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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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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON 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 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 JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN 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 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 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 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 LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK 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 MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] 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 MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB 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 NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI 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 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 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 PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS 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 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 RAID RAS RATIFICATION 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 ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC 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 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 SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM 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 STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR 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 UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO 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 AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL AL-1 ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALIREZA ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM 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 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 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 BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC 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 BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH 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 CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR 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 CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY 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 DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND 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 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 FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR 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 GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON 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 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07BAGHDAD4123 | IMPROVING USG BUDGET EXECUTION IN IRAQ [...] SUMMARY: We are seeking ways to improve the delivery of programs inside Iraq with resultant increase of US budget execution. Dramatic improvements may be difficult to come by, but we have recommendations to offer that would not only promote funds disbursement, but also improve Iraqi involvement [...] | 2007-12-19 04:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4125 | MOI ON FOREIGN TERRORISTS AND BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a December 12 meeting, Pol-Mil M/C discussed foreign terrorists, border security, and the PKK with Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani. While Syria had taken some actions and there had been a reduction in the number of foreign terrorists entering Iraq, Syria was hampered in its [...] | 2007-12-19 10:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PINS PREL PTER IZ SA SY |
07BAGHDAD4126 | EMBASSY-GOI 12/16 MEETING ON URANIUM REMOVAL FROM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-19 11:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ENRG IZ KNNP PARM PREL |
07BAGHDAD4127 | SAMARRA MOSQUE RECONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN MID-JANUARY [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister on Reconstruction Haq al-Hakim told EmbOffs, MNF-I representatives, and UNAMI representative on December 12 that the GOI planned to start reconstruction of the Shia Golden Mosque in Samarra on January 15. According to al-Hakim, PM Maliki has [...] | 2007-12-19 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD4136 | KUWAITI NAVY IN DISPUTE WITH COALITION-CONTRACTED [...] (C) Summary. The Kuwaiti Navy forced two vessels contracted by the Multi-National Force in Iraq (MNF-I) for salvage operations to hastily depart from their anchored position in disputed waters in the Khawr Abd Allah waterway on December 18. This occurred despite multiple-channel appeals to th [...] | 2007-12-19 13:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PBTS PGOV PINR PINS |
07BAGHDAD4137 | PRT MAYSAN: OFFICIAL BLAMES SHI'A, NOT AQI, FOR [...] (S/NF) Summary: On December 18, 2007, PRT staff met with Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi, Advisor to the Maysan Governor, and three senior provincial agricultural officers at Tallil Air Base to discuss project opportunities. During lunch, one official briefly strayed off-message and informed us that the [...] | 2007-12-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD414 | KIRKUK OFFICIALS ON SECURITY, SERVICES, AND TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Kirkuk Governor Abdulrahman Mustafa Fatah and Provincial Council Chair Rizgar Ali Hamajan on February 5. Other members of the governor's office and the provincial council also attended. The officials thanked the Ambassador for his support of Kirkuk, and [...] | 2007-02-07 17:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD4140 | CHALABI'S PROVISION OF SERVICES COMMITTEE - [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-19 16:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD4141 | STAFFDEL GARVEY MEETS WITH DEFMIN ABDUL QADR [...] Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staff Member Patrick Garvey met with Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul Qadr Muhammed Jasim December 7 to discuss the current state of Iraqi defense forces and development efforts in the MOD. While noting the significant progress that the Iraqi milita [...] | 2007-12-20 08:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PGOV NATO IZ |
07BAGHDAD4142 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: SHIFTING GOI PRIORITIES [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Draft legislation on provincial elections has stalled in the Prime Minister,s office, in part because Iraq,s dominant national political parties assess that new elections would work to their disadvantage. Moreover, Iraqi politicians now say they must finish the provincial [...] | 2007-12-20 13:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD4143 | BRITISH FS SAYS HMG AND USG THINKING ON IRAQ [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a December 17 meeting, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, (FS) accompanied by UK Ambassador SIPDIS to Iraq Christopher Prentice and MNF-I Deputy CG William Rollo, told Ambassador Crocker and MNF-I CG Petraeus that, post-Basrah PIC, Her Majesty's Government (HMG) wan [...] | 2007-12-20 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV UK IZ |
07BAGHDAD4144 | EPRT-WASIT: WASIT'S NEW CHINESE POWER PLANT [...] (SBU) On 17 December Wasit Governor Abd al-Latif Hamad Turfa told Team Leader ePRT and CDR 214th FB that he accompanied the Minister of Electricity to China to witness the signing of a power plant contract between the GOI and Shanghai Heavy Industry for the construction of a power plant that w [...] | 2007-12-20 19:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG ETRD IZ CH |
07BAGHDAD4146 | PRT-WASIT: 57 WASIT SHEIKHS TOUR IRAN AT MALIKI'S [...] (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary. According to an influential ePRT contact, 57 Wasit Sheikhs visited Iran from 21 November to 6 December at the invitation of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. While in Iran, the sheiks received lectures in "five-star hotels," met religious leaders and visited Shi'a [...] | 2007-12-21 11:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD415 | VIOLENCE IN BAGHDAD'S AMEL NEIGHBORHOOD: SUNNI AND [...] (C) Summary. Sunni residents of the Baghdad area of al Amel told EmbOffs that Sunnis in their neighborhood continued be tortured, killed and forcibly displaced by Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) militia members. They claimed that the operations had been so severe that the neighborhood had lost most of i [...] | 2007-02-07 17:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD4155 | ARTICLE 140: VIEWS FROM THE ERBIL STREET [...] (C) Summary: according to a variety of sources, eventual implementation of Article 140 is an important and emotional issue for the &Erbil Street,8 but the delay will not trigger strong public reaction, despite KRG leadership claims over the past months. RRT does not expect any significant p [...] | 2007-12-22 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD4156 | NINEWA: KDP VICE GOVERNOR VISITS PROMINENT SHAMMAR [...] (C/REL AUS, GBR, CAN) Ninewa Vice Governor and provincial Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) leader Khasro Goran fielded complaints December 17 from local tribal leaders in a rare visit to prominent Shammar sheikh Abdullah Al Yawr's house. The Shammar, a politically and economically powerful Arab [...] | 2007-12-22 17:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4158 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2007-12-23 07:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD416 | DIYALA PERSPECTIVE: SUNNI COR MEMBER DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives (CoR) member Salim al-Jeboori (Sunni, IIP from Diyala) described a grim situation in Diyala province during a February 6 meeting with poloffs. The ethnically-diverse province adjacent to Baghdad is plagued by terrorists, Sunni insurgents, Shia militias, [...] | 2007-02-07 18:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD4162 | TURKEY/PKK: STOPPING THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Turkish military airstrikes against PKK targets in the Qandil Mountains December 16 and the subsequent December 17/18 crossing of Turkish infantry in pursuit of KGK elements were successful in demonstrating that PKK terrorism will not be tolerated either by the Turks or the U.S. [...] | 2007-12-23 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL PTER IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD4163 | AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER CONFIRMS TROOP DRAWDOWN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Australian Prime Minister Rudd confirmed the drawdown of the Australian battle group and training elements at Tallil by August 2008. He noted that Australia was not leaving the coalition; some units would stay citing the P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft, the frigate in the Arabian G [...] | 2007-12-23 14:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD4173 | (CORRECTED COPY) HUMANITARIAN DEMINING IN IRAQ [...] (U) SUMMARY: Over three decades of conflicts have made Iraq one of the most severely mine/unexploded ordnance (UXO) afflicted nations in the world. With over 1600 communities out of the 12,000 communities surveyed reportedly impacted by landmines, Iraq needs an effective clearance capacity to [...] | 2007-12-23 17:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ KHDP |
07BAGHDAD4174 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2007-12-24 12:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD4175 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2007-12-24 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD4176 | BABIL PIC TO TAKE PLACE IN 2008 [...] (C/REL UK AS) In response to security concerns raised by Multi-National Division-Center (MND-C) commander MG Lynch, the Joint Committee to Transfer Security Responsibility (JCTSR) has recommended a postponement in establishing Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) of Babil Province from December 2007 [...] | 2007-12-25 05:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MOPS PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD4179 | IMF UNDERPLAYS IRAQ 2007 ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] (U) This is an action request for the Department, Embassy Amman and Treasury. Please see para 6. 2. (C) On December 19, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) unanimously voted to approve a new Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) for Iraq. In its attendant SBA report, the Fund [...] | 2007-12-26 07:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD4184 | TROUBLE AMONG MAYSAN'S SADRISTS [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Maysan,s Sadrists are challenged by a splintering within the Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) and mounting public discontent over poor governance, according to a US-based Maysani businessman. He said the criminal and former Baathist members [...] | 2007-12-27 11:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD4185 | PRT MUTHANNA: QRF PROGRAM EMPOWERS, EMBOLDENS [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MNF-I) Summary: In a December 16 meeting with the PRT, three leading representatives of the marja'iyya lauded the PRTs work and identified four additional local development projects for USG consideration. The clerics are vital pilla [...] | 2007-12-27 13:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL SOCI KISL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4189 | PRT MAYSAN: NO ANBAR AWAKENING IN MAYSAN [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary. PRT assesses that the unique demographics and historical legacy of Maysan make it infertile ground for a Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs) approach to tribal engagement. Incorporating tribal members into a community security forc [...] | 2007-12-27 13:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD419 | UN OUTLINES CONCERNS WITH IRAQ'S CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary General (D/SRSG) Michael Schulenburg and UNAMI SIPDIS Director for the Office of Constitutional Support Professor Nicholas Haysom updated the DCM on the Constitutional Review Committee's lack of urgency and unwillingness to tackle t [...] | 2007-02-08 09:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4192 | ANBAR POLITICAL LEADERS DISCUSS POWER-SHARING [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. Four leading political figures from Anbar Province met in Amman, Jordan, on December 18 to lay plans for a power-sharing formula for the province,s main political factions. The plan they developed includes the creation of a &Higher [...] | 2007-12-27 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4193 | THE KURDS FIRE A SHOT OVER PM MALIKI'S BOW [...] (C) Summary: In a lengthy open letter to Prime Minister Maliki dated December 21, the Kurdistan Alliance registered its concern over "lost opportunities, crippled wills, the confusion in taking decisions and obstructing the participation and reform process" and presented Maliki with a list of [...] | 2007-12-27 18:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4199 | KURDISH LEADERS AGREE TO GIVE MALIKI ONE LAST [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Crocker met on 26 December in Erbil with Iraq,s senior Kurdish leaders to discuss their support for Prime Minister Maliki, negotiations for a long-term security agreement between Washington and Baghdad, Article 140, and Turkish attacks on the PKK. Assembled Kurdish le [...] | 2007-12-29 13:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD42 | MOI BOLANI SLOW TO DEVELOP REFORM PLAN [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY. PM Maliki is frustrated by the lack of progress by Minister of Interior (MOI) Jawad al-Bolani and National Security Advisor Muwafak al-Rubaie to develop a plan for comprehensive MOI reform as was ordered by Maliki at the October 22 meeting of the Ministerial Committee [...] | 2007-01-07 05:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD420 | UNAMI SRSG QAZI REPORTS SYRIAN AND SAUDI VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: On February 5, UN Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi told DCM and the Ambassadors of France, UK, Russia and the Chinese Charge that, during his recent trip to Damascus, Syrian interlocutors had expressed support for the Baker report and characterize [...] | 2007-02-08 09:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PINR UN SY SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD4200 | NINEWA: "HEDBA GATHERING" BLOC OFFERS SUNNI ARABS [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2.. (C/REL AUS, GBR, CAN) Summary: Atheel al Najaifi, a top official in the secular nationalist Ninewa political bloc the Hedba Gathering, detailed the bloc,s strategy and agenda in several conversations with PRT. Al Najaifi, [...] | 2007-12-29 16:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4203 | TOPI PROMISES MORE ALBANIAN TROOPS; SURPLUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 23 meeting, Albanian President Bamir Topi told Ambassador Crocker, MNF-I CG David Petraeus and PolMil Minister Counselor Ambassador Marcie Ries that his country planned to increase the number of its troops in Iraq. Albanian Minister of Defense Fatmir Mediu, who a [...] | 2007-12-30 04:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4204 | PRT KIRKUK: 13-POINT AGREEMENT ENDS ARAB BOYCOTT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) and the Arab Bloc of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC) on 2 December agreed on a resolution ending the Arab bloc,s year long boycott. The thirteen-point agreement was the result of a PRT initiative to bring the blocs together during countless [...] | 2007-12-30 06:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4205 | CURRENT STATUS OF GOI FUNDING FOR CLCS [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Coalition efforts to secure counterpart GOI funding for the transition of Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs or Awakening Councils) have garnered positive responses from Finance Minister Bayan Jabr and Chair of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Economic Committee Dr. Haider [...] | 2007-12-30 09:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4219 | HUMMAM HAMMOUDI DISCUSSES LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FOR [...] (C) Hummam Hammoudi, ISCI's deputy bloc leader, confirmed on December 27 that ISCI would vote in favor of the de-Ba'athification law. "We wrote it, so how could we not support it?" Hammoudi chuckled. Hammoudi said there was no chance that either the Fadhila or Sadrist blocs would support the [...] | 2007-12-31 07:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4221 | VP HASHEMI ON ALLYING WITH KURDS AND STABILIZING [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on 30 December with Vice President and Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) head Tariq al-Hashemi. Hashemi said the purpose of the IIP-Kurdish agreement last week was to pressure the GOI to work harder for political progress and to cooperate against increasing violence i [...] | 2007-12-31 09:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD4222 | PRT KIRKUK: POPULATION MOVEMENTS IN KIRKUK [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-31 14:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4223 | PRT KIRKUK: ORDER TO HASTEN RETURN OF PROPERTY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Article 140 committee in October approved Order #6 to return land in parts of Kirkuk to its mostly Turcoman original owners. The decision potentially relieves the backlogged Commission for the Resolution of Real Property Disputes (CRRPD) of nearly a third of its caseload, [...] | 2007-12-31 14:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4224 | ANBAR LEADERS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT CREATING [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting Cable. 2. (C) Summary: Five Anbar political leaders agreed to establish the Anbar Higher Committee (AHC) at a meeting in Amman, Jordan on December 23. (Note: This meeting was a follow-up to the December 18 meeting (reftel),where the idea was originall [...] | 2007-12-31 14:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4225 | PRT MUTHANNA: SECURITY FORCE LEADER SAYS IRANIAN [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable. 2. (S/REL MNF-I) Summary and Comment: Colonel Ali al-Khawam, the leader of Muthanna,s Criminal Intelligence Unit (CIU),sees Iranian influence and militia violence spreading from Basra as the greatest threats to stability in southern Iraq. Accor [...] | 2007-12-31 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV IR IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD4226 | THE AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 29 MEETINGS WITH COR [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met separately on December 29 with Council of Representatives (COR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani and First Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khaled Al-Attiya. Both said that the COR would reconvene as scheduled on December 30, although Sheikh Khaled questioned whether it was worth [...] | 2007-12-31 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINR PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD4227 | TUWAITHA NUCLEAR MATERIALS SITREP [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Ries met with Iraqi Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Raid Jahid (FAHMI) on the evening of 30 December to discuss next steps on Tuwaitha. Ries requested the Minister's assistance to accomplish four key steps necessary to complete the proposed work at Tuwaitha: 1 [...] | 2007-12-31 16:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON PARM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD426 | CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW: IDENTIFYING PRIORITIES, [...] (C) Summary. In the two and a half months since the Council of Representatives (CoR) named the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC),political parties have yet to engage substantively over possible constitutional amendments. Tawafuq, in collaboration with several smaller political parties, a [...] | 2007-02-08 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD429 | PM MALIKI FRUSTRATED WITH THE SLOW PACE OF THE BSP [...] (S/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: On February 5, Prime Minister Maliki told the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General Casey that he was frustrated with the slow pace of the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP). Maliki said that our actions have not yet lived up to our statements on the BSP, and noted that Iraq [...] | 2007-02-08 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PNAT PINR PREL MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD430 | AL-HAKIM AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BADR DETAINEES, [...] (S) Summary: Abdulaziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI),questioned the Ambassador on February 1 about several Badr members detained by the coalition. Badr leader Hadi al-Amri, also present, repeated his usual call for "evidence." The Ambassa [...] | 2007-02-08 14:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IR SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD431 | PRT KIRKUK: ARTICLE 140 - ARAB RELOCATION ISSUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Relocation of Arabization Arabs ("Wafidain") back to their original homes outside Kirkuk Province has suddenly emerged here as a volatile issue, after the GOI Article 140 Commission,s February 4th announcement of its proposed relocation program. Kirkuk's Arab Consultative Counc [...] | 2007-02-08 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD433 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. Continuing Reaction to Article 140 Committee Resolutions --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) Kurdish press was dominated today by continued reactions from across the region on two resolutions of the Higher Com [...] | 2007-02-08 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR PKPA PGOV ECON IZ US |
07BAGHDAD434 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. Ansar al-Islam Plot to Murder Sulaimaniyah Security Officials Thwarted --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) Hawlati independent newspaper published details of a plot by three members of Ansar al-Islam to murde [...] | 2007-02-08 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR PKPA PGOV ECON PINS IZ US |
07BAGHDAD436 | AL-HAKIM AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BADR DETAINEES, [...] (S) Summary: Abdulaziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI),questioned the Ambassador on February 1 about several Badr members detained by the coalition. Badr leader Hadi al-Amri, also present, repeated his usual call for "evidence." The Ambassa [...] | 2007-02-08 15:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IR SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD439 | DAILY LIFE IN MUTHANNA PROVINCE: ASSORTED [...] This is a PRT Muthanna cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. In many important ways, daily life in Muthanna Province differs little from that of life in 18th and 19th century Islamic society in Iraq. Religious dominance in daily life, rampant unemployment and persistent security concerns [...] | 2007-02-09 08:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SCUL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD440 | BARZANI REMAINS STATIC ON PKK ISSUE [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's February 3-5 visit to Erbil, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani called for a two-part strategy for solving the PKK issue that combines an amnesty with military action. He warned against a purely military action from the Turks and [...] | 2007-02-09 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD441 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES APPROVES 2007 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: The Council of Representatives approved the 2007 budget at 18:30 on February 8, just before going into recess. Negotiations between the Kurds and the central government were tentatively concluded late afternoon on February 8, with an agreement to 'reach an agreement between the [...] | 2007-02-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD447 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. U. S. Air Force Attacks Peshmerga in Mosul --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (U) PUK media outlets reported that late Thursday night the U. S. Air Force attacked a PUK office in al-Karama neighborhood in Mos [...] | 2007-02-11 06:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR PKPA PGOV ECON IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD451 | PM INSIDER AL-ASKARI ON DEBAATHIFICATION, SUNNI [...] (C) CoR member and Prime Minister insider Sami al-Askari told PolCouns on February 7 that the Shi'a coalition, with the possible exception of the Sadrists, was ready to make changes to deBaathification legislation. Noting that deBaathification reform was the single most important current leg [...] | 2007-02-11 11:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD452 | IRAQI POLITICIAN DISCUSSES EFFORTS TO FORM [...] (S) Council of Representatives (CoR) member Nadim al-Jabiri (Shi'a coalition - Fadhila),advisor to the Minister of State for Tourism and Antiquities Baha al-Mayah, and Judge Hussein al-Musawi of the Supreme Criminal Court outlined to PolCouns on February 8 their efforts to form a "national f [...] | 2007-02-11 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD453 | UMM QASR PORT NEED FOR CAPACITY BUILDING AND [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 1, a visit by the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office's (IRMO) Director of Operations for Electricity and Oil, its Trade Office, and Econ officers to the Government of Iraq's (GoI) port facilities at Umm Qasr (PUQ) provided a first-hand look at the chaotic, ineffi [...] | 2007-02-11 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EAID ETRD EWWT PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD455 | NINEWA: ANTI-KURD COALITION DEFEATS MOVE TO [...] (C) At the Ninewa Provincial Council's 4 February weekly meeting, the majority Kurdish Alliance (30 of 41 members) attempted to impose a complete reshuffle of Council committees, including abolition of some committees and addition of an Article 140 committee to oversee 'disputed territories' [...] | 2007-02-11 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD460 | SUNNI HEWAR BLOC REP HOLDS THE FORT, TAKES ON BLOC [...] (C) Summary: Kirkuk native and Sunni Hewar bloc CoR member Mohammed Tamimi has never missed a session of Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR). The rest of Hewar's attendance at the CoR is sparse at best; remaining bloc members shuttle back and forth between Amman and Baghdad. Bloc leader [...] | 2007-02-12 02:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD461 | PRT TIKRIT: TRIBAL SHEIKHS SEE USG AS OCCUPYING [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. To discuss President Bush's "New Way Forward in Iraq" and to promote tribal leaders' role in countering al Qaeda (AQIZ) in the wake of the kidnapping of leading tribal authority Sheikh Ahmad "Naji" Ajbarah al Jabouri (reftel),th [...] | 2007-02-12 02:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD462 | PRT TIKRIT: WHO REALLY RUNS THE REFINERY? [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. A shadowy group of influential sheiks and politicians appears to exert a significant measure of influence over operations at the Bayji oil refinery. The exact composition of the group - possibly including the Governor of Salah [...] | 2007-02-12 02:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD476 | IRAQI COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES BEGINS RECESS [...] (U) The first full legislative cycle of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR),which began with an inaugural session on March 16, 2006, ended with the somewhat delayed passage of the 2007 budget on February 8 (reftel). The CoR now begins a recess expected to last through early March. [...] | 2007-02-12 09:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD482 | AL-MALIKI SPEECH: EVERYBODY WAGERS ON THE IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Al-Maliki's February 6 speech to his military commanders transcended his normal pedestrian approach to public remarks and reflected what appears to be a signficant evolution in his assessment of the problems facing Iraq. He stressed to his commanders their professi [...] | 2007-02-12 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR XF IZ |
07BAGHDAD490 | FM ON REGIONAL CONFERENCE, TURKEY, IRAN, AND [...] (S) Summary: During a February 6 meeting, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hoshyar al-Zebari and the Ambassador discussed an upcoming regional conference the MFA intends to host; current issues the GOI has with Turkey, Iran and Syria; and the FM's recent travels to Italy and Davos. The FM reiterat [...] | 2007-02-13 08:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD492 | IRAQ PARLIAMENT SPEAKER DISCUSSES "HISTORIC" [...] (S) Summary: During their February 9 meeting, Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mashhadani called the final CoR session of this legislative term historic. After intense negotiations, the CoR passed the 2007 budget. The CoR debate over Sunni MoD Abdul Qader's testimony at this session ( [...] | 2007-02-13 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IR SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD493 | VP HASHEMI ON MOD, SUNNI ROLE IN BSP, MODERATE [...] (S) Summary: VP Hashemi told the Ambassador February 8 that the Sunni Tawafuq bloc's nomination of Sunni MoD Abdul Qader during government formation was a "grave mistake." Hashemi reviewed examples of Abdul Qader's "weak" performance as Minister. The VP reported on progress with moderate fron [...] | 2007-02-13 08:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IR SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD494 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. KRG Prime Minister Meets with Undersecretary for Management --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) Major Kurdish media covered the meeting of Undersecretary of State for Management Henrietta Fore and U. S. Region [...] | 2007-02-13 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON IZ TU IR |
07BAGHDAD498 | IRAQI SUNNI ENDOWMENT HEAD PLANS NEW RELIGIOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarraie, head of the Sunni Endowment, told Poloffs on February 12 that he plans to start a new Sunni religious organization that will be a moderate alternative to the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS). He predicts that approximately ninety perce [...] | 2007-02-13 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ JO QA SA |
07BAGHDAD501 | IRAQ PARLIAMENT SPEAKER MASHHADANI'S MELTDOWN [...] (S//REL UK, AUS) SUMMARY: A February 10th working dinner, intended to facilitate intra-Sunni dialogue, devolved into a shouting match between Iraqi Minister of Defense Abdul Qader Mohammed al-Ubadyi and Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, with the Speaker storming ou [...] | 2007-02-13 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD504 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. Kurdistan Regional Government Strongly Condemns U. S. Air Strike in Mosul --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) The office of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani issued a statement [...] | 2007-02-14 05:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON IZ TU IR |
07BAGHDAD506 | PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL GOVT ENGAGES MORE FULLY ON SECURITY, RECOMMENDS USG ENGAGEMENT WITH INSURGENT GROUPS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY. In the wake of senior tribal leader Sheikh Ahmad "Naji" Ajbarah al Jabouri's kidnapping (reftel),Salah ad Din (SaD) provincial leaders and security officials seem emboldened to take on al Qaeda in Iraq (AQIZ) and to garner secur [...] | 2007-02-14 08:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER PGOV PINR IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD507 | PRT TIKRIT: ODIERNO, GRAND MUFTI, PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. It has been cleared by MNC-I Commanding General Odierno, MND-N Commanding General Mixon, and the 3/82 Brigade Combat Team. 2. (S) SUMMARY. In a February 8 meeting, MNC-I Commanding General Odierno, MND-N Commanding General Mixon, Grand Mufti Sh [...] | 2007-02-14 08:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD508 | IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIANS DISCUSS STATUS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a series of meetings on February 5, CoR members updated poloffs on the current status of draft proposals and party strategies for approaching de-Baathification reform. A CoR de-Baathification committee member confirmed that the committee was now meeting regularly to consider [...] | 2007-02-14 09:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KJUS PGOV |
07BAGHDAD512 | PM'S ESC DISCUSSES BORDER CLOSURES, BSP, PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary. The Executive Steering Committee (IESC),chaired by PM Maliki met in its third session on February 9. Topics discussed included the plan to close Iraq,s points of entry (POE,s) with Syria and Iran on February 14, efforts on coordinating services in conjunction with the Baghdad Sec [...] | 2007-02-14 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PREF |
07BAGHDAD514 | PRESIDENT TALABANI COMMENTS ON RECONCILIATION, [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a February 10 meeting at President Talabani's residence, Talabani told the Ambassador that he hoped the Sadrists would agree to reconciliation efforts with the Sunni IIP. He agreed that the hydrocarbon law was a priority and that the Kurds needed to cooperate on its passage. [...] | 2007-02-14 13:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV |
07BAGHDAD518 | MINISTER OF FINANCE EMPHASIZES BUDGET EXECUTION [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr met with the Treasury Attache, Coordinator for the Economic Transition, and the NEA-I DAS on February 10. Senior MoF officials and the Central Bank Governor Shabibi were also in attendance. Minister Jabr emphasized the need to focus on budget execu [...] | 2007-02-14 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD527 | AL ANBAR: SHEIKS' COUNCIL CHALLENGES POLICE CHIEF [...] (C) Summary: A meeting of the Anbar Coordination Committee (ACC) was called February 12 to address the dispute between Al Anbar Salvation Council leader Sheikh Abdalsittar Abou Risha and the Anbar PC Chair and Governor over who had the authority to appoint the police chief of Anbar. While Go [...] | 2007-02-15 07:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD53 | KURDISTAN PRESIDENT BARZANI DISCUSSES PESHMERGA, [...] This message is from the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT). 2. (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani told Kurdistan Regional Coordinator on December 29 that peshmerga security forces, currently controlled respectively by the KDP and P [...] | 2007-01-07 10:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD536 | WORLD BANK MANAGING DIRECTOR STRESSES COMMITMENT [...] (C) Summary. World Bank Managing Director Dr. Juan Jose Daboub visited Baghdad Feb. 12 for a one-day visit that included a call on the Charge and his senior economic team. Daboub reaffirmed that Iraq,s development remains a top priority for the Bank, striking an unexpectedly positive note on [...] | 2007-02-15 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD538 | PRT KIRKUK: ARTICLE 140 COMMITTEE MEMBER MOHAMMED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC) and Article 140 Commission member, Mohammed Khalil, a Sunni Arab, says the Article 140 Commission,s approval of a proposed Arab relocation program came after a "strife-filled" debate over whether the program would be voluntary. The final wording w [...] | 2007-02-15 08:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD539 | PRT TIKRIT: BAYJI OIL PRODUCTION GRINDING TO A NEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. During interviews conducted on February 6-7, officials at the Bayji oil refinery discussed continuing production challenges which greatly hamper production and threaten to completely shut down the facility within several days. [...] | 2007-02-15 10:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD540 | SUBJECT: PRT TIKRIT: DEPUTY GOVERNOR PUTS FORTH [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) Salah ad Din Deputy Governor Abdullah Ajbarah has been engaged on reconciliation and is keen to see greater Sunni involvement in the political process. In that vein, he passed the following letter to a number of individuals, including [...] | 2007-02-15 11:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD545 | VICE PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC ADVISORS DISCUSS BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: Economic Minister-Counselor met with Farid Yaseen and Zuhair Humadi, economic advisors to Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi on February 11. The advisors appreciated the Baghdad Security Plan's focus on commercial zones and mixed neighborhoods. They also noted the lack of Iraqi g [...] | 2007-02-15 16:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD546 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN -- VIEWS FROM THE STREET [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad residents have expressed cautious optimism about the new Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) to poloffs, PRT Baghdad officers, and other embassy staff in recent days. Overall, their comments hit two major themes: (1) that residents are pinning their hopes on this plan, and (2) t [...] | 2007-02-15 19:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD547 | FIRST YEAR OF IRAQ'S COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES -- [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's one-year-old legislature is maturing slowly as an institution through its work on a diverse package of laws. We count 27 pieces of legislation passed, and many more debated, during 86 meetings held since March 2006. Legislative priorities for the upcoming term will furt [...] | 2007-02-15 20:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD550 | DRAFT NATIONAL HYDROCARBON LAW TO GO TO COUNCIL OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-16 15:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD551 | COUNCIL OF MINISTERS APPROVES BUDGET EXECUTION [...] (SBU) Late 15 February an animated Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation Ali Baban told Coordinator for Economic Transition Carney that the Council of Ministers meeting that day had approved two documents submitted by the MoPDC making proposals for reforming and improving Iraq's bu [...] | 2007-02-16 16:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD552 | PM MALIKI CLAIMS AL-SADR LETTER IS A FRAUD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-16 18:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD554 | PM'S OFFICE RELEASES STATEMENT DENYING [...] (U) The office of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki issued a written statement on February 4 denying the authenticity of a letter, dated January 14 and circulating on the internet, which summarized an alleged conversation he had with Moqtada Al-Sadr to send senior Al-Mahdi members to Iran to prote [...] | 2007-02-17 08:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD558 | NINEWA: TURKISH CONSULATE STANDS UP IN MOSUL [...] (C) Turkish Consul General for Mosul Huseyn Botsali arrived in Mosul 10 February to assume permanent residence at the new GOT Consulate in Mosul. He met PRT Team Leader Knight at PRT offices 11 Feb to review administrative and support matters arising from his new status as our permanent int [...] | 2007-02-17 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF EPET EAID MARR TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD559 | NINEWA: KURDS' HEADLONG RUSH TOWARDS KRG [...] (C) Kurds in Ninewa continue to press forward to incorporate significant areas of Ninewa Province into the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) through the 'disputed territories' process foreseen by Article 140 of the current Iraqi Constitution. In this headlong effort, Ninewa's Kurdish Allia [...] | 2007-02-17 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREF KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD56 | PRT TIKRIT: DOES THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT'S REACH [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The distance between the central GOI and the Salah ad Din (SaD) Provincial Government appears to be widening. Local politicians have little to no communication with the national level political parties, leaving many to become i [...] | 2007-01-07 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD561 | IRAQI PRESIDENCY STATEMENT ON KEY PRIORITIES [...] The following statement was posted on the Iraqi Presidency's website ( www.iraqipresidency.net ),dated February 15 (posted February 16),following a meeting between the three-member Presidency Council and Prime Minister Al-Maliki. The statement lists priority issues on which senior GoI offi [...] | 2007-02-17 19:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD562 | FORMER IRAQI DPM DISCUSSES MODERATE FRONT [...] (S) SUMMARY: Former Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways and the Ambassador discussed on February 10 the status of the moderate front. The Ambassador encouraged Shaways to play an active role in its formation. Shaways said he favored transferring de-Ba'athification to the judiciary and punis [...] | 2007-02-18 10:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD564 | CHALABI, SAD DEPUTY GOVERNOR DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on February 9, Salah ad-Din (SaD) Deputy Governor General Abdullah Al-Jebarah presented De-Baathification Commission Chairman Ahmed Chalabi lists of individuals from his province who had received exemptions from the HNDBC but had yet to be returned [...] | 2007-02-18 11:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD565 | TALABANI DISCUSSES LATEST ON MODERATE FRONT, PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani discussed the latest efforts on a moderate front in a February 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Minister of Water Latif Rashid. He gave the Ambassador a readout of his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-M [...] | 2007-02-18 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD566 | DA'WA COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBER URGES USG [...] (C) Summary: Shiite Dawa Party Council of Representatives (CoR) member and Deputy of the National Reconciliation Commission Falih al-Fiyadh discussed key issues before the CoR with poloffs February 15. Al-Fiyadh urged the USG to engage Prime Minister Maliki, former PM Jafaari, SCIRI leader a [...] | 2007-02-18 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD567 | FM STILL HOPING TO BRING MINISTERS TO BAGHDAD; HAD [...] (C) Summary. CDA Speckhard and PolCouns met with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari February 15 to discuss the FM's trip to Saudi Arabia and the upcoming neighbors' conference the Iraqis hope to host in Baghdad in mid-March. Zebari described his trip to Saudi Arabia to reopen the Iraqi Embassy a [...] | 2007-02-18 16:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD570 | NINEWA: KURD-ON-YEZIDI VIOLENCE IN AYN SIFNI [...] (C) An 'honor killing' of a presumably unfaithful Kurdish wife after her travel with Yezidi companions employed as local police led to anti-Yezidi violence by Kurds in Ayn Sifni, the major town of Ninewa's Shikhan District. Damage from the violence was narrowly targeted and relatively limit [...] | 2007-02-19 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PBTS IZ |
07BAGHDAD583 | MISSION PROPOSES SECOND HALF OF MARCH FOR ACSA [...] (C) We agree with Department,s reftel way forward on negotiating an Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) with the Government of Iraq. However, we request the USCENTCOM-led training and education session in Baghdad begin no earlier than the third week of March. CENTCOM and MNF-I su [...] | 2007-02-19 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PINS PNAT PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD584 | PRESIDENCY COUNCIL, PM AGREE TO CLOSER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice Presidents Adel Abdel Mehdi and Tariq al-Hashemi told the DCM on February 15 that the Presidency Council and Prime Minister have agreed to work together more closely by holding weekly meetings to discuss important issues. The group had not decided on a formal structure or a [...] | 2007-02-19 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD585 | BSP POPULAR COMMITTEE MOBILIZATION EFFORT'S ROCKY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The popular mobilization strand of the new Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) is off to a rocky start. In a February 14 meeting with provincial and local government leaders, tribal sheikhs, religious leaders, and Embassy staff, committee co-chairs Ahmed Chalabi and Naseer Al-Ani struggl [...] | 2007-02-19 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD591 | PRT TIKRIT: SALAH AD DIN TV'S STAR IS RISING, BID [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. This cable has been cleared by the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division (3/82 BCT) and the Tactical PSYOP Detachment 1630, who have Salah ad Din in their area of operation. 2. (C) SUMMARY. With its exclusive coverage of Saddam's burial an [...] | 2007-02-19 13:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OIIP KPRV ECON SCUL IZ |
07BAGHDAD592 | SPECIAL ENVOY RALSTON VISITS MAKHMOUR, TALKS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: KRG President Barzani told Special Envoy Ralston that settling the PKK problem requires a political solution from Turkey, but that the KDP and PUK are also anxious to see this source of conflict between Turkey and the KRG resolved. Ralston informed Barzani and other KRG officia [...] | 2007-02-19 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PTER TU IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD593 | PRT TIKRIT: SAMARRA'S LOCAL POLITICS, DFI AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-19 13:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD594 | IRAQI DEPUTY SPEAKER MESSAGE OF THANKS TO [...] (SBU) The office of Deputy Speaker Khalid al-Attiya of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (independent member of the Shia coalition) handed PolOffs a letter for President Bush on February 19 (text in para two),in which the Deputy Speaker thanks the U.S. for its continued support and looks [...] | 2007-02-19 14:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD599 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES BASRAH GOVERNOR FOR EFFECTIVE [...] (C) In a February 11 meeting, the Ambassador told Basrah governor Mohammed al-Waeli (Fadhila) that the Mission was very concerned about the rocket attacks targeting REO Basrah and the British Consulate (co-located in the Basrah Palace Compound) and urged him to take a more effective approach to [...] | 2007-02-19 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD609 | PRT TIKRIT: SAMARRA'S LOCAL POLITICS, DFI AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-20 10:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR ECON KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD612 | ALLAWI BACK IN IRAQ; SEEKS TO BUILD CENTRIST [...] (C) Summary: Back in Baghdad after a prolonged absence, Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told the Ambassador February 16 he intended to re-enter Iraqi politics and build a centrist, issues-based coalition. Allawi said that regional leaders are increasingly frustrated with the GOI and the fut [...] | 2007-02-20 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR IR SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD615 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CHECKPOINT INCIDENTS, [...] (S) Summary: At a February 18 luncheon at Ambassador Khalilzad's residence, he and Turkish Ambassador Derya Kanbay discussed recent checkpoint incidents involving Kanbay and other Turkish Embassy personnel. Kanbay expressed understanding for the difficult circumstances under which U.S. soldie [...] | 2007-02-20 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD616 | FEBRUARY 16 BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN EXECUTIVE [...] (C) Summary: At the February 16 Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) Executive Steering Committee (ESC) meeting, Iraqi General Abboud reported that BSP had begun successfully February 14. MNF-I Commanding General (CG) Petraeus cautioned that BSP is still in the early stages and that public expectation [...] | 2007-02-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD620 | MAYSAN GOVERNOR DISCUSSES SECURITY SITUATION, [...] (U//REL USA, MCFI) This is a PRT Maysan cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C//REL USA, MCFI) In a January 22 meeting with the new head of Multinational Forces Division (Southeast),Maysan Governor Adil Al-Maliki focused on his province's upcoming transition to Provincial Iraqi Control [...] | 2007-02-20 18:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD621 | MINISTRY OF DISPLACEMENT AND MIGRATION (MODM) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sheikh Abdullah Fadil, head of the MODM,s Kirkuk Office, says his primary responsibilities include care of returning and new internally displaced people (IDPS),and of stateless persons. He currently is focused on assisting arriving IDPs from central and southern Iraq. His o [...] | 2007-02-20 18:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD622 | POLITICAL AGREEMENT REACHED ON HYDROCARBON LAW ) [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-20 19:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD624 | UNIFICATION OF KRG JUSTICE MINISTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) authorities attended formal ceremonies to mark the long-awaited unification of the PUK and KDP Ministries of Justice 6 February 2007. The separate PUK and KDP ministries of Finance, Interior, and Peshmerga continue working on resolution of [...] | 2007-02-21 05:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD628 | FADHILA BLOC LEADER DISCUSSES DEBAATHIFICATION [...] (C) Hassan al-Shammari, Fadhila bloc leader in the Council of Representatives (CoR),told PolCouns on February 14 that Fadhila supported an approach to deBaathification reform that made reconciliation the driving priority. Fadhila, he said, wanted to see the "rehabilitation" of Baath party me [...] | 2007-02-21 13:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD629 | PM MALIKI REQUESTS UNSG BAN KI-MOON TO HOST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-21 15:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ OTRA PREL |
