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06CAIRO7200	EGYPT: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Egypt is an ally in the Global War on Terrorism. The Egyptian and U.S. Governments maintained close cooperation on a broad range of counter-terrorism and law enforcement issues in 2006 and exchanged information on a variety of terrorism, security, and law enforcement matters during the course [...]	2006-12-20 13:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC EG

06CAIRO7206	EGYPT PROPOSES STRENGTHENED TIES BETWEEN UN [...] (SBU) MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs, Ambassador Massoum Marzouk, convoked the Charge on December 19 to describe Egypt's proposal to strengthen institutional linkages between the African Union's Peace and Security Council (PSC) and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The [...]	2006-12-21 07:02:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC UNGA ECON EFIN EG
06CAIRO7208	EGYPTIAN-IRANIAN RELATIONS: WARMING IN PUBLIC ONLY [...] (C) Summary: Visits by Iranian FM Motakki to Cairo and other high-level meetings between Egyptian and Iranian officials in 2006 have created public perceptions of a thaw in the historically chilly relationship, but GOE contacts stress privately that they remain deeply suspicious about Tehran' [...]	2006-12-21 07:42:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL KNNP IR EG
06CAIRO721	EGYPTIAN STUDENTS FRET OVER MB INFLUENCE, FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent encounter, secular Egyptian university students expressed worry over the growing influence of Islamists on and off campus and blamed GOE-imposed restrictions on student life for fueling support for the MB. The students discussed their on-campus efforts to counter w [...]	2006-02-07 07:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SCUL ELAB KDEM EG
06CAIRO7211	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: COMING SOON, BUT [...] (C) Summary: President Mubarak is expected to submit his long-awaited constitutional amendments package to the Egyptian legislature on December 25. While precise details of the substance of the proposed changes are still scarce, likely amendments can be roughly divided into four broad catego [...]	2006-12-21 10:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO7218	EGYPT SNAPSHOT: VIOLENCE SURROUNDS CLOSURE OF FISH [...] (SBU) Summary: Citing public health concerns, GOE officials recently ordered police in the northern Delta to remove thousands of fish-rearing cages from the Nile, prompting clashes that led to the deaths of three fishermen and the injury of thirty more. While scientists, environmentalists, [...]	2006-12-21 13:21:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON EFIS SOCI TBIO PHUM PGOV ELAB EG
06CAIRO7219	EGYPTIAN QIZ EXPORTS CONTINUE TO RISE, LABOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: TWO YEARS AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE QUALIFIED INDUSTRIAL ZONE (QIZ) AGREEMENT BY EGYPT, ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES, EGYPTIAN QIZ EXPORTS ARE CONTINUING TO RISE SHARPLY. FACTORY OWNERS ARE SCRAMBLING TO FIND ENOUGH WORKERS TO STAFF THEIR NEW PRODUCTION LINES, EVEN AS THEY MOVE [...]	2006-12-21 14:21:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON ELAB EG
06CAIRO7232	EGYPT COMMITTED TO IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1737; [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on December 24 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Office Director Hossam Aly, seeking Egyptian reactions to the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1737 and its likely impact on Iran's nuclear activities. Aly believed the final resolution language was caref [...]	2006-12-26 12:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC UNSC EG IR
06CAIRO7249	EGYPT: THREE NEW HUMAN AVIAN INFLUENZA CASES [...] (SBU) Officials from the Central Public Health Lab at the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) and NAMRU-3 confirmed on December 24 two new cases of H5N1 and a probable third in a family in the northern governorate of Gharbia, the most recent human cases since October (reftel). All three [...]	2006-12-28 09:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSTH KFLU ECON PREL WHO EG
06CAIRO7250	SUEZ CANAL ENJOYS RECORD YEAR, PLANS AHEAD [...] (SBU) Egypt's Suez Canal revenues will reach record levels for 2006, and sustained high energy prices and ever-increasing Chinese container traffic to the U.S. and Europe bode well for the strategic waterway's near future. Completion of an ongoing dredging program in 2007 will facilitate great [...]	2006-12-28 11:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT ETRD EPET EG
06CAIRO7251	MUBARAK SUBMITS CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PACKAGE TO [...] (C) On December 26, in accordance with procedural requirements for amending the Egyptian constitution, President Hosni Mubarak submitted to the People's Assembly and the Shoura Council a letter proposing the amendment of 34 constitutional articles. As anticipated reftel, the proposed changes [...]	2006-12-28 11:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO7256	EGYPT LABOR STRIKES FORCE GOE CONCESSIONS [...] (SBU) Seeming to catch the GOE off-guard, a major strike crippled one of Egypt's largest textile companies this month, successfully extracted financial concessions from the company and GOE, and encouraged spillover strikes. While the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) was happy to jump on the workers' b [...]	2006-12-28 13:40:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV EG
06CAIRO7260	SOMALIA: EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE WORKING TO [...] (C) MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs, Ambassador Marsoum Marzouk, detailed Egyptian concerns and responses to the current fighting between Ethiopian forces and the Somali Council of Islamic Courts (CIC). Responding to ref A demarche, Marzouk noted that Egypt was an unlikely transit [...]	2006-12-28 15:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS EG SO
06CAIRO73	American Business Leadership Trainers Reach [...] SUMMARY: American business leadership trainers Kay Westerfield and Kathy Holland captivated audiences of Egyptian women entrepreneurs and other business people in workshops Dec. 8-15. The programs reached everyone from veteran businesswomen in Cairo and Alexandria to aspiring Minya entrepre [...]	2006-01-04 14:30:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC OIIP EG
06CAIRO75	EGYPTIAN, EUROPEAN SOURCES CONFIRM RAFAH BORDER [...] (C) In separate conversations January 4, MFA Palestinian Affairs Office Director Randa Labib and European Union Deputy Director Oliver Nette confirmed that the Egyptian-Gaza border terminals at Rafah remain open, despite press reports that Gaza militants closed the PA-controlled terminal. Lab [...]	2006-01-04 17:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO765	HAMAS DELEGATION ENDS CAIRO TALKS, CONTINUES [...] (SBU) A delegation of senior Hamas political figures wrapped up several days of talks in Cairo February 8, including a full day of internal deliberations February 6 among internal and external leaders of the Islamic organization. Press reports assert that part of the team departed for Gaza w [...]	2006-02-08 16:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PTER EG IS MEPN
06CAIRO776	GOE ANNOUNCES ICT INITIATIVES, TIMELINE FOR MOBILE [...] (U) At the tenth annual Cairo Information and Communications Technology (ICT) trade fair on February 5, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Dr. Tarek Kamel made several announcements of note: - The GOE would issue the long-awaited Request For Proposals (RFP) to license [...]	2006-02-09 13:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EINT EINV ETRD EG KGIT
06CAIRO783	SUDAN REFUGEES: ALL UNHCR `PERSONS OF CONCERN' [...] (SBU) Emboffs met separately February 9 with MFA and UNHCR to discuss the status of Sudanese asylum seekers in Cairo. All UNHCR `persons of concern' have been released, leaving the fate of the remaining 156 detainees in question. MFA contacts rule out deportations in the short term, and belie [...]	2006-02-09 14:29:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL ASEC CVIS EG SU UNHCR
06CAIRO798	FERRY DISASTER: RIPPLES HITTING CAIRO [...] (C) The emerging picture of negligence on the part of the "Al Salam 98" crew and ownership, coupled with a GOE response perceived as ineffective, has caused tempers to flare among victims' families. Opposition politicians and press are casting the tragedy as an indicator of GOE corruption and [...]	2006-02-09 16:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EWWT MARR EG
06CAIRO799	DEFEATING VENEZUELA, SUPPORTING GUATEMALA FOR UN [...] (C) Post intends to raise the issue of Guatemala's UN Security Council candidacy when the Ambassador meets next with Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, following the latter's return to Egypt from regional travel. Post will also engage with the Guatemalan Ambassador in Cairo to coordinate diplomat [...]	2006-02-09 16:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EG GT VE UN UNSC
06CAIRO800	DANISH CARTOON CONTROVERSY: GOE WORKING TO DEFUSE [...] (C) According to our European colleagues, GOE officials, and our own analysis, the GOE and Egyptian public remain deeply angered over the cartoon controversy and believe additional steps can be taken by the Danes to defuse the current tensions. The issue of physical security for the Danish an [...]	2006-02-09 18:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC EG DA
06CAIRO82	EGYPT CHANGES COURSE ON DEPORTING SUDANESE ASYLUM [...] (C) Following a series of high-level Embassy demarches, the GOE informed post late January 4 that Egypt will permit the UNHCR access to the 631 Sudanese detainees it plans to deport. Egypt will delay the deportations until January 8 to allow UNHCR staff to interview the detainees. UNHCR Cair [...]	2006-01-05 12:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG SU PREF
06CAIRO83	PALESTINIANS BREAK THROUGH BORDER WITH EGYPT: TWO [...] (C) Summary: GOE contacts from the Foreign Ministry and Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) confirmed that on the evening of January 4, a group of Palestinians allegedly from the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade broke through the security wall between Egypt and Gaza allowing nearly 1,000 Pales [...]	2006-01-05 12:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PTER EG
06CAIRO835	BANKING SECTOR UPDATE: U.S. INVESTMENT FIRM [...] (U) Ripplewood Holdings, a New York based investment company, recently led a group of investment firms in the purchase of all of the public shares in Commercial International Bank (CIB),the largest joint venture (JV) bank in Egypt. The Ripplewood-led consortium purchased 18.7% of CIB, which [...]	2006-02-12 14:03:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID EG
06CAIRO855	SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY RADEMAKER'S [...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit for nonproliferation discussions. Nonproliferation has been a key agenda item in the U.S.- Egyptian bilateral relationship in recent months, and expanding our dialogue will facilitate greater cooperation. Because Egypt takes seriously its role a [...]	2006-02-13 09:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS IR EG KPAL KNNP IAEA
06CAIRO861	EGYPT: SENIOR JUDGE PREDICTS OUTCOME OF AYMAN NOUR [...] (C) During a meeting with several senior judicial officials on February 12, Judge Ahmed Khalifa (strictly protect),President of Egypt's Supreme Court of Appeals, pulled poloff aside to provide an apparently well-informed prediction about the legal case of imprisoned opposition leader Ayman No [...]	2006-02-13 13:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO862	EGYPT: GOE SET TO POSTPONE LOCAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: At the direction of President Mubarak, parliament is expected to pass shortly legislation that will postpone by two years local council elections which had been due in April. Senior GOE contacts put the move in the context of broader reforms that will overhaul and modernize Egyp [...]	2006-02-13 13:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO87	EGYPT QUESTIONS RE-HATTING AFRICAN UNION MISSION [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche January 5 to MFA Sudan Affairs Office Director Marsam Marzouk, seeking GOE support within the African Union (AU) to "re-hat" the AU's Darfur mission. Marzouk said that there was little support within Africa for such a move, as it signified AU "failure" in it [...]	2006-01-05 13:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS EG SU UNSC
06CAIRO873	EGYPT FREES REMAINING SUDANESE ASYLUM-SEEKERS FROM [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-13 15:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM EG SU
06CAIRO90	EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES GENERIC COPY OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Representatives of Eli Lilly met with trade officer January 4 to provide information on a recently approved and marketed Egyptian generic copy of one of its innovator drugs. According to Lilly, sometime in December 2005, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) gave approval to Ape [...]	2006-01-05 15:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD EG USTR
06CAIRO941	FBI DIRECTOR MUELLERâ€™S VISIT TO EGYPTREF: CAIRO 493 [...] (C) During his February 8-9 visit to Egypt FBI Director Robert Mueller held a series of cordial and productive meetings with President Mubarak, Intelligence Chief Soliman, Interior Minister Adly, and State Security Director Abdel Rahman. The strength of the bilateral security relationship, and mean [...]	2006-02-15 07:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL KISL EG
06CAIRO968	ISRAELI DEFMIN VISITS CAIRO: MUBARAK DELIVERS [...] (C) According to Egyptian Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad, the visit to Egypt by Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz went extremely well. Awad told the DCM shortly after the conclusion of the February 14 visit that Mofaz's meeting with President Mubarak had been "very fruitful." The messa [...]	2006-02-15 15:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL EG IS MEPN
06CAIRO970	SUDAN/DARFUR: EGYPTIAN VIEWS ON RE-HATTING AMIS [...] (C) During a February 13 meeting with MFA UN Affairs Office Director Hani Saleem, poloff discussed GOE views on re-hatting the African Union's Darfur Mission (AMIS-II) to a UN operation (reftel). Saleem noted that Egypt had concerns regarding the impact that such a transition might have on th [...]	2006-02-15 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO EG SU UNSC
06CAIRO971	IRAQ: EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE WELCOME FINAL [...] (U) Following the public release February 17 of final election results by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI),both the Government of Egypt and Arab League publicly welcomed the conclusion of Iraq's electoral process and called for the rapid formation of a government of nation [...]	2006-02-15 16:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER KPAO OPRC EG IZ
06CAIRO972	AYMAN NOUR SEEMS HEALTHY, RELAXED IN PRISON [...] (SBU) During a regularly scheduled consular visit to several American Citizens incarcerated at the Torah Prison complex, just south of Cairo, conoff had a "chance" encounter with detained political opposition leader Ayman Nour. Shortly after conoff was admitted to the prison warden's office an [...]	2006-02-15 16:38:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO981	AI CONCERNS IN EGYPT IMPACT MARKET CONDITIONS [...] Avian Influenza The poultry industry in Egypt is in severe crisis. Consumer fears, fueled by reports of the presence of avian influenza (AI) in neighboring countries, have caused a precipitous drop in consumption of poultry meat and eggs. The Egyptian Parliament has taken the unprecedented [...]	2006-02-16 11:38:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR BEXP ETRD EG USTR
06EFTOCAIRO6192	EMBASSY CAIRO RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS AND THE GLOBAL [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy Cairo comments on the the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria Parallel Review Process follow. Responses are keyed to format in reftel. 2. Country: Egypt Region: Middle East Title: Support for the National Plan for the Control of TB Plus A. Proposing Gro [...]	2006-10-03 14:19:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV EAID SOCI TBIO EG
07CAIRO1029	EMBASSY CAIRO ASSESSMENT OF CHILD PROSTITUTION AND [...] (C) Embassy Cairo has met with key Egyptian civil society advocates for women's and children's issues, and has reviewed the available literature on trafficking. We have seen no evidence that confirms that child prostitution and forced or temporary marriages are occurring on any significant, [...]	2007-04-11 11:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRIM KWMN EG
07CAIRO1047	EGYPT: EVALUATION OF OUTBREAK COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN [...] (U) In response to reftel, the Government of Egypt finalized an Avian Influenza (AI) Communication Strategy in May 2006, focusing on the prevention phase, in strict accordance with WHO guidelines for outbreak communication. The GOE prepared this plan in cooperation with Egypt's AI communica [...]	2007-04-12 14:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU KPAO SENV EG
07CAIRO1049	ALLEGATIONS OF POW KILLINGS DURING 1967 WAR [...] (C) The controversy sparked by an Israeli documentary film alleging that 250 Egyptian POWs were killed by the IDF at the end of the 1967 war has dropped from the front pages, but remains close to the surface and will likely continue as a source of irritation in the bilateral relationship with [...]	2007-04-12 16:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MEPN KPAL PHUM EG IS
07CAIRO1097	EGYPT MOVES AHEAD ON CHILD PROTECTION, SUPPORTED [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE's National Council for Childhood and Motherhood is drafting legislation for new child protection measures which include tough new anti-trafficking articles. USAID is poised to provide major technical and programmatic support to the Council and its partners as Egypt t [...]	2007-04-16 15:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN KCRM EG
07CAIRO110	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HHS/CSC PATRICIA [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of HHS/SCS Medical Officer, Patricia Simone, to Cairo, Egypt January 23-26 to discuss and finalize plans for 2007 activities and to be introduced to the strategic partners at the Ministry of Health, NAMRU-3 and the WHO regional of [...]	2007-01-16 13:40:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA US EG CDC
07CAIRO111	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HHS/CSC MELINDA FROST [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of HHS/CDC Acting Associate Director, Melinda Frost, to Cairo, Egypt February 11-16 to attend the WHO Global Communications Conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required for this visit. 3. Science & Tech [...]	2007-01-16 13:41:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA US EG CDC
07CAIRO112	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HHS/CDC BASSAM JARRAR [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of HHS/CDC Public Health Advisor, Bassam Jarrar, to Cairo, Egypt January 30-February 3 to discuss and finalize plans for 2007 activities and to meet with various GOE and USG officials. 2. Post understands that no assistance i [...]	2007-01-16 13:42:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA US EG CDC
07CAIRO1125	EGYPTIANS REVIEWING DEBT RELIEF FOR IRAQ [...] (C) Poloff and Treasury Attach made reftel demarche to Amal Mourad, Foreign Ministry Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs, on April 16. Mourad was well-briefed on the issue of Iraqi debt and knew Finance Minister Boutros-Ghali had discussed the issue with Iraqi authorities and Treasury [...]	2007-04-17 13:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID EG IZ
07CAIRO1127	REPORT ON BIOTECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP IN EGYPT, MARCH 19-21, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-17 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR
07CAIRO1128	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO CONTEST SHURA ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has announced it will run "no more than twenty candidates" in the June Shura Council elections, and, despite a recent constitutional change banning "any political activity or political parties" based on religion, the group still plans to campaign using i [...]	2007-04-17 15:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM PHUM EG
07CAIRO1170	SNAPSHOT OF UPCOMING LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: EGYPT'S PARLIAMENT WILL CONSIDER AN ARRAY OF SIGNIFICANT POLITICAL LEGISLATION DURING ITS CURRENT SESSION (WHICH ENDS APRIL 24 FOR THE SHURA COUNCIL, AND JULY 15 FOR THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY),AS WELL AS IN THE SUBSEQUENT SESSION (BEGINNING NOVEMBER 15). SEVERAL OF THE LAWS ARE THE L [...]	2007-04-19 16:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL KJUS PTER EG
07CAIRO1176	ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS STATEMENT ON ARAB [...] (U) Foreign ministers of the Arab League's committee assigned to follow up on the League's Arab Peace Initiative (API) -- or Beirut 2002 Initiative -- met in Cairo on April 18 to determine the manner in which the League will seek to market the API with Israel and the international community. [...]	2007-04-22 11:05:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MEPN KPAL ARABL EG IS
07CAIRO1188	AMBASSADOR SATTERFIELD DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH [...] (C) Ambassador Satterfield discussed security and political developments in Iraq, as well as preparations for the International Compact on Iraq and expanded Neighbors conferences in separate April 19 meetings with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amre [...]	2007-04-23 10:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL IZ IR EG
07CAIRO1189	EGYPT COUNSELS DIALOGUE ON DARFUR, NOT SANCTIONS; [...] (C) Summary: During an April 22 meeting to deliver ref demarches, MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs Maasoum Marzouk said Egypt would commit "large numbers" of troops for the UN Darfur peacekeeping operation (DPKO) once an effective political solution is reached between the government [...]	2007-04-23 10:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO EG SU
07CAIRO1204	EGYPT PLEASED WITH MALIKI VISIT, MUBARAK EXPRESSES [...] (C) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki is in Egypt April 22-24 to meet the Egyptian leadership and to begin the process of normalizing strained relations, overcoming mutual suspicions, discussing commercial opportunities, and preparing for upcoming international meetings on Iraq. Maliki has [...]	2007-04-23 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS ECON EFIN EG IZ
07CAIRO1207	NAZIF READOUT ON BASHIR AND DARFUR: COOL AND [...] (C) Prime Minister Nazif on April 23 told the Ambassador that his recent meeting with Sudanese President Bashir and Vice President Ali Osman Taha in Khartoum had been "cool." Bashir was "unreceptive" and "not interested in cooperating" on the issues Nazif raised, including Darfur. Nazif said [...]	2007-04-23 15:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO EG SU
07CAIRO1242	EGYPT TELLS HAMAS TO HALT GAZA ROCKET ATTACKS [...] (C) Egypt has warned Hamas to halt rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel, according to wire service and other reports. These reports are consistent with information provided to Embassy Cairo by senior GOE security officials. Note: The Jerusalem Post and the independent Cairo daily Al-Mas [...]	2007-04-26 15:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MEPN MOPS KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO1249	EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI COOPERATION THWARTS PALESTINIAN [...] (SBU) An Egyptian official responsible for border security issues told poloff on April 27 that Egyptian security forces confronted two suspected Palestinian terrorists in a "heavily tunneled" area along the Egyptian-Gaza border at dawn on April 26 after Israeli liaison alerted them to a poten [...]	2007-04-29 09:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER MEPN KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO1252	EGYPT OFFERS TROOPS FOR DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 26, Egypt publicly offered a significant contribution for the AU/UN Darfur heavy support package (HSP),contingent upon Sudanese government approval. MOD contacts confirmed that the GOE has offered between 1200 and 1900 troops. Egypt has asked the UN to provide further [...]	2007-04-29 10:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS UNSC KPKO EG SU PHUM
07CAIRO1258	SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO SHARM EL [...] (C) PM Maliki,s April 22-24 visit to Cairo marked an important warming in Egyptian-Iraqi relations, despite deep and lingering mutual suspicions. Mubarak, PM Nazif, and other officials warmly received Maliki, reassured him of Egypt's support, and set a positive tone for the May 3-4 discussion [...]	2007-04-29 16:29:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV EFIN ECON IZ EG
07CAIRO1276	RESPONDING TO EGYPT'S CRACKDOWN ON THE MUSLIM [...] (C) The GOE has ratcheted up its campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) by arresting two MB parliamentarians on April 29. At least 300 members of the banned Islamist organization have been detained since December, 40 of whom (including the group's third-most senior leader) will face mil [...]	2007-04-30 14:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL PHUM EG
07CAIRO1279	DARFUR: ARAB LEAGUE CHIEF RESPONDS TO [...] (C) The Ambassador had the opportunity on April 30 to discuss with Arab League Secretary General Moussa a recent Congressional Resolution on Darfur that explicitly criticizes the Arab League over the conflict there. Moussa conveyed that he was personally affronted by the resolution, and said [...]	2007-05-02 09:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON UNSC MOPS EG SU
07CAIRO1283	EGYPT LABOR UPDATE: GOE SHUTS DOWN LABOR NGO, [...] (SBU) The GOE's closure of the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS),combined with recent public statements, may indicate its tolerance of ongoing wildcat strikes is eroding. Some public sector brickworks employees, dairy workers, textile workers, and garbage men are currently [...]	2007-05-02 14:05:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV ECON PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO1302	EGYPT: ARAB LEAGUE AND MFA ON KOSOVO FINAL STATUS [...] (SBU) Special Representative for Kosovo Final Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner and Ambassador Ricciardone met with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa and Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on April 30, soliciting support for Kosovo's independence following an anticipated May vote in [...]	2007-05-03 11:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNSC KSAC EG
07CAIRO1325	MFO TWIN OTTER CRASHES, KILLING ALL NINE ON BOARD [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-06 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMFO EG
07CAIRO1330	VISIT TO PRISONER NABIL SOLIMAN [...] (C) Poloff conducted a human rights monitoring visit to prisoner Nabil Soliman on May 6. Returned by the U.S. to Egypt in June 2002, Soliman was subsequently convicted of membership in the Islamic Jihad, and sentenced to five years in prison. He is now being held at the Torah Liman Prison, a [...]	2007-05-07 08:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER CASC KISL EG
07CAIRO1338	ROSY REPORTS OF NEW INVESTMENT IN EGYPTIAN TEXTILE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent press report of new Jordanian investment in the Egyptian textile industry is indicative of a trend of increasing FDI in Egypt and expansion of the textile industry in particular, as foreign investors eye the rapidly expanding Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) program for [...]	2007-05-07 13:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD CH JO EG TU
07CAIRO1339	EGYPTIAN CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE FORUM FOR THE FUTURE [...] (U) This is a joint cable from Embassy Cairo and the MEPI Regional Office in Tunis. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) MEPI RO Tunis and Embassy Cairo Political Section staff canvassed MEPI and BMENA partners and other leading reformers in Egypt to seek their views on the Forum for th [...]	2007-05-07 15:48:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KMPI EG
07CAIRO1353	ARAB LEAGUE MEDIATING IN THE COMOROS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-09 07:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR ARABL CN EG
07CAIRO1360	SUDAN: EGYPTIANS PROPOSE UN/AU ENVOYS DRAFT A [...] (C) During a May 9 meeting, MFA Cabinet staff member responsible for African affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told poloff that the foreign minister was putting the final touches on an oral message on Darfur which would be transmitted later the same day. The message would be addressed, he said, to Secr [...]	2007-05-09 13:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG SU
07CAIRO1361	COURT RULES AGAINST MILITARY TRIBUNALS FOR MUSLIM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ON MAY 8, EGYPT'S SUPREME ADMINISTRATIVE COURT OVERTURNED THE FEBRUARY PRESIDENTIAL DECREE THAT ORDERED 40 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS TO STAND BEFORE A MILITARY TRIBUNAL, AND RULED THAT THE MB DEFENDANTS BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY. THE WIDESPREAD EXPECTATION AMONG OUR JUDICIAL CON [...]	2007-05-09 13:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PREL KDEM PHUM EG
07CAIRO1362	EGYPT: SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM COMMENTS ON HIS [...] (S) Subsequent to inflammatory, anti-GOE statements made by self-styled labor activist Ali Al-Badry at an Ibn Khaldun Center symposium on April 24 (reftel),and acting on Embassy Cairo concerns about Al-Badry's bona fides, ECPO MinCouns and Poloff met on May 8 with Egyptian-American democracy [...]	2007-05-09 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ELAB EAID EG
07CAIRO1366	EGYPT EXPECTS NO ACTION AGAINST USG ON GATS [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Waleed El Nozahay, head of the WTO department in the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry, on May 10. El Nozahay said that he was familiar with the issue and that he did not expect the GOE to pursue a claim under Article XXI of the General Agreem [...]	2007-05-10 10:02:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD WTO EG
07CAIRO1373	BLUE LANTERN CHECK ON APPLICATION 05-050042160 [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 12:35:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETTC KOMC EG TU
07CAIRO1380	SOMALIA: EU ENVOY VISITS CAIRO, HEARS ARAB VIEWS [...] (C) New European envoy for Somalia, Jean-Christophe Belliard, was in Cairo May 8-9 for meetings with senior officials at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and Arab League to discuss ways forward on the political track in Mogadishu. UK poloff Martin Hetherington told emboff on May 9 that Belliard [...]	2007-05-10 14:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ARABL EG SO
07CAIRO1381	EGYPT'S POSITION ON BELARUS'S CANDIDATURE FOR UNHRC [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL EG UNHRC
07CAIRO1382	ROSY REPORTS OF NEW INVESTMENT IN EGYPTIAN TEXTILE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent press report of new Jordanian investment in the Egyptian textile industry is indicative of a trend of increasing FDI in Egypt and expansion of the textile industry in particular, a foreign investors eye the rapidly expanding Quaified Industrial Zone (QIZ) program for du [...]	2007-05-10 16:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD CH JO EG TU
07CAIRO1386	SUDAN: EGYPT'S SLIPPERY DARFUR PLEDGE AND [...] (C) Summary: The GOE is awaiting UN response on its seemingly robust offer of troops for the AU/UN Heavy Support Package (HSP) for Darfur. However, as with past Egyptian offers for Darfur, the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is unlikely to fully accept this offer. The GOE h [...]	2007-05-10 16:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU
07CAIRO1388	SUDAN: EGYPT'S SLIPPERY DARFUR PLEDGE AND [...] (C) Summary: The GOE is awaiting UN response on its seemingly robust offer of troops for the AU/UN Heavy Support Package (HSP) for Darfur. However, as with past Egyptian offers for Darfur, the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is unlikely to fully accept this offer. The GOE h [...]	2007-05-13 04:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU
07CAIRO1395	ALEXANDRIA JUDGES CLUB CHIEF ON ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent meeting, Mahmoud Khodiry (head of the Alexandria Judges Club, a respected judicial figure and frequent critic of the GOE),criticized the curtailment of a judicial role in Egypt's elections, opining that, "the government has no interest in truly free elections, so has [...]	2007-05-13 09:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KDEM EG
07CAIRO1406	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A MAY 10 MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR, MINISTER OF STATE FOR LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MUFEED SHEHAB NOTED THAT THE GOE PLANS TO MOVE FORWARD ON REVISING THE CURRENT CHILDREN'S LAW TO INCLUDE TOUGH NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROVISIONS. SHEHAB WELCOMED CONSULTING WITH THE EMBAS [...]	2007-05-13 14:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KWMN KCRM PTER EG
07CAIRO1407	EU-EGYPTIAN TRADE REGIME COULD CREATE HURDLES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Trade between Egypt and the European Union has increased dramatically during the last three years, thanks in part to lower trade barriers under Egypt's Association Agreement with the EU. However, US-Egyptian trade has also expanded during that time and continues to grow robustl [...]	2007-05-13 14:30:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAGR EG
07CAIRO1408	SUPREME ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO BE FORMED, SHURA [...] (C) Summary: Following vigorous parliamentary debate, on May 10 the People's Assembly approved several elections-related changes to the 1956 Political Rights Law, including the creation of a new Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) to oversee Egypt's electoral contests. Opposition lawmakers bi [...]	2007-05-13 15:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL EG
07CAIRO1417	PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION IN EGYPT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION IS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM OF EGYPTIAN POLITICS. DESPITE INCESSANT WHISPERED DISCUSSIONS, NO ONE IN EGYPT HAS ANY CERTAINTY ABOUT WHO WILL SUCCEED MUBARAK, OR HOW THE SUCCESSION WILL HAPPEN. MUBARAK HIMSELF SEEMS TO BE TRUSTING TO GOD AND [...]	2007-05-14 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
07CAIRO1419	GOVERNOR PLANS FOR A CLEANER, GREENER CAIRO [...] (U) Cairo Governor Abdel-Azim Wazir presented his vision for grappling with Cairo's burgeoning population, congested traffic, and environmental degradation in an April 30 meeting with former Ambassador to Egypt Frank Wisner and Management Counselor. Wazir's vision will be codified in a plan [...]	2007-05-14 14:42:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV ECON SOCI EG
07CAIRO1420	EGYPT: SECTARIAN CLASHES NEAR CAIRO [...] (SBU) A MAY 11 CLASH BETWEEN MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN VILLAGERS SOUTH OF CAIRO OVER A CHURCH CONSTRUCTION CONTROVERSY -- WHICH NOW APPEARS TO BE CONTAINED BY A PROMPT SECURITY SERVICE REACTION -- SERVES AS A REMINDER OF THE UNDERCURRENTS OF SECTARIAN TENSION THAT EXIST IN EGYPT. WITH MANY HOUSES [...]	2007-05-14 15:42:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF EG
07CAIRO1424	EGYPTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DECRY EGYPT'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A COALITION OF 19 EGYPTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS HAS PROTESTED THE GOE'S CANDIDACY FOR MEMBERSHIP (REFTELS) IN THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (UNHRC) AND EXPRESSED "AMAZEMENT" AT WHAT IT ALLEGED WERE "FALSIFICATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT,S TRUE STANCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS" INCLUD [...]	2007-05-15 11:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV UNHRC EG
07CAIRO1427	CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY REMAINS PROBLEMATIC IN [...] (C) Conversion to Christianity, or any faith other than Islam, remains an intensely problematic issue in Egypt, despite constitutional protection of the principle of freedom of religion. An April 24 court decision against the right of 45 Muslim citizens (who were born Christians) to re-conve [...]	2007-05-15 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF EG
07CAIRO144	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ANNOUNCES INTENT TO FORM [...] (C) Summary: Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders have publicly announced the organization's intent to form a political party within "a few weeks," an unprecedented step for the 79-year old organization. The new party would reportedly be "a civil party with an Islamic reference," and will not submi [...]	2007-01-18 16:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL EG
07CAIRO1442	IRAN: "SURPRISING" OVERTURE TO EGYPT BY AHMEDINEJAD [...] (C) Wire services reported late on May 15 that Iranian President Ahmedinejad, upon return from a visit to Oman and the Emirates, responded to an Egyptian reporter's question by saying Tehran was prepared to restore full diplomatic relations with Egypt that "very day" were the Egyptian governm [...]	2007-05-16 13:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EG IR
07CAIRO1443	SUDAN: NDA LEADER MIRGHANI TO RETURN TO KHARTOUM, [...] (C) Offering a read-out of his May 7 meeting in Cairo with Sudanese President Omar Bashir, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) head and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Chief Mohamed Osman Al Mirghani told emboffs that he received Bashir's support for a plan to organize a national reconciliation [...]	2007-05-16 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU
07CAIRO1448	EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY PROMOTE [...] Summary. Government of Egypt and civil society representatives hosted two successful events in recognition of the first United Nations Global Road Safety Week, April 23-29. Several hundred participants attended events at the World Health Organization's regional office on April 22, and an ex [...]	2007-05-17 09:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELTN AID UNGA WHO EG
07CAIRO1457	JUSTICE MINISTER: WELCOMES CONSULTATION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON MAY 16 THE AMBASSADOR PRESSED JUSTICE MINISTER MAMDOUH MAREI FOR ANY LEGAL RELIEF FOR THE IMPRISONMENT OF AYMAN NOUR. MINISTER MAREI PUSHED BACK, ARGUING THAT THE GOE WOULD UNDERMINE ITS JUSTICE SYSTEM IF IT GRANTED RELIEF TO NOUR OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THE LAW. AS A LIFELON [...]	2007-05-17 13:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM EG
07CAIRO1458	USSC AND EGYPTIAN DEFENSE OFFICIALS DISCUSS [...] (SBU) US Security Coordinator (USSC) representatives asked Egyptian Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials to consider training Palestinian Presidential Guard (PG) forces and toured a potential training facility during their May 16-17 visit to Cairo. MoD officials expressed unambiguous interest [...]	2007-05-17 14:14:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO1462	EGYPT BUYS KAZAKH WHEAT TO CUT LOSSES ON SENSITIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent Egyptian trade mission to Kazakhstan was aimed in part at securing low-cost Kazakh wheat for Egypt's highly subsidized bread. Egyptian imports of higher-quality U.S. wheat have declined in recent years as the GOE sought to reduce its losses on "baladi" bread, the sine [...]	2007-05-20 03:53:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAGR PINR EG
07CAIRO1488	EGYPTIANS DISMISS IDEA TO OPEN IRANIAN-EGYPTIAN [...] (C) Summary: Amid continuing press speculation about a warming in Iranian-Egyptian relations, Egyptian trade and diplomatic officials dismiss the likelihood of the establishment of an Iranian-Egyptian Chamber of Commerce. A senior MFA official told PolCons separately that the only person who [...]	2007-05-21 13:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EG IR
07CAIRO1491	LEBANON: EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE ON SOUTH AFRICA AND [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to MFA Cabinet Staff Member Nazih Al Negeiry on May 21, seeking Egyptian help in pressing South Africa and Indonesia to support a UN Security Council Chapter VII-based tribunal for Lebanon. Negeiry said that Indonesia may abstain on a UNSC vote, and that E [...]	2007-05-21 16:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC EG LE
07CAIRO1499	IBN KHALDUN CENTER CONTINUES TO PUSH REFORM IN [...] (SBU) Under the leadership of Egyptian-American sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI),the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies (IKC) continues to play a central role in advocating political reform in Egypt. Through weekly seminars in Cairo, conferences and workshops, and through SEI's [...]	2007-05-22 09:45:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ELAB KDEM KMPI EG
07CAIRO15	ARRESTS OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS CONTINUE; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The mid-December arrests of between 140-200 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members (reftel) have been followed by further detentions of an estimated 58-67 MB members in recent days, coupled with the reported closure of some MB-owned businesses. In the wake of the December 10 Al-Azhar U [...]	2007-01-04 11:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO1502	AYMAN NOUR'S APPEAL FOR HEALTH PAROLE DEFERRED [...] (SBU) Egypt's State Council, the judicial body to which imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour had appealed for a health-based release, ruled on May 22 that a governmental medical committee that had previously issued a report on Nour's health (reftel),should review the "contradictions" in [...]	2007-05-22 15:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO1503	ASSISTANT MINISTER OF DEFENSE REJECTS US OFFER OF [...] (C) The OMC Chief asked the Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al Assar and the Assistant Minister for Armament MG Fouad Abd el Halim on May 21 if Egypt is prepared to proceed with the US proposal to use FMF to fund a border security assessment. MG Al Assar said Egypt reje [...]	2007-05-23 04:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO1518	SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE CONDEMNS ATTACK ON AMISOM [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 13:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREL ARABL SO

07CAIRO1519	ARAB LEAGUE READOUT OF COMOROS NEGOTIATIONS [...] AFRICAN AFFAIRS SAMIR HOSNI GAVE POLOFF A READOUT ON HIS MAY 8 - 11 TRIP TO THE COMOROS, ONE OF THE LEAGUE'S 22 MEMBER STATES, TO MEDIATE THE CONFLICT THERE. HOSNI SAID THAT HE AND AFRICAN UNION ENVOY MANDELA NEGOTIATED THE AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH ISLAND PRESIDENT BACAR STEPPED DOWN FROM OFFICE [...]	2007-05-23 13:33:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR ARABL CN EG
07CAIRO1526	END USE MONITORING LIAISON POSITION FOR EGYPT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 14:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTTC EG
07CAIRO153	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH WIFE OF AYMAN NOUR [...] (C) IN A CAREFULLY CHOREOGRAPHED JANUARY 17 MEETING AT THE DCM'S RESIDENCE, GAMEELA ISMAIL TOLD THE AMBASSADOR THAT THE HEALTH OF HER HUSBAND, AYMAN NOUR, CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE, AND THAT PRISON OFFICIALS HAVE NOT APPROVED HIS REQUEST TO SEE NON-PRISON PHYSICIANS. ACCORDING TO ISMAIL, ONLY P [...]	2007-01-21 15:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
07CAIRO1531	EGYPT: TRADE MINISTER HINTS AT BROADER POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: In a pointed and wide-ranging speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Rachid called for reform of Egyptian education, infrastructure, energy policy, and other areas far removed from his trade portfolio. The ambitious speech encoura [...]	2007-05-24 06:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PINR PREL EG
07CAIRO154	EGYPT: 19TH HUMAN AVIAN INFLUENZA CASE SHOWS NO [...] (SBU) Scientists at NAMRU-3 reported to Emboff on January 21 that the H5N1 avian influenza virus responsible for the death of an Egyptian woman on January 19 does not contain the genetic mutation (N294S) that shows resistance to oseltamivir (Tamiflu). (Note: On January 16, alarm bells sounded [...]	2007-01-22 05:15:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU KSTH TBIO ECON PREL WHO EG
07CAIRO1542	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE [...] (SBU) Representative Price, we warmly welcome you and your delegation to Egypt. You are scheduled to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and Speaker of the People's Assembly Ahmed Fathy Sorour and other parliamentarians. You will also mee [...]	2007-05-24 11:22:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EAID KPAL IAEA EG IZ SO SU
07CAIRO1543	DARFUR: "OPERATIONAL ISSUES SHOULD BE WORKED OUT [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered ref A/B demarches to MFA Cabinet Advisor Ahmed Abu Zeid on May 24. Abu Zeid warned of potential fallout from pressing Khartoum too hard on "operational issues" related to the AU/UN Darfur peace keeping operation; issues he felt should be worked out by UN/AU/GOS e [...]	2007-05-24 11:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU
07CAIRO1595	LABOR STRIKES: GOE APPROACH UNSUCCESSFUL IN [...] (SBU) Unsanctioned industrial actions continue to spread throughout Egypt. The GOE thus far has chosen to deal with the various strikes on a case-by-case basis rather than pursuing a broader labor dialogue, a tactic that has been successful in conciliating some striking workers, but cannot add [...]	2007-05-29 14:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO160	EGYPT DISCUSSING NATIONAL POSITION ON CLUSTER [...] (C) Poloff discussed the movement to develop a legally binding treaty to restrict the use of cluster munitions (CM) with MFA's Director of Disarmament Dr. Hossam Aly on January 22. Dr. Aly said that representatives of several ministries discussed CM at a recent "National Committee" meeting [...]	2007-01-22 13:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL NATO EG
07CAIRO1602	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A WIDE-RANGING MAY 29 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR HABIB EL ADLY, THE AMBASSADOR AGAIN PUSHED THE GOE TO CHANGE ITS POLICY OF LISTING ONLY THREE RELIGIONS ON NATIONAL ID CARDS, AND ASKED THAT THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MOI) ENSURE THE SAFETY OF RECENTLY RELEASED CONVERT TO [...]	2007-05-30 17:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF KDEM KWMN KCRM EG
07CAIRO1603	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A WIDE-RANGING MAY 29 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR HABIB EL ADLY, THE AMBASSADOR AGAIN PUSHED THE GOE TO CHANGE ITS POLICY OF LISTING ONLY THREE RELIGIONS ON NATIONAL ID CARDS, AND ASKED THAT THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MOI) ENSURE THE SAFETY OF RECENTLY RELEASED CONVERT TO [...]	2007-05-30 18:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF KDEM KWMN KCRM EG
07CAIRO1625	SURPRISE HEARING DENIES AYMAN NOUR'S RELEASE ON [...] (SBU) IN A SURPRISE MAY 31 HEARING AT THE NEW CAIRO FELONIES COURT, A REPORTED REQUEST BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR ABDEL MEGUID MAHMOUD (EGYPT'S ATTORNEY GENERAL EQUIVALENT) TO RELEASE IMPRISONED AL GHAD PARTY LEADER AYMAN NOUR ON HEALTH GROUNDS WAS REFUSED. THE HOPES OF NOUR'S FAMILY AND LAWYER HAD [...]	2007-05-31 11:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO1627	EGYPT, ARAB LEAGUE PUBLICLY OPPOSE SUDAN [...] (SBU) Responding to ref A demarche, MFA Cabinet Advisor Ahmed Abu Zeid referenced Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit's May 30 statement criticizing increased U.S. bilateral economic sanctions on Sudan. Aboul Gheit criticized escalating sanctions on Sudan "at a time when the political process [...]	2007-05-31 12:13:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU
07CAIRO1641	CODEL PRICE MEETING AT PARLIAMENT ELICITS PUBLIC [...] (SBU) IN A MAY 27 MEETING AT THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY, PRESIDED OVER BY SPEAKER FATHI SUROUR, CODEL PRICE MET WITH SEVERAL EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS, INCLUDING HEAD OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD (MB) PARLIAMENTARY BLOC MOHAMED SAAD AL KATANI, NDP PARLIAMENTARY LEADER ABDEL AHAD GAMALEDDIN, AL WAFD LEADER [...]	2007-05-31 14:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KISL EG
07CAIRO1678	SOMALIA: EGYPT, ARAB LEAGUE WANT COURTS MODERATES [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered ref A demarche on June 3 to both MFA Cabinet Advisor Ahmed Abu Zeid and Arab League Secretariat advisor Zeid Sabban. Abu Zeid said that Egypt SIPDIS supports including moderate members of the now defunct Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) in reconciliation talks, [...]	2007-06-04 11:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL ARABL EG SO
07CAIRO1682	NEW LIBERAL POLITICAL PARTY APPROVED, AFFILIATED [...] (C) Summary: Egypt's Political Parties Committee on May 24 approved the registration of the Democratic Front Party (DFP),a new liberal group led by prominent intellectuals Osama Al Ghazali Harb and Yehya Al Gamal. The party's broad goals for the next six months are to build a "nationwide ins [...]	2007-06-04 12:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL EG
07CAIRO1690	EGYPT: GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED PRESS SLAMS DOHA [...] (C) Editorials in the GOE-controlled press (Refs A-C) have strongly criticized the May 27-29 conference in Doha on "Democracy and Political Reform in the Arab World." The attacks have singled out the Doha meeting's most prominent Egyptian participant, Egyptian-American democracy activist Sa [...]	2007-06-05 11:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG QA
07CAIRO171	IRAQ: EGYPTIAN EMBASSY EMPLOYEE KIDNAPPED [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-24 05:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PHUM EG IZ
07CAIRO1717	SHURA COUNCIL ELECTIONS OVERVIEW [...] (C) Summary: Elections for one-third of the seats in Egypt's Shura Council (upper parliamentary chamber) will be held on June 11, with run-offs to be conducted as needed on June 18. With minimal participation by legal opposition parties, attention is focused on the 19 races in which National [...]	2007-06-07 08:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KISL EG
07CAIRO172	DARFUR: ARAB LEAGUE TO CONTRIBUTE USD 15 MILLION [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-24 05:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ARABL EG SU
07CAIRO1722	EGYPT'S EXPECTED CHANGES IN EXPORT SUPPORT [...] (U) During a meeting on May 23 with key economic advisors and export industry leaders, Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid announced he will consider reorganizing the Export Support Fund, according to press accounts. The Export Support Fund is designed to increase the quantity and qua [...]	2007-06-07 11:49:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EG
