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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRANCISCO VILLA URBALEJO FRAZER FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GANGS GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATES GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GOMEZ GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GREGG RENE WALTER GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HAMID KARZAI HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HECTOR HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRQEGION IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JABER JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEAN-PIERRE BEMBA JEFFERY JEFFREY JENDAYI JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHANNS JOHN JOHN BOEHNER JOHNNIE JONATHAN CHAMAN JOSE ANGEL ALZUGUREN PERURENA JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JULIAN RENE KIRCHOFF JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEANE KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRD KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREISLER KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMAR OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTHERSASNEEDED OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATRICK WARREN MAHURIN PATTY PAUL PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBST PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINOCHET PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRIVATIZATION PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAFAEL RAID RAMON RAMONTEIJELO RAS RATIFICATION RAY GUEVARA MILTON RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROBERT ROBERT JOSEPH RODHAM RODRIGUEZ ROK ROME ROOD ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SABAH SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SALOPEK SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SASIAIN SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT 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AA AADP AALC ABDALLAH FETHI ABDULHADI ABDULRAHMEN ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACBAQ ACCELERATED ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFAF AL HOURANI AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHAN AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGRI AGRIC AGRICULTURE AGS AGUILAR AGUIRRE AHMED AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALAMI ALANAZI ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALIREZA ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOUNI ALOW ALOWAR ALVAREZ AM AMAT AMB AMBASSADOR AMCHAM AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANDREW LEE WATKINS ANET ANTITERRORISM ANTOINE GHONDA ANTONIO ANTXON AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASSSEMBLY ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BAYS BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BELLVIEW BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIDOON BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRITNEY BRITNY BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BURNS BUSH BUY AMERICA BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENSUS CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHAVEZ CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHR-1 CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRISTINA CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CUSTODIO CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYNTHIA CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMARCHES DEMETRIOS DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPORTATION DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY 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ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIGUEROA FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN 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06BAGHDAD1940 | IRAQI GOVERNMENT COMPLETE - FINAL VOTES ON [...] (C) Prime Minister Nuri Maliki presented to the CoR the final three ministerial candidates to complete his government. After some debate, Jawad Bolani was approved as Minister of Interior by a vote of 182 to 16, and Abdel Qader Jassim al-Mufraji was approved for Minister of Defense by a vote [...] | 2006-06-08 10:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD1945 | ARAB LEAGUE ENVOY MOVES TO IZ FOR SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Arab League (AL) Ambassador Mokhtar Lamani moved out of his house in the MFA compound on June 6 for the International Zone after reported security incidents. Lamani said he continued to plan for the June 20-22 reconciliation conference but conceded that no Arab Foreign Ministers h [...] | 2006-06-08 13:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG IZ |
06BAGHDAD1946 | A TIRED PRIME MINISTER STRUGGLING WITH UNWIELDY [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JUNE 7, PRIME MINISTER MALIKI REITERATED HIS NEED TO THE AMBASSADOR FOR MORE TRAINED IRAQI ARMY AND NATIONAL POLICE TO HANDLE THE SECURITY SITUATION IN BASRAH. MALIKI SAID HE BELIEVES HE CAN GET HIS TWO PREFERRED NOMINEES CONFIRMED ON JUNE 8, EVEN WITHOUT SCIRI SUPPORT, BUT WA [...] | 2006-06-08 17:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
06BAGHDAD195 | KURDISH LEADERS, ALLAWI AGREE ON JOINT PRINCIPLES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings at the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Guest House in Salah al-Din on January 21-22, Ambassador, President Jalal Talabani, KDP Leader Masud Barzani, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, and UK Ambassador William Patey drafted a framework proposal for a nation [...] | 2006-01-23 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD1957 | SADR CITY DAC WOMEN'S AFFAIRS COMMITTEE CHAIR [...] (C) Summary: Sadr City District Advisory Council (DAC) member Mustafa Jasim told PolOff in a June 5 meeting that both he and his wife, fellow Sadr City DAC member and chair of the DAC Women's Affairs Committee Siham Hatab, were told by Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) members that they must resign their [...] | 2006-06-10 04:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT PTER KDEM KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD1958 | SADR CITY DAC MEMBERS ON SECTARIAN DISPLACEMENT, [...] (C) Summary. On June 5, PolOffs met with Sadr City District Advisory Council members to discuss their assessment of security and human rights abuses. DAC Chairman Juwad Kadhem Al-Atabi, Deputy Chairman Abbas Ali Al-Tamimi, and member of the Sadr City human rights committee Dr. Haider Jabr Ze [...] | 2006-06-10 04:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD1959 | DIYALA: PUBLIC CELEBRATION, DISBELIEF, FEAR IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: News of the death of Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi on June 7 produced public celebration in Diyala. Among many of our contacts, however, disbelief that Zarqawi had actually been killed after so many false reports and fears of the response by Zarqawi's group within Diyala muted enthusiasm [...] | 2006-06-10 04:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD1960 | SEVERE ABUSE AT MINISTRY OF INTERIOR SITE 4 [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May, a joint U.S.-Iraqi inspection of the "Site 4" Iraqi National Police (INP) detention complex discovered more than 1,400 detainees in squalid, cramped conditions. Forty-one detainees interviewed had bruising and lash-marks consistent with violent physical abuse. Thirty-seve [...] | 2006-06-10 04:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MARR MOPS DOJ CRIM OPDAT KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD1964 | PROBLEMS FACING THE IRAQI JUDICIARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Improving performance of the Iraqi judiciary faces immediate challenges: too few judges, a lack of security, and a constitutional mandate that needs to be defined by further legislation. 2. (SBU) The Mission has already taken measures to begin addressing these problems, i [...] | 2006-06-10 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD1965 | SCIRI CONTACTS SAY SECRETARY-GENERAL OF COUNCIL OF [...] (C) At a June 9 luncheon with PolOffs, SCIRI politburo member Ridha Jawad Taki reported that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had rejected multiple SCIRI-proposed candidates for the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers position. According to Taki, Maliki had firmly refused previous Se [...] | 2006-06-10 17:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD1971 | AMBASSADOR MEETS PROACTIVE NEW MINISTER OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his initial meeting with the Ambassador on May 25, newly-appointed Minister of Electricity (MoE) Karim Wahid al-Hasan impressed us as technically very competent and eager to work with the U.S. Wahid doubted whether initiatives on fuel import liberalization (which could improve [...] | 2006-06-11 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD1972 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ALI BABAN, NEW MINISTER OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ali Baban, the new Minister of Planning, paid an introductory call to Ambassador on May 27. Baban discussed donor assistance, creating jobs through micro-finance and business development, and attracting foreign investment. He also introduced new ideas for an Office of Internatio [...] | 2006-06-11 12:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EINV ELAB PREL PGOV |
06BAGHDAD1973 | MCNS APPROVES SECURITY MEASURES, DISCUSSES UNSCR [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: In the wake of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, the Iraqi Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) agreed to implement the Baghdad Security Plan beginning June 13 and to follow up with a series of speeches and press events by senior GOI officials and others in [...] | 2006-06-11 14:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD1978 | NEW MINISTER OF HEALTH: LET'S COOPERATE TO IMPROVE [...] This cable contains an action request for Embassy Doha. Please see paragraphs 6 and 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and Embassy staff met on May 27 with Dr. Ali Al-Shamari, the new Minister of Health. Minster Al-Shamari expressed a desire to work closely with Embassy officials to finish c [...] | 2006-06-12 09:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD1979 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW MINISTER OF OIL, HUSAYN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 28, in his first meeting with the Ambassador as Minister of Oil, Husayn al-Shahristani outlined priorities for the oil sector and expressed the need for continued U.S. support. The new Minister also acknowledged the importance of inter-ministerial cooperation -- flagging t [...] | 2006-06-12 10:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD1982 | PARLIAMENTARY ATMOSPHERICS AS NEW SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Just before his June 8 nomination as Interior Minister, Jawad al-Bolani met with the Ambassador and reconfirmed his loyalty to the government and his independence from any pressures, parties, or party leaders. Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was scrambling to deter [...] | 2006-06-12 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD1983 | SESSIONS 24-32: SADDAM TRIAL DEFENSE WITNESS [...] (S) SUMMARY: From May 15-31, the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) heard testimony from defense witnesses for the eight defendants in the Ad-Dujayl trial. Amid concerns over testimony given by four defense witnesses, a hearing was held to assess perjury charges. The perjured witnesses revealed that [...] | 2006-06-12 11:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD1985 | JUNE 8 PARLIAMENT SESSION DEADLOCKS OVER SPEAKER'S [...] (C) Summary. The June 8 Council of Representatives (CoR) session deadlocked in a dispute over the powers of the Speaker over CoR personnel matters. The Shia Coalition supported an amendment that would limit the authority of the Speaker, thus allowing the two Deputies to overrule the Speaker [...] | 2006-06-12 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD1986 | VIEWS OF IRAQI CHIEF JUSTICE ON GOVERNMENT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Chief Justice al-Mahmoud told us on May 30 that members of the new Iraqi government and parliament owe their allegiances to their parties and sects rather than to the country as a whole. Al-Mahmoud said extremist factions within the new government and parliament want to c [...] | 2006-06-12 12:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PHUM KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD1994 | BADR ORGANIZATION AND FADHILA MEMBERS COMMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: In a June 4 meeting with PolOff, Badr Organization parliamentarian Sheikh Dhiya al-Din al-Fayyad said the current violence in Basrah can and should be contained by the provincial council. In a June 8 meeting with PolOff, Fadhila parliamentarian Kareem al-Yaqubi, cousin of Fadhil [...] | 2006-06-12 14:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT PTER KDEM KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD1995 | CODEL INHOFE MEETS WITH NEW MINISTER OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Senators James Inhofe, Oklahoma, and Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii, visited Iraq June 10-11 with their staffs to congratulate senior security officials on their recent cabinet appointments and for their contributions to operations resulting in the death of Abu Musab Zarqawi. 2. (C) CODEL [...] | 2006-06-13 06:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER REL LE SY JO IZ |
06BAGHDAD2001 | DPM SALEH EAGER TO MOVE ON HOUSING AND FUEL [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Barham Saleh told us June 8 that he hopes to develop and implement comprehensive strategies on housing and fuel (combining subsidy reform and import liberalization) that can be implemented within three to six months. He says he is eager to "use rather th [...] | 2006-06-13 11:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET EFIN PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2003 | ITALIAN DPM AND FM D,ALEMA VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY. Italian DPM and FM D,Alema told Iraqi leaders that Italy would be withdrawing all of its forces from Iraq by the end of autumn. While he did not rule out leading an Italian PRT, he said it would be very difficult to do so without security. Italian Amb Melani told us that the [...] | 2006-06-13 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PINS PREL PARM IZ IT |
06BAGHDAD2004 | NEW TRADE MINISTER STRONG ON PDS REFORM AND TRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 5, new Minister of Trade Abd al-Falah al-Sudani shared with Ambassador his strong support for reform of the Public Distribution System (PDS),reduction of corruption in the ministry, and economic policies favorable to international trade and to Iraq's accession into the W [...] | 2006-06-14 04:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAID KCOR PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2013 | IRAQI LEADERS REACT TO POTUS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: President Bush's June 13 visit to Baghdad was well-received by most of Iraq's political leadership. Sunni Arab reaction has thus far been positive, with some welcoming the opportunity to discuss security issues with the President and others calling the meeting "inspiring." The tw [...] | 2006-06-19 06:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD202 | AMB AND TALABANI DISCUSS IRAN, DE-BA,ATHIFICATION, [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a January 17 meeting, Ambassador told President Jalal Talabani that the U.S. would never relent on the war against terror, refuting SCIRI leader Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim's public statements accusing the USG of encouraging terrorism with its Sunni Arab outreach program. Ambassador [...] | 2006-01-24 17:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2026 | IRAQ NATIONAL ACCORD CONFERENCE DELAYED TO AUGUST [...] (C) Summary: Pol/C delivered on June 12 reftel points to Arab League Assistant Secretary General Ahmed Bin Hili and Ambassador to Iraq Mokhtar Lamani. Bin Hili said that the Iraqi National Accord Conference scheduled for June 20-22 was pushed back to the first week of August due to a date con [...] | 2006-06-15 11:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2028 | NEW MINISTER OF DISPLACEMENT AND MIGRATION BRINGS [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns, RefCoord and IRMO/MODM consultants had a positive initial meeting with the new Minister of Displacement and Migration Abd-al- Samad Rahman Sultan on May 31. Sultan was well informed about all the populations of concern to the Ministry, and expressed a desire for a conti [...] | 2006-06-15 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PNAT SMIG KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD203 | AMBASSADOR AND INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSS JILL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-24 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PINS MARR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2031 | NEW AGRICULTURE MINISTER EMPHASIZES INCREASED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DCM Satterfield and Embassy staff met on June 5 with new Agriculture Minister Yuarib Nadhim Al-Abudi and members of his staff. Al-Abudi, a Shi'a with Sadrist affiliation, told us that he looks forward to an improved relationship with the Embassy and a joint effort to rebuild Ir [...] | 2006-06-15 12:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD KFPC PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2037 | PARLIAMENT PASSES BYLAWS; DEADLOCK OVER SPEAKER'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After reaching agreement on language concerning the Speaker's powers on personnel issues (reftel),the Council of Representatives (CoR) completed its work on the bylaws June 14. The CoR will now move on to the formation of committees. The agreed upon language says that perso [...] | 2006-06-16 04:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2040 | RUBAIE TELLS EDELMAN OF SECURITY DEFICIENCIES [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 8, National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffak Rubaie told Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, SIPDIS Eric Edelman that establishing a stable Iraq requires improved intelligence coordination, a comprehensive vetting and national ID program, competent leaders, and USG lo [...] | 2006-06-16 12:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2041 | REQUEST: FULL RELEASE U.S. ORIGIN EQUIPMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 9. 2. (S) SUMMARY: The Core Country Team for Security Matters requests the full release of the AN/AAR-47 Missile Warning System and AN/ALE-47 Countermeasure Dispensing System to the Government of Iraq. These systems are currently deployed on [...] | 2006-06-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PINS MOPS |
06BAGHDAD2044 | FOOD SUBSIDY REFORM AND WTO ACCESSION GAIN MOMENTUM [...] (C) Summary: Adnan J. Shareefi, Ministry of Trade Chief of Staff, told us June 14 that Trade Minister Al-Sudani would like to reform Iraq's Public Distribution System (PDS) by distributing only the most critical food ration items and gradually monetizing the PDS, hopefully starting later this [...] | 2006-06-16 13:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2046 | PLAN FOR SECURITY TRANSFER OF MUTHANNA PROVINCE [...] (C/REL AU,JA,UK, IZ) The May 2006 Provincial Security Transition Assessment concluded that Muthanna province is ready for transition to Iraqi civilian authority. Muthanna met the four necessary transfer conditions: the threat level is low, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) have reached a level of [...] | 2006-06-17 07:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS MOPS PREL AS UK JA IZ |
06BAGHDAD2047 | APPARENT KIDNAPPING OF DIYALA HEALTH DG FROM [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The apparent kidnapping of Diyala's top health official and three companions from inside the Ministry of Health June 12 has raised considerable consternation among Diyala Sunnis. Local officials in the Iraqi Islamic Party, of which the kidna [...] | 2006-06-17 10:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD2048 | NINEWA VICE GOVERNOR SUGGESTS IRAQ MOVE AWAY FROM [...] (C) After three years on the job Ninewa's vice governor, Khasro Goran, has proven to be a very polished and powerful politician with strong ties to the regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan. Goran, a Kurd, sees Iraq's future through a Kurdish lens. In his mind, the Kurds' Arab counterparts [...] | 2006-06-17 11:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR ECON |
06BAGHDAD2054 | MINISTER OF JUSTICE MEET AND GREET [...] (C) Summary. In a June 12 introductory meeting with the new Minister of Justice (MOJ) Hashim abd Rahman al-Shibli, Emboffs expressed their desire to maintain a close relationship with the Ministry and to support its transition to primary responsibility for virtually all detention facilities. [...] | 2006-06-18 09:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2059 | XXXXXXXXXXXX BLAMES UK FOR SECURITY [...] (S//REL UK) Summary: In a June 12 conversation with PolOff, XXXXXXXXXXXX told PolOff the UK is largely to blame for the unrest in Basrah. The UK has not brought militias under control, and so Basrah is now a violent place, he said. This, combined with the activities of foreign intelligence ser [...] | 2006-06-18 12:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR PINS PNAT PREL PTER KDEM KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2065 | MODERATE ISLAMIST CABINET CONTENDER URGES USG TO [...] (S/REL UK) Summary: In a June 8 meeting with Emboffs, moderate Islamist Ali al-Dabbagh (strictly protect) said that the present Sadrist Minister of Transportation, Karim Mahdi Salih, may be forced to resign and that he is a possible candidate to replace him. Dabbagh claimed to be undecided as [...] | 2006-06-19 09:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR PNAT ECON EAIR ELTN ETRD KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2067 | INITIAL EMBASSY MEETING WITH STATE MINISTER FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-19 09:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2068 | IRAQI LEADERS REACT TO POTUS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: President Bush's June 13 visit to Baghdad was well-received by most of Iraq's political leadership. Sunni Arab reaction has thus far been positive, with some welcoming the opportunity to discuss security issues with the President and others calling the meeting "inspiring." The tw [...] | 2006-06-19 10:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2080 | PM DISCUSSES BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN, SITE 4, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 15 meeting with the Prime Minister, the Ambassador and GEN Casey discussed the Baghdad security plan; the Site 4 investigation; Basrah; military operations in Ramadi; security transition; the Arab League Boycott; and an upcoming detainee release. END SUMMARY. -------- [...] | 2006-06-19 14:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2081 | PARLIAMENT BEGINS COMMITTEE ALLOCATION PROCESS; [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Khalid al-Attiyah told Embassy Legal Adviser June 18 that committee formation should be completed within a week. The CoR session broke early in the afternoon so that the CoR leadership and political bloc leaders could meet t [...] | 2006-06-19 14:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2082 | AUSTRALIAN DEMARCHE: MILITARY PARTICIPATION [...] (C/ REL AS, UK) SUMMARY: On June 17, Australian Ambassador Howard Brown confirmed to Charge d'Affaires Speckhard that Australian military forces will participate in overwatch operations in Dhi Qar and Muthanna Provinces following the transfer of security responsibility to the Iraqis in Muthanna [...] | 2006-06-19 16:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PINS UK AS |
06BAGHDAD2083 | SADR CITY CONTACT LOOKS TO START LIBERAL POLITICAL [...] (C) On June 11, Sadr City General Information Center manager Nsaif Jasim told PolOff he and his supporters wanted to start a liberal, secular political party called the Gathering of Iraqi Liberals. A brother-in-law of former Sadr City District Advisory Council (DAC) member Siham Hatab (reftel [...] | 2006-06-19 16:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PTER KDEM KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2085 | DOCTOR COMPLAINS OF JAYSH AL-MAHDI "TAKEOVERS" AT [...] (C) On June 8, Dr Bashor (LNU),an emergency care physician at Karama hospital (located in the Saliya neighborhood near the IZ),complained to Poloff that Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) militia hospital "takeovers" have become common practice in several hospitals across Baghdad, including his own. The [...] | 2006-06-19 17:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD209 | MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Ja'afari convened the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) at his residence the evening of January 22. Although the major topic of discussion was infrastructure security (septel),the MCNS also heard reports concerning: the status of the [...] | 2006-01-25 17:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PINS KCRS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2099 | DAWA ADVISORS TALK ABOUT PM OFFICE, NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. To compensate for a weak cabinet, the Prime Minister has plans to divide his Office into four separate divisions, creating small groups of specialized, expert advisors, organized around key ministries that would provide policy guidance and oversight. The PM has yet to appoint th [...] | 2006-06-20 10:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD210 | MINISTER OF FINANCE ALLAWI ADDRESSES FUEL IMPORT [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) Summary: Minister of Finance (MoF) Ali Allawi said that he has a green light from the Council of Ministers to offer the Turks a plan by which Iraq will pay off its arrears over a 12-month period, at an interest rate of 3%-4%. He said Iraq will commit to keeping its 2006 impor [...] | 2006-01-25 20:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV PREL TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD2108 | IRAQI FARMERS UNION FACES SADRIST PRESSURES [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a June 12 meeting, General Federation of Farmers Unions VP Adil Aladily told EmbOffs that his organization has made substantial progress since its re-establishment following the fall of Saddam. He complained, however, of Sadrist efforts to take over the Federation's board of d [...] | 2006-06-20 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM ELAB EAGR IZ |
06BAGHDAD211 | 60-DAY ASSESSMENT OF PROVINCIAL [...] (U) THIS IS A COORDINATED EMBASSY BAGHDAD AND MNF-I CABLE. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Coordination Team (NCT) provided AMB Khalilzad and GEN Casey the 60-Day Assessment of the three operational Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) on January 19. From this assessment, it remains clea [...] | 2006-01-26 03:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PINS ODIP OFDP PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2112 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ALLOCATION [...] (SBU) The political blocs have completed negotiations on the leadership of the 24 permanent Council of Representatives (CoR) committees, but have not finished the committee membership lists. Once the committee member names are finalized, the CoR will vote to approve the composition of each co [...] | 2006-06-20 19:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2114 | MCNS - MUTHANNA, BASRAH, AND BAGHDAD [...] (S//REL GBR AUS JAPAN) SUMMARY: On June 18, the Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met to discuss security issues in Muthanna, Basrah, and Baghdad. It was decided to announce the transfer of security responsibility for Muthanna from the Coalition to the GOI on June 19. The Ba [...] | 2006-06-21 02:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV CIA IZ MASS MCAP MOPS NATO PINR PREL |
06BAGHDAD2115 | SHAHRISTANI PUSHING FOR REFORM IN THE MINISTRY OF [...] (C) Summary: In a positive meeting June 16 with Econ staff members, Minister of Oil Husayn al-Shahristani focused on four areas of reform for his Ministry: hydrocarbon legislation, liberalization of fuel imports, improved contracting procedures, and rooting out corruption. His goals, especial [...] | 2006-06-21 04:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON TCOR ENRG EPET PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2116 | WHERE WE STAND ON CRUDE EXPORTS, ELECTRICITY AND [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad's hours of power increased in June to an average of 8-9 hours per day, up from 4-5 a month ago. Improvements are attributable to more focused security and the return to service of several power plants that had been down for maintenance or other reasons. Crude exports are [...] | 2006-06-21 06:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL TU SY IZ |
06BAGHDAD212 | MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: At the urging of Ambassador, the members of the Iraqi Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS),joined by the Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) responsible for energy policy (Ahmed Chalabi) and Minister of Electricity Shallash, met on January 22 to discuss Iraq's [...] | 2006-01-26 03:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS EPET ECON ENRG EFIN MARR PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2130 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES APPROVES COMPOSITION OF [...] (U) On June 21, the Council of Representatives approved the membership of 19 of its 24 permanent standing committees. Deputy Speaker al-Attiya deftly moved discussion beyond committees where the number of nominees was fewer than the minimum of seven prescribed in the bylaws (Tribal and Member [...] | 2006-06-21 19:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2135 | MCNS - UPDATE ON BAGHDAD SECURITY [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: On June 20, the Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met to review progress on the Baghdad security plan. Iraqi Army (IA) and Iraqi National Police (INP) leadership, supported by Multi-National Division-Baghdad(MND-B) Commanding General (CG),highlighte [...] | 2006-06-22 02:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MASS CIA IZ MCAP MOPS NATO PGOV PINR PREL |
06BAGHDAD2136 | MEETING WITH NEW MINISTER OF INTERIOR, JAWAD [...] (C) On June 18, EmbOffs met with the new Minister of Interior, Jawad al-Bolani, to congratulate him on his appointment and to pledge ongoing U.S. support for the ministry's efforts to combat terrorism and criminality. EmbOffs emphasized the importance of enhancing public confidence in the mini [...] | 2006-06-22 02:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PINS PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2139 | MALIKI MAY LAUNCH RECONCILIATION PROPOSAL SOON, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The next window for PM Maliki to announce his national reconciliation proposal is Sunday, June 25, before the Council of Representatives (CoR). Maliki reportedly has the support of President Talabani; however, Sunni Vice President Tariq Al-Hashimi has proposed a number of likely [...] | 2006-06-22 10:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
06BAGHDAD2141 | INITIAL MEETING WITH THE MINISTER OF HOUSING AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a June 20 introductory meeting with Deputy EconCouns, IRMO Senior Consultant for Transportation and the Gulf Regional Division (GRD) Commander, the new Minister of Housing and Construction (MOCH) Bayan Dazai expressed her gratitude for U.S. assistance in the reconstruction o [...] | 2006-06-22 14:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND ELTN EPET IZ |
06BAGHDAD2147 | THE NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AND DIALOGUE PROJECT [...] (C) As per ref, PM Maliki may announce his national reconciliation plan as early as the Council of Representative's next session, June 25. Discussion continues among the Presidency, Prime Minister, DPMs and CoR leadership on the details. Sunni VP Tarik al-Hashimi has proposed additions that [...] | 2006-06-22 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER KEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2148 | REACTIONS TO THE BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN [...] (C//REL MNFI) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The Baghdad Security Plan commenced operation June 14. The June 20 MCNS review of the plan assessed the operation positively, noting room for improvement (reftel). On June 24, the plan will be formally reviewed to determine what modifications are needed to [...] | 2006-06-22 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PDEM KCRM MOPS MARR IZ |
06BAGHDAD215 | WITH COMPETING PROGRAMS, UNITY GOVERNMENT WILL [...] (C) Summary: One of Iraq's top Sunni Arab political leaders, Tariq al-Hashemi, told us January 25 that while his constitutents are not happy with the election process, he will move forward on unity government talks. He anticipated difficulties finding common ground with the Kurds and the S [...] | 2006-01-26 12:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2153 | MASHADANI CONFIRMS PARLIAMENT TO STAY IN SESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-23 08:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2154 | MASHADANI CONFIRMS PARLIAMENT TO STAY IN SESSION [...] (C) In a June 22 meeting with PolCouns, Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani confirmed that the CoR would extend its session throughout July and adjourn August 1 for a month recess. He noted that July would have an active legislative agenda, emphasizing the Investment L [...] | 2006-06-23 08:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2161 | MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS REQUESTS GOI OBSERVERS [...] (C) On June 20, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Mikhail Salim met with Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Bill Caldwell to request that the U.S. military Haditha investigation include Iraqi government observers. The Minister explained that the presence of these observers would bring a higher [...] | 2006-06-23 18:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2165 | PRESIDENT TALABANI: UPBEAT ON RECONCILIATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Talabani hosted the Ambassador for lunch June 23 with Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih. Talabani said that the Prime Minister's reconciliation proposal would go forward to the Council of Representatives. Barham expressed deep concern over as-yet unchallenged infiltrati [...] | 2006-06-24 09:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PGOV PREL |
06BAGHDAD2169 | SHAHRISTANI PUSHING FOR REFORM IN THE MINISTRY OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-24 18:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD217 | POSSIBLE SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE ATTACK AGAINST [...] (S) SUMMARY: On January 23, 2006 at about 1411 hours local time, a possible surface-to-air missile (SAM) was fired at a Coalition aircraft eight miles southwest of Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). Countermeasures were deployed and a possible detonation 100 meters from the aircraft was re [...] | 2006-01-26 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ASEC IZ |
06BAGHDAD2175 | PRIME MINISTER READY TO LAUNCH NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met Prime Minister Maliki June 23 to review pending issues. Security and Iranian influence are covered in septel. Prime Minister is ready to announce his proposal for National Reconciliation on June 25. PM expressed interest in traveling (especially to Saudi Arabia, [...] | 2006-06-25 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
06BAGHDAD218 | FADHILA LEADER JABIRI OUTLINES PLAN TO CAPTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fadhila Party leader Nadim al-Jabiri, a senior figure in the Shia Alliance, lunched with Ambassador on January 24 and outlined his candidacy for the prime ministership. Jabiri argued that he alone among the nominees for PM could count on support from the Sunni Arabs and Kurds. H [...] | 2006-01-26 15:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD219 | NATIONAL ENERGY COUNCIL PROPOSES WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) Summary: The National Energy Council (NEC) agreed January 22 in principle to a plan put forward by Minister of Finance Ali Allawi to pay off Iraq's arrears to Turkish fuel suppliers over time. Deputy Prime Minister Chalabi and MinFin Allawi were both adamant that the State Oil [...] | 2006-01-26 15:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET MOPS MARR PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD22 | INTERNATIONAL MISSION FOR IRAQI ELECTIONS (IMIE) [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 3, IMIE representatives Fred Schaffer and Reem Ersheid told Poloffs that IMIE is sensitive to the media and political pressures associated with their efforts, and would therefore make a preliminary announcement before IECI's final certification of results. The IECI pl [...] | 2006-01-03 12:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2203 | PM PRESENTS NATIONAL RECONCILIATION PLAN TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. PM Maliki delivered his national reconciliation statement to the Council of Representatives (CoR) June 25. Leaders of political blocs responded in turn, with broadly supportive speeches. Points of contention included de-Baathification and the distinction between terrorists an [...] | 2006-06-25 19:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2204 | MALIKI TAKING SMALL, UNCERTAIN STEPS ON CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 22 meeting with Charge d'Affaires Speckhard and EconCouns, Prime Minister Maliki requested USG expertise and assistance to help combat corruption in Iraq. The new GOI has declared anti-corruption a top priority, but the PM has yet to focus seriously on the issue. Neverth [...] | 2006-06-26 06:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCOR PREL PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2231 | JAPANESE PROPOSES MOVING SLOWLY ON IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 22 with, in a meeting with Charge, Japanese Ambassador Yamaguchi expressed concern about "significant gaps" in the U.S. and U.K approach to the International Compact. Yamaguchi acknowledged that the U.S. sees the fall conference as a major event in "sealing" the compact, [...] | 2006-06-26 11:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV MARR MOPS PREL EAID PINR IZ JA UK |
06BAGHDAD2237 | DEATH OF SADDAM HUSSEIN DEFENSE ATTORNEY [...] (S) SUMMARY: On the morning of June 21, multiple assailants entered the home of Khamees Al-Obeidi -- one of two principal Iraqi defense attorneys in the Ad-Dujayl trial of Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants. The assailants removed Khamees from his home, transported him to the Jamilah neighb [...] | 2006-06-27 02:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2238 | EU TROIKA QUESTIONS URGENCY OF IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and A/DCM Speckhard met June 24 with an EU Troika delegation (participants listed para 10) to discuss EU policy toward Iraq, particularly with regard to the Compact process. The EU delegation expressed the EU's desire that the Compact be more than "just a pledging exer [...] | 2006-06-27 06:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAID PREL PINR IZ EUN IR GCC |
06BAGHDAD224 | VP ABD AL-MEHDI SAYS SHIA ISLAMIST COALITION [...] (C) Summary: In a January 23 meeting, Ambassador Khalilzad and Deputy President (and Prime Minister contender) Adel Abd al-Mehdi agreed that Iraq should take steps to increase oil production in southern Iraq promptly to boost Iraq's income stream. Abd al-Mehdi said Deputy Prime Minister Chal [...] | 2006-01-27 18:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD225 | NSA RUBAI'E TELLS AMBASSADOR THAT SISTANI HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: In a January 24 meeting, Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffuk Rubai'e told the Ambassador that it is not clear who will be Iraq's next Prime Minister. Negotiations on this could last for weeks. Deputy President Adel Abd al-Mehdi and Prime Minister Ibrahim Ja'afari are the cu [...] | 2006-01-27 19:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD2263 | TWO SISTANI STUDENTS COMMENT ON MARJAIYA VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 14 meeting, Sheikh Ahmed al-Dhahabi and Sheikh Ayad al-Ekabi, students of Grand Ayatollah Sistani, told PolOff the political and economic situation in Iraq is steadily improving but more needs to be done to rebuild the country. Al-Dhahabi relayed to PolOff the Marjaiya [...] | 2006-06-27 12:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PNAT KDEM KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2266 | ITALIAN AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RECONCILIATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 25, Acting DCM Speckhard met with Italian Ambassador to Iraq Maurizio Melani to discuss national reconciliation, International Compact, Italian troop withdrawal, and PRTs. END SUMMARY. ----------------------- National Reconciliation ----------------------- 2. (C) A [...] | 2006-06-28 01:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IT IZ |
06BAGHDAD2275 | NATIONAL DIALOGUE MINISTER ON RECONCILIATION PLANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 27 meeting with PolCouns and RDML Van Buskirk, new Minister of State for National Dialogue Dr. Akram al-Hakim outlined his plans. According to al-Hakim, resolving de-Ba'athification and the militias would be the biggest challenges for implementing the National Reconcili [...] | 2006-06-29 05:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2278 | FUEL PRICE PUBLIC AWARENESS: A STRUGGLE FOR [...] (C) Summary. Embassy efforts beginning in January to help the Iraqis produce public service messages on economic themes have exposed the irregularities inherent in routine commercial dealings here. Over five months, the public awareness campaign has encountered obstacles including a lack of [...] | 2006-06-29 06:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN KCOR PINR PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2281 | PM MALIKI UPBEAT ON REACTION TO RECONCILIATION PLAN [...] (C) Summary: In a June 28 meeting, Prime Minister Maliki said that he is optimistic about his upcoming trip to the Gulf and pleased with Ambassador's readout of his own consultations in Jeddah, in which Ambassador reported that the Saudis are ready to help Maliki with reconciliation and the In [...] | 2006-06-29 10:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PGOV PREL |
06BAGHDAD2286 | ATTACK ON BAGHDAD PALESTINIANS KILLS FOUR [...] (C) On the morning of June 26, the Palestinian "compound" in Baghdad's Baladiat neighborhood was reportedly attacked by unknown assailants. Saeed al-Jafari from the Palestinian Human Rights organization told PolFSN that four residents were killed and nine injured in the melee. PLO representa [...] | 2006-06-29 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KPAL PINS PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ JO SY |
06BAGHDAD2289 | TAWAFUQ INDEPENDENT SEEKS TO FORM NEW COR BLOC -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shaikh Wathab Shakir, who entered the CoR as a member of the National Dialogue Council, claimed to have recently broken with both the NDC and the Tawafuq bloc. As an independent, he claimed to be seeking broad-based support for forming a new bloc, "Iraq First." According to Sha [...] | 2006-06-29 13:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD2293 | AL-HILLAH 6/26/06 EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) NOTE: Due to technical problems at REO Al-Hillah, Embassy Baghdad is transmitting this cable. END NOTE. 2. (SBU) The Regional Coordinator (RC) convened the Core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on June 26 to discuss threat information related to REO Al-Hillah. In attendance were the [...] | 2006-06-30 13:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC AMER PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD2314 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary. On June 30, Pol/C delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who acknowledged the USG perspective, but said that after discussing the matter with the Prime Minister, they have decided that he would attend the Iraq Neighbors Conference in Tehran July 8-9. FM sai [...] | 2006-07-02 17:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ AL EG |
06BAGHDAD2315 | WOMEN MINISTERS BRIEF CODEL GRANGER ABOUT EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Mikhail Salim and Minister of State for Women's Affairs Fatin Abd al-Rahman briefed Rep. Granger (R-TX),Rep. Johnson (D-TX),Rep. Biggert (R-IL) and Rep. Blackburn (R-TN) June 24 on efforts to improve the situation for women in Iraq. Minister Fatin [...] | 2006-07-02 18:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2316 | EMBASSY BAGHDAD - SECURITY FOR THE 231ST USMC [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Embassy Baghdad is planning a ceremony on the Embassy Annex compound to celebrate the 231st birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Due to the current threat environment at post, our security posture remains high. Post has significant COM and DOD assets deplo [...] | 2006-07-03 08:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC KMSG IZ |
06BAGHDAD2317 | BULGARIAN AMB DISCUSSES MILITARY, TRAINING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bulgarian Ambassador Valeri Ratchev told A/DCM Speckhard June 29 that his visit to Iraq would help him rto refute statements by Iraqi exiles in Bulgaria about how dangerous Iraq service was. Bulgarian forces were positive about their conditions in Iraq, Ratchev noted, and he hopes [...] | 2006-07-03 08:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR BU IR GR NATO IZ |
06BAGHDAD2318 | JOINT WORKING GROUP TO ASSESS IRAQI ARMED FORCES [...] (C/REL MNF-I, MNC-I and IZ) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the Ambassador June 24 that he is interested in establishing a joint working group to assess the Iraqi Armed Forces (IAF). Maliki, Defense Minister Abdul Qader, and National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie agreed [...] | 2006-07-03 10:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PARM MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2319 | ACTION REQUEST: LATVIAN MINDEF REQUESTS CLOSE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-03 11:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MOPS PREL PARM LG MD IZ |
06BAGHDAD2323 | DPM SHAWAYS DISCUSSES SLOWLY MOVING FORWARD ON THE [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a June 28 meeting with Ambassador, former Deputy Prime Minister and senior Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) parliamentarian Rowsch Shaways discussed suggestions for the rules, administration, and structure of the National Policy Council (NPC). Shaways proposed a two-level stru [...] | 2006-07-03 12:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2345 | FRIENDLY FIRE INCIDENT INVOLVING GEORGIAN AND US [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-03 17:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS GG IZ |
06BAGHDAD2346 | TAWAFUQ WALKS OUT OF COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY Reactions to the July 1 Sadr City car bombing and kidnapping of a female Tawafuq parliamentarian dominated the July 2 Council of Representatives (CoR) session. A leading Sadrist demanded that the CoR vote to choose a date for MNF-I withdrawal and to activate "popular committees" t [...] | 2006-07-03 17:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2350 | DESCRIPTION OF INTERNATIONAL COMPACT AGREED UPON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-04 19:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2354 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SECURITY, SERVICES, AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a brief meeting with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on June 29, the Ambassador raised points on security and economic issues, ranging from a military operation in Fallujah to the draft investment law. The Ambassador also discussed the Kurds, and he indicated to Maliki th [...] | 2006-07-05 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2363 | VP HASHIMI DISCUSSES MALIKI VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA [...] (C) On June 29, Vice President Tarik al-Hashimi and the Ambassador discussed PM Maliki's upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia. The Ambassador pointed to the trip as a prelude to improved Iraqi-Saudi and Iraqi-Arab relations. The Ambassador also highlighted the KSA's preoccupation with Iranian infl [...] | 2006-07-05 12:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD2368 | COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER LUKEWARM ON PRIVATIZATION; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Communications Minister Muhammad Allawi informed us that the current contracts for Iraq's mobile telephone service providers have been extended through the end of September, delaying the opening of the market to outside competitors. He said he supports privatization conceptu [...] | 2006-07-06 07:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2373 | FADHILA PARLIAMENTARY HEAD OFFERS TO COOPERATE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 29 meeting, Nadeem al-Jabiri, the head of the Fadhila Party parliamentary bloc, offered to help find a solution to Basrah's security problem. The Ambassador encouraged him to work with PM Maliki. Al-Jabiri attributed many of Basrah's problems to struggles between the UK [...] | 2006-07-06 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER KDEM KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2375 | MESOPOTAMIA SEED AND IRAQ'S PRIVATIZATION CONUNDRUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Mesopotamia State Company for Seeds (MESO) exemplifies the GOI's main challenges in privatizing its state-owned enterprises (SOEs). MESO employs a large number of unskilled workers who would be displaced by any privatization effort; it heavily relies on subsidized inputs; [...] | 2006-07-06 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ECON ELAB ETRD IZ KIPR |
06BAGHDAD2377 | UNHCR IRAQ HEAD OF DELEGATION ENGAGES GOI [...] (C) Summary: New UNHCR-Iraq Head of Delegation Janvier de Riedmatten made his initial calls on GOI MOI, MFA, and MODM on July 1 and 2. He advised RefCoord and PolOff that although the GOI Ministries gave positive signals on willingness to help on Makhmour, they did not offer specifics. UNHC [...] | 2006-07-06 19:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KPAL PHUM UNHCR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2379 | WAY FORWARD ON BASRAH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: As a way forward on the Basrah Children's Hospital (BCH),Mission recommends descoping the Bechtel construction job order; transferring construction program management to the Gulf Region Division (GRD) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) with JCC-I/A contracting assistanc [...] | 2006-07-07 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID SOCI IZ |
06BAGHDAD2380 | TRADE MINISTER FIGHTING FOOD SUBSIDY CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: Trade Minister Al-Sudani told us on July 3 that he is ready to install electronic tracking systems in the Ministry of Trade's (MoT) trucks and warehouses to fight corruption in the Public Distribution System (PDS). He said he would like Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih's Econo [...] | 2006-07-07 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD KCOR PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2381 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF COMMERCE VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez's visit to Iraq provides an opportunity to press the GOI for action on economic reform that would fundamentally change the investment climate (particularly in the hydrocarbon sector),open the country to international trade, and dismantle the remna [...] | 2006-07-07 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD KBCT KCOR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2400 | PRT-BAGHDAD: PROVINCE'S SECURITY COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary: PRT Representatives attended the Baghdad Provincial Council (BPC) Security Committee meeting July 2. Discussions centered on the presence of foreign elements and other Anti-Iraqi Forces (AIF). The committee also discussed concerns about corruption and collusion within Baghdad-base [...] | 2006-07-09 13:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PREL PTER PINR ASEC IZ |
06BAGHDAD2401 | PRIME MINISTER MALIKI PLEASED WITH VISITS TO SAUDI [...] (S) During a July 8 meeting, Prime Minister Maliki told the Charge that he had been extremely well-received in his stops in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait and that overall he was very pleased with the results of these visits. He said that Kuwait had promised to establish relations at the amba [...] | 2006-07-09 17:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL IZ KU AE SA |