07BAGHDAD63 | IRAQ'S SUNNI VP DISCUSSES BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN, [...] (S) Summary: In a January 4 meeting with Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi (Iraqi Islamic Party ) IIP),the Ambassador briefed him on the new Baghdad security plan and solicited the VP's support. Al-Hashemi welcomed a new plan to curb Baghdad violence, requested Shia and Sunni balanc [...] | 2007-01-07 18:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD630 | REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: TAMADHUR KADHIM [...] (SBU) Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following Iraqi with substantial ties to the USG to the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Principal applicant (PA): NAME: Tamadhur Kadhim Hammad DOB: February 3, 1956 POB: Baghdad, Iraq Passport Number: G 1100832 Gender: Female Mari [...] | 2007-02-21 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD639 | FORMER IRAQI MILITARY OFFICER DISCUSSES ANBAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Khalaf, a well-connected former military officer from Ramadi, told Poloffs on February 19 that the Anbar Salvation Council capitalized on anti-Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) momentum in the province and the Council's police recruits are mostly loyal to Iraq, not t [...] | 2007-02-22 07:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD64 | COR FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR BEGINS 2007 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: In a January 3 meeting the Finance Committee Chair at the Council of Representatives Ayad Al Samarai (Sunni - Iraqi Islamic Party) asked Treasury Attache and Econoff for post's analysis of the 2007 budget. Al Samarai also described his reactions to the budget and budget law: too [...] | 2007-01-07 19:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD640 | POSSIBILITY OF A NEEDED SAFE HAVEN FOR PALESTINIANS [...] (C) Summary: Security and living conditions at the Baladiat housing complex for Palestinians in Baghdad remain poor. Residents of the 864-apartment compound report that Jaysh al-Mahdi militias continue to attack and assault them. The apartments are overcrowded, even if they are sparsely fur [...] | 2007-02-22 08:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD660 | IRAQ:BSP PROGRESSING, HYDROCARBON LAW COMPROMISES, [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a February 20 meeting with Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, and Minister of Oil Husayn Shahristani, all agreed that necessary compromises to the draft Hydrocarbon Law are almost complete and that it will be pres [...] | 2007-02-22 15:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD666 | ACTIVITIES OF TAQ TAQ OPERATING CO. LTD (TTPOCO) [...] (C) SUMMARY. The General Manager of the oil company, Mr. Leslie Blair, General Manager, told RRT Off that drilling commenced in the Taq Taq field but production would not occur for two and half years. Infrastructure needs and security risks require Taq Taq Operating Co. Limited (TTPOCO) to [...] | 2007-02-22 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EFIN IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD677 | PRT TIKRIT: A BALANCING ACT: THE OPF AND 4TH IA IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The Oil Protection Force at the Bayji oil refinery, normally overseen by the Ministry of Oil (MoO),is now nominally under the command of the 4th IA according to a January 29 directive by PM Maliki. In practice, however, the OP [...] | 2007-02-23 18:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD680 | POPULAR COMMITTEES MEETING PARTICIPANTS DISMAYED [...] (C) Summary: Ahmed Chalabi frustrated community and tribal leaders who attended a February 21 meeting to discuss the "popular committees" for the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) when he announced that he had named "liaison officers" to represent each of the ten security areas of Baghdad. Meeting [...] | 2007-02-24 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD681 | PRT TIKRIT: MINISTERS OF OIL, ELECTRICITY, AND 4TH [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. During a February 19 meeting at the refinery, Minister of Oil Al Shahristani, Minister of Electricity Al Hasan, and the deputy commander of the 4th IA, BG Nabeel, revealed their plan to improve oil infrastructure security and in [...] | 2007-02-24 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET KCOR EIND IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD682 | PRT TIKRIT: NEW BAYJI REFINERY CHIEF LAYS OUT PLAN [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. On February 14, the incoming director of the Bayji Oil Refinery Ali Obeydi discussed his plan to address the refinery,s numerous operational challenges with the Salah ad Din Governor Hamad Hamoud al Shakti al-Qaisi, [...] | 2007-02-24 16:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD683 | LOCAL BAGHDAD AUTHORITIES BLAST CHALABI'S POPULAR [...] (C) Summary: PRT officers spoke with Rusafa and Karada District Advisory Council (DAC) chairmen February 22 to discuss their views on Ahmad Chalabi,s popular committees initiative. Both said that the general consensus among DAC, Neighborhood Advisory Council (NAC) and Provincial Council (P [...] | 2007-02-24 20:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD688 | MINISTER OF INTERIOR TELLS CODEL MEEHAN SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 20 meeting with Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani, CODEL Meehan stressed that a speedy and permanent reduction in Baghdad violence is central to rebuilding U.S. domestic support for efforts in Iraq. Minister Bolani agreed, adding that he is confident that the re [...] | 2007-02-25 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD693 | FORMATION OF LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN IRAQI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Newscaster and political activist Farhad Sangawi told RRT Offs on February 10 that he is forming a liberal-democratic party in Sulaimaniyah Province in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Sangawi does not constitute at this stage a threat to the dominance of the Patriotic Union of Kurd [...] | 2007-02-25 14:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD694 | FEBRUARY CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT IN IRAQI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: RRT Offs attended the First Development Conference of Sulaimaniyah Province on February 5-6 under the theme: Decision-making, Responsibility, Transparency, and Honesty. Numerous committees were formed from members of the provincial government, the local population, and non-gov [...] | 2007-02-25 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CONEAZ IZ |
07BAGHDAD695 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DANA AHMED MAJEED, GOVERNOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The following is a brief biography of the Governor of Sulaimaniyah Province in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. The biography is based on information provided by the Office of Foreign and Public Relations, Sulaimaniyah Province, press reports and conversations between RRT Off and t [...] | 2007-02-25 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD696 | BACKGROUND ON CAREER OF TOP BUSINESS LEADER IN [...] (U) As reported in reftel, RRT Off met on February 10 with Faruk Mustafa Rassool, the most prominent businessman in Sulaimaniyah Province. This telegram reports on Rasool,s career background. MODEST BEGINNING THEN EXPANSION AND DIVERSIFICATION 2. (SBU) Faruk Mustafa Rassool began his c [...] | 2007-02-25 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD697 | BUSINESS LEADER OF IRAQI KURDISTAN ON OPENNESS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The most prominent businessman in Sulaimaniyah Province, Faruk Mustafa Rassool, told RRT Off on February 10 the two dominant political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan must put their rivalry aside and allow free-market practices to drive economic development. He told party leaders th [...] | 2007-02-25 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD699 | NEA DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUTLER [...] (SBU) During his first visit to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, NEA DAS Butler held separate meetings on February 16 with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Director of the Office of Foreign Relations Falah Mustafa Bakir and Minister of Planning and Development Othman Shwani. 2. (SBU) Both B [...] | 2007-02-25 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | POL ECON EAID AMGT IZ |
07BAGHDAD70 | KURDISTAN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES OIL REVENUE SHARING, [...] This message is from the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT). 2. (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani told the Regional Coordinator on December 29 that he had not reached an agreement on contracting details in his talks over oil-reven [...] | 2007-01-08 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD714 | CONFERENCE ON INTERNALLY DISPLACED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: RRT Offs participated in the Coordination Meeting for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Sulaimaniyah Province in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region to determine information that will help identify and assist IDPs. The IDP population includes Iraqi Arab Shia and Sunnis migrating to [...] | 2007-02-26 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD720 | HYDROCARBON LAW "COVER LETTER" AGREED, PATH [...] (C REL GBR) Summary. The Ambassador traveled to Lake Dokan on February 24 to get Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) endorsement of a compromise text of the cover letter to the hydrocarbon framework law, setting the stage for approval of the draft law by the Council of Ministers (CoM) at a meet [...] | 2007-02-26 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD722 | SHIA MEMBERS OF ARAB CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL DENOUNCE [...] SUMMARY: (C) In a recent meeting, four Shia Arab members of the Arab Consultative Council (ACC) presented hard-line, rejectionist views on Article 140 and its proposed relocation program. They said that there is no difference in the political views among Shia and Sunni ACC members noting sp [...] | 2007-02-26 18:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF IZ |
07BAGHDAD73 | KRG PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MEET IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on December 21 Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani expressed gratitude to Secretary of Defense Gates for U.S. assistance and said the Kurds look forward to continued cooperation. Accompanied by the Ambassador, General Pace, and Ambassador Satt [...] | 2007-01-08 17:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD733 | PM CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES HYDROCARBON LAW AND PR [...] (C) Summary: The hydrocarbon law would still be passed by the Council of Ministers this week, the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff (COS) Tariq Abdullah anticipated in a February 21 meeting with the DCM. Abdullah also requested embassy suggestions on how to improve media coordination for the new [...] | 2007-02-27 19:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD741 | CODEL DICKS PRESSES IRAQI LEADERS ON SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 23 Minister of Defense Abdul Qader Mohammad al-Ubaydi met CODEL Dicks, which expressed the importance of quickly improving Iraq's security situation. Minister Abdul Qader agreed, asserting that the revised Baghdad Security Plan has already succeeded in significantly re [...] | 2007-02-28 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINS PNAT MOPS DA IZ |
07BAGHDAD75 | JANUARY 7 MCNS: IRANIAN DIPLOMATS, BSP, AND PIC [...] (S) SUMMARY: On January 7, the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) discussed the recent detention and subsequent release of Iranian "diplomats" involved in anti-Coalition and anti-GOI activity, agreeing that steps needed to be taken to discourage Tehran from engaging in further [...] | 2007-01-08 18:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PREL PGOV |
07BAGHDAD753 | DCM METS WITH PM CHIEF OF STAFF ON NEIGHBORS [...] (S) On February 27, Deputy Chief of Mission Daniel Speckhard met with Tariq Abdullah, Chief of Staff to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss ideas for the upcoming Neighbor's Conference that Iraq will host in March. Abdullah said Maliki's government was pleased by the Council of Mi [...] | 2007-03-01 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL KNNP PARM PHUM PINS PNAT MOPS DA IZ |
07BAGHDAD754 | PRT KIRKUK: PC BOYCOTT: PARTIES AGREE TO FORMAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Calls for "joint administration" dominated a January 12 meeting called to find an end to the Arab-Turkoman boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council. Despite apparent agreement at that meeting, the Arab and Turokman blocs have failed to follow up and appear to be uninterested i [...] | 2007-03-01 11:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD758 | FORMER PM ALLAWI CALLS FOR SINGULAR FOCUS ON [...] (S) Summary: Following the February 26 approval of a draft hydrocarbons law by the Council of Ministers, the Ambassador discussed next steps on other key political priorities with Former PM Allawi February 27. Allawi contented that security should be the one and only priority and called USG [...] | 2007-03-01 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD767 | BAHA'I REPORT SUPPORT ON IDENTITY CARDS, PUSH-BACK [...] (C) Summary: President of the Baha'i National Spiritual Advisory Group in Iraq, Abdul Razaq Abaychi, updated PolOffs on February 25 on the status of a Saddam-era regulation that leaves the Baha'i without identification to register in schools, obtain passports, or even get married legally. Aba [...] | 2007-03-03 10:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD770 | IMPLEMENTING THE INVESTMENT LAW [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Iraq is moving forward in implementing the Investment Law passed by the Council of Representatives (CoR) in October 2006 and published in the official GOI Gazette on January 17, 2007. While still pending CoR approval, an Acting Chairman of the National Investm [...] | 2007-03-04 06:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD775 | NINEWA'S FUEL CRISIS -- STILL BAD AND GETTING WORSE [...] (C) Despite constant iteration of the ongoing fuel crisis across Ninewa on the part of Provincial authorities to GOI Ministries in Baghdad and equally insistent efforts by Coalition authorities, shortages of all consumer fuels -- gasoline (benzene),diesel, kerosene, and LPG -- remain critic [...] | 2007-03-04 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD777 | ANBAR SALVATION COUNCIL FORMS POLITICAL PARTY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-04 14:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD780 | NINEWA: DCM DISCUSSES FUEL SHORTAGE, JUSTICE, WITH [...] (C) Ninewa PRT hosted Embassy Baghdad Deputy Chief of Mission Daniel Speckhard to assess current conditions in Ninewa Province and Ninewa PRT operations. DCM Speckhard was accompanied by National Coordination Team Director Olson and Acting USAID Director Harvey. At DCM Speckhard's meeting [...] | 2007-03-04 17:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EPET PTER KJUS IZ |
07BAGHDAD781 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN: MORE VIEWS FROM THE STREET [...] (C) Summary. Baghdad local leaders and average citizens continue to tell post that security on the streets remains better than before implementation of the new Baghdad Security Plan (BSP). However, some report that confidence was shaken by a series of car bombs and the resurgence of some str [...] | 2007-03-04 18:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PTER PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD790 | IRAQI VP HASHIMI ON CABINET CHANGES, BSP, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on February 28, VP Tariq al-Hashimi said he had met with the Prime Minister on February 27. The VP professed his support to the PM and asked the PM to view him as a contributor to the GOI's policies. According to VP Hashimi, he and PM discussed [...] | 2007-03-05 11:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD792 | CG AND DCM MEET IRAQI PRIME MINISTER [...] (S) Summary. The Commanding General and Deputy Chief of Mission met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki March 3 to discuss progress on the Baghdad Security Plan, reconciliation efforts, and sovereignty issues. The CG and PM agreed that there was optimism on the streets of Baghdad, though [...] | 2007-03-05 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD795 | MARCH 2 BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN EXECUTIVE STEERING [...] (C) Summary: The March 2 meeting of the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) Executive Steering Committee (ESC) focused on: -- A security update by General Abboud (para's 2-4); -- A report on the political committee's meetings aimed at enhancing political parties' support for BSP (5-6); -- Disc [...] | 2007-03-05 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD798 | VP MAHDI DISCUSSES DE-BAATHIFICATION REFORM, [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 28 meeting with the Ambassador, Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi described the assassination attempt against him, calling it a "well organized inside job." He discussed the issue of de-Baathification reform and stressed the importance of addressing the needs [...] | 2007-03-05 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KJUS PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD8 | PRT TIKRIT: GOVERNOR, DEPUTY GOVERNOR MEET WITH VP [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The Governor and Deputy Governor of Salah ad Din (SaD) province met with Vice-President Al Hashemi and the Ministers of Oil and the Interior during a trip to Baghdad on December 27-28. As the second in a series of trips (the fi [...] | 2007-01-02 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD807 | CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES IRAQI PM ROLE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 5 meeting with DCM and PolCouns, PM Chief of Staff Tariq Abdullah said that the PM preferred a de-Baathification policy that targeted only those involved in criminal activities rather than entire classes of members, but cautioned that the matter was exclusively reserved [...] | 2007-03-06 17:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KJUS PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD81 | LOCAL BAGHDAD RECONCILIATION EFFORTS GO BACK TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local Baghdad contacts engaged in neighborhood-level reconciliation efforts suggest an approach based on tribal customs and religious leaders to resolve sectarian conflicts. The U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) coordinates an ongoing series of briefings with Baghdad residents for [...] | 2007-01-09 12:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD810 | COMMERCE U/S LAVIN VISIT TO ERBIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Department of Commerce Under Secretary Franklin Lavin met with GOI officials, Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) representatives and US and Iraqi business leaders in Erbil Feb 19-20 to engage on economic policy and inaugurate the US-Iraq Business Dialogue and launch the Commercial [...] | 2007-03-07 07:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EINV IZ |
07BAGHDAD817 | PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIR CRITICIZES BSP INITIATIVES [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Mueen Al-Kadhimi (SCIRI) complained in a March 4 press conference as well as to PRToffs March 6 that the national government has not consulted the PC on Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) initiatives. Al-Kadhimi said he resented the fact that in [...] | 2007-03-07 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD818 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES AL-HAKIM ON DEBAATHIFICATION [...] (S) Summary: In a March 6 meeting with SCIRI leader Abdulaziz al-Hakim, the Ambassador and General Petraeus urged al-Hakim to make rapid progress on deBaathification reform. Specifically, the Ambassador asked for al-Hakim's assistance in ensuring Shi'a coalition support for a draft law to be [...] | 2007-03-07 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD819 | DPM HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISOR COMPLAINS ABOUT PRISONS [...] (S) Summary. Shakir Farhan, Human Rights Advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Salaam Zowbaie, expressed concern to PolOff in February conversations about Jaysh al-Mahdi militia infiltration of the Ministry of Justice prison system. He said the Director General of Prisons Juma'a Hussein (ref) asso [...] | 2007-03-07 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KDEM PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD82 | EXECUTION OF THE FY 2006 BAGHDAD PROVINCIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Province of Baghdad was allocated $513 million for capital projects in Fiscal Year 2006 (which corresponds to the calendar year). The money was divided primarily between the Mayor, with $333 million, and the Governor, who received $100 million; with the remaining $80 million [...] | 2007-01-09 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN POL PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD820 | MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS TELLS POLCOUNS SHE LACKS [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told PolCouns March 3 that she was dissatisfied with the Ministry's lack of authority to address human rights abuses. Referring to a February 21 detention facility inspection, the Minister explained that her team had the ability to identify t [...] | 2007-03-07 16:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD821 | MINISTER OF TRADE SUPPORT FOR WORLD TRADE [...] (C) Summary: On March 4, Minister of Trade Abdul Falah Al Sudani told emboffs that Iraq's accession to the World Trade Organization has his full support and that he will attend the April 19 opening of the Working Group. Minister Al Sudani (Shi'a - Da'wa Tanzim) was appreciative of USAID-fun [...] | 2007-03-07 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD827 | SCIRI DEPUTY SEEKS CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE FROM ARAB [...] (C) In a March 7 meeting with PolCouns, SCIRI CoR member and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Humam Hamoudi expressed his optimism about the March 10 Neighbors Conference, saying that if approached in the right way it could be an important step in confirming the new role of Iraq in [...] | 2007-03-08 14:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD828 | IRAQIYYA LEADERS DISCUSS WITHDRAWAL FROM GOI [...] (S) Summary: During the Ambassador's March 1-4 trip to Kurdistan with Iraqiyya leaders, Ayad Allawi and Adnan Pachachi discussed options for pursuing their party's secular, nationalist agenda. Allawi professed his support for the Maliki government in establishing security and moving forward [...] | 2007-03-08 15:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER KDEM IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD829 | PRT TIKRIT: PROJECT SELECTION PROCESS IMPROVING, [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Provincial government in Salah ad Din today relies on a capital budget resolution procedure strongly influenced by a process instituted in 2005 designed to promote Iraqi participation and initiative in planning U.S.- [...] | 2007-03-08 17:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD83 | AMBASSADOR AND ABDEL MEHDI DISCUSS NEW STRATEGY, [...] (S) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi stated his support for the new strategy for securing Baghdad in a in a January 8 meeting with the Ambassador. His offered only one suggestion after hearing the Ambassador's brief preview, namely that additional forces and attention be paid to Diya [...] | 2007-01-09 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD830 | HASHIMI ON UPCOMING TRAVEL TO SYRIA, IRAN; [...] (S) Summary: VP Hashimi and the Ambassador met on the eve of the VP's March 5 trip to Syria and discussed the possibility of a bloc leaders' retreat to raise key political issues and reach agreement on a way forward. Hashimi noted that he would return from Syria at the end of the week and le [...] | 2007-03-08 21:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD831 | AMBASSADOR AND PM: NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE, SAUDI [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a March 6 meeting, the Ambassador and PM discussed the March 10 Neighbor's Conference, including expected outcomes and working groups focusing on border security, fuel and electricity imports, and Iraqi refugees. The Ambassador suggested reaching out to participating countries [...] | 2007-03-08 22:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD836 | REQUEST FOR EXPEDITED APPROVAL TO PROVIDE [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 9 and 10. This is a joint cable from Ambassador Khalilzad and General Petraeus. 2. (C) Summary: Government of Iraq ministries continue to face major obstacles to the prompt execution of their budgets, particularly major procurements of [...] | 2007-03-09 11:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON ENRG IZ |
07BAGHDAD838 | UPDATE ON BASRAH CHILDRENS HOSPITAL [...] (U) This is an action requested message, action requested in paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary: IRMO has worked closely with GRD over the past two months to assure that the donation of Spain through UNDP could be utilized as quickly as possible on the project. UN required UNDP to treat funds as [...] | 2007-03-09 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON ENRG IZ |
07BAGHDAD839 | ANBAR SALVATION COUNCIL FORMS NEW POLITICAL PARTY [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar cable. 2. SUMMARY. (C) The Anbar Salvation Council, formed to counter AQI in Ramadi, publicly announced the launching of its own political party: Iraqi Awakening Movement (IAM). This party was organized by Sheikh Sattar Abu Risha, who emphasized the IAM will have [...] | 2007-03-09 14:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD84 | PM COS ABDULLAH ACCUSES U.S. OF MURDER AND [...] (S) We have received a very strongly worded letter (e-mailed to NEA-I) from Tariq Abdullah, Chief of Staff to the PM, accusing U.S. forces of launching a raid and killing a target in Najaf without first gaining the consent of local or federal officials as required by the terms of our agreemen [...] | 2007-01-09 18:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PREL PGOV |
07BAGHDAD842 | FADHILA BLOC LEADER DISCUSSES WITHDRAWAL FROM [...] (C) Iraqi Shiite Fadhila bloc leader Hassan al-Shammari told PolOffs on March 8 that Fadhila's withdrawal from the Shi'a Coalition (UIC),announced March 7, is serious: "We will not return." Fadhila, he said, rejects the central political goal of the UIC, which he characterized as "federali [...] | 2007-03-10 07:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD843 | GOI HOLDS BUDGET EXECUTION CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Iraq hosted a day-long conference on 'Accelerating Budget Execution' on March 7, 2007. Led by Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, and Minister of Planning and Development Coordination Ali Baban, the conference was attended by [...] | 2007-03-10 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD859 | IRAQ KURDISTAN REGION MEDIA SUMMARY -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 300mW Electricity Generation Station to be Build for Sulaimaniyah ------------------------------------------- 2. (U) Major Newspapers reported that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the KRG and a German company [...] | 2007-03-11 13:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PINS IZ US |
07BAGHDAD860 | IRAQI KURDISTAN REGION MEDIA SUMMARY-- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. US Military Apologizes to Families of Fallen Peshmerga --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (U) The major Kurdish media covered a meeting between US Army representative Colonel Smith and Kurdish representatives Must [...] | 2007-03-11 13:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PINS IZ US |
07BAGHDAD864 | BAGHDAD HOSTS FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SINCE [...] (C) Summary: Key U.S. and Iraqi objectives were fulfilled, albeit imperfectly, at the March 10 expanded neighbors' conference in Baghdad. All of Iraq's neighbors expressed their support for Iraq's security and stability and pledged cooperation; all attended at respectably senior levels; and [...] | 2007-03-11 18:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD866 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTRY COMPLAINS OF LOW DONOR [...] (C) Summary. Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) senior officials complained to PolOffs March 6 that they had yet to see substantive assistance from international donors, despite efforts by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to coordinate such assistance. At the heart of the ministry's e [...] | 2007-03-12 07:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD868 | THE SHI'A COALITION: FADHILA'S WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) Fadhila's March 7 withdrawal from the Shi'a coalition (UIC) underscores the lack of cohesiveness in the UIC. Encompassing a spectrum of Shi'a Islamist parties and individuals that banded together to contest the December 2005 national election, the UIC has shown signs of strain since the d [...] | 2007-03-12 10:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD869 | IRAQI POLICE SERVICE CAUSES DELAYS TO PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-12 11:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PNAT PINS MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD877 | IRAQI SUNNI BLOC MEMBERS DISCUSS PROGRESS, POINTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunni Tawafuq bloc members Salim al-Jabbouri (Iraqi Islamic Party, IIP) and Hussein al-Falluji (Iraqi People's Conference, IPC) discussed their impressions of the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) with Poloffs on March 7 and 11, respectively. Jabbouri traveled with a cross-s [...] | 2007-03-12 15:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OZ |
07BAGHDAD878 | CONTINUING A STRATEGIC DIALOGUE WITH SCIRI [...] (S/NF) The Charge and Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi chaired on March 11 a second round of strategic dialogue between the US and SCIRI. The Charge emphasized the U.S. commitment to developing its relationship with SCIRI despite recent events that had caused some tension in the relationship. [...] | 2007-03-12 19:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD879 | READ OUT FROM MARCH 11 MCNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki presided over the March 11 meeting of the Ministerial Committee for National Security, during which: -- Maliki requested his cabinet focus their efforts on securing Diyala, the 'most dangerous place in Iraq.' -- Minister of Industry Twazi Al-Hariri pleade [...] | 2007-03-12 19:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PINS PNAT PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD880 | DEMARCHE TO KRG ON PALESTINIAN REFUGEES [...] (SBU) At march 7 meeting with KRG Interior Minister Karim Sinjari, Regional Coordinator Yellin per reftel made the following points re Palestinian refugees: -- The Palestinian refugee population in Iraq has been singled out for persecution by armed, violent elements in Iraqi society. -- T [...] | 2007-03-13 05:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM KPAL IZ |
07BAGHDAD881 | MANDAEAN MINORITY INCREASINGLY TARGETED, SEEK AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of Iraq's Sabian Mandaean religious minority on March 7 reported an increase in violent attacks and discrimination against their community over the past year. They told post that top spiritual leader Shaykh Sattar Jabbar al-Helo had fled to Syria after surviving [...] | 2007-03-13 06:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD882 | PRT TIKRIT: BAYJI OIL REFINERY: WHERE ARE THE [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. A new breakdown in the distribution system of refined fuel from the Bayji oil refinery is exacerbating already dire shortages in many areas of north-central Iraq. This is occurring several weeks after the commencement of Operat [...] | 2007-03-13 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD884 | NINEWA GOVERNOR ON FUEL SHORTAGE, ARAB-KURD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ninewa Governor Duraid Kashmoula told the Ambassador on March 8 that Ninewa is in dire need of fuel and asked the Ambassador to urge Iraq's neighbors to increase fuel imports. He said the Kurds are not taking over Mosul and it is the Sunni Arabs in the area who are causing probl [...] | 2007-03-13 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD885 | MARCH 10 EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING: [...] (C) Summary: The March 10 Executive Steering Committee (ESC) of the Baghdad Security Plan had a strong focus on basics services, notably pharmaceuticals and electricity, as well as a more assessments-based security update. Other topics included returning internally displaced persons (IDPs) [...] | 2007-03-13 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD887 | MARCH 10 EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING: [...] (C) Summary: The March 10 Executive Steering Committee (ESC) of the Baghdad Security Plan had a strong focus on basics services, notably pharmaceuticals and electricity, as well as a more assessments-based security update. Other topics included returning internally displaced persons (IDPs) [...] | 2007-03-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD89 | KURDISTAN PRESIDENT BARZANI DISCUSSES PKK, KIRKUK [...] This is an Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) Summary: U.S. Regional Coordinator for the Iraqi Kurdistan Region asked Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani to close all Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) offices and refuse safe haven to it [...] | 2007-01-10 10:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD891 | FORMER PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN SAYS PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Provincial Council (PC) member Mazen Makiya (Shia, Independent) told PRToffs March 9 that party politics, poor leadership and lack of organization plague Baghdad's provincial government. Makiya, who was PC Chairman from March 2005 to December 2005, said current PC Chairman Mueen [...] | 2007-03-13 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ PINR |
07BAGHDAD894 | ALLAWI AND BARZANI DISCUSS POLITICAL ALLIANCE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Iraqiyya leaders Ayad Allawi and Adnan Pachachi visited Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani in Barzan from March 1-3. The leaders discussed a possible political alliance to push forward on key reforms critical to establishing security in [...] | 2007-03-13 20:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD896 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. KRG Publishes Draft Federal Oil and Gas Law in English and Arabic --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (U) The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) spokesman published an authorized English translation of the draft [...] | 2007-03-14 05:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PINS IZ IR TU US |
07BAGHDAD897 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- March 10, 2007 [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. Adnan Al Mufti: Kurds Will Maintain Relations with Shi'a Coalition --------------------------------------------- --- 2. (U) PUKmedia.com covered a press statement by KNA Speaker Adnan Al Mufti saying that the Kurdish Bloc in th [...] | 2007-03-14 05:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PINS IZ IR TU US |
07BAGHDAD901 | ICRC CONTINUES TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, [...] (C) Summary: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) continues to operate in Iraq despite the violence. In partnership with the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, the ICRC provides thousands of internally displaced Iraqis with relief kits. The ICRC will continue to repatriate, as needed, [...] | 2007-03-14 08:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF IZ |
07BAGHDAD905 | SUNNI VP HASHIMI PLANNING FOR HIS FIRST OFFICIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi discussed with the Ambassador on March 9 his upcoming official visit to Tehran. In preparation for his departure on March 11, Hashimi asked for the Ambassador's input on what to raise with his Iranian interlocutors. The Ambassador and Hashi [...] | 2007-03-14 12:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD909 | IRAQ: SIGNIFICANT THREATS TO EDUCATIONAL AND [...] (C) Summary: The introduction of new passport requirements for Iraqis, coupled with continuing staffing problems within the Cultural Affairs Office, seriously threaten the viability of Embassy Baghdad's educational and professional exchanges. CAO Baghdad continues to pursue a variety of crea [...] | 2007-03-14 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL APER IZ |
07BAGHDAD910 | PM MALIKI VISIT TO ANBAR WELL RECEIVED BY LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: At the initiative of MNF-I Commanding General, PM Maliki visited Anbar March 13, accompanied by MoD Abdul Qader, MoI Bolani, and MinState for Foreign Affairs Rafaa Essawi. In separate meetings with the Anbar provincial council and the tribal sheikhs, he emphasized that all Iraqis [...] | 2007-03-14 18:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD927 | IRAQI PM CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES MINISTERIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 12 meeting with PM Chief of Staff Tariq Abdullah, the Charge urged the PM's office to continue to press for de-Baathification reform and movement on the hydrocarbons law. He congratulated the PM's office on the successful Neighbors Conference and stressed the importa [...] | 2007-03-16 08:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD937 | US REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROGRAM REFERRAL FOR LOCALLY [...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following locally employed staff to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) 2. (SBU) Principal applicant (PA): Name: Everest Albarazanchi (A.k.A. Everest Kareem Mohammad Amin) DOB: November 27, 1974 (Iraqi Passport states in error November 1 [...] | 2007-03-16 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ PHUM PREF |
07BAGHDAD94 | PM'S CHIEF OF STAFF SUPPORTS JOINT ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: The Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, Dr. Tariq Abdullah, said he was happy with the overall Joint Economic Transition Plan in a meeting with the Deputy Chief of Mission on January 10. While agreeing with the general framework and broad estimates, Dr. Tariq said that further disc [...] | 2007-01-10 19:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD941 | TALK OF NEW IRAQI POLITICAL PARTY COALITIONS [...] (C) Summary. Reports about negotiations among Iraqi political parties to break up the current sectarian blocs and form new alliances have intensified following secular nationalist Iraqiyya,s March 1 announcement that it would withdraw from the GOI and Shia Fadhila's March 7 withdrawal from t [...] | 2007-03-17 06:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD95 | SUNNI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAYS HE HAS MALIKI'S [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Chief of Mission discussed the new security and economic plan with Deputy Prime Minister Salam Al-Zubai (Sunni - Tawafuq) on January 10. Dr. Al-Zubai said that the new strategy was a step in the right direction, and that he had the full confidence of Prime Minister al [...] | 2007-01-10 20:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD96 | MINISTER OF FINANCE SUPPORTS JOINT ECONOMIC PLAN [...] (C) Summary: The Treasury Attache and the Economic Minister- Counselor met with the Minister of Finance, Bayan Jabr (Shi'a - SCIRI) on January 8 to discuss the Joint Economic Transition Plan. Senior staff at the Ministry of Finance also attended the meeting. Minister Jabr said he supported th [...] | 2007-01-10 20:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD966 | BADR-AFFILIATED MAYOR BEATEN BY SADRISTS [...] (C) Summary: Badr-affiliated Baghdad Governor al-Tahan told PRToffs that his proxy in Jusr, the qa,im makam (local &mayor8),was kidnapped, beaten and released on March 15 by members of the local Sadr Bureau office. The attack was apparently in retaliation for the qa,im makam,s enforcement o [...] | 2007-03-19 12:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD969 | PRT TIKRIT: SAMARRA'S LOCAL POLITICS, DFI AND [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Local political rivalries in Samarra threaten stability as tensions mount with the reconstruction of the Golden Dome Mosque (reftel). Samarra's city officials, who are holdovers from Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) days o [...] | 2007-03-19 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD970 | PRT TIKRIT: JUDICIAL CONFERENCE SUPPORTS MAJOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) On March 14 the PRT Rule of Law Team hosted the province's first judicial conference since the fall of the former regime. 25 of Salah ad Din's judges, prosecutors, and high ranking police officials gathered in Tikrit for a day-long dis [...] | 2007-03-19 14:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KCRM IZ |
07BAGHDAD971 | PRT TIKRIT: SALAD AD DIN LEADERS DISCUSS WAY AHEAD [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2.(SBU) SUMMARY. On February 15, leaders from Salah ad Din,s (SaD) public and private sector met for a CF/PRT-sponsored Dialogue and Communication Conference (DACC) to address the opportunities and challenges facing the province. The meeting pr [...] | 2007-03-19 14:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | TAGS |
07BAGHDAD973 | BAGHDAD DEPUTY MAYOR SAYS ATTACK ON MAYOR WAS [...] (S) 1.SUMMARY: 1. Summary: Baghdad Deputy Mayor Naeem Aboub al-Kaby said that the recent attack on the vehicle convoy of Mayor Saber al-Esawi was a well-planned professional strike against one of Baghdad,s important municipal leaders. End summary. 2. (S) Deputy Mayor for Municipalities N [...] | 2007-03-19 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV ASEC PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD975 | MSNSA WAELI PUSHES TO ESTABLISH MINISTRY OF [...] (C REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: Charge Speckhard met with Shirwan Waeli, Minister of State for National Security, to express our concerns over the draft Ministry of National Security Law (MNSL) currently stalled in the Council of Representatives. Waeli asserted that the law is critical to establishing [...] | 2007-03-20 09:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD978 | ASSYRIAN PATRIOTIC PARTY WANTS HOMELAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: IPAO recently met with three members of the Assyrian Patriotic Party (APP),to discuss the Party's program, especially their proposal for an Assyrian Homeland in Ninewa Province. One APP rep said the Party differs in "all subjects" from the larger Assyrian Democratic Movement ( [...] | 2007-03-20 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD980 | CHALABI AIDE SAYS INCOMPETENCE, LACK OF BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: Ahmad Chalabi aide Wameed Al-Mekhlibe told PRToffs March 17 that lack of coordination with security forces, incompetent ministries, and Prime Minister Maliki,s failure to provide a budget have hindered efforts to form effective popular committees. Al-Mekhlibe said there is littl [...] | 2007-03-20 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD981 | FM ON UPCOMING MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE: NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary. In a March 19 meeting with PolCouns, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari reported he has been in contact with his counterparts of those countries who attended the March 10 Neighbors Conference. Plans for the upcoming April Ministerial have stalled due to the Prime Minister's insisten [...] | 2007-03-20 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD985 | READ OUT FROM MARH 18 MCNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki presided over the March 18 meeting of the Ministerial Committee for National Security, during which: -- Minister of State for National Security Affairs Sirwan al-Waeli said the security crackdown in Baghdad was bringing calm to the capital. However, the si [...] | 2007-03-21 09:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PINS PNAT PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD988 | DIYALA PRT: DIYALA PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT TACKLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Largely due to the security situation, Diyala province has not received its Public Distribution System (PDS) food shipment from the Ministry of Trade (MoT) since September 2006. This has been a major contributor to the public perception that the provincial (and national) gover [...] | 2007-03-21 11:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD994 | MARCH 16 BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN EXECUTIVE STEERING [...] (C) The March 16 Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) Executive Steering Committee focused on: -- A report by General Abboud highlighting security improvements and calling for removal of barriers in Baghdad streets (paragraphs 3-6); -- A reminder from CG Petraeus about the need to balance securit [...] | 2007-03-21 20:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD995 | U.S. SOLDIERS AND IRAQI POLICE ON THE BEAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Discussions with both U.S. military and Iraqi police at a Baghdad police station indicate that Iraqi security forces, with coalition assistance, are progressing and growing in confidence despite inadequate facilities, poor logistical systems, and insufficient arms. Despite these [...] | 2007-03-22 06:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KJUS MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PTER |
07BAGHDAD996 | PRT TIKRIT: SALAH AD DIN BUSINESS LEADERS STEP [...] This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. Sensitive but unclassified, entire text. 3. SUMMARY. Leaders from Salah ad Din,s emerging private sector met on March 15 for an inaugural provincial business and investment conference. The talks, held in Tikrit, brought together 36 delegates [...] | 2007-03-22 06:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR IR IZ |
07EFTOBAGHDAD1098 | REFERRAL OF INTERPRETER ANSAM SHIHAB AHMED [...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer Ansam Shihab Ahmed to the US Refugee Admissions Program. 2. (SBU) Biographical information: NAME: Ansam Shihab Ahmed DOB: 27 November 1972 POB: Iraq Passport Number: S 285869 Gender: Female Marital Status: Single (divorce) Dependents: N/A 3. [...] | 2007-03-29 07:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ |
07EFTOBAGHDAD1116 | REFERRAL OF INTERPRETER ESSAM HAMMOUDI AHMED [...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer Essam Hammoudi Ahmed to the US Refugee Admissions Program. 2. (SBU) Biographical information: Principal applicant NAME: Essam Hammoudi Ahmed DOB: July 1, 1980 POB: Iraq Passport Number: S 1647887 Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Dependents [...] | 2007-03-31 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ |
07EFTOBAGHDAD867 | US REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROGRAM REFERRAL OF LOCALLY [...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following locally-employed staff to the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) 2. (SBU) Principal applicant (PA): NAME: Nabil Al-Bassam (a.k.a. Nabil Sh. Ibrahem) DOB: July 22, 1970 POB: Diyala Passport Number: S 487540 Gender: Male Marita [...] | 2007-03-12 08:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD10 | PRT Civil Society Outreach in Diyala's Farm Sector [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: PRT Diyala has conducted outreach and support activities with the Agricultural Chamber of Commerce and the Diyala Beekeepers Association. Allegations of violence within the Diyala Farmers' Union has required the PRT to step back fr [...] | 2008-01-02 11:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD EAID EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD1003 | RRT ERBIL: SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION TO VICE [...] (U) Vice President Cheney's March 17-18 visit to Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region dominated local news broadcasts and has received universally positive editorial commentary in Kurdish papers in addition to factual reporting. Local press underscored the "historic nature" of the visit as the Vi [...] | 2008-04-01 12:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO PREL OVIP IZ |
08BAGHDAD1004 | RRT ERBIL: IIP SPEAKER TRAINS BROADCAST [...] (U) RRT Erbil hosted IIP Specialist Professor Robert Hooper of the University of California - San Diego, who conducted a two-week training workshop from March 3 through March 13 for eighteen local television journalists. The program improved the technical skills of Iraqi journalists and str [...] | 2008-04-01 12:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP OEXC SCUL OPRC KPAO IZ |
08BAGHDAD1005 | ANATOMY OF A BAGHDAD RECONCILIATION EFFORT: [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Introduction: Reconciliation movements in Baghdad quickly spread through the province following the surge of Coalition Forces and the success of the "Anbar Awakening." Unlike other areas in Iraq with more homogeneous populations, reconci [...] | 2008-04-01 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM PINR PHUM IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1006 | IRAQI NSA RUBAIE ON RECENT SAUDI VISIT [...] (C) In a March 30 meeting with S/I Satterfield and Polmilcouns Ries, National Security Advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie said his recent meetings in Saudi Arabia were "very good." During his meetings he outlined common Saudi - Iraqi interests, particularly in combating terror, and told his hosts th [...] | 2008-04-01 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ SA PTER PGOV |
08BAGHDAD1007 | HELPING THE NEGIHBORS MAKE SENSE OF BASRAH [...] (S) Observers trying to make sense of this week's fighting in Basrah face a somewhat baffling array of narratives. For PM Maliki, the Basrah operation was about asserting central government authority over a city that had long been dominated by criminals and extremists, and which was slipping e [...] | 2008-04-01 16:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1008 | MINISTERIAL CAPACITY SURGE ASSESSMENT - INTERIM REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As of March 30, 97 percent of the 75 "surge" advisors on Ministerial Capacity have arrived in Baghdad. Their arrivals were staggered; in mid-January, 53 percent were present and working in country. Surge personnel focus on providing targeted skills to several key non-security [...] | 2008-04-01 16:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AMGT PGOV ECON PREL SOCI PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD101 | AMAR AL-HAKIM ON MALIKI, BILATERAL SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: ISCI Heir Apparent Amar al-Hakim told S/I Satterfield January 13 that ISCI agrees with the USG position that the Maliki government must operate in a more inclusive manner and should start by reactivating the "Three Plus One" leadership mechanism. Amar, who delivered a well-public [...] | 2008-01-14 09:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1010 | ISF GENERAL ON SECURITY SITUATION IN BAGHDAD [...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During a March 26 conversation, amid a crescendo of unrest in Baghdad, Major General Abdul Ameer, the Western Baghdad deputy commander and commanding general of the Iraqi Army Sixth Division, painted a bleak picture of the security situation. Abdul Ameer told several [...] | 2008-04-02 07:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1015 | RRT ERBIL: BARZANI ADVISOR SUPPORTS CRACKDOWN ON [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Fuad Hussein, a key advisor to Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani, told RRTOFF that Barzani voiced his support to PM Maliki's crackdown on criminal gangs and militia in Basra in a March 31 phone call. The call, the first conversation between the two [...] | 2008-04-02 09:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EPET IZ |
08BAGHDAD1017 | Koya's Mayor Shortchanged by KRG's Incomplete Government [...] (SBU) Koya's Mayor, Kurda Omar, told RRTOffs March 31 that her district had received only $2 million in Provincial Reconstruction Funds from Erbil since 2006. Omar explained that Koya district had shifted administratively from Sulaymaniah province to Erbil province in 2006 as a result of the U [...] | 2008-04-02 12:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD1019 | MCNS ON MARCH 30 REVIEWS BASRAH, BAGHDAD, NINEWA [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: With PM Nouri al-Maliki still in Basra, Deputy PM Barham Salih chaired the March 30 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) foreshadowed by the sound of indirect fire (IDF) impacting in the International Zone as participants arrived at the meeting. The Commit [...] | 2008-04-02 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ |
08BAGHDAD102 | IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIAN ALLEGES TERRIBLE PRISON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-14 11:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON KDEM KJUS PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1020 | FADILA BLOC MEMBER DR. BASIM SHARIF ON THE COR, PM [...] (C) Summary: In a frank conversation held at the al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad, COR and Fadila bloc member Dr. Basim Sharif al-Hechaimi discussed the recent Iraqi military operation in Basra. Decrying what he considered a unilateral act on the part of the PM, Dr. Basim highlighted the recent ac [...] | 2008-04-02 18:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1021 | WHAT IS THE U.S. VIEW OF THE PROPOSED IN-KIND [...] (SBU) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Minister of Oil Husseyn Shahristani spoke to EMIN by phone April 1. Asked about progress on the negotiation of the oilfield technical service agreements (TSAs) under negotiation with major international oil companies (IOCs),Shahr [...] | 2008-04-03 06:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD1022 | NSA RUBAIE BLAMES IRAN FOR BASRAH CONFRONTATION; [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-03 06:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS IR IZ SA |
08BAGHDAD1023 | IRAQ'S PRIVATE-SECTOR TELECOMS FIRMS FORGE AHEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's private-sector led mobile and wireless telecommunications markets are developing apace. The Kurdistan-based, Barzani family-affiliated Korek Telecom recently concluded an interconnection agreement with Zain, the Kuwaiti-backed leading nationwide operator. The agreement ma [...] | 2008-04-03 09:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINT ECPS |
08BAGHDAD1026 | HOFF GUARDED ABOUT GERMAN ENGAGEMENT IN IRAQ AND [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. During a March 25-28 visit to Baghdad marred by indirect fire (IDF),German Bundestag member Elke Hoff, accompanied by Hans Christian Roessler from Frankfuter Allgemeine Zeitung, Dieter Bednarz from the weekly Der Speigel and Nazyr Bircholtz of the German Iraq Friendship Socie [...] | 2008-04-03 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV GM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1027 | DAWA PARTY OFFICIAL ON BASRAH OPERATION AND [...] (C) Summary: Senior Dawa Party official Haidar al-Abadi told us April 1 that Iraqi public opinion, as demonstrated through claimed pro-GOI demonstrations in Basrah and elsewhere, and the Najaf-based Marja'iyah are strongly behind PM Maliki in his efforts to deal firmly with militias and armed [...] | 2008-04-03 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1028 | AYAD ALLAWI: WE ARE ALL IN THIS BOAT TOGETHER [...] (S/NF) Summary. Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told PolCouns on April 2 that re-establishing peace and stability following the violence in Basrah will be critical to Iraq's long-term stability. Allawi said the GOI is not doing enough to reach out to its Arab neighbors, which is one strateg [...] | 2008-04-03 14:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1029 | PRT WASIT: 3ID DEP CG DISCUSSES WASIT SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary. On 29 March, 3ID Deputy Commanding General-Support (DCG-S),BG Edward Cardon, met with Wasit civilian and military leaders at the Wasit Governance Center (GC),site of the ISF HQ during the recent fighting against non [...] | 2008-04-03 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV MOPS IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD103 | SADRIST SEEKS USG HELP IN "CLIPPING SATAN'S [...] (C) Summary: Jawad al-Hasnawi, a senior Sadrist Trend official and Deputy Governor of Karbala province, told us January 10 that he and a growing number of other Sadrists have come to the conclusion that Iran, not the United States, is Iraq's greatest nemesis, and he proposed that the USG work [...] | 2008-01-14 13:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1030 | ATTIYAH AND MASHHADANI STAND BY MALIKI, OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) Summary: In separate April 3 conversations with Polcouns, COR Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and COR Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khalid al-Attiyah both proclaimed their support for PM Maliki's government. Attiyah stated that all Sadrists had ties to Iran, while Mashhadani offered a more nuanced [...] | 2008-04-03 14:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1031 | EPRT: HR ADVISOR AL-JABOORI EXPLAINS SUNNI [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) On March 25, Sheikh Omar Al-Jaboori, Human Rights Advisor to Vice President Tariq Al-Hashimi told E-PRT Team Leader and BCT Commander during a biweekly reconciliation meeting that prominent Sunni political parties refused to participate [...] | 2008-04-03 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI SCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1033 | BADR'S HADI AL-AMRI ON BASRAH CRACKDOWN AND TALKS [...] (C) Summary: Badr Organization strongman Hadi al-Amri told us April 2 that the recent GOI crackdown in Basrah was a largely successful and long-overdue first step in "the surgical removal of the disease of armed militias," a process that will continue in the coming days. Hadi claimed that Pri [...] | 2008-04-03 18:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1036 | JAM IN BAGHDAD -- HOW STRONG IS IT? [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy political-Baghdad PRT cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Jaysh Al-Mahdi's (JAM) show of force in Baghdad since March 23 has demonstrated its potential to bring Iraq's capital to a standstill for a limited period, but not without alienating large segments of the local popul [...] | 2008-04-04 19:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1037 | U.S.-IRAQ STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS: [...] (S) SUMMARY: The United States and Iraq held their first round of negotiations of a status of forces agreement (SOFA) March 23 through April 3 in Baghdad. This agreement is designed to provide a foundation for a long-term military to military relationship between the United States and Iraq. [...] | 2008-04-05 06:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR PREL KTIA IZ |
08BAGHDAD1039 | FOREIGN MINISTER: IRAN WILL ESCALATE CONFRONTATION [...] (S) SUMMARY. During a March 31 meeting, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari - just off the plane from the Arab League Summit in Damascus - told Ambassador Crocker, MNF-I CG GEN David Petraeus, NSC Senior Director McGurk and PolMil Minister Counselor Ambassador Marcie Ries that Iran had se [...] | 2008-04-05 12:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ PGOV PREL |
08BAGHDAD1040 | PRT-WASIT: MID-LEVEL SADRISTS REENGAGE OVER [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary. On 1 April, TL and IPAO met with three Wasit Sadr Trend district-level officials who complained that ISF and CF operations disproportionably targeted Sadrists, though they admitted the movement "has some bad people" who deserve ar [...] | 2008-04-05 12:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1041 | MOHR DISCUSSES AMNESTY LAW, COM DECISIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim discussed with PolOff on April 2 the state of amnesty implementation and recent Council of Ministers votes. A Ministry of Human Rights team has been investigating actual releases of detainees under the Amnesty Law and has found that far [...] | 2008-04-05 12:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1042 | NSA RUBAIE ON PCNS, SOFA/SFA, BASRAH AFTERMATH [...] (C) Summary: In an April 4 meeting with Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk and Polmilcouns, Iraqi National Security Advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaie agreed on the need to capitalize on the positive political atmosphere by releasing a strong, unified statement during the April 5 PC [...] | 2008-04-05 14:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ PINS |
08BAGHDAD1043 | STUCK BETWEEN AN ARROGANT MAN AND A MAD MAN [...] (C) Summary: Wearing his mediator hat, Dr. Ahmed Chalabi spoke with PolCouns on April 3 to discuss Basra and the Iranian involvement in the conflict, as well as the subsequent Sadrist movement to oust Maliki. Chalabi urged the USG to take great caution in dealing with the Sadrists, and indic [...] | 2008-04-05 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1044 | IRAQI OFFICIALS ON MALIKI'S BASRAH CAMPAIGN [...] (C) In a series of March 30 conversations with Iraqi officials including Ali Merza, Director of the National Security Advisor's Joint Planning Committee (JPC),Saiid Jaber from the Crisis Action Cell (CAC) secretariat, and A'amer Al- Musawi, chief of staff to the National Security Advisor (pro [...] | 2008-04-05 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD1045 | VP ADEL ON SECURITY CRACKDOWN, "CONFUSED" [...] (C) Summary: In an April 5 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told us that the time is ripe for harsh and decisive GOI action against the "cancer" of armed outlaw groups, a measure supported by the Iraqi political class and public and even by Iranian General Qasim Sulaimani. He said th [...] | 2008-04-05 17:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1047 | SAI LEADER SHEIKH AHMED SPEAKS ON HIS NEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, leader of the Iraq Awakening Movement, or Sahawa Al-Iraq (SAI),spoke to us on April 2 for over two hours about SAI's movement towards becoming a national political party, his personal attitude on th [...] | 2008-04-06 07:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD1048 | PRT MUTHANNA: POST-BASRAH ATMOSPHERICS [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C) The new OMS leader in Muthanna is known as Muhannad Abdulhussein al-Karbala'i (although there is suspicion that this is a pseudonym). He cooperated closely with Gov. Marzook during the outbreak of violence in late March, including reachi [...] | 2008-04-06 07:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV IR |
08BAGHDAD105 | REACTION TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE LAW AND [...] (S) Summary: Sunni reaction to the January 12 passage of the Accountability and Justice Law, an early indicator of the ultimate political impact, has been somewhat tepid. The Sunni Tawafuq Front issued a statement January 13 calling the law "mediocre" but acknowledging it contains some positiv [...] | 2008-01-14 16:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1050 | GOI SUPPORT FOR PROPOSED UNSCR; LIBYA HOLD ON [...] EMIN, accompanied by Acting Economic Counselor and Deputy Treasury Attach, met with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Tuesday, April 1, to discuss GOI interest in either revising the scope of UNSCR 1518 or taking the lead to lobby for the passage of a new UNSCR that will target Iraqis and thir [...] | 2008-04-06 08:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ETTC IZ PREL PTER XF |
08BAGHDAD1051 | VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI ON BASRA OPERATIONS, [...] (S) During an April 1 meeting, the Ambassador and Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi discussed the situation in Basra and the aftermath of the recent showdown with Sadrist forces there. Hashimi described how he had supported PM Maliki during the Basra campaign, putting personal differences aside [...] | 2008-04-06 10:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1052 | APRIL 2 MEETING BETWEEN THE AMBASSADOR, GENERAL [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki, flushed with the success of recent ISF operations in Basrah, reviewed next steps with the Ambassador and General Petraeus on April 5. Maliki noted that he was dedicating $100 million dollars towards Basrah's reconstruction, and is using Tribal Support Counci [...] | 2008-04-06 10:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1054 | MEETING WITH KRG SECURITY DIRECTOR SINJARI AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: MNF-I DCS for Strategic Effects MG Bergner and D/PolMil Couns met with KRG security director Karim Sinjari March 19 to discuss closing Makhmour refugee camp. Sinjari supported closure of the camp, noting that absent any employment prospects, the younger residents would likely gra [...] | 2008-04-06 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREF PREL PTER IZ TU |
08BAGHDAD1055 | ECONOMIC IMPACT OF IRAQ'S ONGOING SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Post contacts report that the recent Basra security operations have led to economic disruptions throughout Iraq. Basra Province itself has borne the brunt of economic impacts. Supplies of health-related material have been stretched, but the Ministry of Health reports sufficient [...] | 2008-04-06 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR ELTN ENRG PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1056 | PRT WASIT: LOCAL LEADERS ASSESS RECENT VIOLENCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. On 04 April, PRT TL and IPAO met first with the Wasit Governor and then with the PC Chairman to discuss events of the past week and the current situation in Wasit. Both officials shared their views of the Sadrist movement and their [...] | 2008-04-06 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ PINS PINR |
08BAGHDAD106 | TALABANI ON KURDISH EFFORTS TO IMPROVE RELATIONS [...] (S) Summary: Iraqi President Talabani on January 12 told S/I Satterfield he and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Barzani had agreed on a list of measures to improve relations with the U.S. and restart political progress under the Maliki government. These include eliminating Kurd [...] | 2008-01-14 18:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1061 | Dialogue on Economic Cooperation -- Follow-up [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih's follow-up team for the Government of Iraq (GOI) hosted U.S.-Iraq Dialogue on Economic Cooperation (DEC) of February 27-28 have proposed to pursue implementation of actionable outcomes by breaking action items into functional groups. Onc [...] | 2008-04-07 02:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EFIN EINV EAGR ENRG BEXP IZ |
08BAGHDAD1063 | BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP: REQUEST FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY AND REQUEST FOR INSTRUCTIONS: Post requests the Department to instruct posts in capitals of participants in the Border Security Working Group (BSWG) to urge their host governments to support Iraqi efforts to secure agreement on concrete measures aimed at stopping the flow of terror [...] | 2008-04-07 02:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PINS PREL PTER BA EG IR IZ JO KU SA |
08BAGHDAD1065 | MALIKI SCORES BIG AT APRIL 5 PCNS MEETING [...] (C) According to an ISCI representative, the April 5 meeting of the Political Committee for National Security (PCNS),a body comprised of representatives of all political blocs, was attended by President Talabani; Prime Minister Maliki; Deputy PM Barham Saleh; Vice Presidents Adel Abdel Mehdi [...] | 2008-04-07 07:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1066 | POLITICAL NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING [...] (C) The Political National Security Council (PCNS) met Saturday, April 5, 2008 at President Jalal Talabani's residence, with representatives of all the political parties represented in the Parliament. They discussed the security situation, political issues, and economic challenges in Iraq. [...] | 2008-04-07 08:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD107 | FLEDGLING "NATIONAL PROJECT" SEEKS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Billing their fledgling group as a broad-based CoR coalition that cuts across sectarian lines, organizers of the "National Project" told the media January 13 that they hope to attract as many as 145 CoR members from across Iraq's political spectrum with a common goal of fostering [...] | 2008-01-14 18:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1070 | DPM SALIH: TIME IS RIGHT FOR BIG MOVES ON BASRAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a cordial and far ranging conversation at the DPM residence April 6, EMIN introduced to DPM Barham Salih incoming Anti-Corruption Coordinator Ambassador Lawrence Benedict and discussed economic/reconstruction measures the GOI can take in coming days to solidify gains from th [...] | 2008-04-07 14:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID EFIN MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1071 | CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION AT PORT NOT YET CREATING [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Minister of Trade's concerns that Prime Minister Maliki's April 3 decision to put all staff at the Port of Umm Qasr on leave for investigation of corrupt practices may lead to shortages of wheat, rice and other Public Distribution System (PDS) commodities throughout the [...] | 2008-04-07 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ETRD EWWT EFIN ECON PGOV KCOR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1072 | MINFIN HAS MONEY FOR BASRA, BUT IS WAITING ON [...] (C) Summary: At an April 6 meeting, Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr said that the 100 million USD for humanitarian assistance and development in Basra could be funded by taking money from the Basra Provincial Government's capital budget. A line item in the upcoming 2008 supplemental budget could [...] | 2008-04-07 14:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1073 | RRT ERBIL: SRSG PREVIEWS DISTRICT VISITS; KURDS [...] (C) Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura briefed RRT that his upcoming visits to Hamdaniya, Makhmour, and Akre districts will lay the groundwork for recommendations to the Presidency Council to begin resolving Article 140. He said his goal is for the UN t [...] | 2008-04-07 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1074 | IESC MEETING APRIL 4 [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chaired the Iraq Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (FAQ) April 4. Discussion focused on the provision of essential services and humanitarian aid to areas affected by the recent violence and featured a len [...] | 2008-04-07 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1075 | VP ADEL ON APRIL 5 PCNS AND GOI OFFENSIVE AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: In an April 7 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi said political unity expressed in the April 5 meeting of the Political Council for National Security (PCNS) had built momentum for progress on several fronts, particularly the dissolution of the Jaysh al-Mehdi (JAM) and the r [...] | 2008-04-07 15:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1076 | KRG LAW ESTABLISHES FRAMEWORK FOR INCREASED JUDICIAL [...] (SBU) In November 2007 the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) passed a law separating the judiciary from the executive. Specifically, the Judicial Power Law (JPL) establishes a Judicial Council (KJC) to take over responsibility for the management of judges and courts from the KRG Ministry of J [...] | 2008-04-07 16:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1080 | COR SPEAKER MAHMOUD MASHADANI DEEMS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani told us the Political Council for National Security (PCNS) meeting (Saturday, April 5, 2008) was successful in bridging the key differences between the political blocs. He added the CoR will work to ban armed militias fr [...] | 2008-04-07 18:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1083 | AMIDST CEASE-FIRE, SADRIST MOSQUES IN BAGHDAD BEAT [...] (C) A sampling of several Sadrist-affiliated mosque sermons in the greater Baghdad area from last Friday, April 4, reveals that despite Muqtada as-Sadr's recent cease-fire declaration, tensions between the Sadrists and the GOI and CF continue to run high. Criticism of the GOI and its perceive [...] | 2008-04-08 07:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1084 | D/PM BARHAM SALIH MEETS NEW EMBASSY [...] (C) Summary: In his introductory call on D/PM Barham Salih, AMB. Lawrence Benedict described his mission as identifying how the U.S. could best support GOI anti-corruption initiatives. AMB Benedict asked for D/PM Barham Salih's cooperation in this endeavor. D/PM Barham Salih welcomed AMB [...] | 2008-04-08 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON KCOR PGOV PREL IQ |
08BAGHDAD1088 | TUWAITHA YELLOWCAKE NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Minister of Science and Technology held a conference call on April 6 at the Embassy to finalize contract negotiations with Cameco, the Canadian buyer of the uranium yellowcake. Negotiations went well, and the contract once finalized and reviewed by the parties may be signed a [...] | 2008-04-08 14:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD1091 | CHALABI'S PROVISION OF SERVICES COMMITTEE - APRIL 1 [...] SUMMARY: Discussion at Dr. Chalabi's April 1 Provision of Services Committee meeting was primarily divided between potable water (for a third straight week),and the fallout from the previous week's fighting in Sadr City. Key topics included an electrical outage at the Karkh Water Treatment P [...] | 2008-04-08 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ REL UK |
08BAGHDAD1093 | NSA RUBAIE ON CURRENT SECURITY ISSUES AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a meeting on April 6 with the Charge d'Affaires, Iraqi National Security Advisor (NSA) Rubaie called the April 5 Declaration by the Political Committee for National Security (PCNS) a breakthrough. It had isolated the Sadrists, he said, and forced them to choose whether or [...] | 2008-04-08 16:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD1094 | BAGHDAD SITUATION REPORT: APRIL 8, 2200 LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: Muqtada Al-Sadr (MAS) announced on April 8 that he had postponed indefinitely a "million-strong" demonstration originally scheduled for April 9 in Sadr City. The march had been planned to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. News media also reported Sadr t [...] | 2008-04-08 20:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PTER MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1095 | I WAS KIDNAPPED BY A BUNCH OF AMATEURS [...] (C) Summary. Tahseen Sheikhly, Government of Iraq (GOI) spokesman for the Baghdad Security Plan, told USMI and MNFI personnel during an April 1 debriefing that his kidnappers were a gang of amateurish Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) thugs. Released after 115 hours of captivity and reunited with his fami [...] | 2008-04-08 20:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD1099 | FADHILA ON THE PCNS, PROSPECTS FOR RECONCILIATION [...] 1. (C) Summary: In a meeting held at the COR on Monday, April 7, Dr. Basim Sharif al-Hechaimi of Fadhila shared his views on the current crisis between the GOI and the Sadrists, including Fadhila's participation in the Political Council for National Security (PCNS) meeting held on Saturday eve [...] | 2008-04-09 02:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD11 | KIRKUK: ATMOSPHERICS FROM PRT MARKET WALKS IN LATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The catastrophic summer 2007 explosions in Kirkuk dampened market activity as residents stayed home and merchants limited their hours. While violence continued through September and October, it focused more on GOI officials than residential and market areas and market activity [...] | 2008-01-02 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ECON PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1100 | DFM ABBAWI ON BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (S) SUMMARY AND REQUEST: In an April 7 call on Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi, Pol-Mil M/C discussed the upcoming Border Security Working Group, Iraq's preparations for the event, and what it could accomplish. Both agreed that a commitment to stopping the flow of weapons to criminal m [...] | 2008-04-09 07:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PBTS PREL PTER IR IZ KU SY TU |
08BAGHDAD1105 | SADRIST CONFIDANTE WARNS OF BAD PRESSURE BUILDING [...] (C) Summary: In an April 8 meeting with Poloffs, Ibrahim al-Sumaydai - a local political observer with close ties to senior Sadrist Trend and JAM figures - told us Sadrists see an Iranian hand behind recent events, accusing Tehran of pushing Maliki into a confrontation with the Sadrist movemen [...] | 2008-04-09 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD111 | UPDATE ON GOI MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON RULE OF LAW [...] (U) Summary. Since its formal commissioning in mid-2007, the Ministerial Committee on Rule of Law and Detention (MCRLD) has made significant progress in the practical application of its operation. MCRLD has ensured all relevant ministries are adequately represented, meaningful issues are ide [...] | 2008-01-15 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1111 | NINEWA: WIDE-RANGING PRT SUPPORT BOOSTS [...] (SBU) Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ninewa has worked closely over the last year with farmers, produce processors and GOI agencies to support the province's struggling agricultural sector. The sector is crucial to fighting provincial unemployment: rural residents rely on grain producti [...] | 2008-04-09 16:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR SENV EAID PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1112 | APRIL 6 MCNS: BASRAH NEXT STEPS, SADR CITY [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: The April 6 session of the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) featured upbeat assessments of the result of the GoI security operation in Basra, along with agreement on the need for job creation, development, and humanitarian initiatives to stabilize the [...] | 2008-04-09 18:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ |
08BAGHDAD1113 | ISCI'S AMAR AL-HAKIM ON POST-BASRAH UNITY, JAM, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 8 meeting, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) heir apparent Amar al-Hakim told us the recent GOI crackdown in Basrah was an important step in affirming Iraq's identity as a nation based on the rule of law and institutions rather than a country ruled by outlaw gang [...] | 2008-04-09 19:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1114 | IRAQIS DEEM THE AMBASSADOR'S TESTIMONY REALISTIC [...] (C) Assessing Iraqi reaction to the Congressional testimony by the Ambassador and General Petraeus has been complicated somewhat by the GOI's April 9 closure and a Baghdad-wide curfew, but initial soundings here and in Iraq's provinces have been largely positive. The most common reaction thus [...] | 2008-04-09 19:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1115 | TALABANI APPARENTLY PERSUADES IRAN TO CONDEMN IZ [...] (S) SUMMARY: NSC Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk spoke on April 7 with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to discuss the ongoing political situation including the recently held PCNS meeting and the Executive Council meeting scheduled for that evening. Talabani reiterated th [...] | 2008-04-09 19:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1116 | IESC MEETING MARCH 14 [...] (C) Summary: This cable is a record of the meeting notes from the March 14 Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (FaQ),chaired by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The lightly attended and relatively brief meeting featured an update on discussions c [...] | 2008-04-09 19:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PINR PINS SENV |
08BAGHDAD1117 | BAGHDAD SITUATION REPORT: APRIL 9, 2200 LOCAL [...] (SBU) PRTs and ePRTs report that most neighborhoods in Baghdad have been relatively quiet today, with fewer JAM members in evidence than before and greater IP presence. Sporadic violence continued between Jaysh Al-Mahdi (JAM) elements and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF),and mortar rounds reporte [...] | 2008-04-09 19:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ PINS MOPS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1118 | GOI'S LARGEST DETENTION FACILITY GETS LEGAL CLINIC [...] SUMMARY: A modest grant from the Ambassador's Targeted Development Program fund has given the Iraqi Bar Association (IBA) resources to operate a legal aid clinic at Baghdad's largest detention center. Many of the detainees have been held for years without charges or progress in their cases. [...] | 2008-04-10 02:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KCRM KJUS PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1120 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-04-10 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1130 | ELECTRICITY MINISTER DETAILS PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Electricity Kareem Wahid on April 9 detailed plans to attract private investment in power projects; complained about the lack of fuel for power; sought travel support from MNF-I for plans to show PM Maliki various projects; revealed intra-Ministerial obstacles to GOI c [...] | 2008-04-10 17:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1132 | PROVINCIAL RECONSTRUCTION TEAM STAFFING ASSESSMENT [...] (U) In December 2007, the Office of Provincial Affairs (OPA) requested Team Leaders from the Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) and the Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Teams (ePRTs) to conduct a bottom-up staffing assessment to determine what, if any, additional positions and skill sets [...] | 2008-04-11 03:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AODE APER ECON EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD1134 | GOI DELEGATION PREPARES FOR BORDER SECURITY [...] (S) On April 10, Pol-Mil M/C, DHS Attach, MNF-I analysts, and PolMilOffs attended a meeting with the GOI delegation to the Border Security Working Group (BSWG) in order to provide them with an intelligence briefing and USG recommendations for their course of action in Damascus (the latter deliv [...] | 2008-04-12 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PBTS PREL PTER IR IZ SY |
08BAGHDAD1142 | WASIT STATE TEXTILE FACTORY SEWS ITSELF BACK TO LIFE [...] (U) This is a joint PRT Wasit/Embassy reporting cable. SUMMARY 2. (U) During a March 11 visit to the Wasit State Company for Textiles, Wasit PRT members observed production lines back up and running, after having been shuttered just two months ago. A grant from the Task Force for Busines [...] | 2008-04-12 13:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ETRD IZ |
08BAGHDAD1147 | SADIQ AL-RIKABI UPBEAT ON REBUILDING SADR CITY, [...] (C) Summary: Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk met on April 10 with Sadiq al-Rikabi, political advisor to Prime Minister Maliki. Rikabi detailed a $150 million plan to rebuild Sadr City and Shula, Sadrist-heavy neighborhoods in Baghdad which have seen heavy fighting since late [...] | 2008-04-12 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1150 | CHALABI'S PROVISION OF SERVICES COMMITTEE - APRIL 8 [...] SUMMARY: The first meeting to last over two hours in nearly four weeks, the April 8 Provision of Services Committee was otherwise business as usual. The Ministries of Defense, Health, Finance, Electricity, Trade and Transportation attended. The Amanat was also present. Services in Sadr City to [...] | 2008-04-13 07:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ REL UK |
08BAGHDAD1151 | REO BASRAH SITREP 12 APRIL 2008 [...] (U) This is a Basrah REO situation report for April 12, 2008. 2. (S//REL ACGU) Summary: The ISF commenced "Operation Charge of the Knights II" on April 12, targeting remaining JAM strongholds in Basrah. There has been limited resistance from small arms fire and IED screens. Basrah Oper [...] | 2008-04-13 09:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS IZ PINS PINR PGOV |
08BAGHDAD1153 | SADR TO COALITION: HEY INFIDEL, WE WILL ALWAYS BE [...] (C) Summary: After more than six months of relative silence, Muqtada al-Sadr has issued three public statement in the past five days. The latest statement on April 12 addressed recent public remarks by Secretary Gates (who Sadr branded a "terrorist") and is a rabble-rousing screed that turns [...] | 2008-04-13 16:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1154 | RRT ERBIL: NEW UNAMI ELECTORAL OFFICER ARRIVES [...] (C) Erbil RRTOff met April 10 with newly-appointed UNAMI Electoral Officer for northern Iraq, Diederik Willems, at his request, for a meet and greet discussion. Willems said that he has met with the Governorate Electoral Officers (GEOs) for Dohuk and Kirkuk, who complained bitterly about the l [...] | 2008-04-14 03:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1155 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-04-14 06:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1157 | PRT DIYALA: ENCOURAGING SIGNS IN DIYALA [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The Diyala Provincial Government is increasingly eager to engage with the PRT thanks to improving security, the onset of the election season, the long-delayed passage of the 2008 provincial budget coupled with initial exe [...] | 2008-04-14 06:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD EAID EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD1168 | NECHIRVAN BARZANI HAILS NEW AMITY WITH BAGHDAD [...] (C) Econ Minister-Counselor Charlie Ries, Pol/Mil Minister-Counselor Marcie Ries, and Special Assistant to the President for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk met on April 12 with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani. Barzani proclaimed a dramatic upswing in G [...] | 2008-04-14 10:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD117 | S/I SATTERFIELD PRESSES IRAQI OFFICIALS ON [...] Summary: In the days leading up to the passage of the Justice and Accountability Law on January 12, S/I Satterfield pressed the CoR leadership and other prominent leaders to reach agreement based upon a consensus that included Tawafuq leader VP Tariq al-Hashimi on the proposed amendments and [...] | 2008-01-15 16:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD118 | READOUT OF THE JANUARY 14 THREE PLUS ONE MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 18:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1180 | Oil Ministry announces qualification results [...] Anadarko Iraq Company, USA 2. BG International, UK 3. BHP Billiton Petroleum Pty Ltd., Australia 4. BP, UK 5. Chevron Iraq Ltd., USA 6. CNOOC China Ltd, China 7. CNPC, China 8. Conoco Phillips, USA 9. Edison International SPA, Italy 10. ENI, Italy 11. Exxonmobil, USA [...] | 2008-04-15 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG ECON EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1181 | CHINESE EMBASSY READOUT ON ECONOMIC ENGAGEMENT IN [...] (C) Summary: According to Chinese Embassy Economic and Trade Counselor Hu Yaowu in Baghdad, two Chinese-Iraqi energy projects, a 1,300 MW electric power plant and an oil field development project both located in Wasit Province, are on hold pending an improvement in security conditions. The Ch [...] | 2008-04-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETRD PREL PINR CN IZ |
08BAGHDAD1186 | AYAD ALLAWI: RELUCTANT FOR IRAQIYYA LIST TO [...] (S/NF) Summary. Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told PolCouns and Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk on April 13 other GOI leaders are encouraging Iraqiyya to rejoin the GOI. He is open to this goal, he said, but demands that PM Maliki clear his name in unfair allegations fro [...] | 2008-04-16 08:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1191 | COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SG ALI ALA'AQ DISCUSSES JOINT [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting held on Monday, April 14, at the Council of Minister's Secretariat (COMSEC),EMIN introduced the Council of Ministers Secretary-General Ali Ala'aq to incoming Anti-Corruption Coordinator Ambassador Lawrence Benedict. During the meeting, Ala'aq, EMIN, and Ambassador [...] | 2008-04-16 16:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1197 | PRESIDENT TALABANI ON SUPPORT FOR MALIKI; IRAN, [...] (S) Summary: At a lunch on April 14, President Talabani told the Ambassador he was optimistic that broad political support for PM Maliki in the wake of Basra would hasten the return of Sunni Arab Tawafuq and secular Iraqiya blocs to government. He said that his analysis of Iran was that Tehr [...] | 2008-04-17 07:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1198 | THE AMBASSADOR'S AND GENERAL PETRAEUS' APRIL 14 [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister (PM) Maliki reviewed plans for security operations in Mosul with the Ambassador and General Petraeus on April 14. Maliki expressed consternation with what he saw as overly-generous descriptions of the Sadrists during the recent Congressional testimony; the Ambassado [...] | 2008-04-17 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1199 | PRT MAYSAN: IA GEN PLANS MAYSAN OFFENSIVE [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (S) Summary: On April 13 the PRT met with Major General Habib to discuss the recent clashes in al-'Amara as well as future prospects for security improvement. The clashes in al-'Amara between the Iraqi Army (IA) and militant elements of the Sa [...] | 2008-04-17 12:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PINS MCAP |
08BAGHDAD1201 | PRT MUTHANNA: DANGEROUS BUSINESS: IRANIAN EFFORTS [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (S/REL MCFI) SUMMARY: Post Basra, Sadrist fortunes are reviving in Muthanna, coupled with growing disenchantment with Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and Dawa,a politicians who control the local and provincial government. However, a th [...] | 2008-04-17 12:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1202 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Following on the heels of a flurry of anti-corruption activity by the Government of Iraq (GOI) over the past three months - the GOI,s first conference on Anti-Corruption (AC) in January, and a second conference in mid-March hosted jointly by UNDP and the World [...] | 2008-04-17 15:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IQ KCOR PGOV UN |
08BAGHDAD1206 | IESC MEETING APRIL 11 [...] (SBU) Summary. National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwafak al-Rubaie chaired the Iraq Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (FAQ) April 11. Discussion focused on services and humanitarian assistance to Sadr City. Ministry officials reported ongoing problem [...] | 2008-04-17 18:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1207 | VP ADEL: JAM AND SADRISTS DOWN BUT NOT OUT, IRAN [...] (C) Summary: In an April 16 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador that Sadrist insiders have confirmed his analysis that Muqtada al-Sadr (who is in Iran, not Iraq) is mainly a symbolic leader of a fragmented and failing movement comprised of diverse bands of thugs, sheik [...] | 2008-04-17 19:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1209 | MALIKI'S MILITARY OPERATION IN BASRAH: LESSONS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Operation "Charge of the Knights" (OCK) - PM Maliki's campaign to wrest control of Basra from militias and criminals - demonstrated substantial deficiencies in Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) planning, logistics, command and control, individual loyalty and unit reliability. It als [...] | 2008-04-18 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS IR IZ PINR MCAP MARR |
08BAGHDAD1211 | PMO OFFERS CONTEXT ON DISPOSITION OF CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) In an April 16 meeting, the DCM introduced Ambassador Lawrence Benedict to Dr. Tariq Abdallah, Prime Minister (PM) Maliki's Chief of Staff. Ambassador Benedict said he looked forward to supporting the GOI in its anti-corruption efforts, and noted one immediate subject of concern: Judge [...] | 2008-04-18 14:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1218 | MCNS APRIL 13: BASRAH LESSONS LEARNED, MOSUL NEXT [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: PM Maliki chaired the 13 April Ministerial Committee on National Security, focusing on security operations in Basrah and Mosul. Discussion underscored the importance of analyzing recent operations in Basrah and elsewhere to correct deficiencies in Iraqi Army and Police [...] | 2008-04-20 02:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PINS PGOV PREL PTER IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1219 | ADEL AND BARHAM OPTIMISTIC OVER BATTLE WITH JAM [...] (C) Summary: In separate April 15 meetings with Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh marveled at the new political atmosphere in Baghdad following PM Maliki's offensive in Basrah. Both leaders expressed optimi [...] | 2008-04-20 06:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ MOPS |
08BAGHDAD1221 | MALIKI IMPATIENT TO BEGIN MORE INTENSIVE MILITARY [...] (S) SUMMARY: At an April 14 Crisis Action Cell (CAC) concerning operations in Ninewa province, Prime Minister Maliki complained that the operational plan briefing lacked substance; Vice President Hashimi and Deputy Prime Minister Salih concurred. Maliki--clearly frustrated by what he perceive [...] | 2008-04-20 07:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PINS PTER |
08BAGHDAD1223 | NINEWA: LOW-KEY REACTION IN TAL AFAR TO BASRA [...] (C) Key officials in Tal Afar, the second-largest city in Ninewa province with a large Shia Turkoman population, told PRT Leader and Western Ninewa Branch Office Chief March 30 that they supported Iraqi efforts to contain the violence in Basra generated by Shia militia. Tal Afar appeared focus [...] | 2008-04-20 07:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1237 | EPRT BAGHDAD 2 AT YEAR ONE; SUCCESS STORIES [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 BCT E-PRT reporting cable drafted by Team Leader Eric Whitaker. 2. (SBU) Summary: Over the past year, Baghdad 2 E-PRT has undertaken a variety of activities in the areas of local governance, community reconciliation, economic growth and development, and essential [...] | 2008-04-21 15:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM ECON EAID SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD1238 | GOI AMNESTY LAW MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: GoI officials held two recent meetings to discuss the problems with Amnesty Law implementation and to explore potential solutions. According to Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim, the first meeting on April 17 focused on finger-pointing, with participants blaming each other f [...] | 2008-04-21 18:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1240 | BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP IN DAMASCUS: DEFT [...] (C) SUMMARY: SARG MFA allowed the Iraqi delegation considerable latitude to pursue its agenda at Syria's second hosting of the Iraq Neighbors' Border Security Working Group (BSWG) April 13-14 (the first Damascus meeting was in August 2007). Surprisingly, given the state of Syrian Saudi relati [...] | 2008-04-22 02:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PTER IZ KU |
08BAGHDAD1241 | SISTANI REP WARNS AGAINST EXCLUDING SADRISTS [...] (C) Summary: In a sermon delivered on Friday, April 18, at the Imam al-Husayn Shrine in Karbala, Sheikh Abd al-Mahdi al-Karbalai, the representative of the higher religious authority, Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, addressed a variety of issues, including the upcoming provincial elections, the on [...] | 2008-04-22 10:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1243 | SADR THREATENS "OPEN WAR UNTIL LIBERATION" [...] (S) Summary: Muqtada al-Sadr issued an April 19 internet statement in a continuing effort to rally and unify his followers in the face of a concerted GOI crackdown on the Jaysh al-Mehdi (JAM) militia. Heaping scorn on both the GOI and "American occupiers," Sadr repeatedly sounded the powerful [...] | 2008-04-22 12:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1244 | PRT WASIT: WHO IS BURNING BADRAH'S FRUIT ORCHARDS? [...] (C) This a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: In April 14 and 18 meetings with the PRT, Badrah Qada mayor Ali Hadi al Meshoeh speculated that Iranian interests were behind a recent series of orchard burnings was linked to the March 18 seizure of a large weapons cache by ISF. Ali [...] | 2008-04-22 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PINS PGOV |
08BAGHDAD1245 | CHALABI'S PROVISION OF SERVICES COMMITTEE - APRIL 15 [...] SUMMARY: At the April 15 Provision of Services Committee a large portion of time was dedicated to service delivery in Sadr City. The Deputy Minister of Transportation attended and provided a report to the committee on civil aviation in Iraq. Again, water was on the agenda with the Ministry of [...] | 2008-04-22 13:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ REL UK |
08BAGHDAD1248 | REQUEST FOR CHRISTOPHER D.CROWLEY, MISSION [...] Request permission for Christopher D. Crowley to be absent from USAID/Iraq Mission on the following dates: 15-23 May 2008: TDY/Consultations (Washington, DC). 24 May - 14 June 2008: RRB 3 (Washington, DC). 15 June: Return to Baghdad 2. Denise A. Herbol, Deputy Mission Director, [...] | 2008-04-22 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID APER OTRA IZ |
08BAGHDAD1249 | POSSIBLE MUSTARD GAS CACHE LOCATED IN FALLUJAH [...] (S) SUMMARY: Following a lead from a local source, Coalition Forces located a metal tank buried under two meters of concrete near Fallujah in Anbar province on March 18. A non-intrusive test resulted in a positive reading for the blister agent mustard (HD). The tank appears to be intact. Fu [...] | 2008-04-23 01:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | CWC IZ OPCW PARM PREL |
08BAGHDAD1250 | RUN-UP TO ANBAR PIC - WHO'S IN CHARGE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an occasionally animated three-hour meeting between representatives of Coalition Forces, the GOI and the leadership of Anbar province April 7, the senior provincial leaadership pushed back against what it believed to be central government efforts to take provincial security a [...] | 2008-04-23 01:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PREL PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD1251 | MCNS APRIL 20: RULE OF LAW, MOSUL AND BASRAH [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: Topics covered at the April 20 MCNS session included implementation of the Amnesty Law (cases are moving through the system - but there were concerns that some judicial review committees were approving too many); planning for military operations in Mosul (additional for [...] | 2008-04-23 01:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER PHUM ECON IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1254 | KRG BUILDING ITS OWN POWER GENERATING CAPACITY [...] (C) Summary: A privately-constructed build-own-operate 500 MW power plant located on the outskirts of Irbil at Pir Daoud should be completed by July 2008. Since the supply of associated gas it was designed to run on is not yet available, two of the 125 MW GE turbines have been retrofitted to [...] | 2008-04-23 07:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV EAGR EPET IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1255 | MINFIN CLEANS UP BUDGET QUESTIONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Finance Jabr told EMIN on April 21 that he supports the concept of transferring USD 14 million, payable to the USG for transport to radioactive material from Iraq to Canada, to the USG ICERP account; that all provinces have gotten an initial release of 20 percent of [...] | 2008-04-23 07:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EFIN EPET IZ |
08BAGHDAD1256 | HASHEMI: OLIVE BRANCH TO MALIKI TENTATIVELY [...] (C) Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on April 17 met with the Ambassador and Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk in Hashemi,s temporary home on President Talabani,s compound in Baghdad. The VP hailed the improved political climate since Prime Minister Maliki,s Basrah operation, sa [...] | 2008-04-23 09:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1257 | ALLAWI: IRAQIYYA PARTICIPATING POLITICALLY WITHOUT [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk met on April 17 with Iraqiyya leader Ayad Allawi and MP Adnan Pachachi. Allawi gave little indication of near-term plans to re-enter the cabinet, but remains involved in the political process by participating in [...] | 2008-04-23 09:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1258 | SADR CITY SHEIKHS EXPRESS INTEREST IN SOI IN ORDER [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad 3 EPRT Team Leader and the 3BCT/4th ID Commander met on April 19, 2008 with five leading tribal sheikhs from Sadr City. During the course of a cordial two and a half hour meeting and lunch, the sheikhs: -- Expressed strong interest in launching a SOI program in the Ja [...] | 2008-04-23 09:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PTER MARR IZ |
08BAGHDAD126 | BUDGET EXECUTION AND PRISON REFORM DOMINATE [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the January 13 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS),National Security Advisor (NSA) Rubaie led a discussion about capital improvement budget execution problems in the Ministries of Defense, Interior, and Justice. Both the IntMin and acting JusMin acknowledged pr [...] | 2008-01-17 12:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER |
08BAGHDAD1262 | IRAN MANAGING THE POST-BASRAH BACKLASH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) and its Special Group offshoots (JAM-SG) targeting ISF in Basrah with Iranian-provided weaponry March 23 to 30, Iraqi government officials are talking more about the need to confront Iran about its support for illegal militias in Iraq. Ir [...] | 2008-04-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD127 | PRT KIRKUK: PROGRESS ON RECONCILIATION AS NEW ARAB [...] (U) Summary: Rakan Al-Jabouri assumed the office of Deputy Governor for Kirkuk Province on January 15. Twenty out of 26 Provincial Council members voted in favor of Rakan while another six members submitted blank ballots. The naming of an Arab Deputy Governor in the predominantly Kurdish pr [...] | 2008-01-17 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1271 | IRAQ CONFERENCE - CHANGE OF DATES TO JUNE 17 - 19 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-24 08:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ MASS MOPS |
08BAGHDAD1273 | DEPUTY SPEAKER ATTIYAH DISCUSSES VISIT WITH [...] (S/NF) Summary. Deputy CoR Speaker Sheikh Khalid Attiyah told the Ambassador, S/I Satterfield, and Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk, that he met with Grand Ayatollah Sistani on Wednesday (April 17) in Najaf. While Sistani believes the security situation has improved in the Sou [...] | 2008-04-24 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1274 | SRSG DISCUSSES TURKEY, ELECTIONS AND NEIGHBORS [...] (C) Summary: On April 18, the Ambassador met with UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura to discuss a wide range of issues. The SRSG briefed on his fact-finding mission to Erbil and Ninewa provinces, and his surprise that out of the four districts UNAMI is working on for early recommendations, the two [...] | 2008-04-24 11:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1275 | GOI RESPONSES TO STOPPING TRAVEL TO ANNUAL PKK [...] (S/NF) Ambassador raised ref a points to President Talabani on April 14 and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister on April 17 (ref b and septel),both of whom pleaded ignorance of the event but promised to look into it. President Talabani said it was possible to put pressure on th [...] | 2008-04-24 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER KTFN TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD1276 | ISCI/SADRIST CONTEST IN BAGDHAD; LACK OF BAGHDAD [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Baghdad province's uneasy power-sharing agreement between the Islamic Supreme Council in Iraq (ISCI) and the Sadrists appears to be unraveling. This cable analyzes how these two factions divvied up the choice positions in provinci [...] | 2008-04-24 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1277 | NECHIRVAN BARZANI: NASCENT PROGRESS ON [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani met on April 17 with the Ambassador and April 19 with S/I Satterfield and Economic Minister-Counselor Ries. Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk attended both meetings. Barzani reiterated that KRG-G [...] | 2008-04-24 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1278 | VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI ON SFA, IRAN, AND CRACKDOWN ON [...] (C) Summary: Just back from a meeting with Prime Minister Maliki, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on April 23 that Maliki agrees with the USG vision of a two-track negotiation process that will yield a single SOFA/Strategic Framework Agreement. He said Maliki had recounte [...] | 2008-04-24 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1290 | PRT-WASIT: NOMINAL SUPPORT FOR US RECONSTRUCTION [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: On 15 April outgoing PRT Team Leader Wade Weems introduced incoming TL Robert Kagler and briefed the Wasit Provincial Council on USG humanitarian and reconstruction activity between April 2003 and January 2007. The majority of the PC members [...] | 2008-04-25 14:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1291 | ACTING COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER SHOWS LITTLE [...] SUMMARY: (C) Acting Minister of Communications (and fulltime Minister of Youth and Sport) Jasim Mohammed Jafar (UIA/Iraqi Turkomen Front) told Econoffs April 21 that he planned to continue in his current roles at least until August 2008. Jafar said he did not think Prime Minister Nuri al-Mali [...] | 2008-04-25 18:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS EINT |