07CAIRO1727	EGYPT: REACTION TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S PRAGUE SPEECH [...] (C) THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT, AND GOVERNMENT-DOMINATED MEDIA, HAVE REJECTED PRESIDENT BUSH'S JUNE 5 SPEECH IN PRAGUE, PARTICULARLY THE CALL FOR THE RELEASE OF AYMAN NOUR. THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND THE PARLIAMENT'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE TOOK EXCEPTION TO THE REFERENCE TO AYMAN NOUR. THE ST [...]	2007-06-07 12:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO1737	EGYPTIANS WELCOME PALESTINIAN TRADE, GAZA EXPORT [...] SUMMARY: (C) EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE-SECTOR CONTACTS SAY THEY WELCOME INCREASED TRADE WITH PALESTINIANS, INCLUDING A TRADE CORRIDOR FOR GAZA EXPORTS THROUGH EGYPT. MERCHANTS IN THE NORTH SINAI CAPITAL OF EL-ARISH ARE ALREADY DOING SMALL-SCALE BUSINESS WITH PALESTINIANS WHO MANAGE TO P [...]	2007-06-07 15:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL KWBG KPAL IS EG
07CAIRO1738	UPDATE ON CUSTOMS ISSUES AT RAFAH BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met on May 31 with Egyptian officials at the Rafah border. The officials indicated that the border opens only infrequently, taxing border staff's ability to process the large number of travelers attempting to cross during these short openings. Gazans who cross during [...]	2007-06-07 15:43:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL KPAL IS EG
07CAIRO174	EGYPT ACCEPTS INVITATION TO VISIT IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) Poloff raised reftel concerns over Egypt's decision to accept Iran's invitation to visit Iranian nuclear sites with MFA's Director of Disarmament Dr. Hossam Aly on January 22. Dr. Aly said that Egypt is well aware of the various ways in which Iran will seek to exploit the visit, but FM [...]	2007-01-24 05:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM IAEA ENERG EG IR KNNP
07CAIRO175	RAFAH BORDER GATES RE-OPEN TEMPORARILY; EGYPT MAY [...] (SBU) Embassy contacts at the Egypt/Gaza border confirmed on January 23 that both the Egyptian border crossing at Rafah and the Palestinian border terminal opened on January 22 for civilian crossings, and would remain open on January 23. The contacts said that approximately 1,600 Palestinians [...]	2007-01-24 05:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EAID KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO176	LEBANON, PARIS III CONFERENCE: EGYPTIAN [...] (C) MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs, Amal Mourad, told poloff on January 22 that Egyptian Finance Minister Yousef Boutros-Ghali would lead Egypt's delegation to the upcoming Paris III conference on Lebanon, departing Cairo on January 24 and returning on January 26. Boutros-Ghal [...]	2007-01-24 05:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EG LE
07CAIRO1766	SCENE SETTER FOR AFRICOM CONSULTATIONS [...] (S) Mr. Henry, we warmly welcome you and your delegation to Cairo for AFRICOM consultations with Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials. A series of difficult, but unrelated issues have brought the mil-to-mil relationship to a sensitive juncture, and your primary interlocutor, Assistant Ministe [...]	2007-06-11 07:05:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV MOPS KPAL KMFO EAID EG IS IR SU IZ
07CAIRO1775	NEW OUTBREAK OF CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM FIGHTING IN ALEXANDRIA [...] (SBU) CLASHES BROKE OUT OVER THE WEEKEND BETWEEN COPTIC CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN THE VILLAGE OF ABDEL QADER, WEST OF ALEXANDRIA, AFTER A PERSONAL DISPUTE BETWEEN TWO VILLAGERS ERUPTED INTO A WIDER CONFLICT. THE SITUATION REMAINED TENSE THE MORNING OF JUNE 11, ACCORDING TO CHURCH OFFICIALS, WI [...]	2007-06-11 14:22:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV EG
07CAIRO1776	EGYPTIAN RESPONSE TO 2007 TIP REPORT [...] (C) MFA's working-level official responsible for Trafficking in Persons, First Secretary Amira Fahmy, told poloff in a June 11 meeting that the GOE was displeased that the 2007 TIP report (reftel) said that some Egyptian cities may be "sex tourism" destinations. Poloff explained that this s [...]	2007-06-11 14:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM ELAB SMIG KCRM KWMN EG
07CAIRO1777	LOW TURNOUT IN SHURA COUNCIL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) THE MEDIA AND DOMESTIC EGYPTIAN CIVIL SOCIETY MONITORS, ALONG WITH EMBASSY OFFICERS AND THIRD COUNTRY DIPLOMATS, REPORTED LOW VOTER TURN-OUT, A SIGNIFICANT SECURITY PRESENCE IN SELECT AREAS, AND AN ISOLATED INCIDENT OF VIOLENCE DURING THE JUNE 11 ELECTIONS FOR 77 SEATS OF THE 264-MEMBE [...]	2007-06-11 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO1793	AYMAN NOUR APPRECIATIVE OF PRESIDENT'S PRAGUE [...] (C) In a positive June 10 meeting with Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour, and Amir Salem (Nour's lawyer),Ismail told poloff that Nour is "deeply appreciative" that the President mentioned him in his June 5 speech in Prague. Ismail read to poloff a letter from [...]	2007-06-12 10:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO1794	RULING ON HEALTH PAROLE FOR AYMAN NOUR DELAYED [...] (SBU) At a June 12 hearing of Egypt's State Council (the judicial body to which imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour has appealed for a health-based release),presiding judge Mohamed Al Husseini ruled that a decision on Nour's appeal be delayed until June 26. Additionally, as no new med [...]	2007-06-12 10:28:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO1816	BACKGROUND ON SAMEL SAMI KHOUZAM EXTRADITION [...] (SBU) Recent press reports have focused on the possible extradition of Egyptian citizen Sameh Sami Khouzam from the United States to Egypt; some of these reports have been inaccurate. The purpose of this cable is to describe the history of the case itself. Khouzam is an Egyptian citizen who f [...]	2007-06-14 04:08:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL EG
07CAIRO1822	DAS GRAY DISCUSSES ARAB ISSUES WITH MFA ASSISTANT [...] (C) During a June 13 meeting on regional topics with MFA Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs Hany Khallaf, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray discussed Egypt-Iraq relations, Iran, Libya, and the situation in Gaza. Khallaf said that Baghdad recently requested agrement from the GOE on [...]	2007-06-14 09:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL EG IZ IR LY
07CAIRO1823	SHURA COUNCIL ELECTIONS: NDP "WINS" SWEEPING [...] (C) Summary: The official results of the June 11 Shura Council elections, released amid widespread claims of fraud, are that the ruling National Democratic Party won 59 seats (out of the 77 seats in contention). The opposition Taggamu Party won one. No Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidates won [...]	2007-06-14 10:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO1825	EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS QUESTION QIZ PROGRAM [...] (U) More than 140 members of Egypt's People's Assembly recently petitioned the government to reevaluate the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) agreement, according to June 8 press accounts. The parliamentarians requested an analysis of the economic performance of the agreement since 2004, when [...]	2007-06-14 11:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD IS EG
07CAIRO1828	NOMINATION OF HP EGYPT FOR SECRETARY'S CORPORATE [...] HP Egypt is actively addressing the pre-eminent economic problems in Egypt, both through its business practices and direct support to build the skills of the Egyptian workforce, thereby contributing to Egypt's sustainable economic development. HP Egypt not only provides funds to directly ass [...]	2007-06-14 12:59:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ECON EINV ELAB ETRD EAID EG
07CAIRO1831	ITALY AND EGYPT RENEW DEBT SWAP AGREEMENT [...] On June 3, 2007, Egypt and Italy renewed their "Debt for Development Swap" agreement which converts bilateral debt owed to Italy into Egyptian pounds to be used for development projects. The program, inaugurated in 2001, cancels Official Development Assistance (ODA) bilateral debt in exchange [...]	2007-06-14 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON POL AID EG
07CAIRO1832	DAS GRAY DISCUSSES MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE AND [...] (C) On June 13, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray discussed the potential for a draw-down in the U.S. troop contribution to the Multi-National Force and Observers (MFO) with MFA Acting Assistant Minister for Legal Affairs and Treaties Hussein Mubarak. The meeting was convened at Muba [...]	2007-06-14 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KMFO KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO1833	DAS GRAY DISCUSSES QUARTET MEETING, REGIONAL [...] (C) During a June 14 meeting with Arab League Cabinet Chief of Staff Hesham Youssef, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray discussed Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Darfur, and Western Sahara. Youssef outlined League views on the upcoming Quartet meeting in Cairo, reiterating the League [...]	2007-06-14 14:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL EG IS IZ SU
07CAIRO1834	NEGATIVE MEDIA SURROUNDS U.S. WHEAT SHIPMENT [...] (U) On May 27, 2007, the vessel Fu Zhou Hai arrived at Damietta Port in Egypt carrying 62,010.19 metric tons of U.S. soft red winter wheat. The cargo was inspected by Egyptian Quarantine authorities, and live insects were found, indicating possible irregularities in the fumigation procedures [...]	2007-06-17 04:54:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID ETRD EAG EG
07CAIRO1855	SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE AND [...] (U) Egyptian newspapers reported on June 18 that renowned Egyptian-American democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI),recently the target of a smear campaign in Egypt's government-backed press for his attendance at President Bush's June 5 Prague speech (reftel),has been accused of "damagin [...]	2007-06-18 10:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
07CAIRO1856	SCIENTIST REDIRECTION PROGRAM - EGYPT'S ROLE [...] (S) In support of the Iraqi Scientist Redirection Program, Post recently secured initial visa approval for two Iraqi scientists, Dr. Anton Al-Banna and Dr. Al-Abbasi Obaid, to do one year fellowships at NAMRU-3, the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Cairo. Securing these visas required exte [...]	2007-06-18 10:06:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PINR PINS PREF PREL PTER TBIO EG
07CAIRO1863	ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERS CONDEMN EIDO ASSASSINATION [...] (SBU) Arab League foreign ministers, meeting late on June 15 at AL headquarters in Cairo, addressed Lebanon in addition to their previously-scheduled Hamas agenda at the request of PM Siniora. The AL statement (full text paragraph 2) condemns the assassination of Lebanese MP Walid Eido, offers [...]	2007-06-18 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MEPN ARABBL KPAL IS LE EG
07CAIRO1870	A DIVIDED ARAB LEAGUE CONDEMNS "CRIMINAL" ACTS IN [...] (U) Arab League (AL) foreign ministers, at the request of Egypt, met on June 15 at AL headquarters in Cairo to address Hamas's take-over of the Gaza Strip, next steps by - and assistance for - PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen),and the situation in Lebabon (septel). The ministers (from 1 [...]	2007-06-19 05:38:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MEPN ARABBL KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO1877	EGYPT LABOR: STRIKES ONGOING, GOE REFUTES ILO [...] (SBU) Although no broad-based alternative worker movement has yet to coalesce, the Kefaya movement's actions in solidarity with striking textile workers in Mansoura could hint at future coordination. Strong GOE rebukes greeted the release of an ILO report that cited employment discrimination [...]	2007-06-19 13:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM EG
07CAIRO1879	REMOVING AL-ZAWRAA AND MANAR FROM ARABSAT [...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche to Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef on June 11, ahead of a ministerial meeting of Arab Information Ministers expected to convene in Cairo from June 20-24. Poloff focused on the Arab League's role as founder of the ArabSat organization. 2. (C) Yousse [...]	2007-06-19 14:39:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC KPAO PTER EG IZ LE
07CAIRO1880	RESULTS OF SHURA COUNCIL RUN-OFF ELECTIONS: AND [...] (SBU) On June 19, Egypt's Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) announced the results of the June 18 Shura Council run-off elections, in which the remaining seventeen seats of the upper parliamentary chamber were contested (out of the total 88 seats up for election this year). Fourteen National [...]	2007-06-19 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO1887	ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERS CONDEMN EIDO ASSASSINATION [...] Arab League foreign ministers, meeting late on June 15 at AL headquarters in Cairo, addressed Lebanon in addition to their previously-scheduled Hamas agenda at the request of PM Siniora. The AL statement (full text paragraph 2) condemns the assassination of Lebanese MP Walid Eido, offers yet- [...]	2007-06-20 11:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MEPN ARABBL KPAL IS LE EG
07CAIRO1888	FITCH UPGRADES EGYPT'S CREDIT RATING [...] (U) In a press release issued June 18, Fitch Ratings upgraded Egypt's Long-term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) Outlook from Stable to Positive, but maintained the overall rating of "BB+." Fitch also maintained the Long-term Local Currency IDR at "BBB" with a Stable Outlook, the [...]	2007-06-20 12:45:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EG
07CAIRO1889	AFRICOM CONSULTATIONS IN EGYPT [...] (C) Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ryan Henry, accompanied by an interagency delegation, briefed Egyptian Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials on USG planning for AFRICOM on June 12. The MoD delegation included the Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy, MG Al Assar, [...]	2007-06-20 14:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MOPS EG
07CAIRO1890	REMITTANCES AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF MIGRATION [...] (U) Remittances constitute the third largest source of hard currency income in Egypt, after Suez Canal revenues and tourism receipts. Most remittances come from the U.S., but in the last few years, a growing percentage has come from workers in Gulf countries. Workers in Gulf countries tend t [...]	2007-06-20 14:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EG
07CAIRO1901	IRAQI REFUGEE NUMBERS IN EGYPT SWELL, UNDER A [...] (SBU) Egyptian authorities are watching cautiously as Iraqi refugee numbers in Egypt approach the 100,000 mark, according to official estimates, amid signs of an increasingly restless Iraqi community. The GOE offers few social services to the Iraqis (similar to other large refugee communitie [...]	2007-06-21 10:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF PGOV PHUM EG IZ
07CAIRO1911	DARFUR: MEETING WITH CAIRO-BASED JEM LEADER [...] (C) Summary and action requested: In a June 20 introductory meeting with Cairo-based Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Presidency Chief of Staff Gammali Hassan Galaleddin, Galaleddin requested further contact with the USG and emphasized that "peace is our only option" in Darfur. G [...]	2007-06-21 13:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU
07CAIRO1931	AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE EXPECTS POSITIVE RULING ON JUNE [...] (C) In a June 22 meeting, Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour, told poloff that she expects a "ruling in Nour's favor," at a June 26 hearing of Nour's appeal for health-based parole. Ismail is optimistic because the presiding judge at the State Council, Mohamed [...]	2007-06-24 14:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO1932	FINANCIAL SECTOR REFORM: AUDITING ISSUES [...] (SBU) The GOE's progress on meeting the remaining benchmarks in the Financial Sector MOU, signed in 2005, has been slow. Four hundred and twenty-five million dollars is tied to completion of benchmarks to improve the transparency and soundness of the banking system. To determine if these be [...]	2007-06-24 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN EG
07CAIRO1933	GOE-BEDOUIN TENSION OVER SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Tension between the Bedouin of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and the GOE has remained high since late April when up to 2,000 Bedouin staged a sit-in on Egypt's border with Israel, alleging that GOE security and development policies discriminate against them. Despite several meetings between B [...]	2007-06-25 06:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM EG
07CAIRO1934	AYMAN NOUR LETTERS TO POTUS AND THE SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Per reftel, following are the texts, as translated by Embassy Cairo staff, of two separate letters from imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour to President Bush and to the Secretary. Nour's wife passed the letters to poloff on June 22, and asked that they not be passed to President [...]	2007-06-25 09:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO1938	QURANISTS CHARGED WITH "RELIGIOUS DEFAMATION" [...] (SBU) On June 21, the Supreme State Security Court announced that it will charge five detainees with "religious defamation" following a series of arrests in late May. Amr Tharwat, a member of the "Quranist" movement and an employee of the USG-supported civil society organization, Ibn Khaldun [...]	2007-06-25 13:09:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF KISL PHUM EG
07CAIRO1948	MUFTI ISSUES FATWA AGAINST FEMALE GENITAL [...] (U) On June 23, Dr. Ali Gomaa, Egypt,s Mufti, issued an official fatwa on Al-Mehwar satellite TV banning female genital mutilation (FGM). His fatwa, proclaiming that it is "religiously prohibited to circumcise girls," was issued following Egyptian press coverage of the death of a 12 year old [...]	2007-06-26 13:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PREL PGOV KWMN KISL EG
07CAIRO1949	RULING ON AYMAN NOUR'S HEALTH PAROLE DELAYED UNTIL [...] (SBU) At the June 26 hearing of imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour's appeal for health parole, Mohamed al Husseini (presiding judge of the State Council's Administrative Court) ruled that he could not yet issue a decision on Nour's case, because a governmental forensic medical committe [...]	2007-06-26 14:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO197	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PARLIAMENTARY BLOC LEADER CALLS [...] (C) Summary: The parliamentary leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) made a recent public statement indicating a desire to initiate a "constructive dialogue" with Western governments, including the USG. Meanwhile, opposition press and Cairo think tanks are rife with rumors that some recent [...]	2007-01-24 16:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM EG
07CAIRO198	ALEXANDRIAN BLOGGER AT RISK OF JAIL TIME [...] (U) THIS IS AN APP ALEXANDRIA MESSAGE. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: EGYPTIAN BLOGGER ABDEL KARIM NABIL SOLIMAN FACES A FINAL HEARING AND SENTENCING IN AN EGYPTIAN COURT ON JANUARY 25 ON CHARGES THAT INCLUDE "INCITING HATRED OF ISLAM AND INSULTING THE PROPHET MOHAMED," "DEFAMING THE PRESIDENT OF THE R [...]	2007-01-24 17:07:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF EG
07CAIRO1981	EGYPT: DEMARCHE ON MAPUTO PLAN AT AU ACCRA SUMMIT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-28 13:49:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SOCI EG
07CAIRO1988	EGYPT: MORE CORRUPTION CHARGES, AD HOC RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary: A recent report of a Shura Council member arrested for smuggling, corruption accusations in the People's Assembly by a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) legislator against businessmen affiliated with the National Democratic Party (NDP),and suspicions about the bidding process for a govern [...]	2007-07-01 11:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCOR PINR EG
07CAIRO2005	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PARLIAMENTARIANS ATTEND [...] (U) According to Egyptian press reports, five Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentarians, in an unusual and notable development, participated in a recent event at the Presidential Palace. President Mubarak reportedly hosted a June 23 breakfast to celebrate the signing of new education-related l [...]	2007-07-01 15:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KISL KDEM EG
07CAIRO2008	AMBASSADOR PRESSES PRIME MINISTER ON ARREST OF [...] (C) In a meeting June 28 with Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, the Ambassador emphasized USG concerns that Amr Tharwat's imprisonment was inconsistent with the Egyptian constitutional guarantee of free worship and could pose difficulties for bilateral relations. Ambassador noted that Tharwat, a m [...]	2007-07-02 07:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF PINR EG
07CAIRO2015	AMBASSADOR URGES GOE TO PROVIDE DEBT RELIEF FOR [...] (C) Meeting June 28 with Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, Ambassador urged the GOE to restart negotiations to provide debt relief for Iraq and move toward fulfilling its commitment under the International Compact on Iraq (ref A). 2. (C) Nazif responded that the GOE is still considering the iss [...]	2007-07-02 10:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL IZ EG
07CAIRO2030	EGYPT: NATIONAL COUNCIL ON CHILDHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD [...] (U) This is an action request. See paras 7 and 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: DCM Jones met with National Council on Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) chief, Ambassador Mushira Khattab on June 25 to discuss Egypt's anti-trafficking strategy of the coming year. Khattab elaborated on efforts to push th [...]	2007-07-03 09:27:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KPAO PGOV PREL EG
07CAIRO2035	DARFUR: EGYPT STILL RETICENT ON DEPLOYING TROOPS, [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs delivered ref A demarche to MFA Cabinet Advisor Ahmed Abu Zeid on July 1. Abu Zeid confirmed that Sudanese President Bashir's acceptance of the UN/AU hybrid force lowered a barrier to deploying peacekeepers, but that deployment of Egyptian troops still depends on the "con [...]	2007-07-03 12:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU
07CAIRO2036	DECISION ON AYMAN NOUR HEALTH PAROLE APPEAL DUE IN [...] (U) At a July 3 hearing at the State Council's Administrative Court, presiding judge Mohamed al Husseini ruled that he will issue "within three weeks" a final decision on imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour's appeal for health parole. Husseini's ruling came after over an hour of questi [...]	2007-07-03 12:52:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO2041	JUNE 28 DCM MEETING WITH DR. MOHAMED MATTAR REGARDING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 28, the DCM met with Dr. Mohamed Mattar for an update on his USAID-funded research project into human trafficking in Egypt. Dr. Mattar is an internationally recognized trafficking expert and the Executive Director of the Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University. He b [...]	2007-07-03 14:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV KPAO PREL EG KWMN
07CAIRO2042	PRISONER NABIL SOLIMAN RELEASED [...] (SBU) Following Embassy queries over the past two weeks as to the whereabouts of Nabil Soliman, State Security contacts informed us on July 3 that Soliman had been released from Torah Liman Prison. Soliman was returned by the U.S. to Egypt in June 2002, subsequently convicted of membership in [...]	2007-07-03 15:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PTER CASC KISL EG
07CAIRO2067	LOOMING REVISIONS TO NGO LAW [...] (U) Recent press reports predict that Egypt's NGO Law (Law 84) and related provisions of Egyptian civil law are likely to be revised, with the new legislation reportedly to be debated and passed in the next parliamentary session. Embassy and USAID contacts also anticipate changes to NGO-relate [...]	2007-07-05 10:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
07CAIRO2080	CONGRESSMEN TOUR EGPYT'S RAFAH BORDER; EGYPTIANS [...] (SBU) CODEL McCollum, comprising Betty McCollum, (D) Wisconsin, Lincoln Davis (D) Tennesee, and staff toured Egypt,s Rafah Terminal and border on July 3. Major General Nagy Kamal, from the Egyptian Department of Military Intelligence (DMI),briefed on anti-smuggling efforts and escorted the t [...]	2007-07-05 13:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER EG IS
07CAIRO2087	EGYPT'S HEALTH MINISTRY BANS FGM; FORMAL ANTI-FGM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following the June 23 issuance of a televised fatwa banning female genital mutilation (FGM) by Egypt's Mufti (Ref A),Health Minister Dr. Hatem Al-Gabaly issued a decree on June 28 banning the practice. Formal legislation affirming the Health Minister's decree is pending until [...]	2007-07-08 10:48:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PREL PGOV KWMN KISL EG
07CAIRO2093	DARFUR: CAIRO-BASED SLM/A-UNION FRONT OUTLINES ITS [...] (C) Summary: On July 5, Cairo-based Youssef Hassan Youssef Abdullah, leader of the Sudanese Liberation Movement/Army - Union Front (SLM/A-UF),outlined his goal to reunify the factions of the former SLM/A into a single face in peace negotiations with the Sudanese government. His new group's [...]	2007-07-08 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU
07CAIRO2100	FIRST TRANCHE OF AMMUNITION TRANSFER COMPLETE [...] (C) Embassy confirmed with Embassy Beirut that the first tranche of the third party transfer of ammunition from the Government of Egypt to the Government of Lebanon (refs) is complete; all four Jordanian Air Force C-130 flights landed and offloaded a total of 768 155 millimeter rounds July 8. [...]	2007-07-09 11:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EG LE
07CAIRO2109	SUDAN: SADIQ AL MAHDI TO WASHINGTON IF U.S. "READY [...] (SBU) During a July 5 courtesy call at his Cairo office, Sadiq Al Mahdi, head of the Sudanese opposition National Umma Party, Imam of the Ansar, and former prime minister of Sudan told poloff that he might visit Washington for consultations on Sudan, but only if U.S. officials are "ready to lis [...]	2007-07-09 13:39:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU
07CAIRO2111	RUMORS CONTINUE ABOUT SHIPMENT OF U.S. WHEAT [...] (U) The Egyptian media reported on June 28 that the Ministry of Trade and Industry had received a "refund" of the cost of a 62,000 ton shipment of U.S. wheat that was denied entry into Egypt by the Egyptian Quarantine Authority because of alleged insect infestation (reftel). The report quoted [...]	2007-07-10 03:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID ETRD EAG EG
07CAIRO214	EGYPT, ARAB LEAGUE WANT AFRICAN UNION FORCE, [...] (C) Summary: With the impending withdrawal of Ethiopian forces from Somalia, Egypt and the Arab League are encouraging deployment of an African Union (AU) peace-keeping operation (PKO) as soon as possible. Both are also pressing for national reconciliation, to include members of the Islamic C [...]	2007-01-25 16:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO PGOV PTER EG SO
07CAIRO2143	USAID SPONSORS MBA STUDENTS FROM MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND [...] (U) Summary. The Ambassador attended a July 2 media event with Minister of Health and Population Dr. Hatem El-Gabaly and seven MOHP employees who will attend USAID funded MBA programs in the U.S. El-Gabaly plans a U.S. visit in December. End Summary. 2. (U) On July 2, the Ambassador attend [...]	2007-07-11 08:21:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID OEXC OVIP OPRC KPAO PGOV EG
07CAIRO2147	ELECTION PLATFORM OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: [...] (SBU) Summary: In early June, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) released a 39-page platform in advance of the June 11 Shura Council elections, detailing the group's views on issues ranging from tourism to Copts. The MB document offers an unprecedented detailing of a consolidated MB position [...]	2007-07-11 09:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM EG
07CAIRO2148	MB PLATFORM CALLS FOR "MIXED" PUBLIC-PRIVATE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) In preparation for the Shura Council elections, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) issued a platform that included an extensive economic component. The document, our first in-depth look at the MB's economic views, criticizes capitalism and free markets in general, particularly the GOE's econom [...]	2007-07-11 10:11:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL PGOV EAID ETRD EG
07CAIRO2162	CODEL LINCOLN-MCCOLLUM MEETING WITH EGYPTIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. A Congressional delegation comprised of Representatives Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Lincoln Davis (D-TN) met with Egyptian Peoples' Assembly Speaker Fathi Surour and fellow members of parliament on July 2. Surour and his colleagues were highly critical of USG bilateral and regio [...]	2007-07-11 13:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL EG
07CAIRO2165	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MP'S COMPLAIN: WHY WERE WE [...] (U) As reported ref A, on July 2, CODEL McCollum (comprised of Representative Betty McCollum (D-WI) and Representative Lincoln Davis (D-TN)),met with parliamentary speaker Fathi Surour and several other MP's. CODEL McCollum was the first in a series of exchange visits between Congress and th [...]	2007-07-11 13:09:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KISL EG
07CAIRO2167	2007/2008 BUDGET APPROVED [...] (U) The Egyptian budget covering fiscal year 2007/2008 (July 1, 2007-June 30, 2008) was recently approved and the preliminary results from the just-ended fiscal year were released as well. Revenue collection remained robust (although not as strong as last year) and growth of expenditures tapere [...]	2007-07-12 09:21:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EG
07CAIRO2173	EGYPT: NO DECISION YET ON CANDIDATURE FOR IOM [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-12 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG EG
07CAIRO2174	EGYPT: EDUCATION REFORM LAW PASSES, AMIDST PROTEST [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 21, President Mubarak signed the "Teacher's Cadre" education law establishing a new system for hiring, training, and promoting teachers. The change is aimed at reforming Egypt's broken education system, where teachers are poorly paid and trained and not promoted accordi [...]	2007-07-12 14:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMPI KISL KPAO ECON EG
07CAIRO2175	FINANCIAL SECTOR: INSURANCE SECTOR UPDATE [...] (SBU) The Egyptian Insurance Holding Company will move ahead to privatize the insurance sector by combining the main public companies into one large "champion" company that will be privatized in phases. The GOE will continue to own a real estate insurance company, a "national" company that wi [...]	2007-07-12 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EG
07CAIRO2188	IN SURPRISE MOVE, GOE ANNOUNCES PLANS TO SELL BANQUE DU [...] (SBU) On July 8, Egypt's Central Bank announced that it would sell the publicly-owned Banque du Caire, the third largest bank in the country. The announcement caught many off guard, as the GOE had previously indicated it would not privatize any other public banks after last year's sale of Ban [...]	2007-07-15 13:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EG
07CAIRO2190	GOE'S NATIONAL POPULATION COUNCIL REORGANIZED WITH [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOE recently announced the reorganization of Egypt's National Population Council (NPC) to coordinate GOE-led family planning and population assistance activities. NPC programming has stagnated in past years as a result of weakened authority, inefficient bureaucracy, and a de [...]	2007-07-16 08:41:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON SOCI PGOV KWMN EG
07CAIRO2195	EGYPT: DEAL WITH ISRAEL ON SUDANESE REFUGEES STILL [...] (C) Despite Israeli press reports on an Israeli-Egyptian deal for Israel to return Sudanese refugees who illegally entered Israel through the Sinai to Egypt, GOE officials deny that such a deal has been concluded. On July 11, MFA Cabinet Advisor for U.S. Affairs Ahmed El Fadly told poloff that [...]	2007-07-16 14:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER EG IS SU
07CAIRO22	EGYPT: UPDATE ON RECENT HUMAN AVIAN INFLUENZA CASES [...] (SBU) Summary. Scientists at NAMRU-3 conducted a detailed examination of the H5N1 avian influenza virus responsible for the deaths of three family members in late December in the Gharbiya governorate (ref A). Early results show that the virus has undergone mutations and acquired some chara [...]	2007-01-04 14:50:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSTH KFLU ECON PREL WHO EG
07CAIRO220	DARFUR: EGYPTIANS PREPARED TO OFFER TROOPS, APCS [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-28 09:28:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS EG SU
07CAIRO2200	AMENDING THE NGO LAW AND REVAMPING THE BREAD [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Social Solidarity Ali El-Moselhy informed the Ambassador that he had initiated GOE studies to revise the NGO Law (84/2002). The Ambassador pressed Moselhy to seek an amended NGO law that protects and expands freedom of association and operations by all legitimate n [...]	2007-07-17 13:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO2202	IRAQI CENTRAL BANKERS RECEIVE TRAINING IN CAIRO [...] (U) During the week of July 15-20 the IMF is providing training to 25 officials from the Iraqi Central Bank at the offices of the Egyptian Banking Institute (EBI),the Central Bank of Egypt's primary banking training facility. The training is part of the IMF response to U.N. Security Council R [...]	2007-07-17 14:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EG
07CAIRO2206	ADVANCING THE FREEDOM AGENDA IN EGYPT [...] Embassy Cairo continues forceful advocacy of the President's Freedom Agenda. Per paras 11, 14, and 15 of ref A, it is standard Embassy Cairo practice, led by the Ambassador, to meet with democracy and human rights activists, oppositionists, and dissidents; to engage in public speaking opport [...]	2007-07-17 14:28:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KPAO PGOV KMPI XF EG
07CAIRO2207	EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT AND ARAB LEAGUE PUBLIC [...] The official Egyptian and Arab League initial public reactions to the President's July 16 speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were mostly favorable. Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Soliman Awwad said (according to an unofficial embassy translation) that, as President Mubarak has repeat [...]	2007-07-17 15:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EG IS

07CAIRO2241	SUDANESE OFFICIAL, JEM REPRESENTATIVE ON IBRAHIM [...] (C) On July 19, poloff discussed with Sudanese Embassy Political Counselor Mohamed Al Rashid the peace agreement between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and Ibrahim Yehia Abdul Rahman, representing a faction of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). Local press had reported that this agreement [...]	2007-07-19 14:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU
07CAIRO2242	AMRE MOUSSA REVIEWS SITUATION IN LEBANON [...] (C) Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa told the Ambassador in a July 17 meeting (reftel) that "time is running out," and that there is a lot of groundwork to be done before the Lebanese presidential election (required to be held by mid-November). At the same time, he expressed the hope [...]	2007-07-19 16:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LE SY IS
07CAIRO2243	EGYPTIAN MOD ON BORDER GUARD FORCE AT RAFAH [...] (C) Major General Mohamad Said El Assar (Advisor for Policy to Defmin Field Marshal Tantawi) called Ambassador July 17, and again on July 19, to request that the USG press the Israelis to engage directly with the MOD, through Egyptian-Israeli military liaison channels, regarding the number of [...]	2007-07-19 16:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EG IS
07CAIRO2279	GCC+2 MEETING THEMES - EGYPTIAN VIEWS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Alaa Al-Hadidy, Minister Plenipotentiary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, July 22. Hadidy agreed that objectives in reftel (i.e. Iraq, Lebanon, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, WMD proliferation, and terror) should all be addressed at the meeting, [...]	2007-07-24 16:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG
07CAIRO2280	SCENESETTER FOR THE JULY 31 VISIT OF SECRETARIES [...] (C) The Egyptians welcome the joint visit of the Secretaries of State and Defense as a clear signal of mutual SIPDIS recognition of shared strategic interests, despite recent highly publicized bilateral tensions. President Mubarak and ministers Aboul Gheit, Tantawi, and Soliman, expect the [...]	2007-07-24 17:01:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	ECON EFIN KPAL MARR PGOV PREL SU EG IS IZ IR
07CAIRO2290	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) The Ambassador, A/USAID Director John Groarke, USAID Strategy, Coordination and Support Director Steffi Meyer and econoff met with Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboul Naga on July 19 to discuss ESF. Aboul Naga noted that if ESF levels decline to $150-200 million annually be [...]	2007-07-25 14:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EG
07CAIRO2292	STATE SECURITY RESPONDS TO REPORTED MISTREATMENT [...] (C) Summary: State Security Investigations Service (SSIS) Brigadier General Mohamed Youssef told A/Polcouns that Egyptian security personnel had not/not mistreated Muslim-born convert to Christianity Shaymaa Mohamed El-Sayed during her July 16-23 detention and that, upon her release from po [...]	2007-07-25 16:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
07CAIRO2305	EGYPTIAN GOVT WIRE SERVICE MISTAKENLY REPORTS [...] (SBU) Egypt's official wire service, the Middle East News Agency (MENA),created brief confusion on 7/26 when it disseminated a text message to mobile phone subscribers which reported that National Democratic Party (NDP) Secretary General Safwat El-Sherif had announced that "The coming confe [...]	2007-07-26 14:47:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EG KN
07CAIRO2306	FM ABOUL GHEIT ON GOE MEETING WITH NORTH KOREAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-26 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG KN
07CAIRO2307	PARLIAMENT APPROVES SALE OF BANQUE DU CAIRE [...] (SBU) The Economic Committee of the People's Assembly approved the Central Bank's plan to sell the state-owned Banque du Caire, despite strong criticism from opposition parties. Criticism focused on a perceived lack of transparency, as CBE had previously stated it would not sell any public ba [...]	2007-07-26 16:46:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EG
07CAIRO2320	EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS: INTERDICTION OF SUDANESE DUE [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs pressed for a more humane GOE approach to migrants and asylum seekers attempting to enter Israel with MFA contacts on July 25, reinforcing points on July 29 per ref A demarche. Separately, emboff informed the UNHCR/Cairo office of our request for UNHCR/Geneva to take the [...]	2007-07-29 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL EG IS SU
07CAIRO2321	STRANDED PALESTINIANS BEGIN TO DEPART RAFAH FOR [...] (C) Egyptian military intelligence told Assistant Army Attache who was visiting North Sinai on July 29 that 101 Palestinians, among the estimated 6000 who have been stranded in Egypt since the June 9 closure of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza, have begun to make their homeward journey. [...]	2007-07-29 15:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPAL IS EG
07CAIRO233	KEFAYA DEMONSTRATES AGAINST RISING INFLATION [...] (U) Opposition movement "Kefaya" held a demonstration on January 18, the 30th anniversary of the 1977 Bread Intifada, to protest increases in prices of basic commodities and express solidarity with workers from the Nile Delta towns of Helwan and Mahalla, who went on strike in December over pro [...]	2007-01-28 14:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EG
07CAIRO2332	POPE SHENOUDA III ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, RELATIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador raised religious freedom issues with the Coptic Orthodox Pope, Shenouda III, on July 26. In an extended and unusually substantive response, Shenouda addressed his concerns about some "critical" matters, including controversies over conversion as well as what he alleged wa [...]	2007-07-30 10:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL EG
07CAIRO2350	EGYPT: COURT REJECTS AYMAN NOUR REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) Judge Mohamed El-Husseiny, of the State Council's Court of Administrative Justice, rejected Ayman Nour's health-based request to be paroled from prison, in a court session on July 31. Before the verdict was read, Nour's lawyer Amir Salem told poloff that if the verdict went against No [...]	2007-07-31 12:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO
07CAIRO2364	EGYPTIAN ATTENDENCE AT 62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-01 13:02:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KSEP PREL OVIP UNGA EG
07CAIRO2365	EGYPT WELCOMES UNSCR 1769 ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING [...] (SBU) On August 1, MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told poloff that Egypt welcomes UN Security Council Resolution 1769 authorizing the UN/AU hybrid force for Darfur (UNAMID). Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit is planning to release a statement to that effect, he said, [...]	2007-08-01 14:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU
07CAIRO2380	EGYPTIAN NPT INTERLOCUTORS [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-02 13:45:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP ENRG MNUC PARM PREL EG
07CAIRO2438	SOLICITATION FOR OVERSEAS FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS [...] FULL NAME AND TITLE 2. SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER 3. PHONE NUMBER AND SUPERVISOR 4. CURRENT POST OF DUTY 5. FAX NUMBER IF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS NEEDED, PLEASE CONTACT PROGRAM COORDINATOR, SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT DENNIS LINDSEY BY FIREBIRD (DENNIS LINDSEY) OR TELEPHONE AT 703-632 [...]	2007-08-07 13:26:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS KDEM EFIN ECON ASEC AMGT OTRA EG
07CAIRO2440	EGYPT: GROWING ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITH CHINA [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian-Chinese relations have expanded over the last several years, primarily in the economic realm. Egypt is courting Chinese trade and investment but is wary that China could undercut Egypt in low-cost, labor-intensive sectors, complicating Egyptian efforts to combat persistent [...]	2007-08-07 14:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EINV ECON CH EG
07CAIRO245	PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS MOVING FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian parliament, having accepted "in principle" President Hosni Mubarak's constitutional amendments package, will discuss its specifics and language in committee over the next two months, before the full People's Assembly and Shoura Council resume debate on the issue on M [...]	2007-01-29 16:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
07CAIRO2455	GOE BEGINS CONSULTATIONS TO REMOVE STRUCTURES [...] (C) A Ministry of Defense official with direct knowledge of Gaza border security issues told poloff on August 6 that GOE security services had started deliberations over the possible removal of buildings located closest to Egypt's border with Gaza. He said that to improve tunnel detection an [...]	2007-08-08 09:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL IS EG
07CAIRO2459	NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VP ON HUMAN [...] (C) The Ambassador raised a range of human rights and religious freedom issues with National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) Vice President Ahmad Kamal Aboul Magd. In addition to reviewing recent religious conversion controversies, Ayman Nour, military tribunals against the Muslim Brotherho [...]	2007-08-08 16:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF EG
07CAIRO2470	EGYPT TO AMEND ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW, EXPAND SCOPE [...] (U) Recent press reports indicate that the GOE is planning to amend the 2002 Anti-Money Laundering (AML) law to re-enforce the authority of the Central Bank's Money Laundering Combating Unit (MLCU) to handling economic and financial crimes connected to terrorist finance or threatening the nati [...]	2007-08-12 05:04:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PTER EG
07CAIRO2474	2007 527 REPORT FOR EGYPT [...] a. Claimant A b. 2001 c. In June 2001, the Alexandria Governorate took approximately 6,000 square meters from Claimant A's land (on which a factory had been built) to widen the adjoining highway. The Governorate's ensuing construction work also damaged a wall and some property. As [...]	2007-08-12 05:07:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV KIDE EG
07CAIRO2497	NOTIFICATION TO GOE OF UPCOMING ARB III PROCEEDINGS [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-12 14:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PREL PTER EG
07CAIRO2511	AL GHAD PARTY WOES [...] (C) Summary: In a potential death-blow to Ayman Nour's Ghad Party, on July 31 Egypt's Political Parties Committee (PPC) ruled that Musa Mustafa Musa, an alleged government-backed rival of Nour's, be named leader of the party. This was the culmination of two years of legal wrangling between N [...]	2007-08-13 14:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
07CAIRO252	COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of NNSA Michael Bedke 14 to Cairo, Egypt February 1-20 to meet with Port Authority and Egyptian Customs officials and conduct an engineering survey of the Port of Alexandria. Please note ICASS requirement for fiscal data in pa [...]	2007-01-30 11:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ENRG KNNP PARM EG
07CAIRO2520	MUSLIM-BORN CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY DESCRIBES [...] (C) Marian Elly Salib Abdel Masih, a Muslim-born convert to Christianity formerly known as Shaymaa Mohamed El-Sayed, met with poloff on August 12 to discuss her July detention by the police in Alexandria (reftel). Marian provided details about her conversion to Christianity, her resultant a [...]	2007-08-14 11:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF EG
07CAIRO2536	EGYPT: TIP ISSUES UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: This summer we have seen modest but genuine GOE progress on TIP. The GOE has announced the establishment of an inter-ministerial committee to combat TIP in Egypt. People's Assembly (PA) representative Georgette Qellini announced in June that she would introduce a draft law [...]	2007-08-15 14:12:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PGOV KWMN KCRM EG
07CAIRO2537	EGYPT: UPDATE ON IRI, NDI, AND IFES SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) On August 4, the Assistant Minister for American Affairs, Hatem Seif Al-Nasr, convoked the Ambassador to complain "on instructions" about IRI activities in Egypt. Al Nasr charged that IRI Country Director, Keith Kidd, had been traveling in the governorates and maintained a heavy schedule [...]	2007-08-15 14:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO2552	WIDESPREAD OPPOSITION TO BANQUE DU CAIRE SALE [...] (U) Recent press reports claimed that the GOE had postponed indefinitely the selection of a sale advisor for Banque du Caire, due to public opposition to the sale. Central Bank officials denied these reports, and indicated that an advisor would be selected by the end of the month. Opposition [...]	2007-08-16 12:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EG
07CAIRO2559	EGYPT SEEKS TO CONTINUE USE OF AWGA-NITZANA FOR [...] (C) A representative of the Liaison Agency with International Organizations (LAWIO) told poloff during an August 15 meeting at the Awga-Nitzana border crossing that Egyptian-Israeli coordination for the return of 6,372 Palestinians to Gaza (via Israel) during the period July 29-August 12 was [...]	2007-08-16 13:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO2560	KHARTOUM CDA FERNANDEZ MEETS WITH DUP [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-16 13:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SU
07CAIRO2575	BOEING SCORES SUCCESS IN EGYPT AIR LONG-HAUL [...] (SBU) Continuing the augmentation and upgrading of its long-haul fleet, Egypt Air has agreed to lease six Boeing 777-300R aircraft, with the possibility of a direct purchase or lease of two more. The decision follows shortly after the airline concluded an agreement with Airbus to lease two A33 [...]	2007-08-19 14:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PREL EG
07CAIRO2576	BOEING SCORES SUCCESS IN EGYPT AIR LONG-HAUL [...] (SBU) Continuing the augmentation and upgrading of its long-haul fleet, Egypt Air has agreed to lease six Boeing 777-300R aircraft, with the possibility of a direct purchase or lease of two more. The decision follows shortly after the airline concluded an agreement with Airbus to lease two A33 [...]	2007-08-19 14:27:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PREL EG
07CAIRO2577	RUMORS OF A CABINET RESHUFFLE AND CHANGES TO [...] (C) Summary: Cairo is abuzz with rumors of a looming cabinet reshuffle, with conjecture focusing on expected changes in the ministries of Justice, Social Solidarity, Culture, Housing, and perhaps a change of the Prime Minister. Speculation also abounds about an imminent shake-up in the leader [...]	2007-08-20 06:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EG
07CAIRO258	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT ON RELEASE OF NIGHT VISION [...] (C) Description: The USG has offered the GOE two excess defense article OSPREY Class Mine Hunter Craft under the Naval Vessels Transfer Act of 2005. The US Navy transferred these ships to the Egyptian Navy (EN) in January 2007. The following Night Vision Devices (NVDs) are routinely included [...]	2007-01-30 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MCAP EG
07CAIRO2581	EGYPT: MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SOLIDARITY DISCUSSES [...] (C) In an August 15 meeting with Minister of Social Solidarity (MSS) Ali Al-Moselhy, USAID Acting Director followed up on the Ambassador's July meeting with Moselhy (ref A),and expressed USG concern about the new draft NGO law. Press reporting about the yet-to-be-publicized new law suggest [...]	2007-08-20 09:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM EG
07CAIRO2584	MOD CALLS DEPLOYMENT OF BORDER GUARD FORCES AN [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-20 12:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EG IS
07CAIRO2588	WHEAT SHORTAGE? [...] (U) Shortfalls in wheat and flour have lead to rising prices and fears of a bread shortage in the coming weeks leading up to Ramadan. Media reports claim wheat reserves will not last through August, but GOE officials counter that supplies are sufficient to last until January 2008. Minister o [...]	2007-08-20 13:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR PGOV EG
