN Security Council fact-finding mission to Afghanistan Nov. 24-27. He heard a common theme of growing pess [...]
2008-12-10 11:50:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PTER PREL AF
08KABUL3193SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL KERRY TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Embassy Kabul warmly welcomes the visit of Senator Kerry and his delegation. The overall state of Afghanistan is more nuanced than the negative drumbeat coming from the media. Steady advances in security do not grab the headlines that a spectacular suicide attack does. Progress in d [...]
2008-12-11 13:53:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV AF
08KABUL3197THE ELECTORAL PROCESS FOR PROVINCIAL COUNCIL
[...] (SBU) On voting day in 2009, Afghans will choose not only a new president but new members of their provincial councils. At the same polling place, with the same voter registration card, Afghans will cast a separate ballot for between 9 and 24 provincial council representatives, according to [...]
2008-12-14 04:31:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV AF
08KABUL3198KARZAI URGES DEPUTY SECRETARY TO SUPPORT ZARDARI,
[...] (C). In his 12/10 meeting with the Deputy Secretary, President Karzai urged the United States to give Pakistani President Zardari more political and economic backing to strengthen his hand in reforming the Pakistani military and intelligence services. Karzai welcomed the upcoming increase in [...]
2008-12-14 06:24:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SNAR ECON AF
08KABUL3206JCMB-X ACCOMPLISHES LITTLE
[...] (SBU) Summary. JCMB-X succeeded mainly in referring several agenda items to subsidiary bodies for further review. Members agreed to pass to a working group a UK-designed proposal to replace the Counter-Narcotics Trust Fund with a body that looks to Post too much like the CNTF. The Internatio [...]
2008-12-14 12:04:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAGR AF
08KABUL3207JCMB-X ACCOMPLISHES LITTLE
[...] (SBU) Summary. JCMB-X succeeded mainly in referring several agenda items to subsidiary bodies for further review. Members agreed to pass to a working group a UK-designed proposal to replace the Counter-Narcotics Trust Fund with a body that looks to Post too much like the CNTF. The Internatio [...]
2008-12-14 12:04:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAGR AF
08KABUL3208 DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES GOVERNANCE WITH IDLG DIRECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. At their December 11 meeting, Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) Director General Jelani Popal outlined to the Deputy Secretary the country's key sub-national governance challenges: governance capacity-building at the sub-national level, providing sub-national g [...]
2008-12-15 04:29:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR AF
08KABUL3228LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: TRAINING OF PROSECUTORS FOR NEW
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of twenty-four (24) Afghan nationals selected by the DEA for training for the National Intelligence Unit for the Government of Afghanistan. Post po [...]
2008-12-18 11:59:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
08KABUL3325MOI ATMAR - IMAGE VERSUS REALITY IN A MINISTRY
[...] (C) Summary. President Karzai appointed Mohammad Hanif Atmar as Minister of Interior (MOI) in mid-October. He charged Atmar with showing progress on a very narrow range of political goals within a tight timeframe. That narrow list of security priorities has now multiplied as Atmar realizes [...]
2008-12-30 03:13:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER AFIN AF
08KABUL473LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: Afghanistan Pakistan Workshop
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of eight (8) Afghan Nationals selected to attend the Afghanistan-Pakistan Workshop in Washington, DC. Post possesses no derogatory inf [...]
2008-02-25 20:17:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
08KABUL841NEW GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS HELP PRT KUNDUZ REGAIN THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The arrival of both a German airborne infantry company and additional reconnaissance assets has increased PRT Kunduz's ability to provide security and conduct reconstruction activities in Kunduz province. The new company has disrupted insurgent attacks and discovered weapons ca [...]
2008-04-03 14:41:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV AF
08KABUL855DEPUTY MOI ATTACKS WEAK GOVERNANCE IN FARAH
[...] (U) Summary: The First Deputy Minister of Interior, Abdul Khalee Khaled, visited Farah in late March to look at kidnapping, corruption, and weak governance. Over several days, Khaled met with an array of provincial officials and community members, as well as the Provincial Reconstruction Team [...]
2008-04-06 12:28:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KWMN AF
08KAMPALA1367NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (SEPTEMBER 1-30, 2008)
[...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...]
2008-10-06 12:52:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG
08KAMPALA1619NORTHERN UGANDA: JOINT REGIONAL MILITARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 14, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),and southern Sudan launched joint military operations against Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) camps in eastern DRC. Ugandan Defense spokesmen said airstrikes hit five LRA camps. Operations are continuing. Cooperatio [...]
2008-12-19 04:57:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL UG SU CG
08KAMPALA1640UGANDA NAMES NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Internal Affairs Ruhukana Rugunda was named as Uganda's new Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN PermRep) on December 12. Highly accessible to U.S. diplomats, Rugunda had previously served as Uganda's Foreign Minister, is at ease with foreign interlocu [...]
2008-12-23 07:10:00Embassy KampalaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UG
08KAMPALA197NORTHERN UGANDA: U.N. ENOVY ON RESUMPTION OF TALKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: U.N. Special Envoy for LRA-Affected Areas Joachim Chissano visited Kampala from January 25-27 to meet with President Museveni on the resumption of talks in Juba. He also pushed to secure a letter from Museveni to Congolese President Kabila reflecting a change in the January 31 [...]
2008-02-01 08:24:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PREL MOPS CG UG SU
08KAMPALA266NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/PORTAL DETECTION IN
[...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in nuclear and/or radiological materials. This report came to post's attention via walk in interview. Information concerning this [...]
2008-02-12 10:44:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PTER KCOR UG
08KAMPALA483NORTHERN UGANDA: LRA PEACE PROCESS UNCERTAINTIES
[...] (S) Summary: Potential changes in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) negotiating team could delay or jeopardize the signing of the Final Peace Agreement (FPA),currently set for April 10 and 14. Splits along ethnic and regional lines within the LRA delegation are now out in the open. Several [...]
2008-04-07 13:26:00Embassy KampalaSECRETPHUM PREL PGOV UG SU CG
08KAMPALA818UGANDA: POSSIBLE START TO PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN
[...] (C) On June 20, Charge d'Affaires and PolOff met with IOM Chief of Mission Jeremy Haslam to discuss a closely held meeting with ADF hierarchy scheduled for Sunday, June 22. All 24 ADF command elements of the ADF hierarchy, as well as ADF dependents and non-combatants plan to assemble in Kisang [...]
2008-06-20 09:57:00Embassy KampalaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV UG
08KARACHI466KARACHI - MUSHARAFF MEETS WITH BUSINESS COMMUNITY
[...] (C) Summary: The Consul General (CG) was briefed by Majyd Aziz, a Karachi textile manufacturer, who attended meetings between President Pervez Musharraf and the city,s business leaders during his August 1)4 visit to Karachi. Musharraf first held a private meeting on August 2 with a small gr [...]
2008-08-05 06:29:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PREL PTER PK
08KARACHI472BALOCHISTAN - ETHNIC VIOLENCE FORCES CLOSURE OF
[...] (C) Summary: As a result of August 6 violence between Baloch and Pashtun student groups at three educational institutions in Quetta, the Balochistan Provincial Minister of Education ordered the closure of one university for five days and all colleges in the city until August 10. This was t [...]
2008-08-11 06:40:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALSOCI PTER PK
08KATHMANDU1178NEPAL: DRAFT 2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] Although Nepal is neither a significant producer of nor a major transit route for narcotic drugs, hashish, heroin and domestically produced cannabis are trafficked to and through Nepal every year. Nepal's Narcotics Drug Control Law Enforcement Unit (NDCLEU) reports that more Nepalese citizens [...]
2008-11-10 04:19:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR NP
08KATHMANDU3132008 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-18 12:14:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
08KATHMANDU781AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH SENIOR NEPALI POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: Twelve weeks following Nepal's historic polls, political leaders remain locked in contentious negotiations to open the door to the formation of a new government. Ambassador urged senior Nepali leaders on July 2 & 3 to make the hard decisions and compromises necessary to move f [...]
2008-07-08 10:52:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL NP
08KHARTOUM1025BLOODY ATTACK ON UNAMID PATROL AT SHANGIL TOBAYA,
[...] (SBU) According to reports from UNAMID, on July 8 at approximately 1530 armed fighters attacked a UNAMID joint patrol in a "forested and mountainous" area 65 kilometers south of Dare Salam, 6 kilometers from Gusajamatta, in North Darfur. The UNAMID joint military observer and police team from [...]
2008-07-09 14:52:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1038CHADIAN REBELS SEEK NEGOTIATIONS WHILE WAITING FOR
[...] (C) Chadian rebels are allegedly as strong and united as ever, but don't plan a major strike on Ndjamena until the next dry season, according to UFDD spokesman Mukhtar Yaya. In a meeting with polchief July 9 in Khartoum, Yaya claimed the UFDD is in control of two small towns in the northeast of [...]
2008-07-10 15:11:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1043MFA OFFICIALLY WARNS OF "DISASTROUS, SERIOUS
[...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge to warn of "serious and disastrous consequences" if President Al-Bashir is indicted by the International Criminal Court. The Under-Secretary reiterated past requests (reftels) that the US use its influence to rein in ICC prosecutor Mo [...]
2008-07-11 12:18:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC KPKO PGOV PREL AU UN SU
08KHARTOUM1044MFA OFFICIALLY WARNS OF "DISASTROUS, SERIOUS
[...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge to warn of "serious and disastrous consequences" if President Al-Bashir is indicted by the International Criminal Court. The Under-Secretary reiterated past requests (reftels) that the US use its influence to rein in ICC prosecutor Mo [...]
2008-07-11 12:18:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC KPKO PGOV PREL AU UN SU
08KHARTOUM1045MFA OFFICIALLY WARNS OF "DISASTROUS, SERIOUS
[...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge to warn of "serious and disastrous consequences" if President Al-Bashir is indicted by the International Criminal Court. The Under-Secretary reiterated past requests (reftels) that the US use its influence to rein in ICC prosecutor Mo [...]
2008-07-11 12:18:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC KPKO PGOV PREL AU UN SU
08KHARTOUM1051SPLM/GOSS PLOT AND PLAN FOR WORST-CASE GNU
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The specter of an ICC indictment of President Bashir seems to have sent SPLM leadership circles in Juba into overdrive, spinning predictions of, and planning for, unrest and government reprisals. According to SPLM contacts, National Intelligence Security Services Chief Salah Ghosh [...]
2008-07-13 13:10:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1088NCP SENSITIVE ABOUT IMAGE PROBLEM, EAGER TO ENGAGE
[...] (C) Summary: Just a few days prior to the announcement of the ICC indictment against President Bashir, on July 11 CDA and polchief met with senior NCP officials at the party headquarters in Khartoum to sound them out on possible solutions to Darfur and their impressions of relations with the U [...]
2008-07-20 07:01:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1090SUDANESE HARDLINER: "WE NEED AMERICA'S HELP IN UN
[...] (C) Summary: National Congress Party (NCP) hardliner Ali Karti said that Sudan feels let down by the United States not taking steps to prevent an ICC announcement of war crimes against President Al-Bashir, but seeks urgent American engagement on Darfur. Sudan is willing to entertain "any con [...]
2008-07-20 12:37:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM110GOS SQUEEZE ON NON-SIGNATORIES IN DARFUR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the December 30 arrest of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) representative GEN Mohamed Bashir in El Fasher, the Government of Sudan (GoS) finally released Bashir but has ordered all non-signatory representatives to the ceasefire commission to leave El Fasher. As the [...]
2008-01-25 10:00:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD
08KHARTOUM1130DARFUR ROUNDUP: ATTACK ON SLM/MM, URF DISSOLUTION, AND JEM
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 28, Minni Minnawi and two other SLM/MM leaders confirmed reports that a Government of Sudan (GoS) security force attacked and killed four SLM policemen on July 26 in North Darfur. SLM/MM leaders described the event as an "intentional attack" on their movement coinciding [...]
2008-07-29 07:48:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1133PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ISMAIL REFLECTS ON BILATERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 29 meeting with CDA Fernandez, a sarcastic Sudanese Presidential Advisor and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Mustafa Othman Ismail expressed his frustration with the failed U.S.-Sudanese bilateral discussions, claiming that S/E Williamson was ordered to end the nego [...]
2008-07-29 13:42:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM UN SU
08KHARTOUM1152RIVAL FACTION DEVELOPING IN SLM/MM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior leaders within the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) appear ready to break off from Minnawi and form their own parallel movement, according to senior SLM/MM loyalists in two separate meetings with poloff on July 31. These leaders, including the Deputy C [...]
2008-08-01 09:36:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM1215SE WILLIAMSON'S VISIT TO ABYEI AND AGOK
[...] (C) Summary: SE Williamson visited Abyei and Agok on August 10. UNMIS security, civil affairs, and force protection officers based at UNMIS headquarters in Abyei town who were present during the heavy fighting in mid-May provided an account of events. They suggested that more troops and armo [...]
2008-08-12 07:37:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1232WHERE OIL AND DARFUR INTERSECT - FIGHTING REPORTED IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following reports of fighting in North Darfur, SLA/AW Commander Suleiman Marajan told poloff via satellite phone on August 14 that there was significant fighting between his forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces on August 10 and 11 near Wadi Atrun, an area Marajan claimed oil exp [...]
2008-08-14 14:11:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1236UNAMID PLANS TO ELIMINATE CONTAINER BACKLOG
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID estimates that it requires significantly enhanced cargo-transport capacity if it is to deploy planned, additional military and police personnel before the end of the year. UNAMID's ambitious goals, including additional cargo aircraft and material handling equipment, appe [...]
2008-08-15 09:02:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1272BEJA CONGRESS DISSIDENTS SLAM BEJA LEADERSHIP,
[...] (C) Summary: On August 18 poloff met with two individuals claiming to be part of a Port Sudan-based dissident faction of the Beja Congress that had opposed the signing of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA). They characterized the ESPA as a sham agreement that served only to improve relat [...]
2008-08-20 08:26:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM128FREED DUP LEADER ALI HASSANEIN: DEMOCRATIZATION AT
[...] (C) Summary: Meeting with CDA Fernandez on January 24 for the first time since his New Year's Eve release from prison, fiesty Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Deputy Secretary-General Ali Mahmoud Hassanein called for a SIPDIS democratic process in Sudan in which political parties abandon th [...]
2008-01-29 12:02:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL SU AU PGOV UN
08KHARTOUM1284DEFENSE LAWYERS, UNMIS SRSG AND OTHERS CRITICIZE GOS TRIALS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese courts have sentenced fifty people to death for participation in the May 10 JEM attacks. Defense lawyers criticized the proceedings as flawed and unconstitutional, and UNMIS SRSG Ashraf Qazi issued a statement questioning the constitutionality of the courts and proceedin [...]
2008-08-22 12:53:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1296DDR PROGRESSES: CHANTING HAKAMA WOMEN URGE THEIR MEN TO
[...] (U) On August 20, Emboffs traveled to the South Kordofan village of Lagawa, to attend a ceremony sponsored by the UN Demobilization, Disarmament and Re-integration (DDR) Unit, celebrating the final performance of the Lagawa "Hakamat" and the distribution of goats to its members. 2. (U) Th [...]
2008-08-25 15:17:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU
08KHARTOUM1297GOSS VP MACAHR CONTINUED OBJECT OF SUSPICION BY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Vice President Riek Machar is the object of continued reports by SPLA intelligence sources accusing him of conspiracies to undermine GOSS President Salva Kiir and assume leadership of Southern Sudan. This deep level of distrust of one of the [...]
2008-08-26 12:36:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM130SPLM SEES SLOW PROGRESS AND REVIEWS SUBVERSIVE YET
[...] (C) Summary: SPLM SecGen and GNU Minister for Cabinet Affairs Pagan Amun sees the National Congress Party's "totalitarian structure intact" but is currently taking the long view towards NCP stonewalling about the December 2007 agreement that returned the SPLM to government. Amun, although resi [...]
2008-01-29 13:35:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SU
08KHARTOUM1300UPDATE ON FIGHTING IN KALMA CAMP, SOUTH DARFUR
[...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: On August 25, USAID staff received reports of fighting and casualties in Kalma internally displaced person (IDP) camp, South Darfur (REFTEL). UNAMID stated that armed IDPs had set up human shields and fired first on GOS forces assembled outside the camp, and UNAMID managed [...]
2008-08-26 15:00:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1315KALMA CAMP UPDATE, AUGUST 29
[...] (SBU) UNDSS Chief for South Darfur Abdalla Janakat provided additional details on the August 25 attack by GOS police forces on Kalma Camp. He told poloff in Nyala August 28 that 60 GoS vehicles surrounded the camp on the morning of the August 25 attack. He said IDPs likely had intelligence o [...]
2008-08-29 14:26:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1329REGIME INSIDER ACKNOWLEDGES KALMA CAMP MASSACRE,
[...] (C) Summary: CDA Fernandez called on MFA Undersecretary Mutriff Siddiq September 1 to discuss the Kalma Camp attack. CDA Fernandez told Siddiq that events in Kalma camp in South Darfur constituted a massacre of civilians, including many women and children, and urged the GOS to bring the perpet [...]
2008-09-01 14:57:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC EAID KPKO PHUM PREF PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1331MORE OFFICIALS WITHDRAW FROM DARFUR STATE POSITIONS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 31, 18 SPLM officials formally withdrew from their posts in the state governments of North, South, and West Darfur in protest over the August 25 Kalma attack. Other opposition groups including SLM/MM may also withdraw, as Minni Minnawi vowed on August 30 that he will aut [...]
2008-09-02 04:54:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1332MORE OFFICIALS WITHDRAW FROM DARFUR STATE POSITIONS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 31, 18 SPLM officials formally withdrew from their posts in the state governments of North, South, and West Darfur in protest over the August 25 Kalma attack. Other opposition groups including SLM/MM may also withdraw, as Minni Minnawi vowed on August 30 that he will aut [...]
2008-09-02 04:57:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1333MORE OFFICIALS WITHDRAW FROM DARFUR STATE POSITIONS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 31, 18 SPLM officials formally withdrew from their posts in the state governments of North, South, and West Darfur in protest over the August 25 Kalma attack. Other opposition groups including SLM/MM may also withdraw, as Minni Minnawi vowed on August 30 that he will aut [...]
2008-09-02 04:59:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1337MORE DETAILS COMING OUT ABOUT KALMA CAMP ATTACK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As access improves to Kalma camp, GoS officials, and the Nyala hospital, more details are filtering out about what happened in the August 25 attack. The primary emergency care doctor at Nyala told poloff on August 30 that the injuries sustained by the IDPs were "massive" and i [...]
2008-09-02 11:14:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1352TURF WARS - RIVAL GOS FORCES CREATE A CHAOTIC AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rivalry and competition between government security agencies, paramilitary units, and proxy forces have led to a chaotic, violent, and militarized environment in Darfur, according to multiple and varied sources in North and South Darfur. These contacts (from UNAMID, DPA signato [...]
2008-09-04 09:45:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1360DARFUR ARAB REBEL LEADER STILL VOWS HE'S RETURNING
[...] (C) On September 3, Arab-rebel leader Anwar Khatir told poloff that "within days" he would return to Darfur to resume his activities. (Note: Khatir has been described by leading Darfur experts such as Julie Flint as "Darfur's emerging Arab leader." After the GoS jailed and tortured him and [...]
2008-09-05 09:15:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1369TRANSFER OF DETAINEE TO SUDAN
[...] (C) CDA Fernandez presented talking points in reftel to Sudanese MFA Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq on September 8. Siddiq welcomed the possibility of the upcoming transfer. He confirmed that the same humane treatment, security and access assurances previously provided by the GOS with respect t [...]
2008-09-08 10:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PTER KDRG SU
08KHARTOUM1371MINNAWI: GOS OPERATIONS IN NORTH DARFUR ARE A
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 7, SLM Chairman and Senior Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi told poloff that he considers GoS military operations in North Darfur to be a declaration of war. Minnawi specifically cited combined SAF, Arab militia, and janjaweed deployment surrounding SLM/MM cont [...]
2008-09-08 14:13:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MOPS KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1373TRANSFER OF DETAINEE TO SUDAN
[...] (C) CDA Fernandez presented talking points in reftel to Sudanese MFA Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq on September 8. Siddiq welcomed the possibility of the upcoming transfer. He confirmed that the same humane treatment, security and access assurances previously provided by the GOS with respect t [...]
2008-09-08 14:13:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PTER KDRG SU
08KHARTOUM1383PARADOXICAL DARFUR COMPENSATION CHAIRMAN WILL RETURN TO THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a September 4 meeting with poloffs, TDRA Compensation Committee Chairman Abulgasim Ahmed Abulgasim said that the many Darfur initiatives and proposals (including his own plan recently rejected by the NCP,) are unable to fundamentally change Darfur (reftel). In a remarkable tur [...]
2008-09-11 07:36:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL PINR EFIN MOPS KPKO AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1415SUDAN - USCG ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT
[...] (C) CDA Fernandez delivered talking points and dipnote with text of letter from Coast Guard RADM Salerno (reftel) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq on September 15. The letter was addressed to Foreign Minister Alor. U/S Siddiq acknowledged the sensitivity of allowing [...]
2008-09-18 06:22:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALEWWT KPKO PGOV PTER KHLS ECON SU
08KHARTOUM1417SUDANESE INTEL CHIEF WORRIED ABOUT ISLAMIC
[...] (C) Summary: The GOS will be hard-pressed to control the actions of Islamic radicals in Sudan if the ICC issues an arrest warrant against President Bashir, NISS Chief Salah Ghosh told CDA Fernandez September 17. Ghosh clarified that he did not tell French Presidential Advisor Bruno Joubert th [...]
2008-09-18 13:52:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1419PROSECUTION PRESENTS EVIDENCE DURING THIRD SESSION OF
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 11, U.S. Embassy Foreign Service National employees from the Regional Security Office, Political/Economic, and Public Diplomacy sections attended the third session of the trial of five Sudanese men accused in the January 1, 2008 murders of USAID Officer John Granville [...]
2008-09-19 12:55:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PTER PGOV SU
08KHARTOUM1422"THIS TIME, THEY'RE SERIOUS?" - SUDAN MAKES UP
[...] (C) Summary: On the eve of his departure for UNGA, Sudanese VP Ali Osman Taha hammered out a reconciliation with disgruntled Darfur rebel leader Minni Minnawi, promising full compliance of the semi-moribund 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement and an end to recent fighting and bombing in Darfur. Taha a [...]
2008-09-20 09:38:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALKPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1438WHERE ARE DARFUR'S HIJACKED CARS AND TRUCKS?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Darfur's hijacking is a complex phenomenon, according to UNAMID, INGOs, and local contacts based in El-Fasher and Nyala. Most sources placed the majority of the blame on many different rebel movements, with one contact describing a transportation chain through SLM/MM and SLA/Un [...]
2008-09-23 05:31:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1445UPDATE ON TAHA-MINNAWI AGREEMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 23, Muhammad Tijani, a senior SLM/MM leader and Minnawi confidant, told poloff that "so far" he is satisfied with the GoS's response to the September 19 agreement between Vice President Taha and SLM Chairman Minni Minnawi in El-Fasher (ref A). Muhammad Tijani stat [...]
2008-09-24 05:17:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1451UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID officials still believe that sixty-percent deployment is possible by the end of 2008, and eighty-percent is achievable by the end of March 2009. However, for this to happen, all former AMIS battalions must rotate at full strength and several new battalions have to be will [...]
2008-09-26 14:25:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1469GOSS CONTEMPLATES RANSOM PAYMENT FOR TANKS
[...] (C) Government of Southern Sudan Minister for Internal Affairs Paul Mayom Akec told CG Juba October 1 that the Government of Southern Sudan was preparing to pay a ransom to the Somali pirates holding the SPLA,s long-awaited arms shipment ) should there be a drop in price. &We are scraping the [...]
2008-10-03 11:19:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC KPKO MOPS PGOV PREL PTER UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM147GOS STRENGTHENS MINISTRY OF FINANCE, IMPROVES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 29 meeting with emboffs, Wabel Abdallah, the Sudan resident representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),stated that the recent firing of the Undersecretary at the Ministry of Finance (MOF) is very positive and long overdue. Abdallah stated that this mov [...]
2008-01-31 08:03:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN EPET PHUM PREL PINR SU
08KHARTOUM1500SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH SLM/MINNAWI REPRESENTATIVES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 8, SLM/Minnawi leaders in Khartoum told Special Envoy Williamson that they remain optimistic about the September 19 agreement between Vice President Ali Osman Taha and Senior Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi. SLM representatives emphasized, however, that this agr [...]
2008-10-09 11:10:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1506SOUTH DARFUR MINISTER RECOUNTS AMBUSH ATTEMPT; EXPRESSES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 7, Omer Abdel Rahman Adam recounted details of the September 30 attack on his vehicle that resulted in the death of his bodyguard. Although reluctant to directly accuse any particular individual or agency, Adam asserted that the attack was a targeted assassination at [...]
2008-10-10 11:53:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1521SUDAN PEOPLE'S INITIATIVE SET TO START OCTOBER 16,
[...] (C) The Sudan People's Initiative is scheduled to begin October 16 in Khartoum with speeches by President Bashir and other officials including First Vice President Salva Kiir, who has decided to attend, but will deliver a "tough message" on Darfur. Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader and Da [...]
2008-10-14 11:42:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1544SPLA CHIEF OF STAFF ON HIGHJACKED WEAPONS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 16, SPLA Chief of Staff Deng described that day,s meeting of the Joint Defense Board and the SPLA/M,s contentious relationship with the SAF and the NCP. He also provided an update on SPLA thinking on the Ukrainian ship seized by Somali pirates with weapons intended fo [...]
2008-10-19 15:55:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1545A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A NEW SLM FIGHTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 16, a new fighter for the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) described his daily life in the field to poloff. The contact described dire conditions for SLM/MM troops, where fighters are expected to buy their own uniforms (often from UNAMID troops,) m [...]
2008-10-20 05:18:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1558CHADIAN REBEL REVEALS GOS SUPPORT, RELATIVE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: On October 20, Abaker Tolli, a UFDD Khartoum-based representative told poloffs that Sudanese Intelligence summoned the leadership of all major Chadian rebel movements to Khartoum, threatening that the rebels must choose a single leader or the GoS will stop their material support [...]
2008-10-21 13:04:00Embassy KhartoumSECRETASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM156USAID-FUNDED PARTNER REQUIRED TO HAND OVER USAID PROPERTY
[...] (SBU) Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI) has been implementing a wide range of programming including civic education, protection, capacity building for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the provision of tangible peace dividends in Sudan over the past three years. The week of J [...]
2008-02-01 11:15:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU
08KHARTOUM1579MEDIA REACTION: ICC AND UN PEACEKEEPING IN CAHOOTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: This week the pro-government Khartoum newspaper Al-Rai al-Aam printed front-page headlines claiming proof of collusion between International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Miguel Moreno Ocampo and the UN. Citing three-year old reports and statements made in press interviews, th [...]
2008-10-24 12:03:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1586WEST DARFUR GOVERNOR:THE FUR TRIBE IS FIGHTING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27, former Darfur rebel and current Governor of West Darfur Abulgasim Imam told CDA Fernandez that the Fur tribe is defending itself against three hostile groups, the Government of Sudan, Arab militias, and the Zaghawa tribe. Imam acknowledged the failure of both the [...]
2008-10-28 08:34:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1588CHD HOPES TO REDUCE HIJACKINGS IN DARFUR
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (CHD) is on track to restart negotiations to improve humanitarian security by focusing on measures against vehicle hijackings. Dennis McNamara told donors in Khartoum October 23 that CHD representatives intend to travel to Darf [...]
2008-10-28 09:51:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1589DARFUR PEACE PROCESS: QATAR AND SUDAN PEOPLE'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27 and 28, CDA Fernandez and polchief met with leaders from the Joint Mediation Support Team, National Congress Party, and other political parties to discuss the Sudan People's Initiative and potential negotiations in Qatar on Darfur. Contacts expressed conflicting m [...]
2008-10-28 14:17:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1591SUDAN'S "FREEDOM BELLS" MUFFLED BY GOS ON ALL FRONTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese authorities are limiting the reach of Khartoum's newest Arabic-language daily, the independent but SPLM-leaning Ajras al-Hurriya ("Freedom Bells"),through a daily regimen of heavy censorship, excessive taxation and limited distribution. The paper's Nyala correspondent, [...]
2008-10-29 08:12:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1594GOS BLOCKS U.S. TRIP TO DARFUR AND FLIRTS WITH A
[...] (SBU) On September 29, the Sudanese MFA finally informed CDA Fernandez that the GoS would not allow an embassy trip to Nyala and a joint UNAMID-USG trip to East Jebel Marra, Darfur scheduled for September 30. This denial came after a week of submitting three dipnotes, high-level discussions b [...]
2008-10-30 05:44:00Embassy KhartoumSECRETASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1597SUDAN WILL PROPOSE "REAL DARFUR CEASE-FIRE,"
[...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Government has approved in principle, for the first time, US Embassy travel to rebel-held Jebel Marra. The GOS also will control the Sudan-Chad border between now and January and will not allow Chadian rebel attacks on Chad during that period. The Khartoum regime hop [...]
2008-10-30 14:21:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1607DARFUR PEACE PROCESS UPDATE - BASSOLE AND GOQ APPEAR MORE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole urged Qatar to focus first on the necessary preparations for negotiations and not on unrealistic dates for negotiations, according to senior representatives from the AU/UN's Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST). JMST contacts emphasized that the fo [...]
2008-11-02 14:37:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1616CHADIAN REBELS: SELECTING A LEADER, MILITARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 2, UFDD-F leader Abdoulwahid Aboud Makaye told poloffs that Chadian rebel leadership meeting in Khartoum will soon choose a leader by consensus, random selection, or a complicated multi-staged election. According to Aboud, the Chadian opposition does not fear the Gov [...]
2008-11-04 16:05:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1617CHADIAN REBELS: SELECTING A LEADER, MILITARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 2, UFDD-F leader Abdoulwahid Aboud Makaye told poloffs that Chadian rebel leadership meeting in Khartoum will soon choose a leader by consensus, random selection, or a complicated multi-staged election. According to Aboud, the Chadian opposition does not fear the Gov [...]
2008-11-04 16:05:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1618SUDAN'S NORTHERN STATE: WHERE PARANOIA REIGNS
[...] (C) Summary. On a rare visit to Sudan's Northern State on October 20-22, Emboffs faced significant intimidation and harassment by Northern State local government and intelligence authorities who denied them permission to meet with opposition parties and genuine civil society members, followed [...]
2008-11-05 08:54:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI ASEC KDEM SU
08KHARTOUM164UMMA SEEKS TO REPAIR ITS PERCEIVED IMAGE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Umma party members are concerned that the USG has a "distorted perception" of their party and they are eager to set this image straight. Additionally, they call for USG support for a multi-opposition party dialogue on critical issues such as Darfur and the CPA. END SUMMARY. [...]
2008-02-03 14:46:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1640SALAH GHOSH TO ENGAGE DIRECTLY WITH KEY DARFUR
[...] (C) National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Chief Salah Ghosh told UN/AU Darfur Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole that he will begin to meet quietly with key Darfur rebels in advance of peace talks in Doha, according to Bassole's senior staff. The first meeting will be with JEM's Khali [...]
2008-11-10 11:59:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1646URF SEEKS GREATER INPUT IN PEACE PROCESS; EXPLORES
[...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 29 meeting, United Resistance Front (URF) political commissar Tadjadine Niam told poloff that the Darfur peace process will never gain traction if the international community keeps ignoring the rebel movements. Niam decried the lack of consultation with rebels [...]
2008-11-10 17:22:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1654PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S VISIT TO KHARTOUM AND JUBA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Egyptian emboff told poloffs on November 12. that during President Hosni Mubarak's November 10 visit to Khartoum, he offered to invite Khalil Ibrahim to Cairo in an attempt to persuade the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to commit to peace talks in Qatar This offer ha [...]
2008-11-13 11:12:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1675UPDATE ON POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM JEM ATTACK
[...] (SBU) Summary: While 42 detainees who participated in the May 10 attack of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on Omdurman wait to see if their death sentences will be commuted, authorities are trying 87 more individuals in five special anti-terrorism courts. Lawyers and UNMIS Human Rights [...]
2008-11-17 10:43:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1677SPLM MEDIC LAYS OUT NORTHERN STATE CONCERNS IN A
[...] (C) Summary. Northern State SPLM member and medic, Dr. Ahmed Ali, visited Embassy officials (Emboffs) in Khartoum on 6 November and described harassment he faced by NISS (National Intelligence and Security Service) officials after meeting with Emboffs during their October 20-22 visit to the N [...]
2008-11-17 14:39:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SU
08KHARTOUM1682A/S FRAZER'S MEETINGS WITH NCP OFFICIALS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a round-table meeting followed by a dinner at the CDA's residence, several leading members of the National Congress Party told A/S Frazer that the GNU has made significant progress in implementing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),and pointed to Abyei as the only par [...]
2008-11-18 07:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1683A/S FRAZER'S MEETING WITH TOP SPLM OFFICIALS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Top Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) officials Secretary General Pagan Amum and Deputy Secretary Yasir Arman told Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer on 3 November that they had just returned from a productive visit to Ndjamena to meet with Chadian Presi [...]
2008-11-18 07:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC SOCI KPKO KDEM AU SU CD
08KHARTOUM169SPLM'S DEMOCRACY AND DARFUR PLANS TAKE SHAPE
[...] (C) Summary: SPLM leader Yassir Arman reports that the party has received a greenlight from the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) to intensify its efforts to secure peace in Darfur and improve relations with the United States. He outlined an ambitious program of SPLM political mobilization [...]
2008-02-04 06:52:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1691UPSURGE IN FIGHTING IN NORTH DARFUR
[...] (C) Rebel, UNAMID and NGO contacts confirmed fighting in and around Helif, North Darfur between November 18 and 20. SLA/AW commander Suleiman Marajane told emboffs that on November 20 his forces attacked a SAF position in Helif at 7:00 am. (Note: Helif was previously under the control of SLA/ [...]