08BAGHDAD1292 | TALABANI CHARACTERISTICALLY ROSY ON CABINET, [...] (C) Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on April 23 met with the Ambassador and S/I Satterfield. Talabani was characteristically upbeat on engaging Iraq,s moderate neighbors, specifically Kuwait, Turkey, and Egypt, and likewise on bringing Fadilah, Iraqiyya, and Tawafuq back into government. He s [...] | 2008-04-26 10:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1293 | KUDOS TO EMBASSY KUWAIT FOR OUTSTANDING SUPPORT [...] (U) Embassy Baghdad, and particularly the Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq (CETI),once again expresses its heartfelt gratitude to the staff of Embassy Kuwait for your outstanding support. The most recent example of your exceptional service was your timely assistance in securing vi [...] | 2008-04-26 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELTN EAIR |
08BAGHDAD1295 | TRAIN IRAQIS IN IRAQ, NOT ABROAD [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (C) For the second time since its latest legislative term began just a month ago, Iraq,s Council of Representatives (CoR) is in danger of not being able to muster a quorum in order to take care of important legislative business. The reason? More than th [...] | 2008-04-26 17:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1296 | RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-27 03:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KTFN KCRM PTER SNAR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1297 | IRAQ'S CIVIL SERVICE APRIL PAY RAISE [...] (SBU) On April 10, the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) passed the Civil Service Salary Law in its third reading; the law now awaits endorsement at the Presidency Council. This law will substantially increase the monthly wages for the first time since 2004 of the approximately 2 million [...] | 2008-04-27 10:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB IZ |
08BAGHDAD1299 | PROVINCIAL POLITICS IN BAGHDAD: ANOTHER KIND OF WAR [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: If we accept the adages that warfare is the expression of politics by other means, and that all politics is local -- it is clear why Baghdad's local political scene is looking more and more like a battlefield. The uneasy power-sha [...] | 2008-04-27 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1304 | NSA RUBAIE ON NEXT STEPS FOR STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-27 15:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER ECON IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1305 | THE LAST DAYS OF A STATE MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary: In a April 27 meeting with PolOffs, members of the Ministry of State for Women's Affairs (MoSWA) expressed their overwhelming frustrating with the lack of support the Ministry is receiving since the Prime Minister's Office made the informal decision to eliminate the organization i [...] | 2008-04-27 15:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1306 | IESC MEETING APRIL 25: SADR CITY SERVICES [...] (SBU) Summary: In place of an absent Prime Minister al-Maliki, National Security Advisor Muwafak al-Rubaie chaired the April 26 Iraq Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al-Qanoon ) FaQ). The meeting focused entirely on the situation in Sadr City [...] | 2008-04-27 17:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PINR PINS SENV |
08BAGHDAD1308 | UK FOREIGN MINISTER: MOTTAKI IS COCKY [...] (S) Summary: Following his participation in the Neighbors Conference in Kuwait, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband met with Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus on April 24. The meeting covered a wide range of topics including Iranian influence in Iraq, the current security situation [...] | 2008-04-28 06:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1310 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-04-28 10:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1314 | PARLIAMENTARIANS CONCERNED AFTER TOUR OF SADR CITY [...] (C) Summary: Parliamentarians Ala Talabani and Zalwa al-Hashimi met with PolOff on April 28 to discuss their recent trip to Sadr City and the "humanitarian crisis" brewing there. Ala also noted the recent progress on the Civil Society Law, as well as some movement on the Political Parties Law [...] | 2008-04-28 15:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1315 | MALIKI ON IRAN WEAPONS SMUGGLING, CURRENT MILITARY [...] (S) SUMMARY: During his weekly security meeting on April 24 with the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus, Prime Minister Maliki said he would privately confront Iran with evidence about its supplying weapons to criminal elements in Iraq. He said the delegation would depart for Teh [...] | 2008-04-28 16:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ IR MASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD132 | IRAQI VICE PRESIDENTS HASHIMI AND ABDEL MEHDI ON [...] (S) During a January 16 meeting, the Ambassador urged Vice President Hashimi to support early Presidency Council approval of a Justice and Accountability law (de-Baath),recently approved by the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR). While not committing to a specific course of action, he i [...] | 2008-01-18 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1321 | DEAR SADR: PLEASE EXPLAIN [...] (C) Summary: After months of relative silence Shi'a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has released almost a dozen statements in the last two months. In the statements Sadr simultaneously has tried to placate his more militant followers while holding out the possibility of a negotiated settlement with t [...] | 2008-04-29 11:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR |
08BAGHDAD1322 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-04-29 11:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1328 | OIL MINISTRY RESPONDS REGARDING IN-KIND PAYMENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Oil sent us the proposed text of the payment terms of its technical service contracts, explaining the proposed transaction is structured as an accounting offset, in hopes of securing USG approval of its proposed payment scheme. Post requests guidance on the draf [...] | 2008-04-29 13:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG |
08BAGHDAD133 | S/I SATTERFIELD AND FM ZEBARI DISCUSS THE UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary. S/I Satterfield, White House Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk, and PolCouns discussed with Hosyhar Zebari on January 16 the recent 3 plus 1 meetings earlier in the week and plans for negotiating the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Zebari said the composit [...] | 2008-01-18 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1332 | GOI ACTIVE ON SOLVING AMNESTY IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: We are detecting an increased sense of urgency within the GoI concerning implementation of the Amnesty Law. Barham Saleh hosted a third meeting of the core Amnesty group (reftel) on April 21, which led to a decision to have the Ministry of Human Rights track each amnesty releas [...] | 2008-04-29 15:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1334 | ANBAR MODERATE CLERICS SHARE THEIR VIEWS ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: While largely misunderstood by outsiders, the role of the mosque was crucial in winning the battle against Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in Anbar Province. Local contacts are firm in their belief that the re-taking of the mosques from ra [...] | 2008-04-30 08:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1337 | COR SPEAKER MAHMOUD MASHADANI: NO IRAQI SHOULD BE [...] (C) Summary: On April 26, Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mashadani told the Ambassador that diplomatic representation from Saudi Arabia is needed to bolster Arab relations with Iraq and counteract Iran's growing influence. Regarding the Sadrists, Mashadani shared with the Ambassador [...] | 2008-04-30 08:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1338 | PRT DIYALA: UNITY PARTY REQUESTS ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: PRT Diyala met with Hazber al-Azawi, a representative of the Sahwa (awakening) Party in Diyala, on April 17. Hazber identified himself as the lead candidate for the Sahwa Party in Diyala and expressed concerns over Sahwa's abilit [...] | 2008-04-30 09:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD EAID EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD1339 | KRG-TURKEY DIALOGUE STIRRING DESPITE TURKISH [...] (S) We appear to be getting closer to direct contacts between Turkish officials and the KRG. We need to do everything possible to move the Turks and Iraqis along the political track as the improving weather heightens the temptation for both PKK and Turkey to launch cross-border operations. [...] | 2008-04-30 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD134 | PRT MAYSAN: JAM PREPARING FOR CF STRIKES [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (S) Summary: PRT heard claims on January 7 that Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) is making active preparations to counter any possible Coalition Force (CF) operations in Maysan province. A young engineer, who accompanied the Maysan Director General (DG) fo [...] | 2008-01-19 08:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IP IR PGOV |
08BAGHDAD1341 | A GLIMPSE INTO MOLSA ORPHANAGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOffs had a rare opportunity to tour Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs orphanages in Baghdad on April 24. Since a July 2007 scandal when MoLSA orphans were found naked and tied to beds, the USG has had little communication with the ministry on this issue. The two orphanag [...] | 2008-04-30 18:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1342 | ZEBARI ON NEIGHBORS MINISTERIAL, STRATEGIC [...] (C) SUMMARY. During an April 27 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari agreed with Ambassador Crocker and S/I Satterfield that Iraq must host the next Neighbors Ministerial and that the GOI must fast track ambassadorial nominees to key neighboring countries, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in part [...] | 2008-04-30 18:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1343 | ISCI CHAIR ABDEL AZIZ AL-HAKIM ON ANTI-MILITIA [...] (C) Summary: Flanked by his son and heir-apparent Amar, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Chairman Abdel Aziz al-Hakim told the Ambassador and S/I Satterfield on April 29 that the GOI and the vast majority of Iraqi citizens are tired of crimes perpetrated by armed outlaw gangs (read Muqt [...] | 2008-04-30 19:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1344 | IRAQ'S VOTER REGISTRATION PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: On April 29, officials from USAID implementing partner IFES updated the Embassy Elections Planning Group (EPG) on the current status of the Voter Registration Exercise (VRE),still planned for June 1-30. They described the modalities of checking the voter registry, updating, ad [...] | 2008-05-01 07:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1347 | RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO THE [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil reporting cable. 2. (SBU) A tailored Financial System Assessment Team (FSAT) consisting of Gary Novis (Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT)-Head of Delegation),Robert Stapleton, (Department of Justice, Asset Forfeiture and Money [...] | 2008-05-01 09:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KTFN KCRM PTER SNAR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1348 | RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-01 09:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KTFN KCRM PTER SNAR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1349 | PRT MAYSAN: MAYSAN ATMOSPHERICS [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (S) Summary: A Maysani employee reported to the PRT that Maysanis do not support Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) and hope the Iraqi government will conduct military operations in Maysan to bring stability to the province. Maysanis expressed similar views [...] | 2008-05-01 13:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV MOPS IR |
08BAGHDAD135 | NINEWA CHRISTIANS DISCUSS NINEVEH PLAIN GOALS WITH [...] (C) At the Ninewa PRT, Christian leaders representing parties including the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) and the Assyrian Patriotic Party (APP) expressed general consensus to CODEL Wolf (Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA)) January 3 on forming a Christian, self-governed [...] | 2008-01-19 08:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV EAID KIRF IZ |
08BAGHDAD1355 | MUTHANNA GOV URGES US ROLE IN ELECTIONS [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Governor Ahmed Marzook is deeply concerned about Iranian efforts to influence the October 2008 provincial elections. He believes U.S. moral support could help counter Tehran's attempt to stack the political deck. Marzook's role as an independent likely colors his alarmist [...] | 2008-05-01 15:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1364 | SHIA RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR ON WAY OUT OF SADR CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on May 1, Sheikh Fateh Keshef al-Ghita, an esteemed Shia religious scholar and informal advisor to the Prime Minister, discussed the ongoing political crisis between the GOI and the Sadrists. Stating that, "The time for talking is over," al-Ghita confirmed that the P [...] | 2008-05-02 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1365 | FORMER PM AYAD ALLAWI EYEING VP ADIL ABDUL MAHDI'S [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 16:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1366 | REPORTS OF ZAIN'S IMMINENT DEMISE ARE GREATLY [...] (C//REL MCFI) SUMMARY: Several former USG officials and some non-mainstream media reports have claimed that Zain, Iraq's leading mobile telecommunications operator, risks the collapse of its network infrastructure on May 14, 2008, if it fails to conclude negotiations with its private security [...] | 2008-05-02 19:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS EINT |
08BAGHDAD1376 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-05-03 10:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1381 | APRIL 27 MCNS: SADR CITY, MOSUL, BASRAH, DEFENSE [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: Topics covered at the April 27 MCNS session included preparation for operations in Sadr City and Mosul; opportunities to boost the role and capabilities of the Department of Border Enforcement and Iraqi Navy, particularly around Basrah; the future of the Facilities Prot [...] | 2008-05-03 12:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS IR IZ PINR MCAP MARR |
08BAGHDAD1383 | PRT WASIT: BLOOD BAG DONATION FURTHERS SADRIST [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S) Summary: On May 1 the PRT provided 3,000 blood storage bags to the al Kut Blood Bank in central al Kut to respond to a crucial medical requirement and advance the PRT's Sadrist engagement strategy. The Bank Director, three PC members and PRT [...] | 2008-05-03 13:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1388 | MUTHANNA TRIBAL LEADER SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR NEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Abu Chefat, a powerful, well-connected sheikh of the influential Albu Hassan tribe, is concerned that Iran is poised to benefit from the upcoming provincial elections. He is exploring the possibility of founding a new [...] | 2008-05-04 06:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1389 | SCENESETTER FOR OPIC PRESIDENT AND CEO MOSBACHER'S [...] (C) Welcome to Iraq. Despite sustained senior level economic engagement with Iraqis during the period of the security surge, security gains have not been cemented in place with jobs and investment. Much is required on many levels to make this happen. Major Barriers to Investment -------- [...] | 2008-05-04 10:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV EAID OPIC IZ |
08BAGHDAD1391 | IRFFI AGREES NO STOCKHOLM MEETING, DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: At our suggestion, IRFFI Co-Chair Ambassador De Martino announced at a May 3 IRFFI Executive Committee Meeting that there would be no IRFFI meeting (either formal or informal) on the margins of the upcoming International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Ministerial Meeting in Stockholm on [...] | 2008-05-04 11:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1392 | PATRIOTIC UNION OF KURDISTAN MOVING CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) Summary: The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party, beset by internal fighting and facing leadership succession concerns, is struggling to negotiate a new, slimmed-down Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) cabinet with rival Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leaders that is acceptable to [...] | 2008-05-04 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1396 | CHALABI'S PROVISION OF SERVICES COMMITTEE - APRIL 22 and 29 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the April 22 meeting and for a third straight week the Ministry of Trade complained that some of their trucks carrying needed food rations for Sadr City were turned away at checkpoints by the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC). The Amanat also blamed the BOC's strict checkpoint [...] | 2008-05-05 11:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ECPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD14 | AUSTRALIA CONSIDERS NEW ASSISTANCE INITIATIVES FOR IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: Australian Ambassador Innes Brown called on EMIN December 28 to discuss possible areas where Australia could increase its economic assistance to Iraq. The Government of Australia (GoA) has been tasked by PM Rudd to develop new initiatives by the end of January. Innes Brown sa [...] | 2008-01-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN EINV ECON ELAB OFDP PREL SOCI IZ XF XU XB AU ZP ZR |
08BAGHDAD1400 | FRIDAY MOSQUE SERMONS HIGHLIGHT ISCI-SADR ANIMOSITY [...] (C) Summary: Since the escalation of hostilities between the GOI and the Sadrists in late-March, samplings of Friday sermons from ISCI and Sadrist-affiliated mosques throughout Iraq reveal a growing gulf between the two parties. Whereas the majority of ISCI mosques praised the GOI's initial cr [...] | 2008-05-05 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1401 | OIL MINISTER ON OIL LAW, CONTRACTS, BUDGET AND GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Oil (MOO) Shahristani told EMIN on May 4 the GOI had not heard anything more from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) about continuing with negotiations to enact the hydrocarbon framework law (HCL). He is hopeful that he will sign a Technical Service Contract (TSC) t [...] | 2008-05-05 14:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD1403 | RIKABI STUMPED BY TAWAFUQ SPLIT? [...] (S/NF) Summary: In a May 5 meeting, Sadiq Rikabi professed to be unsure of how PM Maliki should play the splintering of the Tawafuq Front, but finally indicated that Maliki would likely press Vice President Hashimi to submit a new list of ministerial nominees representing the entire Front and n [...] | 2008-05-05 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1404 | MOHR VISITS CAMP CROPPER [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim noted improvements in detainee operations during her May 1 inspection of Camp Cropper, but stressed that releases should be expedited. She offered her ministry's help in facilitating releases by contacting and bringing families to the deten [...] | 2008-05-05 18:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1407 | THE TAWAFUQ COALITION: A PORTRQT OF SUNNI [...] (S) The largest bloc of Sunni political parties, the "Tawafuq Front," is likely to fracture over internal feuding between its three senior leaders, tensions created by the prolonged negotiations to return Tawafuq to government, and positioning in the run-up to provincial elections. Relations [...] | 2008-05-06 09:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD141 | IRAQ CORRECTIONS SYSTEM PROBLEMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-19 13:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1416 | (SOUTHERN) POLITICS AS USUAL: IRAN'S PLAN FOR [...] (U) The following is a joint POL, REO Basrah, PRT Diwaniyah, Babil, Wasit, Maysan, Muthanna, Najaf, Karbala and Dhi Qar cable. 2. (S) Summary: All indications show that Iran sees the Iraqi provincial elections as an opportunity to advance its goals of continued ties to and influence over [...] | 2008-05-06 18:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1417 | FADHILA LEADER SHIMMARY ON COR INTRIGUES [...] (C) Summary: In a May 5 meeting, Fadhilah bloc leader Hassan as-Shimmary and his deputy, Dr. Basim Sharif, hinted at the formation of a new political bloc within the COR, while remaining vague about their intent to join it. Attempting to play down troubling statements that Fadhilah has made ab [...] | 2008-05-06 19:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD142 | PRT ANBAR: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL MEMBERS MOVE AGAINST [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Several key members of the Anbar Provincial Council (PC) have moved to end the tenure of interim Provincial Chief of Police (PCOP) Tariq Yousif within a month, signaling the latest round in the struggle for the highly-contested Anbar [...] | 2008-01-19 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1421 | JABR CLARIFIES SAUDI DEBT ISSUE, REVEALS PLANS FOR [...] (C) Begin Summary: During a wide-ranging conversation May 5, Finance Minister Bayan Jabr clarified the Government of Iraq (GOI) position on the Saudi debt issue. He explained that the GOI believed the total principal amounted to USD 15.7 billion, of which the GOI was prepared to pay 20 percent [...] | 2008-05-07 07:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD1422 | FOUNDER OF INDEPENDENT WASIT PARTY WORRIES OVER [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) On May 3 PRT met with Dr. Magid Rahman Abdullah al Ta'ae, founder of the Wasit Independent Rescue Committee, at FOB Delta. Dr. Magid's "technocratic" Independent Rescue Committee will field candidates for the 2007 Provincial Council electio [...] | 2008-05-07 11:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1423 | UPDATE ON IRAQ'S DRAFT ELECTION LAW [...] (C) Summary: The draft provincial election law written by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has been sent to the Council of Representatives (CoR); it is expected to have its first reading on May 6. This draft, while somewhat better than previous drafts we have seen from the PMO, is still i [...] | 2008-05-07 11:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1424 | PM MALIKI RECOGNIZES ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C//REL MCFI) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki acknowledged several priorities for improving Iraq's energy infrastructure security at a special May 1 meeting of a newly formed Infrastructure Protection Committee (IPC). Discussion of security challenges at the Bayji Oil Refinery (BOR) dur [...] | 2008-05-07 11:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG IZ |
08BAGHDAD1425 | ZEBARI ON UNAMI COMPOUND; AMBASSADORIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 6 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told Acting Political Counselor that the GOI would only make a symbolic contribution toward the construction of a new UNAMI compound. Zebari appeared determined to tamp down expectations that UNAMI would get the Al Sijud Pala [...] | 2008-05-07 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1426 | THE AMBASSADOR'S MAY 6 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (S) Summary: President Talabani, accompanied by DPM Barham Saleh, told the Ambassador that he had advised PM Maliki to wait and see whether Iran implemented its promises to not support Shi'a militants before deciding whether to visit Tehran. Talabani said he warned Iranian Ambassador Qomi ear [...] | 2008-05-07 18:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD143 | NINEWA: DROUGHT THREATENS ALREADY STRESSED FARM [...] (SBU) A late start to the rainy season in the northern Iraqi province of Ninewa threatens the province's wheat crop and sheep herds in an agricultural economy already suffering from tight credit, a lack of fuel and security constraints on marketing. While rains usually begin in late October in [...] | 2008-01-20 07:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR SENV EAID PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1432 | PRT WASIT: PC MEMBERS SEE TOUGH ROAD AHEAD FOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: In May 3 meetings with the PRT, Provincial Council (PC) members Siraj Ali and Haji Jassem discussed the relations with other Shi'a parties and the challenges facing independents in the next election. Jassem identified the primary c [...] | 2008-05-08 07:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1444 | PRT WASIT GETS A LAUGH [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable 2. (C) Summary: In Al Kut on May 4, the PRT sponsored what was alledged to be the first comedic play to be performed in Southern Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Despite a reported $100,000 bribe offered to the organizer to call off the play [...] | 2008-05-09 11:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1445 | RRT ERBIL: KRG LEADERSHIP WAITING FOR DE MISTURA [...] (C) Summary: KRG leadership told the Ambassador,s Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq and RRTOffs May 6 that they look forward to hearing SRSG de Mistura,s first cut at resolving boundary disputes, promised for delivery in mid-May. KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said the KRG must &compro [...] | 2008-05-09 11:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1446 | NINEWA: KURDISH TACTICS ALIENATE SHIA SHABAK [...] (C/NF) A prominent leader of the minority Shia Shabak and Turkmen communities in eastern Ninewa's al Hamdaniya district said May 5 that heavy-handed Kurdish pressure in 2008 has solidified his constituency's opposition to joining the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). Islamic Supreme Council [...] | 2008-05-09 11:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1447 | RRT ERBIL: KRG PM BARZANI FORECASTS HYDROCARBON [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister told the Ambassador,s Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq and RRTOffs May 6 that he expects the KRG to complete its short list of modifications to the February 2007 text on national hydrocarbon legislation soon. He does not plan, h [...] | 2008-05-09 12:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET IZ |
08BAGHDAD1451 | KRG UPBEAT ON TALKS WITH TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: On May 5, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) provided the RRT an upbeat assessment of Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani,s May 1 meeting with the Turkish delegation in Baghdad. Both the KRG and GOT principals recalled positive periods in their relationship, criticized the me [...] | 2008-05-10 10:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ TU |
08BAGHDAD1453 | PRT MAYSAN: OFFICIALS WORRIED OVER IA OFFENSIVE [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The opening days of a PRT-organized training coursewere marred by ongoing arguments between the political and technocratic attendees, with the political attendees seeming to intimidate the other participants and prevent their speak [...] | 2008-05-10 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV MOPS |
08BAGHDAD1454 | WHY THE NINE JEWS OF BAGHDAD STAY IN BAGHDAD [...] (S) SUMMARY: Despite the insecurity they face, and the necessity of hiding their identity, the nine Jews living in Baghdad appear set to stay here. Several are simply too old to leave, while others fear the unknown challenges of a new land more than they fear the more familiar, if deadly, pe [...] | 2008-05-10 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KIRF PREF PGOV IS NL UK IZ |
08BAGHDAD1455 | PRT WASIT: SADRIST PC MEMBER PREDICTS CHANGE [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: In a May 5 meeting Sadrist Trend Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Hasan Ebrah told the PRT that it is a "dangerous time" for the Sadrist movement and predicted that Muqtada al-Sadr's inner circle advisors would [...] | 2008-05-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1461 | NINEWA: DROUGHT OF RAIN AND CREDIT GIVE LITTLE [...] (SBU) Farmers and agriculture officials across Ninewa told the PRT in April that agriculture in this drought-affected northern Iraqi province is a "disaster." Following the fourth straight year of below-average rainfall - the worst in recent memory for the province's farmers - Ninewa's mainsta [...] | 2008-05-11 07:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1462 | NINEWA:DROUGHT OF RAIN AND CREDIT GIVE LITTLE HOPE [...] (SBU) Farmers and agriculture officials across Ninewa told the PRT in April that agriculture in this drought-affected northern Iraqi province is a "disaster." Following the fourth straight year of below-average rainfall - the worst in recent memory for the province's farmers - Ninewa's mainsta [...] | 2008-05-11 07:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR SENV EAID PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1463 | ENGAGEMENT WITH UNAMI ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy and MNF-I officials briefed Hania Mufti, head of the UNAMI Human Rights Office, on April 18 regarding issues discussed in UNAMI's recent Human Rights report. Topics of discussion centered on UNAMI's recommendations to MNF-I in the July-December 2007 report. Officials [...] | 2008-05-11 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS IZ PINS UN |
08BAGHDAD1464 | DANISH MOD WANTS DENMARK TO REMAIN ENGAGED IN IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 6 meeting, Ambassador Crocker and MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus thanked Danish Defense Minister Soren Gade for Denmark's important contributions to the NATO Training Mission-Iraq and provided an overview of the current situation here, with an emphasis on events in B [...] | 2008-05-11 12:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1465 | IESC MEETING MAY 9, 2008 [...] (C) Summary. In place of an absent PM Maliki, National Security Advisory Mowaffuk Rubaie chaired the 9 May 2008 Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of Fardh Al Qanoon (FaQ ) the Baghdad Security Plan). The PM mandated the meeting be conducted with limited attendance, feature [...] | 2008-05-11 12:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1466 | BAGHDAD LEAGUE CREATES FORUM FOR MODERATES [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: The "Baghdad League," a nascent organization dedicated to supporting social, cultural and educational activities in Baghdad, met Sunday May 3 to review the organization's bylaws and plan the group's activities for the coming mon [...] | 2008-05-11 12:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1467 | WORKING DRAFT OF UIA-SADR TREND CEASE-FIRE [...] (C) Sadrist Trend and UIA representatives continued to discuss a draft cease-fire agreement on May 11th. UIA sources told us that senior Trend officials Sheikh Waleed and Ahmed Ridha had arrived from Sadr City and Najaf to replace Nisar al-Rubaie as chief negotiators for the Trend. The heat [...] | 2008-05-11 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR |
08BAGHDAD1468 | MCNS ON MAY 4 REVIEWS BASRA SITUATION, BORDER [...] (S REL AS UK) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki chaired the May 4 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) that reviewed the Basrah situation, resources for MOI's Directorate of Border Enforcement (DBE),equipping and training MOD and MOI through Foreign Military Sales (FMS),and a Natio [...] | 2008-05-11 16:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ |
08BAGHDAD147 | MOLSA MINISTER ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IMPROVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 13 meeting, the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs expressed his enthusiasm for USG support for alleviating the overcrowded conditions of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, (MOLSA) juvenile facilities. He discussed near-term solutions such as removing squa [...] | 2008-01-21 07:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1471 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] Iraq, like many other countries, must contend with rising world food prices. The Government of Iraq (GOI) supplies the bulk of staple food needs to the Iraqi people essentially free of charge under the auspices of the Public Distribution System (PDS -- also referred to as the "ration card" in [...] | 2008-05-12 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1473 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-05-12 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1475 | MUTHANNA TRIBAL LEADER ESTABLISHES NEW, SECULAR [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna cable. 2. (S/REL MCFI) Summary: On May 11 Abu Chefat, a powerful well-connected sheikh of the influential Albu Hassan tribe, registered a new, secular political party, Abn'a al-Furatain, "Sons of the Two Euphrates." Although the organization will be initially c [...] | 2008-05-12 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1476 | DENUNCIATIONS OF GOI CONTINUE IN SADRIST FRIDAY [...] (C) A sampling of Sadrist mosque sermons from Friday, May 9, in the Baghdad area reveals that vitriol against the GOI and Coalition Forces (CF) continues to flow from Sadrist mosques, despite movement toward a tentative ceasefire between the Sadrists and the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA). Claimi [...] | 2008-05-12 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1477 | PRT ANBAR: ANBAR UNIVERSITY SEEKS LINKS TO US [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (S) Summary: At a May 1 meeting, Anbar University (AU) President Dr. Khalil Ibrahim Al Dulemy requested Anbar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and Multinational Force ) West (MNF-W) assistance to establish relationships with U.S. universities [...] | 2008-05-12 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PTER SCUL SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD148 | IRAQ -- 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The following is Post's submission for Iraq's 2008 Investment Climate Statement. BEGIN TEXT 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - IRAQ Iraq's first post-conflict permanent government passed a National Investment Law in October 2006, which was expected to open up its economy to foreign investmen [...] | 2008-01-21 07:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC IZ |
08BAGHDAD1480 | TRADE MINISTRY SEEKS BILLIONS TO FUND PDS IN 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Minister of Trade Abdul Hadi Kadhim al Hameiri told Emboffs that the Ministry of Trade (MinTrade) needs USD 4 to 4.5 billion to fund the Public Distribution System (PDS) for the remainder of 2008; increased commodities and shipping costs will consume MinTrade's roughly USD 3 [...] | 2008-05-12 14:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EFIN |
08BAGHDAD1481 | TRADE MINISTRY SEEKS BILLIONS TO FUND PDS IN 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Minister of Trade Abdul Hadi Kadhim al Hameiri told Emboffs that the Ministry of Trade (MinTrade) needs USD 4 to 4.5 billion to fund the Public Distribution System (PDS) for the remainder of 2008; increased commodities and shipping costs will consume MinTrade's roughly USD 3 [...] | 2008-05-12 14:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EFIN |
08BAGHDAD1483 | MALIKI DEMANDS HALT TO IRANIAN AND SYRIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: During his weekly security meeting on May 7 with the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus, Prime Minister Maliki cited increasing evidence of Iran's direct interference in Iraqi affairs and the backlash it has engendered among Iraqis at all levels of society. He said he [...] | 2008-05-12 16:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD1484 | 2008 KRG BUDGET: $6.4 BILLION AND SMALL GAINS IN [...] (C) Summary: The Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA, regional parliament) passed a 7.6 trillion Iraqi dinar ($6.4 billion) budget to fund the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for 2008. Approval came on April 30, nearly three months earlier than in 2007. The 2008 budget includes 4.7 trill [...] | 2008-05-12 18:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1489 | DE MISTURA PLANS MAY 22 DIB ANNOUNCEMENT [...] SUMMARY: In a May 10 meeting, Special Representative Staffan de Mistura told Ambassador Crocker and Senior Advisor Krajeski that he planned to announce UNAMI recommendations regarding the first four internal disputed boundary (DIB) districts (Makhmour, al Hamdaniyah, Amre and Mandali) as soon [...] | 2008-05-13 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD149 | SENIOR ISF OFFICERS KILLED IN NASIRIYAH CLASHES [...] (C) Summary: Several senior Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) officers died during January 19 clashes between members of Jund al-Sima'a (Army of Heaven - JAS) and ISF. Although the situation now appears to have stabilized, the killing of several ISF leaders raises questions about the nature of the [...] | 2008-01-21 08:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1493 | OPIC PRESIDENT/CEO'S VISIT TO BAGHDAD -- FUTURE [...] (SBU) OPIC President and CEO Mosbacher's two-day visit to discuss a mortgage facility for low- and moderate-income workers was useful in allaying Post's concerns set out reftel regarding the risk of crowding out of a nascent private bank sector; the role of the Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) in the [...] | 2008-05-13 15:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD1495 | NEW ACTING MINISTER OF JUSTICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade Abd al-Falah al-Sudani was appointed as an additional Acting Minister of Justice on May 4. Sudani will help with ministry operations in Baghdad while the existing Acting Minister of Justice Dr. Safa al-Safi is in Basrah. According to Deputy Minister of Justic [...] | 2008-05-14 06:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD1496 | VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI ON SADR CITY AGREEMENT, IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 12 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi hailed the May 12 UIA-Sadrist Trend ceasefire agreement as an important step forward in affirming GOI authority by allowing the Iraqi army to enter and conduct operations in Sadr City. The Ambassador urged Adel to join Deputy P [...] | 2008-05-14 07:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR ETRD IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1497 | MASHADANI BRAVES THE POLITICAL STORM OVER THE [...] (C) Summary: The Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani discussed with the Ambassador on May 11 the second reading of the elections law earlier that day, accusing the Kurds and ISCI of slow-rolling the legislation. He affirmed, nonetheless, the law would pass when the CoR [...] | 2008-05-14 08:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1498 | LETTER FROM COR SPEAKER MAHMOUD MASHADANI TO [...] (C) Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani delivered a letter to the Ambassador on May 11 addressed to President George W. Bush. The letter was not discussed in the meeting. 2. (C) The verbatim operative text follows as received in English: Begin Text. H.E. George [...] | 2008-05-14 08:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD150 | UPDATE ON THE IRAQI FLAG CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Summary and comment: A brief but impassioned debate over revising the Iraqi flag appears to have yielded an agreement on a one-year placeholder flag, resembling the older one but with less Ba,th party and Arab nationalist symbology. The Kurdistan Alliance in the Council of Representative [...] | 2008-01-21 08:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1502 | ANALYSIS OF MAY 12 16-POINT SADR CITY CEASEFIRE [...] (S) Summary: On May 12, a committee comprised of representatives of United Iraq Alliance (UIA) and the Sadrist Trend agreed upon a sixteen-point declaration as part of a larger four-day ceasefire agreement that expires May 15. The sixteen-point agreement incorporates the gist of an agreement [...] | 2008-05-14 11:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1503 | MCNS ON MAY 11 REVIEWS SADR CITY AND MOSUL [...] (S REL AS UK) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chaired the May 11 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS). The committee reviewed military operations in Sadr City (Baghdad) and in Mosul (Ninewa Province). Operations will continue in Sadr City, Maliki declared, until the crim [...] | 2008-05-14 11:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ |
08BAGHDAD1508 | MAYSAN GOVERNOR REACHES OUT [...] (S/REL MNF-I) Summary: On May 13, incoming Maysan PRT leader held an introductory meeting with Maysan governor Adel Mahoder Radhi al-Maliki in Baghdad, at the Governor's request. Governor Maliki praised work done by the PRT to date, and expressed a desire for more significant USG funding towa [...] | 2008-05-14 16:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1509 | IRAQ'S SWIRLING SUNNI STREET: UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (S) In a particularly encouraging development, the Sunni Arab community appears increasingly reconciled to competing in the formal political process, despite its many misgivings related to that process. Preparations for provincial elections later this year have set in motion a dizzying scram [...] | 2008-05-14 16:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM PTER PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1514 | KRG BOUNDARIES STILL CONTENTIOUS ON EVE OF UNAMI'S [...] (C) Special Advisor for Northern Iraq Tom Krajeski in early May visited Kirkuk, Mosul, and Erbil to discuss the status of Kirkuk and other disputed internal boundaries in the run-up to the first United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) recommendations on resolving KRG boundaries. Ambassador Kra [...] | 2008-05-15 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1517 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: CDC HOLDS FIRST TRAINING [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: At the instigation of the Salah ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT),CDC has conducted its first training course in Iraq, which was enthusiastically received by Iraqi medical professionals. END SUMMARY. 3. (U) P [...] | 2008-05-15 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD1518 | BARHAM SALIH ON SFA/SOFA, JORDAN TRIP, TALABANI'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on May 13 updated the Ambassador on the Iraqi side of SFA/SOFA negotiations. He highlighted the Iraqis' top two concerns at present: a stronger pledge to protect Iraq against external aggression, and stronger protection of Iraqi assets against [...] | 2008-05-15 17:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1519 | SOLICITING KUWAITI ACTION AGAINST AL-QAEDA [...] (S/NF) This is an action message. Please see para two for action request. 2. (S/NF) ACTION REQUESTED: Per reftel, post requests that Department instruct Embassy Kuwait to demarche the GOK about the growing threat of Al Qaeda's activities in Kuwait. Post provides background infromation i [...] | 2008-05-15 17:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PINR IZ KU |
08BAGHDAD1522 | DIWANIYAH PC REQUESTS REMOVAL OF AL-HURA JOURNALIST [...] (U) This is a PRT Diwaniyah reporting cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary: On May 06, 2008, the Diwaniyah Provincial Council (PC) voted unanimously to request the removal of TV journalist Al-Shabani from Al Hura television on the basis of "inaccurate" reporting. Al-Hura, a U.S. government-sponsore [...] | 2008-05-16 12:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR |
08BAGHDAD1523 | PRT WASIT: GEN CARDON DISCUSSES SECURITY WITH [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary. On May 14, Sadrist Trend (ST) Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Ebrah, a regular PRT contact (REF A),met for the first time with 3ID DCG-S, BG Cardon. BG Cardon emphasized that security must be present for econ [...] | 2008-05-16 14:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1524 | THE IRAQI COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES: AN [...] (C) Summary. The Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) held its first session on March 16, 2006, and since then, has developed into a working democratic institution. Speaker Mashadani and Deputy Khalid Attiyah are increasingly pressing CoR members to adhere to the CoR by-laws, but hiccups in [...] | 2008-05-17 08:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1526 | SCENESETTER FOR NECHIRVAN BARZANI'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani is visiting Washington on May 17-21 after receiving an honorary degree from Washington and Jefferson University. His meetings will include the Vice President, the Secretary, and the Deputy Secretary. Nechirvan [...] | 2008-05-18 07:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD153 | NINEWA: PRT BRANCH OFFICE HOSTS ECONOMIC FORUM IN [...] (C) PRT Ninewa's Branch Office in Qayyara, covering southern Ninewa, expanded in January from the one liaison officer who staffed it since mid-2007 to a three-man team of civilian surge and military personnel. The office received superb support from local Coalition Forces to host on January 1 [...] | 2008-01-21 15:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD1532 | COR MEMBER ALLEGES HORRIFIC CONDITIONS AT WOMEN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nada Ibrahim, a parliamentarian in the Hewar party, recounted her May 12 visit to Khadimiya women's prison to PolOff on May 13. She was shocked at the conditions of the prison and the lives of the female detainees. She said the prison had been infiltrated by militias and was ope [...] | 2008-05-18 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1536 | U.S.-IRAQ SOFA NEGOTIATIONS: ROUND 2 PRODUCES SOME [...] (S) SUMMARY: The U.S. and Iraqi Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) negotiation teams met in Baghdad April 22 to May 11. The talks have recessed at the request of the GOI, which will be sending part of its SOFA negotiating team to Turkey, Germany, Japan, and Korea to discuss with those government [...] | 2008-05-19 02:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR PREL KTIA IZ |
08BAGHDAD1538 | JORDAN'S OFFER TO FORGIVE IRAQI DEBT [...] (C) Reftel refers to the Government of Jordan's (GOJ) offer to forgive Iraqi debt, which is believed to amount to approximately USD 1.3 billion. Based upon our conversations with Iraqi Ministry of Finance officials, including Minister Bayan Jabr and Advisor (and principal debt negotiator) Azez [...] | 2008-05-19 12:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD154 | PRT ANBAR: ANBAR HIGHER COMMITTEE ENGAGES GOI [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. The six members of the recently-established Anbar Higher Committee (AHC) visited Bagdad January 15-16 in their first engagement as a group with senior GOI officials. The proximate reason was to follow up on unfulfilled GOI commitme [...] | 2008-01-21 15:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD1541 | HOUSE SPEAKER PELOSI AND COR SPEAKER MASHADANI [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representative (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani warmly welcomed CODEL Pelosi to Baghdad on May 17 and told CODEL Pelosi and the Ambassador he expects provincial elections will occur by October 1, 2008. He highlighted provisions of the law banning parties with ties to m [...] | 2008-05-19 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1543 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-05-19 13:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1552 | CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS URGE STRONGER U.S. ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Pascale Warda, human rights advisor to Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mashadani, said in a May 15 meeting with the Ambassador that she believes the GOI is not yet capable of protecting minority rights in areas administered by the KRG, and that local KRG authorities simply do not [...] | 2008-05-19 16:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1553 | NEW AMNESTY AMENDMENTS: A THREAT TO CONTINUED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Ministers approved amendments to the Amnesty Law on May 6 that would exempt more detainees from receiving amnesty due to concerns of granting amnesty to terrorists (reftel). The new provisions would exclude anyone charged with or convicted of crimes of terrorism [...] | 2008-05-19 17:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1554 | MOHR OPERATATIONS AROUND THE COUNTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) operates 14 governorate offices throughout Iraq (excluding the KRG); they are overseen by the director general for governorate affairs, Ghanim Al-Shemari. The Ministry has a clear vision for how the offices in each governorate should be struc [...] | 2008-05-19 18:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1556 | UNAMI TO PRESENT DISPUTED BOUNDARIES [...] (C) UNAMI now plans to present phase one of its disputed boundaries recommendations to the GOI Executive Council on June 4. UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura told Senior Advisor May 19 that he now plans to wait until after the May 29 International Compact for Iraq (ICI) conference in Stockholm to [...] | 2008-05-20 07:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1557 | TURKISH AMBASSADOR ON DISPUTED TERRITORIES/KIRKUK, [...] (C/NF) Summary: Turkish Ambassador Derya Kanbay told Senior Advisor May 18 that Turkey would reject any Kurdish "annexation" of Kirkuk because of concerns about Iraqi territorial integrity but also emphasized the GOT found UNAMI's efforts on disputed territories and the status of Kirkuk to be [...] | 2008-05-20 07:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD1558 | IT'S TRIBAL TIES THAT BIND IN NORTHERN BAGHDAD [...] (U) This is a PRT Baghdad and e-PRT 5 reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Introduction: Reconciliation in Baghdad takes many shapes: it can mean dialogue between sects and tribes, acceptance of the Government of Iraq (GOI),and/or cooperation with Coalition Forces. The role of tribal leaders in al [...] | 2008-05-20 09:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD156 | FM ZEBARI DISCUSSES NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: On January 20, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and the Deputy Chief of Mission met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari to discuss Iraq's relationship with its neighbors, the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and current Iraqi legislation. Zebari updated Menendez on the u [...] | 2008-01-22 10:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1564 | RRT ERBIL: INFLUENTIAL KRG MINISTER EYES [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting May 6 with the Ambassador,s Senior Advisor and RRTOffs, KRG Minister of Finance Sarkis Aghajan (Sarkis) provided maps outlining the proposed zone, and said a decision must be made &now8 to save Iraq,s Christians. Since 2003, up to 40,000 Iraqi Christians have fled [...] | 2008-05-20 15:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KIRF VT IZ |
08BAGHDAD1565 | CHANGING EUROPEAN UNION ATTITUDES TOWARD IRAQ [...] (SBU) During a May 6 presentation to the Defense Attache Association in Iraq (DAAI),the Ambassador of the European Commission to Iraq, Ilkka Uusitalo, noted a rapidly changing view within the EU towards Iraq. Admitting that the EU has been strongly divided since 2003, Uusitalo emphasized that [...] | 2008-05-20 18:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ETRD PREL EU IZ |
08BAGHDAD157 | VP HASHIMI ON POWER-SHARING, RECONCILIATION, AND [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Hashimi told Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) on January 20 that PM Maliki recently expressed his willingness to be a partner on the 3 plus 1 Executive Council and is optimistic about this new "team spirit" in the leadership. Hashimi [...] | 2008-01-22 10:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1570 | DNO EXPORT PIPELINE AWAITS GREEN LIGHT [...] (SBU) RRTOff met May 15 with Tarik Abdullah Chalabi, General Manager of Erbil-based Norwegian oil subsidiary, DNO Iraq AS, to discuss DNO's planned Tawke pipeline, completion of which apparently awaits the green light from Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) authorities, and the quality and pri [...] | 2008-05-21 11:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON EINV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1571 | EMBASSY MINORITIES WORKING GROUP AIMS TO ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary. Challenges and obstacles facing the ethnic and religious minority populations in Iraq include political intimidation, discrimination in employment (especially in the public sector),inferior provision of public services, and neglect of cultural heritage (e.g. lack of protection [...] | 2008-05-21 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1575 | MALIKI VOICES SUPPORT FOR RELIGIOUS MINORITIES [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Maliki received a delegation of mostly Christian representatives and spoke out in support of Iraq's religious minorities during his May 16 visit to Mosul to inspect the ongoing Umm-al-Rabe'ayn operation to root out al-Qaida elements. His unprecedented statements were hig [...] | 2008-05-21 14:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL |
08BAGHDAD1576 | NINEWA COUNCILWOMEN UNITE TO EMPOWER IRAQI WOMEN [...] (U) PRT Ninewa recently initiated a series of discussions with several prominent female local government leaders to discuss obstacles and ways forward on women's empowerment issues, including institutional discrimination and traditional attitudes regarding gender roles. Recognizing the need [...] | 2008-05-21 17:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD1577 | FM ZEBARI ON REGIONAL ISSUES; AMBASSADORIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 21 meeting with PolCouns and Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari was skeptical about the prospects for a June Arab League ministerial in Baghdad, but more upbeat about an Expanded Neighbors FM-level meeting here. Zebari described bilatera [...] | 2008-05-22 11:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1578 | COR FINANCE CHAIR ON SUPPLEMENTAL CONFUSION [...] (C) During an introductory meeting with Econoffs May 21, Dr. Ayad Samarraie, Council of Representatives (CoR) Finance Committee Chair, noted that multiple plans for the Government of Iraq's (GOI) proposed supplemental budget have engendered confusion. He cited DPM Barham Salih's proposal to all [...] | 2008-05-23 07:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1582 | PM MALIKI TELLS CODEL PELOSI: IRAQ WANTS [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told CODEL Pelosi and the Ambassador on May 17 that Iraq is making great political and security strides this year. When asked about Iraq's relationship with its Arab neighbors, PM Maliki responded that Iraq receives little support and added Iraq sho [...] | 2008-05-23 11:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1585 | PRT-WASIT: POLICE CHIEF MEETS WITH SADRIST PC [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: On May 20, CDR 214 FB and PRT met with Sadrist Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Hasan Ebrah, Wasit Provincial Director of Police (PDoP) MG Abd al Haninn Hamud Faysal al Amir, and Kut Criminal Investigative Divi [...] | 2008-05-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1586 | PRT WASIT: GOVERNOR'S AIDE HINTS AT LARGER U.S. [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. On May 22, PRT met with the director of the Governor's Management Office, Hajji Kareem Yusif Shenein, to discuss provincial elections. Kareem suggested the possibility that the marja'iyya might guide voters if they "see that the p [...] | 2008-05-23 14:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR |
08BAGHDAD1588 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Beginning with the GOI,s Anti-Corruption Conference in January there have been a number of newsworthy events on the anti-corruption front so far in 2008. The January Conference was followed by a UN Office of Drugs and Crime meeting in mid-March timed to coincide with the signing and rat [...] | 2008-05-24 06:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PGOV ECON EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD159 | TRIBAL AWAKENINGS: SOUTHERNERS STILL HALF-ASLEEP [...] (U) This is a joint Baghdad POL - PRT Maysan, Muthanna, Karbala, Najaf, Dhi Qar, Diwaniyah, Babil, Wasit and REO Basrah cable. 2. (C) Summary: There is no "Shi'a awakening" in southern Iraq comparable to the ar-Ramadi based Sunni Awakening. There is a plethora of independent tribal moveme [...] | 2008-01-22 13:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1592 | KARBALA PRT MEETS WITH SADRIST PC MEMBERS [...] (U) This a PRT Karbala reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: On May 8, PRT met two Sadrist members of the Karbala Provincial Council (PC). The Sadrists had only recently returned to the Council after warrants for their arrests were withdrawn. The Sadrists warned of Iranian influence in south [...] | 2008-05-24 09:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1596 | PRT WASIT MEETS WITH SADRIST AL KUT MAYOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) On May 19, PRT met with al Kut Mayor Sayyid Sattar Jabar Nour at al Kut City Hall. Sattar, a Sadrist Trend official with strong ties to Jaysh al Mahdi (JAM),has refused to meet with any CF representative for several years [...] | 2008-05-24 12:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1598 | MAY 23 I-ESC MEETING FOCUSES ON SADR CITY [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki chaired the May 23 meeting of the Iraq Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) in support of Fardh Al Qanoon (FaQ),the Baghdad Security Plan. Maliki declared that Iraqi Security Forces in Sadr City "will never leave," and said a quick plan is now needed to demonstrate [...] | 2008-05-24 18:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD16 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-01-02 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD160 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following eight (8) candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory info [...] | 2008-01-22 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1601 | IRANIAN-BACKED PARTIES PREPARED TO DOMINATE [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: The failure of the Shiite religious parties since 2005 to improve the daily lives of average Iraqis has left many Shia disillusioned. In Muthanna, nationalist, tribal, technocratic, and secular groups are coalescing to offer a [...] | 2008-05-25 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1602 | TURKMAN BLOC ENDS BOYCOTT OF KIRKUK PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Turkman Front (ITF)-led Turkman bloc officially ended its seventeen month-long boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (KPC) by returning to the regularly-scheduled KPC session on May 20. Eight of the nine Turkman bloc members returned on May 20 while the ninth member [...] | 2008-05-25 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD1603 | GOI KURDS ON SFA/SOFA, TIES WITH THE NEIGHBORS, [...] (C) The Ambassador and Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk met on May 20 with Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih, May 21 with Salih and President Talabani, and May 22 with Salih and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari. On the Strategic Framework and Status of Forces Agreements ( [...] | 2008-05-26 05:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1604 | FORMER IRAQI CHARGE REND RAHIM VOICES CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: In a May 21 meeting with the Ambassador, former Iraqi Charge d'Affaires to the U.S. Rend Rahim shared her concerns regarding the provincial elections planned for later this year. In particular, Rahim underlined fears that independent candidates and those not currently aligned wit [...] | 2008-05-26 05:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1605 | SHEIKH OMAR AL JABOURI WANTS TO BE THE NEXT SUNNI [...] (C) Summary: On May 20, PolOff, EPRT-2 Team Leader and CF met with Sunni leader Sheikh Omar al Jabouri (SOAJ) in order to discuss the founding of the Independent National Tribal Gathering (INTG),upcoming provincial elections and his break from the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP). SOAJ explained [...] | 2008-05-26 11:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1609 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 24 VISIT TO KARBALA AND NAJAF [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Crocker's May 24 visit to Karbala and Najaf focused on opportunities for future cooperation in light of the opening of new PRTs in both cities. Importantly, the visit showcased the vast improvement in the provinces' security situation and the lead role Iraqi forces hav [...] | 2008-05-26 15:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KPAO IZ |
08BAGHDAD161 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-01-22 15:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1610 | PRESIDENT TALABANI ON TAWAFUQ RETURN, SFA/SOFA, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 25 meeting, President Jalal Talabani told the Ambassador that he has been mediating between Prime Minister al-Maliki and Vice President al-Hashemi to secure the return of Tawafuq officials to the GOI cabinet, and he expressed optimism that a final deal could be reached bef [...] | 2008-05-26 16:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1611 | KOUCHNER TO VISIT IRAQ MAY 31-JUNE 1 [...] (S/NF) In a May 25 meeting, French Political Counselor Sylvain Fourriere told DepPolCouns that French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner will visit Baghdad, Nasiriyah and Erbil May 31-June 1 (Ref A). Fourriere dismissed speculation Kouchner would visit Iraq after attending the ICI conferenc [...] | 2008-05-26 16:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ FR |
08BAGHDAD1612 | ABDEL AZIZ AL-HAKIM ON SOFA/SFA AND TAWAFUQ RETURN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 25 meeting, ISCI Chairman Abdel Aziz al-Hakim told the Ambassador that Grand Ayatollah Sistani and the Najaf-based Marja'iyyah will support a bilateral security agreement with the USG as long it upholds Iraq's sovereignty, is transparent, and draws the support of all Ira [...] | 2008-05-27 03:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1615 | IRFFI DONORS FIELD TRIP FAILS TO DELIVER [...] (SBU) The International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI) held a donors field trip conference, hosted by the Italian-led REO Hillah Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT),at the Dhi Qar Mittica Training Center on the Talil Airbase in An Nasiriyah Province May 18-19. Attending the c [...] | 2008-05-27 07:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1616 | PM MALIKI ON SISTANI MEETING, ELECTIONS, SFA, AND [...] (C) Summary: In a May 23 meeting, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the Ambassador that Grand Ayatollah Sistani is generally supportive of a long-term security agreement with the USG and is keenly interested in upcoming provincial elections. Sistani told the PM he will issue a public stateme [...] | 2008-05-27 08:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1617 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: PROVINCIAL ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Salah ad Din (SaD) provincial officials over the past six months have engaged in a series of PRT-BCT facilitated trips to various districts (Qadas) to listen to local government concerns. While the trips ar [...] | 2008-05-27 09:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KDEM EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD162 | Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - January 17 & [...] SUMMARY: The Provision of Services Committee met for the first time in slightly more than a month on Tuesday, January 15. The Ministries of Oil, Trade, Health, Education and Defense attended. The National Security Advisor was represented as was the Joint Planning Commission, Iraqi Ground Forces [...] | 2008-01-22 15:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ REL UK |
08BAGHDAD1620 | VP HASHEMI ON TAWAFUQ RETURN, SFA/SOFA, AND MOSUL [...] (C) Summary: In a May 25 meeting, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi told the Ambassador that his May 24 meeting with Prime Minister al-Maliki had not achieved the return of Tawafuq officials to the GOI cabinet and that Maliki had unexpectedly raised a new issue that could obstruct the return pro [...] | 2008-05-27 10:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1621 | GOI-DONOR CO-FINANCING MECHANISM EVOLVING, BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: According to Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Senior Advisor Faik Ali Abdalrasool on May 21, the GOI co-financing mechanism that it will headline at the upcoming International Compact with Iraq Ministerial on May 29, is designed to allow international donor [...] | 2008-05-27 14:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1629 | CANADIAN NIKO SIGNS OIL CONTRACT IN KURDISTAN [...] (U) Canadian oil company Niko Resources, Ltd., announced May 20 that it has entered into its first production-sharing contract (PSC) with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) as a consortium operator. The PSC will cover the exploration, development, and production of petroleum in the Qar [...] | 2008-05-28 07:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1630 | INTERAGENCY PERSONNEL PRIORITIZATION [...] (S) SUMMARY. The National Security Council Iraq Deputies Committee requested the Mission prioritize its civilian interagency manning requirements to assist agencies in properly identifying manpower fills. The US Embassy Baghdad interagency civilian manning requirements are prioritized in terms [...] | 2008-05-28 08:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PINR ASEC KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1634 | PRESIDENT TALABANI ON TAWAFUQ, SOFA/SFA, LEBANON, [...] (C) In a May 27 meeting, President Talabani said VP Hashimi and PM Maliki had agreed on the names of seven Tawafuq ministers who would join the Cabinet, and were working on a compromise to replace Minister of Planning Ali Baban in two months. He said the May 26 Political Council for National [...] | 2008-05-28 14:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1637 | SHIA REACTION TO SADR CALL FOR ANTI-SOFA PROTEST [...] (C) On May 27, Muqtada al-Sadr issued a statement decrying "the security agreement between the forces of darkness, by which I mean the occupation, and the current Iraqi Government." Sadr asked Iraqis to stage demonstrations throughout Iraq, and prodded political blocs to oppose the agreement [...] | 2008-05-28 15:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD164 | CONCERNED LOCAL CITIZENS PROGRAM: SECURING [...] (C) Summary: The expansion of the Concerned Local Citizens (CLC) program in 2007 has augmented Multinational Force - Iraq (MNF-I) efforts to bring security to Iraq. CLCs are temporary arrangements that were organized by Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces in order to augment local force prote [...] | 2008-01-22 15:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV MOPS PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD1641 | PRT ANBAR: UNAMI VISITS ANBAR TO DISCUSS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: A small UNAMI delegation visited Ramadi on May 27 with a dual purpose: to hold talks with provincial officials on economic development in advance of the expected establishment of a permanent UNAMI presence in the province and to m [...] | 2008-05-29 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI ECON EAID UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD1650 | KDP - PUK RELATIONS: CABINET NEGOTIATIONS SHOW [...] (C) Through a broad range of discussions with party officials and a drawn out, public airing of party laundry in the press, RRT has learned that mistrust, greed, and political jockeying have greatly delayed decisions on the Kurdistan Region Government,s sixth cabinet. Despite six months of n [...] | 2008-05-30 04:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1651 | TAWAFUQ WITHDRAWS LIST OF NOMINEES [...] (C) On May 29, Tawafuq Spokesman Salim Jibouri described to PolOffs the rationale behind the Tawafuq bloc's May 27 statement withdrawing its slate of ministerial nominees. Salim highlighted the frustration of Tawafuq members with PM Maliki's pattern of raising new objections to the nominees ea [...] | 2008-05-30 09:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD166 | MALIKI ON CABINET SHAKE-UP, RETURN OF TAWAFAQ, AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging weekly security meeting on January 17, Prime Minister Maliki told Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus that a Cabinet shake-up was very possible within a few weeks which would likely result in a technocratic government with fewer ministries. Maliki expressed h [...] | 2008-01-22 16:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER TU |
08BAGHDAD1665 | SADR CITY DISPLACEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-01 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ PARM PGOV PHUM PREL |
08BAGHDAD1667 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: TIKRIT JAIL CONDITIONS NEED [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Severe overcrowding and lack of hygiene in Salah ad Din (SaD) jails require urgent action. PRT Rule of Law (RoL) coordinator is making this a priority, in cooperation with Iraqi authorities. END SUMMARY. 3. (SBU) PR [...] | 2008-06-02 02:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1668 | ENGAGING IRAQ'S NEIGHBORS ON GOI EFFORTS TO [...] (U) Para 11 contains talking points that addressees may wish to use in updating the engagement approach laid out in Refs A and B. 2. (C) Summary: The government of Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki has undertaken significant steps to confront militias and criminal groups supported by Iran and to [...] | 2008-06-02 02:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD167 | NINEWA: MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP -- STILL NO SOLUTION [...] (SBU) The director of the Makhmour refugee camp Ahmed Dzayee discussed the status and future of the camp with the PRT leader and representatives on January 15. He described the ways that people in the camp make a living, how the camp is supported and the security situation. New families moved [...] | 2008-01-23 03:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER PHUM TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD1670 | COR SPEAKER MASHADANI DISCUSSES HURDLES WITH SOFA [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani told PolCouns on May 30 that opposition amongst Iraq's political leaders to provisions of the SOFA is growing and that most controversial are issues touching on the status of bases, air space, immunity and visa issues, and [...] | 2008-06-02 07:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1676 | KOUCHNER MEETS CG PETRAEUS, LAUDS SPECTACULAR [...] (C) Summary: French FM Kouchner congratulated MNF-I Commanding General (CG) Petraeus on "spectacular" progress in Iraq during an hour-long June 1 meeting held at the Guest House on President Talabani's Karrada compound. Also attending were S/I Satterfield, and, for the French, Ambassador Je [...] | 2008-06-02 16:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1681 | ISCI'S AMAR AL-HAKIM ON SFA/SOFA, ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary: In a June 2 meeting, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) heir apparent Amar al-Hakim told S/I Satterfield and NSC Senior Director McGurk that he and ISCI support a bilateral security pact based on the principle of mutual respect for sovereignty. As long as that principle is h [...] | 2008-06-03 10:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1684 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: GOVERNORATE ELECTION OFFICER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1693 | NSC JUNE 1 REVIEWS ONGOING OPERATIONS, AMNESTY [...] (S REL MCFI) Summary: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki chaired June 1 the National Security Council (NSC) that reviewed security operations in Basra, Sadr City, and Mosul. (Note: Deputy PM Barham Salih, National Security Advisor Mowaffak Rubaie, and Minister of State for National Security Shirwan [...] | 2008-06-04 11:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ |
08BAGHDAD1694 | RRT ERBIL: FRENCH FM KOUCHNER OPENS DIPLOMATIC [...] (U) This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team Message. 2. (SBU) Summary: During a well-choreographed June 1 visit to Erbil, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner held talks with Kurdistan Regional government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and President Massoud Barzani, led [...] | 2008-06-04 11:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR FR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1695 | MAINTENANCE PROGRAM YIELDS ROBUST ELECTRICITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraqi electricity output in the first four months of 2008 outstripped output for the same period of 2007. A year-to-year comparison for the January - April period shows that overall, the ME experienced a system-wide increase in electricity output of 20 percent per month. Only [...] | 2008-06-04 11:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD1701 | NINEWA: WESTERN SUNNIS STILL BOTHERED BY KURDISH [...] (C/REL ACGU) Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) actions in western Ninewa remain the biggest point of political conflict, according to a cross-section of Sunni Arabs based around the Rabia'a border crossing. In a series of late May meetings with Special Advisor on Northern Iraq Affairs Ambassador [...] | 2008-06-04 18:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EAID PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1705 | NINEWA PLAIN: DIVERSE COMMUNITIES WANT JOINT [...] (C) Summary and comment: May 27-30 meetings by USAID and Senior Advisor Krajeski in the Ninewa Plain area, home to significant Christian, Yezidi, Shia Shabak, Turkmen, Kurdish and Arab populations, focused on the state of internally displaced persons (IDP) in Ninewa, the possible uses by USAID [...] | 2008-06-05 07:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1706 | NINEWA: INTERNATIONAL VISITOR RETURNS FROM PROGRAM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After his recent International Visitor Leadership program, Younis Faisel Kanjo, a Sunni Kurd member of the Ninewa Provincial Council, returned to Mosul ready to push forward a plan for interfaith communication in Iraq. He reported that he intends to meet with Iraqis to share his [...] | 2008-06-05 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL PHUM PGOV EAID PREL PINR ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD1707 | NINEWA: SUNNI IDPS RETURNING TO TAL AFAR [...] (C/ REL ACGU) Ninewa PRT Western Branch Office PRTOFFS met on May 29 with the Tal Afar-based committee charged with facilitating the return of approximately 3,100 Sunni families displaced during conflict with the city's Shia majority since 2004. Tal Afar's Mayor Najim and senior representati [...] | 2008-06-05 08:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1708 | VP ADEL ON IRAN'S VIEW OF SFA AND IRANIAN MEDDLING [...] (C) Summary: In a June 4 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told S/I Satterfield that his recent discussions with top-tier Iranian Government officials had succeeded in blunting Tehran's intense hostility toward a USG-GOI security agreement. Claiming that Iran is less powerful in Iraq t [...] | 2008-06-05 09:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1720 | PRESIDENT TALABANI DISCUSSES KIRKUK AND ELECTIONS, [...] (C) President Talabani told S/I Satterfield in a June 4 meeting that Iraq is ready to conclude arrangements fo its proposed bilateral commissions with Egypt and Turkey, and said that early July would be a good time for Turkish PM Erdogan to visit Iraq. Talabani argued for staggered elections [...] | 2008-06-05 17:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ TU EG |
08BAGHDAD1726 | TURKISH ENVOY ON GOT-KRG COOPERATION, KIRKUK [...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkish Special Envoy Murat Ozcelik told S/I Satterfield on June 4 that he is pleased with ongoing GOT-KRG talks and is currently in Baghdad finalizing arrangements for a possible July 3 visit to Baghdad by Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. He also hoped to meet with Kurdistan R [...] | 2008-06-06 16:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD1727 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (C) The issue of how to handle elections in Kirkuk province now poses the biggest obstacle to speedy passage of the provincial election law. The requirement to hold district and sub-district elections within six months of provincial elections will probably be dropped; there is controversy ove [...] | 2008-06-06 17:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1733 | UNAMI PRESENTS DISPUTED INTERNAL BOUNDARIES PHASE [...] (C) Summary: United Nations Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) presented its analysis of four initial districts and an overview paper describing its Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) process and methodology to the Presidency Council, Prime Minister Maliki and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime M [...] | 2008-06-07 09:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1734 | FM ABDALLAH BIN ZAYED: "I'M THRILLED TO BE HERE" [...] (S) Summary: MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus and S/I Satterfield met June 5 with UAE Foreign Minister Abdallah Bin Zayed (ABZ) at the conclusion of his visit to Baghdad. ABZ said he planned to announce the appointment of an ambassador to Baghdad within the next few days, and hoped to then ope [...] | 2008-06-08 12:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1735 | TRANSPORTATION OF NATURAL URANIUM FROM TUWAITHA TO [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Government of Iraq (GOI) recently finalized a sales contract with Cameco for the approximately 550 metric tons of natural uranium that was being stored at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center. To facilitate the sale, DOD removed the material from Iraq for onward shipment t [...] | 2008-06-08 15:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ENRG KNNP PARM PREL CA IZ |
08BAGHDAD1743 | DPM BARHAM SALIH CALLS UNAMI REPORTS "STUPID" [...] Summary: (C) Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih (Kurd, PUK) told Senior Adviser Krajeski on June 8 that he was unhappy with United Nations Mission to Iraq (UNAMI)'s Phase I reports on Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs),provided by UNAMI to the Presidency Council, Prime Minister and Kurdistan [...] | 2008-06-09 07:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD175 | JANUARY 20 MCNS DISCUSSES ASHURA SECURITY, [...] (S) Summary: The Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) met January 20 to review the readiness of the Ministry of Interior forces, Baghdad International Airport's security contract, fuel allocations/deliveries for border security forces, and the success of security measures for the [...] | 2008-01-23 17:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR SENV EAGR IZ |
08BAGHDAD176 | INFORMAL MINISTERIAL CAPACITY ASSESSMENT 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministerial Engagement Team (MET) leaders in Embassy Baghdad conducted the second of two informal assessments to determine the level of institutional capacity of several Iraqi ministries. The Mission used the same methodology in both years and the results of the December 20 [...] | 2008-01-23 18:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID AMGT PGOV ECON PREL SOCI PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1760 | FM ZEBARI PROVIDES LATEST ON OPENING OF ARAB [...] (U) This is an action request for Embassies New Delhi and Abu Dhabi. See para 6. 2. (S) During a June 9 meeting with S/I Satterfield, Iraqi FM Zebari provided updated information on efforts to encourage Arab countries to open Embassies in Baghdad. Recent events, including the June 5 visit [...] | 2008-06-10 09:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ IN AE |
08BAGHDAD1761 | WASIT'S ISCI OFFICE TAKES AN INDEPENDENT TACK AS [...] (C) Summary. PRT Team Leader met June 7 at al Kut's ISCI headquarters building with Wasit ISCI party chief Ahmed al Hakim for a friendly discussion that saw the ISCI chief emphasizing the extent to which USG and ISCI interests intersect in Wasit, revealing ISCI's plan to run with a slate pepp [...] | 2008-06-10 09:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1763 | MEETING BETWEEN S/I AMBASSADOR SATTERFIELD AND [...] (C) Summary: In a June 8 meeting with S/I Satterfield, Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khalid Attiya said that most remaining obstacles to a new election law can be resolved, but that there is no agreement on the division of seats for the Kirkuk council. Delaying the election there might be the most [...] | 2008-06-10 18:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD177 | AMIDST THREATS, A GLIMPSE OF COURAGE IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a raw and revealing moment following the assassination of a colleague and direct threats against another, a close-knit group of Iraqi officials in Baghdad demonstrated January 22 their determination to continue fighting corruption and militia profiteering in an essential servi [...] | 2008-01-23 18:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR PINS PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD1770 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-06-11 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1772 | TURKISH SPECIAL ENVOY UPDATES S/I SATTERFIELD ON [...] (S) Summary: During a June 9 meeting, Turkish Special Envoy Murat Ozcelik provided S/I Satterfield with an update on the state of play of issues discussed ref A, following Ozcelik's meetings in Baghdad over the past several days. Overall, Ozcelik said he came away impressed with the level of c [...] | 2008-06-11 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD1775 | JUNE 11 MEETING WITH GOI ON TUWAITHA YELLOW CAKE [...] (S) SUMMARY: EMIN and Energy Attach met with GOI's Science & Technology Minister Raid Fahmi on June 11 to inform Fahmi that the current estimate is USG will deliver the 550 MT of GOI's natural uranium (Yellow Cake or YC) to Cameco, Inc. in Montreal, Canada on July 3,2008. Fahmi expressed alarm [...] | 2008-06-12 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | CA ECON ENRG IZ KNNP PARM PREL |
08BAGHDAD178 | SAMI AL-ASKERI DESCRIBES JANUARY 19 ATTACK ON NSA [...] (S) Summary: PM Advisor Sami al-Askeri described scrambling to reach out to Sadr/JAM contacts and organize a GOI response to an apparent JAM attack on a mosque where National Security Advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaie was attending Ashoura services Saturday evening. As Rubaie remained holed up in th [...] | 2008-01-23 19:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1782 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (S) Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari arrives in Washington at a critical juncture. SOFA negotiations have become a domestic political flashpoint and the fodder for political agendas, a vehicle for Iranian machinations, and the crux of a false choice between sovereignty and security. Zeba [...] | 2008-06-13 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1784 | PM MALIKI RECOUNTS HIS JUNE 7-9 VISIT TO TEHRAN [...] (S/NF) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's June 7-9 visit to Tehran featured meetings with all of Iran's senior leadership, but Maliki told S/I Ambassador Satterfield that he went to visit Supreme Leader Khamenei, agreeing to the other meetings solely out of protocol. The Ministers of Defe [...] | 2008-06-14 06:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | IZ IR PREL PGOV PINR |
08BAGHDAD179 | MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON PRISONS AND COR HR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim on January 19 criticized living conditions she observed during a recent unannounced visit to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ)-operated Khadamiya women,s prison that she undertook at PM Maliki's request. She said that while some inmates alleged [...] | 2008-01-23 20:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1794 | RRT ERBIL: KDP INTEL DIRECTOR AND KRG PM BARZANI [...] (S) Summary: In a June 11 meeting with Senior Adviser Thomas Krajeski to discuss Kurdish reaction to initial UNAMI reports offering advice for the resolution of disputed internal boundaries (septel),Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Intelligence (Parastin) Director Masrur Barzani offered his [...] | 2008-06-14 14:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD180 | ERBIL: KRG PM DISCUSSES 2008 [...] (C) Summary: Secure as Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister for the foreseeable future, Nechirvan Barzani told RRTOFFS January 15 that 2008 will be a challenging year for the Kurds and for the KRG. He outlined a number of long pending reforms within the regional government (red [...] | 2008-01-24 08:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD1804 | NINEWA: WHAT A DIFFERENCE FIVE MONTHS MAKE - MOSUL [...] (C) Summary: The January 2008 massive explosion in the Zinjali neighborhood (ref a) appears in retrospect to have been the turning point in the Iraqi central government's determination to make a serious effort at Mosul reconstruction after years of conflict, neglect and terrorist intimidation. [...] | 2008-06-15 13:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL EAID MARR PINR ECON EAIR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1805 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-06-15 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1807 | SADRISTS SPURN ELECTIONS - OR DO THEY? [...] (U) The press is reporting June 14 comments by senior Sadrist Trend officials announcing that the movement will not take part in provincial elections expected before the end of the year. Seeking to reinforce the notion of the Sadr Trend as pure guardians of Iraqi sovereignty, Salah al-Obeidi, [...] | 2008-06-15 16:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1814 | ICI: BAGHDAD MEETINGS ON WAY FORWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In separate Baghdad meetings UNAMI and the ICI secretariat have laid out somewhat different visions of the way forward on ICI commitments made at Stockholm. Section three of the ICI annual report, titled "Investing in the Future," laid out several of these commitments in the p [...] | 2008-06-16 10:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD1826 | RRT ERBIL: KRG OIL MINISTER ON UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Natural Resources Dr. Ashti Hawrami expressed cautious optimism that KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani's upcoming meetings with PM Maliki in Baghdad could lead to passage of some hydrocarbon legislation "by October." This optimism [...] | 2008-06-17 12:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV EPET IZ |
08BAGHDAD1827 | MUTHANNA: PIC PROVINCE WITH SOLID BUDGET EXECUTION RECORD [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Muthanna has had a solid budget execution record over the past two years and is eligible for a budget supplement in 2008. With elections approaching, the Provincial Council plans to allocate 66% of both its original and suppl [...] | 2008-06-17 12:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD183 | Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - January 22 [...] SUMMARY: Attendance was high at the January 22 meeting of the Baghdad Services Committee, both from the Government of Iraq (GoI) and USG sides. The Baghdad Deputy Mayor started the meeting, emphasizing the need for better service project coordination between the Amanat and the USG. The Joint Pl [...] | 2008-01-24 09:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ REL UK |
08BAGHDAD1830 | RRT ERBIL: NEA-I DIRECTOR DISCUSSES MINORITY [...] (C) Special Representative on Minorities in Iraq, NEA-I Director Richard Schmierer met June 11 and 12 Iraq with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials, Christian leaders, and other minority communities that have taken refuge in the KRG. Clear themes emerged, demonstrating the opportun [...] | 2008-06-17 13:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KIRF VT IZ |
08BAGHDAD1831 | REACTION TO UNAMI DISPUTED INTERNAL BOUNDARIES [...] (C) Summary: Senior Adviser's June 10-12 talks with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leaders in Erbil following United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI)'s submission to the GOI and KRG of its initial Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) reports on June 5 revealed general dissatisf [...] | 2008-06-17 13:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1832 | PRT MAYSAN: POLICE CHIEF REPLACED [...] (S/REL MCFI) According to reports from PRT contacts in the province and press sources, and confirmed by Maysan Governor Maliki's close advisor Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi. Maysan province's police commander, Major General Ali Waham, was relieved of his duties in the province by the Ministry of the I [...] | 2008-06-17 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV IR MOPS |
08BAGHDAD1838 | MFA GOSSIP ON POSSIBLE KEY DIPLOMATIC POSTINGS [...] (C) During a June 17 meeting on embassy property issues (septel),Ambassador Srood Najib (strictly protect),MFA Director for Americas Affairs, shared gossip on possible Iraqi Ambassadorial assignments to a number of key diplomatic posts. According to Ambassador Najib, those on the inside tr [...] | 2008-06-17 16:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1839 | RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST OF WAY FORWARD ON ASSET TRANSFER [...] SUMMARY: Over the past few months, Mission has raised with GOI officials our need to secure written acceptance of the transfer of major USG-financed assets, pressing for resolution of this long-standing issue. Based on these discussions, we believe that the most viable means of achieving an a [...] | 2008-06-18 02:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ REL UK |
08BAGHDAD1843 | COUNCIL OF REPS BALKS AT BUDGET SUPPLEMENTAL [...] (C) Summary and comment: Government spending in Iraq needs to be authorized by the Council of Representatives (COR). Only one supplemental spending bill, that to establish DPM Salih's Higher Reconstruction Committee and provide it with USD 5 billion for unspecified projects, has been submitted [...] | 2008-06-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV KCOR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1848 | WAY AHEAD ON ASSISTANCE TO RELIGIOUS MINORITIES [...] (S) Post is actively engaged in efforts to address the plight of vulnerable religious minority populations in Iraq, in particular in the areas of jobs and security. The USG already provides significant assistance to regions of Iraq with large religious minority populations, particularly in the [...] | 2008-06-18 16:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KIRF PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1849 | PRT-WASIT: PROVINCIAL SADRIST SIDESTEPS HARD [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL) Summary. On June 17, Sadrist Trend Provincial Council member Ahmed Ebrah affirmed the Salah al-Obeidi statement that Sadrist politicians in Wasit will not stand for seats in the upcoming Provincial elections under the Sadrist banner (Ref [...] | 2008-06-19 06:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD185 | SUNNI PARTY LEADER ON NEW ANTI-KURDISH POLITICAL [...] (S) Khallaf Allyan, leader of the National Dialogue Council party and senior figure in the Tawafuq Coalition, vented to Poloff on January 23 over perceived treachery by Kurdish political leaders and Vice President Hashimi's Iraqi Islamic Party. Recent steps by these groups prompted his decis [...] | 2008-01-24 10:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1850 | RRT ERBIL: DOHUK'S PESHMERGA AND ASAYEESH [...] (C/NF) RRTOff and the MNC-I Liaison Officer to the KRG met on June 15 in Dohuk City with General Sheikh Ali, commander of approximately 30,000 peshmerga soldiers located in Dohuk province. General Ali's forces are also stationed in the disputed territories under peshmerga security control that [...] | 2008-06-19 08:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD1851 | PRT MAYSAN: TOUR D'HORIZON WITH GOVERNOR'S ADVISOR [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In a June 17 meeting with PRT Team Leader, Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi, a close advisor to Maysan Governor Maliki, rejected rumors that the Governor had offered his resignation to PM al-Maliki. Zaid described the current atmosphere in Amarah as normal and claimed that wanted cr [...] | 2008-06-19 09:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1852 | SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON REFUGEES, SIDA [...] (C) Summary: In a June 17 meeting with the Charge, Swedish Ambassador to Iraq (resident in Amman) Niclas Trouve provided updates on implementation of the Swedish-Iraqi refugee "Return Agreement" (which he said is running smoothly) and the status of reopening an Embassy in Baghdad (expected to b [...] | 2008-06-19 10:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF SW IZ |
08BAGHDAD187 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-01-24 12:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1871 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: UN STEPS UP EFFORTS IN SAMARRA [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. The United Nations (UN) has dramatically increased its activity in Samarra over the last several months. The main focus of UN activities in Samarra has been on reconstruction of the Golden Mosque. While the increased activ [...] | 2008-06-20 14:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD188 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-01-24 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1882 | MOSUL BENEFITS FROM MAYOR'S VOLUNTARY VISITOR [...] (SBU) During a short June 2008 debriefing, Zuhair Muhsin Abdul Aziz Al Aaraji, Mayor of Mosul - one of Iraq's most strategic cities - reported that his trip to the United States was extremely beneficial. Mayor Al Aaraji took part in the US-Arab Cities Forum hosted in May 2008 by the Honorable [...] | 2008-06-22 08:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL KPAO PREL PGOV PHUM EAID PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1883 | PRT MAKES FIRST VISIT TO MAYSAN [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary and comment: On June 20 Maysan PRT made its first trip to the governorate in over a year, accompanying MND-C officials to Camp Sparrowhawk, the forward base for U.S. operations in Maysan located on the outskirts of Amarah. During the visit the PRT met with Iraqi Army (IA) [...] | 2008-06-22 09:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV IR MOPS |
08BAGHDAD1889 | MEK: GOI SEEKS TO ASSUME SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES [...] (S) The GOI has informed us over the past few days that it seeks to assume security responsibility for the MEK members located at Camp Ashraf. PM Maliki told MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus on June 15 the GOI's desire to see the MEK issue resolved, as their prolonged presence in Iraq would c [...] | 2008-06-22 11:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1891 | UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD - CLASS OF 2008 [...] (U) Summary: University of Baghdad (UB) President Dr. Mosa Aziz Al-Mosawa exulted at the success of the 2008 academic year during a June 15 meeting with Poloff. UB is at full capacity, with 70,000 undergraduate students and 10,000 graduate students. July 15 will mark the end of the UB acade [...] | 2008-06-22 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPAO KCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1893 | BANK SEPAH DEMARCHE [...] (S) During a June 10 meeting, Coordinator for the Economic Transition in Iraq Ambassador Charles Ries reiterated to Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih Iraq's obligation to comply with its international obligations regarding the operation of Iranian banks in Iraq, including Bank Sepah. Ambass [...] | 2008-06-22 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON EFIN KNNP PTER PARM IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD19 | A HARD COR BATTLE OVER PROVINCIAL POWERS? [...] (C) Summary: Of all the legislation that Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR) will grapple with in 2008, none will do more to shape the future of Iraq politically than the Provincial Powers law. Because Iraq's Constitution is deliberately ambiguous about the balance of power between Iraq's [...] | 2008-01-02 17:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD190 | WASIT IHEC LEADER PREDICTS ELECTIONS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary. In a January 23 meeting with Wasit PRT Team Leader and Poloffs, Wasit Director of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Haydar Abd Allawi said he expected elections to happen in 2008 and expressed a strong preference for an open-list system. He maintained his office [...] | 2008-01-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1901 | PRT MAYSAN: LOCAL OFFICIALS REQUEST EDUCATION AND [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: on June 17, representatives from Majar al-Kabir (MAK) city and al-Bhtera village, accompanied by Maysan governor's advisor Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi, met with the PRT at Tallil Air Base. The MAK area education representative, inspector for education, agriculture representativ [...] | 2008-06-23 06:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD1907 | INFLATION STABLE, BUT PRICE PRESSURES INCREASE AS [...] (SBU) Summary: The latest official data show a small decline in Iraq's consumer prices in May. The annual rate of core inflation now stands at 14.7 percent, close to its average level over the past year. Inflationary pressures are likely to rise in coming months as Iraq's economy runs agains [...] | 2008-06-23 09:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD1908 | PRT-WASIT: CHIEF JUDGE THANKS AMERICANS, [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL) Summary: On 3 June 2008, Wasit Chief Judge told PRT and CDR 214 Fires Brigade that there are continuing problems receiving support from the provincial and central governments including assistance with judge and courthouse security. Chief [...] | 2008-06-23 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1918 | DFM ABBAWI DISCUSSES DEVELOPMENTS IN BILATERAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a June 18 tour d'horizon, Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi told Pol-Mil M/C that Iraq's relationship with Syria was stalled due to Syrian mistrust and that Libya had not responded to Iraq regarding its hold on the 1267 designations of several Syria-based Al Qaeda in Iraq [...] | 2008-06-23 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER AE DA JO IR IZ SY SZ |
08BAGHDAD1921 | MOHR: 5000 AMNESTY RELEASES, PROBLEMS WITH HJC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim said on June 19 that her ministry has confirmed that amnesty releases around the country reached almost 5,000. Her estimates are far greater than our numbers, as they include previously unavailable numbers from the Ministry of Interior, whic [...] | 2008-06-23 18:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1922 | AYAD ALLAWI DISCUSSES RECENT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Former Prime Minister and Iraqiyya Bloc Leader Ayad Allawi played down rumors of a formal alliance with the Sadrists, Fadila, Iraqi National Dialogue Front (INDF),and Ibrahim Jafari's party in a June 22 meeting with PolCouns, but admitted that Iraqiyya coordinates on some com [...] | 2008-06-24 07:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1927 | PRT NAJAF: GOV'S OFFICE AWASH IN RUMORS OF ISCI [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The relationship between Najaf Governor Asaad Abu Gelal Al-Ta'ie and Deputy Governor Abdul Hussein Abtan, both firmly entrenched members of ISCI's inner circle, has long been characterized within the province as disruptive and compe [...] | 2008-06-24 14:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1929 | EMBASSY AND MFA CLARIFY LINES OF COMMUNICATION ON [...] (C) On June 17, Pol and Management Counselors met with Ambassador Srood Najib, MFA's Americas Director, to review recent developments related to turning over USG-occupied property in the International Zone (IZ) to the MFA as sites for future foreign embassies. In particular, POL and MGT Counse [...] | 2008-06-24 16:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AMGT ABLD IZ |
08BAGHDAD193 | ERBIL: KURDISTAN REGIONAL PRESIDENT MASOUD BARZANI [...] (C) Summary. In response to extensive criticism by NGOs (both local and international) and local journalists, Kurdistan Regional President Masoud Barzani rejected the Press Law bill passed by the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) on December 11. He returned the bill on January 15 to the KNA [...] | 2008-01-24 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPAO IZ |
08BAGHDAD1930 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-06-25 06:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD194 | FADHILA PARTY BOSS SOUNDS OFF ON MALIKI, [...] (C) Summary: Shia Fadhila Party legislative bloc leader Hassan al-Shammari told the Ambassador January 22 that the recently-passed De-Baathification Law and prospective passage of a draft Provincial Powers bill are "false victories" and should not be mistaken for signs of political progress. D [...] | 2008-01-24 18:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1946 | IRAQI BANKS MOVE ELECTRONS INSTEAD OF PAPER [...] Summary: While Iraq's economy remains predominately cash-based, the banking system has begun a shift toward electronic payments. From December through April, Iraqi-owned banks more than quadrupled the monthly value of transactions they direct through electronic funds transfers (EFT). Private [...] | 2008-06-25 13:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD1947 | PRODDING THE IRAQIS TOWARDS PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador, UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura, and UK Ambassador Christopher Prentice agreed at a June 24 meeting on a way forward to prod the Iraqis into reaching consensus on how to handle elections in Kirkuk so that the draft provincial election law can pass and provincial elections be [...] | 2008-06-25 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD195 | NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE JANUARY [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. Mosul Tense After Explosion --------------------------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, 3 Iraqi Army (IA) soldiers, an [...] | 2008-01-24 19:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1953 | PRIME MINISTER MOVES TO ADDRESS CHRISTIAN NEEDS [...] (C) George Bakoos, an Iraqi-Christian political advisor to Prime Minister (PM) Maliki, reported to Emboff June 25 that he has been tapped by the PM to serve on a new GOI committee tasked with "determining and following-up on all the needs of the Christian community in Iraq." The committee is [...] | 2008-06-25 15:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1954 | MOHR BEGINS NEW MASS GRAVE INVESTIGATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Ministry of Human Rights team began a new series of mass grave investigations in Najaf two weeks ago and has so far recovered 70 remains, all Kurdish victims during the Saddam regime. They recently discovered a secondary site, which they think contains Shi'a victims. The tea [...] | 2008-06-25 17:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1955 | PRT MAYSAN: AMARAH REPORTEDLY CLEARED [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: PRT leader (TL) visited Camp Sparrowhawk outside of Amarah three times in the past five days and traveled to the soccer stadium on June 24 to meet with U.S. Army Civil Affairs teams and take a first-hand look at the streets on the outskirts of Amarah. By all accounts, Op [...] | 2008-06-26 07:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD196 | PRT NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE [...] (U) This is a PRT Ninewa reporting cable. Mosul Tense After Explosion --------------------------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, three Iraqi Army (IA) soldiers, and wounded over 170 ci [...] | 2008-01-24 19:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1962 | NON-MUSLIM ENDOWMENTS DIRECTOR PLEADS FOR ACCESS [...] (C) During a meeting with Poloff, Abdullah Alnoufali, Director of the Iraqi Non-Muslim Endowments Office, said he was satisfied with the size of his budget which is dedicated primarily towards restoring and maintaining Christian worship sites; what is hampering the Endowment's work is that t [...] | 2008-06-26 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1963 | ALAQ HIGHLIGHTS PRIMACY OF INSPECTORS GENERAL IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a June 25 meeting with visiting INL consultants and ACCO staff, Joint Anti-Corruption Commission (JACC) chairman and Council of Ministers Secretary General Ali Alaq stressed his interpretation of the ministries' Inspectors General (IG's) as the vanguard of Iraq's anti-corruptio [...] | 2008-06-27 04:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL |
08BAGHDAD1964 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-06-27 10:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD1965 | IRAQI NSC JUNE 22 REVIEWS RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS, [...] (S REL UK AS) Summary: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki chaired June 22 the National Security Council (NSC) that reviewed reconstruction efforts in Basra, Sadr City, and Mosul. (Note: Minister of Defense Abdul Qadr, Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bulani, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hoshyar Zebari [...] | 2008-06-27 10:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER KCRM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1968 | KIRKUKI GROUPS WEIGH IN ON PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary. Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq Tom Krajeski visited Kirkuk with United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) Political Director Andrew Gilmour to gauge reactions to recent debates over Kirkuk,s provincial elections and UNAMI,s work on disputed internal boundaries. Turkome [...] | 2008-06-27 13:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF IZ |