06BAGHDAD241 | DPM CHALABI ON AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DISTRIBUTION [...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: In a January 14 meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Chalabi said he intends to continue to push substantive reform of the Public Distribution System (PDS) while simultaneously reinvigorating Iraq's struggling agricultural sector in order to better meet domestic demand and re [...] | 2006-01-28 14:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EAID EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2444 | RESPONSE TO GOR REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN HOSTAGE [...] (S) Per reftel, the Mission will work closely with the GOR and GOI to coordinate efforts to recover the Russian Embassy staff members' remains and assist in apprehending those responsible for their murders. 2. (S) At this time, the location of any remains is unknown. Post recognizes the imp [...] | 2006-07-10 15:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PREL PTER PINS PGOV RS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2445 | MOI OFFICIAL SAYS WOMEN CANNOT OBTAIN PASSPORTS [...] (C) Summary. MOI Director of Nationality and Travel Yasseen al-Yassiri told PolOffs July 26 that Iraqi women were once again required to have their husbands' permission (or that of another male relative) in order to obtain a passport. This requirement, which was in effect during Saddam Hussei [...] | 2006-07-10 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PINS PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2446 | MOI OFFICIAL SAYS WOMEN CANNOT OBTAIN PASSPORTS [...] (C) Summary. MOI Director of Nationality and Travel Yasseen al-Yassiri told PolOffs June 26 that Iraqi women were once again required to have their husbands' permission (or that of another male relative) in order to obtain a passport. This requirement, which was in effect during Saddam Hussei [...] | 2006-07-10 18:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PINS PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2460 | VICE CHAIR OF COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES LEGAL [...] (C) Summary. Saleem al-Jaboori, Vice Chair of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Legal Affairs Committee, told Legal Adviser and PolOff July 10 that he expected the Tawafuq members to end their legislative boycott, which he characterized as a signal to the other parties and the USG not to t [...] | 2006-07-11 19:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2461 | TAWAFUQ PUBLICLY ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO RETURN TO [...] (C) Tawafuq members did not participate in the June 11 Council of Representatives (CoR) session although a handful of members sat outside the session room in the cafeteria. A five-person delegation led by Iraqi Islamic Party member Nooraldin al-Hayali made a statement to the media announcing [...] | 2006-07-11 19:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2462 | KARKH RESIDENTS ON THE CHALLENGES OF DAILY LIFE [...] (C) Summary. When asked in a meeting with PolOff to identify the most pressing issue affecting their lives, six residents of Baghdad's Karkh district (comprised of a mixture of Sunni, Shia, and Kurds) answered by highlighting the lack of electricity and its affect on their daily lives. Severa [...] | 2006-07-12 02:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KDEM PGOV PHUM PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD2464 | MCNS - UPDATE ON SECURITY ISSUES [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: The Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met July 9 to review the transfer of security authority to al-Muthanna Province, critical energy infrastructure protection, the Baghdad and Basrah Security plans, and events in Anbar. END SUMMARY. 2. (S//REL G [...] | 2006-07-12 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD2471 | FADHILA LEADER CALLS MILITIAS DEFENSIVE MEASURE [...] (C) Summary. In a July 9 meeting with poloffs, Fadhila Party General Secretary Abd al-Rahim al-Hasuna said that his party continued to consider itself a part of the Shia Coalition, despite the "unfair" outcome of the government formation process which left it without any ministries. Al-Hasuna [...] | 2006-07-13 02:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
06BAGHDAD25 | TEAM MEETS WITH IRAQIS TO DISCUSS NATIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post supports the proof-of-concept proposed by the GOI and endorsed by a joint DOS-DOD team from Washington, who traveled to Baghdad to assess the Iraqis' national ID card proposal. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) A joint DOS-DOD team traveled to Baghdad to assess Iraq's Unified Identif [...] | 2006-01-03 17:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2511 | IRAQ COMPACT LOGISTICS [...] This is an action cable, see paras 2-5. 2. (C) Action Request: Per reftelcon agreement, Embassy requests Department instruct U.S. missions in capitals of countries invited to send delegations to Baghdad for the July 20 preparatory meeting of the Iraq Compact to provide assurances of U.S. [...] | 2006-07-14 18:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EINV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2512 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES LEGAL COMMITTEE TO PUSH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-14 18:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2516 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] Embassy Baghdad warmly welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt, Department Counselor Zelikow, and delegation to travel to post o/a 19 July to 21 July, 2006. 2. Control Officers are as follows: The Control Officer for the Department of State is E [...] | 2006-07-15 10:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV AMGT |
06BAGHDAD2519 | UPDATE ON THE BAHAI: NO PROGESS YET ON IDENTITY [...] (C) On July 4, President of the Bahai National Spiritual Advisory Group Abdul Razaq Abaychi complained to Poloff that no progress had been made toward allowing Bahai to legally register for the national identity card, or "jensiyya" (reftel). Abaychi nonetheless expressed appreciation for the [...] | 2006-07-15 17:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2534 | SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY TREASURY SECRETARY KIMMITT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Your visits to Iraq for the launch of the International Compact on July 20 provide an opportunity to fundamentally change Iraq's foreign relationships by helping it overcome the political divisions in the international community that arose prior to and during the war and have su [...] | 2006-07-17 02:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD254 | HUMAN H5N1 CASE CONFIRMED IN IRAQ [...] SUMMARY: The Naval Medical Research Unit-3 (NAMRU) in Cairo confirmed January 29 that the young girl who died January 17 in Sulaymaniyah Province had contracted H5N1 avian influenza (AI). NAMRU has not yet tested the girl's uncle, who died January 28. The World Health Organization (WHO) is [...] | 2006-01-30 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2569 | PRT BAGHDAD: DISPLACED PERSONS STILL A CHALLENGE [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with PolOffs July 9, representatives of the 9 Nissan's District Advisory Council (DAC) described the difficulties facing the IDPs in the area, notably lack of assistance by the Iraqi government and the international community. The representatives commented on insecu [...] | 2006-07-18 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER PINR ASEC IZ |
06BAGHDAD2571 | MEETING WITH SPEAKER OF IRAQI COUNCIL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker, Mahmoud Mashadani, described to Charge Satterfield and CG Casey his efforts to support the Prime Minister, his recent discussions in Tehran, and the "Baathist trap" he fell into when he remarked on the presence of Israeli troops in t [...] | 2006-07-18 15:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2572 | CODEL HOEKSTRA'S MEETING WITH IRAQI LEGISLATORS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a July 15 meeting with CODEL Hoekstra, a small group of Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish Council of Representatives (CoR) members blamed the USG for not establishing security and stability in Iraq. Mohammed Taqi al-Mawla (Shia Coalition) warned of serious consequences if security is [...] | 2006-07-18 16:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR |
06BAGHDAD258 | ALLAWI ALLY SAYS AYAD OPEN TO OVERSEEING SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. Safia Suhail told Poloffs January 30 that former PM Allawi would be open to a government appointment overseeing the security ministries. She added that SCIRI's Abd' al-Aziz al-Hakim is trying to establish a political marja'iya in order to remain in power over ever-increasing popul [...] | 2006-01-30 13:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD2581 | TALABANI: IRANIAN UPDATE AND SEEKING POLITICAL [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador, just back from consultations in Washington, met President Talabani July 17. Talabani briefed the Ambassador on the latest Iraqi discussions with the Iranians, and they discussed ways to leverage concerns about Iran into greater support for Iraq from Sunni neighbo [...] | 2006-07-19 09:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PGOV PREL |
06BAGHDAD2587 | MCNS - BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN AND FORCE STRUCTURE [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: The Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met July 16 to hear MNF-I briefings on the progress of the Iraqi Army training and on the strategic view of the Baghdad Security Plan Phase II. The Iraqis expressed the desire for more Iraqi troops to be trained, [...] | 2006-07-19 16:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD259 | ZEBARI DISCUSSES PM CANDIDATES AND CABINET [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-30 13:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD2590 | COR HUMAN RIGHTS CHAIR SUPPORTS HR COMMISSION [...] (C) Summary. On July 12, EmbOffs met with newly appointed Chair of the Human Rights Committee for the Council of Representatives (CoR),Mohammed al-Haideri (Shia Coalition/Independent). With less than two weeks under his belt, al-Haideri told PolOff that his Committee was still in the process [...] | 2006-07-20 02:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PHUM PNAT |
06BAGHDAD2591 | IRAQI REACTION TO ISRAEL-LEBANON SITUATION [...] (S) SUMMARY: Israeli military action in Lebanon has brought strong condemnation from Iraqi officials across the political spectrum. No negative reference has been made to Hezbollah militia actions. Friday prayers were dominated by anti-Israeli rhetoric, and demonstrations against Israel repo [...] | 2006-07-20 02:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER PDEM KCRM MOPS MARR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2609 | PROGRESS OF ELECTORAL COMMISSION LEGISLATION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-20 17:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PNAT PREL |
06BAGHDAD2610 | IRAQI MINDEF TELLS CODEL HOEKSTRA THAT 14 [...] (C) On July 15, Congressmen Pete Hoekstra R-MI),Christopher Shays (R-CT),Gil Gutknecht (R-MN) Earl Pomeroy (D-ND),and Mike Rogers (R-MI) met with the Iraqi MinDef Abd Al-Qader. Al-Qader emphasized that the Iraqi Army (IA) is making great progress in its development despite the very challen [...] | 2006-07-20 17:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD262 | SADR CITY WOMEN COMPLAIN OF POLITICAL AND LEGAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 22 meeting with PolOff, three Sadr City women complained about the challenges women face living in Sadr City, including a serious erosion in their legal rights. The women said that that it is difficult for women to be politically active in Sadr City because they can [...] | 2006-01-30 16:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM KISL KWMN |
06BAGHDAD2622 | POST SUPPORT FOR IRAQI PURCHASE OF ISR AIRCRAFT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-22 10:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2627 | HEAD OF SCIRI OUTLINES FOUR-STEP PLAN TO ADDRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Supreme Council for the Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) leader Abdel Aziz Al Hakim met with the Ambassador on July 20. Al Hakim highlighted growing concerns among the Shia that the USG was taking a political "observer role" in the wake of escalating violence, especially with regard to [...] | 2006-07-22 19:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD2628 | KURDS WANT TO RESOLVE THE PKK PROBLEM [...] (S) Summary: Talabani understands the seriousness of situation with Turkey. He and Barzani are in agreement on steps show Iraqi-Kurdish bona fides. In addition to steps aimed at stopping PKK attacks on Turkish targets, he believes that progress toward a comprehensive solution could be achiev [...] | 2006-07-22 19:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD2629 | SCENESETTER FOR PRIME MINISTER MALIKI'S VISIT TO [...] (S) Introduction and Summary: Two months into his tenure as Iraq's first permanent Prime Minister since liberation, Nuri Kamel Maliki has staked his reputation and political future on improving the security situation, providing basic services, and rebuilding the Iraqi economy. Although he fac [...] | 2006-07-22 19:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2632 | IRAQI MINISTER OF INTERIOR NONCOMMITTAL ON ARREST [...] (C) Embassy Rule of Law (ROL) Coordinator urged Iraqi Minister of Interior Bolani to execute immediately the arrest orders for people implicated in abuses at the detention facility known as Site 4. Bolani was noncommittal. Comment: Execution of the arrest orders by Bolani would help demons [...] | 2006-07-23 02:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD264 | (U) RESIGNATION OF CHIEF JUDGE RIZGAR AMIN: [...] (C) During a lunch at his residence on January 27, President Jalal Talabani told Ambassador that Chief Judge Rizgar Muhammad Amin may have resigned due to pressure from Moqtada al-Sadr. Talabani related that Sadr had sent a letter to Amin stating that a Sadr-connected Sharia court was opening [...] | 2006-01-30 17:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2646 | HUNGER STRIKE BY AD-DUJAYL DEFENDANTS [...] (S) SUMMARY: On July 8, 2006, Saddam Hussein began a hunger strike in response to the June 21, 2006 murder of one his defense attorneys. He also ordered Taha Yaseen Ramadan, Barzan al-Tikriti, and Awad al-Bandar (three co-defendants in the continuing Ad-Dujayl trial) to participate in this hun [...] | 2006-07-24 07:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PHUM |
06BAGHDAD265 | MEETING OF THE BAGHDAD GENERAL SECRETARIAT (BGS) [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 28, the BGS met with a proposed agenda including discord among its members, the group's purpose, upcoming provincial elections, and a future meeting of all provincial councils. Instead the BGS Members discussed the absence of some members, salaries, and the need to ra [...] | 2006-01-30 19:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2652 | NINAWA: PROVINCIAL IIP DIRECTOR MULLS RUN FOR [...] (C) Ninawa,s Sunni Arab population comprises a majority of the province,s population, but is a distinct minority in the provincial government. Provincial Islamic Party Director Dr. Mohammed Shakir wants to change that by possibly running at the top of his party,s ticket in upcoming provincial [...] | 2006-07-24 14:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINR PGOV PHUM MARR ECON IZ |
06BAGHDAD2653 | TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE CONFERENCE READOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI),in partnership with the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights (UNHCR),held a conference on transitional j [...] | 2006-07-24 17:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PHUM PNAT PREL |
06BAGHDAD2655 | IRAQIS AND KURDS INITIATE ACTION AGAINST PKK [...] (S) Summary: Chief of Staff (COS) Karadaghi told Poloff on July 23 that President Talabani was following up on his pledges to curb PKK activity in Iraq. The day after Talabani issued the order to shut down PKK offices in Baghdad, the COS was checking with the MOI on the status of that request. [...] | 2006-07-24 17:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD2667 | DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SECRETARY DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his first meetings with Iraqi energy officials on July 18, Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman met with Minister for Electricity (MOE) Karim Wahid al-Hasan, Prime Minister (PM) Nuri al-Malaki, and Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Saleh. Secretary Bodman said that [...] | 2006-07-25 16:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD ENRG PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2668 | GOI TELLS SECRETARY BODMAN THEY ARE PUSHING FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of separate meetings July 18, Prime Minister Maliki, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh and Minister of Oil (MoO) Shahristani stressed to visiting U.S. Energy Secretary Bodman that the GOI intends to adopt foreign investor-friendly hydrocarbon legislation by year's end. [...] | 2006-07-25 16:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG EINV ETRD PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD267 | MASHHADANI SAYS SEIZE MOMENT TO END INSURGENCY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leading Sunni Arab Tawafuq bloc figure Mahmud Mashhadani told Poloff January 29 that his group favors Nadeem al-Jabiri for the prime ministership but is more focused on the dynamics of the next government than its members. Mashhadani said that Tawafuq strongly supported the creat [...] | 2006-01-31 03:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2675 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2006-07-26 16:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2676 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH COUNCIL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met July 22 with Council of Representatives Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani. Ambassador said recent Mashadani statements blasting the Coalition presence were unacceptable in tone. Mashadani defended his statements as political rhetoric designed to score points "on the st [...] | 2006-07-26 18:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD2677 | IRAQI MINDEF ON IA DEVELOPMENT [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Iraqi Minister of Defense Abd al-Qadir al-Mufraji July 21 to discuss Baghdad security. Al-Mufraji said the situation reflected personal struggles among politicians who are behind the militias killing innocent Iraqis. He pledged to "nip in the [...] | 2006-07-26 19:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER |
06BAGHDAD2685 | BULLET CONVINCES WOMAN TO VEIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a July 16 meeting, Radio Al Mahaba reporter Wafa Al-Sagheer told Poloff of recent threats against her life, producing a typed letter warning her to cover her head in public or face violent consequences. To bolster the message, a bullet was also included in the envelope. Whil [...] | 2006-07-27 16:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KWMN PHUM |
06BAGHDAD2690 | PM MALIKI WEIGHS IN ON DE-BATH RULING [...] (C) Five party leaders from the Iraqiyya list met with Ambassador Khalilzad on July 22 to ask for assistance in reversing De-Ba'thification rulings that prevented three of them from taking their CoR seats. Adnan al-Janabi, Rasim al-Awadi, Saad al-Janabi, (the three who were de-Bathed) joined [...] | 2006-07-28 07:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2692 | GOI OPEN TO MAKHMOUR TRIPARTITE [...] (S) Per Department's instructions (ref A),on July 27, Acting PolCouns and RefCoord called on the Minister of Displacement and Migration (MODM) and the MFA Undersecretary - Multilateral Affairs to engage them on moving forward on resolving Makhmour through the GOT-GOI-UNHCR tripartite agreemen [...] | 2006-07-28 12:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREF PREL PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD2695 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: THE ROAD AHEAD [...] (U) SUMMARY: While some in Baghdad's political class continue to discuss the possibility of Provincial Elections before the end of 2006, legal, technical and logistical reasons make an early spring (March 2007) date more likely. A law to establish the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHE [...] | 2006-07-28 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2699 | NINEWA: LOCAL KURDKISH LEADERS CALL FOR MORE U.S. [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ninewa cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Kurdish political party leaders from Ninewa are calling for a greater U.S. presence in Iraqi Kurdistan. PUK West Ninewa Director Mustafa Kokhe and Vice Governor and KDP Provincial Director [...] | 2006-07-29 11:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR ECON |
06BAGHDAD2704 | IRAQI PARTICIPANTS IN US-ARAB ECONOMIC FORUM FEEL ISOLATED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-30 08:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD2716 | MIM DEPUTY MINISTER LOOKS BACK TO THE FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: In a July 24 meeting Deputy Minister Sami Araji of the Ministry of Industry & Minerals (MIM) said that a new investment law should pass the Council of Representatives (CoR) in September or October of this year. He also said a draft privatization law is waiting for Council of Min [...] | 2006-07-31 10:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD KPRV POL PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2725 | UPDATE ON IRAQI SITE 4 DETENTION FACILITY [...] (C) As reported previously, inspections found over 1,400 detainees living in abusive conditions at the Ministry of Interior detention facility known as Site 4. The Ministry of Justice has assumed or will assume custody of the adult detainees, about half of whom remain at Site 4 and about half [...] | 2006-07-31 14:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PINS PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2738 | CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVE'S ECONOMIC [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 2. (SBU) Summary: In a July 30 meeting, Dr. Haider Al Abadi, Chairman of the Economic, Reconstruction and Investment Committee (ERIC),discussed the questions being raised in the CoR about the new Investment Law and the Fuel Import Liberalization Law. He note [...] | 2006-08-01 05:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG IZ POL |
06BAGHDAD2739 | FM READ-OUT OF ARAB LEAGUE MEETING AND VISITS TO [...] (C) On July 30, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari characterized the Arab League preparatory meeting in Cairo as unsuccessful. He reported that it did not result in setting a date for the conference because sectarian tensions were too high and everyone was distracted by the Lebanon-Gaza crisis. [...] | 2006-08-01 06:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IZ JO |
06BAGHDAD274 | BAGHDAD PROVINCIAL COUNCIL: THE HEAVY HAND OF [...] (C) Summary: In the year since the January 2005 elections, the Baghdad Provincial Council (BPC) has fired officials, dissolved councils, seized offices by force, and ignored entire sectors of the province. Sunnis are not represented on the BPC, which is dominated by Sadr City and/or SCIRI r [...] | 2006-01-31 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD2740 | HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE REPORTS FOR ACES DATABASE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-01 07:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PARM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2744 | CORRECTED COPY - IRAQ: STAYING CLEAR OF THE MESS [...] (C) Summary: Econoff on July 17 accompanied a U.S. military team on visits to two Iraqi state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to assess the condition of the companies and determine how best to assist them to improve overall security conditions. The visits illustrated difficulties in dealing with sta [...] | 2006-08-01 11:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON EINV KPRV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2749 | IRAQI REACTION TO SISTANI'S SECOND LEBANON [...] (C) Summary. On July 31, Ayatollah Al-Sayyid al-Sistani issued a strongly worded statement condemning Israeli actions in Lebanon following reports of heavy civilian casualties in Qana. The statement was widely and uncritically reported by local news media. Some Shia observers said that Sista [...] | 2006-08-02 02:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD275 | IRAQI INTELLECTUALS WANT STRONGMAN, U.S. TO SOLVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 28, the MNF-I/Embassy militia working group discussed militias or Extra-Governmental Armed Groups (EGAGs) with members of Iraq's intelligentsia. The Iraqi participants agreed that the GOI has failed to protects its citizens and solve the EGAG problem. Iraq, they asse [...] | 2006-01-31 13:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2750 | VOTE ON ELECTION COMMISSION LAW POSTPONED UNTIL [...] (C) Summary: On July 30, the Council of Representatives (CoR) legislative term concluded with a decision to postpone a vote on Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) law until after the August recess. According to contacts on the CoR legal committee, it appears that a inter-committee mi [...] | 2006-08-02 02:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM |
06BAGHDAD2768 | IRAQI GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS REPORT SOME MOVEMENT ON RESOLVING PKK ISSUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate conversations on July 30 and 31, President Talabani and Foreign Minister Zebari assured Charge d'Affaires that the Iraqi Government (GOI) remained committed to resolving the PKK issue and resuming the trilateral meetings. Talabani reported that the GOI had taken steps to cl [...] | 2006-08-02 11:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD277 | PRM-FUNDED RELOCATION OF AL TASH KURDS TO ERBIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 25, RefCoord accompanied UNHCR to Kawa to monitor and evaluate the PRM-funded, UNHCR-implemented relocation site for Iranian Kurds formerly resident in the Al Tash refugee camp near Ramadi in Al Anbar governorate. All but a small percentage of the approximately 3000 A [...] | 2006-01-31 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF EAID SOCI PHUM PREL IZ IR JO UNHCR PRM |
06BAGHDAD281 | HAKIM LARGELY AGREES WITH AMB,S GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 25 meeting, the Ambassador told SCIRI head Abdul Aziz al Hakim that he is focused on three areas of government formation: composition, structure, and program. Hakim told the Ambassador that he agrees largely with the Ambassador's plans for government formation. Haki [...] | 2006-01-31 17:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD282 | PRIORITIES AND CONCERNS OF IRAQI TRADE UNION [...] (C) Summary: At a rare meeting with key Iraqi labor union leaders in Amman, we challenged them to contribute to economic reform in Iraq, fight corruption, and focus on productive job creation. Despite their diverse backgrounds, the Iraqis agreed their deteriorating legal standing under the cu [...] | 2006-01-31 19:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM ECON PGOV IZ IR |
06BAGHDAD2825 | DEPUTY SPEAKER OF COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES: [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 4 introductory call with the DCM, Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives Shaykh Khalid Al-Attiya described the agenda of the CoR in September, growing dismay across party lines regarding the behavior of Speaker Mashadani, and his belief that 99% of all v [...] | 2006-08-06 19:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ PREL |
06BAGHDAD2842 | DEMARCHE TO IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTER ON SITE 4 [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 31 Embassy Rule of Law (ROL) Coordinator asked Iraqi Minister of Interior Bolani when he would authorize the execution of the arrest orders issued in connection with the abuses committed at the Ministry of Interior detention facility known as Site 4. ROL Coordinator also [...] | 2006-08-07 12:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS PGOV MASS KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2844 | TALABANI DISCUSSES PKK, BAGHDAD SECURITY [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a meeting on August 6, President Talabani and the Ambassador focused on the PKK and improving Baghdad security. The Ambassador stressed the importance of not allowing the PKK to put the Kurds, achievements in Iraq at risk. Talabani assured the Ambassador that he, Kurdistan Re [...] | 2006-08-07 17:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD285 | POSSIBILITIES FOR GERMAN SUPPORT OF IRAQI POLICE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In response to REFTEL, Post and Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq (MNSTC-I) welcome German initiatives to consider expanded training for Iraqi police. Although amenable to German proposals for different training sites, the incorporation of German trainers at th [...] | 2006-02-01 09:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ GM JO |
06BAGHDAD2851 | CDA MEETS NEW AMBASSADOR FROM CROATIA [...] (C) On August 2, Ambassador Jerko Vukas told Charge d'Affaires Daniel Speckhard that he is honored to be Croatia's first Ambassador to Iraq. His day started with presentation of his credentials to President Talabani followed by separate meetings with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and Defense [...] | 2006-08-08 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ CR |
06BAGHDAD2852 | VICE PRESIDENT ABDEL MEHDI: IS MASHHADANI ON THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 6 conversation with the Ambassador, Vice President Dr. Adel Abdel Mehdi said that there have been some conversations about removing Mashhadani as Speaker. He provided a positive assessment of the recent Maliki visit to the US. Abdel Mehdi warned that the Lebanon sit [...] | 2006-08-08 10:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2869 | NINEWA: IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY (IIP) CALLS FOR EARLY [...] (C) Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) leadership in Ninewa believes restoration of security is the most important task in Ninewa, and early elections (to replace the current Kurd-dominated Ninewa Provincial Government) would be the best first step to improve security. Only a fully representative gov [...] | 2006-08-09 10:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MARR ECON IZ |
06BAGHDAD2870 | NINEWA: PUK PERSPECTIVES ON SECURITY AND ARAB [...] (C) Ninewa's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party leadership believes security is the fundamental key to political, economic and social progress in the province. PUK Director Rebaz Berkoty proposes a security conference for all political and religious groups be convened to seek consensu [...] | 2006-08-09 10:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MARR ECON IZ |
06BAGHDAD2892 | GOI PROPOSES PROTECTING AGRO-PRODUCTS UNDER [...] (C) Summary. The GOI,s Tariff Steering Committee is drafting a comprehensive tariff schedule that calls for an average tariff on agricultural products of 16.9 percent; some products have been targeted for higher duties to stimulate sectoral growth. A preliminary assessment suggests that ta [...] | 2006-08-10 02:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON ETRD IZ |
06BAGHDAD2907 | PRIME MINISTER ON SECURITY ISSUES [...] (S) Summary: On July 29, MNF-I CG Casey briefed Prime Minister Maliki on security-related developments that had occured during his absence from Iraq. The Prime Minister's National Security Adviser, Dr. Mowaffaq Al-Rubaie was also present. General Casey stressed to the Prime Minister that the [...] | 2006-08-12 09:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ASEC IZ MARR PREL PTER |
06BAGHDAD2908 | IRAQI MOD - QUELLING VIOLENCE TOP PRIORITY [...] (S) SUMMARY: At an August 7 working lunch, Ambassador Khalilzad and Minister of Defense Abdul Qader al-Mufraji discussed the current security situation, relations with the Ministry of Interior (MOI),MOD reforms and future plans, the regional environment, and ideas for reforming MOI. Al-Mufraj [...] | 2006-08-12 10:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2924 | IRAQI MOI - TERRORISTS AND SECTARIAN DEATH SQUADS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 7 meeting with Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani, Ambassador Khalilzad stressed the importance of rapidly quelling the cycle of violence in Baghdad. The Ambassador also urged Bolani to execute outstanding "Site Four" arrest warrants as soon as possible, underlinin [...] | 2006-08-12 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2925 | PRESIDENT OF IRAQ URGES U.S. TO CALL FOR CEASEFIRE [...] (C) On July 31, President Jalal Talabani convoked Charge d,Affaires to convey the official Iraqi views on Lebanon. Making clear that he was speaking in his capacity as the President of Iraq, Talabani stated that he had received an urgent appeal from the Lebanese Prime Minister [...] | 2006-08-12 11:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL LE IZ |
06BAGHDAD2927 | AMBASSADOR,S AUGUST 6 AND 7 MEETINGS WITH PM MALIKI [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ambassador Khalilzad and General Casey met on both August 6 and 7 with Prime Minister Maliki to review plans for the second phase of the Baghdad Security Plan. Maliki -- focused on national reconciliation -- hoped that residents forced out by sectarian intimidation would return on [...] | 2006-08-12 12:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2928 | AMBASSADOR'S AUGUST 11 MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ambassador Khalilzad and General Casey met on August 11 with Prime Minister Maliki to review the Baghdad Security Plan. Maliki gave his consent to a revised plan for a more flexible checkpoint system and appeared markedly more forward leaning on operational security cooperation th [...] | 2006-08-12 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD293 | UPDATE ON DETAINEE FACILITY INSPECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Interagency Inspection Team (IIIT),created in response to the discovery of abuses at the Ministry of Interior's (MoI's) al-Jadriyah (Bunker) detention facility in November and supported by Multi-National Forces-Iraq (MNF-I),has conducted four unannounced inspections [...] | 2006-02-01 18:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PREL PINS PHUM KJUS MARR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2931 | MOWAFUQ AL-RUBBAIE ON SHIA AND SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: In an August 10 meeting with the Ambassador and DCM, Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowafuq al-Rubaie discussed the Prime Minister's reservations about the use of force in the Baghdad Security Plan. Additionally, Rubaie acknowledged that there have been discussions about removing [...] | 2006-08-13 12:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MARR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2932 | MALIKI TALKS ON DOMESTIC POLITICS AND TURKISH PKK [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: On August 10, the Prime Minister told the Ambassador that he had donated $27,000 to a new party formed by 600 former Ba'athists who now support the GOI. He criticized CoR Speaker Mashhadani for not cooperating with the government. The PM alleged that MNF-I publicly [...] | 2006-08-13 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS ASEC TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD2933 | PM MALIKI REQUESTS USG HELP FACILITATING FUEL [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: Prime Minister Maliki requested the USG approach Iraq's neighbors - Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait in particular - to request these countries increase or facilitate fuel exports to Iraq in light of the country's continuing fuel shortage. Gasoline and LPG (coo [...] | 2006-08-13 19:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2936 | NINEWA: GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL CHAIR LIST PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Ninewa PRT Leader Knight made initial calls on Ninewa's Governor Kashmoula and Provincial Council Chair Issa 3 Aug 06. Individual discussions were followed by a working lunch at which both attended. Security in Mosul remains the primary concern of both. Kashmoula again press [...] | 2006-08-14 04:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MARR ECON IZ |
06BAGHDAD2937 | IRAQ MINISTER OF FINANCE PLEDGES HELP ON BUDGET [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-14 10:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN IZ PGOV PREL |
06BAGHDAD294 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: ALLAWI SAYS SCIRI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Allawi told the Ambassador on February 1 that the Shia Coalition is confused, with SCIRI fearing a Sadrist and Fadhila pullout. Allawi claimed that Mohammed Ridha Sistani is exerting efforts to hold the coalition together, but has limited influence over the Fadhila Party. Referri [...] | 2006-02-01 20:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2957 | POLITICAL LEADERS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO STEM VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: In late July in discussions with the Ambassador, leading Iraqi political figures began signaling their deep concern over the deteriorating security situation in Baghdad and began to consult across political fault lines and propose practical steps on what to do. The Prime Minister [...] | 2006-08-14 13:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KFRD IZ |
06BAGHDAD2958 | FAREWELL CALL ON MINISTER OF OIL SHAHRISTANI [...] (C) Summary: In an August 10 farewell call with Economic Minister Counselor, Minister of Oil Husayn al-Shahristani discussed hydrocarbon legislation, the Baghdad Security Plan, fuel import liberalization and import issues with Iran and Turkey, energy cooperation with Saudi Arabia and Jordan, [...] | 2006-08-14 13:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG EINV ETRD PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD2959 | REPORTED CHANGES AT THE DE-BAATHIFICATION [...] (C/REL UK) SUMMARY. In an August 9 meeting, National De-Baathification Commission (NDC) General Secretary Talib Al-Muhanna (a Jafari holdover) said that Jalal Ad-Din Al-Sagheer was the new temporary Chairman of the NDC, with a mandate to remain in the position until the Council of Representat [...] | 2006-08-14 19:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2965 | GOI SHORT AND MEDIUM TERM PLANS TO ADDRESS THE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh jointly chaired a meeting August 12 to identify issues and concrete steps Iraq can take to address the immediate fuel crisis. National Security Advisor (NSA) Mowafuq Rubaie said a security operation similar to the Baghdad Secu [...] | 2006-08-15 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG MOPS MARR PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD2968 | NINEWA: KIU CALLS FOR PLURALISM AND DEMOCRACY [...] (C) PRT Team Leader Knight and IPAO Pope met Kurdish Islamic Union (KIU) Director for Mosul Sabah Ali Shareef and KIU/Mosul spokesman Shawkak Al- Sharafani at PRT offices on FOB Marez (Mosul) 10 August 2006. Shareef stressed KIU's commitment to a multiparty political system based on democrac [...] | 2006-08-15 09:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MARR ECON PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD2969 | INITIAL BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN SUCCESSES IN FIRST [...] (C) SUMMARY. One week after Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) initiatives began in Al Doura, Al Rasheed District, District Advisory Council (DAC) members expressed the community's satisfaction with the results and requested an expansion of the initiative's scope to the entire district. DAC leaders [...] | 2006-08-15 16:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD2991 | BAYAN JABR AN POLITICS, AND "BAGHDAD BERMS" [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) Summary: During an August 14 dinner with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Bayan Jabr proposed that MNF-I construct an earthen berm around Baghdad, while gradually expanding the Green Zone walls outward - with the ultimate goal of turning the whole of Baghdad into a green zone - [...] | 2006-08-17 09:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PTER PNAT MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD2992 | NINEWA: ADM REPORTS CONTINUED MARGINALIZATION OF [...] (C) PRT Team Leader Knight and IPAO Pope met Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) Mosul Director and Provincial Council Representative Gevara Zia and ADM Deputy Director for Mosul Toma Khowshaba at PRT offices on FOB Marez (Mosul) 12 August 2006. Zia and Khowshaba complain that Christians and [...] | 2006-08-17 10:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF IZ |
06BAGHDAD2997 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN GAINS MOMENTUM [...] (C) SUMMARY. With the security situation in Al Doura of Al Rasheed District stabilizing as a result of the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) (reftel),the CF have begun focused stabilization initiatives to normalize the area. To assuage lingering fears of danger and short-lived effectiveness, the [...] | 2006-08-17 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD2998 | IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTER AUTHORIZES FIRING OF [...] (SBU) Minister of Interior Bolani told ROL/Emboffs that on August 6 he had authorized the firing of 1,200 MOI employees with criminal records. But as of August 16 only a "small portion" of these people had been dismissed, according to the MOI Deputy Minister for Intelligence. 2. (C) COMMEN [...] | 2006-08-17 14:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD300 | (U) QUSHTEPE OFFICIALS COMMENT ON AL TASH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 25, RefCoord accompanied UNHCR to Kawa to monitor and evaluate the PRM-funded, UNHCR-implemented relocation of Iranian Kurds formerly resident in the Al Tash refugee camp near Ramadi in Al Anbar governorate. Ref A covered assistance work at the camp. En route to the [...] | 2006-02-02 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER PINR PINS PREL IZ IR JO UNHCR PRM |
06BAGHDAD3005 | PDS ISSUES TO WATCH CLOSELY, TARIFF AND WTO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-18 13:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3012 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES GOVERNORATES COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary. PolOffs met August 16 with Deputy Chair of the Council of Representatives' (CoR) Committee on Regions and Governorate Affairs Nada Abdullah al-Sudani (Shia Coalition/Dawa). Al-Sudani said she had collaborated with fellow Shia Coalition member Minister of CoR Affairs Safa al-Safi [...] | 2006-08-18 17:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3014 | SEVENTH IMAM PILGRIMAGE: IRAQI MOI AND MOD PREPARE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In order to avoid a repletion of last years tragedy when nearly one thousand pilgrims were killed at the Seventh Imam pilgrimage, both the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and Ministry of Defense (MOD) have conducted extensive operational planning to ensure order and prevent a repeat [...] | 2006-08-19 14:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3015 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN SUCCESSFULLY EXPANDS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Key Al Mansour District Advisory Council (DAC) members praised the initial successes of the Baghdad Security Plan's (BSP) second round of initiatives that began in the Ameriya and Ghazaliya neighborhoods of Al Mansour District over the past week. Confirming popular support for t [...] | 2006-08-19 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3025 | MCNS AUGUST 13 - TURKEY, IRAN, AL QAEDA, AND [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: At the Ministerial Council on August 13, Prime Minister Maliki welcomed the proposed tripartite talks among the US, Turkey and Iraq on PKK Turkish Kurd terrorist activities. Improved relations with Turkey might also increase imports, and ease Iraq's fuel crisis. Rel [...] | 2006-08-20 11:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3027 | JAPANESE AMBASSADOR: NO PLEDGE YET FOR [...] (C) In an August 13 meeting with PolCouns and a subsequent meeting the same day with the Ambassador and the DCM, Japanese Ambassador to Iraq Hisao Yamaguchi said that Japan is not currently willing to commit new money for Iraq reconstruction through the International Compact. Yamaguchi report [...] | 2006-08-20 16:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA IZ |
06BAGHDAD3028 | ARAB LEAGUE ENVOY TO IRAQ ON ARAB DIPLOMACY EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary: On August 18 the Ambassador met with Arab League Ambassador Mokhtar Lamani. Lamani expressed frustration with Arab diplomatic efforts and asked for USG assistance to get Lamani's report on the agenda for the September 4 Arab League meeting. He encouraged the USG to establish a d [...] | 2006-08-20 16:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3029 | SUNNI COR MEMBER DEFENDS MASHHADANI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a late meeting on August 17 with the Ambassador, Sunni National Dialogue Front (INCD) Council of Representatives (CoR) member Sheikh Abd al-Nasir al-Jenabi stubbornly defended CoR Speaker Mahmud al-Mashhadani's performance and demanded that he retain his position in the CoR. W [...] | 2006-08-20 17:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD3031 | IRAQ: FIRST USG WORKING MEETING WITH NEW MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 13, IRMO, USDA, USAID, and Econoff met with new Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Yaarub Nadhum Al-Obodi; the Deputy Minister, Dr. Subhi Al-Jumaily; and the Director General for Planning, Mr. Sabah This meeting was only the second between post officials and the minister, [...] | 2006-08-21 03:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD USTR IZ PREL FAS |
06BAGHDAD3035 | SLOVAKIAN PM PLEDGES TRANSPARENCY ON FUTURE AID TO [...] (C/REL MCFI) SUMMARY: On August 17 the Ambassador and General Casey thanked Slovak Prime Minister Fico for his country's contributions to Operation Iraqi Freedom and asked that it conduct additional training of Iraqis, per ref A. Echoing the themes of ref B, Fico pledged to continue to help Ir [...] | 2006-08-21 08:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3036 | KRG TELLS UNCHR THEY OPPOSE MAKHMOUR INTEGRATION [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR-Iraq officials Burgi Englbrecht and Charlie Lynch met August 6-8 with KRG officials and residents of the Makhmour refugee camp. According to Englebrecht and Lynch, KRG Deputy Prime Minister Omar Fattah Hussayn, KRG Minister of Interior Osman Haji Mahmud, and Chief of Staff [...] | 2006-08-21 08:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER PHUM UNHCR IZ TU |
06BAGHDAD3037 | LAUNCHING THE COMPACT WITH IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-21 08:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3044 | DEPUTY CHAIR OF COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE UPDATES ON [...] (C) EmbOffs met August 17 with Deputy Chair of the Council of Representatives' (CoR) Committee on Complaints Haider Karim al-Suweidi (Shia Coalition/Independent). The Committee on Complaints, a nine-member committee chaired by former Minister of State for National Security Abd al-Karim Ali al [...] | 2006-08-21 16:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3045 | REPLACEMENT COR MEMBERS UPDATE: 15 OF 18 MEMBERS [...] (C) Using the flexibility granted by the Replacement Members Law, the political blocs have almost completed naming new Council of Representatives (CoR) members. Of the 18 members (all male) who resigned, 15 replacement members have been named and 14 sworn in. Of these fifteen, 6 are female, [...] | 2006-08-21 17:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3051 | KURDISH LEADERS DISCUSS PESHMERGA, PKK WITH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a series of brief asides at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Erbil on August 16, the Ambassador discussed plans to integrate the KDP and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Peshmerga forces into a single, unified structure and the conti [...] | 2006-08-22 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD3052 | UN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON SECURITY AND THE [...] (C) Summary. On August 18, the Ambassador met with Ashraf Qazi, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq. Qazi noted that the following SIPDIS day would be the third anniversary of SRSG Sergio Vieira de Mello's death, and that the UN mission still faces s [...] | 2006-08-22 11:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNGA IZ |
06BAGHDAD3053 | AUGUST 18 MEETING BETWEEN IRAQI PM, AMBASSADOR, [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: At an intense August 18 meeting with Prime Minister Maliki, MNF-I Commander General (CG) Casey and the Ambassador, the PM reacted negatively to American news reports that the PM is willing to kill Sunnis, but shield Shia including Moqtada al-Sadr from MNF-I raids. The [...] | 2006-08-22 11:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3057 | IRAQI MINISTERS ON DETENTION CENTERS INSPECTIONS [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: At an August 20 meeting at the Ambassador's Residence the Ministers for Defense, Interior, Justice and Human Rights discussed procedures for improving the treatment of criminal detainees in Iraq in accordance with applicable human rights standards. Regarding the Site [...] | 2006-08-22 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3058 | LAUNCHING THE COMPACT WITH IRAQ [...] (C) Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt and Department of State Counselor Zelikow met with Prime Minister Maliki, Deputy Prime Minister Salih, Finance Minister Jabr, Oil Minister Shahristani, Central Bank Governor Shabibi and other foreign delegation members in Baghdad during the July 19-21 inf [...] | 2006-08-23 10:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL EAID PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD306 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: TAWAFUQ CRITICISM OF [...] (C) The Ambassador attended a February 2 luncheon hosted by President Talabani that drew together all major elected parliamentarians. The elaborate luncheon, complete with an honor guard, closed with a widely-attended press conference. Leading Tawafuq bloc figure Khalaf al-Ayan made news durin [...] | 2006-02-02 21:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3060 | NINEWA: VICE PM AL-ZAWBA'I'S SURPRISE VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Salam al- Zawba'i made an unexpected trip to Mosul 16 August to discuss Tal'Afar issues with Ninewa Governor Kashmoula at the FOB Marez East (ex-Diamondback) MWR facility ('Palm Palace'). The DPM's trip was coordinated almost entirely through Iraqi channel [...] | 2006-08-23 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF IZ |
06BAGHDAD3061 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN: GOI EXPEDITES BUDGETARY [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih has instructed the Ministry of Finance and other GOI entities to begin implementing new measures, approved by the Economic Affairs Committee, to accelerate reconstruction spending to support the Baghdad Security Plan. Barham Salih believes these measures [...] | 2006-08-23 11:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL EAID PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3073 | TALABANI SAYS IRAQ READY FOR US SPECIAL ENVOY, [...] (C) In a meeting on August 23 with the Charge d'Affaires, President Talabani reported that he had received a letter from the leaders of the PKK in which they expressed their gratitude for U.S. engagement on Kurdish issues and indicated their readiness to call for a ceasefire without conditions. [...] | 2006-08-24 08:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD310 | PM JAFARI ON FOREIGN FIGHTERS, SADDAMISTS AND [...] (C) During a January 31 discussion, Prime Minister Jafari told the Ambassador that Tekfiris (religious fanatics) and criminal Saddamists must be stopped at all costs. Jafari referred to the TNA anti-terrorism law that should be justly applied to these groups. There could be no negotiations w [...] | 2006-02-03 11:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3105 | FM ZEBARI ON SAUDIS, PM MALIKI, ARAB LEAGUE AND [...] (C) Summary: During an August 23 meeting with the Charge, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the conflict in Iraq has reached its zenith but the GOI must persevere to succeed. Zebari noted he has good relations with the Saudi foreign minister despite some differences over the International C [...] | 2006-08-26 05:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3121 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN MOVES TOWARD NORMALCY IN [...] (C) Leaders in Baghdad District Advisory Councils (DAC) continue to praise the improved security situation resulting from the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) initiatives in focus areas throughout the city (reftels). To encourage further normalcy of the city's neighborhoods, Coalition Forces (CF) [...] | 2006-08-27 09:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3122 | NINEWA: SCIRI REPORTS THREATS TO SHI'A AND KURD [...] (C) PRT Team Leader Knight and IPAO Pope met Ninewa leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and Provincial Council member Mohammed Ibrahim at PRT offices on FOB Marez 19 August 2006. Ibrahim emphasized that SCIRI supports multiparty democracy, and that SCIRI does [...] | 2006-08-27 09:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF EAID IZ |
06BAGHDAD3145 | TRIBAL SHAYKHS ENDORSE PM RECONCILIATION PLAN, [...] (C) Minister of State for National Dialogue Akram Al-Hakim hosted the first of four promised reconciliation conferences (reftel) August 26. Prime Minister Maliki addressed the event, which was attended by over 500 tribal representatives at Baghdad's Babylon Hotel. The attendees endorsed the P [...] | 2006-08-28 10:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD315 | FADHILA MEMBERS DISCUSS SOLUTION TO INSURGENCY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 1 meeting with PolCouns, Fadhila Party members Hassan al-Shamiri and Mohammed Ismael al-Khuzai argued that rebuilding Iraq's economy is key to ending the insurgency. Many insurgents join armed groups because they have no jobs and feel they have no future in the new [...] | 2006-02-04 16:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD3155 | TURKISH AMBASSADOR, CHARGE DISCUSS STEPS FORWARD ON PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on August 25 with Turkish Ambassador Cevikoz and Turkish DCM Selcen, Charge d'Affaires informed the Turks that President Talabani had expressed full agreement with the Turks that the PKK needed to lay down their arms permanently, rather than agreeing to just another ceasef [...] | 2006-08-28 13:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD3156 | IRAQ'S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF OIL [...] (C) Summary: On August 24, the Charge held back-to-back meetings with Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Minister of Oil Dr. Husayn Shahristani to discuss development of Iran's hydrocarbon legislation and the country's fuel crisis. In both meetings he presented USG recommendations for a [...] | 2006-08-28 16:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ PREL |