2008-11-21 11:15:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1693WAU: ALL QUIET IN THE HINTERLANDS, BUT IN NEED OF MORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The capital of Western Bahr al-Ghazal state in South Sudan, Wau is both secure and eager for international assistance. Operating in an ad hoc manner, local police have managed to control tribal conflict and keep down petty crime, but local government incompetence has hindered wo [...]
2008-11-21 11:28:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1698SUDANESE INTELLIGENCE CHIEF CALLS IDEA OF A US-LED
[...] (C) CDA Fernandez met with Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Chief Salah Ghosh on 23 November to discuss the idea of a US-led independent Darfur Cease-fire Monitoring Team in response to Ghosh's past request for assistance in instituting a cease-fire monitoring mechanis [...]
2008-11-24 06:18:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM170TFCD01: CONCERN FOR SUDAN'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-04 13:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL CH SU
08KHARTOUM1709DEATH SENTENCE APPEALS REFUSED IN FLAWED TRIAL FOR MURDER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Nine defendants convicted of murdering a Sudanese journalist in 2006 retain one final appeal before they face execution, according to UNMIS Human Rights and the defendants' lawyer, Kamal Omer. The murder of Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed resulted in a politically-driven investigati [...]
2008-11-25 13:19:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1711GOS LEADERS TO CONSIDER US-LED DARFUR CEASE-FIRE
[...] (C) On November 25, CDA Fernandez met with key Government of Sudan (GoS) regime strategist and de-facto regime shadow Foreign Minister, Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail, in order to inform him the idea of a US-led independent Darfur Cease-Fire Monitoring Team (ref d). CDA Fernandez t [...]
2008-11-25 14:02:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1726UNAMID DEPLOYMENT IN GREATER DETAIL
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID climbed to 50.3 percent of its authorized total force strength last week and expects to reach its goal of 60 percent by end of the year, as reported in Ref A. Most troop-contributing countries (TCCs) anticipated to arrive in the coming months have not provided load lists [...]
2008-12-01 15:26:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1730NCP CONTEMPLATES PRESUMED ICC INDICTMENT OF
[...] (C) Summary: Recent contacts with ruling National Congress Party (NCP) officials reveal that they have resigned themselves to the reality that an arrest warrant against President Bashir is likely, and they discount overreactions by the regime ("we're not going to commit suicide") but they expr [...]
2008-12-02 05:23:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1735NEWSPAPER CENSORSHIP IN KHARTOUM - A CASE STUDY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of the year, censorship of Khartoum-based newspapers has increased dramatically. Below is the account of Suleiman Al-Amin, a popular columnist with "Al-Sudani," a publication that has seen its share of harassment and censorship recently. Al-Amin described [...]
2008-12-02 10:57:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPAO KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1738FREED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST DESCRIBES 'GHOST
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 1 human rights activist Osman Hummida (protect) described to CDA Fernandez the four days of grueling interrogation, physical abuse and psychological torture that he was subjected to at the hands of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). From November 2 [...]
2008-12-02 15:03:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1745SOUTH DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting between rebel and government forces in South Darfur had been largely absent for several months until the November 19 SLA/MM and SLA/U attack on a central police convoy and subsequent government bombings, sources told poloffs during a trip to Nyala November 24-26. Meanwh [...]
2008-12-03 11:11:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1746A/S FRAZER,S NOVEMBER 2 MEETING WITH SPLA CHIEF OF
[...] (SBU) On November 2 in Juba, SPLA Chief of Staff Oyai Deng Ajak and a small coterie from the Southern military,s senior-most ranks reviewed for AF A/S Frazer the SPLA,s perception of the peace and its own transformation process three years after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement [...]
2008-12-03 12:11:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID MCAP KPKO UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1751"DIVIDING DARFUR'S ARABS FROM GOS WILL DRIVE THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 3, Darfur Arab rebel leader Anwar Khater told CDA Fernandez that Darfur's Arabs have been marginalized, exploited by the Government of Sudan (GoS),and misrepresented by the international press. Khater emphatically stated that with support, Darfur's Arabs are ready [...]
2008-12-04 09:29:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1754RESPECTED CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER FEARS NCP REVERSION TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: NCP members accepted numerous recommendations from civil society leaders at the Sudan People's Initiative, including the formation of a consultative Presidential Council, but have shown no interest in actually carrying them out, the SPI drafting chairman, Khartoum University Prof [...]
2008-12-04 14:00:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1771NEW JEM VIDEOS INTENDED TO DOCUMENT ITS STRENGTH AFTER
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) recently released three videos documenting a parade of several hundred armed men riding in more than 80 military vehicles. Although the date of the footage cannot be authoritatively determined, the speeches and audio on the tape reference [...]
2008-12-11 15:57:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PROP MCAP ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1777PLOTTING FOR BASHIR EXIT INTENSIFIES
[...] (C) Summary: According to senior SPLM officials, Sudan's NCP is trying to broker a quick and graceful removal of President Al-Bashir within the next few months, with the President going into exile in Saudi Arabia. Discussions on a transition, which should take place before an ICC arrest warran [...]
2008-12-13 14:34:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1790SENATE STAFFDEL'S MEETING WITH MFA U/S MUTRIFF
[...] (C) Summary: The situation in Abyei is under control following intervention by a GNU (NCP/SPLM) delegation to the town on December 13, MFA U/S Mutriff Siddiq told a visiting Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staffdel December 14. However, the regime remains concerned about a possible JEM incu [...]
2008-12-15 13:47:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1825CHADIAN REBELS - LEADERSHIP, GOS INFLUENCE, AND
[...] (C) The following is a response to SECSTATE 129300. CHADIAN OPPOSITION: SUSTAINABLE COALITION OR FLAWED? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. (C) "IS THE FINAL LEADERSHIP BODY OF THE UNITED CHADIAN REBEL FRONT (THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENTS, PARLIAMENT, MINISTERS) [...]
2008-12-21 14:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1829DARFUR REBEL UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Darfur's rebels remain fundamentally divided according to what their leaders told poloff during a December 14-18 visit to Ndjamena, Chad. The rebel leaders claim that JEM, while rich in vehicles and equipment, lacks fighters and the popular support of the people of Darfur. A [...]
2008-12-22 14:45:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC CD SU
08KHARTOUM183KHARTOUM SECURITY MILESTONES - JUNE 2007 TO
[...] (SBU) This cable provides a summary of security-related actions and events affecting the US Mission in Sudan during a specific timeframe. It gathers references to numerous cables and messages on various related issues including OBO issues, EAC actions, Sudanese Government actions, terrorism, RS [...]
2008-02-06 05:55:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALABLD AMGT ASEC PREL PTER US SU
08KHARTOUM189TFCD01: CHADIAN DIPLOMAT: HAVING TIPPED ITS HAND,
[...] (C) A cabal of the National Congress Party's (NCP) most powerful officials is committed to the overthrow of the Chadian Government, and Sudan continues to reinforce the Chadian opposition in an attempt to unseat Deby's regime, the external security chief at the Chadian Embassy in Khartoum, Moh [...]
2008-02-07 05:52:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR SU CD
08KHARTOUM249MGCD01: UFDD/F'S ABOUD REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) Please see action request para. 6. 2. (C) The United Force for Democracy and Development-Fondamentale (UFDD/F) is seeking a peaceful, democratic transition in N'djamena, a man claiming to be UFDD/F President Abdelwahid Aboud told Poloff during a February 20 phone call. Five minutes int [...]
2008-02-21 07:23:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS SU CD
08KHARTOUM256ABYEI TENSIONS RISE WHILE COMPROMISE IS SOUGHT
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to a Misseriya SPLM MP the threat of ethnic conflict in Sudan's Abyei region has subsided, but a key GoSS Minister paints a much darker picture. On February 18, Mohammed Gour dismissed self-proclaimed "governor" al-Ansari as a tool of the NISS with no significant foll [...]
2008-02-21 16:01:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU
08KHARTOUM267DARFUR ARAB WARLORD BARGAINS WITH KHARTOUM
[...] (SBU) Arab militia leader Mohammed Hamdan (aka Hamati) has been negotiating with the Sudanese Government on his return to an alliance with Khartoum in recent weeks, according to two UN sources and an independent NGO with strong ties to Darfur's rebel movements. Hamdan defected from the Governm [...]
2008-02-24 09:35:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UN SU CD
08KHARTOUM276PAGAN AMUN TO S/E WILLIAMSON: "IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. GNU Minister for Cabinet Affairs and SPLM leader Pagan Amun warned S/E Williamson that if Abyei is not solved, Sudan could return to war. He described the NCP's non-implementation of the Abyei Protocol as the most "serious and challenging" remaining obstacle to the North-South pea [...]
2008-02-26 15:42:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALKPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM279SE WILLIAMSON TO GHOSH: IMPROVED RELATIONS MEANS
[...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Williamson warned NISS Director Salah Ghosh that while the U.S. is willing to explore options towards improving relations if there is demonstrable change for the better in Darfur, such a possibility could be doomed before it starts if Sudan continues to allow violenc [...]
2008-02-26 18:05:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALKPKO PGOV PREL PTER UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM298Abyei Conflict Contained for Now, But Problem Unresolved
[...] (SBU) Summary: SPLM-appointed Abyei administrator Edward Lino says that conflict in Abyei has been "contained," in what he calls a defeat for NCP hardliners. The NCP and SPLM, however, appear to have been unable to conclude an agreement on joint administration. According to Foreign Minister [...]
2008-03-02 05:16:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU
08KHARTOUM300SE WILLIAMSON TO PRESIDENT AL-BASHIR: WE DON'T
[...] (C) Summary: In a positive, hour-long meeting with the Sudanese President, SE Richard Williamson clearly and concisely outlined American concerns on Darfur, CPA, Sudanese adventurism in Chad, and other bilateral issues while describing a possible way forward in improving relations based on spe [...]
2008-03-02 11:20:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AU UN SU
08KHARTOUM311MINAWI: ERDIMI REJECTS KHARTOUM'S PUSH FOR RENEWED OFFENSIVE
[...] (C) POLOFF DELIVERED REQUESTED DEMARCHE TO SENIOR ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND SUDAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT (SLM) CHAIRMAN MINNI MINAWI ON MARCH 1 (REF. A). MINAWI REPORTED THAT HE LAST SPOKE TO RALLY OF FORCES FOR CHANGE (RFC) PRESIDENT TIMAN ERDIMI ON FEBRUARY 29. ERDIMI TOLD HIM THAT NATI [...]
2008-03-03 12:15:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV USDELFESTTWO SU CD
08KHARTOUM332"PRESIDENT AL-BASHIR IS A TABULA RASA" SAYS
[...] (C) Summary: Presidential Advisor Dr. Mansur Khalid warns that the National Congress Party is now divided in contending fiefdoms jockeying for power and canceling each other out, under the distracted supervision of A disengaged President Al-Bashir. Meanwhile, the SPLM uneasily monitors a disloy [...]
2008-03-06 12:57:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SU
08KHARTOUM338THE NATIONAL CONGRESS PARTY - SUDAN'S BRUTAL
[...] (C) Summary: After almost 20 years in power, the ruling National Congress Party has reach a level of cynical (and often brutal) pragmatism making it fully capable of making and keeping arrangements with the West on Darfur and on the CPA, as long as its core interest of remaining in power in Kh [...]
2008-03-09 07:01:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALKDEM KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL SU
08KHARTOUM342INTERNAL INTRIGUE SHROUDS SUDANESE RESPONSE TO
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Deng Alor worries that infighting among NCP factions could jeopardize discussions on a workplan to alleviate suffering in Darfur and improve relations with the West before such an initiative even gets started. The SPLM is also concerned about keeping focus on CPA- [...]
2008-03-09 14:14:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU
08KHARTOUM346AS UN REACHES JEBEL MOON, SPLINTER EMERGES WITHIN JEM
[...] (SBU) After an earlier dispute between the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) over access to Jebel Moon, West Darfur, a UN team reached the area for a brief yet inconclusive visit to assess the humanitarian situation. UN sources report that the [...]
2008-03-10 07:48:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD
08KHARTOUM362SUDAN WELL-EQUIPPED AND READY TO SUPPORT THE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The GoS told USG officials on 4-5 March that it is well-equipped and prepared to support the transfer of further Guantanamo (GTMO) detainees to Sudan, to include those individuals who are of higher threat to national security than those previously transferred. The National Intelli [...]
2008-03-11 12:16:00Embassy KhartoumSECRETPHUM PINR PTER PREL SU
08KHARTOUM374PARASTATALS - THE REGIME,S GRAY COMPANIES WILL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sudanese businessmen, former government officials, and American consultants in Sudan separately told econoff that the Sudanese economy is dominated by parastatal companies connected to the Northern ruling elite. One contact, a National Congress Party adherent, ex-manager of th [...]
2008-03-13 13:53:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN EPET PHUM PREL SU
08KHARTOUM381UNIVERSITY POLITICS: NCP DOMINANCE, ISLAMIST CHALLENGES,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In four separate meetings the week of March 9, student political party leaders told emboffs that the National Congress Party is the most organized and successful political party in Sudan's universities. Many opposition contacts cautioned that this NCP dominance is due not to [...]
2008-03-15 11:12:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM385NEW CHADIAN REBEL OFFENSIVE BREWING IN WEST DARFUR
[...] (C) A new attempt to overthrow Chadian President Idriss Deby's government is brewing in West Darfur, UN officials, humanitarian workers, and Chadian rebel commanders told Poloffs in El Geneina between March 11 and 13. Though predictions on the start date for the next attempt to topple Deby's [...]
2008-03-16 10:58:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD FR
08KHARTOUM388VIEWS ON MARCH 1 BORDER SKIRMISHES FROM SOUTH OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Discussions with senior UN and UNMIS officials in Juba and Aweil, in addition to follow-on discussions with various elements of the SPLA, place March 1 skirmishes not in the disputed region of Abyei but south of the Kiir River near Rumaker, Northern Bahr el Ghazal state. UNMIS off [...]
2008-03-16 15:07:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS MARR MPOS SU
08KHARTOUM392DARFUR - UNOFFICIAL SETTLEMENTS NEAR SEKELE PRESENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: New settlements near Sekele (near Nyala, South Darfur) originated in October 2007 as a result of GNU HAC efforts to relocate IDPs who fled Kalma camp following inter-tribal violence in that camp. While the GNU HAC completed the resettlement process, approximately 500 additional fa [...]
2008-03-16 15:51:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU
08KHARTOUM397CHAD: RFC'S ERDIMI PLANS LAND GRAB WHILE OTHER
[...] (C) As other Chadian rebel factions conspire to topple President Idriss Deby, RFC leader Timan Erdimi plans to "occupy" as much territory as possible and then negotiate with a transitional government to achieve his political objectives, he told Poloff in Khartoum on March 15. Explaining that r [...]
2008-03-17 06:15:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UN AU SU CD FR
08KHARTOUM399SLA/MM STUDENTS TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE CENSUS
[...] (SBU) SLA/Minni Minnawi (SLA/MM) student supporters reject the census and are organizing campaigns against it at universities in Darfur as well as in SLA/MM political offices. Regarding university politics, the students described NCP harassment including freezing of student body elections at E [...]
2008-03-17 12:33:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM408UNAMID ON POLITICAL AND SECURITY DYNAMICS IN WEST
[...] (C) Instability is still prevalent in the corridor north of El Geneina, where fighting over the last month displaced thousands and has left the civilians who remain in the area vulnerable to looting and violence at the hands of Arab militias, the Sudanese military, and the Central Reserve Poli [...]
2008-03-18 09:56:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD
08KHARTOUM409SUDANESE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR WARNED ON SUPPORTING
[...] (C) Summary: Warned about continued interference in Chad on March 17, Sudanese Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail said that Sudan was ready for immediate monitoring of its border with Chad, denied that Sudan supports Chadian rebels and said that the U.S. should press President Deby to [...]
2008-03-18 13:00:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS SU CD
08KHARTOUM429LRA PEACE TALKS TO RESUME IN JUBA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Peace talks between the LRA and Government of Uganda will resume in Juba on Monday, March 24. Lead negotiator Riek Machar expects a final implementation agreement to be initialed no later than March 25, and he hopes for a final signing ceremony in Juba on Friday, April 4. End [...]
2008-03-23 15:45:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO UN AU UG SU
08KHARTOUM463NORTH DARFUR'S ARABS: PLAYING THE VICTIM, WANTING A SEAT AT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 27, Darfur's northern Arab tribal leaders told emboff that they are victims that should be included in any negotiations on Darfur's future. In separate meetings the week of March 23, UN staff, local NGOS, and leaders from other ethnic groups emphasized that many of D [...]
2008-03-30 13:56:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM466AEC TO URGE SPECIAL SESSION ON ABYEI
[...] (C) Newly installed Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) chairman Sir Derek Plumbly met with AEC working group chairs (UK, Norwegian, Italian and Dutch Ambassadors plus CDA Fernandez) on March 30 to discuss a more aggressive AEC stance on political issues and to outline a common agenda fo [...]
2008-03-31 07:55:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM48SOUTHERN SUDANESE CONCERNED ABOUT CHINESE BUSINESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On Friday, January 11, CG Datta paid a courtesy call on George Justin Achor, Undersecretary in the Ministry of Presidential Affairs. Their one-hour discussion covered a wide range of topics, including the upcoming CPA celebrations in Wau, the LRA, the state of the CPA, the need [...]
2008-01-14 15:24:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM485JMST'S SAM IBOK ON DARFUR PEACE PROCESS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 1 AU Chief Mediator of UNAMID,S JMST San Ibok briefed senior UNAMID representatives on the Darfur peace process as part of the two-day "UNAMID Brainstorming on DPA." Ibok highlighted that of the five major rebel movements, only two (SLA-Unity and the URF) have indic [...]
2008-04-02 13:17:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU
08KHARTOUM5JEM REPRESENTATIVES ARRESTED IN EL FASHER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 30 Government of Sudan (GoS) security forces surrounded a house full of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) members in El Fasher and arrested six JEM members, including the JEM Ceasefire Commission (CFC) representative GEN Mohammed Basher Mohammed. The United Nations [...]
2008-01-02 10:42:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU UNSC CD
08KHARTOUM503GOS FLEXES ITS MUSCLE IN DARFUR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Within the last two weeks, there are indications that the Government of Sudan (GoS) is flexing its muscle in Darfur. Signs of this include: three firefights between Arab militias/janjaweed and SLM-Minnawi members in the center of El-Fasher; several Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) p [...]
2008-04-03 16:37:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD
08KHARTOUM506LITTLE PROGRESS ON DEMOBILIZATION AND DISARMAMENT
[...] (C) Summary: State Minister of International Cooperation (and SPLM member) Elias Wakoson told CDA Fernandez that Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) efforts have fallen short due to the availability of arms and the lack of dispute resolution alternatives. He said the lack of D [...]
2008-04-04 11:39:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU
08KHARTOUM518BALANCING ACT - UNAMID PUBLIC AFFAIRS WALKS TIGHTROPE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 2, Shereen Zorba and Ali Hamati, of UNAMID's Public Information Office in El Fasher, told emboffs that they feel both external pressure from the Government of Sudan (GoS) and a degree of internal marginalization within UNAMID itself. Most notably, Zorba reported that st [...]
2008-04-06 08:49:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SU KPKO UNSC
08KHARTOUM52FINANCE MINISTER REFUSES TO RELEASE NEC CONTAINERS
[...] (C) Summary: GOS Finance Minister Zubair Ahmed Al-Hassan told visiting PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield that he will not authorize the release of the containers for the New Embassy Compound unless the Embassy pays the customs duties and demurrage fees, due to the deteriorating relationship between [...]
2008-01-15 12:15:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM538GOS BORDER INTELLIGENCE FORCE SPARKS GUNFIRE IN EL FASHER
[...] (SBU) On April 6 at approximately 1330, United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) in El Fasher, North Darfur, warned that "groups of combatants from the GoS Military Camp intend to cause problems in the market area, due to unsatisfactory welfare conditions." A group of Border I [...]
2008-04-07 14:36:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU
08KHARTOUM539POSSIBLE "POLIITICAL ASSASSINATION" IN EL-FASHER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 4 at approximately 20:00 gunmen allegedly affiliated with the janjaweed Border Intelligence Unit shot and killed Suliman Ishaq Korayna Daoud, a member of the Darfur Forum and leader of the SLA-Peace Wing (former rebel group which threw in its lot with the Khartoum regim [...]
2008-04-07 14:37:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SU KPKO UNSC
08KHARTOUM542SPLA DEFENSE WHITE PAPER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The long-awaited SPLA Defense White Paper provides a concise overview of SPLA's mission and objectives, while highlighting capacity issues and a framework to tackle them. The challenge will be in its implementation - the document codifies the military's weaknesses that require s [...]
2008-04-08 14:30:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM557UPDATE ON NORTH DARFUR SECURITY SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Following the shooting in El Fasher's market April 6 perpetrated by Arab janjaweed militia (reftel),armed militia members re-entered the market later that same day and engaged GoS forces there while attempting to loot the Bank of Khartoum. Shots were heard again between 0030-0100 April [...]
2008-04-10 13:21:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU ASEC
08KHARTOUM559SUDANESE LEADERS COMPLAIN ABOUT FOREIGN INFLUENCE
[...] (SBU) Speaking at a March 31 to April 1 workshop "Foreign Presence and its impact on National Sudanese Security" organized by the National Assembly Committee on security and Defense, National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Chief Salah Abdullah Muhammad, aka Salah Ghosh, called on the [...]
2008-04-10 13:37:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM560ARMING LOCAL EMBASSY GUARDS AGAIN RAISED WITH MFA
[...] (C) As Embassy begins process of changing most vehicles' plates from diplomatic to regular license plates this week (reftel b),CDA Fernandez raised the outstanding issue of Sudanese Government permission for unarmed local Embassy Khartoum guards to be armed with defensive weapons while on off [...]
2008-04-10 14:33:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALSU AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL
08KHARTOUM564MINAWI ON DIVIDED CHADIAN SUPPORT FOR REBELS,
[...] (C) In a wide-ranging conversation on April 12, Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi discussed the emergence of two competing streams of Chadian support for Darfur's rebel movements--one led by Dausa Deby and focused on recruiting SLM fighters to augment the URF--and another led by I [...]
2008-04-13 12:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU CD
08KHARTOUM574RARE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GOS, SLA/ABDULWAHID AS FIGHTING
[...] (SBU) In a departure from the unofficial ceasefire between the Sudanese Government and the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)/Abdulwahid, three separate confrontations have erupted between their forces in recent days. The first two rebel attacks occurred in East Jebel Marra on April 9 and 11 and [...]
2008-04-14 10:45:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM582MFA OFFICIAL COUNSELS "TANKS MORE LIKELY THAN
[...] (C) In the midst of a wide-ranging discussion on violence in Darfur (reftel A) on April 13, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq, a regime insider and former intelligence officer (and also in charge of the UNAMID deployment file for the GOS),asked CDA Fernandez "why aren' [...]
2008-04-15 10:51:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALSU AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL
08KHARTOUM623GOSS GIVES JUBA SECURITY UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On the afternoon of April 21 the GOSS assembled the Diplomatic and NGO community for a briefing on what steps it is taking to combat the recent rash of armed robberies targeting foreigners and NGOs in Juba. Actions to be taken include putting more police out on the streets, star [...]
2008-04-23 12:47:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC CASC SU
08KHARTOUM644JANJAWEED FIGHTING CONTINUES INSIDE EL FASHER
[...] (SBU) In yet another example of the clashes between Government of Sudan (GoS) military forces and unruly janjaweed elements that have been plaguing El Fasher for almost one month, on April 21 at approximately 2300 a truck of GoS Special Forces officers was stopped at a checkpoint in east El Fas [...]
2008-04-25 11:41:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU ASEC
08KHARTOUM645TRANSFER OF THREE DETAINEES TO SUDAN
[...] (S) CDA Fernandez briefed MFA Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq on April 27 of the contents of reftel A. RAO briefed Sudanese Intelligence (NISS) at the same time. DLO has provided flight information to appropriate MOD authorities and to MFA in a diplomatic note (without specifying the nature of [...]
2008-04-27 09:56:00Embassy KhartoumSECRETPHUM PINR PTER KDRG TI SU
08KHARTOUM668SUDAN RELEASES NEC CONTAINERS, APPROVES ARMING
[...] (C) The GOS has begun releasing long-delayed NEC containers and also approved the US Embassy's request to arm its local guard force, as long as the guards "remain inside Embassy premises," MFA U/S Mutrif Siddiq told CDA Fernandez and polchief April 30 (first containers with in Embassy hands on [...]
2008-05-01 15:11:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALAMGT ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM701EASTERN SUDAN - IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY, IT WOULD BE THE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Charge Fernandez traveled to Kassala, in eastern Sudan, May 4-5 to meet with local political representatives and tour two locations ripe for USAID help: the flood-prone Al Gash River and the horrifically rundown Kassala hospital. This was the first trip to Kassala by a U.S. chief [...]
2008-05-07 11:55:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SOCI SU
08KHARTOUM710SUDAN WARNS OF JEM RAID ON KHARTOUM, ASKS FOR U.S.
[...] (C) In a call to CDA Fernandez late on May 8 and during a hastily convened diplomatic corps briefing on May 9, Sudan warned of an advance of JEM rebel forces deep into Sudanese territory, including a possible attack on a suburb of Khartoum within days. The Government also made a public statem [...]
2008-05-09 11:52:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ASEC SU CD
08KHARTOUM716JEM REBELS ATTACK OMDURMAN, ALMOST REACH KHARTOUM
[...] (SBU) JEM rebels attacked the sprawling Khartoum suburb of Omdurman May 10 and advanced within sight of one of the bridges leading to Khartoum. Although Sudanese Government forces prevented the rebels from crossing the Nile into the capital, JEM claims that it will launch another attack on the [...]
2008-05-11 15:50:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS KPKO AU UN SU CD
08KHARTOUM724SUDAN'S NSC DISCUSSES JEM ATTACK AS ARRESTS
[...] (S/NF) In the aftermath of the JEM attack on Omdurman (reftels) Sudan's National Security Council pledged to "react" to Chadian aggression, neutralize the "fifth column" that supported the rebels, and exploit the opportunity to enhance Sudan's international image, Senior Assistant to the Presi [...]
2008-05-12 12:51:00Embassy KhartoumSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM SU CD
08KHARTOUM725UPDATE ON SITUATION IN KHARTOUM AND DARFUR AND EMBASSY
[...] (SBU) Following the bold JEM raid on Omdurman May 10, the situation in Khartoum appears to have normalized as of May 13. There were numerous military police check points in downtown Khartoum May 11 and 12 in neighborhoods with sensitive government buildings and major roads and arteries. The Go [...]
2008-05-13 11:49:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU AMGT ASEC CASC
08KHARTOUM727SUDANESE MFA BRIEFS KHARTOUM DIPLOMATIC CORPS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 13 at 11:00 A.M. (local time) Mutriff Sadiq, the Undersecretary at the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by a Sudanese Army General, briefed Khartoum's Ambassadors on the Justice and Equality Movement's attack on Omdurman, across the Nile from the Sudanese c [...]
2008-05-13 14:16:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM732MAY 14 UPDATE ON SITUATION IN KHARTOUM AND DARFUR AND
[...] (SBU) There are reports of continued, sporadic firing in Omdurman during the night of May 13-14 and the Nile bridge connecting Omdurman with Khartoum-proper was closed briefly, but Khartoum remains generally calm four days after the May 10 JEM raid. Armed police and SAF continue to patrol the [...]
2008-05-14 12:28:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU CD AMGT ASEC CASC
08KHARTOUM74ISMAIL: CHADIAN MILITARY ESCALATION RISKS PUSHING
[...] (C) Presidential Advisor Mustafa Othman Ismail warned of growing Sudanese exasperation at what they see as Chadian military escalation on the Darfur border. He also expressed Sudanese frustration at obstacles to Sudanese diplomats performing their work in the U.S. and warned of possible counte [...]
2008-01-20 10:47:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PREL AU UN CD SU
08KHARTOUM761THE GOS HARDLINE WILL SOON CHANGE, SAYS AL-TURABI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 18, Popular Congress Party leader Hassan al-Turabi told CDA Fernandez on May 18 that the Government of Sudan's (GoS) current hardline approach and rhetoric in the wake of the Omdurman attack is temporary. The GoS will soon change its tone and be open to negotiations with K [...]
2008-05-18 14:51:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM CD SU
08KHARTOUM764MINAWI SAYS KHALIL IBRAHIM STRONGER AFTER OMDURMAN
[...] (C) Summary: JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim is stronger as a result of the attack on Omdurman, despite the short-term loss of fighters and vehicles, according to SLM leader and Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi. Minawi believes an attack on Chad is imminent, despite comments from other [...]
2008-05-19 05:43:00Embassy KhartoumSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM779JEM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After days of relative silence, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim contacted FieldOff to accept the Special Envoy's proposal for a meeting in Ndjamena May 29. Khalil made clear that "Darfur is not the goal," but that regime change in Khartoum remains not [...]
2008-05-20 14:00:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU CD UNSC
08KHARTOUM783ARAB REBEL LEADER PROMISES MORE ATTACKS ON GOS
[...] (C) SUMMARY On May 19 and 20, Anwar Ahmed Khater, the leader of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) (and "Darfur's emerging Arab leader" according to one Darfur expert),told poloff that Chadian officials and JEM leaders attempted to recruit his Arab rebel movement prior to JEM's May 10 a [...]
2008-05-21 11:35:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM788HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FOLLOWING REBEL ACTION IN KHARTOUM
[...] (U) Summary: Following last week's armed engagements in Omdurman between JEM and the GOS forces, Sudanese authorities have begun a widespread campaign of random arrests, detainee torture and newspaper censorship. While many have been released, 150 individuals remain under arrest, and one newsp [...]
2008-05-21 13:53:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM849DEMARCHE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF SUDAN ON FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
[...] (SBU) During his May 28 - June 4 visit to Sudan (septels),Presidential Special Envoy Richard Williamson and embassy officers repeatedly and forcefully raised the need for unfettered freedom of movement for both UNAMID and UNMIS in their discussions with high-level officials of the GoS (ref a) [...]
2008-06-08 08:04:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM857DARFUR ZAGHAWA PREDICT ANOTHER REBEL ATTACK ON KHARTOUM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While El Fasher Zaghawa report that they have not experienced increased harassment or threats against them since the May 10 attack on Omdurman, they claim that Khartoum-based Zaghawa still are targeted for arbitrary abuse. Despite the repercussions, local Zaghawa civilians supp [...]
2008-06-09 11:04:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM MOPS KPKO SOCI UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM86OPPOSITION LEADERS IN NORTHERN STATE DISCUSS NEW GOVERNOR,
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with econoff on January 17 and 21, leaders of the Kush Movement for Democracy and the Dal Dams Committee criticized Northern State's newly appointed governor. Contacts complained that the new governor is an outsider unfamiliar with northern issues, that he wa [...]
2008-01-22 09:30:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU
08KHARTOUM866MASS ARRESTS, TORTURE THREATEN DARFURIS IN KHARTOUM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following the May 10 JEM attacks on Omdurman, there are reliable reports that the GoS has detained and tortured thousands of Darfuris living in Khartoum. Sudanese civil society is scrambling to document the names of the detainees, and Sudanese opposition has formed the "May 10 [...]
2008-06-10 14:48:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI SU
08KHARTOUM871AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH SPQL ENVOY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a June 1 meeting Special Envoys Williamson and Eliasson compared notes on current circumstances complicating the path to peace in Darfur. Eliasson highlighted regional aspects of the Darfur crisis, namely the need for the P5 to facilitate normalization of Chad-Sudan relation [...]
2008-06-11 10:33:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD
08KHARTOUM881PROMINENT CRITIC GOES UNDERGROUND AS GOS CROWS ABOUT HUMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: GoS authorities held a press conference on June 10 to spotlight JEM human rights violations, and announce that all JEM "collaborators" will soon be charged and brought to trial. One young critic who came to prominence through his internet postings, Ibrahim Bagal, has gone undergr [...]
2008-06-13 13:09:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI SU
08KHARTOUM893ABDUL WAHID'S KHARTOUM REP DISCUSSES MILITARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY In a discrete June 12 meeting with poloff, the head of SLA-Abdul Wahid's Khartoum's office boasted of Abdul Wahid's military strength, extensive and multi-layered organization throughout Sudan, and overall popularity in Darfur. He also strongly criticized UNAMID, Special Envoys [...]
2008-06-15 14:36:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM902SLM/MM FRUSTRATED AND WEAKENED TO THE BREAKING POINT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 17, Mohammed Suliman, a senior leader of SLM/Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) and Secretary General of the TDRA, railed against the NCP, stating that the ruling party should openly admit its neglect of the DPA, rather than deceptively undermine the peace agreement. Suliman's fiery [...]
2008-06-18 10:30:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PINS SU
08KHARTOUM911UNAMID DEPLOYMENT GETS A LIFT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Just when it seemed like those in charge of UNAMID deployment were all out for summer break and all meaningful work would accordingly have to wait until fall, the contingent-owned equipment for the Chinese engineers in Nyala reached its destination at long last, allowing for arri [...]
2008-06-19 11:08:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD
08KHARTOUM915SHORTLEY MEETINGS WITH GOSS/SPLA ON LRA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: "Dove" Vice President and Juba Peace Talks Mediator Riek Machar and military pragmatist SPLA Chief of Staff General Oyai Deng Ajak provided AF Senior Advisor Shortley with nuanced and occasionally differing viewpoints on how to deal with the LRA question following fresh LRA acti [...]
2008-06-20 09:01:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM MOPS SU CG CT UG
08KHARTOUM916A GUIDE TO THE FORMAL POLITICAL PARTY LANDSCAPE IN DARFUR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Although the two CPA signatories - the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the National Congress Party (NCP) - form the basis of the Government of National Unity (GNU) and control most aspects of political life in Sudan (with the NCP controlling the North and the SPLM [...]