08BAGHDAD1969 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: LOCALS CHAFE AT PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: The tight hold that the governing clique from the Juboori tribe keeps on the Salah ad Din (SaD) provincial capital project contracting process is a bone of contention for district officials and citizens in Salah [...] | 2008-06-27 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1971 | JUNE 25 MEETING WITH GOI REGARDING TUWAITHA YELLOW [...] (S) SUMMARY: EMIN and Energy Attach met on June 25 with Minister of Science and Technology, Raid Fahmi,to hear Fahmi's views about the financial consequences of USG's delivering the 550 MT of natural uranium (Yellow Cake) to Canada after the Sales Contract's June 15 delivery date. Fahmi asked [...] | 2008-06-27 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | CA ECON ENRG IZ KNNP PARM PREL |
08BAGHDAD1974 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: VP HASHEMI VISITS SAMARRA [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: On June 22, Sunni Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi made an unannounced visit to Samarra in southern Salah ad Din province to deliver a message of support for reconstruction efforts. Hashimi is the most senior GOI official to [...] | 2008-06-28 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1984 | WOMEN ACTIVISTS PRESS FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT ON [...] (SBU) Prominent members of the Iraqi Women's Movement discussed the political and economic concerns of Iraqi women at a seminar aimed at encouraging international support for the participation of Iraqi women in the democratic transitional process. The roundtable discussion included female mem [...] | 2008-06-28 14:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1989 | NECHIRVAN BARZANI ON SOFA, OIL LAW, ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, accompanied by Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official Rowsch Shaways and KRG Oil Minister Ashti Hawrami, on June 26 met with the Ambassador, Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk, Econ Minister-Cou [...] | 2008-06-29 08:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD199 | NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE JANUARY [...] (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, 3 Iraqi Army (IA) soldiers, and wounded over 170 civilians, according to local Ministry of Health (MOH) sources. The casualty total will likely change as recovery [...] | 2008-01-25 03:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1999 | SADR CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL ELECTS NEW CHAIRMAN [...] (C) Summary: June 26, two days after the tragic Sadr City District Council Hall bombing, local politicians took a courageous and potentially important step forward as the District Council (DC) met to elect Hassan Shama as its new chairman. Over 90 percent of the DC members were present for [...] | 2008-06-29 13:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2 | COR FIRST DEPUTY SPEAKER ON BUDGET, INVESTMENT [...] (C) Begin Summary: On December 31, one day following the conclusion of the Council of Representatives (CoR) holiday recess, First Deputy Speaker Khalid Attiyah told EMIN he expects the 2008 federal budget to pass within the next two weeks. Claiming that the CoR had yet to receive from the Coun [...] | 2008-01-02 06:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD20 | A GREAT BARGAIN IN BAGHDAD: DOURA MARKET REVIVES [...] (U) The Doura Market in Baghdad's Rashid district -- formerly one of the city's most dangerous areas -- has experienced a rebirth over the course of the past six months due to significant gains in security for residents of the Doura neighborhood. The improvements are visible and measurable. [...] | 2008-01-02 17:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD200 | NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE JANUARY [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) reporting cable. Mosul Tense After Explosion --------------------------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, three Iraqi Army (IA) [...] | 2008-01-25 03:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2000 | FORMER BASRAH IP CHIEF MISSES OLD LIFE [...] (C) Summary: During a June 24 dinner, former Basrah IP Chief MG Jalil expressed frustration over his transfer to Baghdad. He credited the GOI offensive in March for improving security in Basrah, but predicted that JAM would regain its strength as the government shifted its attention elsewher [...] | 2008-06-29 13:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD201 | SALIH TO CODEL: "PLEASE DON'T PULL THE PLUG ON [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on January 15 urged Codel Davis (Reps. Lincoln Davis (D-TN),Tim Walberg (R-MI),John Barrow (D-GA),Marsha Blackburn (R-TN),Brad Miller (D-NC) and Niki Tsongas (D-MA)) against a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. He enumerated security g [...] | 2008-01-25 12:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2011 | PRT MAYSAN HITS THE STREETS OF AMARAH [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: PRT leader (TL) made a watershed visit to Amarah, the capital of Maysan province, on June 27 via U.S. military convoy. Amarah was calm, with an impressive array of Iraqi Army (IA) and Iraqi Police (IP) elements visible on the streets. City residents were circulating nor [...] | 2008-06-30 02:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV IR MOPS |
08BAGHDAD2012 | (S) PRT MAYSAN: $100 MILLION IN THE WORKS FOR [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In a June 26 conversation with Team Leader (TL),advisor to the governor Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi confirmed reports that the GOI will commit $100 million for reconstruction efforts in Maysan province, and broadly painted how the reconstruction funds are expected to be adminis [...] | 2008-06-30 02:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2014 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROPOSED GOI TARIFF SCHEDULE [...] (SBU) Coordinator for the Economic Transition in Iraq Ambassador Charles Ries delivered reftel demarche to Iraqi Minister of Trade Abdul Falah al-Sudani on June 26. Ambassador Ries encouraged the GOI to pursue a "low and flat" tariff strategy and highlighted how such a structure would enhance [...] | 2008-06-30 08:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON TWRO USTR BEXP IZ |
08BAGHDAD2015 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-06-30 10:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD202 | TALABANI ON EARLY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL BUSINESS, [...] (C) Iraqi President Jalal Talabani discussed the Executive Council (formerly known as the "3 1") and other topics in an informal dinner on January 20 with the Ambassador. He said the Council plans to shrink the Council of Ministers by nearly half, but also to reincorporate most of the blocs [...] | 2008-01-25 12:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2024 | IRAQIYYA VENTS OVER IRAN, PROVINCIAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: A group of Iraqiyya leaders assembled by former PM Iyad Allawi for a June 29 meeting with Special Advisors Krajeski and Gray were vociferously anti-Iran and blamed the U.S. for what they claimed is Iran,s current political and economic domination of Iraq. They compl [...] | 2008-07-01 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2029 | JULY 1 ELECTIONS LAW UPDATE [...] (C) POL/C met July 1 with CoR Speaker Mashadani, who was obliged to take the election law off the CoR,s agenda both because Deputy Speaker Aref Tayfur was delayed in getting to the session, and -- more importantly -- because the parties remain stuck on Kirkuk. Mashadani said that unless progre [...] | 2008-07-01 14:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD203 | SRSG'S STRATEGY ON IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: On January 18, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Iraq Staffan de Mistura met with the Ambassador to discuss the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq's (UNAMI) plan of action to fulfill its expanded mandate under Resolution 1770. Topics included i [...] | 2008-01-25 13:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2030 | PRT MAYSAN: PRDC CHAIR LOBBIES TO CONTROL PRT [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In a June 28 meeting, Provincial Reconstruction Development Committee (PRDC) Chairman Mohan Mahy Shaheeb argued against PRT engagement with tribal leaders and other groups not affiliated with the governorate. He urged the PRT to route all engagement and project proposals [...] | 2008-07-01 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2032 | MAIN SUNNI BLOC INCHES CLOSER TO DEAL TO RETURN [...] (C) Government spokesman Ali Dabbagh on June 30 announced that PM Maliki and VP Hashimi worked out a compromise deal to return the Tawafuq Front - the main Sunni Arab bloc in Parliament - to its cabinet seats. A list of cabinet nominees was reportedly agreed to by the two leaders, including [...] | 2008-07-01 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2034 | ICRC REGRETS DYSFUNCTION AND POSSIBLE CORRUPTION [...] (C) Senior Refugee Coordinator met with ICRC Iraq Head of Delegation Juan Pedro Schaerer and Delegate Bryan Tisdall in Amman June 17 to discuss ICRC,s difficult relations with the Iraq Red Crescent Organization. Schaerer noted that he had met with IRCO President Dr. Said al Hakki on June 11 i [...] | 2008-07-02 12:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ICRC IZ |
08BAGHDAD2035 | ANBAR PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN SHARES [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with the Ambassador on July 1, Anbar Provincial Council Chairman Dr. Abdulsalam Abdullah Mohammend Al-Ani discussed ideas to improve relations between the central and provincial government, the Anbar Provincial Council's (PC) ongoing struggle with the Ministry of Interior [...] | 2008-07-02 17:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD204 | BAGHDAD ESSENTIAL SERVICES: 2007 YEAR IN REVIEW [...] SUMMARY: Initiated in 2007, Fardh Al Qanoon (FAQ),aka the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP),emphasized several themes, including the delivery of essential services. Although initially led by DPM Zoubai, his attempted assassination and the political boycott of the Tawafuq bloc hindered efforts to [...] | 2008-01-25 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | AMGT EAID ECON ENRG IZ PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
08BAGHDAD2044 | TRANSMITTAL OF INDEPENDENCE DAY LETTER FROM PRIME [...] (U) Post received a letter addressed to the President from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (PM) dated July 1, 2008. Scanned copies of the original document and the translation to English have been emailed to the NSC and NEA/I. The following is Post's translation of the Arabic text in [...] | 2008-07-02 17:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL |
08BAGHDAD2045 | ECA A/S AMERI FROM AMBASSADOR ERELI [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Ameri: As the new Public Affairs Counselor at Embassy Baghdad, I have been on the ground now for about a month. In that time, it has become clear to me that U.S.-Iraqi relations are at an important crossroads and that the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs can ha [...] | 2008-07-03 02:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2048 | PRT DIYALA: FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS - A WORRISOME [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The recent spate of female suicide bombers in Iraq presents serious challenges for the Iraqi Security Forces. There have been 23 reported cases nationwide this year alone, a significant increase from eight reported attacks in 200 [...] | 2008-07-03 07:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PINS PTER SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD205 | ANBARIS RAISE CONCERNS OVER KARBALA BOUNDARY [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: At a January 20 meeting in Ramadi, Anbar Governor Ma'amoun Sheikh Ahmad Abu Risha, the leader of the "Iraq Awakening Movement," and several other local notables raised their concerns with the Ambassador over putative Shi'a attempts on [...] | 2008-01-25 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2052 | NINEWA: SULFUR PLANT REPRESENTS HUGE UNTAPPED [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Mishraq Sulfur Plant in south-central Ninewa Province contains half a billion tons of recoverable sulfur. Repairs and reconstruction to the plant following a fire in 2003 would be inexpensive when comp [...] | 2008-07-03 11:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV EPET EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2055 | 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 request 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 [...] | 2008-07-04 02:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2060 | NUNCIO AFFIRMS IRAQI CHRISTIANS WANT TO STAY, NOT [...] (C) Summary: The Papal Nuncio to Iraq, Archbishop Chullikat, affirmed on July 3 that most Christians wished to remain in Iraq. He declared the trend toward emigration reversible, with generating employment opportunities the best remedy for their hardships. He called for Christians to be int [...] | 2008-07-04 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD2069 | AMBASSADOR AND CG DISCUSS SECURITY AGREEMENT WITH [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Ambassador Ryan Crocker and MNF-I Commanding General (CG) David Petraeus met with Prime Minister Maliki June 26 to discuss a "bridge" security agreement between the United States and Iraq to facilitate continued U.S. support for the GOI while the Status of Forces Agreement nego [...] | 2008-07-04 14:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MASS MOPS IR IZ PREL |
08BAGHDAD2071 | NSC JUNE 29 REVIEWS SUCCESSFUL SECURITY [...] (S/REL UK AS) Summary: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chaired June 29 the National Security Council (NSC) that discussed security operations in Amarah (Maysan Province),the security situation in Diyala, and the need for supplemental funding of the Ministry of Interior. The Prime Minister ope [...] | 2008-07-05 08:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2073 | PRT MAYSAN: ARREST OF PC CHAIR/MEMBERS - BUSINESS [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In a July 3 meeting with Team Leader (TL) at Camp Sparrowhawk outside of Amarah, Maysan Provincial Director of Development and Reconstruction Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi and Provincial Reconstruction Development Committee Chairman Mohan Mahy Shaheeb confirmed press reports that [...] | 2008-07-05 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV IR MOPS |
08BAGHDAD2074 | JULY 4 UPDATE WITH SPEAKER MASHADANI ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-05 16:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2077 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: I-CERP BUILDING MORE THAN [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable coordinated with the partner Brigade 1/101 BCT. Summary ------- 2. (C) The Iraqi - Commanders Emergency Response Program (I-CERP) has been a great success in Salah ad Din province, helping to quickly address critical project implementation [...] | 2008-07-06 07:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2079 | JULY 4 UPDATE WITH SPEAKER MASHADANI ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-06 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD208 | NEW CPI COMMISSIONER FAVORS TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Days after his appointment as the head of the Commission on Public Integrity (CPI),Judge Raheem Al-Ugaili sounded consistent themes in interviews with local media and meetings with emboffs. Speaking frankly of the danger public corruption poses to Iraqi soci [...] | 2008-01-25 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ KCOR PGOV EAID PINR |
08BAGHDAD2083 | SIV ELIGIBILITY OF IRAQIS WORKING UNDER [...] Section 1244 of Public Law 110-181, the Defense Authorization Act of 2008 (the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act),greatly expanded the eligibility criteria for special immigration status for Iraqi nationals employed by or on behalf of the United States Government in Iraq on or after March 2003, for [...] | 2008-07-06 12:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS IZ PHUM PREF PGOV SMIG SOCI UN |
08BAGHDAD2084 | FADILAH LEADER SUGGESTS SADR REPLACEMENTS [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In a wide-ranging June 29 conversation with Poloff and Wasit PRToffs, Fadilah spiritual leader Abbas al-Zaydi explained that Iran supported both ISCI and JAM, but for different functions; "JAM is tactical; ISCI is strategic." He complained that the GOI was "acting as a [...] | 2008-07-06 12:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV IR IZ PINR |
08BAGHDAD2085 | DPM BARHAM SALEH TO CODEL HIRONO: WE ARE MAKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh told CODEL Hirono Iraq is making significant progress toward standing up its own security forces, reconciling politically, and developing economically, but the country nevertheless needs continued USG assistance to cement the gains. Saleh said t [...] | 2008-07-06 12:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ PREL MARR |
08BAGHDAD2087 | AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETING WITH IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy Party leader Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein told the Ambassador he has been approached by Sunni Sahwa leaders for advice on dealing with the U.S. and the upcoming provincial elections. Sahwa leaders, he said, worried that the U.S. does not trust them and [...] | 2008-07-06 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2089 | DECLARING THEIR INDEPENDENTS: WASIT PARTIES RUSH [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Wasit party officials from ISCI, the Sadrist Trend, INA, Fadilah, and Da'wa outlined their provincial election strategies in recent meetings with the PRT. While a Sadrist PC member said he would join the list of another party as an [...] | 2008-07-06 14:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2090 | CBI: NEW RULES, STIFF FINES, MORE EFT, HIGH [...] (C) Summary: Central Bank of Iraq officials believe that a soon-to-be released Ernst and Young audit will demonstrate improved CBI performance. New CBI rules that take effect on July 1 will impose stiff fines on banks that fail to meet monthly reporting and statement-reconciliation requiremen [...] | 2008-07-06 14:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2096 | PRACTICAL RESPONSES TO URGENT MINORITY CONCERNS [...] (C) Post is stepping up efforts to galvanize Government of Iraq (GOI) attention on the needs and vulnerabilities of non-Muslim minorities as part of a longer-term effort to ensure their secure and prosperous future in Iraq. While USG economic assistance has long benefited minority communities [...] | 2008-07-07 06:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD21 | DPM TO AMBASSADOR: "THERE IS NO POLITICAL WILL" [...] (S) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih spiced a 30 December meeting with Ambassador and CG Petraeus with complaints that his colleagues in government lacked the political will needed to steer the country away from civil war in 2008. He avoided being drawn into any constructive discu [...] | 2008-01-02 18:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON ETRD EFIN PREL MARR ENRG MOPS NBTS IZ |
08BAGHDAD210 | PM'S ADVISOR SAYS POLITICAL WILL NEEDED TO PASS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dr. Thamir Ghadban, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's chief advisor on oil and hydrocarbons legislation, told Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery that political will is needed to agree on the draft hydrocarbon framework law (HFL). Ghadban enumerated six issues that he believes have sti [...] | 2008-01-25 15:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON ENRG PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2102 | NINEWA-SALAH AD DIN BORDER AREA DEPRESSED BUT HAS [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message, in cooperation with the Salah ad Din PRT. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Southern Ninewa Province and the Sharqat district in northern Salah ad Din Province suffer from lack of infrastructure investment and unemployment of at l [...] | 2008-07-07 11:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV EPET EINV EAID MARR PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2104 | TRADE MINISTER: WE CAN FUND PDS IN 2008 WITH A USD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Trade Minister Abdul Falah al-Sudani told Emboffs July 1 that the Ministry of Trade (MoT) would be able to fund 90 percent of the Public Distribution System (PDS) for the remainder of 2008 with the USD 2 billion in supplemental appropriations Finance Minister Bayan Jabr indicated [...] | 2008-07-07 12:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EFIN POL |
08BAGHDAD2105 | MOHR ON GOI MEK DISCUSSIONS [...] (S) On July 3 Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim briefed PolOff on her recent discussions with the Prime Minister about the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK). Wijdan said she recently met with the PM about the GoI plan to take over responsibility for the MEK at Camp Ashraf. The PM said he wanted t [...] | 2008-07-07 13:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KJUS PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2106 | JULY 7 PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE: NO SOLUTION [...] (C) Speaker Mashadani's "small group" of Arab, Turcoman and Kurdish CoR members has not reached agreement; it may ask for more time. Mashadani has announced his intention to force a CoR vote on July 15. The Turcoman position appears to have evolved to accepting either "32-32-32-4" or a mo [...] | 2008-07-07 13:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2107 | BANKING IN FALLUJAH [...] (U) This is a joint EPRT Fallujah/Embassy Baghdad reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: As life in Fallujah has returned to a semblance of normalcy, its banking sector -- both private and public -- has rapidly developed to meet a growing economy's demand for financial services. Three state-ow [...] | 2008-07-07 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2112 | HELSINKI II ROLL-OUT IN BAGHDAD: MUCH ADO ABOUT [...] (U) On July 5, organizers and participants in the "Helsinki II process" for Iraq presented their results in a brief public ceremony. Their agreement, negotiated and signed by senior members of numerous political blocs, consists of 17 principles and 15 implementing mechanisms. The principles [...] | 2008-07-07 16:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2113 | KADHAMIYA WOMEN'S PRISON UPDATES [...] (S): SUMMARY: Following up on previous reporting about conditions at Kadhamiya Women's Prison, PRTOffs visited the detention facility on June 15 and were able to see some of the concerns first-hand. Embassy officials met on June 15 with CoR member Nada Ibrahim (Hewar) and Masha'el Haider Ha [...] | 2008-07-07 16:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | KJUS PHUM PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2114 | NINEWA: PROVINCIAL ELECTION PREPARATIONS MOVING [...] (C) Preparations for provincial elections in Ninewa are moving forward well, with the Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) beginning to work closely with the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to coordinate security for voter registration sites and election sites. Most people in Ninewa are ready to vo [...] | 2008-07-08 02:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IZ KDEM PGOV PREL PINR |
08BAGHDAD2115 | RRT ERBIL: VOTER REGISTRATION PREPARATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: Erbil Governorate Electoral Officer, Handreen Muhammed Salih, told RRTOff and IFES Liaison Officer June 30 that the Independent High Electoral Commission's (IHEC) centralized approach to hiring, message development, and approving costs hampers his office's abilities to organize [...] | 2008-07-08 06:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD2121 | POST-MNF-I SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS FOR UNAMI [...] (C/REL MCF-I UN) Summary: Pursuant to reftel, EmbOffs and MNF-I officers met June 26 with UNAMI staff to discuss modalities for providing security to UNAMI if UNSCR 1790 expires on December 31, 2008. A follow-up meeting took place July 1. We heard that the maintenance of U.S.-led security [...] | 2008-07-08 11:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MASS MARR UNSC IZ |
08BAGHDAD2122 | PENDING LEGISLATION WOULD FURTHER PLACE CORRUPTION [...] (C) Pending legislation before the COR would codify control by the Prime Minister,s office over Iraq,s Inspectors General (IG,s) and the Commission on Integrity (COI),two of the GOI,s politically independent, albeit nascent, anti-corruption agencies. Current drafts of the legislation would e [...] | 2008-07-08 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2123 | FOURTH ANNUAL RULE OF LAW CONFERENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Rule of Law Coordinator Office, in conjunction with Multi-National Force- Iraq (MNF-I) Office of the Staff Judge Advocate(OSJA) and the Office of Provincial Affairs, hosted the Fourth Annual Rule of Law Conference in the International Zone on May 19-21. Over 160 Embassy, M [...] | 2008-07-08 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL |
08BAGHDAD2124 | REPORTED UNIFIED SLATE FOR DAWA AND KARBALA TRIBAL [...] (S) Summary: On July 1 in Karbala, a delegation of tribal sheiks from Salah ad Din Province and tribal sheiks from Karbala signed an agreement in support of security, reconciliation, national unity, democracy, reconstruction, and private investment. Also on July 1, tribal sheiks from Karbala, [...] | 2008-07-08 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO IZ |
08BAGHDAD2126 | PRT DIYALA: INCREASE IN FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (S) The marked increase in the frequency of female suicide bomber attacks in Diyala province in June and July has prompted the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Coalition Forces (CF) to redouble efforts to identify potential bo [...] | 2008-07-08 18:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | POL PREL ECON PTER PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2130 | PRT DIYALA: PRE-ELECTION POWER GRAB SUSPECTED - [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Sunni members of Diyala's Provincial Council (PC) have informed PRT officials that Shi'a politicians in the town of Hib Hib illegally forced a City Council vote last week to oust the Mudiyar (City Manager) from office wit [...] | 2008-07-09 06:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2131 | COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT - M1A1 MAIN BATTLE TANKS [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 13. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S Embassy Country Team has reviewed and concurs with the Letter of Request (LOR) from the Government of Iraq (GOI) for the equipping of four regiments of the Iraqi Army (IA) with an export version of the [...] | 2008-07-09 07:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MARR PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2132 | PRIVATE SECURITY CONTRACTORS/CPA 17: STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Various CoR members and staffers involved in legislation to regulate PSCs are giving widely varying accounts of the status of the legislation. Versions range from a vote next week, through a merged bill only after the August-September break, to a claim that the decision in principle to m [...] | 2008-07-09 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2134 | DE-BAATH AMENDMENTS AND COMMISSIONERS PENDING [...] (C) Member of Parliament Rashid Azzawi, (Sunni/Arab, Tawafuq, Iraqi Islamic Party) explained to Poloffs on July 6 the state of play regarding the law on Accountability and Justice which passed last February but has been neither implemented nor amended until now. Azzawi confirmed that the Pr [...] | 2008-07-09 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2137 | IRAQI PLANS TO FACILITATE NAVIGATION IN THE KHOR [...] (C/REL MNFI) A proposed memorandum of understanding (MOU) on improving navigation in the Khor Abdullah waterway is awaiting Prime Ministerial approval, Deputy Foreign Minister Hamoud told us on July 7. Citing the importance of the waterway, Hamoud expressed confidence the Prime Minister wil [...] | 2008-07-09 13:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR |
08BAGHDAD2139 | NINEWA: DIVERSITY OF VIEWS FROM ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN [...] (C) In a July 3 meeting with PRT and US Army civil affairs personnel, Mayor of Tal Kaif District (and Provincial Chairman of the Assyrian Democratic Movement) Basim Bello said Assyrians in Ninewa Province feel intimidated by the Kurds and suffer from a lack of essential services. Bello said t [...] | 2008-07-09 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2140 | PRT ANBAR: VOTER REGISTRATION - GETTING THE WORD [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) PRT members met with the head of the Sunni Endowment in Anbar Province, Sheikh Abdullah Jallal al-Faraj, to discuss upcoming voter registration and to propose that the Sunni Endowment utilize the traditional Friday evening [...] | 2008-07-09 17:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER KDEM SOCI UNSC IZ |
08BAGHDAD2144 | CBI SAYS BANK SEPAH NOT LICENSED IN IRAQ [...] (S) The Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) told us on June 9 that the CBI has not and will not grant Bank Sepah a license to operate due to its designation under UNSCR 1747. The CBI could not, however, confirm that Bank Sepah has not established un-licensed operations in the country. [...] | 2008-07-10 07:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EFIN ECON KNNP PTER PARM IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2145 | VOTER REGISTRATION TO BEGIN AT LAST [...] (C) The 30-day voter registration process will start on July 15. Potential problems include lack of accessibility and lack of information. We have been working with UNAMI and the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) for months to forestall such problems. There have been concerns that [...] | 2008-07-10 08:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2146 | NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON SECURITY, [...] (C) In a July 8 courtesy call with Ambassador Crocker, Norwegian Ambassador Mette Ravn (resident in Amman) remarked on the clear difference in the improved security atmosphere she felt on this trip to Baghdad for the IRFFI Donors, Committee meeting as compared to her first visit last December [...] | 2008-07-10 08:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NO IZ |
08BAGHDAD2147 | TURKISH ENVOY OZCELIK PREVIEWS ERDOGAN VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Turkish envoy to Iraq Murat Ozcelik, on the evening of July 8, met with the Ambassador to preview Prime Minister Erdogan's visit to Baghdad, scheduled for July 10. Ozcelik gave an overview of the bilateral committee of ministers that Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki will a [...] | 2008-07-10 08:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR ECON TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD2148 | AMBASSADOR'S JULY 7 MEETING WITH PAPAL NUNCIO [...] (C) Archbishop Chullikatt, papal nuncio to Iraq, acknowledged that the Iraqi Christian community faced many challenges, but believes that these could be overcome with the right kind of support and assistance. According to Chullikatt, Iraqi Christians' number one concern is security, followed [...] | 2008-07-10 11:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2149 | ISCI LEADER ABDUL AZIZ AL-HAKIM ENCOURAGING ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-10 11:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2150 | RRT ERBIL: KNA DEPUTY SPEAKER UPSET WITH SRSG DI [...] (C) Summary and comment: Dr. Kemal Kerkuki, Deputy Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) and head of the KNA Article 140 Committee, told RRTOff July 6 that UN SRSG Staffan di Mistura has tried to reach him by telephone, but he refused the calls. Kerkuki claimed di Mistura had "li [...] | 2008-07-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2152 | VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI ON: THE PROVINCIAL [...] (S) Summary: In a July 8 meeting with Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, Ambassador Crocker, joined by NSC Senior Director Brett McGurk and DASD Mark Kimmitt, discussed progress on the Provincial Elections Law and on the Strategic Framework Agreement and accompanying protocol/MOU. On the Provinc [...] | 2008-07-10 16:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2153 | TALABANI ON SOFA, IRAQI FOREIGN RELATIONS, KEY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on July 7 with President Jalal Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih. Talabani called for a specific USG-GOI plan for countering Iranian opposition to the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),but praised recent st [...] | 2008-07-11 02:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2156 | CBI SAYS BANK SEPAH NOT LICENSED IN IRAQ [...] (S) The Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) told us on July 9 that the CBI has not and will not grant Bank Sepah a license to operate due to its designation under UNSCR 1747. The CBI could not, however, confirm that Bank Sepah has not established un-licensed operations in the country. [...] | 2008-07-11 07:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EFIN ECON KNNP PTER PARM IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2157 | NINEWA PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR VISITS TAL AFAR AND [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On July 5, Ninewa Governor Duraid Kashmoula, accompanied by Ninewa Vice Governor Khasro Goran, the Provincial Directors General of Water and Electricity, a local journalist, the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment (3 ACR) Commanding Officer and the PRT Leader, visited the [...] | 2008-07-11 11:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2158 | POST RESPONSE TO LEAHY VETTING IN IRAQ [...] Post concurs with recommendations detailed in reftel. 2. As the security situation continues to stabilize in Iraq, specific USG security assistance programs will need to further comply with Leahy Amendment vetting. Post recommends the programs detailed below be vetted according to provide [...] | 2008-07-11 12:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KJUS PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2160 | ISCI LEADER ABDUL AZIZ AL-HAKIM ENCOURAGING ON [...] (S/NF) Summary. In a July 1 meeting, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) leader Syed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and the Ambassador discussed SFA/SOFA negotiations, provincial elections, and post-operations reconstruction. Hakim expressed support for reaching a strategic framework agreement (SFA) a [...] | 2008-07-11 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2162 | SEVENTH IRFFI DONORS MEETING [...] (C) Summary: The International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq's Seventh Donor Committee Meeting in Baghdad on July 7, the first major international conference in Baghdad since 2007, was hailed by Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih as an indication of the growing confidence in Iraq's fu [...] | 2008-07-11 13:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2163 | IMPROVING IRAQI BORDER SECURITY: A WORK IN PROGRESS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Border security continues to be a focus of both GOI and Coalition attention as the security situation improves and Iraq takes increasing responsibility for its own affairs. Al Qaeda in Iraq's reliance on transnational networks is increasing as its operating space and popularity [...] | 2008-07-11 14:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PBTS PREL PTER IR IZ SY |
08BAGHDAD2164 | OPPORTUNITIES FOR TERRORIST EXTORTION AS [...] (C) Summary: Marketing restrictions act as a drag on legitimate economic activity and enhance the attractiveness of the cement black market to terrorist and criminal extortion. The state-owned Northern Cement Company (NCC) consists of six profitable cement plants that employ approximately 3, [...] | 2008-07-11 14:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2166 | EPRT DIYALA SOUTH: CRIMINALIZED SONS OF IRAQ [...] (U) This is an ePRT Diyala South reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (S) The ePRT has received various reports that some SOIs in the provincial capital of Baqubah in Diyala province are engaged in criminal activities and conduct that runs counter to the efforts to revive local city [...] | 2008-07-11 17:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD217 | INTERIM RESPONSE TO IRAQ - GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (S) This is an interim response to reftel. 2. (S) On January 23, Post delivered the diplomatic note cited in Reftel to Iraqi ForMin Hoshyar Zebari who, as a Kurd, is also the best-placed POC for additional actions regarding this and future detainees. 3. (S) Post is developing a demarche [...] | 2008-01-25 20:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PHUM PINR PTER KDRG |
08BAGHDAD2171 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-07-13 07:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2174 | SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON T-WALLS, PROGRESS OF [...] (C) Summary: In a July 5 meeting, Swedish Ambassador to Iraq (resident in Amman) Niclas Trouve accepted Ambassador Crocker,s apology for the manner in which the transportation of a generator through the Swedish Embassy,s construction site in Baghdad was handled. He provided an update on ongoi [...] | 2008-07-13 08:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF SW IZ ASEC |
08BAGHDAD2175 | AMBASSADOR'S JULY 9 MEETING WITH CHALDEAN [...] (C) Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Emmanuel Karim Delly thanked the Ambassador for all he has done for Iraqis of all religions. He noted the security situation had perceptibly improved for minorities over the past months, although fear remained pervasive. Delly emphasized the need to focus on t [...] | 2008-07-13 09:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2176 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-07-13 11:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2179 | SCIENTIST REDIRECTION PROGRAM: EMBASSY [...] (S) In the wake of the January 8 kidnapping and subsequent recovery of bio-weapons specialist, Dr. Nassir Hindawi, there have been discussions both in Washington and Baghdad of whatever adjustment of the program was required. Initially, the debate focused on mass relocation of all of the scie [...] | 2008-07-13 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PARM PGOV PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD218 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LICENSE 05-050079420 [...] (U) Post has contacted the Multi-National Security Transition Command in Iraq (MNSTC-I) and they confirm that this is a legitimate purchase of ammunition by the Iraqi Army. The M855 ammunition is often referred to as "5.56 ball" and is the most commonly fired round for the M-16 / M-4 carbine. [...] | 2008-01-25 20:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC IZ KOMC |
08BAGHDAD2180 | KRG NEGOTIATOR ON HYDROCARBONS LAW [...] (C) Summary: KRG senior adviser Dr. Rosch Shaways met July 9 with EMIN to discuss Kurdish positions on the hydrocarbon and related legislative proposals. Shaways presented scaled-back Kurdish requirements for a hydrocarbon package: an independent federal-regional regulatory body to set st [...] | 2008-07-13 12:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2187 | PRT WASIT:OPENING OF YOUTH AND SPORTS CENTERS [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Three Youth and Sports Centers located in Badrah, Numaniyah, and Al Kut were opened with elaborate ceremonies on July 9 by the Minister of Youth and Sport Jassim Mohammad Ja'far, along with the Wasit Governor and Provincial Council Chai [...] | 2008-07-13 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR |
08BAGHDAD2189 | UNITED NATIONS TO EXPAND TO NAJAF, COLLOCATE WITH [...] (C) Summary. On June 30, Najaf Team Leader (TL) met with Siddharth Chatterjee, Chief of Staff to the United Nations Special Representative for Iraq, to discuss next steps to establish a UN presence at FOB Endeavor, collocated with the PRT. The UN selected Najaf as their operational center for [...] | 2008-07-13 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO IZ |
08BAGHDAD2191 | MUTHANNA: PC CLASH SHOWS POTENTIAL FOR ELECTIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: A recent clash between rival tribal members on the Muthanna Provincial Council (PC) nearly degenerated into inter-communal violence in late June. Although the standoff was eventually resolved peacefully, the incident underscore [...] | 2008-07-14 05:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2192 | MOST OK'S TUWAITHA PAYMENT DEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Fahmi agreed in principle to make a contribution of USD 7 million to defray part of Defense Department transport costs of the uranium from Tuwaitha to Canada, with the funds to be used in the I-CERP account; DOD needs to send shipm [...] | 2008-07-14 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP PARM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2201 | VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI ON SFA AND TAWAFUQ RETURN TO [...] (S) Summary: In a July 13 meeting, the Ambassador told Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi that his July 12 conversation with PM Maliki had produced a common understanding on the process to conclude a bilateral agreement that would include a Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) that sets out princ [...] | 2008-07-14 14:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2202 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SUNNI WAQF CHIEF AHMED [...] (C) Summary: In their first formal meeting, Sunni Waqf Chief Ahmed Abdel Ghaffur al-Samaraie detailed for the Ambassador a number of reconciliation projects he is directing to bring Sunni political voices back into the Iraqi political process. He said he has worked to strengthen the Sahwa gro [...] | 2008-07-14 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2203 | AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S JULY 11 MEETING WITH FM ZEBARI [...] (S/NF) Summary: In a July 11 meeting with Ambassador Crocker, S/I Satterfield, NSC Senior Director McGurk and DASD Kimmitt, Foreign Minister Zebari provided a readout of the previous day's visit of Turkish PM Erdogan, called the postponement of King Abdullah's visit a big disappointment but no [...] | 2008-07-14 14:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ TU JO |
08BAGHDAD2204 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: GEO REPORTS VOTER REGISTRATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) During a July 14 meeting, Salah ad Din (SaD) Governorate Election Officer (GEO) Hatim Abdulhamid provided PRT/CF officials with an upbeat assessment of the state of voter registration readiness in the province. He [...] | 2008-07-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KDEM KCRS SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD2206 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SFA/PROTOCOL WITH VP [...] (C) In a brief July 14 meeting, Ambassador Crocker outlined for Vice President Tariq Hashimi the U.S. approach to the Strategic Framework Agreement and protocol to be taken up by the Executive Committee that evening. Ambassador Crocker said that on July 12 he and PM Maliki had discussed the i [...] | 2008-07-15 07:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2209 | ERBIL: DE MISTURA SAYS KRG STILL COMMITTED TO [...] (C) Summary: UN SRSG Staffan de Mistura met in mid-July with Kurdish officials in the wake of the release of his Phase I reports on Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) and the criticism of the process those reports had caused. De Mistura remained confident that the Kurdish leadership will s [...] | 2008-07-15 11:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD221 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE PART 1: [...] (C) Summary: Post believes nationwide provincial elections can occur in 2008. Technical preparations for elections are broken down into three areas: voter registration, Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) capacity building, and Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) capacity building [...] | 2008-01-26 07:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2210 | EPRT DIYALA: LACK OF NGO SUPPORT IMPEDES FURTHER PROGRESS [...] (U) This is an ePRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Development at the Qa'da and Nahia level in South Diyala is being held up by lack of Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) support. Efforts by the South Diyala embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team (ePRT) have had a s [...] | 2008-07-15 14:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID ECON PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2211 | AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETING WITH COUNCIL OF [...] (C) Mashadani confirmed he intends to bring the provincial elections law to an item-by-item vote on July 15. He expects passage if he gets a quorum. Mashadani was gloomy about Sunni parties' prospects in the elections, as they lack money compared with Shia parties that are, he said, fueled b [...] | 2008-07-15 17:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2212 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SFA/PROTOCOL WITH VP [...] (C) In a brief July 14 meeting, Ambassador Crocker outlined for Vice President Tariq Hashimi the U.S. approach to the Strategic Framework Agreement and protocol to be taken up by the Executive Committee that evening. Ambassador Crocker said that on July 12 he and PM Maliki had discussed the i [...] | 2008-07-16 04:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2215 | UNAMI HR CHIEF EAGER TO HELP WITH MEK TRANSFER [...] (S) SUMMARY: UNAMI Human Rights Chief Hania Mufti said on July 14 that UNAMI would be willing to help with the transfer of responsibility for the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) from the USG to the GOI. Specifically, Hania said UNAMI could press the GOI to accept non-refoulement obligations, provid [...] | 2008-07-16 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PINS PGOV PREL PTER UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2216 | PRT WASIT: PC MEMBERS ATTEMPT TO REMOVE IP CHIEF [...] (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: During a July 11 meeting at the PRT, Wasit Provincial Council (PC) member Saa'd Sharhan and Wasit Chief of Police General Abdul Haneen (both political independents) discussed an ongoing attempt by religious parties to appeal to Prime Minister Maliki to remove G [...] | 2008-07-17 03:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL KIRF IZ |
08BAGHDAD2221 | NINEWA: KURDS USE SERVICES, SECURITY, AND [...] (C) Kurds make up 15 to 40 percent of Ninewa,s population, yet dominate much of the political and security apparatus across the province. Their influence benefits many areas, particularly in northern and eastern Ninewa, which have better security, economic development, and service delivery th [...] | 2008-07-17 08:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KIRF PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2227 | NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISPLACEMENT [...] Summary: On July 8 and 9 the GoI Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MoDM) held its first National Conference to Address Displacement, at which the Minister unveiled the National Policy on Displacement. This policy document has been in the works for four years and the Ministry relied on d [...] | 2008-07-17 14:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV IZ EAID |
08BAGHDAD2228 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH AL-IRAQIYYA LEADER AYAD [...] (C) Summary: In a July 13 lunch hosted by Ambassador Crocker, al-Iraqiyya bloc leader and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told Ambassador Crocker that he was not against an SFA/SOFA with the United States in principle, but that he and other parliamentary bloc leaders wanted more clarity from [...] | 2008-07-17 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD223 | HYDROCARBON FRAMEWORK LEGISLATION STILL STALLED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Under Secretary Jeffery lobbied a series of GOI officials January 14-18 for speedier passage of the hydrocarbon framework legislation, but technical and political issues abound, and the law remains entangled among other legislative priorities (reftels). END SUMMARY. DPM Sal [...] | 2008-01-26 10:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EPET ECON ENRG PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2230 | IRAN PROFITING FROM KARBALA'S NEED FOR BRICKS [...] (S) Summary: Iranian companies are the primary beneficiaries of Karbala,s need for bricks to rebuild. The provincial government claims it wishes to foster a local brickmaking capability and five brick factories have been established here. During a visit to the site of the factories on July 1 [...] | 2008-07-18 02:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD ELAB PINR IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2231 | WASIT: SADRIST PC MEMBERS MEET PRT AND BRIGADE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 02:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2232 | (S) TRIBAL FEUD HAS SECTARIAN, JAM DIMENSIONS [...] (S) Summary: The Shia village of Ayn Tamur in Karbala Province has been embroiled in a tribal feud with the Sunni hamlet of al-Rahaliyyah in al-Anbar since June 2007. In that month, six Ayn Tamur residents were murdered shortly following successful attacks by Ayn Tamur villagers on Jaysh al-M [...] | 2008-07-18 02:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2233 | DAWA TANZIM LEADER ON BASRAH AND FEDERALISM, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Dawa Tanzim COR members Dr. Abdulhadi al-Hassani and Qassim al-Sahlani July 16 at the Dawa Tanzim party's COR office, Hassani spoke about his recent trip to Basrah, expressing dismay at the lack of reconstruction in Iraq's second city while intimating that Basra [...] | 2008-07-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2234 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES WAY AHEAD ON MUJAHEDIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met July 9 with the Head of the Iraq Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),Juan-Pedro Schaerer, to discuss a way ahead on the status of the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) at Camp Ashraf. The ICRC is consulting with USG and GOI stakeholders and appe [...] | 2008-07-18 12:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS PTER ICRC IZ |