06BAGHDAD3157 | MCNS AUGUST 21 [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: During the August 21 Ministerial Council on National Security, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki emphasized the importance of civil support for the Baghdad Security operations; called for the reform of the Facilities Protection Service; and approved Iraqi assumption of sec [...] | 2006-08-28 17:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | GPGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3158 | DEPUTY LEGAL CHAIR (TAWAFUQ) HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Chair of the Legal Committee Saleem Al-Jaboori (Tawafuq) told Embassy Legal Adviser and PolOff August 22 that Tawafuq wants federalism-related legislation on region formation delayed until after the constitutional review process is complete. He said Tawafuq is consideri [...] | 2006-08-28 17:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3161 | SOCIAL ACTIVISTS PUSH FOR CROSS-SECTARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqiyya member Saad Al Janabi (elected to the CoR but deprived of his seat at the behest of the De-Ba'athification Commission) has been working to relieve sectarian tensions through community meetings and provision of basic essentials. Currently working in Adhamiya, Kadhimyah, a [...] | 2006-08-29 04:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3165 | NINEWA: IND: COALITION FORCES NOW ESSENTIAL AND [...] (C) PRT Team Leader Knight and IPAO Pope met Ninewa's Iraqi National Dialogue (IND) spokesman and Deputy Chair Mosaddaq al-Chalabi at PRT headquarters on FOB Marez 19 August 2006. Chalabi added little to well-known IND positions -- including the party's disapproval of Ninewa's current leader [...] | 2006-08-29 06:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EPET MARR IZ |
06BAGHDAD317 | UPDATE ON KUWAITI DETAINEES IN COALITION CUSTODY [...] (C) In response to Embassy Kuwait's inquiry in reftel: * Kuwaiti national ABDULRAHMAN MOBARAK MESHAKHAS AL BATHALI (ISN 157245) is currently held in the legal and physical custody of Coalition Forces at the MNF-I Fort Suse detention facility near Suleymaniyah. His case is under review for [...] | 2006-02-04 16:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINS KJUS IZ KU |
06BAGHDAD3172 | OBSTACLES TO IMPLEMENTING GOI PROVINCIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two principal obstacles have prevented GOI-funded reconstruction projects from moving forward in the province of Baghdad. First, complex project selection, bidding, and funding mechanisms have left many projects in a bureaucratic quagmire. Second, Iraqi contractors have been he [...] | 2006-08-29 08:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EFIN EAID IZ |
06BAGHDAD318 | FRENCH REQUEST TO INTERVIEW FOUR IRAQI DETAINEES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to Embassy Paris's query in Reftel: the Chief Investigative Judge of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT),Judge Ra'ad, has indicated that he is receptive to the GOF's request to interview four Iraqi detainees awaiting trial at the IHT, under certain conditions (which we dis [...] | 2006-02-04 16:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINS KJUS IZ FR |
06BAGHDAD3188 | COMPLAINTS OF SHIA IMAM IN HILLAH [...] (C) Sayed Imam Kazwini, a Shia cleric who is close to secular politician Ayad Allawi and who has been well-disposed to the U.S., said during a meeting in Hillah that: -- Iranian influence in Iraq has become "intolerable." -- U.S. support for the current Iraqi government amounts to support [...] | 2006-08-30 09:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD319 | IECI COMMISSIONER SAFWAT ARGUES FOR DELAYED [...] (C) SUMMARY: IECI Commissioner Safwat told poloffs February 1 that provincial elections should be delayed until at least midyear to give the IECI more time to prepare. He added that the IECI would need changes and improvements, with priorities including revamping the voter registry and reform [...] | 2006-02-04 18:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ UN |
06BAGHDAD320 | IECI COMMISSIONER SAFWAT ARGUES FOR DELAYED [...] (C) SUMMARY: IECI Commissioner Safwat told poloffs February 1 that provincial elections should be delayed until at least midyear to give the IECI more time to prepare. He added that the IECI would need changes and improvements, with priorities including revamping the voter registry and reform [...] | 2006-02-04 19:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ UN |
06BAGHDAD3205 | MCNS - AUGUST 27 [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: At the Ministerial Council for National Security (MCNS) on August 27, Prime Minister Maliki suggested that the looting of a former British base in Maysan province created a "public perception of defeat" that must be analyzed. The Baghdad Security Plan is progressing, [...] | 2006-08-31 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3224 | SPEAKER NOT OUT OF THE WOODS; REPORTEDLY CEDES [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Speaker of the Council of Representatives Mahmoud Al-Mashadani has reportedly ceded some of his authorities to Deputy Speaker Khalid Al-Attiyah as part of an agreement to try to preserve his position. While press speculation that he may be removed as Speaker has largely disap [...] | 2006-09-01 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3243 | ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKES PRODUCTIVE VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (C) U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales paid a productive and busy visit to Baghdad on August 29. He met with Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and other key Iraqi officials, visited wounded soldiers at the U.S. Combat Support Hospital, toured the Iraqi High Tribunal where Saddam Hussein [...] | 2006-09-04 09:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS PGOV KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3252 | IRAQI DEPUTY PM TELLS U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL WAR IS [...] (C) On August 29, before meeting with other Iraqi officials (reported reftel),Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and CDA Speckhard met alone with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, who emphasized that the war is winnable and that the international community must not give up on Iraq. [...] | 2006-09-04 17:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS PGOV KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3253 | GOI, KRG CONFLICT OVER BARZANI DECREE BANNING [...] (C) In a meeting with President Talabani on September 2, Charge d'Affaires raised the issue of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masud Barzani's recent Kurdistan Decree No. 60 on banning the raising of the current Iraqi flag in KRG-administered territory. Talabani attempted to cla [...] | 2006-09-04 18:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3254 | HONOR KILLINGS AND SUICIDE BURNINGS REPORTEDLY ON [...] (C) Summary. Kurdistan civil society and political leaders warned PolOffs in separate conversations late August that honor killings and suicide burnings were on the rise. Representatives of women's shelters in Kurdistan said that women were seeking out their help more frequently and that they [...] | 2006-09-04 19:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3255 | TALABANI ACCUSES TURKISH MILITARY OF UNDERMINING [...] (C) In separate meetings on August 30 and September 2, President Talabani updated the Charge d'Affaires on steps taken by the Government of Iraq (GOI) and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to push the PKK toward a ceasefire. Charge began the meeting on August 30 by raising the spate of [...] | 2006-09-05 03:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD3256 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ZAWBAI NOT TROUBLED BY [...] (C) Summary. On August 30, the Charge, PolMil Counselor Maerkle, and Australian Brigadier General Cantwell met with Deputy Prime Minister Salaam Zawbai (Tawafuq). Zawbai said he was not attending the Ministerial Council for National Security (MCNS) because he is being "marginalized" by the Pr [...] | 2006-09-05 03:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3257 | DPM SALIH'S ENERGY RETREAT ADVANCES HYDROCARBON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-05 04:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ KJUS KCOR PGOV EINV PBTS |
06BAGHDAD326 | SUNNI ARAB POLITICIANS TELL CODEL SHAYS VIOLENCE [...] (C) Tawafuq coalition representatives Professor Hassan Bazzaz and Dr. Ala'a Makki told Congressman Shays and his delegation February 4 that ending violence is their number one priority; adjusting the Constitution can wait. Bazzaz told Representatives Christopher Shays, Virginia Brown-Waite, K [...] | 2006-02-05 14:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3260 | GOI, KRG CONFLICT OVER BARZANI DECREE BANNING [...] (C) In a meeting with President Talabani on September 2, the Charge raised the issue of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masud Barzani's recent Kurdistan decree No. 60 on banning the raising of the current Iraqi flag in KRG-administered territory. Talabani attempted to clarify t [...] | 2006-09-05 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3273 | MCNS -- SEPTEMBER 3: BSP UPDATE AND MOSQUE POLICY [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the Prime Minister's absence, National Security Advisor Rubaie chaired the September 3 Ministerial Committee on National Security -- despite the fact that both Deputy PMs (Barham Salih and Salam al-Zubai) were in attendance. General Casey argued that the Baghdad Security Plan [...] | 2006-09-05 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD328 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: SECURITY DISPUTES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: An Iraqi leadership luncheon at the Ambassador's residence February 4, bringing together the four largest blocs in the parliament, produced a heated argument over Ministry of Interior raids and alleged abuses. Prime Minister Ja'afari argued to a group of dubious Tawaffuq leaders [...] | 2006-02-05 15:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3281 | UN AMBASSADOR QAZI ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMPACT [...] (C) In an August 30 meeting with Charge, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi welcomed the UAE's decision to host the Iraq Compact Preparatory Committee meeting in Abu Dhabi on September 10. Qazi stressed that the Compact's political/security language should la [...] | 2006-09-06 02:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM PREL ECON IZ |
06BAGHDAD3282 | BADR LEADER SAYS BADR READY TO DEMOBILIZE [...] (C) Summary: On August 30, Charge d'Affaires Daniel Speckhard, Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (IRMO) Director Saloom, Pol-Mil Counselor Maerkle, and Rear Admiral Van Buskirk (MNF-I) met with Badr Organization leader and Council of Representatives Security and Defense Committee Chairman [...] | 2006-09-06 02:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3283 | NINEWA: SHABAK PUSH FOR RECONCILIATION COUNCIL AND [...] (C) PRT Team Leader Knight and IPAO Pope met Shabak Democratic Party (SDP) leader and Council of Representatives member Dr. Hunain Qaddo at PRT offices on FOB Marez (Mosul) 21 August 2006. Hunain proposed a major reconfiguration of de- Ba'athification efforts since he believes social peace [...] | 2006-09-06 04:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF EAID IZ |
06BAGHDAD3287 | PROVINCIAL LEADERS AGREE TO SUPPORT BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: As the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) begins to achieve results in the focus areas, the Baghdad Provincial Council (BPC) has begun to regain infrastructure reconstruction and economic recovery momentum. At a dinner hosted by the CDA, BPC Chairman Mu,eem al-Khademi, Baghdad Governor [...] | 2006-09-06 06:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR ASEC IZ |
06BAGHDAD3297 | NINEWA: PM MALIKI'S VISIT TO MOSUL 4 SEP 06 [...] (SBU) Nuri al-Maliki made his first visit to Ninewa Province as Iraq's Prime Minister 4 September, when he met over 100 Ninewa leaders, including Provincial government officials, chairs of Provincial Council committees, and ranking traditional and opinion leaders. His brief opening statemen [...] | 2006-09-06 10:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MARR IZ |
06BAGHDAD3299 | IRAQI MFA SUPPORTIVE ON LEBANON, GUATEMALA UNSC [...] (C) On September 3, Post made reftel points to Qusay al-Kubaysi, Special Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Kubaysi responded that he would convey the points to the Minister as soon as he was available. On September 5, we reviewed the points with Deputy FM Bidan. Bidan said tha [...] | 2006-09-06 11:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ LE SU IS UN |
06BAGHDAD330 | ABD AL-MAHDI CLAIMS HE IS HIS OWN MAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a February 3 dinner hosted by Minister of Planning (and senior Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) official) Barham Saleh, Deputy President Adel Abd al-Mahdi told the Ambassador that, if chosen to be Prime Minister, he would not be beholden either to SCIRI head Abd al-Aziz al-H [...] | 2006-02-05 16:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS PNAT IZ KDEM |
06BAGHDAD3300 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN: MOVING FROM CLEAR TO HOLD [...] (C) On September 4, Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) initiatives began in the Yarmouk/Mansour areas of the Al Mansour District. As this new focus area begins the initial cordon and clear phase of the initiative, other focus areas are progressing well in the hold (maintenance of security) and build [...] | 2006-09-06 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD3318 | KRG HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER DISCUSSES TRANSITION, [...] (C) In an August 30 meeting, KRG Minister of Human Rights Yousif Mohammed Aziz told PolOff that the integration of the two KRG human rights ministries had proceeded smoothly (ref A) and that he was looking forward to developing the new ministry into a stronger institution. As such, he was ins [...] | 2006-09-06 20:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD332 | FALLUJAH: NEW YEAR, NEW CHALLENGES -- SAME HIGH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fallujah faces ongoing security and rebuilding challenges despite hard-won progress throughout 2005. Attacks directed against Marines and Iraqi Security Forces continue, including an IED explosion in January 2006 targeting local police (native Fallujans). Intermittent sniper a [...] | 2006-02-06 08:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS MOPS MARR EAID ECON KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3324 | NEW AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR CALLS ON AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 6, the Ambassador and DCM met with recently-arrived Australian Ambassador Innes-Brown. Ambassador Innes-Brown said that the Australian opposition is very keen to withdraw from Iraq and that PM Howard may visit Iraq in the next six months. Australia is revising its I [...] | 2006-09-07 12:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ AS |
06BAGHDAD3329 | AMBASSADOR AND TALABANI DISCUSS DEFUSING FLAG [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with President Jalal Talabani on September 5-6, the Ambassador expressed his disappointment with the timing of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masud Barzani's September 1 statement on using the 1958 Iraqi flag within the KRG until a new flag had been dete [...] | 2006-09-07 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SY RU TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD3332 | BAGHDAD'S DISTRICTS: A PRIMER [...] (U) Baghdad is home to nearly one-fourth of Iraq's 27 million residents, and the city is bisected north-to-south by the Tigris river. Administratively, it has nine urban districts. The following is a primer on those districts. Karadah: Beverly Hills of Baghdad ----------------------------- [...] | 2006-09-08 06:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD3335 | AMBASSADOR URGES SUNNI LEADERS TO PARTICIPATE IN [...] (C) The Ambassador told the Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Dr. Mahmoud Mashhadani September 7 that, for Iraq to succeed, the political parties need to cooperate to strengthen the unity government and to deal with tough, divisive issues. The Ambassador encouraged the Speaker t [...] | 2006-09-08 10:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3341 | KRG WANTS NATIONAL HYDROCARBON LAW NOW [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-09 04:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET IZ |
06BAGHDAD3345 | SALAH AD DIN PROVINCIAL OFFICIAL DISCUSSES BAATH [...] (S) SUMMARY: Salah ad Din Province Vice Governor Abdullah H. M. Ejbarah claims the Baath Party is planning to hold a national convention in Salah ad Din province before the end of the year to begin the party's reintegration into Iraq's political process. The party will expel Saddam to demons [...] | 2006-09-09 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3346 | MALIKI SAYS IRAQI POLICE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM; [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: On September 6, during a briefing on the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP),Prime Minister Maliki told MNF-I Commanding General (CG) Casey and the Ambassador that he sees reforming the Iraqi Police as his number one issue, and key to solving other related problems. When the [...] | 2006-09-09 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3357 | KURDS HOLDING FIRM ON FLAG, CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW [...] (C) Senior Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Council of Representatives (CoR) member Saadi al-Barzinji said on September 7 that he could not understand the U.S. Embassy's reaction to Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masud Barzani's statement on flying the 1958 Iraqi flag rather th [...] | 2006-09-10 07:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3358 | NINEWA'S FUEL CRISIS [...] (C) Unending fuel shortages in Ninewa are the preoccupation of all/all PRT interlocutors, second only to ongoing violence in Mosul. These shortages are the single most critical issue impeding improved security and economic rehabilitation throughout Ninewa. They restrict mobility of Iraqi s [...] | 2006-09-10 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL ECON EPET MARR IZ |
06BAGHDAD3370 | IRAQ SUPPORTIVE ON NAM SUMMIT IRAN STATEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-10 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IAEA IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD3371 | VICE PRESIDENT ABD AL-MEHDI MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a September 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Vice President Adel Abd Al-Mehdi described his US visit as useful. He agreed that the GOI needs a "roadmap" for how to resolve issues such as constitutional review and de-Baathification. Abd Al-Mehdi expressed support for Maliki's s [...] | 2006-09-11 02:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IZ |
06BAGHDAD3372 | LEADING RECONCILIATION COMMISSION MEMBER [...] (C) In a September 7 conversation, National Reconciliation Commission member and chairman of the political parties committee Sheikh Ayad Jamaladdin (Iraqiyya, cross-sectarian) admitted to EmbOffs his pessimism about the effectiveness of the Commission. Jamaladdin asserted that political leade [...] | 2006-09-11 05:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3374 | ABU GHRAIB PRISON TRANSFERRED TO GOI, FUTURE USE [...] (U) This is a PRT Al Anbar cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Effective September 1, 2006, responsibilities for securing and administering Abu Ghraib prison transferred to an on-site Iraq Army unit and Ministry of Justice officials. A platoon of U.S. Marines will remain at the location until mid-Sept [...] | 2006-09-11 06:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD338 | ALLAWI SAYS IRAN STRONGER IN IRAQ THAN U.S. [...] (S) At a February 1 dinner with the Ambassador, Dr. Ayad Allawi said that there is "unchecked Iranian involvement in Iraq." Allawi specifically cited the new constitution's provisions on federalism and decentralization as well as Iranian institution-building within the Iraqi Security Forces ( [...] | 2006-02-06 10:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PNAT PREL IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD3382 | 9/11 SYMPATHY AND CONDOLENCES LETTER FROM JALAL TALABANI, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 13:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ |
06BAGHDAD3391 | KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI SENDS LETTER TO COR SPEAKER [...] (C) On September 7, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masud Barzani sent a letter to the Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Mahmud Mashhadani, regarding the controversy of the Iraqi flag issue in the Kurdistan region. Partly done to stem the negative public backlash [...] | 2006-09-12 07:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3392 | IRAQI SPEAKER AGREES THAT POLITICAL LEADERS MUST [...] (C) The Ambassador told the Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Dr. Mahmoud Mashhadani September 11 that, for an agreement to be reached on key issues (e.g., federalism, De-Ba'athification, militias) there will need to be a "package deal" or a national compact involving compromises [...] | 2006-09-12 07:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3399 | BADR CORPS SECGEN VIEWS ON MILITIA DEMOBILIZATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-12 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PNAT PREL KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3405 | SHIA COALITION AND TAWAFUQ VERSIONS OF REGION [...] (U) On September 7, the Shia Coalition, with support of the Kurdish Alliance, attempted to add a first reading of its version of the region formation law to the Council of Representatives (CoR) agenda. Tawafuq also submitted that same day a version of its law to the Presidency Commission (Spe [...] | 2006-09-12 20:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD3406 | STATUS OF BAGHDAD'S DISTRICT ADVISORY COUNCILS [...] (U) Both a city and a province, Baghdad has three principal management entities that administer services and govern the city. The Baghdad Provincial Council (BPC) is the major policy creation body, and its responsibilities include planning and financial management. The Amanat operates the ci [...] | 2006-09-13 03:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3407 | IRAQI WOMEN'S AFFAIRS MINISTER OFF TO A SLOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. After three months on the job, little has changed within the Ministry of State for Women's Affairs (MOWA) under Minister Fatin Abd al-Rahman. Abd al-Rahman's personal concerns have largely dominated her time in the ministry. MOWA Economic Advisor Salam Smeisim said that Abd al- [...] | 2006-09-13 06:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD3422 | AHD AL-IRAQ TO PRESENT DRAFT LEGISLATION IN NEXT COR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 06:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD3423 | IRAQI WOMEN JOURNALISTS: LABOR ISSUES, NOT SECURITY, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 06:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD3424 | BAGHDAD RESIDENTS SUPPORT BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY. With Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) initiatives underway in several focus areas throughout the city (reftels),our conversations with both Sunni and Shia local contacts reveal that Baghdad residents are highly supportive of BSP operations and hope to see their expansion. However, th [...] | 2006-09-13 08:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD343 | EMBASSY BAGHDAD AVIAN INFLUENZA TRIPWIRES AND [...] The Embassy Baghdad Avian Influenza (AI) Working Group (AIWG, which included MED, ECON, Health Attache, IRMO, USAID, USDA/FAS, MGT, PAO, and MNF-I),met on January 18, 2006 to discuss Embassy tripwires and possible responses. Based on this meeting, the Embassy Health Unit drafted AI Tripwires [...] | 2006-02-06 13:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC ASEC EAGR EAID TBIO KFLU |
06BAGHDAD344 | MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met on February 3 and addressed the following: -- The MCNS acknowledged the work of the Joint Committee to Transfer Security Responsibility (JCTSR) and directed that its Working Group continue steps toward [...] | 2006-02-06 13:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER MOPS ENRG EPET IZ |
06BAGHDAD3444 | CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES ENERGY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 08:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET IZ |
06BAGHDAD3454 | KURDISH LEADER BARZANI SUPPORTS "PACKAGE DEAL" IDEA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani told the Ambassador September 13 that he would support a "package deal" by Iraq's political leaders on federal region formation, constitutional questions, militias, hydrocarbons and other issues (ref A). Barzani feels a [...] | 2006-09-14 18:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD3456 | MCNS - MALIKI ON OIL SMUGGLING, DIYALA SECURITY [...] (S/REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: During the September 10 meeting of the Ministerial Committee for National Security, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki: -- Cited petroleum smuggling as a key source of terrorist financing that must be addressed together with energy infrastructure protection; -- Called for be [...] | 2006-09-14 19:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER |
06BAGHDAD3458 | DEMARCHE ON UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN DARFUR FOR [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Qusay Al Qubaisy, chief advisor to FM Zebary. Al Qubaisy said he relayed the message to both FM Zebary and Deputy FM Mohammad Bidan, who is traveling with the delegation. Al Qubaisy told poloff that both Zebary and Bidan appreciated USG views on the cri [...] | 2006-09-15 05:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KPKO UNSC SU IZ |
06BAGHDAD3465 | MEETING WITH LOCAL IRAQI BUSINESSMEN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-16 04:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EINV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3471 | FALLUJAH - DISPLACED SUNNI ARABS RELOCATE TO AL [...] (U) This is a PRT Al Anbar cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Sectarian violence has prompted thousands of Sunni-Arabs to relocate to Al Anbar Province. Many have moved to Fallujah given its proximity to Baghdad and lack of Shia militia activity. Fallujah city leaders have taken steps to address the [...] | 2006-09-17 12:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3485 | AGRICULTURE PROJECT AND KOREAN VOCATIONAL TRAINING [...] (U) Summary. MNF-I's Civil-Military Directorate and Econoff traveled to Erbil August 29 - 30, to visit a vocational instruction site operated by Korean coalition forces, and a honey production project supported by USAID. The Korean project conducted training in a wide range of skills. Clas [...] | 2006-09-18 02:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ELAB IZ |
06BAGHDAD3496 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES UPDATE: ONE-DAY [...] (U) The Council of Representatives (CoR) reconvened September 10 two days after the September 7 session when the CoR leadership agreed to have a first reading of the region formation law. However, despite an early morning agreement September 10 to delay the first reading until September 19 an [...] | 2006-09-18 13:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3498 | DRAFT IRAQ ELECTION COMMISSION LAW UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Independent Election Commission of Iraq (IECI) commissioners and International Election Assistance Team officials (IEAT) are concerned about the draft law to form a permanent election commission, worsening IECI morale, and a loss of IECI capacity due to staff departures. Election [...] | 2006-09-18 14:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PNAT |
06BAGHDAD3500 | ALLEGATIONS OF SECRET PRISONS IN KURDISTAN [...] (C) Summary. In a September 10 conversation, Kurdish Alliance Council of Representative (CoR) member and Kirkuk resident Muhammed Redha Muhammed claimed to Emboffs that both the KDP and PUK Asayish (anti-terrorism security forces) maintain secret detention facilities where they seriously abuse [...] | 2006-09-19 02:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER IZ PGOV KDEM |
06BAGHDAD3501 | AL ANBAR GOVERNOR QUESTIONS GOVERNMENT'S [...] (U) This is a PRT Al Anbar cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Al Anbar Governor Ma'moun Sami Rasheed Al- Awani told MNF-W Deputy Commanding General and Al Anbar PolOff August 21 that central government officials appeared to want to sideline the province. The lack of sustained financial resources prov [...] | 2006-09-19 06:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3505 | PRT BAGHDAD: IRAQI POLICE PERCEPTION OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In furtherance of Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) operations, PRT officers visited seven police stations in BSP focus areas in September. Our conversations with senior police officials revealed that police officers believe or want us to believe that BSP focus area residents lack co [...] | 2006-09-19 12:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS MCAP PGOV PINR PTER PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3506 | PM,S OFFICE NOTES PROBLEMS WITH THE ANTI-CORRUPION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting on September 14 with the State Department Inspector General, Charge, and EconCouns, the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff remarked corruption is equal to the dangers of terrorism, and asked for U.S. assistance to solve Iraq,s corruption problem. He noted the contro [...] | 2006-09-19 12:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCOR PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD351 | CONTINUING TO REACH OUT TO THE SUNNIS: DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a follow-up meeting on January 30, 2006, the Ambassador met with Sheikh Khamis Hawaz al-Sidiq, a former Iraqi Army Major General from Hillah and senior Shammar tribal figure. Sidiq criticized the US for depending on expatriate Iraqis when it launched the war, and he defended [...] | 2006-02-06 15:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3512 | AL-ATTIYA AND SCIRI REPRESENTATIVE DESCRIBE UIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: CoR Deputy Speaker Khalid Al-Attiya and SCIRI MP Ridha Jawad Taqi told PolCouns in separate meetings on September 18 that UIC (with the exception of the Sadrists) was determined to have the first reading of the region formation law on September 19. (Note: It did not take place [...] | 2006-09-19 18:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3515 | SADRIST MPS LEAD TIRADE AGAINST MNF-I: SPEAKING TO [...] (U) A Sadrist-led tirade against MNF-I dominated the September 19 session of the Council of Representatives (CoR). Quickly diverting from the legislative agenda, CoR Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani read a short press release from his office in which he "strongly denounced a raid by U.S. forces on t [...] | 2006-09-20 09:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3516 | MINISTER OF ELECTRICITY KARIM WAHID HASAN ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-20 10:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PBIO PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD352 | DE-BAATHIFICATION AND THE IRAQI HIGH TRIBUNAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: On February 4, 2006, Ambassador and Regime Crimes Liaison Kevin Dooley met with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi to discuss how the January 18, 2006 order of the High National Commission of De-Ba'athification (HNCD) - which declared Judge Sa'eed Mousa Alhamash as subject [...] | 2006-02-06 15:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3529 | NO FINAL AGREEMENT REACHED ON FEDERALISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to CoR contacts, the political bloc leaders meeting held late on September 18 ended with a "compromise deal" of sorts. Under this Kurdish-proposed agreement, all sides concurred that the first reading of the regions formation law be postponed for a number of days. In [...] | 2006-09-20 17:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3534 | REGIONS LAW ACTION NOW SET FOR SEPTEMBER 24 [...] (C) CoR Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashadani announced to the CoR September 20 that the parliamentary bloc leaders had agreed to delay action on the region formation law until September 24. The agreement states that "we agreed on how to deal with these issues, among them the draft law on region form [...] | 2006-09-21 05:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3535 | CIVIL SOCIETY NATIONAL RECONCILLIATION CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The second of four national reconciliation conferences was held in Baghdad September 16-17. The conference, organized by the Ministries of State for National Dialogue and Civil Society Affairs, focused on the importance of civil society organizations in national reconciliation. [...] | 2006-09-21 05:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD3539 | NINEQA: TURKISH CG BOTSALI VISIT TO MOSUL 19-20 [...] (SBU) Turkish Consul General for Mosul Huseyn Avni Botsali visited Mosul 19-20 Sep. While this visit was scheduled primarily to initiate contractor work to harden and rehabilitate the Consulate's facilities in Mosul, he held productive discussions on future GOT-Coalition economic and governa [...] | 2006-09-21 13:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL ECON EAID MARR PREF TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD3543 | TURKISH AMBASSADOR TELLS CHARGE: IRAQ MUST DO MORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 20 meeting with the Turkish Ambassador to Iraq Unal Cevikoz, Charge gave Cevikoz a readout of U.S. Special Envoy for Countering the PKK General (Ret.) Joseph Ralston's September 14-15 meetings in Iraq to prepare for the upcoming visit to Washington by Turkish Prime [...] | 2006-09-22 12:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD3545 | IRAQI OFFICIAL BETRAYS U.S. CONFIDENCE TO IRAN [...] (S/NOFORN) SUMMARY: It appears that Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials may be passing to Baghdad-based Iranian interlocutors' detailed and largely accurate accounts of conversations between U.S. diplomats and Iraqi Government officials. However, ORA cautions that insufficient evidenc [...] | 2006-09-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM PINS PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3550 | IRAQ AGAIN FACING KEROSENE SHORTAGE IN WINTER [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-24 06:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IR IZ TK |
06BAGHDAD3553 | SEPTEMBER 17 MEETING OF THE MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: -- Casualty Figures: The GOI agrees to establish a single point of contact for casualty numbers. -- The PM's Visit to Iran: The Prime Minister reported the he had raised Iranian support for anti-GOI groups during his recent visit to Tehran. Iran agreed to stop providing [...] | 2006-09-24 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | IZ PGOV PREL PTER PINS MOPS |
06BAGHDAD3555 | SEPTEMBER 17 MEETING OF THE MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: -- Casualty Figures: The GOI agrees to establish a single point of contact for casualty numbers. -- The PM's Visit to Iran: The Prime Minister reported the he had raised Iranian support for anti-GOI groups during his recent visit to Tehran. Iran agreed to stop providing [...] | 2006-09-24 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | IZ PGOV PREL PTER PINS MOPS |
06BAGHDAD3558 | MINISTER BOLANI TELLS CODEL BURR OF MOI REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Iraqi Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani's September 9 discussions with CODEL Burr, he highlighted the success of the Baghdad Security Plan and explained his efforts to reform the corrupt Ministry of Interior (MOI). Bolani said the MOI's efforts to "win the Iraqi people [...] | 2006-09-24 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD356 | ELECTORAL PANEL TO START FINAL DELIBERATIONS [...] (C) Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) UN International Commissioner Craig Jenness and UN Legal Adviser to the IECI Jose Maria Aranaz told poloffs February 5 that the final court decisions on the appeals could be completed as early as February 8. Aranaz explained that the Transit [...] | 2006-02-06 19:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD357 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: SHAHRISTANI SAYS GAP [...] (C) Shia Independent PM candidate Shahristani told visiting DAS Godec February 6 that the gap has narrowed considerably in UIA 555 discussion on PM candidates. Both Shahristani and Shia Independent Sami al-Askari told us February 6 that the Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555) would put the mat [...] | 2006-02-06 20:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PNAT |
06BAGHDAD3574 | SISTANI STAYS SILENT BUT REMAINS INFLUENTIAL ON [...] (SBU) As debate over federalism dominates political conversations throughout Iraq, Shia politicians frequently claim that Ayatollah Sistani supports their point of view, even though Sistani has not issued a public statement on the issue. Moqtada al Sadr reportedly has made his support for a la [...] | 2006-09-25 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3587 | SEPTEMBER 24 MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: At the September 24 meeting of the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS),participants described their efforts to consolidate and check casualty figures, discussed the need to have combined MoD/MoI checkpoints, and heard about initial plans to bring Facility Prote [...] | 2006-09-25 19:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | IZ PREL PGOV PTER PINS MOPS |
06BAGHDAD3589 | IRAQI VP BRIEFS CHARGE ON REGIONAL TRIP, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Charge on September 23 that his recent trip to the UAE and Saudi Arabia was successful, with leaders of both countries praising Prime Minister Maliki and affirming their support for his government. Abdel Mehdi welcomed U.S. efforts to re [...] | 2006-09-25 19:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD359 | CHALABI BULLISH ON FUEL PRICING, DOWNCAST ON [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Chalabi told the Ambassador on February 5 that a letter issued by PM Ja'fari empowering Chalabi to oversee fuel supplies to Baghdad was wholly inadequate to the task of restoring domestic refined product supplies and exports. The Ambassador foll [...] | 2006-02-07 10:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER |
06BAGHDAD36 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-05 03:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
06BAGHDAD360 | TRIAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN - SESSION 9 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ninth session of the Ad-Dujayl trial was delayed on February 1 as five of the eight defendants refused to comply with the Court's order to appear before it. After only three defendants complied, the Court heard testimony from two complainants and three witnesses. The defen [...] | 2006-02-07 10:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3601 | PRICES RISE IN AUGUST BY 15.1 PERCENT [...] (SBU) Iraq's consumer price index (CPI) increased 15.1% in August, and the year-on-year increase reached 76.6%. The increase is largely driven by rising prices in the categories of Fuel/electricity (57.8%) and Transport/communication (20.8%). GOI's Central Office of Statistics and Information [...] | 2006-09-26 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN IZ |
06BAGHDAD3609 | IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT AL-HASHEMI REVIEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice President Tariq Al-Hashemi discussed federalism and constitutional review with the Ambassador on September 25, agreeing on the need for a broad consensus on these and related issues. He was optimistic about efforts being made to improve security in Anbar and Diyala but cau [...] | 2006-09-27 09:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3610 | INDEPENDENT IRAQI SHI'A MP DISCUSSES FEDERALISM, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Independent Council of Representatives (CoR) Shia coalition (UIC) member Qassim Daoud told the Charge on September 23 that the role of the central government needed to be strengthened and that region formation should be delayed until the appropriate capacities are in place. He [...] | 2006-09-27 09:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD362 | DPM CHALABI: 6000 MEGAWATTS BY SUMMER [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Chalabi told the Ambassador February 4 that, as deputy to Prime Minister Ja'fari in the newly-created Electricity Committee, he intends to see power generation reach 6,000 MW by the summer of 2006. PM Ja'fari is "not engaged" on energy issues, C [...] | 2006-02-07 11:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3626 | IRAQ'S COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES APPROVES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Iraq,s Council of Representatives (CoR) approved the membership of the Constitution Review Committee (CRC) and conducted the first reading of the region formation law September 26, despite efforts by members of Sunni parties Hewar and National Dialogue Council to disrupt the r [...] | 2006-09-27 19:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3628 | IRAQ'S COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES APPROVES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR) approved the membership of the Constitution Review Committee (CRC) and conducted the first reading of the region formation law September 26, despite efforts by members of Sunni parties Hewar and National Dialogue Council to disrupt the r [...] | 2006-09-28 05:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3629 | IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT ABDEL MEHDI UPDATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on September 25 that a modified version of the Shi'a coalition's (UIC's) draft law on region formation would be read on September 26 according to a September 24 agreement between parliamentary bloc leaders (septel). He said tha [...] | 2006-09-28 06:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3653 | SHAHRISTANI ON THE HYDROCARBON LAW - THE WAY AHEAD [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met September 28 with Oil Minister Shahristani to discuss the status of the Hydrocarbon Law. Shahristani confirmed that broad agreement has been reached on most elements, and felt that especially with U.S. help, the Kurds could be convinced to reach agreement on the rem [...] | 2006-09-29 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ KJUS KCOR PGOV EINV PBTS |
06BAGHDAD3654 | AMBASSADDOR'S 9/27 MEETING WITH DPM BARHAM SALIH - [...] ( C) Summary: Ambassador met September 27 with Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih to discuss prospects for the hydrocarbon law. Barham expressed optimism that a compromise could be reached, confirming the main issue was regional vs. central control of contracting, with the DPM taking the posi [...] | 2006-09-29 15:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ KJUS KCOR PGOV EINV PBTS |
06BAGHDAD3655 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR [...] (C) Summary: Chair of the Finance Committee at the Council of Representatives, Mr. Ayad Al-Samarai described committee priorities, interests, and training needs with Emboffs on September 26th 2006. Mr. Al-Samarai, a leading member of the Iraqi Islamic Party (Tawafuq),welcomes USG advice and [...] | 2006-09-30 05:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3666 | BAGHDAD'S AL BAYAA POLICE STATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 19 Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) officials revisited the Al Bayaa Police Station in Baghdad. Overall conditions at the police station have improved compared to two months ago, but major problems with trash buildup and vehicle maintenance remain. Rec [...] | 2006-10-01 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PTER |
06BAGHDAD3684 | KURD TERRITORIAL AMBITIONS AND PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurd political leadership in Ninewa are focused on reintegrating districts in Ninewa formerly part of Kurd-dominated provinces into the KRG, through referenda per Article 140 of the current GOI Constitution. This process as Kurds envision it would [...] | 2006-10-03 08:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PHUM |
06BAGHDAD3688 | OCTOBER 1 MCNS MEETING: INTERNATIONAL ZONE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The October 1 meeting of the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on potential security threats to Baghdad's International Zone (IZ),resulting in a decision to search all people entering the IZ with potentially compromised blue security badges. MNF-I Comm [...] | 2006-10-03 12:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINS PGOV MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3689 | STATE MINISTER CRITICAL OF COUNCIL OF [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation with EmbOffs September 27, the Shiite Minister of State for Council of Representatives (CoR) Affairs Safa al-Safi was critical of the CoR for infringing on executive functions and often acting in ignorance of the Constitution and its own bylaws. He [...] | 2006-10-03 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3691 | IRAQI VP HASHIMI HAILS CROSS-SECTARIAN MEETINGS; [...] (C) Summary: During an October 2 meeting with CODEL Warner, Iraqi Sunni Vice President Hashimi gave a read-out of the previous evening,s cross-sectarian meeting organized by PM Maliki to deal with Iraq,s militia problem. For the first time, Hashimi said, Shiite Itilaf interlocutors spoke &fr [...] | 2006-10-03 15:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3693 | POLITICAL LEADERSHIP WELCOMES MALIKI PEACE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The four-point agreement signed October 2 by representatives of all the main Sunni and Shia political groups pledging to end militia violence was met with optimism by most national-level GOI contacts poloffs spoke to. Some Sunni political leaders noted that while the [...] | 2006-10-03 19:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3698 | SADR CITY COUNCIL MEMBER COMPLAINS ABOUT GROWING [...] (C) Summary. In a September 26 meeting, Baghdad's Sadr City District Advisory Council (DAC) member Dr. Haider Jabr Zedan told EmbOffs that he was facing increasing pressure to become a member of the Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM). Having refused several overtures, Dr. Haider claimed that he had receive [...] | 2006-10-04 08:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ KDEM |
06BAGHDAD3724 | PESHMERGA TRANSFORMATION TALKS [...] (S/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: On September 26, the Government of Iraq and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) held the second in a planned series of meetings to transform the Peshmerga into a unified regional force consistent with Iraq's constitution and federal law. Neither side presented a clea [...] | 2006-10-07 15:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD3725 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DE-BAATHIFICATION AND OTHER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Khalilzad met October 2 with Ahmet Chalabi, who chairs Iraq's Higher National De-Baathification Commission (HNDBC). Chalabi appeared open to de-Baathification reforms such as redrafting de-Baathification guidelines and granting some mid-level ex-Baathists pensions an [...] | 2006-10-07 17:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3726 | IRAQI MINISTER DISCUSSES MILITIA DISARMAMENT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Shiite State Minister Safa a-Safi, the GOI's point person for drafting a militia disarmament plan, the definition of "militia" will be crucial. Al-Safi links progress on the militia issue to political will on all sides - but he shows signs of sectarian bias. END S [...] | 2006-10-07 18:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3727 | IRAQI PRIME MINISTER UPBEAT TO CODEL FRIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: While not downplaying the security challenge facing Iraq, Prime Minister Maliki gave an upbeat assessment to CODEL Frist. He hailed the four point agreement announced October 2 (reftel) as a genuine effort by diverse political parties to work together on security and said that [...] | 2006-10-07 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3728 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES IRAQI PARLIAMENT SPEAKER [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador told the Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Dr. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani October 3 that the Policy Committee on National Security (PCNS) should review the timelines for dealing with the tough national issues (e.g., de-Baathification, amnesty, hydrocarbons [...] | 2006-10-08 07:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3730 | SCIRI LEADER RAISES SECURITY CONCERNS WITH [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph seven. 2. (C) SUMMARY: SCIRI leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim agreed with the Ambassador on the need to move forward and bring closure on key outstanding issues such as federalism, oil, constitutional review, and militias. Al-Hakim noted th [...] | 2006-10-08 11:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3733 | AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Australian Ambassador to Iraq Marc Innes-Brown asked the DCM if the U.S. would be able to help transport Australian nationals from the International Zone (IZ) to Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) in the event of a "worst-case scenario" emergency. He also informed the DCM of [...] | 2006-10-08 15:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3734 | IRAQ RESPONSE TO POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-08 16:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KN PARM KNNP IZ |
06BAGHDAD3735 | IRAQ SUPPORTS GUATEMALA'S BID FOR UNSC MEMBERSHIP [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-08 16:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA IZ GT VE |
06BAGHDAD3738 | LEAHY IN IRAQ [...] (U) Restated questions from Ref A para 7 followed by Post's answers. ---------- QUESTION A ---------- 2. (SBU) What measures have Post or MNF-I taken to prevent human rights abusers from receiving U.S. security assistance and to improve the human rights record of units receiving U.S. a [...] | 2006-10-09 08:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PHUM PINS MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3739 | ANBAR GOVERNOR CITES POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-09 09:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD374 | SHARIA COURTS UNDERMINE EFFORTS TO REBUILD IRA [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate conversations on January 22, 23, and 24, Shia imam Sheikh Ayad al-Ekabi and Sadr City District Advisory Council (DAC) members Ali Suadi and Mustafa Jasim told PolOff and Pol/FSN about extra- judicial sharia courts operating in Sadr City and other parts of Baghdad, and [...] | 2006-02-07 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PTER IZ KDEM KWMN |
06BAGHDAD375 | ECONOMIC-REFORM PUBLIC EDUCATION: PUSHING FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The joint Economic-Reform Public Education Working Group (PWG) agreed February 5 that final messages and delivery strategies for a short-term public-education campaign on economic reform and anti-corruption efforts -- to include fuel price increases -- must be complete by Febr [...] | 2006-02-07 14:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET KPAO PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3757 | OCTOBER 8 MCNS: REFORM ON THE MIND [...] (S/REL UK) SUMMARY: In the October 8 meeting of the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS),PM Maliki expressed his frustration with the current MCNS process, arguing that it should be more focused on decision making. MCNS members agreed that MOI and MOD reform was a priority, inclu [...] | 2006-10-10 15:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3760 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH IRAQI ANTI-PKK COORDINATOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met on October 8 with Iraqi State Minister for National Security Shirwan Wa'ili, the GOI's counterpart to Special Envoy Ralston in the trilateral U.S./Iraq/Turkey anti-PKK efforts. Wa'ili is in the process of gathering information and talking to the various actors [...] | 2006-10-10 20:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD3761 | DCM URGES FIJIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE COALITION [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: During his October 6 meeting with Fijian Home Affairs Minister Vosanibola, DCM urged Fiji to join the Multinational Coalition in Iraq. When Vosanibola asked about the possibility of a visit to Fiji by President Bush, the DCM promised to refer the question to Washington. The DC [...] | 2006-10-10 21:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | IZ FJ MOPS PREL PGOV |
06BAGHDAD3762 | CODEL REED ADVISES MOI THAT TIME IS RUNNING OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During their October 8 meeting with Minister of Interior Jawad Bolani, Senators Reed and Durbin, accompanied by Ambassador Khalilzad, shared their concerns over sectarian strife and the growing violence in Iraq. Bolani attempted to shift blame from his ministry to others, critici [...] | 2006-10-11 03:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS PREL IZ PTER |
06BAGHDAD3774 | PLANS TO IMPROVE GOI BUDGET EXECUTION [...] (C) On October 7 the Ambassador discussed budget execution issues with Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Finance Minister Bayan Jabr at the DPM's initiative. Barham Salih made clear that he is determined to improve not just budget implementation but the overall budgeting process and its [...] | 2006-10-11 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV ENRG PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3788 | FINDING THIRD COUNTRY RESETTLEMENT FOR MEK [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-11 16:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3789 | REGION FORMATION LAW PASSES AFTER LAST-MINUTE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Council of Representatives (CoR) passed the region formation law October 11. While it seemed initially that quorum would not be reached, vigorous side negotiations between parliamentary party leaders led to changes in the text that brought some Iraqiyya members back into ses [...] | 2006-10-11 19:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3790 | IRAQI MOI SAYS INVESTIGATION INTO SITE 4 COMPLETE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the DCM, Minister of Interior Bolani said he had just finished his investigation of the people implicated in the abuses at Site 4. He promised to inform us of the results before announcing them publicly on October 12. He noted that as a result of the investi [...] | 2006-10-12 04:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3792 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN PROGRESS IN MANSOUR DISTRICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Civil affairs construction teams and the Mansour District Advisory Council (DAC) have reported signs of success in the two Baghdad Security Plan Special Focus Areas located in the Mansour District. Trash pick up in the Ameriya Focus Area is 65% complete and the neighborhood's res [...] | 2006-10-12 09:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PTER |