07CAIRO2600	CONVICTIONS IN 2005 KHAN AL KHALILI BOMBING CASE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-22 07:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER CASC EG
07CAIRO2601	DINNER WITH DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS: FRUSTRATION, [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging three-and-a-half hour-long August 15 dinner, a group of five leading Egyptian democracy activists told the Ambassador and Pol-Econ Minister-Counselor that Egypt's domestic "deterioration" across the board has resulted in increased frustration and anger on the part [...]	2007-08-22 09:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO2603	KHARTOUM CDA FERNANDEZ' AUGUST 14 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary and introduction. Visiting Khartoum Charge d'Affairs Alberto Fernandez met with Hisham Yousef, Chief of Staff to Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, on August 14 in Cairo. Yousef expressed optimism that Darfur is "on the right track" and has a better chance of successful r [...]	2007-08-22 13:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SU
07CAIRO2620	EGYPT: FINANCIAL SECTOR CASH TRANSFER IMPLEMENTATION [...] (U) After several months of waiting for the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to provide draft terms of reference (TORs) for international audit firms' work in the state-owned banks, we now have bilaterally-agreed TORs and the auditors can get down to business. This ends the worrisome delay in the [...]	2007-08-23 11:15:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL EAID EG
07CAIRO2622	(U) EGYPT: CHRISTIAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER [...] (C) Summary: Yousef Sidhom, a Christian publisher and chief editor of Watany newspaper, told the Ambassador that recent public debates in Egypt over conversion away from Islam are a "healthy" development. Sidhom opined that any direct public intervention by the USG in this complex and sens [...]	2007-08-23 11:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF EG
07CAIRO2627	EGYPT MONTHLY MILITARY WRAP-UP [...] (C) Emboffs discussed border security, prospects for a secure communications agreement, plans for the 2007 Military Cooperation Committee (MCC) meetings, political release of defense systems, and BRIGHT STAR (BS) with Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Al Assar, Assistant Minister of [...]	2007-08-23 14:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EAID EG IS
07CAIRO2642	MUBARAK SAYS PEACE SUMMIT LACKS FRAMEWORK [...] (U) During an exclusive interview with the Chief Editor of Akhbar el-Youm on August 25, President Mubarak said that the framework for the proposed fall Middle East peace summit has not yet been drawn up. He said "Egypt supports the necessity of consensus around all the outstanding cases for [...]	2007-08-27 12:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS EG
07CAIRO2643	BLUE LANTERN-PRE LICENSE CHECK ON 05-050048861 [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-27 12:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETTC KOMC EG TU
07CAIRO2654	EGYPT'S MUFTI ON U.S. VISIT, IRAQ, REFORMING [...] (C) Summary: In a 90-minute meeting on August 26, the Ambassador and the Mufti of the Republic, Dr. Ali Goma'a, discussed the Mufti's possible travel to the U.S. and Canada in December, and a mid-August meeting in Cairo of Iraqi Sunni and Shi'a leaders with Egyptian Muslim leaders, orchestrated [...]	2007-08-28 14:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL PTER KIRF IZ EG
07CAIRO2669	GAMAL MUBARAK ADVISOR DISCUSSES EGYPT'S ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Mohamed Farnawany, senior advisor to Gamal Mubarak, told poloff on August 27 that the GOE is not happy that the USG never responded to the ESF proposal to create an endowment. Poloff reminded Farnawany that the U.S. did respond, explaining the difficulties with the concept. Farnawany said [...]	2007-08-29 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EG
07CAIRO2670	EGYPTIANS REACT SHARPLY TO ESF REDUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The Egyptian's strong reaction to diminished ESF levels reflects concern about political play on the new Israeli military assistance package. They are now trying for face-saving consultations. Ambassador Nabil Fahmy has been instructed to bring new ideas in de [...]	2007-08-29 14:55:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL EAID ECON PGOV EG IS
07CAIRO2680	ARAB LEAGUE AGAINST PERMANENT OBSERVER STATUS FOR [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed reftel demarche with Samir Hosni, head of the Arab League Office of African Affairs, on August 30. Drawing from reftel, poloff argued that including Canada and Yemen as Permanent Observers to the International Contact Group on Somalia (ICG) would increase the ICG's abil [...]	2007-08-30 12:12:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EG SO
07CAIRO2683	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian government's campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is continuing, with the recent arrests of a prominent moderate official, two MB parliamentarians, and other senior officials, upping the ante. The latest detentions occur against the backdrop of the ongoing mi [...]	2007-08-30 12:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM PHUM EG
07CAIRO2686	EGYPT AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATES: VACCINATION [...] (SBU) Summary. The U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU-3) participated in two field investigations of human Avian Influenza (AI) outbreaks with Government of Egypt (GOE) teams in Qena and Damietta where the use of improper field techniques by GOE teams and uncooperative local citizens ini [...]	2007-08-30 13:11:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA KFLU EAGR PGOV EG
07CAIRO2689	SINAI RESIDENTS ANGRY OVER POTENTIAL GOE PLANS TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-30 13:37:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS EG
07CAIRO2691	STATUS OF PALESTINIANS HELD IN THE SINAI [...] (C) A Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) contact has refuted press reports alleging that 180 Palestinians being held in camps in the Sinai have launched a hunger strike. He said that the Palestinians, who are detained because they lack legal papers and permission to remain in Egypt ( [...]	2007-08-30 14:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO2692	INVESTMENT MINISTER ENCOURAGING ON RENEGOTIATING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GOE experts on bilateral investment treaties (BIT) are currently analyzing a USG proposal to update the US-Egypt BIT and plan to be ready for a technical discussion during a visit to Washington in late October, Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieldin told visiting USTR Director [...]	2007-08-30 14:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EG
07CAIRO2697	COOPERATION MINISTER ABUL NAGA ON FY 09 ESF; [...] (SBU) On September 2, Ambassador met with Minister for International Cooperation Fayza Abul Naga , accompanied by Acting USAID Mission Director John Groarke and Econcouns (notetaker). The meeting was at Abul Naga's request, and focused on the recent notification by the USG to the GOE of the [...]	2007-09-03 15:13:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PGOV KIRF EG
07CAIRO2711	CAIRO-BASED ARAB DARFUR REBEL GROUP SENDS LETTER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Democratic Popular Front (DPF),a mostly Arab Darfur group with representation in Cairo, recently gave an Arabic-language letter to pol LES for delivery to President Bush, requesting U.S. support for the DPF to fulfill its "responsibilities" in the coming phase of the peace [...]	2007-09-05 15:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO MASS EG SU
07CAIRO2725	SUMMER HOLIDAYS IN EGYPT: ELITES TAKING A TURN FOR [...] (C) Summary: An increased Islamic consciousness, a marked phenomenon for the past two decades among the lower and mid-echelons of Egyptian society, now appears to be on the rise among the country's upper class as well. This cable explores the burgeoning piety of Egypt's well-heeled, as seen [...]	2007-09-06 13:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KISL SOCI ECON KWMN EG
07CAIRO2726	ECONOMIC REFORMS SHOWING RESULTS, BUT SLOWING [...] (U) Summary and introduction: Since 2004, the Nazif government has cut tariffs and tax rates, fixed the current exchange system and eliminated the black market, rationalized fiscal cash managements with its Single Treasury Account, partially privatized and recapitalized the banking sector, [...]	2007-09-06 14:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PGOV EG
07CAIRO2729	EGYPT TO STUDY IAEA/IRAN PLAN OF ACTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-06 14:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IAEA IR EG
07CAIRO2730	ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERS: MIDDLE EAST PEACE MUST BE [...] (U) During its September 5 annual ministerial meeting, Arab League (AL) foreign ministers confirmed their support for President Bush's proposed meeting for Middle East peace, but stressed a comprehensive approach producing tangible results. AL Secretary General Amre Moussa said in a press con [...]	2007-09-06 14:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EG IS IZ XP
07CAIRO2731	EGYPT'S MFA DELIVERS NON-PAPER ON PEACE SUMMIT [...] (C) During a meeting with Economic and Political Minister Counselor on September 6, foreign ministry spokesman Ambassador Hossam Zaki delivered a non-paper (see para two) reflecting Egypt's views on the peace summit proposed by President Bush, and asked the Embassy to forward it to the Secret [...]	2007-09-06 14:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS EG SY LE
07CAIRO2733	GRAND SHAYKH OF AL AZHAR ON EXTREMISM AND IRAQ [...] (SBU) In a September 5 meeting, the Shaykh of Al Azhar, Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, stressed to the Ambassador his focus on the need for tolerance, cooperation, and understanding between religions. Asserting that "all humans are brothers," the Shaykh decried violence in the name of religion, and h [...]	2007-09-06 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KISL PTER IZ EG
07CAIRO2734	EGYPT: RULING PARTY TRIES, WITH PARTIAL SUCCESS, [...] (C) The Cairo representative of the International Republican Institute (IRI),Keith Kidd, told us on September 2 that senior members of the National Democratic Party were attempting to prevent individual NDP members from taking part in an "offshore" training session organized in Morocco for [...]	2007-09-06 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
07CAIRO2735	EGYPTIAN HEALTH OFFICIALS SKEPTICAL ON IPR [...] (SBU) Summary: GOE health officials and advisors view many of the action items in the Special 301 Initiative for Egypt as "TRIPS plus," exceeding Egypt's obligations under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property agreement, and therefore feel no obligation to implement them, health [...]	2007-09-06 15:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR EG
07CAIRO2736	EGYPT ASKS USG SUPPORT AT IAEA ON "ALL" OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-06 15:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IAEA IR EG IS
07CAIRO2751	EGYPT: PRISON SUICIDE OF KEY AYMAN NOUR WITNESS [...] (C) According to unnamed GOE sources quoted in press accounts, the September 6 death in prison of Ayman Ismail Hassan, who played a pivotal role in the GOE's prosecution of opposition leader Ayman Nour in 2005 (reftel),has been ruled a suicide by hanging. Ayman Nour's supporters are, howeve [...]	2007-09-10 14:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO2769	ARAB LEAGUE BRIEFING FOLLOWING SEPTEMBER 5 [...] Summary. In a briefing for foreign diplomats on the Arab League's (AL) annual September 5 ministerial, AL Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef said that the ministers confirmed their support for President Bush's proposed international meeting for Middle East peace and noted their strong desire to rea [...]	2007-09-12 14:13:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL PREF EG SO IS IZ SU XP
07CAIRO2777	EGYPT TO CONSIDER WIPO ACCOUNTABILITY ISSUE [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-13 11:52:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC WIPO EG
07CAIRO2781	EGYPT'S FOREIGN MINISTER NOT FLEXIBLE ON IAEA [...] (C) On September 13, the Ambassador urged Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit to work towards a consensus agreement with Israel on the "Application of IAEA Safeguards in the Middle East" resolution and the "Israeli Nuclear Threat" (INT) agenda item. He said the U.S. did not see the p [...]	2007-09-13 16:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP IAEA EG IS
07CAIRO2787	MINISTER OF TRADE RACHID ON QIZ, WHEAT AND [...] (C) In a September 13 meeting with Ambassador, Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid confirmed reports we have heard from the Israeli embassy here that Egypt and Israel have agreed to reduce the required Israeli content in Egyptian exports from the QIZs from 11.7 to 10.5 perc [...]	2007-09-16 06:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV EG
07CAIRO2798	EGYPT: INPUT ON DISCUSSIONS OF THE COMPLEMENTARY [...] (C) Per reftel request regarding Egypt's planned participation in the mid-November Community of Democracies ministerial in Mali, on September 16 the staff of Ambassador Raouf Saad, the MFA's BMENA coordinator (who also handles CD matters),told poloff that the MFA "had just received notificati [...]	2007-09-16 15:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL EG
07CAIRO2799	EGYPT: ACTIVISTS RALLY TO PROTEST CLOSURE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of Cairo's human rights and democracy activist community rallied on September 16 at a downtown demonstration to protest the GOE's September 8 closure of the Association for Human Rights and Legal Aid (AHRLA),apparently for accepting foreign funding, including from th [...]	2007-09-16 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID EG
07CAIRO2800	EGYPT - SEPTEMBER MILITARY WRAP-UP [...] (C) The Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation ("OMC Chief") discussed the annual Military Cooperation Committee (MCC) meeting, the slow disbursement of FMF, border security and prospects for a secure communications agreement with Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Al Assar and [...]	2007-09-16 15:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR EAID EG
07CAIRO2801	DEFENSE MINISTER TANTAWI ON MIL-TO-MIL RELATIONS [...] (C) On September 16, Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi and the Ambassador discussed the impact of the FMF debates on the overall relationship, the state of mil-to-mil relations, border security, the under-disbursement of FMF in FY07, and the peace process. Tantawi said that the U.S. [...]	2007-09-16 15:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO2805	IRAQIS IN EGYPT FACE CHALLENGES OBTAINING [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraqis in Egypt are finding it difficult to obtain education, health services and job opportunities. More established Iraqi residents are depleting their savings, and newer arrivals are less wealthy than their predecessors. Although the GOE is publicly committed to providing ed [...]	2007-09-17 09:29:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON PHUM PREF EG IZ
07CAIRO2808	ANOTHER EGYPTIAN COURT RULES AGAINST MILITARY [...] (SBU) Following on three previous rulings by other courts, another Egyptian civil court has ruled against the GOE's use of military tribunals against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). On September 10, the Cairo Court of Summary Jurisdiction reportedly rejected the Egyptian government's appeal of a M [...]	2007-09-17 10:02:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KISL KJUS EG
07CAIRO2809	AYMAN NOUR APPRECIATIVE OF AMBASSADOR'S RECENT [...] (C) On September 16, a handwritten letter from imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour was delivered to poloff's residence by Nour's wife, Gameela Ismail. The letter thanks the Ambassador for his recent public comments on Nour's case, both at a September 9 American Chamber of Commerce event [...]	2007-09-17 10:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO2816	EGYPT SEIZED WITH GROWING AFRICAN MIGRANT PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Pol Econ Minister Counselor delivered refs A and B demarches to MFA Counselor for Refugee Affairs Mohamed Fathi on September 16. Fathi described continued active GOE interagency efforts to develop a comprehensive solution to the issue of African migrants attempting to reach Israe [...]	2007-09-17 16:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM EG IS
07CAIRO2825	MUBARAK HEALTH RUMORS LEAD TO CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Reporting in the independent daily Al Dostour on rumors of President Mubarak's poor health have led to a criminal suit against its editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Eissa, in the Supreme State Emergency Criminal Court. The complaint, filed by State Security prosecution on September 11 [...]	2007-09-18 16:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAO PHUM EG
07CAIRO2827	EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY DOWNPLAYS SIGNIFICANCE [...] (SBU) Egyptian government-owned press reported on September 18 that Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister Abbas Iraq was holding talks with Egyptian Foreign Ministry officials. Iraq was to meeting MFA Assistant Minister for Asian Affairs Hussein Darar and Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affa [...]	2007-09-18 17:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG IR
07CAIRO2835	LEADING AVIAN INFLUENZA EXPERT, DR. DAVID SWAYNE, VISITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. David Swayne, Director of the Southeast Poultry Research Lab and leading expert on Avian Influenza (AI),met with the week of August 26 with Government of Egypt (GOE),non-government organization (NGO) and private sector poultry entities. USAID approved USD 8.2 million in f [...]	2007-09-19 13:33:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA KFLU EAGR PGOV EG
07CAIRO2836	SINAI: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Emboffs visited El Arish, capital of North Sinai governorate, September 12, to discuss economic development with local business leaders. Members of the North Sinai Businessmen's Association (NSBA) and the Al-Fawakhreya Association for Economic Development told Emboffs that the local eco [...]	2007-09-19 14:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID ETRD EG
07CAIRO2839	Thirst on the Nile [...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Although significant progress has been made in improving infrastructure for potable water and sanitation, including $3.3 billion in USAID assistance since 1977, poor maintenance due to poor management practices, combined with population pressures, mean that many [...]	2007-09-19 15:02:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID EAGR ECON PGOV SOCI EG
07CAIRO2841	MUBARAK'S LEGAL ADVISOR ON UPCOMING LEGISLATION [...] (C) In a September 19 meeting, presidential legal advisor Mohamed Dakroury discussed a range of upcoming legislation with DCM and poloff. In addition to his influential position as "the president's lawyer," through which he appears to have a drafting or oversight role for virtually all new Egy [...]	2007-09-19 15:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PTER KJUS EG
07CAIRO2845	EGYPT: POLICE TRAINING PROGRAM UNDERWAY [...] (SBU) On September 2-5, Embassy Cairo sponsored a four-day workshop for twenty-four Egyptian National Police (ENP) Generals and other senior police officials. This Senior Leadership Workshop is part of the larger USG-Egyptian Police project funded by the USG and sub-contracted by State-INL to [...]	2007-09-20 12:54:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EG
07CAIRO2846	OIL DISCOVERY IN UPPER EGYPT [...] (SBU) Egypt's Petroleum Minister is hailing a crude oil discovery in Upper Egypt as a potential economic savior for the region, but some industry experts, citing questions over recoverable reserves, quality, and local refining capability, have their doubts. Their skepticism meshes with broader [...]	2007-09-20 13:22:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PINR EG
07CAIRO2855	SEEKING ARAB SUPPORT FOR LEBANON BORDER MISSION [...] (C) DCM and poloff delivered points in reftel to Arab League and the Egyptian MFA September 19-20. The Arab League welcomed USG interest on providing technical assistance for the Syrian-Lebanese border, but was wary of deploying personnel immediately. The MFA was supportive in principle, bu [...]	2007-09-20 15:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EG LE
07CAIRO2856	SEEKING HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT AD HOC LIAISON [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-20 15:39:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL KWBG EAID EG
07CAIRO2867	DARFUR: DEMOCRATIC POPULAR FRONT SEEKS INVITE TO [...] (SBU) In an introductory meeting with poloff on September 20, Cairo-based Siddique Ander and Osama Mohamed El Hassan, President and Secretary General, respectively, of the Democratic Popular Front (DPF),asked for USG pressure on the UN and AU to get the DPF invited to the planned October 27 p [...]	2007-09-23 14:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO MASS EG SU
07CAIRO2868	IMF BULLISH ON EGYPT: ARTICLE IV CONSULTATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The IMF recently concluded its annual Article IV visit to Egypt, issuing a preliminary report lauding the success of Egypt's macroeconomic reform. The report cited strong economic growth and a decline in unemployment as signs of the program's success. Inflation is a concern, but the spi [...]	2007-09-23 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG
07CAIRO2871	EGYPT IN TRANSITION: SADAT AND MUBARAK [...] (C) Egypt faces uncertainty as it moves towards a post-Mubarak future. It has been almost exactly twenty-six years since Egypt last faced such a transition. Although one could argue that some of the elements that led to the dramatic events of September and October 1981 are back in place -- sho [...]	2007-09-23 16:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EG
07CAIRO2872	World Bank mulls timing and content of its next financial [...] (U) Summary: The World Bank continues to prepare its next large financial sector loan to Egypt, but is slowing presentation to the World Bank Board somewhat, pending resolution of the Banque du Caire privatization, among other conditions. World Bank staff senses some reform hesitation at the C [...]	2007-09-24 07:47:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EG
07CAIRO2881	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: GOVERNMENT PREVENTS ANNUAL [...] (SBU) For the first time in approximately twenty years, the government has prohibited the annual Ramadan iftar (fast-breaking meal) hosted by the leadership of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Reportedly, the Interior Ministry refused to grant the MB permission to hold the yearly event ( [...]	2007-09-24 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KDEM EG
07CAIRO2887	LABOR UNREST RETURNS TO NILE DELTA [...] (SBU) Up to 24,000 workers at one of Egypt's largest public textile factories, Ghazl el Mehalla, have been on strike since September 23 demanding unpaid bonuses, pay increases, and changes in company and factory union leadership. The GOE has deemed the strike illegal although security interfe [...]	2007-09-25 09:12:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV PINR EG
07CAIRO2889	TRADE MINISTER'S POLITICAL AMBITIONS INFLUENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid, a leader of the cabinet's economic reformers, has been hesitant this year to confront bureaucratic opposition to key reform priorities. At the same time, he has laid out a bold public vision for the future of economic reform in Egypt [...]	2007-09-25 09:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID ETRD EAGR PINR PREL IS EG
07CAIRO2896	OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SENTENCED TO [...] (SBU) On September 24, the editor-in-chief, his deputy, and a journalist from the "Al Wafd" newspaper (the mouthpiece of Al Wafd, Egypt's oldest liberal political party),were sentenced to two years in prison by the Al Warak Court of Misdemeanors, for "having published untrue information which [...]	2007-09-25 15:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAO PHUM KDEM EG

07CAIRO2903	EGYPTIAN TEXTILE PRODUCTION INCREASING DESPITE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Despite increasing competition from China, the Egyptian textile and apparel industry is growing robustly thanks to Egypt's preferential trade agreements with Europe, the United States, and Turkey, as well as rising costs among its regional competitors. This message responds to Re [...]	2007-09-26 12:05:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KTEX EG
07CAIRO2904	DELTA AIRLINES TO ANNOUNCE NEW YORK-CAIRO NON-STOP [...] Cairo General Manager for Delta Air Lines Karim Nabhan told us that Delta plans to announce on September 26 the establishment of non-stop New York-Cairo-New York service beginning on June 4, 2008. The flight will operate 5 times per week (SU,M,TU,W,F from JFK and M,TU,W,TH,SA from Cairo) and [...]	2007-09-26 14:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ETRD ECON PREL EG
07CAIRO2932	EGYPT: MFA'S BMENA REPRESENTATIVE DISCUSSES FORUM [...] (C) Charge called on Ambassador Raouf Saad, FM Aboul Gheit's Coordinator for Reform Initiatives, on September 24 to discuss the planning for the Forum for the Future (FFF). Saad indicated that he personally plans to attend the upcoming sub-ministerial in Berlin (reftel). Saad made clear tha [...]	2007-10-01 08:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KMPI KDEM PINR GM EUN
07CAIRO2936	EGYPT: TRIAL OF INDEPENDENT EDITOR ADJOURNS [...] (SBU) After a brief October 1 hearing, the Bulaq Misdemeanors Court ordered a postponement in the trial of Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the Dustur independent daily newspaper, until October 24. Eissa is facing charges of spreading false rumors about the health of President Mubarak, and having c [...]	2007-10-01 14:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EG
07CAIRO2937	EGYPT HOPING NEW MEASURES LESSEN MIGRANT FLOW TO [...] (C) Summary: The MFA's refugee point-man says that his primary mission is to avoid any civil unrest from Egypt's large refugee and migrant population. He said he was "privately uncomfortable" about his government's August decision to accept 48 Africans from Israel, who had illegally crossed t [...]	2007-10-01 14:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM EG IS SU
07CAIRO2943	MFA RESPONSE ON ENTRY OF 80-90 ENTERING GAZA FROM [...] (C) PolEcon MinCons and Poloff queried Egyptian MFA Cabinet Advisor Hosam Zaki October 1 over recent press reports that 80-90 Gazans had entered Gaza from Egypt. Zaki acknowledged that the Palestinians had apparently crossed into Gaza, but said that he would have to consult with other GOE age [...]	2007-10-02 07:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KWBG IS EG
07CAIRO2951	EGYPT COMMENTS ON IAEA CONFERENCE OUTCOME [...] (C) MFA Disarmament Office Director Aly Sirry told poloff on September 30 that the recent IAEA General Conference outcome on the Middle East Safeguards resolution and the Israeli Nuclear Threat (INT) agenda item signaled a lack of substantive commitment to establishing a nuclear weapons free [...]	2007-10-02 14:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IAEA KNNP IS EG IR
07CAIRO2953	DARFUR REBEL GROUPS MEET IN CAIRO [...] (C) Summary: Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Spokesman Ahmed Hussein's push for consultations between Darfur groups appears aimed at giving the JEM a primary role in the upcoming Libya negotiations with the Sudanese government. According to Hussein (visiting Cairo),previous talk [...]	2007-10-02 15:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU
07CAIRO2961	CAIRO GOSS CHIEF ON LOCAL SOUTH SUDANESE ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: In a September 30 introductory meeting with poloffs, Government of South Sudan (GOSS) liaison office head Parmena Makuet Mangar sought USG support on a list of GOSS grievances, discussed his recent meeting with Darfur rebels in Cairo (ref A),and detailed the problems facing the [...]	2007-10-03 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM EG SU
07CAIRO2968	NEW U.S.-EGYPT ESF CASH TRANSFER AGREEMENT: U.S. [...] (U) Summary: The U.S. and Egypt recently signed a new Grant Agreement totaling $400 million in ESF funds over the next three years. The funds will be disbursed directly to the GOE upon completion of mutually-agreed reforms in the areas of education, health and private sector development. Si [...]	2007-10-04 11:12:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EG
07CAIRO2982	EGYPT: NEWSPAPERS STRIKE FOR PRESS FREEDOM [...] (U) Twenty-two independent and opposition newspapers did not publish on October 7 in protest of recent government actions against press freedom, including the sentencing of four editors-in-chief to a year in prison for criticizing president Mubarak and senior government officials (ref C),and [...]	2007-10-08 13:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KAPO PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO2983	LABOR UNREST IN NILE DELTA SUBSIDES AFTER DEMANDS [...] (U) Striking workers at Egypt,s largest public-sector textile factory resumed work October 1, after successfully extracting concessions from GOE representatives. Over 24,000 workers from the Ghazl el Mehalla factory in the Nile delta city of Mehalla el Kubra walked off the job on September 23 [...]	2007-10-08 15:05:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV PINR EG
07CAIRO2998	EGYPT: ALLEGED PLANS TO ATTACK IBN KHALDOUN CENTER [...] (SBU) Independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm published a front-page, above the fold article on October 9 stating that GoE security services had arrested 62 members of a group affiliated with terrorist organization Takfir wa al-Higra, and accused them plotting to blow up the Ibn Khaldoun Center (IK [...]	2007-10-09 12:52:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PGOV PREL EG
07CAIRO3000	TRIBAL CLASHES IN NORTH SINAI LEAD TO PROTESTS [...] (SBU) Tensions between the Fawakhreya tribe, which is based in the city of el-Arish in North Sinai, and the Tarabeen bedouin tribe intensified on October 6 when a Tarabeen member opened fire on residents and buildings in the Fawakhreya neighborhood, according to press accounts and Embassy cont [...]	2007-10-09 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PTER PGOV ASEC EG
07CAIRO3001	EGYPT: UPDATED DEMOCRACY STRATEGY [...] (C) Our fundamental reform goal in Egypt remains democratic transformation, including the expansion of political freedom and democratic pluralism, respect for human rights, and a stable, democratic and legitimate transition to the post-Mubarak era. While our programs in the areas of judicial reform [...]	2007-10-09 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KMPI EG
07CAIRO3003	EGYPTIAN MFA ON EGYPTIAN-SYRIAN RELATIONS, THE [...] (C) MFA Cabinet Advisor on the Levant Nazih el Naggary told poloff October 9 that recent GOE overtures to get Syria a seat at the fall peace meeting are partly an effort to empower moderates in the Bashir regime. He said that Syrian advisors are divided on whether Syria should attend. The m [...]	2007-10-09 16:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG LE
07CAIRO3017	THE IMPACT OF CONDITIONING EGYPT'S FMF [...] (C) Congressman Obey's proposal to condition USD 200 million of FMF for Egypt on progress on border security, judicial independence and police reform continues to vex senior GOE officials. Assistant Minister of Defense MG Mohamed Al Assar and a member of Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's Cabine [...]	2007-10-10 15:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EG
07CAIRO3018	RESPONDING TO THE LIKELY CONVICTION OF MUSLIM [...] (SBU) The military trial of 40 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members has lurched along sporadically since April 26, in fits of stops and starts. Observers, the defendants' family members, and sometimes even defense lawyers have been barred from the court, which convenes at a military base outside o [...]	2007-10-11 08:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KISL KDEM EG
07CAIRO3021	RAMADAN HIGHLIGHTS EGYPTIANS' INFLATION CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Egypt's overall inflation rate declined over the summer from a peak of 12% year-on-year (y-o-y) in March 2007, but ticked up again with the start of Ramadan in September. Some of the increase is attributable to new Consumer Price Index (CPI) methodology introduced at the beginning of Se [...]	2007-10-11 09:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EG
07CAIRO3022	EGYPT AND ISRAEL REQUEST USG TO EXPAND QIZ TO [...] (U) The GOE and Government of Israel are jointly requesting that USTR expand the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) agreement to cover several cities in Upper Egypt. In a letter to USTR Schwab dated October 9, GOE Trade Minister Rachid Rachid and Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor El [...]	2007-10-11 09:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL IS EG
07CAIRO3023	EGYPT AND ISRAEL AGREE TO LOWER ISRAELI QIZ [...] (U) The GOE and Government of Israel agreed on October 9 to reduce the required level of Israeli content in Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) exports to the United States. The agreement to lower the content requirement from 11.7 percent to 10.5 percent came in response to long-standing compla [...]	2007-10-11 09:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL IS EG
07CAIRO3026	EGYPT: OCTOBER MILITARY WRAP-UP [...] (C) Embassy Cairo's OMC Chief discussed border security and his recent meetings on FMF with members of Congress with Assistant Minister of Defense for Armament MG Fouad abd el Halim, Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohamed el Assar, and American Affairs Chief MG Ahmed Mo'taz on Oct [...]	2007-10-11 11:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID MASS MARR EG IS
07CAIRO3029	KING FAROUK: NOSTALGIA FOR THE PAST OR LOATHING FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-11 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ANET PREL PGOV KPAO PHUM KDEM SCUL SOCI EG
07CAIRO3031	EGYPT: SIGNS OF STRONGER EFFORTS ON TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: A new inter-ministerial committee on Trafficking In Persons (TIP),a proposed new child protection law with anti-TIP provisions, and a nascent public awareness campaign are signs that the GOE is moving towards awareness of, and eventually action on, TIP. Continued challenges wi [...]	2007-10-11 16:03:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM KWMN EG
07CAIRO3058	KING FAROUK: NOSTALGIA FOR THE PAST OR LOATHING FOR THE [...] (U) Summary: Rare is the iftar or sohour in Cairo these days where the topic does not quickly turn to the Ramadan soap opera series about King Farouk, which presents a view of Egypt's last monarch radically at odds with the image perpetrated by the official media and textbooks over the past 55 [...]	2007-10-17 12:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO PHUM KDEM SCUL SOCI EG
07CAIRO3070	Cancelled cable [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-18 10:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	NOTAG
07CAIRO3080	GAMAL MUBARAK: CONCENTRATING ON RULING PARTY AS [...] (C) Summary: Over the past several months, presidential son and National Democratic Party (NDP) assistant secretary general Gamal Mubarak has focused his energies on re-vitalizing the party. With no military background to draw on as his power base (the army being the traditional source of Egy [...]	2007-10-18 14:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO3097	ANTI-COMPETITIVE FINDING TESTS EGYPT'S REGULATORY REGIME [...] (U) Summary: The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) recently released a report alleging anti-competitive collusion among 12 Egyptian cement producers. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) referred the companies to the Public Prosecutor for prosecution under Egypt's competition law. I [...]	2007-10-22 07:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EG
07CAIRO3101	EGYPTIAN FOREIGN, INTELLIGENCE MINISTERS URGE [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit and Intelligence Chief Soliman encouraged Sudanese President Bashir and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) President Salva Kiir to maintain Sudanese unity during their October 17 Khartoum-Juba visit, according to MFA Cabinet Advisor fo [...]	2007-10-22 12:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU
07CAIRO3103	MFA ADVISOR ON EGYPTIAN JUDGE FOR SELECTION [...] (S) MFA Cabinet Advisor Nazih el Neggary told Poloff Oct 22 that retired Egyptian judge Amin Mahdi had agreed to serve on the UN selection panel for judges to the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon. However, Mahdi did not want to serve on the tribunal itself, for fear of having to carry out pun [...]	2007-10-22 15:31:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV LE PTER EG
07CAIRO3115	EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE ON LEBANON BORDER MISSION [...] (C) Poloff delivered points (reftel A) October 23 to Hisham Yousef, Chief of Staff to Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, and conveyed strong USG support for Lebanese PM Siniora's proposed Arab-EU monitoring mission. Yousef agreed that Lebanese sovereignty is critical, and said that Sin [...]	2007-10-23 16:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EG LE
07CAIRO3118	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: DRAFT PARTY PLATFORM [...] (C) Summary: The recent release of a markedly conservative draft political party platform has unleashed a wave of criticism against the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB),and highlighted internal tensions between the moderate and conservative wings of the Islamist organization. In a highly unu [...]	2007-10-24 10:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KDEM EG
07CAIRO3123	MUBARAK CLAIMS PROGRESS ON REFORM, CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In an address marking the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, President Mubarak said Egypt has "gone a long way" on the road to reform. Compared to the 1970's, he said, Egyptians enjoy far greater freedoms now. However, he stressed, freedom is "bo [...]	2007-10-24 13:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KPAO EG XF
07CAIRO3124	EGYPTIAN MFA DOWNPLAYS MUBARAK COMMENTS ON [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with MFA Spokesman and Senior Cabinet Advisor Hosam Zaki October 24 regarding press reports implying President Mubarak was willing to facilitate Hamas-Fatah negotiations based on his October 22 interview with Austrian newspaper "Der Standard." He said that Mubarak had said [...]	2007-10-24 16:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG IS
07CAIRO3126	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR CROCKERâ€™S VISIT TO CAIROClassified By: DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION STUART JONES. REASONS: 1.4 (B) and (D) [...] (S) Welcome to Cairo. 2. (S) Cairo-Baghdad Relations: The Egyptian leadership wants assurances that the USG will not withdraw from Iraq precipitously. The Egyptians were also taken aback by Senate resolution on sectarian division, which got broad press play here. The GOE has played a constructive [...]	2007-10-25 08:47:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV EG IQ
07CAIRO3127	NOMINATION OF AMBASSADOR MOUSHIRA KHATTAB FOR THE [...] Ambassador Moushira Khattab, Embassy Cairo's nominee for the Secretary's International Woman of Courage award, deserves USG commendation for having formed and led a broad alliance to combat female genital mutilation (FGM) in Egypt. Since the beginning of her tenure as Secretary General of the [...]	2007-10-25 09:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KPAO KWMN EG
07CAIRO3129	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: UNUSUAL FORWARD-LEANING [...] (SBU) In an October 13 press interview, prominent Muslim Brotherhood (MB) moderate and Political Bureau member Essam El Erian surprised MB officials and other observers alike with forward-leaning comments on Israel that seemed to break with the MB's traditional strong anti-Israel stance. El E [...]	2007-10-25 10:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KDEM IS EG
07CAIRO313	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD CLAIMS ARRESTS HURTING ECONOMY [...] (U) Recent postings on the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) website (www.ikhwanweb.com) claim that the arrest of 29 prominent MB-affiliated businessmen (reftels) has negatively impacted Egypt's economy. The articles allege the arrests and subsequent freezing of assets of the MB-affiliated businessmen [...]	2007-02-05 13:33:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KISL PGOV EG
07CAIRO3133	TRIAL OF INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER EDITOR MOVES FORWARD [...] (U) The trial of Ibrahim Eissa, editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper al-Dustour, resumed on October 24 in New Cairo Court. Eissa is charged with disturbing the peace, and with harming national economic interests for publishing rumors in late August that President Mubarak was ill. (ref [...]	2007-10-25 12:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EG
07CAIRO3134	EGYPT: "NO" TO UNAMID AVIATION SUPPORT AND [...] (SBU) On October 24, emboffs urged Assistant Minister of Defense for Armament Major General Fouad Abd Al Halim and Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy Major General Mohamed Al Assar to reconsider providing aviation support and transport assets for the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),per [...]	2007-10-25 12:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PGOV MARR MASS MOPS EG SU
07CAIRO3137	MUBARAK'S POSITION ON LEBANESE ELECTIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador got a read-out from Presidential Advisor Soliman Awaad on the October 21 visit of Lebanese Army Commander Michel Sleiman. According to Awaad, Sleiman thanked Mubarak for Egyptian military assistance (i.e. the delivery of ammunition in July for use in the confrontation with [...]	2007-10-25 15:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE EG
07CAIRO3153	EGYPT'S VIEWS ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloffs met with MFA Deputy Minister for Human Rights Affairs Wael Aboulmagd on October 29 to discuss reftel points. Aboulmagd said that Egypt generally does not support prohibitions on "no-action motions" or country specific resolutions. On the thematic resolutions, Aboulmagd [...]	2007-10-29 13:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIA PHUM PREL UN EG
07CAIRO3155	SCENESETTER FOR FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR JOHN PISTOLE [...] (S) The Egyptians, and I, will warmly welcome you to Cairo. Despite strains in the relationship over the past several months, our partnership in law enforcement and mutual security affairs remains solid. Your visit provides the opportunity to review and reinforce our law enforcement cooperation [...]	2007-10-30 05:00:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PTER PREL PHUM KJUS
07CAIRO3161	PRESIDENT MUBARAK ANNOUNCES EGYPT WILL ESTABLISH [...] (SBU) President Mubarak announced on October 29 that Egypt will establish a number of nuclear power stations to generate electricity. Following the inauguration of a power plant in North Cairo, Mubarak said Egypt will "prepare the program for building several nuclear power stations," noting [...]	2007-10-30 09:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG IAEA EG
07CAIRO3166	EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST FACES LAWSUITS [...] (C) Summary: Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI),the prominent Egyptian-American democracy activist, faces four separate lawsuits for "spreading false news" and trying to harm Egypt's economy by calling for cuts in U.S. assistance to Egypt. Court proceedings in the four lawsuits, all filed by privat [...]	2007-10-30 14:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KMPI CASC EG
07CAIRO3168	OCTOBER 25 MEETING WITH AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE [...] (C) In an October 25 meeting with poloff, Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned Ghad party leader Ayman Nour) said that on October 20 Nour,s blood pressure had shot up, and he started having heart palpitations. She rushed to Torah Prison, together with a cardiac specialist, Dr. Mahmoud Hassanein [...]	2007-10-30 15:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO3176	DEMARCHE (2ND REQUEST AND FOLLOW-UP): CANDIDACY [...] Poloff conveyed points in reftel, and reitereated the USG position in support of David Walker's candidacy for the UN Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC) to MFA Advisor on United Nations Affairs Ihab Soliman October 31. Soliman took the message. He said he understood the Swiss were als [...]	2007-10-31 15:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC UNGA EG
07CAIRO318	AYMAN NOUR FOCUSED ON LEGAL TECHNICALITIES, NOT [...] (C) In an apparent response to A/S Sean McCormack's January 23 comments regarding a health-based release for Ayman Nour, the imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader has indicated in a letter to Ambassador Ricciardone (full text below) that his current strategy is to pursue legal exoneration (vice rele [...]	2007-02-05 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
07CAIRO3187	ICAO: DEMARCHE ON MONTREAL CONVENTION AND AMENDMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-01 13:45:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAIR ICAO KNNP OTRA KTIA PARM EG
07CAIRO3190	EGYPT ALLEGEDLY DEPORTS SUDANESE MIGRANTS RETURNED [...] (SBU) Commenting on Israeli press reports that Egypt had deported five of the 48 mostly-Sudanese Africans whom Israel had returned to Egypt in August, and who had previously illegally entered Israel from the Sinai (reftel),UNHCR/Cairo Spokeperson Abeer Etefa told poloff on October 31 that the [...]	2007-11-01 14:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM EG IS SU
07CAIRO3198	AMRE MOUSSA ON IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker met with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa October 26th in Cairo. Moussa said that Arabs share USG interests for a secure, stable Iraq, and that Iraqi reconciliation is critical. He agreed that Arab leaders should do more to support the [...]	2007-11-05 10:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EG IZ
07CAIRO3209	EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ABOU GHEIT ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-06 09:03:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL IZ LE
07CAIRO3214	TWO EGYPTIAN POLICE OFFICERS CONVICTED OF TORTURE; [...] (SBU) The November 5 conviction of two Egyptian police officers for the assault and sodomy of bus driver Imad El-Kabir (reftel) has received wide coverage in the Egyptian media. Judge Samir Abul Mati sentenced officers Islam Nabi and Reda Fathi, of the Boulaq Dakrour (Giza) police station, [...]	2007-11-06 15:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV EG
07CAIRO3218	GOE AND ARAB LEAGUE READOUTS OF LEBANON SIDE [...] (C) Nazih el Neggary, MFA Cabinet advisor on Syria-Lebanon, gave a readout to poloff of the Lebanon side meeting in Istanbul, as well as an assessment of the Lebanese political state of play, on November 5. Neggary said the GOE was pleased with the meeting and the strong statement against int [...]	2007-11-07 11:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE EG
07CAIRO3219	EYGPT'S ECONOMIC REFORMS DISCUSSED WITH THE AMBASSADOR [...] (U) The Ambassador hosted an economic roundtable on October 30 which included the IMF and World Bank representatives, as well as banking and private sector leaders. While noting the generally positive economic reforms to date, the group focused on many of Egypt's development challenges, includ [...]	2007-11-07 12:11:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EG
07CAIRO3223	DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN SUPPORT OF ARGENTINA'S [...] (U) As requested in reftel, Embassy has confirmed that an Egyptian Ministry of Interior (MOI) delegation is attending the Interpol General Assembly meeting in Marrakech, Morocco from November 5 to 8. 2. (C) On November 7, Poloff spoke to Argentina's Ambassador to Egypt, Luis Enrique Cabba [...]	2007-11-07 16:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PTER ASEC PREL PGOV EG IR
07CAIRO3227	IOM CANDIDACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-08 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EWWT PHSA EG
07CAIRO3228	THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: The November 3-6 General Conference of Egypt's ruling party held few surprises, with the main news of the event being a change to the party's mechanism for selecting a presidential candidate: a 45-member committee was formed, from among whose ranks will be chosen the National Dem [...]	2007-11-08 15:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ECON ENRG PINR EG
07CAIRO3238	EGYPT DOES NOT CONFIRM DEPORTATION OF SUDANESE [...] (C) Summary: The MFA's lead on refugee issues Tarek El Maaty refused to confirm press reports that Egypt had refouled to Sudan five of the group of 48 African migrants that Israel returned to Egypt in August. Nonetheless, El Maaty argued that Egypt has the right to do so for "national securit [...]	2007-11-13 13:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL EG IS SU
07CAIRO3247	EGYPT: AMBASSADOR GROSS DISCUSSES ICT [...] (U) Summary: In his November 3 ) 6 visit to Cairo, Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, congratulated Egyptian information and communications technology (ICT) officials and business leaders on the progress in the Egyptian ICT market [...]	2007-11-14 09:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ECON ETRD PHUM PGOV EG
07CAIRO3255	EGYPT: COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT ON THE RELEASE OF [...] (SBU) Description: In Ref A, the GOE requested price and availability data for sixty-six (66) replacements for Night Ranger Viewers and associated spare parts to support two (2) ex-Knox Class Frigates and four (4) ex-Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigates. The Night Ranger Viewers were originally [...]	2007-11-14 14:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MASS MARR EG
07CAIRO3256	ARREST OF CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-14 15:35:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV EG
07CAIRO3257	Egypt: Inflation Update [...] (U) Inflation dropped to 7.5% year-on-year (y/y) in October, down from 9.3% y/y in September. The CBE maintained interest rates unchanged at a November 1 meeting, but indicated that inflation could reach the upper limit of CBE's "comfort zone." This is the first public sign of a move toward [...]	2007-11-14 15:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EG
07CAIRO3258	EGYPT: NTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT [...] (U) Per ref A instructions, we providethe below input for the interim Trafficking-in-Pesons (TIP) assessment for Egypt. We note that te GOE inter-ministeial "National Committee to Comat and Prevent Trafficking in Persons" had its frst meeting in October 2007, representing a longawaited step to [...]	2007-11-14 15:39:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG AEMR EG
07CAIRO3259	CONVICTED BLOGGER AND TORTURE ALLEGATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-14 15:41:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO KDEM PHUM PGOV EG