08BAGHDAD224 | VP ADEL ON BUDGET, NEW CABINET, SECURITY, REGIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador January 24 that Prime Minister Maliki continues to obstruct passage of the 2008 GOI budget, but it is unlikely that the budget would need to be submitted for an additional, time-consuming cabinet vote prior to final parliamentary [...] | 2008-01-26 10:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2240 | PRT DIYALA: DAUGHTERS OF IRAQ PROGRAM LAUNCHES IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) On July 13, more than 80 women attended the graduation ceremony for the first group of the Daughters of Iraq (DOI) program to complete their training in Diyala province. The Daughters of Iraq (DOI) program - similar to [...] | 2008-07-19 08:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL ECON PTER PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2241 | NINEWA: KRG-AFFILIATED ASSYRIAN LEADERS, SHABAK [...] (C) As part of an ongoing outreach effort to minority communities in Ninewah Province, PRT leader met separately with two prominent Assyrian Christians and four Shabak political activists. All were concerned about threats to their communities and sought continued USG engagement on the way fo [...] | 2008-07-19 10:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON EPET ENRG PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2242 | BASRAH'S RELIGIOUS MINORITY LEADERS HOPE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray and REO incoming and outgoing directors met on July 15 and 16 with Father Emad and Abdel Kareem al-Khazraji, the leaders of Basrah's minority Christian and Sunni communities. Both leaders expressed dismay over the widespread emigrat [...] | 2008-07-19 11:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2243 | BASRAH SECURITY COMMANDERS: SITUATION IMPROVED, [...] (C) In separate July 16 meetings with Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray and incoming and outgoing REO Directors, Basrah's Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police leadership proudly noted the security improvements following the March 2008 'Charge of the Knights' operation but warned of danger [...] | 2008-07-19 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PGOV MCAP IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2244 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: ENCOURAGING SIGNS OF SUNNA-SHIA [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Deputy Governor of Salah ad Din says he had a very good meeting with the Prime Minister July 16, resulting in a promise of more money for the province and the prospect of an office of provincial affairs within the Prime Minist [...] | 2008-07-19 16:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2245 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-07-20 05:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2251 | MOHR ON SAUDI DETAINEES, TORTURE, NATIONAL HR [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told PolOff on July 17 about her July 14 meetings in Amman with Saudi officials on Saudi detainees in GOI and MNF-I custody. The Saudi officials from the Human Rights Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested a list of Saudi d [...] | 2008-07-20 05:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KJUS PINS PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2258 | Commerce DepSec Sullivan Pushes KRG to Boost Transparency, [...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary of Commerce John Sullivan led the first Department of Commerce (DOC) sponsored trade mission to visit Iraq in more than 20 years June 22-25 in Erbil. Accompanying D/S Sullivan were representatives from nine U.S. companies who sought to explore profitable business opportu [...] | 2008-07-20 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EINV EFIN ECON TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD2260 | NINEWA: UNAMI VISITS NINEWA TO ASSESS DISPUTED [...] (C) Summary: Working-level UNAMI officials are recommending that the disputed Ninewa district of Tel Keif be split between Ninewa and the KRG, and that Shekhan go to the KRG. They believe that Tal,Afar needs further study and that Sinjar should remain with Ninewa. The UNAMI team met with [...] | 2008-07-21 03:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2267 | US BUSINESS LEADERS SHARE PERSPECTIVES ON IRAQI [...] (C) Business leaders told the Ambassador, DUSD Paul Brinkley, and EMIN during a visit to Baghdad that they were encouraged by the improving security situation in Iraq. Fertilizer producer CF Holdings, for example, is interested in establishing a fertilizer plant to utilize large quantities of [...] | 2008-07-21 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ETRD SCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2268 | BASRAH GOV CRITICAL OF GOI AND SAFA AL-SAFI [...] (C) Summary: In a July 15 meeting with Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray and incoming and outgoing REO Directors, Basrah Governor Mohammad Musabeh al-Waeli said the security situation had improved since the March 2008 Operation Charge of the Knights (COK). He decried Iranian i [...] | 2008-07-21 12:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2269 | BASRAWI CLERIC HOPES FOR POLITICAL CHANGE [...] (C) Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray, joined by incoming and outgoing REO Directors, met on July 14 with Shi'a cleric and businessman Sayid Abdel Musawi. Musawi was generally positive about Basrah's future, favorably comparing its economy to that of its neighbors and acknowled [...] | 2008-07-21 14:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2271 | NINEWAH: PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS CHIEF SAYS SECURITY [...] (C) Despite security incidents affecting four Voter Registration Centers (VRCs) since July 15, the registration process in Ninewa is going &better than expected," according to Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) Director Abdel Haleq. In a July 17 meeting, Abdel Haleq told us he has employed a [...] | 2008-07-21 17:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2273 | MUTHANNA GATHERING SHOWS POTENTIAL OF ORGANIZED [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL USA, MCFI) Summary: Over 900 sheikhs from tribes stretching from Wasit to Basra gathered July 16 in Muthanna under the auspices of two emerging political parties, the Assembly of the Middle Euphrates and the Sheikhs' Council of Southe [...] | 2008-07-22 07:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KU IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2276 | KARBALA DROUGHT MASKS DEEPER WATER WOES [...] (C) Summary: Water, Karbala,s most precious resource, has become increasingly scarce in recent years, posing challenges to continued economic development in the province. Drought is the apparent culprit, with below-average rainfall during the past several years. Water scarcity is also the pro [...] | 2008-07-22 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SENV EAGR PREL PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2277 | FUTURE OF I-ESC IN QUESTION [...] (C) The National Security Adviser (NSA) formally proposed that the Prime Minister dissolve the weekly Baghdad-focused "Executive Steering Committee" (I-ESC) meeting of service ministries and senior coalition representatives. The NSA plan is to replace the I-ESC with an expanded forum on post- [...] | 2008-07-22 14:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2279 | PRT MAYSAN: MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS LIST IMMEDIATE [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. Summary and Comment: -------------------- 2. (C) The Director General (DG) of Municipalities and Director of Maysan (Amarah) Municipalities identified solid waste collection and disposal as a top priority during a July 15 meeting with PRT Munic [...] | 2008-07-23 05:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS ECON EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD2281 | TUSSLE FOR KIRKUK OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent events at the Kirkuk oil field threaten to increase tensions between the Kurdish Region and the GOI. Both the KRG and the GOI are making tentative moves to assert greater control over the disputed oil resources. END SUMMARY The Khormala Dome ----------------- 2. (SBU [...] | 2008-07-23 06:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD229 | PRT-WASIT: WASIT SHAYIKHS DISCUSS SAHWA AL IRAQ [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) On 18 January, ten Shi'a shaykhs from Wasit told PRT and CDR 214 FB that they intend to establish a branch of Sahwa al Iraq (SAI) in Wasit Governorate. The group was led by Shaykh Raheem Bader Abood Al Hatem and included Shaykh Alwan Abd al R [...] | 2008-01-27 09:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2296 | KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI PLEDGES COOPERATION ON [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's July 20 trip to Erbil, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani said he is ready to travel to Baghdad within the week to discuss the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) with PM Maliki. Ambassador noted the KRG's improved relations with Tur [...] | 2008-07-23 19:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON EPET ENRG PHUM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2297 | VP HASHIMI, AMB CROCKER, CG PETRAEUS DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 18 dinner hosted at his residence for Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus to discuss how to promote better relations between the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) and Coalition Forces (CF) in Anbar Province, IIP Secretary-General and Iraqi Vice President Hashimi, IIP MPs, an [...] | 2008-07-23 19:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PMIL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2298 | HARIRI VISIT FURTHERS OPENING TO ARAB NEIGHBORS, [...] (C) Summary: Lebanese MP and Future Movement leader Saad Hariri on July 17 briefed Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus at the end of his one-day visit to Baghdad and Najaf. Hariri viewed the trip as an opportunity to increase contacts and understanding between his Saudi allies and both t [...] | 2008-07-23 19:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2299 | PM MALIKI OPENS NAJAF INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. On July 20, Prime Minister Maliki made an inaugural flight to Najaf International Airport (NIA) in a ceremony widely attended by Shia political and religious elite from the Middle Euphrates region. NIA is not yet open for business [...] | 2008-07-24 03:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAIR IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD23 | PRT MAYSAN: IA OFFICIALS SHARE SECURITY CONCERNS [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: In private and official discussions the Iraqi Army 10th Division Commander and his Maysan Brigade Commander expressed concern over the security situation in al-Amarah since the December 12 bombing. They advised that an ongoing se [...] | 2008-01-03 06:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD230 | SAI AND ISCI: UNLIKELY ALLIANCE, UNCLEAR RESULTS [...] (S/NF) This is a joint Baghdad POL - Karbala and Najaf PRT cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary: The Ramadi-based Iraq Awakening Movement (SAI) hopes to expand into the south to increase the standing of Ahmed Abu Risha and the strength of the SAI relative to the Tawafuq Bloc. National GOI and ISCI l [...] | 2008-01-27 09:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2300 | FIRST WEEK OF VOTER REGISTRATION RUNS SMOOTHLY [...] (C) Summary: Iraq has just completed its first week of voter registration on July 22, and although there were a few hiccups on the first day, overall the process has run smoothly. So far, over 150,000 people have checked their names at voter registration centers, including almost 2,000 int [...] | 2008-07-24 05:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL |
08BAGHDAD2303 | MALIKI CALLS FOR DOWNSIZING IRAQI SECURITY FORCES [...] (S) During the weekly Iraqi National Security Council (NSC) meeting on July 13, Prime Minister Maliki called for an immediate freeze in the growth of Iraqi security forces and ordered development of a plan to reduce numbers. MinDef Abdel Qadr and Commander of Joint Forces (CHOD) General Babaki [...] | 2008-07-24 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | IZ MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER |
08BAGHDAD2304 | MEK SECURITY TRANSITION: INFORMAL MULTI-PARTY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Informal discussions on July 20 among the GOI, USG, ICRC, UNAMI, and Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK)leaders from Ashraf helped to clarify the positions and roles that each party would play in the transfer of responsibility for the MEK from the USG to the GOI, and the ensuing questions of [...] | 2008-07-24 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KJUS PINS PTER PREL UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2305 | ELECTION LAW FALLOUT: KURDS RAGE, ARABS REJOICE, [...] (C) Summary: The surprise passage on July 22 of a controversial draft of the provincial election law (Reftel) has infuriated the Kurds, emboldened Sunni and Shia Arabs, marked the overflow of simmering anti-Kurdish sentiment, and set the stage for a Presidential veto and further talks in the [...] | 2008-07-24 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2307 | BABIL: PM FORMING SUPPORT COUNCILS WITH TRIBAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: In a July 22 meeting, Sheikh Ali Shnan disclosed to REO Hillah Deputy Team Leader (DTL) recent steps taken by Prime Minister Maliki's office to establish "Support Councils" in Babil province and throughout the country. The Babil coun [...] | 2008-07-24 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2308 | IN PROMOTING RETURNS TO HURRIYA, GOI GRAPPLES WITH [...] (C) Summary. The Implementation and Follow-Up Committee for National Reconciliation (IFCNR) Chairman Mohammad Salman on July 13 convened the Iraqi Army (IA) generals responsible for the Baghdad district of Hurriya and MNF-I to discuss the prospect for returns of IDPs and refugees to that area. [...] | 2008-07-24 14:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IZ PGOV PREF |
08BAGHDAD2309 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-07-24 14:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2310 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-07-24 14:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2311 | PRIVATE BANKING IN IRAQ "DOING WELL" [...] (C) Summary: Private banks are "doing well" in Iraq, according to a leading banker, but many challenges remain. Over the past three years the average capital of private banks has risen from approximately USD 6 million to over USD 40 million. Private banks in Iraq, particularly those that are [...] | 2008-07-24 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2312 | SCENESETTER FOR WASHINGTON VISIT OF IRAQI MINISTER [...] (S) Iraqi Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani is a hard working, honest broker achieving real but fragile success in his efforts to rid the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) of corruption and sectarianism. He arrives in Washington against a backdrop of increasing good news about security in Ira [...] | 2008-07-24 15:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PINS PGOV PTER PNAT MOPS MCAP MARR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2316 | KARBALA: PC CHAIRMAN YASIRI IN TROUBLE [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala reporting cable. 2. (S) Summary: Widely disliked Acting Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Abd al-Al al-Yasiri may be removed from his position shortly. On July 24, a majority of PC members signed a petition demanding al-Yasiri's ouster, setting the stage for a remo [...] | 2008-07-25 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2320 | IRAQ APPROVES A NEW DPM AND NINE MINISTERS: A [...] (C/NF) Summary/Comment. The Council of Representatives (CoR) approved a new Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and nine ministers on July 19 in a strong step towards national reconciliation. This approval came after months of tumultuous negotiations between Prime Minister Maliki and VP Tariq al-Hash [...] | 2008-07-26 10:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2326 | PAPAL NUNCIO ASSESSES FEASIBILITY OF RESTORING [...] (C) Embassy and 1BCT (Brigade Combat Team)/4ID - ePRT Baghdad-1 facilitated a joint visit with Papal Nuncio Archbishop Francis Chullikatt on July 22 to explore the condition of Chaldean and other Church facilities in Baghdad's Doura neighborhood. The Nuncio's primary purpose was to assess t [...] | 2008-07-26 11:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2327 | DHI QAR HUMAN RIGHTS DIR: SITUATION DETERIORATING [...] (C) Summary: The human rights situation is "deteriorating, with some areas of improvement," according to Dhi Qar Ministry of Human Rights Office Director Mohammad Radhi Bahar. In a July 17 meeting with the PRT, Bahar outlined a number of areas in which the PRT could work jointly with the Of [...] | 2008-07-26 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD2328 | EMBASSY HOLDS SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE FOR GOI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An Embassy-sponsored conference in July brought together representatives from all three branches of the Iraqi government to begin discussing ways to improve the legislative process. The conference was an Iraqi-led event with minimal facilitation by the Embassy, and the Iraqi p [...] | 2008-07-26 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2329 | MAYSAN GOVERNOR: I AM A SADRIST [...] (C) Summary: "I am a Sadrist," said Maysan Governor Adil al-Maliki in a July 24 meeting with MND-C DCG-S COL Smith and poloffs at the governor's office in Amarah. During a wide-ranging conversation Maliki expressed concerns, which he said were shared by the Maysani public, over the "militari [...] | 2008-07-26 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ PTER MOPS PINS |
08BAGHDAD2330 | BAQUBAH SUNNI LEADERSHIP FEAR ARREST IN UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary. Sunni political figures in the Diyala Provincial capital of Baqubah have expressed strong reservations about upcoming Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) led operations in Baqubah. In conversations with Diyala ePRT they expressed their belief that the operations are a pretext for the ar [...] | 2008-07-26 18:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2332 | THE NEW VOICE OF THE SADR CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks, the Sadr City District Council (DC) has shown new life as it asserts its independence from malign actors and provides a voice for the district's two million residents. Since the June 17 ousting of Sadrist puppet Abd Al Hussein Jabara as DC Chairman and the subse [...] | 2008-07-27 08:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2333 | NINEWA: PRT-GOI INITIATIVE TO INCREASE WHEAT CROP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-27 08:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV EAGR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2342 | DROUGHT SAPS KRG DAM LEVELS, POWER GENERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Site visits in May and June by RRTOff to the Kurdistan Region's Dokan and Darbandikhan hydroelectric dams in Sulaimaniyah governorate revealed facilities severely limited by drought and producing at near-minimal capacity. Officials at Dokan, a large and well-maintained facility [...] | 2008-07-27 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2347 | ELECTION SECURITY, AIRPORT SECURITY, AND AMNESTY [...] (S) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh chaired the weekly National Security Council (NSC) meeting on Jul 20, deferring planned discussions about Diyala security operations because this had been the topic of an earlier meeting of the Crisis Action Committee held by Prime Minister Mali [...] | 2008-07-28 06:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PTER |
08BAGHDAD2348 | MOHR TELLS AMBASSADOR GOI DOES NOT SUPPORT HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told the Ambassador on July 22 that the GOI does not support human rights and threatens to undermine her ministry in its work with the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) and detention facilities. She sought guidance from the Ambassador on how to deal wi [...] | 2008-07-28 06:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KJUS PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2354 | OIL CONTRACTS LOSE STEAM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Oil Minister Shahristani is backpedaling on the technical support contracts that he had previously intended to sign with international oil companies. He intends to stop negotiating actively for the contracts. He will shorten the period of the contracts from two years to as lit [...] | 2008-07-28 14:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EPET ENRG EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2355 | MAYSAN IA OFFICERS: OPS GOING WELL, BUT GOVERNOR [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) operations in Maysan went "better than planned," said 10th Iraqi Army (IA) Division Deputy Commander Brigadier General Jabar Nehma and 38th Brigade Deputy Commander Colonel Mustafa Khydair in a July 24 meeting with MND-C DCG-S COL Smith and poloffs. Th [...] | 2008-07-28 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2357 | TIME RUNNING OUT ON PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY/COMMENT: There was more drama surrounding Iraq's provincial election law on July 28 as Parliament Speaker Mashadani collapsed during the legislative session and was rushed to the hospital. Meanwhile, the main political blocs achieved little apparent progress on bridging the impass [...] | 2008-07-28 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2358 | VP ADEL AND ISCI CHAIR HAKIM: WE'LL TRY TO BROKER [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on July 24 that he and President Talabani had vetoed the recently-passed Provincial Election Law and that ISCI would work with the Kurdish Alliance and other CoR blocs to find a solution to the Kirkuk election issue. He said th [...] | 2008-07-28 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2360 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ESSENTIAL SERVICES WITH NEW [...] (C) Summary: New Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Rafaie Essawi told the Ambassador and Econ Minister Counselor on July 24 that he "would spare no effort" to improve the delivery of essential services to the Iraqi people, and would make the necessary organizational changes and personal intervention [...] | 2008-07-28 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2361 | MAYSAN SHEIKH SKEPTICAL OF U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) In a candid hour-long discussion, prominent Maysani Sheikh Sa'adoon Bani al-Lami expressed frustration with the pace of assistance to Maysan, and told us that it was up to the U.S. to choose whether it is committed to May [...] | 2008-07-28 16:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2362 | ZEBARI PROMISES UNAMI RENEWAL LETTER [...] (C) PolMinCouns July 27 conveyed to FM Zebari reftel suggested text for the necessary GOI letter requesting renewal of UNAMI's mandate. Zebari noted that Iraq's UN Mission in New York had already informed the MFA on the need to transmit a letter to the UN prior to Security Council action on t [...] | 2008-07-28 17:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UK UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2366 | FM ZEBARI FRUSTRATED WITH PM MALIKI AND WONDERS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari was his usual gregarious self but also made no effort to hide frustrations stemming from his relationship with PM Maliki and his continued disappointment that King Abdullah had not yet rescheduled his visit to Baghdad (originally planned for July 9 [...] | 2008-07-29 04:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2368 | LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY OF MOI CRIMES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although there is much evidence of torture and abuse in Ministry of Interior (MoI) detention facilities and police stations, no one has been sentenced and imprisoned in 2008. The MoI Inspector General's office and Human Rights office seem to have little power to do anything more [...] | 2008-07-29 07:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2379 | KARBALA: ARE THE KIDS ALRIGHT? [...] (C) Summary: Iraqis in and out of government have shared with PRT officers their concerns about Karbala's youth. Contacts describe Karbala's youth as relatively well-educated, increasingly distrustful of religious and tribal authority, and often difficult to reach in Sunni-Shia reconciliation [...] | 2008-07-29 14:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD238 | VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI ON LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTS, [...] (S) During their January 25 meeting, the Ambassador and Vice President Hashimi discussed the Executive Council, a draft amnesty law, Mosul, Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs),and Iran. Hashimi voiced concern that PM Maliki might decrease relative authority of the Executive Council in favor of [...] | 2008-01-27 17:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2380 | KKRG SECURITY CHIEF ON JULY 28 SUICIDE BOMBING AT [...] (C) Summary: The KRG's security chief Masrour Barzani told Senior Advisor Krajeski July 29 that the investigation into the July 28 bombing in Kirkuk has uncovered evidence of Turkomen complicity. S/A Krajeski cautioned against provocative public statements until we know definitively what hap [...] | 2008-07-29 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PTER TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD2381 | IRAQ NON-COMMITTAL ON KAZAKHSTAN [...] (S) POLMIL MinCouns delivered reftel points to Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Majeed Abbawi July 27. Abbawi allowed that it would not be a good idea for Syria to be elected once more to the IAEA Board of Governors, especially while under investigation for its own activities. Abbawi said he wou [...] | 2008-07-29 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IAEA KNNP PREL AORC KZ SY IZ |
08BAGHDAD2387 | VOTER APATHY IN EASTERN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: Anecdotal evidence from ePRT engagements as well as other organizations operating in eastern Baghdad indicate that while residents are knowledgeable about the voter registration process and the current political impasse over the elections law, their interest in or willingness to [...] | 2008-07-30 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD239 | "THE STREET IS STRONGER THAN PARLIAMENT:" SADRIST [...] (C) Summary: As a harbinger of Sadrist Trend hostility to a prospective USG-GOI long-term strategic relationship (LTSR) agreement, Sadrist Deputy Governor of Karbala Jawad al-Hasnawi told us January 24 that if Trend efforts to quash parliamentary approval of the agreement were to fail (a highl [...] | 2008-01-27 18:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2391 | IDP AND REFUGEE RETURNS CONTINUE IN BAGHDAD, BUT [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Since late 2007, the UN estimates that 110,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees have returned to Iraq, primarily to Baghdad. However, the UN concedes that return data are not precise, particularly as not all retur [...] | 2008-07-30 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2396 | GOI CALLS DETENTION OPERATIONS AND AMNESTY LAW A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim convened a meeting on July 27 with representatives of all three branches of government to address problems in the GOI detention system and with implementation of the Amnesty Law. Each branch representa [...] | 2008-07-31 11:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM KJUS PINS PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2398 | CARDINAL DELLY MEETING WITH PM VERY POSITIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Cardinal Delly on July 30, Prime Minister Maliki said the GOI would offer protection for Iraqi Christians and would ensure that they live in a stable and secure environment. According to a GOI press statement released after the meeting, the GOI will provide ne [...] | 2008-07-31 14:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2399 | NEW COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER SOUNDS BOTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In our first meeting with him July 30, the GOI's new Minister of Communications, Farouk Abdel Qadir Abdel Rahman (Tawafuq/IIP),told EMIN of his vision for the Ministry. Abdel Rahman, who was confirmed last week with the other Tawafuq additions to the GOI (reftel A),told EMIN he [...] | 2008-07-31 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON EINT |
08BAGHDAD2402 | SECURITY OPERATION BENEVOLENT DIYALA STARTS [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) On July 28, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) launched Benevolent Diyala, the security operation designed to sweep residual terrorist elements and supporters from Diyala province. The ISF blockaded the provincial capital Baqub [...] | 2008-08-01 09:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR MOPS PTER ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2403 | DIYALA PREPARES FOR POTENTIAL HUMANITARIAN ISSUES [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Provincial Council committee in charge of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) is working with the Director General for Migration to prepare for any potential humanitarian crises created by the current Iraqi-led security operat [...] | 2008-08-01 09:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL ECON PTER MOPS EAID PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD241 | MALIKI REAFFIRMS DESIRE FOR CABINET SHAKE-UP, [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the weekly security meeting on January 24 with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Maliki reaffirmed his desire to reduce the number of cabinet posts and form a national unity government with ministers from a broad spectrum of parties including Tawafuq and Iraqiyya. He express [...] | 2008-01-28 02:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ JO SY |
08BAGHDAD2411 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW UPDATE; UNAMI STRIVES FOR [...] (C) With the CoR ready to take up the provincial elections law again on Sunday, August 3, the U.S. and UN are working hard to facilitate a solution to the key remaining obstacle to a deal on a new Iraqi election law, the treatment of Kirkuk. An Iraqi "wise men's" group has been working sinc [...] | 2008-08-01 12:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2414 | SONS OF IRAQ (SOI) PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (U) This is the second in a series of reports on the Sons of Iraq (SOI),formerly known as Concerned Local Citizens (CLC). For information regarding the origins, training, equipment, operations, and the initial prospects for integration of the former CLC, see Ref A. 2. (S) Summary. As of [...] | 2008-08-02 05:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS MOPS PGOV ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2415 | BABIL: LOTS OF WORK TO BE READY FOR PIC [...] (S) Summary. Babil Province is not ready for PIC transfer; CF/PRT and GOI officials agree that significant improvement will be needed to meet the established PIC transfer goal of November 2008. In separate meetings, Governor Salem Salih Mahdi Al-Muslimawi (July 29) and leading Iraqi Army (IA) [...] | 2008-08-03 03:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2420 | SALAH AD DIN REACTION TO KIRKUK PC VOTE: KIRKUK [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Anecdotal evidence from PRT discussions with provincial officials and residents of Salah ad Din (SaD),who are overwhelmingly Sunni, indicates strong opposition and growing anger over the Kirkuk Provincial Council's [...] | 2008-08-03 18:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2421 | (SBU) KARBALA'S LARGEST JAIL BURSTING AT SEAMS. [...] (SBU) Summary: Karbala's largest jail (technically a pre-trial detention facility) is filled beyond capacity. Because the province does not have a prison and the regional prison in al-Hillah also is full, Karbala's jail also houses post-trial detainees, including ten people (one female) convic [...] | 2008-08-04 05:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD2422 | ELECTION LAW STALLED AS BLOC LEADERS NEGOTIATE [...] (C) Summary: Late on August 3, the highly anticipated vote in the Council of Representatives (CoR) to resolve the vetoed articles in the Provincial Election Law (PEL) stalled while members awaited instruction from their bloc leaders who were in intense negotiations led by the UN and the U.S. [...] | 2008-08-04 08:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2423 | SENIOR ADVISOR KRAJESKI PRESSES KIRKUK LEADERS TO [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the suicide bomb and mob violence in Kirkuk July 28, Senior Advisor Krajeski traveled there to appeal for calm and discourage provocative acts or statements from Kirkuk's Kurdish, Sunni Arab, and Turkomen communities. Security was restored quickly by provincial se [...] | 2008-08-04 08:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PTER MOPS TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD2424 | S/I SATTERFIELD DISCUSSES IZ PROPERTIES, FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: S/I Satterfield and Management Counselor Austin-Ferguson met August 2 with Ambassador Srood Najib, the MFA's point person on the transfer of U.S.-held properties in the International Zone (IZ). The discussion focused on the various IZ properties currently in Department of State ( [...] | 2008-08-04 11:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AGMT ABLD PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2425 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-08-04 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2426 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-08-04 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2427 | IRAQI-KUWAITI BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C/REL MNFI) In an August 2 meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Foreign Minister Muhammad Hamoud discussed the state of relations between Iraq and Kuwait with Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq Affairs Gordon Gray. Addressing a wide range of border and other bilateral issues, Ham [...] | 2008-08-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR |
08BAGHDAD2429 | PRT ANBAR: ANBAR VOTER REGISTRATION ECLIPSES 2005 [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Anbar Governate Electoral Office (GEO) Director Khalid Rijab Abdul-Razak told the PRT that more than 46,600 Anbaris have verified their names on the list of the Province's pre-registered voters. At six percent of eligible voters [...] | 2008-08-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER KDEM SOCI UNSC IZ |
08BAGHDAD243 | NINEWA/MOSUL EXPLOSION: CURFEW LIFTED, MARKETS [...] (C/REL ACGU) On January 26 Ninewa Governor Kashmoula lifted the all-day curfew imposed on Mosul after the massive explosion of January 23. Shops and markets are open. PRT Leader met January 27 with the Governor, Vice-Governor, other provincial officials, and Zuhair Al-Chalabi, the Director G [...] | 2008-01-28 02:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID PREL SCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2431 | NO SUB-PRIME CRISIS HERE: CONSTRAINTS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI wants the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) to loosen its monetary policy to promote economic growth. But cuts in the CBI's interest rates or reserve requirements will not deliver the growth boost GOI officials seem to expect. Iraqi banks already have plenty of money to lend, [...] | 2008-08-05 03:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2432 | SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER MORATINOS CONSIDERING [...] (C) Newly arrived Spanish Ambassador Francisco Elias de Tejada told Ambassador Crocker August 1 that Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos is considering a visit to Baghdad in the coming weeks. Elias de Tejada said Madrid wants to strengthen relations with Iraq and sees a high-visibility visit by [...] | 2008-08-05 03:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2438 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-08-05 06:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2439 | MOJ AL-SAFI "SHOCKED" BY WOMEN'S PRISON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Acting Minister of Justice Safa al-Safi accompanied an MNF-I and Embassy inspection visit on August 2 to Kadhamiya Maximum Prison and Kadhamiya Women's Prison in Baghdad. At Kadhamiya Maximum, a high-value detainee prison that is monitored by ICITAP officials five days a week, a [...] | 2008-08-05 07:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD244 | NINEWA/MOSUL EXPLOSION: CURFEW LIFTED, MARKETS [...] (C/REL ACGU) On January 26 Ninewa Governor Kashmoula lifted the all-day curfew imposed on Mosul after the massive explosion of January 23. Shops and markets are open. PRT Leader met January 27 with the Governor, Vice-Governor, other provincial officials, and Zuhair Al-Chalabi, the Director G [...] | 2008-01-28 02:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID PREL SCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2440 | NATIONAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION LOOKING FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although still not officially confirmed in his position, National Investment Commission (NIC) Chairman-designate Ridha continues to court European and regional investors and insists that he enjoys the PM's full confidence. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Presumptive NIC Chairman Ahmed R [...] | 2008-08-05 07:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN |
08BAGHDAD2441 | WASIT ISF OFFICERS WARN BORDER IS COMPLETELY OPEN [...] (C) In a July 29 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, 41st Fires Brigade Commanding Officer Colonel Richard Francey, and PRT members, Wasit's chief security officials complained about political and judicial resistance to Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) operations and warned that the border wi [...] | 2008-08-05 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2444 | WASIT GOV: PEOPLE WANT CHANGE [...] (C) "People want change," said Wasit Governor Abdel Latif Turfa in a July 29 conversation with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray and PRT Team Leader. Although Turfa declined to offer any prediction over election results, he said the Sadrists were unpopular, while Prime Minister Maliki had gained Sun [...] | 2008-08-05 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2446 | WASIT SADRIST: THERE IS NO MORE JAM [...] (C) "The character of the GOI justifies Sadrist resistance," claimed Sadrist Provincial Council (PC) Member Ahmed Ebrah in a July 29 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray and PRT members. However, Ebrah claimed that Sadr's June 13 statement was tantamount to a dissolution of Jaysh al-Mahdi [...] | 2008-08-05 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2447 | SOUTHWEST TRIBES BEGINNING TO AWAKE [...] (C) Summary: The south's tribes are poised to play a significant role in the provincial elections. On July 30 and 31 Senior Advisor Gordon Gray met with leaders of three emerging tribal-based political parties, two of which - the Sheikhs' Council of Southern Tribes and the Mid-Euphrates Alli [...] | 2008-08-05 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2448 | SADR STATEMENTS: RIFLES FOR SOME, "JIHAD OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-05 08:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2452 | MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS SEEKS GREATER CONTROL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraq Ministry of Communications (MoC) awarded contracts to several little known telecommunications firms to build and operate MoC-owned international gateways and provide international carrier services to Iraq's licensed Global System Mobile (GSM) and Wireless Local Loop (WLL) [...] | 2008-08-05 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECPS ECON EINT |
08BAGHDAD2456 | IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL ON OPERATIONS IN [...] (S) Summary. Prime Minister Maliki chaired the July 27 National Security Council (NSC),which began with a review of current security operations in Diyala and Ninewa provinces. Ministers devoted most of the two-hour meeting to Diyala, where military operations are quickly ramping up. The Diyala [...] | 2008-08-05 15:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PTER |
08BAGHDAD2458 | PROVINCIAL ELECTION LAW IN FLUX AS NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: As of mid-day August 6, Council of Representatives (CoR) discussions continue on a UNAMI proposed compromise text for Provincial Elections. Shi'a and Kurdish bloc leaders have indicated their agreement with the compromise, which would postpone elections in Kirkuk to no later than [...] | 2008-08-06 11:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2463 | KIRKUK: TENSE, RETURNING TO NORMAL, BUT NO RESUMPTION OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the past two weeks, ethnic relations in Kirkuk have been buffeted by the passage - and subsequent veto - of a controversial provincial elections law in Baghdad, a terrorist attack at a Kurdish demonstration resulting in mass casualties, a violent confrontation between Kurdis [...] | 2008-08-06 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MOPS KCRM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2464 | COR FAILS TO PASS PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW, PASSES [...] (SBU) On August 6, the Council of Representatives (CoR) passed the 2008 budget supplemental, but failed to vote on the provincial elections law. It then recessed until September 9. Speaker Mashadani ordered the creation of a committee to find a compromise solution on Kirkuk, and promised t [...] | 2008-08-06 17:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2467 | MOVING THE GOI TOWARD INCLUDING ANTI-ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Deputy Health Minister will instruct MOH officials to change the standard wording of procurement and other contracts in a way that will eliminate Arab League Boycott (ALB) language, replacing it with language that does not violate U.S. anti-Boycott legislation. End Summary. [...] | 2008-08-07 07:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KPBT PREL EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2471 | FORMER IHEC OFFICIAL HANDICAPS WASIT ELECTIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. PRT met August 2 with Haidar Abed Allawi, former Wasit office manager for the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) currently employed by the Basrah IHEC office. Haidar sees new evidence of the ISCI bias of Wasit's new Gove [...] | 2008-08-07 08:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2473 | THE POWERS OF JULY 22 BLOC: ONE HIT WONDER? [...] (C) Summary: On July 29, Dr. Habib Jabir Habib, an independent Shia Council of Representatives (COR) member and political analyst for the pan-Arab daily newspaper, Al-Sharq al-Awsat, told Poloff that the Kirkuk issue united the "Powers of July 22" to pass the (subsequently vetoed) Provincial [...] | 2008-08-07 10:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL |
08BAGHDAD2474 | BASRAH GOVERNOR: REGIONS FORMATION IMMINENT [...] (C) Summary: "We are in the last steps" to making Basrah a region, said Governor Waeli in an August 6 conversation with poloffs. Waeli said the necessary signatures had already been collected and expressed confidence that the delay over the passage of the elections law would provide further [...] | 2008-08-07 11:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2488 | VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT FOR SADR'S [...] (C) As reported in Ref A, Muqtada al-Sadr's July 28 public statement divided his Jaysh al-Mehdi (JAM) militia into two groups: an unarmed group that performs "thought jihad" and an armed resistance cell to battle "the Occupation." On August 5, the Sadrist movement issued a six-page pamphlet th [...] | 2008-08-07 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2489 | GOI LOAN PROGRAM FOR PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH FACES [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Industry and Minerals, which manages over 60 of Iraq's state-owned enterprises, is struggling to administer its 408 million USD loan program, targeting existing small to medium-sized enterprises. Loan applications are generated on the provincial level, reviewed and appro [...] | 2008-08-07 15:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD IZ |
08BAGHDAD249 | NINEWA: MOSUL UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT PROPOSES BROAD [...] (S/REL ACGU) Summary: Mosul University President Dr. Obay al-Dewachi told us he was open to broad cooperation with the PRT. Although the university was a bastion of the Ba'athist system and is a known safe haven for terrorists, as one of the best universities in Iraq the PRT will begin immedia [...] | 2008-01-28 07:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2492 | KARBALA PREPARES FOR SHABANIYAH [...] (C) Summary: Seeking to avoid a repeat of the deadly violence that marred last year's Shabaniyah (a Shia observance commemorating the twelfth imam's birth, which this year is on August 17),Karbala officials are tightening security throughout the province. Seven thousand additional police and [...] | 2008-08-08 03:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SOCI KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2495 | DEPUTY SPEAKER ATTIYA HAS GAME-PLAN FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Iraqi parliament deputy speaker Attiya told PolCouns on August 8 that he wanted to convene the special committee charged with finding a solution to the impasse on the Kirkuk-related article of the provincial elections law "immediately, tomorrow." He proposed a two-track approach to the [...] | 2008-08-08 10:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD250 | VP ADEL ON LTSR AND PENDING LEGISLATION [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told Political Counselor on January 28 that the GOI Political Committee for National Security (PCNS) discussed the GOI long-term strategic partnership (LTSR) negotiating framework during a January 26 meeting, agreeing that negotiations would be hand [...] | 2008-01-28 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2501 | THE GERMAN-IRAQI INVESTMENT PROMOTION AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the departing German Ambassador to Iraq, the recently initialed German-Iraq Investment Promotion Agreement (IPA) would be better described as an "Investors' Protection" Agreement. Routine to nearly all German bilateral commercial relationships, similar documents ar [...] | 2008-08-10 06:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD IZ GM |
08BAGHDAD2503 | (C) PRT SALAH AD DIN: ANTI-KURD SENTIMENT [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Disappointment in the stalled elections process and increased resentment among Salah-ad-Din (SaD) Arabs toward the Kurds spurred a sheik-led demonstration march in SaD on August 7 to call for elections. SaD Arabs als [...] | 2008-08-10 07:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2505 | SURVEY OF SOUTHERN POLITICAL ENTITIES [...] (U) This is a joint Baghdad - PRT - REO reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: 229 political entities (individual candidates and parties) registered in the southern provinces for the upcoming provincial elections. The number and composition of the entities is another manifestation of widesprea [...] | 2008-08-10 12:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR |
08BAGHDAD251 | REQUEST FOR USG SUPPORT OF ARAB PARLIAMENTARY [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (S) The Arab Parliamentary Union is scheduled to meet in Erbil, Iraq, on March 11-13. During the Secretary's January 15 visit, ISCI CoR bloc leader Hummam Hammoudi asked for the USG's assistance in persuading the governments of Jordan, Egypt a [...] | 2008-01-28 14:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2510 | IRAQI NSC ON AUGUST 3 REVIEWS DIYALA OPERATIONS [...] (S/REL UK AS) Summary: The weekly Iraqi National Security Council meeting on August 3 discussed ongoing security operations in Diyala, resolving the MEK situation, and conforming to UNSCR 1373 (Counter Terrorism measures). The Council also touched on the protection of judicial officials and t [...] | 2008-08-10 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2511 | IRAQI MINISTER OF DEFENSE: NEXT STOP, NINEWA [...] (C) SUMMARY: POL-MIL Minister-Counselor and her incoming successor met with Iraq Minister of Defense (MoD) Abdul Qadr August 6 to discuss security developments in Iraq. Citing with approval the current operation in Diyala, MoD said his plan was to next turn to Ninewa "to clean it out." He sai [...] | 2008-08-11 03:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ TU IR |
08BAGHDAD2517 | EMBASSY BAGHDAD WELCOMES VISIT OF EGYPTIAN [...] (S) Strengthening Iraq's relations with key Arab neighbors continues to be a high USG priority and the return of an Egyptian Ambassador here would provide significant momentum to this effort. Please convey to the GOS that Embassy Baghdad welcomes this important step and stands ready to provid [...] | 2008-08-11 07:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ EG |
08BAGHDAD2518 | MAYSAN GOVERNOR PLAYS IT COOL WHILE SHEIKHS RUN HOT [...] (C) Summary: Maysan Governor Adil al-Maliki said all the right things in an August 9 meeting with PRT Team Leader (TL) at the Governor's offices in downtown Amarah. The Governor expressed satisfaction with security gains in the province as a result of Operation Tidings of Peace and the presen [...] | 2008-08-11 07:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ PTER MOPS PINS |
08BAGHDAD2519 | MOHR TO COORDINATE TCN RELEASE AND TRANSFER [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told EmbOffs and Task Force 134 officials on August 7 that her ministry will help with the releases and transfers of third-country national (TCN) detainees in MNF-I custody to their home countries. Wijdan said that since her ministry is th [...] | 2008-08-11 08:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KJUS PREL PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD252 | (C) TUWAITHA YELLOW CAKE BUYER UPDATE [...] (S) SUMMARY: On Jan 25, 2008, a DOE and MNF-I team met with Iraqi Minister of Science and Technology Raid Jahid (FAHMI) to discuss next steps for Iraq to begin contract negotiations with a qualified buyer for the Tuwaitha yellow cake. Although Minister Fahmi and team are not yet ready to meet [...] | 2008-01-28 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON ENRG PARM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2520 | REPERCUSSIONS OF PROVINCIAL ELECTION DELAY [...] (C) Summary: Parliament's recess August 6 without passing a provincial election law makes provincial elections unlikely before the end of 2008. Based on discussions with Iraqi contacts (including extensive input from PRTs),it is clear that many Iraqis were disappointed but not surprised. The [...] | 2008-08-11 08:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2523 | NINEWA: PRT AND MILITARY COLLEAGUES SURVEY KEY [...] (SBU) Summary: PRT Ninewa, with the technical expertise of the 156th Engineer Detachment, 94th Engineer Battalion, 18th Engineer Brigade, completed the first engineered site survey of the Dair Mar Elia Chaldean Monastery. This effort was supported by the Iraq State Board of Antiquities and H [...] | 2008-08-11 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL EAIR PINR PREL MARR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2525 | NINEWA: YEZIDI SPIRITUAL LEADER PLEADS FOR HIS [...] (C) Summary: The spiritual leader of the Yezidi faith told us that his community's security depends on its remaining within the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) area. Citing the KRG's commitment to secular governance and its superior record of ensuring religious minority rights, he pleaded w [...] | 2008-08-11 13:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2528 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-08-11 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD253 | SITREP 1: JAN 28 FIRE AT CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ [...] (C) This situation report includes information available as of 1600 Baghdad local time. Around 0100 on January 28 a massive fire broke out in the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) main building that rendered it unusable. The fire, the source of which has yet to be determined, gutted almost the entir [...] | 2008-01-28 15:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN |
08BAGHDAD2531 | IRAQ: POLMIL MINSCOUNS MEETS GENERAL ABUD [...] (C) During an August 6 meeting, Baghdad Operations Center commander General Abud told POL-MIL Minister Counselor and her incoming successor that GOI knows Special Groups (SG) are armed and funded by Iran. He explained the GOI is unwilling to state so publicly in a direct manner, but would do s [...] | 2008-08-11 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2536 | DIYALA ) PROVINCIAL COUNCIL VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable 2. (C) SUMMARY. Diyala,s Provincial Council has voted unanimously to dismiss Provincial Director of Police Ghanem al Quraishi. The immediate cause of the vote was al Quraishi,s decision on August 9 to reactivate his July 30 decision to drastical [...] | 2008-08-11 16:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2539 | PAPAL NUNCIO CLAIMS DECREASING SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Special Advisor Krajeski and PolOffs on August 7, Papal Nuncio Archbishop Chullikatt claimed that there is decreasing support within the Christian community in northern Iraq for an autonomous zone as the solution to problems of security and marginalization. Fr [...] | 2008-08-12 06:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF KREF IZ |
08BAGHDAD254 | SENIOR DAWA OFFICIAL ON LTSR, SADRIST "GHOSTS," [...] (C) Summary: Senior Dawa Party CoR member Haidar al-Abadi told us January 27 that CoR ratification of any long-term strategic relationship (LTSR) agreement will likely turn on provisions governing legal immunity and the U.S. military's ability to arrest and detain Iraqi citizens. He claimed th [...] | 2008-01-28 17:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2544 | NINEWA: REOPENING OF MOSUL AIRPORT A KEY PRIORITY [...] (C) Summary: The re-opening of Mosul's civilian airport is a key priority in the economic development of Ninewa Province, both for short-term job-creation and for longer-term economic growth. Working with our partners in 1AD and 3ACR, and Embassy Baghdad, we are engaging the GOI in order to r [...] | 2008-08-12 10:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2545 | LEGAL CLAIMS AGAINST IRAQI ASSETS: WHAT NOW? [...] (C) An interagency team led by Principal Deputy Legal Adviser Joan Donoghue traveled to Baghdad July 18-24 to discuss with GOI officials the protection of Iraq's assets, the settlement of Iraq's remaining Saddam-era debt and commercial claims, and the resolution of Saddam-era personal injury s [...] | 2008-08-12 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2552 | MORE ON MUQTADA AL-SADR'S MUMAHIDOON [...] (C) Summary: Senior Sadrist Trend officials are working overtime in media interviews to tout "al-Mumahidoon," the newly-established unarmed wing of Muqtada al-Sadr's Jaysh al-Mehdi (JAM) militia, as a "social, cultural, and religious" entity. The Mumahidoon will purportedly abandon armed str [...] | 2008-08-13 08:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2553 | JORDAN'S KING ABDULLAH VISITS BAGHDAD [...] (C) The long awaited, once postponed, and highly secretive visit to Baghdad of Jordan's King Abdullah successfully took place August 12. On the ground for a relatively short time, Abdullah held a one hour meeting with PM Maliki (Deputy PM Barham Salih, National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al- [...] | 2008-08-13 12:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ JO |