06BAGHDAD3794 | ATTACKS ON SHIA AREA DISPLACE 850 FAMILIES INTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MoDM) officials told RefCoord on October 10 that mortar and terrorist attacks against the mostly Shia area of Saba'a Al-Boor have resulted in the sudden displacement of 850 families (approximately 5,100 individuals, at six persons per famil [...] | 2006-10-12 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL PREF |
06BAGHDAD3795 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER ON MEDIA BAN, POLICE FORCES, [...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging discussion with EmbOffs October 7, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Mikhail Salim confirmed that the Council of Minister's (CoM) ban on al-Arabia television station had been lifted October 6. In her discussion of the October 5 CoM meeting, Minister Wijdan complai [...] | 2006-10-12 15:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3796 | IRAQI MP AND ADVISOR TO PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sami al-Askari, Council of Representatives (CoR) member and confidante of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the Ambassador that the leaders who signed the Ramadan agreement had agreed on members for the central committee and had begun to discuss the issue of checkpoints. The Amb [...] | 2006-10-12 18:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3797 | GOI PASSES INVESTMENT LAW [...] (C)) Summary. The Council of Representatives (CoR) passed the GOI investment law on October 10. Next steps include approval by the Presidency Council and publishing the law in the Official Gazette. Implementing regulations will also need to be drafted. The GOI investment law was debated v [...] | 2006-10-12 18:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PREL PGOV JO IZ |
06BAGHDAD3806 | ARTICLE 140 COMMITTEE MEMBERS UPDATE ON CURRENT [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with PRT Kirkuk officers and Emboff, Baghdad-based Article 140 Committee members explained the Committee,s current structure and efforts taken to finish Kirkuk,s "normalization." Basic questions including funding, Kirkuk,s boundaries, and who will participate in the [...] | 2006-10-13 10:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3807 | MFA DISAPPOINTED WITH TURKEY ON MAKHMOUR [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Mohammad Hamoud has agreed to meet in Baghdad with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) to discuss the future of the Makhmour refugee camp. Hamoud lamented that the Turkish Em [...] | 2006-10-13 10:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL PREF TU |
06BAGHDAD3808 | CHAIR OF SECURITY AND DEFENSE COMMITTEE OUTLINES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chair of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Committee on Security and Defense Hadi Al-Amri said that the Policy Council on National Security (PCNS) has decided that the Iraqi government needs a mandate from the CoR in order to request an extension of UN Security Council Resolut [...] | 2006-10-13 11:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3812 | PRIME MINISTER SEEKS ADVISOR'S HELP IN [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Mehdi Hafedh, Member of the Council of Representatives (CoR),has been asked by Prime Minister al Maliki to work on accelerating the pace of economic reform. Dr. Hafedh also discussed the investment law and the international compact, considering both good steps forward. End Su [...] | 2006-10-13 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD382 | SUNNI LEADERS TELL DAS GODEC VIOLENCE MUST STOP [...] (C) NEA DAS Robert Godec met on February 6 with key leaders from the Sunni Tawaffuq coalition at the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) headquarters. Dr. Adnan Dulaymi, Tarik al-Hashimi, Sheykh Khalaf Al-Ayan and Professor Hassan Bazzaz told DAS Godec that the security situation is their main concern. [...] | 2006-02-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PTER PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3827 | IRAQI GOVERNMENT ANBAR TRIBES CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives from Anbar tribes gathered with local and national government officials October 7 in Baghdad to pledge cooperation in restoring security and promoting economic development in the heavily-Sunni province. Conference participants highlighted mounting frustrations [...] | 2006-10-15 06:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD383 | NEW SCIRI PARLIAMENTARIANS TALK ABOUT MOI, [...] (C) Summary. In a February 6 introductory meeting, two newly-elected SCIRI parliamentarians rejected Sunni complaints about MOI abuses and stated that Minister of Interior (SCIRI) Bayan Jabr is doing an excellent job. They added that the Shia Coalition will insist on retaining the MOI in g [...] | 2006-02-08 08:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR PINS PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3835 | VP HASHIMI AND SUNNI ARABS BATTLE FOR A PLACE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During recent meetings with the Ambassador, Sunni Arab VP Tariq Al-Hashimi has taken a more upbeat tone when discussing the political process and prospects for cooperation with other players. This is a significant change from Hashimi's tenor during August and early September, wher [...] | 2006-10-15 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3858 | AMBASSADOR AND GENERAL CASEY URGE PM MALIKI TO ACT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: During an October 14 meeting, Ambassador Khalilzad and MNF-I Commanding General George Casey urged PM Maliki to take decisive political and military steps to curb ethno-sectarian violence. Maliki pushed back against the use of military force, arguing that three years of Coali [...] | 2006-10-16 11:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3861 | IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIAN ON IRAQIYYA PARTY PROBLEMS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 13 meeting, parliamentarian and secular cross-sectarian Iraqiyya party member Maysoon Al-Damluji told the Ambassador that Hameed Mousa, acting as the head of Iraqiyya, had defied Ayad Allawi's instructions to boycott the key October 11 region formation law vote. The [...] | 2006-10-16 11:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KWMN PGOV PHUM |
06BAGHDAD3863 | IRAQI SHIITE PARLIAMENTARIAN ON EFFORTS TO EASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Humam Hamoudi, one of the leading Council of Representatives members from the Shiite Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI),told the Ambassador that Sunni Arab leaders in neighboring countries are beginning to understand that the Iraqi Shi'a did not want to divi [...] | 2006-10-16 11:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3866 | PM DISCUSSES KURDS, SECURITY WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 10 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki highlighted increasing tensions between Kurds and Sunni Arabs in Kirkuk and Mosul. The next Presidency Council will discuss UNSCR 1546 and the current security situation in Baghdad. Finally, he noted the [...] | 2006-10-16 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3874 | ANBAR GOVERNOR CITES POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-16 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD3875 | ANBAR GOVERNOR CITES POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS ON [...] (U) This is an Anbar PRT cable. 2. (C) Summary: Recent meetings between GOI and Anbar officials suggest progress in cooperation between the national and provincial leadership. MNF-I and PRT leadership attended a meeting where Anbar Governor Ma'amoun Sami Rasheed Al-Awani gave a readout o [...] | 2006-10-16 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD390 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: JABIRI PUSHES FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fadhila Party leader Nadim al-Jabiri told the Ambassador February 7 that he plans to push off the Shia alliance vote on the premiership until February 10. Jabiri said that he is convinced that Iraq is heading toward anarchy, not democracy, and that he believes that the nomination [...] | 2006-02-09 03:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3900 | DAWA STRATEGIST ON PARTY'S SUPPORT FOR FEDERALISM [...] (C) Falih al-Fiyadh, Council of Representatives (CoR) member and Dawa party strategist, told PolOff on October 16 that the Dawa party supported SCIRI in its drive to pass a regions formation law (reftel) because the party supports the principle of federalism and wanted to respect the constitu [...] | 2006-10-17 16:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3901 | IRAQI LEADERS DEBATE EXTENSION OF UNSCR MANDATE ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on October 16, President Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih informed the Ambassador that the second session of the extended Policy Committee on National Security (PCNS) meeting focused almost exclusively on the question of whether to extend the UN [...] | 2006-10-17 17:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD391 | FM ZEBARI UPDATES DAS GODEC ON REGIONAL RELATIONS [...] (C) In a February 6 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told DAS Robert Godec and PolCouns that several ambassadorial assignments await the PM's approval. "We are all like planes in a holding pattern waiting to land," commented Deputy Foreign Minister for Bilateral Relations Hamid al-Bay [...] | 2006-02-09 08:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD3912 | REQUEST TO USE BASRAH UN BUILDINGS [...] (C) Summary: In his October 18 meeting with United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General for Iraq, Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, the Charge requested permission to allow Basrah's Regional Embassy Office staff to use UN Buildings on humanitarian grounds. Ambassador Qazi s [...] | 2006-10-18 18:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER AMGT IZ |
06BAGHDAD3913 | GOI RELEASES FUEL IMPORT REGULATIONS [...] (U) This message is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) The Ministry of Oil published regulations for the Fuel Import Liberalization Law (FILL) in Iraqi newspapers on October 12. The regulations, translated below, are unclear, self-contradictory, and unlikely to attract majo [...] | 2006-10-19 03:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV ECON PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3926 | PRESIDENT TALABANI REPORTS ON POSSIBLE CHANGES TO [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a meeting on October 16, President Talabani informed the Ambassador that the Presidency Council (PC) - Talabani, Sunni Arab Vice President Tarik al-Hashimi, and Shia Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi - had met that day and agreed to bring their respective parties together to w [...] | 2006-10-20 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV FR IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD3927 | TALABANI, AMBASSADOR DISCUSS PCNS, SYRIA, PUK [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a meeting on October 14, President Talabani informed the Ambassador that the Policy Committee on National Security (PCNS) met that day to discuss pressing security and political issues, and had resolved to keep its session open until the key issues have been resolved. Although [...] | 2006-10-20 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ |
06BAGHDAD3928 | NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR RUBAIE ON DDR [...] (S) SUMMARY: National Security Advisor Muwafak al-Rubaie told MNF-I and Emboffs on October 14 that Prime Minister Maliki has mandated a new committee to address security sector reform and DDR issues. The committee has been charged with producing a report with recommendations on security sect [...] | 2006-10-20 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD393 | IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY SEEKS USG ASSISTANCE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Members of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) Human Rights Committee lodged complaints January 28 about the alleged abuse of human rights of MOI and MOD detainees. IIP presented to EmbOffs lists of detainees held by MNF-I, Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior. The IIP Committ [...] | 2006-02-09 08:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3936 | GOI AND KRG TO STUDY UNHCR MAKHMOUR CLEAN-UP PLAN [...] (C) Summary: Government of Iraq and Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) representatives agreed only to study the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) plan to expel the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from the Makhmour refugee camp in order to restore its civilian character and [...] | 2006-10-20 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV IZ TU |
06BAGHDAD3946 | PRT TIKRIT: SCENE SETTER FOR SALAH AD DIN PROVINCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) INTRODUCTION. Salah ad Din province, best known as Saddam's homeland and the Sunni heartland of Iraq, is struggling to find a new political identity and economic vigor in a free Iraq. Believing themselves to suffer unfairly from assum [...] | 2006-10-21 06:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PINR EAID IZ |
06BAGHDAD3947 | PRT TIKRIT: WHERE IS THE RECONCILIATION? [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din (SaD) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In the wake of the province's first major episode of sectarian violence, provincial leaders held on October 19 a reconciliation meeting for Sunni and Shia tribal sheikhs, where sectarian violence was strongly denounced by [...] | 2006-10-21 06:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3952 | OCTOBER 15 MCNS MEETING: MORE ON MOI/MOD REFORM [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On October 15, the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) was briefed on the results of the first meeting of a ministerial committee to reform the ministries of Defense and Interior, as well as the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS). The PM has given the com [...] | 2006-10-21 15:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3957 | US SPECIAL ENVOY FOR COUNTERING PKK IN BAGHDAD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings in Baghdad on October 18, U.S. Special Envoy for Countering the PKK General (R) Joseph Ralston discussed the ongoing PKK issue with President Talabani, Foreign Minister Zebari, Iraqi PKK Coordinator Shirwan al-Wa'ili, and UN High Commission for Refugees [...] | 2006-10-22 07:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD3958 | NINEWA: ASSYRIAN PATRIARCH VISIT AND PROPOSAL FOR [...] (C) The Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East and his primary non-clerical interlocutor in Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Finance and leading Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) member Sarkis Aghajan Mamando 'Sarkesi', concur that Assyrian Christians enjoy unprecede [...] | 2006-10-22 08:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL PHUM PREF PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD396 | SHIA INDEPENDENT: WHO WILL DEFEND IRAQ WHEN U.S. [...] (C) Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555) independent parliamentarian Sami al-Askari asked PolOff in a February 6 meeting, "Who will defend Iraq after coalition forces (CF) leave?" Al-Askari said he is concerned that the U.S. will withdraw its forces soon because of its domestic political situat [...] | 2006-02-09 12:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PINS PREL IZ IR |
06BAGHDAD3964 | DE-BAATH REFORM LEGISLATION MOVING FORWARD [...] (C/REL UK) SUMMARY. The Higher National De-Baathification Commission (HNDBC) has been working on draft reform legislation since August, and Chairman Ahmed Chalabi recently passed the updated version to the Ambassador for review. The draft law contains few substantive changes from the previous [...] | 2006-10-22 18:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KJUS PGOV |
06BAGHDAD3965 | IRAQI DEPUTY MINISTERS COMMENT ON SITE 4 [...] (C) As reported previously, Minister of Interior Bolani formed three committees to investigate the cases of the 52 policemen for whom arrest warrants were issued in connection with the abuses at the former detention facility known as Site 4. These policemen include Major General Mahdi Sobiah, [...] | 2006-10-22 18:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3966 | PRESIDENT TALABANI, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SALIH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdish President Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Salih are critical of what they claim is GOI pressure on judges in the Saddam trial to impose the death penalty, which Kurds oppose before all Saddam's trials are complete. END SUMMARY. -------------------- Alleged GOI Pres [...] | 2006-10-22 18:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD397 | BADR CORPS TELLS GEN. CASEY IT SUPPORTS HUMAN [...] (C) Badr Organization General Secretary Hadi al-Amari, Badr Organization Deputy Secretary for Protection Tahsin al-Azawi, and SCIRI parliamentarian Sheikh Dhiya al- Fayyad told MNF-I Commanding General Casey and PolCouns in a February 7 meeting that the Badr Organization fully supports human r [...] | 2006-02-09 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL IZ IR |
06BAGHDAD3971 | IRAQI MP GIVES SHI'A NARRATIVE OF DIYALA'S [...] (C) Summary: According to Diyala native and Council of Representatives (CoR) member Taha Der'a al-Saadi (Shi'a coalition independent),nascent cross-sectarian security cooperation in Iraq's Diyala governorate has ended and Sunnis, with the help of local offcials, are actively seeking to expe [...] | 2006-10-23 07:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINS PREL |
06BAGHDAD3975 | BAGHDAD,S RASHID DISTRICT ADVISORY COUNCIL REPORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRT Baghdad Iraq Provincial Action Officer (IPAO) met with Rashid District Advisory Council (DAC) Chairman Sabeeh Radhy Kaaby and attended the weekly DAC meeting there on 18 October. Both the Chairman and the broader membership expressed deep frustration over the deteriorating s [...] | 2006-10-23 09:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD3980 | PESHMERGA PERSPECTIVE ON US SUPPORT [...] (U) This is a PRT-Erbil cable, and the first of four from this source. 2. (C) Omar Othman (knows as Za'im Ali),the Kurdistan Regional Government's Minister of Peshmerga (KDP - Kurdistan (for consistency purposes only) Democratic Party) met Erbil IPAO to clarify Peshmerga and party views o [...] | 2006-10-23 12:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD3985 | IRAQI GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS BLAME PRIME MINISTER'S [...] (S) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on October 16 with President Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, both assured the Ambassador that the third National Reconciliation Conference for Political Party leaders was "indefinitely postponed," rather than cancelled outright. Both Talaban [...] | 2006-10-23 19:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD3986 | IRAQI DEPUTY MOI SAYS INVESTIGATIONS COMPLETE [...] (C) On October 21 Deputy Minister of Interior for Security Ayden told us that the three committees formed by Minister of Interior Bolani to investigate Site 4 had finished their work and had recommended that most of the arrest warrants issued by an Iraqi investigative judge be issued. (As repo [...] | 2006-10-23 19:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD3988 | HOW MINOIL DEVELOPED THE FUEL IMPORT REGULATIONS [...] (C) Conversations with a key Ministry of Oil (MinOil) official indicate that there was a truncated process with no outside consultations during the drafting of the Fuel Import Liberalization Law Regulations published by the MinOil on October 12 (reftel). Longtime MinOil official and current D [...] | 2006-10-24 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ENRG PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD3989 | KRG OPENS NEW REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: Dilshad Miran, the head of the newly established Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Representation Office in Baghdad, met with PolCouns October 10 to discuss the origins and planned agenda of his new office and its relation with the federal ministries, Peshmerga integration, and [...] | 2006-10-24 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD399 | CODEL SHAYS MEETS WITH IRAQI INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS [...] (C) On February 4, Iraqi National Security Adviser (NSA) Muwafuq al-Rubaie, accompanied by representatives of Iraq's security services, briefed the CODEL Shays delegation on the overall structure of the intelligence and national security community in Iraq. The briefing began with a slideshow [...] | 2006-02-09 13:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINS PREL PTER |
06BAGHDAD3992 | PRT ANBAR: IRAQ DEPUTY NSA ON ANBAR [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary. Iraqi Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) Safa A. Hussein provided an analysis to Anbar PRT PolOff October 19 of recent developments in Anbar regarding reconciliation between the provincial government and the tribes. He expressed cautious optimism regarding the poss [...] | 2006-10-24 18:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KDEM PGOV PINS |
06BAGHDAD3994 | PRT ANBAR: ANBAR PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT AND TRIBES [...] (S/REL MCNI) Summary: MNF-W hosted an Iftar dinner October 17 for Anbar Governor Ma'amoun Sami Rasheed Al-Awani and prominent Anbar Sheikh Sattar Al- Rishawi to follow up on the reconciliation momentum generated from the previous joint meeting held October 10 (reftel). The atmospherics were [...] | 2006-10-25 10:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KDEM PGOV PINS |
06BAGHDAD400 | DPM REQUESTS ECONOMIC ADVICE ON AVIAN FLU RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary: EconMinCouns on February 8 accepted Deputy Prime Minister Rowsh Shaways's invitation to discuss Avian Influenza (AI) economic issues. EconMinCouns suggested to DPM Shaways that the current all-encompassing ban on poultry imports might encourage Iraqi farmers to sell questionable [...] | 2006-02-09 18:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD401 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: SHIA COALITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate February 8 conversations with PolOffs, two Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555) members expressed opposition to the proposed National Security Council. One of them, independent Taha Dera' al-Saadi, said that the entity would be anti- constitutional and could undermine [...] | 2006-02-09 18:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4016 | NINEWA: PENDING RELEASES OF FOREIGN INSURGENT [...] (C) Summary: Authorities at Ninewa's Badush Prison remain urgently concerned about the pending release of 150 foreign fighters, at least one of whom is an admitted al-Qaeda member. These prisoners have completed sentences and, absent other arrangements, will be released at the prison and ar [...] | 2006-10-27 11:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PTER KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4017 | NINEWA: IIP CHAIR ON ELECTIONS, DISPUTED [...] (C) In a recent meeting with Team Leader Knight and other PRT members, Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) Chair Dr. Mohammad Shakir indicated that they expect legislation to schedule provincial elections will be addressed by the Council of Representatives (COR) shortly after Ramadan. Shakir also indi [...] | 2006-10-27 11:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREF PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD402 | SHIA ISLAMIST PM CONTENDERS: NO PERFECT CANDIDATE [...] (S) SUMMARY: None of the contenders for the Shia Islamist Coalition's prime minister nominee is ideal, and we will need to convince whoever the nominee is to construct a good set of structural agreements and program plans to address Iraq's deep problems. SCIRI's Adil Abd' al-Mahdi appears to [...] | 2006-02-10 08:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4020 | IRAQ'S REGIONS FORMATION LAW: LESSONS LEARNED AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) passed on October 11 a law defining the executive procedures for forming regions (ref E). The law was extremely contentious: all Arab Sunni MPs boycotted the session where the vote took place, and some described the law as paving the [...] | 2006-10-29 03:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4023 | BAGHDAD'S KARADA DISTRICT SECURITY SITUATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 12 PolOff met with Abdulla Amir, Deputy Council Chairman and District Douncil Security Chairman in Karada, a relatively prosperous, predominantly Shia but mixed Baghdad district near the International Zone (IZ). Abdulla told PolOff that Jaish al Mahdi (JAM) militia me [...] | 2006-10-29 05:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PTER |
06BAGHDAD4029 | IRAQI PM SEEKS GREATER AUTHORITY BUT QUESTIONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the Ambassador that he wanted the power to command the movements of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF),arguing that he could not be asked to bear responsibility for security in Iraq without the having the appropriate authority. Saying he was r [...] | 2006-10-29 08:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD403 | IRAQI MINISTRIES AGREE -- AD REF -- ON [...] (SBU) Embassy Media Development Officer attended a February 6 meeting convened by Mohammed al-Asadi, director of the Government Communications Directorate (GCD),to continue discussions of a public "message" for government reductions in fuel subsidies. (Note: Messages would eventually encom [...] | 2006-02-10 08:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EFIN ECON KCOR KPAO OPRC IZ |
06BAGHDAD4042 | PRT TIKRIT INAUGURATION LEADS TO SECURITY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. After the Salah ad Din (SaD) PRT's October 12 inauguration ceremony, the Ambassador and MND-North CG Major General Mixon discussed security issues and reconciliation with SaD Governor Hamad Hamood al Shakti, Deputy Governor General Abdullah Al Jbarah, and Provincial Council Chair [...] | 2006-10-29 12:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4044 | MINOIL OFFICIAL DISCUSSES NATIONAL OIL POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The Director General of the State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) described the Iraqi constitution as "unworkable" for efficient management of the country's natural resources. Falah Al-Khawaja discussed the Kurdish law, current capital projects in the Kurdish region, and nationa [...] | 2006-10-29 13:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ENRG PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD405 | POLITICAL POWER - AND REVENUE - GRAB AT OIL [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: Dr. Musab al-Dujayli (strictly protect),Director General (DG) of the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO),asked the U.S. and UK embassies February 8 to intervene with the Prime Minister to prevent new Minister of Oil Hashem al-Hashimi from abrogating SOMO's curren [...] | 2006-02-10 14:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET KCOR PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4054 | AMBASSADOR AND DCM MEET WITH IRAQI NATIONAL [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador and DCM held a wide-ranging discussion with Iraqi National Security Advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaie immediately following the Ambassador's October 27 meeting with PM Maliki: - Rubaie portrayed the PM as under pressure, worried about failure, and without adequate staff to ad [...] | 2006-10-29 18:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS JO SA AEMR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4055 | PRT ERBIL: DEPUTY KNA SPEAKER KAMAL KIRKUKI ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Kamal Kirkuki, Deputy Speaker of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) and member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) told Erbil IPAO at his office October 18 that KRG control of Kirkuk is essential fo [...] | 2006-10-30 06:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD4056 | KURDISTAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ADNAN MUFTI ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Adnan Mufti , Speaker of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA),discussed the new investment law and relations with Iran and Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) during a meeting with Erbil IPAO at t [...] | 2006-10-30 06:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4057 | VP ADVISOR HANNAH, PRESIDENT TALABANI ASSESS THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging discussion on October 18, President Jalal Talabani and the Vice-President's National Security Advisor John Hannah discussed the internal political divisions both within the Sunni Arab groups and between the Shia, Sunni Arab, and Kurdish factions within the new [...] | 2006-10-30 06:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SY TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD4058 | PESHMERGA PERSPECTIVE ON US SUPPORT [...] (U) This is a PRT-Erbil cable, and the first of three from this source. 2. (C) Omar Othman (knows as Za'im Ali),the Kurdistan Regional Government's Minister of Peshmerga (KDP - Kurdistan Democratic Party) met Erbil IPAO to clarify Peshmerga and party views on Kurdish-U.S. relations, the P [...] | 2006-10-30 06:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4059 | KRG CONSTITUTION CHAIRMAN - PESHMERGA NEEDS ARMY WEAPONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Peshmerga with tanks and aircraft are necessary for KRG security, Farsat Ahmed (Secretary of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA),member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP),and Chair of the KNA Cons [...] | 2006-10-30 06:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ PREL |
06BAGHDAD406 | MESSAGE FOR THE SECRETARY: AGRIBUSINESS FUNDING [...] (SBU) I appreciate all the work you and the Department have done in getting a strong supplemental request for assistance to Iraq. It was good news to see that OMB had agreed to include the funding for national capacity development. 2. (SBU) I believe we are in good shape, with one exception [...] | 2006-02-10 14:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PINS ODIP OFDP PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD407 | RAIDS AND RANSOMS: UNIFORMED MEN SPREAD FEAR IN [...] (C) Summary: Residents of Al-Adhamiyah District in Baghdad told Poloff, February 8, that several organized raids had taken place over the past few months in which uniformed men had taken family members from their homes at night. Many of their family members, they said, were ransomed for releas [...] | 2006-02-10 15:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD409 | IECI ANNOUNCES CERTIFIED ELECTION RESULTS [...] (U) At a February 10 press conference, the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) formally announced the certification of results for the December 15 Council of Representatives elections. The press conference was called to order by IECI Chairman Izaddin Hindawi who thanked all contri [...] | 2006-02-10 18:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4093 | COR TAKES ITS TIME GETTING BACK IN SESSION [...] (C) On November 1 the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) was unable to achieve quorum for the second time this week. CoR members cited foreign travel, vehicle restrictions in Baghdad, and problems with flights from Suleiymania as the main reasons for the significant absences. Before offi [...] | 2006-11-01 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4094 | AL-BATHA MAYOR SEEKS DONOR SUPPORT [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Dhi Qar PRT and U.S. Army Civil Affairs (CA) personnel met with the Mayor of Al-Batha, a small town located approximately 15 KM from provincial capital, Al-Nasiriyah, on September 12 at the Mayor's office. The mayor, Mr. Ali Faad Al She [...] | 2006-11-01 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS ECON EZ |
06BAGHDAD4096 | SCIRI CHAIRMAN HAKIM DISCUSSES MISTAKES, MILITIAS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 17 meeting with National Security Advisor to the Vice President John Hannah and the Charge, Abdulaziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI),said that Iraq had realized significant achievements in the short time since its libe [...] | 2006-11-01 20:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4097 | IRAQI MP HUMAM HAMMOUDI CALLS FOR NATIONAL UNITY [...] (C) In an October 18 meeting with National Security Advisor to the Vice President John Hannah and the Charge, Humam Hammoudi, Council of Representatives (CoR) member and senior SCIRI politician, said that the current situation in Iraq required a national unity government, rather than one cente [...] | 2006-11-01 20:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4098 | IRAQI MINISTER DEFENDS EFFORTS ON SECURITY AND [...] (C) In an October 17 meeting with National Security Advisor to the Vice President John Hannah, and the Charge, Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr, defended his record at MoI, where he served as Minister from April 2005 to May 2006. Asked by Hannah whether his tenure at MoI had resulted in the mini [...] | 2006-11-01 20:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
06BAGHDAD41 | AN IRAQI PUBLIC-EDUCATION STRATEGY FOR ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy, the British Department for International Development (DFID) in Baghdad, and the GOI are developing an economic-reform public-education strategy. To date, we have established that an effective campaign would address three areas: 1) fuel-subsidy reform; 2) social safe [...] | 2006-01-05 11:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PGOV PINS KCOR IZ |
06BAGHDAD410 | IRAQI MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met the evening of February 6, 2006 at the residence of Prime Minister Ibrahim Ja'afari. -- MNF-I Commanding General Casey urged the members to address the issue of kidnappings and assassinations about wh [...] | 2006-02-10 18:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MOPS PINS EPET ENRG IZ |
06BAGHDAD4103 | IRAQI CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVIST DISCUSSES SOURCES OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting, ex-Transitional National Assembly (TNA) member and civil society activist Dr. Amal Kashif Al-Ghita expressed concern that neither GOI nor USG policy is truly addressing what she see as the sources of the violence in Iraq. She lamented that the tolerance her g [...] | 2006-11-02 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KWMN PGOV PHUM |
06BAGHDAD4104 | AYATOLLAH HUSSEIN AL-SADR COMMENTS ON IRAQ'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ayatollah Hussein Al-Sadr shared his views on the need for the emergence of new, moderate political figures to pull Iraq out of its current political crises and on regional relations at an Iftar with Ambassador Khalilzad on October 22. He discussed three possible options to reorg [...] | 2006-11-02 13:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4109 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-03 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ODIP ILC UNGA IZ |
06BAGHDAD411 | REQUEST COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BAGHDAD REFUGEE [...] Country Clearance is requested for the February 19- March 4 travel of Baghdad Refugee Coordinator Camille Hill to Jordan and Syria. RefCoord is joining PRM/ANE Office Director Richard Albright and PRM/ANE Iraq Program Officer Liana Brooks-Rubin for meetings in Amman and Syria February 22 to [...] | 2006-02-11 07:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA PREF SMIG SY IZ |
06BAGHDAD4110 | TURKISH EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD INACTIVE ON PKK, [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs informed Turkish Embassy in Baghdad DCM Yazal about the recent meeting that UNHCR held with the GOI and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) regarding the future of the Makhmour refugee camp; Yazal was unaware of the meeting. Poloffs encouraged the GOT to engage with the [...] | 2006-11-03 11:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREF PREL PTER TU |
06BAGHDAD4111 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES UNSCR RENEWAL, ANBAR WITH PM [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a November 1 meeting the Ambassador and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki focused on UNSCR 1546's extension, national reconciliation and progress in Anbar, recent statements to the press from Maliki's confidants, and a visit to Baghdad by KRG leadership. In a brief comment at the [...] | 2006-11-03 13:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4119 | BAGHDAD PRT - CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS PUSH FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 18 Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) officers and PolOff attended an NGO-sponsored conference to generate support for provincial elections and governorate powers legislation. The conference was hosted by the NGO Najaf Human Rights Commission and brought toge [...] | 2006-11-04 10:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PHUM |
06BAGHDAD4123 | BADR ORGANIZATION LEADER AND VICE PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chair of the Council of Representatives Security and Defense Committee and Badr Organization leader Hadi al-Amiri met John Hannah, the National Security Adviser to the Vice President on October 19. Amiri thanked the U.S. for its role in liberating Iraq and helping to build [...] | 2006-11-05 07:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4124 | COR SPEAKER AND VICE PRESIDENT ADVISER HANNAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud al- Mashadani told John Hannah, the National Security Adviser to the Vice President, October 18 that there is a security challenge in Iraq caused by Sunni and Shi'a militias. He estimated that there is a six month period to ov [...] | 2006-11-05 08:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4125 | DEPUTY PRESIDENT MADHI AND VICE PRESIDENT ADVISOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy President Adil abd al-Mahdi informed John Hannah, National Security Advisor to the Vice President, October 19 that Iraq is ready to take more risks in exchange for additional responsibilities in maintaining security and suggested adding amendments to UNSCR 1546 that would [...] | 2006-11-05 08:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4126 | MODERATE IRAQI SHI'A CLERIC SUPPORTS MALIKI BUT [...] (C) John Hannah, National Security Advisor to the Vice President, met on October 19 with Ayatollah Hussein al-Sadr, a moderate Shi'a cleric based in the Kadhimiya neighborhood of Baghdad who had supported former Prime Minister Alawi's list in the December 2005 elections. Al-Sadr opened with [...] | 2006-11-05 08:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4127 | DEPUTY PRESIDENT MAHDI DISCUSSES SECURITY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy President Adil Abd al-Mahdi told John Hannah, the National Security Adviser to the Vice President, October 17 that the security situation is bad (but statistically getting slightly better),with more Iraqis, particularly in Baghdad, feeling personally threatened. Mahdi [...] | 2006-11-05 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
06BAGHDAD4128 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES KURDISH PESHMERGA FORCE WITH [...] (C) Summary: In an October 30 meeting, the Ambassador urged PM Maliki to resolve differences between the GOI and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. The Ambassador flagged possibly-problematical KRG proposals and offered USG help in developing workable options. [...] | 2006-11-05 08:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4132 | FADHILA PARTICIPATES IN SHI'A COALITION "IN NAME [...] (C) Hassan al-Shammari, leading Fadhila member in the Council of Representatives (CoR),told PolCouns November 2 that Fadhila's participation in the Shi'a coalition was "in appearance only." Al-Shammari characterized SCIRI as the major force in the Shi'a coalition because it receives externa [...] | 2006-11-05 11:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4139 | REACTION TO SADDAM DECISION FALLS ALONG SECTARIAN [...] (C) Summary: Initial Iraqi reaction to the Saddam verdict and sentence has fallen along predictable sectarian lines, with Shiites and Kurds pleased, even celebratory, and Sunnis either silent or critical of the trial and the sentence. Shiite celebrations have so far been exuberant but peaceful. [...] | 2006-11-05 19:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD414 | INSURGENTS DISABLE ANBAR TELEPHONE NETWORK [...] (C) Summary. From State Embedded Team Ramadi. Attacks on a Ramadi telecommunications office have left much of the province without landlines (no cell phone network has survived in the troubled province.) Local officials speculate that beyond satisfying the terrorist's goal of creating chaos, [...] | 2006-02-11 07:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4140 | FORMER MINISTER DISCUSSES KURDISH EXPANSION INTO [...] (C) Summary: In a November 1 meeting with the Ambassador, former Minister of Industry and Minerals and current Council of Representatives (CoR) member from the cross-sectarian secular Iraqiyya party Osama Al-Najafi said Kurdish expansionism constitutes the most serious threat to Iraqi unity. [...] | 2006-11-05 19:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4141 | US/GOI JOINT DETENTION FACILITY INSPECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Secretary General-designate of the Council of Ministers Ali Al-Allak told the DCM and TF-134 lead MG Gardner November 4 that he had issued the directive to re-instate joint GOI/USG inspections of Iraqi detention facilities. These inspections were suspended temporarily after the Ma [...] | 2006-11-05 23:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4150 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has [...] | 2006-11-06 14:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS MARR PINS PINR PREL |
06BAGHDAD4151 | IRAQI ECONOMIST CALLS FOR PRIVATIZATION AND [...] (C) Summary: Professor of Economics Abdulrasool Al Jassim discussed major issues facing the Iraqi economy, notably the Investment Law, the need for privatization, and outreach efforts to convince Iraqis of the need for an open economy. Dr. Abdulrasool also highlighted the need for small bus [...] | 2006-11-06 14:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4163 | REQUEST FOR COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy Baghdad requests country clearance for the following personnel to travel to Abu Dhabi for the purpose of engaging Gulf country counterparts on support for Government of Iraq (GOI) outreach efforts to Anbar province. 2. Travelers' information follows: a. Margaret Scobey, Polit [...] | 2006-11-07 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AE IZ ZP ZR XF |
06BAGHDAD4164 | IRAQI SHI'A POLITICIAN AIRS DOUBTS ABOUT U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ali al-Adeeb, Dawa bloc leader in the Council of Representatives (CoR) and vice chairman of the Shi'a coalition, aired doubts about U.S. and coalition intent in Iraq in a conversation with PolCouns on November 6. He raised a number of alleged incidents that, he thought, suggest [...] | 2006-11-07 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4165 | REQUEST FOR COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy Baghdad requests country clearance for the following personnel to travel to Abu Dhabi for the purpose of engaging Gulf country counterparts on support for Government of Iraq (GOI) outreach efforts to Anbar province. 2. Marc Chretien IRMO Consultant Diplomatic PPT: 900487811 [...] | 2006-11-07 12:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA IZ AE XF ZP ZR |
06BAGHDAD4168 | DHI QAR PRT AND U.S. ARMY CIVIL AFFAIRS PERSONNEL [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar cable. 2. (S) Summary: Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and U.S. Army 1/34 Civil Affairs personnel met with a representative of the Jaysh Al Mahdi Militia (JAM) on October 26 to discuss access to parts of the province under the influence of the JAM. The inter [...] | 2006-11-07 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD417 | UN U/SYG VENESS AND DCM DISCUSS IZ TRANSITION PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Visiting UN U/SYG for Safety and Security David Veness called on the DCM on February 10 to discuss plans for the transition of the International Zone (IZ); short- and longer-term UN security and logistical arrangements; the development of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF); and the curre [...] | 2006-02-11 12:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV ASEC IZ |
06BAGHDAD4180 | CROSS SECTARIAN, MODERATE BLOC FORMING IN IRAQ? [...] (C) Summary: During a November 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani and Fadhila CoR member Nadeem Al-Jabbari said they are working to form a moderate issues-based, cross-sectarian bloc in the CoR. They hope to build on what they claim [...] | 2006-11-08 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4183 | MUTHANNA AND DHI QAR OFFICIALS CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 30 meeting with National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and the DCM, political leaders and security chiefs of Dhi Qar and Muthanna provinces characterized their provinces as relatively calm but raised concerns about the number and readiness of the ISF in their areas [...] | 2006-11-08 15:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4184 | SADDAM VERDICT AND APPELLATE TIMEFRAME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Saddam Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death in the Iraqi High Tribunal ("IHT"). Of the remaining seven defendants, 2 others received death sentences, one received a sentence of life imprisonment, three received sentences of 15 years impriso [...] | 2006-11-08 16:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4191 | MALIKI ASKS FOR NATO GENDARMERIE TRAINING [...] (C/NF) In a November 2 meeting with Ambassador Khalilzad, PM Maliki said that he had signed a letter that morning requesting that NATO provide gendarmerie training to the Iraqi National Police under the auspices of the NATO-Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I). National Security Advisor Rubaie pr [...] | 2006-11-09 09:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS NATO IZ |
06BAGHDAD4195 | IRAQI PM MALIKI URGES IRAQI CONTROL OVER SECURITY, [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed appreciation for the President's continued support and pressed for greater Iraqi control over security, during an October 30 meeting with National Security Advisor Hadley and the Ambassador. He said partition was not an option under consid [...] | 2006-11-09 12:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD420 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: MODERATE SHIA [...] (S/REL UK) Summary. In a February 10 meeting, independent moderate Shi'a Islamist Ali al-Dabbagh told Poloffs that the two leading United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) candidates for Prime Minister, Ibrahim Jafari and 'Adil 'Abd al-Madhi, are in a dead heat, with eight or more Alliance members still u [...] | 2006-02-11 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PNAT KDEM ECON IZ |
06BAGHDAD4205 | SCIRI LEADERS BEMOAN LACK OF STRONG SUNNI PARTNERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Abdulaziz al-Hakim, Chairman of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI),and Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi (also from SCIRI) told National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and Ambassador Khalilzad that the Sunnis were the weak link in Iraq's national unity gove [...] | 2006-11-10 11:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD421 | (U) PROMINENT KURDISH POLITICIAN MAHMUD OTHMAN [...] (S) Summary: In a February 8 meeting, outspoken Kurdish negotiator Dr. Mahmud Othman bitterly criticized the Prime Minister candidates as unfit to lead and claimed that the Shia Islamist Coalition's delay naming its prime minister candidate had made Iraq look foolish. Othman urged the U.S. g [...] | 2006-02-11 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4211 | SEPTEMBER INFLATION DATA [...] (SBU) Iraq's consumer price index (CPI) decreased 12.8% in September, and the year-on-year increase dropped to 51.6%. The decrease is largely driven by price decreases in the categories of Fuel/electricity (41.2%) and Transport/communication (32.6%). GOI's Central Office of Statistics and Info [...] | 2006-11-11 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IZ |
06BAGHDAD4217 | PM RAISES SUNNI LEADERSHIP, UNSCR AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a November 4 meeting, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki discussed continuing concerns over the sincerity of Sunni cooperation within the GOI, specifically referring to their efforts towards reconciliation. The Ambassador raised UNSCR renewal, highlighting potential contradiction [...] | 2006-11-13 07:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4218 | NINEWA: SHAMAR CHIEF ON KURD EXPANSIONISM, [...] (C) The predominant Shamar Tribe chief in Ninewa, Ahmad Abdullah al-Yawer, urgently met PRT Team Leader Knight and Multilateral Division North Deputy Commander BG Wiercinski's representative, COL Lull, to express Shamar alarm at Kurd territorial ambitions in Ninewa. A group of subordinate S [...] | 2006-11-13 07:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD422 | (U) KURDISH NEGOTIATOR SHAWAYS FRUSTRATED AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister and senior Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) member Rowsh Shaways told PolCouns and PolOff on February 9 that he was pessimistic that government formation negotiations would be finished anytime soon. Shaways expressed frustration at the bickering inside the [...] | 2006-02-11 15:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD423 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: VERY CLOSE COUNT ON [...] (C) Summary: In the competition for Iraq's Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555) to name a prime minister nominee, we estimate that incumbent Prime Minister Jafari has a slim lead on challenger Adil Abd al-Mahdi, but the race is too close to call. On February 11, Shia Coalition members decided [...] | 2006-02-11 20:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM ECON IZ |
06BAGHDAD4231 | PRT TIKRIT: GOI CENSURES TV STATION IN SALAH AD DIN [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Following the November 5 verdict announcement in the first Saddam Hussein trial, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) at the direction of the Prime Minister directed Salah ad Din (SaD) Governor Hamad Hamoud al Shakti to close the Coali [...] | 2006-11-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECPS KPAO IZ |
06BAGHDAD4235 | IRAQI PM AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS CONTROVERSIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-14 18:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4236 | IRAQI PM AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS CONTROVERSIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-14 18:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4237 | CHALABI DISCUSSES DEBAATH LEGISLIATION WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ahmed Chalabi, Commissioner of the Higher National De-Baathification Commission (HNDBC),met November 9 with the Ambassador, PolCouns and other Emboffs to discuss continuing concerns with the draft De-Baathification Reform legislation. The draft law's lack of transparency, contin [...] | 2006-11-14 18:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4238 | FM ZEBARI BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON UNSCR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 14, FM Zebari informed the diplomatic corps that Iraq would formally request an extension of MNF-I's UN Security Council mandate. He said that the decision had been reached with broad support within the Iraqi political leadership after discussions with the Coalition o [...] | 2006-11-14 20:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS UN IZ |
06BAGHDAD4239 | CHARGE MEETS WITH PM'S CHIEF OF STAFF NOVEMBER 14 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 14 meeting with Charge, PM Chief of Staff Dr. Tariq Abdullah said the PM would review the draft U.S. letter to the UNSC on UNSCR renewal later in the day. According to Dr. Tariq, the PM's cabinet reshuffle may not happen for a month; the PM is still in the process [...] | 2006-11-14 21:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EG IZ PGOV PREL SA UN |