2008-06-20 10:33:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM91839 DARFURIS CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH MAY 10 ATTACKS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese authorities formally charged 39 detainees in connection with the May 10 JEM attacks on the capital, although many more Darfuris remain in custody or are unaccounted-for. Khartoum-based Darfuri civil society groups have received significant moral support from political pa [...]
2008-06-20 12:36:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU CD
08KHARTOUM922SPLA ACCUSED OF TOTURING SUSPECTS WHILE SPLA
[...] (SBU) Summary: SPLA military police have been accused of torturing employees of a U.S. company operating in Juba, Sudan. Two of these individuals were reportedly subject to psychological abuse as well as beatings and sodomy. In an unrelated incident, a counter-intelligence officer was arreste [...]
2008-06-22 10:26:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM924JEM-CHAD UPDATE FROM DARFUR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel group has been active over the past week in Darfur, as well as in eastern Chad supporting the GOC. The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has attempted to confirm reports of cross-border military movements between [...]
2008-06-22 13:57:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD
08KHARTOUM931CHIEF MEDIATOR DESPERATELY NEEDED AS UN/AU MEDIATION TEAM
[...] This is an action cable, see para 13. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On June 22, the political director of the UN/AU's Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST),Muin Shrim, told poloffs that they are "back to square one" in the search for a joint mediator, and that by August only a couple of its current staff [...]
2008-06-23 14:38:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM941ABYEI, SUDAN ON KNIFE'S EDGE, WARNS FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: FM Deng Alor described ongoing tensions on the June 8 Abyei road map while noting some progress in implementing its milestones. Back from a just concluded visit to several European capitals, he summarized increasing European pressure, especially from France, on the need for Sudane [...]
2008-06-25 11:10:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM949WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MINNI MINAWI (THE VIEW FROM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As reported in reftel, the location of Senior Presidential Assistant, SLM leader, and DPA signatory Minni Minawi has been the source of much speculation throughout Sudan over the past week. Other Darfur rebel factions confirm he crossed the border to Chad, where he had meetings [...]
2008-06-26 06:10:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM965DARFUR: PAE WILL STOP WORK JULY 14, BUT A 45-60 DAY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting PAE President John Moore, resident Project Director Bruce Smart, and Support Manager Claire Sanford told CDA Fernandez June 29 that PAE will stop work on all projects July 14 ("the date for no more shovels in the ground") but that UNAMID and PAE have discussed a 45- to 6 [...]
2008-07-01 05:22:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM966DISSECTING UNSCR 1769
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As renewal of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 (2007) approaches on July 31, it is time to take stock of what this resolution has accomplished during the first year of its existence, and more critically what it has failed to do. Identifying its shortcomings, howeve [...]
2008-07-01 05:30:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD
08KHARTOUM973JEM'S SENIOR LEADERS DISCUSS POLITICAL PROCESS (PART I of
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 27-28, three senior Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leaders in London separately met poloff and discussed Darfur's political process. Leaders appeared confident of JEM's position following their May 10 attack on Omdurman, though frustrated by the stalled political p [...]
2008-07-02 08:17:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM974JEM'S SENIOR LEADERS DISCUSS REBEL UNIFICATION AND EXTERNAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 27-28, three senior Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leaders in London separately met poloff and discussed JEM's ideas on rebel unification; its relations with the SPLM, SLM/Minni Minnawi, Chad, and Libya; and JEM's expectations for the content of any peace deal. Thes [...]
2008-07-02 09:08:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM985EU SPECIAL ENVOY WARNED BY GOS REGIME ABOUT IMPACT
[...] (C) Summary: CDA Fernandez met with EU Special Envoy to Sudan Torben Brylle on July 2 to discuss EU concerns about possible ICC indictments of senior Sudanese government officials. Brylle recounted his meeting the same day with security chief Salah Ghosh, who warned him that Sudan is not afrai [...]
2008-07-04 12:37:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF KPKO PHUM UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM992DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Tensions are mounting throughout Darfur, particularly in North Darfur, where a heightened Government of Sudan (GoS) military presence and tightening GoS restrictions on movement of all parties seem to signal a reassertion of GoS control over the state, possibly in response to reb [...]
2008-07-06 06:18:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD
08KHARTOUM996SUDAN NEEDS AMERICAN HELP - ON MINNAWI AND ICC -
[...] (C) Summary: Sudan wants US help in bringing former rebel leader and current Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi back from Darfur where he is encamped with his fighters and proposes a trilateral (NCP, Minnawi, US) discussion on implementing the moribund 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). Su [...]
2008-07-06 15:06:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN AU SU
08KIGALI165TIM SHORTLEY MEETS FOREIGN MINISTER AND GREAT
[...] (C) Summary. Senior Envoy for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley and Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Charles Murigande and Great Lakes Envoy Ambassador Richard Sezibera March 6 to discuss rebel Congolese militia leader Laurent Nkunda, the Kivus Peace Process and the Nairobi Agreement, and [...]
2008-03-10 07:27:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM RW
08KIGALI167FORMER RDF SPOKESMAN AND SPY CHIEF PATRICK
[...] (C) Leah Karegeya, wife of Colonel Patrick Karegeya, former RDF spokesman and Director of External Intelligence at the Rwandan National Security Service, met with PolOff on March 6 to provide information on the whereabouts and activities of her husband and of her own current situation in Rwand [...]
2008-03-10 15:56:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV RW
08KIGALI201HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TRIPARTITE PLUS
[...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to attend a Tripartite-Plus Intelligence Refresher Course (ranks are N/A): Last Name First Name DOB --------- --- [...]
2008-03-19 13:18:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL RW
08KIGALI292THE SPANISH INDICTMENTS: OUTRAGEOUS AND INACCURATE
[...] (C) Summary. The Spanish indictment of 40 Rwandan military officers offers an unrecognizable version of some of the most painful and violent episodes in Rwanda's history, distorting the established record, inventing mass killings, placing the blame for any misfortune Rwandans have suffered [...]
2008-04-24 08:08:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV PINR RW
08KIGALI393INCREASED FDLR INFILTRATIONS INTO RWANDA
[...] (C) Summary. Rwandan security officials reported 76 "infiltrations" by Democratic Force for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) intelligence squads since January 1, with 14 operatives captured, and some killed in firefights with Rwandan border forces. Accompanying these infiltrations, a number [...]
2008-06-06 11:43:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV PREL RW
08KIGALI425RWANDA HOSTS SIXTH CHOD MEETING
[...] (C) Participants at a June 19-20 Chiefs of Defense Staff meeting in Kigali agreed upon the following proposals: -- Operationalize the existing FARDC/MONUC plan against negative forces -- Share timely information and intelligence during those operations -- FARDC/MONUC to establish a mobilii [...]
2008-06-23 11:45:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR RW
08KIGALI461SENATOR NELSON VISITS RWANDA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Senator Bill Nelson (D - FL) visited Rwanda July 4-6, meeting separately with President Kagame and National Security Service General Secretary Emmanuel Ndahiro, discussing Rwanda's regeneration after the 1994 genocide and intelligence matters, respectively. He also lunched wit [...]
2008-07-10 12:45:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PGOV PREL RW
08KIGALI5MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP
[...] (SBU) This edition of the monthly political roundup includes: -- Rwanda's Fifth National Dialogue -- The Rwandan Patriotic Front's 20th Anniversary Congress -- Changes in NGO Registration Procedures -- The High Council of the Press "Validation Workshop" President Chairs Fifth National D [...]
2008-01-04 09:45:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM RW
08KIGALI533RWANDAN OFFICIALS ON EASTERN CONGO
[...] (S) Summary. Rwandan officials in meetings with CODEL Payne staffers and Charge disputed recruitment at refugee camps in Rwanda by the wife of Laurent Nkunda, but admitted recruitment by other operatives takes place. These officials also dismissed the recent RUD-URUNANA surrender as a sham, [...]
2008-08-07 11:50:00Embassy KigaliSECRETPREL PGOV PINR RW
08KIGALI560RWANDA - DEMARCHE ON EASTERN CONGO
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Foreign Affairs Rosemary Museminali dismissed concerns about the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (ref A). In particular, she rejected any notion that the Government of Rwanda (GOR) continued to support Laurent Nkunda and the CNDP and allowed them [...]
2008-08-14 15:56:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF RW
08KIGALI615SHORTLEY MEETS SENIOR RWANDAN OFFICIALS
[...] (C) In conversations with Senior Advisor for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley, Rwandan officials agreed that CNDP forces should pull back from forward positions gained in last several days in eastern Congo. While denying any special links with Nkunda forces, they agreed to send messages to [...]
2008-09-10 12:15:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR MASS MOPS RW
08KIGALI708AGOA COUNTRY ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - RWANDA
[...] (U) This cable responds to queries in reftel. Country Background Summary -------------------------- 2.(U) With 85 percent of its population engaged in subsistence agriculture, Rwanda's economic priorities include poverty alleviation, encouraging private investment and infrastructure d [...]
2008-10-07 12:15:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD PGOV RW
08KIGALI768FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary. Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali briefed the local diplomatic corps October 29 on events in eastern Congo and the Government of Rwanda's (GOR) relations with the DRC. Museminali claimed that Rwandan armed forces had not fired in response to a Congolese armed forces (FARDC) [...]
2008-10-31 10:57:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF RW
08KIGALI811RWANDA ON TALKS WITH CONGO, OBASANJO
[...] (U) In a follow-up to talks held in Kinshasa October 31 - November 1, a DRC delegation led by Foreign Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba visited Kigali November 14-15 to continue discussions on events in eastern Congo, normalization of relations, and next steps. Rwandan Foreign Minister Rosemary [...]
2008-11-20 12:41:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR RW
08KIGALI865RWANDA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (SBU) The Government of Rwanda (GOR) reinforced border control measures to identify potential terrorists and to prevent the entry into Rwanda of armed groups operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda's intergovernmental counterterrorism committee and a counterterrorism react [...]
2008-12-22 12:46:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER ASEC RW
08KINGSTON152JAMAICA: CTED FACT-FINDING MISSION PRESENTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-15 21:06:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL ASEC SNAR EWWT EIND MASS DHS JA
08KINGSTON172FIREARMS SMUGGLING INTO JAMAICA
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paras five and six. Summary: Ref (A) reported on a January 11 meeting between the Ambassador and Minister of National Security Derrick Smith. During that meeting, MNS Permanent Secretary (PS) Gilbert Scott voiced concern about illegal firearms entering [...]
2008-02-26 20:01:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC JM KCRM PREL
08KINGSTON196JAMAICA: REQUEST FOR LEAVY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Jamaica defence Force (JDF) to meet with Bahamian counterparts on March 17 and discuss joint interdiction efforts, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. [...]
2008-03-05 18:57:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM JM
08KINGSTON219JAMAICA: CRIME, CORRUPTION, AND ECONOMY PRINCIPAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-12 12:00:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID PTER SOCI ASEC MARR SNAR ETRD
08KINGSTON233JAMAICA: PROPOSED RE-OBLIGATION OF INCLE FUNDS TO
[...] (U) This is an action message. 2. (SBU) In response to the GOJ,s request for urgent security assistance (see reftel),the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) has developed an immediate procurement plan for which we would like INL concurrence. The plan was prepared in close consultation with C [...]
2008-03-14 20:16:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC JM
08KINGSTON264JAMAICA: 2008 DEMARCHE ON MAJORS LIST COUNTRY
[...] (U) This message responds to reftels. 2. (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Johnson and Acting NAS Director (NASDIR) met with Minister of National Security, Derrick Smith, on March 26, and presented the Majors List demarche outlining counter-narcotics benchmarks for 2008. The meeting was cordial. [...]
2008-03-28 18:56:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KRIM PREL SNAR JM
08KINGSTON276JAMAICA: NON-PAPER REGARDING 2008 DEMARCHE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-01 20:01:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDJM KCOR KCRM PREL SNAR
08KINGSTON283JAMAICA: ACTING NAS DIRECTOR CALLS ON CHIEF OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 2, Acting NAS Director (NASDIR) called on Major General Stewart Saunders, Chief of Defence Staff, and on Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, Commissioner of Police, to review several outstanding issues. These included the GOJ request for FY-10 assistance to counter a likely [...]
2008-04-03 20:53:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYJM PREL SNAR
08KINGSTON351(C) IN ITS FIRST THREE MONTHS THE NEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: In its first three months, the new Anti-Corruption Branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force has arrested 27 officers and two civilians for corruption, a 100% increase over last year,s moribund performance by the Branch,s predecessor organization. The new Branch Chief, Justin F [...]
2008-04-24 15:33:00Embassy KingstonSECRETSNAR PREL JM
08KINGSTON366JAMAICA RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD AND COMMODITY
[...] (SBU) Jamaica does not currently face a chronic shortage in aggregate food supplies, but soaring prices over the last two years have led to a growing nutritional deficit among the most vulnerable citizens. Food substitution has also been on the rise as consumers search for cheaper alternatives [...]
2008-04-30 12:43:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR SENV ECON ETRD SOCI PREL AGR EAID ENRG
08KINGSTON417JAMAICA: MURDER MOST FOUL -- 564 DEAD FOR THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: As of May 11, 2008, murders to date have reached 564. There have been nearly 100 people killed, mostly in the Kingston Metro area since the beginning of May. Half are attributed to gang violence. There is some concern that the violence could be political overtones, given the [...]
2008-05-12 20:17:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALSNAR ASEC PREL JM
08KINGSTON425FRAUD SUMMARY JAN-MAR 2008 KINGSTON
[...] (U) SUMMARY. In the second quarter of FY 2008, the Fraud Prevention Unit focused on public outreach and interagency cooperation, particularly with our law enforcement colleagues. FPU organized an interagency roundtable, conducted three offsite field trips for officers, and gave presentations [...]
2008-05-14 17:14:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC JM
08KINGSTON442REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US IMET IS JUNE 2, 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-19 14:40:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM JM
08KINGSTON477(C) UPDATE TO REQUEST FOR INL SUPPORT OF JCF
[...] (C) Summary: Subsequent to reception of Ref. A, INL/LP requested additional detail on the nature and cost of the proposed long-term detail of two U.S. officers to the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Anti Corruption Division. In addition, based on advice of INL/LP, Post has also recalibrated the [...]
2008-05-27 18:18:00Embassy KingstonSECRETSNAR PREL JM
08KINGSTON483(C) UPDATE TO REQUEST FOR INL SUPPORT OF JCF
[...] (C) Summary: Subsequent to reception of Ref. A, INL/LP requested additional detail on the nature and cost of the proposed long-term detail of two U.S. officers to the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Anti Corruption Division. In addition, based on advice of INL/LP, Post has also recalibrated the [...]
2008-05-27 21:30:00Embassy KingstonSECRETSNAR PREL JM
08KINGSTON487JAMAICA: INPUT FOR CARIBBEAN SECURITY ASSESSMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-29 12:09:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL MASS MOPS ASEC SNAR PBTS DHS JM XL
08KINGSTON514Jamaica: mid-year report card for 2009 Major's List
[...] (SBU) Summary: In March, Ambassador Johnson presented then Minister of National Security Derrick Smith with the 2008 U.S. Benchmark for certification (ref A). Jamaica remains a major producer of marijuana and marijuana derivative products, which continue to affect the United States. This mar [...]
2008-06-06 15:20:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM PREL JM XL
08KINGSTON875CRIME IN JAMAICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Gruesome headlines of multiple murder and discoveries of the mutilated bodies of children are all too common in today's Jamaica. Despite the Prime Minister's announcement of the urgency to pass new crime legislation, the draft bills are taking a pounding in Parliamentary hearin [...]
2008-10-06 18:21:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALASEC SNAR KCRM PREL JM
08KINGSTON969REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] Post requests Department's assistance in screening the following candidate of the Jamaican Defense Force (JDF) to participate in the International Officer Intel Course, held at Intelligence School, Ft. Huachuca, AZ, December 15, 2008, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post [...]
2008-11-14 21:19:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM JM
08KINSHASA1002SENIOR ADVISOR SHORTLEY'S MEETINGS WITH NATIONAL
[...] (S) Summary: National Assembly President Vital Kamerhe told AF Senior Advisor for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley and PolCouns November 6 that the GDRC had already started on a multi-step process designed to lead to the resumption of full diplomatic relations between the DRC and Rwanda within [...]
2008-11-13 06:38:00Embassy KinshasaSECRETPREL PGOV MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KINSHASA1004 INTERNATIONAL FACILITATION MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from the International Facilitation (IF) and MONUC Force Commander Gaye met on November 11 in Goma to discuss various issues. EU Special Representative Roeland van de Geer provided a brief overview of the Nairobi Summit, emphasizing that the IF will support Oba [...]
2008-11-13 10:42:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KINSHASA1010PRESS FREEDOM QUARTERLY: JULY-SEPTEMBER 2008
[...] (SBU) Summary: Congolese security forces continue to harass journalists. Intelligence agents arrested a journalist in Kindu, Maniema for allowing on-air criticism of local authorities. An anonymous official threatened a journalist in Kananga, Kasai Occidental for criticizing the state of te [...]
2008-11-14 16:55:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KDEM CG
08KINSHASA1015 GOMA NOTES - NOVEMBER 17
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security and Humanitarian Situation ----------------------------------- 2. (SBU) [...]
2008-11-17 13:46:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KINSHASA1024 Eastern Congo Developments: Nkunda-
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. 2. (SBU) Summary: During his November 16 meeting with UN Special Envoy Obasanjo, CN [...]
2008-11-18 12:23:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KINSHASA1025KABILA PICKS DIDIER ETUMBA, A REGIONAL OUTSIDER,
[...] (U) On November 17, President Kabila named Didier Etumba Longila as the new Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, replacing Dieudonne Kayembe. Concurrently, Etumba was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General. Although an army officer, Etumba had been serving as Navy Chief of Staff, as well [...]
2008-11-19 07:57:00Embassy KinshasaSECRETPGOV PREL CG
08KINSHASA110 CNDP Returns to Military Committee in Goma
[...] (SBU) Summary: After a rocky couple of days, with revolts first by CNDP and then by Mai Mai, Vice-Admiral Etumba's effort to bring armed groups in North Kivu together concluded with symbolic success January 31, even if confusion continued to reign. MONUC announced setting up a cell for verify [...]
2008-02-01 11:14:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MARR KPKO CG
08KINSHASA1104 EASTERN DRC NOTES - DECEMBER 15
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) At the December 12 UN security br [...]
2008-12-15 11:30:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KINSHASA154 Joint Monitoring Group Task Force, Goma, February 8
[...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting of the Nairobi process's Joint Monitoring Group Task Force February 8 in Goma was a bit testier than usual. The Rwandan side leveled charges of co-location of FDLR and FARDC forces, regretted that the Congolese government was not living up to its timetable of actions to [...]
2008-02-12 06:29:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PREF CG RW
08KINSHASA25VIOLENT CLASHES BETWEEN POLICE AND POLITICAL- RELIGIOUS
[...] (U) Summary: Clashes between police and members of the political-religious sect Bundia dia Kongo (BDK) on January 5 in Bas-Congo Province left at least six people dead and dozens more injured. The violence is the latest manifestation of tension between the BDK and the Congolese government. T [...]
2008-01-11 11:31:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM PHUM PINS PTER PREL CG
08KINSHASA258GOMA NOTES - NAIROBI PROCESS: 12TH MEETING OF JMG TASK
[...] (SBU) Summary: The March 7 meeting of the Nairobi process Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) Task Force went smoothly and professionally. Discussion of the minutes of the previous meeting took only about 20 minutes. Congo noted it had launched its FDLR "sensibilization" campaign March 1. FDLR lead [...]
2008-03-15 18:01:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO CG RW EUN SF AU UN
08KINSHASA274SHORTLEY BRIEFS P3+2+MONUC FOLLOWING MEETINGS WITH
[...] (C) Summary. AF Senior Adviser Tim Shortley briefed P3 2 ambassadors March 7 in Kinshasa on his talks with Nkunda and Kigali the previous week. Shortley confirmed that Nkunda had agreed to rejoin the Goma process. Shortley stressed that the international community must treat Nkunda in a way [...]
2008-03-19 16:06:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO MARR MOPS CG RW UN
08KINSHASA278GOMA NOTES 03/17/08 - VISIT TO COB TONGO (MASISI
[...] (SBU) Summary: Lack of reliable cartography doomed an effort March 17 to delineate an "exclusion" (buffer) zone between PARECO and CNDP at Tongo in Masisi Territory. MONUC committed to following up with a proper meeting in Goma, with maps at hand. Tongo is a sensitive point at the intersecti [...]
2008-03-21 07:59:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS KPKO CG UN
08KINSHASA287GOMA NOTES - NAIROBI PROCESS: 14TH MEETING OF JMG TASK
[...] (SBU) Summary. The March 21 Joint Monitoring Group Task Force session in Goma went reasonably smoothly, with little wrangling. Congo characterized its post-March 15 military plans against the ex-FAR/Interahamwe as a "progressive operation," not "classical war." Rwanda characterized as "positi [...]
2008-03-24 07:43:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS MARR PGOV KPKO CG RW SF UN EUN
08KINSHASA305GOMA NOTES - NAIROBI PROCESS: 15TH MEETING OF JOINT
[...] Summary. The March 28 meeting of the Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) Task Force in Goma was again generally businesslike. The DRC claims to have captured Rwandan-national CNDP fighters, and the prisoners have alleged the presence of more. The DRC also claims to have captured a brigade-level FD [...]
2008-03-31 09:26:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS KPKO CG RW UN EUN
08KINSHASA345GOMA NOTES - NAIROBI PROCESS: 16th MEETING OF JMG TASK
[...] (SBU) Summary: The 16th meeting of the Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) Task Force for the Nairobi communIque April 4 in Goma was punctuated by several unexpected exchanges. The FARDC's regional military intelligence chief implied that CNDP is an ally against FDLR. The Congolese delegation repor [...]
2008-04-15 12:24:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO CG UN RW SF EUN
08KINSHASA361Press freedom quarterly: January-March 2008
[...] (SBU) Summary: Congolese authorities used restrictive freedom of expression laws to convict a journalist in Kasai Oriental province and arrest four others in Kinshasa and South Kivu. Police beat a cameraman filming their operations in Katanga. Legal proceedings resumed in the case of murdere [...]
2008-04-18 11:52:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KDEM CG
08KINSHASA383AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON GAINS CONGOLESE SUPPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met with senior officials from the Congolese Government (GDRC),MONUC, NGOs and the diplomatic community during his April 9-12 visit to Kinshasa. He emphasized that his meetings were part of a broader Great Lakes visit [...]
2008-04-29 06:25:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KPKO KJUS SOCI PINR CG RW UN
08KINSHASA392 Kabila, SRSG/P-3 plus two and Angola discuss East,
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 2 President Kabila met with SRSG Doss, ambassadors of the P-3 plus 2 nations, and Angola, the first meeting in this format in 2008. Kabila and the European ambassadors expressed disappointment - without explicitly blaming each other - for slow movement on economic devel [...]
2008-05-05 14:45:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KINSHASA40 MONUC's Kivus Conference Report -- third day of
[...] (SBU) Under the moderation of Azarias Ruberwa, today's plenary started with speeches by governors Didier Manara (Maniema province) and Medard Autsai (Orientale province). Both presented their respective provinces, which they portrayed as places where ethnic groups coexisted peacefully, as exa [...]
2008-01-14 16:16:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PHUM MOPS PREL CG
08KINSHASA435ANGOLA'S INFLUENCE IN THE DRC
[...] (U) Background and summary: This cable provides an overview of Angola's political and military interests and goals in the DRC. Angola is one of the DRC,s closest allies and the two countries cooperate closely on economic matters, border security, and between militaries. The nature of the cu [...]
2008-05-16 15:55:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MOPS MARR AO CG
08KINSHASA469DEPLOYMENT OF MILITARY INFORMATION SUPPORT TEAM TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post requests deployment of a military information support team (MIST) to plan, conduct and execute special information programs and training in coordination with appropriate Embassy sections, the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC),and the UN Observer [...]
2008-05-28 11:17:00Embassy KinshasaSECRETMARR MASS PGOV PK PREL KPAO
08KINSHASA513GOMA NOTES 06/07/08: UN SECURITY COUNCIL VISITS GOMA
[...] (SBU) Visiting UNSC ambassadors, including Ambassador Garvelink representing the U.S., listened with interest and appreciation June 7 to arguments advanced by Apollinaire Malu Malu, President of the Independent Electoral Commission and National Coordinator of the Amani Program, for support to [...]
2008-06-10 07:25:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG UN EUN
08KINSHASA529MLC LEADERSHIP ON BEMBA AND MORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a long discussion June 3, leaders of Bemba's MLC ("Mouvement pour la Liberation du Congo") party told PolOff they are not planning further public demonstrations in Kinshasa following a canceled May 31 march in the capital. The strongest displays of support for Bemba have oc [...]
2008-06-16 10:40:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EFIN ECON CG RW
08KINSHASA594Tripartite Plus: Coordinator's Visit to Kinshsa
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Joyce Leader, Snior Coordinator of the Tripartite Plus Joint Comission, traveled to Kinshasa June 22-23 as partof a regional trip to Tripartite Plus capitals. Hr schedule included meetings with Foreign Ministr Mbusa, CHOD Kayembe, Presidential Envoy Seraphi Ngwej, an [...]
2008-07-17 14:59:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
08KINSHASA648 32nd MEETING OF JMG TASK FORCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The 32nd meeting of the Joint Monitoring Group Task Force July 25 was unusually short at just over three hours. U.S. members of the International Facilitation were Nicholas Jenks and Geoffrey Parker. Jean-Michel Dumont of the EU chaired the meeting. Due to a misunderstanding, [...]
2008-08-07 11:18:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
08KINSHASA693PRESS FREEDOM QUARTERLY: APRIL-JUNE 2008
[...] (SBU) Summary: Congolese security personnel, often under orders from government officials, as well as illegal armed groups continue to harass, intimidate, and detain journalists. Federal immigration service agents (DGM - "Direction General de Migration" in French) detained an independent Bel [...]
2008-08-25 13:58:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KDEM CG
08KINSHASA72663RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AND
[...] (SBU) Following is an updated response regarding GDRC attendance at the 63rd UN General Assembly. Post will continue to engage MFA to obtain additional attendance details: A. Attendance of the Head of State: -- Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo -- Arrival an [...]
2008-09-03 09:47:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OTRA OVIP UNGA KSEP
08KINSHASA734 Goma Report September 5: CNDP Captures Katsiru
[...] (SBU) Summary: CNDP launched a three-pronged attack at dawn September 5 and drove FARDC out of Katsiru. The International Facilitation team has urged FARDC and CNDP to begin urgent military talks to get forces back to positions held two weeks ago. CNDP insists on such talks taking place at [...]
2008-09-08 07:29:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KINSHASA767 DRC PRESS MINISTER BANS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 10, 2008 Press Minister Emile Bongeli signed a decree shutting down five Kinshasa TV stations for allegedly running afoul of national media laws. A local human rights group depicts the ban as unsubstantiated and an attack on freedom of speech targeting opposition [...]
2008-09-16 10:43:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KPAO CG UNESCO
08KINSHASA784ITCR EFFORTS TO LOCATE RWANDAN FUGITIVES
[...] (S) Summary: ICTR Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow told the Ambassador on September 9 that the ICTR has located 5 suspected Rwandan "genocidaires" on Congolese territory. The ICTR is attempting to engage MONUC and the GDRC to step up efforts to apprehend the fugitives. The GDRC, while willin [...]
2008-09-22 12:24:00Embassy KinshasaSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM ICTR CG
08KINSHASA786 Goma report September 22: Restiveness
[...] (SBU) Summary: FARDC launched indiscriminate barrages from Sake into the western heights September 22, uncoordinated with MONUC. Corpses arriving in Goma September 21 stirred angry mobs in the city, and MONUC restricted movement of its civilian employees. Both the government and CNDP appear [...]
2008-09-23 06:51:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KPKO PHUM PREF CG
08KINSHASA845 October 3 discussion with Colonel Mamba,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Goma poloff spoke October 3 with the head of the Congolese delegation to the Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) Task Force, Colonel Augustin Mamba. Mamba claimed the RUD disarmament in Kasiki was overall a success story. He explained that working together with certain figures that [...]
2008-10-06 15:32:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KPKO PHUM PREF CG
08KINSHASA87 Post-Conference in Goma: Struggling with Implementation
[...] (SBU) Summary: The structure and timing for implementing the Acte d'Engagement and recommendations of the Kivus Conference -- particularly establishment of the technical committee on security -- remain unclear, as the conference leaders and FARDC have different approaches. Most of the heavy-h [...]
2008-01-28 16:34:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MOPS CG
08KINSHASA898 GOMA NOTES OCTOBER 15: POSSIBLE FARDC WITHDRAWAL FROM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Goma Poloff met with FARDC General Lukama October 15 to receive his assessment of the situation in North Kivu. Lukama confirmed that going after the FDLR was a second-order priority for the FARDC compared to fighting the CNDP. He noted that his greatest challenge was his units [...]
2008-10-17 11:21:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
08KINSHASA928(C) AZARIAS RUBERWA ON GOMA, AMANI,
[...] (C) Summary: Former Vice-President and current Chairman of the Congolese Rally for Democracy party (RCD -- Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie) Azarias Ruberwa told emboffs that, while the Goma Accords contained a solid basis for a lasting political settlement, implementation had been [...]
2008-10-27 09:25:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MOPS CG
08KINSHASA940 GOMA SITUATION REPORT - CONTINUING CRISIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: As of the morning of October 28, MONUC's no movement order was still in effect. Violent demonstrations started late in the morning of October 27 between the town center and the Goma airport, resulting in one civilian death outside of a MONUC transit camp, when a soldier from th [...]
2008-10-28 14:05:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM MOPS PREF KPKO CG
08KOLKATA104MAOISTS SEEK TO EXPAND PRESENCE IN WEST BENGAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. On March 4 and 14, Econoff met separately with a journalist who reports on and interacts with Maoist insurgents, and the former GOWB Home Secretary, who was responsible for overall state security and for the state government's response to the Maoist threat. Both acknowledged [...]
2008-03-28 09:15:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PHUM PINR ASEC IN
08KOLKATA134THE EFFECT OF NEPAL'S MAOIST VICTORY ON INDIA'S LEFT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Eastern Indian security officials are concerned about the implications of the Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist (CPNM)'s victory in the April 10 Constituent Assembly (CA) elections for regional stability. Indian leaders have sought to put the best face on the CPNM's success, [...]
2008-04-28 04:10:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PREF PGOV PINR IN NP
08KOLKATA193MAOISTS IN ORISSA AMBUSH COUNTER INSURGENCY UNIT AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday June 29, 36 commandos from Andhra Pradesh's elite counter-insurgency Greyhound force were missing after Maoist rebels ambushed a boat carrying the group on the Balimela reservoir in Orissa's remote Malkangiri district. Also missing were three Orissa police escorts. A [...]
2008-06-30 13:10:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER MARR KCRM SOCI PGOV ASEC IN
08KOLKATA206SUSPECTED MAOISTS KILL JHARKHAND LEGISLATOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 10:08:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PTER PGOV PHUM IN
08KOLKATA21221 KILLED IN FRESH MAOIST ATTACK IN ORISSA
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 16, Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoists) insurgents killed at least 21 people, including 17 policemen, by blowing up an anti-landmine vehicle in the Malkangiri district of the eastern Indian State of Orissa. This is the first time in Orissa an anti-landmine vehic [...]
2008-07-21 07:54:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PTER PGOV PHUM IN
08KOLKATA247UPDATE ON ORISSA COMMUNAL VIOLENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The situation in Orissa's Kandhamal district still remains tense. Federal Home Minister Shivraj Patil was able to make a spot assessment of the situation in Orissa on September 3. At least 16 people have died in the communal clashes which began on August 24 and about 550 houses [...]
2008-09-03 13:17:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV IN
08KOLKATA252ORISSA: REPORTS FROM THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Two weeks after communal violence targeting Christians erupted in the Kandhamal district in the State of Orissa, increasing numbers of victims are being housed in government camps. Three new camps opened this week, bringing the total to ten camps housing over 12,000 people. This [...]
2008-09-04 12:59:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV IN
08KOLKATA286BOMBINGS STRIKE TRIPURA; KOLKATA INCREASES SECURITY AHEAD OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The October 1 blasts in Tripura's capital, Agartala, have caused an increase in security measures along the Indo-Bangladesh border, but police officials remain unsure as to who is responsible for the attacks. The central government has sent investigators to Agartala in an effort [...]
2008-10-06 10:58:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL BG IN
08KOLKATA56ASSAM POLICE CLAIM TO THWART AIRPLANE HIJACK ATTEMPT BY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 9, Assam Police claimed to have thwarted plans to hijack a Deccan Air plane, with the arrest of three suspects. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),alleged by the Assam police to be backed by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI),planned to hijac [...]
2008-02-15 12:27:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PINR EAIR ASEC PK IN
08KOLKATA65SECURITY FORCES IN ORISSA STILL PURSUE MAOIST INSURGENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 20, approximately 400 Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel joined Orissa security forces in the search for the over 200 Maoists insurgents who attacked police facilities and armory on February 15. The scale of the Maoist attack prompted Orissa Chie [...]
2008-02-21 13:09:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER MARR ASEC PHUM IN
08KOLONIA187FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON
[...] Per reftel, post's 2008 Country Report on Terrorism follows. 2. The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is not a focal point for terrorist activity. No known terrorist groups operate in the area. To date, no terrorist acts have been committed on FSM soil, neither against the FSM governm [...]
2008-12-22 00:02:00Embassy KoloniaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC FM
08KOLONIA98JAPAN'S FIRST AMBASSADOR TO THE FSM DOWNPLAYS EXPECTATIONS -
[...] (C) Summary. Japan's first resident ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) presented his credentials on June 24. He conveyed an exceptionally brief message of good will on the part of the Emperor, omitting reference to specific goals. Japanese Ambassador Shoji Sato said pri [...]
2008-07-03 04:48:00Embassy KoloniaCONFIDENTIALPREL FM JA CH
08KUALALUMPUR1001SCENESETTER FOR FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR JOHN S.