08BAGHDAD2555 | IRAQ: MOI INTEL DEPUTY SAYS COOPERATION BETWEEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an August 12 meeting with POL-MIL Minister-Counselor and S/CT Regional Coordinator, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior's Deputy Chief of Intelligence said he considered cooperation between Syria and Iran to be a serious problem, including the likely return to Iraq of Special Groups [...] | 2008-08-13 12:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2560 | NINEWA: TWO PROMINENT SUNNI LEADERS CRITICIZE US [...] (C/NF) Summary: Two prominent Sunni leaders in Ninewa Province criticized the USG, claiming that we are backing the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG); both said that US support for the redrawing of Ninewa's provincial boundaries would lead to violence in the province, and both criticized t [...] | 2008-08-13 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2561 | PRT TEAM LEADER'S CONFERENCE - MOVING FORWARD [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: The message of the July 6-7 Team Leader's Conference was clear: Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) must lay the groundwork for Iraqis to assume greater responsibility, which will occur sooner rather than later. State-DoD cooperation will be essential as DoD turns it [...] | 2008-08-13 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREZ IZ |
08BAGHDAD2575 | SOUTH ANGRY WITH KURDS ABOUT KIRKUK, ELECTIONS LAW [...] (C) In meetings with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray August 5-7, leaders in Babil and Najaf expressed disgust with Kurdish actions related to the provincial elections law, especially the July 31 vote by the Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC) threatening annexation to the Kurdistan region (KRG). Both Sh [...] | 2008-08-14 03:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2581 | REAL ESTATE IN FALLUJAH [...] (U) This is an Anbar ePRT reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary: Household wealth in Fallujah city is likely approaching U.S. levels based on appreciating real estate prices and low levels of debt. On the other hand, the commercial real estate market remains an eyesore in Fallujah as many of the [...] | 2008-08-14 06:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON INV EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2582 | ICRC TO INCREASE GOI DETENTION INSPECTIONS AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with PolOff and Embassy Legal Adviser on August 5, ICRC Iraq delegation members discussed their increased access to GOI detention facilities, ICRC support for USG efforts to obtain humane treatment assurances before transferring third country national detai [...] | 2008-08-14 08:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ICRC PHUM KJUS PINS IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2583 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-08-14 10:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2584 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-08-14 11:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2587 | BABIL SHEIKHS PLAY KEY ROLE IN TRIBAL POLITICAL [...] (C) Meetings between Senior Advisor Gordon Gray and city council and tribal leaders in North Babil Province, carried out August 6-7, indicate that local tribal sheikhs are working actively with their counterparts in southern and western provinces to coordinate efforts in the upcoming provincia [...] | 2008-08-14 13:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2588 | A NEW GOI BIG PLAYER IN OIL? [...] (C) The Ministry of Industry and Minerals is reportedly seeking to expand into both upstream and downstream oil and gas projects, including technical service joint ventures with the oil majors. In addition, MIM wants to increase its role in mineral exploitation and transportation infrastructur [...] | 2008-08-14 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EMIN EIND EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD259 | GOI MISHANDLES HIT AND RUN INCIDENT [...] (C) Summary: A January 15 traffic incident involving Iraqi Chief Justice Medhat,s Protective Security Detail (PSD) and an Iraqi Army (IA) checkpoint led to death and injury, with school children among the victims. Iraqi authorities initially denied any involvement, claiming that a taxi had c [...] | 2008-01-29 11:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2590 | BABIL: SONS OF IRAQ TRANSITION KEY TO CONTINUED [...] (SBU) Separate walkabouts through the towns of Jurf as Sakhr (August 6) and Iskandariyah (August 7) -- both organized by the 4th Battalion/3rd Division -- indicated a security situation markedly improved from the previous year but still fragile. Local politicians and tribal leaders expressed [...] | 2008-08-14 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2593 | A GRIM VIEW FROM TIKRIT [...] (C) Summary: An Iraqi-American community leader based in Tikrit, Salaheddin province, recently warned that public alienation from the local government was approaching dangerous levels. Hatem Mukhlis (strictly protect) described the provincial government as dominated by members of the Jabouri [...] | 2008-08-14 16:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2595 | MUTHANNA SHEIKHS ASK FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary: Two Muthanna sheikhs asked for U.S. assistance to combat Iranian interference in separate August 12 and 13 meetings with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray. While Sheikh Hakim Khashan presented a detailed political strategy and said he had formed alliances throughout central and southe [...] | 2008-08-15 10:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2596 | MOHR TO LEAD DRAFTING OF GOI HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) will lead GOI efforts on drafting a national human rights strategy based on a report MoHR completed in July outlining the principles for a national strategy. DRL granted $500,000 to American University (AU) to assist the MoHR and other min [...] | 2008-08-15 13:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD26 | SCENESETTER FOR IRAQI MINISTER OF DEFENSE ABDEL [...] (S) Iraqi Minister of Defense Abdel Qadr arrives in Washington against a backdrop of encouraging news about security in Iraq, still tentative legislative progress, and just as the USG SOFA negotiating team begins its preliminary work prior to its initial meeting with the GOI later this month. [...] | 2008-01-03 11:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
08BAGHDAD2605 | UNEMPLOYMENT IN FALLUJAH [...] (U) THIS IS AN ANBAR EPRT REPORTING CABLE. 2. (U) SUMMARY: ACCORDING TO THE LOCAL BUSINESS SCHOOL AND THE GOI, FALLUJAH DISTRICT'S 15.9 PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS LOWER THAN EXPECTED, AND MAY REFLECT A NORMALIZING ECONOMY. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE RATE ALSO REFLECTS A 15 PERCENT INCREASE [...] | 2008-08-17 06:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB IZ |
08BAGHDAD2606 | (U) KARBALA RECEIVES NATIONAL INVESTMENT CHIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: NATIONAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION (NIC) CHAIRMAN DR. AHMED RIDHA MET WITH POLITICAL AND BUSINESS LEADERS IN KARBALA ON AUGUST 5. HIS PREPARED REMARKS CONCERNING THE IMPERATIVE OF BOOSTING INVESTMENT IN THE PROVINCE WERE DELIVERED WITH EVIDENT CONVICTION AND APPEARED TO BE WELL RECE [...] | 2008-08-17 06:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2607 | NINEWA: SOME HAMDANIYA CHRISTIANS ARGUE FOR LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: During meetings in Mosul with Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq Tom Krajeski, Iraqi Assyrian groups from Hamdaniya District in Ninewa Province expressed varying views on the desirability of an autonomous Christian region and affiliation with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). [...] | 2008-08-17 07:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2608 | IRAQI NSC ON AUGUST 10 REVIEWS SECURITY SITUATION [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chaired the August 10 meeting of the National Security Council (I-NSC) that focused on security operations in Diyala, budget execution, and the need for re-energized security operations in Mosul in the face of an up-tick of AQI and criminal [...] | 2008-08-17 09:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD261 | DHI QAR PRT: SHAYKH DECRIES ISLAMIC PARTIES, WANTS [...] (SBU) The information in this cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. SIPDIS 2. (SBU) This is a PRT Dhi Qar reporting cable. 3. (SBU) Summary: On January 23 Dhi Qar IPAO met with Shaykh Alwan Hakim al-Hamaid. Alwan claimed that his tribe has been ignored [...] | 2008-01-29 13:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR PTER POL PINR |
08BAGHDAD2612 | BLOODY THUMBPRINT ASIDE, NOT MUCH NEW IN SADR'S [...] (C) Summary: Issued on a Sadrist website and read aloud during Friday August 15 sermons at Sadrist-controlled mosques throughout Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr's "oath of allegiance" was purportedly signed and sealed with his own bloody thumbprint, and Sadr asked his followers to take a similar blood oa [...] | 2008-08-17 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2613 | KIRKUK: S/A KRAJESKI FINDS NO COMPROMISE IN KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor Thomas Krajeski traveled to Kirkuk August 13 to engage political leaders on the failed passage of the Provincial Elections Law and to encourage compromise from all sides toward a workable solution for the troubled province. Kurdish leaders made clear their desire [...] | 2008-08-17 14:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD2617 | IRAQ FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Iraq Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) is an automated governmental accounting data tracking system, designed to increase the effectiveness and transparency of the GoI's accounting process. As of June 2007 when it was taken off line (following the abduction of [...] | 2008-08-17 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2618 | NINEWA: IMPROVED DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED KEROSENE [...] (C) Summary: Over the last two winters, Ninewa residents suffered from a severe shortage of kerosene, which they use for cooking and home heating in the province's sub-freezing winters. Hoping to avoid the long fuel lines and exorbitant black market kerosene rates of 2006 and 2007, provincial [...] | 2008-08-17 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG PGOV PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2628 | THE AMBASSADOR'S DINNER WITH PROMINENT SHI'A [...] (C) Summary: A prominent Shi'a cleric told the Ambassador August 13 that Iraqis perceive significant security improvements, but stressed that regional engagement against foreign fighters would be key to sustaining this progress. Sayyed Mohammed Bahr al-Uloom and his two sons, politicians in th [...] | 2008-08-18 06:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2629 | MOH AGREES TO ANTI-ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT LANGUAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Health has agreed to eliminate Arab League Boycott (ALB) language in all future procurement contracts. With this breakthrough, two of three areas in which the GOI had been using contracting language that violated U.S. anti-ALB legislation (trademark applications a [...] | 2008-08-18 07:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KPBT PREL EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2632 | NINEWA: UPDATE ON AL-MISHRAQ SULFUR PLANT [...] (C) According to the facility's deputy manager, the al-Mishraq Sulfur Plant north of Qayyarah, Ninewa, has sold almost the entire stockpile of sulfur that had been mined before a catastrophic fire closed the plant in 2003. The deputy manager reported that the unrefined 70 to 80 percent pure s [...] | 2008-08-18 07:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV EPET EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2638 | OIL MINISTRY RENEGOTIATING CHINESE CONTRACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 11, the Ministry of Oil announced that it would renegotiate terms of a 1997 contract with the China National Petroleum Company to develop the Ahdab oil field in Wasit province. On August 17, Oil Minister Shahristani left on an overseas trip that reportedly would includ [...] | 2008-08-18 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD264 | BATTLE FOR BAGHDAD PART 1: MAKING PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: As violence drops, community life rebounds, and markets revive, substantial improvements in the security environment in Baghdad have precipitated a shift in attitude among many Baghdad residents. Locals seem buoyed by the fragile hope that the near future may be better than the [...] | 2008-01-29 15:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2643 | KARBALA CELEBRATES SECURE SHABANIYAH [...] (SBU) Summary: Karbala officials and residents alike are breathing a sigh of relief after the annual Shabaniyah observance, which culminated in the early morning hours on September 17, passed without incident within the province (although violence was recorded in other provinces among pilgrim [...] | 2008-08-18 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL SOCI KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2644 | (C) PRT SALAH AD DIN: REPORT FROM THE GOVERNORS, [...] (C) The Salah ad-Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein al-Jubara met with the PRT to discuss the results of the August 4-7 Baghdad conference for all provincial governors, which he and the Governor attended. SaD agenda items included: 1) increasing provincial budget allocations; 2) estab [...] | 2008-08-19 03:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2645 | (C) PRT SALAH AD DIN: SAD SIGNS CONTRACT FOR [...] (C) On 11 August, Salah ad-Din (SaD) Province signed a contract with a Turkish company for the construction of a commercial airport and industrial area east of Tikrit. Provincial leaders expect the airport project to be a tremendous boon to the provincial economy, serving as a means for prospe [...] | 2008-08-19 03:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON IR IZ KCRS PGOV PINS PREL PTER |
08BAGHDAD265 | BATTLE FOR BAGHDAD PART 2: IT'S NOT OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a substantially improved security environment in Baghdad, local residents continue to stress that the battle for Baghdad is not yet won. Most importantly, they assert that the Government of Iraq (GoI) and the Coalition have not achieved irreversible momentum toward the e [...] | 2008-01-29 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR PINS PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2651 | THE TWO BIGGEST CONCERNS OF LOCAL BUSINESSMEN [...] (U) This is a joint Baghdad ePRT 2 and Embassy reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) During a luncheon with Embassy econoffs and Baghdad ePRT #2 members, businessmen from the Karada district of Baghdad said lack of affordable credit and reliable electricity were the two biggest impe [...] | 2008-08-19 11:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV ETRD EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2657 | NINEWA: PROVINCE CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY IN [...] (C) Summary: Registration Voter totals in Ninewa exceed those of all other provinces, due partly to an aggressive information campaign organized by head elections official Abdel Khaleq al-Dabagh. Registering IDPs has been a particular priority, although progress has been slower. Serious secu [...] | 2008-08-19 17:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2658 | MEK ASSURANCES RECEIVED FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ [...] (C) On August 18, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) provided a Diplomatic Note (text at para 3) regarding assurances of humane treatment for Mujahedin e-Khalq residents of Camp Ashraf, in response to our diplomatic note dated July 18 (ref B). The assurances are nearly identical to the re [...] | 2008-08-20 03:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD266 | BATTLE FOR BAGHDAD PART 3: KEEPING MOMENTUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Many Baghdad residents have warned Mission officers that the enemies of Iraq may regain the initiative in Baghdad if the Government of Iraq (GoI) fails to develop and implement coherent policies for a number of key issues. These issues include the future of Concerned Local Citizen [...] | 2008-01-29 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2660 | ERBIL: NEW KURDISH COMMITTEE ON ARTICLE 140, AND [...] (C) Summary: KRG Minister of Extra-Regional Affairs Mohammed Ihsan told RRT Deputy Team Leader (DTL) that all previous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) committees on Article 140 have been abolished, and one committee, called the High Committee on Article 140 (Committee),has been establish [...] | 2008-08-20 06:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2661 | GRAND AYATOLLAH FAYYADH ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) On August 4, senior Shi'a cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Ishaq al-Fayyadh issued a statement asserting his neutrality in the upcoming provincial elections, claiming that he did not support any list or favor any particular party. Lamenting the disappointing performance of the parties tha [...] | 2008-08-20 09:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2663 | DIYALA SOUTH: U.S. CITY COUNCIL WORKS WITH IRAQI [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 10 the New Bedford, Massachusetts City Council (Council) participated in a video teleconferencing (VTC) event with Iraqi officials from the local and district levels of Diyala Province. The Council held a mock council meeting for the benefit of the Iraqis followed by [...] | 2008-08-20 12:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPAO IZ |
08BAGHDAD2664 | QADISIYAH UNDER PIC - PROVINCIAL ISCI CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-20 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2665 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2008-08-20 13:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08BAGHDAD2666 | NINEWA: ASSYRIAN MAYOR SAYS QARA QOSH IS SAFE AND [...] (C) Summary: Nisan Yousif, the Assyrian Christian mayor of Qara Qosh, in Hamdaniya district, described his town as safe and secure, yet also apathetic about upcoming provincial elections. With regard to the Article 140 process, Yousif expressed a personal preference that Qara Qosh remain part [...] | 2008-08-20 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2667 | MAYSANI SHEIKHS: EXPECT MORE ATTACKS [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In an August 19 meeting with U.S. officials, Maysani sheikhs Ali Hasan Sajar Al-Fartusi and Saha, Jabar Suhail Al-Buzaid warned of a "second phase" in local reactions to the U.S. presence in the governorate, predicting that released detainees and militants returning fro [...] | 2008-08-20 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER MOPS PINS IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD267 | OPERATIONS IN MOSUL DOMINATE JANUARY 27 MCNS [...] (S REL MNF-I) Following brief remarks from MOD on Army escorts for fuel deliveries, Prime Minister Maliki moved the discussion from the scheduled topics to the situation in Ninewa province, especially in Mosul (ref. A). MOD painted a picture of disorganized security forces in Mosul and outlin [...] | 2008-01-29 17:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER PHUM SY IZ |
08BAGHDAD2682 | ENTRENCHED CORRUPTION IN KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-21 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2683 | A MONTH AFTER PIC - WHAT,S DIFFERENT ABOUT [...] (C/NF) Summary: Coalition Forces transferred authority in Diwaniyah (Qadisiyah) Province to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) on July 16 after months of negotiations, assessments, poltical maneuvering, and a last-minute weather delay. Though not always a certainty, the Polish-led Coalition Force [...] | 2008-08-21 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2684 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN CABLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Based on apparent deficiencies in the accounting for night vision devices (NVDs) provided to Iraqi Security Forces (ISF),the Multi-National Security Transition Command in Iraq (MNSTC-I) is currently conducting a comprehensive field inventory of NVDs. The intent of this invent [...] | 2008-08-21 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IZ |
08BAGHDAD2688 | NINEWA: ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: The Assyrian Catholic communities of Kermalais and Bartala in northeast Ninewa are focused on their future political status and the security of their communities. Their stated demand for some form of autonomy under the Article 140 process reflects a desire for control of local g [...] | 2008-08-21 15:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2689 | PDS UPDATE: "DIFFICULT, COMPLICATED AND SLOW" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reform of the Iraqi Public Distribution System (PDS) may be delayed "by months, not years," according to Trade Minister Al-Sudani. The MOT had hoped to reduce the PDS roles by 25 percent beginning in January 2009. However, it has run into political opposition, as well as concerns [...] | 2008-08-21 15:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAGR ETRD EAID ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD269 | CHALABI VIEWS ON THE PITFALLS OF DE-BA'ATH [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with PolCouns on January 24, Dr. Ahmed Chalabi, the current Commissioner of the Higher National De-Ba'athification Committee and the Chair of the PM's Essential Services Committee, shared his views on the passage of the Law of Accountability and Justice. While noting [...] | 2008-01-30 06:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2699 | ASSIGNMENT OF DIPLOMATIC ZONE PROPERTIES: GOI [...] (C) Summary: We have been pushing the Iraqi government to allocate definitively properties for foreign embassies, but the process here is slow-moving and contentious at best. PolMinCouns and MGT Counselor met with Ambassador Srood Najib of Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on August 19 t [...] | 2008-08-22 11:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2702 | PARLIAMENTARY ALLIANCE FRAGILE AMIDST KURD-SHI'A [...] (C) SUMMARY: While bitter feelings linger toward the Kurds over the election law/Kirkuk impasse, mainstream Shi'a political leaders (particularly ISCI) appear to recognize that their political self-interest requires a continuation of their alliance with the Kurds. Kurdish interlocutors have v [...] | 2008-08-22 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2703 | PARLIAMENTARY ALLIANCE FRAGILE AMIDST KURD-SHI'A [...] (C) SUMMARY: While bitter feelings linger toward the Kurds over the election law/Kirkuk impasse, mainstream Shi'a political leaders (particularly ISCI) appear to recognize that their political self-interest requires a continuation of their alliance with the Kurds. Kurdish interlocutors have v [...] | 2008-08-22 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2704 | CONFIDENT TO SUNNI ARAB VICE PRESIDENT BLAST PRIME [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-22 12:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2707 | PRT SALAH AD-DIN: SAD VOTER REGISTRATION GOING [...] (C) Voter registration in Salah ad Din (SaD)is proceeding smoothly, but many other SaD residents are uninformed about the elections and not aware that voter registration is taking place, SaD Governorate Electoral Officer (GEO) informed PRT members on August 18 The GEO believed many people who [...] | 2008-08-22 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2708 | CONFIDANTE TO SUNNI ARAB VICE PRESIDENT BLASTS PM [...] (C) Summary: A senior advisor to (Sunni) Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi complained August 21 that Prime Minister Maliki, emboldened by the success of this spring's security operations in Basra and Sadr City, was increasingly dropping the pretense of partnership with the ruling coalition's Sunn [...] | 2008-08-23 11:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2712 | MOPDC MINISTER BABAN ON MATCHING, BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: At an August 18 meeting with Ambassador Ries and Ambassador Wall (CETI),Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Ali Baban said that DPM Barham Salih was circulating a draft letter related to the "commitment to obligate funds" for GOI ministerial approval. Baban o [...] | 2008-08-24 06:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2713 | SALAH AL DIN: PROGRESS IN THE ECONOMIC SITUATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. (U) Summary ------------ 2. (SBU) Improved security conditions have had a positive impact on the economic situation in Salah-ad-Din (SaD); it is easier for goods to reach markets; produce prices are dropping and progress is being made i [...] | 2008-08-24 08:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2714 | SAMARRA RECONSTRUCTION EXTENDS BEYOND GOLDEN MOSQUE [...] (C) Reconstruction of the Al-Askari Mosque continues to advance. The Shi'a Mosque recently opened to local citizens for the first time since the terrorist bombing in February 2006. Additionally, reconstruction efforts are now expanding more noticeably beyond the Mosque with an increased focus [...] | 2008-08-24 10:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2719 | KIRKUK: PIC ESTABLISHED; PC CHAIRMAN ADDRESSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Months of negotiations between the different blocs of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC) ended on 18 August with an agreement signed by representatives of each of the major ethnicities (Kurds, Arabs, Turkomen) establishing the Kirkuk Provincial Investment Commission (PIC). The [...] | 2008-08-24 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PGOV ETRD ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2720 | NEED TO GENERATE PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF AL QAEDA,S [...] (C) Summary: Al Qaeda activity in Iraq over the last four weeks has shown that the organization is changing its tactics in response to the blows it has been dealt by the surge. We have seen a pattern of attacks using suicide bombers to target each of Iraq,s ethnic communities in an attempt to [...] | 2008-08-24 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KISL KPAO IZ |
08BAGHDAD2721 | DEMARCHE REPORT: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper on August 23 to Mohammed al-Humaimidi, MFA's Deputy Director for International Organization Affairs and primary POC for threat finance coordination. Treasury Attache and POLMIL are also in possession of talking points to be distributed to [...] | 2008-08-24 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2724 | SINIORA/ABDULLAH: A TALE OF TWO VISITS [...] (C) Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's August 20 visit to Baghdad ran longer than expected and focused on economic (trade, investment, and reduced-tariff oil sales) rather than political issues. Meeting with the Secretary on August 21, a clearly pleased Prime Minister Maliki praised th [...] | 2008-08-25 06:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2725 | MAYSAN ISCI HEAD: IRAN'S NOT SO BAD [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Local ISCI head and PC member Sayyid Hashim al-Shauki called the Maysani provincial government "ineffective" in an August 21 meeting with U.S. officials, blaming in part militant pressure on Sadrist politicians. He identified provincial elections as the sole means of i [...] | 2008-08-25 06:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2726 | FADILAH PARTY LEADER ON "SADR'S AMBASSADORS" [...] (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary: Fadilah party spiritual leader and Wasit university professor Shaykh Abbas al-Zaydi predicted that ISCI would commit widespread fraud in provincial elections in an August 17 meeting with U.S. officials. He also discussed his new youth-focused organization, "Sadr's [...] | 2008-08-25 06:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2727 | UPDATE ON INVESTMENT IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the recent months, Iraq has seen some early but significant successes in attracting foreign (and, to a lesser extent, domestic) investment. The Ministry of Industry and Mining has moved several SOEs toward point of sale or joint venture status and received 56 JV bids. The [...] | 2008-08-25 07:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD IZ |
08BAGHDAD2728 | MIDDLE EAST QUINT POLICY PLANNING DIALOGUE: IRAQ [...] (C) Speaking with PolMinCouns August 21, Foreign Minister Zebari welcomed participation in a Middle East policy planning meeting with Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. He thought Iraqi participation would help improve Iraqi relations with those states. The notional agenda looked acceptable to [...] | 2008-08-25 09:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV JO SA EG IZ |
08BAGHDAD2729 | IRAQI NSC ON AUGUST 17 REVIEWS MOSUL [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chaired the August 17 meeting of the National Security Council (I-NSC) that focused on reconstruction efforts in Mosul, MOD's logistics modernization, and protection of infrastructure. The Council also reviewed operations in Diyala, protec [...] | 2008-08-25 10:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ |
08BAGHDAD2730 | SUNNI CHARGES GOI "DOING AL-QAEDA A BIG FAVOR" [...] (C) Summary: Dhia Mahdi (strictly protect),a senior aide to (Sunni Arab) Deputy Prime Minister al-Issawi, recently complained that the GOI had "(done) Al-Qaeda a big favor" through its recent security operations in Diyala province, which he alleged targeted Sunni political rivals rather than [...] | 2008-08-25 11:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS MOPS KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2731 | ENTRENCHED CORRUPTION IN KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ [...] (S) Anti-Corruption Coordinator, Lawrence Benedict, Embassy Baghdad Anti-Corruption Coordination Office (ACCO) and Erbil RRT officers met August 11-14 with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials, non-governmental organizations, and representatives of the private sector to gauge the corr [...] | 2008-08-25 11:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2738 | CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST: GRATIFIED THE "U.S. IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Asserting that intra-Iraqi Christian discord is the result of political competition between church leaders, CoR Speaker Mashadani's human rights advisor urged the USG to engage with nonpolitical lay people. She complained that the government was not providing adequate assistan [...] | 2008-08-26 06:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD2739 | MINISTER OF STATE SEEKS TO PULL PROVINCES INTO [...] (C) "We must teach the provinces the meaning of centralization," the new Minister of State for Governorate Affairs told PolMinCouns and DepPolCouns (notetaker) during their August 24 courtesy call. Mrs. Khulud Sami 'Azarah Al Ma'jun, who was confirmed in late July to fill a long vacant cabine [...] | 2008-08-26 06:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2740 | KIRKUK ELECTION DEBATE CONTINUES TO CAUSE [...] (C) Summary: There has been no parliamentary action to develop a new election law since the August 6 parliamentary recess. The parliament seems unlikely to take any action before the first week of September at earliest. The Kirkuk issue remains a thorny one, and an influential Shia Coaliti [...] | 2008-08-26 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2741 | A GREEN LINE AND A RED LINE DIVIDE THE SHIA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdish-Shia Islamist tensions about Kirkuk complicate passage of a new election law but also reflect a deeper dissatisfaction among some important Shia Islamists about Kurdish policies. An influential Shia parliamentarian ranted to us on August 24 about alleged Kurdish selfis [...] | 2008-08-26 10:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2751 | NINEWA: A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CONSIDERS ITS FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Two prominent Assyrian Christian leaders in Tel Kaif district told the PRT they want to remain a part of Ninewa Province, believing that the KRG is increasingly authoritarian, likely to split on tribal lines, and more prone to Islamic extremism than is currently apparent. By cha [...] | 2008-08-27 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2758 | MAYSAN DA'WA HEAD: WE ARE THE PEACEMAKERS [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Latif Abud, the head of the Da'wa party in Maysan and a Provincial Council (PC) leader, painted his party as a major conciliator in an August 26 meeting with the PRT. He expressed cautious satisfaction with improved security since Operation Good Tidings of Peace and empha [...] | 2008-08-27 17:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2759 | PRT DIYALA: PROTESTS IN KURDISH AREA AMID CALLS [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Demonstrators at Khanaqin, a Kurdish majority city on the Iranian border, protested August 26, against the possible deployment of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) elements near the city as part of "Operation Benevolent Diyala." [...] | 2008-08-27 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2764 | CENSURED PC MEMBER LEADS ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Hakim Khazal Khashan, the recently censured Provincial Council (PC) Integrity Chairman, led a peaceful demonstration in Samawah on Aug 24 protesting government corruption. Violence was anticipated, but did not materialize. Chief among the group's demands were an indepe [...] | 2008-08-28 08:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ EFIN |
08BAGHDAD2768 | WORLD BANK OFFICIALS ON ENERGY STRATEGY, WORLD [...] (C) SUMMARY: While the World Bank has the expertise to assist the Iraqi Government develop a national energy strategy and believes a strategy is important, working level staff in the World Bank's headquarters will not expend resources on this effort until the GOI demonstrates a genuine commit [...] | 2008-08-28 13:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG SENV EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2769 | IRAQ MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SEEKING [...] (C) Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Ra'id Fahmi Jahid told EMBOFFs on 25 August that one of the Government of Iraq's biggest problems is that the Ministries have no effective mechanism to coordinate their strategies. Fahmi said he thus requested the UNCTAD science, technology, and i [...] | 2008-08-28 13:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | TPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA |
08BAGHDAD2770 | ELECTRICITY MINISTER OBTAINS RUSSIAN SUPPORT; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Outgoing Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq (CETI) Ambassador Charles Ries and incoming CETI Ambassador Marc Wall met with Electricity Minister Karim Wahid al-Hasan on August 24. Karim, who had just returned from Moscow, reported that the Russians would be sending a te [...] | 2008-08-28 14:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV PREL RS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2771 | PM MOVING TO REINSTATE BAGHDAD DEPUTY MAYOR NAEEM [...] (C) Summary: Sadrist-linked Naeem Aboub al Kaby looks poised for reinstatement as Deputy Mayor of Baghdad by order of Prime Minister Maliki. Naeem,s return follows his politically motivated dismissal in February 2008. Baghdad Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Mueen has voiced disapproval of [...] | 2008-08-28 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2772 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: MICRO-FINANCE PROGRAM STALLED [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: On 11 August, the PRT met with the Director General of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA) loan program for Salah ad Din (SaD) to gauge the status of the MOLSA credit program in the province. The MOLSA loans in [...] | 2008-08-28 14:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD2773 | GOI MAKES FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT TO MEK CAMP; IRAQI [...] (S) SUMMARY: A GOI team led by Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim and including an MFA official made its first visit to the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) at Camp Ashraf on August 18 to prepare for a transfer of security responsibility. The team toured Camp Ashraf and heard from MEK members that [...] | 2008-08-28 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PTER PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD278 | SITREP 2: OPERATIONS RESUME AT THE CENTRAL BANK OF [...] (SBU) The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has resumed operations following the January 28 fire by moving a skeleton staff to two separate buildings within the CBI complex, and the staff has already reconstituted its data center in a new building. The core banking system has been made operational w [...] | 2008-01-30 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EAID ECON EFIN |
08BAGHDAD2781 | SUNNI ARAB INSIDER WARNS PM MALIKI WILL REIGNITE [...] (C) Summary: Tens of thousands of Sunni Arab "Sons of Iraq" and Sahwa ("Awakening") fighters, who were instrumental in pushing Al-Qa'ida out of Anbar Province, and on the defensive elsewhere, will not be absorbed into the Iraqi Security Forces and vocational training programs as projected, a [...] | 2008-08-29 12:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PTER MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2782 | MALIKI CONFIDANTE CAREFUL ON SOFA AND DISPUTES [...] (C) SUMMARY: One of Prime Minister's closest confidantes told us August 28 that the Prime Minister will keep asserting the Baghdad government's right to deploy the Iraqi army up to the Green Line. He acknowledged Kurdish sensitivities over towns like Khanaqin and Kirkuk but insisted they a [...] | 2008-08-29 12:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2783 | SUNNI SHEIKHS FEELING EXCLUDED FROM THE PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Many Sunni tribal views of the GOI are defined by perceptions of corruption, and the belief that political and sectarian motives drive a Shi'a-dominated government that utilizes the Iraqi Security Forces (both police and military) as a political tool. Sunni tribal contacts are ge [...] | 2008-08-29 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2784 | IRAQI NSC ON AUGUST 24 REVIEWS READINESS OF [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: The National Security Council (I-NSC),chaired by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, focused its discussions August 24 on the readiness of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to provide security for Iraq and command and control of Ports of Entry (POEs). The council also heard [...] | 2008-08-29 13:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ |
08BAGHDAD2785 | MUTHANNA BORDER AUTHORITIES CONCERNED OVER GOI [...] (C/REL USA, GBR) Summary: Iraqi Military officials complained of dwindling resources from the central government, poor infrastructure, and aggressive and pervasive Iranian influence throughout Iraq in August 26 meetings with U.S. officials. A high-ranking general, who was responsive to both [...] | 2008-08-29 14:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2786 | IRAQ'S HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDEES FOR 63RD UNGA [...] (U) The following is a list of Iraq's high-level attendees for the 63rd UNGA: A. Head of State: President Jalal Talabani may attend (depending on health) --Arrival date: already in the U.S., will arrive in NY 21 September --Departure date: 04 October --Currently in Washington --May att [...] | 2008-08-29 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2787 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Army who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3. The n [...] | 2008-08-30 12:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2788 | WASIT GOVERNOR ENDORSES NOV 1 PIC [...] (C) Summary: "I do not want a political decision on PIC, but I believe it should happen before the end of 2008," said Wasit Governor Abdel Turfa, referring to the transfer to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) in an August 14 meeting with U.S. officials. He endorsed a U.S. proposal to put Wasit o [...] | 2008-08-31 06:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2791 | SADR EXTENDS JAM FREEZE INDEFINITELY [...] (SBU) "The freeze on the activities of the al-Mahdi army...shall continue to be in effect for an indefinite period of time," said Muqtada al-Sadr in a hand-written statement released on August 26. In the statement Sadr emphasized the importance of obeying the program of "Al-Muhmahidoon," the [...] | 2008-08-31 09:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2792 | ERBIL: MORE BELLIGERENT KURDISH RHETORIC SIGNAL [...] (C) Summary: Increasingly heated rhetoric from Kurdish interlocutors is a sign of the strain placed on the Shia/Kurdish alliance following the failed effort to pass the provincial elections law and the GOI demand that the 34th Peshmerga unit withdraw from Diyala. In an August 21 meeting, a [...] | 2008-08-31 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2795 | PRT ANBAR: ANBAR PROVINCE ON THE EVE OF PIC [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Security responsibility in Anbar Province is scheduled to be transferred from the Coalition Forces (CF) to Iraqi national and provincial authorities in a ceremony in Ramadi on September 1. Called Provincial Iraqi Control [...] | 2008-08-31 13:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2796 | MAYSAN FADILAH HEAD: WE'RE 100 PERCENT IRAQI [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Ali Kadhem Khalaf, the leader of Fadilah in Maysan and a deputy Provincial Council (PC) chairman, presented his party as nationalistic, anti-extremist, anti-militia, and free of foreign influence in an August 30 meeting with PRT leader. He provided additional color on t [...] | 2008-08-31 14:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD280 | FM ZEBARAI ON NEIGHBORS PROCESS; SFA FRAMEWORK; [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 29 meeting, Foreign Minister Zebari told PolCounselor he expected a complete round of Neighbors Working Group meetings to take place in February and a Baghdad PrepCon (level to be determined) to be held in March. He said another top MFA priority was to appoint car [...] | 2008-01-30 18:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2801 | NINEWA: SHEBAK LEADERS FROM BARTALA TOWN RESIST [...] (C) Summary. Shebak political leaders from Bartala town told us that they prefer to remain a part of Ninewa Province in an August meeting. Shebak Democratic Assembly representatives said that the short-term security benefits of existence under KRG control are not worth the dangers of the com [...] | 2008-09-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER ECON KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2802 | GENERAL OTHMAN TALKS TRIBES, SECURITY, IRAN [...] (C) General Othman, Commander of the Iraqi Army (IA) 8th Division (responsible for all five Middle Euphrates provinces),spoke openly with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on August 27 regarding political dynamics in the region, particularly developments that will impact the security situation. Key [...] | 2008-09-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2803 | BASRA GOV WAELI MAKES CASE FOR ONE-PROVINCE REGION [...] (C) Basra Governor Wa'eli (Fadhilah) confidently outlined for Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on August 30 the progress made toward forming a regional government in Basra. The Governor emphasized that Basra would pursue a referendum on a one-province region in early 2009, with the possibility of a [...] | 2008-09-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2804 | ENGAGING GOI ON DRAFT UNSCR FOR TERRORIST [...] (C) Per Reftel A instructions, Econoff met August 31 with MFA Deputy IO Director Mohammed al-Humaimidi to urge the GOI to accept a different formulation of preamble Paragraph 10 of subject draft UNSC resolution, and to seek GOI agreement on the list of seven names provided by the USG for inclu [...] | 2008-09-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN PREL PTER IZ RU UK |
08BAGHDAD2806 | MAYSAN SADRIST CHIEF: MUQTADA MISUNDERSTOOD [...] (S/NF) Summary and comment: The Sadr Trend is a peaceful movement committed to helping humanity and developing a strong Iraq free of foriegn influence, according to Mohammed Wahid, leader of the Sadrist-affiliated Hussein Ideology Front (HIF). Steadfastly denying that Muqtada al-Sadr (MAS) w [...] | 2008-09-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV IR IZ PINR |
08BAGHDAD2807 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR GENERAL DAVID [...] (C) Post requests country clearance for General David Petraeus and delegation to travel to Paris 22-27 September 2008. The purpose of the visit is to meet with French leadership to discuss strategic goals and opportunities for cooperation. 2. (C) REQUEST TRAVEL CLEARANCES FOR THE FOLLOW [...] | 2008-09-01 15:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA APER FR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2808 | DEMARCHE EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) On September 1, Deputy Political Counselor delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs U/S for Policy Planning Labeed Abbawi. Abbawi said he would pass the points to Foreign Minister Zebari's office. BUTENIS [...] | 2008-09-01 15:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2809 | ERBIL: S/A KRAJESKI MEETS WITH ANGRY KRG LEADERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: KRG officials are frustrated with the stagnation in the implementation of Article 140, dismayed about recent Iraqi Army attempted deployments into Khaneqin and other disputed territories, and fearful for their future within a federal Iraq if the perceived anti-Kurd sentiment gro [...] | 2008-09-01 16:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2811 | NIC CHAIRMAN OPTIMISTIC DESPITE CHALLENGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Investment Commission (NIC) Chairman-Designate Ridha continues to aggressively court foreign investors, even though the GOI has not promulgated implementing regulations for the 2006 Investment Law to support his mission. Ridha is creative and well-intentioned, but he is [...] | 2008-09-02 06:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD PGOV ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2812 | KARBALA: IRAN EXERTS HEAVY INFLUENCE THROUGH [...] (S) Summary: Since Iraq's liberation, Tehran has sought to increase its sway within Karbala and other key Shi'a holy cities. Iranian agents make use of direct payments and business favors to ensure that provincial government figures remain compliant and favorably inclined to Iranian interests. Sham [...] | 2008-09-02 06:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2815 | ERBIL AND KIRKUK: MURDER AND INTIMIDATION [...] (C) Summary: Credible death threats from the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Iranian intelligence service may force one of the Kurdistan Region's boldest independent media outlets, Lvin magazine, to move its operations to Europe, according to Lvin's Editor-in-Chief Ahmad Mira. Mira [...] | 2008-09-02 12:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2819 | CETI: DPM BARHAM SALIH WANTS CONTINUED [...] (C) Summary: At his introductory meeting with EMIN Wall on September 1, DPM Barham Salih provided a tour d'horizon of economic issues. He noted that Iraq is in a transitionQperiod; key challenges include: political reorganization (including the status of Kirkuk),energy -- especially hydroc [...] | 2008-09-02 14:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ETRD EAID ECON |
08BAGHDAD2820 | DIYALA STANDOFF RECEDES BUT GOI-KRG TENSIONS [...] (C) The standoff in the northeastern Diyala province town of Khanaqin between Kurdish Peshmerga and the Iraqi Army (IA) forces appears to have passed its most dangerous phase, but an armed showdown between KRG and GOI security forces in this or another disputed territory remains a threat. Dep [...] | 2008-09-02 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2828 | NINEWA: MINORITY COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES SHARE [...] (C) Summary: Ninewa,s minority communities are divided between and among themselves over the article 140 process. Some claim that their communities will be better off under Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) rule; others prefer to remain part of Ninewa Province. Some cite the KRG as their pri [...] | 2008-09-03 03:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2829 | MINORITIES COMMITTEE ON CONFERENCE PLANNING, WHAT [...] (C) Summary: While there is general consensus among Iraq's Christians on economic and cultural issues requiring ameliorative GoI action (e.g., de-Islamicising the national educational curriculum and removing religious identification from national ID cards),the community is divided on polit [...] | 2008-09-03 06:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2830 | LIGHTING A FIRE UNDER IRAQ'S WTO ACCESSION PROCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GoI continues to make halting progress toward WTO accession. The Council of Representatives has approved some WTO-compatible legislation, but several complicated bills (including IPR, TBT, and SPS) are either stalled in the drafting phase or stuck with the Iraqi WTO Nationa [...] | 2008-09-03 09:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON TWRO USTR BEXP IZ |
08BAGHDAD2831 | SUNNI LEADER PESSIMISTIC ABOUT GOI INTENTIONS WITH [...] SUMMARY (C) According to Sahwa leader Abu Azaam, the GOI and Shi,a have opposed Sahwa and the Sons of Iraq (SOI) since its establishment, and transitioning the Sahwa to GOI administration would lead to its dissolution. This will increase the sense of betrayal among Sunni Arabs, and could lead [...] | 2008-09-03 12:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2832 | SISTANI CALLS ON IRAQIS TO REGISTER TO VOTE [...] (U) On August 27, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husayni al-Sistani called on Iraqis to register to vote in the upcoming provincial elections. Through a statement delivered by an official representative of the Najaf-based cleric, Sistani "called on Iraqis to register their names as the (electoral) list i [...] | 2008-09-03 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2837 | PRT DIYALA: KURDS AND SUNNIS CLAIM GOI SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Top Kurdish and Sunni political leaders in Diyala view the recent security operations in the province (Operation Benevolent Diyala) as a GOI sectarian campaign designed to suppress Kurdish and Sunni participation in the [...] | 2008-09-04 07:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PINS PHUM MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2838 | PRT DIYALA: IRAQI ARMY ACTIONS IN KHANAQIN RAISE [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Diyala Provincial Council Chairman Ibrahim Bajellan (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK) told us that negotiators, who have met the past few days in Baghdad, have worked to defuse the tense confrontation between Kurdish fo [...] | 2008-09-04 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL PTER PINS PINR MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD284 | NINEWA: MOSUL UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT PROPOSES BROAD [...] (S/REL ACGU) Summary: Mosul University President Dr. Obay al-Dewachi told us he was open to broad cooperation with the PRT. Although the university was a bastion of the Ba'athist system and is a known safe haven for terrorists, as one of the best universities in Iraq the PRT will begin immedia [...] | 2008-01-31 08:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2851 | Michael Wareing Visits Basra [...] (U) Summary: Michael Wareing, CEO of KPMG International and Co-Chairman of the Basra Development Commission (BDC),visited Basra on August 27 and was pleasantly surprised by the favourable conditions he found in the city. He visited the Abu Al Khasib Vocational Training Center and then co-cha [...] | 2008-09-05 04:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2854 | IRAQI DINAR CASH CRUNCH: TIGHT BUT MANAGEABLE [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's vastly increased public spending combined with bureaucratic delays in the purchase of new cash supplies by the Central Bank of Iraq, an antiquated and not-yet interconnected banking sector, and continued reliance on cash payments for government salaries has caused a cash c [...] | 2008-09-05 10:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2857 | SOUTHERN SHEIKH ALLIANCE ASKS U.S. TO BROKER A [...] (S/REL MCFI) Two tribal leaders who represent a nascent nationalist, cross-sectarian political movement continued their dialogue with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray about their motives, Iranian influence, and the need for U.S. financial support. When informed that the U.S. could not sponsor or [...] | 2008-09-05 13:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | POL PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2859 | GOI REVERTING TO HARD LINE ON KHANAQIN STANDOFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Shia-led GOI position on Kurdish security forces in the Khanaqin district of Diyala governorate appears to be hardening since an August 31 agreement to allow Kurdish security forces to remain in Khanaqin city. Shia leaders close to Prime Minister Maliki have stressed that th [...] | 2008-09-05 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2860 | IRAQI NSC AUGUST 31 DISCUSSES COUNTERING [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki chaired the August 31 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC) that followed up on the previous week's (reftel) discussion of preventing assassinations, detainee releases, and operations in Diyala. The Council also spent consi [...] | 2008-09-05 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MASS MARR ENGR ECON IZ |