06BAGHDAD4241 | IRAQI PM AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS CONTROVERSIAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki raised with the Ambassador concerns about a planned conference for Iraqi Sunnis hosted by Qatar-based NGO Global Anti-Aggression Campaign scheduled to occur in Turkey November 15-16. The PM expressed concern that Conference organizers consider both Shi [...] | 2006-11-15 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4242 | PUK PARLIAMENTARIAN TANIA GILLY ON FUTURE OF KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on November 12, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Council of Representatives (CoR) member Tanya Gilly expressed the Kurds, determination to hold the referendum on Kirkuk by December 31, 2007 as specified in Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution. She also articulat [...] | 2006-11-15 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4244 | PRT TIKRIT: INVESTIGATIVE JUDGES TRAINING POLICE [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) Starting in November 2006, the Salah ad Din (SaD) investigative judges began in-service training of police officers on criminal investigation procedures. This PRT- inspired initiative was started to combat the large number of criminal [...] | 2006-11-15 11:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KCRM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4245 | PRT ERBIL: KRG PESHMERGA MINISTER'S TAKE ON TURKEY [...] (C) This is a PRT Erbil cable. Omer Othman (known as Za'im Ali),the Kurdistan Regional Government's Minister of Peshmerga (KDP - Kurdistan Democratic Party) met Erbil IPAO to clarify Peshmerga and party views on Kurdish-U.S. relations, the PKK, negotiations with Baghdad, and freedom of the [...] | 2006-11-15 11:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4246 | PRT ERBIL: KRG PESHMERGA MINISTER OBJECTS TO [...] (C) This is a PRT Erbil cable. Omer Othman (known as Za'im Ali),the Kurdistan Regional Government's Minister of Peshmerga (KDP-Kurdistan Democratic Party) met Erbil IPAO to clarify Peshmerga and party views on Kurdish-U.S. relations, the PKK, negotiations with Baghdad, and freedom of the p [...] | 2006-11-15 11:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4247 | PRT ERBIL: MINISTER OF PESHMERGA'S VIEW ON THE [...] (C) This is a PRT Erbil cable. Omer Othman (known as Za'im Ali),the Kurdistan Regional Government's Minister of Peshmerga (KDP - Kurdistan Democratic Party) met Erbil IPAO to clarify Peshmerga and party views on Kurdish - U.S. relations, the PKK, negotiations with Baghdad, and freedom of th [...] | 2006-11-15 11:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4248 | GOI OFFICIALS CONDEMN KIDNAPPINGS; MANY STATEMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of the November 14 kidnapping of dozens of people from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, GOI officials and Council of Representatives (CoR) members have issued strong statements condemning the incident. Many statements reflect sectarian divi [...] | 2006-11-15 11:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4252 | PRT/REO POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROUNDUP (OCTOBER 25 - NOVEMBER 10, 2006) [...] (C) SUMMARY. Embassy Baghdad has initiated a regular roundup cable of short political and economic items submitted by Provisional Reconstruction Teams and Regional Embassy Offices in Iraq. This is intended to complement other reporting and provide insight on events and developments across the [...] | 2006-11-15 15:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EINV ECON IZ KJUS |
06BAGHDAD4253 | IRAQI TRADE MINISTER ON RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Summary: During a November 9 dinner with Ambassador Khalilzad, Iraqi Trade Minister Abd al-Falah al-Sudani set forth an unusually conciliatory view of Iraqi reconciliation encompassing Iraqi and regional actors. Al-Sudani has not developed details and or domestic allies for his ideas; th [...] | 2006-11-15 17:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV IZ PGOV PREL |
06BAGHDAD4254 | LEADING SHIA POLITICIAN SHAYKH HUMAM HAMMOUDI LAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Leading SCIRI party member Shaykh Humam Hammoudi laid out a vision on how to achieve democracy in Iraq and gave specific recommendations in the security, political and economic spheres. He highlighted the short-term importance of building Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) committed to [...] | 2006-11-15 17:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4256 | MOI BOLANI - MAIN THREAT IS SECTARIANISM; MOI [...] (C/REL UK, AUS) SUMMARY: In a November 4 meeting with Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte stressed the need to quell sectarian violence. Minister Bolani agreed, emphasizing that the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) is reducing abductions and kill [...] | 2006-11-16 03:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS MOPS PNAT PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4267 | NOVEMBER 15 MCNS ON MOD REFORM [...] (S/REL UK, AUS) SUMMARY: On November 15, Minister of Defense Abdul Qader presented a report on MoD reform to the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS),focusing on the current situation in the ministry. Following the MinDef's presentation, National Security Advisor Rubaie said the [...] | 2006-11-16 21:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4270 | MOI INTERNAL AFFAIRS CHIEF SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (S) Summary. Ministry of Interior Director for Internal Affairs Brigadier General Ahmed Taha al-Mosawi told EmbOffs November 8 that conditions for accountability had improved since Minister Bolani took office. Al-Mosawi, who in February complained to us that Minister Bayan Jabr rarely, if [...] | 2006-11-17 10:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4271 | REPORT OF KILLING AND TORTURE AT MOD DETENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-17 10:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4275 | PRT DIYALA - PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT WEAKENED BY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Diyala's reconstruction efforts and the provincial government?s ability to manage its affairs have been increasingly hindered as the province's security situation has worsened over recent months. Key Iraqi government personnel in various departments have been killed, kidnappe [...] | 2006-11-19 14:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL SOCI IZ |
06BAGHDAD4277 | IRAQ'S INTERIOR MINISTRY ISSUES WARRANT FOR [...] (S/NF) Summary. On November 16 and 17, multiple Iraqi media sources reported that Iraq's Ministry of Interior (MOI) had issued a warrant for hard-line Sunni cleric Harith al-Dhari, currently in Jordan, on unspecified charges. MOI later announced that this was not an arrest warrant, but an "in [...] | 2006-11-19 18:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL PINS PNAT MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4292 | CHARGE AND INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSS KIDNAPPINGS, [...] (S/NF) Summary: Charge D'Affaires Daniel V. Speckhard met with Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani November 17 to discuss Site 4, recent kidnappings and the warrant against Harith al-Dhari. Charge emphasized to Bolani the importance of ensuring that all Site 4 warrants are executed. Bolani said [...] | 2006-11-20 11:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL PINS PNAT MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4295 | PRT DIYALA: SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN NUMBER OF [...] (S) SUMMARY. There has been a noticeable increase in the number of Iraqi Police (IP) and Iraqi Army (IA) detainee abuse cases reported to Coalition Forces (CF) in Diyala Province since Major General Hulal Husain Shakir, a Shi'a Arab, was appointed commander of the 5th IA Division in July 200 [...] | 2006-11-20 13:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4297 | IRAQI PRESIDENT GIVES READOUT ON TRIP TO FRANCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 18, President Talabani gave Charge a readout of his state visit to Paris earlier this month. Talabani stated that he was received by President Jacques Chirac, who had listened attentively as Talabani requested more French aid in police training and economic and trade [...] | 2006-11-20 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR SY IZ |
06BAGHDAD4301 | TELECOMS: CHAIRMAN ADBULLAH SALEH SAYS CMC TO KEEP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Chairman Abdullah Saleh of the Essential Services Committee in the Council of Representatives reported that his committee has been actively developing three telecommunications laws. Under the proposed CMC Law, the agency would retain the responsibility for allocating and regulat [...] | 2006-11-20 14:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD IZ |
06BAGHDAD4305 | IRAQI VP HASHIMI ON REGIONAL TRAVEL, RECENT MEDIA [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq Al-Hashimi told Charge he was disappointed at the hesitation and lack of direction about Iraq he found among Gulf interlocutors during a recent trip to the region. Hashimi defended his recent public statements threatening Sunni withdrawal from [...] | 2006-11-20 21:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD4310 | CHARGE AND IRAQI CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Newly elected Constitution Review Committee (CRC) Chair Shaykh Humam Hammoudi (Shia Coalition/SCIRI) told Charge Speckhard on November 19 that the CRC will take up political, technical/drafting, and "continuity" issues. Political issues like regional authorities will be decided by [...] | 2006-11-21 08:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4311 | PRT TIKRIT: MOVING GOVERNANCE FORWARD IN SALAH AD [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) Institution of democratic principals and processes in the provincial government of Salah ad Din (SaD) hinges on the proper separation of powers between the Governor and the Provincial Council. At present, the relationship between these [...] | 2006-11-21 12:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM EAID IZ |
06BAGHDAD4315 | IRAQ'S PARLIAMENT IN WINTER: SECURITY, LOGISTICS [...] (C) Summary: Since Iraq,s Council of Representatives (CoR) returned from recess at the end of October, sessions have averaged 3-4 hours a day. This is due to difficulty assembling a quorum; the combination of less daylight and security concerns; and poor work habits. In addition to the shor [...] | 2006-11-21 16:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4317 | MALIKI CREATES CRISIS CELL; INVITES AMBASSADOR TO [...] (S/REL MNF-I) On November 11, we received a letter (e-mailed to NEA-I) from National Security Advisor Rubaie informing us that Prime Minister Maliki was establishing a Crisis Cell of key decision makers which could be called together in the event of a crisis in Iraq. In his letter, Rubaie sai [...] | 2006-11-21 17:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4318 | BAGHDAD INDEPENDENT LOCAL POLITICIANS DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Independent members from eight of Baghdad's nine District Advisory Councils (DACs) told Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) members they are considering establishing a new liberal political party during a roundtable discussion hosted by PRT Baghdad on November 16. The P [...] | 2006-11-22 09:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD432 | INITIAL REACTION TO JAFARI NOMINATION: MUTED [...] (C) Summary: The Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555) February 12 voted 64-63 to renominate incumbent Ibrahim Jafari as Prime Minister. Jafari was supported by his Dawa Party, Dawa Tanzim, the Sadrists, and some independents in the Coalition. Jafari's challenger, Deputy President Adil Abd al- [...] | 2006-02-13 03:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4323 | STATE MINISTER WAILI TO MEET WITH TURKEY'S PKK [...] (C) Summary: Minister of State for National Security Shirwan Kamil Sibti al-Waili wants help outfitting his ministry, which focuses on domestic intelligence. He said he was looking forward to meeting Turkey's PKK Envoy during his November 16-17 trip to Ankara with PM Maliki (septel). Waili s [...] | 2006-11-22 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS PNAT PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD4324 | DCM MEETS WITH UN,S IRAQ DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: In a November 16 meeting with the DCM, the deputy for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI),Michael von Schulenburg, discussed the UN's role in Iraq. Von Schulenburg commented that the UN could play a prominent role in Kirkuk; however, he does not believe the K [...] | 2006-11-22 19:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4326 | MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 20 meeting with Charge Speckhard, Sunni Minister of Higher Education (MOHE) Abid Dhiyab al-Ujeeli said that 88 people have been released but 57 are still missing from the kidnapping at the Ministry of Higher Education building on November 16. He blamed politics in [...] | 2006-11-22 20:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD4328 | TALABANI SAYS SYRIA READY TO HELP IN IRAQ; [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on November 21 with the Ambassador Iraqi President Jalal Talabani expressed the conviction that Syria is ready to help secure and stabilize Iraq. He shared a plan drawn up by Vice President Adil al-Mahdi to encourage cooperation among political blocs in an effort to [...] | 2006-11-22 22:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY IQ |
06BAGHDAD4330 | NOVEMBER 19 MCNS: NAJAF TO PIC; BSP TO BE REVIEWED [...] (S/REL UK, AUS) SUMMARY: The November 19 meeting of the Ministerial Committee on National Security agreed to transfer security responsibility for Najaf to Iraqi authorities. The Committee also agreed to study the security situation in Diyala, which PM Maliki referred to as being in the hands o [...] | 2006-11-23 06:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PREL PGOV PTER |
06BAGHDAD4335 | FM ZEBARI DISCUSSES SYRIA, IRAN, THE PRIME [...] (S) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Zebari expressed to the Ambassador on November 23 his view that the USG should take a tough stance with GOI ministers to bring about an agreement on national reconciliation. He explained how the restoration of diplomatic ties with Syria was brought about through [...] | 2006-11-24 17:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PINS PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4341 | LEADING SHIA POLITICIAN SHAYKH HUMAM HAMMOUDI LAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Leading Shiite SCIRI member Shaykh Humam Hammoudi told the Ambassador November 23 that Iraq needs a structure that defines every party's goals and a system that works internally, regionally, and internationally. Within Iraq, he highlighted the positive role that the future Federa [...] | 2006-11-24 20:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4342 | KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT LEADERS ON [...] (C REL GBR) Summary. In a November 19 meeting with Economic Minister Counselor, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and KRG Minister of Natural Resources Ashti Hawrami presented their compromise proposal on contracting which denies signatory authority to the f [...] | 2006-11-25 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ KJUS KCOR PGOV EINV PBTS |
06BAGHDAD4346 | PURSUING AN ACSA WITH THE GOI [...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: As Iraqis move toward a more mature security relationship with the USG, we believe DoD should pursue an Acquisition Cross-Servicing Agreement with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense as soon as we have taken the necessary steps to ensure the Iraqis are capable of managing an [...] | 2006-11-25 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD4347 | RECONCILIATION MINISTER DISCUSSES CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Summary: On November 23 the Ambassador met Akram al-Hakim, Minister of State for National Dialogue and Reconciliation. They discussed obstacles to the reconciliation process, the recent travels of a delegation from the National Reconciliation Commission, the recently-postponed political [...] | 2006-11-25 19:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4349 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-26 07:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA IZ |
06BAGHDAD4350 | REPORT ON ENERGY COMMITTEE MEETING ON HYDROCARBON [...] (S) Summary: At the invitation of Oil Minister Shahristani and DPM Barham Salih, Econ MinCouns attended two sessions of the Energy Committee meeting on November 23 and 24. On the key issue of contracting, considerable progress was made. The committee will refer the issue to the "political leve [...] | 2006-11-26 08:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON ENRG EPET IZ |
06BAGHDAD4351 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF OIL [...] (S) Summary. Ambassador met evening of November 22 with Minister of Oil Husayn al-Shahristani to discuss the outlook for the November 23 GoI Energy Committee discussion of the Hydrocarbon Law. Shahristani expressed optimism that a breakthrough with the Kurds can be reached if the U.S. makes i [...] | 2006-11-26 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON ENRG EPET IR IZ PREL SY TU |
06BAGHDAD4353 | HUMAN RIGHTS NGO ALLEGES JAM TORTURE IN HOSPITAL, [...] (C) Summary. Ahmed al-Azzawi, board member of Iraq-based NGO "National Commission for Defending Human Rights" told EmbOffs November 21 that he was discouraged about escalating violence in Iraq and doubted the future would bring much improvement in the near to mid-term. He highlighted the most [...] | 2006-11-26 10:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD436 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR LCDR DANIEL STODDARD TO [...] Request country clearance for LCDR DANIEL STODDARD who will visit Amman, Jordan on February 22, 2006, and depart on February 26, 2006, to return to Iraq. The purpose of the visit is to conduct several Post Award contracting meetings with contractors who will be performing work in Iraq. Due t [...] | 2006-02-13 11:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA APER IZ JO |
06BAGHDAD4361 | TALABANI, BARZANI, HASHIMI MEET TO DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi, and Kurdistan Regional Government President Masud Barzani gave the Ambassador a readout of the November 24 PCNS meeting during a meeting on November 25 to develop plans for a broad moderate coalition. Hashimi said in [...] | 2006-11-26 17:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA IQ |
06BAGHDAD4364 | PRT NINEWA: SHIKHAN AND MAKHMUR DISTRICTS ALMOST [...] (C) The Mayor of Shikhan District of Ninewa Province indicates the district would vote to join Dahuk Province and thus the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in a referendum to resolve its status as a 'disputed territory' if given the opportunity. The Shikhan Mayor notes that the District is [...] | 2006-11-27 09:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4365 | SHABAK IN IRAQ: A TARGETED ETHNIC MINORITY? [...] (C) In a meeting November 21, Kurdish Alliance (KAL) and Shabak Council of Representative member Ahmed Yusif al-Shabak told Emboffs that since the February 22 Samarra bombings, there have been approximately 130 Shabak Shia who have been killed by Sunni-affiliated terrorist groups for sectarian [...] | 2006-11-27 09:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4367 | REPORT OF KILLING AND TORTURE AT MOD DETENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-27 13:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4370 | APPARENT BREAKTHROUGH ON HYDROCARBON LAW AT [...] (S) Summary. Apparent breakthroughs on the issues of contracting, arbitration and arrangements for revenue sharing have raised a real prospect that agreement on a hydrocarbon law can be reached in time for a draft to be submitted to the Council of Representatives (CoR) before it adjourns for tw [...] | 2006-11-27 17:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON EPET IZ KJUS KCOR PGOV EINV PBTS |
06BAGHDAD4371 | IRAQI PRIME MINISTER TO REVIEW PLAN TO RESTORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting in Erbil with United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) on November 24, the Iraqi Minister for National Security Affairs (MNSA),Sharwan Waili agreed to ask the Iraqi PM to approve the use of Iraqi Security Forces ( [...] | 2006-11-27 18:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD4372 | DEPUTY PM SALEH DISCUSSES VIOLENCE, NEED FOR [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh asserted to Representative Steve King (R-IA) November 25 that a MNF-I withdrawal from Iraq without victory would embolden terrorists, Syria, and Iran. Although alarmed by the recent spike in violence, he cited the International Compact and the d [...] | 2006-11-27 20:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS UNSC IZ |
06BAGHDAD4373 | IRAQ,S KURDISH, SUNNI, SHIITE LEADERS PLEDGE [...] (S) Summary: At a November 26 meeting, SCIRI chairman and Shi'a coalition leader Abdulaziz al-Hakim and Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi (IIP/Sunni) continued discussions started November 25 (reftel). President Talabani (PUK),Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masud Barzani (KDP),[...] | 2006-11-27 20:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4376 | COR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE -- DIVERSE PLAYERS, [...] (C) Summary. After almost 5 months and countless meetings, the Council of Representatives (CoR) Human Rights Committee has yet to demonstrate that it will be an effective entity to draft or review key human rights legislation or substantially engage the CoR on its issues. Comprised of diverse [...] | 2006-11-28 03:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4384 | PRT DIYALA: IRAQI ARMY GENERAL TARGETING DIYALA,S [...] (S) SUMMARY: Credible evidence collected by Coalition forces (CF) working with Iraqi Army (IA) battalions and reported by senior Diyala government officials indicates that Diyala's IA Fifth Division Commander, Major General Hulail Husayn Shakir (Shi'a),is targeting Sunnis and abusing detain [...] | 2006-11-28 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4385 | NOVEMBER 26 MCNS: HIGH LEVEL WORKING GROUP REPORT [...] (S/REL UK) SUMMARY: The November 26 meeting of the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on the report of the High Level Working Group formed on October 28 by President Bush and PM Maliki to make recommendations regarding acceleration of GOI control over the security situat [...] | 2006-11-28 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4386 | (C) IAEA INSPECTION AT TUWAITH NUCLEAR COMPLEX [...] (C) On November 20, Pol-Mil officer and Coalition forces assisted a four-person International Atomic Energy Agency team, in completing the annual Physical Inventory Verification of approximately 550 tons of yellow cake uranium and other accountable nuclear materials including uranium oxide s [...] | 2006-11-28 16:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PNAT PREL |
06BAGHDAD4387 | PM DISCUSSES INTEL CHIEF'S RETURN TO IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki agreed to take steps that would allow Iraqi intelligence chief Mohammed al-Shahwani to return to Iraq without fear of arrest because of an indictment based on debunked charges. MNF-I CG Casey expressed concern with the PM about accelerating the trans [...] | 2006-11-28 21:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4390 | LEADING SHIA POLITICIAN SHAYKH HUMAM HAMMOUDI [...] (S) SUMMARY. Leading Shia Coalition and SCIRI member Shaykh Humam Hammoudi told the Ambassador November 27 that he had presented his national compact plan (reftel) to President Talabani, who approved of it. Hammoudi will brief PM Maliki and VP Tariq al-Hashimi, and then present his plan to th [...] | 2006-11-29 06:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4391 | TEXT OF DPM SALIH'S ECONOMIC DOCUMENT FOR AMMAN [...] (S) Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih provided post with a draft of the comments on economic issues he developed for the Prime Minister for the upcoming summit in Amman. In the wide-ranging document, Barham outlines a vision for the development of the petroleum sector, the centrality of the [...] | 2006-11-29 07:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON EINV IZ PREL |
06BAGHDAD4392 | AMBASSADOR HOSTS FRANK RXCHANGE BETWEEN IRAQI [...] (S) SUMMARY: Iraqi Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Sunni Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi had a frank exchange on differences and prospects for cooperation in a meeting with the Ambassador on November 27. Maliki also discussed dealing with national level problems and his lack of auth [...] | 2006-11-29 07:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4400 | FALLUJAH UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: PRT officials met with Fallujah leaders Mayor Jassim, Fallujah City Council (FCC) Secretary Abbas and Iraqi Police Chief Colonel Karim at the Fallujah IP District Headquarters 25 on November 25. They noted that the sectarian violence in Baghdad would likely lead to a greater inf [...] | 2006-11-29 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PINS PGOV PREF IZ |
06BAGHDAD4401 | PRT TIKRIT: PERCEPTIONS AND ELECTION PROSPECTS OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Recent Coalition Forces (CF) polling in Salah ad Din's (SAD) major cities revealed that the SaD Governor is seen as incapable and indecisive; the Deputy Governor, effective but dictatorial; and Provincial Council (PC) members, c [...] | 2006-11-29 13:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4405 | WHAT A SADRIST WITHDRAWAL FROM GOI WOULD - AND [...] (C) Summary: The Sadrist threat to pull out of Prime Minister Maliki's government if he meets with President Bush in Jordan is likely an empty one. The Sadrists have threatened to suspend their Council of Representatives (CoR) membership previously, but have not done so (although they have [...] | 2006-11-29 17:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4407 | PRT TIKRIT: POWER, CORRUPTION, AND AQIZ IN SALAH [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The disintegration of the social fabric of Salah ad Din (SaD),which started during the Saddam regime, was exacerbated by its fall and the subsequent aftermath, has caused political disarray in the province. With the diminuti [...] | 2006-11-30 05:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR PTER KCOR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4408 | PRT TIKRIT: PRO-BAATHIST SHEIKHS FIND ROLE IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din (SaD) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. At a joint PRT-SaD Sheikhs Council meeting, provincial tribal sheikhs expressed their frustration with the political process, saying "they could not support a government that does not support them." They blamed the curren [...] | 2006-11-30 05:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD441 | TALABANI SAYS JAFARI NOT YET A LOCK FOR PRIME [...] (C) President Jalal Talabani informed Ambassador on February 12 that the Shia Coalition had narrowly voted in favor of current Prime Minister Jafari to remain in his post by a count of 64 votes to SCIRI candidate Adil Abd al-Mahdi's 63 votes, with one Sadrist absent. Da'wa, Da'wa-Tanzim, and [...] | 2006-02-13 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD442 | FALLUJAH CITY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ASSASSINATED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assailants assassinated Sheikh Kamal Shakir Al-Nazal. Fallujah City Council (FCC) Chairman and senior city imam, on February 7, 2006 in central Fallujah. He had generally pursued a cooperative relationship with coalition forces. Sheikh Kamal, along with other Fallujah imams and [...] | 2006-02-13 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4422 | UNAMI TO REDUCE IRAQI STAFF BY 40% [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-01 20:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV JO KU IZ |
06BAGHDAD4425 | IRAQI PRESIDENT'S LIST OF STEPS FOR IRANIANS TO [...] (S) Summary: President Jalal Talabani provided the Ambassador December 1 with a document that included steps for Iran to take to help restore security and support the government in Iraq. Talabani delivered the list to Iranian leaders during his November 27-29 trip to Teheran. Recommended measu [...] | 2006-12-03 03:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4426 | IRAQI PRESIDENT RECOMMENDS U.S. DIALOGUE WITH [...] (S) Summary: President Jalal Talabani informed the Ambassador December 1 that Iranian leaders were eager to re-establish a direct dialogue with the U.S. on Iraq, during his November 27-29 trip to Iran. Talabani recommended that the U.S. talk to Iran if Iran follows through on a commitment to [...] | 2006-12-03 03:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD443 | (U) KDP AND PUK ALLIANCE NOT ALL SMILES [...] (C) Summary: During a February 8 dinner party at Iraqi Minister of Planning (and senior PUK Politburo member) Barham Saleh's house, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Intelligence Chief Masrur Barzani revealed deep-seated suspicions of the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK),confirming th [...] | 2006-02-13 15:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4430 | DHI QAR PRT FOLLOW ON MEETING WITH JAM OFFICIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar cable. 2. (S//REL UK, AUS) Summary: Dhi Qar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Provincial Program Manager (PPM) met on November 6 with a mid-level Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) member, who presented himself as a liaison officer for JAM in Dhi Qar Province, to discuss the [...] | 2006-12-03 06:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4434 | DPM SALEH DISCUSSES IRAQ'S CURRENT SITUATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador hosted a November 28 dinner for visiting U.S. Governors Corzine (NJ),Huntsman (UT),Kulongoski (OR) and Pataki (NY) with Iraqi DPM Barham Saleh. After an overview by the Ambassador, Saleh gave the governors his views on how Sunnis and Shiites could forge a common v [...] | 2006-12-03 11:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4439 | PRT DIYALA: SUNNI SHEIKHS PRESENT DEMANDS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 22, PRT officials met with a group of Sunni sheikhs who presented a written list of demands of the CF and Diyala government that centered on re-balancing representation in local security services and government positions, and holding provincial elections. The assemble [...] | 2006-12-04 10:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD444 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: KURDISH MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY On February 13, the day after the Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555) decision on PM nomination, Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation Barham Salih cautioned poloffs against assuming that Jafari now has a lock on the premiership. Salih said he would push for Thamir Ghadb [...] | 2006-02-13 20:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD4440 | IRAQI LEADERS CONTINUE DISCUSSIONS OF MODERATE [...] (S) Summary: President Talabani, Prime Minister Maliki, and other Iraqi leaders met December 2 to continue discussing the formation of a moderate political front. They seemed to be moving toward the creation of an executive body representing the Kurds, IIP, SCIRI, and Dawa, perhaps as embodie [...] | 2006-12-04 10:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4449 | IRAQI PRESIDENT TALABANI DISCUSSES STATE OF IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 3 meeting with the Ambassador and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Congressman Christopher Shays stressed the importance for the U.S. public of seeing progress in Iraq relatively soon. Talabani emphasized the importance of training and equipping Iraqi Forces and said [...] | 2006-12-05 08:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
06BAGHDAD4450 | AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 4 MEETING WITH IRAQI [...] (S) Summary: In a December 4 meeting with the Ambassador, Iraqi Minister of State for National Security Shirwan Wa'ili discussed a draft law to make the Ministry of State for National Security (MSNS) a regular Ministry; Wa'ili envisions one cabinet level official would coordinate and channel [...] | 2006-12-05 08:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINS TU SY IZ IR |
06BAGHDAD4451 | ADNAN DULAYMI'S GUARDS IN POLICE CUSTODY [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs have received numerous reports from the mixed Sunni-Shia Al-Adil neighborhood, where Sunni Tawafuq bloc leader Adnan Dulaymi is based, of anti-Shia harassment and violent acts attributed to Dulaymi's security detail. In a controversial twist, nine of Dulaymi's bodyguard [...] | 2006-12-05 09:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD4461 | SADRIST TEMPORARY WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ'S [...] (U) Iraq,s Sadrists have commenced their "temporary withdrawal" from the government as they promised in a press statement after Prime Minister Maliki met with President Bush in Amman on November 30. None of the five Sadrist ministers attended the Council of Ministers meeting on December 3. C [...] | 2006-12-05 18:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4464 | BAGHDAD LOCAL LEADERS SAY NOVEMBER VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary. Several District Advisory Council (DAC) Members in Baghdad and a number of average citizens expressed concern recently about what they see as a further decline in public faith in the central government following a spike in violence in November. The turning point, some said, was t [...] | 2006-12-06 08:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV SOCI PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4471 | RRT ERBIL - ASSYRIAN AUTONOMY IN IRAQ - ANOTHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Finance Sarkis Aghajan Mamando (Sarkis) told Erbil IPAO November 2, 2006 that he hoped the 'voice of the Assyrian nation' could reach the United States through this meeting. Sarkis, an Assyrian (Iraqi Christian),said Assyrian di [...] | 2006-12-06 20:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV ECON IZ |
06BAGHDAD4473 | AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 3 MEETING WITH TURKISH [...] (C) Summary: In a December 3 meeting with the Ambassador, outgoing Turkish Ambassador Cevikoz relayed the GOT's contacts with Sunni Hewar party leader Mutlaq (reftel). The Ambassador told Cevikoz the U.S. opposes any extra-constitutional effort to change the GOI and suggested the GOT urge Mut [...] | 2006-12-07 08:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD4476 | PRT TIKRIT: BAYJI FERTILIZER PLANT BACK IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The Bayji fertilizer plant, one of two large-scale petrochemical production sites in Iraq, resumed production at 45 percent of total capacity on November 21. The plant has operated only 15 days out of the entire 2006 calendar ye [...] | 2006-12-07 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD IR IZ PTER SENV |
06BAGHDAD4480 | PARLIAMENTARY ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSES IRAQ'S [...] (C). SUMMARY. CODEL Shays met December 3 with a roundtable of Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) members that included all major political blocs. Member reactions and recommendations to the current situation largely fell along sectarian and party lines. Sunni Arab Tawafuq members compl [...] | 2006-12-07 18:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4487 | MODERATE FRONT DISCUSSIONS CONTINUE: NO AGREEMENT [...] (S) SUMMARY. President Talabani, Prime Minister Maliki, and other Iraqi leaders met December 6 to continue discussing the formation of a moderate political front. They were unable to reach agreement on how to organize themselves. Two options emerged: (1) expand the Presidency Council to inc [...] | 2006-12-08 18:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD45 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-05 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
06BAGHDAD4501 | PRT TIKRIT: COMMUNITY LEADERS HIGHLIGHT CHALLENGES [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 30, representatives from Salah ad Din's private sector, academia, citizens? groups and municipal governments met in Tikrit for a Dialogue and Communication Conference sponsored by the 3BCT and the PRT. The Governor [...] | 2006-12-10 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGER IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4502 | ANBAR: LOCAL GOVERMENT PLAYERS WATCH WARILY AS [...] (C) Summary: After a negotiation session brokered at the request of the PM, the Anbar Provincial Council voted in early November to include eight members of the Anbar Salvation Council (ASC) tribal sheikhs organization in the Provincial Council (PC). In this early phase, PC members are wary [...] | 2006-12-10 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4503 | KRG SINJARI CALLS FOR PKK AMNESTY, MAKHMOUR CAMP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Interior Karim Sinjari told RRTOffs on December 4 and 5 that steps to resolve the presence of the PKK (the Kurdistan Workers Party) in Iraq are finally moving forward but face continuing difficulties with the Government of Turkey [...] | 2006-12-10 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PHUM PREF PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD4504 | NINEWA: UNIVERSITY OF MOSUL APPROACHES PRT [...] (C) Ninewa PRT IPAO and PRT Elections Officer joined a meeting between Provincial Council Chair Salim Issa and 20 professors of the University of Mosul at Ninewa's Provincial Council hall 27 November. The University faculty had requested the meeting to lobby for increased research funding a [...] | 2006-12-10 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL KPAO IZ |
06BAGHDAD451 | UN DISTRESS OVER STAFF HOUSING AVERTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi met Ambassador Khalilzad on January 26 and hinted that the UN would re-evaluate its presence in Iraq if security concerns for housing of its staff in Baghdad were not addressed. Qazi said the UN was concerned a [...] | 2006-02-14 15:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PNAT UNSC PTER PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4510 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER ON PRISON INSPECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Human Rights Wijdan complained to Human Rights Officer December 6 that the Ministry of Interior had begun preventing her inspection teams from accessing MoI detention facilities, having turned her teams away during the last three inspection attempts. She admitted that [...] | 2006-12-10 18:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM DOJ CRIM OPDAT KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4512 | SHAHRISTANI UNLIKELY TO ADHERE TO SCHEDULE OF IMF [...] (C REL GBR) Summary: At the November 2-5 Government of Iraq (GOI) - International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Amman, Jordan, Minister of Oil Husayn al-Shahristani agreed to very ambitious targets for fuel price increases before the end of 2006. The price increases discussed in Amman are a [...] | 2006-12-11 06:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ KJUS KCOR PGOV EINV PBTS |
06BAGHDAD4515 | NINEWA: ENGAGING THE LOCAL PRESS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-11 07:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO IZ |
06BAGHDAD4516 | PRT TIKRIT: POSSIBLE KURDISH MANEUVERING AROUND AL [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Recently PRT Tikrit has received several reports of Kurdish attempts to populate with Kurds and garner political support in the area around al Tuz. Separated from the rest of Salah ad Din (SaD) province by the Hamrin mountains, [...] | 2006-12-11 08:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4517 | PRT TIKRIT: THE EFFECT OF DEBAATHIFICATION IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In the Baathist heartland of Salah ad Din (SaD),the effects of de-Baathification and dismantling of the former Iraqi Army are causing SaD Sunnis to resist engagement in the political process. While many SaD residents object to [...] | 2006-12-11 08:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD4526 | BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON WOMEN ACTIVISTS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Women activists in Sulaymaniyah provided RRT Off with the following biographical data in meetings on November 11 and 14. Information on the organizations to which the women belong follows and is based on public sources and a meeting with the director of Hataw advocacy group o [...] | 2006-12-12 11:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KWMN PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4527 | IRAQI MODERATE FRONT ORGANIZERS CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (S) Summary: In the latest meeting of political leaders quietly organizing a moderate front, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made clear his desire to keep their effort out of the media and expressed frustration at the front's lack of progress thus far. Usual participant Sunni VP Tariq al [...] | 2006-12-12 12:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4529 | MCNS DECEMBER 3 [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: During the December 3 Ministerial Council on National Security, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki: -- Responded to reports of attacks on downtown Baghdad banks and government ministries by calling for "Green Zone" like security zones in strategic areas of the capital; [...] | 2006-12-12 13:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PINS PGOV PNAT PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4530 | MCNS DECEMBER 10 [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: During the December 10 Ministerial Council on National Security, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked for options to rapidly restore security to the area around the Bayji Oil Refinery so that production may resume. Ministers also discussed increasing prison security a [...] | 2006-12-12 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER PNAT MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4531 | SENIOR DAWA PARTY LEADER OFFERS SHI'A PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Senior Dawa party leader and vice-chairman of the Shi'a coalition Ali al-Adeeb told PolCouns on December 6 that negotiations on the Independent Higher Election Commission (IHEC) had reached an impasse because the Kurds, specifically Masoud Barzani, would not accept national comm [...] | 2006-12-12 14:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4534 | GOI ENERGY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES HYDROCARBON LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-13 07:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4536 | IRAQ COMPACT: DEC 10 BCG MEETING CREATES "A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 10, 2006 Iraq,s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki convened a session of the Baghdad Coordination Group (BCG) attended by several Ambassadors posted in Baghdad, including Ambassador Khalilzad. Deputy Prime Minister Salih and three key GOI Ministers including Planning, [...] | 2006-12-13 09:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN IZ |
06BAGHDAD454 | GROUPS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE SHIA COALITION PONDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurdish leadership, Ayad Allawi, and Tawafuq leaders met the morning of February 13 to consider their reaction to Ibrahim al-Jafari's nomination to the premiership. Their discussions included two options: (a) forging a contract with Jafari on the basis of a clear government [...] | 2006-02-14 15:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4549 | IRAQ COMPACT: DEC 10 BCG MEETING CREATES "A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 10, 2006 Iraq,s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki convened a session of the Baghdad Coordination Group (BCG) attended by several Ambassadors posted in Baghdad, including Ambassador Khalilzad. Deputy Prime Minister Salih and three key GOI Ministers including Planning, [...] | 2006-12-14 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
06BAGHDAD455 | COMMITTEE TO ADDRESS SUNNI HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS ? [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 7 Deputy Prime Minister Abid Mutlaq Hamud al-Jabburi told us that Prime Minister Jafari had given him oral instructions to form an investigative committee to address human rights issues and complaints lodged against the Iraqi security forces. The Prime Minister refe [...] | 2006-02-14 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4552 | MASHHADANI UPDATES AMBASSADOR ON HIS NATIONAL BLOC [...] (S) SUMMARY. Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani told the Ambassador December 11 that approximately 100 CoR members are in agreement with the National Bloc proposal he presented to the CoR December 5. He said the National Bloc could be in formal opposition to the modera [...] | 2006-12-14 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4554 | PM STANISHEV SAYS BULGARIA TO CONSIDER EXTENDING [...] (C) Summary: Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev told the Ambassador December 12 that Bulgaria will decide in March whether to extend its troop contribution to MNF-I, following the ongoing U.S. policy review on Iraq. Stanishev sought the Ambassador's views on prospects for reducing sect [...] | 2006-12-14 13:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS BU IZ |
06BAGHDAD4555 | MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION DISCUSSES UNIVERSITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Minister of Higher Education Abd Dhiyab al-Ajili told the Ambassador December 13 that he had not discouraged students and staff from going to universities. He stressed the lack of adequate security for the students. The Minister acknowledged the need to take strong action and said [...] | 2006-12-14 13:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4557 | IRAQIYYA PARLIAMENTARY BLOC LEADER MOUSA DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Iraqiyya Council of Representatives (CoR) bloc leader Hameed Majeed Mousa told the Ambassador December 12 that Iraqiyya bloc leader and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi feels he has been marginalized and excluded from the decision-making. Mousa acknowledged at the same time that [...] | 2006-12-14 15:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4560 | PRT WEEKLY SUMMARY FOR THE PERIOD 1 - 7 DECEMBER 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: This summary of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) activities for December 1-7, 2006, as provided by PRTs to the National Coordination Team at Embassy Baghdad. This report also includes PRTs' observations, views and assessments of the political, economic, infrastructure, r [...] | 2006-12-14 15:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER PINS SOCI KJUS KDEM ECON EFIN |
06BAGHDAD4564 | PM TELLS CODEL MCCAIN BETTER WEAPONS AND QUICKER [...] (S) Summary. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told CODEL McCain December 13 that Iraq did not need more U.S. troops, but rather access to better weapons for Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to win against militias and insurgents. He agreed with the CODEL that Iraq needed to "work quickly" to demonstr [...] | 2006-12-14 18:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4568 | Visit to Iranian Refugee Settlement in Iraqi Kurdistan [...] (SBU) RRT Officer and U.S. Civil Affairs Team Leader, 25th Infantry Division, visited Barika Refugee Open Settlement for Iranian Kurdish refugees in Sulaimaniyah Province in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on December 6. By way of background, the settlement is home to approximately 277 Iranian K [...] | 2006-12-15 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4571 | AL ANBAR: IRAQI SOLDIERS DISCUSS GOI, [...] (U) This is a PRT Al Anbar cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Al Anbar PolOff met in early and mid-December 2006 with several Iraqi Army (IA) and Iraqi Police (IP) units and Coalition trainers December 4-6 based near Fallujah to discuss Baghdad violence, CF training efforts, GOI logistical support, an [...] | 2006-12-15 15:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4572 | BAGHDAD CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM UNDER STRESS [...] (U) THIS IS A BAGHDAD PRT REPORTING CABLE. PAGE 02 RUEHGBA4572 C O N F I D E N T I A L 2. (C) SUMMARY: ALTHOUGH FUNCTIONING, THE BAGHDAD CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS EXHIBITING STRESSES THAT, UNLESS CORRECTED, WILL SERIOUSLY INHIBIT ITS LONG-TERM EFFECTIVENESS AND SUCCESS. INADEQUATE I [...] | 2006-12-15 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4574 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MODERATE FRONT, SYRIA, VISIT [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Council of Representative (CoR) member Sayyed Ayad Jamal al-Din (Iraqiyya) December 15 to discuss Iraqiyya's involvement in the new Moderate Front (reftel). Jamal al-Din requested the Ambassador's support to facilitate a trip to the US for a three-person I [...] | 2006-12-15 16:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4576 | SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS AT IRAQI PORTS OF ENTRY [...] (C) Summary. The GOI is plagued by what seems a never ending stream of problems involving imports of vitally needed goods from petroleum products to grain. Smugglers, including terrorists and militias, seem to have little difficulty bringing people and weapons into the country. The Ports of [...] | 2006-12-16 12:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETLN EWWT EAGR ETRD PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4579 | JAPANESE AMBASSADOR REPORTS ON LOAN PROJECT, LOOKS [...] (C) Summary: The Japanese Ambassador to Iraq, Hisao Yamaguchi, briefed Ambassador Khalilzad on Japanese government concessionary loans to various projects in Iraq, totaling approximately USD 1.6 billion. Japan will pledge additional funds to Iraq's reconstruction in the next meeting of the In [...] | 2006-12-16 14:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN JA IZ |
06BAGHDAD4581 | UNAMI DEPUTY DISCUSSES DRAWDOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 12, DCM met with UN Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary-General (DSRSG) Michael von der Schulenburg to express strong concern over the signal the UN decision to draw down UNAMI's in-country staff would send and the ability of UNAMI to stay meaningfully engag [...] | 2006-12-16 14:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM PREL IO IZ |
06BAGHDAD4582 | IRAQI PRESIDENT TELLS CODEL MCCAIN NEW TACTICS, [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi President Talabani declared to a congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) December 13 that new tactics and more weapons are crucial elements to stabilizing Iraq. He said the American people need to understand the positive consequences of deposing Saddam Hu [...] | 2006-12-16 17:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OVIP IZ |
06BAGHDAD4583 | NINEWA: TURCOMANS IN TAL,AFAR ON KIRKUK [...] (C) Members of the Iraqi Turcoman Front (ITF) in Tal,Afar blamed security problems on oppressed locals, in a meeting with PRT Ninewa IPAO. They also noted that the Turcomans in Tal,Afar were not represented by the district leadership, which they called &isolated8 from average citizens. The s [...] | 2006-12-16 19:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD4584 | NINEWA: SINJAR ANOTHER KRG OUTPOST [...] (C) The mayor of the Ninewa district of Sinjar believes that his district will vote to join Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) controlled provinces, if a referendum on disputed territories is held. The leadership in his district is dominated by Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) members and t [...] | 2006-12-16 19:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD459 | JAFARI HOPES TO FORM CABINET WITHIN 30 DAYS [...] (C) Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari told the Ambassador in a February 13 meeting that he was humbled by his re-election by the Shia coalition and hopes to build on lessons of past mistakes. Jafari said he plans to appoint a team of negotiators to oversee the government formation process with [...] | 2006-02-14 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4591 | GOI MINISTRY OF FINANCE TARIFF STEERING COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary. Emboffs met with three members of the Ministry of Finance Tariff Steering Committee on December 7, 2006, and were told that the GOI needs USG assistance to finalize its tariff legislation. On the GOI's plans for the reconstruction levy, the committee members said that a proposal [...] | 2006-12-17 11:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL PGOV JO IZ |
06BAGHDAD4593 | REQUEST FOR DEMARCH ON UNAMI DRAWDOWN [...] (C) This is an Action Request for the Department. See paras 7 and 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: UN Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi sent a cable on November 27 to HQ UN which recommended a major reduction of staff in Iraq. Under this recommendation, which was quickly [...] | 2006-12-17 11:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM IO IZ |
06BAGHDAD46 | AMBASSADOR ADVISES IECI ON RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 2 meeting with IECI commissioners, the Ambassador encouraged the IECI Board to be careful announcing election results before the international observer group presents its own findings, lest those findings undercut the IECI. Recognizing that the IECI faced its own pr [...] | 2006-01-05 18:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD460 | MINISTRIES PURSUE AD HOC PRIVATIZATION (OR IS IT [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) Summary. Various Iraqi ministries are leading initiatives to privatize state-owned enterprises. Recently endorsed by a Council of Ministers order, these initiatives (of which the Ministry of Industry and Minerals' plan to sell two cement companies is the most-developed) are a [...] | 2006-02-14 16:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV KPRV PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4604 | PRT TIKRIT: THE POST-SADDAM BA'ATH PARTY: [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY. Support for the Ba'ath Party remains strong in Salah ad Din (SaD); however, the party's supporters are not a monolith. At the extremes are those actively promoting the insurgency and those willing to engage in the democratic [...] | 2006-12-18 10:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4605 | WOMEN,S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS GRADE COUNCIL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: A group of prominent women's rights activists gathered in early December to critique the government institutions that most affect their work. Speaking on issues beyond just women's rights, the group expressed the view that none of the three bodies that most influence their activit [...] | 2006-12-18 10:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KWMN PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4607 | GOI TRADE MINISTER ON TARIFFS, WTO ACCESSION [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Trade Dr. Abdul Falah al-Soudani told Commercial Counselor and Emboffs on December 13 that while he is not in favor of high tariffs, he does not agree with maintaining one level of tariff rates for all products. He raised the idea that the GOI should provide incenti [...] | 2006-12-18 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4609 | IRAQI LEADERS FROM FIVE PARTIES ENDORSE MODERTAE [...] (S) As relayed to the Ambassador by KRG President Masoud Barzani and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on the evening of December 16, leaders of SCIRI, Dawa, KDP, PUK, and IIP met December 16 and endorsed the creation of a moderate front. The leaders gave a committee 24 hours to draft the front's [...] | 2006-12-18 15:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4612 | ANOTHER SENIOR DAWA FIGURE QUESTIONS THE MODERATE [...] (S) Falih al-Fiyadh, a senior Dawa figure who is a member of the Council of Representatives (CoR) and of the High Commission for National Reconciliation, told PolCouns December 17 that he had serious doubts about the efficacy and utility of and the intentions behind the emerging moderate fron [...] | 2006-12-18 19:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4613 | POLITICAL PARTIES CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON KEY THEMES [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of State for Reconciliation and National Dialogue hosted the much anticipated political parties conference December 16-17 in Baghdad. The GOI intends for this conference to be one in a series of political party conferences although future dates have not been announced. [...] | 2006-12-18 19:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4616 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES THE OIL LAW AND [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih met with Charge d'Affairs Daniel Speckhard on December 18 and discussed the issues raised in Prime Minister Maliki's speech at the National Reconciliation Summit on December 16. Specific topics include the oil law, the 2007 GOI budget negotiatio [...] | 2006-12-19 10:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