[...] (C) The Embassy warmly welcomes you to Malaysia! Your visit comes at an opportune time as the Embassy is ramping up engagement on law enforcement and rule of law priorities. Clearly, you will also travel at a moment of serious concern in the U.S. and Asia about the threat of global recession, [...]
2008-11-12 09:37:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MASS MOPS ECON KJUS KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR1075OTHMAN PUTS ONUS ON MANILA FOR IMT DECISION AND
[...] (C) Malaysian facilitator for the Philippines Government (GRP)/Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace talks Othman Abdul Razak, speaking with Polcouns December 4, placed blame on the GRP for Malaysia's November 30 withdrawal from the International Monitoring Team (IMT) and would not specul [...]
2008-12-10 10:36:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PTER MOPS EAID KISL JP RP MY
08KUALALUMPUR1111MALAYSIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] (SBU) Following is the draft text of the 2008 Country Report on Terrorism for Malaysia. Until the report is finalized for submission to Congress, please treat as Sensitive. Begin Text: The police forces in Malaysia continued to conduct all counterterrorist investigations and operations. M [...]
2008-12-22 09:07:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV MARR KCRM ASEC MY
08KUALALUMPUR1114PRESSURE MOUNTS AGAINST INTERNAL SECURITY ACT (ISA)
[...] (S) Summary: The Malaysian government's use of the Internal Security Act (ISA),which allows for detention without trial and is central to the GOM's intelligence-driven CT effort, has come under increasing political pressure over the past three months. The GOM's employment of the ISA in Sep [...]
2008-12-23 07:21:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPTER PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM
08KUALALUMPUR1126DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ASSA CORP DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-31 08:35:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PREL PGOV IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR1127PM ABDULLAH GOES TO IRAN, ANNOUNCES GO-AHEAD FOR
[...] (SBU) Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi conducted a four-day visit to Iran December 21-24. The public reporting of the visit exclusively highlighted and at times exaggerated Malaysia-Iran trade and economic partnerships. The PM and his entourage, which included a number of cabinet mini [...]
2008-12-31 08:35:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM EFIN ECON ETRD ENRG ETTC MUNC KNNP
08KUALALUMPUR147MALAYSIA'S EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) Malaysia made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons during this reporting period, marking a positive shift from previous years. Malaysia's drafting, passage, and enactment of a comprehensive anti-trafficking in persons law represents an important advance in Malaysia's co [...]
2008-03-04 00:04:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF ELAB SMIG KCRM KWMN KFRD ASEC MY
08KUALALUMPUR148MALAYSIA DEPLOYS NEW IMMIGRATION ARRIVAL DATA
[...] (SBU) Malaysian Immigration has upgraded its collection of arriving passenger data, moving from paper landing forms to an electronic system. The system, a product developed locally, is called the Single Immigration Platform System (SIPS). Immigration deployed SIPS in late January at 44 entry [...]
2008-03-04 06:01:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER KFRD MY
08KUALALUMPUR152CODEL SMITH MALAYSIA MEETING REPORT
[...] (U) Congressman Adam Smith, accompanied by staff of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities, visited Malaysia January 6-8, 2008 as part of a regional tour. The Congressman met with Malaysian NSC Secretary YBhg. Dato' Muhammad Hatta Bin Abd [...]
2008-03-05 23:46:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PTER MY
08KUALALUMPUR213 Malaysia Scenesetter for A/S O'Brien: Financial Controls
[...] SUMMARY: Prime Minister Abdullah's ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition retained power in the March 8 election, but suffered a major setback in the face of unprecedented opposition gains. Malaysia remains an important partner for the U.S. with strong trade and investment ties and close mili [...]
2008-03-26 23:56:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC ECON EFIN KNNP MNUC PARM UNSC IR MY
08KUALALUMPUR256UMNO VOICES NAJIB TAKE-OVER; ANWAR TO CONSOLIDATE
[...] (C) Division-level leaders from Prime Minister Abdullah's UMNO party in three states, including the key UMNO stronghold of Johor, are increasingly voicing support for Abdullah to step down in the wake of the March 8 election set-back, with some party officials backing Deputy Prime Minister Naj [...]
2008-04-11 12:30:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPGOV PINR KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR273TREASURY DEPARTMENT ENGAGES MALAYSIANS ON IRAN AND
[...] (C) Summary: During meetings on March 31 and April 1, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Patrick O'Brien impressed upon his Malaysian counterparts at the Central Bank, the Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs, charities regulators, and private banks [...]
2008-04-17 09:19:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN ETTC PTER PGOV KNNP MNUC PARM UNSC
08KUALALUMPUR364MALAYSIA ON EDGE OR STABILIZING? DAS MARCIEL'S MAY
[...] (S) Senior Malaysian government officials and opposition politicians discussed Prime Minister Abdullah's struggle to remain in power and prospects for the strengthened opposition during EAP DAS Marciel's May 5-7 visit to Kuala Lumpur, while DAS Marciel also addressed the Burma crisis and his A [...]
2008-05-09 09:56:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPGOV PREL PINR MARR ECON KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR366: SCENESETTER FOR VADM CROWDER,S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Malaysia is important to us because it is an economically successful, stable, predominantly Muslim country that, over the longer term, may be able to support us more strongly in places like the Middle East. It is strategically located on the Straits of Malacca, through which one quarter [...]
2008-05-12 00:42:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETMCAP MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PTER OVIP MY
08KUALALUMPUR367SCENESETTER FOR VADM CROWDER'S VISIT TO MALAYSIA
[...] (C) Malaysia is important to us because it is an economically successful, stable, predominantly Muslim country that, over the longer term, may be able to support us more strongly in places like the Middle East. It is strategically located on the Straits of Malacca, through which one quarter [...]
2008-05-12 05:55:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETMCAP MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PTER OVIP MY
08KUALALUMPUR392AMBASSADOR AND ATTORNEY GENERAL DISCUSS ISA,
[...] (S) The Ambassador called on Malaysia's Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail on May 13 and discussed prospects for prosecuting terrorists, the importance of passing an export control law, and factors affecting progress in the FTA talks. The Ambassador congratulated the AG on drafting of the 200 [...]
2008-05-15 09:12:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPGOV PREL PTER PINR ECON ETTC KJUS MY
08KUALALUMPUR398MALAYSIAN OIL REVENUE: GRAVY TRAIN RUNNING OUT OF
[...] (U) Summary: At its current 4% annual rate of increase, domestic demand for petroleum products is expected to overtake supply by 2011 or 2012, making Malaysia a net importer of oil, according to Petronas, the country's national oil company. This bodes poorly for a federal government that re [...]
2008-05-16 05:35:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDECON EPET EFIN ENRG MY PGOV
08KUALALUMPUR4AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON DEPUTY PRIME
[...] (C) The Ambassador and Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak met on December 31 for an introductory call, during which they discussed U.S. and Malaysia's common interests in bolstering international systems such as the UN and WTO. Najib described core relations with the U.S. as good and looke [...]
2008-01-02 09:38:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MARR ECON RP TH MY
08KUALALUMPUR436SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY GATES' MEETING WITH
[...] (C) I welcome your planned meeting with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Najib Tun Razak in Singapore. Najib remains at the center of Malaysia's leadership crisis, but thus far has refrained from challenging the politically wounded Prime Minister Abdullah. Najib conveys a [...]
2008-05-28 08:02:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETMARR MASS MCAP MOPS PREL PTER OVIP MY
08KUALALUMPUR529BLOGGER ALLEGES DPM'S WIFE AT MURDER SCENE
[...] (C) Controversial internet journalist Raja Petra executed a sworn statement on June 18 to the effect that Deputy Prime Minister Najib's wife, Rosmah Mansor, was at the scene of the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibbu in October 2006, and that PM Abdullah and a Royal received info [...]
2008-06-23 09:15:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KJUS KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR614PARLIAMENT "WAR ZONE," AS ANWAR DUCKS POLICE
[...] (C) A heavy police deployment, particularly at Parliament, on July 14 added to the atmosphere of political tension in Kuala Lumpur as the Parliament Speaker shot down an emergency Opposition motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Abdullah and de facto Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim backed [...]
2008-07-14 09:10:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM ASEC MY
08KUALALUMPUR645ANWAR TELLS DIPLOMATS HIS FUTURE IS PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) An energetic and seemingly confident Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim told 40 assembled diplomats on July 22 that in the face of government attempts to use sodomy charges to derail his political challenge, he would either become Prime Minister or end up in jail, "and this time I'm not goin [...]
2008-07-22 12:24:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KJUS MY
08KUALALUMPUR740SECOND BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE ON PRE-LICENSE
[...] Pursuant to reftel A inquiry, Econoff in early and mid-August 2008 contacted the Malaysian Ministry of Home Affairs (formerly Ministry of Internal Security) and the Malaysian company "Anafield Sdn Bhd". By 20 August, both had responded to post inquiries into Anafield's proposed purchase of 2 [...]
2008-08-20 05:13:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC MY
08KUALALUMPUR782SABAH DEPORTATIONS A POLITICAL BAND-AID
[...] (C) Residents of Malaysia's Sabah state, in northeast Borneo, are dismissive of the Government's latest "crackdown" against illegal immigrants. The federal government launched the campaign as a measure to meet demands by Sabah politicians who are being wooed to shift their support to the opp [...]
2008-09-05 10:12:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINR ELAB SOCI MY
08KUALALUMPUR786STAFFDEL LUSE ENGAGES PM'S OFFICE, MFA ON
[...] (SBU) Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staffer Mr. Keith Luse met with GOM officials at the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry's Southeast Asia Office, and at the Southeast Asia Regional Center for Counter Terrorism (SEARCCT) August 27-29. Luse raised concerns ab [...]
2008-09-09 09:14:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PTER KDEM KTIP MY
08KUALALUMPUR821PM ABDULLAH TAKES OVER DEFENSE PORTFOLIO AHEAD OF
[...] (C) Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi took over the Defense Minister portfolio from his deputy Najib Tun Razak with immediate effect on September 17, one day ahead of a rumored showdown within Abdullah's ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) party. In return, Najib assumed the Finan [...]
2008-09-17 12:01:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MARR KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR84GOM POLL SHOWS DECLINE IN PM ABDULLAH'S POPULARITY
[...] (S) Summary: A secretive government poll revealed a 30 percent drop in Prime Minister Abdullah's approval rating since 2004, according to a retired senior intelligence official and current advisor to the Prime Minister. This matches recent findings by a private survey. With unpopular econo [...]
2008-02-11 10:59:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPGOV PINR KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR868SOMALI PIRATES RELEASE HIJACKED MALAYSIAN SHIPS
[...] (SBU) Somali pirates released two hijacked Malaysian tankers on September 27, following the payment of a multi-million dollar ransom by the Malaysian government. The exact amount of the paid ransom is unknown due to conflicting reports, but it is in the range of $2-3 million. The U.S. assis [...]
2008-09-30 08:11:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MARR MY
08KUALALUMPUR961DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-03 08:03:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL EFIN KNNP MNUC IR GM MY
08KUALALUMPUR964MALAYSIA 2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] Per reftel instructions, Post submits the following text for the 2008-2009 INCSR, Part 1. BEGIN TEXT: Malaysia I. Summary Malaysia is not a significant source country or transit point for U.S.-bound illegal drugs; however, domestic drug abuse in Malaysia remains on the rise, and Mal [...]
2008-11-03 09:24:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL PGOV MY
08KUWAIT1006KUWAIT: HEAD OF KUWAIT'S FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: During their September 22 introductory meeting, Mr. Talal Al-Sayegh, Head of Kuwait's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and Deputy Manager of On-Site Supervision, confirmed to Ecouns that the final draft of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) law had been delivered to the Ministry [...]
2008-09-24 10:12:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM PTER KTFN KU
08KUWAIT1008IRANIAN DISSIDENT CLAIMS TO HAVE INFORMATION ON
[...] (S) Iranian cleric and rights activist Shaykh Ahmed Eidan Neisi (protect),in one of his periodic visits to Kuwait, told Poloff that he had information on the whereabouts of missing Israeli pilot Ron Arad that he was willing to share in exchange for money. He claimed that Arad is still alive [...]
2008-09-25 13:16:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPINR PHUM PTER IR KU
08KUWAIT1088FOR KUWAIT, THE SOFA A LITMUS TEST OF IRAQI
[...] (S/NF) During an October 26 meeting, Kuwaiti FM Dr. Shaykh Mohammad Al Sabah suggested to Ambassador that Iraq's acceptance or rejection of the U.S.-Iraqi SOFA will be a litmus test for future Iraqi behavior towards its neighbors. While characterizing their bilateral relations as "correct," [...]
2008-10-29 17:06:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PGOV KU IZ
08KUWAIT1096IMPLEMENTATION OF DHS API/PNR PROGRAM RAISES
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In follow-up to discussions held between Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff and the Kuwaiti Prime Minister held September 19, 2008, between, Homeland Security Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism Policy Thomas Warrick and accompanying delegation from DHS met with Go [...]
2008-11-02 11:07:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER CVIS KU
08KUWAIT1137IRAQI CHARGE IN KUWAIT DESCRIBES SUNNI/SHIA
[...] (C) Summary: Former Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi called publicly following meetings with Kuwait's Crown Prince and Prime Minister on November 11 for further dialogue to advance the bilateral relationship. The Iraqi Charge d'affaires in Kuwait told POLCOUNS that Shia circles around PM Al-Maliki [...]
2008-11-13 14:25:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KU IZ
08KUWAIT1174KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACKS
[...] (U) On Sunday, November 30 and Monday, December 1, a considerable number of Kuwaiti Arabic language dailies ran opinions and editorials about the terrorist attacks that occurred last week in Mumbai, India. At least eight Kuwaiti citizens were trapped during the attacks and the multi-day siege [...]
2008-12-01 14:14:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT1185BITS AND PIECES FROM THE IRAQI CHARGE ON
[...] Summary: During a December 1 call on the Iraqi Embassy, the DCM and the Iraqi Charge compared notes on the progress of Kuwait-Iraq relations. While acknowledging perennial frustration over his role as Charge for a government that regularly leaves him out of the loop on major policy decisions [...]
2008-12-04 14:54:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KU
08KUWAIT1211KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACKS
[...] (U) On Sunday, November 30 and Monday, December 1, a considerable number of Kuwaiti Arabic language dailies ran opinions and editorials about the terrorist attacks that occurred last week in Mumbai, India. At least eight Kuwaiti citizens were trapped during the attacks and the multi-day siege [...]
2008-12-21 11:40:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT1250KUWAITIS OUTRAGED BY ISRAELI ATTACKS ON GAZA
[...] (U) Summary: The GOK and Members of Parliament strongly denounced Israel's December 27 air raids on Gaza. Statements typically use strong language, including terms like "genocide" and "massacre". A number of MPs have called for a rally on the evening of December 28 to provide Kuwaitis with a [...]
2008-12-29 07:34:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC IS KU
08KUWAIT14KUWAIT MFA U/S: SYRIA AND IRAN
[...] (C) In a December 31 CDA call on MFA U/S Khaled Suliman Al-Jarallah, the U/S discussed preparation for the January 11-12 POTUS visit and relevant Kuwait-Iraq border issues (reported septels). Jarallah also expressed deep concern over the political situation in Lebanon and said that "all of t [...]
2008-01-04 09:38:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS KDRG KPAL ETRD ECON KU IR SY
08KUWAIT148AMIR TO PETRAEUS ON IRAQ, SALVAGE OPERATIONS AND
[...] (C) On February 4, GEN Petraeus met separately with Kuwaiti Amir Shaykh Sabah Al Sabah; Defense Minister Shaykh Jaber Al Sabah; and Chief of Staff LTG Fahad Al-Amir. The Amir commented on the positive impact of the surge in Iraq, but again criticized the CPA's dissolution of the Iraqi milita [...]
2008-02-07 11:43:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPGOV PTER MARR MOPS PBTS KU
08KUWAIT218TERROR FINANCE: MFA ON GOK
[...] (C) On February 13 A/Polcouns and Econoff called on Ambassador Khaled Al-Maqamis, MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination to discuss the implementation of Kuwait's obligations to freeze the assets of three recently Kuwaiti terrorist financiers under UNSCR 1267. This discussion was prompted [...]
2008-02-24 13:32:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT227TERROR FINANCE: MFA ON GOK
[...] (C) On February 13 A/Polcouns and Econoff called on Ambassador Khaled Al-Maqamis, MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination to discuss the implementation of Kuwait's obligations to freeze the assets of three recently Kuwaiti terrorist financiers under UNSCR 1267. This discussion was prompted [...]
2008-02-28 09:38:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT246KUWAIT SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 10 GULF SECURITY
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The third round of the Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) will convene on March 10, capping a banner year for high-level visits to Kuwait, to include POTUS' visit in January. The GOK has expressed commitment to the GSD, but it will need to address shortcomings in a number of areas d [...]
2008-03-06 03:40:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR PARM KU
08KUWAIT285TRIPARTITE COMMISSION TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE 56TH
[...] Kuwait hosted the 56th session of the Tripartite Commission's Technical Subcommittee (TSC) on February 12, 2008, with representatives from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC). Kuwait reiterated its request [...]
2008-03-12 13:13:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM PREL KUWAIT IRAQ KU
08KUWAIT337U.S.-KUWAIT GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE TALKS (MARCH
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Kuwait hosted the third round of the U.S.-Kuwait Gulf Security Dialogue on March 10. During these discussions, Kuwait condemned Iran's support for terrorism, reiterated its commitment to engaging Iran diplomatically, and expressed its support in implementing UNSC resolutions 1 [...]
2008-03-26 06:55:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL PARM MARR MASS PTER KPAL KTFN KCIP ASEC
08KUWAIT368GOK HOSTS FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE IMPLEMENTATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-06 06:04:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN KU
08KUWAIT370SECRETARY CHERTOFF DISCUSSES CT WITH KUWAITI
[...] (C) During a March 24-25 visit to Kuwait, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff met with Kuwait's Amir, Crown Prince, PM, FM, MinDef and National Security Bureau President (NSB) to discuss counterterrorism and information sharing, Iran and Iraq, Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection and the USG's [...]
2008-04-06 06:05:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KCIP KDRG KTFN KU IZ IR
08KUWAIT390GOK HOSTS FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: From March 31-April 2, 2008, the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) in cooperation with U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Department of Justice hosted a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Implementation Seminar. The three-day event was attended by 53 GOK officials in [...]
2008-04-09 11:34:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN KU
08KUWAIT457OVERVIEW OF RECENT NATO-KUWAIT ENGAGEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: On April 9, the Polish Embassy delivered a briefing to NATO member-country COMs on recent NATO-Kuwait engagement. On January 14-15, a team of NATO experts visited Kuwait to identify GOK security priorities and investigate areas for increased cooperation. On March 27, Kuwait hoste [...]
2008-04-24 13:52:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MARR NATO KCIP KISL KU RS XG
08KUWAIT471AMONG KUWAITI SHI'A, NATIONAL LOYALTIES RUN DEEP
[...] (C) Summary: Kuwait has always had a significant percentage of Shi'a citizens, and Sunni/Shi'a relations are traditionally good. According to most estimates, Shi'a currently constitute 30 percent of all Kuwaiti nationals, numbering some 350,000 individuals. There are also between 150,000 and [...]
2008-05-01 08:13:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPGOV PINR PTER KISL SOCI ECON KU IZ IR
08KUWAIT48GOK PROVIDES NEW ASSURANCE ON GTMO ON EVE OF POTUS
[...] (S/NF) The Kuwaiti message in para 3, delivered to Embassy Kuwait after-hours on the evening before President Bush's January 11 arrival, is a last-second GOK attempt to define a positive basis for discussion of the GTMO detainee question. It constitutes both an official response to the U.S. dem [...]
2008-01-10 20:18:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPREL PGOV KDRG PTER KU
08KUWAIT5095/4/08 AMBASSADOR MEETING WITH KUWAITI MINISTER OF
[...] (S) Summary: In a warm and welcoming introductory call, the Amir's eldest son and Minister of the Amiri Diwan, Shaykh Nasser, acknowledged embarrassment and a bit of GoK confusion over the former Kuwaiti GTMO detainee's reported terror attack in Mosul, and outlined an optimistic economic visi [...]
2008-05-11 05:26:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPGOV PINR PREL KU
08KUWAIT512AMB SATTERFIELD BRIEFS GOK ON IRAQ DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (S) In a nearly four hour session with Kuwaiti MFA and security officials, S/I Satterfield and team briefed on developments in Iraq, with particular focus on progress made re Sunni outreach/reconciliation and significance of Basrah confrontation between PM Maliki and Iraqi Security Forces and [...]
2008-05-11 07:40:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PARM PBTS PINR KU
08KUWAIT557S/CT DAILEY OFFERS CT COOPERATION; KSS DESCRIBES
[...] (S) In separate meetings May 12 with Kuwait State Security (KSS) and MFA officials, on May 12, S/CT Dailey briefed on the USG paradigm of counterterrorism (CT) efforts and urged speedy and transparent information and intelligence exchanges and tighter border controls. S/CT Dailey also urged [...]
2008-05-18 11:02:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPTER PGOV KDRG PREL KTFN KU
08KUWAIT604SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY PAULSON'S MAY 31-JUNE 1
[...] (C) Secretary Paulson, Embassy Kuwait welcomes you, Mrs. Paulson, and the members of your delegation to Kuwait. While we have requested meetings with the Amir and senior Kuwaiti leadership, we are able at this time to confirm only the Central Bank Governor, Kuwait Investment Authority Managin [...]
2008-05-27 09:16:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN PREL PTER KTFN KU
08KUWAIT694KSS TO WAINSTEIN: KUWAIT CT LEGISLATION INADEQUATE
[...] (S) Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Kenneth Wainstein, in a June 11 meeting with Kuwait State Security (KSS) Director Muhaylan, conveyed the President's appeal for increased counterterrorism (CT) cooperation and information sharing among partners [...]
2008-06-18 11:21:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPTER PGOV KDRG PREL KTFN KU
08KUWAIT696NSB ACKNOWLEDGES INCREASED AL QAEDA ACTIVITY AND
[...] (S) Summary: Kenneth Wainstein, President Bush's Assistant for Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism (APHSCT),met with the President of the National Security Bureau (NSB),Ahmed Al-Fahd on 11 June. The principals discussed the recent increase in Al-Qaeda-related activity in Kuwait, ongoin [...]
2008-06-18 11:21:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPTER PGOV KDRG PREL KTFN KU
08KUWAIT768U.S. SPEAKER DR. JEFFREY ADDICOTT'S PROGRAM IN KUWAIT;
[...] Dr. Jeffrey Addicott, Professor and Chairman of the Center for Terrorism Law, St. Mary's University, St. Antonio, Texas, visited Kuwait as a U.S. Speaker, June 22-24, 2008 and spoke to audiences comprised of youth, faculty members, lawyers and legislators about the new field of terrorism law in [...]
2008-07-08 06:49:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL KPAO KIRC OIIP XF KU
08KUWAIT936(S) SCENESETTER FOR THE KUWAIT PRIME MINISTER'S
[...] (S) Prime Minister Shaykh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Ahmed al-Jaber Al Sabah's September 18-19 visit to Washington offers a timely opportunity to honor and reaffirm the unique and indispensable security relationship between our two countries; it is also an important opportunity to encourage the PM [...]
2008-09-02 15:40:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPREL PTER CVIS MASS ECON EINV IR IZ KU
08KYIV1257UKRAINE: BILATERAL COOPERATION ON MAN-PORTABLE AIR
[...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy for MANPADS Threat Reduction, Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., visited Kyiv June 17-19. During his visit, Bloomfield explained the special concern with which the U.S. Government regards trade in MANPADS and urged Ukraine to strengthen its cooperation with the [...]
2008-07-01 11:46:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
08KYIV768UKRAINE: UNODC Nuclear Legislation Workshop - A Model for
[...] The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department's Nuclear Smuggling Outreach Initiative (NSOI) office worked with the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to hold a "Legislative Drafting Expert Workshop on the Criminal Law Aspects of the Universal Legal Framework Against Nuclear Terrorism" i [...]
2008-04-16 08:58:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM PTER KNNP KCRM KGIC US UP
08LAGOS369NIGERIA: EXXONMOBIL WORRIES ABOUT ESCALATION OF
[...] (S/NF) Summary: On September 18, two ExxonMobil Nigeria executives told Energyoff that while September 13-16 attacks in Rivers State did not reduce oil production from their fields, they are concerned about growing instability in the state and the impact it might have on facilities which serve [...]
2008-09-19 16:41:00Consulate LagosSECRET//NOFORNEPET ENRG PGOV NI
08LAGOS382NIGERIA: ECONOMIC IMPACT OF DELTA UNREST WORSE
[...] (C) Summary: In a September 20 meeting, Levi Ajuonuma (strictly protect),Group General Manager for Public Affairs for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said unrest in the Niger Delta is hurting oil revenues far more than senior NNPC officials are publicly admitting. Because [...]
2008-09-26 12:13:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG PGOV PREL RS CH NI
08LAGOS386NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR HEARS BAYELSA GOVERNOR'S VIEWS
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador led an interagency team to Bayelsa September 27 for a one-day orientation trip to look at possible partnerships through a pilot program that would focus on youth needs and development (see septel on these issues),but also had the opportunity, on the three hour drive fr [...]
2008-10-02 06:12:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM EPET ECON KDEM NI
08LAGOS448NIGERIA: BANKS NEED HELP TO IMPLEMENT MONEY LAUNDERING LAW
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act (MLA) 2004 sets strict reporting requirements on financial institutions in an effort to counter money laundering in Nigeria. Local banks established the Committee of Chief Compliance Officers of Banks in Nigeria (CCCOBIN) in 2007 as an indus [...]
2008-11-14 09:37:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON EAID PGOV NI
08LAGOS473DIRECTOR OF NIGERIAN FINANCIAL INTEL UNIT ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) Director A.B. Okauru (strictly protect) met with Poloffs on November 19 to discuss his sudden resignation from the NFIU on November 18 and the current state of affairs within the organization. He told Poloffs he resigned upon learning o [...]
2008-11-21 13:48:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV CASC KCOR KCRIM NI
08LAGOS474THE VIEW FROM NIGERIA ON THE NIE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Nigeria presents a picture of a country on a downward spiral with gradually worsening economic, political and social conditions which, over the next five years, should produce increased political instability, civil [...]
2008-11-21 16:15:00Consulate LagosSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL ECON NI
08LAGOS479NIGERIA: VICE PRESIDENT'S SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT
[...] (C) Summary: Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President Oronto Douglas (strictly protect throughout) told Pol-Econ Chief November 22 that Delta State Governor Uduaghan, with the support of the Vice President, has brought peace to the troubled Warri South and Burutu local Government Areas ( [...]
2008-11-28 05:48:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM EPET ECON KDEM NI
08LAHORE209AMBASSADOR BRIEFS NAWAZ SHARIF ON USG ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and members of the country team briefed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his closest advisors on USG assistance programs and the terrorist threat on May 15. This was similar to the briefing provided to Ambassador Durrani and ANP leader Wali Khan at CIA headquarter [...]
2008-05-22 05:59:00Consulate LahoreCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PK
08LAHORE313MOST PUNJABIS BELIEVE INDIAN GROUPS ARE BEHIND MUMBAI
[...] (C) Summary: Although a few Punjabis see the possibility the Mumbai attacks could have been launched in Pakistan, overall politicians and lawyers in Punjab province believe that India should look to internal insurgent groups as the sole actors of the Mumbai attacks. After Prime Minister Manmohan S [...]
2008-12-03 13:02:00Consulate LahoreCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK IN
08LAHORE318JAMAATUD DAWA BAN HASTILY IMPLEMENTED IN PUNJAB
[...] (C) Summary: Punjab police confirmed that they detained twelve Jamaatud Dawa (JUD) leaders and sealed their offices as part of a December 11-12 crackdown directed by the Ministry of the Interior. According to the police and eyewitness accounts, mosques, madrassahs and hospitals run by Jamaatud Dawa [...]
2008-12-12 15:13:00Consulate LahoreCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER EFIN PK IN
08LAHORE326PUNJAB SHUTS DOWN JUD ADMINISTRATION BUT KEEPS SERVICES
[...] (C) Summary: The Punjab provincial government has taken steps to shut down JUD offices and take over the administrative functioning of ten schools and 18 dispensaries while ensuring that people continued to receive necessary services. Provincial authorities related that they could easily handl [...]
2008-12-20 08:50:00Consulate LahoreSECRETPTER PREL PGOV PK IN
08LAPAZ1018EVO'S MAY DAY DECREES AND REMARKS
[...] (U) Summary: Speaking to a relatively small crowd of a few thousand on May 1, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced the state would "take immediate control" of Italian-owned telecommunications company Entel and three foreign-owned hydrocarbon companies (septel). Morales tried to soften the [...]
2008-05-02 20:34:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ECON EINV EPET IT BL
08LAPAZ1168EVO: ALIENATING FRIENDS, SEEKING NEW ONES
[...] (C) Side by side with his friend Cuban Ambassador Rafael Dausa, President Evo Morales leveled a new barrage of old accusations against the USG on May 19. Meanwhile, the Italians and Peruvians both expressed their displeasure with recent Morales statements and actions. The Italian Ambassado [...]
2008-05-20 22:10:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID BL
08LAPAZ1214BOLIVIA: BENI AND PANDO VOTE JUNE 1
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The northern states of Beni and Pando will hold their autonomy referenda on Sunday, June 1st. There has been scattered violence resulting in injuries but no deaths between pro-government and pro-opposition/autonomy forces in the week leading up to the vote. Both groups have block [...]
2008-05-30 20:40:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC KDEM BL VE CU
08LAPAZ1243BOLIVIA: IS EVO TURNING TO ILLEGAL ARRESTS?
[...] (C) Without an arrest warrant, six police officials abducted, transported to La Paz, and incarcerated pro-Sucre (anti-government) activist Roberto Lenin Sandoval Lopez on June 2. Sandoval, his wife, and daughter were injured in the arrest. The government appeared to initially deny the acti [...]
2008-06-03 22:09:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV BL
08LAPAZ1258BOLIVIA: DETAINEE FORCED TO CONFESS AGAINST US?
[...] (SBU) Citing insufficient evidence, a judge ordered released anti-government activist Roberto Lenin Sandoval Lopez, who was illegally abducted and incarcerated by a police intelligence unit on June 2. The prosecutor in Sandoval's case had already decided not to press charges due to the gove [...]
2008-06-04 21:07:00Embassy La PazUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL BL ASEC
08LAPAZ1425BOLIVIAN BILAT MILITARY/POLICE DISENGAGEMENT
[...] (C) Summary. Bolivian President Evo Morales called on police to stop working with the United States June 24, casting doubt on government assurances to ensure Mission security. In the last two weeks the government canceled Bolivian participation in a U.S.-sponsored hemisphere-wide special for [...]
2008-06-25 21:56:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KTIA BL
08LAPAZ1487BOLIVIA: AMBASSADOR RETURNS; ATTACKS RESUME
[...] (C) Summary. Two hours after the Ambassador landed in La Paz July 2, Minister of Government Rada held a news conference stating his hope that the Ambassador is returning to resume a "diplomatic role" and avoid "political activism." Rada accused the Ambassador of only returning to reunite a fra [...]
2008-07-03 20:16:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALASEC BL PGOV PINR PREL PTER
08LAPAZ1499BOLIVIA ACCUSES PEACE CORPS OF BEING INTEL AGENCY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Peace Corps has come under verbal assault from the Bolivian government. In a speech given from Caracas July 5, President Evo Morales accused organization volunteers of having taking pictures of him and other South American leaders in December 2006. Morales echoed the opinion in [...]
2008-07-07 22:31:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALASEC BL PGOV PREL
08LAPAZ1573SCENESETTER FOR A/S SHANNON AND INL PDAS MCGLYNN
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy La Paz welcomes A/S Thomas Shannon and PDAS William J. McGlynn to Bolivia July 21-23. Although President Morales and a number of his close advisors have accused the USG, the Ambassador, and the Embassy of conspiracy during the past year, recent weeks have brought the gove [...]
2008-07-18 18:47:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV PREL EAID BL ASEC PTER
08LAPAZ1851MIL-MIL RELATIONS: MOD OPTIMISTIC, DESPITE SIGNS
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense Walker San Miguel told EmbOffs August 22 that mil-mil relations are "good" and poised to improve following President Evo Morales' lead to improve relations generally. San Miguel said "misunderstandings" are at the root of mutual suspicions of USG and Bolivian [...]
2008-08-29 21:51:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID ASEC BL
08LAPAZ194BOLIVIA: MINISTER SAYS USG SUPPORTS DOMESTIC SPYING
[...] (C) Summary: After a January 24 statement in which Police Commander Miguel Vasquez acknowledged that the police intelligence unit has been spying on politicians (mostly opposition) and journalists, the media have added a number of possible spying targets (the Catholic church, foreign embassie [...]
2008-01-28 21:59:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL PINR BL
08LAPAZ1973EVO CONNECTS THE DOTS: PANDO, PNG, AND PROTEST
[...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of his September 10 announcement declaring Ambassador Goldberg persona non grata, Bolivian President Evo Morales is linking the USG to violence in the opposition departments (states) and specifically to the death of thirty-some people in opposition-controlled Pand [...]
2008-09-15 17:44:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PBTS ODIP OFDP VE BL
08LAPAZ2019DECERTIFICATION: EVO SETS STAGE TO CUT COOPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: Early indications that the Bolivian government would confine its reaction to the U.S. counter-narcotics (CN) decertification decision to anti-U.S. rhetorical attacks (reftel a) are fading as government officials appear to be laying the groundwork to limit or sever CN assistance an [...]
2008-09-18 20:16:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSNAR PGOV PREL PTER PINR ASEC RS BL
08LAPAZ2052BOLIVIA: EAC WORKING GROUP MEETING 9/19
[...] (S/NF) The Emergency Action Committee Working Group (EACWG) met 9/19 with members of SSAT team to discuss contingency planning for low probability but high impact event: President Evo Morales removed from power either by death or coup. EACWG noted that while this remains a low probability ev [...]