07CAIRO3260	MUBARAK MEETS ABBAS, TALABANI; EGYPTIANS CONTINUE [...] (SBU) President Mubarak hosted several Arab leaders visiting Cairo for the Arab Olympics November 11-13. Mubarak met Palestinian Authority President Abbas, Saudi King Abdullah, Jordanian King Abdullah II, and hosted a lunch with Iraqi President Talabani, Sudanese President Bashir, and Yemeni P [...]	2007-11-14 16:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG IZ XF IS
07CAIRO3261	AMRE MOUSSA TO DAMASCUS; ARAB LEAGUE OFFICIAL [...] (U) Arab League Cabinet Advisor and Spokesman Alaa Roushdy told us November 14 that Secretary General Amre Moussa's travel to Damascus that evening would focus on the planned Annapolis meeting and Lebanon. Moussa will meet with President Assad, Vice President Shara, and FM Moallam. 2. (C) [...]	2007-11-14 16:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS EG LE
07CAIRO3262	DAS DANIN/DASD KIMMITT DISCUSS BORDER SECURITY [...] (S) NEA DAS Robert Danin and DASD Mark Kimmitt discussed enhancing both Egypt's counter smuggling efforts and Egyptian-Israeli border security cooperation with Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi on November 8. Tantawi said he would be open to trilateral discussions on border security [...]	2007-11-14 16:46:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PTER KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO3272	ACCUSED INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER EDITOR PRESENTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-15 15:48:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
07CAIRO3280	TERRORIST FINANCE: CAIRO FOLLOW-UP ON ILLICIT CASH [...] (U) This cable responds to the request for more information regarding illicit cash couriers, as requested in REF A. Much of this information is included in the INCSR. 2. (U) The executive regulations of the AML law (from 2002) and the Banking Law (from 2003) address the issue of bulk cash [...]	2007-11-18 14:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL PTER EG IS
07CAIRO3283	HEARINGS BEGIN IN NEW CASES AGAINST EGYPTIAN [...] (SBU) As reported reftel, Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI),the prominent Egyptian-American democracy activist, is facing four separate lawsuits for "spreading false news," espionage, and attempting to harm Egypt's economy by calling for cuts in U.S. assistance to Egypt. On November 18, the first hear [...]	2007-11-19 10:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO3292	SUDAN: CAIRO-BASED OPPOSITION LEADERS MAHDI, [...] (C) Summary: In separate Cairo meetings with Sudanese opposition figures Mohamed Osman Al Mirghani and Sadiq Al Mahdi, both emphasized that current USG efforts on Sudanese unity are overly-focused on the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),leaving [...]	2007-11-20 11:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG SU
07CAIRO3297	EGYPTIAN HEALTH, TRADE OFFICIALS ENGAGE USTR'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOE is anxious to deepen engagement with the USG on concerns about Intellectual Property Rights protection, officials from the ministries of health, trade, culture, and telecommunications told USTR's Jennifer Groves during a visit to Cairo on Nov. 12 to discuss USTR's Special [...]	2007-11-20 14:25:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR EG
07CAIRO3299	EGYPT'S PRESS SYNDICATE ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Against a backdrop of recent government actions seen as restricting press freedom (reftels),Egyptian journalists from across the political spectrum competed for leadership positions in Egypt's November 17 Press Syndicate elections. Judges supervising the election certified Mak [...]	2007-11-20 15:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PGOV PHUM EG
07CAIRO3300	MUBARAK POSITIVE AFTER OLMERT MEETING; MFA [...] (U) President Mubarak gave positive comments following his November 20 meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. He noted that the meeting falls on the 30th anniversary of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, and said that it is time now for Egypt to push for pe [...]	2007-11-20 17:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS EG
07CAIRO3305	EGYPT, ISRAEL JOINTLY PRESS FOR QIZ EXPANSION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Egyptian and Israeli trade negotiators and industrialists sought USG approval of their joint proposal to expand the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) into Upper Egypt during the quarterly meeting of the QIZ joint committee Nov. 18 in Cairo. The committee also sought clarification o [...]	2007-11-21 11:35:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KTEX EG IS
07CAIRO3308	USACE TUNNEL EXPERTS PROPOSE TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS [...] (C) A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)-led team of tunnel detection experts visited Egypt's border with Gaza on November 15 to assess whether technical equipment would assist the Ministry of Defense in detecting and exploiting tunnels used in smuggling. The team presented its preliminar [...]	2007-11-21 15:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS MARR MOPS
07CAIRO3309	DEFMIN TANTAWI ON BORDER SECURITY, BRIGHT STAR, [...] (C) U.S Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral William J. Fallon discussed security assistance, border security, and EXERCISE BRIGHT STAR with Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi on November 18. Tantawi and the senior MoD officials joining him: (1) confirmed Egypt's interest in ho [...]	2007-11-21 15:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EAID MASS MARR MOPS KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO3329	FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUL GHEIT DISCUSSES IRAQ, [...] (C) U.S. Central Command Commander, Admiral William J. Fallon discussed Iraqi security and the upcoming Annapolis conference with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on November 18. Aboul Gheit asked whether it would be possible to widen the participation in PM Maliki's government and express [...]	2007-11-26 11:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL MOPS EG IS IZ IR
07CAIRO3330	IRAQI CHARGE ON PROPSECTS OF AMBASSADORIAL EXCHANGE [...] (C) We met November 25 with Iraqi Charge d'Affaires Saad Ali. He gave a positive readout of Iraqi President Talabani's recent visit to Cairo (reftel). Ali assessed that the Egyptians were slowly moving out of a "wait and see" strategy with respect to Iraq, and that the Talabani visit, as we [...]	2007-11-26 11:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG IZ
07CAIRO3333	MOD INDICATES WILLINGESS TO SIGN LOR FOR [...] (C) As a result of the recent visit and recommendations of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers counter-tunneling experts (reftel),MoD Assistant Minister of Defense for Armament MG Fouad told OMC MG Collings on November 25 that Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi had agreed to sign a proposed L [...]	2007-11-26 15:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS MARR MOPS EG
07CAIRO3334	RELIGIOUS IDENTITY CONVICTION AND PRISON SENTENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 21, a Cairo criminal court sentenced an Egyptian Christian woman, Shadia Nagui Ibrahim, to three years in prison for fraud regarding her religious identity. The conviction stems from Ibrahim's father's brief conversion to Islam in 1962 and Ibrahim's subsequent decla [...]	2007-11-26 16:13:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV EG
07CAIRO3341	TAGAMMU PARTY LEADER: I WILL CLOSE DOWN THE IBN [...] (C) Summary: In a November 26 meeting with Rifaat Said, president of the opposition Tagammu party (a leftist, socialist-leaning party),Said told us he plans to follow through with a libel lawsuit against Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI),the prominent Egyptian-American democracy activist who is curre [...]	2007-11-27 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM EG
07CAIRO3342	DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-27 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ EG
07CAIRO3344	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ELECTION FOR THE COMMITTEE ON [...] On November 26, we delivered the requested demarche to Wael Abdoulmagd, Egypt's Deputy Foreign Minister for Human Rights. Abdoulmagd was not aware of the upcoming election, but said he would consider the request for support and share it with his colleagues who coordinate United Nations activ [...]	2007-11-27 15:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNGA EG
07CAIRO3348	FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR MEETS WITH HEAD OF STATE [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging November 4 meeting, State Security Investigative Service (SSIS) head Hassan Abdul Rahman and visiting FBI Deputy Director John Pistole discussed increased fingerprint sharing, the GOE's views on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian concerns about terrorist returnees from [...]	2007-11-28 09:30:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PTER KJUS ECPS IZ EG
07CAIRO3351	UPDATE ON DETENTION OF MECA ACTIVISTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Three members of the Toronto-based Middle Eastern Christians Association (MECA) arrested on November 10 (ref) remain in custody. In a November 25 meeting, their lawyer expressed "cautious optimism" that they will be released soon. The lawyer also provided additional details [...]	2007-11-28 16:47:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV EG
07CAIRO3359	EGYPT SIGNS LETTER OF REQUEST FOR BORDER EQUIPMENT [...] (SBU) We have received a Letter of Request (LOR) from the Egyptian Procurement Office, dated November 27, requesting the $23 million in equipment and training recommended by the Army Corps of Engineers-led survey team. The team, headed by Dr. Jason McKenna of the Army Corps of Engineers, was [...]	2007-11-29 12:07:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER MASS MARR MOPS EG
07CAIRO336	SPY SPANDAL INVOLVING CANADA, EGYPT, AND ISRAEL [...] (C) A SPY SCANDAL INVOLVING AN EGYPTIAN-CANADIAN CITIZEN AND THREE ISRAELIS BECAME PUBLIC ON FEBRUARY 4. STATE SECURITY ARRESTED AN EGYPTIAN-CANADIAN IN JANUARY WHEN HE RETURNED TO CAIRO ON A FAMILY VISIT FOR SPYING ON EGYPTIAN CITIZENS IN TURKEY AND CANADA ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL. CANADIAN EMB [...]	2007-02-07 12:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER MEPN EG IS CA
07CAIRO3365	FINANCIAL SECTOR CASH TRANSFER UPDATE [...] (SBU) Since the Financial Sector (FS) MOU cash transfer's first disbursement of $275 million in January 2007, the GOE has met several additional benchmarks. Pending conclusion of ongoing financial analysis of banking sector performance, up to $275 million could be disbursed in 2008, bringing [...]	2007-11-29 15:53:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL ECON EG
07CAIRO3366	EGYPT: NEXT STEPS ON ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Visiting EEB PDAS Elizabeth Dibble met with Fayza Aboul Naga, Minister of International Cooperation to discuss the future of U.S. assistance. USAID Director Hilda Arellano also attended. Aboul Naga said the GOE wants to move toward a "sustainable and predictable" partnership based on "t [...]	2007-11-29 15:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAID EINV EG
07CAIRO3367	EGYPT: NEXT STEPS ON A BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATY [...] (SBU) Visiting EEB PDAS Elizabeth Dibble met with Minister of Investment Mohieldin to discuss next steps on updating the U.S.-Egypt Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). Mohieldin was positive about the U.S. white paper and said his staff would have a reply soon. He does not foresee problems wi [...]	2007-11-29 15:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAID EINV EG
07CAIRO3370	EGYPT SIGNS LETTER OF REQUEST FOR BORDER EQUIPMENT [...] (SBU) We have received a Letter of Request (LOR) from the Egyptian Procurement Office, dated November 27, requesting the $23 million in equipment and training recommended by the Army Corps of Engineers-led survey team. The team, headed by Dr. Jason McKenna of the Army Corps of Engineers, was [...]	2007-12-02 05:22:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER MASS MARR MOPS EG
07CAIRO3385	APPROXIMATELY 700 PALESTINIANS ENTER EGYPT AT [...] (C) MG Nagy Kamal, Chief of the Directorate of Military Intelligence Liaison Agency with International Organizations, said that approximately 700 Palestinians forcibly entered the Rafah border crossing terminal from Gaza on December 3. He said the Egyptian terminal manager quickly calmed the [...]	2007-12-03 13:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO3390	SINAI SMUGGLING INCENTIVES INCREASE UNDER STIFLED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pent-up economic pressure for trade with the Palestinians is fueling smuggling between North Sinai and Gaza, residents and officials in the governorate told us on a visit to El-Arish and Sheikh Zuwayed Nov. 28-29. END SUMMARY. ------------------------------------ Hard Times, U [...]	2007-12-03 15:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PTER PINR PREL KPAL KWBG EG IS XF
07CAIRO3391	ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA ON ANNAPOLIS FOLLOW-UP, [...] (C) Summary: Freshly returned from Annapolis, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa spoke with us December 1. The SIPDIS conversation focused on next steps in the Israeli-Arab engagement, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran. He conceded that fear is the real reason the Arab League has not returne [...]	2007-12-03 15:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IZ LE SY IS EG
07CAIRO3398	AMBASSADOR RAISES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM CASES WITH FM [...] (SBU) Among the issues the Ambassador raised in a December 3 meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit (see septel) were two recent religious freedom cases: the November 10 arrest of three members of the Middle East Christians Association (MECA) (refs A and B); and the fraud con [...]	2007-12-04 15:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL EG
07CAIRO3399	NOTE VERBALE FROM FM ABOUL GHEIT TO SECRETARY RICE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-04 15:42:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EG
07CAIRO3400	GOE WORRIED ABOUT MORE HAJJ PILGRIMS THROUGH [...] (C) Summary. Egyptian MFA and MOD contacts confirmed to us today that approximately 500 Palestinians entered Egypt from Gaza on December 3. The GOE maintains that only Palestinians holding valid Saudi Arabian Hajj visas were allowed to enter, and that these travelers have been bused to the [...]	2007-12-04 17:00:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PTER KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO3407	"1,000 PLUS" HAJJ PILGRIMS ENTER EGYPT AT RAFAH [...] (C) An official at the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) Liaison Agency with International Organizations (LAWIO) estimated that over 1,000 Hajj pilgrims crossed the Egypt-Gaza border at Rafah on December 4. Although some of pilgrims traveled from Rafah to the Nuweiba port to board f [...]	2007-12-05 13:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER KPAL EG IS

07CAIRO3411	EGYPT ADVISED OF NIE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-06 05:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP IR EG
07CAIRO3412	DEMARCHE: ENCOURAGING RAPID LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) We delivered the reftel demarche to MFA Cabinet Advisor for the Levant Nazih Neggary December 6. Neggary said the GOE position is in line with ours, i.e. for a rapid election without additional conditions. He agreed that the March 14 majority should not be pressed to make any more compro [...]	2007-12-06 08:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PGOV IR LE EG
07CAIRO3413	RIOT POLICE SURROUND VIGIL ON SECOND ANNIVERSARY [...] (SBU) On December 5, we attended a candle-light vigil at the Ghad party's central Cairo headquarters, marking two years since former Ghad party leader and presidential candidate Ayman Nour was imprisoned. (Note: Nour was remanded to temporary custody on December 5, 2005, and officially sentenc [...]	2007-12-06 11:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO3416	CENTRAL BANK OF EGYPT'S NEW BOARD OF GOVERNORS [...] (U) On November 29, President Mubarak issued a presidential decree renewing Farouk El Okdah for 4 years as Governor of the Central Bank. Mubarak also issued a decree renewing Tarek Amer as the first Deputy Governor and appointing Tarek Kandil as the second Deputy Governor, both for 4 year ter [...]	2007-12-06 12:37:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EG
07CAIRO3419	DARFUR: CAIRO-BASED SLM/A-UNION FRONT SPLINTERS [...] (SBU) In a December 4 meeting at his request, Youssef Hassan Youssef Abdallah of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army-Union Front (SLM/A-UF) told us that the leadership of the SLM/A-UF had divided due to the conference of Darfur rebels in Sirte, Libya, which began in late October. Mohamed Abdul [...]	2007-12-06 13:08:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS PINR EG SU
07CAIRO3420	IRI GARNERING ATTENTION FROM RULING PARTY AND PRESS [...] (SBU) Over the past week the activities of the International Republican Institute (IRI) have garnered an unusual amount of attention, following on the heels of the Deputy Foreign Minister's November 21 complaint to us about IRI (reftel). In a clear signal of the GOE's mounting displeasure wit [...]	2007-12-06 13:46:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO3421	UNCITRAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO EGYPTIAN MFA [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-06 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ECON ETRD UNCITRAL UN EG
07CAIRO3422	EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD CHANGES ITS TUNE: [...] (C) Summary: The ideological architect and former leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ),Sayid Imam al-Sharif, jailed in Egypt since 2004, recently issued an 111-page book, published in full in 15 installments in a leading Egyptian independent daily newspaper, detailing "revisions" to his pre [...]	2007-12-06 14:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KISL PHUM EG
07CAIRO3423	EGYPTÂ´S FY 2009 ESF: PROPOSED BUDGET FOR D&G [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: After a great deal of deliberation, in which Embassy Cairo participated fully, the inter-agency agreed to allot $66.5m for democracy and governance programs in Egypt for FY08 and $75m for FY09. These figures represent annual totals of our support for civil society -- b [...]	2007-12-06 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV EG
07CAIRO3424	EGYPT TO BUY IRANIAN WHEAT TO REDUCE COSTS OF [...] (SBU) Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid agreed to purchase 200,000 tons of reduced-price Iranian wheat last week during a visit to Cairo by Iranian Minister of Industries and Mines Ali-Akbar Mehrabian, according to Egyptian trade officials. However, Egyptian agricultural inspectors [...]	2007-12-06 15:08:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAGR EG IR
07CAIRO3425	DARFUR: EGYPT READY TO HOST REBELS, DEPLOY [...] (SBU) MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told us December 6 that Egypt stands ready to host an "Arusha-style" meeting for Darfur rebel unity if the international community calls for it to do so. Discussing the December 4 meeting in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh be [...]	2007-12-06 15:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU
07CAIRO3426	IBN KHALDUN CENTER PLANS NEW DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ibn Khaldun Center is moving forward with proposals for elections monitoring and other democracy-promotion programs next year, despite a staff reorganization forced by the absence of founder Saad Iddin Ibrahim and the threat of a lawsuit with potentially debilitating financ [...]	2007-12-06 15:48:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KDEM PHUM PINR EG
07CAIRO3427	ARAB LEAGUE AND GOE ON LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Ambassador raised with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa today (December 6) the need for a rapid Lebanese Presidential election. Moussa said he understood the Lebanese were working into the evening on a deal that would allow the election to proceed on December 7. He agreed the el [...]	2007-12-06 17:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PGOV LE EG
07CAIRO3449	HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH MEETS WITH EGYPT'S STATE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-10 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF EG
07CAIRO345	ACTIVISTS REFLECT ON IMPACT OF FEMALE GENITAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Several active anti-FGM Embassy contacts believe that although the unified public condemnation of FGM at a November conference has not produced an official ban on the practice, it has raised the level of dialogue on the issue. The public discussion of the generally taboo subje [...]	2007-02-07 15:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN EG
07CAIRO3455	TWENTY LAWSUITS AGAINST DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST SAAD [...] (SBU) In a December 9 conversation with us, Barbara Ibrahim (wife of Egyptian-American democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI)),noted that her husband is now facing twenty separate lawsuits, most of them charging him with "spreading false news," espionage, and attempting to harm Egypt's e [...]	2007-12-11 08:14:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO3465	DINNER WITH A WAFDIST: ANATOMY OF THE DIRTY [...] (C) Summary: At a recent dinner with lawyer and leading opposition Wafd party member Essam Shiha, who plans to run in a December 26 parliamentary by-election for a vacant seat in the People's Assembly, we were given a look into the realities of playing politics in Egypt, replete with tales of [...]	2007-12-12 13:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
07CAIRO3469	EGYPT'S PLANS ON RETURN OF HAJJIS TO GAZA STILL IN [...] (C) A Directorate of Military Intelligence official told us that plans to facilitate the return of approximately 2,000 Hajjis to Gaza are unresolved. They said the GOE wishes to use Karem Shalom to return the pilgrims, but that no agreement has been reached. During a briefing at the Rafah bor [...]	2007-12-12 16:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO3470	Lafarge takes a chunk of Egyptian cement [...] (U) Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) signed an agreement December 10 to sell its Cement Group to France's Lafarge for 8.8 billion ($12.9 billion). Lafarge will also assume $2 billion of OCI's debt, bringing the total value of the agreement to $14.9 billion. Orascom Cement, with 10 plant [...]	2007-12-12 16:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON EG
07CAIRO3480	A/S FRAZER PRESSES EGYPT ON SUDAN, SOMALIA [...] (C) Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer met ith her MFA counterpart, Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs Shamel Nasser, on November 25, to discuss Sudan and Somalia. Nasser argued that the security situation in Somalia had been better under the Islamic Courts Unio [...]	2007-12-13 15:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EG SU SO
07CAIRO3482	EGYPTIAN AND ARAB LEAGUE ATTENDANCE AT PARIS [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 16:13:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG KPAL AMGT PREL PGOV EG
07CAIRO3483	RULING PARTY HEAD ON IRI AND POLITICAL PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: In a December 11 meeting, Safwat El Sherif (secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party and speaker of the Shura Council, Egypt's upper parliamentary house) qualified his previous public criticism (reftel) of the International Republican Institute's (IRI) activities i [...]	2007-12-13 16:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ EG
07CAIRO3498	EGYPTIAN PUBLIC SENTIMENT TOWARD PALESTINIANS [...] (C). Summary. Although the Palestinian cause remains a primary political issue in Egypt, there are indications that attention to it is decreasing among younger Egyptians. The constant violence following the outbreak of the intifada in 2001 and recent intra-Palestinian fighting are factors. [...]	2007-12-17 08:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS EG
07CAIRO3500	CONSUMER PROTECTION IN EGYPT [...] (SBU) Egypt's Consumer Protection Law came into effect in November 2006, providing consumers with new legal protections and businesses with new obligations. The law also created a Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) authorized to investigate complaints and mediate between consumers and businesse [...]	2007-12-17 09:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EG
07CAIRO3503	REPAIRING EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI COMMUNICATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-17 11:51:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PTER PHUM KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO3506	CHARGES REDUCED AGAINST MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS [...] (SBU) In an unexpected December 15 development, the military court which is trying forty members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) reportedly dropped charges against the defendants of "participating in a terrorist organization" (which carries the death penalty) and money laundering. According to [...]	2007-12-17 12:28:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KISL KDEM EG
07CAIRO3515	EGYPT: 2007 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Egypt is an ally in the Global War on Terrorism. The Egyptian and U.S. governments maintained a robust dialogue on a broad range of counter-terrorism and law enforcement issues in 2007 and exchanged information on a variety of terrorism, security, and law enforcement matters during the cours [...]	2007-12-17 14:48:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC EG
07CAIRO3516	SUDANESE IN EGYPT TURN TO GANG VIOLENCE [...] Summary: Sudanese gang violence has become a problem of increasing concern in Cairo. Gang members are Sudanese youths who face poor economic prospects in Egypt, are unwilling to return to worse prospects in Sudan, and are less able to resettle in third countries following the 2005 peace agreeme [...]	2007-12-17 15:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF PHUM EG SU
07CAIRO3518	MFA ON LEBANON AND EGYPTIAN DELEGATION TO TEHRAN [...] (C) MFA Cabinet Advisor for Iran Mahmoud Afifi told us December 17 that the December 11 visit of Assistant Minister for Asian Affairs Hussein Derar was to reciprocate the September 18 visit to Egypt of an Iranian delegation (led by Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs A [...]	2007-12-17 17:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE SY EG IR
07CAIRO3526	REFORMIST JUDGE ON NEW JUDICIARY LAW, SUCCESSION, [...] (C) Summary: In a December 11 meeting Hisham Bastawisi told us that new legislation focused on financing of the judiciary must, by law, be passed by June 2008. One of the two judges at the center of the spring 2006 judges' crisis and a vocal advocate for judicial independence, Bastawisi under [...]	2007-12-23 13:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KJUS PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO3527	THE APPARENT DEMISE OF AYMAN NOUR'S AL GHAD PARTY [...] (SBU) The opposition party Al Ghad, previously led by now-imprisoned former presidential candidate Ayman Nour, appears to have been neutalized. On December 9, Musa Mustafa Musa, an apparent government-backed rival of Nour's, reportedly won the final court ruling regarding the leadership dispu [...]	2007-12-23 13:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
07CAIRO3528	EGYPTIAN MOD MEETING WITH ISRAELI POL/MIL DIRECTOR [...] (S) Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohamed Al Assar told us that December 16 discussions in Cairo with Israel's Pol/Mil Director MG Amos Gilad had been brief and tense. Al Assar said he used the meeting to complain to Gilad about Israel's efforts to influence the outcome of dis [...]	2007-12-23 14:42:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PTER PHUM KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO3537	MECA DETAINEES RELEASED [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-27 08:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV EG
07CAIRO3541	Central Bank Governor Commits to Completing Financial [...] (SBU) On December 17, the Ambassador and Econoffs met with Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Governor Farouk El Okdah and the two Deputy Governors, Tarek Amer and Tarek Kandil, to cover a wide variety of end-of year issues. The Ambassador began by congratulating the Governor and Deputy Governor Amer [...]	2007-12-27 12:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL ECON EG
07CAIRO3542	EGYPT REACTS TO CONGRESSIONAL CONDITIONS ON US [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the Eid, Egyptian reaction to Congressional conditioning of US assistance has become more pronounced. Privately, GOE officials have expressed anger but hope that the Secretary will waive the conditionality. On December 23, Minister for Foreign Affairs Aboul Gheit told Am [...]	2007-12-27 12:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL KPAL EG IS XF
07CAIRO3543	EGYPT'S NEW PRESS SYNDICATE CHAIRMAN OUTLINES [...] (SBU) We met on December 12 with Makhram Mohamed Ahmed, the new chairman of Egypt's influential press syndicate (ref A). Ahmed told us he has two immediate objectives as chairman; 1) to open a dialogue with the government that will end the prosecution of journalists, and 2) to enhance the pro [...]	2007-12-27 12:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL EG
07CAIRO3555	POSSIBLE NEW RESTRICTION ON PRESS FREEDOM IN EGYPT [...] (U) According to media reports, Egypt's State Council issued a decree in early December directing the Central Audit Bureau (CAB) to begin monitoring the finances of independent media outlets. The decision has not yet been formally announced and a member of the State Council (Egypt's highest ju [...]	2007-12-31 08:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PREL PGOV PHUM EG
07CAIRO3558	CONTROVERSY OVER AL-AZHAR ENGLISH LANGUAGE RESEARCH CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: The recent opening of the English Language Research Center (ELRC) at the premier Islamic studies university in the Middle East (Al-Azhar University in Cairo) was a key milestone in U.S. public diplomacy efforts in Egypt. There have been ten articles on the new center, three of [...]	2007-12-31 14:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO KIRF KDEM SCUL SOCI EG
07CAIRO356	WILDCAT STRIKES HIT EGYTPIAN TEXTILE FACTORIES [...] (SBU) Thousands of textile workers have initiated wildcat strikes throughout Egypt's industrial heartland in recent weeks, demanding the same concessions exacted by striking workers at Egypt's largest public sector textile factory last December (reftel). Strikes have also taken place in the t [...]	2007-02-08 13:30:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM EG
07CAIRO3560	EGYPT: MIXED MESSAGES ON TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: During G/TIP Reports and Political Affairs Officer Gayatri Patel's December 11 - 17 visit to Cairo, Egyptian officials at the Ministries of Interior (MOI),Justice (MOJ),and Social Solidarity (MOSS) asserted that Trafficking-in-Persons (TIP) is not an internal Egyptian problem, [...]	2007-12-31 14:54:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PREL PGOV PHUM SMIG AEMR EG
07CAIRO3562	MUBARAK SPEAKS OUT AGAINST SYRIA IN LEBANON [...] (C) Egyptian FM Aboul Gheit emphasized to Ambassador and a visiting Congressional delegation led by Senator Voinovich December 31 that Egypt was taking a firm public stance supporting election of a Lebanese president. Aboul Gheit cited Mubarak's December 30 joint press conference with French [...]	2007-12-31 16:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY LE EG
07CAIRO3563	(U) UPDATE ON DETENTION OF MOHAMMAD ABU GHAZALA [...] (S/NF) Further to readout in reftel a, since early December ORA has coordinated with EGIS regarding the case of Mohammad Abu Ghazala, AKA Mansour Abu Layth (reported as Mansour Abu al-Ghaith in reftel a). 2. (S/NF) Per refs b and c, EGIS advised that Egyptian State Security (SSIS) had orig [...]	2007-12-31 16:14:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KWBG PINR IS EG
07CAIRO361	CENTRAL BANK MAINTAINS INTEREST RATES DESPITE RISING [...] (U) Overall inflation in the Egyptian economy reached 12% year-on-year (y-o-y) in December 2006, with the greatest increase in food and energy prices. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) met February 1 and decided to maintain interest rates at their current [...]	2007-02-08 14:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EG
07CAIRO376	ARAB LEAGUE DENOUNCES ISRAELI MUGHRABI GATE, [...] (SBU) ARAB LEAGUE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES MET IN CAIRO ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, TO DISCUSS THE WEEKEND VIOLENCE IN JERUSALEM, TOUCHED OFF BY ISRAELI CONSTRUCTION AT THE MUGHRABI GATE NEAR THE TEMPLE MOUNT. SENIOR POLITICAL ADVISOR TO PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS, NABIL SHAATH, JOIN [...]	2007-02-12 12:02:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MEPN KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO378	GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERKEL VISITS EGYPT [...] (C) SUMMARY: GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL VISITED CAIRO FEBRUARY 3 - 4 TO DISCUSS MIDDLE EAST REGIONAL ISSUES AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS. ACCORDING TO A GERMAN EMBASSY CONTACT, MERKEL AND EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT MUBARAK AGREED ON THE NEED FOR A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT. ON THE ECONOMY, [...]	2007-02-12 14:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MEPN ETRD EG GE
07CAIRO379	SCENESETTER FOR INTERAGENCY AVIAN INFLUENZA TEAM, [...] (SBU) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes the visit of Ambassador John Lange and the interagency avian influenza team. We are looking forward exchanging ideas on local avian influenza challenges, potential areas of enhanced cooperation, and developing a more cohesive interagency strategy. ----- [...]	2007-02-12 16:09:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR TBIO KFLU AMED EAID EG
07CAIRO389	RENEWING THE ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT WITH EGYPT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-13 11:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KTIA EG
07CAIRO394	POOR EGYPTIANS YET TO FEEL BENEFITS FROM ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Chronic low wages and lack of opportunity has lowered working-class Egyptians' motivation to work and contributed to discontent with the government's economic policies. Despite impressive macroeconomic improvements since the Nazif administration began its economic reform progr [...]	2007-02-13 15:37:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EG
07CAIRO404	FINANCIAL SECTOR MOU: NEXT STEPS [...] (SBU) Now that the first disbursement of $275 million for completion of some of the benchmarks in the Financial Sector MOU has been made, we are considering next steps and a tentative timeline for verification of the remaining benchmarks. Five hundred and twenty-five million dollars in ESF ar [...]	2007-02-14 11:08:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG
07CAIRO409	MILITARY COURT TO TRY 40 MUSLIM BROTHERS [...] (SBU) President Mubarak ordered on February 6 that 40 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including Second Deputy Chairman Khairat Al-Shatir, face a military tribunal on charges including money laundering and planning terrorist actions in support of the outlawed group. Past military tribunal [...]	2007-02-14 13:30:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KISL EG
07CAIRO412	GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: AYMAN NOUR NOT IN NEED OF [...] (C) Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour, told poloff on February 12 that a governmental medical committee charged with evaluating Nour's physical condition has determined that his health is "stable." The committee found that Nour's life "is not in danger, as lo [...]	2007-02-14 13:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO432	EGYPT: RELEASE OF CLERIC ABU OMAR [...] (C) An Egyptian MFA official has confirmed that Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr (aka "Abu Omar") was released from detention on March 11, and is currently at his family home in Alexandria. While MOJ, State Security, and Public Prosecutor personnel refused to comment on the case, Deputy Assistant Fo [...]	2007-02-15 15:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM IT EG
07CAIRO433	EMBASSY CAIRO'S NOMINATION: THE SECRETARY'S AWARD [...] (U) Per reftel, Embassy Cairo nominates Ambassador Moushira Khattab, President of the National Council for Motherhood and Childhood (NCCM),for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Ambassador Khattab is one of Egypt's most outspoken and inspirational leaders lobbying for [...]	2007-02-15 15:53:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO EG
07CAIRO434	ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARY GENERAL MOUSSA LETTER TO THE SECRETARY ON JERUSALEM [...] (SBU) Post received a letter from Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, addressed February 7, 2007, to the Secretary of State regarding Jerusalem and its status with SIPDIS respect to the World Heritage Convention. The text of Moussa's letter is below at paragraph two. The original [...]	2007-02-15 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ARABL KPAL MEPN IS EG
07CAIRO469	EGYPT CONSIDERING UTILITY OF IGAD SUMMIT ON [...] (C) EGYPT IS AWARE OF PLANS BY KENYA, AS CHAIR OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY FOR DEVELOPMENT (IGAD),TO HOST A SUMMIT IN COMING WEEKS TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF SUDAN'S COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT (CPA). THE GOE IS CONSIDERING A FORMAL RESPONSE TO THE SUMMIT PROPOSAL, BUT [...]	2007-02-20 17:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID EG SU
07CAIRO47	HIGH COURT DENIES REGISTRATION TO TWELVE ASPIRING [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JANUARY 6, EGYPT'S SUPREME ADMINISTRATIVE COURT DENIED THE PETITIONS OF TWELVE ASPIRING POLITICAL PARTIES WHICH WERE APPEALING THE GOVERNMENT'S REJECTION OF THEIR APPLICATIONS TO BE FORMALLY LICENSED. SUCH DECISIONS, COMBINED WITH THE HEAVY-HANDED APPROACH OF THE GOVERNMENT TO [...]	2007-01-08 15:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL EG
07CAIRO474	U/S JOSEPH AND EGYPTIAN MINISTER OF ENERGY DISCUSS [...] (U) February 3, 2007; 1030 hrs; Cairo, Egypt 2. (SBU) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. ---- Under Secretary Robert Joseph Ambassador Ricciardone ISN Assistant Secretary John Rood T Senior Advisor Jim Timbie DOE/NNSA Deputy Administrator Will Tobey Economic Officer Kevin Roland (Embassy notetaker) [...]	2007-02-21 14:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP PARM EG
07CAIRO478	2007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW FOR EGYPT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Cairo recommends that USTR move Egypt from the Special 301 Priority Watch List to the Watch List in recognition of improvements in Egypt's regime for protecting Intellectual Property Rights in 2005 and 2006, and to encourage further progress. During the last two years, [...]	2007-02-22 04:41:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR EG
07CAIRO482	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT OF INCREMENT 10 OF EGYPT'S [...] (U) Description: Egypt has requested the acquisition of an additional 125 co-produced M1A1 tanks (Letter of Request 06/MC/019). This tenth increment of M1A1 tanks will raise Egypt's total M1A1 tank inventory to 1005. 2. (U) Justification for the M1A1 increment: Upgrading its tank fleet wi [...]	2007-02-22 11:34:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL MARR MASS MCAP EG
07CAIRO489	ALEXANDRIAN BLOGGER SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS [...] (SBU) Egyptian blogger Abdel Karim Nabil Soliman was found guilty and sentenced to a total of four years in prison on February 22 at an Alexandria court hearing. He received a 3-year sentence for "inciting hatred of Islam and insulting the Prophet Mohamed," and 1-year sentence for "defaming th [...]	2007-02-22 14:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF EG
07CAIRO492	MEPI PROJECT DATABASE [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-22 16:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL KMPI EG
07CAIRO511	EGYPT: ANTI-COMPETITIVE TELECOMUNICATIONS PRACTICES [...] (SBU) Summary: For over a year, Egyptian telecommunication regulators have promised to offer new licenses for international connectivity, in accordance with commitments undertaken when Egypt joined the World Trade Organization (WTO),but have yet to do so. The GOE may be delaying in order to [...]	2007-02-26 07:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ECON ETRD USTR EG
07CAIRO517	U/S JOSEPH AND EGYPTIAN MINISTER FOR FOREIGN [...] (S) SUMMARY: U/S Joseph met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit on February 3. He was accompanied by A/S Rood, Ambassador, DOE-NNSA Deputy Administrator Will Tobey, T Senior Advisor Jim Timbie, and econ counselor (notetaker). U/S Joseph described his recent discussions in Moscow, incl [...]	2007-02-26 13:18:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM ENRG KNNP EG IR NK
07CAIRO519	EGYPTIAN PLANNING FOR NPT PREPCOMM MEETING [...] (C) The MFA's Disarmament Office Director told poloff on February 22 that Egypt plans to submit a paper addressing Middle East issues at the upcoming NPT Preparatory Committee meeting for the 2010 Review Conference to focus the debate on Israel and the 1995 Resolution. Stressing that the pap [...]	2007-02-26 14:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP IAEA PREL EG IS IR
07CAIRO538	ALEXANDRIA GOVERNORATE PARTIALLY DEMOLISHES NGO MEDICAL [...] (SBU) A medical services NGO administered by the Anglican Church in Alexandria was partially demolished February 13 on orders from the Alexandria Governorate for operating in an unlicensed building. Similar demolitions have occurred elsewhere in Alexandria recently as part of a campaign by the [...]	2007-02-27 16:34:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EG
07CAIRO539	EGYPT RAIL: U.S. COMPANIES SWEEP LOCOMOTIVE TENDER [...] (SBU) U.S. companies General Electric (GE) and Electromotive Diesel (EMD) recently beat out Chinese competition, with each company selling forty new locomotives to Egyptian National Railways (ENR) as part of Egypt's multi-billion dollar transport infrastructure development plan. The GE portio [...]	2007-02-28 07:08:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELTN ECON PREL EG QA
07CAIRO542	GAZA MARINE GAS FIELD: EGYPT DEAL UNLIKELY [...] (C) As a prelude to his meeting with NEA A/S Welch in Washington on February 27, British Gas (BG) Head of International Government and Public Affairs provided Econoff with an update on the current status of BG's efforts to develop the Gaza Marine offshore gas field. The update was a follow-up [...]	2007-02-28 12:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON KPAL EG IS GZ
07CAIRO553	NO EGYPTIAN REPRESENTATIVE TO MARCH 6 ITA MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-01 12:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD WTO EG
07CAIRO559	EGYPTIAN PLANS FOR MARCH 3-4 ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs Hani Khallaf says that Egypt will take a cautious approach towards the Palestinian National Unity Government at the upcoming Arab League Foreign Ministers meeting and withhold final judgment until after the NUG is formed. Egypt will [...]	2007-03-01 14:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG PINR EG IZ SU IR LE XF IS
07CAIRO572	IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER ZEBARI ON REGIONAL [...] (C) Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari told the Ambassador on March 3 that he was working with the Egyptian government and UNHCR to ease residency requirements for the growing number of Iraqis in Egypt. On Egypt-Iraq relations, Zebari said he had selected a candidate for Ambassador to Cairo, but [...]	2007-03-05 06:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ARABL EG IZ
07CAIRO579	(C) ROMANIAN PRESIDENT OFFERS EGYPT NUCLEAR [...] (C) Romanian President Basescu visited Egypt February 21-22 and met privately with President Mubarak, Prime Minister Nazif, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, Egyptian economic ministers, local business leaders, and others. Basescu reportedly offered Egypt access to Romania's nuclear [...]	2007-03-05 10:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KNNC EG RO
07CAIRO580	EMBASSY CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR 2007 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel. Embassy POC is poloff Roger Kenna, phone 20-2-797-2749, fax 20-2-797-2181, kennart2@state.gov. Poloff spent approximately 16 hours in the preparation of the TIP report. PA officer spent two hours; ECPO Minister Counselor spent two hours; DCM spent t [...]	2007-03-05 11:21:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB EG
07CAIRO582	ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS IRAQ, [...] (SBU) In anticipation of an upcoming annual Arab Summit, scheduled for late March in Saudi Arabia, foreign ministers of the Arab League (AL) met in Cairo on March 3-4 to prepare the summit agenda and discuss a variety of pressing regional issues. Among those issues were the Arab-Israeli confl [...]	2007-03-05 11:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ARABL KPAL EG IS IZ
07CAIRO583	EGYPTIAN NAMED TO SENIOR UN MANAGEMENT POST; BIO [...] (U) A senior Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, Mohamed Shaaban, has been named by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon as the Under Secretary General for General Assembly and Conference Management. Shaaban had most recently served as Egypt's National Coordinator for Reform Initiativ [...]	2007-03-05 12:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNGA PINR EG
07CAIRO607	EGYPTIAN NAMED TO SENIOR UN MANAGEMENT POST; BIO [...] (U) A senior Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, Mohamed Shaaban, has been named by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon as the Under Secretary General for General Assembly and Conference Management. Shaaban had most recently served as Egypt's National Coordinator for Reform Initiativ [...]	2007-03-07 07:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNGA PINR EG
07CAIRO613	EGYPT'S REPORT TO THE UNSC-IRANIAN COMPLIANCE WITH [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-07 11:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP UNSC IR EG
07CAIRO62	SEASONS GREETINGS [...] PLEASE DELIVER THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM EGYPT'S MINISTER OF INTERIOR GENERAL HABIB AL ADLY TO THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY MR. MICHAEL CHERTOFF. THERE WILL BE NO SIGNED ORIGINAL TEXT. 2. BEGIN TEXT: DEAR SIR, ON THE OCCASION OF THE NEW YEAR, IT GIVES ME A GREAT PLEASURE TO C [...]	2007-01-10 08:48:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL EG
07CAIRO620	INTERAGENCY DELEGATION ENGAGES WITH EGYPTIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza John Lange and an interagency delegation of USG officials from DOS, USAID, HHS, USDA, DHS and DOD met with senior Egyptian government officials, toured laboratory facilities, and visited poultry farms from February 19-21. [...]	2007-03-07 14:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU KSTH TBIO ECON PREL WHO EG
07CAIRO622	UK'S COUNTER-PROLIFERATION HEAD DISCUSSES NPT [...] (C) The UK's Director of Counter-Proliferaton Paul Arkwright gave Emboffs a brief readout of his NPT Prepcom discussions with GOE and Arab League officials on March 5. At the MFA, Arkwright met with Deputy Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Ihab Fouzy; Director of the Disarmament O [...]	2007-03-07 14:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL EG IR IS
07CAIRO623	SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE OFFERS TO HOST CONTACT GROUP [...] (SBU) Arab League Secretariat Staff Member Zeid Al Sabban confirmed to poloff on March 6 that the League wanted to host the next International Contact Group (ICG) meeting in Cairo, and was consulting in Nairobi for dates in early April. A diplomatic note from the AL asserting that the meeting [...]	2007-03-07 16:13:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC MOPS PTER ARABL EG SO
07CAIRO624	FUROR OVER ALLEGED ISRAELI 1967 EGYPTIAN POW [...] (SBU) Paralleling the growing public outcry in Egypt over an Israeli documentary film accusing the Israeli military of massacring several hundred Egyptian POWs during the 1967 war, the GOE has ratcheted up its official reaction by threatening Israel with legal action if it does not investigate [...]	2007-03-07 16:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KPAL EG IS
07CAIRO645	RAFAH BORDER CROSSING OPEN; VIOLENCE ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-08 16:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KPAL EG
07CAIRO671	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: MAJOR DECISIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: THE THIRTY-FOUR PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS BEFORE EGYPT'S PARLIAMENT WILL BE PUT TO A LEGISLATIVE VOTE BY MARCH 20, AND SUBSEQUENTLY TO A NATION-WIDE REFERENDUM ON OR ABOUT APRIL 4. THE ACTUAL TEXTS OF THE AMENDMENTS ARE NOT YET PUBLIC (AS THEY ARE REPORTED [...]	2007-03-12 10:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO673	GOE IMPOSES EXPORT FEES ON STEEL AND CEMENT [...] (SBU) Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid recently imposed export fees on cement and steel, carrying out earlier threats of harsh measures if industry did not observe voluntary domestic price caps. Rachid also told the press that the GOE will eliminate energy subsidies for industry within fi [...]	2007-03-12 13:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG EG
07CAIRO678	EGYPTIAN ECONOMIC REFORMERS ENCOURAGE FURTHER IPR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FOLLOWING ON POST'S RECOMMENDATION TO MOVE EGYPT FROM THE SPECIAL 301 PRIORITY WATCH LIST TO THE WATCH LIST (REFTELS),WE HAVE INITIATED A NUMBER OF DISCUSSIONS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS WITH THE GOE AND BUSINESS GROUPS AS PART OF OUR ON-GOING ADVOCACY FOR IPR PROTECTION I [...]	2007-03-12 16:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR EG
07CAIRO709	ECONOMIC REFORM SNAPSHOT: NEW BLOOD AT [...] (SBU) Summary. A series of recent meetings at the General Authority for Road, Bridges, and Land Transportation (GARBLT) illustrates how private sector experience is transforming the way business is done at the Egyptian Ministry of Transportation (MOT). Shedding normal bureaucratic inertia, [...]	2007-03-14 10:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELTN ECON PGOV EG
07CAIRO710	ECONOMIC REFORM SNAPSHOT: NEW BLOOD AT [...] (SBU) Summary. A series of recent meetings at the General Authority for Road, Bridges, and Land Transportation (GARBLT) illustrates how private sector experience is transforming the way business is done at the Egyptian Ministry of Transportation (MOT). Shedding normal bureaucratic inertia, [...]	2007-03-14 10:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELTN ECON PGOV EG
07CAIRO715	MFA COMMENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) In a March 11 meeting with visiting NEA DAS Scott Carpenter and the DCM, Assistant Foreign Minister for North American Affairs Hatem Saif El-Nasr elaborated on Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's strident criticism of the Department's Human Rights Report. (Note: In widely reported comments t [...]	2007-03-14 11:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO718	NEW EU-EGYPT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM [...] (SBU) On March 6 the EU and Egypt signed a new bilateral assistance agreement worth 500 million over the next four years. The agreement includes cash transfers and funds to implement projects in a number of areas, under the rubric of a bilateral "Action Plan." Technical sub-committees of EU a [...]	2007-03-14 13:11:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PREL PHUM KDEM EG EU
07CAIRO721	LABOR ANXIETY MAY OPEN DOOR TO UNION [...] (C) The anxious state of organized labor in Egypt over privatization, economic reform, and global trends may present opportunities for engaging the GOE on democratization and worker rights. Sensing this, the International Labor Organization (ILO) is advancing a proposal to promote democratiza [...]	2007-03-14 13:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM EAID ETRD EG
07CAIRO724	GOE DENIES REGISTRATION FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The GOE has adopted a new harder line against the registrations of the International Republican Institute (IRI),National Democratic Institute (NDI),and IFES, the USAID-funded political parties institutes whose registration applications have been frozen by the GOE since June 2 [...]	2007-03-14 16:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO736	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: APPROVED BY SHURA [...] (SBU) Summary: Egypt's Shura Council approved President Mubarak's constitutional amendments package on March 13; the 34 proposed amendments will be debated and voted upon by the People's Assembly on March 18-20, followed by an April 4 national referendum. An unusual joint statement signed by [...]	2007-03-15 13:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL EG
07CAIRO748	NEA DAS CARPENTER DISCUSSES EGYPTIAN REFORM WITH [...] (C) Summary: In meetings on the Egyptian constitutional amendments with NEA DAS Scott Carpenter during a March 9-11 visit, several independent analysts said that Egypt's constitutional amendment process had been flawed by the GOE and NDP's tight control over the process. These critics asse [...]	2007-03-18 10:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EG
07CAIRO749	NEA DAS CARPENTER DISCUSSES CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) In meetings on the Egyptian constitutional amendments with NEA DAS Scott Carpenter during a March 9-11 visit, GOE and NDP officials asserted that the process, however imperfect, was nevertheless a genuine reform process that will pave the way for new legislation which has the potential t [...]	2007-03-18 10:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO778	EGYPT AVIAN FLU UPDATE: 26TH HUMAN CASE [...] (U) Ministry of Health and Population officials (MOHP) confirmed the 26th case of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a two-year old boy on March 19, and the 25th case on March 14 in a ten-year old girl, both from the Aswan governorate. Their families raise backyard poultry. Thirteen of the twenty-six [...]	2007-03-19 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU KSTH TBIO ECON PREL EG
07CAIRO795	CONTACT WITH MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) On March 19, Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentary bloc leader Mohamed Saad al Katatni came to the Embassy's Consular section for a visa interview. His visa application had been submitted earlier in the day, under cover of a diplomatic note from the MFA (a normal procedure for a parliament [...]	2007-03-20 14:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KDEM EG
07CAIRO806	AYMAN NOUR FILES NEW REQUEST FOR MEDICAL RELEASE [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on a government medical report that references the possibility of imprisoned Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour's "sudden death," Nour is filing a new lawsuit requesting that he be released on medical grounds. Despite noting the risk of "sudden death," and long-term degenerat [...]	2007-03-21 13:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
07CAIRO816	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: NATIONAL REFERENDUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A SURPRISE MOVE, FOLLOWING PARLIAMENT'S MARCH 19 PASSAGE OF PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS PACKAGE, THE GOE MOVED UP THE DATE FOR THE OBLIGATORY SUBSEQUENT NATIONAL REFERENDUM TO MARCH 26, TEN DAYS EARLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY ANTICIPATED. IN THE MIDST OF APPARENT [...]	2007-03-21 15:13:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL EG
07CAIRO829	QUARTERLY ECONOMIC REPORT [...] In this edition: - Strong macroeconomic indicators - Unemployment, inflation remain high - The government introduces a new five year plan - Ministry of Finance announces bad-debt repayment plan - State-owned banks merge - Wages stagnate... - ...and consumer confidence dips - Capital Market [...]	2007-03-22 10:12:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG EWWT EG
07CAIRO855	REFERENDUM: RULING PARTY OFFICIAL DETAILS GET OUT [...] (C) Summary: In an unprecedented March 24 meeting at party headquarters in central Cairo, steel magnate and National Democratic Party (NDP) secretary for organization Ahmed Ezz hosted poloff and pol-FSN for an hour-long briefing on the NDP's "Get Out the Vote" campaign in advance of the March 2 [...]	2007-03-26 05:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL EG

07CAIRO858	CAIRO ON THE EVE OF THE NATIONAL REFERENDUM [...] (SBU) As the country readies for the rushed March 26 referendum on President Hosni Mubarak's constitutional amendments package, the government apparatus has swung belatedly into gear to raise public awareness about the event. All Egyptian TV channels - terrestrial and satellite - broadcast ad [...]	2007-03-26 06:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO865	A/S WELCH'S MARCH 20 MEETING WITH ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) In a March 20 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary Welch, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa discussed the upcoming Arab summit and Arab-Israeli peace issues. Welch pressed Moussa for ideas on how to help Israel and the Palestinians get back to the negotiating table. Welch urged Mo [...]	2007-03-26 14:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ARABL KPAL MEPN IZ GZ LE EG
07CAIRO866	CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM: VOTER TURNOUT MINIMAL [...] (C) IT APPEARS THAT ONLY NEGLIGIBLE NUMBERS OF VOTERS TURNED OUT FOR THE MARCH 26 NATIONAL REFERENDUM ON EGYPT'S AMENDMENTS TO THIRTY-FOUR CONSTITUTIONAL ARTICLES. THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF VIOLENCE, AND PROTESTS APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN LIMITED TO SMALL DEMONSTRATIONS AT A FEW LOCATIONS IN CA [...]	2007-03-26 16:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO870	NATIONAL REFERENDUM: OFFICIAL RESULTS RELEASED [...] (SBU) On March 27, Minister of Justice Mamdouh Marei, in his capacity as head of the Egyptian Supreme Elections Commission, announced the official results of the March 26 national referendum on President Mubarak's constitutional amendments package. The government results are as follows: - [...]	2007-03-27 11:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
07CAIRO872	PUSHING EGYPT ON BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) Complex institutional, political, economic, and social factors impact Egypt's counter-smuggling efforts along the border with the Gaza Strip and Israel. Efforts to counter terrorism related to smuggling are more effective than those directed at contraband. GOE effectiveness will contin [...]	2007-03-27 12:45:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER KPAL IS EG
07CAIRO90	EGYPTIAN REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S JANUARY 10 [...] (C) Reaction to President Bush's January 10 Iraq speech has so far been muted from both official and private sources, yet the general tenor of opinion among contacts and media sources is one of pessimism that an additional twenty thousand U.S. troops will end the violence in Iraq. During a J [...]	2007-01-11 17:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS EG IZ
07CAIRO91	PARLIAMENTARIAN IMPLICATED IN MEDICAL CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) A potential corruption scandal involving NDP parliamentarian Hani Sorour ignited following accusations that his medical supply company's sub-standard equipment is responsible for the death of a 50 year old man who died of kidney failure following a contaminated blood transfusion. The c [...]	2007-01-15 05:02:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR TBIO TSPL EG
07CAIRO924	CIVIL SOCIETY MONITORS CRITICIZE CONDUCT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AT LEAST FIVE GROUPS OF EGYPTIAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS MONITORED THE MARCH 26 REFERENDUM ON EGYPT'S CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. THEIR REPORTS, WHICH WERE ISSUED THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON MARCH 26, AND SUMMARIZED IN WRAP-UP PRESS RELEASES ISSUED OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, PROVID [...]	2007-03-29 14:47:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM EG
07CAIRO934	REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: Zainab Mohamed Ibrahim Adham [...] (SBU) Embassy Cairo would like to refer the following Iraqi to the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP): Principal Applicant (PA): Name: Zainab Mohamed Ibrahim Adham (a.k.a. Zainab Mohammed Adham) DOB: Dec. 06, 1967 POB: Baghdad, Iraq Gender: Female Religion: Moslem/Sunni Marital Sta [...]	2007-04-02 09:25:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM EG IZ
07CAIRO935	REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: Ehab Refat Ahmed Al Kuttub [...] (SBU) Embassy Cairo would like to refer the following Iraqi with strong ties to the USG to the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP): Principal Applicant (PA): Name: Ehab Refat Ahmed Al Kuttub (a.k.a. Ehab Refat Mohamed Ahmed Al Kuttab) DOB: Aug. 02, 1975 POB: Karkok, Iraq Gender: Mal [...]	2007-04-02 09:26:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM EG IZ
07CAIRO946	SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE MEETING CALLS FOR MORE [...] (SBU) Arab heads of state met in Riyadh on March 28-29 at an annual Arab League summit, where they addressed the Arab-Israeli conflict, Darfur, and Somalia, among other topics. On Somalia, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal convened on March 28 an informal meeting that included the [...]	2007-04-02 15:03:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MOPS EG ARABL SO
07CAIRO971	EGYPT CONSIDERING GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-04 12:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KNNP EG
07CAIRO974	XXXXXXXXXXXX MP ON PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with poloff, XXXXXXXXXXXX parliamentarian XXXXXXXXXXXX discussed presidential son Gamal Mubarak's possible succession of his father, and opined that Gamal increasingly views Minister of Defense Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and EGIS head Omar Suleiman as a threat to hi [...]	2007-04-04 17:17:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EG
07CAIRO979	NON-PROLIFERATION DISCUSSIONS WITH EGYPT [...] (U) Summary: Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation Christopher Ford visited Cairo on March 21 for bilateral consultations on Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) issues. Egypt has expressed its dissatisfaction with what it says is insufficient progress in implementing the Res [...]	2007-04-05 15:28:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC IAEA KNNP IS IR EG
07CAIRO99	AYMAN NOUR STILL WANTS HEART SURGERY; REQUESTS USG [...] (C) Summary: Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour) asserted to poloff that Nour is still in need of cardiac stent replacement surgery, but that State Security officials have deemed he does not require an operation. Ismail gave poloff a letter to the Secretary from [...]	2007-01-15 15:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
08CAIRO100	EGYPTIAN STOCK MARKET PLUNGES [...] (U) Following a decline of 2.1% on January 20, Egyptian stocks had their weakest day in 18 months on January 21, when they plunged 4.2%, the largest one-day decline since July 2006. The sell-off continued January 22, with the CASE falling another 3.29% toward the end of trading. The three da [...]	2008-01-22 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EG
08CAIRO1005	MFA "DISAPPOINTED" WITH NPT PREPCOM [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Disarmament Ahmed El-Shandawily told us May 18 that Egypt was "disappointed" with the outcome of the April 28-May 9 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) PrepCom in Geneva because the GOE believes the PrepCom did not make sufficient progress toward implementing the [...]	2008-05-18 13:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNPP IS EG
08CAIRO1009	FM ABOUL GHEIT, S/I SATTERFIELD DISCUSS LEBANESE [...] (C) Summary: On the morning of May 11, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit lamented to Ambassador Satterfield and the Ambassador that the Arab League (AL) would not be united at the May 11 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Cairo to discuss the Lebanese crisis. The Foreign Minister said that although Hizb [...]	2008-05-19 13:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER LE EG
08CAIRO1010	AYMAN NOUR UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings with imprisoned Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour's lawyer and wife, we were told that, despite recent press reports indicating a deterioration in Nour's health, his health condition is "stable." Nour's wife asked that the USG continue to advocate for Nour's relea [...]	2008-05-19 13:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO1019	EGYPT'S COPTIC LEADER ON RELATIONS WITH ISLAM, THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-20 14:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KIRF KISL EG
08CAIRO102	EGYPTIAN COPTIC ACTIVISTS EXPLAIN PROBLEMS WITH [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-22 16:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM EG
08CAIRO1021	EGYPTIAN CANDIDATE FOR CHAIR OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY [...] (SBU) In a May 8 meeting, Finance Minister Boutros Ghali informed the Ambassador of his candidacy for Chair of the IMF's Monetary and Financial Committee and asked for U.S. support. The Ambassador told the Minister she was not the decision maker on this, but congratulated him for throwing in h [...]	2008-05-21 07:47:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EG
08CAIRO1029	TIMELINE FOR SUPPLYING COUNTER-TUNNELING EQUIPMENT [...] Summary: In order to improve Egyptian efforts on the Gaza border to interdict smuggling through underground tunnels, the USG is supplying the GOE with counter-tunneling equipment out of military aid funds. The program is divided into three phases to provide a command and control underground s [...]	2008-05-21 10:37:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MASS EG
08CAIRO103	GOE FRUSTRATED BY GAZA ESCALATION [...] (C) Summary. Egyptian MFA and MOD contacts expressed concern on January 22 over the current Gaza crisis. They tell us that the recent Israeli closures, and subsequent pressure at Rafah crossing, has put the GOE in a very difficult position, facing criticism both at home and from Arab states. [...]	2008-01-22 16:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO1034	PROPOSED COUNTRY TEAM SCENARIO FOR CONCLUDING THE [...] (C) Summary: As the USG moves forward to conclude the unresolved issues stemming from the unfortunate Global Patriot incident -- delivery of the investigative report's executive summary to the GOE, compensation and condolences to the victim's family and a U.S. apology -- we want to ensure clos [...]	2008-05-21 14:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS EG
08CAIRO1035	MOI DISCUSSES EGYPTIAN MEDIA REGULATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. During Ambassador Scobey,s May 13 introductory call on Information Minister Anas Al Fekki, the much-criticized Minister indicated he plans to vigorously enforce the Arab League,s Broadcast TV "code of ethics," that he and his Saudi counterpart spearheaded several months ago at a [...]	2008-05-21 15:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAI EG
08CAIRO1036	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER YOUSSEF [...] (SBU) Summary: In an upbeat May 15 introductory courtesy call with Finance Minster Youssef Boutros Ghali (YBG),the Ambassador discussed local perceptions of economic reform, Egyptian assistance to Iraq and the Iraq Compact meeting in Stockholm, the Egyptian debt relief proposal, the Minister's [...]	2008-05-21 15:19:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EPET PGOV EG
08CAIRO1047	SISYPHUS ON THE HILL: THE OPPOSITION PARTIES OF [...] (C) Summary: Officially, there are 23 opposition parties registered in Egypt. Most of these are either one-man operations with no meaningful support, or government-controlled showpieces unrecognizable as "opposition" (one opposition candidate endorsed President Hosni Mubarak in the 2005 presid [...]	2008-05-22 12:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EG
08CAIRO1048	EGYPTIAN QIZ EXPORTS LEVEL OFF IN FIRST QUARTER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Egyptian exports to the United States under the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) agreement leveled off in the first quarter of 2008 to $169 million USD. GOE and Government of Israel trade officials continued to push for QIZ expansion into Upper Egypt at the quarterly QIZ meeting [...]	2008-05-22 14:17:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD IS EG
08CAIRO1049	PRESIDENTIAL SON RAISES HIS PROFILE [...] (C) Summary: Presidential son and presidential aspirant Gamal Mubarak has noticeably amped his public activities over the past few weeks. Gamal's unusual spate of press interviews, as well as his marked criticism of President Bush's May 18 speech in Sharm Al Shaykh, may be part of a purposefu [...]	2008-05-22 14:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS EG
08CAIRO1050	EGYPTIAN MINISTER OF CULTURE'S ANTI-ISRAELI REMARKS [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-22 14:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF UNESCO EG IS
08CAIRO1061	DEMARCHE REQUEST: U.S. POSITION ON THE RETENTION [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-27 08:12:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PARM TBIO EG
08CAIRO1066	EGYPT EXTENDS EMERGENCY LAW [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-27 11:46:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER EG
08CAIRO1067	CODEL BAIRD MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN LEADERS ON MARGINS [...] (C) Summary: Codel Baird discussed Egyptian and regional issues with Egypt's political and business leaders on the margins of the May 18 - 20 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. President Mubarak, Intelligence Chief Omar Soliman, and presidential son Gamal Mubarak focused on [...]	2008-05-27 11:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EG
08CAIRO107	UPROAR OVER EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior GOE officials have loudly protested the European Parliament's (EP) January 17 passage of a resolution sharply critical of Egypt's human rights record. Among other things, the resolution calls for the immediate release of imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader and presiden [...]	2008-01-23 10:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EU EUN EG
08CAIRO1079	GLOBAL PATRIOT: DECEASED'S FAMILY MEMBERS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: We received an unannounced visit May 27 from two relatives of the widow of Mohammed Affifi. Affifi was the Egyptian boatman killed in the March 24 Global Patriot incident. Mohammed Fathi Mohammed, an attorney, said that the family prefers to settle compensation issues directly wit [...]	2008-05-28 03:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EG
08CAIRO1085	EGYPTIAN MFA ASSESSMENT OF THE DOHA AGREEMENT FOR [...] (C) Egyptian MFA reaction to the May 20 Lebanese National Dialogue agreement in Doha was positive, and our MFA interlocutors praised Qatar,s role. All agreed that the Doha agreement was the best that could have been expected. That said, there are competing internal MFA analyses on what the re [...]	2008-05-28 10:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE SY EG
08CAIRO1086	EGYPT UNLIKELY TO MOVE ENGINEERS FROM UNMIS TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-28 11:27:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PREL UNSC EG SU
08CAIRO1088	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ICT MARKET WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary: In a May 26 introductory call on Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tarek Kamel, the Ambassador praised the role of the Ministry and of information and communications technology (ICT) market growth in Egypt's economic development, inquired about GOE plans to pro [...]	2008-05-28 14:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECPS ECON ETRD KIPR EG
08CAIRO1101	CODEL Gutierrez meets Egyptian Central Bank Governor [...] (U) Summary: Codel Gutierrez met with Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Governor Farouk el Okdah on May 25 for a wide ranging, substantive conversation. Key themes raised were on banking sector reform, high commodity prices, mortgage sector development, and unemployment. End Summary. 2. (U) El [...]	2008-05-29 13:59:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EG
08CAIRO1102	EGYPTIANS OPEN TO BIOTECH, CRITICIZE BIOFUELS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ministry of Trade and Ministry of Agriculture officials defended the GOE ban on rice exports, criticized USG support of biofuels, and noted the GOE's recent approval of a genetically modified variety of corn as evidence of Egypt's openness to agricultural biotechnology in respo [...]	2008-05-29 14:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAGR EG
08CAIRO1109	EGYPT RECEIVES FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE PROPOSED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-02 07:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS OTRA PREL EG
08CAIRO1110	GAZA BORDER VISIT: GOE BRIEFING AND TOUR [...] (S) Summary: Senior LAWIO officers guided a GOE-sponsored Congressional staffdel on a tour along the Egypt-Gaza border May 26. In an introductory briefing, LAWIO Chief MG Nagy Kamal told us that the GOE has been making recent progress on discovering and destroying tunnel openings. He said th [...]	2008-06-02 09:55:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL PTER IS EG
08CAIRO1111	UPPER EGYPT SECTARIAN STRIFE APPEARS UNRELATED TO CAIRO [...] (U) Summary: Tensions between Coptic and Muslim residents of the Upper Egyptian village of Malawi continue to simmer after a land dispute between a monastery and its neighbors turned violent on May 31, leading to fears of sectarian strife during the June 4 celebrations of the Virgin Mary Moulid [...]	2008-06-02 09:59:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PHUM KIRF EG
08CAIRO1113	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL WITH AMRE MOUSSA [...] (C) The Ambassador and Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa discussed Iraq, Lebanon, the Israeli-Palestinian situation, and the USG's regional democracy strategy in her May 31 introductory call. Moussa said that the Arab League continues to see "eye to eye" with the USG on the need for a [...]	2008-06-02 10:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ LE IS EG
08CAIRO1117	GLOBAL PATRIOT: REQUESTING FORMAL GUIDANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: In conversations June 1, Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al-Assar told us that the GOE is expecting a very large compensation payment to the family, but would not say how much. Al-Assar also said that he hoped that NAVCENT Commander Cosgriff would visit Egypt [...]	2008-06-02 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS EG
08CAIRO1118	GLOBAL PATRIOT: REQUEST FOR FORMAL GUIDANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: In conversations June 1, Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al-Assar told us that the GOE is expecting a very large compensation payment to the family, but would not say how much. Al-Assar also said that he hoped that NAVCENT Commander Cosgriff would visit Egypt [...]	2008-06-02 15:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS EG
08CAIRO1119	GOE LETTER OF ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR MATERIALS [...] We received para 2 letter June 2 from the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority in response to reftel message. ISN/NESS received a copy of letter June 2 by e-mail. 2. Begin letter: Ms. Catherine Hill-Herndon Economic-Political Counselor American Embassy in Cairo Dear Ms. Hill-Herndon, [...]	2008-06-03 07:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC AR EG
08CAIRO112	SECRETARY BODMAN WHEELS UP [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-23 15:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	OVIP ENRG
08CAIRO1126	EGYPT: COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF TWO [...] (SBU) Description. In REF B, the GOE submitted a request to procure two UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters to augment the Egyptian Air Force (EAF) Search and Rescue capability. This capability will directly support the GOE National Crisis Response Plan. The primary role of these designated SAR ai [...]	2008-06-04 07:09:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MASS MARR EG
08CAIRO1128	EGYPT: COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF TWO [...] (SBU) Description. In REF A, the GOE submitted a request to procure two UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters to support their Border Security Mission. These designated aircraft will perform tasks associated with border security and surveillance. These helicopters will support an existing military f [...]	2008-06-04 09:40:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MASS MARR EG
08CAIRO1129	EGYPTIAN COURT UPHOLDS HIV SENTENCES [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-04 12:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KHIV UN EG
08CAIRO1132	IMPACT OF NEW REVENUE MEASURES [...] (U) The revenue generating measures announced by the GOE on May 5 (reftel) continue to attract attention in the local media. Press reports indicate that the measures are designed to raise about LE 14 billion ($2.6 billion) annually, or about 5% of annual revenues. The Ministry of Finance (MO [...]	2008-06-05 05:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG
08CAIRO1138	NEXT STEPS ON D&G AND FUNDING FOR CIVIL COMPANIES [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a May 29 letter, MIC Minister Aboulnaga has complained a second time about USAID direct funding for civil companies under its D&G program (see para 7 for full text). In response, we propose canceling the 2004 agreement governing the D&G Direct Grants program on the grounds th [...]	2008-06-05 09:46:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	EAID PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO1146	AMBASSADOR, ELECTRICITY MINISTER DISCUSS NUCLEAR [...] Summary: During the Ambassador's introductory call on Electricity and Energy Minister Hassan Younes June 3, Younes expressed interest in renewing bilateral cooperation on civilian nuclear power, and specifically requested technical assistance training on regulatory matters. Younes said that [...]	2008-06-05 13:43:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EWWT SENV IAEA EG
08CAIRO1149	DEMARCHE REGARDING EGYPTIAN BLOGGERS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-08 07:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KMPI EG
08CAIRO1175	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN FREEDOM HOUSE [...] (C) On June 2, the Ambassador met with nine Egyptian journalists and activists who recently returned to Egypt from the U.S. where they participated in Freedom House's New Generation of Advocates Fellowship program. Meeting participants included: Shaima Aboul Kheir (Journalist, Al Dustour n [...]	2008-06-09 08:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KMPI KDEM EG
08CAIRO1176	EGYPT EXPRESSES FRUSTRATION WITH THE UN'S 1267 [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: Egypt is one of several countries which has submitted names to the U.N. Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 regarding Al Qaida and Taliban associated entities. Egypt has had 13 names pending with the Committee [...]	2008-06-09 11:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EG ETRD IR PGOV
08CAIRO1177	PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE OVER FLOUR SUBSIDIES [...] (U) Summary: The northern Egyptian coastal town of Burg al-Burullus was the site of a large June 7 impromptu protest against the provincial governor's recent decision to halt the distribution of subsidized flour in favor of subsidized bread distribution. Police sent to disperse the demonstrato [...]	2008-06-09 12:30:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON EG
08CAIRO1180	GAZA BORDER: GOE DOWNPLAYS JUNE 6 HAMAS [...] (C) On June 8, MFA Palestinian Affairs Director Badr Abdelatty downplayed the June 6 Hamas demonstration at the Palestinian Rafah border crossing, describing it as a "normal" and "predictable" way for Hamas to try to pressure Egypt on the current tahdiya ("calming") talks. Abdelatty said that [...]	2008-06-10 06:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL EG
08CAIRO1188	POVERTY, LEGAL LOOPHOLE FUEL EGYPTIAN ORGAN TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent years have seen increased Egyptian and international media reports of both the consensual sale and theft of human organs in Egypt, earning the country a spot on the World Health Organization's 2007 list of the world's top five organ trafficking "hotspots". Rising poverty [...]	2008-06-10 12:21:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KCRM EG
08CAIRO1191	APACHE NOMINEE FOR CORPORATE EXCELLENCE [...] We would like to nominate Apache Corporation, the largest U.S. investor in Egypt and Egypt's third largest oil and gas producer, for the State Department's Corporate Excellence award. In addition to achieving business excellence, Apache deserves recognition for its girls school program, suppor [...]	2008-06-10 12:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP AMGT ECON EINV ELAB ETRD SENV EAID KPAO EG
08CAIRO1192	EGYPT CRIMINALIZES TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN AND FGM [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 7, Egypt's upper house of parliament approved amendments to Egypt's Child Protection Law that criminalize and stipulate severe punishments for trafficking of children and for female genital mutilation (FGM). The new legislation represents Egypt's first legal framework to [...]	2008-06-10 13:37:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM KWMN EG
08CAIRO1193	MORE SECTARIAN TENSIONS IN UPPER EGYPT [...] (SBU) Summary: The killing of a young Copt on June 6 sparked a demonstration of a few hundred Christians in the town of Dafesh, which lies 140 kilometers from the site of last week's altercations between Copts and Muslims over the Abu Sana monastery (reftel). Church sources have been quick to [...]	2008-06-10 13:46:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PHUM KIRF EG
08CAIRO1197	FM ABOUL GHEIT PLANNING TO ATTEND BERLIN [...] DCM delivered points in reftel demarche June 11 to MFA Senior Cabinet Advisor Hossam Zaki. Zaki took the points, and said that FM Aboul Gheit is planning to lead the Egyptian delegation to the Berlin Conference on June 24. 2. We are following up with Arab League regarding its delegation an [...]	2008-06-11 13:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG PREL PBTS PHUM
08CAIRO1198	S/P GORDON MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN MFA TEAM [...] (S) S/P Director Dr. David Gordon engaged with MFA Chief of Cabinet Wafa Bassim in a wide ranging regional policy discussion June 6. Bassim reiterated the Egyptian view that resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is paramount. The Egyptians are supporting the Lebanese government, asse [...]	2008-06-11 13:39:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV LE IS SY IZ IR EG
08CAIRO1201	DR. BOUTROS-GHALI'S CANDIDACY FOR CHAIRMAN OF IMFC [...] (U) Below are the texts of two letters received June 8, 2008 and June 9, 2008 respectively, regarding Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali's candidacy for Chairman of the International Monetary Finance Committee (IMFC). Post is forwarding hard copies directly to Secretary Paulson via fax. [...]	2008-06-11 13:42:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAID EG
08CAIRO1203	EGYPTIAN ATTENDANCE AT THE JUNE 23 CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) We delivered points in reftel June 9 to Ayman Zeineldeen, Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs. Zeineldeen confirmed that Egypt would attend the June 23rd conference in Vienna on reconstruction of Lebanon's Nahr al-Barid refugee camp. In a June 11 meeting, MFA Senior Advisor Hossa [...]	2008-06-11 13:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA EG
08CAIRO1206	EGYPTIAN MFA AND ARAB LEAGUE VIEWS ON [...] (S) Summary. MFA Senior Cabinet Advisor Hossam Zaki told DCM June 11 that the GOE is in no hurry to advance intra-Palestinian dialogue, and recognizes the potential damage it could cause Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. PA President Abbas told President Mubarak June 9 that he does not want [...]	2008-06-12 07:18:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO121	EGYPT: POST SUBMISSION FOR SECTION 1377 TELECOM [...] We provide the below responses from the Government of Egypt to reftel concerns for the Section 1377 Telecom Trade Agreements 2008 Review. Satellite Services ------------------ 2. For all questions on licenses for satellite services, National Telecommunications and Regulatory Authority ( [...]	2008-01-24 15:03:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ECON ETRD USTR EG
08CAIRO1211	EGYPT SUPPORTS SECRETARIAT ON UN SYSTEM OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-12 12:33:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC APER UNGA EG
08CAIRO1212	EGYPT WOULD CONSIDER HOSTING KOSOVAR DELEGATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-12 12:38:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNMIK EG KV YI
08CAIRO1213	EGYPT ACCEPTS REQUEST TO REPLACE INFANTRY WITH [...] (SBU) MFA Counselor for UN Affairs Yasser Naggar told us on June 12 that, later that same day, the MFA would instruct its delegation in New York to accept the UN DPKO's request to replace one of four companies in Egypt's second infantry battalion for the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) with an [...]	2008-06-12 12:42:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO UNSC EG SU
08CAIRO1226	EGYPT TO ATTEND FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-15 09:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS OTRA PREL EG
08CAIRO1228	MUFTI'S VIEWS ON RECENT SECTARIAN INCIDENTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-15 11:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI KIRF PHUM KISL EG
08CAIRO123	GAZA BORDER UPDATE [...] A security contact confirmed to us that the Ministry of Defense would be trying to prevent additional Palestinians from entering Egypt today, January 25. Egyptian Border Guard Forces are now deployed to create a form of barrier along the border at Rafah, but an opening exists to allow Palesti [...]	2008-01-25 11:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO1231	EGYPT ALLEGEDLY DEPORTS POSSIBLE ERITREAN [...] (SBU) Summary: While we cannot confirm Amnesty International allegations that Egypt has deported hundreds of Eritreans seeking refuge in Egypt, our UNHCR contacts say that convincing circumstantial evidence shows that Egypt deported at least some Eritreans to either Eritrea or Sudan between Ju [...]	2008-06-15 14:37:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL EG ER
08CAIRO124	RAFAH CROSSING STILL OPEN; EGYPTIAN ANGER CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary. People continue to cross the Gaza-Egypt border line without GOE customs or immigration formalities as of 1600 local, January 24. The GOE has established a heavy security presence in the area. Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad told the Ambassador January 23 that the current crisi [...]	2008-01-25 17:39:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IS EG
08CAIRO1240	ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA TO ATTEND JUNE 24 BERLIN [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-16 07:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG PREL PBTS PHUM EG
08CAIRO1241	S/P DIRECTOR GORDON, MG AL-ASSAR DISCUSS BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: In a June 5 discussion, Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al-Assar told S/P Director Gordon that Egypt is a strategic partner for the U.S., and criticized Congress' attempt to condition aid funds as "narrowly focused." Al-Assar claimed that conditionality hamp [...]	2008-06-16 07:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EAID KPAL IR IS EG
08CAIRO1255	IFES ENGAGEMENT WITH EGYPT'S SUPREME ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) On June 16, the Egypt country director for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) debriefed us on a June 2-7 trip to Poland that IFES, in coordination with the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, arranged for three senior members of Egypt's Supreme Ele [...]	2008-06-18 10:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PO EG
08CAIRO1258	EGYPT'S APPROACH ON ERITREAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS [...] (U) This is an action cable. For action requested, see paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: On June 18, the Ambassador raised with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit USG concern over continuing reports that Egypt is deporting Eritreans likely eligible for refugee protections to Eritrea. Aboul Gh [...]	2008-06-18 15:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM EG ER
08CAIRO1259	GLOBAL PATRIOT: REPORT SUMMARY DELIVERED; NEXT [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 9. 2. (C) Summary: On June 17, U.S. Fifth Fleet and NAVCENT Commander VADM Kevin J. Cosgriff presented a letter describing the U.S. Fifth Fleet investigation's findings and a summary of the investigative report to Assistant Minister of Defense [...]	2008-06-18 16:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS EG
08CAIRO126	GAZA BORDER UPDATE JANUARY 26 [...] Egyptian riot police and armored vehicles continue to block Gaza cars from entering Egypt. The local press reports dozens of Egyptian riot police are forming a human barrier to block two openings through the breached border wall. Egyptian armored vehicles are also reportedly blocking roads i [...]	2008-01-26 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO1268	EGYPT MEPI UPDATE: SMALL GRANTS, RURAL OUTREACH, AND [...] Summary: Highlights of MEPI activities in Egypt during the first half of 2008 include six new small grants for projects with aims including democracy promotion in schools and strengthening workers' associations; a USDA regional Food Defense workshop; outreach to Upper Egypt and the Nile Delta [...]	2008-06-19 04:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV ECON KMPI KDEM EG
08CAIRO1271	CODEL RAHALL, DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSS THE GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Codel Rahall, comprised of Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV),Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA),Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL),Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-LA),Rep. John Linder (R-GA) and Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA),met with Defense Minister Tantawi June 1, accompanied by the Ambassador and OMC Chief. Rep. [...]	2008-06-19 11:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MARR IQ IS EG
08CAIRO1274	PARLIAMENT PASSES NEW REAL ESTATE TAX LAW [...] (U) Summary: Egypt's parliament approved a new real estate tax law on June 16 that will significantly increase the nation-wide property tax base. The real estate tax law previously in effect limited property taxation to residential and commercial property in the Cairo metropolitan area. The [...]	2008-06-19 13:37:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EG
08CAIRO1275	AMBASSADOR SCOBEY PRESENTS HER CREDENTIALS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-19 14:22:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL APER EG
08CAIRO1276	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONVEYING THE UPDATED P5+1 [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-19 14:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM MNUC KNNP IR EG
08CAIRO1277	GLOBAL PATRIOT: DEFENSE MINISTER TERMS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-19 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS EG
08CAIRO1290	EGYPTIAN ATTENDANCE UPDATE - JUNE 23 VIENNA [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-22 13:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL PHUM
08CAIRO1291	SPECIAL ENVOY GENERAL JONES' CAIRO MEETINGS JUNE 12 [...] (S) Summary: Special Envoy for Middle East Regional Security General James Jones (Ret.) met June 12 with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, EGIS Chief Omar Soliman and Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al-Assar to discuss his mission. General Jones explained that he is re [...]	2008-06-22 14:07:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO1307	SPECIAL ENVOY WOLCOTT DELEGATION, GOE OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary and comment: Ambassador Jackie Wolcott, Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, led an interagency delegation to Cairo June 8-9 to discuss civilian nuclear energy cooperation with current and former Electricity Ministry and Atomic Energy Authority officials, the MFA, and PGESC [...]	2008-06-24 04:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON KNNP BEXP EG
08CAIRO1315	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ELECTIONS: SOME INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary and comment: Late May elections for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) highest body elevated five new members to the Guidance Council, among them two MB parliamentarians, an unprecedented move for the group. Some analysts herald the exclusion of a prominent MB moderate from th [...]	2008-06-24 14:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KISL PINR EG
08CAIRO1316	EGYPT: HEADING OFF FUTURE FORCIBLE RETURNS OF [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraphs 2 and 3 for action requested. 2. (C) It is too soon to tell if Egypt's recent forced repatriation of Eritreans likely eligible for refugee protections (ref B) is a one-time occurrence or portends a full-scale reversal of Egypt's so-far gen [...]	2008-06-25 11:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL EG ER
08CAIRO1322	EGYPT: LIMITED UNHCR ACCESS TO ERITREAN ASYLUM [...] (C) On June 23, we again pressed MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Refugees Tarek El Maaty for the GOE to cease forced repatriations of Eritrean asylum seekers and to allow UNHCR complete access to those held in Egyptian custody. El Maaty, uncomfortable and defensive, stressed that most of the [...]	2008-06-25 14:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL EG ER
08CAIRO1335	MOODY'S DOWNGRADES EGYPT [...] (U) Moody's Investors Service downgraded its ratings of several categories of Egypt's debt on June 23. In particular, Moody's changed the outlook on Egypt's Ba1 foreign currency government bond from stable to negative and it changed the local currency bond rating from Baa3 to Ba1 while preser [...]	2008-06-26 13:14:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN EG
08CAIRO1339	NEW JUDICIAL LAW: A STEP BACK ON JUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary: In the final week of the 2007-2008 parliamentary session, the Egyptian People's Assembly approved several amendments to the Judicial Authorities law. Both the process and substance of the new legislation has been criticized - publicly by the reform-minded Egyptian Judges Club, and [...]	2008-06-26 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KJUS EG
08CAIRO1340	GAZA BORDER CALM, NO CLEAR WAY FORWARD ON OPENING [...] (S) Summary: LAWIO Chief MG Nagy told us June 25 that the Gaza border is calm, and that the GOE has recently found an increased number of tunnels used for smuggling commercial goods. He noted that three main tunnels collapsed in June. He said that EGIS Chief Soliman would discuss a Hamas-Isra [...]	2008-06-26 15:54:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO1351	PARLIAMENT PASSES WEAKENED AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPETITION [...] (U) The People's Assembly recently passed a modified version of amendments to the competition law proposed by the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) to make the law more effective. ECA proposed an obligatory fine of 10% of annual profits for companies found guilty of monopolistic practices. [...]	2008-06-29 13:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN EG

08CAIRO1352	AGRIUM INVESTMENT DISPUTE COULD UNDERMINE EGYPT'S IMPROVED [...] (U) A campaign against construction of a urea fertilizer plant in the Port of Damietta industrial zone threatens to derail much of the GOE's success in improving Egypt's image as a safe, secure destination for foreign investment. EAgrium, a consortium of Canada's Agrium (60%),various GOE min [...]	2008-06-29 14:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV SENV PGOV EG
08CAIRO1353	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE TRANSFER OF 120MM [...] (C) Description: The Government of Egypt has requested procurement of 15,500 120mm HE-T main-gun rounds, 200 dummy rounds, and 100 cutaway rounds. The dummy and cutaway rounds are for training purposes only. 2. (C) Reason the purchaser desires the articles or services: The Egyptian Army [...]	2008-06-30 06:44:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL MASS MARR EG
08CAIRO1359	EGYPT'S ENERGY STRATEGY, AND CONCERN OVER GAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Determined to satisfy rapid growth in domestic demand and position Egypt as a regional hub for energy distribution, the GOE recently adopted a fifteen year national energy strategy, according to Ibrahim Saleh, special advisor to Finance Minister Yousef Boutros-Ghali and former [...]	2008-06-30 13:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EPET PGOV EG IS
08CAIRO136	EGYPT-GAZA BORDER UPDATE: JANUARY 27 [...] (C) As of January 27, Palestinians continued to come and go from Egypt without undergoing customs or immigration procedures for the fifth consecutive day while security forces attempted to control only parts of the border and to limit visiting Palestinians' movement to the area between Al Ari [...]	2008-01-27 16:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO137	EGYPT SEES RE-OPENING RAFAH AS SOLUTION TO BORDER [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman and senior advisor Hossam Zaki told the CDA on January 27 that Egypt's political vision for solving the Gaza border crisis is to find a solution where "everyone wins something, but the PA comes out a bigger winner than Hamas." For the Israelis this wo [...]	2008-01-27 17:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO1370	BANQUE DU CAIRE PRIVATIZATION POSTPONED [...] (U) The GOE postponed indefinitely the sale of state-owned Banque du Caire on June 25, after the highest bid received did not meet the minimum asking price of $1.6 billion for 67% of the bank's shares. A GOE evaluation committee set the minimum price based on the $1.6 billion that Italy's San [...]	2008-07-01 13:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EG
08CAIRO1388	EGYPT: STILL INCOMPLETE UNHCR ACCESS TO ERITREANS [...] (SBU) On July 1, the Ambassador told Deputy Foreign Minister Wafaa Bassim that the USG is concerned that the GOE was still not providing the UNHCR complete access to Eritrean asylum seekers in Egyptian custody. UNHCR Deputy Regional Representative for Protection Katharina Lumpp had confirmed [...]	2008-07-02 12:48:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL EG ER
08CAIRO1395	EGYPT RECEIVES IRISL INFORMATION, COMMITTED TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-02 14:21:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	EWWT ETRD ECON EFIN PARM KNNP EG
08CAIRO1400	GOE HALTS TEMPORARY RAFAH OPENING DUE TO [...] (C) MFA Acting Palestinian Affairs Director Barakat El-Leithy told us July 2 that the GOE shut down its temporary reopening of the Rafah border crossing because of Palestinians throwing stones at Egyptian Civilian Security Forces (CSF). El-Leithy said that the GOE had planned to open the cro [...]	2008-07-02 15:49:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL EG
08CAIRO1402	GOE RE-OPENS RAFAH FOR PALESTINIANS TO RETURN TO [...] (C) MFA Acting Palestinian Affairs Director Barakat El-Leithy told us that the GOE re-opened the Rafah crossing July 3 on a temporary basis to allow Palestinians to return to Gaza from Egypt. He said that these were mostly wounded and sick Palestinians who received medical treatment in Egypt [...]	2008-07-03 14:42:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL EG
08CAIRO1403	GLOBAL PATRIOT: PDASD COULTER, MG AL-ASSAR [...] (U) This message includes an action request; please see para 13. 2. (C) Summary: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Coulter met with Assistant Minister of Defense MG Mohammed Al-Assar June 26 and July 1 to discuss resolving the outstanding issues related to the March 2 [...]	2008-07-04 09:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS EG
08CAIRO1410	EGYPT STILL WARY ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (SBU) On July 1, the Ambassador pressed Deputy Foreign Minister Wafaa Bassim for Egypt to recognize Kosovo. Bassim repeated previous Egyptian objections to Kosovo recognition (ref C),noting that Kosovo's declaration of independence came "outside of international law" and worrying that it mig [...]	2008-07-06 13:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PREL PGOV EG KV YI
08CAIRO1414	EGYPT: CONSIDERING NAVAL SUPPORT TO WFP FOR HORN [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-07 12:29:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM EAID EG
08CAIRO1416	CODEL ACKERMAN MEETINGS WITH MUBARAK, SULEIMAN, [...] (C) Summary: In separate June 28 meetings with President Hosni Mubarak, EGIS Director Omar Suleiman, and FM Ahmed Aboul Gheit, CODEL Ackerman and the Ambassador discussed Israeli-Palestinian developments (focusing on Egypt's goals for building upon the current "calming period"),Egypt's region [...]	2008-07-07 13:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL KPAL EAID ENRG IS
08CAIRO1425	EMBASSY CAIRO PLANS FOR FY 2008 D&G SPENDING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Working in a political environment that is increasingly hostile to reform and openness, our strategy is to exploit opportunities to promote political reform and human rights, both in partnership with civil society and where possible with reform elements within G [...]	2008-07-08 09:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB EG
08CAIRO1436	U.S. COUNTER-TUNNELING EQUIPMENT TEAM VISIT TO [...] (S) Summary: A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Team visited Egypt June 15-30 to conduct site surveys on the Gaza Border and at the Giza training site in preparation for the GOE's deployment of seismic-acoustic counter-tunneling equipment on the Gaza Border, expected in January 2009 (reft [...]	2008-07-09 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL MASS EG
08CAIRO1478	IAEA: EGYPT NOTIFIED OF U.S. RATIFICATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-14 12:15:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP IAEA ENRG PARM EG
08CAIRO148	GAZA BORDER UPDATE JANUARY 29 [...] Econoff and FSN traveled to North Sinai governorate January 28. In El Arish, the capital of North Sinai governorate, they saw a group of about 50 Palestinians camping outside the Ministry of Interior office. One Palestinian said he was waiting for permission to travel outside Sinai for medical [...]	2008-01-29 06:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO1480	DEMARCHE REQUEST: KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT [...] (C) We raised points in reftel with Barakat Leithy, MFA Acting Director of Palestinian Affairs, on July 13. Leithy told us that the GOE strongly supports the Palestinian Authority and recognizes its financial challenges. Egypt is also facing increasing budgetary pressures. Nevertheless, Lei [...]	2008-07-14 14:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL PREL ECON KWBG EG
08CAIRO1481	INFLATION RISES IN JUNE, BUT NOT AS FAST AS IN PREVIOUS [...] (U) Inflation reached 20.2% year-on-year (YoY) in June, up from 19.7% YoY in May, according to Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Food prices increased 27.2% YoY, up slightly from 27% YoY in May. Speaking just before release of the inflation figures, Mini [...]	2008-07-15 05:39:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EG
08CAIRO1483	SUDAN: ARAB LEAGUE, EGYPT ON ICC INDICTMENTS [...] (C) Arab League Secretariat Advisor for African Affairs Zeid Sabban told us on July 15 that Secretary General (SYG) Amre Moussa had come to a "mutual understanding" with United Nations (UN) SYG Ban Ki-Moon and African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Jean Ping in Paris July 14 regarding the I [...]	2008-07-15 12:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EG SU
08CAIRO1484	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SHUT-OUT IN PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Summary: On July 13, elections for four empty parliamentary seats were held in Alexandria and the Nile Delta province of Kafr al Shaikh. The National Democratic Party (NDP) candidates won in all of the races, amid allegations from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidates of electoral fraud [...]	2008-07-15 12:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL EG
08CAIRO1486	DISCUSSION WITH EGYPTAIR REGARDING FOREIGN FIGHTERS [...] (C) We raised the issue of foreign fighters transiting Damascus via commercial aircraft on their way to Iraq (ref A) with Essam Gamal El Din, Vice President for Security at EgyptAir and with Maged Hagag, Security Manager for the airline. El Din and Hagag said that Egyptian security services h [...]	2008-07-15 14:56:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PTER EAIR ECON EG
08CAIRO1491	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE RELEASE AND [...] (U) Background: a. In Feb 99, the U.S. and Egypt concluded an MOU for the co-production of M865 and M831A1 120mm Tank Training Ammunition. The associated foreign military sales case (EG-B-NFP) was implemented in Nov 00 and was assigned to the U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command (JMC),Rock I [...]	2008-07-16 08:50:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL MASS MARR EG
08CAIRO150	RISING ANXIETY ABOUT PRICE INCREASES [...] (U) In one clear manifestation of rising popular anxiety about price increases, large demonstrations were held recently in two Nile Delta cities, protesting increased prices of basic commodities such as bread, oil, beans and rice. On January 18, approximately 2000 protestors, including member [...]	2008-01-29 10:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB EG
08CAIRO151	DARFUR: CAIRO-BASED SLM/A-UNION FRONT WANTS LARGER [...] (SBU) In a January 27 meeting at their request, Youssef Hassan Youssef Abdallah and Ahmed Hassan Mohamed of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army-Union Front (SLM/A-UF) asked us to lobby the UN and AU envoys to include SLM/A-UF representatives in their meetings when they next approach Darfur rebe [...]	2008-01-29 10:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS PINR EG SU
08CAIRO1513	R/V OCEANUS RESEARCH VOYAGE REQUEST FOR CLEARANCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-16 13:26:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT KVRC EG
08CAIRO1515	EGYPT: TRADE MINISTER DISCOURAGES POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohammed Rachid told the Ambassador in an introductory call that Egyptian reformers would view a free-trade agreement with the United States as a catalyst for reform, arguing that the 2006 U.S. decision to back away from the launch of free-tra [...]	2008-07-17 06:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EG
08CAIRO1516	AMBASSADOR VISITS THE GAZA BORDER; RAFAH CROSSING [...] (C) Summary: On a July 13 visit to the Egypt-Gaza border, the Ambassador attended a briefing by Liaison Agency with International Organizations (LAWIO) Chief MG Nagy and toured the border area. In the briefing, MG Nagy outlined the political and security reasons that he said compel Egypt to [...]	2008-07-17 08:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL MASS IS EG
08CAIRO1517	GLOBAL PATRIOT: VICTIM'S RELATIVES INQUIRE INTO [...] (C) On July 14, two relatives of the widow of Mohammed Affifi, the victim in the Global Patriot incident, called us unexpectedly to request a meeting, saying that they had traveled from Port Suez to Cairo to see us. Before the meeting, we advised MOD U.S. Affairs Deputy Chief Colonel Abdullah [...]	2008-07-17 08:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS EG
08CAIRO1518	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES LOCAL ECONOMY, SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's visit to North Sinai July 13, she discussed local economic and political issues with the governor, governorate officials, MPs and businesspeople. Governor Mohammed Abdel Fadeel Shousha said that unemployment in Gaza and in North Sinai fuels smuggling thro [...]	2008-07-17 08:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PINR PGOV IS EG
08CAIRO152	RISING ANXIETY ABOUT PRICE INCREASES: Part II [...] (U) Rising food prices have led to demonstrations and pessimism among the poor, but official data show inflation within a reasonable range, given current economic growth. Most analysts believe the official figures do not capture the full picture, particularly as the poor are hurt most by risi [...]	2008-01-29 11:47:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN KLAB EG
08CAIRO1524	MEETING BETWEEN AMBASSADOR SCOBEY AND MINISTER OF HEALTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Scobey paid an introductory call on Minister of Health and Population Hatem El Gabaly on June 29. Discussion centered on ongoing health sector reform, graduate level training for ministry staff in US and by U.S. universities in Egypt, pharmaceutical intellectual prope [...]	2008-07-17 13:19:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EAGR PGOV TBIO KIPR KSCA KFLU KWMN EG
08CAIRO1526	DR. BOUTROS-GHALI'S THOUGHTS ON WHAT LAYS AHEAD FOR IMFC [...] (U) Below is the text of a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson received July 13, 2008 regarding Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali thoughts on the International Monetary Finance Committee (IMFC). Post is forwarding hard copies directly to Secretary Paulson via fax. 2. (U) Begin [...]	2008-07-17 14:48:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAID EG
08CAIRO1527	CLOSED LABOR NGO RE-OPENS [...] (SBU) After a year-long legal battle, the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS),a labor rights group, has re-opened. The group's offices were closed by State Security officers in April 2007, after the Ministry of Social Solidarity accused the organization of inciting nationwide [...]	2008-07-17 14:59:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO1528	GOE AND ARAB LEAGUE ON JULY 19 MINISTERIAL ON [...] (SBU) Arab League Secretariat Advisor for African Affairs Zeid Sabban told us on July 17 that the Arab League would try to tread a "middle road" in its upcoming July 19 ministerial on the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor's recommendation to indict Sudanese President Bashir, but tha [...]	2008-07-17 15:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EG SU
08CAIRO1529	MIC'S ABOULNAGA REVIEWS BILATERAL ASSISTANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and USAID Mission Director spent two hours with MIC Minister Aboulnaga on July 17 reviewing the state of play on both the Egyptian position on the proposed ESF levels for 2009 and on Democracy and Governance programming. Aboulnaga confirmed that MIC will not sign an [...]	2008-07-17 15:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL KDEM EG
08CAIRO1535	EGYPT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION [...] (U) We delivered reftel paragraph 12 points to Engineer Alaa Fahmy, Chairman of the Egyptian Postal Authority, on July 9. He had no substantive response on the points on the UPU Massion Statement or Zero Nominal Growth policies. On supporting U.S. candidacy, he asked for names and details on [...]	2008-07-20 09:04:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ECON ETRD WTRO EG
08CAIRO1537	MFA ON NATO VISIT TO CAIRO, EGYPTIAN VIEWS OF NATO [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director for European Security and Strategy Mohammed Orfi briefed us July 8 on NATO Assistant SYG Martin Erdmann's mid-June meeting with MFA Assistant Minister for Europe Fatima Zara (ref),saying that the two sides moved toward signing an MOU on exchanging classified [...]	2008-07-20 10:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL NATO IS EG
08CAIRO1541	ARAB MINISTERIAL BACKS SUDAN VS. ICC [...] (SBU) The Arab League called International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Ocampo's request for an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Bashir "unbalanced" in a statement after its July 19 ministerial on the subject, but stopped short of calling on the UN to use its power to stay the [...]	2008-07-20 14:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG SU
08CAIRO1543	MFA CABINET ASSESSES THE EGYPTIAN-SYRIAN [...] (C) Summary. Egyptian MFA Cabinet advisors told us in separate meetings July 14-20 that the GOE remains frustrated with Syria, with no plans for a high-level bilateral meeting on the horizon. Although there had been talk of a Mubarak-Assad meeting at the Paris summit of European and Mediterr [...]	2008-07-21 06:56:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV SY EG
08CAIRO155	GAZA BORDER UPDATE JANUARY 29, PT. II [...] On January 29, econoff and FSN traveled from El Arish to the border crossing at Rafah, encountering little traffic all the way to the commercial customs terminal. There were thirty central security trucks on the highway between El Arish and Rafah, and state security officers blocked side road [...]	2008-01-29 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL CASC PTER EG IS
08CAIRO1560	PARLIAMENTARY MINISTER DETAILS COMING LEGISLATION [...] (C) Summary: In a July 20 meeting, Minister of State for Parliamentary and Legal Affairs Mufeed Shehab detailed for the Ambassador priority legislation that will come before Egypt's parliament when the new legislative session opens in mid-November. According to Shehab, Egypt's delayed anti-ter [...]	2008-07-22 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO1565	AYMAN NOUR NOT RELEASED ON NATIONAL HOLIDAY [...] (C) In a customary gesture of mercy, on July 23 (a national holiday which celebrates the anniversary of Egypt's 1952 revolution),President Hosni Mubarak granted amnesty to 1,587 prisoners who had served over half of their sentences. Former opposition presidential candidate Ayman Nour, who has [...]	2008-07-24 11:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO1566	EGYPT: REACTION TO TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST ACTION [...] (SBU) On July 22 we delivered reftel trafficking-in-persons (TIP) action plan to MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd, emphasizing that the GOE needs to make measurable progress in victim protection and in prosecutions of, and a comprehensive legal framework to prosecu [...]	2008-07-24 12:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KWMN KCRM PHUM SMIG EG
08CAIRO1567	EGYPT: ESSENTIAL INTERESTS IN THE NILE BASIN AND [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian officials emphasize that Egypt is a leader not only in the Arab world but also in Africa. Outside of projecting regional weight, though, Egypt's core interests in Africa center on maintaining security of Nile water resources and managing the often illegal flow of people a [...]	2008-07-24 12:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF SENV EWWT EAGR EG ET SU SO
08CAIRO157	COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAHA'IS [...] (SBU) On January 29, the Cairo Administrative Court ruled in two cases brought by members of Egypt's small Baha'i religious community that the government may issue official identification documents without listing the holder's religion on the document. (Note: Under current practice, the gove [...]	2008-01-29 15:47:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV EG
08CAIRO158	ARAB LEAGUE LEBANON MTG POST-MORTEM [...] (S) Summary. The GOE MFA Cabinet Advisor for Syria-Lebanon was downcast following the January 27 Arab League ministerial session on Lebanon. He did not see significant progress toward a pro-majority solution, and worried that the Syrians were succeeding in wearing down moderate Arab states. [...]	2008-01-29 16:32:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV LE SY EG
08CAIRO1581	EGYPT ARRESTS FACEBOOK ACTIVISTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-28 08:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
08CAIRO16	AYMAN NOUR UPDATE AND LETTER TO POTUS [...] (C) Summary: In a December 30 meeting, Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Ghad Party leader and former presidential candidate Ayman Nour, told us that Nour's health is currently "ok" and that he hopes to be released in one of the traditional holiday amnesties granted by President Hosni Mubarak [...]	2008-01-03 11:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO1608	WOMEN'S ISSUES COORDINATOR VISITS EGYPT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-30 07:17:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PHUM PGOV EG
08CAIRO162	GAZA BORDER UPDATE JANUARY 30 [...] An Egyptian businessman in El Arish told us January 30 that he was not optimistic that the GOE will successfully round up all the Palestinians in North Sinai. Some of them, he surmised, will go to ground with friends and relatives. An academic contact, by contrast, said that Egyptians in Nor [...]	2008-01-30 16:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL CASC PTER EG IS
08CAIRO1629	BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI ON HUMAN RIGHTS, RELIGIOUS [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-30 11:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL EG
08CAIRO163	GAZA BORDER UPDATE JANUARY 30 [...] An Egyptian businessman in El Arish told us January 30 that he was not optimistic that the GOE will successfully round up all the Palestinians in North Sinai. Some of them, he surmised, will go to ground with friends and relatives. An academic contact, by contrast, said that Egyptians in Nor [...]	2008-01-31 05:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL CASC PTER EG IS
08CAIRO1637	CODEL KERRY MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MUBARAK [...] (C) Summary: On July 2, Senator Kerry and the Ambassador discussed regional developments with President Hosni Mubarak, including Zimbabwe, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, and Israel-Palestine. Mubarak said that Egypt was working to find a solution in Sudan, but preferred to do so "quietly." Mubarak warned [...]	2008-07-31 10:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PHUM AU EG IR IS SU
08CAIRO1647	DARFUR REBELS IN EGYPT ROUND-UP [...] (C) Summary: Since the GOE expelled prominent representatives of the relatively active and well-organized Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) after the JEM attack on Khartoum in May 2008, the Darfur rebels remaining in Cairo seem a less active bunch. The most prominent remaining group seems t [...]	2008-07-31 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PHUM EG SU
08CAIRO1651	EGYPT: NEW APPROACH ON ERITREAN REFUGEES [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE has acknowledged that it returned 167 Eritreans that it claims did not need refugee protection to Eritrea, claims to have "set free" 87 who were arrested in Egypt but who carried UNHCR refugee identification cards, and is disputing UNHCR designated refugee status for 130 [...]	2008-07-31 15:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL EG ER IS
08CAIRO1677	Egypt: Counterfeit Drugs Threaten Public Health, IPR [...] (U) Summary: GOE health and security officials are seeking assistance from US pharmaceutical companies to combat counterfeit drugs, which threaten public health, cost an estimated 1 billion Egyptian pounds ($190 million) a year, and violate the intellectual property rights of the innovative dr [...]	2008-08-04 12:46:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR ETRD EG
08CAIRO1679	EGYPT RELEASES FACEBOOK ACTIVISTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-04 14:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
08CAIRO168	EGYPTIANS, GAZANS SEEK ALTERNATIVE TO BORDER CHAOS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From business leaders to currency traders to hungry guys with empty gas cans, Egyptian residents of North Sinai and their self-invited guests from Gaza stressed during our visit January 28-30 that economic and humanitarian pressure will continue to cause eruptions across the bo [...]	2008-01-31 14:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL ETRD PTER KWBG EG
08CAIRO171	MIC'S ABOUL NAGA "EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED" BY [...] (C) Charge, USAID mission director, and econ counselor (notetaker) met with Minister for International Cooperation Fayza Aboulnaga to discuss next steps on the U.S. economic assistance program to Egypt. Charge explained that for FY 2009, the Administration's budget request for $200 million [...]	2008-01-31 16:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV EG
08CAIRO1711	EGYPTIAN MONASTERY CLASH: RESOLUTION EXPECTED SOON [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-06 15:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KIRF SOCI PHUM KISL EG
08CAIRO1716	SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL ON ZIMBABWE AND EGYPTIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a July 31 meeting with Hatem Seif al Nasser, Assistant Foreign Minister for American Affairs, the Ambassador pressed the GOE to play a constructive role with Zimbabwe, to help ensure that March 29 election results are respected. A wide-ranging discussion on Egyptian internal p [...]	2008-08-07 11:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KIRF PHUM ZI EG
08CAIRO172	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE UPGRADE OF [...] (SBU) Description: In Ref A (TAB A),the GOE requested the modification and upgrade of all existing Type 3 NVGs to type 4 in support of the operational flying requirements of the Egyptian Air Force (EAF). These upgrades are essential for the safe execution of night flying operations and must [...]	2008-02-03 05:05:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MASS MARR EG
08CAIRO1749	RESULTS OF ARAB LEAGUE FACT-FINDING MISSION ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-10 08:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL DJ ER EG
08CAIRO1761	RESULTS OF ARAB LEAGUE FACT-FINDING MISSION ON [...] (C) Summary: Arab League African Affairs Director Samir Hosni led an Arab League fact-finding mission to the Djibouti-Eritrea border on May 9-11. Members of the group met with Djiboutian officials, but Eritrean officials refused to meet with them. The committee found that Eritrean troops we [...]	2008-08-10 13:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL DJ ER EG
08CAIRO1762	VOLUNTARY RETURN OF IRAQIS FROM CAIRO TO BAGHDAD [...] (SBU) Summary. The Iraqi Embassy in Cairo and the Cairo office of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) confirmed August 10 media reports that approximately 1000 Iraqis, many of whom have UNHCR refugee status, will return to Iraq from Egypt this week. The Iraqi Embassy, Egyptian Minist [...]	2008-08-10 15:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL IZ EG
08CAIRO1793	AL HURRA MEETS WITH MINISTER OF INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Al Hurra officials met with Information Minister Anas El Fikki to discuss options for broadcasting portions of a three-hour daily live television program from Cairo. Minister Fikki was adamant that all satellite transmissions for this program be transmitted from within Media [...]	2008-08-14 14:05:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL BBG KPAO EG
08CAIRO1794	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON THE EGYPTIAN FUND FOR [...] (C) The Ambassador called on Ambassador Neveen Ashmawy, Secretary General of the Egyptian Fund for Technical Cooperation with Africa (EFTCA) on August 10. EFTCA provides technical experts, training courses and aid donations to assist in the development of sub-Saharan African countries. EFTCA [...]	2008-08-18 05:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EG
08CAIRO18	EGYPTIAN MFA ON RELATIONS WITH IRAN, LARIJANI VISIT [...] (C) Summary. The Ali Larijani visit at the turn of the year was the latest in a series of three meetings between GOE and Iranian officials. The media (particularly from Iran) has played up the prospects for improved GOE-GOI relations. However, despite overtures from the Iranian side for great [...]	2008-01-03 14:06:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV IR SY EG
08CAIRO1813	EGYPT CLAIMS IPR IMPROVEMENTS DURING USTR VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While maintaining their longstanding resistance to USG requests regarding pharmaceutical test data exclusivity, GOE officials claimed progress in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) during a USTR-led visit July 27-29. Private-sector representatives agreed that IPR pro [...]	2008-08-19 08:30:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR EG
08CAIRO1833	DELIVERY OF RESPONSE TO ARAB LEAGUE "SOLUTION [...] (SBU) We conveyed the U.S. position on the Arab League's solution package to Samir Hosni, Director of the Arab League's African Affairs Office on August 7 (ref A). We also encouraged the Arab League to press the Government of Sudan to take positive, concrete steps to improve the situation in [...]	2008-08-20 10:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SU AL EUN
08CAIRO1851	INFERNO AT EGYPT'S SHURA COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: In a dramatic fire the evening of August 19, the 142-year old building housing the main hall, offices, and committee rooms of the Shura Council, Egypt's upper parliamentary house, was heavily damaged. The GOE has pledged to rapidly rebuild, and parliament, which is currently on [...]	2008-08-21 11:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
08CAIRO1855	EGYPTIAN OIL MINISTER BULLISH ON RESERVES, [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy told the Ambassador in an introductory call Aug. 21 that Egyptian oil and gas reserves exceed most estimates and will increase with new technology, including a speculative plan by an American company for a novel way to exploit hard-to-rea [...]	2008-08-21 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET EMIN ENRG EINV PGOV PREL EG
08CAIRO1862	FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO HOST REGIONAL "QUINTET" [...] (C) In an August 24 meeting with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Ambassador raised the concept of a sub-ministerial strategic planning dialogue, to include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, and the United States. She highlighted that the discussions would focus on long-term strategic [...]	2008-08-24 14:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ EG
08CAIRO1863	EGYPTIAN SUBSIDIES HIT THE FISCAL BOTTOM LINE HARD [...] (U) Recent data released by the GOE on spending during fiscal year 2007-8 (July-June) highlight the impact of inflation and the rising cost of government subsidies on the GOE budget. Sharp increases in revenue due to economic growth and tax increases were offset by a 25% increase in public spe [...]	2008-08-25 05:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG
08CAIRO1876	FOREIGN MINISTER ON GEORGIA, IRAQ, AND U.S. [...] (C) Summary: In an August 24 meeting, Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told the Ambassador he had not yet read the report and recommendations of an MFA team that recently traveled to Baghdad to assess security conditions in preparation for the potential return of an Egyptian ambassador. He [...]	2008-08-25 13:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KIRF RU GG IZ EG
08CAIRO1877	EGYPT'S VIEWS ON WAY FORWARD FOR SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Egypt (GOE) is extremely concerned about the future of a unified Sudan. Egypt supports the Arab League's initiative for Sudan, (reftels A, B) but is uncertain whether it will produce any results. The GOE opposes the ICC indictment of Sudanese President Bashir [...]	2008-08-25 13:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU EG
08CAIRO1878	STRATEGY FOR THE GAZA BORDER [...] (S/NF) Summary: Since the Egyptian-brokered "tahdiya" ("calming") between Israel and Palestinian groups in Gaza took effect June 19, rocket attacks from Gaza have decreased, and Israeli public pressure on the GOE to stop smuggling via tunnels into Gaza has relaxed. However, smuggling remains [...]	2008-08-25 15:38:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL KPAL PTER MOPS MARR IS EG
08CAIRO1889	PROMINENT REFORMIST JUDGE PLANS TO LEAVE EGYPT [...] (C) Summary: Reformist Court of Cassation justice Hisham Bastawisi plans to leave Egypt in early September and spend approximately two years working as a legal advisor in Kuwait. Bastawisi is Egypt's most prominent advocate for increased judicial independence, whose leadership of the Judges Clu [...]	2008-08-26 13:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM KJUS EG
08CAIRO190	EGYPT: SECRETARY BODMAN DISCUSSES CIVILIAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: During his January 23 visit to Cairo, Secretary of Energy Bodman reinforced to official and SIPDIS commercial audiences the need to pursue energy security through diversity, increase electricity supply to fuel global economic growth, and invest in increased efficiency and rene [...]	2008-02-04 15:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EWWT SENV EG
08CAIRO1920	EGYPT: NO POSITION YET ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) On August 28, ECPO Minister Counselor, together with British and Japanese DCMs (who had received nearly identical instructions),delivered reftel demarche to MFA spokesman and senior cabinet advisor Hossam Zaki. A very sober Zaki listened attentively. He said that Egypt took all issues of [...]	2008-08-28 14:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG GG RU
08CAIRO1921	GOE TO OPEN RAFAH AUGUST 30-31 BEFORE RAMADAN [...] (C) LAWIO Chief MG Nagy told us August 28 that the GOE plans to open the Rafah crossing on a temporary basis August 30 and 31 to allow Egyptians stranded in Gaza to return to Egypt, and to allow Palestinians in Egypt to return to Gaza. MG Nagy said the opening will also allow Palestinians worki [...]	2008-08-28 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL EG
08CAIRO1922	GLOBAL PATRIOT: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CONDOLENCE [...] (C) The Ambassador, accompanied by OMC Chief, presented condolence payment checks totaling 750,000 Egyptian pounds ($141,000) August 28 to the widow, mother, 6 year-old daughter and 1 year-old son of Mohammed Affifi who was killed in the March 24 Global Patriot incident. In a meeting at the S [...]	2008-08-28 16:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS EG
08CAIRO1931	EGYPT HAS NO POSITION ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points to the Office of Eastern and Southern European Affairs at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 1. We stressed USG concerns over Serbia's request for a UNGA resolution seeking an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion on Koso [...]	2008-09-01 14:26:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UN UNGA KV EG
08CAIRO1932	EGYPTIAN COURT BLAMES FIRMS FOR CEMENT INFLATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Cairo court fined 20 cement executives including Amcham President Omar Mohanna USD $1.9 million each for collusion to fix cement prices, blaming the companies for contributing to soaring inflation and in particular the rising cost of much- needed housing. While Trade Minister [...]	2008-09-01 15:48:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EINV PGOV EG
08CAIRO1933	MUBARAK-BARAK DISCUSSIONS FOCUS ON FINAL STATUS [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad briefed the Ambassador August 27 on President Mubarak's August 23 discussions with visiting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Awad described Barak's visit as "fruitful," focusing on two main issues: Gaza, and Israeli-Palestinian final status discussio [...]	2008-09-01 15:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO1939	MIN INFORMATION DENIES CANCELLING AL HURRA TAPING [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-02 11:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL BBG KPAO EG
08CAIRO1940	ARAB LEAGUE AND EGYPTIAN MFA ON IRAQ, LEBANON, AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-02 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ SU EG
08CAIRO1963	EGYPTIAN ASSISTANCE TO SOUTH SUDAN: AN EYE ON THE [...] (C) Summary: The principal liaison officer at the Government of South Sudan's (GOSS) liaison office in Cairo, Parmena Makuet Mangar, told us that the Government of Egypt (GOE) maintained good relations with the GOSS, and was funding and working on various development projects in southern Sudan [...]	2008-09-07 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID SU EG
08CAIRO1965	DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN PREPARATION FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: On September 4, we delivered ref A points to Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef and separately to GOE MFA Cabinet Advisor Mahmoud Affifi. On Israeli-Palestinian issues, Youssef called for more progress on the ground and criticized the lack of an Israeli settlement fr [...]	2008-09-07 15:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE IS KPAL IAEA IZ SY MR XF
08CAIRO1972	EGYPT AND REFUGEES: "WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE A [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister Tarek el-Maaty told us that Egypt is searching to find the best approach to dealing with its refugee problems, and does not want to be seen as a "stepping stone" to the West. Recently, there has been an upsurge in shootings at the border as Egypt [...]	2008-09-08 13:57:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREF PREL PGOV ER SU EG
08CAIRO1980	APPARENT PROGRESS IN NEGOTIATIONS FOR A MARITIME [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST IN PARAGRAPH 4. 2. (SBU) After two years of advocacy in support of a U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) visit to Egyptian ports to review compliance with the International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) standards, Embassy Cairo notes a possible change of attitude from relevant GOE a [...]	2008-09-09 14:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT PREL EG
08CAIRO1981	FM ABOUL GHEIT RAISES CONCERNS OVER WEST BANK [...] (C) MFA Cabinet Advisor for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs Ahmed Hafez (please protect) briefed us September 5 on Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's August 31 meeting in Cairo with Israeli MFA DG Aharon Abramovich. Hafez described the meeting's atmosphere as "positive," and stressed that the Egyptia [...]	2008-09-09 14:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO1991	SEPTEMBER 8-9 ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL FOCUSES ON [...] (C) Summary: Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef briefed the diplomatic corps September 10 on the September 8-9 Arab League Ministerial, stressing that the discussions focused on pessimistic assessments of progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to Youssef, Palesti [...]	2008-09-10 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL LE IS IZ SY MR XF SU EG
08CAIRO2001	EDITOR OF UNLICENSED PAPER RECEIVES ONE YEAR [...] (C) On September 10, a court sentenced Ahmed Bakr Selim, editor of the largely unknown newspaper "Al Qahira Al Yoym" ("Cairo Today") to one year in prison for publishing and distributing the paper without a license. According to Egyptian state media, the court granted Selim bail on $1,850 pen [...]	2008-09-14 06:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM KPAO EG
08CAIRO2003	EGYPT ON PENDING RELEASE OF CONVICTED TERRORIST [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-14 06:03:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PINR EG
08CAIRO201	EGYPT MAKES INCREMENTAL PROGRESS ON IPR PROTECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Egypt continues to make progress on the concerns identified in the Special 301 action plan for Egypt (ref A); more remains to be done. This message responds to request in ref B to update the status of specific concerns, keyed to each item in the action plan. EN [...]	2008-02-05 14:14:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD EG
08CAIRO202	MFA ON LEBANON SUPPORT, IRAN RELATIONS [...] (C) We delivered demarche on Lebanon (reftel a) and note verbale to MFA Cabinet advisors Hossam Zaki and Nazih Neggary on January 4. They told us the GOE fully supports Lebanon and an immediate presidential election. They said that the GOE agrees that the tribunal needs to be supported, and t [...]	2008-02-05 14:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN EINV SY LE IR EG
08CAIRO2027	EGYPTIAN TYCOONS' CRIMINAL CASES ADD TO DISTRUST OF PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: Some of Egypt's leading captains of industry are under investigation in a range of criminal cases from relatively routine suspicions of bribery to the violent killing of a former girlfriend. The Egyptian stock market was buffeted by murder-for-hire accusations against regime insider Ta [...]	2008-09-15 13:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCRM PGOV EINV EG

08CAIRO203	EGYPTIAN DELEGATION TO THE VIENNA FORUM TO FIGHT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-05 15:39:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG EG
08CAIRO2037	EGYPT ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 [...] (C) We met on September 14 with Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd to urge the Egyptians to support U.S. human rights priorities at the upcoming meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (reftel). While Aboulmagd did not address the substance of the countr [...]	2008-09-16 12:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF KISL UN OIC EG
08CAIRO204	EGYPT: CHAD SITUATION "COMPLICATED," WILL CONSIDER [...] (C) We asked MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid for the GoE to demarche the Sudanese government to cease its support Chadian rebels on February 6. Per reftel demarche, we stressed that the Sudanese were providing more support to Chadian rebels than before, inflaming an alre [...]	2008-02-06 09:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CH EG SU
08CAIRO2043	EGYPT NAMES PROBABLE COEPSU PARTICIPANTS FOR [...] The Italian Embassy informed us August 26 that they received a dipnote from the Egyptian MFA confirming that the Egyptian Ministry of Interior "agrees in principle" to send 10 officers to the COEPSU course beginning September 22, and listing the officers' names. Italian Emboff told us August [...]	2008-09-16 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS IT EG
08CAIRO2053	RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ASYLUM SEEKERS IN EGYPT [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. We delivered the demarche on asylum seekers in Egypt to Tarek el-Maaty, Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Refugees (reftel A). El Maaty stated that the GOE regrets the deaths of those on the border, bu [...]	2008-09-18 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL IS ER EG
08CAIRO2054	ELECTRICITY DEMAND OVERWHELMS SUPPLY, LEADS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The independent press reports that power cuts and brownouts have made life uncomfortable in villages and towns across the Delta region since early August and railed against the government for failing to meet electricity demand outside of major cities. Minister of Electricity an [...]	2008-09-18 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EG
08CAIRO2055	ELECTRICITY DEMAND OVERWHELMS SUPPLY, LEADS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The independent press reports that power cuts and brownouts have made life uncomfortable in villages and towns across the Delta region since early August and railed against the government for failing to meet electricity demand outside of major cities. Minister of Electricity an [...]	2008-09-18 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EG
08CAIRO2062	INFLATION STILL A WORRY FOR THE EGYPTIAN CENTRAL [...] (U) Summary: The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) raised key lending and deposit rates by 50 basis points on September 18. Year-on-year inflation was 25.5% in August, and the latest move by the CBE reflects its worries over continued inflationary pressure on the economy, even as it noted that food [...]	2008-09-21 14:14:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV EG
08CAIRO2072	REPORT ON EGYPTIAN DISSIDENT'S HEALTH APPARENTLY [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-22 12:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2075	RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REQUEST ON BMENA FORUM FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-22 13:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KMPI ECON EG
08CAIRO2077	IFES PLANS SECOND TRIP WITH SUPREME ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Country Director Jeffrey Carlson told us September 15 there is a good chance that IFES will lead a trip with four members of Egypt's Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) in October to India, where SEC members would meet with Indian coun [...]	2008-09-22 14:30:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM PO IN EG
08CAIRO2078	NDI MAKING PROGRESS WITH LOW-PROFILE APPROACH [...] (C) Summary: National Democratic Institute (NDI) resident representative Lila Jaafar told us September 16 that in spite of NDI's lack of official registration, the organization provided training and publications to local NGOs over the past year by adopting a low-profile posture and informing [...]	2008-09-22 14:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID EG
08CAIRO2079	ARAB LEAGUE WORKING WITH AFRICAN UNION TO ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary: According to senior officials at the Arab League and African Union, the two bodies are working closely to address key issues in Sudan, Somalia and Mauritania. AL SYG Amr Moussa and AU SYG Jean Ping head an Arab Ministerial committee on Darfur, and AU Peace and Security Commission [...]	2008-09-22 15:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU SO MR IT QA EG
08CAIRO2089	EGYPTIAN UNAMID DEPLOYMENT [...] (U) As of September 2008, this is the data we have on Egypt's UNAMID deployment. Egypt's initial planned contribution to UNAMID was 1,520 personnel, which it has not yet met. This number appears to have increased with the commitment of a second infantry battalion of approximately 850 personn [...]	2008-09-23 14:41:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO SU EG
08CAIRO2091	ACADEMICS SEE THE MILITARY IN DECLINE, BUT RETAINING STRONG INFLUENCE [...] (C) Summary: Recently, academics and civilian analysts painted a portrait of an Egyptian military in intellectual and social decline, whose officers have largely fallen out of society's elite ranks. They describe a disgruntled mid-level officer corps harshly critical of a defense minister they perc [...]	2008-09-23 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PGOV ECON EG
08CAIRO2097	EGYPT REVIEWS TEXTILE LABEL REQUIREMENT [...] (SBU) Econoff met with Walid el-Nozahy, head of the WTO unit at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, on September 25 to raise the concerns of Nike and other U.S. garment exporters regarding GOE decrees 515 of 2003 and 770 of 2005 (ref e-mail). Econoff noted that U.S. exporters believe that the [...]	2008-09-25 10:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTRO EG
08CAIRO2098	NAZIF AFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF ESF, PLEDGEST CONTINUED REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-25 13:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2099	DEMARCHE REQUEST: UNSC MINISTERIAL-LEVEL MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-25 14:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KWBG KPAL UNSC EG
08CAIRO2100	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON POSSIBLE VIOLATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-25 15:22:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL MASS PARM CH EG
08CAIRO211	GAZA BORDER UPDATE - FEBRUARY 6, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-06 14:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER IS EG
08CAIRO2122	APPEALS COURT CONVICTS AND SENTENCES INDEPENDENT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-29 11:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG
08CAIRO2133	RESPONSE TO SELF-DEPLOYMENT OF EGYPTIAN TROOPS TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-30 13:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MASS SU EG
08CAIRO2135	EGYPT REACTS TO 2008 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-30 14:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KDEM EG
08CAIRO2141	FM ABOUL GHEIT VISITS BAGHDAD [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-05 12:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET IZ EG
08CAIRO2152	MUBARAK COMMUTES SENTENCE OF INDEPENDENT EDITOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-07 13:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG
08CAIRO2153	REFORM FATIGUE AT THE HOUSING MINISTRY Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) ------- Summary ------- [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-07 14:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EFIN EG PGOV KDEM PREL
08CAIRO2156	ABOUL GHEIT'S IRAQ VISIT SUCCESSFUL [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-07 15:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET IZ EG
08CAIRO2160	FINANCIAL TURMOIL REACHES THE NILE: EGYPT'S STOCK [...] (U) Summary: Egypt's benchmark stock index has fallen 22% in the last two days to reach multi-year lows. Traders and analysts have at long last begun to worry that global economic turmoil will hurt the Egyptian economy more than originally thought. Despite having well-capitalized banks and lim [...]	2008-10-08 14:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EG
08CAIRO2175	UPDATE: EGYPT INCREASES COUNTER-SMUGGLING EFFORTS [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Egyptian security forces continue to improve counter-smuggling efforts along the Gaza border following the June Egyptian-brokered "tahdiya" ("calming") between Israel and Palestinian groups. During an August visit [...]	2008-10-13 14:19:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PTER MASS MARR KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO2177	AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON POTUS LUNCH AND MUTED GOE [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-14 11:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS IO EG
08CAIRO2187	AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYA: CONCERNS REGARDING POSSIBLE REVOCATION OF FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION STATUS [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-14 15:44:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PTER PREL PINR EG
08CAIRO2188	ARAB LEAGUE COS UPBEAT ON IRAQ [...] (C) Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef told the DCM October 13 that he believes the situation in Iraq is improving. "We all can say that Iraq is on the right track now. The question is how to accelerate the pace of developments to get better results," Yousef said during the DCM,s introductory [...]	2008-10-14 16:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ SY EG
08CAIRO2197	SYG MOUSSA ON IRAQ, SUDAN AND ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-15 15:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL MARR IS SU IZ EG
08CAIRO2198	COURT FINES JOURNALISTS FOR INSULTING AL-AZHAR [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-15 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2199	DECISION IN FOUR EDITORS' APPEAL EXPECTED DECEMBER [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-15 16:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2205	INVITATION TO MRS. BUSH FROM EGYPTIAN MFA AND THE [...] This is an action request; please see para 2. 2. Post received para 3 letter October 9th via dipnote. We respectfully request that the Department pass the invitation to the Office of the First Lady. 3. The text of the invitation reads as follows (informal Embassy translation). Original [...]	2008-10-16 13:14:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI
08CAIRO2209	EGYPTIAN COPTIC PRIEST JAILED IN LEGAL DISPUTE [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-16 15:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI KIRF EG
08CAIRO2210	FM ABOUL GHEIT ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-16 16:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET IZ EG
08CAIRO2221	IS THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT READY FOR A GLOBAL SLOWDOWN? [...] (SBU) Summary: Egypt's stock market, like nearly all globally, has been significantly down this year and the global financial crisis has only accelerated that decline. The index is down 50 percent from its April historic highs, and in October, the most intense period of global financial crisi [...]	2008-10-20 10:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV EG
08CAIRO2224	GAMAL MUBARAK ON ECONOMIC ISSUES AND THE BILATERAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-20 15:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EG
08CAIRO2246	EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES WILL NOT CLEAR R/V OCEANUS IN [...] (U) SEE ACTION REQUEST IN PARAGRAPH 4. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite repeated approaches over several months, the Ministry of Defense has not made a decision regarding the research vessel Oceanus' request to enter Egyptian waters in order to conduct meteorological and geological research in th [...]	2008-10-23 09:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT SENV PREL EG
08CAIRO2251	A FIRST IN EGYPT: COURT SENTENCES SEXUAL ASSAULT [...] (C) Summary and comment: On October 21, for the first time in Egyptian history, a Cairo court heard a sexual assault case, and sentenced truck driver Sherif Gomaa Gibrial to three years in prison for groping 27-year-old female film director Noha Rushdie in June 2008. Rushdie told us that the [...]	2008-10-23 15:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN SOCI EG
08CAIRO2255	A/S WELCH'S MEETING WITH FIELD MARSHAL TANTAWI [...] (S) Summary: On October 21, Assistant Secretary David Welch and Ambassador met with Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi to discuss the bilateral security relationship, supporting the Iraqi government, and containing Iran. A/S Welch noted that the security relationship remained strong, but enc [...]	2008-10-26 13:49:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL MASS MARR IZ IR EG
08CAIRO2256	A/S WELCH MEETING WITH SYG MOUSSA [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-26 15:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO2257	UPDATE ON EGYPT'S NATURAL GAS INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the Ministry of Petroleum, Egypt is moving quickly to upgrade and expand its natural gas network and distribution systems across the country and plans to add one liquefied natural gas (LNG) train at Damietta in the near future. Construction is underway on a pipeline [...]	2008-10-27 05:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG IR EG
08CAIRO2260	NEW NGO FORMED TO ADDRESS POLICE BRUTALITY AND [...] (C) Summary and comment: Dr. Ihab Youssef, Secretary-General of the new NGO "Police and People for Egypt," told us October 16 that he recently founded the NGO to improve relations between the police and the public following recurring incidents of police brutality and torture. The NGO, establ [...]	2008-10-27 10:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM EG
08CAIRO2262	NOMINATION OF NEHAD ABOUL KOMSAN FOR THE 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Nehad Aboul Komsan, Embassy Cairo's nominee for the Secretary's International Women of Courage Award, deserves USG commendation for her tireless campaigning on behalf of women's rights in Egypt in an often hostile public environment. Aboul Komsan's efforts as Chair of the Boar [...]	2008-10-27 14:54:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KPAO KWMN EG
08CAIRO2264	ARAB LEAGUE HAPPY WITH "QATARI INITIATIVE," EGYPT [...] (C) Summary: The Arab League Advisor told us that the Government of Sudan (GOS) supports the Qatari initiative as a way to end the crisis in Darfur, and sees it as an accompaniment to the recently announced Sudan People's Initiative. However, Sudanese oppositionists in Cairo said Darfuri lead [...]	2008-10-28 11:51:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PHUM KPKO SU QA EG
08CAIRO2266	THE VIEW FROM THE AHWA: THE TALK OF TOWN IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite ubiquitous complaining about life's difficulties, and justified laments about pervasive corruption and the widely loathed Mubarak government, the denizens of Cairo's famed coffeehouses seem satisfied merely to grouse about their grievances, with no thought of taking any [...]	2008-10-28 13:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM SOCI SCUL PGOV ECON PHUM KISL EG
08CAIRO2271	REFUGEE PROTESTS OUTSIDE UNHCR CAIRO OFFICE [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR's Deputy Regional Representative told us October 27 that recent refugee protests, outside the Cairo UNHCR office have grown and become more vocal. Refugees and asylum seekers are upset by the lack of resettlement options and the insufficiency of UNHCR's financial and healthca [...]	2008-10-29 14:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL SU SO EG
08CAIRO2275	MFA ADVISOR AND PDAS FELTMAN DISCUSS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: NEA PDAS Feltman and MFA Senior Advisor Hossam Zaki discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, the global financial crisis, and Iraqi debt relief during an October 26 meeting in Cairo. Zaki said that recording progress on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is [...]	2008-10-30 07:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN ECON KPAL IZ IS SY IR EG LE
08CAIRO2277	PA ENVOY SHAATH ON INTRA-PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Nabil Shaath, leader of the Fatah delegation to the intra-Palestinian talks in Cairo, briefed the Ambassador on progress in an October 28 courtesy call. He reported that the Egyptians have moved the planned Palestinian reconciliation meeting from November 9 to November 10 in order to acco [...]	2008-10-30 12:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS SY IR TC JO EG
08CAIRO2279	EGYPT TRIES TO GET SMARTER IN DELIVERING FOOD [...] (U) Summary: The Egyptian government has expanded its smart card pilot for the delivery of subsidized food products. According to the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MSS),which is responsible for the delivery of subsidies, it has expanded its pilot smart card program, which was first piloted [...]	2008-10-30 13:49:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG PGOV
08CAIRO2280	COURT FINES MEDIA COMPANY FOLLOWING BROADCAST OF [...] (C) Summary and comment: On October 26, a court fined the owner of the Cairo News Company (CNC) media transmission firm 150,000 Egyptian pounds (about USD 27,000) and confiscated some of its equipment for operating without licenses. The GOE had shut CNC down shortly after the company provided [...]	2008-10-30 14:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2291	UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY'S MEETING WITH EGYPTIAN [...] (U) Summary. In a meeting on the margins of the 6th International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, Egyptian Minister of Health and Population Hatem El Gabaly reviewed for U/S Paula Dobriansky his support for an international agreement to coordinate efforts for influenza [...]	2008-11-02 12:19:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID EG KFLU PREL TBIO WHO
08CAIRO2293	SHARM EL-SHEIKH CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON PANDEMIC THREAT, [...] SUMMARY: The October 25-26 Sixth International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in cooperation with the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza (IPAPI),succeeded in maintaining global focus on the spread of avian influenza and t [...]	2008-11-02 12:43:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL TBIO KFLU EAID EAGR EG
08CAIRO2297	ACTIVISTS PRESENT DIFFERING VIEWS ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Visiting NEA PDAS Jeffrey Feltman met October 26 with political activists to discuss the current state of reform in Egypt, and opportunities for the U.S. to promote democracy. The activists mostly agreed that the current climate in Egypt is disappointing, citing income dispariti [...]	2008-11-02 15:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2301	UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY'S MEETING WITH EGYPTIAN [...] (U) Summary. On October 25, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif met with U/S for Democracy and Global Affairs, Paula Dobriansky, to discuss the strategic relationship between Egypt and the United States, the significance of Africa in the spread of avian influenza (AI),and the way forward for [...]	2008-11-03 13:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID EG KFLU TBIO WHO
08CAIRO2310	NO SURPRISES AT RULING PARTY CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: On November 1-3, nearly three thousand delegates participated in the annual conference of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP.) Convened under the banner "New Thinking for Our Country's Future," the conference heard a robust-looking President Mubarak pledge to continue w [...]	2008-11-04 14:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON EG
08CAIRO2316	ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. Arab League Secretary General Moussa discussed Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the global financial crisis during an October 26 meeting with visiting NEA PDAS Feltman and the Ambassador. Moussa said that the situation in Lebanon has improved markedly [...]	2008-11-05 12:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL LE SY IZ EG
08CAIRO2319	EGYPT ORGANIZING REGIONAL ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-05 14:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PBTS EWWT MOPS SU SO ER SA JO DJ
08CAIRO2320	EGIS CHIEF "NOT OPTIMISTIC" ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a November 5 meeting, EGIS Chief Omar Soliman told Ambassador that he was "not optimistic" about prospects for Palestinian reconciliation, due to continuing differences between Hamas and Fatah and the difficulty in maintaining the continuing "calm" between minimalist Hamas a [...]	2008-11-05 14:27:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO2339	OPPOSITION AL-GHAD PARTY HEADQUARTERS TORCHED [...] (C) Summary: What had been a legal dispute between rival factions of opposition Al Ghad ("Tomorrow") party founded by imprisoned opposition leader Ayman Nour, turned violent when supporters of a pro-government wing of the party marched on the party's headquarters, controlled by Nour supporter [...]	2008-11-10 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO234	CHAD: EGYPTIAN LEADERS SAY CHAD, SUDAN EQUALLY [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-10 07:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CH EG SU
08CAIRO2340	ELECTORAL EUPHORIA IN EGYPT [...] (U) Summary and comment: Both publicly and privately, Egyptians are over the moon with the results of the U.S. presidential election. From the front pages of daily newspapers to popular TV shows to smiling people in the street, the excitement is palpable. The peaceful transfer of power was [...]	2008-11-10 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
08CAIRO2341	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PASSING THE RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-12 13:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IR BM KN EG
08CAIRO2343	THE ARAB LEAGUE ON SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: The Arab League (AL) Advisor on Africa Affairs said the AL is pleased with the progress that the Government of Sudan (GoS) has made on the AL's Solution Package, based on his meetings with numerous Sudanese leaders in November (reftel A). He highlighted Sudan's improved relations [...]	2008-11-12 15:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU EG
08CAIRO2349	EGYPT'S BAHA'I: FAVORABLE RULINGS BUT NO [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-13 14:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM EG
08CAIRO2350	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TORCHING OF OPPOSITION AL-GHAD [...] (C) On November 12, we demarched MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd on the November 6 torching of Al-Ghad party headquarters (ref A). We expressed particular concern that the headquarters of an opposition party was destroyed, and that according to some reports, the [...]	2008-11-13 15:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG
08CAIRO2371	REQUESTING DEPARTMENT ASSISTANCE TO RESTORE [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Prominent Egyptian blogger, human rights activist and winner of the 2007 Knight-Ridder International Journalism Award, Wael Abbas, contacted us November 17 to report that YouTube removed from his website two videos exposing police a [...]	2008-11-18 10:39:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2373	EGYPTIAN COURT SEEKS TO END NATURAL GAS EXPORTS TO [...] (SBU) The Administrative Court of Cairo ruled on November 18 that ongoing natural gas exports to Israel should be halted because the export agreement between Egypt and Israel violates article 123 of the Egyptian constitution, pertaining to the protection and use of natural resources. The court [...]	2008-11-18 16:14:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PREL ECON IS EG
08CAIRO2376	SENIOR MOD ADVISOR ON MILITARY COOPERATION, [...] (C) On November 17, visiting NEA/ELA Office Director Nicole Shampaine met with Assistant Minister of Defense MG Mohammed Al-Assar to discuss military cooperation and regional security. Shampaine encouraged Egypt to take advantage of a new American administration and Congress by exploring way [...]	2008-11-19 14:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR IS IZ IR EG
08CAIRO2382	EGYPT'S SECOND EVER SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE: ONE-YEAR [...] (C) Summary and comment: On November 17, in Egypt's second ever sexual assault case, a Cairo court convicted and sentenced a 19 year-old man to one year in prison on charges of sexual assault for the highly publicized October 2 attempted rape and groping of three women in front of a large cro [...]	2008-11-19 14:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN SOCI EG
08CAIRO2384	EGYPT'S VIEWS ON BORDER SHOOTINGS AND REFUGEE [...] (C) Summary: The Director of the Egyptian MFA's Refugee Office, Tarek el-Maaty, told us on November 13 that he was frustrated with a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report condemning Egypt for the shooting of migrants on the Egypt-Israel border. He blamed the U.S. and Israel for asking Egypt to secu [...]	2008-11-19 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL PGOV SU ER SO EG
08CAIRO2395	TREASURY DAS MENDELSOHN DISCUSSES TERROR FINANCE [...] (S) Summary: Treasury DAS for Intelligence and Analysis Howard Mendelsohn met with Ashraf Mohsen, counter terrorism coordinator for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and State Security Brigadier General Hisham Abda on November 13. Also accompanying were Eugene Oleynikov from Treasury's Office [...]	2008-11-20 13:59:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	EFIN EG PGOV PREL PTER
08CAIRO2402	NO EVIDENCE OF UP-FRONT RESIGNATIONS IN EGYPT'S [...] (C) Summary: Despite concerns expressed by international workers' rights organizations that factories in Egypt's Special Export Zones (SEZ) require workers to submit undated resignations as a pre-condition of employment, NGOs report that this practice is not prevalent in Egypt's Qualifying [...]	2008-11-24 12:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM ETRD EG IS
08CAIRO2404	NEA/ELA DIRECTOR DISCUSSES QIZ EXPANSION WITH [...] (U) Summary: In a meeting with NEA/ELA Director Nicole Shampaine, officials from the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry expressed their frustration with what they felt was excessive delay in United States Trade Representative's (USTR's) consideration and approval of a 2007 request to expa [...]	2008-11-24 12:59:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL IS EG
08CAIRO2405	AFTER A THAW, DECREASING GOE TOLERANCE FOR PRESS FREEDOM [...] (C) Summary and comment: The consensus among observers of press freedom in Egypt is that following a high-water mark for openness in 2005, the GOE has been tightening its grip on the press, particularly over the past year through court cases, detentions and the revocation of licenses. With sever [...]	2008-11-24 13:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2406	AMBASSADOR RAISES COKE, NIKE COMPLAINTS WITH TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador met November 23 with Minister of Trade Rachid Rachid to discuss two ongoing complaints by US firms, Coca Cola and Nike. In Coke case, which Rachid described as a commercial dispute rather than a trade mark issue, he gave his assurances that his ministry would not i [...]	2008-11-24 13:49:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON EG
08CAIRO2408	EGYPT ANNOUNCES MASS PRIVATIZATION SCHEME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 10, Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieddin announced a new privatization scheme whereby the GOE will transfer shares in 45 state-owned companies to 41 million Egyptian citizens within the next 12-14 months. The plan requires parliamentary approval, which he expect [...]	2008-11-24 13:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV EG
08CAIRO2409	TRADE OFFICIAL ON GOE ECONONIC REFORM, TRADE STRATEGY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a November 13 meeting with Commerce DAS for Services Mark Brady, Ministry of Trade and Investment First Advisor Samiha Fawzy said that Egyptian was not interested in a new bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with the U.S., and that Egypt must "maintain the FTA as an overall ob [...]	2008-11-24 14:14:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON EAGR PREL EG
08CAIRO2410	READOUT FROM THE 15TH QIZ JOINT COMMITTEE MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) Joint Committee held its quarterly meeting in Cairo on November 24. The Egyptians requested a reduction in Israeli inputs, citing insufficient supply, and the Israelis agreed to work with companies in both sides to help them meet the existing [...]	2008-11-24 14:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL IS EG
08CAIRO2419	HEALTH MINISTER READIES NEW DRUG REGISTRATION RULES, PLANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY On November 23, newly appointed Ministry of Health Assistant Minister for Pharmaceutical Affairs Kamal Sabra told FCS and Econ counselor that the MOH would soon put drug registration on-line and that the new drug registration rules are almost finished. The department's new faci [...]	2008-11-25 13:40:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PGOV PREL KIPR EG
08CAIRO2420	OPPOSITION AL-GHAD PARTY VP PROVIDES ADDITIONAL [...] (C) Summary and comment: On November 16, Al-Ghad party Vice-President Wael Nawara described for visiting NEA/ELA Office Director Nicole Shampaine the November 6 torching of the party's headquarters in greater detail than his initial account (ref B). Nawara displayed newspaper photos that sho [...]	2008-11-25 15:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2424	WAFD PARTY LEADERS U.S. "INTERFERENCE" IS [...] (C) A November 20 meeting with 15 leaders o the liberal opposition party Al Wafd began withWafd members questioning Ambassador Scobey extenively about President-elect Obama's foreign polic plans, particularly relating to the Israeli-Palstinian conflict, and lauding the U.S. electionsas a democr [...]	2008-11-26 09:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM EAID EG PGOV PREL
08CAIRO2428	SECTARIAN ATTACK ON CHURCH NEAR CAIRO [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-26 14:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG
08CAIRO2429	EGYPT PREPARES FOR GAZAN HAJJ PILGRIMS [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Palestinian Affairs Barakat Leithy told us November 26 that the Egyptians are preparing for approximately 3200 Hajj pilgrims to transit Egypt from Gaza en route Saudi Arabia. This is an increase of approximately 1000 from last year. Leithy said that GOE policy is [...]	2008-11-26 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO2430	ANGER BOILS OVER IN ASWAN [...] (U) On November 22, police in the Upper Egypt city of Aswan shot and killed Abdel Wahab Abdel Razek at his home while searching for a suspected drug dealer. According to press reports, police officials said Razek fired at officers who then shot and killed him. In a November 25 public stateme [...]	2008-11-26 15:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2431	APRIL 6 ACTIVIST DESCRIBES GOE HARASSMENT, [...] (S) Summary and comment: "Youth Movement for Change" activist Ahmed Saleh, who advocates replacing the current Egyptian regime with a parliamentary democracy, called on us November 25. He described the harassment he and his colleagues face from Egyptian State Security as a "siege" that compe [...]	2008-11-26 15:51:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG
08CAIRO2435	EGYPT ANXIOUS TO ENGAGE ON PIRACY AND SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian MFA's point man on Somalia told us on November 24 that Egypt wants to collaborate with the USG to address the growing piracy issue in the region. Egypt is looking for direction from the U.S. on areas for potential cooperation and prefers that Saudi Arabia be included [...]	2008-11-30 12:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM EWWT SO SA ER EG
08CAIRO2436	Economic and financial leaders debate Egypt's economic [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-30 13:47:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EG
08CAIRO2438	ARAB LEAGUE SUPPORTS ABBAS; DOES NOT CONDEMN HAMAS [...] (C) Summary. The Arab League Ministerial meeting of November 26 resulted in explicit support for PA President Abbas to remain in office until the intra-Palestinian conflict is resolved and parliamentary and presidential elections are able to be held. There was no explicit reference to Hamas [...]	2008-11-30 15:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS SY EG
08CAIRO244	EGYPTIAN HIGH COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF RECONVERTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 10, Egypt's Supreme Court of Administrative Justice ruled in a case brought by Christian "re-converts" that the government must issue identification documents listing their religion as Christianity. The ruling reversed an April 2007 decision by the Cairo Court of A [...]	2008-02-10 14:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV EG
08CAIRO2442	ABOUL GHEIT CALLS ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) In a November 29 meeting, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit gave Ambassador his assessment of the recent Arab League ministerial on Palestinian reconciliation. Aboul Gheit stated that overall it was successful, particularly in getting the AL ministers to endorse the view that Abu Mazen's pres [...]	2008-12-01 12:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EWWT KPAL EG
08CAIRO2445	BIRD FLU IN EGYPT: ALL QUIET ON THE MIDDLE EASTERN [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: In July 2008, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) declared the H5N1 avian influenza (AI) virus to be endemic in Egyptian poultry. Now, just four months later, some Egyptians are wondering why. Seven months have passed since the Ministry of Health and Popul [...]	2008-12-01 14:09:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
08CAIRO2450	OPEC EMERGENCY MEETING IN CAIRO [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-02 11:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET ECON PGOV EG
08CAIRO2452	JOURNALISTS FACE TRIAL FOR VIOLATING GAG ORDER ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: Two editors and three journalists from independent newspapers are expected to go on trial December 4 for violating a November 16 gag order on publishing details of the current public court case against regime insider Hisham Talaat Mustafa for allegedly ordering the mu [...]	2008-12-02 16:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
08CAIRO2453	UPDATE ON DEPORTATION REQUEST: CASE OF IYAD AHMAD [...] (SBU) Econ-Political MinCouns has raised the case of Mr. Badawi with Egyptian Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister Amin Meleika on three occasions: November 13, November 23, and November 30. On November 13, MinCouns orally explained the background of the case and asked if Egypt would allow Mr. [...]	2008-12-02 16:38:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL CVIS PTER EG IS
08CAIRO2454	GOE PREVENTS ACTIVIST FROM TRAVELING TO THE YOUTH [...] (C) On December 2, Egyptian State Security briefly detained Al-Ghad opposition party member and activist Ahmed Nassar at the Cairo airport before releasing him, and specifically banned him from traveling to the December 3-5 Alliance for Youth Movements Summit in New York. Nassar told us that [...]	2008-12-02 16:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EG
08CAIRO2457	JOINT DEMARCHES ON INCREASING DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE [...] On December 2 DCM joined with UK, German, French and Italian counterparts to deliver reftel Iran demarches to MFA Deputy Minister Wafa Bassim. By prior agreement, UK DCM took the lead in presenting the non-paper and talking points on financial pressure on Iran (ref A) and Italian DCM presente [...]	2008-12-03 13:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL KNOP MNUC IR EG

08CAIRO246	AMBASSADOR WISNER ASKS ARAB LEAGUE, EGYPT TO [...] (SBU) Special Envoy for the Kosovo Final Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner asked Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa on February 6 for the League and its member states to support an independent Kosovo when Kosovo declares its independence in the coming weeks. Ambassador Wisner emphas [...]	2008-02-10 15:59:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNMIK EG YI
08CAIRO2460	ARAB LEAGUE TOYING WITH IDEA OF A JOINT ARAB FORCE [...] (C) Zeid al-Sabban, Advisor to the Arab League (AL) SYG, told us on December 1 that the AL is thinking about creating a ""joint Arab force,"" which could be deployed in places of conflict similar to United Nations and African Union forces. He said that this idea arose after the December 20 conf [...]	2008-12-03 15:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EWWT AL EG
08CAIRO2461	ARAB LEAGUE FOCUSING ON ICC CASE, OUT OF THE LOOP [...] (C) Summary: The Arab League (AL) SYG's advisor on African Affairs recently returned from The Hague, where he discussed the ICC indictment against Sudanese President Bashir. The AL feels it is important to enact Article 16 of the Rome Statue, before the ICC judges reach a decision, to preserve [...]	2008-12-03 15:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM AL SU QA EG
08CAIRO2462	GOE APPARENTLY ALLOWS SECOND ACTIVIST TO TRAVEL TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: April 6 Movement activist Ahmed Saleh (reftels) told us the morning of December 3 that GOE security officials allowed him to proceed to his Egypt Air flight to New York after they briefly pulled him out of the departure lounge to hold his passport and search his bags. [...]	2008-12-03 16:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EG
08CAIRO247	A/S WELCH'S FEBRUARY 6 MEETING WITH AMRE MOUSSA [...] (C) Summary. NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch met Feb 6 with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa. Moussa said that the Arab League and the U.S. "are in the same boat" in Iraq, and argued against a precipitous troop withdrawal. On Lebanon, Moussa will continue to push for implementati [...]	2008-02-11 07:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE IS IZ EG
08CAIRO2475	EGYPT UNHAPPY WITH ITS ROLE IN RESOLVING SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian MFA's cabinet advisor for African Affairs, Ahmed Abu Zeid, told us the Government of Egypt (GOE) sent a letter to UN SYG Ban expressing its dissatisfaction with the work of UN Special Envoy for Darfur Yipene Bassole. Egypt is unhappy that Bassole and the Qatari Govern [...]	2008-12-04 14:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN SU EG
08CAIRO2476	HAJ PILGRIMS IN GAZA; GOE AWAITING HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Summary. The GOE has opened Rafah crossing for approximately 3100 inbound Haj pilgrims (reftel a),but the MFA reports that Hamas continues to block movement of the pilgrims inside Gaza, and that so far none have crossed into Egypt. The GOE is increasing public criticism of Hamas over th [...]	2008-12-04 14:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS QA EG
08CAIRO2478	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNHCR'S REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Saad Al Attar, UNHCR's Regional Representative in Cairo on November 25. Al Attar told the Ambassador about UNHCR's challenges to meet its responsibilities given a lack of funding, the situation of Iraqi refugees in Egypt, and UNHCR's dealings with the Gove [...]	2008-12-04 15:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL PGOV SU ER IZ EG
08CAIRO2479	KOSOVO'S REPRESENTATIVE IN EGYPT FRUSTRATED WITH [...] (C) Summary: Beqir Ismaili, the Government of Kosovo's (GOK) spokesman in Islamic countries, told us on November 30 that he was frustrated with officials from both the Government of Egypt (GOE) and his own GOK. He said that Egyptian MFA officials still had not responded to his mid-November re [...]	2008-12-04 15:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KO EG
08CAIRO2481	AMBASSADOR AND MOD DISCUSS IRAQ, PIRACY, AND [...] (C) Summary: During a December 6 meeting, Ambassador and Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi discussed regional security issues, including the new U.S.-Iraq security agreement, Iran, combating piracy, Palestinian reconciliation, and the upcoming Military Cooperation Committee (MCC) mee [...]	2008-12-08 08:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR MOPS IZ IR IS KPAL SO EG
08CAIRO2484	AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings at the Egyptian People's Assembly with parliamentary speaker Fathi Surour and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Mustafa el Fekki, the parliamentarians previewed Egypt's legislative priorities for the new parliamentary session (which began mid-November),[...]	2008-12-11 13:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF PTER KDEM IZ EG
08CAIRO2485	SCENESETTER FOR US-EGYPT MCC [...] (S/NF) Summary: This year's U.S. - Egypt Military Cooperation Committee (MCC),being held in Washington December 16 - 17, will be an opportunity to confirm the mutual benefits of our bilateral security relationship and engage the GOE on transforming our relationship to counter current threats [...]	2008-12-11 13:48:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL MASS MOPS MARR PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2491	ANTI-CORRUPTION NGO FILES THREE LAWSUITS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary and comment: Engi El-Haddad, Director of the Egyptian Accountability Center (EAC),an NGO that focuses on fighting corruption, told us December 11 that her organization has filed three lawsuits against the government to coincide with United Nations Anti-Corruption Day on December [...]	2008-12-11 15:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV EG
08CAIRO2492	EGYPT: COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROCUREMENT [...] (SBU) Description. In REF A, The GOE submitted a request to procure twenty-four (24) AH-64D Helicopters (BLK II) with the Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation System (MTADS),the required infrastructure/facility upgrades, logistical and technical support requirements. This case will [...]	2008-12-11 17:39:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MASS MARR EG
08CAIRO2497	DEMARCHE REQUEST: UNSCR ON ANNAPOLIS PROCESS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-14 14:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL UNSC EG
08CAIRO2502	MFA ON GAZA, HAMAS, AND RECENT DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary. MFA Cabinet Advisor for Israel-Palestinian Affairs Ahmed Hamshari told us December 15 that Egyptian embassies worldwide had recently faced demonstrations criticizing the GOE over the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The protests appear to be in response to blockage of Hamas-sponso [...]	2008-12-15 13:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PINR IR IS EG
08CAIRO2503	QUINT POLICY PLANNING TALKS FOCUS ON REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. The November 18 "Quint" consultations with policy planners from Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt (host) and the U.S. yielded a comprehensive dialogue on a range of regional issues, including Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, piracy off the Horn of Africa, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [...]	2008-12-15 14:25:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV KPAL EFIN SY LE SU IR IS IZ EG XF
08CAIRO2505	EGYPT SUPPORTIVE OF UNSC RESOLUTION AND CONTACT [...] (C) Polmincouns on December 15 delivered demarche to Egyptian MFA Ambassador Abdelhameed Marzouk on the UNSC resolution and formation of a contact group (CG) to address piracy in the Horn of Africa (reftel). Marzouk already was aware of the resolution and the CG idea because he led the Egyptia [...]	2008-12-15 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER KCRM EWWT EG
08CAIRO2507	MOVING FORWARD ON QIZ EXPANSION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph six. 2. (SBU) On December 14, econcouns met with Ali Awni, chief of the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) Unit of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI). Awni stated that he hoped further consideration of the proposed QIZ expansion to Up [...]	2008-12-16 07:19:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IS EG
08CAIRO2508	GOE LOOKS AT RETAIL AND DISTRIBUTION SECTOR [...] (SBU) FCS and Econ counselors met recently with the Minister of Trade and Industry's newly hired advisor for internal markets, Sahar El Salab. El Salab was until recently a vice president of CIB, Egypt's largest private bank. In her new role, she is charged with reforming Egypt's internal ma [...]	2008-12-16 09:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON EFIN EG
08CAIRO2515	COPTS ON SECTARIAN STRIFE IN UPPER EGYPT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-17 06:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PGOV ECON KIRF KISL SOCI EG
08CAIRO2525	EGYPT TAKING STEPS TO ADDRESS AND COMBAT HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mark Lagon, the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, visited Egypt on November 14-17 and met with numerous Egyptian government officials, UN organizations, representatives, and NGO leaders involved in combating trafficking-in-persons (TIP [...]	2008-12-18 14:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB PREL
08CAIRO2527	EGYPTIAN STATE SECURITY COURT CONVICTS MAHALLA [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-18 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM KDEM ELAB EG
08CAIRO2528	NO EVIDENCE OF EXTENSIVE USE OR ABUSE OF FOREIGN [...] (SBU) In recent visits to Egyptian factories participating in the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) program, we saw no evidence of the extensive or abusive use of foreign workers. On November 19, we visited two large QIZ factories located in the Tenth of Ramadan Special Economic Zone (SEZ); t [...]	2008-12-18 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL PGOV EG IS JO
08CAIRO2541	EGYPT: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Egypt is an ally in the Global War on Terrorism. The Egyptian and U.S. governments maintained a robust dialogue on a broad range of counter-terrorism and law enforcement issues in 2008 and exchanged information on a variety of terrorism, security, and law enforcement matters during the cours [...]	2008-12-21 11:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC EG
08CAIRO2542	ACTIVISTS CRITICIZE THE GOE, CALL FOR NEW U.S. [...] (C) Summary: On December 13, civil society activists and a political oppositionist discussed with Codel Dorgan Egypt's current political and economic problems, and the future of U.S. policy toward Egypt. Former independent parliamentarian Anwar Essmat El-Sadat asserted that U.S. aid to the GO [...]	2008-12-21 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2543	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS' VISIT TO EGYPT [...] (S/NF) Summary and Introduction: General Petraeus, welcome to Egypt. Your visit will be, I hope, the first in a regular process of dialogue and consultation with Egyptian leaders who view the U.S.-Egyptian security partnership as the cornerstone of the bilateral relationship. This visit provid [...]	2008-12-21 15:26:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MASS MOPS EG
08CAIRO2545	FOUR EGYPTIAN COMPANIES LOSE QIZ ELIGIBILITY [...] (U) The Government of Egypt has publicly announced that four Egyptian companies have had their eligibility to export under the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) protocol suspended. The companies suspended are The Misr Company for Industrial and Textile Investments, The International Textile Hou [...]	2008-12-22 09:50:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL EG IS
08CAIRO255	DEFMIN TANTAWI SAYS EGYPT READY TO MEET ISRAEL AND [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense Tantawi told A/S Welch February 7 that he would welcome a visit by Israeli Defense Minister Barak or Amos Gilad to discuss moving forward with solving the Gaza border crisis. Tantawi said that he personally would not object to four-way talks involving the PA, [...]	2008-02-11 15:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO2557	EGYPT DELAYS SALE OF SECOND TRANCHE OF TELECOM EGYPT [...] (U) Summary: The Government of EgyptQs planned sale of 20% of Telecom Egypt, the countryQs sole fixed-line provider, has been put off indefinitely. Citing unfavorable market conditions and worries over the global economic crisis, the Ministry announced that it was scuttling the offering orig [...]	2008-12-23 12:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECPS EFIN EINV PGOV EG
08CAIRO2558	MFA CONFIRMS HAMAS ACCEPTANCE OF 24-HOUR CEASEFIRE [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Palestinian Affairs Barakat Leithy confirmed December 23 that Hamas had accepted a 24 hour "ceasefire" that went into effect the evening of December 22. Leithy said that Hamas and most other Palestinian factions had agreed to cease rocket fire into Israel, but that [...]	2008-12-23 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO256	EGYPTIAN COURT RULES AGAINST CONVERT [...] (SBU) On January 29, the Cairo Administrative Court denied the petition of Mohamed Hegazy, a Muslim-born convert to Christianity, to change the religious affiliation on his national identification card from Islam to Christianity. While Hegazy has the right to appeal the decision, he will prob [...]	2008-02-11 16:07:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV EG
08CAIRO2562	UPDATE ON BABY TRAFFICKING NETWORK [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable updates ref (A) which reported ongoing investigation into child trafficking in Egypt. Another Egyptian doctor and couple have been arrested by Egyptian State Security Investigative Services (SSIS) for their involvement in the baby trafficking network uncovered by th [...]	2008-12-23 15:40:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD KPAO EG AESC CASC CMGT CVIS KIRF KOCI PHUM SMIG
08CAIRO2570	CAIRO CORE EAC MEETING 12/28/2008 [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On 12/28/2008, DCM chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to discuss Israel Military Operations into the Gaza Strip. The EAC agreed that there are no known specific threats directed at the Embassy or private Americans. DCM instructed RSO and CONS to is [...]	2008-12-28 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC PTER CASC EG
08CAIRO2571	EGYPTIANS ON GAZA [...] (S) Summary: During General Petraeus, December 27-28 visit, Egyptian leaders expressed deep concern with the escalating violence in Gaza, particularly as it exposed Egypt to torrents of both domestic and regional criticism for its alleged complicity in Israeli actions. Foreign Minister Abou [...]	2008-12-29 11:02:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PARM IS KPAL EG
08CAIRO2572	APRIL 6 ACTIVIST ON HIS U.S. VISIT AND REGIME [...] (C) Summary and comment: On December 23, April 6 activist XXXXXXXXXXXX expressed satisfaction with his participation in the December 3-5 "Alliance of Youth Movements Summit," and with his subsequent meetings with USG officials, on Capitol Hill, and with think tanks. He described how State Se [...]	2008-12-30 09:09:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO2576	EGYPT TO JOIN CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI PIRACY [...] (U) On December 28, Assistant Foreign Minister Wafaa Bassim "officially" informed the Ambassador that Egypt will join the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP). The Egyptian decision followed our demarche delivered on December 23 to Abdelhammed Marzouk, Deputy Assistant Minister for South and [...]	2008-12-30 13:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM EWWT PGOV USUN SO EG
08CAIRO2577	MINISTER OF PARLIAMENTARY AND JUDICIAL AFFAIRS ON [...] (C) In a cordial December 23 meeting, Minister of State for Parliamentary and Judicial Affairs Mufeed Shehab previewed Egypt's 2008-2009 legislative agenda for the Ambassador. Shehab confirmed that the Political Rights Law will be amended to add 56 new seats (2 per province) in the People's A [...]	2008-12-30 13:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF KDEM EG
08CAIRO2578	CODEL HASTINGS' CAIRO MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: In December 6 meetings, senior Egyptian government officials told Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) that the incoming U.S. administration should focus on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process "from day one." FM Ahmed Aboul Gheit told Hastings that the Barcelona Process has been completely dis [...]	2008-12-30 13:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS OSCE PHUM KCRM OREP EUN PREF
08CAIRO2580	STATUS OF CONTAINER SECURITY PROGRAMS IN EGYPT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Implementation of the Container Security Initiative (CSI) program at the Port of Alexandria has been stalled since June 2008. The U.S. and GOE agreed to pursue a CSI program in Alexandria in a memorandum of understanding known [...]	2008-12-30 13:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT PTER EG
08CAIRO2581	FOREIGN MINISTER DESCRIBES EGYPTIAN HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Just prior to CODEL Dorgan's meeting with President Mubarak on December 14 (septel),Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, in response to a question from Senator Dorgan, said that the situation in Zimbabwe was dire, especially with the outbreak of cholera there, and that Egypt was sending em [...]	2008-12-30 13:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV EG ZM
08CAIRO2583	EMBASSY TRYING TQLT EGYPTIAN REFOULEMENT OF [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Cairo is engaging with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Egyptian State Security (SSIS),and UNHCR to halt the Government of Egypt's (GOE) forced repatriation of Eritrean migrants. On December 23, the Ambassador asked the MFA to give UNHCR access to the Eritr [...]	2008-12-30 15:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL ER EG
08CAIRO2584	UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL - NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary. Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni's candidacy to be Director General of UNESCO will likely create a serious irritant in our bilateral relationship with the Egyptians, as well as a public diplomacy challenge here and in other Arab states. We have made clear our position an [...]	2008-12-30 15:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNESCO SCUL EG
08CAIRO2585	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP FOR DECEMBER 30 [...] (SBU) On December 28, an estimated 100 Palestinians entered Egypt through a breach along the Egypt-Gaza border. Egyptian forces repelled the crowds, but at least one Egyptian security officer and several Palestinians were killed. The border is reportedly quiet today and breaches have been r [...]	2008-12-30 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO2589	Four Egyptian Companies suspended for Violating QIZ [...] Four Egyptian companies were suspended earlier this month by the Joint Egyptian Q Israeli committee for a period of thee months for violating Qualifying Industrial Zones regulations. Ali Awni, QIZ unit chief, stated that three companies, Misr Company for Industrial and Textile Investments, I [...]	2008-12-31 10:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON IS EG
08CAIRO268	WTO DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON ENVIRONMENTAL, TAFT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Econ Counselor and econoff delivered demarches on the US/EC proposals on labeling for textile, apparel, footware, and travel (TAFT) goods (ref A) and environmental goods and services (ref B) to Walid el-Nozahay, head of the WTO department at the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and I [...]	2008-02-12 13:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD WTO SENV EG
08CAIRO270	CAIRO RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FY 2008 TIP SOLICITATION [...] We have reviewed three anti trafficking-in-persons project proposals in response to reftel request for our recommendations for FY 2008 INCLE and ESF appropriations. Summary evaluations are below. We have forwarded full proposals to G/TIP and NEA POCs per reftel instructions. 2. We endor [...]	2008-02-12 13:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG EG
08CAIRO272	A/S WELCH'S FEB 7 MEETING WITH FM ABOUL GHEIT [...] (C) Summary. A/S Welch met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit February 7. The two agreed that a breakthrough in Lebanon was unlikely, and that the Lebanese government and institutions needed to be supported by the international community. Aboul Gheit reported that the GOE was sealing [...]	2008-02-12 14:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IS LE EG
08CAIRO278	OPIC CONSIDERING LOW COST MORTGAGE PROGRAM IN EGYPT [...] (SBU) OPIC has been trying for several years to provide financing to Egypt's mortgage market. As part of that effort, OPIC VP Robert Drumheller visited Cairo February 5-6 to discuss an OPIC proposal to guarantee a loan to a local bank to provide low cost mortgages to Egypt's nascent mortgage [...]	2008-02-13 13:50:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EG
08CAIRO281	EGYPT DENIES REFOULEMENT OF SUDANESE RETURNED FROM [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Refugees Tarek El Maaty told us on February 12 that in late December 2007, Egypt had released the group of 48 African migrants that Israel had returned to Egypt in August 2007 after they illegally crossed the Sinai border into Israel, and that none [...]	2008-02-13 16:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL EG IS SU
08CAIRO282	INFLATION RISES AGAIN [...] (U) Inflation increased to 10.5% year-on-year (y-o-y) in January, up from 6.9% y-o-y in December. The Central Bank responded by raising interest rates 25 basis points (bp) on February 7, defying expectations that rates would remain unchanged in order not to slow economic growth. The Central [...]	2008-02-13 16:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EG
08CAIRO31	EGYPT'S COURTS CONTINUE TO CONVICT POLICE IN ABUSE [...] (U) On January 4, an Alexandria court reportedly convicted a police major and two junior policemen of abusing a detainee in April 2007. The major reportedly ordered his men to beat the detainee and then force him to appear publicly in women's clothes. The court sentenced the major to five y [...]	2008-01-08 15:41:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV EG
08CAIRO32	MUBARAK ON PEACE, TUNNELING, AND ISRAELI POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: President Mubarak told the Ambassador and visiting Congressman Steven Israel (D-NY) on January 6 that President Bush should focus on the Palestinian problem during his upcoming visit to the region, and put pressure on both sides to find a solution, including pressuring Israel to [...]	2008-01-08 16:56:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL KPAL EG IS XF
08CAIRO323	EGYPTIAN POLITICAL PARTY MEMBERS' SUCCESSFUL [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-19 12:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
08CAIRO325	EGYPT "WAITING AND SEEING" ON RECOGNIZING KOSOVO [...] (SBU) The Ambassador called Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on February 17 to reiterate our position that Egypt should quickly recognize Kosovo, as Special Envoy for the Kosovo Final Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner had conveyed to Aboul Gheit in their February 7 meeting (ref B) [...]	2008-02-20 15:59:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNMIK EG KV YI
08CAIRO330	Subsidy bill squeezes national budget [...] On January 31 Egypt's People's Assembly (PA) approved a bill adding LE 4.7 billion ($840 million) to the FY 2007/2008 budget to cover the rising cost of subsidies on imported food commodities. High international prices are driving Egypt's 10% inflation rate, and high wheat prices in particular [...]	2008-02-21 10:13:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID ETRD EG
08CAIRO34	MUBARAK WARNS AGAINST DEPARTURE OF U.S. FORCES [...] (C) Summary: President Mubarak told the Ambassador and visiting Congressman Steven Israel (D-NY) on January 6 that withdrawing American forces from Iraq now would be a "big, big mistake." Separately, visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari -- leaving his own, earlier meeting with Mubarak -- [...]	2008-01-08 16:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EG IZ
08CAIRO346	NOUR'S ASSETS REPORTEDLY TO BE TURNED OVER TO [...] (SBU) Egypt's Political Parties Committee (PPC),chaired by ruling party head and Shoura Council speaker Safwat El Sherif, on February 19 reportedly issued a decision turning various assets of Ayman Nour (the imprisoned former presidential candidate and leader of the opposition Ghad party) ove [...]	2008-02-21 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO348	2008 Special 301 Review: Egypt [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Egypt has made incremental progress in the protection of Intellectual Property Rights during the last three years. The GOE has worked with the private sector and USG to improve its system for granting pharmaceutical patents and increase enforcement against copyright pirates, w [...]	2008-02-21 15:29:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR EG
08CAIRO354	AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON ASSETS ISSUE AND NOUR'S [...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 meeting, Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned former Ghad party leader Ayman Nour),told us that she believes the government "is taking a step back" with regard to turning over some of Nour's assets to his government-backed rival and current leader of the Ghad party [...]	2008-02-24 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO357	ARAB LEAGUE ON LEBANON, KOSOVO, IRAQ [...] (C) Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef told us February 24 that Secretary General Moussa will lead an Arab League delegation to Beirut later in the day as a "last ditch effort" to secure an agreement prior to the next scheduled Lebanese parliamentary session on February 26. Yousef said [...]	2008-02-24 15:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR UNMIK YI LE IZ EG
08CAIRO359	AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON ASSETS ISSUE AND NOUR'S [...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 meeting, Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned former Ghad party leader Ayman Nour),told us that she believes the government "is taking a step back" with regard to turning over some of Nour's assets to his government-backed rival and current leader of the Ghad party [...]	2008-02-25 10:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO36	(C) MUBARAK CALLS AHMEDINEJAD "EXTREMIST," SAYS NO [...] (S) Summary: President Mubarak told the Ambassador and visiting Congressman Steven Israel (D-NY) on January 6 that Iranian president Ahmedinejad is an "extremist," who does not think rationally, but who will nevertheless be re-elected. Egypt will not normalize diplomatic relations with Iran a [...]	2008-01-08 17:04:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL EG IR
08CAIRO361	QIZ EXPORT DROP REINFORCES EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-25 11:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL KTEX IS EG
08CAIRO362	ENCOURAGING EGYPTIAN ATTENDANCE AT THE ARAB [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-25 11:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ EG
08CAIRO364	QIZ EXPORT DROP REINFORCES EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI EXPANSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As we prepare for high-level visits to the region surrounding the 60th anniversary of Israel and the World Economic Forum in Egypt, Post recommends strong consideration of a joint Egyptian-Israeli request to expand the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) into Upper Egypt. Expand [...]	2008-02-25 14:26:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL KTEX IS EG
08CAIRO37	MUBARAK PUSHES ARAB LEAGUE AND SYRIA ON LEBANON, [...] (S) President Mubarak told the Ambassador and visiting Congressman Steven Israel (D-NY) on January 6 that he was waiting to see reactions to the recent Arab League call for immediate Lebanese presidential elections. Mubarak said he has been telling AL SecGen Amre Moussa for some time that "we [...]	2008-01-08 17:06:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL EG SY
08CAIRO373	WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-26 09:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EG
08CAIRO38	EGYPT'S FOREIGN MINISTRY RAISES DETENTION OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-10 05:04:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER CVIS EG
08CAIRO382	SOMALIA: EGYPT, ARAB LEAGUE ON CONTACT GROUP, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Arab League and Egypt are supportive of ref A proposal for restructuring the International Contact Group on Somalia (ICG). However, the Arab League wants to see better planning to make the group more effective, and Egypt wants to ensure that there will be strong coordination [...]	2008-02-26 14:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID PGOV KCRM UNSC EG SO
08CAIRO389	LOCAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS PRIMER [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On April 8, Egypt will hold its first Local Council Elections (LCE) in six years. Polls will be held nationwide, with an estimated 50,000-52,000 seats up for grabs. The National Democratic Party (NDP),which is currently conducting its first-ever "primaries" to select [...]	2008-02-27 13:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
08CAIRO390	SUDAN: NEW ARAB LEAGUE ENVOY DESCRIBES HIS MANDATE [...] (C) Summary: Recently-appointed Arab League Special Envoy for Sudan Salah Halima told us February 26 that his primary mission is to focus on humanitarian assistance and development in Darfur. Halima advised the USG to "respect Sudanese sovereignty," in order to improve the USG-GOS relationsh [...]	2008-02-27 13:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EG SU
08CAIRO396	PROSECUTOR GENERAL PRESSES CHARGES AGAINST CEMENT [...] (U) The trial of 12 cement companies accused of collusion under Egypt's 2005 Competition Law begins this week, amidst calls for prosecution of steel manufacturers under the same law. As reported in reftel, in October 2007 the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) announced that its 14-month in [...]	2008-02-27 15:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EINV EG
08CAIRO397	IMPACT OF ARAB LEAGUE MEDIA PROJECT UNCLEAR, BUT [...] (C) Summary. It is unclear how the Arab League "Media Project," adopted February 11 at a conference of Arab League Information Ministers, will affect media in Egypt and the region, but it could serve as a basis for governments, including the GOE, to impose media restrictions. An Arab League [...]	2008-02-27 16:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV EG
08CAIRO399	ADDRESSING MICÂ´S OBJECTIONS TO D&G FUNDING FOR "UNREGISTERED" NGOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 17, we received a letter from Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboulnaga directing USAID to cease funding four American and six Egyptian organizations. These groups received democracy and governance (D&G) grants under USAIDÂ´s direct grants program in the last [...]	2008-02-28 10:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL KDEM EG
08CAIRO408	EMBASSY CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR 2008 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel. Embassy POC is poloff Aaron Berman, phone 20-2-2797-2550, fax 20-2-2797-2181, bermanad@state.gov. Pol LES spent approximately 75 hours on TIP-related activities and in preparation of the TIP report. Poloff spent approximately 160 hours; ECPO Minister [...]	2008-02-28 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB EG
08CAIRO41	EGYPT: DARFUR TROOP DEPLOYMENT HIGHLIGHTS INTENT [...] (SBU) Egypt is beginning to deploy its almost 700 signals, transport, and engineering troops to Darfur as part of the Heavy Support Package (HSP) for the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told us on January 6 that the necessary equipment f [...]	2008-01-10 14:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV UNSC EG SU
08CAIRO410	EMBASSY CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR 2008 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel. Embassy POC is poloff Aaron Berman, phone 20-2-2797-2550, fax 20-2-2797-2181, bermanad@state.gov. Pol LES spent approximately 75 hours on TIP-related activities and in preparation of the TIP report. Poloff spent approximately 160 hours; ECPO Minister [...]	2008-02-28 15:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB EG
08CAIRO411	SPECIAL ENVOY WILLIAMSON ASKS EGYPT TO PRESS SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: Meeting on February 24, Special Envoy to Sudan Richard Williamson asked Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit to press the GOS to drop its obstruction to UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) deployment. Aboul Gheit said that the GOE shares the USG's interest in stabilizing Darf [...]	2008-03-02 07:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG SU
08CAIRO413	EGYPT AVIAN INFLUENZA: FIRST CASE OF 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: Egypt has confirmed its first Human Avian Influenza (AI) case in 2008: a four-year-old girl from the Minya governorate who is currently hospitalized in Cairo. Reacting rapidly and thoroughly, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) disp [...]	2008-03-02 07:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA KFLU ECON EAGR PGOV EG
08CAIRO419	EGYPTIAN GAS EXPORTS TO ISRAEL: STILL IN TESTING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The El Arish - Ashkelon gas pipeline is still in the testing phase, but should be ready for full-scale exports "very soon." Continued violence in Gaza will increase the opposition's calls to scrap gas exports to Israel, as well as increasing the issue's resonance amon [...]	2008-03-02 15:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL EG IS
08CAIRO423	BG EGYPT ON GAZA MARINE GAS FIELD [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: A senior British Gas Egypt (BG) official confirmed that BG-Israeli talks on the development of the Gaza Marine offshore gas field have "completely broken down" and opied that the current political climate precludes a viable, near-term Egyptian alternative to Ashkelo. While no [...]	2008-03-03 15:28:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG EPET ECON PREL KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO429	EGYPTIAN REACTION TO ANTI ISLAM VIDEO (C-DI8-00223) [...] (C) Per reftel request, we detail below various Egyptian reactions to the anticipated upcoming release of Dutch MP Geert Wilder's short film: - Ministry of Foreign Affairs: On February 22, MFA spokesman Hossam Zaki released a statement noting that, "Egypt is closely following all relevant de [...]	2008-03-04 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KISL EG
08CAIRO435	ARAB LEAGUE RESPONSE ON RESTRUCTURING SOMALIA CONTACT [...] (SBU) Arab League Office of African Affairs Director Samir Hosni provided on March 4 the non-paper below detailing the Arab League's suggestions for restructuring the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia. The non-paper echoes points Hosni made verbally (ref A),emphasizing that interna [...]	2008-03-04 15:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID PGOV EG SO
08CAIRO439	EGYPT CONSIDERING KOSOVO RECOGNITION, SOLIDARITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-05 14:14:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC EAID KISL PGOV EG KV YI
08CAIRO448	MASS ARRESTS OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS IN [...] (SBU) In the lead-up to Egypt's April 8 local council elections (reftel),dozens of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) activists are being arrested daily. An estimated 420-500 MB members have been detained in the past four weeks alone, mainly from cities across Egypt's Nile Delta, where popular support [...]	2008-03-06 10:25:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO45	EGYPT: CODEL JOHNSON DISCUSSES WATER WITH MINISTER OF WATER [...] (SBU) Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mahmoud Abu Zeid briefed the DCM and a CODEL led by Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) on January 6 on the challenges Egypt faces regarding water and its cooperation with the other nine Nile Basin states. The CODEL consisted of Represent [...]	2008-01-13 11:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SENV EWWT EAGR EG
08CAIRO450	AYMAN NOUR LETTER TO AMBASSADOR: I WANT AN [...] (C) Summary: In a verbose six-page handwritten Arabic letter to the Ambassador, delivered to the Embassy late on March 3, imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour makes clear his preference that, "if there has been no specific and serious talk" from the GOE about his being released, t [...]	2008-03-06 14:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO452	GAZA BORDER UPDATE: NO CHANGE IN BORDER GUARD [...] (C) Military sources told us March 4 that the February 26 media coverage sourced to Israeli officials that Egypt had doubled its Border Guard Force (BGF) numbers along the Egypt-Gaza border is completely innaccurate. The sources told us that the Egyptians have not increased their BGF numbers, [...]	2008-03-06 16:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO464	EGYPT BANS DEMONSTRATIONS IN MOSQUES AND CHURCHES [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 22, Egypt's lower house of Parliament, the Peoples' Assembly, passed a law banning demonstrations "inside or around places of worship." Although the law prohibits demonstrations in both churches and mosques, the law appears specifically to target the Muslim Brotherh [...]	2008-03-09 14:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF KISL KDEM PHUM EG
08CAIRO465	EGYPT'S DELEGATION TO THE OIC SUMMIT IN DAKAR, [...] (U) Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) confirmed that Egypt will participate in the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC) Summit in Dakar from March 13-14. The Egyptian delegation's point of contact for meeting requests is Mohamed Hilal, Office of the Cabinet of the Foreign Ministe [...]	2008-03-09 15:28:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC SG OIC KISL EG
08CAIRO466	A/S WELCH MARCH 6 MEETING WITH OMANI FM YUSUF BIN [...] (S) Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi told A/S Welch during their March 6 meeting that the Israelis and Palestinians must "solve their own problems." The U.S. is not to blame ) "you have tried your hardest" ) but Israel has been given chance after chance and squan [...]	2008-03-09 15:42:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL KPAL PTER EG IS XF OM
08CAIRO467	A/S WELCH, MINDEF TANTAWI DISCUSS GOE ACTION ON [...] (S) Summary. In a March 6 meeting, A/S Welch encouraged Mindef Tantawi to work with the U.S. and Israel to achieve calm in Gaza, help restart Israeli-PA negotiations, and to improve the quality of life for the Palestinian people on the.[\is no rocket fire into Israel, the GOI would have no rea [...]	2008-03-09 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PARM KPAL MASS IS EG
08CAIRO47	EGYPT: FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUL GHEIT DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit highlighted Egypt's "energetic" Africa policy in a January 6 meeting with the DCM and a CODEL led by Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX). Both Aboul Gheit and the CODEL confirmed the importance of a good U.S.-Egypt bilateral r [...]	2008-01-13 11:37:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV CVIS EG
08CAIRO479	EGYPT: AFRICAN MIGRANTS TO ISRAEL CONTINUE, [...] (C) Summary: Egypt faces a continuing problem with African migrants attempting to migrate illegally to Israel. Since the beginning of 2008, Eritreans, always a component of the equation, have been making the attempt in greater numbers. Sudanese continue to represent the bulk of migrants, enc [...]	2008-03-10 14:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREF PHUM PREL EG ER IR SU
08CAIRO480	COURTROOM ENCOUNTER WITH AYMAN NOUR [...] (SBU) Summary: In a chance encounter on the sidelines of a March 10 court hearing, poloff had a brief conversation with jailed former opposition leader Ayman Nour. Nour, looking pale but generally healthy, said he was "extremely grateful" for all of the USG's efforts on his behalf: "I cannot [...]	2008-03-10 14:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO481	A/S WELCH MARCH 6 MEETING WITH FM ABOUL GHEIT [...] (S) Summary. A/S Welch discussed Lebanon and the Israeli-Palestinian situation with FM Aboul Gheit on March 6. Aboul Gheit expressed frustration over the recent Israeli military operation in Gaza. A/S Welch outlined our strategy to maintain momentum on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The [...]	2008-03-10 16:32:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV IS EG
08CAIRO484	EGYPT WELCOMES AFRICOM [...] (C) AFRICOM Commander General William Ward met Egyptian Chief of Staff LTG Sami Enan and Assistant Minister of Defense MG Mohamed El-Assar on at the Ministry of Defense on February 17. During the hour-long meeting, which included DASD Whelan, OMC Chief, and ECPO minister counselor, GEN Ward e [...]	2008-03-11 10:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR EG
08CAIRO486	PUBLIC FEARS OVER DIESEL, GASOLINE SHORTAGES [...] (SBU) Recent reported shortages of diesel fuel and low-grade gasoline throughout Egypt are prompting press and public speculation over a looming fuel crisis, although the GOE has assured the public that no such emergency is impending. Shortages of low-grade gasoline are likely a function of t [...]	2008-03-11 12:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET PGOV EG
08CAIRO488	GAZA BORDER UPDATE: TUNNELS, HUMANITARIAN ISSUES [...] (S) Summary. Egyptian security sources told us March 10 that on March 9 the Egyptians destroyed the openings of three smuggling tunnels on the Egyptian side of the Gaza border. The sources said that also on March 9, Egypt allowed 49 injured Palestinians to cross Rafah en route to hospitals in [...]	2008-03-11 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG

08CAIRO489	CONVERSATION WITH MFA ON RECENT DETENTIONS OF MB [...] (C) DCM raised the recent arrests of approximately 450-700 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) affiliated Egyptians with MFA Assistant Minister for American Affairs Hatem Saif el Nasser on March 11. During a courtesy call for visiting NEA PDAS Jeff Feltman, we told Nasser that the timing of the arrests, [...]	2008-03-12 08:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG
08CAIRO494	EGYPTIAN ASPIRATIONS FOR PRESIDENCY OF THE HUMAN [...] (C) DCM (joined by visiting NEA PDAS Feltman) raised reftel points with MFA Assistant Minister Hatem Seif al Nasser on March 11 (Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit was on travel). Nasser confirmed that the Egyptians were interested in the presidency of the UN Human Rights Council, but had no detail [...]	2008-03-12 15:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL EG
08CAIRO495	LOCAL ELECTIONS LEAD-UP: ARRESTS CONTINUE, [...] (SBU) Summary: In the lead-up to Egypt's April 8 local council elections, dozens of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) campaign workers and candidates continue to be arrested daily. An estimated 400-700 MB members have been detained in the past five weeks. On March 10, the MB announced that it had aimed [...]	2008-03-12 16:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL EG
08CAIRO500	FOREIGN FIGHTERS DISCUSSION: EGYPT'S INTERIOR [...] (S) Summary: Dell Dailey, State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, accompanied by the Ambassador, met on February 25 with Egypt's Minister of Interior Habib El Adly. Dailey briefed Adly on the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq and asked Egypt to press for Syrian cooperation in closing [...]	2008-03-13 10:22:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL PHUM EAIR SY EG
08CAIRO505	ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT UPDATE [...] (C) The expected number of Arab heads of state at the March 28-30 Arab League Summit in Damascus may be increasing. MFA Cabinet Advisor Nazih Neggary told us March 13 that the Egyptian Embassy in Damascus had reported that the Syrian MFA had very recently briefed Arab ambassadors in Damascus o [...]	2008-03-13 14:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE SY EG
08CAIRO507	ASD MCHALE'S DISCUSSIONS ON CIVIL DEFENSE WITH THE [...] (S) Summary. On February 28, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and American Security Affairs Paul McHale briefed the Ambassador on his February 27 meetings with Egyptian military officials. ASD McHale noted that he wants to increase USG engagement with Egypt on involving th [...]	2008-03-13 16:59:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL PGOV MASS PTER EG
08CAIRO52	CODEL PRICE MEETS WITH ABOUL GHEIT [...] (C) Summary. FM Aboul Gheit told visiting Codel Price January 6 that the GOE recognizes that the Administration is trying to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, but warned that continuing Israeli settlement activity would scuttle progress. He urged that USG security measures not d [...]	2008-01-13 14:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS IZ EG
08CAIRO524	SCENESETTER FOR MINDEF TANTAWIâ€™S VISIT TO THE U.S. MARCH 24-28REF: A. CAIRO 452 B. CAIRO 488 C. CAIRO 507CAIRO 00000524 001.2 OF 002 [...] (S) Summary: Defense Minister Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi will travel to Washington, Tampa, and Chicago March 24-28. He will meet senior officials in Washington and at USCENTCOM HQ in Tampa, and view U.S. civil defense arrangements in Chicago. Mrs. Tantawi and as many as five senior generals will [...]	2008-03-16 16:43:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL PGOV MASS MARR PTER IS EG XF
08CAIRO528	MIC RESPONDS TO U/S FORE LETTER; COMMENTS FURTHER [...] (S) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: On March 13, the Ambassador, accompanied by the Administrator's Special Advisor for the Middle East George Laudato, USAID's David McCloud, USAID Mission director and econ counselor (notetaker) met with Minister for International Cooperation Fayza Aboulnaga. Dis [...]	2008-03-17 10:46:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KDEM EG
08CAIRO53	EGYPT'S PROSECUTOR GENERAL ORDERS RELEASE IN [...] (SBU) According to her lawyer, Egypt's Office of the Prosecutor General ordered the release on January 13 of Shadia Nagui Ibrahim, who was convicted of fraud on November 21, 2007, in connection with her father's brief conversion in the early 1960s from Christianity to Islam (ref A). Ibrahim, [...]	2008-01-13 15:39:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV EG
08CAIRO530	INFLATION REACHES 12.1% IN FEBRUARY [...] (U) Inflation surged to 12.1% year-on-year (y-on-y) in February, up from 10.5% y-o-y in January. Food prices led the rise, reflecting rising global food prices. Local analysts believe the Central Bank will raise interest rates again this month, but predict that greater exchange rate flexibil [...]	2008-03-17 12:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EG
08CAIRO534	EGYPTIAN MFA RECEIVES HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT AND [...] (SBU) We met on March 12 with Wael Aboul Magd, Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Affairs, and delivered a copy of the 2007 Human Rights Report for Egypt. He had not yet seen the report. He told us he will review the report and get back to us with informal comments, which he s [...]	2008-03-17 16:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PTER KISL EG
08CAIRO542	MOD CONTINUES TO RESIST PERMITTING COAST GUARD [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-18 16:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EG EWWT PARM PGOV PREL PTER
08CAIRO555	O TV: A RISING STAR IN THE ARAB MEDIA MARKET [...] (U) Summary: On March 16, A/IO met with Yasmine Abdullah Attia, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Egyptian youth entertainment channel O TV, which celebrated its one-year anniversary on January 31, 2008. In slightly more than one year, O TV has rocketed into the top 10 most watched ente [...]	2008-03-19 13:52:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECPS KPAO XF EG
08CAIRO560	MUBARAK SPEECH: SLIGHT INCREASE OF PRESSURE ON [...] (SBU) President Mubarak's March 18 Moulid el Nabi (Birthday of the Prophet) speech focused in large part on Islamic values, which Mubarak asserted were under attack both from non-Muslims (i.e. the "blasphemous cartoonists") as well as from radical Muslims who "give a reason for others to accus [...]	2008-03-19 15:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS LE EG
08CAIRO561	GAZA BORDER UPDATE: FIRST STAGE OF WALL [...] (S) Summary: Egyptian security sources told us March 17 that on March 16 Egypt completed the first phase of the Gaza border wall between the Mediterranean coast and Rafah. Building began March 17 on the second phase of the wall from Rafah to Kerem Shalom. Egypt facilitated humanitarian shipm [...]	2008-03-19 16:11:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PARM IS EG
08CAIRO562	THE SCHIZOPHRENIA OF THE EGYPTIAN MUSLIM [...] (C) Summary: The ongoing debate over the draft party platform of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has exposed in an unprecedented manner the cross-cutting fault lines within the 80-year old Islamist organization. The dichotomy within the MB's leadership - highlighted by contradictory sta [...]	2008-03-20 11:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KDEM EG
08CAIRO563	EGYPTIANS DEMAND A NEW MINIMUM WAGE [...] (U) Demonstrations over rising prices have turned into calls for a new minimum monthly wage for public sector employees. The current minimum wage of LE 40 ($7.20)/month for unskilled workers has not changed since the 1980s. University professors and doctors have joined the call for a new pay [...]	2008-03-23 07:17:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EG
08CAIRO567	PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER ON U.S. VISIT, AYMAN NOUR, [...] (C) Summary: In a March 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Speaker of the Egyptian People's Assembly, Ahmed Fathi Surour, highlighted his satisfaction with his early March visit to Washington. He complained about Congressional focus on imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour, and deta [...]	2008-03-23 12:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO569	ARAB LEAGUE'S HISHAM YOUSEF ON SUMMIT AND "YEMENI [...] (C) Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef told us March 23 that the number of heads of state to attend the Arab League Summit in Damascus is not yet final, and he expects it will be in play up until the day of the summit (i.e. March 29). Yousef said that planning for this year's summit "was [...]	2008-03-23 15:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY LE IS EG
08CAIRO57	MUBARAK DISCUSSES BACK SURGERY, GAMAL AS [...] (S/NF) During his January 6 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting Congressman Steven Israel (D-NY),President Mubarak described his June 2004 back surgery in Germany to repair a slipped disc (he stressed it was not a herniated disc). Mubarak said that the opening made in his back was "very [...]	2008-01-14 11:36:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PGOV PREL EG
08CAIRO574	EGYPT NUCLEAR POWER UPDATE: CONSULTANT [...] (C) Bids for an international consultant to advise Egypt's civilian nuclear power program are due on May 15, and the GOE expects its draft nuclear legislation, which is currently under review by the IAEA, to reach the floor of parliament in March or April. The MFA told us that Egypt will not f [...]	2008-03-24 13:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP ECON PREL EG
08CAIRO579	EGYPT WILL NOT RECOGNIZE KOSOVO [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-25 13:50:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNMIK EG KV YI
08CAIRO58	LATEST MUBARAK COMMENTS AND EGYPTQN MFA THINKING [...] (U) President Mubarak, touring Upper Egypt on January 13, demanded implementation of the steps delineated in the Arab League statement of January 6. He called upon the Lebanese people to end their disagreements for the sake of their country. He said that if the current crisis continues that [...]	2008-01-14 15:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE SY EG
08CAIRO581	U.S. NAVAL SHOOTING INCIDENT NEAR THE SUEZ CANAL; [...] (C) Summary: On March 24 at approximately 6:00 p.m., the Global Patriot, a cargo ship on short-term charter to the U.S. Navy that was staged to enter the southern end of the Suez Canal for transit to the Mediterranean, reported that it fired warning shots in the direction of three unidentified [...]	2008-03-25 17:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EG
08CAIRO587	MUBARAK ORDERS MILITARY TO ASSIST IN RESOLVING "BREAD [...] (U) Summary: In apparent reaction to what the media is characterizing as a "bread crisis" - shortages of subsidized bread and rising prices for unsubsidized bread -President Mubarak has ordered the military to assist civilian agencies in ensuring availability of subsidized bread. According t [...]	2008-03-26 07:53:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAID EG
08CAIRO595	EGYPTIAN COURT CONVICTS EDITOR BUT SUSPENDS JAIL [...] (SBU) On March 26, a Cairo court convicted Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the independent newspaper Al-Dustour, of spreading false information in connection with the newspaper's August 2007 publication of stories reporting rumors then circulating that President Mubarak was in poor health. The cou [...]	2008-03-26 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO EG
08CAIRO596	IRAQI REFUGEES: AMBASSADOR FOLEY ASKS ARAB LEAGUE TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues James Foley pressed Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef on March 24 for Arab League member states to pledge financial commitments for Iraqi refugees at the March 29 Arab League Summit in Damascus. He noted that refugees, particul [...]	2008-03-26 15:08:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PREF EG IR
08CAIRO602	UPDATE ON U.S. NAVY INCIDENT AT SUEZ (CORRECTED [...] (C) Summary: On March 25 our NCIS officer witnessed the autopsy of the apparent victim in the March 24 incident at Suez involving a U.S. Navy-chartered vessel. The wounds appear consistent with the 50-caliber warning shots fired from the "Global Patriot" (ref B). NAVCENT NCIS will send a te [...]	2008-03-27 09:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV EG
08CAIRO607	DARFUR: CAIRO-BASED REBELS ON NATIONAL CENSUS [...] (SBU) In a March 26 meeting, we asked Alaa El Din Ibrahim and Abdallah Ali, Political and Media Secretaries of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) Abdulwahid Nur faction, respectively, to encourage Nur supporters in Darfur, and particularly in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camp [...]	2008-03-27 12:53:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SOCI UNSC KDEM EG SU
08CAIRO609	SUEZ UPDATE: INVESTIGATION, COMPENSATION AND [...] (C) Summary: As of March 27, embassy NCIS officer is conducting an investigation in Egypt. The MOD has agreed to provide autopsy results, but refused to provide the bullet fragments from the deceased's body. FM Aboul-Gheit publicly criticized the U.S. over the incident March 27, and complai [...]	2008-03-27 16:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EG
08CAIRO610	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING PSI ENDORSEMENT PRIOR [...] (C) We delivered ref A demarche March 27 to MFA Counselor for Arms Control and Disarmament Omar Amr Youssef and passed non-paper points. Youssef said he would pass the message to other concerned GOE agencies, but cautioned us "not to be optimistic" that Egypt would be able to endorse PSI withi [...]	2008-03-27 16:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM PHSA PREL KNNP XI EG
08CAIRO611	POSSIBLE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SYMPATHIES AMONG [...] (U) Summary: On March 15, we accompanied a DRL Program Officer on a monitoring visit to a DRL-funded governance project in Minya, a city in Upper Egypt. The project, implemented by the US-based NGO "Street Law International" and its local partner, the Assiut Human Rights Association (AHRA),[...]	2008-03-27 17:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM KISL EG
08CAIRO612	ARCENT COMMANDER LOVELACE DISCUSSES BRIGHT STAR [...] (C) Summary. On March 9, U.S. Army Central Command (ARCENT) Commanding General LTG James Lovelace made his introductory calls on MOD Chief of Staff LTG Sami Enan and MOD Training Division Chief Major General Mohammed Hisham. LTG Enan said that the size of the joint U.S.-Egyptian BRIGHT STAR e [...]	2008-03-30 12:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PINR PREL MASS EG
08CAIRO621	EGYPTIANS GLOOMY AND RESTIVE BECAUSE OF ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rising food prices, long bread lines, working-class economic woes and a daily dose of bad news are contributing to a sense among Egyptians that their country is in trouble. Whether they blame their government, the United States or even at times themselves, Egyptians are unhappy [...]	2008-03-31 08:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ECON KDEM MARR PGOV PHUM PREL EG
08CAIRO623	SUEZ INCIDENT: PM NAZIF ON POTUS CALL, [...] (S) Summary: On March 27 Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif told us that President Bush's condolence phone call to President Mubarak had helped calm a "fiery" cabinet meeting. He said that the GOE's investigation into the Suez incident is aimed at preventing the possibility of a recurrence. PM Nazif sa [...]	2008-03-31 08:47:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PARM PGOV EG
08CAIRO641	ARAB LEAGUE BRIEFING ON DAMASCUS SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef briefed diplomats on the Arab League Summit (held in Damascus March 29-30) on March 31. Yousef said that the tone of the summit was "conciliatory," but acknowledged that Arab-to-Arab relations have become frayed on a number of fronts and [...]	2008-03-31 15:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE SY IS EG XF
08CAIRO667	MFA RESPONSE TO EXTENSION OF MFO DG LAROCCO [...] (U) On April 1 we received a fax signed by Ambassador Mohamed Mustafa Kamal, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Legal, Treaty and Counterterrorism Affairs, confirming the GOE's agreement to the extension of MFO Director-General James LaRocco's term until June 30, 2009. [...]	2008-04-01 15:39:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KMFO IS IT EG
08CAIRO677	LOCAL ELECTIONS LEAD-UP: RULING PARTY DOMINATES [...] (C) Summary: We do not expect any surprises from Egypt's April 8 local elections. Due to the government's widespread blocking of oppositionists from registering as candidates, only a total of 962 opposition candidates, including just 20 from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB),have made it onto the [...]	2008-04-03 16:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO678	EGYPTIAN MFA ON BASRAH, EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ [...] (C) MFA Spokesman and Senior Advisor Hossam Zaki told Minister Counselor April 3 that the Foreign Ministry decided not to issue a statement concerning events in Basrah since it involved "Shia on Shia fighting." MinCouns noted that Maliki had used ISF, not sectarian forces, to take on the Sadri [...]	2008-04-03 16:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EG IZ
08CAIRO679	EGYPTIAN MFA ON ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT, SYRIA-LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of a disappointing Arab League summit, Hossam Zaki said that Egypt is urging Syria to behave more responsibly in solving intra-Arab problems. He reported that Syrian president al-Assad told the summit that Syria will not address the "Lebanon problem" until a "legitima [...]	2008-04-03 16:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EG LE SY XF
08CAIRO680	EGYPTIAN MFA ON MUBARAK MEETING WITH ABBAS, [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-03 16:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EG JO XF
08CAIRO690	SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FORD'S CAIRO MEETINGS ON [...] (C) Summary: On March 13, Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation Christopher Ford discussed the upcoming April-May Nonproliferation Treaty PrepCom with MFA Assistant Minister for Cabinet Affairs Ambassador Wafaa Bassim and Arab League Director for Multilateral Affairs Wael Al-As [...]	2008-04-06 14:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	IAEA KNPP AORC PARM PREL IS EG
08CAIRO691	EGYPTIANS IN GAZA CROSS BACK INTO EGYPT [...] (S/NF) MFA Palestinian Affairs Director Badr Abdelatty told us April 6 that 150-200 Egyptians crossed Rafah from Gaza into Egypt April 1-2, as a "one time event." Badr said that these Egyptians, many of whom reside in Al-Arish and have relatives in Gaza, were in Gaza since the January border [...]	2008-04-06 15:44:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL IS EG
08CAIRO693	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ANNOUNCES BOYCOTT OF LOCAL [...] (SBU) On April 7, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB),which up until now had urged Egyptians to participate in the April 8 local council elections, called on voters to boycott. The full text of the MB's statement is posted on the organization's website (translated text at para 3). The MB's Deputy S [...]	2008-04-07 12:09:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL EG
08CAIRO697	DAY OF PROTESTS LARGELY QUIET, BUT VIOLENT CLASH [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-07 14:46:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON EG
08CAIRO698	ARAB LEAGUE OFFICIAL ON SYG MOUSSA'S VIENNA TRIP, [...] (C) Summary: Arab League Disarmament Department Director Wael Al-Assad told us April 3 that Arab League SYG Amr Moussa plans to visit Vienna April 16 and 17 to discuss the Arab Group's draft IAEA General Conference "Israeli Nuclear Threat" (INT) resolution, and would be interested in meeting [...]	2008-04-07 15:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	IAEA MNUC PARM KNNP PREL IS IR EG
08CAIRO699	EGYPT'S INTERIOR MINISTRY ANNOUNCES NO APPEAL IN [...] (C) According to media reports, Egypt's Ministry of Interior (MoI) announced that the government will not appeal the January 24 Cairo Administrative Court ruling granting three members of Egypt's Baha,i minority the right to obtain government identification documents (ref B). According to th [...]	2008-04-07 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF EG
08CAIRO7	EGYPTIAN COURT REJECTS LEGAL ATTACK ON BLOGS [...] (U) On December 29, the Cairo Administrative Judicial Court dismissed a lawsuit aimed at shutting down 51 websites belonging to Egyptian human rights organizations, opposition groups and individual bloggers. As a legal basis for its ruling, the Cairo court cited Article 19 of the Universal D [...]	2008-01-02 16:08:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PHUM PGOV EG
08CAIRO701	NEA DAS BUTLER DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Visiting NEA DAS Butler discussed Iraq issues with Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef April 6. DAS Butler gave an overview of the current situation, including in Basrah, where the GOI had managed an overall gain of territorial control. Yousef claimed that Arab states are willing to [...]	2008-04-08 06:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ SY KV EG
08CAIRO702	EGYPT MFA SPOKESMAN DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH DAS BUTLER [...] (C) Visiting DAS Lawrence Butler discussed Iraq with MFA Spokesman and Senior Advisor Hossam Zaki on April 6. Zaki confirmed that Egypt plans to send an ambassador to Baghdad, but only after President Mubarak is convinced that Maliki is serious about reaching out to the Arabs, and is satisfied [...]	2008-04-08 06:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EG IZ
08CAIRO712	MFA READOUT OF PM SINIORA VISIT [...] (C) Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora, touring the region to maintain Arab support for his government, updated President Mubarak, PM Nazif, and FM Aboul Gheit April 6 and 7 on the situation in Lebanon. MFA Cabinet Advisor Nazih Neggary told us April 7 that Siniora was concerned that the Arab Lea [...]	2008-04-08 14:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE SY EG
08CAIRO714	RISING CONSTRUCTION COSTS PROMPT GOE ACTION [...] (U) In late March the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) announced a six-month ban on cement exports, beginning April 1. The ban is the latest in a series of steps by MOTI to control rising construction prices. Industry analysts predict the ban will not bring cement prices down, as demand [...]	2008-04-08 16:15:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EINV EG
08CAIRO715	SECOND NIGHT OF VIOLENT CLASHES IN NILE DELTA TOWN [...] (SBU) Violent clashes between police and protestors reignited April 7 on the streets of the Nile Delta textile mill town of Mehalla el Kubra. The flashpoint of the protests centered on the Mehalla police station, where protesters gathered to demand the release of those detained the previous d [...]	2008-04-08 17:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON EG
08CAIRO72	Updating Information for Terrorism Finance Coordination [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-17 05:17:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN EG
08CAIRO720	LOCAL ELECTIONS MARKED BY LOW TURNOUT, RULING [...] (C) Summary: The April 8 elections for 52,000 local council seats were marked by dramatically low turnout, a result of the usual apathy of the Egyptian electorate combined with the call for a boycott by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Embassy officers observing the elections nationwide saw numer [...]	2008-04-09 11:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
08CAIRO721	MUBARAK'S NUCLEAR PROTOCOL WITH RUSSIA: [...] (C) Summary: Contacts in the GOE and Egyptian academia have described President Mubarak's late March visit to Russia as "routine," including the Egyptian-Russian nuclear energy protocol signed during the visit. While the nuclear energy protocol and other agreements for Egyptian-Russian cooper [...]	2008-04-09 11:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET ETRD KNNP EG RU
08CAIRO724	NILE DELTA TOWN LARGELY CALM APRIL 8-9; PM [...] (SBU) Even after the parade of Egyptian cabinet ministers and attendant security had long returned to Cairo, the streets of Mehalla el Kubra remained relatively calm the evening of April 8 and early April 9. Earlier on April 8, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif joined the three ministers of Manpower [...]	2008-04-09 12:40:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON EG
08CAIRO730	EGYPT: LEADING KEFAYA ACTIVIST DETAINED [...] (SBU) On the evening of April 9, Egyptian police detained George Ishaaq, a founder and leading member of the opposition "Kefaya" (Enough) movement (also known as the "Egyptian Movement for Change"),and are currently holding him in the Tagammu al Khamis State Security Prosecutor's facility. No [...]	2008-04-10 11:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR EG
08CAIRO735	RUMORS OF CABINET SHUFFLE ABOUND [...] (C) Amidst growing popular and media agitation against rising prices and occasional shortages of bread and fuel, rumors have started again (ref) in Cairo that a cabinet shuffle will occur roughly two weeks after the April 8 local elections. During the Ambassador's April 6 farewell call, Prim [...]	2008-04-10 14:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EG
08CAIRO737	DIMMING PUBLIC FOCUS ON SUEZ INCIDENT; UPDATE ON [...] (C) The March 24 Suez incident that resulted in the death of Mohammed Fouad Affifi has generally been supplanted in the Egyptian press and the public's awareness by more pressing domestic concerns, such as the violent clashes between police and protestors April 6-7 in Mehalla that resulted in a [...]	2008-04-10 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PARM PGOV PREL EG
08CAIRO738	GOE ANXIETY OVER THE GAZA BORDER [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-10 15:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO739	EGYPT'S HIV ARRESTS AND CONVICTIONS [...] (U) According to media reports, on April 9 five HIV positive Egyptian men were convicted of "the habitual practice of debauchery" andsentenced to three years in prison. The debauchey charges stem from alleged homosexual conduct. awyers for the men intend to appeal the conviction but are not op [...]	2008-04-10 16:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KHIV EG
08CAIRO741	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE TRANSFER OF 2000 [...] (C) Description: The Government of Egypt has requested procurement of 2,000 TOW-2A missiles. 2. (C) Reason the purchaser desires the articles or services: a. Egypt has an immediate need to replenish its TOW missile inventory. The shelf-life of all of Egypt's 17,346 Basic TOW, ITOW, a [...]	2008-04-13 05:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR EG
08CAIRO742	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE TRANSFER OF 120MM [...] (C) Description: The Government of Egypt has requested procurement of 15,500 120mm HE-T main-gun rounds, 200 dummy rounds, and 100 cutaway rounds. The dummy and cutaway rounds are for training purposes only. 2. (C) Reason the purchaser desires the articles or services: The Egyptian Army [...]	2008-04-13 05:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR EG
08CAIRO749	OMAR SOLIMAN DISCUSSES IRAQ APRIL 12 [...] (S/NF) Ambassador raised Iraq, and urged that Egypt do more to support the GOI, in an April 12 meeting with EGIS Chief Omar Soliman. The recent Iraqi military operation was clear evidence that PM Maliki was operating on a national rather than sectarian basis in confronting rebel groups. This [...]	2008-04-13 10:13:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ EG
08CAIRO758	RELATIVE CALM ON THE GAZA BORDER FOLLOWING GOE [...] (S) Summary: LAWIO Deputy Chief BG Osama Abd El-Azziz and MFA Palestinian Affairs Director Badr Abdelatty both told us April 13 that the Gaza border is calmer than it had been following Hamas' April 8 threat to breach the border. BG Osama said that the GOE has reinforced its Border Guard For [...]	2008-04-14 13:40:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO759	AMBASSADOR BLOOMFIELD, A/MINISTER BASSIM DISCUSS [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., U.S. Special Envoy for Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) Threat Reduction met April 2 with MFA Assistant Minister for Cabinet Affairs Ambassador Wafaa Bassim, Cabinet Director for Disarmament Omar Amr Youssef and Disarmament Director [...]	2008-04-14 14:27:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	MARR PREL PARM EG
08CAIRO760	BLUE LANTERN LICENSE 05-050073373 [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-14 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC EG
08CAIRO762	NOTE VERBALE ASKING U.S. TO DISSUADE ISRAEL FROM [...] (C) MFA Spokesman and Senior Advisor Hossam Zaki gave DCM para 2 English language note verbale April 14. Zaki said the note is from Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit for the Secretary. We are e-mailing a scanned copy to NEA/ELA, the NEA/FO and the Operations Center. 2. (C) Begin note verbal text [...]	2008-04-15 05:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IS EG
08CAIRO77	EGYPT UNDECIDED ABOUT SUPPORTING KOSOVAR [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-17 11:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNMIK EG YI
08CAIRO776	GOE HAS NO OBJECTION TO FRENCH PROPOSAL FOR [...] (C) MFA Lebanon Director Nazih El-Negary told us April 15 that FM Aboul Gheit has no objection to a French proposal to organize an April 22 meeting on Lebanon on the margins of the Iraq neighbors conference in Kuwait. The French are planning to invite the U.S., Egypt, the Arab League, Saudi Ar [...]	2008-04-15 16:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE FR EG
08CAIRO777	GAZA BORDER: MFA DOWNPLAYS REPORTED HAMAS ATTACK [...] (U) Pro-government Al-Ahram reported April 15 that Hamas has completed preparations for a potential three-pronged attack against Egyptian security forces on the Gaza border. According to Al-Ahram, the attack would take the form of small arms and mortar fire against Egyptian forces, exploding t [...]	2008-04-15 16:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IS EG
08CAIRO779	INFLATION REACHES 14.4% IN MARCH [...] (U) Egypt's inflation rate continued to climb in March, reaching 14.4% year-on-year (yoy) in March, a three-year high, up from 12.1% in February (ref A). Food inflation led the way, rising 20.5% yoy in March, up from 16.8% in February. Bread and grain prices increased 48.1% yoy and food oil [...]	2008-04-15 16:45:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG
08CAIRO783	MAHALLA RIOTS: ISOLATED INCIDENT OR TIP OF AN [...] (C) Summary: Egyptians are uneasy about the April 6 and 7 anti-government riots in Mahalla, which featured thousands of unemployed youth battling riot police in the streets of the Nile Delta mill-town (refs B-D). The violent demonstrations followed on an opposition-organized general strike on A [...]	2008-04-16 10:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
08CAIRO784	BIRD FLU KILLS SECOND EGYPTIAN THIS MONTH [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: On April 11, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) confirmed its sixth Human avian influenza (AI) case this year, the 49th overall, and the second in less than a week: a 30-year old woman from Al-Matarya in the Cairo Governorate. The woman's death, which made her the 2 [...]	2008-04-16 12:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA KFLU ECON EAGR PGOV EG
08CAIRO785	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MILITARY TRIBUNAL ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: In the latest installment of the GOE's ongoing crackdown against the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB),the military tribunal against forty MB members issued verdicts on April 15, nearly one year after the trial started in April 2007. Fifteen defendants were acquitted, but the ot [...]	2008-04-16 14:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV KISL EG
08CAIRO786	EGYPT BALANCING EMPLOYMENT, ILLEGAL MIGRATION WITH WORKERS [...] (U) This is a joint US Embassy Cairo-US Embassy Tripoli message. 2. (SBU) Summary: Egyptians have long sought economic betterment by working - usually illegally - in Libya. Although constantly changing Libyan labor restrictions resulted in the return of some Egyptian workers to Egypt in [...]	2008-04-16 14:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PHUM ECON EG LY
08CAIRO792	INTERIOR MINISTER ON MAHALLA RIOTS, DETENTIONS OF [...] (C) Summary: In an April 15 farewell call with Interior Minister Habib El Adly, the Ambassador raised USG concern about the recent detentions of opposition activists, as well as the tough sentences handed down that day against 25 senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) by a military trib [...]	2008-04-17 10:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV KISL EG
08CAIRO796	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT OF THE TRANSFER OF (112) [...] (C) Description: In Ref A and B, the GOE requests 112 AN/PVS-7B NVG and 30 Spare Image Intensifier Tubes to support Border Guard Force operations. The spare Image Intensifier Tubes will allow the Ministry of Defense to maintain NVGs in their inventory. 2. (C) Reason the purchaser desires [...]	2008-04-17 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PASS MARR EG
08CAIRO8	ARAB LEAGUE LEBANON MTG: EGYPT SEEKS TO RAISE [...] (C) The Arab League confirmed to us January 2 that Syria will attend the January 6 extraordinary ministerial session to be held in Cairo on Lebanon. Hisham Yousef, Chief of Staff to Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, had been scheduled to travel to Beirut December 31, but told us he ha [...]	2008-01-02 17:54:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV LE SY EG
08CAIRO808	U.S.-EGYPT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-20 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV KISL AG MO SO PK AF LY SU
08CAIRO824	COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT OF THE TRANSFER OF (112) [...] (C) Description: In Ref A and B, the GOE requests 112 AN/PVS-7B NVG and 30 Spare Image Intensifier Tubes to support Border Guard Force operations. The spare Image Intensifier Tubes will allow the Ministry of Defense to maintain NVGs in their inventory. 2. (C) Reason the purchaser desires [...]	2008-04-22 10:01:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PASS MARR EG
08CAIRO833	LOCAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: UNOFFICIAL RESULTS [...] (SBU) To date, no official nationwide results have been announced in Egypt's April 8 local council elections. Reportedly, results are being released governorate by governorate, and will be finalized nationally next week. With only 962 opposition candidates on the ballot country-wide, out of th [...]	2008-04-22 16:15:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL EG
08CAIRO839	EMBASSY CAIRO SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR IRAQI [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-23 13:26:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM AMGT EG IZ
08CAIRO84	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF ENERGY BODMAN VISIT [...] (C) Egypt is addressing the mushrooming energy demands of its growing economy and population, but tackling the problem will require aggressive action on energy subsidies, increased conservation, and maximization of finite hydrocarbon reserves. In addition to its plans for civilian nuclear pow [...]	2008-01-17 15:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECPO KNNP PREL EG
08CAIRO842	EGYPTIAN NPT PREPCOM POSITIONS [...] (C) Summary. MFA Disarmament Director Aly Sirry told us April 22 that Egypt wants the April 28-May 9 Geneva Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) PrepCom proceedings to make progress toward recognizing concerns regarding Israel's nuclear program. Sirry said that Egypt would view such progress as a s [...]	2008-04-23 15:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IR IS EG
08CAIRO843	EGYPT'S MFA ON APRIL 6 DETAINEES, BAHA'IS, CT LAW [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-23 15:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PTER KISL EG
08CAIRO844	GRIM BIRD FLU MILESTONE: EGYPT'S 50TH CASE [...] (SBU) On April 16, the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) confirmed its seventh human avian influenza (AI) case this year: a 2-year-old boy from the Sharqia Governorate north of Cairo. This marks Egypt's 50th confirmed AI case overall, and the third in the month of April. The [...]	2008-04-23 15:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO ECON PGOV EG
08CAIRO85	DEFMIN TANTAWI WARNS THAT CONDITIONING FMF WILL [...] (C) On December 31, 2007, Minister of Defense Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi told the Ambassador and visiting CODEL Voinovich that conditioning U.S. military assistance to Egypt would harm bilateral relations, and would not be understood by members of military or the average Egyptian. Egypt has [...]	2008-01-17 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PTER KPAL IR IZ IS EG
08CAIRO856	EGYPT AND ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS [...] (S) Summary: Per reftel inquiry, Egypt's overriding security equity in a Palestinian state is a secure and stable border with Gaza. Egypt is interested in opening the Gaza border to humanitarian shipments and trade through a mechanism similar to the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access in o [...]	2008-04-24 13:59:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL KWBG KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO858	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. PROPOSED PAPERS FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-24 15:26:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA EG
08CAIRO859	SOMALIA: EGYPT CAUTIOUS ON ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS, [...] (U) Per reftel demarche, we notified Arab League African Affairs Department Director Samir Hosni on April 22 that the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) plans to chair the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia after the next ICG meeting in Oslo, with the discretio [...]	2008-04-24 15:27:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID PGOV EG SO
08CAIRO860	DARFUR: EGYPT URGES RE-ENGAGEMENT, INCLUSIVITY ON [...] (SBU) The GOE seeks to re-invigorate the idea that UN and AU Darfur envoys Jan Elaisson and Selim Ahmed Selim engage in "shuttle diplomacy" between the rebel groups and GOS to bring them to a comprehensive political solution, MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told us on Apr [...]	2008-04-24 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM EG SU
08CAIRO861	MFA ON TAHDIYA EFFORTS; AHLC MEETING [...] (S/NF) MFA Director for Palestinian Affairs Badr Abelatty updated us April 24 on Egyptian tahdiya ("calming") efforts. Abdelatty said that talks were presently underway between a visiting Hamas delegation led by deposed FM Zahar and EGIS officials. He said the GOE is seeking an "unconditional" [...]	2008-04-24 15:32:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	EAID EU KPAL PGOV PREL IS WBG
08CAIRO862	FACEBOOK ACTIVIST RELEASED [...] (SBU) Israa Abdel Fattah, a young Ghad party member detained since April 6 for allegedly inciting a general strike on the same day, was released the evening of April 23. Abdel Fattah was reportedly ordered released on April 14 by the Public Prosecutor, but was kept in "protective custody" by [...]	2008-04-24 15:39:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
08CAIRO863	ARAB LEAGUE, EGYPTIAN IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE [...] (C) Arab League (AL) Disarmament Department Director Wael Al-Assad told us April 21 that AL SYG Moussa's April 17 meeting with Ambassador Schulte in Vienna (reftel) was "very good, open and frank." He said that after an AL draft resolution for the fall IAEA GC is circulated shortly, the Arab [...]	2008-04-24 15:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP IAEA IS EG
08CAIRO866	BLUE LANTERN DDTC CASE NUMBER 05-050091422 [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-27 04:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC KS EG
08CAIRO87	EGYPT: PARLIAMENT APPROVES HARMONIZATION OF [...] Egypt's upper parliamentary chamber, the Shura Council, has ratified the government's decision to join the "International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures" (Kyoto Convention) to reduce barriers to Egypt's international trade. Under the convention, Egyp [...]	2008-01-21 09:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EG
08CAIRO886	EGYPT "DISAPPOINTED" WITH INTERIM TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) On April 23, Amira Fahmy of the MFA Human Rights office told us that the GOE was "disappointed" that the interim Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report on Egypt states that Egypt has only made "minimal progress" on combating TIP during the reporting period. Fahmy said that the National Coord [...]	2008-04-29 06:26:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM EG

08CAIRO9	CODEL VOINOVICH MEETING WITH EGIS CHIEF SOLIMAN [...] (S) Summary. EGIS Chief Omar Soliman told Ambassador and a visiting Codel led by Senator George Voinovich December 31 that he is optimistic progress will be made on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. However, Soliman was concerned with continuing Israeli criticism of Egyptian anti-smuggling e [...]	2008-01-02 18:07:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV IS IZ SY EG

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