06BAGHDAD462 | MINISTRY OF INTERIOR INTERNAL AFFAIRS CHIEF [...] (S) Summary: Ministry of Interior Director for Internal Affairs Brigadier General Ahmed Taha Al Mosawi (strictly protect) told Poloff February 8 that he has evidence linking MoI Commandos to widespread abductions and extra-judicial killings. Saying that he was too fearful for his life and the [...] | 2006-02-14 20:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4620 | PRT TIKRIT: FARMERS STRUGGLING IN IRAQ,S [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The growth of the agricultural sector is essential in Salah ad Din, a rural province in the Sunni heartland largely lacking many of the natural resources of its neighbors. Farmers in Salah ad Din face a number of significant [...] | 2006-12-19 13:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR IZ IR |
06BAGHDAD4622 | DISABLED IN IRAQ: HANDICAPPED SOCIETY DESCRIBES [...] (C) Summary. Members of the Iraqi Handicapped Society (IHS) told Emboffs December 13 that physically and mentally handicapped persons continued to be marginalized in Iraq, receiving little political attention or services from the government. "In the old regime, Saddam paid little attention [...] | 2006-12-19 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ |
06BAGHDAD4625 | BARZANI AND TALABANI DISCUSS PKK, TURKISH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In recent meetings the Ambassador raised Turkish concerns about a possible resurgence in PKK activity with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani (KDP) and Iraq President Jalal Talabani(PUK). In separate meetings both Barzani and Talabani commented that the [...] | 2006-12-19 17:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD4628 | DCM DISCUSSES ECON SURGE AND ESCAPED CON WITH PM'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Chief of Mission Speckhard met with Dr. Tariq Abdullah, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Maliki on December 19 to discuss plans for an economic surge and to share information on the case of escaped ex-electricity minister Aiham Sammarae. The COS was receptive to the DCM's i [...] | 2006-12-20 03:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4629 | DCM AND PM'S COS DISCUSS PM'S SPEECHES, POLITICAL [...] (C) Deputy Chief of Mission Ambassador Daniel Speckhard hosted Dr. Tariq Abdullah, Chef of Staff to the Prime Minister, for an informal working dinner on December 17, 2006 to discuss follow up to the Prime Minister's speech the previous day at the National Reconciliation Summit. The COS recog [...] | 2006-12-20 03:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD463 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: HIZBALLAH LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi politicos are still adjusting to the victory of incumbent Prime Minister Jafari being named again by the Shia Islamist Coalition to be its prime minister nominee. A key element of the Shia Coalition, the SCIRI party, is worried about the rising influence of the rival Sad [...] | 2006-02-14 20:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD4630 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBER DISCUSSES THE [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Amirah Al Baldawi (UIA-independent) discussed her work on the Economic Committee at the Council of Representatives (CoR) with Emboffs on December 18. She believes that signing the International Compact is an important step, wants a limited role for the government in the econo [...] | 2006-12-20 07:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4631 | VP ABDEL MEHDI DESCRIBES "SETBACK" IN MODERATE [...] (S) Summary: Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on December 19 that there haQbeen a "setback" in negotiations oQthe moderate front. The IIP representative had come to the most recent meeting with a set of conditions that had to be filled before the party would join. Th [...] | 2006-12-20 09:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4634 | AL-ANBAR PRT: RAMADI POLICE RECRUITS SEEK JOB [...] (C) SUMMARY. Over 200 Anbari men from Ramadi and surrounding towns turned out on December 17 for the first day of a three-day recruiting drive for the Iraqi police forces. Many applicants cited job security as the main motivation for their interest in joining the Iraqi police. While they we [...] | 2006-12-20 14:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS PHUM ASEC KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4637 | AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR AGREES TO REQUEST DEMARCHE [...] (C) In a December 19 meeting, the Ambassador discussed the UN drawdown with his Australian counterpart, Ambassador Marc Innes-Brown (ref A). The Ambassador stressed the importance of a robust UN presence in Iraq, emphasizing that the UN was the most appropriate body to take the lead on issues [...] | 2006-12-20 16:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IO IZ |
06BAGHDAD4638 | CHALABI DISCUSSES RECENT TRAVEL TO SYRIA WITH [...] (S) In a December 15 meeting, Ahmed Chalabi discussed his recent trip to Syria with the Ambassador and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani. In an unofficial visit, Chalabi met with Syrian officials including Vice President Farouk al-Shara, Foreign Minister Walid al-Mu [...] | 2006-12-20 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS EPET SY IZ |
06BAGHDAD4639 | PRIME MINISTER MALIKI DISCUSSES MODERATE FRONT AND [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki discussed Iraq's political achievements, the formation of a moderate political front, terrorism and militias, and the role of neighboring countries during a December 17 meeting with Senators Dodd and Kerry, accompanied by the Ambassador and DCM. Whi [...] | 2006-12-20 16:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4650 | DHI QAR POLITICAL LANDSCAPE PART I: THE GOVERNOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar cable, the first in a series of six cables covering the political landscape of Dhi Qar Province and responding to the information request in reftel. This cable focuses on the Dhi Qar governor. 2. (SBU) Summary: The formal political institutions of Dhi Qar Provinc [...] | 2006-12-21 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4651 | IRAQI LEADERS FROM FIVE PARTIES ENDORSE MODERATE [...] (S) As relayed to the Ambassador by KRG President Masoud Barzani and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, leaders of SCIRI, Dawa, KDP, PUK, and IIP met on the evening of December 16 and endorsed the creation of a moderate front. The leaders gave a committee 24 hours to draft the front's institution [...] | 2006-12-21 15:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD4652 | SUNNI LEADER DISCUSSES IIP DEMANDS FOR JOINING [...] (S) Summary: Minister of Planning and senior Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) leader, Ali Baban, explained to the Ambassador in a December 19 meeting his party's concerns about participating in the moderate front before their recently presented demands have been met. IIP needs to demonstrate to thei [...] | 2006-12-21 15:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4653 | AL-HAKIM AND AMBASSADOR REVIEW POLITICAL AND [...] (C) Summary: SCIRI leader Abdulaziz al-Hakim told the Ambassador on December 19 that discussions on the moderate front were continuing but no agreement had been reached. He said that the IIP had raised some questions, and he also criticized the IIP for supporting a recent conference in Istanb [...] | 2006-12-21 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4654 | THE SECURITY SITUATION IN ANBAR: A YEAR-END REVIEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (S) Summary. The security situation in Anbar is typically described as "deteriorating," and there is little doubt that the enemy is deeply rooted here and ruthlessly pursues its goals. However, AQI is on the defensive. The organization may hav [...] | 2006-12-21 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS ASEC PHUM KDEM PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4656 | UN SRSG QAZI'S RESPONSE TO DRAWDOWN CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador expressed strong concern December 20 to UN Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi over a planned UNAMI reduction of staff in Iraq. The Ambassador pressed Qazi on the reason for the drawdown and stressed the continuing need for strong UN enga [...] | 2006-12-21 18:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM IO UN IZ |
06BAGHDAD4666 | CHALABI AGREES TO CONCESSIONS ON DE-BAATH REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 20 meeting, Chairman of the De-Baathification Commission Ahmed Chalabi told the Ambassador that reform of de-Baath procedures was necessary, but cautioned against blanket decisions that reached too far. The Ambassador emphasized the need for balance, and pressed Cha [...] | 2006-12-22 13:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4667 | PM COMMITS TO UNVEILING AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY ON [...] (S) Summary. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki December 20 told the Ambassador he sought decisive action with the development of a new plan for security in Baghdad and agreed to announce the new plan at a speech in coming days. He also agreed with the importance of following through with his com [...] | 2006-12-22 14:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4672 | IRAQI PRESIDENT TALABANI PROVIDES SECDEF SECURITY [...] (S) Summary: President Jalal Talabani emphasized to Secretary of Defense Gates and the Ambassador December 20 his SIPDIS firm belief that Iraqi Security Forces should be on the frontlines of Iraq's internal conflict while Coalition Forces should be in a support role. He provided a list of [...] | 2006-12-22 17:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD4673 | IRAQI PRESIDENT TALABANI'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR [...] (S) Summary: President Jalal Talabani provided in Arabic a list of his recommendations for Baghdad security, during a December 20 meeting with Secretary of Defense Gates and the Ambassador (septel). Among other recommendations, Talabani calls for a unified Iraqi military command in Baghdad; t [...] | 2006-12-22 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD4680 | SULAIMANIYAH GOVERNOR ON REGIONAL ISSUES, PESHMERGA [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with RRToff, the Governor of Sulaimaniyah Province contrasted continued Arab Shia and Sunni fighting with the Kurdistan Region,s stability and unity. The Governor opposed dissolution of the Peshmerga. He noted that due to the efficiency of the Asayish (secret polic [...] | 2006-12-24 03:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS EAID IZ |
06BAGHDAD4682 | ISG Report criticized by Speaker of Iraqi Kurdish [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Adnan Mufti, Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil, Iraq, sent the Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) identical copies of a letter to President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, a [...] | 2006-12-24 07:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD4690 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT AND IRAQ [...] (SBU) Action request, see para 11. 2. (C) Summary. Post has been working actively to engage the GOI on enforcement of the Arab League Boycott (ALB),since Iraq's status was changed to "under review" in June 2006. Post has discussed with the GOI the particular problems four U.S. companies ( [...] | 2006-12-24 11:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV KBCT PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4692 | GAINING SUPPORT FOR ERBIL AGRICULTURAL PROJECT [...] Summary. During December 11-14 Multi-National Forces-Iraq Civil Military Office (MNF-I CMO) and Econoff traveled to Erbil to discuss construction of facilities for honey production and a farmers' market in northern Iraq with Multi-National Division-North East (MND-NE) at Camp Zaytun. The grou [...] | 2006-12-24 12:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4696 | AL-HASHIMI DISCUSSES US TRIP, MODERATE FRONT, [...] (S) Summary. Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi (Iraqi Islamic Party - IIP) discussed his recent trip to the US and emphasized his desire to speak with Secretary of Defense Gates. On the Moderate Front, al-Hashimi stated that he wanted a "systematic" approach which included guarantees, ti [...] | 2006-12-24 13:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD4698 | SECDEF MEETS WITH IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM [...] (S) SUMMARY: During Secretary of Defense Gates' December 21 meeting with Minister of Defense Abdul Qader Mufraji, Minister of Interior Jawad Bolani and National Security Advisor Mowaffuk al-Rubaie, Iraq's key security officials focused on institutional challenges and capacity building. They al [...] | 2006-12-24 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD47 | IRAQI ELECTION COMMISSION DISQUALIFIES IRAQI VOTE [...] (C) On January 4, Commissioner Safwat Sidqi told Poloff that the IECI Board had disqualified all of the Istanbul votes due to strong evidence of fraud. Ninety-five percent of these votes, estimated between 10,000-20,000, were for the Iraqi Turkman Front. The disqualification of these votes w [...] | 2006-01-06 12:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PHUM |
06BAGHDAD4706 | IRAQI DEPUTY NSA,S VIEWS ON SECURITY, ELECTIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (S/REL MCFI) Summary. Iraqi Deputy National Security Advisor Safa expressed his views on a variety of issues to Anbar PRT Poloff. Safa commented on the positive impact of increased U.S. troop presence, his interpretation of the evolving securit [...] | 2006-12-26 07:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4715 | MCNS DECEMBER 17 [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Salam Al-Zubai presided over the December 17 Ministerial Council on National Security, and discussed his trip to the Bayji area to observe security operations against Al Qaeda. Ministers again discussed increasing prison security. Minister of D [...] | 2006-12-26 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PNAT PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4717 | HAMOUDI ON THE MODERATE FRONT: "WE WILL GET THERE [...] (C) Summary: Sheikh Humam Hamoudi, SCIRI's leader at the Council of Representatives (CoR),told PolCouns December 20 that the Constitutional Review Committee had formed three subcommittees to pursue its work: one would focus on the major political issues, the second on completing unfinished wo [...] | 2006-12-26 16:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4721 | SHI'A INDEPENDENT ON SISTANI, NEW POLITICAL FRONT, [...] (C) Summary: Khalid al-Attiyah, Shi'a independent and First Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR),gave Charge a readout of his December 23 trip to Najaf. Al-Attiyah and several other Shi'a leaders, primarily from the Dawa party, visited Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Muqtada al [...] | 2006-12-27 06:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD4727 | GOI HIGH INTER-MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON IRAQI [...] (SBU) Action request, see para 11. 2. (C) Summary. Dr. Dahill, one of Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih's Senior Staff, told Emboff on December 19, 2006 that the GOI High Inter-Ministerial Committee on Iraqi Assets is reviewing all former regime assets in other countries that are f [...] | 2006-12-27 13:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KTFN PREL PGOV |
06BAGHDAD4728 | PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL BUDGET EXECUTION PART I: [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (U) This is the first of three cables regarding the budget execution process in Salah ad Din province. 3. (C) SUMMARY. A dysfunctional budget execution process hampers democratic governance and economic development in Salah ad Din (SaD). [...] | 2006-12-27 14:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
06BAGHDAD4729 | PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL BUDGET EXECUTION PART II: [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (U) This is the second of three cables regarding budget execution in Salah ad Din province. 3. (C) SUMMARY. Budget execution in Salah ad Din (SaD) is neither timely nor equitable. Lacking the processes necessary to guarantee transparency [...] | 2006-12-27 14:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
06BAGHDAD4734 | ACTIVITIES OF NORWEGIAN OIL COMPANY SUBSIDIARY IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. The General Manager of the oil company "DNO Iraq AS" told RRT Off that DNO Iraq AS completed a number of seismic studies in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region between May and October 2006. He forecast a robust first quarter of oil production and an ambitious plan to build 18 wells in 20 [...] | 2006-12-28 10:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EFIN IZ PINR |
06BAGHDAD4738 | PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL BUDGET EXECUTION PART III: [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (U) This is the third of three cables regarding budget execution in Salah ad Din province (ref A and B). 3. (SBU) SUMMARY. PRT Salah ad Din is engaged with the provincial government on an almost daily basis in order to help create an effi [...] | 2006-12-28 13:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
06BAGHDAD4745 | MINISTER OF FINANCE DISCUSSES THE 2007 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr (Shia - SCIRI) told the Treasury Attache in a December 24 meeting that "all the Ministers are happy with the 2007 budget, because we gave them what they needed", including $10 billion in capital investment projects and over $7 billion for security m [...] | 2006-12-28 15:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
06BAGHDAD4746 | COR ECONOMIC COMMITTEE CHAIR ON 2007 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: In a December 25 meeting with Acting Economic Minister-Counselor and Treasury Attache, the Chair of the Economic Committee at the Council of Representatives Dr. Haider Abadi (Shi'a - Da'wa) discussed the 2007 draft budget. The executive branch sent the budget to the Council of R [...] | 2006-12-28 15:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
06BAGHDAD4748 | SECURITY OF PALESTINIANS IN BAGHDAD DETERIORATING [...] (C) Summary: Nine Palestinians were killed on December 13 when several mortars hit their housing compound in Baghdad. The hits were likely deliberate, and follow a series of attacks, kidnappings, threats and harassment against Palestinians. Iraqi officials lament this violence and admit th [...] | 2006-12-28 19:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF IZ |
06BAGHDAD475 | GOI, EMBASSY AND DFID EXPECTING BIDS FOR [...] (SBU) On February 12, Embassy ECON and PAS, together with the Iraqi Government Communications Directorate (GCD) and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID),met with two Iraqi production companies to present our request for proposals for TV and radio ads. All said they had t [...] | 2006-02-15 17:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EFIN PGOV ECON KCOR KPAO OPRC IZ |
06BAGHDAD4754 | BAGHDAD GOVERNATE: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad's prevailing political and security issue remains sectarian violence between Sunni and Shi'a, including the spreading influence of the Jash al Mahdi (JAM) militia. Many families continue to leave Baghdad, including doctors, educators and business owners, leaving critica [...] | 2006-12-29 17:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4755 | DIYALA: THE ISSUES, LEADERS, POSSIBLE STEPS FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Diyala is a mixed Province. Although the Sunni represent a majority, they are underrepresented in the Provincial Government due to their boycott of the January 2005 provincial elections. With a Shi'a minority government trying to exert control over a Sunni-supported insurgency [...] | 2006-12-29 17:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4756 | MAYSAN: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, POSSIBLE STEPS [...] (S) Summary: Maysan provincial authorities hold tenuous control over competing militias in the province, with Sadrists holding the most sway. Maysan's porous border with Iran is a crossing point for smuggled goods, including weapons and other contraband used by anti-Iraqi government groups. [...] | 2006-12-29 17:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4758 | Media Reaction: Barzani Says Americans Will Not Stay [...] (U) SUMMARY: Speaking in everyday language directly to the Kurdish people, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani made a statement to a special session of the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) on December 26 in which he downplayed the significance of the Iraq Study Gro [...] | 2006-12-29 21:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER EPET KPAO KMDR US IZ |
06BAGHDAD4759 | ANBAR PROVINCE -- THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, STEPS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-29 21:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD476 | FORMER OIL MINISTER GHADBAN ON OIL SECTOR'S FUTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Transitional National Assembly (TNA) member and former Minister of Oil Thamar Ghadban said on February 12 that he and others in the GOI have concerns over potential corruption and improper activities at the Ministry of Oil by Fadhila party members since they took over the Ministry [...] | 2006-02-15 18:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD4765 | DIWANYAH: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, POSSIBLE STEPS [...] (S) Summary: Diwaniyah is a province with a number of problems. Security is weak and the reconstruction process is virtually halted. Restarting the reconstruction process could provide an alternative to young men with a desire for employment, but that is only part of the solution. Free and [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4766 | DHI QAR PROVINCE: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, [...] (S) Summary: Dhi Qar is a largely rural province, where tribal loyalties are still very strong. Four Shi'a parties largely control provincial politics, with the help of affiliated militias. Reccurrent electricity shortages affect Dhi Qar particularly hard since farmers need electricity to pow [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4767 | KARBALA PROVINCE: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, [...] (S) Summary: Karbala, like nearby Najaf, is home to a number of Shi'a religious sites and has become an important tourist destination. Four Shi'a parties control local politics. The JAM is increasing in power. The province recently transferred from CF Control to Provincial Iraqi Control (PI [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4768 | THE KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ: THE ISSUES, THE [...] (C) Summary: The Kurdistan Region of Iraq is flourishing compared to the rest of Iraq, and is actively recruiting foreign investment and even international tourism. The Kurdish region is generally much more secure than the rest of the country, although illicit trafficking in arms, fighters [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4769 | TA'MIM PROVINCE AND KIRKUK: THE ISSUES, THE [...] (S) Summary: Kirkuk's most divisive issue in Kirkuk remains Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution which dictates that normalization, a census and a referendum on Kirkuk,s future status occur before December 31, 2007. The Kurds are pushing for the process to go forward in order to tie Kirkuk [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4770 | BASRAH PROVINCE: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, [...] (S) Summary: Basrah province is home to Iraq,s second largest city and has an estimated population of 2.4 million, the majority of which are Shi,a. Basrah is also Iraq,s economic center; over 80 % of the country,s commerce passes through its ports. Security concerns center around targeted [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4771 | MUTHANNA: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, POSSIBLE STEPS [...] (S) Summary: Muthanna is beset by militia intimidation -- notably by the Jash al Mahdi (JAM) -- power shortages, and poor economic performance. That said, the province is currently stable, relatively secure, and has a reasonably effective provincial government. MNF-I efforts could be effec [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4772 | BABIL PROVINCE: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, POSSIBLE [...] (S) Summary: Babil is a Shi'a majority province, with a significant disenfranchised Sunni population. The province lacks respected leaders and, as in other parts of Iraq, has witnessed a marked increase in religious extremism and militia activity. Iraqi Army personnel staffed entirely from [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4773 | WASIT: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, POSSIBLE STEPS [...] (C) Wasit has seen a significant rise in the influence of Sadrist politicians, who are likely to sweep the next provincial elections. Highly dependent on agriculture, the province is plagued by high employment and extreme shortages of all critical goods. An Iraqi-led effort to disarm militi [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4774 | SALAH AD DIN PROVINCE: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, [...] (C) Summary: Salah ad Din, a Ba'athist stronghold under the previous regime, has had difficulty finding itself in a democratic Iraq. Most of the Sunni majority in the Province do not support the insurgency, but at the same time are frustrated by a provincial government in which they do not [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4775 | NAJAF PROVINCE: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, POSSIBLE [...] (S) Summary: Najaf is dominated by the SCIRI party, which controls half the seats on the PC. As one of the holiest locations in Shi'a Islam, it is also home to the country's top religious leaders. The economy in Najaf continues to flourish as a result of tourism. Security has been relativ [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4776 | IRAQI KURDISTAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ADNAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Regional Coordinator and RRT Poloff, the Speaker of the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly Adnan Mufti criticized the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, alleged that the State Department does not take into account Kurdish needs, and said the Kurds have to r [...] | 2006-12-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4777 | IRAQI KURDISTAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ADNAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Regional Coordinator and RRT Poloff, the Speaker of the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly Adnan Mufti criticized the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, alleged that the State Department does not take into account Kurdish needs, and said the Kurds have to r [...] | 2006-12-30 01:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4778 | IRAQI KURDISTAN MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Human Rights, Yousif Mohammad Aziz, admitted an imperfect human rights record in a meeting with Regional Coordinator and RRTOffs on December 18. Minister Aziz acknowledged physical abuse in prisons, failure to release prisoners af [...] | 2006-12-30 01:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PINS KJUS KPAO US IZ |
06BAGHDAD4786 | ISG Report criticized by Speaker of Iraqi Kurdish [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Adnan Mufti, Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil, Iraq, sent the Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) identical copies of a letter to President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, a [...] | 2006-12-31 05:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD4790 | UPDATE ON IRANIAN KURDISH REFUGEES IN IRAQI [...] (C) SUMMARY. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees Officer-in-Charge (UNHCR OIC) for Sulaimaniyah Province in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region told RRT Off he is working with local officials to obtain rights for Iranian Kurdish refugees to limited government employment, drivers licenses, [...] | 2006-12-31 09:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD4791 | DHI QAR POLITICAL LANDSCAPE PART II: FADILA PARTY; [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar cable, the second in a series of six cables covering the political landscape of Dhi Qar Province and responding to the information request in ref B. This cable focuses on the Fadila party. 2. (C) Summary: Fadhila was founded and is led today by Ayatollah Mohamme [...] | 2006-12-31 09:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD48 | OIL SECTOR IN CENTER OF CONFLICT [...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Chalabi, who is now the acting Minister of both Oil and Finance, hosted a status review January 4 of energy infrastructure protection. Fuel convoys were reported to be delivering fuel to Baghdad. The convoys had been attacked multiple times [...] | 2006-01-06 14:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG PGOV KCOR PINR EFIN IZ PO TU |
06BAGHDAD480 | RE-ELECTED INDEPENDENT SHIA ISLAMIST [...] (C) At a February 14 introductory meeting, Hassan Radi Khadim al-Sari, leader of the Hezbollah Movement of Iraq Party, repeatedly railed against the Embassy for reaching out to Sunni "terrorists" and for ignoring the Shia. He said the U.S.-Shia relationship used to be a partnership, but that [...] | 2006-02-16 09:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR PINS PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD481 | SCHEMING IN BAGHDAD: SUNNI ARAB DESCRIBES PLAN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Allawi allies told us February 15 that the USG should urge Talabani to join with Sunni Arabs and Allawi to form a larger parliamentary bloc than that of the Shia Islamist List 555. Separately, Sunni Arab Tawafuq Front official Mahmoud al-Mashadani speculated that Sunni and Kurdi [...] | 2006-02-16 09:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM |
06BAGHDAD49 | INTERNATIONAL MONITOR GROUP'S GOAL TO ANNOUNCE [...] (C) In a January 5 meeting, the international monitoring group (IMIE) representative Mazen Chouib confirmed to Poloff that the IMIE assessment team's goal is to produce a preliminary statement on their findings before the Iraqi election commission (IECI) announces its own preliminary election [...] | 2006-01-06 15:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD490 | SADR CITY DAC MEMBERS PREDICT JA'FARI WIN WILL [...] (C) Sadr City District Advisory Council (DAC) chair Hassan Shama and Sadr City DAC member Dr. Haider Jabar Ziden told PolOff in a February 13 meeting that Prime Minister (PM) Ibrahim Ja'fari's renomination to the PM post will likely boost Sadrist influence in Sadr City. Ja'fari has thus far al [...] | 2006-02-16 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD495 | DPM CHALABI ON OIL MINISTRY CORRUPTION AND KURDISH [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi, newly provided with expanded authority over the energy sector, is wrestling for results with the military and civilian bureaucracies. On other subjects, Chalabi cited a recent comment by Kurdish Regional President Mas'ud Barzani o [...] | 2006-02-16 17:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET KCOR MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD496 | BAGHDAD PROVINCIAL COUNCIL MEMBERS PREDICTS [...] (C) Baghdad Provincial Council member and Sadr City resident Fatima Hassan al-Muqdadi told PolOff in a February 12 meeting that her Dawa Party would like to see 25 percent of provincial and local government representatives be female. Other political parties, she said, are actively recruiting [...] | 2006-02-16 19:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD497 | (U) KURDISH POLITICIAN MAHMUD OTHMAN: KIRKUK IS [...] (C) Summary: Kurdish government formation negotiating team member Dr. Mahmud Othman told PolOffs on February 15 that he stood by his comments in Al Dustour newspaper calling on Prime Minister- elect Ja'afari to commit publicly to resolving the Kirkuk issue. On Ja'afari nomination, Othman su [...] | 2006-02-16 20:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD498 | ZEBARI SAYS JAFARI DOES NOT HAVE LOCK ON [...] (C) SUMMARY FM Zebari told PolCouns February 16 that Jafari does not have a lock on the premiership, although Zebari doubted SCIRI and Fadhila would leave the Shia Coalition as that would be contrary to the wishes of Grand Ayatollah Sistani. SCIRI Chief of Staff Haitham al-Husseini, told Pol [...] | 2006-02-16 21:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM |
06BAGHDAD499 | INTERPRETATION OF ARTICLES 54 AND 55: COUNCIL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Article 54 of the new Iraqi Constitution requires that the Presidency Council issue a decree within fifteen days of the certification of election results to convene the Council of Representatives (CoR). It does not require the CoR to convene within 15 days of the certification o [...] | 2006-02-17 01:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD5 | SHIA POLITICO: JA'AFARI HAS TO GO [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on December 31 with Qassim Daoud, a moderate liberal in the Shia Alliance, the Ambassador stated that, while the ultimate decision rested with the Iraqi people, the U.S. Government, as a partner in the new Iraq wished to make its concerns clear. He laid out five mai [...] | 2006-01-02 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD500 | ITALIANS AGREE TO LEAD DHI QAR PRT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a February 12 meeting in Nasiriyah, Italian Ambassador to Iraq Gianludovico de Martino di Montegeiordano and Italian Joint Task Force Commander General Natalino Madeddu expressed enthusiasm to National Coordination Team (NCT) Director Greg Bates on forming and leading a [...] | 2006-02-17 08:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS PREL IZ IT |
06BAGHDAD501 | LEADERS OUTSIDE SHIA COALITION DISCUSS "NATIONAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: The leaders of the Kurdistan Alliance, Sunni Arab Tawafuq list, and Allawi's Iraqiyya List met on February 16 and agreed to work to form a united front to change the balance of power in the government formation process. Their first goal is a "National Salvation Front" that draws i [...] | 2006-02-17 08:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD507 | HAKIM LOOKING TO UNSEAT JAFARI WITHOUT BREAKING [...] (S) SUMMARY: SCIRI leader Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim told the Ambassador February 17 that he wanted to work to block Ibrahim al-Jafari's nomination without breaking the Shia coalition. Hakim said he had met with Ayatollah Sistani in Najaf February 16 and found that Sistani was unhappy with Jafari's [...] | 2006-02-17 18:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD508 | PM SENIOR ADVISOR PREDICTS GOVERNMENT FORMATION [...] (C) Summary. In a February 15 meeting, Jafari senior advisor Hassan Hamid Hassan Al-Seneid told PolOffs that the Shia Coalition has placed conditions on Jafari assuming the premiership, as well as on any other Shia Coalition holder of positions in the new government. He estimated that govern [...] | 2006-02-17 18:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD509 | FADHILA MEMBER AND SUNNI ARAB SHAYKH STRESS [...] SUMMARY: In a February 16 meeting, Fadhila Member Mohammed al-Kusai told PolOff that he doubted PM Jafari would be successful leading the new government. However, he maintained that the UIC 555 would seek to motivate Jafari to perform well. Also on February 16, an al-Dulaymi tribal leader lin [...] | 2006-02-17 19:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD51 | (U) DAWA MEMBERS THINK SHIA COALITION STILL FAR [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings, senior Dawa Party members Ali al-Adeeb and Jawad al-Maliki thought the decision on whom the Shia Islamist camp would put forward as prime minister is still some distance off. They both acknowledged tough competition between current Prime Minister, and Dawa l [...] | 2006-01-07 14:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD510 | DECLARED SHIA INDEPENDENT WORRIES ABOUT FRACTIOUS [...] (C) At a February 16 introductory meeting, independent Shia Coalition member Shatha Mosa Sadiq al-Mousawi expressed her strong resentment toward the Embassy for reaching out to Ayad Allawi and Sunni "Ba'thists" and for "ignoring" the Shia. She warned that public perception about Americans is [...] | 2006-02-17 20:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PINR KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD511 | DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY PERSONNEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Multi-National Security Transition Command Iraq (MNSTC-I) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Attache and Country Director have agreed to submit the following request for DHS specialists to assist the GOI in controlling its borders and ports of entry (POEs) for CY 20 [...] | 2006-02-18 13:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PBTS ASEC EAIR SMIG PARM IZ |
06BAGHDAD515 | IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary. Maysoon Ahmad Bekr, head of women's programs for the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),and Shatha Abd al-Razzak, IIP member of the Council of Representatives from Salah al-Din province and a member of the Iraq's Promise (Ahad al-Iraq) movement, told Poloff February 16 that the IIP wome [...] | 2006-02-18 21:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR KDEM KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD516 | FORMER EXILE IRAQI BUSINESSMAN DESCRIBES [...] (C) Summary. Former exile Iraqi businessman Muhanned Eshaiker, cousin to Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari, described the challenges of doing business in Baghdad: when and whether to pay bribes, the difficulty of finding qualified, energetic professional workers, and keeping up with the politic [...] | 2006-02-19 04:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON KCOR IZ |
06BAGHDAD517 | KIU OFFICIALS SAY THEY,RE JOINING KURDISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 15 meeting, Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) head Salah ad-Din Baha al-Din informed Ambassador that the KIU decided to join the Kurdistan Alliance (KA) after weeks of pressure from the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Ku [...] | 2006-02-19 14:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD518 | JAFARI DISDAINS "BACKROOM CONVERSATIONS" ON PM [...] (C) In a February 18 meeting with Ambassador, Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari agreed that the pace of government formation is too slow and lamented the absence of a set negotiating mechanism. When asked about his approach for securing his own premiership by a two-thirds vote in the Council of R [...] | 2006-02-19 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD519 | COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SYG REQUESTS USG HELP TO HIRE [...] (S) SUMMARY: On February 13, the day after the United Iraqi Coalition (UIC) nominated Ibrahim Jafari for Prime Minister, Council of Ministers Secretary-General (SYG) Emad Dhia al-Khirsan told PolOffs that Jafari knows there were weaknesses in his administration. Dhia said that he is trying t [...] | 2006-02-19 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD52 | SHIA ALLIANCE LEADERS BLAME MNF-I AND SUNNIS FOR [...] (S/REL) SUMMARY: A Shia Coalition "security committee" told the Ambassador and MNF-I Deputy Commanding General (DCG) that the level of violence in Iraq since the election has prompted community and religious leaders to call for taking measures to defend themselves. The committee members said [...] | 2006-01-07 17:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD53 | (U) SENIOR DAWA MEMBER ON THE SECURITY SITUATION: [...] (C/REL TO MNF-I) In a meeting with senior Dawa Party member Ali al-Adeeb on January 3, al-Adeeb blamed the Iraqi government's difficulties with the security situation on the "interference of American advisors." Al-Adeeb complained that the Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr was being restrained [...] | 2006-01-08 07:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD534 | SADRISTS EXTEND HAND AS PLOT AGAINST JAFARI [...] (S) SUMMARY: A Sadrist leader presented a flexible approach to government negotiations in a February 19 conversation with the Ambassador, but, in a subsequent meeting, Ayad Allawi and Kurdistan President Masud Barzani made clear that they want to continue to develop plans to upend Jafari's nom [...] | 2006-02-20 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD537 | TRIAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN - SESSIONS 11 AND 12 [...] (S) SUMMARY: The eleventh and twelfth sessions of the Ad Dujayl trial continued with witness testimony and minimal difficulties related to the defendants' previous refusal to attend trial. The Court now has received evidence from all but one witness. In a surprise move, however, the Chief J [...] | 2006-02-21 07:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD544 | GROUPS OUTSIDE SHIA COALITION START WORK ON [...] (S) In an evening meeting on February 20 at President Talabani's residence, leaders of the Kurdistan Alliance, Tawafuq Front, and the Allawi list agreed to accelerate the government formation process and to calm the tense Iraqi public. Ambassador attended the meeting, which included a readout [...] | 2006-02-21 12:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD548 | DANISH DCM COMMENTS ON CARTOON CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Danish DCM Torkild Byg told Poloff February 20 that Denmark is getting mixed signals from the Iraqi Government on whether the Danes are welcome in Iraq in the aftermath of protests over publication of the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Foreign Minister Zebari and Defense Minister [...] | 2006-02-21 17:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV DA IZ |
06BAGHDAD549 | MUQTADA SADR DEBUTS ON AL-JAZEERA WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. Influential Iraqi politician Moqtada al- Sadr has emerged from relative media obscurity into the regional limelight with extensive travels and a remarkable interview on al-Jazeera on February 18. During a regional procession that included Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Syria and [...] | 2006-02-21 18:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO KISL OPRC IZ |
06BAGHDAD550 | DEPUTY TNA SPEAKER SPECULATES ON FUTURE [...] (C) In a February 16 meeting with Poloff, Deputy TNA Speaker Arif Taifour discussed the transition from the Transitional National Assembly to the Council of Representatives (CoR). He speculated that he or Fu'ad Ma'asum (leader of the Kurdish Alliance delegation in the TNA) would be a Deput [...] | 2006-02-21 19:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD551 | MINISTRY OF HUMAN RIGHTS LOSING ITS DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Minister of Human Rights Aida Ossairan told PolOff February 16 that she will leave the Ministry within the next two weeks to focus on her new role as a Council of Representatives member. In that capacity, she said, she will seek to head up the Human Rights Committee. Ossair [...] | 2006-02-21 19:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD552 | BASRAH GOVERNOR SAYS UK REPRESENTATIVE BOYCOTT NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 19 meeting with the Ambassador, Basrah Governor Mohammed Mossibh al-Wahili and Fadhila Party General Secretary Nadeem al-Jabiri said they do not favor the Basrah Provincial Council's (PC) boycott of UK representatives. The Governor said that he was in Italy for ten [...] | 2006-02-21 19:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD554 | Freedom of Speech in Iraq 2006, Part I: [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables that will address the media environment in Iraq in early 2006. Embassy PAS will review positive developments since liberation in 2003 (outlined below); examine popular attitudes on the limits of free speech; assess the Iraqi public broadcaster; [...] | 2006-02-22 03:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PHUM KMDR ECON EAID ECPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD558 | TURKISH CONSULATE IN MOSUL MUST PROVIDE ITS OWN [...] (C) The Turkish delegation led by Avni Botsali sent to evaluate sites for a new Turkish Consulate in Mosul (reftel) completed its visit and departed on February 18. Botsali, the Consul-General-designate, had hoped to come to Mosul, check the lay of the land, rent some property, and make it re [...] | 2006-02-22 11:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ ASEC |
06BAGHDAD563 | SECTARIAN NERVES ON EDGE AFTER SAMARRA SHRINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: There are many rumors of attacks on Sunni religious sites and anti-Sunni demonstrations in the wake of the February 22 bombing of the Shia holy mosque in Samarra, but there appears to be much less occurring on the ground. Sunni Arab Iraqi Islamic Party Deputy Secretary-General A [...] | 2006-02-22 17:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD564 | TNA SPEAKER URGES QUICK GOVERNMENT FORMATION [...] (C) The Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General (CG) Casey met February 20 with Transitional National Assembly (TNA) Speaker Dr. Hajim al-Hasani. Dr. Hasani described Ibrahim Jafari's PM nomination as an "Iranian trick" and predicted that Jafari will be the PM "whether we like it or not." The [...] | 2006-02-22 19:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD566 | PM JAFARI AND DEPUTY PRESIDENT ABD AL-MAHDI WARN [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 12. 2. (S) Summary: Prime Minister Jafari and Deputy President Abd al-Mahdi emphasized to the Ambassador and General Casey midday on February 22 that the bombing of the Askeri mosque in Samarra had inflamed sectarian tensions and rais [...] | 2006-02-22 20:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD567 | SRSG QAZI'S VIEWS ON PRTS, JAPANESE ASSISTANCE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a February 19 meeting with the Ambassador, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi asked for the U.S. view on Iraqi constitutional revision and expressed a positive view of UN participation in Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs),hinting that a U [...] | 2006-02-22 20:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM PREL IZ JA |
06BAGHDAD568 | RESPONSE RE: GOT INVITATIONS TO SADR, MUTLAK, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reftel A requests Embassy Baghdad's views on invitations by the Government of Turkey to Iraqi political leaders. As we have reported, it is not yet certain that current Prime Minister Jafari will retain his position; there are a flurry of discussions underway in Baghdad. Although [...] | 2006-02-22 20:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD569 | POLITICAL UPDATE: SHAWAYS DOUBTS NON-SHIA [...] (S) Summary. The Kurds together with the Sunni Arab bloc and Ayad Allawi's group are writing up a program that they can present as a national salvation front program. They aim to attract Shia Islamists who will split from Prime Minister Jafari. Deputy Prime Minister Shaways told PolOffs Feb [...] | 2006-02-22 20:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PGOV |
06BAGHDAD570 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE, FEBRUARY 22 - [...] (S) The effort to oust Ibrahim Jafari from the Prime Ministry is on two tracks. February 21 and February 22 the Kurdish/Allawi/Sunni Arab group began developing the principles from the meeting a month in Kurdistan into a broader government program. This program would be introduced be the K [...] | 2006-02-22 21:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD573 | PATRIARCH DELLY PESSIMISTIC ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR [...] (C) Summary: On February 16, Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly told PolOff that conditions for his community were getting worse. He expressed concern about human rights, religious freedom and political representation for Chaldean Catholics in Iraq. He noted that Christians elected to the [...] | 2006-02-23 10:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD574 | (CORRECTED COPY) QUIET MORNING FOLLOWS SIGNIFICANT VIOLENCE; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although it appears there were more incidents on Wednesday after the Samarra mosque bombing than we reported (ref),there appear so far to be fewer incidents of sectarian violence on Thursday. Baghdad Deputy Mayor al-Bahrani told Poloff February 23 that approximately 30 Sunni mo [...] | 2006-02-23 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER PNAT PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD58 | PM JA,AFARI, MOI JABR, MOD DULIME BLAME COALITION [...] (S/REL) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Ja'afari, Interior Minister Jabr, and Defense Minister Dulime conveyed their concern with the increasing level of violence in Iraq since the election, particularly in and around Baghdad. As these officials relayed to the Shia Coalition "security commission" ea [...] | 2006-01-08 15:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD581 | ARAB LEAGUE VISIT TO BAGHDAD: WAIT UNTIL MARCH FOR [...] (C) Following three days of meetings with senior Iraqi officials, the Arab League (AL) delegation left with no set details for the AL-sponsored conference on Iraq. During a February 22 meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed al-Abbawi told PolOff that AL meet [...] | 2006-02-23 16:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG IZ |
06BAGHDAD583 | IRAQI LEGAL ADVISERS AGREE THAT COUNCIL OF [...] (C) Summary. The requirements of Article 54 of the Constitution continue to elicit multiple legal opinions. In separate meetings February 21 and 22, TNA Legal Committee Muhsin Saadoun and Presidency Council Legal Adviser Ameer Al-Shammari offered separate interpretations. The former said Ar [...] | 2006-02-23 18:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD584 | SISTANI RELATIVE COMMENTS ON SAMARRA ATTACK [...] (S) Summary: Sayed Emad Kelanter (strictly protect),who is related by marriage to both Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and Muqtada al-Sadr, told PolOff in a February 23 meeting that Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Said al-Hakim successfully pressured Grand Ayatollah Sistani into inserting tougher langu [...] | 2006-02-23 20:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD59 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-09 03:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
06BAGHDAD591 | SUNNI ARAB LEADERS' REACTION TO SAMARA BOMBING [...] (C) Summary: On February 23, Sunni Arab Tawafuq leaders refused to join President Talabani at a gathering of top Iraqi government officials in response to sectarian violence that followed the February 22 bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samara. At an afternoon press conference, Tawafuq leader [...] | 2006-02-24 10:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD593 | OLDEST MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES [...] (C) Summary. PolOff and PolFSN met February 22 with new Council of Representative (CoR) member Dr. Abd al-Lateef Abd al-Wahab Hassan al-Bedri. Dr. al-Bedri was the first candidate on the National Iraqi List (Allawi) slate in Salahadin. When PolOff informed him that he appeared to be the olde [...] | 2006-02-24 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD594 | QUIET CONTINUES; ASSOCIATION OF MOSLEM SCHOLARS [...] (C) SUMMARY Iraq was relatively calm on February 24. There was a curfew in effect most of the day in Baghdad and three surrounding provinces. There were no or reduced prayers at many Baghdad mosques. The Mahdi militia was out in force in some cities. Political and religious leaders, both S [...] | 2006-02-24 15:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PTER PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD595 | GATHERING OF IRAQI LEADERS PRODUCES FRAIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi leaders arrived at a frail consensus for calm after a day of meetings and mutual recriminations on February 23. President Talabani issued a statement (after reading it aloud to unanimous approval at a meeting he hosted for Iraq's leadership) calling for peaceful demonstratio [...] | 2006-02-24 15:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD596 | LIST OF SUNNI MOSQUES ATTACKED IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) An Embassy contact working at the MOI's IG office reported that the office has a list of 29 Sunni mosques in Baghdad attacked February 22, in the aftermath of the explosion at the Al-Askariya Mosque in Samarra. The names of mosques, corresponding neighborhoods, and incident description acc [...] | 2006-02-24 19:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD597 | FEBRUARY 23 MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-24 21:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KCRM MOPS NATO PARM PGOV PINR PREL UK |