2008-09-22 21:18:00Embassy La PazSECRET//NOFORNAMER ASEC AMGT PTER BL
08LAPAZ2449BOLIVIA: WARNING NEW FRIENDS AND OFFENDING THE OLD
[...] (SBU) With a phrase oft-repeated in the last two weeks, President Evo Morales confirmed that "if anyone wants the DEA to return, well first they have to end the government of Evo Morales," adding, "there can't be an armed uniformed group managing the armed forces and the police like the DEA use [...]
2008-11-14 20:10:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR BL
08LAPAZ2543UNASUR ENDORSES EVO'S VERSION OF PANDO "MASSACRE"
[...] (C) Summary: Bolivian President Evo Morales and Unasur representative Rodolfo Mattarollo held a joint-conference to present Unasur's Pando Commission Report December 3. The report endorses the government's version of a "massacre" of government-aligned peasant farmers in the Pando Department t [...]
2008-12-05 23:37:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR PHUM KDEM VE BL
08LAPAZ2569BOLIVIA: EVO ATTACKS PRESS FOR CORRUPTION COVERAGE
[...] As more evidence is made public about Presidency Minister Quintana's alleged deal to allow contraband to be smuggled out of the country in return for political support, many groups (including allies of the ruling Movement Toward Socialism party) are calling for Quintana's resignation. Congress [...]
2008-12-11 20:30:00Embassy La PazUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM PINR EAID BL
08LAPAZ2591BOLIVIA: EU DEMARCHES EVO ON DEA
[...] (C) Summary: On December 12, representatives from EU Embassies in La Paz demarched Bolivian President Evo Morales on the expulsion of DEA and the lack of availability of EU counternarcotics cooperation. EU delegate Ivo Hoefkens announced to the press that the EU is worried about the increase [...]
2008-12-17 22:20:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR EFIN BL
08LAPAZ2633MORALES' LATEST BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE: BOMBAST
[...] (U) Bolivian President Evo Morales unleashed another round of vitriolic attacks against the United States December 23. Morales barred all but foreign and state media from the presidential press conference, underscoring his recent feud with the private media (reftels). Morales: DEA Tried to K [...]
2008-12-23 22:08:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ECON EPET ODIP CU VE IR BL
08LAPAZ303BOLIVIA: "SPYING" CHARGES FEED EVO'S PROPAGANDA
[...] (C) Summary. Fulbright student Alex van Schaick reported to the Bolivian Foreign Ministry February 7 that he had been asked by Post's Assistant Regional Security Officer to report contacts with Venezuelan and Cuban nationals to the Embassy. Van Schaick told an ABC News.com stringer in La Paz th [...]
2008-02-15 00:22:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL PINR OFDP KLIG VE BO
08LAPAZ329GOB RESPINS ANTI-U.S. ALLEGATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The Bolivian government attempted to renew and, in some cases, repackage old allegations against the U.S. February 16-18. Bolivian President Evo Morales threatened to show USAID the door if it continues undermining his administration. As proof, Morales provided the example of a po [...]
2008-02-19 23:00:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON BL
08LAPAZ374BOLIVIAN SPY SCANDAL: CONTINUED EMBASSY ACCUSATIONS
[...] (U) Summary: In response to an unfolding domestic spy scandal the former National Intelligence Directorate (NDI) chief Jose Luis Centellas testified before a Senate Commission and stated that the Embassy "manages" many different intelligence groups and maintains records on all Bolivian citiz [...]
2008-02-21 22:38:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL BL
08LAPAZ386BOLIVIA SPY SCANDAL: POLICE CHIEF BACKS USG STANCE
[...] (C) Summary: Bolivian National Police (BNP) commander Miguel Vasquez testified before a Senate commission and refuted Minister of Government Alfredo Rada's espionage allegations against the Embassy and a USG-funded police unit. Vasquez rejected accusations that the unit did not report to h [...]
2008-02-22 19:38:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALASEC PREL PGOV BL
08LAPAZ983AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH VICE FM FERNANDEZ
[...] (C) Summary: During an April 28 meeting with the Ambassador, Vice Foreign Minister Hugo Fernandez explained the government's push for statements supporting Bolivian unity from the OAS and other international institutions were intended to ensure that May 4 is carried out without violence. Whe [...]
2008-04-29 18:52:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC BL
08LILONGWE280MALAWI: COUP RUMORS, ARRESTS CLOUD POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Five prominent members of the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) party and three active duty generals in the Malawi Defense Forces (MDF) have been detained in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow President Mutharika. The arrests occurred on May 13, casting a long sh [...]
2008-05-16 10:58:00Embassy LilongweCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS KDEM MI
08LILONGWE342MALAWI: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Mission in Lilongwe warmly welcomes the July 5-6 congressional delegation led by Representative David Price. 2. (SBU) Located at the southern end of Africa's Great Rift Valley, Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. A heavy chronic disease burden (mala [...]
2008-06-13 09:25:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID OREP SOCI MI
08LILONGWE595AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - MALAWI
[...] Per REFTEL, Embassy Lilongwe submits the following updated AGOA eligibility information in the requested format. 2. Country: MALAWI Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: Malawi's current estimated population is about 13 million and GDP at current prices is USD 3.8 [...]
2008-10-07 03:51:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON XA MI
08LILONGWE596AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - MALAWI
[...] Per REFTEL, Embassy Lilongwe submits the following updated AGOA eligibility information in the requested format. 2. Country: MALAWI Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: Malawi's current estimated population is about 13 million and GDP at current prices is USD 3.8 [...]
2008-10-07 03:51:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON XA MI
08LIMA1169LIMA NAS MONTHLY REPORT - JUNE 2008
[...] (U) Summary: - Recent economic analysis confirms considerable diminution of coca in San Martin, the first clear and measurable result of the Eradication/Alternative Development nexus. - NAS Deputy Director traveled to Quito, Bogota, and La Paz to identify areas of regional collaboration. - [...]
2008-07-09 12:17:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA1314LIMA NAS MONTHLY REPORT - JULY
[...] (U) Summary: -- New NAS Director Arrives -- Rumors of major changes in GOP ministries and PNP amount to nothing -- FAP Joins Eradication Efforts -- Deputy Director visits Counter Narcotics Base and FAP Radar site in Puerto Maldonado -- Aviation Safety Day Conducted -- Joint Peru [...]
2008-08-07 21:35:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA1555LIMA NAS MONTHLY REPORT - AUGUST
[...] (SBU) Summary: - NAS Director Visits Pucallpa, Santa Lucia and Tingo Maria - Mazamari Pre-Academy's Multi-Cultural Students' Movie Debut - DIRANDRO Seizure Report - Eradication Operations Shift to Aucayacu - Police Resources Redirected to APEC - Typhoid Outbreak in Palma Pampa - NAS Ports Pr [...]
2008-09-22 22:13:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA1808LIMA NAS END OF MONTH REPORT - OCTOBER
[...] (U) Summary: - New National Police Director and Minister of Interior Named - Eradication - New Graduating Class of the Special Counter Drugs Operations Course: Mazamari - DIRANDRO Statistics - MEDEVAC Policy/Procedures to be Revised - FLIR Back in Business - Change in FAP C-26 Contractors [...]
2008-11-17 18:27:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA1938PERU: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) Embassy point of contact is John Robertson (robertsonjc@state.gov or 51-1-618-2514). 2. (SBU) Text of draft submission follows: Peru Peru's primary counterterrorism concern remained fighting remnants of the militant Maoist Sendero Luminoso (SL or Shining Path),a designated Foreig [...]
2008-12-19 17:10:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PTER PE
08LIMA194FORE VISIT: FOSTERING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Director of US Foreign Assistance Henrietta Fore, during her January 10-11 visit to Peru, underscored the importance of public, private and civil society collaboration to foster development. To this end, Director Fore attended a signing ceremony on January 10th to launch a partn [...]
2008-01-31 22:34:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID SNAR PINR PE
08LIMA196"SHINING PATH": WHAT DOES IT MEAN TODAY?
[...] (C) Summary: The terrorist organization "Shining Path" (Sendero Luminoso or SL) is currently comprised of two distinct groups, according to analysts. One consists largely of long-time SL members and "true believers" in the Maoist ideology who are reportedly working within civic organizations a [...]
2008-02-01 17:42:00Embassy LimaSECRETPGOV PINR PTER SNAR PE
08LIMA1981LIMA NAS END OF MONTH REPORT - NOVEMBER
[...] (U) Summary: * Eradication Report * Maritime Ports Report * PNP Ambushed Outside of Tingo Maria/Police Program Report * Threats to Helicopters * Continued Legal Progress on TIP * Prime Minister Releases First Draft of Anti-Corruption Plan * Money Laundering - Legal news and a new arrest [...]
2008-12-31 19:37:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA228NAS MONTHLY REPORT, JANUARY 2008
[...] (U) The key developments in January 2008: ** CORAH started the 2008 eradication season on January 18 near Pizana northeast of Tocache. ** An increase in murders east of the Andes gained public attention due to the link with eradication and alternative development. ** The GOP initiated qua [...]
2008-02-07 16:02:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA32NAS MONTHLY REPORT, DECEMBER 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in December 2007: ** CORAH ended the year with a total of 11,056.20 hectares of coca eradicated, surpassing the 10,000-hectare goal. ** DEVIDA approved the 2008 Eradication Plan to start in mid-January, now waiting for Interior Minister's signature. ** Police gra [...]
2008-01-08 13:39:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA398NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 2008
[...] (U) The key developments in February 2008: ** CORAH has eradicated a total of 1,615 hectares of coca in these first two months of 2008. ** Eradication operations continue despite cocalero protests and adverse weather conditions. ** INL A/S David Johnson met with high-level government of [...]
2008-03-06 14:27:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA489GOP INVESTIGATES VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE
[...] (C) Summary: In response to its growing concern about Venezuelan government meddling in Peru, the Garcia administration has arrested suspected "Bolivarian" terrorists and launched a public information campaign to highlight the threat. A congressional sub-committee found that Caracas has a th [...]
2008-03-18 22:15:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR VE PE
08LIMA490REGIONAL PRESIDENT PROPOSES AUTONOMY FOR PUNO
[...] (C) Summary: Puno Regional President Hernan Fuentes on March 16 publicly proposed converting his region into an autonomous federal state. This latest proposal follows several initiatives by Fuentes that have irked the central government, including a recent decree decriminalizing coca. Fuente [...]
2008-03-18 22:18:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR BO PE
08LIMA593NAS MONTHLY REPORT, MARCH 2008
[...] (U) The key developments in March 2008: ** CORAH has eradicated a total of 2,779 hectares of coca in CY 2008. ** Preparations are being made for eradication operations in high-threat area near Aucayacu. ** The first female DIRANDRO officer killed in action was a graduate of a NAS-supporte [...]
2008-04-04 22:06:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA663THE ALBA HOUSE THREAT
[...] (C) Summary: The primary purpose of the so-called "ALBA houses" established within Peru during the last year is to spread Bolivarian propaganda via programs like the Venezuelan "Miracle Mission" that provides eye surgeries to poor Peruvians. The most sober reports suggest there are between ni [...]
2008-04-16 18:12:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV REL PE PINR
08LIMA812NAS MONTHLY REPORT, APRIL 2008
[...] (U) The key developments in April 2008: ** As of April 30, CORAH has eradicated a total of 3,404 hectares of coca. ** In first-ever raid of an opium laboratory, police seized 100 kg of opium latex and 400 grams of morphine. ** Heavy rains slow preparations for CORAH's move to the Aucayacu [...]
2008-05-08 21:53:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA895ANTI-SUMMIT PEACEFUL, GENERAL SECURITY A SUCCESS
[...] (C) Summary: The "Summit of the Peoples" anti-summit (May 13-16) that coincided with the Latin America and Caribbean - European Union Summit (EU-LAC) last week proceeded peacefully despite government concern. The anti-summit attracted thousands of social movement leaders from Peru, Latin Ameri [...]
2008-05-20 21:33:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC REL PINR PE
08LIMA948MRTA: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TODAY?
[...] (C) Summary: The Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA) terrorist group rose to prominence in the 1980s and then collapsed in the 1990s. Now the GOP believes former MRTA members released from prison are once again rebuilding the group's cadres of dedicated followers. The government's p [...]
2008-05-30 20:16:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ASEC PTER PE
08LIMA979PERU FY 2007-2008 CERTIFICATION REPORT CARD
[...] (SBU) Working relationships and cooperation between the Government of Peru (GOP) and the U.S. Government agencies responsible for implementation of counter-narcotics (CN) policies continue at an all time high. The Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS),Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),U.S. [...]
2008-06-06 16:47:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LIMA980NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR MAY 2008
[...] (U) On May 21, President Garcia, DIRANDRO Gen.Hidalgo, Huallaga Front Gen.Palomino, San Martin,s Regional President and Congressional representatives visited the Santa Lucia PNP base where they were briefed on ongoing interdiction and eradication strategies in the UHV. The delegation continued [...]
2008-06-06 17:16:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
08LISBON183AMBASSADOR, FM AMADO DISCUSS IRAN AND KOSOVO
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Amado told Ambassador Stephenson on January 22 -- in the latter's initial courtesy call -- that he had agreed to Iranian FM Mottaki's request for a meeting in Lisbon the following day. Amado said Portugal and the U.S. agreed on the need to turn up the pressure on Tehran [...]
2008-01-22 17:09:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL PO IR
08LISBON811SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS TO
[...] (SBU) Mr. Director: Your visit to Portugal will be the first high-level ONDCP visit since 1998 and underscores both our interest and concern about increasing cocaine flows through Portugal into Europe. As you may know, Portugal saw a marked increase in cocaine seizures in 2005 and 2006, fol [...]
2008-04-03 08:57:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL ASEC PO
08LISBON874PORTUGAL STRENGTHENS ITS COUNTERTERRORISM TOOLS
[...] (C) Portugal has faced a lower threat profile than nearby European nations despite its proximity to past terrorism targets like Spain, the UK, and Morocco. Nevertheless, the government of Portugal (GOP) has heeded the warnings from the attacks in London in 2005 and Madrid in 2004 by enhancing [...]
2008-04-10 16:55:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL PO
08LISBON963ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS' VISIT: DRUG FLOWS TO EUROPE
[...] (U) In meetings with Portuguese counternarcotics officials, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director John P. Walters noted there has been a noticeable decrease in the supply of cocaine in the U.S. market and noted that there were anecdotal reports of increased demand in Europe. [...]
2008-04-22 10:52:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL SOCI PO
08LJUBLJANA144U.S.-EU JHA Ministerial Meeting Holds Productive Sessions
[...] (U) Slovenian Interior Minister Dragutin Mate and Justice Minister Lovro Sturm hosted Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, and European Commission Vice-President and Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini on March 12-13 for the [...]
2008-03-27 15:11:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER CVIS SMIG SNAR PREL KCRM KFRD EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA22US UNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE ENGAGES SLOVENES ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 16 - 17, U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Gregory Schulte visited Slovenia to engage the GOS and the media regarding U.S. positions and policy on nuclear weapons proliferation, focusing on Iran. The Ambassador also gave a well-attended s [...]
2008-01-17 13:39:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALIAEA MNUC PARM PREL KPAO IR SI
08LJUBLJANA225CODEL BERKLEY TO VISIT LJUBLJANA MAY 23 - 26
[...] Post warmly welcomes the May 23-26 visit of Codel Berkley to Ljubljana. Overall control officer for the visit is Political-Economic Officer Albert Kraaimoore, office phone: (386) 1-200-5676, cellphone: (386) 40-516-021, fax: (386) 1-200-5529. The management control officer is Brendan Burns, [...]
2008-05-22 10:25:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN SI
08LJUBLJANA226CODEL BERKLEY TO VISIT LJUBLJANA MAY 23 - 26
[...] Post warmly welcomes the May 23-26 visit of Codel Berkley to Ljubljana. Overall control officer for the visit is Political-Economic Officer Albert Kraaimoore, office phone: (386) 1-200-5676, cellphone: (386) 40-516-021, fax: (386) 1-200-5529. The management control officer is Brendan Burns, [...]
2008-05-22 10:25:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN SI
08LJUBLJANA23EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS TROIKA MEETING FINDS COMMON
[...] (C) At the January 11 U.S. - EU Troika meeting, A/S Fried and EU Presidency, Council, and Commission representatives generally found common ground on Afghanistan, Ukraine, Belarus, and Burma. On Iran, the EU advised that even a weak UNSCR would help pave the way for stronger EU sanctions. The [...]
2008-01-18 08:09:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV IR IS BM SY ECON ENRG SI
08LJUBLJANA245SLOVENIA TO CONSIDER INFORMATION FUSION CENTER
[...] (C) On May 30, DCM Maryruth Coleman met with Director Joze Romsek of the Slovene Ministry of Interior (MOI) Police Directorate (PD) to discuss the concept of an Information Fusion Center (IFC). The DCM suggested that Slovenia consider developing an IFC to facilitate the sharing of intelligenc [...]
2008-06-05 13:46:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PTER MASS ASEC PREL MARR SI
08LJUBLJANA41U.S.-EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS INFORMAL HIGH LEVEL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior U.S. and European Union (EU) officials met in Ljubljana, Slovenia January 9-10 for the U.S.-EU informal Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Senior Level Meeting to discuss cooperation and coordination across a broad range of transatlantic law enforcement and internal security [...]
2008-02-01 05:41:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PTER SNAR PREL EUN KHLS SI
08LONDON1001A COLLECTIVE YAWN GREETS HMG’S FIRST NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Criticism and indifference from British political leaders, foreign policy analysts, and media greeted the publication of HMG's first National Security Strategy (NSS),an initial reaction echoed in many of the Whitehall ministries to which the NSS was directed. UK opposition leaders [...]
2008-04-08 12:05:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER EAID ECON UK
08LONDON103(S) IRAN: UK READOUT ON EL BARADEI'S LONDON
[...] (S) Summary. IAEA Head Mohammed El Baradei raised no new points during his January 7 meetings in London with Foreign Secretary Miliband and other senior UK officials, ahead of El SIPDIS Baradei's visit later this week to Tehran. Per ref, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) told London Ir [...]
2008-01-10 17:41:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK
08LONDON1087UNITED KINGDOM BEGINS RELOCATION OF SOME IRAQI
[...] (C) Summary. The first three participants in HMG's program to relocate selected Iraqi employees who worked for the British Government in Iraq arrived in the UK on April 8. According to John Burran, head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Office on Assistance to Iraqi Locally Employ [...]
2008-04-16 13:22:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EU IZ UK
08LONDON1115HMG OUTLINES NEW PROCEDURES FOR REQUESTING INTEL
[...] (S/NF) Summary and Action Request. The UK Ministry of Defense summoned PolMilOff April 15 to receive the letter in para 2 on new procedures for requesting HMG permission to use UK territory to launch intelligence flights. This letter, evidently what DG Mariot Leslie was referring to in her April 14 [...]
2008-04-18 15:31:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNMOPS MARR PINR PREL UK
08LONDON1224CODEL SMITH DISCUSSES IRAQ AND COUNTERTERRORISM
[...] (S/NF) Summary. On the heels of their trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Codel Smith traveled to London April 29 for meetings with senior officials at the Ministry of Defense (MOD),MI-6, and Department for International Development (DfID). The MOD and MI-6 talks focused on counterterrorism and coun [...]
2008-05-01 11:56:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER PREL AF PK IZ UK
08LONDON1311UK REAFFIRMS LONG-TERM PRESENCE IN IRAQ; PRAISES
[...] (S/NF) Summary. During their meetings with Secretary of State for Defense Des Browne and FCO Political Director Mark Lyall Grant, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the Commanding General of MNF-I General David Petraeus were reassured that the UK was in Iraq "long-term" and had temporari [...]
2008-05-09 16:18:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR IZ AF UK
08LONDON132HORMUZ STRAITS INCIDENT: ALLEGEDLY AN IRGC
[...] (S/NF) Summary. A long-time Embassy contact, reportedly relaying information from a close friend who is an active duty member of the Iranian military, told Poloff the Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (Naval Forces) independently planned and led the January 6 feint by [...]
2008-01-15 17:43:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKPRP PGOV PHUM PREL IS IR LE SY UK KR
08LONDON1352IRANIAN BANKING IN LONDON: UK PLANS AND CONCERNS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-14 15:16:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN MNUC IR UK
08LONDON1412DOD INTEL FLIGHTS: FCO CLARIFIES
[...] (S/NF) Summary. U.S.-UK talks on clearances for DOD intel flights had become "unnecessarily confrontational," FCO Director General for Defence and Intelligence Mariot Leslie told Acting U/S John Rood May 16. After reiterating the political sensitivities surrounding the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) on [...]
2008-05-20 18:08:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNMARR MOPS PINR PREL LE UK
08LONDON1535INTERNATIONAL SECURITY DISCUSSIONS WITH HMG
[...] (C/NF) Summary. FCO and Treasury officials said that HMG was taking steps to restrict Iranian banking activity in the UK but is restricted by the legal tools available to it. FCO PolDir Mark Lyall Grant, FCO Director General for Defense and Intelligence Mariot Leslie, and HMT International and [...]
2008-06-03 16:21:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPARM MARR PREL IR SY UK
08LONDON1586U/S JEFFERY AND A/S O’BRIEN PRESS UK ON IRANIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: State Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery and Treasury Assistant Secretary Patrick O'Brien met with UK banking regulators on May 15 to urge increased scrutiny and tougher actions against Iranian banks operating in London. O'Brien and State Acting Assistant Secretary Patricia McNerney also d [...]
2008-06-09 10:58:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN ECON IR UK
08LONDON1597(S) UK MEASURES TO STEM BANK MELLI'S ASSET FLIGHT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-10 15:26:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN IR KTFN MNUC UK
08LONDON1620USUN AMB KHALILZAD REVIEWS IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN,
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Amb Khalilzad told UK national security advisor McDonald that he was realistic about the difficulties of completing a SOFA and strategic framework agreement with Iraq by July, but saw some progress on the ground. In Afghanistan, he believed the SGSR needed to fill key slots and [...]
2008-06-12 16:40:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL PGOV AF IZ IR
08LONDON1690UK PLEASED WITH U.S. DRAFT TEXT UNSCR TO RENEW
[...] (SBU) Foreign Office officials Angus Stewart, Susie Kitchens and Will Taylor, of the International Organisations Department, told us June 24 the British government is "pleased" with the U.S. draft 1267 Monitoring Team renewal. HMG agrees with the need to keep the focus on stopping the flow of [...]
2008-06-24 16:36:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN ETTC PREL PTER UNSC UK
08LONDON1777FOREIGN SECRETARY MILIBAND SUBMITS RENDITION
[...] (S/NF) Foreign Office Director for Defence and Strategic Threats Simon Manley informed Poloff July 2 that the Foreign Office would submit Foreign Secretary Miliband's written statement on rendition to Parliament July 2, for entry into Parliamentary records July 3. Manley said the statement (see [...]
2008-07-03 11:28:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER UK
08LONDON1837FOREIGN OFFICE SEES BROWN-MEDVEDEV TALKS LEADING
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev used their first one-on-one meeting at the G8 summit to build a friendly rapport rather than "score points" on smaller contentious issues, said the Foreign Office (FCO) to members of the diplomatic community. According t [...]
2008-07-10 16:38:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON ENRG PREL UK RS
08LONDON1862SUDAN/ICC: UK STRATEGY WITH POTENTIAL BASHIR ICC
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Following Foreign Secretary Miliband's July 9 visit to Sudan, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's July 14 request for indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor's July 14 assurances to the UK that the GoS will "engage legally" wit [...]
2008-07-15 16:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC KPKO PHUM SU UK
08LONDON1873UK AND UGANDA/LRA: CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE PEACE
[...] (C/NF) FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown "continues to support the peace process for the time being" between the Government of Uganda (GoU) and the Lord's Resistance Army, according to East Africa Desk Officers Gill Atkinson and Sheena Lavery. Atkinson provided poloff on July 15 HMG's pre [...]
2008-07-16 16:00:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL KDEM PHUM UG UK
08LONDON1886UK'S LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: LOOKING FOR INFLUENCE NOT
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Britain's third party, the Liberal Democrats, launched July 17 their "Make It Happen" campaign to communicate the party's core values and vision for the UK. In what is clearly Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg's latest attempt to build an ideologically consistent platform for a party often [...]
2008-07-18 14:23:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR UK
08LONDON1887PAKISTAN: UK SEES KASHMIR SOLUTION AS KEY TO
[...] (S) Summary. The UK sees resolving Kashmir as central to changing the dynamic in Pakistan's long-term security cooperation with the West, according to FCO contacts. Improving relations between Pakistan and India through a solution to Kashmir will allow the Pakistani Army to reduce its focus on Ind [...]
2008-07-18 16:15:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL PTER PBTS PINS IN PK UK
08LONDON1916NIGERIA: PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA'S "USEFUL" LONDON
[...] (C) Summary. Nigerian President Yar'Adua's "useful" July 16 - 17 visit to London focused on Nigeria-UK migration issues, corruption and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),and the Niger Delta, according to FCO Nigeria Desk Officers Catherine Inglehearn and Fiona Grant. In addition [...]
2008-07-23 11:03:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EFIN EINV SMIG NI UK
08LONDON1992SURVEY OF U.S./UK LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION
[...] (C/NF) Summary: U.S./UK law enforcement cooperation is wide ranging and robust. It is beset, however, by the sort of complications found in most international programs, compounded perhaps by a false assumption on both sides that "they are just like us." Embassy London's Law Enforcement Working [...]
2008-07-31 15:02:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKCRM CJUS UK
08LONDON2053UK REQUESTS U.S. INFORMATION ON TERRORIST FINANCE
[...] Action request, see Paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) HM Treasury has passed us names of individuals and groups for which it is requesting any and all updated information, identifiers and statements of cases (SOCs) in order to comply with it's 2007 policy to conduct yearly reviews of all designated par [...]
2008-08-06 14:47:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC UK
08LONDON2169IRAN: EXPAT SOURCE'S INFORMATION AND VIEWS ON
[...] (S) Summary: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, reportedly is widely viewed within the regime as a capable and forceful leader and manager who may someday succeed to at least a share of national leadership; his father may also see him in that light. A close ally of Tehran Mayor Q [...]
2008-08-21 15:10:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV PTER PHUM IR UK
08LONDON2211UK WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT GEORGIA; “ON THE SAME
[...] (C) Summary. The United Kingdom agrees that South Ossetian and Abkhazian representatives should not participate in UN Security Council (UNSC) meetings on Georgia, according to Mariot Leslie, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Director General (DG) for Defense and Intelligence. Leslie told th [...]
2008-08-28 17:13:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALECON EAID UNSC PREL PGOV FR GG UK UP
08LONDON2565DELEGATION PRESENTS PETITION TO EMBASSY ADVOCATING
[...] (C) A four person delegation representing the "Cuba Solidarity Campaign," a UK-based pressure and advocacy group, presented a petition to Polcouns and the Department of Justice Attache October 7 on behalf of two Cuban women requesting permission to visit their imprisoned husbands, operatives [...]
2008-10-07 17:38:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPINR PREL PHUM CVIS CU UK KCRM
08LONDON2643UK/RUSSIA RELATIONS: HARD-HEADED ENGAGEMENT
[...] (C) Summary. FCO Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Director Michael Davenport told DCM that HMG was conducting "parallel exercises" involving Cabinet, Intelligence and Foreign Office principals, designed to give PM Brown a clearer picture of Russian foreign policy making processes and recommendatio [...]
2008-10-20 15:11:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RU UK
08LONDON2651USDP EDELMAN’S OCTOBER 15 MEETINGS IN LONDON
[...] (S/NF) Summary. The UK is pessimistic about Pakistan, especially in light of President Zardari's poor leadership and the bad economy, although they praise efforts by Pakistani President Zardari to cooperate with Afghan President Karzai, UK senior officials at the Ministry of Defense (MOD),Foreign [...]
2008-10-21 17:03:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR UK ECON KNNP MOPS PTER AF FR
08LONDON2798(C) UK'S POTENTIAL NEW FINANCIAL TOOL AGAINST IRAN Classified By: KATHLEEN DOHERTY, ECON COUNSELOR FOR REASONS 1.4 B & D
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The British government amended the Counter-Terrorism Bill (CT Bill) on November 3, which would potentially give HMG stronger financial powers against Iran and other rogue nations. If approved by Parliament, HM Treasury would obtain power to impose measures on private entities doing [...]
2008-11-04 16:59:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN KTFN MNUC IR UK
08LONDON2833CTF-150/SOMALIA: OUTBRIEF FROM CANADIAN SHIP
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The Canadian vessel HMCS Ville de Quebec escorted five WFP vessels in and out of Mogadishu between August and October 2008, and the vessel's commanding officer noted that there is clear evidence of collusion between Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and pirates in Som [...]
2008-11-10 14:56:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NATO PTER SO CA UK
08LONDON2882NIGERIA: UK ON EFCC AND PRESIDENT YAR A'DUA
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK's relationship with Nigeria is "static," FCO Nigerian Team Leader Catherine Inglehearn said November 14. Cooperation with Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has largely stalled, pending a letter from new chair Waziri about HMG engagement with the Comm [...]
2008-11-17 15:45:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KCOR KCRM PINR NI UK
08LONDON3062PAKISTAN: LYALL GRANT AND BOUCHER AGREE ON
[...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary Boucher and Foreign Office Political Director Lyall Grant agreed on the need for Pakistan, and especially General Kayani, to close down Lashkar e Taiba operations and move on to reform of the intelligence service. Lyall Grant observed there would be less political [...]
2008-12-08 16:51:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PINR IN PK CH UK
08LONDON3110IRAN: FCO QUIETLY URGES PRESSURE ON GERMANS FOR EU
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Germany has deep political reservations over bank designations proposed against Iran under the EU's Common Policy, and is making legal and intelligence arguments within E4 against UK and French proposals to designate several Iranian banks, according to a UK Foreign and Commonweal [...]
2008-12-12 18:03:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ENRG IR KTFN MNUC PTER UK
08LONDON592UK TO DESIGNATE THREE MEMBERS OF LIBYAN ISLAMIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-26 17:08:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKTFN EFIN PTER LY UK
08LONDON630IRAN NUCLEAR: UK COMMONS REPORT WILL CALL FOR DROPPING SUSPENSION; FCO DISCOUNTS REPORT'S IMPACT REF: A. LONDON 4204 B. EMBASSY DAILY OF JANUARY 31 C. 2008 D. GAYLE-NEA/IR FEBRUARY 29 E-MAIL
[...] (C) The UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on March 2 will urge a major change in HMG and collective western policy on Iran's nuclear program, most notably the dropping of the suspension requirement before there can be direct talks on nuclear issues with Tehran. According to an excerpt f [...]
2008-02-29 16:29:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK
08LONDON676(C) C-DI8-00223: PROBABLE UK REACTION TO DUTCH
[...] (S) In response to ref questions, Post informally contacted Metropolitan Police's Diplomatic Protection Group regarding measures HMG may be taking in preparation for the release of the Dutch anti-Islam video. To the best of the Diplomatic Protection Group's knowledge, no specific protective [...]
2008-03-06 17:29:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR PTER KISL UK
08LONDON765UK SUPPORTS U.S. G8 CASH COURIER INITIATIVE
[...] (SBU) We delivered Reftel to Peter Storr, Home Office Lyon-Roma Head of Delegation, who indicated general UK support for U.S. aims on tackling cash and bulk couriers in the upcoming G8 Lyon-Roma meetings. The response in paragraph two is from Natalie Keough, Terrorist Finance expert, Home Off [...]
2008-03-13 18:02:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN UK
08LONDON878BROWN MEETS MCCAIN: DISCUSS IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, AND
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown met Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham in London March 20. Brown used the meeting to present his big ideas about reforming the international financial institutions (IFIS) and increasing assistance to Africa as a means to preven [...]
2008-03-27 09:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER PHUM EFIN EAID UNSC IZ AF IS
08LONDON890TONY BLAIR AND JOHN MCCAIN TALK ABOUT
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Tony Blair used his meeting with Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham to underscore the "centrality" of Israel/Palestine in bringing stability to the Middle East. Blair said progress could be made by "building from the bottom up," including by developing [...]
2008-03-27 17:28:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PINR PTER IS RU UK
08LONDON929DAVID CAMERON TELLS JOHN MCCAIN TORIES WON’T BREAK
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Conservative party leader David Cameron told Senator John McCain the Tories won't break ranks with HMG on policies affecting British troops in battle. Cameron and Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague told McCain and Senators Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham that Prime Minister [...]
2008-04-01 09:58:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR IZ AF IS IR PK UK
08LONDON991UK ENERGY MINISTER WICKS TELLS U/S JEFFERY THAT
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: UK Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks, Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) told Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery that the UK was taking an assertive public and private position on climate change, but that energy [...]
2008-04-07 15:12:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON ENRG SENV KGHG UK
08LUANDA254ANGOLA CONCERNED ABOUT POTENTIAL FOR VIOLENCE IN
[...] (C) Summary: In response to March 31 demarche (reftel),Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Chicoti told Ambassador Mozena he would pass U.S. concerns over the potential for violence in Zimbabwe directly to President Dos Santos. He added that Angola shares these concerns, especially if Mov [...]
2008-03-31 18:11:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALAO PREL ZI
08LUANDA687"THE ANGOLAN" ELECTORAL NEWS BULLETIN, VOL VII
[...] (U) In This Issue: - UNITA Accuses MPLA of Political Violence and Intimidation - Dos Santos Notes MPLA's Past Failures - An Odd Twist to the MPLA Campaign - Small Parties Run Out of Steam - Walking the tightrope... UNITA Accuses MPLA of Political Violence ----------------- [...]
2008-08-29 19:19:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA692"THE ANGOLAN" ELECTORAL NEWS BULLETIN, VOL VIII
[...] (C) In This Issue: - Parties Wrap Up Campaign Period - UNITA Predicts Holding 3 Seats in Huambo - Credentialing Problems for Observers and Monitors - Insufficient Civic Education Creates Confusion in Benguela - Possible SINFO Engagement in Electoral Process - Villagers Eject [...]
2008-09-03 17:54:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUSAKA1197ATTORNEY GENERAL SUPPORTS PROGRESS ON ANTI-MONEY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 24, Attorney General (AG) Mumba Malila shared with Ambassador his intention to recommend to Cabinet the establishment of a Financial Intelligence Unit that meets international standards and expressed his support for the Women's Justice and Empowerment Initiative, a [...]
2008-12-30 14:31:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KWMN SNAR ZA
08LUSAKA441GRZ (STILL) DELIBERATING ON CRITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging conversation with DCM and Poloff on anti-corruption topics, Cabinet Secretary Kanganja noted little progress on anti-money laundering, but said that Cabinet is currently considering a National Anti-Corruption Policy, as well as guidelines governing the use of sei [...]
2008-04-17 12:16:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALKCOR PGOV PREL KMCA ZA
08MADRID1064DEMARCHES ON UNSCR RESOLUTIONS ON IRAN AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-08 12:16:00Embassy MadridSECRETECON EFIN ETRD PARM KNNP EWWT EUN PREL MNUC
08MADRID1186SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SIRES' NOVEMBER 13-16 VISIT
[...] (SBU) Representative Sires, Embassy Madrid looks forward to your and your delegation's visit to Madrid and Barcelona. The Spanish are eager to share their assessment of political developments, regional issues, and bilateral relations with you. The recent US national election has been closely [...]
2008-11-07 12:56:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN OVIP PINS PREL PTER SP OREP AMGT AFIN
08MADRID1212CODEL SIRES VISIT TO MADRID, NOVEMBER 13-14, 2008
[...] (U) Summary: Codel Sires (Representatives Albio Sires, Lynn Woolsey, Phil Gingrey, Ron Klein, and Laura Richardson) visited Madrid November 13-14 to discuss rail transportation security, counter-terrorism, and bilateral relations. They met with Minister of Interior Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, M [...]
2008-11-18 08:10:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALOREP PREL SP
08MADRID1214CALLS FOR REFORM OF SPAIN'S COUNTER-TERRORISM LAWS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Spain's counter-terrorism (CT) laws were designed with the domestic terrorist group ETA - Basque Fatherland and Liberty - in mind, but a number of recent rulings and actions by the Spanish judiciary and law enforcement forces in recent weeks have brought into focus Spain's need to [...]
2008-11-18 12:51:00Embassy MadridSECRETPGOV PINS PTER KJUS SP
08MADRID1230SPAIN: CIVIL GUARD OFFERS INSIDER ACCOUNT OF ITS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a counter-terrorism (CT) conference co-sponsored by Embassy Madrid, General Pablo Martin Alonso, the Head of Intelligence for the Civil Guard -- known in Spanish as Guardia Civil (GC) -- discussed the role of the GC in detaining radical Islamic jihadists within Spain's borde [...]
2008-11-24 17:30:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPINR PINS PREL PTER SP
08MADRID1269FURTHER THOUGHTS ON SPAIN'S COUNTER-TERRORISM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. This cable continues the discussion from REFTEL, which examined recent Supreme Court acquittals of lower court convictions of radical Islamic jihadists. Most recently, the Supreme Court on October 7 overturned 14 of 20 convictions for a 2004 case known an Operation Nova; on Novem [...]
2008-12-02 17:39:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PTER KJUS SP
08MADRID1277SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DODD VISIT TO SPAIN DEC.
[...] (SBU) Embassy Madrid welcomes your visit. The Spaniards you meet will be eager to share their assessment of financial developments, Latin American issues, and bilateral relations. Our elections were closely followed here, and a strong atmosphere of goodwill and optimism has emerged for incre [...]
2008-12-04 11:20:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON OREP PREL SP
08MADRID1280SPAIN: ALLEGED DETAINEE FLIGHTS ISSUE BLOWS UP IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A hot issue in the Spanish press since 2005, the detainee transfer flights that allegedly transited Spain from 2002 until 2006 have once again hit the headlines. The most recent flurry of reporting began November 30 when El Pais, Spain's leading newspaper, printed several stories bas [...]
2008-12-04 13:42:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMARR PREF PGOV PTER KPAO SP
08MADRID1291SCENESETTER FOR CODEL NELSON VISIT TO SPAIN DEC.
[...] (U) Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit to Spain. U.S.-Spanish relations are strong and based on shared interests, including the fight against terrorism, the bilateral military relationship, our association in NATO, and rapidly expanding economic ties. The Spaniards you meet will be eag [...]
2008-12-09 11:12:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER OREP MARR SP
08MADRID1304SPAIN: REACTION TO PLAN RE CONTINGENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF on December 10 delivered REFTEL A non-paper to Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the MFA's Sub-DG for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. The Spaniard opined that he considered the USG proposal -- to make the implementation of the I [...]
2008-12-12 12:10:00Embassy MadridSECRETKNNP MNUC PARM PREL SY IAEA TRGY SP
08MADRID1306SPAIN: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) As requested in REFTEL A, Post's submission for the "2008 Country Report on Terrorism" follows in paragraph 2. POC for the CRT in Spain is Hugh Clifton. Telephone 34-91-587-2294, email: CliftonLH@state.gov. 2. (U) The Government of Spain and its citizens were concerned that their cou [...]
2008-12-12 17:25:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPTER SP ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR
08MADRID1307SPAIN: INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] (U) As requested in REFTEL A, Post's submission for the "International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control," follows in paragraph 2. This report includes draft numbers for statistical information on seizures for the calendar year 2008. If information [...]
2008-12-12 17:28:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR SP KCRM
08MADRID225EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) Pursuant to REFTEL A, the following is input from Embassy Madrid and CG Barcelona for the eighth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy POC is Political Officer Matt Osborne, Tel. (34) 91-587-2294, Fax. (34) 91-587-2391. Staff hours spent in preparation of this report are [...]
2008-02-28 16:04:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SP
08MADRID280SPANISH REACTION TO ANTI-ISLAM VIDEO (C-DI8-00223)
[...] (S) Question A: Spanish security and intelligence services are currently on high alert in advance of the March 9 national elections. The March 11, 2004 train bombings in Madrid occurred just days before the last national elections, and Spanish officials are concerned about the possibility of [...]
2008-03-07 17:37:00Embassy MadridSECRETPINR KISL SP
08MADRID289TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Secretary Kimmitt, accompanied by DCM, discussed Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Afghanistan, and sovereign wealth funds with Spanish National Security Adviser Carles Casajuana in a March 6 meeting. Casajuana expressed pleasure that bilateral relations had evolved positively in recent [...]
2008-03-10 13:59:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEINV AF CU IR IZ KV SP
08MADRID294TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETING WITH
[...] (S) Summary: Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt, accompanied by DCM, met with Spanish Secretary of State for Security Camacho March 6. Camacho outlined the GOS' views of the threat from Islamic terrorism and emphasized the importance of exchanging information. He suggested the creation of a task for [...]
2008-03-11 13:18:00Embassy MadridSECRETECON EFIN KTFN SP IR
08MADRID301TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FOUR
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche March 10, notifying the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the recent E.O. 13224 designation of four Syria-based members of the Abu Ghadiyah network. Ivo Pascual, desk officer at the MFA's Directorate of Counter-Terrorism, accepted the additional informa [...]
2008-03-11 18:26:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC SY SP
08MADRID349SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL REYES
[...] Embassy grants clearance and warmly welcomes Rep. Silvestre Reyes, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Michael Delaney and Jeremy Bash, Professional Staff Members to Madrid, Spain from March 24 to March 28 for an official committee oversight visit. 2. Post [...]
2008-03-19 17:27:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ASEC AFIN OREP OTRA
08MADRID449SPAIN: ZAPATERO INVESTED AS PRESIDENT, SELECTS NEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was elected President on April 11 with only the 169 votes of his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). Zapatero eschewed forming alliances that would have produced an absolute majority in the first vote round in Congress. The Popular Party (PP) [...]
2008-04-22 06:13:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV SP
08MADRID490ADDITIONAL TERRORISM FINANCE CHARGE AGAINST
[...] (C) Summary: Judge of Instruction Ismail Moreno has filed charges against jailed Al Qaeda leader Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, alias Abu Dahdah, for efforts to continue financing jihadist groups from his jail cell, according to an April 28 report in El Pais, Spain's leading daily. The charges wer [...]
2008-04-30 15:57:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER KTFN SP
08MADRID502SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ADMIRAL THAD W. ALLEN,
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Embassy Madrid Country Team warmly welcomes your visit. It will provide an important opportunity to highlight the importance we place on the relationship, particularly as it concerns our strategic interests such as the fight against terrorism and transnational crime. We a [...]
2008-05-08 16:42:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER SMIG SNAR SP
08MADRID503FINCEN DIRECTOR, SPANISH OFFICIALS DISCUSS MONEY
[...] (U) This cable has been cleared by FinCEN Director Jim Freis. 2. (C/NF) Summary. During a visit to Madrid April 23-24, Department of Treasury FinCEN Director Jim Freis met with Spanish government officials involved in anti-money laundering and counter terrorism finance (AML-CTF) activitie [...]
2008-05-09 07:22:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL SP ECON EFIN KTFN
08MADRID522SPAIN/COUNTERTERRORISM - CHARGE'S MEETING WITH MINISTRY OF INTERIOR CHIEF OF STAFF
[...] (S) The Charge, accompanied by EconOff, met with Gregorio Martinez, Chief of Staff to Interior Minister Rubalcaba, on May 9. Charge stressed the need for better inter-agency cooperation in Spain in the fight against terrorism. Responding to the Charge's expressions of concern regarding the front-pa [...]
2008-05-12 06:18:00Embassy MadridSECRETEFIN KTFN SP PTER
08MADRID526MINISTRY OF INTERIOR CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS BARAKAT
[...] (S) Late on Friday, May 9, Ministry of Interior Chief of Staff Gregorio Martinez called the Charge about the April 28 El Pais story that suggested that Barakat Yarkas had financed terrorist cells from jail. The Charge had discussed the issue in person with Martinez the morning of May 9 (ref A) [...]
2008-05-12 11:26:00Embassy MadridSECRETEFIN PTER KTFN SP
08MADRID552SPANISH CABINET MEMBER BIOGRAPHIES - ZAPATERO'S
[...] (U) SUMMARY. President Zapatero's center-left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) was the victor in the March 9 general election. This cable gives brief biographies for the cabinet members in Zapatero's second administration. Overall, the cabinet reflects Zapatero's campaign promises to [...]
2008-05-19 16:13:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR SP
08MADRID569SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PETERSON VISIT TO MADRID
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. The Government of Spain (GOS) shares your interest in the development of renewable energy, including biofuels. However, what once promised to be a booming industry with plans for construction of 30 biodiesel and 20 ethanol plants, ha [...]
2008-05-23 07:18:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT ASEC BEXP OREP AFIN SP FR PO
08MADRID595SPAIN: U.S. COAST GUARD COMMANDANT VISITS MADRID
[...] (C) SUMMARY. U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad W. Allen visited Madrid from 12-13 May to meet with Spanish naval and law enforcement counterparts to highlight the importance we place on joint efforts between civilian and military authorities to break down stovepipes in the fight again [...]
2008-05-28 14:56:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER SMIG SNAR SP
08MADRID620SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 8-11 VISIT TO SPAIN OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: We warmly welcome your visit. We are convinced there is much Spain can do to support the AFRICOM mission, so this will be a key opportunity. The challenge will be to engage them constructively on what the U.S. is trying to accomplish with this new and innovative command. We have a st [...]
2008-06-04 17:31:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AF SP
08MADRID659SPANISH POLICE ARREST EIGHT INDIVIDUALS ALLEGEDLY
[...] (U) According to the website of the Spanish Interior Ministry and press reports, Spanish National Police on the morning of June 10 arrested eight individuals in Barcelona, Castellon, and Pamplona during an operation aimed at an alleged Islamic terrorist cell that reportedly had been recruiting [...]
2008-06-10 15:50:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL SP
08MADRID685JUNE 8-11 VISIT TO SPAIN OF COMMANDER, U.S. AFRICA
[...] (C) Summary: General William E. "Kip" Ward, Commander U.S. Africa Command, visited Spain June 8-11 for meetings with Spanish officials regarding AFRICOM. The primary purpose of the visit was to meet with Spanish leaders to discuss AFRICOM as well as listen and learn from their experiences on the co [...]
2008-06-20 06:26:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AF SP
08MADRID7SPAIN/AL-KASSAR: EXTRADITION ON TRACK, BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The extradition process of Syrian arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar continues to move forward and we are increasingly confident that he will end up in U.S. custody. Foreign Minister Moratinos and Interior Minister Rubalcaba have both told the Ambassador in recent days that the judicia [...]
2008-01-03 12:28:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV SP
08MADRID757TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY SCENESETTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. Your presence provides an excellent opportunity to reinforce our message on Iran financial sanctions with both government and private sector representatives. (Note: Your schedule has been sent via e-mail to staff.) You will also have an oppo [...]
2008-07-10 09:18:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ETC ETTC ETRD KTFN PREL PARM
08MADRID836IRAN FOCUS OF TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY TRIP
[...] (C) Summary: Treasury Under Secretary Stuart A. Levey, accompanied by Chief of Staff Christy Clark and Policy Advisor DeAnna Fernandez, traveled to Madrid, Spain July 15-17, 2008 to press for Spanish support for implementation of UNSCR 1803 per the EU-3 1 proposal and to provide information on the [...]
2008-07-28 16:29:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ETRD KTFN PREL PARM PTER IR SP
08MADRID979DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IRANIAN EFFORTS TO BUY SPANISH-MADE MILLING MACHINE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-11 12:14:00Embassy MadridSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL ETTC MNUC TSPA SP IR
08MANAGUA1327UNDER PRESSURE, ORTEGA CHANGES TONE AND TACTICS IN
[...] (C) Under sharp and growing international pressure over its campaign against civil society, the Ortega government appears to have made a decision to change its tone and tactics in the run-up to the November 9 municipal elections. The European Union, the U.S., the Carter Center, Friends of the [...]
2008-10-30 22:21:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM NU
08MANAGUA1405THE NICARAGUAN NATIONAL POLICE AND ELECTORAL FRAUD
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In the period before, during, and after the November 9 municipal elections in Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan National Police (NNP) conspicuously failed to carry out its duties to uphold the Electoral Law and generally failed to carry out its duties to maintain public order in a non- [...]
2008-11-20 14:15:00Embassy ManaguaSECRET//NOFORNSNAR ASEC PGOV PREL NU
08MANAGUA281CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: DISCUSSION WITH
[...] (C) We met this morning with Colombian Ambassador to Nicaragua, Antonio Gonzalez Castano to discuss the events of the last 24 hours, including President Ortega's surprise announcement to break relations with Colombia. The newly-PNG'd Castano was in good spirits but clearly concerned by the un [...]
2008-03-07 21:45:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CO NU
08MANAGUA344NICARAGUA MANPADS: RECOMMENDATION FOR SUPPORTING
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Between March 3 and March 13, 2008, a two-person team from the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (AFMIC) was in Nicaragua to assess the condition and capacity of the Nicaraguan health sector. This mission was in support of ongoing U.S.-Nicaraguan bilateral discussions [...]
2008-03-25 16:09:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MASS MOPS PHUM NU
08MANAGUA361WHA/CEN DIRECTOR FEELEY VISITS NICARAGUA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During his March 4-5 visit to Nicaragua, Office Director for Central American Affairs John Feeley delivered a consistent message that the USG desires a constructive and positive relationship with the Ortega administration and that the U.S. will stay engaged for the benefit of th [...]
2008-03-26 23:11:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
08MANAGUA37INL MANAGUA PD&S PLAN FOR FY 2008
[...] INL Managua submits its fiscal year 2008 PD&S budget plan per reftel. 2. INL Managua's PD&S needs will increase due to the costs associated with Salary and Benefits for the INL Program Assistant who will be reclassified as an INL Program Manager and the hire of a new INL Program Assistant [...]
2008-01-11 21:49:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR AFIN NU
08MANAGUA421NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING: USMLGP, INTELLIGENCE OFFICER COURSE
[...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individuals, who have been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individuals will attend the Intelligence Officer Course in Fort Benning, GA from April [...]
2008-04-09 16:03:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU
08MANAGUA696ACTION REQUEST: NEW 'NOTICE TO MARINERS' ON CHANGE
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see paragraph 10 for Action. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY: In October 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague issued a decision resolving a long-standing maritime boundary dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras. This decision e [...]
2008-06-02 22:15:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS PREL EWWT EFIS CASC MOPS CO XK
08MANAMA127U/S LEVEY ENGAGES GOB OFFICIALS ON TERRORISM, IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION FINANCE REF: 07 MANAMA 1089 MANAMA 00000127 001.6 OF 002 Classified By: Ambassador Adam Ereli, reasons 1.4(b) and (d). ------- SUMMARY -------
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-03 12:50:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL PTER EFIN ECON IR BA
08MANAMA138REISSUE - U/S LEVEY ENGAGES GOB OFFICIALS ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-06 16:15:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL PTER EFIN ECON IR BA
08MANAMA195U/S LEVEY PROMOTES CHARITIES CONFERENCE, WARNS BANKERS ON IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: Treasury U/S Levey reiterated to banks the risks of engaging in transactions with Iranian financial institutions. U/S Levey said he expected the imminent U.S. designation of Future Bank. He told the Minister of Social Development about the importance of fund-raising oversight, and supp [...]
2008-03-24 14:37:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EFIN IR BA
08MANAMA235SCENESETTER FOR CNO VISIT TO BAHRAIN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-10 13:54:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL MARR MASS IR BA
08MANAMA336SOME POTENTIAL NEW LEADERS IN BAHRAIN'S CHIEF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-29 15:13:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KISL BA
08MANAMA442GOB SUSPENDS CHARGES AGAINST SIX ARRESTED FOR SECTARIAN WEB POSTINGS REF: A. MANAMA 420 B. MANAMA 430 Classified By: DCM Christopher Henzel for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
[...] (C) Summary: Bahrain's interior ministry ordered two Sunni websites and one Shi'a site to shut down June 26, accusing them of inciting sectarianism and failing to register, in violation of the 2002 Press and Publications Law (ref B). When the Shi'a site ignored the order, Bahrain's lead intelligenc [...]
2008-07-03 13:21:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR KISL BA
08MANAMA496SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS’ VISIT TO BAHRAINClassified By: Charge d’Affaires a.i. Christopher Henzel for reasons 1. 4 (b) and (d)
[...] (S) General Petraeus, Embassy Manama and the Bahraini leadership look forward to welcoming you back to Bahrain. Following on Secretary Rice's dinner in Abu Dhabi with GCC-plus 3 officials July 21, and at a time when many in the Gulf are speculating about the trajectory of the tensions over Iran's n [...]
2008-07-25 18:50:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL PGOV IR IZ BA
08MANAMA737BAHRAIN: OUTLOOK FOR THE THIRD PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) Summary: The new session of parliament will focus on housing, unemployment, and discrimination - the last a topic likely to spur the same sectarian tensions that led to deadlock in the last session. End Summary. Background ---------- 2. (SBU) King Hamad opened parliament on October [...]
2008-10-27 13:44:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM BA
08MANAMA845ADDITIONAL ARRESTS IN ALLEGED NATIONAL DAY BOMB
[...] (C) Summary: The GOB claimed that a pipe bomb plot implicated Shi'a oppositionists in London, and that some plotters trained in Syria. Bahraini Shi'a are skeptical and angry over the charges. The GOB charges beg many questions, and the USG should treat them cautiously until more evidence c [...]
2008-12-31 13:15:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM SY BA
08MANILA1030PHILIPPINE MILITARY CONDUCTS STRIKE AGAINST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the early morning hours of April 30, the Armed Forces of the Philippines launched an artillery strike against a terrorist redoubt on the island of Jolo and followed up with a ground assault. Information on the success of the operation against the terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf [...]
2008-04-30 11:01:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP PREL PTER RP MASS
08MANILA104PRESIDENT ARROYO MEETS REP. ADAM SMITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting January 10, President Arroyo and Rep. Adam Smith praised Philippine-U.S. counterterrorism cooperation and agreed on the need to combine military action with development assistance. President Arroyo has ordered her forces to focus on senior terrorist figures and beli [...]
2008-01-14 09:49:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER MOPS ECON EFIN RP
08MANILA1177PACOM COMMANDER AND AMBASSADOR CALL ON NEW ARMED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with new Chief of the Philippine Armed Forces Alexander Yano on May 14, the Ambassador emphasized that Philippine counterterrorism successes had won attention from senior U.S. policymakers, and that the USG stood ready to continue with assistance. Commander of the U.S. [...]
2008-05-15 09:29:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP PREL RP
08MANILA123SCENESETTER FOR CODEL INOUYE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy warmly welcomes Senator Inouye and Senator Stevens back to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines are strong. U.S. interests in this major non-NATO ally center on strengthening democracy, fostering eco [...]
2008-01-16 05:34:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN RP KS
08MANILA1255SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL MULLEN'S VISIT TO THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Admiral, we appreciate your engagement with Philippine officials at Shangri-La and your subsequent visit to the Philippines. The Philippines has undergone many positive changes since the last visit of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the Philippines in 2002, many as a result o [...]
2008-05-23 07:57:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PINS PREL PTER RP
08MANILA1384JCS CHAIRMAN VIEWS COUNTERTERROR EFFORTS, MEETS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During his visit to the Philippines June 1-2, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen greeted U.S. Special Forces troops in the Southern Philippines, met with his Philippine counterpart, laid a wreath at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, spoke to Emba [...]
2008-06-10 23:53:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP PREL RP
08MANILA1399TOP BROADCAST JOURNALIST ABDUCTED IN MINDANAO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A popular Philippine television journalist was reportedly kidnapped by the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) on June 8, in an isolated area of Jolo Island, southern Philippines, while en route to a putative interview with ASG leader Radulan Sahiron. President Arroyo immediately or [...]
2008-06-11 08:57:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PINS RP
08MANILA1460BROADCAST JOURNALIST FREED BY KIDNAPPERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Kidnappers have released well-known broadcast journalist Ces Drilon and three members of her crew, after 10 days of captivity on Jolo Island. Drilon and her colleagues were abducted on June 8 on Jolo Island in southern Mindanao. While most media sources and government officials ha [...]
2008-06-18 08:47:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PINS PHUM RP
08MANILA1795THE NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Thirty-nine years after its founding as the armed wing of the Philippine Communist Party, the New People's Army (NPA) has lost much of its ability to conduct sustained military operations but remains capable of sporadically disrupting public security and business operations in cer [...]
2008-07-29 07:51:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALASEC PTER RP
08MANILA1800SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL WEIL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Manila warmly welcomes Staffdel Weil to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines are strong. U.S. interests in this major non-NATO ally center on strengthening democracy, fostering economic growth, fightin [...]
2008-07-29 23:06:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL KPAO RP
08MANILA1801SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL WEIL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Manila warmly welcomes Staffdel Weil to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines are strong. U.S. interests in this major non-NATO ally center on strengthening democracy, fostering economic growth, fightin [...]
2008-07-29 23:06:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL KPAO RP
08MANILA1825PRESIDENT ARROYO NAMES NEW NAVAL CHIEF
[...] (U) Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo approved the designation of Rear Admiral Ferdinand Golez as the new Flag Officer-in-Command for the Philippine Navy, effective August 2. The appointment was announced by Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro July 29. Golez will repla [...]
2008-08-01 01:16:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP PREL RP
08MANILA1837AMBASSADOR, NATIONAL POLICE CHIEF DISCUSS HUMAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Over a July 31 working breakfast with Philippine National Police (PNP) Director, Gen. Avelino "Sonny" Razon, Ambassador discussed extrajudicial killings (EJKs),the peace process in the southern Philippines, and the challenges that lie ahead for the Philippines' police force. R [...]
2008-08-01 08:08:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL PTER RP SNAR
08MANILA207TERRORISM FINANCE MANILA UPDATE JANUARY 2008
[...] (S) Legatt and Econ officers met with Philippine Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) Executive Director Vicente Aquino on January 25 to discuss terror finance issues raised in ref A related to Rajah Solaiman Movement listing by the UN 1267 Committee, and to deliver the talking points and bac [...]
2008-01-25 08:49:00Embassy ManilaSECRETRP KTFN EFIN PTER PREL ETTC
08MANILA2163MARINE CASE UPDATE: SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CUSTODY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The case of U.S. Marine LCpl Daniel Smith, whom a trial court found guilty of rape, remains under appeal. Separate from the substance of the case, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments September 19 regarding whether the Philippine government erred in transferring custo [...]
2008-09-16 10:12:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
08MANILA2624MUMBAI ATTACKS DEPLORED, SECURITY LEVELS RAISED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Ambassador and senior Mission members spoke with top Philippine national security officials Nov. 27-28 to apprise them of the current situation in Mumbai, urge them to remain vigilant for any potential attacks here, and reiterate [...]
2008-11-28 09:07:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER RP IN
08MANILA2626SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE'S VISIT TO THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy warmly welcomes CODEL Price to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines are strong. U.S. interests in this major non-NATO ally center on strengthening democracy, fostering economic growth, fighting terro [...]
2008-11-28 10:10:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PINS PREL RP CH VM
08MANILA2677PHILIPPINE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN SOUTHERN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent successes by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the southern Philippines have disrupted terrorist networks in Mindanao and destroyed known terrorist camps in the Sulu Archipelago. In the last five weeks, combined military and police efforts in Mindanao, suppor [...]
2008-12-09 09:34:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP PREL PTER RP MASS
08MANILA2727AMBASSADOR AND DEFENSE SECRETARY DISCUSS SECURITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 15 private breakfast with the Ambassador, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro discussed the security situation in the southern Philippines and the discipline the Armed Forces of the Philippines are showing in the face of continued clashes wit [...]
2008-12-16 05:49:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID PINR PREL PHUM KISL RP
08MANILA2730TRANSITIONING THE U.S.- PHILIPPINE MILITARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: U.S.-Philippine military ties have burgeoned since 2002, moving from tentative re-engagement after a decade of limited U.S. military presence to a vigorous alliance making significant progress toward our priorities of defeating terrorists and fostering peace. That p [...]
2008-12-16 06:27:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP PREL RP
08MANILA2762PHILIPPINES: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] SUMMARY: The Philippines remains a key partner of the United States in our bilateral and multilateral counterterrorism efforts. As in recent years, during 2008, terrorist groups active in the Philippines included the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG),Jemaah Islamiyah (JI),the New People's Army (NPA) [...]
2008-12-22 08:33:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC RP
08MANILA293PHILIPINE ARMED FORCES CHIEF OF STAFF ESPERON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 1 private breakfast, the Ambassador and Philippine Chief of the Armed Forces General Hermogenes Esperon, who on January 25 was extended by President Arroyo until May 9, 2008, held a wide-ranging discussion. Esperon began by saying it was time to wrap up the campa [...]
2008-02-04 10:39:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP PREL RP
08MANILA426POSSIBLE REMAINS OF TERRORIST DULMATIN RECOVERED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Philippine Armed Forces recovered a cadaver February 18 that was reported by informants to be the remains of Jemaah Islamiyah leader and Bali bombing mastermind Dulmatin, one of the most wanted terrorists in the Philippines, with up to a $10 million reward under the Rewards [...]
2008-02-19 09:36:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALKJUS MOPS PINS PTER RP
08MANILA454PRESIDENT ARROYO COMMITTED TO PEACE PROCESS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a lively and wide-ranging February 21 meeting with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, she exhibited an especially keen interest in my February 19 trip to Mindanao to visit Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leader Murad Ebrahim. I told President Arroyo that Chairman Murad [...]
2008-02-21 11:02:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER RP
08MANILA474 AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES INFRASTRUCTURE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
[...] (U) The Ambassador visited several U.S.-Philippine projects and an American business facility during a visit to General Santos City, a thriving port city in southern Mindanao and the tuna capital of the Philippines, on February 8. The Ambassador inaugurated a USG-funded Maritime Intelligence [...]
2008-02-25 04:38:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID RP
08MANILA49SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL GROVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Manila warmly welcomes Staffdel Grove to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines are strong. U.S. interests in this major non-NATO ally center on strengthening democracy, fostering economic growth, fighti [...]
2008-01-07 05:59:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL EAID RP
08MANILA515ADMIRAL KEATING EMPHASIZES STRONG TIES DURING
[...] (C) Summary: During his visit to the Philippines February 25-26, PACOM Commander Admiral Timothy Keating joined the Ambassador to meet with Philippine Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces General Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. and visited a civil-military operations project as part of the annual U.S [...]
2008-02-29 05:54:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP PREL RP
08MANILA517MANILA BRACES FOR ANOTHER ANTI-ARROYO DEMONSTRATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Political turmoil over corruption allegations continues to roil the Arroyo administration, and Manila authorities are bracing for yet another anti-Arroyo demonstration, this one slated for Friday, February 29. As the political ferment continues here, the Ambassador and Mission re [...]
2008-02-29 07:33:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KCOR PINR RP
08MANILA53SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SMITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy warmly welcomes CODEL Smith to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines are strong. U.S. interests in this major non-NATO ally center on strengthening democracy, fostering economic growth, fighting terrori [...]
2008-01-07 12:24:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL EAID RP
08MANILA59SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER DANIEL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy warmly welcomes Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs Daniel Price to the Philippines. The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines are strong. The U.S. is the Philippines' largest trading partner [...]
2008-01-08 07:49:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR PREL RP
08MANILA601SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DIRECTOR GENERAL
[...] (SBU) We warmly welcome your visit to the Philippines. The relationship between our two nations is deep and complex, and our partnership addressing a host of common issues has many faces. The U.S. is the Philippines' largest trading partner, the largest investor, and the largest donor of grant [...]
2008-03-10 23:22:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID RP AMGT
08MANILA878PHILIPPINES SUPPORTS TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS ON
[...] (C) The Philippine government has agreed to deny visas to the individuals designated in UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) 1737, 1747, and 1803. Director Leah Ruiz of the Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO) at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) told polo [...]
2008-04-11 07:05:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP IR RP MNUC
08MANILA899PHILIPPINE ANTITERROR SUCCESSES CONTINUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Philippine authorities, with U.S. assistance, arrested or killed eight significant terrorists since January. These operations demonstrated enhanced synergies between security and intelligence forces, increased sophistication, and effective avoidance of collateral damage. In r [...]
2008-04-15 09:26:00Embassy ManilaSECRETPTER MOPS PINS KJUS RP
08MANILA919PHILIPPINES SHIFT TROOP MIX IN SOUTHERN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Philippine government has completed reconfiguring its troop mix in the southern Philippines, with the Philippine Marines replacing the Army as the dominant force on Jolo island, where key Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists are suspected to be hiding. The new "Fleet M [...]
2008-04-17 02:32:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP PREL RP
08MAPUTO1070RUSSIA AND MOZAMBIQUE: STILL COMRADES?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With a long history of cooperation during the Soviet era, Russia maintains a nominal official presence in Mozambique, with an eye towards natural resource exploration and garnering support for its international policies. The bilateral trade imbalance leans in Mozambique's favor [...]
2008-11-13 09:12:00Embassy MaputoSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR EAID RU MZ
08MAPUTO164CUBA AND MOZAMBIQUE: A LONG AND CONTINUING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: More than 3500 Mozambicans have studied in Cuba since 1977; many of them now occupy important positions in the Government of Mozambique (GRM) and in the ruling FRELIMO party, even as close advisors to current President Armando Guebuza. Relations between the two countries' gov [...]
2008-02-23 09:53:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDCU PGOV PREL ECON ETRD MZ
08MAPUTO616NUMBER OF ZIMBABWEAN POLITICAL REFUGEES ON THE RISE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloffs recently met with the UNHCR representative in Maputo to discuss the Zimbabwe political situation's affect on Mozambique and subsequently visited the Mozambique/Zimbabwe border towns of Machipanda, Manica, and Chimoio on June 26-27 to gauge the situation on the ground prior [...]
2008-07-02 12:21:00Embassy MaputoCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL SMIG PREF PGOV MZ ZM
08MAPUTO847MOZAMBIQUE AWASH IN A SEA OF COUNTERFEITS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Econoff and visiting CommOff canvassed a wide spectrum of stakeholders in regards to intellectual property (IP) from August 13-21. Mozambique is making some headway, as the issue is gaining some attention at the highest levels--President Armando Guebuza made two public state [...]
2008-09-04 12:11:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD ECON PGOV PREL MZ
08MAPUTO857FOREIGN MINISTER BALOI ON ZIMBABWE, SADC TROIKA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 28 meeting with the Charge, Foreign Minister Oldemiro Baloi was very frank in his appraisal of the crisis in Zimbabwe and Mozambique's role via the SADC Troika (ref A). Baloi said the Troika had taken on specific mediation interventions, and he described President [...]
2008-09-09 11:37:00Embassy MaputoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI MZ
08MASERU243LESOTHO NOMINEES FOR ILEA GABORONE - LAW ENFORCEMENT
[...] Post submits the following information on the four candidates from Lesotho who are nominated to participate in REFTEL course. The candidates are from the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS)and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offenses. a) Name: Seabata NTHABI Gender: Male Da [...]
2008-08-14 15:46:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
08MASERU252LESOTHO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA GABORONE - LAW
[...] Embassy Maseru submits the following information to the Department for human rights vetting on the four (4) candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in REFTEL course. The candidates are from the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offenses (DCEO) and the Lesotho Mounted Police Servic [...]
2008-08-22 08:47:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS PHUM SNAR LT
08MELBOURNE48UNPOPULAR TASMANIAN PREMIER RESIGNS, SURPRISING COLLEAGUES
[...] (SBU) Tasmania's beleaguered Premier Paul Lennon resigned suddenly May 26 in favor of his deputy, David Bartlett. Dogged by allegations of corruption over his four years as premier, the abrasive Lennon claimed he left on his terms believing it was time for a generational change. Particularly [...]
2008-05-27 06:24:00Consulate MelbourneUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR AS
08MEXICO1000CONGRESSIONAL STAFFERS DESCEND ON MEXICO TO
[...] (U) Summary. Congressional staffers from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the House Appropriation Committee visited Mexico the week of March 24 to discuss the Merida Initiative with government officials and representatives of civil society. [...]
2008-04-07 11:40:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MASS KCRM SNAR MX
08MEXICO1001CONGRESSIONAL STAFFERS DESCEND ON MEXICO TO
[...] (U) Summary. Congressional staffers from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the House Appropriation Committee visited Mexico the week of March 24 to discuss the Merida Initiative with government officials and representatives of civil society. [...]
2008-04-07 11:41:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MASS KCRM SNAR MX
08MEXICO1039SCENE SETTER FOR THE VISIT TO MEXICO OF AMBASSADOR
[...] (SBU) Welcome to Mexico City. Mexico is key to USG success in combating a wide array of transnational security threats which undermine our ability to confront global terrorism. A stew of widespread criminality, drug trafficking, corruption and impunity has created an enabling environment for [...]
2008-04-08 21:10:00Embassy MexicoSECRET//NOFORNECON IR KCRM KNNP MNUC MX PGOV PREL SNAR MASS
08MEXICO1063THE GOM'S FEDERAL POLICE REFORM PLANS AND
[...] (U) On February 27, Emboffs met with Hector Sanchez from the Public Security Secretariat's (SSP) Office of International Relations to learn more about the GOM's police reforms and SSP's restructuring plans. This cable outlines the seven goals/guidelines that constitute SSP's "bible" for where the [...]
2008-04-09 19:17:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
08MEXICO1082SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
[...] (SBU) On behalf of the U.S. Mission, let me warmly welcome you to Mexico City. Your visit comes at a key juncture, as Mexico's military takes stock of its role in Mexico and the world -- and looks at its evolving relationship with its U.S. counterpart in light of ongoing challenges and new [...]
2008-04-10 19:12:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALMX OVIP PGOV PINR PREL PTER SNAR
08MEXICO1097VISITING FINCEN DIRECTOR DISCUSSES ANTI-MONEY
[...] (U) This is a joint message from Embassy Mexico City and FinCEN. 2. (SBU) Summary: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director James H. Freis, Jr. visited Mexico City 19-23 February to meet with senior Mexican officials and address a joint FinCEN-FIU strategic analysis training [...]
2008-04-11 17:18:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD KTFN PTER MX
08MEXICO1104MEXICO SEEKS TO TURN THE PAGE ON CORRUPTION
[...] (U) Summary. Turning the page on Mexico's endemic corruption problem is an essential component of President Calderon's efforts to combat organized crime. The Public Administration Secretariat (SFP),created by the Fox administration is at the center of efforts, coordinating a network of IG [...]
2008-04-11 22:10:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCOR MASS KCRM SNAR MX
08MEXICO1120MX #2008-103, ODC LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from ODC, on Intelligence Basic Officer Course, 4/29/2008. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below and [...]
2008-04-14 21:27:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR MX
08MEXICO1331SCENESETTER FOR USUNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE, MAY 6-8
[...] (SBU) On behalf of the U.S. Mission, let me warmly welcome you to Mexico City. We understand you would like to focus your visit on conveying U.S concerns as relate to Iran's failure to meet its obligations to the UN. You will find that Mexico shares our concerns but your visit should offer [...]
2008-05-02 12:46:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KCRM PARM UN IR MX
08MEXICO138MEXICAN OFFICIALS DISCUSS COOPERATION ON ENERGY
[...] (SBU) Representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE),the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),and Embassy Mexico met with Mexican Secretariat of Energy officials, as well as Senior Executives from Pemex, the Mexican oil and gas monopoly, and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) on [...]
2008-01-18 17:55:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET MX
08MEXICO1433NARCO-VIOLENCE SPIKES, TOP COPS TARGETED
[...] (SBU) Organized crime killings in 2008 are up over record numbers last year. Large scale shootouts around the country over the last two weeks have left dozens dead. And the cartels are not only killing each other but going after the police as well. Over the last ten days, assassins have ki [...]
2008-05-13 16:28:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
08MEXICO1487SCENE SETTER FOR THE VISIT TO MEXICO OF FBI DEPUTY
[...] (U) Welcome to Mexico City. Mexico is key to USG success in combating a wide array of transnational security threats which undermine our ability to confront global terrorism. A stew of widespread criminality, drug trafficking, corruption and impunity has created an enabling environment for a variet [...]
2008-05-16 14:54:00Embassy MexicoSECRETPGOV PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MX
08MEXICO1533MEXICO IPR UPDATE - APRIL 2008
[...] (U) This cable reports on Mexican reaction to the Special 301 2008 report on Mexico and the following recent IPR-related developments in Mexico: the "International Forum on IPR and the Judiciary" event held in Cancun in February and the establishment of a specialized IPR tribunal to review adm [...]
2008-05-20 20:57:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON MX
08MEXICO1649U.S-MEXICO TALKS ON IAEA, DOMESTIC NUCLEAR ISSUE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Mexican Foreign Ministry officials meeting with the U.S. Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Greg Schulte conveyed general support for U.S. views on challenges facing the IAEA. Mexico shares our concern about Iran's nuclear activities [...]
2008-05-29 21:06:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PARM ENRG TRGY IAEA UN IR MX
08MEXICO1766WEAKENING OF GULF, SINALOA CARTELS GENERATES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-09 21:58:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
08MEXICO1779MEXICAN BANKERS DISCUSS ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING
[...] (SBU) Summary. During roundtable discussions with Embassy officials, bank compliance officers said their institutions base their anti-money laundering (AML) and combating terrorism financing (CTF) practices on international standards. They commented on how difficult it can be to stop illicit [...]
2008-06-10 21:11:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER MX
08MEXICO1839MEXICO-CUBA TALKS PRODUCE LITTLE MOVEMENT ON
[...] Mexican and Cuban officials met in April to discuss building cooperation on migration issues including combating criminal trafficking rings, resolving an impasse over repatriations, and facilitating the emission of migration documentation. The Foreign Ministry's (SRE) Deputy Director for the [...]
2008-06-16 22:00:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM SMIG KCRM CU MX
08MEXICO208GOM OFFICIALS DISCUSS MERIDA INITIATIVE WITH CODEL
[...] (U) Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX),both members of the U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Homeland Security, paid an official visit to Mexico January 21 and 22 on a Committee fact-finding mission to examine the Merida Initiative and its implica [...]
2008-01-28 12:15:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR KCRM ECON MASS MX
08MEXICO209MEXICAN CONGRESS TO DEBATE ENERGY REFORM
[...] (SBU) With Mexican oil exports at the lowest point in a decade, 1.5 million barrels per day, the Mexican congress will debate energy reform during its spring session. The most significant debate will begin in the Senate led by Francisco Labastida of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI [...]
2008-01-28 14:34:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ECON MX
08MEXICO2160SCENESETTER FOR DHS SECRETARY MICHAEL CHERTOFF,
[...] (SBU) Welcome to Mexico City. Mexico remains key to USG success in combating the trafficking of drugs, persons, arms and precursors, terrorism, and other transnational threats. With the recent signing of Merida Initiative funding, we are poised to significantly expand counter drug cooperation [...]
2008-07-15 12:40:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
08MEXICO221MX #2008-016, ODC LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from ODC, on Combined Strategic Intelligence Training, February 29, 2008. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals li [...]
2008-01-28 20:01:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR MX
08MEXICO2218ISRAELI RELATIONS WITH MEXICO (C-NE8-00834)
[...] (C/NF) Poloff met separately with Enrique Palos, Deputy Director General for Africa and the Middle East at the Secretariat of Foreign Relations (SRE),and Lior Keinan, Political Counselor and Press and Cultural Attache at the Israeli Embassy in Mexico City, on July 3 and 8, respectively, to di [...]
2008-07-18 17:24:00Embassy MexicoSECRET//NOFORNPINR PARM PREL IS MX
08MEXICO222MX #2008-017, ODC LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from ODC, on Air Intelligence, March 3, 2008. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below and requests that [...]
2008-01-28 20:01:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR MX
08MEXICO2276SECRETARY CHERTOFF AND GOM OFFICIALS DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Michael Chertoff met with GOM security cabinet officials during an official visit to Mexico July 17-18 to discuss issues related to U.S.-Mexico law enforcement cooperation. He attended the GOM,s National Security Council meeting on July 18 and met s [...]
2008-07-24 12:58:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
08MEXICO23DRAFT COUNTRY TERRORISM REPORT FOR 2007
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-04 22:01:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC PGOV MX
08MEXICO2337NEW MILITARY HUMAN RIGHTS DIRECTORATE STILL A WORK
[...] (C) Summary: The Mexican military's reluctance to fully engage the public, media, or even other elements of the Mexican government on human rights seriously undermines its image here and abroad. In January 2008, SEDENA created a Directorate General for Human Rights, to improve the institu [...]
2008-07-29 23:31:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MX
08MEXICO2426EPR-GOM "DIALOGUE" HELPING TO KEEP THE PEACE
[...] (SBU) Summary. In late April, adherents of the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) requested a dialogue with the GOM to discuss the status of two disappeared members and offered up the names of several public figures they wanted to serve as intermediaries. However ambivalent about working thro [...]
2008-08-06 21:46:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KCRM SNAR MX
08MEXICO2498SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR SPECTER'S VISIT TO MEXICO
[...] (SBU) Welcome to Mexico City. President Calderon recognizes the broad-ranging challenges his country faces and has the vision and political will to address them strategically. He has demonstrated resolve in implementing his key policy objectives: improving security and the rule of law, attack [...]
2008-08-14 18:42:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SNAR ECON OREP MX
08MEXICO2765GOM'S PROPOSES INCREASES IN SECURITY AND JUSTICE
[...] On September 8 the GOM sent the 2009 budget to Congress for debate and approval. The most eye-catching aspect of the budget was President Calderon's announcement of a "near 40 percent" increase for security and justice. According to our math, security spending in real terms would actually ris [...]
2008-09-11 12:47:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
08MEXICO2766GOM PROPOSES INCREASES IN SECURITY AND JUSTICE
[...] On September 8 the GOM sent the 2009 budget to Congress for debate and approval. The most eye-catching aspect of the budget was President Calderon's announcement of a "near 40 percent" increase for security and justice. According to our math, security spending in real terms would actually ris [...]
2008-09-11 12:48:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
08MEXICO3102CUBAN-MEXICAN MOU ON MIGRATION: GOOD NEWS, BAD
[...] (C) Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque will sign an MOU with Mexico today that could have Cuba taking back significantly greater numbers of the illegal Cubans detained en route to the U.S. each year by Mexican immigration authorities. He will also extend an invitation to President Cald [...]
2008-10-20 17:22:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF KMIG KCRM CU MX
08MEXICO3178MEXICO REBUILDING TIES TO VENEZUELA, SLOWLY
[...] (C) Summary. President Felipe Calderon has attempted since taking office to repair ties with Venezuela, and the Foreign Ministry has said that Mexico is slowly making improvements. Nevertheless, several points of friction, such as the lack of a Venezuelan ambassador in Mexico City, suspicions about [...]
2008-10-27 18:11:00Embassy MexicoSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR MX
08MEXICO3537SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER
[...] (SBU) Mission Mexico warmly welcomes you to Mexico City. With the imminent roll out of the Merida Initiative you are coming at an excellent time to discuss our bilateral law enforcement agenda and your visit will accentuate the importance we place on Mexico as a partner in the war on drugs and [...]
2008-12-02 20:23:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
08MEXICO3550MX #2008-317, ODC LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from ODC, on International Intelligence Fellows Program, at Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C., December 24, 2008. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of [...]
2008-12-03 19:13:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR MX
08MEXICO3574AN IFE PERSPECTIVE ON MEXICAN ELECTORAL REFORMS
[...] (C) Summary. The 2009 legislative and gubernatorial elections will test the efficacy of electoral reforms passed last year, some of the most significant of which include changes to campaign financing and access to media. How the reforms play out next year probably will determine whether the l [...]
2008-12-04 22:20:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MX
08MEXICO3779SOLDIER KILLINGS PROMPT NEW DEPLOYMENTS IN GUERRERO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Mexican military has deployed over 300 members of elite units as part of its efforts to track down the perpetrators of the killings and beheadings of eight military soldiers, seven whose bodies were discovered early December 21 in Guerrero and another on December 9. The as [...]
2008-12-24 13:42:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL SNAR MX
08MEXICO512MISSION INPUT ON 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: MEXICO
[...] (U) Summary: Mission recommends that Mexico remain on the Special 301 Watch List for 2008. In the first year of the Calderon administration, there have been significant advances in a number of areas of concern highlighted in last year's report, with little or no progress on others. The advanc [...]
2008-02-22 12:11:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ETRD ECON
08MEXICO609JESSICA LEWIS AT LOS PINOS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senate Foreign Affairs staff member Jessica Lewis visited Mexico for two days February 20-22 to discuss elements of the Merida Initiative with GOM contacts, independent security analysts and representatives from rights organizations. With her official interlocutors, Lewis di [...]
2008-02-29 20:48:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON MX
08MEXICO614MEXICO-IRAN RELATIONS: A LOT OF TALK BUT NOT MUCH
[...] (C) More than a year after a dynamic new Iranian Ambassador hit the ground running in Mexico, bilateral relations between the two countries have yet to move beyond the symbolic. Economic ties remain limited and soft-power projections by Iran in Mexico have had little public impact. Mexican off [...]
2008-02-29 22:19:00Embassy MexicoSECRETENRG MX PARM PEMEX PGOV PINR PREL PTER
08MEXICO713NARCO-KILLINGS UPDATE
[...] (SBU) According to figures from the National Center for Information, Analysis and Planning in order to Fight Crime (CENAPI),there were over 2,400 organized crime-related homicides in 2007, compared to an estimated 2,120 in 2006. The majority of these killings continue to occur in states tradi [...]
2008-03-11 19:40:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SNAR KCRM PINR MASS MX
08MEXICO714SECRETARY CHERTOFF AND MINISTER MOURINO DISCUSS
[...] C) Summary DHS Secretary Chertoff stressed with Mexico's Minister of Government Mourino the importance the U.S. attached to greater access to Special Interest Aliens (SIAs) illegally in Mexico. He requested Mexico consider requiring passenger manifest information on a mandatory [...]
2008-03-11 19:40:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR KHLS MX
08MEXICO743MX #2008-061, ODC LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from ODC, on Intelligence in Combating, 3/31/2008. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below and requests [...]
2008-03-13 19:13:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR MX
08MEXICO886THE FARC IN mexico 

Classified By: POL Officer Frank Penirian. Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-28 19:50:00Embassy MexicoSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER KCRM PINR SNAR MX
08MINSK190KEEPING EMBASSY MINSK IN OPERATION: POST'S CURRENT
[...] (U) This message has been reviewed by the full country team and cleared by section chiefs and agency heads (Charge, A/DCM, CONS, PAO, A/POL/ECON, MGT, RSO, DATT, RAO, AID) and is submitted in advance of the interagency meeting to discuss the subject issue at 10:00 local time in Washington on M [...]
2008-03-17 09:56:00Embassy MinskSECRET//NOFORNPREL AMGT ASEC ODIP APER CMGT BO
08MONROVIA1018NSDD-38-COM APPROVAL FOR DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-10 09:20:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALAODE KMRS AMGT LI
08MONROVIA446LIBERIA: CRIME RATE STEADY BUT PUBLIC'S UNEASINESS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Liberian public has grown uneasy about a rumored increase in violent crime since the beginning of 2008. While crime continues at a high rate, UN crime statistics do not indicate a sharp increase. The public perception continues, however, because of frequent media coverage [...]
2008-06-06 07:54:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC KCRM EAID LI
08MONROVIA476LIBERIA'S PRS: PEACE AND SECURITY PILLAR - A
[...] (C) Summary: The Liberian National Security Strategy, upon which the security section of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) is based, has not yet been made public, but the GOL is moving ahead on the basis of the strategy. The PRS process has forced the Liberians to begin to plan long-term, [...]
2008-06-20 12:42:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPRGOV ASEC MARR MASS CJAN KJUS LI
08MONROVIA765LIBERIAN WAR CRIMES COURT ADVOCATE DETAINED FOR
[...] (SBU) The National Security Agency (NSA) arrested Mulbah Morlu, leader of the "Forum for the Establishment of a War Crimes Court in Liberia," September 27 for calling President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf a "rebel" on local television September 26. Morlu was held at NSA headquarters until the Presi [...]
2008-10-01 17:40:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SOCI PHUM LI
08MONROVIA91LIBERIA: EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN DRUG
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Liberia (GOL) does not currently have the will or resources to fight drug-trafficking. Liberia is not presently a major transshipment point for cocaine bound for Europe, but is likely to become so as infrastructure improves and UNMIL draws down. A small number [...]
2008-01-31 17:41:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PGOV KCRM EAID SOCI LI
08MONROVIA976LIBERIA: 2008-09 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Attached is the text of Liberia's 2008-09 INSCR report. The text has been e-mailed as instructed reftel. Monrovia POC is economic officer Lucy Abbott abbottlk@state.gov. (Note: URLs exceeding 55 characters have been removed but are included in the text sent via e-mail. End note.) 2. B [...]
2008-12-01 08:06:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR ECON LI
08MONTERREY100SAN LUIS POTOSI GROWING ECONOMICALLY BUT NOT ENOUGH TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 12 meeting with San Luis Potosi Governor Marcelo de los Santos Fraga (PAN),the Governor told the Consul General that the state's current economic situation is strong and growing and projected a 50% increase in jobs by the end of his administration in the summer of [...]
2008-02-27 22:25:00Consulate MonterreyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID ECON KCRM EIND EINV SMIG SNAR SOCI MX
08MONTERREY121DRUG VIOLENCE FOCUSES ON SMALL DEALERS; PUBLIC YAWNS
[...] (C) Summary. Although the number of drug executions and kidnappings remains high in Nuevo Leon, the drug violence has shifted its focus to small time drug dealers and people who owe them money. Public interest in this issue is declining as people have become accustomed to drug killings and s [...]
2008-03-12 19:41:00Consulate MonterreyCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV KCRM ECON MX
08MONTERREY194NUEVO LEON'S AMBITIOUS PLAN FOR EDUCATIONAL REFORM LIKELY TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. Despite statements by President Calderon on down that Mexico needs to fundamentally reform its educational system, to date no reform proposals have been forthcoming at the federal level. While Mexico has achieved nearly universal coverage in primary school education, internat [...]
2008-04-21 23:32:00Consulate MonterreyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PGOV MX
08MONTERREY232KIDNAPPINGS RISE IN NUEVO LEON; FEDERAL FORCES DECREASING
[...] (C) Summary. Kidnapping for ransom has come to Nuevo Leon. Public authorities downplay the problem since few cases are reported to the police, but Post law enforcement officials are aware of at least four cases, with indications of many more. Although top state government officials have urg [...]
2008-05-15 22:28:00Consulate MonterreyCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR ASEC CASC ECON KCRM MX
08MONTERREY438ELECTED OFFICIALS REACT TO PUBLIC PRESSURE FOR IMPROVED
[...] (SBU) Summary. On August 30 a large demonstration took place in Monterrey (as did in Mexico City and dozens of other cities) designed to pressure state and local authorities to improve public security. The citizens marched to demand better performance from the police and to encourage peop [...]
2008-09-22 20:11:00Consulate MonterreyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR SOCI PGOV ECON MX KCRM
08MONTERREY506MEXICAN BUSINESS SUMMIT TOUTS LIMITED ENERGY REFORM;
[...] Summary. Approximately 200 business leaders and government officials attended the sixth annual Mexican Business Summit in Monterrey, and they discussed energy reform, the impact of the U.S. financial crisis on Mexico, whether Mexican can increase its economic development, President Calde [...]
2008-11-21 05:52:00Consulate MonterreyUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON ENRG ETRD EINV SNAR MX
08MONTEVIDEO49SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ)
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The spring 2008 Security Environmental Profile Questionnaire (SEPQ) reflects continued lack of police resources and EAC concern over a very porous border. The Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) between Uruguay and the U.S., and the visit of POTUS/SECSTATE in March 200 [...]
2008-02-01 13:45:00Embassy MontevideoSECRET//NOFORNASEC PTER UY
08MONTEVIDEO527EAC MONTEVIDEO CONVENED TO REVIEW SECURITY POSTURE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In reaction to the terrorist attack in Yemen today AmEmbassy Montevideo convened an EAC. The RSO provided details on our additional security measures. In attendance at the EAC were the DCM, RSO, RAOL, DAO, ODC, POL/ECON, MGMT, and MSG. 2. (S/NF) Shortly after learning [...]
2008-09-17 17:02:00Embassy MontevideoSECRET//NOFORNASEC CASC IS KWBG PREL PTER UY
08MONTEVIDEO569EMBASSY MONTEVIDEO BRIEFS URUGUAY'S
[...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. - - - - Summary - - - - 2. (SBU) Following up the September 25th signing of a bilateral Letter of Agreement, Embassy Montevideo's interagency counter-narcotics team met October 7 with Uruguay's Counter- [...]
2008-10-10 10:49:00Embassy MontevideoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PINR PREL UY
08MONTEVIDEO663EAC MONTEVIDEO CONVENED TO REVIEW SECURITY POSTURE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In reaction to the terrorist attacks in India, AmEmbassy Montevideo convened an EAC. In attendance at the EAC were the DCM, RSO, ARSO, RAOL, ODC, POL, and MGMT. 2. (S/NF) The EAC has no reason to believe this threat extends to South America. EAC will continue to remain [...]
2008-11-28 13:52:00Embassy MontevideoSECRETASEC CASC IS KWBG PREL PTER UY
08MONTEVIDEO696EAC MONTEVIDEO CONVENED TO REVIEW SECURITY POSTURE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In preparation for the upcoming holiday season AmEmbassy Montevideo convened an EAC. In attendance at the EAC were the DCM, RSO, PAO, POL, and MGMT. 2. (S/NF) The EAC has no reason to believe there is a terrorist threat to soft targets in Uruguay. EAC will continue to [...]
2008-12-12 16:51:00Embassy MontevideoSECRETASEC CASC IS KWBG PREL PTER UY
08MONTEVIDEO721Uruguay: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] The level of cooperation and intelligence sharing on counterterrorism related issues greatly improved in 2008, especially at the working level where officers in law enforcement and security services recognized the importance of conducting proactive investigations, sharing intelligence with the [...]
2008-12-29 17:39:00Embassy MontevideoUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC UY
08MOSCOW103BRITISH COUNCIL CONFLICT CONTINUES TO WORSEN
[...] (C) Summary: The British Embassy told us January 16 that its efforts to call a "time out" in the spiraling conflict between HMG and the GOR over the status and presence of the offices of the British Council in Russia have seemingly been rejected. In January 15 - 16 meetings British Ambassador [...]
2008-01-16 15:37:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV RS
08MOSCOW1054COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR WHITE HOUSE FELLOWS
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to White House Fellows Delegation to Russia from May 18-23, 2008. 2. Control Officer in Moscow is Joseph Moone, tel. (7-495) 728-5165; (7-499) 243-9604 (hm); (7-926) 456-5383 (cell); E-mail is MooneJE@state.Gov. Control Officer in St. Petersbu [...]
2008-04-16 14:08:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN RS
08MOSCOW114RUSSIAN REACTION TO POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN
[...] (C) Summary: Official Russian reaction to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto was swift but limited, with Putin publicly condemning the attack and the MFA calling for Pakistani parliamentary elections to be held as planned on January 8. MFA officials understood, however, that Musharraf's dec [...]
2008-01-17 08:03:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK RS
08MOSCOW1170RUSSIA: U.K. U/S RICKETT PROPOSES INCREMENTAL
[...] (C) According to an April 25 debrief by the U.K. Embassy, the April 23-24 Moscow visit of U.K. Permanent Under Secretary Peter Rickett was "reasonably positive" in SIPDIS beginning the process of reducing tensions in the Russian-U.K. relationship. Rickett's visit built on the exchange of [...]
2008-04-25 14:04:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RU UK
08MOSCOW1270RUSSIA: NOT SEEKING CONFLICT WITH GEORGIA, BUT
[...] (C) In a May 6 farewell call with the Ambassador, Chief of General Staff General Yuri Baluyevskiy said that Russia was concerned by the danger of a military conflict in the Caucasus. Citing Russian intelligence, Baluyevskiy warned that Georgia could "go to the extreme," which could lead to [...]
2008-05-06 13:48:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR RS
08MOSCOW1304RUSSIA TO GEORGIA: SABER RATTLING STOPS SHORT OF
[...] (C) Summary: On May 8, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that measures by Georgia to deploy more forces in the zone of conflict could lead to an additional deployment of 500 Russian peacekeepers -- up to the 3000 limit in the 1994 Moscow Agreement. MFA Director Kelin told us there w [...]
2008-05-08 15:06:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR RS
08MOSCOW1335RUSSIA REACTS TO DAS BRYZA'S STATEMENTS
[...] (C) Russian officials continue to respond sharply to public statements by DAS Bryza in Tbilisi and Sukhumi on responsibility for the increased tensions between Georgia and Abkhazia. On May 13, MFA Fourth CIS Department Deputy Director Dmitriy Tarabrin told us that the GOR was "surprised" th [...]
2008-05-13 14:51:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1396COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STAFFDEL PEVZNER'S TRIP TO
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Staffdel Pevzner's visit to Russia from May 24-26, 2008. 2. Control Officer in Moscow is Margaret Hawthorne, tel. (7-495) 728-5347; (7-495) 234-2395 (hm); (7-495) 410-3088 (cell); E-mail is HawthorneMD@state.gov. 3. Control Officer will [...]
2008-05-19 13:05:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN GM LG RS
08MOSCOW1490COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR A/S CHRISTOPHER R. HILL
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to A/S Christopher R. Hill, Special Assistant Christopher Klein, Director, Office of Korean Affairs Sung Y. Kim and Director, Chinese Affairs, National Security Council Paul T. Haenle the proposed visit to Moscow from May 29-31. 2. Control Of [...]
2008-05-28 06:53:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC CN JA KN RS
08MOSCOW1496JUDGING DIMA - MEDVEDEV STEPS OUT AGAINST LEGAL
[...] (C) Summary. Two seemingly unrelated events -- Medvedev's launch of two commissions to tackle corruption and judicial reform and the unprecedented public exposure of Kremlin pressure on the courts -- have re-kindled optimism about tackling "legal nihilism" under the new president's leadership [...]
2008-05-28 11:55:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI RS KDEM
08MOSCOW1647SCENESETTER FOR COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-10 11:20:00Embassy MoscowSECRETPREL PTER PINR MARR ECON RS
08MOSCOW1681DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH SECURITY COUNCIL DEPUTY
[...] (C) Summary. In a June 5 meeting, DAS Bryza and Security Council Deputy Secretary Yuriy Zubakov reviewed the latest developments in Abkhazia and discussed a possible joint effort to improve relations with Georgia. Both agreed that a military solution was not an option. DAS Bryza briefed Zu [...]
2008-06-13 05:43:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW1774SECURITY COUNCIL'S NAZAROV HOLDS FIRM ON IRAN,
[...] (C) Summary: In a June 19 meeting with NSC Senior Director for Russia Mary Warlick, EUR/DAS David Merkel and EUR/RUS Office Director Ian Kelly, Russian Federation Security Council Deputy Secretary Vladimir Nazarov repeated the now well worn list of grievances against U.S. policy on Iran and [...]
2008-06-20 15:34:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR GG IR RS
08MOSCOW1811RUSSIAN ANALYST WARNS OF CONSEQUENCES IF UKRAINE
[...] (C) Summary: Dmitriy Trenin of the Moscow Carnegie Center told NSC Senior Director for Russia Mary Warlick and EUR/RUS Office Director Ian Kelly on June 19 that there was nothing the U.S. could do to convince Russia to accept Ukrainian membership in NATO. He thought that the GOR could abide by [...]
2008-06-24 20:08:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR GG UP RS
08MOSCOW1865SIXTEENTH SESSION OF U.S-RUSSIA WORKING GROUP ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-02 10:22:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV EFIN AF IZ RS
08MOSCOW1875SIXTEENTH SESSION OF U.S-RUSSIA WORKING GROUP ON
[...] (C) Summary. The Sixteenth Session of the U.S. - Russia Working Group on Counterterrorism (CTWG) met in Moscow on June 19-20. U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs William Burns and Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak, co-Chairs of the CTWG, led the interagency delegations (delegatio [...]
2008-07-03 08:00:00Embassy MoscowSECRETPREL PTER PGOV EFIN AF IZ RS
08MOSCOW2033MOSCOW VIEWS ON KOREA
[...] (C) Summary. The GOR expressed satisfaction with the latest round of Six-Party meetings, with chief negotiator Aleksey Borodavkin confirming Russia's continued commitment to its Six-Party obligations. Most analysts thought that the success of the process depended on the U.S., the only Six-Pa [...]
2008-07-16 18:06:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KN KS JA RS
08MOSCOW2048U.S.-RUSSIA COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP:
[...] (C) Summary. At the June 19-20 meeting of the U.S. - Russia Working Group on Counterterrorism (CTWG),both sides agreed to exchange a list of follow-up items (reftel A). This cable presents Post's contributions to Washington's thinking on CTWG next steps. Post and MFA officials discussed th [...]
2008-07-18 12:11:00Embassy MoscowSECRETPREL PTER PGOV AF RS
08MOSCOW2152GEORGIA: RUSSIA MAY NOT ATTEND BERLIN FRIENDS'
[...] (C) Summary. The MFA told us July 25 that Russia had "nobody appropriate" to send to the Friends' meeting in Berlin next week. German Embassy officials confirmed that MFA 4th CIS Director Kelin told German envoy Lukas July 24 that they would try to find someone to attend the meeting, but wit [...]
2008-07-25 15:29:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW2333ROSATOM STATE CORPORATION - REORGANIZATION
[...] (C) Summary: The Rosatom State Corporation's new U.S./EU Section Head reports that the reorganization of the Corporation and its subdivisions is still underway. Although no longer a Federal Agency, Rosatom will retain some of its export control functions. Rosatom will continue to pursue co [...]
2008-08-11 10:02:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PINR ENRG ETTC IR IN RS
08MOSCOW2351TFGG01: RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT SITREP 4
[...] (C) Summary. An American journalist was reported injured in South Ossetia and taken to North Ossetia for medical treatment. Post is working to contact him. PM Putin said Russia would continue its mission to "its logical end," and lashed out at the West, and the U.S. in particular, for suppo [...]
2008-08-11 14:36:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR GG RS
08MOSCOW2370TFGG01: MINIMAL BACKLASH FOR GEORGIAN DIASPORA
[...] (C) Summary: Despite current hostilities, we see no evidence of a repeat of the fall 2006 anti-Georgian campaign in Russia. On August 12, Georgian Charge in Moscow told us that the Georgian community in Russia was suffering no backlash from the outbreak of hostilities. We also have not hea [...]
2008-08-13 03:08:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SOCI PHUM PREF PINR RS GG
08MOSCOW2387TFGG01: RUSSIA MAINTAINING HARD LINE, FOCUSING ON
[...] (C) Summary. Russian officials continued their hard line towards Georgia August 13, repeating demands for a legally-binding non-use of force agreement between Georgia and the two zones of conflict, reiterating that Georgian peacekeepers could not be allowed to return to South Ossetia and Abkh [...]
2008-08-13 16:07:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR GG RS
08MOSCOW2488TFGG01: NO SYSTEMATIC HARASSMENT OF ETHNIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Georgian diplomats and a representative of the Georgian community in Moscow confirmed to us August 20 that they have not yet observed any significant or systematic increase in anti-Georgian harassment by Russian authorities or from the Russian public at large. While noting that th [...]
2008-08-20 15:36:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREF PREL RS GG
08MOSCOW2502RUSSIA CONCERNED POST-MUSHARRAF INSTABILITY HARMS
[...] (C) MFA Senior Counselor for Pakistan Aleksey Yudintsev told us on August 21 that Russia was concerned that Musharraf's resignation as President of Pakistan would contribute to the country's existing political instability and draw attention from Pakistan's efforts to fight its extremist insurg [...]
2008-08-21 13:15:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER AF IN PK RS
08MOSCOW2521RUSSIA GETS SYRIAN SUPPORT ON GEORGIA, BUT SYRIA
[...] (C) Summary: Initial indications are that despite Al-Assad's tough talk about basing Russian missiles in Syria, Medvedev did not pledge in the August 21 meeting to provide Iskander missiles. The meeting had reportedly been planned for weeks and was not precipitated by events in Georgia, alth [...]
2008-08-22 13:13:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR SY RS
08MOSCOW2523TFGG01: FURTHER DETAILS ON RUSSIAN "WITHDRAWAL"
[...] (C) Summary: In private comments by MFA officials and the public statements of Deputy Chief of General Staff Nogovitsyn, the limits to the Russian withdrawal, as DFM Ryabkov explained to the Ambassador on August 22, are being spelled out: the peacekeeping presence will expand significantly wi [...]
2008-08-23 09:37:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR RS GG
08MOSCOW2563MEDVEDEV LOSES OUT IN RUSSIA-GEORGIA WAR
[...] (C) Summary. Unlike Putin, whose leadership during the Chechen war strengthened his political power, Medvedev's performance to date has reinforced his status as junior member of the tandem. Two anecdotal reports suggest that Putin was displeased with the President's performance at the start of the [...]
2008-08-26 14:04:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR RS
08MOSCOW2571RUSSIAN MILITARY PERFORMANCE IN GEORGIA CRITICIZED
[...] (C) Summary. Several of Moscow's leading military analysts offered mixed assessments of Russia's military performance in Georgia. Although many praised the Russian Armed Forces' (RAF) quick response to Georgian aggression and its decision to strike targets inside Georgian territory, allowing [...]
2008-08-27 10:06:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALRS MCAP PGOV MOPS
08MOSCOW26COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR A/S CHRISTOPHER R. HILL
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to A/S Christopher R. Hill, Special Assistant Christopher Klein, Director, Office of Korean Affairs Sung Y. Kim and Director, Chinese Affairs, National Security Council Paul T. Haenle the proposed visit to Moscow from January 11-12, 2008. 2. [...]
2008-01-09 08:31:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC CN JA KN KS RS
08MOSCOW2601MFA HANDS OVER PACKAGE DOCUMENTING GEORGIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 27, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin passed to the Ambassador a package of photos and a video documentary meant to document Georgian aggression in South Ossetia. The documentary argued that Georgians intended to kill the South Ossetian people and destroy the [...]
2008-08-29 15:22:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV RS GG
08MOSCOW264RUSSIA COMPLAINS AFGHANS HAVE NOT RESPONDED TO
[...] (C) Russia is concerned by Afghanistan's failure to respond to its offer of military assistance, which the GOR believes is indicative of larger problems in the Karzai Government. MFA Afghanistan Desk Chief Yuriy Khokhlov told us on January 30 that the GOR invited Afghan Defense Minister Warda [...]
2008-02-01 14:19:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MASS AF RS
08MOSCOW2977MEDVEDEV ANNOUNCES CREATION OF AIR-SPACE DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary. As part of his five-point plan for modernizing the Russian military, President Medvedev announced September 28 that Russia would create an air-space defense system to bolster its nuclear deterrence by 2020. Its creation could transform the chain of command for Russia's strategic a [...]
2008-10-08 03:36:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP PGOV PREL RS
08MOSCOW3059HFAC CHAIRMAN BERMAN MEETS FM LAVROV: U.S., IRAN,
[...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 14 meeting with HFAC Chairman Berman and the Ambassador, FM Lavrov argued against holding U.S.-Russian relations hostage to ideology and politics, reaffirming the Sochi Declaration commitments. He pushed hard for continued diplomacy with Iran, criticizing unila [...]
2008-10-16 07:53:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KNDP PTER OREP RS GG IZ IR
08MOSCOW3092NEXT STEPS IN MILITARY'S MODERNIZATION: PERSONNEL
[...] (C) Summary. The MOD plans to reduce the size of the General Staff and MOD Central Apparatus by two-thirds by 2012, a measure that military analysts have championed for years, but political leaders were reluctant to take until the war in Georgia gave them the political capital they could use [...]
2008-10-21 03:12:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP PGOV RS
08MOSCOW3179GOR STILL FEELING ITS WAY ON TAXING FOREIGN GRANTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Finance has sent a letter to Premier Vladimir Putin identifying the criteria and procedures for including foreign non-commercial organizations on a list of grantors whose grants are exempt from income taxation for Russian recipients. The proposal was hardly a [...]
2008-10-29 14:14:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KDEM PHUM PINR USAID RS
08MOSCOW3184COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS FOCUSED ON INSTABILITY IN
[...] (C) Summary. With increasing violence directed against law enforcement in Russia's North Caucasus regions (ref. A),the GOR's intelligence agencies are focusing their counterterrorism efforts on domestic radical movements, although they still have some concerns about international terrorist m [...]
2008-10-30 07:21:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PTER KCRM SNAR RS
08MOSCOW3290DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH SECURITY COUNCIL DEPUTY
[...] (C) Summary: In a November 1 meeting with visiting EUR DAS Matt Bryza, Russian Deputy Security Council Secretary Yuri Zubakov insinuated that Georgia started the August conflict with U.S. acquiescence, arms, and funds. He dismissed Bryza's avowal that Georgia was not prepared for war in Aug [...]
2008-11-13 06:51:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW3309RUSSIA-GEORGIA: GENEVA PROCESS, PEREVI;
[...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting, MFA fourth CIS directorate chief Andrey Kelin described the procedural difficulties EU Special Representative Morel faced in lining up the November 18 Geneva process talks. Russia's primary goal for the talks was to launch security discussions focused [...]
2008-11-14 14:15:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW434DFM LOSYUKOV ON IRAN, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN,
[...] (C) Summary. In a February 14 meeting with Ambassador, DFM Losyukov expressed frustration with the Iranian regime's arrogance and inflexibility. Considering Iranian domestic politics, the GOR foresees no serious political discussion occurring prior to its March 14 parliamentary elections. Lo [...]
2008-02-15 14:41:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC KNNP PINR AF IN JP IR RS
08MOSCOW475RUSSIA'S MILITARY MUSCLE-FLEXING
[...] (C) Summary. Russia's recent steps to flex its military muscles are designed both to impress the Russian public in an election year that Putin has reestablished Russia as a major player on the world stage, and to underscore that Russia will no longer engage NATO and the West from a position of [...]
2008-02-21 09:47:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO PARM RS
08MOSCOW502CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] (SBU) Embassy Moscow has proposed the following information on critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) in Russia which, "if destroyed, disrupted, or exploited, might have an immediate and deleterious effect on the United States" (ref A). As requested, this message also provides in [...]
2008-02-22 16:32:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC ECON PTER PGOV ETTC EAID EFIN RS
08MOSCOW509COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STAFFDEL HAN
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Shelly Han, Senior Advisor, and Mr. Kyle Parker, Staff Advisor, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, from March 1-7. 2. Control Officer is Karen Kirchgasser, tel. 7-495-728-5171; 7-495-234-2449 (hm); 7-495-970-4996 (cell); E [...]
2008-02-26 09:40:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN GM RS
08MOSCOW520ENCOURAGING RUSSIAN ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: Russia is ready to do more to assist in stabilizing and rebuilding Afghanistan - a key area of overlapping Russian, U.S. and NATO interests. Absent concerted U.S. effort, however, Russian attempts to constructively engage with the Karzai government likely will continue to founde [...]
2008-02-26 15:17:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP PGOV PINS PREL MASS RU AF
08MOSCOW717COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR U.S. EXPERTS FOR CFE
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Jennifer Laurendeau, Donna Phelan, and Michael Q. Powell for the CFE Consultations from March 16-19, 2008. 2. Control Officer is Michael Kelleher, tel. 7-495-728-5311; 7-495-737-5065 (hm); 7-495-774-2573 (cell); E-mail is KelleherMJ@state.G [...]
2008-03-14 14:43:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT PARM PREL KFCE RS
08MOSCOW732COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STAFFDEL TALWAR
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Puneet Talwar, Senior Professional Staff Member Senate Foreign Relations Committee, from March 19-22, 2008. 2. Control Officer is Dereck Hogan, tel. 7-495-728-5152; 7-495-728-5451 (hm); 7-495-970-4995 (cell); E-mail is HoganDJ@state.Gov. [...]
2008-03-17 14:10:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN CH RS
08MOSCOW74RUSSIA REPORT FOR FINANCIAL CRIMES PORTION OF 2007-2008
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. The tracked changes version of this report will be sent to individuals specified in reftel. Post's point of contact for this report is Economic Officer Clayton Hays (hayscp@state.gov). 2. (SBU) Russia's financial system does not attract a s [...]
2008-01-14 12:53:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR RS
08MOSCOW756RUSSIA'S BUDGET TRANSPARENCY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-19 14:14:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW768BP AND TNK-BP OFFICES RAIDED BY AUTHORITIES
[...] (C) Russian authorities raided the offices of TNK-BP on the morning of March 19 and, later that day, the offices of BP Russia. TNK-BP VP for International Affairs, Amcit Shawn McCormick, told us late that night that the raid had been conducted by the FSB. McCormick and a contact at BP said th [...]
2008-03-20 16:25:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW918Russia's Plan for Long-Term Socio-Economic Development
[...] (U) The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) released its program for Russia's socio-economic development through 2020. The policy document, expected to be finalized in May, outlines the GOR's plans for economic diversification away from present levels of reliance on natural res [...]
2008-04-03 13:15:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDECON RS
08MOSCOW989RAID ON OFFICES OF HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES LIKELY A
[...] (C) Summary: A late-night raid on the offices housing well-known human rights figures, Karina Moskalenko and Lev Ponomarev, was likely an attempt to seize property in a desirable part of Moscow. The description of events fits an increasingly common phenomenon in Moscow of wealthy Russians hi [...]
2008-04-10 12:22:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI RS
08MUMBAI244STATE-OWNED OIL MARKETING COMPANIES LEFT WITH FEW CHOICES AS
[...] (U) The three state-owned integrated oil refining and marketing companies (OMCs) have been hit by a triple whammy -- spiraling crude oil prices of over USD 120 a barrel, the depreciating rupee via-a-vis the dollar, and a higher inflation rate of over 7 percent. These three factors have widen [...]
2008-05-29 13:11:00Consulate MumbaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EPET ECON IN
08MUMBAI46INDIAN IT AND TEXTILE INDUSTRIES STRUGGLE TO COPE WITH
[...] (U) This cable is classified as sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: India's two largest foreign exchange earners - the textile and IT industries -- are struggling to adjust to the appreciation of the Indian rupee against the dollar. However, in a series o [...]
2008-02-11 11:12:00Consulate MumbaiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ETRD IN
08MUNICH317RUSSIA/COUNTERTERRORISM: RUSSIAN PLEDGES ETERNAL
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Anatoliy Safonov and Ambassador Dell Dailey, coordinators of counterterrorism efforts by the Russian Federation and the United States, met privately in Munich on September 17 to discuss counterterrorism issues. Safonov took pains to confirm that bilateral relationship w [...]
2008-09-24 06:20:00Consulate MunichCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV EFIN US RS
08MUNICH402 GERMAN PUBLIC STUNNED BY ATTACK ON POLICE CHIEF
[...] (SBU) Summary: German officials, the public, and the media are up in arms over the near-fatal stabbing of Alois Mannichl, the Passau (Bavaria) police chief, on the doorstep of his home on December 13 (REF A). Despite no arrest in the case yet, there are calls for a ban on the neo-Nazi NPD pa [...]
2008-12-18 10:01:00Consulate MunichUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL GM
08MUSCAT102SCENESETTER FOR AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF T.
[...] (C) General Moseley: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. We have asked for meetings with the Commander of the Royal Air Force of Oman and Mohammed al-Rasbi, Under Secretary for Defense Affairs (Deputy Minister equivalent). Al-Rasbi has been actively engaged in the Share [...]
2008-02-06 08:38:00Embassy MuscatSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP
08MUSCAT121SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM
[...] (C) Admiral Fallon: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. We have asked for a meeting with Sultan Qaboos, who will appreciate hearing your perspective on events in the region. General Moseley visits the week prior to your arrival and will meet with the Commander of the Roy [...]
2008-02-10 14:28:00Embassy MuscatSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP
08MUSCAT198SCENESETTER FOR VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Mr. Vice President: Embassy Muscat and my wife and I warmly welcome you and Mrs. Cheney back to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the Middle East -- the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" -- Oman remains a strong and trusted U.S. ally. The Sultan will be please [...]
2008-03-05 15:53:00Embassy MuscatSECRET//NOFORNPARM PHUM PGOV PREL PTER KDEM KNNP KWMN MASS
08MUSCAT237SCENESETTER FOR DEFENSE SECRETARY GATES' VISIT TO
[...] (C) Secretary Gates: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the region -- the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" -- the Sultanate remains a strong and trusted U.S. partner. We have requested an audience with Sultan Qaboos bin Sa [...]
2008-03-26 13:29:00Embassy MuscatSECRET//NOFORNPARM PGOV PREL PTER KNNP MASS MNUC MOPS ECON
08MUSCAT267OMAN MOVING TOWARD FIU IMPLEMENTATION
[...] (SBU) On April 5, FINCEN Middle East Director Ahmed el-Bashari and Econoff met with Lt. Colonel Mohsin Awad al-Muqaddam, Director of the Financial Crimes Department, Royal Oman Police (ROP),to review Oman's progress in formally establishing a financial intelligence unit (FIU). Muqaddam noted [...]
2008-04-07 13:38:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PTER MU
08MUSCAT273SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL SCHWARTZ'S VISIT TO OMAN
[...] (C) General Schwartz: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the region -- the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" -- the Sultanate remains a strong and trusted U.S. partner. We have requested meetings with Air Vice Marshal Yahya [...]
2008-04-09 12:38:00Embassy MuscatSECRETPARM PGOV PREL PTER KNNP MASS MNUC MOPS ECON
08MUSCAT36OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER REVIEWS PEACE PROCESS, IRAN
[...] (SBU) In a January 8 meeting with a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation, Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs praised close U.S.-Oman ties and the two countries' "strategic" relationship. He applauded President Bush's renewed push to help create a Palestinian state, but feared [...]
2008-01-14 13:55:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAL IR MU
08MUSCAT361SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-OMAN GULF SECURITY DIALGOUE
[...] (U) In preparation for the next round of the U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue in Washington, D.C., Embassy Muscat provides the following updated information on the main subject areas scheduled for discussion. The final composition of the Omani delegation for the GSD has yet to be determined, [...]
2008-05-14 11:05:00Embassy MuscatSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL PTER MASS MNUC MOPS KNNP MU
08MUSCAT426OMAN TAKES ITS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TIP REPORT TO THE
[...] (C) During a June 9 meeting on the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report (reftel),Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi, informed the Ambassador that Oman planned to raise its ire with our report at the June 9 meeting of Gulf Cooperation Council [...]
2008-06-10 13:40:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB MU
08MUSCAT445SIGNS OF POSSIBLE CHANGE IN OMAN-IRAN RELATIONSHIP
[...] (S/NF) While maintaining close, cordial relations with Tehran has long been a priority for the Omani government, Oman has traditionally kept its neighbor to the north at arm's length, resulting in a relationship that is largely non-substantive. Bilateral economic ties remain limited and Oman [...]
2008-06-15 13:41:00Embassy MuscatSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV PREL ECON ENRG IR MU
08MUSCAT853CENTCOM COMMANDER PETRAEUS' MEETING WITH SULTAN
[...] (C) U.S. CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and the Ambassador met for an unprecedented three hours on November 30 with Sultan Qaboos at Beit al Baraka palace outside Muscat. In a wide-ranging discussion of regional issues, the Sultan acknowledged progress in Iraq and expressed a degree [...]
2008-12-17 06:15:00Embassy MuscatSECRETPARM PBTS PHSA PREL PTER PK IR IZ YM MU
08MUSCAT865OMAN: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] The following is the proposed text for the 2008 Country Report on Terrorism for Oman per ref A and B guidance: Oman continued to be proactive in implementing counterterrorism strategies and cooperating with neighboring countries to prevent terrorists from entering or moving freely throughou [...]
2008-12-22 12:18:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC MU
08NAIROBI1010Somalia President Previews Washington Visit
[...] (C) The Ambassador hosted Somalia Transition Federal President Abdullahi Ahmed Yusuf at his residence April 12 to preview the President's April 15-24 visit to New York and Washington. Yusuf confirmed that his agenda was our agenda - strengthening the TFG, working to achieve UNSC support for pe [...]
2008-04-16 07:11:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALUNSC PGOV PREL SO
08NAIROBI1122RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY
[...] (U) This message responds to ref A request for Mission Kenya's analysis on how rising food and agricultural commodity prices are affecting Kenyan society. As instructed, it also lists post's recent cables on this matter. ------------------------------ CONTEXT OF KENYA'S FOOD CRISIS ------ [...]
2008-04-29 10:14:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV KE
08NAIROBI1129Somalia - Revised Travel Request
[...] (U) This is a revised and updated version of reftels. Per DOD requirements, proposed travelers are concurrently seeking Special Area and Theater clearances. See paras 2 and 21 for action request. 2. (C) Embassy Nairobi requests Department approval for Bradley G. Anderson, Colonel, Defense A [...]
2008-04-29 14:44:00Embassy NairobiSECRETOTRA PREL ASEC PTER MOPS ET SO
08NAIROBI1220ICTR: GOVERNMENT OF KENYA FREEZES KABUGA'S ASSETS
[...] (C) The Government of Kenya (GOK) on May 6 moved to freeze real estate assets in Nairobi owned by International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) fugitive, Felicien Kabuga. This welcome move came as a response to a request for cooperation made by the ICTR Chief Prosecutor to the GOK. While [...]
2008-05-09 10:24:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KE
08NAIROBI1257Somalia - Meeting With President Yusuf
[...] (C) Somalia President Abdullahi Yusuf met with the Ambassador and Special Envoy to discuss his trip to the United States and next steps for the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to take advantage of this momentum. Yusuf highlighted the deteriorating security environment and urged us to pre [...]
2008-05-14 12:34:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC PTER MOPS SO
08NAIROBI1354JOINT DEMARCHE ON GOK COOPERATION WITH ICTR ON
[...] (C) On May 23, Acting PolCouns joined other Friends of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in delivering a demarche to the Foreign Minister. The message was clear: Kenya's recent steps on freezing war crimes suspect Felicien Kabuga's assets were much appreciated; however, th [...]
2008-05-30 09:20:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KAWC EFIN PHUM KE RW NO
08NAIROBI1488NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR AVIATION SECURITY; KENYA
[...] (SBU) As a post rated critical for terrorism in a key aviation hub for all of Africa, Nairobi already has multiple programs in place to improve aviation security in Kenya. The failed 2002 terrorist effort to shoot down an Israeli charter jet with a MANPAD and the ensuing collapse of tourism fo [...]
2008-06-17 15:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON ASEC PTER KCRM KE
08NAIROBI1642Somalia - Revised Travel Request
[...] (U) This is a revised and updated version of reftels. Per DOD requirements, proposed travelers are concurrently seeking Special Area and Theater clearances. See paras 2 and 21 for action request. 2. (C) Embassy Nairobi requests Department approval for Bradley G. Anderson, Colonel, Defense A [...]
2008-07-03 13:24:00Embassy NairobiSECRETOTRA PREL ASEC PTER MOPS ET SO
08NAIROBI1658SENATOR BILL NELSON (D-FL) MEETS WITH PRIME
[...] (C) Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) met on June 30 with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The two discussed continuing USG-GOK cooperation in combating terrorism and security threats to Kenya presented by ongoing lawlessness in Somalia. Odinga discussed his recent trip to Washington and the nee [...]
2008-07-07 14:32:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1692MINISTER OF FINANCE RESIGNS IN CORRUPTION SCANDAL
[...] (C) Minister of Finance Amos Kimunya resigned on July 8, capping a week of intense speculation about his political future stemming from his role in the cut-rate sale of the Grand Regency Hotel in Nairobi. The hotel, built with proceeds from the 1990s Goldenberg corruption scandal, had become [...]
2008-07-09 16:30:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM EFIN KCOR KE LY
08NAIROBI1776SOMALIA - TFG COMMITTEES TO IMPLEMENT DJIBOUTI
[...] (C) On July 18, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) nominated its representatives for the committees outlined in the June 9 Djibouti Agreement (Ref A) reached between the TFG and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS). Article 9 of the Agreement called for a High Lev [...]
2008-07-22 14:39:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM SO
08NAIROBI1838POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE COMMISSION BEGINS HEARING
[...] (SBU) The Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (the Waki Commission) has begun hearing testimony from security officials, and civil society organizations. The heads of the main Kenyan security agencies have testified. Each attempted to portray, with varying degrees of success, h [...]
2008-07-30 10:31:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1885SOMALIA - PM HUSSEIN ATTEMPTS TO OUST MOGADISHU'S
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein issued a public recommendation to remove Banaadir governor and Mogadishu mayor Muhammad Umar Habeb, aka Mohammad Dheere, on July 29. President Yusuf, who rejected the maneuver as illegal, told us the Prime Minister didn't consult the President [...]
2008-08-01 12:10:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID PINS SO
08NAIROBI1886SOMALIA - UNEASINESS AT PRESIDENCY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A series of telephone calls from President Yusuf, reinforced by multifarious other reports and rumors July 31, suggest a shaken Villa Somalia unnerved by and uncertain of Ethiopian intentions. The ongoing rift between Yusuf and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein, with the latter [...]
2008-08-01 12:29:00Embassy NairobiSECRETPGOV PREL EAID PINS SO
08NAIROBI1906SOMALIA - A POLITICAL STALEMATE
[...] (C) Days after several ministers supporting President Abdulahi Yusuf resigned in protest from Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein's cabinet (reftels A and B),our contacts tell us the political fight between the Prime Minister and President Yusuf has evolved into a resentful, but less bellicose [...]
2008-08-06 14:18:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID PINS SO
08NAIROBI2140PRIME MINISTER, DEFENSE MINISTER BRIEF CODEL PAYNE
[...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings on August 7-8, CODEL Payne discussed a wide range of issues with Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Defense Minister Mohammed Yusuf Haji, Trade Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Minister of Higher Education Sally Kosgei, former President Daniel arap Moi, Nobel laureate Wanga [...]
2008-09-10 16:49:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALOREP PREL PGOV KDEM KCRM ASEC ETRD PREF KE
08NAIROBI2158Somalia - US Mission Officers Visit Hargeisa
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 9, US Mission officers visited Hargeisa, Somaliland and met with government officials, political party representatives, and organizations implementing U.S. Government-funded activities. The visit provided an opportunity to reinforce key messages made by Assistant [...]
2008-09-12 08:48:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ECON SOCI SO
08NAIROBI2253MT. ELGON: STATUS OF INVESTIGATIONS ALLEGATIONS OF
[...] (C) In late July, the international NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a second, more detailed report alleging security forces' involvement in serious human rights violations during the joint military-police operation against the Sabaot Land Defense Force (SLDF) in Mt. Elgon in March-April 200 [...]
2008-09-24 15:57:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM MOPS MASS KPKO KCRM KE
08NAIROBI2290WHITHER M/V FAINA'S TANKS?
[...] (S-NF) A shipment of 33 Ukrainian T-72 tanks and other ammunition and equipment aboard the M/V Faina, currently under the control of pirates off the coast of Somalia, has raised questions and controversy in Kenya about their final destination. It is a poorly kept secret that the tanks are boun [...]
2008-10-02 15:46:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNMASS PTER PHSA KE UP SO SU
08NAIROBI2333TARGETED ATTACKS IN BAIDOA
[...] (SBU) The last three months have seen the number of armed attacks targeting Transitional Federal Government (TFG) parliamentarians or their perceived allies increase in Baidoa, the seat of the TFG's parliament, and in Mogadishu. There have been high-profile attacks in the southern coastal town [...]
2008-10-10 12:11:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID PTER SOCI SO
08NAIROBI2366COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE PRESENTS
[...] On September 15, the Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV) -- which was formed as part of the Kofi Annan-mediated settlement of Kenya's post-election crisis (reftel) -- presented its report to President Mwai Kibaki. Kibaki then ordered the report to be released immediately. [...]
2008-10-15 13:36:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2401POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE COMMISSION RELEASES REPORT
[...] (U) The Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV) submitted its report to President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on October 15 (Ref A). The report proposes the establishment of a special tribunal to try high-level organizers of post-election violence. It also p [...]
2008-10-21 15:26:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2513ATTACKS IN PUNTLAND AND SOMALILAND
[...] Earlier today, in seemingly coordinated attacks, bombs exploded at public and foreign facilities in Bosaaso, Puntland and Hargeysa, Somaliland. In Bosaaso, two Puntland Intelligence Service (PIS) facilites were hit. In Hargeysa, the Ethiopian mission, the UNDP office and the Somaliland Presi [...]
2008-10-30 03:57:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL CASC SO
08NAIROBI2519SOMALIA - PUNTLAND AND SOMALILAND TERROR ATTACKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The final number of casulties from the October 29 suicide car bombs in northern Somalia's Somaliland and Puntland regions have not yet been confirmed. In Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, reportedly three car bombs killed 29 and injured scores more. In Bossaso, Puntland's [...]
2008-10-30 15:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL CASC SO PINS
08NAIROBI2555SOMALIA: SOMALILAND ADMINISTRATION REQUESTS
[...] On November 4, Embassy received a letter from the Somaliland Administration President (text below) that requests international community assistance in the wake of the three October 29 suicide bombings in Hargeisa (reftel). The letter solicits assistance in fighting terrorism, including trackin [...]
2008-11-05 14:30:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV PTER SO
08NAIROBI2605 KENYA ECONOMIC NOTES
[...] (SBU) GOK MOVES APACE ON AGOA FORUM PREPARATIONS 2. (SBU) CIVAIR AUTHORITY RAMPING UP FOR FAA CATEGORY 1 3. (SBU) ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION CONCEDES WEAKNESSES 4. (SBU) KENYA RAILWAYS: STRUGGLING TO GET BACK ON TRACK 5. (SBU) MACRO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS SUGGEST SLUGGISH GROWTH 6. (SB [...]
2008-11-18 06:41:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB EINV EFIN ETRD EAID BEXP PINR EAIR ASEC
08NAIROBI2652SOMALIA - PM and President Disagree on Cabinet
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a November 16 press conference, Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Prime Minister Hassan Hussein "Nur Adde" announced the new cabinet members he submitted to President Yusuf (see paragraphs 6-8). President Yusuf has rejected the Prime Minister's cabinet on legal grounds. [...]
2008-11-24 14:56:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SO
08NAIROBI2718SOMALIA - Somaliland: "Terror Attacks Will Not Deter Us"
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 3, Somaliland Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullahi Mohamed Duale and Minister of Planning Ali Ibrahim Mohamed told us that despite the recent terror attacks, Somaliland will not veer from its democratic path. Ministers Duale and Mohamed said that Somaliland author [...]
2008-12-04 15:11:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PNAT SOCI ECON SO
08NAIROBI2736EMBASSY CONCURRENCE FOR FY09 AFRICOM 1206 MARITIME
[...] Embassy Nairobi has reviewed and supports AFRICOM's proposal to help the Kenyan Navy build its maritime capacity to counter the threat posed by terrorist organizations operating from Somalia. 2. Kenya's naval capacity has always been weak, and Kenya's overall security has suffered as a resu [...]
2008-12-08 13:58:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PTER PREL KE SO
08NAIROBI473Somalia -- Travel Request
[...] (U) This is an action message. See paras 2 and 10. 2. (C) Embassy Nairobi requests Department approval for Bradley G. Anderson, Colonel, Defense Attache, U.S. Defense Attache Office Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Lisa R. Schade, Lieutenant Colonel, Marine Corps Attache, U.S. Defense Attache Offi [...]
2008-02-12 15:39:00Embassy NairobiSECRETOTRA PREL ASEC PTER MOPS ET SO
08NAIROBI521 BEEF, BREAD, AND BUTTER GETTING SCARCER AND PRICIER IN
[...] (U) Summary. Agricultural analysts predict that Kenya may suffer food shortages by late 2008 if post-election violence does not stop. Government stockpiles of corn will suffice for the next seven months, but observers note that many farmers in the upper Rift Valley have been unable to work t [...]
2008-02-21 12:31:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ETRD ELAB PGOV KE
08NAIROBI544Somalia - Revised Travel Request
[...] (U) This is a revised version of reftel with additional personnel, new dates, more detailed travel information, and a revised and expanded security plan. Per DOD requirements, proposed travelers are concurrently seeking Special Area and Theater clearances. See paras 2 and 24 for action reques [...]
2008-02-25 13:33:00Embassy NairobiSECRETOTRA PREL ASEC PTER MOPS ET SO
08NAIROBI706MOUNT ELGON CLASHES: KENYA'S ARMY STEPS IN
[...] (C) Summary: On March 10, Kenya's military deployed to Mount Elgon, which has been the center of a violent land dispute since 2006. Previous efforts by the police to quell the violence have been unsuccessful. The settlement of the post-election political dispute between President Kibaki and [...]
2008-03-12 13:55:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS KE
08NAIROBI723KENYA HUMAN RIGHTS: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF UN
[...] (C) Poloff met with representatives of the UN Office for the High Commissioner Human Rights (OHCHR) investigative team, which recently ended a three-week fact-finding mission to investigate post-election violence in Kenya (ref a). The representatives outlined the team's preliminary conclusions [...]
2008-03-14 07:43:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KE
08NAIROBI763KENYA: EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) The following information is keyed to the paragraphs in reftel. -------------------------------------- Overview of a country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: -------------------------------------- 2. A. (SBU) Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for t [...]
2008-03-18 14:35:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF EAID KCRM KWMN KFRD ELAB SMIG ASEC KE
08NAIROBI804MT. ELGON MILITARY OPERATION CONTINUES, CHANGES
[...] (C) Summary: Kenyan military forces continue to support police attempts in the Mt. Elgon region to eliminate the Sabaot Land Defense Force (SLDF),an informal militia drawn from the Soy subclan of the Kalenjin tribe that may number in the thousands. As of March 18, Kenyan security forces had [...]
2008-03-20 16:22:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALMOPS ASEC PGOV PHUM KE TZ SU
08NAPLES36ORGANIZED CRIME IN ITALY I: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION
[...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: This is the first of a three-part series; this message offers some background on organized crime in Southern Italy and examines its political dimensions. Organized crime is one of Southern Italy's greatest challenges to economic growth and political stability, [...]
2008-06-04 15:34:00Consulate NaplesCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM ECON SNAR KCOR IT
08NAPLES38ORGANIZED CRIME III: CONFRONTING ORGANIZED CRIME IN
[...] (C) Summary: This is the third of a three-part series (see reftels A-B for parts I and II); this message offers views on how to combat organized crime in Italy. The USG has a significant stake in the fight against organized crime in Italy. The Italian crime syndicates help support terrorist groups [...]
2008-06-06 17:20:00Consulate NaplesCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM ECON SNAR KCOR IT
08NASSAU191U.S.-BAHAMAS COUNTER-DRUG TASK FORCE REVIEWS TRAFFICKING
[...] (SBU) The Ambassador and Deputy Prime Minister co-chaired the semi-annual Joint Counternarcotics/Illegal Migration Task Force Meeting (JTF) between the United States, The Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands on December 14, 2007. The parties discussed trafficking trends, reviewed year-to- [...]
2008-03-03 22:18:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL BF
08NASSAU398SECOND TRIPARTITE CONFERENCE DISCUSSES DRUG AND MIGRANT TRAFFICKING AND ASSISTANCE FOR HAITI
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-21 18:18:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL TK UK BF DR HA
08NASSAU899DRUG CASE CHALLENGES CONSTITUTIONALITY OF BAHAMIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Accused drug trafficker and former fugitive Melvin Maycock Sr. has challenged the constitutionality of the Bahamian Listening Devices Act in an attempt to undermine the evidence against him and to thwart attempts to extradite him to the United States. Maycock's argument was rejecte [...]
2008-12-19 18:15:00Embassy NassauCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL UK BF
08NASSAU94AMBASSADOR REVIEWS DRUG AND MIGRANT STRATEGIES IN TRI-LATERAL MEETINGS IN TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-01 12:18:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL TK UK BF
08NDJAMENA119CHAD FOREIGN MINISTER: GIVE BORDER MONITORING MORE
[...] (C) Summary: In a wide ranging meeting with Chad Foreign Minister Allam-mi the Ambassador broached the topic of what messages the United States might usefully convey to Chadian rebels that approached us. Allam-mi urged commitment to the Sirte accords and asked for U.S. assistance in putting [...]
2008-03-28 12:42:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF SU CD
08NDJAMENA123DARFUR: TENSIONS MOUNT BETWEEN JEM AND URF REBELS
[...] (C) Two Darfur rebel movements--JEM and the URF--are on the verge of "war" and conflict has erupted between their forces in Chad in recent weeks, according to the chief URF commander. While JEM's military strength is declining as a result of a recent Sudanese offensive and widespread defectio [...]
2008-03-28 14:47:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID CD SU
08NDJAMENA126CHADIAN INSIDER CONFIRMS RIFT WITH JEM, UNITY
[...] (C) A rift has emerged between the Chadian Government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),a businessman with close ties to President Deby and a prominent SLA/Unity commander, told Poloff. Verifying previous reports that SLA/Unity's leadership has ceased its infighting and coalesced a [...]
2008-03-31 17:57:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETPREL PGOV UN AU CD
08NDJAMENA325SCENESETTER FOR SE WILLIAMSON VISIT TO CHAD
[...] (SBU) CHAD UNDER PRESSURE: SPECIAL ENVOY FOR SUDAN WILLIAMSON'S VISIT TO N'DJAMENA COMES AS THE RAINY SEASON LULL MASKS CONTINUING TENSION ALONG THE CHAD-SUDANESE BORDER, AS CHADIAN REBELS WHO OPERATE FROM OF SUDAN SANCTUARIES ARE HAMPERED BY WEATHER AND TERRAIN UNFAVORABLE TO THE CHADIAN STY [...]
2008-08-04 14:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON UN EU SU LY KPKO CD
08NDJAMENA441CHAD CHRONICLE: SEPT 15-26, 2008
[...] THERE WAS MUCH PRESS DISCUSSSION DURING THE WEEK REGARDING REPLACEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN PEACEKEEPING FORCE BY AN EXPANDED UNITED NATIONS PRESENCE. DESPITE GIVING SPACE TO OXFAM CRITICISMS SAYING THAT NO IMPROVEMENT OF THE SECURITY SITUATION HAS BEEN OBSERVED ON THE GROUND AS WELL AS OXFAM'S ALLE [...]
2008-09-26 11:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA461EUFOR - POISE AND PROMISE IN CHAD'S TROUBLED EAST
[...] (C) Summary. The European Peace Keeping Force (EUFOR) in eastern Chad is operational and robust. Well equipped with APCs, tracked vehicles and helicopters, but even resorting to horses during te height of the rains, EUFOR patrols circulate egularly throughout the operational zone. Troopsassure [...]
2008-10-10 08:22:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF EU UN KPKO CD CT SU
08NDJAMENA491SRSG ANGELO ON MINURCAT CURRENT AND FUTURE:
[...] (C) UN SRSG Angelo told Ambassador October 21 that MINURCAT I was up to 750 of its authorized 900 personnel; that it was about to deploy the first of 450 Chadian police and gendarmes it has trained along with their UNPOL mentors to refugee camps in eastern Chad; and that Chadian President De [...]
2008-10-23 13:13:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN PKO MARR PINR SU LY FR EU CD
08NDJAMENA543CHAD: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] Based on the narratives of other African countries in the 2007 reports (there was no Chad narrative),post has complied the following report for Chad for 2008. 2. During 2008 Chad experienced several incursions by anti-regime rebel forces aimed at taking power. These military confrontation [...]
2008-11-20 07:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER ASEC CD
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