06BAGHDAD600 | IRAQI OFFICIAL REPORTS TALABANI WILL NOT CONVENE [...] (C) Presidency Council Chief of Staff and President Talabani's aide Kamran Karadaghi told PolOffs on February 24 that Talabani does not plan on convening the Council of Representatives (COR) on February 25. Karadaghi claimed that since the Iraqi Government was still operating under the Trans [...] | 2006-02-25 16:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD601 | SITUATION UPDATE SATURDAY: VIOLENCE DIMINISHING [...] (C) SUMMARY: By most accounts, Baghdad saw fewer acts of sectarian violence on 25 February than it had over the previous several days, largely due to the extended curfew still in effect. A variety of contacts told us that anti-Sunni violence had occurred overnight February 24-25, especially a [...] | 2006-02-25 16:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD602 | AMBASSADOR RALLIES KEY PLAYERS AROUND PM'S CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a day of prodding, Sunni Arab leaders agreed over February 24-25 to join a government advisory committee that will unite key leaders and convene the evening of February 25 to plan the next steps following the Samarra tragedy. Prime Minister Jafari issued a plan February 24 [...] | 2006-02-25 17:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD609 | JAFARI DRAWS SUNNI LEADERSHIP INTO CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Prime Minister Jafari drew leaders from across the political spectrum into his crisis management process by convening a new advisory group late on February 25. For the first time since the Samarra tragedy, the Sunni Arab leadership directly engaged the top tier of the [...] | 2006-02-26 16:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD610 | RELATIVE CALM IN BAGHDAD; JAFARI MEETS WITH SISTANI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Incidents of sectarian violence dropped further February 26. There were reports of mortar fire on a mosque in Sadr City and of an IED outside a mosque in Basra. Jafari's Chief of Staff reported that the PM had traveled to Najaf where Grand Ayatollah Sistani "approved" of the pr [...] | 2006-02-26 19:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD611 | IRAQ ENERGY UPDATE -- THE INADEQUACY OF MUDDLING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fuel supplies are very low across the country and are critically so in Baghdad. Imports of refined products and domestically produced fuels both dropped during the first two months of 2006. Turkey and Iraq have come to agreement on arrears payments and, in time, the resumption [...] | 2006-02-27 10:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET MOPS MARR PGOV PREL TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD620 | (U) IRAQI OFFICIAL ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidency Council Chief of Staff Kamran Karadaghi told PolOff and Embassy Legal Advisors on February 26 that the government formation process appeared to have been temporarily derailed by the attack on the Samarra mosque and its aftermath. While sounding pessimistic overall, K [...] | 2006-02-27 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD621 | SADRIST PARLIAMENTARIAN: JAYSH AL-MAHDI BEYOND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 26 telephone conversation, Sadrist Council of Representatives member Kusai al-Suhail told PolOff that the Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) is not fully under the control of Muqtada al-Sadr. JAM is not an organized army, al-Suhail said, and "anyone with a gun" can dress in blac [...] | 2006-02-27 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER IZ KISL |
06BAGHDAD624 | RAMADI CONUNDRUM: COMMERCE AMID TERROR [...] (C) Summary. From State Embedded Team Ramadi. Iraqi Police employees working for the Governor painted for PolOff earlier this month a bleak picture of intimidation and paralysis on the streets of Ramadi. Terrorists use criminal enterprise to fund their jihad. While the people hope for a gr [...] | 2006-02-27 13:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD626 | RELATIVE CALM PREVAILS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The overall security situation in Baghdad is relatively calm and reports of sectarian violence once again decreased overnight. The ban on vehicular movement in Baghdad was lifted at 0600 hrs on February 27, and our contacts appeared to be largely consumed with personal errands f [...] | 2006-02-27 19:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD627 | WOMEN PARLIAMENTARIANS LOG [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 22, Poloffs met SCIRI parliamentarians Jinan Jasim Ali Al Ubaidi and Muna Noor Zalzala, two of this year's Iraqi delegates to the Commission on the Status of Women. Al-Ubaidi lamented that the role of women in society had been greatly diminished during Saddam's reign, [...] | 2006-02-27 19:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD628 | NATIONAL SECURITY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES 24-POINT [...] (S//REL MNFI) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari called a Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) meeting on February 26 with the Ambassador, UK Ambassador Patey, senior MNF-I officers, and top Iraqi national security staff to continue addressing the February 22 bombing of the Go [...] | 2006-02-27 19:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KCRM MOPS KJUS PINR PREL PGOV UK |
06BAGHDAD629 | SHIA INDEPENDENT SAYS DO NOT BLAME US FOR JAFARI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Council of Representatives (CoR) member and Shia Independent Mahmoud Muhammad al-Sheikh Radhi told PolOff that Shia Independents were being blamed unfairly for the Jafari victory in the PM race. He downplayed the effect of Sadrist "threats" before the election. Al-Sheikh Radhi [...] | 2006-02-27 20:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD63 | THE CITIZENSHIP LAW IN TAL CONTROVERSY [...] (C) On December 17, Saifaldin Abdurrahman, Chief of Staff to Dr. Hajim al-Hasani, the Speaker of the TNA, told PolOff that members of the Shia Coalition were agitated because VP Adel Abdul Mehdi evidently never agreed to the veto of the Nationality Law that the Presidency Council (PC) issued on [...] | 2006-01-09 06:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD630 | BORDER SECURITY OFFICERS PRAISE U.S. VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a recent gathering at the Embassy, eight Iraqis who visited the U.S. under the International Visitors Program from November 7 to 26, 2005, had overwhelmingly positive comments about their trip. END SUMMARY. --------- ITINERARY --------- 2. (SBU) The itinerary for the [...] | 2006-02-28 07:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL PHUM PREL PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD637 | IRAQI OFFICIAL ON GOVT FORMATION-CONVENING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-28 12:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD643 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH TURKISH IRAQ COORDINATOR [...] (S//REL MNFI) SUMMARY. Turkey's Iraq Coordinator, Amb. Oguz Celikkol, visited Baghdad February 24-25 where he met separately with Pres. Talabani, PM Jaafari and the Ambassador. Topics discussed were the Golden Mosque bombing, Sadrists, Iranian influence, formation of the Iraqi government, Kur [...] | 2006-02-28 16:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KCRM MOPS NATO PARM PGOV PINR PREL UK |
06BAGHDAD644 | (U) KURDISH POLITICIAN MAHMUD OTHMAN: THE INSIDER [...] (C) Summary: In the first of a series of in- depth studies of the various Kurdish parties that will operate in the new Council of Representatives (COR),this cable examines the history and the evolution of one of the most powerful Kurdish independents in Iraqi politics. Dr. Mahmud Othman's [...] | 2006-02-28 16:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD645 | SHIA CLERIC TELLS AMBASSADOR IRAQ NEEDS COMPETENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shia cleric and former Iraqi Governing Council member Mohammed Bahar al-Uloom told the Ambassador at a February 21 meeting that he agreed with the Ambassador that Iraq needs a strong governing center. Sectarianism threatens to destroy Iraq, he warned. Bahar al-Uloom also opined t [...] | 2006-02-28 16:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD646 | IRAQ,S EFFECTIVE SECURITY RESPONSE TO THE GOLDEN [...] (S//REL MNFI) SUMMARY: The GOI's national security apparatus and the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF),supported by the U.S. and UK embassies and MNF-I, performed well in most areas of Iraq that experienced sectarian violence following the February 22 bombing in Samarra. The GOI's tactics were mos [...] | 2006-02-28 16:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KCRM MOPS NATO PARM PGOV PINR PREL UK |
06BAGHDAD648 | FADHILA PARTY MEMBER WARNS SHIA ANGER MAY NOT BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 27 phone conversation with PolFSN, Fadhila Parliamentarian Mohammed Ismail al-Kusai said that Ayatollah Mohammed al-Yaqubi thinks Shia anger will be difficult to contain if another attack of the magnitude of the Samarra February 22 bombing occurs. Al-Kusai said rece [...] | 2006-02-28 20:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PNAT PTER IZ KISL |
06BAGHDAD649 | BIO OF NEW IRAQI MINISTRY OF INTERIOR INSPECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 2, 2006, Aqil Said was appointed as the new Inspector General (IG) for the Ministry of Interior (MOI). He told us that he had lived in Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Denmark . Members of the IG staff claim that Said is likely to be a puppet of the Minister of Interior, b [...] | 2006-03-01 08:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PHUM PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD65 | ALLAWI/SUNNI ARAB GROUPS WILL ACCEPT ELECTION [...] (C) Ibrahim al-Janabi, Chief of Staff to Dr. Ayad Allawi, told PolOffs January 8 that the political parties working with Allawi and the Sunni Arabs (MARAM) are beginning to concede the reality of the election results. He anticipated that they ultimately will negotiate for entry a national uni [...] | 2006-01-09 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD652 | REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE: GOI REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) This is an action request; please see para 7. 2. (C/REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: Post seeks guidance on responding to a diplomatic note received from Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi requesting assistance in freezing Jordanian assets of Iraqis implicated in corruption at the Ir [...] | 2006-03-01 15:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD653 | AMIDST VIOLENCE IN BAGHDAD, KURDS AIM TO BLOCK [...] (S) SUMMARY: Military and press reports indicate significant incidents of violence February 28 and March 1. Eighty percent of a Shia mosque in Kathamiya was destroyed in an IED explosion February 28. Military sources reported 23 civilian deaths on March 1 as of 1600 hrs. In a March 1 convers [...] | 2006-03-01 19:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD659 | MARCH 2 SECURITY MEETING PRODUCES LITTLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Because of the latest spat with the Kurds, PM Jafari canceled a morning meeting of top political leaders that had been scheduled to discuss the security situation in Iraq. After much pushing from post, the meeting was held the evening of March 2. However, all the participants co [...] | 2006-03-02 20:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD662 | COLLABORATION AND CONFRONTATION BETWEEN MOI AND [...] (C/REL MNFI) SUMMARY: Recent high-profile encounters between the Ministry of Interior (MoI) and the Ministry of Defense (MoD) highlight the friction that exists between the two security ministries. Although there also has been cooperation in some areas, there have been several incidents in wh [...] | 2006-03-03 15:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KCRM MOPS NATO PARM PGOV PINR PREL UK |
06BAGHDAD663 | IRAQ PRTs WEEKLY ROUNDUP FOR 17-23 FEBRUARY [...] SUMMARY: The Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) report weekly their activities and progress towards helping the provincial governments achieve self-governance capability. The following paragraphs summarize their activities in several areas for the period 17-23 February 2006. The Ninawa [...] | 2006-03-03 16:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON MOPS PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD664 | FADHILA PARTY MEMBER: UIC 555 FOLLOWERS CRITICAL [...] (C) In a March 1 meeting held as a follow-on to reftel conversation, Fadhila Party Council of Representatives member Mohammed Ismail al-Kusai said that he believes the worst of the sectarian strife resulting from bombing of the Al-Askariyah Shrine in Samarra is over. He repeated reftel cautio [...] | 2006-03-03 16:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT PTER KDEM KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD665 | BAGHDAD NEIGHBORHOODS ORGANIZING THEIR OWN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Since the attack last week on the Shia mosque in Samarra, district advisory councils (DACs) chairman in two Sunni Arab districts within the city have told PolOff of how neighborhoods are organizing to protect themselves against attacks by Shia militias. Separately, another polit [...] | 2006-03-03 18:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD67 | MASROUR BARZANI REPORTS BREAKTHROUGH IN KRG [...] (S) Masrour Barzani, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani's son and advisor, telephoned DCM staff assistant on January 7 to relay that Kurdistan's two main political factions -- the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) -- had come [...] | 2006-01-09 10:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ KRG |
06BAGHDAD681 | SIGNS OF URBAN FABRIC FRAYING: SECTARIAN [...] (C) Summary. In the aftermath of Samarra mosque bombing, Post has received reports of sectarian displacement in some Baghdad neighborhoods. The most credible and significant information is about approximately 150 Shia families who quit their homes in Abu Ghreib, Tarmiyah, and al Doura over the [...] | 2006-03-04 15:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD682 | SCIRI SIGNALS READINESS TO BE FLEXIBLE ABOUT PM; [...] (S) SUMMARY: SCIRI Chief of Staff Haitham al-Husseini advised us March 4 of a party statement expressing commitment to the UIC 555 nomination of Jafari as PM, but indicating openness to discussions about who would be the best Prime Minister. PUK's Barham Salih welcomed the SCIRI statement and [...] | 2006-03-04 20:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD707 | MIXED SUPPORT FOR JAFARI WITHIN SHIA COALITION AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The rejection of Shia Prime Minister nominee Ibrahim Jafari by the Kurds, Sunni Arab Tawafuq bloc and the secular Allawi bloc has generated at least initial tough responses from the Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555). There are also hints of flexibility about dumping Jafari. TN [...] | 2006-03-06 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD71 | SUNNI OUTREACH: AMB CONVEYS U.S. VISION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 7, Ambassador Khalilzad outlined suggested principles for the new Iraqi government during meetings with two Sunni sheikhs recommended to the Ambassador by Lakhdar Brahimi, former Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The Ambassador underlined the SIPDIS [...] | 2006-01-09 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD72 | ALLAWI RECOMMENDS POSTPONEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) In their January 8 meeting, Ayad Allawi told the Ambassador that Iraqi President Talabani believes that a national unity government is a must, but Dr. Allawi added that this must be a national unity government in reality, not just cosmetically. He also highlighted the importance of balan [...] | 2006-01-09 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD724 | PST BAGHDAD: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES [...] INTRODUCTION: This cable is the first of many cables that Provincial Support Team - Baghdad (PST-B) will produce during the remainder of 2006. Cables from PST-B will focus on economic, political, and rule of law issues concerning Baghdad Province. 2. INTRODUCTION CONT'D: Despite a largel [...] | 2006-03-07 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EINV EAID IZ IR KS KU CH |
06BAGHDAD725 | UPDATE ON CONVENING OF COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES [...] (C) President Talabani convened a meeting of political party leaders March 7 to break the standoff over when to hold the first session of the Council of Representatives. That meeting was still in session at 1530 hrs local time. 2. (C) TNA Speaker Dr. Hajim al-Hasani (as he was heading for t [...] | 2006-03-07 13:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS PINR PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD729 | TRIAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN - SESSIONS 13 AND 14 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Day 13 (February 28) and Day 14 (March 1) of the Iraqi High Tribunal's (IHT's) Ad Dujayl trial, the court introduced documentary evidence directly incriminating each of the eight defendants. The court also recommended that Sadoon Shakir (former Minister of Interior during the [...] | 2006-03-07 15:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD730 | PST BAGHDAD: IRANIAN INFLUENCE ON BAGHDAD [...] SUMMARY: Iranian influence on Baghdad provincial politics is increasing. Recent visits by the chairman of the Baghdad Provincial Council to Iran, as well as the past visits by rank and file members of the Provincial Council, point to the possibility that Iranian interests are establishing so [...] | 2006-03-07 15:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EAID IZ IR |
06BAGHDAD732 | FADHILA LEADER JABIRI SAYS JAFARI,S CANDIDACY IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fadhila Party leader Nadeem al-Jabiri told the Ambassador March 6 that Ibrahim al-Jafari's candidacy is unraveling inside the Shia Coalition. The Marja'iya, Jabiri said, have sent strong signals that Jafari should step aside, and Muqtada al-Sadr's supporters are backing away from [...] | 2006-03-07 17:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD733 | POLITICAL LEADERS MEETING ENDS WITHOUT AGREEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the close of the day March 7, it appeared that the Shia Islamists were resisting the Talabani call to convene the Council of Representatives March 12. List 555 independent Sami al-Askari told us March 7 that Deputy President Abd al-Mahdi's refusal to sign the convocation with [...] | 2006-03-07 19:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD734 | IRAQ: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) The following is post's submission to the annual trafficking in persons report. Embassy point of contact is PolOff Lourdes Lamela, US phone 914-822-2901 and at email Lamelalm @ state.gov. This report reflects approximately 26 hours of preparation. -------- OVERVIEW -------- 2. (U [...] | 2006-03-07 19:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF PHUM PTER |
06BAGHDAD736 | LONE YEZIDI PARLIAMENTARIAN CRITICIZES KURDISH [...] (C) New Council of Representatives (CoR) member and Yezidi Movement for Progress and Movement President Amin Farhan al-Marwani told PolOffs that the Kurds "stand against" the Yezidis because the Yezidis refuse to adopt Kurdish identity and insist on keeping their own. He claimed most of the Y [...] | 2006-03-07 19:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD737 | MINISTER OF WOMEN'S AFFAIRS SEEKS AREAS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 1, PolOff met with Minister of State for Women's Affairs Dr. Azhar Al-Sheikhly. Sheikhly was cautiously optimistic that her proposal to elevate the status of her Ministry would be approved in the new Council of Representatives. She repeated her dismay at the final versi [...] | 2006-03-07 20:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWMN PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD738 | UNAMI TO PULL BACK ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a February 27 meeting with MNF-I Deputy Chiefs of Staff MG Lynch, MG Findley and Poloff, DSRSG Stephan De Mistura said UNAMI clearly understood that constitution review would be best left off the agenda at the present time. De Mistura indicated that UNAMI would shift resources [...] | 2006-03-08 03:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD74 | AMB URGES SUNNI POLITICAL LEADERS TO DENOUNCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Khalilzad met on January 5 with key leaders from the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) and on January 6 with the Iraqi National Dialogue Council (INDC) to review their concerns about the December 15 parliamentary elections and to solicit their views on the formation of a nationa [...] | 2006-01-09 13:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PTER PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD745 | MINISTRY OF OIL OFFICIAL -- LACK OF SECURITY IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dr Radwan Al-Sa'adi (Please protect),a Director General at the Ministry of Oil, confirmed that lack of security reduced both oil exports and investment. Lack of constitutional clarity also inhibited upstream investment. Nevertheless, he said Iraq has 12 draft contracts with f [...] | 2006-03-08 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EPET IZ KCOR PINR |
06BAGHDAD747 | PST BAGHDAD: BAGHDAD PROVINCIAL COUNCIL DISPUTE [...] In a recent meeting, Provincial Council (PC) Deputy Chairman Mohan Al-Saidi commented that the PC is firmly committed to ensuring that the dissolved Baghdad City Council (BCC) not be reconstituted. The PC holds this position despite a recent court decision in the BCC's favor validating the rig [...] | 2006-03-08 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD749 | JAFARI PM NOMINATION STILL UNCERTAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: There is no consensus yet on the fate of Ibrahim Jafari's PM nomination, with the Shia Coalition offering incentives for votes and Kurdish leaders threatening to withdraw from the government if a new nomination is not put forward. As of COB on Wednesday, we had conflicting repor [...] | 2006-03-08 18:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD75 | ELECTION OBSERVER TEAM STILL AT WORK WHILE [...] (C) Summary. The international monitoring team (IMIE) continues its post-election assessment work, and has decided that its building workload will require postponement of its preliminary report about January 14. Partly as a result of this new date, the Iraqi election commission (IECI) has de [...] | 2006-01-09 13:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD750 | CORRUPTION IN THE IRAQI OIL MINSTRY FAVORS FADHILA [...] (S/REL UK) Iraqi State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) Director General Mussab al-Dujayli (strictly protect) told US and UK Emboffs that the Fadhila Party was blatantly trying to use its control over the Ministry of Oil to raise as much money from corruption as possible. Dujayli obtained su [...] | 2006-03-09 03:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV KCOR ECON EPET KCRM IZ |
06BAGHDAD756 | MODERATE ISLAMISTS ASK FOR USG POSITION ON PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a March 7 meeting with the Ambassador, a group of moderate Islamists agreed on the need for a strong unity government but pushed for the Ambassador to endorse a prime ministerial candidate. The group also expressed its concern for Iraq's political future and identified the need [...] | 2006-03-09 10:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD759 | PM JAFARI APPROVES AMBASSADORIAL ASSIGNMENTS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-09 11:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD765 | MFA CONFIRMS ITS ROLE IN ENFORCING THE ARAB LEAGUE [...] (U) Please see para 11 for an action request. 2. (C/REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: On March 2, Emboffs met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials, including the director of the MFA Arab League Boycott (ALB) Office, to discuss the MFA's role in the enforcement of the boycott in Iraq. The [...] | 2006-03-09 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KBCT PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD766 | IRAQ ENERGY COUNCIL ADDRESSES FUEL SHORTAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Energy Council (NEC) directed that fuel be moved by rail from Bayji to Baghdad March 9. DPM Chalabi said he would submit draft fuel law to Council of Ministers (COM) to liberalize private import of fuel. NEC requested Ministry of Defense (MOD) increase security of [...] | 2006-03-09 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ KCOR MOPS |
06BAGHDAD767 | PST BAGHDAD: COUNCIL VOTES TO REPLACE [...] Sadr City District Council Chairman Hassan Husain Shama was replaced by Vice Chairman Jawad Kadhim Mansi at a regular session of the Council on March 9. The vote tally favoring Jawad was 22 to 15. Hassan served as chairman for the past two years, which called for personal courage: his prede [...] | 2006-03-09 15:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD768 | REPORTS OF ATTACKS DRIVING FAMILIES OUT OF BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: A group of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Shia community in Nahrawan, east of Baghdad, told Poloff March 6 that hundreds of families had moved out of Nahrawan under threat from Sunni Arab terror groups. A USAID contractor NGO with substantial field expertise in mi [...] | 2006-03-09 16:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREF IZ |
06BAGHDAD773 | ACTING HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER ON DISAPPEARANCES AND [...] (C) Summary. Acting Minister of Human Rights Narmeen Othman told PolOffs March 5 that, although acts of violence and displacement appeared to have leveled off over the past two days, the situation remains tense. Minister Othman asserted that reports of sectarian displacement had decreased ov [...] | 2006-03-10 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD776 | MODERATE ISLAMIST DEPLORES 555 INTIMIDATION; [...] (C) National Iraqi List CoR member for Baghdad Izzat al-Shahbandar told Poloffs that Allawi's party was beginning to prepare for provincial elections. He said Allawi's list was planning steps to counter "forgery and intimidation," use local media, and set up effective get-out-the-vote progra [...] | 2006-03-10 15:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD777 | ABD AL-MAHDI'S ADVISORS CONTEMPLATE CONFERENCE ON [...] (C) In a March 7 conversation, Zuhair Humadi, Kadhim Shubber, and Fareed Yasseen, advisors to Deputy President (DP) Adel Abd al-Mahdi, told PolOffs they plan to organize a think tank, to be called Al-Rafidain, which would include a number of people around DP Abd al-Mahdi on its board. The thre [...] | 2006-03-10 18:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KCOR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD778 | SHIA INDEPENDENT STILL FEARS SUNNI PERSECUTION [...] (C) In a March 5 introductory meeting with PolOffs, Shia Coalition Independent and re-elected Council of Representatives member Shaikh Khalid Abathar Atiyyah said that security for Iraq can only be attained through "inclusion" of the Shia. Atiyyah expressed his concern about the fear among th [...] | 2006-03-10 18:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD789 | PST BAGHDAD: KARADA DISTRICT COUNCIL CHAIRMAN [...] Karada District Council Chairman Mohammed Jassim Al-Rubiey told a PST team member on March 11 that on that day and for the first time a Baghdad District Council chairman, namely himself, conducted a radio "town hall meeting" with the public to discuss local issues. 2. Al-Rubiey said he r [...] | 2006-03-12 13:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR SCUL IZ |
06BAGHDAD79 | FM ZEBARI: SHIA FAR FROM DECISION ON PM CANDIDATE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told Ambassador on January 9 that the Kurdish Alliance has reached agreement on supporting Talabani for President in the new Iraqi government. The Shia UIA alliance is, in his view, deeply divided over whether to support current PM Ja'afari or curr [...] | 2006-01-09 17:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PREL IR IZ KRG |
06BAGHDAD792 | IRAQ PRTS ASSESS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS - JAN [...] (U) INTRODUCTION. Each Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Iraq reports monthly the status of the provincial level government's ability to function effectively and the obstacles that prevent full self- governance. The PRTs assess provincial governments in the three areas (pillars) of gove [...] | 2006-03-12 14:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON MOPS PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD793 | IRAQ PRTS WEEKLY ROUNDUP FOR 24 FEB-2 MAR [...] INTRODUCTION. The Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) report weekly their activities and progress towards helping the provincial governments achieve self- governance capability. The following paragraphs summarize their activities in several areas for the period 24 February - 2 March. Nin [...] | 2006-03-12 16:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON MOPS PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD797 | IRAQ PRTS ASSESS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS - FEB 2006 [...] (U) INTRODUCTION. The Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Iraq report monthly the ability of the provincial level government to function effectively and the obstacles that prevent full self-governance. The PRTs assess provincial governments in the areas of governance, economic developme [...] | 2006-03-13 03:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON MOPS PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD799 | OPERATIONAL PLANNING FOR THE IRAQI MINISTRIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In early October, Embassy participated in an interagency planning session for the transition from the Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG) to its successor Iraqi government to avoid or mitigate loss of momentum in the development of the Iraqi government's capacity to govern. The [...] | 2006-03-13 08:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD80 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-10 03:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
06BAGHDAD807 | SADR CITY OFFICIALS SAY MAHDI ARMY ACTIVITY IS ON [...] (C) Summary: In separate conversations, the Mayor of Sadr City 1, Sheikh Rahim Sahood, and Sadr City District Advisory Council (DAC) member Mustafa Jassim told PolOff that the Sadrist-backed Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) have been flexing their muscles in Sadr City. Sahood said, even though the Sadri [...] | 2006-03-13 12:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD811 | FORMER INTERIOR MINISTER PONDERS HOW TO COMPETE [...] (C) Summary. Former Interior Minister Nuri Badran, brother-in-law of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, told Poloffs that sectarian parties are the only way to have influence in Iraqi politics today. Moderate Shia like himself must ally themselves with Islamists to have a chance to gain in [...] | 2006-03-13 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD812 | MILITIAS AND OTHER ARMED GROUPS IN IRAQ - [...] (S//REL MNCI) SUMMARY. Militia organizations, acting both as extra-legal bodies and within government structures at multiple levels, will continue to pursue sectarian agendas that will undermine the government's ability to improve the security environment and will exacerbate sectarian tensions [...] | 2006-03-13 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | KJUS MCAP MOPS PGOV PINR PINS PNAT PREL PTER |
06BAGHDAD813 | SUNNI AND ALLAWI BLOCS READY FOR MORE GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of the March 14 meeting of the major political blocs' leaders to work on resolving the government formation dilemma, Tawafuq official Mahmud al- Mashadani told us that Sunni Arab and Shia Coalition negotiators were working toward formation of an Arab political bloc. H [...] | 2006-03-13 20:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD822 | SHIA HARDLINER HINTS THE SHIA COALITION MAY YET [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-14 19:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD823 | FEMALE SHIA COALITION SAY THEY DEFER TO 555 [...] (C) In a March 7 meeting with PolOffs, two female Shia Coalition parliamentarians declined to engage in discussion about Ibrahim Jafari's struggle to hang on to the PM nomination. Re-elected Council of Representatives member Iman Khalil Sha'lan al-Assadi said that the decision about the PM no [...] | 2006-03-14 19:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD825 | ECONOMIC-REFORM PUBLIC EDUCATION UPDATE [...] From the $2 million recently allocated by the Department (reftel),we have hired two Iraqi media companies to produce television spots (one per company) on fuel-subsidy reform. These spots will briefly explain the reasoning behind the December price increases and tie higher fuel prices to inc [...] | 2006-03-15 05:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EPET KCOR KPAO PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD837 | DIPNOTE PASSED ON UMAR SABAWI [...] (U) This is a response to action cable STATE 30018. 2. (S/NF) Embassy Baghdad passed the DIPNOTE outlined in para 3 of STATE 30018 regarding extradition from Yemen of Umar Sabawi to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 9, with copies to the Office of the Prime Minister and to the Dep [...] | 2006-03-15 13:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | KJUS CJAN MOPS PHUM PTER IZ YM |
06BAGHDAD840 | PST BAGHDAD: SUPREME COUNCIL FOR THE ISLAMIC [...] (C) Summary: Over the past several months the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and its subsidiary, the Badr Organization, have consolidated power at the Baghdad provincial level by acquiring the Provincial Council (PC) chairmanship and other key governorate position [...] | 2006-03-15 18:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD848 | SHIA COALITION HARDLINER'S VIEW OF ATTACKS ON SHIA [...] (C) Summary. In a March 14 meeting, SCIRI member Shaikh Jalal ad Din al-Sagheer (from Baratha mosque) told PolCouns about Shia families fleeing their homes fearing violence from Sunnis. He warned that continued violence against the Shia may trigger a more violent reaction than seen after th [...] | 2006-03-16 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MOPS PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD851 | PST BAGHDAD: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL MEETING WITH THE [...] (C) On March 14 Baghdad Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Mueen Hameed and the Chairman of the PC's Security Committee and its committee members met at the office of Iraqi National Security Advisor (NSA) Mowaffuk Al-Rubaie in the International Zone to seek greater cooperation between the PC and [...] | 2006-03-16 17:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD852 | IECI COMMISIONER COMMENTS ON LESSONS LEARNED FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Acting Chair of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) Hamdia Al-Hussaini, met with PolOff 9 March to discuss recommendations from the IMIE-sponsored after action conference in Madrid and the future of the IECI. Recommendations from the Madrid conference include item [...] | 2006-03-16 18:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD855 | MFA: ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT NOT ON JEDDAH OIC AGENDA [...] (C) Ambassador Srood R. Najib, Head of the International Organization & Multilateral Cooperation Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),said the Arab League Boycott (ALB) is not on the agenda of the current Organization for Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in Jeddah (reftel). H [...] | 2006-03-16 20:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KBCT PGOV PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD861 | IRAQIS TREADING CAUTIOUSLY ON ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT [...] (C) Econoff on March 15 met with Hikmat M. Abdullah, Minister Plenipotentiary and Director of the Arab League Boycott Office within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),to discuss removal of the Arab League Boycott (ALB) from Iraqi law. Hikmat said Iraqi officials understand the negative e [...] | 2006-03-17 12:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KBCT PGOV PREL IS IZ |
06BAGHDAD863 | GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: KURDS FEAR NO [...] SUMMARY. While all eyes on March 16 were focused on the first session of the Council of Representatives (CoR),several members offered their assessment of the government formation negotiations. Kurdish Alliance members were more pessimistic about the progress being made, while Sunni Arab memb [...] | 2006-03-17 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD866 | RESOLVE AND RECRIMINATIONS BOTH IN THE AIR AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Like so many carefully scripted events in Iraqi politics, the inauguration of the Council of Representatives on March 16 began poetically, had its moments of bickering over rules and procedures, and then spilled out into the hallway and onto the airwaves. After week [...] | 2006-03-17 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD867 | IRAQI GOVERNMENT FORMATION: WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE ? [...] (C) Summary: As we watch the political machinations unfolding over national government formation, it seems increasingly clear that there is not one party able to drive the process by itself, particularly in regards to selecting the next Prime Minister. The Shia Coalition, with its 128 seats [...] | 2006-03-17 15:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD869 | KURDISH INDEPENDENT ADVOCATES CROSS-PARTY DIALOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 14, Kurdish Independent parliamentarian Samia Aziz told poloff that although 25 percent of the Council of Representatives is made up of women, they are grossly underrepresented at the highest levels of inter-party discussion. She said she hoped to once again serve on the [...] | 2006-03-17 18:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KWMN IZ |
06BAGHDAD870 | SADR CITY CAR BOMBS AND THE AFTERMATH [...] (C) Summary: As noted Ref A, Sadr City contacts told us March 13 and 14 that in the aftermath of the March 12 VBIED attacks that occurred in Sadr City, the Sadrist-backed Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) has been actively patrolling the area, setting up checkpoints, and searching cars. Tensions were alr [...] | 2006-03-17 19:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PTER KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD888 | PST BAGHDAD: SADR CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL [...] The Sadr City District Council (DC) in the last 3 months has established a Finance and Accounting Committee. The committee is modeled after guidelines given to it by the U.S. Military. The committee has three staff members. 2. This DC subcommittee is using a computer accounting system al [...] | 2006-03-19 13:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD891 | PST BAGHDAD: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTION OF A NEW [...] (SBU) During a 15 March meeting of the Baghdad Provincial Council (PC) at Amanat (city hall) Baghdad, the PC voted Iraqi Army Colonel Jassim al-Jizany the new Baghdad Chief of Police. The Governor of Baghdad, Hussein Al-Tahan, attended the meeting, which was open to Iraqi media outlets. 2. [...] | 2006-03-19 17:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD892 | PRT BAGHDAD: QADA COUNCIL LEADERSHIP BELIEVES [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-19 18:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD893 | PRT BAGHDAD: BIOGRAPHIC NOTE ON BAGHDAD [...] (U) In late December 2005, the Baghdad Provincial Council (PC) elected Mohan Hashem Al-Saidi to replace Mueen Hameed as the Deputy Chairman of the PC. Mueen replaced Mazin Makiya as the council's chairman. 2. (C) Mohan is a member of the National Independent Cadre of Elites, a Sadrist, and [...] | 2006-03-19 20:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD895 | NEW SADR CITY DAC CHAIR PLANS TO END CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: On March 9, the Sadr City District Advisory Council (DAC) voted 22-17 to replace Hassan Shama as the DAC chair with Jawad Khadum. Khadum told PolOff on March 13 that he wants to make the DAC a robust body that serves the needs of the people of Sadr City. To accomplish this, he [...] | 2006-03-20 08:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD896 | SADR CITY OFFICIAL WANTS JAYSH AL-MAHDI TO SECURE [...] (C) In a March 14 conversation with PolOff, the supervisor of the Sadr City District Advisory Council (DAC) General Information Center (GIC),Nsaif Jassim, told PolOff that Coalition Forces (CF) need to "take care" of Iraq's militia problem. This will demonstrate that CF are serious about bui [...] | 2006-03-20 08:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS PNAT PTER KDEM KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD905 | SHIA NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST SUPPORTS CPA DISSOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: In a March 9 conversation, Al-Adala newspaper columnist Ali Khaleef told PolOff and PAS/Off that economic progress in Iraq has not kept pace with political progress. Coalition Forces (CF) need to do more to fight corruption and promote economic growth in Iraq, he said. Khaleef [...] | 2006-03-20 10:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM PNAT PTER ECON KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD910 | ALLAWI ALLY THINKS SHIA ISLAMISTS' INFLUENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Southern Iraq secular politician and Allawi camp member Wa'el Abd al-Lateef told us March 13 that the Shia will have to make a choice about the kind of federalism they want in the South. He thought giving each governorate authorities like the Kurdish region already enjoys would [...] | 2006-03-20 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD911 | DAWA HARDLINER INSISTS DEEP-SEATED FEAR OF FORMER [...] (C) Summary. In a March 15 meeting with PolOffs, re- elected Dawa Council of Representative (CoR) member Kamal Abdullah Khallawi al-Saidi expressed only guarded support for Prime Minister Jafari to remain as PM, admitting that Jafari is not the most competent politician. He doubted anyone els [...] | 2006-03-20 11:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PINR IZ |
06BAGHDAD916 | THE ROAD TO AN INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy and the donor community in Baghdad agree that the time is right to forge an international compact with the GOI, ensuring that both sides are committed to a clear set of principles, goals and actions. To achieve this, the UN advocates building on existing donor mechanism [...] | 2006-03-20 16:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD917 | ZELIKOW-CHALABI DISCUSSION: GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES [...] (C/REL GBR AUS) Summary: In a March 16 discussion with Department of State (DoS) Counselor Philip Zelikow, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Ahmad Chalabi took deserved credit for a series of strategic and tactical victories to meet the ongoing energy crisis during the past week, the most important [...] | 2006-03-20 17:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET IZ PGOV PREL KCOR |
06BAGHDAD918 | 89 BAGHDAD PALESTINIANS FLEE TO JORDAN BORDER [...] (C) Summary. According to representatives from the Palestinian Human Rights Organization, 89 Palestinians, including 42 children, left Baghdad by bus March 18 for the Jordanian border hoping to gain entry to Jordan. They were accompanied by two Christian Peacekeeping Team (CPT) members whose [...] | 2006-03-20 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KPAL PHUM PINS KCRS IZ PA JO |
06BAGHDAD922 | ALLAWI OBJECTS TO PROPOSED POLITICAL BODY FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Iraqiyya List (Allawi) member, former Planning Minister, and current Council of Representatives (CoR) member Dr. Mehdi al-Hafedh told PolOffs March 20 that the composition and powers of the "Political Committee for National Security" (PCNS) are not settled. He said that Iraqiyya [...] | 2006-03-21 06:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD929 | MOST IRAQI POLITICAL LEADERS CRITICIZE [...] (C) Summary: The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani, responding to a request by SCIRI head Abdul Aziz Hakim, said Iran is ready to hold talks with the US on Iraq. Most - but not all - SCIRI leaders from the Shia Islamist Coalition were supportive of the talks [...] | 2006-03-21 10:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD93 | BAGHDAD PROVINCIAL COUNCIL (BPC) CHAIRMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 08 PolOff discussed the new Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) initiative with Mu'een Hameed, the new Baghdad Provincial Council (BPC) Chairman. Mu'een supports the initiative and is eager to work with the PRT. The Chairman also commented on the termination of Baghda [...] | 2006-01-11 09:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD930 | BADR LEADER AGREES THE MILITIA SHOULD DEMOBILIZE [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives member and Badr Organization leader Hadi Farhan Abdullah al-Amiri told PolOffs on March 19 that the Al-Askariya shrine bombing was the work of Saddamists. PolOffs pressed al-Amiri that all militias needed to be under the control of the State. Amiri ag [...] | 2006-03-21 11:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PHUM PREL PTER IZ |
06BAGHDAD931 | TRIBAL SHEIKH WANTS TO BE BIGGER THAN SCIRI [...] (C) In a March 4 conversation, Sheikh Talib al-Yasseri of Najaf told PolOffs that the politicians who were elected in the December 15 elections do not represent the ordinary people of Iraq. "There was much fraud," he said, "but the people remain silent. The winners passed over the heads of o [...] | 2006-03-21 11:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD936 | FUEL CRISIS CONTINUES IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fuel supplies, especially LPG and gasoline, remain short across Iraq. Fuel imports entering Iraq from Turkey are negligible. Supplies continue to be imported from Kuwait by truck and from UAE and Iran by sea at Khor Zubayr. A ten-car train delivered LPG to Baghdad for the f [...] | 2006-03-21 20:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET IR TU IZ |
06BAGHDAD944 | POWERPOINT AND PSYCHO-BABBLE: SECOND-TIER JAFARI [...] (S) Summary. In a March 20 meeting with PolCouns and PolOff, PM advisors (and brothers) Bashar and Zuhair al-Naher, who aspire to join Jafari's inner circle, presented a plan they said PM Jafari had approved to reorganize the PM's office substantially and creating policy development and follo [...] | 2006-03-22 10:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PNAT IZ |
06BAGHDAD949 | CONTINUED ROK INTEREST IN PROVINCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Korean Ambassador Ki-Ho Chang met with IRMO Director Ambassador Daniel Speckhard on March 19 to gather details regarding USG intentions related to the development of the planned Erbil Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). Chang reiterated Korean interest in the program and re [...] | 2006-03-23 08:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL KS IZ |
06BAGHDAD95 | SHIA ISLAMISTS SIGNAL THEIR DISCONTENT WITH US [...] (C) Summary: During the past week many of the Shia political and religious figures in Baghdad have sharpened their tone against Sunni Arab political figures. Their public and private signals of unhappiness with American policy are also stronger now than at any time since the transfer of so [...] | 2006-01-11 10:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
06BAGHDAD953 | IECI COMMISIONER DEFENDS IRAQI ELECTION IN CAIRO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Independent Electoral Commission (IECI) Chief Electoral Officer Adil Mohammed Alwan Al-Lami described to PolOff on March 19 his defense of the Iraqi elections as valid, fair and representative at a regional election workshop in Cairo on March 12-13. Speaking to skeptical workshop [...] | 2006-03-23 11:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ EG |
06BAGHDAD955 | THE 2006 IRAQI BUDGET [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq's 2006 budget is a bold document that tackles subsidy reform, greater Iraqi burden-sharing in the security ministries, and sustainment. Unlike 2005, when Iraq had a budget surplus (largely through higher than anticipated oil revenues),so far this year Iraq is getting less [...] | 2006-03-23 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EFIN PGOV EPET IZ |
06BAGHDAD972 | ENGAGING THE CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ (CBI) GOVERNOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting on March 12 the Ambassador complimented Central Bank Governor Dr. Sinan Shabibi for stabilizing Iraq's currency and helping Iraq get an IMF standby arrangement last year. The Ambassador also noted the importance of continuing to fight terrorist financing. Dr. Sina [...] | 2006-03-24 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON KTFN KCRM IZ |
06BAGHDAD973 | SECURITY STILL MAIN CONCERN FOR SUNNI LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 21 meeting with Codel Warner, Tawaffuq leaders Tarik Hashimi and Ayad Samarai decried sectarian violence and claimed that the Sunnis bear the brunt of it. Calling the current distribution of power in Iraq unbalanced, and blaming the US for that imbalance, the Sunnis as [...] | 2006-03-24 13:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
06BAGHDAD975 | AL-DABBAGH SAYS MARJA'IYYA UNHAPPY AT DELAY; [...] (S/REL UK) Summary. Independent Shia political figure Ali al-Dabbagh (strictly protect) told us on March 23 after his late March 22 phone call with Mohammed Ridha Sistani that the Shia clerical establishment in Najaf (marja'iyya) was unhappy at the delay in government formation. PM Jafari' [...] | 2006-03-24 14:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
06BAGHDAD976 | CODEL HOEKSTRA MEETS IRAQI MINISTER OF INTERIOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with CODEL Hoekstra, Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr said that he is not concerned by the problem that militias -- other than Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) -- pose and is confident that it will be solved soon. He believes the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) are growing in effec [...] | 2006-03-24 14:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
06BAGHDAD977 | DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBERS DECLARE NO TRUST IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 21 members of the Sunni Arab neighborhood of Al-Adhamiyah's district advisory council emphasized that while they welcomed the presence of the Iraqi Army, the Iraqi Police were unreliable and involved in much of the terrorism hurting local residents. men stressed that fe [...] | 2006-03-24 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
06BAGHDAD978 | DE-BAATH COMMISSION DISFUNCTIONAL, COMMISSIONER [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 21 meeting, parliamentarian and National De-Baathification Commission (NDC) board member Yonadam Kanna told PolOffs that the De-Baathification Commission was too politicized and was not comprised of the "right" people. He claimed that the commission had not met in ove [...] | 2006-03-24 15:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KJUS IZ |
06BAGHDAD979 | BAGHDAD PALESTINIANS RETURN TO IRAQ, BUT MORE [...] (C) Summary. On March 22, Iraqi Ministry of Interior Border Officials escorted the 88 Palestinians (note: not 89) out of the No Man's Land (NML) between the Iraqi and Jordanian border (ref A) and back into Iraqi territory. The Palestinians are now located in Trebil close to the border in Anbar [...] | 2006-03-24 15:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KPAL PHUM PINS KCRS IZ PA JO |
06BAGHDAD980 | SHIA ENDOWMENT WARNS OF GROWING CIVIL STRIFE [...] (C) Summary: In a March 22 conversation with PolCouns, Shia Endowment official Salah Abd al-Razak said that civil strife is already serious and will get worse if the displacement of Sunni and Shia families does not cease. President Bush's statement that civil war is not likely was wrong, al-R [...] | 2006-03-24 16:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KISL IZ |
06BAGHDAD981 | MCNS DISCUSSES MILITIA DEATH SQUADS, RECENT [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: At a meeting of the Iraqi Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) on March 22, MNF-I Commanding General Casey presented information indicating militia death squads are most likely responsible for recent spikes in murders and executions that have followed t [...] | 2006-03-25 07:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER MOPS IZ |
06BAGHDAD984 | IRAQI SECURITY FORCES IN SADR CITY [...] (C/REL MNC-I) SUMMARY. The Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) presence in Sadr City remains problematic, although the area is much more under control than described by reports. There is a tremendous amount of everyday urban activity - a heavy volume of vehicle traffic, large numbers of pedestrians, shops o [...] | 2006-03-25 11:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS NATO PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
06BAGHDAD989 | THE DISILLUSIONED MINDEF DULIME [...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY. In a March 19 meeting with Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) Lieutenant General Dempsey and Acting PolMilCouns, Iraqi Minister of Defense Sadoun Al-Dulime, accompanied by Iraqi Commanding General Babakir Zibari, discussed his disillusionment w [...] | 2006-03-25 18:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PINS MARR IZ |
06BAGHDAD998 | PM JAFARI CONCERNED ABOUT IRANIAN INTERFERENCE, [...] (C) In a March 25 meeting, Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari told CODEL McCain that the national unity government was being formed "as we speak." He denied that sectarian tensions threatened to undermine government formation, praising the Iraqi people for not succumbing to civil war in the afterm [...] | 2006-03-26 17:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1 | JAM INFLUENCE IN MOJ/IRAQI CORRECTIONS SERVICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has enjoyed a reputation for running safe and humane prisons, Embassy officers have catalogued a number of recent incidents that indicate increased influence and infiltration of Jaysh-al-Mahdi (JAM) elements within the MOJ, specifically in th [...] | 2007-01-01 06:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KJUS PGOV PHUM |
07BAGHDAD1000 | CHALABI DISCUSSES NEW DIRECTIONS FOR POPULAR [...] (C) Summary: Ahmad Chalabi, chair of the Baghdad Security Plan's popular mobilization committee, told PRToffs March 21 that his latest efforts focus on mosque re-openings, ensuring the distribution of food rations to unstable areas, and detainee inquiries. Chalabi had several guests he said w [...] | 2007-03-22 13:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1005 | HEWAR LEADER SALIH AL-MOTLOQ ASKS FOR US SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the DCM on March 20, Sunni Hewar leader Salih al-Motloq said Iraq needs a new, liberal government now because Iraqis are fed up with religious parties and the government's inability to provide security and services. Motloq said the three years before the next e [...] | 2007-03-23 12:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1006 | ACTION REQUEST: PURSUING A GSOMIA WITH IRAQ [...] This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C/REL MNF-I) The Iraqi military is increasingly buying major U.S. military equipment and technology that includes restricted material. In the absence of a bilateral General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA),these procure [...] | 2007-03-23 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD1009 | IRAQI PM DISCUSSES EXPANDED MINISTERIAL [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on March 23, PM Nuri al-Maliki confirmed that he wanted the expanded neighbors ministerial conference, which would include Iraq's neighboring countries, the G5, and the P8, to happen in conjunction with the next International Compact for Iraq (ICI) meeting. [...] | 2007-03-23 19:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1012 | NINEWA: SCIRI RESISTS KURD EXPANSIONISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a February 20 meeting with Ninewa IPAO Holtsnider, Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) members underscored that provincial must happen as soon as possible and before resolution of Ninewa's 'disputed territories' under the Iraqi Constitution's Article 140 to [...] | 2007-03-24 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PBTS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1028 | PRT TIKRIT: BAYJI LOCAL LEADERS SPEAK OUT: NEW [...] THIS IS A PRT TIKRIT, SALAH AD DIN CABLE. 2. SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED, ENTIRE TEXT. 3. SUMMARY AND COMMENT. BAYJI COMMUNITY LEADERS STRONGLY WELCOMED THE PROSPECT OF NEW PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING REGULATIONS IN 2007, WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO BE PUBLISHED BY THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND [...] | 2007-03-25 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1033 | IRAQI PM AGREES TO ISTANBUL ICI AND NEIGHBORS-PLUS [...] (C) On March 24, Iraqi PM Maliki told the Ambassador he would agree to holding the Iraq Neighbors Conference ministerial in Istanbul if the other participants agree to a substantive agenda/outcome in advance with which Iraq is comfortable. He also agreed the P-5 and G-8 could be included. F [...] | 2007-03-25 21:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1035 | DIYALA SUPPORT COMMITTEE NAMES MEMBERS, FORMULATES [...] (C) In recent weeks, Baghdad-based Iraqi politicians from Diyala province have banded together to form a cross-sectarian group called the Diyala Support Committee (DSC). Building on efforts started in January and February (ref A and B),this committee aims to decrease violence in Diyala throu [...] | 2007-03-26 08:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD1036 | RAMADI: SIGNS OF PROGRESS ON THE SECURITY FRONT [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) SUMMARY. The city of Ramadi has made significant progress on security, economic recovery, and governance since last summer. Attacks are down, ISF recruits are up, and there is a nascent city government. Anbaris themselves are turning increas [...] | 2007-03-26 08:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PTER PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1037 | WAFIDAIN ARABS TO BE BLOCKED FROM VOTING IN [...] SUMMARY (C) Concern that the Article 140 Commission's Wafidain relocation program would be involuntary has lessened, but there are new concerns that Wafidain Arabs in Kirkuk may be blocked from voting in the Article 140 referendum. Although proponents of such a plan interpret Article 140 and [...] | 2007-03-26 08:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREF IZ |
07BAGHDAD1038 | IRAQI KURDISTAN VICE-PRESIDENT ON KIRKUK AND [...] (C) On March 13, Regional Coordinator and RRT Off met with Kosrat Rasoul at his highly secured hilltop residence in Sulaimaniyah. Rasoul is Vice-President of the Kurdistan Region and one of the highest ranking Politburo members in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party. In response to our q [...] | 2007-03-26 10:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1039 | PUK REFORMIST LEADER IN IRAQI KURDISTAN CRITICIZES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The prominent Kurdish politician, Nashirwan Mustafa, co-founder of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Politburo and Peshmerga expressed to RRT Off his support for a strong Iraqi central government, modernization of the Peshmerga and an independent media and think tank to addr [...] | 2007-03-26 10:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1040 | BORDER INCIDENTS AND PKK PRESENCE IN DOHUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Incidents along the Dohuk-Turkish border in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region average two to three per month. Local officials claim there are 750 Turkish forces permanently living inside Dohuk Province just inside the border of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. They also note there are 700 [...] | 2007-03-26 10:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD1041 | SADRISTS TELL LOCAL COUNCILS IN SADR CITY TO SHUT [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT Reporting Cable. 2. (C) Summary: According to Sadr City District Council member Ali Swadi, Sadrist leaders put out a directive on March 18 to all local councils in Sadr City to cease operations and not cooperate with MNF units. Not all council members are in agree [...] | 2007-03-26 10:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1043 | POTENTIAL POLICY PLANNING INITIATIVE WITH IRAQI MFA [...] (U) The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has expressed an interest in establishing ties to the Department's Policy Planning staff and receiving training on strategic planning and dealing with longer term issues. Labid Abawi heads the MFA's policy planning staff and has reached out to t [...] | 2007-03-26 18:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1045 | MNF-I AND REGIONAL RECONSTRUCTION TEAM MEMBERS [...] (U) RRT Off attended a meeting on March 1 in Sulaimaniyah led by Major General Benjamin Mixon, Commanding General of the 25th Infantry Division and Brigadier General Frank Wiercinski, Assistant Division Commander for the US Multi-National Division North in Iraq, with the Governor of Sulaiman [...] | 2007-03-26 18:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1068 | IRAQI PALESTINIANS COMPLAIN OF PERSECUTION, [...] (C) Summary: Palestinians in Iraq continue to fear and experience persecution on account of their nationality. A police raid in a Palestinian compound on March 14 resulted in the death of a Palestinian guard, possibly the death of a Palestinian detainee, and allegations of abuse and torture b [...] | 2007-03-27 18:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL KPAL KDEM YE IZ |
07BAGHDAD1069 | ESTABLISHING SCHOOLS FOR IRAQI CHILDREN IN JORDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Minister of Displacement and Migration would like to establish schools for Iraqi children in Jordan and Syria and will appeal to international donors to support the idea. While the Government of Iraq has not discussed the issue with the governments of Syria or Jordan, the M [...] | 2007-03-27 18:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF IZ JO SY |
07BAGHDAD107 | MINISTER OF PLANNING SUPPORTS JOINT ECONOMIC PLAN [...] (C) Summary: The Treasury Attache and the Deputy Economic Minister Counselor met with the Minister of Planning, Ali Baban (Sunni- Tawafuq) on January 8 to seek his support for the Joint Economic Transition Plan. Minister Baban was enthusiastic about the framework, particularly the coordinati [...] | 2007-01-11 12:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD1070 | NINEWA AND THE BRINKLEY GROUP -- FUEL CRISIS [...] (SBU) Deputy U/S of Defense Paul Brinkley visited Mosul 10-11 March 2007 in his capacity as Director of the Task Force to Improve Business and Stability Operations, Iraq. He was briefed by Ninewa PRT Economics Section staff on state- and privately-owned industries in Ninewa suitable for priva [...] | 2007-03-27 18:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1071 | SADR CITY: NO PLACE FOR A MODERATE [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT Reporting Cable. 2. (C) Summary: The political tension brewing in Sadr City has reached a tipping point, as 19 members of Sadr City local councils have decided to flee to Kurdistan rather than risk being targeted by JAM for their moderate stance on cooperating with [...] | 2007-03-27 19:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1075 | A CLOSER LOOK AT THE IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) leadership is seeking a closer and more strategic relationship with the United States - this was a central theme of Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi's trip to Washington, D.C. in December 2006. To better assess a possible USG partnership with the IIP, [...] | 2007-03-28 06:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1081 | MARCH 23 FARDH AL QANOON EXECUTIVE STEERING [...] (C) Summary: The March 23 Fardh Al Qanoon (FAQ) Executive Steering Committee (ESC) continued to have several members absent including VP Mahdi, DPM Zawbai (due to assassination attempt),NSA Rubaie, Yassin Majeed, as well as other ministry officials. However, DPM Salih attended the meeting af [...] | 2007-03-28 09:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD1082 | IRAQI PUBLIC BROADCASTING BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In mid-March, Fadel Jalal Mohammed, a member of the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) board, which oversees public service broadcasting in Iraq, confirmed to PolOffs that PM Maliki failed to seek Council of Representative's (CoR) approval when he fired the former IMN board and installed [...] | 2007-03-28 09:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPAS ECPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1095 | DCM ENGAGES SCIRI'S AL HAKIM ON DETENTIONS [...] (S) Summary: On March 22, DCM and MNF-I Deputy Commanding General (DCG) told SCIRI leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim that Coalition Forces (CF) had detained Qais Khazali, a JAM member close to Moqtada al-Sadr, and had evidence Qais was involved in the January attack on the Karbala JPCC that killed [...] | 2007-03-28 18:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD1115 | POLITICAL LANDSCAPE OF DHI QAR PROVINCE: PART III [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar cable, the third in a series detailing the political landscape of Dhi Qar Province. 2. (S/NF) Summary: The Office of the Martyr Al-Sadr (OMS) has a large following in Dhi Qar Province, but no representation on the Provincial Council (PC) or in the Governor's office [...] | 2007-03-31 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1117 | AMBASSADOR WITH FM ZEBARI DISCUSS RIYADH SUMMIT, [...] (C) Summary: On March 30, the Foreign Minister warmly welcomed Ambassador Crocker to Iraq, accepted copies of his credentials, and discussed at some length the recent Arab League Summit in Riyadh. The GoI countered Saudi comments about an "illegal occupation" by noting Iraqi concurrence with [...] | 2007-03-31 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1118 | SUNNI VP HASHIMI DISCUSSES RECENT TRAVEL, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the DCM on March 30, Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi discussed his recent travel to Japan, Jordan, and Turkey. He cited Japan's extension of its law authorizing its air force mission in Iraq as a major success of the trip. Hashimi said that he gave Presid [...] | 2007-03-31 17:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ JO TU JA SA IR |
07BAGHDAD1122 | DCM DISCUSSES HYDROCARBON LEGISLATION STATUS WITH [...] (C REL GBR) Summary. On March 25, the Deputy Chief of Mission met with Minister of Oil Husayn al-Shahristani to discuss the status of the package of hydrocarbon legislation. Shahristani said that drafts of all companion laws were ready -- revenue management, reconstitution of the Iraq National [...] | 2007-04-01 06:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD1124 | PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL GOVERNANCE TAKES BIG STEP, APPROVES [...] This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. Sensitive but unclassified, entire text. 3. SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) approved the 2007 provincial capital budget during a special meeting in Tikrit on March 28. After several hours of energetic debate, bu [...] | 2007-04-01 06:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1142 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES (COR) OIL AND GAS [...] (C) Summary In a March 28 meeting with econoffs, Dr. Ali Husayn Belu, the Chairman of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Oil and Gas Committee, indicated that: 1) the opposition to the framework Hydrocarbon Law did not have sufficient votes to alter the law as forwarded to the CoR by the Cou [...] | 2007-04-02 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD1143 | Embassy-sponsored "Women for a Unified Iraq" Luncheon Draws [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-02 14:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KWMN SCUL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1147 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN FAILING TO HELP IDPS RETURN [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad PRT contacts say the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) is failing to improve security conditions enough to allow internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return to their homes. Members of the Baghdad Provincial Council committee for migration and displacement told PRToff March 29 [...] | 2007-04-03 04:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1149 | : PRT TIKRIT: DEPUTY GOVERNOR ABDULLAH AJBARAH -- [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Politically savvy, tribally connected, well-educated, and a former General, Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein Mohammed Ajbarah al Jabouri is Salah ad Din's powerbroker. He is pro-USG and Coalition Forces (CF),but does not have [...] | 2007-04-03 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR ECON KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1150 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON HYDROCARBON LAWS [...] (C) Summary: At an April 2 dinner with Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Barham Salih, the Ambassador noted President Bush,s frustration with the GOI,s failure thus far to complete the hydrocarbon-related package of laws to send to the Council of Representatives. The DPM responded w [...] | 2007-04-03 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD1151 | COR PREPARES TO SELECT ELECTIONS COMMISSIONERS [...] (U) Summary: Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Kahlid Al Attiya announced in the CoR on March 28 that the CoR leadership is moving forward on a process to appoint a new independent high electoral commission (IHEC). The goal is to have the new commission in place by the Ap [...] | 2007-04-03 18:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1152 | PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL BUDGET HAS MULTIPLYING [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. At an April 2 PRT/Coalition Forces-initiated press conference, the Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) Chair Sheikh Rasheed Ossman and key PC members outlined the 2007 provincial budget and fielded questions from members of t [...] | 2007-04-03 18:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD1154 | CHALABI AIDE SAYS POPULAR MOBILIZATION EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary: An aide to Ahmad Chalabi, chairman of the popular mobilization strand of the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP),told PRToff April 1 that Chalabi has been meeting with Sadr City community leaders. These leaders told Chalabi that Jaysh Al-Mahdi (JAM) elements who had fled Baghdad are ret [...] | 2007-04-04 07:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1155 | PM ADVISOR, THAMIR GHADHBAN'S ADDRESSES STATUS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 2 meeting with emboffs, PM Advisor, Thamir Ghadhban, described a series of actions that the GOI has taken to move the framework Hydrocarbon and related laws forward. The framework Hydrocarbon Law is currently being reviewed by the Shura Council. Because the Shura Co [...] | 2007-04-04 08:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD1157 | TALABANI WELCOMES AMBASSADOR, DISCUSSES ARAB [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari March 31 to present his credentials. They discussed Talabani's trip to Riyadh for the Arab Summit and the side meetings he held with other Arab leaders, including a discussion on Kirkuk and the P [...] | 2007-04-04 09:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA IR SY IZ |
07BAGHDAD1158 | COR SPEAKER MASHHADANI: THE U.S. MUST BE IRAQ'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: During their March 25 meeting, new USCENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon told Iraqi Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani that security in Iraq must improve rapidly if Iraq hopes to retain U.S. domestic support. Mashadani acknowledged the need for increased political efforts, but [...] | 2007-04-04 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1159 | USCENTCOM COMMANDER TELLS MOI THAT SECURITY MUST [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first meeting with Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani, Admiral William J. Fallon, the Commander of USCENTCOM, stressed that Iraq's security must improve rapidly for continued U.S. political support. Minister Bolani responded that the initial results of Operation Fardh al- [...] | 2007-04-04 11:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1161 | AMBASSADOR CONCLUDES AGREEMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: During his final hours in Baghdad, Ambassador Khalilzad helped to conclude an agreement between President Talabani and Prime Minister Maliki on de-Baathification reform, formally known as the "Accountability and Reconciliation Law" (text below). Talabani and Maliki signed a cove [...] | 2007-04-04 12:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KJUS PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD1162 | AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (S) Summary: During his introductory meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ambassador Crocker emphasized full U.S. support for the PM an his government. Maliki expressed concern about a lack of international support of Iraqi democracy, except from the U.S. He had not decided on a date [...] | 2007-04-04 12:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1163 | FM RELAYS MALIKI'S APPREHENSION OF THE NEIGHBOR'S [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki's deep suspicions of the Neighbor's Conference are preventing the selection of venue, stated Foreign Minister Zebari in an April 1 meeting with the DCM. Maliki favors Kuwait over or Istanbul. Zebari noted, however, that the Prime Minister is comfortable wi [...] | 2007-04-04 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1164 | GOI PERSPECTIVES ON NEIGHBORS' CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: Subsequent to his April 1 discussion with the Foreign Minister (septel),the DCM engaged a number of GoI officials on the neighbors' conference. Continued skepticism of the potential gains of the conference, and fears of outside intervention, leave many in the GoI lukewarm about [...] | 2007-04-04 12:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1165 | AMBASSADOR CONCLUDES AGREEMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: During his final hours in Baghdad, Ambassador Khalilzad helped to conclude an agreement between President Talabani and Prime Minister Maliki on de-Baathification reform, formally known as the "Accountability and Reconciliation Law" (text below). Talabani and Maliki signed a cove [...] | 2007-04-04 13:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KJUS PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD1167 | WHAT BAGHDAD'S GOVERNOR THINKS OF RECONCILIATION [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT Reporting Cable. 2. (C) Summary: Governor of Baghdad Province Hussein al-Tahan told PRTOff that he does not think any kind of outreach to Sunni political parties is worthwhile. Although he said he has met many of Baghdad's various political leaders, he scoffs at t [...] | 2007-04-04 16:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINR PINS |
07BAGHDAD1168 | BAGHDAD'S SADRISTS TOE MOQTADA'S LINE -- NO [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: In the wake of the attempted assassination about three weeks ago of Raheem al-Duraji ) a district administrator or qa'im makam of Sadr City (often referred to as its mayor) ) Sadr City local councils (LC) have been withholding their [...] | 2007-04-04 16:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINR PINS |
07BAGHDAD1169 | CODEL MCCAIN MEETS WITH GOI OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: In an April 1 dinner hosted by the Ambassador, members of Codel McCain (Sen. John McCain (R-AZ),Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC),Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ)) met with Iraqi VP Hashemi, DPM Saleh, FM Zebari, DefMin al-Mufriji, and National Security Advisor Rubai [...] | 2007-04-04 17:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1175 | LETTER TO IRANIAN PRESIDENT FROM IRAQI PRESIDENT [...] Following is the text of the letter sent from Jalal Talibani, President of the Republic of Iraq, to Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran referenced in the report on Ambassador Crocker's first meeting with President Talibani. BEGIN QUOTE: His Excellency the P [...] | 2007-04-05 05:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1176 | IECI HEAD: NAJAF READY FOR 2007 PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The head of the Independent Electoral Commission for Iraq (IECI) in Najaf told PRT IPAOs that the province is ready to hold free and fair provincial elections when called for under controlling legislation. He dismissed fears of logistical compl [...] | 2007-04-05 05:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1177 | NAJAF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BULLISH ABOUT GROWTH [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In a March 24 meeting with PRT Najaf IPAOs, the President of the Najaf Chamber of Commerce and Provincial Council member, Mr. Zohair Shorba, identified the obstacles to Najaf's economic progress - lack of an investment code, inaccessibility of [...] | 2007-04-05 05:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1178 | BAGHDAD RESIDENTS EXPRESS EMERGING PESSIMISM OVER [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad residents from various parts of the city have expressed new pessimism over the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) during conversations with PRToffs over the past week. Shia contacts from both east and west Baghdad have said that Jaysh Al-Mahdi (JAM) elements that previously fled [...] | 2007-04-05 05:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1183 | WASAN MEDIA AND CHALDEAN DETAINEES POSSIBLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an April 5 human rights inspection at a Ministry of Interior (MoI) detention facility, PolOff located and identified eleven journalists from the Wasan Media Company, whose arrest has been the subject of intense scrutiny by international media organizations, and four Chal [...] | 2007-04-05 18:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM OPRC PGOV KDEM KPAS ECPS IZ JO |
07BAGHDAD1184 | COR SPEAKER ARGUES GOI MUST TAKE BOLD STEPS TOWARD [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani April 1 at the Council of Representatives (CoR). Mashadani said he believed Iraq was making the transition from a country of chaos to one of institutions, but argued that these institutions were sectarian, and lacked capacity and coord [...] | 2007-04-06 05:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1185 | AMBASSADOR MEETS VP HASHIMI, TAWAFUQ LEADERS, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Crocker paid an introductory call on VP Hashimi April 1; Tawafuq bloc leader Adnan Dulaimi, Tawafuq ministers, and CoR members were in attendance. The VP said he was eager to work together on the challenges facing Iraq, and cited reform of security institutions as the [...] | 2007-04-06 05:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1188 | ADM FALLON'S MARCH 26 MEETING WITH THE PRIME [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the March 26 meeting between Iraqi PM Maliki and CentCom Commander Admiral Fallon, the PM focused on our shared interests and the need to work together to achieve our mutual goals. He reaffirmed his commitment to defeat terrorism and expressed some hope that he was seeing [...] | 2007-04-06 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PTER PREL PGOV |
07BAGHDAD1189 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT FOR IRAQ/EXPANDED NEIGHBORS [...] (C) Summary: Following the Ambassador's intervention with Prime Minister Maliki late afternoon April 4, the Iraqis quickly finalized their internal agreement to pursue back-to-back conferences for the International Compact for Iraq (ICI) and Expanded Neighbors meeting, preferably in Egypt. [...] | 2007-04-06 17:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1190 | CHALDEAN CHURCH OFFICIAL CONVEYS DECISION ON MNF-I [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 5, Bishop Shlemoon Wardoni, the Vice Patriarch of the Chaldean Church conveyed the Church's decision to PolOff that the Coalition Forces must vacate the Combat Outpost currently located at the Chaldean Seminary in Baghdad's Doura district. Coalition Forces and the outpos [...] | 2007-04-06 18:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PGOV IZ VT |
07BAGHDAD1191 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEBAATHIFICATION REFORM, [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador paid an introductory call on Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) VP Adel Abdel Mehdi April 2, who had just returned from several weeks outside Iraq, including a visit to Washington where he met with President Bush. The VP described his meeting as [...] | 2007-04-06 18:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1192 | CODEL MCCAIN MEETS WITH ANBAR LOCAL LEADERS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar cable. 2. (SBU) CODEL McCain traveled to Camp Ramadi in Anbar province on Apr 2 to meet with the U.S. Army brigade in Ramadi and with local Anbari leaders. The CODEL consisted of Senator John McCain (R-AZ),Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC),Representative Mike Pence (R [...] | 2007-04-07 07:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1193 | AMBASSADOR MEETS MINISTER OF OIL DR. HUSAYN [...] (C) Summary: On April 4, Ambassador Crocker held his first meeting with Minister of Oil Dr. Husayn Shahristani. Shahristani briefly outlined the state of the oil industry, and admitted that Iraq should be pumping more oil. He blamed the failure to do so completely on the security situation, c [...] | 2007-04-07 10:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD1210 | MINDEF QADIR WELCOMES AMBASSADOR BACK TO IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 3, Minister of Defense Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jasim Al Mufriji hosted a dinner to welcome the Ambassador back to Iraq. Abdul Qadir introduced his key military leaders; provided a briefing on the status of the ministry; and stressed his commitment to sustaining a military [...] | 2007-04-08 05:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PINS PNAT PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1213 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER ON DEATH PENALTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Upon returning to Iraq after a three week trip abroad, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim on March 27 clarified to PolOff her announcement of GOI's intention to eliminate the death penalty (made during a March 14 UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva). She said she believe [...] | 2007-04-08 07:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV KJUS KWAC IZ |
07BAGHDAD1226 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ: AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with UN Iraq Special Representative Gambari on April 7 to discuss the way ahead on the International Compact with Iraq (ICI). The following day Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Gambari co-chaired a meeting with ambassadors of the expanded prep group to announ [...] | 2007-04-09 10:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1227 | POSSIBLE SADR MILITIA TIES TO MUTHANNA PC [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna cable. 2. (S) Summary: A Muthanna Provincial Council (PC) member and a provincial judge provided information about the investigation into the February 20, 2007 assassination of former Muthanna Deputy Provincial Council Chairman Mohammad Hanoon. The PC member re [...] | 2007-04-09 10:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD1228 | POLITICAL STATE OF PLAY IN MUTHANNA PROVINCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna cable, drafted to discuss the political state of play in Muthanna province by asking how provincial elections might play out if they occurred today. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Muthanna politics (and politicians) are opportunistic and personal rather t [...] | 2007-04-09 10:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1231 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON SCIRI CHAIRMAN ABDUL AZIZ AL HAKIM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-09 12:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD1235 | POLES READY FOR A MORE ROBUST ROLE? [...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraph 7. 2. (S) BEGIN SUMMARY: As Coalition and Iraqi forces conduct active combat operations aimed at restoring security and the rule of law in Dhiwaniyah, questions over the mandate and approach of the Polish forces based in the area have arisen in [...] | 2007-04-09 17:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PREL PTER IZ PL |
07BAGHDAD1236 | CG'S APRIL 5 MEETING WITH THE PM [...] (S) SUMMARY: On April 5, MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus and DCM Speckhard met with PM Maliki and discussed the following issues: -- Engagement: Maliki discussed his meeting with the commander of an insurgent group which now wanted to join the fight against Al Qaeda; -- Detentions: Ma [...] | 2007-04-10 05:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PTER PREL PGOV |
07BAGHDAD1238 | THE DOLLAR MARKET IN SULAIMANIYAH, IRAQI KURDISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Sulaimaniyah Province, Iraqi Kurdistan said the unofficial dollar market operates there in response to the lack of basic banking services and products of the local banks. The dollar market operates without official controls which lend [...] | 2007-04-10 07:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD1239 | THE TRADE BANK OF IRAQ IN SULAIMANIYAH, IRAQI KURDISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Sulaimaniyah Branch Manager of the Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) wants decentralization of banking approval authority. He suggested that a local TBI branch be able to carry out payment transactions, grant loans and issue letters of credit. He also recommended that the TBI branch [...] | 2007-04-10 07:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD1240 | UIA REVIEWS OIL LAW [...] (C) Dr. Haider Abadi, chair of the Economic Committee at the Council of Representatives (CoR),described how the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) is reviewing the hydrocarbon framework law in an April 9 meeting with Deputy EconCouns and Econoff. He believes that the CoR can act quickly once the GO [...] | 2007-04-10 08:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG IZ |
07BAGHDAD1244 | CREATION OF SUPREME POLITICAL COUNCIL OF KURDISTAN [...] (SBU) Recent Kurdish media reports have announced the creation of the "Supreme Political Council of Kurdistan," under the auspices of KRG President Massoud Barzani and including representatives of a wide range of KRG political parties and ethnic groups. These media reports, however, contained [...] | 2007-04-10 12:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD1245 | KARKH COMMAND: OPERATIONS IMPROVING, DETENTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Karkh Area Command (KAC) is one of the Baghdad Operational Command,s two subordinate commands and is responsible for Fardh al Qanoon operations in west Baghdad. It houses Iraqi army and national police, as well as Coalition forces. Unfortunately, EmbOffs found little coordi [...] | 2007-04-10 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PTER PGOV MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1247 | BUDGET PROCESS FOR SULAIMANIYAH PROVINCE, IRAQI KURDISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Local officials face a complex environment for budget execution in the Kurdistan Region. Project funding is through one of two Ministries of Finance, depending on the project location. The Ministry of Finance for Sulaimaniyah Province, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) feels [...] | 2007-04-11 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD1253 | APRIL 8 MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the April 8 meeting of the Ministerial Council on National Security, ministers discussed the following issues: -- April 9 Security: A ban on cars will be instituted in Baghdad on the 4th anniversary of the toppling of Saddam's statue. The day will also be a holiday (ex [...] | 2007-04-11 12:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PTER PREL PGOV |
07BAGHDAD1256 | AMBASSADOR, TALABANI, BARZANI DISCUSS IMPROVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani April 9 discussed with the Ambassador how to improve Iraq-Turkey relations after Iraq decided to hold its next Neighbors' Conference in Egypt instead of Istanbul. During his meeting with Talabani the Ambassador also urged Talabani to act on the PKK [...] | 2007-04-11 19:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS IR TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD1257 | GOI SUBMITS NON-PROLIFERATION LAW [...] (SBU) During an April 8 meeting, Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Rai'd Fahmi Jahid and Director General of Nuclear Technology Mohammad al-Sharaa told PolMilOffs that the GOI had drafted a non-proliferation law. They said that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had [...] | 2007-04-12 01:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD126 | AMBASSADOR URGES IRAQI LEADERS TO STEP UP AFTER [...] (C) Summary: On the morning of January 11, the Ambassador met seriatim with Iraq's parliament (Council of Representatives - CoR) Speaker Mashadani (Sunni),and Vice Presidents Hashemi (Sunni) and al-Mehdi (Shiite) to highlight key aspects of President Bush's speech, urge public statements in [...] | 2007-01-12 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1260 | ELECTIONS COMMISSION SELECTION OFF TO A GOOD START [...] (SBU) United Nations Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Senior Electoral Advisor Sandra Mitchell told poloff in a April 10 meeting that the selection process for the new Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) is "off to a surprisingly good start." The Council of Representatives (COR) is implement [...] | 2007-04-12 05:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1261 | KURDISTAN OFFICIAL: WE USED THE LANGUAGE OF [...] The below article highlights statements made by Dr. Fouad Hussein, Chief of Staff to Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani on April 10, 2007, which was posted in English on the Kurdish news website Peyamner.com. 2. Begin Text: National - Kurdistan Official: We used the [...] | 2007-04-12 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINS IR TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD1262 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary: The Iraq Executive Steering Committee met April 6 to review recent progress by its six committees. Prime Minister Maliki underscored the importance of the ICI, noting that all international partners had signed on except for Syria. Minister of the Interior Bolani said that MOI had [...] | 2007-04-12 10:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET KPAO PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD1266 | KRG MINISTER OF NATURAL RESOURCES DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 9, 2007, meeting with econoffs and the Energy Attach, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Natural Resources, Ashti Hawrami identified issues to be addressed by KRG and Government of Iraq (GoI) negotiators working on the hydrocarbon Revenue Management ( [...] | 2007-04-12 11:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD1268 | TERRORISTS SEEK NEW STRATEGIC TARGETS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-12 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PTER MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD127 | SENATOR BROWNBACK MEETS WITH IRAQI PM MALIKI [...] (C) Summary: In a January 9 meeting with Iraqi PM Maliki, Senator Brownback gave a sober assessment of the U.S. political atmosphere on Iraq. The PM emphasized the importance of rapidly training and equipping Iraqi forces which, he said, would allow the U.S. to reduce its presence in Iraq i [...] | 2007-01-12 13:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1272 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES BOMBING -- INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Post has reached out to political party leaders and other political contacts in the aftermath of the April 12 bombing in the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR). The CoR is located in the Baghdad Convention Center in the International Zone and takes up virtually the entire building. [...] | 2007-04-12 19:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC IZ |
07BAGHDAD1278 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES HOLDS SPECIAL SESSION [...] (C) Summary: In special session April 13, the Council of Representatives stood together with other GoI notables in defiance of the terrorist attack of the previous day. Many members attended in spite of formidable security hassles which made arrival at the assembly hall problematic. Some wa [...] | 2007-04-13 17:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD128 | SENATOR BROWNBACK MEETS WITH IRAQI VP MEHDI [...] (C) Summary: In a January 9 meeting with Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi, Senator Brownback conveyed the deteriorating U.S. domestic political sentiment over the war in Iraq and inquired about current Government of Iraq (GOI) strategies to improve the security situation. The Senator noted th [...] | 2007-01-12 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1280 | AL QAEDA OFFENSIVE? SPECTACULAR ATTACKS CONTINUE [...] (S) At about 1030 this morning a suicide car bomb exploded just south of the Green Zone near the Jadriya Bridge connecting Baghdad's Karkh district to the Karada Peninsula. Press reports are ten dead and fifteen injured. The attack occurred 400 meters west of the actual bridge span and, altho [...] | 2007-04-14 10:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PINS PTER |
07BAGHDAD1282 | BAGHDAD POLICE COLLEGE: MORE THAN THE SCANDAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq continues efforts to establish a quality police training facility at the Baghdad Police College by this summer. Ongoing efforts include remedial construction at eight cadet barracks, facilities made infamous last fall because of [...] | 2007-04-14 18:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASIG IZ KJUS MCAP MOPS PGOV |
07BAGHDAD1283 | NINEWA: TAL'AFAR'S BELEAGUERED SUNNI TURCOMANS [...] (C) Tal'Afar Iraqi Turcoman Front (ITF) officials met Team Leader Knight 5 April in the aftermath of the widely-reported 27 March Tal'Afar bombings and reprisal killings of Sunni Turcomans which followed. The ITF represents Sunni Turcomans; ITF representatives acknowledge that insurgents b [...] | 2007-04-14 19:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PTER PBTS KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1293 | PRESIDENTIAL MONEY TRANSFERS IN IRAQ [...] (C) One of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's staff members described how the president transfers money in and out of Iraq in a meeting with Emboffs on April 11. He said that international money transfers of $500,000 dollars and up are usually conducted via informal networks; should the Presiden [...] | 2007-04-15 11:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD1295 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CHAIR OF THE NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Dr. Abbas Mehdi, the newly appointed chairman of the National Investment Commission, on April 10. Dr. Mehdi was appointed by the Council of Ministers on February 8, and is awaiting Council of Representatives approval. He said that he gave Prime Minster al Mal [...] | 2007-04-15 12:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD130 | RAMADI RECONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE: TRIBES WITH [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Sheikh Sattar Abu Risha, the leader of the &Awakening Council of Anbar,8 a group of anti-insurgent tribes in the Ramadi area, hosted an unprecedented meeting at his residence on Jan. 10 to discuss local reconstruction and to urge g [...] | 2007-01-13 06:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1302 | SARAFIYAH BRIDGE DESTRUCTION WIDENS SHIA/SUNNI [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The destruction of the Sarafiyah Bridge in central Baghdad represents more than damaged infrastructure; it is a strike against Baghdad's history, harms the city's economic productivity and both physically and symbolically widens the [...] | 2007-04-16 09:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1304 | PRT KIRKUK: PC BOYCOTT TALKS START, STOP AGAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Negotiations to end the Arab-Turkoman boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council began in earnest in February and March, focusing on division of top provincial positions, security and the return . However, talks have stopped as key players travel outside of Iraq, and several fa [...] | 2007-04-16 11:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1308 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT ACTION PLAN [...] (C) Summary: As requested in ref A, post has outlined an aggressive action plan with mission-wide support and input from State, Commerce and Treasury. Given the high-level attention of events in Iraq, GOI officials will expect important issues to involve pressure from all levels of the USG. [...] | 2007-04-16 16:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ETRD EINV KBCT IZ |
07BAGHDAD1309 | SADR ORDERS MINISTERS TO WITHDRAW, BUT TO WHAT END? [...] (U) In a press conference held at the Council of Representatives on April 16, Sadrist Council of Representatives (CoR) member Nasser al-Rubai'e announced the withdrawal of the Sadrist ministers from Prime Minister Maliki's government. (Note: The Sadrist ministers are the Ministers of Health [...] | 2007-04-16 18:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD131 | ANBAR: DISPLACED SUNNIS LEAVE BAGHDAD FOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Internally displaced persons (IDPs),virtually all of them Sunni Arabs from Baghdad, continue to enter the Fallujah area of Anbar province due to sectarian strife in Iraq,s capital. As a group, the IDPs in Anbar comprise only four percent of [...] | 2007-01-13 06:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD1326 | NINEWA: COUNSELOR COHEN DISCUSSES ENERGY CRISIS, [...] (C) Counselor Cohen met Ninewa Vice Governor Khasro Goran and members of Ninewa's Provincial Council at the Governor's guest house in downtown Mosul 28 Mar. Khasro took a surprisingly mild perspective on resolution of disputed territories in Ninewa, but emphasized the overwhelming obstacle t [...] | 2007-04-18 06:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PBTS PTER MASS KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1329 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE CALLS FOR RAPID [...] (C) Summary: At the April 13 session of the Iraq Executive Steering Committee, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Barham Salih called the April 12 bombing of the Council of Representatives (CoR) troubling from a security standpoint, but a unifying event for the CoR. Sarafiya bridge, a [...] | 2007-04-18 11:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG KCRS KPAO MOPS PGOV PREF PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1333 | LOCAL KURDISH LEADER DISCUSSES KURDS IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: Sadoon Shafi, head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) office in Baghdad, discussed with Poloff April 5 the plight of Kurds living in Baghdad, saying that they find it very difficult to get contracts or find jobs. At the same time, he thought prospects were good for the PUK [...] | 2007-04-18 14:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1339 | UNION OF KURDISTAN WOMEN IN SULAIMANIYAH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The head of the Zhinan Union of Kurdistan Women (ZUKW) told PRTOff that her organization supports the rights of Kurds to self-determination and freedom and the opportunity for women to exercise a broad range of civic and legal rights. ZUKW, which operates at both the regional [...] | 2007-04-19 06:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWMN IZ |
07BAGHDAD134 | PRT TIKRIT: PRT-BCT RELATIONS MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. It has been cleared by the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division (3/82) Brigade Combat Team (BCT),which is the Coalition Forces (CF) task force with responsibility for the province of Salah ad Din (SaD). 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. PRT Tikrit and 3 [...] | 2007-01-13 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD1348 | KURDS CONTINUE TO PRESS FOR QUICK RESOLUTION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The approval by the Council of Ministers of the GOI Article 140 Committee's resolutions outlining procedures for the normalization of Kirkuk and other disputed areas has attracted renewed attention to an already hot topic. Publicly and in conversations with Poloff, Kurdish offic [...] | 2007-04-19 09:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD1349 | BARZANI DISCUSSES DE-B'ATHIFICATION, HYDROCARBONS, [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani, also attended by KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, on April 12 in Erbil, the Ambassador pressed for action on de-Ba'athification, hydrocarbons legislation, and improvements in relations with Turke [...] | 2007-04-19 10:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IR TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD1352 | FUEL TANKERS FROM BAYJI REFINERY TO SULAIMANIYAH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The three main issues facing tanker companies charged with delivering refined fuel from Bayji refinery in Salah al-Din Province to Sulaimaniyah Province are: the number of authorized tankers, security and corruption. The number of scheduled tankers is authorized by the Ministry [...] | 2007-04-19 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON KCOR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1355 | DE-BAATHIFICATION LEGISLATION UPDATE: CHALABI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 9 meeting, IIP CoR members expressed some dismay that the Higher National De-Baathification (HNDBC) draft law had been accepted by the CoR De-Baathification Committee at the expense of a Tawafuq version. They had insisted on amendments to the HNDBC draft and said the [...] | 2007-04-20 12:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KJUS PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1356 | UIA OFFICIALS DISCUSS POSITION ON DE-BAATH REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 15 meeting, VP Mehdi told A/DCM that the UIA leadership had discussed the PM-President de-Baathification reform draft law at length, and accepted the general principles of the draft. He stressed that the Shia leadership's main concern was security implications of all [...] | 2007-04-20 12:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KJUS PGOV |
07BAGHDAD1357 | IIP TELLS AMBASSADOR "THIS WAS NOT THE DEMOCRACY [...] (C) Summary: During a three-hour meeting with the Ambassador, VP Hashimi and a number of high ranking IIP officials expressed frustration over Tawafuq's lack of meaningful participation in the GOI. As a result, Hashimi noted, the bloc was considering withdrawal from the government. Hashimi [...] | 2007-04-20 17:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PTER PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1359 | APRIL 15 MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the April 15 meeting of the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS),ministers discussed the following issues: -- Reactions to the April 12 Attacks: MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus argued that security at the Council of Representatives may have been breached [...] | 2007-04-20 18:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PTER PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD136 | IRAQI ARMY OFFICERS DISCUSS INTERNAL MILITIA [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In several discussions with Anbar PolOff in late December and early January, Iraqi Army (IA) officers based in the Fallujah area expressed concerns about Shia militia influence inside their ranks. If asked to fight the Mahdi Army (JAM) in par [...] | 2007-01-14 07:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1360 | INCREASED SECURITY BRINGING DOURA MARKET TO LIFE [...] (S) SUMMARY: The establishment by Coalition Forces of a Combat Outpost in Baghdad's Doura market, as well as initial efforts to harden the market, has significantly reduced violence in the area. No murders have been recorded near the market since the Combat Outpost was created and the area a [...] | 2007-04-20 19:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PGOV PINS PTER |
07BAGHDAD1362 | PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORTIVE OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The Salah ad Din provincial leadership, including the former Baathist Deputy Governor, has stated its support for the draft debaathification reform law, as agreed upon by President Talabani and Prime Minister al Maliki (reftel). [...] | 2007-04-21 17:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1364 | SUNNI TAWAFUQ VOICES FRUSTRATION WITH GOI, CALLS [...] (C) Summary: Statements by the Sunni Tawafuq bloc in recent weeks have indicated it is considering withdrawing from Iraq's national unity government due to its perception Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is not responding in a meaningful way to Sunni concerns. These concerns include their stro [...] | 2007-04-22 04:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1365 | IRAQI FORCES' CHIEF SAYS U.S. SUPPORT VITAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 15 meeting, Commander General of the Iraqi Joint Headquarters Babakr Baderkhan Zibari told Senator Hagel and Representative Sestak that the Iraqi armed forces are growing in competence, loyalty, and numbers. Babakr said militia influence on the force was minimal and, c [...] | 2007-04-22 09:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PREL PINS IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1366 | SADRIST MINISTER OF HEALTH SAYS HE WANTS TO STAY [...] (S) Minister of Health Dr. Ali al-Shammari detailed to the Ambassador on April 19 his efforts and reasons for wanting to remain Minister of Health, despite a call by Sadrist leader Muqtada al-Sadr for all Sadrist-nominated cabinet ministers to resign (reftel). Al-Shammari said he planned to [...] | 2007-04-22 10:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD137 | MINDEF TELLS SEN BROWNBACK TERRORISM MORE [...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: In a January 9 meeting with Senator Sam Brownback, (R/KS),Minister of Defense Abdul al-Qader Mohammed Jasim reported that the Iraqi Armed Forces are progressing but require continued U.S. military support, including additional troops for the next phase of the Baghdad Se [...] | 2007-01-14 11:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PINS PNAT PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1377 | HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE INTERIOR MINISTRY; DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Interior (MoI) Human Rights Director Mazen Kamel Al-Qoraishy (strictly protect) on March 27 complained that he receives little support within his ministry in addressing serious human rights problems in MOI detention facilities. He also reported an assassination attem [...] | 2007-04-23 09:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV KJUS MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1378 | DETAINEES REPORT TORTURE BY NATIONAL POLICE AND [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: On April 5, six Iraqi detainees held at two Iraqi detention facilities located adjacent to Forward Operating Base (FOB) Justice in Khadimiya provided personal accounts of torture and beatings by National Police (NP) and Iraqi Army (IA) forces to PolOff during an unannounced huma [...] | 2007-04-23 09:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM MOPS MARR PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1379 | CHALABI AIDE DISCUSSES PROBLEMS WITH MINISTRY OF [...] (C) Summary: An aide to Ahmad Chalabi, chairman of popular mobilization for the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP),told PRToff April 5 that the Ministry of Trade is preventing distribution of food rations (known as the Public Distribution System, or PDS) to areas of west Baghdad for apparently secta [...] | 2007-04-23 10:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD138 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UK OFFICIALS IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: On January 12 UK Ambassador Asquith, accompanied by Ambassador Simon McDonald, head of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Iraq Office, discussed with the Ambassador the implementation of the Baghdad Security Plan, the performance of Prime Minister Al-Maliki, the detention of [...] | 2007-01-14 14:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1382 | SRSG QAZI AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS UNAMI ROLE, [...] (C) Summary: During an introductory meeting, the Ambassador and UN Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG),Ashraf Qazi discussed Iraq's regional relations, timing for provincial elections, Iran's regional ambitions, and a possible role for the UN in the Kirkuk Article 140 proc [...] | 2007-04-23 11:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR UN IZ |
07BAGHDAD1383 | PM MALIKI DISCUSSES DE-BA'ATHIFICATION, IRANIAN [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki stated that political progress is slow, but does exist, in an April 15 meeting with Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Representative Joe Sestak (D-PA). The Prime Minister (PM) expressed pessimism that the de-Ba'athification legislation would have much impact, a [...] | 2007-04-23 11:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |