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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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09BAGHDAD1364 | RRT ERBIL: THE OIL IMPASSE: VIEWS OF THE KRG [...] (SBU) Summary: In a discussion before the recent oil export breakthrough (reftels),Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Natural Resources Hawrami urged the United States to focus on assisting passage of an oil revenue sharing law as the most important priority in establishing a st [...] | 2009-05-25 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1365 | VP HASHIMI CLAIMS POLITICAL TARGETING BY PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first meeting with Ambassador Hill May 23, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi complained that Prime Minister Maliki is targeting Sunnis Arabs and the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP). Hashimi claimed that the Council of Representatives' (CoR) anti-corruption interrogation of the Min [...] | 2009-05-25 17:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1367 | FINANCE MINISTER THANKS PRESIDENT FOR IMMUNITIES EXTENSION [...] In response to reftel demarche and the USG decision to renew the Executive Order that protects official Iraqi assets, Finance Minister Jabr sent a letter to President Obama thanking him for this action. The verbatim text of the letter is given below. 2. Begin text: Republic of Iraq Mi [...] | 2009-05-26 03:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL EFIN IZ UN |
09BAGHDAD1369 | BARHAM SALIH TO RESIGN DPM POST IN ORDER TO RUN IN [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih is likely to resign in the next week in order to place his name on the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) plenum candidate list for Prime Minister in the upcoming Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) elections. Salih's staff informed PolOff that S [...] | 2009-05-26 06:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD137 | KARBALA CANDIDATES MANEUVER FOR ADVANTAGE [...] (C) Summary: Few incumbent Provincial Council (PC) candidates are popular, but we expect a number to retain their seats because they are buying votes. The campaign of Governor Aqeel Mahmoud al-Khazali, a member of the Da'wa party, was caught by television reporters in the act of purchasing s [...] | 2009-01-19 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI KDEM PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1370 | IRAQI POLITICIANS CONSIDER THE PAST AS THEY PLAN [...] (C) While the Iraqi Parliament has not begun formal debate on elections legislation, political blocs have begun their internal strategizing on the elections. The Prime Minister has privately stated a preference for open lists, but several parliamentarians have told us that the larger partie [...] | 2009-05-26 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD1371 | KRG ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (U) Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) reports that it has certified 42 political entities and 528 candidates in advance of the elections for the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament (IKP),scheduled for July 25. Of the 42 political parties, 15 have formed themselves into five coalit [...] | 2009-05-26 11:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD1373 | IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES DETAINEES, RETIREMENTS, AND [...] (C) Summary: In its May 24 session, the Iraqi National Security Council (NSC) discussed creating a detainee database to speed releases for Iraqis without outstanding warrants. The NSC directed the Ministries of Justice, Finance, and Defense to study conditions for compulsory retirement of se [...] | 2009-05-26 11:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR IZ PTER |
09BAGHDAD1378 | WFP LOOKS TO TAKE ON CORRUPTION IN THE IRAQI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has asked the World Food Program (WFP) to help it devise a plan to reform its inefficient and corrupt Public Distribution System (PDS). But what the GOI may not have bargained for in making the request is WFP's intention to challenge the PDS's intensely corrupt procuremen [...] | 2009-05-26 13:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREF KCOR EAID EAGR ECON WFP IZ |
09BAGHDAD138 | RRT ERBIL: LETTER FROM KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI TO [...] (SBU) RRT Erbil received the following letter from Kurdish Regional Government President Masoud Barzani for transmission to President Obama. Hard copy will be sent via courier service to NEA-I-POL. 2. (C)Begin text: President Barack Obama The White House Washington, D.C. United Stat [...] | 2009-01-20 06:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1380 | DPM ESSAWI TELLS CODEL LEAHY PM MALIKI IS "A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is using the democratic process and liberal rhetoric to conceal a move to dictatorship Deputy Prime Minister Rafe Essawi told Senators Patrick Leahy (VT),Mark Warner (VA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI),and Ambassador Hill on May 23. Essawi outlined the [...] | 2009-05-26 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD1381 | CODEL LEAHY MEETS WITH PM MALIKI, DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki told CODEL Leahy May 24 that Iraq wants to build a strong strategic relationship with the U.S., including through implementation of the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA). He said that the January 2009 provincial elections had helped move Iraq beyond violenc [...] | 2009-05-26 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1385 | GOI SLOWLY MAKING PROGRESS IN WMD NONPROLIFERATION [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Iraq (GOI) is slowly making progress in building support among its various ministries for the complex tasks the GOI faces in order to fulfill its international obligations in the field of WMD nonproliferation. The Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate (INMD) and [...] | 2009-05-27 09:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP KTIA KLSO CWC IZ |
09BAGHDAD1388 | TRADE MINISTER STEPS DOWN IN RESPONSE TO [...] 1. (C) SUMMARY: Trade Minister al-Sudani has finally resigned after weeks of public allegations of corruption in the Ministry of Trade (MOT),the arrest of three employees including his brother, and a looming vote of no confidence in the Council of Representatives (COR). The MOT scandal and t [...] | 2009-05-27 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KCOR PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1389 | AMBASSADOR AND CG MEET TURKISH SPECIAL ENVOY [...] (C) Turkish Special Envoy to Iraq Murat Ozcelik will be the next Turkish Ambassador to Iraq, Ozcelik told Ambassador Hill and General Odierno May 23. The main points he intended to raise in an anticipated meeting with PM Maliki were his May 17 meeting with KRG President Masoud Barzani and the [...] | 2009-05-27 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD139 | RRT ERBIL: EVENTS ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION [...] This message responds to request for information on the RRT's actions to support the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women (reftel). 2. The KRG's Ministry of Sports and Youth hosted a cultural celebration to highlight awareness of the U.N.'s International Day for t [...] | 2009-01-20 06:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KWMN IZ |
09BAGHDAD1390 | PROGRESS ON OIL-FOR-FOOD CONTRACTS [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Zebari,s Chief of Staff Ambassador Srood Najib told the Embassy that he had reduced the number of outstanding Oil-for-Food (OFF) contracts from 130 to 80. He hopes to have all outstanding OFF accounts closed, and return whatever is left to the Development Fund f [...] | 2009-05-27 17:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN KCOR ECON PREL IZ UN |
09BAGHDAD1395 | KARBALA MODE: SECOND EDITION [...] (SBU) Summary: Karbala Mode is a vehicle for capturing observations and anecdotes about life in the world Shi'a pilgrimage capital that otherwise might not be reported. End Summary. Where's Abbas? -------------- 2. (SBU) Since being sworn into office in April, Karbala's government l [...] | 2009-05-28 09:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD1396 | PARLIAMENTARY ACTIONS INCREASE TENSION WITH PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the recent resignation of Iraq's Trade Minister following high-profile questioning by Parliament on corruption allegations, Parliament's budget maneuvers to restrict prime ministerial power, and indications that Parliament will continue questioning senior officials on corrupt [...] | 2009-05-28 09:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD140 | ERBIL RRT: DOHUK IDPS SPEAK ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Christian, Yezidi and Arab IDPs in Dohuk Province want to participate in the upcoming provincial elections, but have questions and doubts about the electoral process. Personal experience of fraud in the 2005 elections makes many skeptical of the legitimacy of election results. [...] | 2009-01-20 06:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1401 | ANTI-CORRUPTION IN IRAQ: THE SAGA OF "1,000 ARREST [...] (C) Judge Raheem Al-Ugaili, the head of Iraq's lead anti-corruption agency, the Commission on Integrity (COI),met with the press May 27 and presented highlights of the COI's performance. Local and western media highlighted his statement that the COI had obtained 997 arrest warrants for offic [...] | 2009-05-29 10:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1402 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: KRG FUNDS TRANSFERRED, NEW [...] (SBU) At long last, IHEC has received the almost $40 million in funding for the KRG elections it has been waiting for for several weeks. With the funding now in hand, preparations for the July 25 Iraqi Kurdish Parliament and presidential elections are smoothly on track. Bloc leaders in Par [...] | 2009-05-29 11:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1408 | AMBASSADOR, CG AND PM DISCUSS DIYALA, UK AND NATO [...] (S) Summary: In their weekly meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on May 28, the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General Odierno discussed the timing of the PM's proposed visit to the U.S. (late June or July),the PM's eagerness to involve U.S. firms in oil contracting, possible m [...] | 2009-05-30 13:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ UK NATO |
09BAGHDAD1409 | IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. TRILATERAL SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (C) At the May 28 Working Group (WG) meeting of the Iraq-Turkey-U.S. Trilateral Security Dialogue, the Iraqi High Electoral Commission briefed the topic of how groups and individuals can be banned from participating in Iraqi (including KRG) elections. The discussion focused on the Hiwa Party [...] | 2009-05-30 14:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD141 | NINEWA: NINEWA IIP LEADER TELLS PMIN THEY ARE [...] (C) Summary: The leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) in Ninewa Province, Mohammad Shaker, told us January 8 that both the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Al-Qaida Iraq (AQI) routinely intimidate and attack members of his party. The former has largely prevented IIP from campaigning in [...] | 2009-01-20 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1412 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: LOCAL IRAQIS CONSIDER [...] (SBU) The postponement of local (District and Sub-District level) elections presents a major obstacle to the development of democracy in SaD Province. Currently, local officials in SaD lack legitimacy because they were largely appointed by CF/DoS under the CPA, rather than elected by Iraqis. [...] | 2009-05-31 08:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1414 | JOINT COORDINATION COMMITTEE CONVENES TO ADDRESS IRAQ [...] SUMMARY: The President of the Iraq Higher Judicial Council (HJC),Chief Judge Medhat al-Mahmoud, and the President of the Kurdistan Judicial Council (KJC),Chief Judge Ahmad Zobair, along with representatives of their respective judiciaries, met on April 28 to discuss issues of judicial feder [...] | 2009-05-31 09:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD142 | PRT SALAH AD DIN ELECTIONS PREPARATIONS AND [...] (C//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: Provincial Elections in Salah Ad Din (SaD) look to be on track despite lingering concerns of possible election-related attacks and voter intimidation. The public is showing a receptive attitude towards the elections, and political campaigns have moved into high [...] | 2009-01-20 07:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1423 | TURKISH SPECIAL ENVOY TO IRAQ MEETS POLMIL [...] (C) Murat Ozcelik, Turkish Special Envoy to Iraq (and nominated new Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad),told Pol-Mil Minister-Counselor on May 26 the Turkish MFA tried to block a lawsuit brought by Turkish businessmen seeking confiscation of Iraqi oil. Ozcelik also noted that a recent GOI-KRG ag [...] | 2009-05-31 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD1426 | MINORITIES FIND SECURITY IN KURDISTAN BUT [...] (C) Christian and Sabean-Mandean leaders based in the Kurdistan region report that the flow of internally displaced persons (IDPs) into their communities from the rest of Iraq has decreased to a trickle -- an indicator, they believe, that sectarian violence targeting minorities throughout Iraq [...] | 2009-06-01 05:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI |
09BAGHDAD1427 | NINEWA OPERATIONS COMMAND: SOME DETAINEES FINALLY [...] (C) The Government of Iraq is trying to adequately address problems relating to its detainee population. The Ninewa Operations Command (NOC) is a particularly egregious offender. Although most of the approximately 1,000 people incarcerated at the NOC have had their cases reviewed by an inv [...] | 2009-06-01 06:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PJUS PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1428 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-01 07:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1430 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-01 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1431 | IRAQ-SAUDI ARABIA: NO RAPPROCHEMENT IN SIGHT [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, Prime Minister Maliki publicly complained about Saudi Arabia's "negative stance" toward Iraq's efforts to improve the bilateral relationship. In his sharp response two days later, the Saudi Interior Minister suggested that Maliki himself was working against Iraq's i [...] | 2009-06-01 09:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ SA |
09BAGHDAD1432 | MAYSAN'S GOVERNOR PLEDGES SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Meeting on May 27 with Colonel Newell, incoming Commander of the PRT's new partner Brigade Combat Team (BCT),Maysan Governor Mohammed Shi'a (Da'wa) expressed confidence in the Iraqi Security Forces' (ISF) ability to secur [...] | 2009-06-01 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1433 | IRAQI JOURNALISTS CONTINUE THE ELUSIVE SEARCH FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a recent roundtable discussion, Iraqi journalists and representatives from various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provided their views on freedom of the press, access to information and the influence of political parties on Iraqi media. Participants expressed a genuin [...] | 2009-06-01 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1435 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-01 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1436 | IRAQ REQUESTS INFORMATION ON ALL IRAQI DETAINEES [...] (U) This is an action request (see para 5). 2. (S/NF) Pol-MilOff met with Mr. Hussain Al-Asady, Director General of the Prime Minister's National Operation Center (PMNOC) May 30 to discuss the transfer of a fifth Iraqi detainee from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba (GTMO). Four former GTMO [...] | 2009-06-01 16:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US |
09BAGHDAD1437 | ICI - BAGHDAD COORDINATION GROUP DEMANDS RESULTS [...] (C) Summary: The International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Ministerial set for October or November, 2009 in Baghdad must have substance to persuade ministers to attend, UN Special Advisor to the Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari told Ambassador Hill May 25. Gambari met with the Ambassador prior t [...] | 2009-06-01 16:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1441 | IRAQ: ASSET TRANSFER PROCESS WELL UNDER WAY [...] SUMMARY: The United States and Iraq have agreed upon, and are implementing, a comprehensive asset transfer process. The process includes commitments by the Government of Iraq to maintain U.S.-funded infrastructure in Iraq. End Summary. 2. Since 2008, Embassy representatives have been wo [...] | 2009-06-02 03:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1444 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-02 09:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1446 | RRT ERBIL: CONSORTIUM TO DEVELOP GAS FIELD IN [...] (SBU) Summary: UAE's Crescent Petroleum and Dana Gas have entered into a consortium with two European energy companies to develop a natural gas field in the Kurdistan Region (KR) to supply the Nabucco pipeline. Separately, Crescent/Dana's plans to develop Gas City, a massive gas utilization i [...] | 2009-06-02 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV HU GM IR TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD1447 | RRT ERBIL: KRG OIL LINKS TO IRAQI PIPELINE [...] (SBU) Summary: At a June 1 gala event, Presidents Talabani and Barzani officially "turned on" pipelines from Tawke and Taq Taq fields in the Kurdistan Region, which will together add 100,000 barrels a day (bbl/d) through the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. Pre [...] | 2009-06-02 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG EINV PREL PGOV CA TU NO IZ |
09BAGHDAD1448 | NINEWA: AMBASSADOR HILL MEETS GOVERNOR AND [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Hill made his first visit to Mosul, meeting the governor, Provincial Council Chairman, and boycotting members of the Kurdish list. During the one-day visit, the Ambassador also hosted a reception at the Mosul Museum, paying homage to Ninewa,s rich history, and greeting [...] | 2009-06-02 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1449 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-02 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1451 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-02 15:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1452 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-02 15:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1453 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-02 15:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1454 | FORMER TADE MINISTER ARRESTED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES [...] (C) Acting on a warrant issued in the widening probe into corruption within the Ministry of Trade, Iraqi authorities on May 30 arrested recently-resigned Minister of Trade al-Sudani as he was attempting to depart the country. Al-Sudani,s arrest marks the first big test of the judiciary and pa [...] | 2009-06-03 03:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KCOR PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1456 | IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS, CRIMINAL [...] (C) Summary: During the May 31 session of the weekly Iraqi National Security Council (NSC) the Minister of Human Rights aggressively confronted Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the assembled security officials over her concerns over the human rights situation in Iraq, directly refuting his c [...] | 2009-06-03 06:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MARR IZ PTER |
09BAGHDAD1457 | NEW IIP LEADERSHIP TAKES PARTY IN NEW DIRECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The largest Sunni Arab political party, the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),has changed its leadership in a move that might presage a reconciliation with the Prime Minister's Shia Islamist party. On May 24, 2009, the IIP selected both a new Political Bureau, and Osama al-Tikriti as it [...] | 2009-06-03 09:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD146 | MUTHANNA: MAJOR SHIA PARTIES LIKELY TO DO WELL IN [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: The coming provincial elections in Muthanna are expected to be marked by high voter turnout and a low level of violence. The major political parties will likely do well; the leading candidate for governor is from the ISCI party. The high rate of illiteracy among the adul [...] | 2009-01-20 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1462 | CABINET APPROVES UK AGREEMENT; EXPECTED TO BE [...] (S/NF) Summary: On June 2, the Council of Ministers (COM) approved an agreement allowing for the continued presence of UK forces - specifically 100 trainers and five naval ships and their crews, in Iraq. The agreement comes after weeks of failed negotiations and attempts to secure an extension [...] | 2009-06-03 11:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ UK |
09BAGHDAD1467 | Iraqi Technology Task Force Launches, Ready to Produce [...] Summary: Thanks to the catalyst provided by the April visit to Iraq of U.S. high tech executives as part of a TechDel led by S/P's Jared Cohen, and at the behest of Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, the Iraqi Technology Task Force (ITTF) formed in early May to seek ways to empower Iraqis to u [...] | 2009-06-04 03:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OIIP SCUL TINT KPAO IZ ECPS EINT |
09BAGHDAD1469 | OIL MINISTRY MOVES ON ADDITIONAL SOUTHERN OIL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Oil's South Oil Company continues to make some progress on a project to replace aging underwater pipelines through which three-quarters of Iraq's crude oil is exported. Two surveys, one to identify unexploded ordnance and a second to collect bathymetric data, ar [...] | 2009-06-04 08:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV SENV KCOR KU IZ |
09BAGHDAD1473 | RRT ERBIL: KRG ELECTIONS: NAWSHIRWAN SAYS KDP AND [...] (C) Summary. Nawshirwan Mustafa, leader of the PUK breakaway &Change8 list in Sulaimaniyah Province, informed RRTOff that KRG President Masoud Barzani sent an emissary on two successive days to persuade him to withdraw from the upcoming elections for the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament (IKP). Imm [...] | 2009-06-04 08:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD1475 | KIRKUK: ARTICLE 23 COMITTEE UNABLE TO FIND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 24, the Article 23 Committee (A23C) completed its last meeting in Kirkuk before heading to Baghdad. The A23C is no closer to an agreement on the issues raised under Article 23 of the Provincial Elections Law than it was when it was formed in November 2008. The A23C meeti [...] | 2009-06-04 13:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1477 | GOI RESPONSE ON U.S.-SYRIA-IRAQ TRILATERAL [...] (S) Summary: In response to The Ambassador's presentation of reftel demarche on trilateral talks among the U.S., Iraq and Syria, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki indicated that the concept had merit, but that he preferred that such engagement be broached bilaterally, first between the U.S. and Syria [...] | 2009-06-04 18:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER IZ SY PGOV |
09BAGHDAD1478 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: PC CHAIRMAN EMERGING AS KEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Ahmed Abdullah Abid Khalaf (aka Abu Mazin) is emerging as an influential leader and skillful politician in the SAD provincial government. In his first few weeks as chairman, Abu Mazin has asserted his authority with officials from all levels of go [...] | 2009-06-05 03:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PINS PINR ENRG IZ |
09BAGHDAD148 | OIL MINISTER SHAHRISTANI TARGET OF CRITICISM [...] (S) Summary: In a January 15 meeting with Department of Energy (DOE) Embassy representatives, a senior Ministry of Oil (MoO) official said that on January 12 Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh's special investigative committee (ref B) presented its initial findings to Saleh and other senior G [...] | 2009-01-20 13:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ENRG EPET PGOV PREL PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1480 | MAY 2009 PRT TEAM LEADERS CONFERENCE: SECURITY, STABILITY, [...] (U) Summary: On May 26-27, Embassy Baghdad's Office of Provincial Affairs (OPA) hosted its quarterly conference for leaders of the Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). All PRTs, embedded Provincial Reconstruction Teams (ePRTs) and Regional Embassy Offices (REOs) participated, including [...] | 2009-06-05 11:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON AMGT EAID EAGR SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD1481 | IRAQ-KUWAIT: IRAQI RHETORIC HEATS UP [...] (C) From the Baghdad perspective, the Iraq-Kuwait relationship is getting stickier and it may start to affect U.S.-Iraqi relations eventually. Contrary to rumors, Kuwait has not recalled its Ambassador to Iraq, according to contacts here. However, Kuwait's recent actions opposing lifting I [...] | 2009-06-05 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD1483 | ROMANIAN PRESIDENT ATTENDS END OF MISSION CEREMONY [...] (C) Summary: Romanian President Basescu presided over a ceremony on June 4 at COB Adder, Tallil to commemorate the End of Mission (EOM) for Romanian forces in Iraq. The ceremony included a wreath-laying in honor of three Romanian soldiers who died in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). [...] | 2009-06-06 07:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ ES RO AS UK |
09BAGHDAD1484 | MEK/CAMP ASHRAF - FORCED ENTRY INTO CITY LIKELY [...] (S/NF) Summary. After weeks of relative quiet, the Government of Iraq (GOI) has once again turned up the heat at Camp Ashraf. Following the forced retirement of former National Security Advisor Mowaffaq Al-Rubaie, Prime Minister (PM) Al-Maliki has reconstituted the GOI Ashraf Committee direc [...] | 2009-06-06 15:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
09BAGHDAD1486 | RRT ERBIL: CANDIDATES AND COALITIONS FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the 2005 KRG parliamentary elections, the KDP/PUK coalition sailed to an easy majority and effectively controls 80 of 111 seats today. This year, new opposition groups provide secular and Islamic alternatives for protest votes. However, the KDP/PUK is using the power of th [...] | 2009-06-07 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1487 | IMMUNITIES DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel demarche, Ambassador Hill and other Embassy officials delivered the message on extension of immunities by Executive Order to relevant Government of Iraq officials. Ambassador Hill delivered the message verbally, and by letter (see text at paragraph 8 below). [...] | 2009-06-07 10:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOT ECON PREL IZ UN |
09BAGHDAD1488 | FINANCE MINISTER JABR ON BUDGET, ICI AND IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-07 10:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EAIR EPET IZ UN |
09BAGHDAD149 | U.S.- IRAQ SECURITY AGREEMENT: JOINT COMMITTEE [...] (U) Summary. On January 15, the United States and the Republic of Iraq held the inaugural meeting of the Joint Committee (JC),established under the auspices of the U.S. - Iraq Security Agreement (SA). The meeting was co-chaired by General Raymond Odierno, Commanding General, Multi-National [...] | 2009-01-20 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PINS MOPS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1491 | ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT CLAIMS FIRST KARBALA VICTIM [...] (U) According to a national radio station, former Acting Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Abd al-Al al-Yasiri was arrested on corruption charges on June 1. Radio Nawa reported that Yasiri (ISCI) was charged with abuse of authority stemming from a complaint filed with the provincial Public Int [...] | 2009-06-07 12:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR KJUS IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1493 | IRAQI POLITICIANS PRAISE PRESIDENT'S CAIRO SPEECH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Iraq's political classes almost uniformly praised President Obama's June 4 speech from Cairo as "a good start." However, most contacts told us that the U.S. must follow up with specific actions to consolidate Iraq's fragile democracy and to establish an independent [...] | 2009-06-07 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1495 | ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS IN IRAQ: UPDATE BY UN [...] (C) UNODC official provided update on the GOI's request to join the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative, highlighting the late May UNODC/World Bank conference here to familiarize GOI stakeholders with the Initiative. The UNODC official also noted the GOI's growing interest in strengthenin [...] | 2009-06-07 16:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1496 | SPEAKER SAMARRAIE SAYS THAT HE CONCURS REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: Ayad al-Samarraie, Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR),told the Ambassador and Commanding General June 4 that a referendum on the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement (SA) was unnecessary, but doubted the CoR could pass a law nullifying the referendum requirement because of e [...] | 2009-06-08 06:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1497 | IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. TRILATERAL SECURITY DIALOGUE: [...] (S) The Trilateral Intelligence Sharing Office (TISO) in Erbil held its initial meeting on June 1 with representation by Iraqi, Turkish and U.S. intelligence officers. American and Turkish officers, however, are not yet able to reside the in the containerized housing units provided as living [...] | 2009-06-08 06:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD1498 | IRAQI POLITICIANS PASS THE BUCK AS SECURITY [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The Council of Representatives' (CoR) Legal Committee is working on a law to conduct a July referendum on the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement (SA),as required by the 2008 SA approval law. Although key politicians and groups (e.g., the PM, CoR Speaker, Kurds, mainstream Sunn [...] | 2009-06-09 07:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD150 | TURKISH-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS: SLOW [...] (C) Summary: Little progress was made at the Iraqi-Turkish-U.S. trilateral security talks, held at the intermediate subcommittee level on January 15. Turkish MG Ozturk made a brief presentation on the PKK in Northern Iraq, but most of the time was spent discussing modalities. All parties [...] | 2009-01-20 15:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PTER PREL PINR PRES TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD1506 | NEW NAJAF GOVERNOR ADNAN AL ZURFI POSTURES AS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 2 meeting with PRT officers, new Governor Adnan al-Zurfi presented himself as the consensus candidate to move Najaf past the era of political infighting. He cited as evidence his decisions to keep most ISCI-affiliated civil servants in positions appointed by the previo [...] | 2009-06-09 13:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD152 | INDUSTRY MINISTER ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT STRATEGY [...] (C) At a January 14 meeting, Minister of Industry and Minerals (MIM) Fawzi Hariri provided Economic Minister Counselor and Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq Ambassador Marc Wall and Economic Counselor with an update into MIM's ongoing initiatives to enter into production-sharing join [...] | 2009-01-21 10:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON INV ENRG EIND IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD1520 | GOI ATTEMPTS TO LINK REFERENDUM ON SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: While not yet definite, it appears likely that the Security Agreement (SA) referendum will be delayed to January 2010, to run concurrently with parliamentary elections. The Cabinet publically announced its preference June 9 that the SA referendum be held at the same time as parli [...] | 2009-06-11 04:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1521 | GOI ATTEMPTS TO LINK REFERENDUM ON SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: While not yet definite, it appears likely that the Security Agreement (SA) referendum will be delayed to January 2010, to run concurrently with parliamentary elections. The Cabinet publically announced its preference June 9 that the SA referendum be held at the same time as parli [...] | 2009-06-11 04:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1524 | NORWAY'S FM REQUESTS HELP TO FACILIATE BAGHDAD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 09:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IZ NO PREL |
09BAGHDAD1526 | Strategic Framework Agreement Landmark Met with GOI [...] (U) In a ceremony on June 10 announcing the $2.5 million contribution of the GOI to the Fulbright Program, both DPM Barham Salih and the Ambassador lauded the contribution as an important milestone in the implementation of the Strategic Framework Agreement and the ongoing transition of bilatera [...] | 2009-06-11 12:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO SCUL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1527 | UNAMI: JULY 30 SECURITY AGREEMENT REFERENDUM MUST [...] (C) Ref A reported that SRSG De Mistura planned to meet Speaker of Parliament Sammarraie on June 10 to convey UNAMI's technical assessment that there is not sufficient time to organize a credible referendum on the Security Agreement by July 30. Acting Political Counselor confirmed evening of [...] | 2009-06-11 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1528 | AN OVERVIEW OF USG ANTI-CORRUPTION ASSISTANCE TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The USG remains very active in support of and funding for programs with an anti-corruption content in Iraq. Embassy Baghdad's Anti-Corruption Coordination Office (ACCO) has compiled a catalog of ongoing USG assistance programs to build the Iraqis' awareness of and capacity t [...] | 2009-06-11 15:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCOR KDEM EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD1530 | SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER OF FIFTH GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (S/NF) After receiving information on the remaining Iraqi detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba (GTMO) (REF A),the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) authorized the transfer of a fifth Iraqi detainee from GTMO June 7. In a letter addressed to Commanding General Multi-National Force-Iraq, D [...] | 2009-06-11 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US |
09BAGHDAD1531 | UN ARAB-KURD HIGH LEVEL TASK FORCE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNAMI Special Representative to the Secretary General Staffan de Mistura (SRSG) met separately on June 10 with Government of Iraq (GOI) and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) delegations chosen by GOI Prime Minister (PM) Maliki and KRG President Barzani. This began High Level [...] | 2009-06-11 16:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1536 | NINEWA AND ERBIL GOVERNORS MEET IN MOSUL [...] (C) Summary: During his May 31 visit to Mosul (reftel),the Ambassador called on local Arab and Kurdish political leaders to address their differences through dialogue. The Embassy, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ninewa, Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) Erbil, and Multinational Divi [...] | 2009-06-12 11:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ PINR PINS KISL TU |
09BAGHDAD1537 | SHI'A PARTIES WARM TO OPEN LISTS, OTHERS UNMOVED [...] (C) Summary. Politicians from the primary Shi'a parties over the past two weeks have shifted their message to express preference for a hybrid "open list" national election system and predict that a majority in parliament agree. Most Sunni and Kurdish members of parliament (MP),however, likely [...] | 2009-06-12 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1538 | KRG ELECTIONS: A "REAL RACE" IN SULAIMANIYAH? [...] (C) Summary: Two recent polls conducted in the Kurdistan region project that the Kurdistan Coalition -- formed by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) -- and current KRG President Masoud Barzani are early favorites in the elections to be held on Ju [...] | 2009-06-12 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV KDEM |
09BAGHDAD1539 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS [...] (SBU) In their first meeting with Ambassador Hill, Christian religious leaders emphasized that continued emigration of Iraqi Christians abroad remains their primary concern. They stressed that, although security remains worrisome, the motivation behind current departures was economic, coupled [...] | 2009-06-12 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI |
09BAGHDAD1540 | THIRD MEETING OF ECONOMIC AND ENERGY JOINT [...] (C) The third meeting of the Economic and Energy Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) met under the Strategic Framework Agreement on June 10, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih and EMIN Marc Wall, Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, at which working group chairs provide [...] | 2009-06-13 08:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG ETRD EPET PREL CVIS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1541 | DHI QAR MARKET BOMBING: PRIME SUSPECTS BELIEVED TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The explosion of a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) at the vegetable market in Al-Bathaa on June 10 claimed 19 lives and 81 wounded. The Dhi Qar police chief attributed the bomb to an Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) cell operating "from a different province" and announce [...] | 2009-06-13 12:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1542 | VP ADIL ABD AL-MAHDI TELLS AMBASSADOR THAT [...] (C) Summary. Momentum to delay a referendum on the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement has built, Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi told the Ambassador June 11. He recommended that the U.S. raise its concerns over GOI payments to GE directly with the PM, and said that debt and border issues with Kuw [...] | 2009-06-14 11:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KU IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1545 | AMBASSADOR HILL MEETS WITH MINORITY POLITICAL [...] (SBU) In their first meeting with Ambassador Hill, political representatives of Iraq's minority communities focused on the issues of emigration, greater political representation, and a perception of societal discrimination, subjects which they believed to be mutually reinforcing. They attrib [...] | 2009-06-14 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI |
09BAGHDAD1546 | A RARE AND VIGOROUS PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE OVER [...] (C) Summary: In another example of increasingly robust parliamentary assertions of oversight under the still new leadership of Speaker Ayad Samaraie, members of parliament slammed the Ministry of Interior for human rights abuses during the Council's June 11 session. Initiated by Sadrists, ot [...] | 2009-06-14 14:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PHUM PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD1549 | KDP REPRESENTATIVE ROWSCH SHAWAYS IN BAGHDAD TO DO [...] (C) Summary. After a seven month hiatus from Baghdad, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Representative and former Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways met the Ambassador on June 11 and discussed current issues. Shaways affirmed that the Kurds oppose a referendum on the US-Iraq Security Agree [...] | 2009-06-15 05:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET IZ |
09BAGHDAD155 | IRAQI HIGH TRIBUNAL WORKING THROUGH FULL DOCKET OF CRIMES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The development of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) as an independent, fully functioning court is illustrated by its full docket of trials. Having recently completed its third trial, the IHT has four other cases currently in trial, two more set to begin shortly, and two cases refe [...] | 2009-01-21 12:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD1551 | ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS IN KIRKUK [...] (C) During May 31-June 2 visit to Kirkuk, Anti-Corruption Coordinator and staff (ACCO) and Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Kirkuk officers met with head of local Commission on Integrity (COI) office, which he portrayed as increasingly active despite what he claimed was the Provincial Counc [...] | 2009-06-15 10:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1555 | ASSASSINATION OF SUNNI MP STRONGLY CONDEMNED [...] (C) Summary: The June 12 assassination of prominent Sunni MP Harith al-Ubaydi rattled parliamentarians across the political spectrum. Prime Minister Maliki joined the mourners at a ceremony the following day. Ubaidy, an outspoken human rights advocate, was popular across the board and was [...] | 2009-06-15 16:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KISL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1556 | ASSASSINATION OF SUNNI MP STRONGLY CONDEMNED [...] (C) Summary: The June 12 assassination of prominent Sunni MP Harith al-Ubaydi rattled parliamentarians across the political spectrum. Prime Minister Maliki joined the mourners at a ceremony the following day. Ubaidy, an outspoken human rights advocate, was popular across the board and was a [...] | 2009-06-15 16:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KISL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1558 | RETURNING IDPS TO ABU GHRAIB - PLAN OR PUBLICITY? [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 4, the Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MODM) presented its plan for large-scale returns to Abu Ghraib. The MODM wants to facilitate the return of 11,600 displaced families from Abu Ghraib. According to the MODM, most of Abu Ghraib,s displaced are squatters in [...] | 2009-06-16 05:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD156 | GOI ANTIBODIES ATTACKING INDEPENDENT IRAQI TELECOM [...] (SBU) Five members of the Communications Media Commission (CMC) caretaker authority met with EMIN on January 13 to discuss the beleaguered commission's challenges and search for ways to help the CMC navigate Iraq's treacherous political waters. Provisionally established by CPA Law 65 to mana [...] | 2009-01-21 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINT KGIT KWIR TINT TSPL |
09BAGHDAD1562 | ISCI'S AMMAR AL-HAKIM ASKS AMBASSADOR FOR EXPANDED [...] (C) Summary. The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) seeks transparent ties with both the U.S. and Iran, ISCI Deputy Chairman Ammar al-Hakim told the Ambassador on June 14. Hakim complained the U.S. keeps in detention some Badr Organization members and that Arab states are reluctant to emb [...] | 2009-06-16 12:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1579 | IRAQI WOMEN STRUGGLE OVER HOW BEST TO ENSURE THEIR [...] (C) Sunni and Kurdish women Parliamentary leaders are pushing Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) to amend Article 41 of the Iraqi Constitution to strike language stipulating that the personal status of Iraqis is determined by their religion and sect. These MPs fear that if it [...] | 2009-06-17 15:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KIRF KWMN PGOV SOCI |
09BAGHDAD158 | SISTANI URGES IRAQIS TO VOTE [...] (U) In a statement released by his Najaf office on Monday, January 19, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husayni al-Sistani urged Iraqis to vote in the upcoming provincial elections. Acknowledging the disappointment that some Iraqis have with their democratically elected officials and the electoral process, [...] | 2009-01-21 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL IZ PGOV |
09BAGHDAD1580 | EMBASSY BAGHDAD DELIVERS 2009 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) On June 16, we delivered the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Selim. We informed the minister that the Department had ranked Iraq as a Tier 2 Watch List country rather than categorize it as a special case, as had been done in previous years. W [...] | 2009-06-17 15:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP KWMN KLPM PHUM PREL ELAB SMIG IZ |
09BAGHDAD1585 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-18 07:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1586 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-18 07:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1587 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-18 07:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1588 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2009-06-18 07:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD159 | IRAQ'S NOMINATIONS FOR MEPI STUDENT LEADERS PROGRAM [...] Embassy Baghdad is pleased to nominated six principal candidates and three alternates in rank order for the MEPI Student Leaders Program. 2. First principal candidate: A) Last name: Saudi B) First name: Mustafa C) Middle names: Abdul Haleem Abdul Kareem D) Date of birth: Oct. 7, 1987 E) [...] | 2009-01-22 05:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KPMI KPAO PREL SCUL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1595 | DISPUTED INTERNAL BOUNDARIES: UNAMI ARAB-KURD [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNAMI's Arab Kurd High-Level Task Force (HLTF) met again on Tuesday, June 16. UNAMI staff reports that discussions were polite and, at times, jovial. Arab and Kurd negotiators agreed to ground-rules for the negotiations, and to meet again next week on Tuesday, June 23. Both si [...] | 2009-06-18 12:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1599 | UPDATE ON ARREST OF PROMINENT TRIBAL LEADER [...] (C) On June 9, Emboffs conducted a follow-up visit to detainee Sheikh Mutlab al-Massari, a prominent West Baghdad Sunni tribal leader and SOI affiliate who had close cooperation with the Embassy, the Baghdad PRT, and the U.S. Military. As outlined ref B, Mutlab's case is significant in that i [...] | 2009-06-18 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1600 | MOMENTUM BUILDS TO DELAY SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Momentum for a Security Agreement (SA) referendum in July is diminishing, with Iraqi political leaders telling us a consensus favors delaying action on a referendum law. The Iraqi High Electoral Commission (IHEC) stated that it needs 60 days to organize a referendum following ena [...] | 2009-06-18 14:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SA |
09BAGHDAD1601 | UPDATE ON ANTI-CORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ [...] (C) The investigation of former Trade Minister Al-Sudani and subordinates over corruption allegations is continuing, amidst parliamentarian's claims of interference in the inquiry by Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's Dawa party. There are uncertain prospects for the Council of Representatives' [...] | 2009-06-18 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1606 | NATO REPS OBTAIN TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ON [...] (S) Summary: NATO Assistant Secretary General for Operations Martin Howard conducted a successful trip to Baghdad on June 13 - 14, obtaining support from the Government of Iraq's authorized negotiator for new language in the proposed NATO-GOI agreement. This new language would provide NATO Tr [...] | 2009-06-19 08:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ NATO |
09BAGHDAD1607 | MODM PROMISES MORE FUNDS AND SUPPORT FOR IDPS AND [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MODM) plans to expand its displaced and returnee assistance programs. MODM Director General of Humanitarian Affairs, Samir al Nahi, claims that the Prime Minister,s Office has promised to supplement the Ministry,s humanitarian assistance [...] | 2009-06-19 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1609 | CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ - MONEY LAUNDERING REPORTING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN KCRM PGOV SNAR IZ |
09BAGHDAD161 | NINEWA: VICE GOVERNOR CLAIMS KDP WILL WIN A [...] (C) Summary: Vice Governor and KDP leader in Ninewa Province, Khasro Goran, said the KDP is deeply concerned that hundreds of thousands of Kurdish IDPs from before and after 2003 will not be able to vote in provincial elections. Goran said that, despite disenfranchisement of Kurdish IDPs, KDP [...] | 2009-01-22 07:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1610 | THAMIR GHADBAN DISCUSSES HYDROCARBONS LAW AND USG [...] (C) Summary: At a June 15 meeting, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Thamir Ghadban, told EMIN that he felt the mood surrounding the hydrocarbons legislation (HCL) had changed for the better after attending the June 14 UNAMI conference on Hydrocarbon Resource Distribution. [...] | 2009-06-19 13:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1619 | MINPLANNING ON ICI, ASSET TRANSFER, AND POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary: EMIN met on June 15 with Minister of Planning Ali Baban to discuss the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) and the transfer of assets from USG to GOI. Baban said that the ICI will only see progress if it is seen by the GoI as politically advantageous, and that what is needed f [...] | 2009-06-20 09:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD162 | NINEWA ON THE EVE OF ELECTIONS: COUNTERING [...] (S) Summary: Credible provincial elections are key to creating the conditions for sustainable political and economic development in Ninewa Province. They are also critical to the resolution of the disputed internal boundaries (DIBs) issue as well as to Arab-Kurd relations within Ninewa and [...] | 2009-01-22 07:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD163 | UNIDO'S PRESENCE IN IRAQ - REQUEST FOR DEMARCHE TO [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paras 3-4. 2. (SBU) In recent conversations with Ambassador Crocker, UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura relayed that UNIDO's Representative on Iraq, currently based in Vienna, is interested in deploying to Baghdad. A permanent presence would enha [...] | 2009-01-22 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN IZ |
09BAGHDAD1632 | CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ - MONEY LAUNDERING REPORTING [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs recently met the Director and Legal Consultant of the Money Laundering Reporting Office (MLRO),the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Iraq, which is part of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI). MLRO leadership and emboffs discussed the recent Middle East and North Africa [...] | 2009-06-21 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN KCRM PGOV SNAR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1633 | Finance Minister Says Treasury Bills for GE Payment and IMF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a June 17 meeting with EMIN and Brigadier General Stephen Lanza, Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr said the GOI and International Monetary Fund (IMF) had agreed to conduct technical negotiations on an 18 month loan program of around $5.5 billion. He also believed that the issuan [...] | 2009-06-22 03:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EAIR ETRD IZ |
09BAGHDAD1635 | ERBIL RRT: PRICE WATERHOUSE ADVISES KURDISTAN REGIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 17, the results of an 11-month "good governance assessment" conducted by private consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) were presented to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister and KRG Council of Ministers. The next step is a comprehensive strategy for "G [...] | 2009-06-22 05:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EINV SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD164 | THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S FAREWELL VISIT WITH IRAQI [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified; handle accordingly. Not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a friendly luncheon with Iraqi President Talabani and Vice President Mahdi, Deputy Secretary Negroponte requested that the Government of Iraq (GOI) determine i [...] | 2009-01-22 15:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1643 | GOI MAKING PROGRESS ON KUWAITI MASS GRAVES [...] (C) Recently returned from the June 1 Tripartite Commission meeting in Kuwait, the head of Iraq's delegation, Arkan Saleh, reported that the talks were constructive and that Kuwait's lead delegate, Ibrahim Shaheen, had agreed in principle to visit Iraq in the next few months. The issue of Kuwa [...] | 2009-06-22 09:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR PGOV KU IZ |
09BAGHDAD1647 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Deputy PolCouns conveyed reftel demarche to Mohammed Al-Hamaimidi, Director of the North America office at the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on June 22. Stressing that all parties had a responsibility to take constructive steps to achieve a comprehensive peace, Deputy PolCouns urged [...] | 2009-06-22 16:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PREL PGOV KPAL XF EAID |
09BAGHDAD1648 | FIRST OIL BID ROUND: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. [...] (C) Summary: On June 29 and 30, Iraq's Ministry of Oil (MoO) will award contracts to international oil companies to work eight large oil and gas fields, marking the largest bid round ever conducted, covering approximately 40% of Iraq's total proven reserves. A week before the event, on June 2 [...] | 2009-06-22 18:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD165 | DIWANIYAH ELECTION UPDATE: PREPARATIONS ON TRACK, [...] (C) Summary: Diwaniyah provincial election authorities are doing well with preparations for the upcoming election, despite playing catch-up on a few details. Based on an informal PRT poll and other data, much of the public seems comfortable with details of the voting process and intends to v [...] | 2009-01-22 16:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1654 | PRT NAJAF: THE NAJAF RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The Shi'a religious establishment plays an important and influential role in Iraqi politics and society. Najaf is the seat of the four Shi'a grand ayatollahs, referred to as the marja'iyah ("sources of emulation" to the faithful),location of the most important Iraq [...] | 2009-06-23 09:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1655 | EMBASSY DISCUSSES TIP WITH MFA [...] (SBU) On June 22, we delivered the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to Minister Plenipotentiary Mohamed Alhamaimidi, the head of the North America desk at the MFA. We informed Alhamaimidi that the Department had evaluated and ranked Iraq as it does other countries, not as a special ca [...] | 2009-06-23 10:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KWMN KLPM PHUM PREL ELAB SMIG IZ |
09BAGHDAD166 | WILL THE OIL MINISTRY LICENSING ROUND PROCESS [...] (S) Summary: The Iraqi Ministry of Oil has announced the next step in the licensing round process to invite international oil company (IOCs) participation in Iraq's petroleum sector -- a February 12-14 workshop in Istanbul for the 16 companies (out of 41 pre-qualified) who had paid the require [...] | 2009-01-22 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG EPET TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD1668 | IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO KUWAIT: POSSIBLE MOVEMENT, [...] (C) At a June 22 meeting with Mohammed Al-Hamaimidi, Director of the MFA's North America Office, Deputy PolCouns urged that Iraq appoint an ambassador to Kuwait, soon. Reiterating points made repeatedly by the Ambassador, DCM, and others to Iraqi officials over the past several months (refte [...] | 2009-06-23 15:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD1669 | MEK BLUSTER, IRANIAN ACCUSATIONS HINDER CHANCE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) leader Miriam Rajavi wrote to Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki on June 22 to assail the Iranian government and urge greater accommodation of the MEK's Camp Ashraf, even as Iranian media carried accusations that the MEK instigated deadly post-election rioting i [...] | 2009-06-23 15:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD167 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH TURKISH SPECIAL ENVOY TO IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 18, Ambassador Crocker met with Turkish Special Envoy to Iraq Murat Ozcelik, and discussed Turkey's relations with the KRG, including the issue of energy contracts. On hydrocarbons, Ozcelik complained that Turkey had waited too long to reach such agreements with the KR [...] | 2009-01-23 03:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL ENRG EPET MARR TU IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1670 | Leadership Opportunities in Iraq PRTs [...] Embassy Baghdad OPA requests that NEA/EX transmit following as ALDAC. 2. Dear Senior-level Colleagues: 3. We ask you to consider a position as Team Leader of an Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). Success in Iraq remains a vital component of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle Ea [...] | 2009-06-24 06:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | APER IZ |
09BAGHDAD1671 | Ministerial Committee on the Rule of Law and Detention [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq's Chief Judge ordered Iraq's ministries to cooperate in processing detainee cases at the Ministerial Committee on the Rule of Law and Detention June 17. The committee, made up of representatives from the Higher Judicial Council, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Interior, [...] | 2009-06-24 07:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM SOCI KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1673 | DETAINEE RELEASES CONTINUE, ALBEIT AT A SLOWER PACE [...] (C) Summary: The release and transfer of detainees held by Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) continues, albeit at a slower pace than when the process began in February. The Detainee Affairs Joint Subcommittee (JSC),established in February by the Security Agreement, continues to hold biwee [...] | 2009-06-24 08:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1683 | UNAMI DIBS TALKS TREAD WATER, NEW NEGOTIATORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi and Kurdish delegations met again this week on June 23 as part of the UNAMI-led High Level Task Force (HLTF) to discuss Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) in northern Iraq. No substantive progress was made this week. UNAMI proposed that the negotiations should include di [...] | 2009-06-24 16:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1691 | IRAQ'S PRIVATE BANKS ACCELERATE LENDING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD1695 | Trial Begins on Destruction of Marshes and Marsh Arabs [...] (U) Summary: On June 24, the Iraqi High Tribunal began the trial of the Marsh Arabs case, which consists of crimes against humanity committed by Saddam's regime against Arabs living in the southern marshes of Iraq. The military attacks, forced relocation and draining of the marshes destroyed [...] | 2009-06-25 14:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD1697 | ENVIRONMENT MINISTER REQUESTS ASSISTANCE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary. During a meeting of the Environment Working Group under the Strategic Framework Agreement on June 22, 2009, the Minister for the Environment requested USG assistance for environmental legislation and regulation, laboratory c [...] | 2009-06-25 14:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID SENV SOCI EWWT KGHG IZ |
09BAGHDAD1698 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: BA'ATHIST-ORIENTED ARRESTS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the June 30 deadline for implementation of the Security Agreement approaches, several local leaders have told the PRT that SAD residents are increasingly concerned that the Government of Iraq (GOI) intends to take punitive actions against SAD residents and Sunni leaders. As e [...] | 2009-06-25 14:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS IZ PINR ENRG |
09BAGHDAD1699 | PRISON ABUSE SCANDAL PUTS GOI ON THE DEFENSIVE [...] (SBU) The issue of detainee abuse and prison conditions has been transformed into an election-year hot potato following the assassination of Deputy Human Rights Committee Chairman Dr. Harith al-Obeidi, a Sadrist parliamentary bloc report alleging human rights violations by security officials, [...] | 2009-06-25 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD170 | NAJAF PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE: SKEPTICISM AND [...] (C) Summary. In the final stretch before provincial elections, Najaf is stable and visibly ready for a competitive election. Despite cautious optimism from all spheres, contacts indicate concern over the complication of ballot procedures and limited voter education. Incumbent candidates fro [...] | 2009-01-23 12:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1700 | ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS IN IRAQ: THE POSITIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Iraq's lead anti-corruption agency, the Commission of Integrity (COI),works with NGOs and civil society (hereafter referred to as NGOs) to enforce ethical behavior in the public and private sectors. A number of NGOs have demonstrated their commitment to fi [...] | 2009-06-26 08:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR PGOV KDEM EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD1701 | IRAQ'S WTO ACCESSION PROCESS TEMPORARILY STALLED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's WTO accession efforts have reached a temporary standstill. The MOF appears to have deliberately submitted to the Council of Representatives (COR) a customs tariff bill that is not WTO-compatible, further delaying the long-awaited Initial Goods Offer. A lack of leadership a [...] | 2009-06-26 11:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN PGOV ECON IQ |
09BAGHDAD1702 | KRG PARLIAMENT PASSES CONSTITUTION CERTAIN TO [...] (C) Summary. The Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament (IKP) has unexpectedly passed a constitution for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG),and approved its going to a referendum on July 25. The draft contains a number of provisions that may conflict with the Iraqi constitution. Politically, the [...] | 2009-06-26 12:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1703 | PM MALIKI PUSHES BACK ON PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONING [...] (C) Summary: Relations between Prime Minister Maliki and parliament's Sunni leadership have improved in recent weeks but remain cool. Responding to what he saw as a political campaign to weaken him after gains in the provincial elections, Maliki has sought to change the rules of the road for [...] | 2009-06-26 13:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1704 | RIVAL SHIA MPS FIND COMMON GROUND ON REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Influential Shia MPs Qasim Daoud and Jabir Habib Jabir -- both of whom belong to the Shia Unified Iraqi Alliance (UIA) but who hold contrasting views of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki -- share nationalistic viewpoints about Iraq's place in the region. In separate meetings with Polo [...] | 2009-06-26 13:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KU SA IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1705 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: LOCAL OFFICIALS RESENT GOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Salah ad Din (SAD) provincial government officials complain of Government of Iraq (GOI) interference in provincial affairs, such as the direct role the GOI has taken in Samarra's security, and its recent decision to expand its direct authority over the local police into two addit [...] | 2009-06-26 13:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1706 | RRT ERBIL: "CHANGE" IS AFOOT IN DOHUK, BUT ARRIVES [...] (SBU) In preparation for the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament (IKP) elections planned for July 25, Nawshirwan Mustafa's party -- the Change list -- has finally established a presence in Dohuk, the northernmost province of the Kurdistan Region. So far, the Change list has found a lukewarm receptio [...] | 2009-06-26 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV IR |
09BAGHDAD1707 | VP HASHIMI ON TROOP WITHDRAWALS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND [...] (C) In a June 22 meeting, Vice President Hashimi told the Charge he was concerned that upcoming withdrawals of U.S. combat forces from urban centers would lead to a deterioration of security, possibly mandating a return of U.S. forces in some areas. The Vice President expressed support for th [...] | 2009-06-26 16:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MOPS IZ |
09BAGHDAD171 | FM ZEBARI ON KUWAIT SUMMIT - SHARP DIVISIONS ON [...] (C) Summary: Back in Baghdad for 24 hours before heading to Ankara for 3-day visit, Foreign Minister Zebari provided Ambassador Satterfield and Senior Advisor Gray a detailed readout January 22 of the January 19-20 Arab League Summit in Kuwait, along with observations of the Qatari sub-dram [...] | 2009-01-23 13:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MEPP IZ IS KPAL KU |
09BAGHDAD172 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: IRANIAN INFLUENCE IN TUZ [...] (S) Summary: Iranian influence in the Salah ad Din (SaD) district of Tuz Khormatu derives from the district's high proportion of Shi'a Turcoman residents, its relative proximity to Iran and its position as a north-south and east-west crossroads. Coalition Forces (CF) believe the district to [...] | 2009-01-23 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD1720 | REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE - PSC OVERSIGHT [...] (U) This is an action request - See paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) Summary: Post remains strongly committed to taking actions necessary for meeting the mandates and intent of USG law, policies, and procedures for sound private security contractor (PSC) oversight. To continue moving forward and b [...] | 2009-06-27 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AMGT IZ |
09BAGHDAD1728 | IRAQ'S PRIVATE BANKS ACCELERATE LENDING [...] SUMMARY: Iraq's private banks have dramatically accelerated lending since October 2008. Their total lending is now growing at an annual nominal rate of 80%, twice as fast as one year ago. Increasing public confidence and a recent capital infusion in private banks appear to be the main forces b [...] | 2009-06-28 08:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD173 | IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES SECURITY AGREEMENT, ELECTION [...] (S) Summary. At the January 11 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (NSC),Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked the National Security Advisor (NSA) to assure that the Government of Iraq identified all of its representatives to the various committees and joint sub-committees (JSC) fo [...] | 2009-01-24 06:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PGOV PTER PREL SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD1730 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-06-28 09:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1733 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-06-28 10:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1742 | EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ: ARRIVAL NOT IMMINENT [...] (C) Ambassador Mohammad Tawfiq, head of the Egyptian delegation that visited Baghdad this week to check on progress on renovation of the building that will house the future Egyptian Embassy, told Deputy Pol/Couns June 25 that the GOE's June 16 announcement that it had appointed an ambassador [...] | 2009-06-29 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ EG |
09BAGHDAD1743 | PROGRESS IN PARLIAMENT ON NATIONAL ELECTION LAW [...] (C) Summary/Comment: There is growing support in Parliament for amending the 2005 election law as the basis for national elections scheduled for January 2010. A multi-party ad hoc committee met June 27 and 28 to work on the draft law, and MPs told us that they expect a law to be approved by t [...] | 2009-06-29 12:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1744 | IRAQ AFTER JUNE 30: THE VIEW FROM SADR CITY [...] (C) Summary. As the June 30 deadline for withdrawal from the cities approaches, Sadr City remains unstable and dangerous. Security there and in surrounding low-income Shi'a neighborhoods remains fragile but has not significantly deteriorated. Information about the two-thirds of Sadr City [...] | 2009-06-29 12:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD1745 | IRAQI LEADERS CALL FOR UNITY IN CONFRONTING [...] Summary: The Ambassador attended the sixth anniversary commemoration of the death of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, the founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) political movement. A Who's Who of the political class attended the ceremony, PM Maliki addressed the importance [...] | 2009-06-29 12:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI PGOV KISL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1746 | USG ASSISTANCE TO THE KRG ELECTIONS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified; handle accordingly. Not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) With the official campaign season for KRG elections underway, elections programs sponsored by DRL and RRT Erbil are in full swing. Our efforts aim to strengthen political [...] | 2009-06-29 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD175 | FM ZEBARI ON "NEW ERA" FOR AMERICA, KUWAIT SUMMIT [...] (C) Foreign Minister Zebari told Ambassador Satterfield and Senior Advisor Gray January 22 that Iraqis are following closely the first days of President Obama's Administration, and that early signals to the region have been reassuring. He said the Iraq-Kuwait bilaterals on the margins of the [...] | 2009-01-24 10:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS EFIN ECON IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD1752 | IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. SECURITY DIALOGUE: PLANNING FOR [...] (S) In mid-July (date TBD),the third Ministerial level meeting of the Iraq-Turkey-U.S. Security Dialogue will take place in Istanbul. The Trilateral Committee is divided into three parts: the Ministerial Level Committee, the Intermediate Subcommittee, and the Working Group. The main successe [...] | 2009-06-29 14:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD1753 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-06-30 03:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1762 | DISPUTED AREAS: KURDS AND ARABS MEET, AGREE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UNAMI Arab Kurd High-Level Task Force (HLTF) met on Monday, June 29, and held productive discussions on the disputed Makhmour district. Despite UNAMI's concerns that the recently passed Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Constitution draft might undermine the talks, both t [...] | 2009-06-30 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1763 | PRT WASIT HOSTS MAJOR AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: PRT Wasit on June 20-21 hosted a major agricultural conference in al-Kut. The conference brought together Council of Representatives (CoR) members, ministry officials, provincial officials, subject matter experts and local farmers to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Was [...] | 2009-06-30 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1764 | IRAQ,S FIRST OIL BID ROUND SPUTTERS [...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of Oil's June 30 bid round (ref B) resulted in a winner for only one of the eight fields on offer. A consortium led by BP and including China's CNPC won the right to begin negotiations with the GOI for a twenty-year contract to work the massive Rumaila oil field in [...] | 2009-06-30 19:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV EINV PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1773 | NORWEGIAN FM VISITS BAGHDAD, PLEDGES TO ESTABLISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his first visit to Baghdad on June 29, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere announced that Norway will establish an Embassy here and discussed expanding Norwegian cooperation with Iraq after four years of minimal diplomatic contact. He also advocated for Norwegian [...] | 2009-07-01 11:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG IZ NO |
09BAGHDAD1775 | TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-01 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KTFN EFIN PINR PTER |
09BAGHDAD178 | KARBALA CONFEREES CONFUSED, CANDIDATES CRANKY [...] (C) Summary: With fewer than ten days to go before the provincial elections, attendees at a PRT-sponsored voter-education conference organized by the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) on January 21 expressed considerable confusion over voting procedures. Many were tribesmen who said they [...] | 2009-01-24 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD1781 | KRG ELECTIONS: IHEC SEEKS TO BALANCE BETWEEN [...] (C) Summary. The Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has announced the official start of campaign season just four weeks before the July 25 Election Day on which voters will select new members of the Iraqi-Kurdistani Parliament and participate in the first-ever popular election of [...] | 2009-07-01 16:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV KDEM |
09BAGHDAD1782 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-02 08:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1784 | IRAQ-KUWAIT: CROSS-BORDER ISSUES AFFECTING IRAQ'S [...] (C) Iraq's unresolved disputes with Kuwait reflect years of history. Particularly on the issues centered around the land and maritime borders, however, Iraq's concerns touch directly on economics. Iraq's dependence on oil exports, primarily through the south, and on imported foodstuffs and [...] | 2009-07-02 11:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ETRD EWWT PBTS PREL IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD1785 | CHRISTIANS SEEK POLITICAL UNITY IN ADVANCE OF [...] (C) Several key Christian politicians and religious leaders have begun to lay the groundwork for the unification of Iraq's Christian political parties into a single electoral coalition in anticipation of the January 2010 national elections. Although Iraq's Christian community suffers from num [...] | 2009-07-02 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KIRF PGOV SOCI |
09BAGHDAD1786 | GOI OFFICIALS SUPPORT TRANSFER OF CIVILIAN [...] (C) Iraq's Ministry of Defense holds thousands of civilians in more than 65 detention facilities throughout the country, often for longer periods than permitted under Iraqi law. Conditions in MOD prisons are among the worst in Iraq, and inmates often remain outside the reach of the judicial [...] | 2009-07-02 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD1787 | THE USG'S ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY IN IRAQ: [...] (SBU) Since the submission of our anti-corruption (AC) strategy, aimed at strengthening Iraq's AC regime, an array of USG agencies have continued to work to implement it. Our dialog with the GOI on AC issues centers on promoting Iraq's compliance with the United Nations Convention Against Corr [...] | 2009-07-02 14:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1788 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-02 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1789 | RRT ERBIL: LETTER FROM PRESIDENT BARZANI TO THE SECRETARY [...] Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT Erbil) received the following letter from the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government for transmittal to Secretary Clinton on the occasion of Independence Day. Hard copy will be pouched. Similar letters were sent to the President and Vice President and [...] | 2009-07-02 14:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC IZ |
09BAGHDAD1798 | DEMINING DEADLOCK STARTING TO GIVE WAY? [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraqi ministries nudged closer July 1 to signing an interagency agreement (MOU) that would allow humanitarian demining to continue in Iraq. The Ministry of Defense (MOD) ordered the cessation of demining activities in December 2008 citing security concerns, but subsequent bur [...] | 2009-07-05 11:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KHDP PARM PGOV PREL PTER UNDP |
09BAGHDAD1799 | KURDS DISMISS USG CONCERNS ABOUT KURDISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Embassy and RRT Erbil have met with Kurdish COR members and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials to express serious concern about politically inflammatory provisions in the recently passed Kurdish Constitution and the KRG's apparent rush to submit it to a public ref [...] | 2009-07-05 15:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1800 | OPPOSITION TO KURDISH CONSTITUTION RISING AMONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition to the recently-passed Kurdistan Region Constitution is quickly growing among Arabs and Turkmen. Sunni and Shi'a Arab parliamentarians and political leaders have expressed concern privately to poloffs about the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) land claims in the [...] | 2009-07-05 16:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1801 | RRT ERBIL: LOCAL REACTIONS TO KURDISTAN REGION [...] (C) Summary. Public opposition to the newly-passed Kurdistan Region Constitution is primarily being voiced by the Change List, although intellectuals inside and outside of the parties view many articles as problematic. Journalists and physicians outside the parties have also publicly opposed [...] | 2009-07-05 17:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1802 | RISING OIL PRICES IMPROVE IRAQ'S BUDGET OUTLOOK, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rising oil prices have improved Iraq's 2009 budget outlook, but they are not a panacea for all of the country's budget woes. Projected 2009 GOI revenues of $42.7 billion are still optimistic since oil exports for the remainder of the year are likely to remain well below the for [...] | 2009-07-06 12:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON EFIN EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD1803 | IDPS AND ECONOMIC MIGRANTS STUCK IN SLUMS ADJACENT [...] (U) USAID/OFDA,s program advisor in Iraq conducts regular field visits to locations of displacement and return to assess humanitarian conditions and identify areas of possible intervention by implementing partners. On June 24 and 25 the program advisor met with residents of northeast Baghdad,s [...] | 2009-07-06 12:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PREL PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1805 | IRAQ,S FIRST OIL BID ROUND: TOO HARD A BARGAIN? [...] (C) Summary: The Iraq Ministry of Oil's June 30 bid round (ref A) resulted in a winner for only one of the eight fields on offer, leading international oil companies (IOC) and foreign observers to claim that the GOI had failed to achieve its goals. For the most part, however, senior GOI offic [...] | 2009-07-06 13:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV EINV PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD181 | HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CRITIQUE OF IRAQ COURT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the primary tribunal handling terrorism and other serious criminal cases, the Central Criminal Courts of Iraq (CCCI),with courthouses in Karkh and Rusafa, play a key role in promoting Rule of Law in Iraq. A recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the CCCI alleges a nu [...] | 2009-01-25 09:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD1811 | GOI PLANS ULTIMATUM TO CLOSE ASHRAF [...] (C) Summary. In a series of meetings between GOI and USG officials last week, the GOI committee responsible for the Mujahedin-e-Khalq's Camp Ashraf appeared increasingly intent on closing Camp Ashraf. GOI officials informed acting Pol-Mil Couns that plans are underway to enter the camp, est [...] | 2009-07-06 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PHUM PINR PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD1812 | LETTER FROM VICE PRESIDENT TARIQ AL-HASHIMI TO [...] On July 5 Embassy Baghdad received the following letter from Vice President Hashimi to President Obama on the occasion of Independence Day. A similar letter was sent to Vice President Biden. Both original letters will be transmitted to NEA/I/POL via pouch mail. Begin text of message: R [...] | 2009-07-06 17:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC IZ |
09BAGHDAD1813 | UK REPORTS SOME KURDISH LEADERS AMENABLE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: UK Foreign Office Director for the Middle East, Frank Baker, told the Ambassador July 2 that some senior Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials in Erbil expressed support for delaying the referendum on the Kurdistan Region Constitution until after January 2010. Baker said [...] | 2009-07-06 17:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1816 | IRAQI AGREEMENT ENABLES DEMINING TO CONTINUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraqi ministries signed an interagency agreement (MOU) without fanfare July 5 that will enable NGOs and companies to continue humanitarian demining in Iraq, according to Ministry of Environment (MOEnv) Deputy Director Dr. Kamal Latif. The breakthrough ends a six-month bureauc [...] | 2009-07-07 09:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KHDP PARM PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1817 | PM ADVISOR RIKABI UPBEAT ON VP BIDEN VISIT [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki was pleased with Vice President Biden,s visit overall and welcomes U.S. support behind the scenes on reconciliation matters )- in particular with Arab-Kurd disputes, PM Advisor Sadiq Rikabi told Special Advisor McGurk July 6. Rikabi also discussed his plan for advan [...] | 2009-07-07 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ |
09BAGHDAD1821 | IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO KUWAIT: POSSIBLE MOVEMENT [...] (C) Members of Parliament's Foreign Relations Committee and other sources tell us that 20 of 65 pending ambassadorial nominees are close to being confirmed, perhaps in the next two weeks. That said, there continue to be conflicting signals as to whether Kuwait will be among the first 20 posts [...] | 2009-07-07 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD1822 | LAND ISSUES HALTING INVESTMENT IN IRAQ,S PROVINCES [...] (SBU) The Muthanna Provincial Investment Commission (PIC) is one of the most active and dynamic economic development organizations in Iraq. Since its inception in late summer 2008, Muthanna,s PIC has issued seventeen (17) licenses worth some 363 million dollars to a broad array of businesses [...] | 2009-07-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV |
09BAGHDAD1823 | PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION LAW: MOVING FORWARD [...] (C) The ad hoc parliamentary elections committee (reftel) produced a draft election law for the January 2010 national elections on July 6. The ad hoc committee is currently seeking input and reaction to the draft, including from the Embassy-funded CLA/University of Utah elections experts th [...] | 2009-07-07 15:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ KDEM |
09BAGHDAD1828 | INTERIM GOI RESPONSE TO DRAFT UNSYG REPORT [...] (C) Deputy Pol/C on June 22 passed MFA North America Office Director Mohammed Al-Hamaimidi a copy of the draft UN paper outlining relevant facts for the preparation of the UNSYG's Iraq UNSCR Report. Caveating that he could not provide the authoritative GOI response to the UN paper, Al-Hamai [...] | 2009-07-08 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD183 | DHI QAR ELECTIONS UPDATE: PREPARATIONS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The PRT met with Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) leadership on January 21 and found preparations for elections satisfactory. Voter outreach efforts continue throughout the province. Rumors of potential malfeasance abound but according to the GEO no serious infractions have [...] | 2009-01-25 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1832 | PROMINENT SHIA CLERIC IN WASIT CRITICIZES SADRIST [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On June 27, Provincial Reconstruction Team Wasit officers met Said al-Khateib, a prominent Shi'a cleric and one of two personal representatives of Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani in Wasit province. They discussed local governance issues, national elections in January 2010 an [...] | 2009-07-08 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1837 | IRAQ'S LATEST QUEST FOR JOINT VENTURES OF STATE [...] (SBU) In March 2009, Iraqi Minister of Industry and Minerals (MOIM) Fawzi Hariri announced a third round of Joint Venture (JV) opportunities in Iraq's state owned enterprises (SOE) (Reftel A). When announced, Hariri was optimistic because, he said, it contained a more diverse offering of compa [...] | 2009-07-08 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PGOV ETRD |
09BAGHDAD1838 | INTERNAL IRAQI RESISTANCE TO THE NATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-09 03:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EAGR IZ PGOV |
09BAGHDAD184 | DHI QAR PRT: PIC IMPROVES BUT NOT QUITE THERE [...] (U) Under charismatic leadership, the Dhi Qar Provincial Investment Commission (PIC) scores some victories but lacks the strategic planning, organization and professionalism to reach its lofty goals. END SUMMARY. -------------------------------- How Not to Build an Organization ---------- [...] | 2009-01-25 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1847 | MEK RELOCATION -- GOI APPEARS TO STEP AWAY FROM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-09 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1848 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-09 10:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1849 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-09 10:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD185 | ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENCY WADES INTO CONTROVERSY OVER [...] (C) The Commission on Integrity (COI) acting head, Judge Rahim Al-Ugaili, criticized the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) for failing to vet educational certificates submitted by candidates in the upcoming provincial council elections. Rahim had previously announced that the COI, in [...] | 2009-01-25 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1850 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-09 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1851 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-09 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1852 | RRT ERBIL: KRG ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN SNAPSHOTS FROM [...] (C) Summary: There is anecdotal evidence that the Change List campaign, headed by Nawshirwan Mustfafa, is gaining in popularity in Sulaimaniyah, especially among younger voters (Ref A). Even the leadership of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party is apparently beginning to admit pri [...] | 2009-07-09 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ KDEM |
09BAGHDAD1856 | SECOND MEETING OF SERVICES AND INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Deputy Prime Minister Rafi Al Eissawi and EMIN Marc Wall convened the second meeting of the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) Services and Information Technology Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) on July 6, 2009. Both sides highlighted the continued significance of the SFA as the fou [...] | 2009-07-09 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV ETRD IZ PREL |
09BAGHDAD1857 | HOMOSEXUALS FLEE IRAQ IN THE FACE OF CONTINUED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-10 07:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD186 | PRT DIYALA: LOCAL TECHNOCRATS HOPE NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings about upcoming provincial council (PC) elections with poloff January 19-21, local professionals and government officials in Diyala emphatically denounced incumbent national religious parties and politicians in the province, believing them corrupt and inca [...] | 2009-01-25 17:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1860 | SABEAN-MANDEANS: UNDER SIEGE BUT HOLDING ON [...] (C) Sabean-Mandean leaders living in Iraq describe their community as desperately wanting to remain and participate in the country's political life rather than emigrate abroad, despite being the frequent targets of criminal elements. These leaders tell us that members of the community who are [...] | 2009-07-10 09:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KIRF KJUS PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG IZ |
09BAGHDAD1869 | A PREVIEW OF IRAQ FM ZEBARI'S TRIP TO THE U.S. - [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with FM Hoshyar Zebari to discuss his upcoming trip to the U.S. FM Zebari noted that he had asked the Iraqi permanent mission at the UN to request a meeting with the U.S. permanent representative during his July 12-15 stay in New York; he looks forward to his [...] | 2009-07-10 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ KU EG TU |
09BAGHDAD1870 | ANTI-CORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ [...] (C) According to media reports, in a recent meeting with Council of Representatives (COR) members, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki acknowledged that corruption was rampant within the GOI. However, he reportedly claimed that corrupt practices were not confined to the executive branch, but were a [...] | 2009-07-10 14:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1873 | LETTER FROM IRAQI PRIME MINISTER NOURI AL-MALIKI [...] On July 2, Embassy Baghdad received a diplomatic note from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Iraq, which forwarded a letter from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to President Obama. Original letter will be send to NEA/I/POL via pouch mail. Below is the text of the letter. B [...] | 2009-07-11 15:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL OPDC IZ |
09BAGHDAD1875 | COMMERCIAL LAW DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (CLDP) ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: On his recent visit, Marc Tejtel, U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Chief Counsel of the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP),through discussions and cooperation with CLA, Treasury, ROLC, INL, ECON, and Iraqi officials, initiated project proposals for commercial capacity- [...] | 2009-07-12 03:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ |
09BAGHDAD1876 | VISA CONTROLS LIMIT IRANIAN PILGRIMS TO KARBALA [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: According to a prominent Karbala businessman, elements in the Iranian and Iraqi governments struck a deal in early June to issue Iranian pilgrim visas solely through a single Iranian tourist agency, Shamsah Travel and Tourism (Sham [...] | 2009-07-12 06:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD188 | SECOND MEETING OF JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS [...] (U) Summary. On January 19, the United States and the Republic of Iraq conducted the second meeting of the Joint Military Operations Coordinating Committee (JMOCC),a military operations steering committee established under the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement (SA). Consistent with the first JM [...] | 2009-01-26 03:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR MASS PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1882 | RRT ERBIL: FDI DOES NOT MEET KRG EXPECTATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-12 15:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD EAGR IZ TU IR EAID PGOV |
09BAGHDAD1889 | TO SHIA, "RECONCILIATION" MEANS BA'THIST REVIVAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 10:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SA IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1890 | NON-MUSLIM ENDOWMENT: FLUSH WITH CASH, BUT NO ONE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 11:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1891 | SEVEN CHURCHES BOMBED IN BAGHDAD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD1897 | DELIVERING A CLEAR MESSAGE ON IRAQ'S BUSINESS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 16:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD PREL PGOV IZ BEXP |
09BAGHDAD191 | MAYSAN SADRISTS SEEK ENHANCED DIALOGUE WITH USG [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Hardline Maysani Sadrist elements who previously eschewed engagement with the USG have expressed a desire to begin forging a relationship with the PRT, according to Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi, current Provincial Director of Reconstruction and Development and moderate Sadrist as [...] | 2009-01-26 06:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1910 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: GOI INVOLVEMENT IN SAMARRA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the terrorist bombing of the Al-Askari Shrine (Golden Mosque) in 2006 pushed the country to the edge of Sunni-Shi'a civil war, the Government of Iraq (GOI) has taken a direct role in Samarra's security. Since the bombing, the city has made remarkable progress in establishi [...] | 2009-07-14 13:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1911 | A STEP FORWARD ON HUMAN RIGHTS: MOD TRANSFERRING [...] (C) In response to a recent prison abuse scandal (ref A),the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) has ordered its operational commands to transfer detainees to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to bring the Iraqi Army in compliance with CPA Order number 10. CPA Order 10 vests full authority and contr [...] | 2009-07-14 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | KJUS PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD1912 | SOLVING THE IRAQ-KUWAIT MARITIME BOUNDARY ISSUES [...] (SBU) In paragraphs 16 and 17 of this message, we lay out a way forward to address Iraq's concerns with respect to its right to free access to the sea, including an unambiguous statement of Iraqi rights to international waters and a suggested expansion of the Khor Abdullah Interoperability P [...] | 2009-07-14 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ETRD EWWT PBTS PREL PGOV UNSC IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD1913 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: SADDAM'S UNIVERSITY AS A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Both the SAD PRT and its Coalition Forces (CF) partner have had increasing success in building positive connections with the University of Tikrit, a notable change from the University's previous unwillingness to work with Americans generally and open hostility toward CF. Over t [...] | 2009-07-14 19:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KPAO SCUL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1915 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-15 08:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1916 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-15 08:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD192 | PM REPLACES WASIT POLICE CHIEF, FUELING BROADER [...] (C) Summary. The Prime Minister's office replaced Wasit Province Chief of Police MG Abed al-Haneen Faisal on January 14 with the Da'wa-affiliated former Karbala Police Chief, MG Ra'ad Shaker Jawdat al-Hasnawi. The move to replace the police chief, broadly viewed as non-partisan and effective [...] | 2009-01-26 06:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1920 | U.S.-SUPPORTED DEMINING EFFORTS IN IRAQ FACE FORK [...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of Defense (MOD) will block the Iraqi Mine Clearance Organization (IMCO) from doing demining in Iraq, according to Deputy Minister of Environment Dr. Kamal Latif, who also heads the Directorate for Mine Action. IMCO is a NGO that the Department's Weapons Removal and [...] | 2009-07-15 16:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KHDP PARM PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1921 | DRAFT LAW OUTLINES KEY OPTIONS FOR IRAQ'S NATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-15 16:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1922 | RRT ERBIL: LETTER FROM PRESIDENT BARZANI TO THE President [...] Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT Erbil) received the following letter for transmittal to President Obama Hard copy will be pouched. Begin text: Salahaddin Kurdistan Region Iraq 29 June 2009 His Excellency President Barack Obama President of the United States Department of State (N [...] | 2009-07-16 03:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL OPDC IZ |
09BAGHDAD1924 | PRT DIYALA: UNCERTAINTY ABOUT PRT MOVEMENTS POST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Conflicting U.S. and Iraqi interpretations of the implications of the U.S. military's June 30th withdrawal from Iraqi cities are disrupting PRT and Coalition Forces (CF) operations in Diyala. The handover of local military bases has also been complicated by this uncertainty, a [...] | 2009-07-16 05:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1925 | SHIA AGAIN PONDER UIA AS AN ELECTORAL VEHICLE [...] (C) Summary. Local media and Embassy contacts are speculating about the imminent revival of the Unified Iraqi Alliance (UIA) as a coalition for the planned January parliamentary election. The potential revival of the UIA encompasses three main issues: whether the Islamic Supreme Council of Ira [...] | 2009-07-16 08:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1926 | RRT ERBIL: KRG ELECTIONS PROCEDURES FOR VOTING BY [...] (C) Summary: The Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) is confident that the voting process during the upcoming Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) elections will be conducted with integrity. However, the special circumstances surrounding voting by security personnel point to possibl [...] | 2009-07-16 09:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1927 | VP BIDEN DISCUSSES RECONCILIATION, DEVELOPMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-16 09:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ KDEM UN |
09BAGHDAD1928 | UNAMI DIBS NEGOTIATIONS HIT SNAG, BUT ARE [...] SUMMARY: (C) UNAMI's High Level Task Force (HLTF) negotiations over Iraq's Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) between representatives of the Government of Iraq (GOI) and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have slowed in the last two sessions, as the GOI side reacted negatively to the K [...] | 2009-07-16 15:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD193 | TURKEY-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS WORKING [...] (S) Summary: The Turkish government urged Iraq to isolate the PKK before the end of winter by cutting off supplies of food and weapons at a meeting of the Iraq-Turkey-U.S. Trilateral Working Group (WG) on January 22 in Baghdad. The GoT also sought to establish liaison offices in Erbil and Sul [...] | 2009-01-26 10:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL MARR IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD1932 | PRIME MINISTER MALIKI'S VISIT: LAUNCHING THE [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki returns to Washington for the first time since July 2006, having grown in three years from the feckless neophyte other leaders thought they could control, to a proven leader, who those same leaders now purport to fear. Maliki believes, unlike his Green Zone rivals, t [...] | 2009-07-16 16:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1933 | RRT ERBIL: REFLECTIONS ON A YEAR IN THE KURDISTAN [...] (U) The cable which follows reflects the personal views of the Kurdistan Region Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) leader. 2. (C) Summary: We should be tougher on Kurdish leadership on the slow pace of democracy; less judgmental on hydrocarbons (where Kurdistani initiatives are accomplishi [...] | 2009-07-16 17:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET PBTS PHUM EFIN IZ |
09BAGHDAD194 | WILL THE OIL MINISTRY LICENSING ROUND PROCESS [...] (S) Summary: The Iraqi Ministry of Oil has announced the next step in the licensing round process to invite international oil company (IOCs) participation in Iraq's petroleum sector -- a February 12-14 workshop in Istanbul for the 16 companies (out of 41 pre-qualified) who had paid the require [...] | 2009-01-26 13:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EPET ENRG EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1947 | MEK REJECTS GOI PROPOSAL FOR CAMP ASHRAF AND [...] (S) On July 16, 2009, CG TF- 134 (tasked with security oversight of Camp Ashraf) convened a VTC with MEK representatives, headed by Mojgan Parsaie, in Camp Ashraf (Diyala, Iraq) to convey, per reftel, the GOI's plans to: establish a police station in Camp Ashraf; appoint a new Iraqi commande [...] | 2009-07-18 13:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1949 | MOVING IRAQ'S HYDROCARBONS LEGISLATION FORWARD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-19 06:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD195 | COUNCIL OF REPS FINANCE COMMITTEE ON 2009 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Council of Representatives (COR) hopes to pass the FY2009 budget "soon," but there is concern that cuts in the capital budget will affect Iraq's future. Falling oil revenues and uncertain oil markets highlight the GOI's overdependence on a single source of income, but the [...] | 2009-01-26 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EPET IZ |
09BAGHDAD1950 | AMB, CG AND PM DISCUSS UPCOMING VISIT, SYRIA AND [...] (S/NF) Summary: In their regular weekly meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on July 16, the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General (CG) Odierno discussed the PM,s upcoming visit to Washington, the NATO agreement and foreign fighters crossing the border into Iraq from Syria. In [...] | 2009-07-19 10:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | IZ MARR MOPS PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD1951 | PM MALIKI: DON'T MAKE HUMAN RIGHTS A POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki used the platform provided by a July 8 symposium on the role of human rights-focused NGOs, sponsored by the Cabinet, to denounce the politicization of human rights issues by critics of the GOI. He laid the blame squarely on the shoulders of the S [...] | 2009-07-19 12:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1959 | ARTICLE 142 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROCESS DRAWS [...] (SBU) After nearly four years, the work of the Article 142 Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) is finally drawing to a close. The vast majority of the approximately 60 proposed amendments that will be submitted to the Parliament would make only technical or minor cosmetic changes to the Con [...] | 2009-07-20 08:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KWMN PGOV SOCI |
09BAGHDAD196 | IRANIAN TRADE AND ECONOMIC INFLUENCE IN ERBIL [...] (C) Summary: A range of contacts from Karim Sinjari, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of State for the Interior, to small business owners and residents of Erbil's Ainkawa neighborhood indicated to Iran Watcher during a visit January 20-22 that Turkish goods are more plentiful and [...] | 2009-01-26 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV PREL IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1960 | SHELL'S IRAQ SOUTH GAS DEAL NEARS FINALIZATION [...] (SBU) Econoff met July 9 with Shell Gas and Power Vice President Mounir Bouaziz, Shell Exploration and Production Logistics Manager Ayman al-Shukr, Shell Gas and Power Business Development Economist Christiaan van der Eijk, and Project Finance Manager Andrew Tait. Bouaziz reported that Shell [...] | 2009-07-20 08:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG SENV EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1961 | IRAQ'S NEW ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The Council of Ministers (CoM) signed an order in April 2009 establishing the Iraqi National Atomic Energy Commission, an inter-ministry commission mandated to provide coordination and advice regard [...] | 2009-07-20 10:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | TPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA |
09BAGHDAD1964 | SPEAKER OFFERS KIRKUK SOLUTION, PESSIMISTIC ON UK [...] (C) Summary: Ayad al Samarraie, Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR),suggested a possible solution for the issue of Kirkuk and upcoming national elections during a meeting with Ambassador Christopher Hill on July 17, 2009. Samarraie suggested a temporary governing council wi [...] | 2009-07-20 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1965 | RRT ERBIL: MINORITY POLITICS AHEAD OF THE KRG [...] (SBU) Small ethnic and religious groups in the Kurdistan Region are struggling to decide whether special seat allocations in the Iraqi-Kurdistan Parliament (IKP) will be preferable to token inclusion within the alliance of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdi [...] | 2009-07-20 16:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD1969 | RRT ERBIL: PROVINCIAL POWERS COME TO THE KURDISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 20, 2009 the Iraqi-Kurdistan Parliament (IKP) passed a Provincial Powers Law (PPL) which defines the authority of the Provincial Councils (PCs) of the Kurdistan Region (KR) but provides for less decentralization than its counterpart Government of Iraq (GOI) PPL law. Th [...] | 2009-07-21 11:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD197 | RUBAIE CLAIMS HE CARRIED MESSAGE OF CONFIDENT IRAQ [...] (S) Summary: National Security Advisor Mowafaq al-Rubaie carried the message of a more confident Iraq to Tehran in meetings with senior Iranian officials January 19-22, according to a readout of the visit Rubaie gave to Ambassador Satterfield, PMIN and Pol-Mil Counselor after returning to Bagh [...] | 2009-01-26 16:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1971 | MEK: GOI AND ASHRAF LEADERS STILL NOT SEEKING [...] (C) Summary. Camp Ashraf residents continue to stubbornly refuse to consider GOI Ashraf proposals. When presented with the message (reftel) from the GOI in a face-to-face meeting on July 19, Madame Mojgan Parsaie, leader of Camp Ashraf, reiterated the non-negotiable nature of placement of a [...] | 2009-07-21 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1972 | MOVING IRAQ'S HYDROCARBONS LEGISLATION FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: While passage of hydrocarbons legislation (HCL) remains important for Iraq's development of its petroleum resources, GOI and KRG interlocutors have preferred to keep the legislation on the back burner pending resolution of other Arab-Kurd issues. The ramp-up of a national electio [...] | 2009-07-21 16:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD198 | ANBAR LOOKS AHEAD TO AN ORDERLY ELECTION, AND A [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Anbar is on track for an orderly election, according to recent soundings of the Governorate Elections Officer (GEO) and local security officials. The GEO says that the parties have thus far brought only minor campaign infractions to [...] | 2009-01-26 17:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1981 | IDP RETURNS INITIATIVE IN ABU GHRAIB GATHERS [...] (C) Summary: U.S. personnel arranged a visit by representatives from the Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MoDM) and Deputy Prime Minister Rafi Al-Essawi's staff to Abu Ghraib July 12 to discuss potential for large scale IDP returns to the area with local council members, tribal leaders [...] | 2009-07-22 07:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ PHUM PREF PREL |
09BAGHDAD1982 | PROPOSED NATIONAL SECURITY LAW HARKS BACK TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) has begun consideration of a draft law on the Ministry of State for National Security Affairs (MSNSA) which would be charged with counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, fighting organized crimes, border protection, and monitoring groups [...] | 2009-07-22 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL |
09BAGHDAD1987 | PROGRESS CONTINUES ON SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (S) Summary. Progress under the Security Agreement (SA) has improved from the early days when a fist fight broke out between two Iraqi generals. The USG and GOI have worked through the SA,s joint subcommittees (JSCs) to sort through alleged "violations" at the working level, rarely needing [...] | 2009-07-23 08:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL IZ MARR KTIA EAIR PGOV MASS |
09BAGHDAD1988 | CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISCUSS JULY 12 CHURCH BOMBINGS [...] (C) In the wake of the July 12 church bombings in Baghdad, we have met with representatives of the four largest churches in Iraq, including the heads of the Chaldean, Assyrian, and Syriac Catholic denominations as well as the Christian endowment and various Christian political leaders to expres [...] | 2009-07-23 11:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD199 | SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER OF GTMO DETAINEES TO IRAQ; [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. After providing humane treatment and security assurances to the USG, the Government of Iraq (GOI) successfully took custody and control of four former Guantanamo detainees from U.S. forces January 17. The four are currently being detained for investigation into crimes possibl [...] | 2009-01-26 18:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US |
09BAGHDAD1990 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE: TRADE MINISTER'S CASE TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a significant ruling, the Council of Ministers clarified existing requirements regarding minister-level permission to send criminal cases against former government employees to Iraqi courts. Prime Minister al-Maliki's office subsequently announced an agreement to send the [...] | 2009-07-23 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR KDEM KCRM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD1991 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-24 08:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1992 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-24 08:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD1997 | KIRKUK THREATENS TO DERAIL PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: After three weeks of slow but steady technical progress, opportunistic politicians have slowed the momentum of efforts to draft a new national parliamentary elections law by introducing a fresh debate on the status of Kirkuk (Ref A). These actors -- members of the former July [...] | 2009-07-24 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD1998 | SPECIAL NEEDS VOTING IN THE KRG - PEACEFUL DAY, [...] (C) On January 23, roughly 120,000 voters participated in Special Needs Voting for the Kurdistan Regional elections. This day was set aside to ensure that members of the KRG security forces, prisoners, and hospital patients all had a chance to cast their ballots for ahead of the regular ele [...] | 2009-07-24 14:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD20 | KISSING THE KORAN: ELECTIONEERING IN SADR CITY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Leaders and residents of Baghdad's Sadr City have pointed to active campaigning in the run up to January 30, 2009, provincial elections. Streets near JSS Sadr City contain hundreds of posters showing Shia politicians. PM Maliki's visage is nearly universally emblazoned with me [...] | 2009-01-05 14:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD200 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate of the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for US Government provided training in Washington, DC. Post has no derogat [...] | 2009-01-27 03:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2000 | SITREP: U.S. MONITORS REPORT QUIET AND ORDERLY [...] (SBU) Today, July 25, voters in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region head to the polls to vote for a new regional parliament and to participate in the first popular election of a Kurdistan president. This election is the first Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament election since January 30, 2005. In th [...] | 2009-07-25 10:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PGOV KDEM |
09BAGHDAD2001 | MUTHANNA OFFICIAL SAYS IRANIAN INTIMIDATION LED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hakim Khazal Khashan, a member of the Muthanna Provincial Council (PC),announced his resignation on 7 July. He told PRToffs that he decided to leave government because his anti-corruption efforts had been stymied by a broad range of dishonest political actors, and because Irania [...] | 2009-07-25 11:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2002 | KRG ELECTIONS: MODEST TURNOUT AND MINOR [...] (SBU) Overall, election observers report a calm, orderly day of voting in the Kurdistan region on July 25 with few reports of irregularities (Ref A). By midday, the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) reported that voter turnout was at 37%. The number of voters increased as the da [...] | 2009-07-25 17:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM IZ PGOV |
09BAGHDAD2003 | KRG ELECTIONS: SIGNIFICANT TURNOUT, PRELIMINARY [...] (C) A few hours after polls closed in the Kurdistan region on July 25, the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) announced that 78% of the voters participated in the election. Election monitors from the U.S. Mission report some election irregularities, but did not observe any major a [...] | 2009-07-26 15:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD2008 | FINANCE MINISTER JABR ON BUDGET AND GOVERNMENT DEBT [...] (C) Summary: The DCM for Assistance Transition, BG Lanza, Emin, and Finatt met July 16 with Minister of Finance Jabr, Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance Dr. Aziz, and Central Bank of Iraq Governor Shabibi to introduce the DCM and discuss a variety of issues. Minister Jabr discussed the [...] | 2009-07-27 07:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EAIR ETRD IZ |
09BAGHDAD2009 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: CONFRONTATION LOOMING? [...] (S/NF) Summary. In a direct exchange between the GOI Ashraf Committee and the residents of Camp Ashraf, Committee Chairman Ali Abdul Amir al-Yassery announced the imminent arrival of a new site commander, plans to locate an Iraqi police station (IP station) on Camp Ashraf, and future relocat [...] | 2009-07-27 15:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD201 | 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 29 candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for US Government provided training in Iraq. Post has no derogatory i [...] | 2009-01-27 03:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2014 | AYATOLLAH SISTANI PUSHES FOR OPEN ELECTORAL LISTS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the foremost Iraqi Shi'a cleric, has conveyed messages on the pending elections law and political coalition formation for several weeks. After meeting with Sistani and two other leading Shi'a clerics, GOI Spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told P [...] | 2009-07-28 07:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2015 | CORRECTED COPY: FINANCE MINISTER JABR ON BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: The DCM for Assistance Transition, BG Lanza, Emin, and Finatt met July 16 with Minister of Finance Jabr, Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance Dr. Aziz, and Central Bank of Iraq Governor Shabibi to introduce the DCM and discuss a variety of issues. Minister Jabr discussed the [...] | 2009-07-28 09:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EAIR ETRD IZ |
09BAGHDAD202 | 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 12 candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for US Government provided training in Little Rock, Arkansas. Post has [...] | 2009-01-27 03:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2021 | RRT ERBIL: NEW REFINERY AND CRUDE PRODUCTION COMES [...] (U) Summary: At a July 18 ceremony, attended by KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and former Ambassador to Iraq and the UN Zalmay Khalilzad, oil from the Khurmala Dome began flowing into the Erbil refinery, the only privately-owned refinery in Iraq. The refinery's initial capacity is 20,000 [...] | 2009-07-28 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG EINV PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2022 | PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO ARLINGTON NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Maliki's July 21-25 visit to the United States generally received factual and neutral coverage in the local press. Iraqi media stories focused on the implementation of the U.S.-Iraq Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) in addition to Maliki's meetings with U.S. and UN off [...] | 2009-07-28 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2023 | BASRA INVESTMENT COMMISSION CHAIR EXPRESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with EMIN, Basra Investment Commission (BIC) Chairman Dr. Haider Ali Fadhel voiced concerns over the national government's lack of progress on a variety of issues affecting the overall investment climate. Specifically, Fadhel took issue with the Ministry of Tr [...] | 2009-07-28 15:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2024 | BASRA INVESTMENT COMMISSION CHAIR EXPRESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with EMIN, Basra Investment Commission (BIC) Chairman Dr. Haider Ali Fadhel voiced concerns over the national government's lack of progress on a variety of issues affecting the overall investment climate. Specifically, Fadhel took issue with the Ministry of Tr [...] | 2009-07-28 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2027 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: INTRANSIGENCE LEADS TO VIOLENT [...] (C) Summary. Following a stalemate between the GOI and the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) (reftel),Iraqi police and army forces entered Camp Ashraf July 28 to establish an Iraqi police presence, encountering violent resistance from camp residents. According to GOI Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali A [...] | 2009-07-29 05:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2028 | PRT NINEWA: CHRISTIANS ANXIETY RISE IN NINEWA IN [...] (C) Summary: In the early hours of 13 July 2009, a car bomb exploded in an alley between a Christian church and a Shi'a mosque in the Faisalia neighborhood of east Mosul. The explosion damaged both houses of worship, and killed three Iraqi citizens in nearby homes. According to local Christi [...] | 2009-07-29 08:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KDEM PMIL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2032 | KRG ELECTIONS AND THE WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary. Preliminary results of the Kurdistan elections show the Goran Change List outperformed the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) list in PUK's home base of Sulemaniyah, but the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and PUK are set to retain their hold on power in the north and have struc [...] | 2009-07-29 17:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EPET IZ |
09BAGHDAD2033 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: VIOLENT CLASHES LEAD TO DEATHS [...] (C) Summary. Violent clashes between GOI forces and residents of Camp Ashraf entered their second day. USG officials met with GOI Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali Abdul Amir al-Yassery to stress the importance of the GOI fulfilling its commitment to the USG to treat camp residents humanely and [...] | 2009-07-29 18:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2034 | PRT DIYALA: IRAQI GENERAL CLAIMS CONTROL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq Army (IA) Staff Major General Tariq ab-al-Wahab Jasim Mahdi al-Izzawi, commander of the Diyala Operations Center (DOC),informed PRT and U.S. 1-25 Brigade Officers at a project brief on July 21 that Prime Minister Maliki put him in charge of Diyala Province, and that Diyala [...] | 2009-07-29 19:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL MOPS ASEC |
09BAGHDAD2037 | Iraq: Cabinet Approves Formation of National Oil Company [...] (SBU) The Iraqi Council of Ministers (the Cabinet) on Tuesday, July 28 approved draft legislation to re-establish the Iraq National Oil Company (INOC). That proposal will now be transmitted to the Council of Representatives (COR, the Iraqi Parliament) for consideration. Vice Chairman of the C [...] | 2009-07-30 03:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2038 | MINORITY LEADERS CONCERNED ABOUT IRAQI CENSUS [...] (C) As Ministry of Planning officials continue their preparations for a nationwide census this fall, many of Iraq's ethnic and religious minority leaders have raised concerns about how the census will be administered and whether it will provide an accurate reflection of their communities' demo [...] | 2009-07-30 08:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KIRF PGOV SMIG SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2039 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: U.S. PROVIDING MEDICAL AID [...] (C) Summary. The GOI has agreed to allow U.S. forces to provide medical assistance to the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) and a U.S. team is doing so. The GOI, however, is amassing forces on the perimeters of Ashraf. The GOI have relieved COL Sa'di Habib Hussein al-Dulaymi of command of the forces [...] | 2009-07-30 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2044 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-31 08:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2045 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-31 08:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2046 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-31 08:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2047 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-31 08:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2048 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-31 08:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2049 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-07-31 08:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD205 | RRT ERBIL: MEETING WITH KRG PRIME MINISTER BARZANI [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani expounded on a wide range of subjects in a January 25 meeting with Erbil PRT team leader. The initial impetus of the meeting was to provide PM Barzani with information on USG development assistance. In the cour [...] | 2009-01-27 07:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID ECON SOCI PTER TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD2055 | MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS TAKES ISSUE WITH AMNESTY [...] (C) A July 23 report from Amnesty International that nine Iraqi women face imminent execution appears to be exaggerated, according to the Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Selim. While Minister Selim confirmed that three Iraqi women have already been executed in 2009, she told us July 30 that n [...] | 2009-07-31 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KWMN SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2056 | 58 IRAQI AMBASSADORS CONFIRMED BY PARLIAMENT [...] (C) On July 21 and 23, the Iraqi Parliament confirmed the ambassadorial nominations of 58 individuals representing a broad cross-section of Iraq's political parties. Thair Hussein, an aide to Deputy FM Labid Abbawi, and Azhar Hussein, a senior Protocol Officer at the MFA, told us that none of [...] | 2009-07-31 15:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD2057 | IRAQI OIL: MIXED MESSAGES FROM SOUTH OIL ON THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In recent meetings, stakeholders from the GOI as well as international oil companies (IOC) and service providers (SP) offered divergent insight and opinions on the developments within the oil sector in Iraq. In a meeting on July 20, South Oil Company (SOC) Director General Fayed [...] | 2009-07-31 16:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG PGOV EINV PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2059 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: USG OFFICIALS VISIT ASHRAF [...] (C) Summary. On July 31, USG officials visited Ashraf to assess the state of the current standoff. During this visit, USG officials expresed to both the GOI and the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) the need for dialogue and restraint. The GOI fully embraced this message, but the MEK showed no desire [...] | 2009-07-31 16:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD206 | THE SPEAKER'S RACE 3-RING CIRCUS: PARLIAMENT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The race for Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR) is wide open again as Acting Speaker Khalid al Attiya announced a special vote for February 4 to select the speaker. Any bloc may submit a candidate, although the lead candidates remain nominally Ayad al Samarraie, lead [...] | 2009-01-27 09:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2063 | IRAQI CAPITAL AT WORK: PEPSI INTERNATIONAL AND THE BAGHDAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An Iraqi investment bank's takeover of the mixed-owned enterprise (MOE) Baghdad Softdrink Company could be a model for moving the stagnating MOE sector forward. Since gaining a controlling stake of Baghdad Softdrink, the bankers have brought in capital and management expertise t [...] | 2009-08-01 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV IZ PGOV |
09BAGHDAD2068 | VISIT TO DETAINED SUNNI TRIBAL FIGURE [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs conducted a prison visit on July 8 to see Sheikh Mutlab al-Massari, a close Embassy and U.S. military contact, prominent West Baghdad tribal leader and Sons of Iraq (SOI) affiliate. Mutlab was detained by the Iraqi Army on May 12, suspected of association with the "New Ba [...] | 2009-08-02 06:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2069 | DIWANIYAH PUBLIC DISAPPOINTED WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three months into the tenure of the Diwaniyah provincial government, the public's initial optimism that the new team would improve services is eroding. Provincial authorities seem to be focused on the challenges at hand, but are burdened by budgetary woes and the effects of a dro [...] | 2009-08-02 06:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD207 | DIYALA'S SUNNI ARABS ON ELECTORAL FRAUD: INSECURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In conversations with us January 19-21, Sunni Arab officials in Diyala insisted that Shi'a and Kurds in the province intend to steal the upcoming Provincial Council (PC) elections. Sunni Arabs fear their perceived demographic majority will be neutralized and they will not win [...] | 2009-01-27 09:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PTER PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2070 | ISCI/BADR OFFICIALS ON IRANIAN ELECTION, MEK, AND [...] (C) On August 1, Post's IW and Poloff met with Tahsin al-Azzawi, deputy chairman of the Badr Organization and member of parliament, and Haitham al-Husseini, Senior Advisor and personal aide to ISCI Chairman Abdel Aziz al-Hakim. The ensuing discussion covered post-election developments in Iran [...] | 2009-08-02 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD2071 | THIRD TURKEY-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-02 14:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER TU |
09BAGHDAD2072 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: NO GAME PLAN IN SIGHT FOR GOI [...] (C) Summary. On August 2, USG officials met with GOI Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali Abdul Amir al-Yassery to discuss the GOI's near-future plans regarding the standoff with the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) in Ashraf. (Note: The GOI has changed the name of Ashraf to Camp New Iraq. End Note.) Al-Y [...] | 2009-08-02 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2073 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LICENSE 050092728 [...] (U) This is a response to STATE 35384 regarding BLUE LANTERN end use check on license 050092728. 2. (U) Post has contacted the Multi-National Security Transition Command in Iraq (MNSTC-I) J-4 and they confirm the receipt of DTC Case 050092728, to include 7,500 M&P9 Pistols, 9mm, from Smit [...] | 2009-08-03 07:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC IZ KOMC |
09BAGHDAD2077 | OIL FOR FOOD CONTRACTS [...] (C) Summary: Iraq hopes to resolve the remaining Oil for Food (OFF) contracts by the end of the year, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chief of Staff Srood Najib told EMIN on July 29. Najib estimated that 50 outstanding OFF contracts remain -- down from 80 in April -- and promised to send the [...] | 2009-08-03 09:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET IZ KCOR PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD2078 | IRAQ AND THE NABUCCO PIPELINE [...] (C) Summary: At the Nabucco pipeline summit meeting in Ankara on July 13, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki made an unexpected pledge to supply roughly half of the pipeline's projected capacity by 2015. The announcement reflects Maliki's ambitions to see Iraq as a significant partner of Turkey and [...] | 2009-08-03 09:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV PREL EINV PINR IZ TU EUN |
09BAGHDAD2093 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: DETAINEES MOVED; RUMORS OF [...] (C) Summary. According to TF-134 local military officials, on August 2, the GOI relocated 36 Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) detainees to a facility in Khalis, making it more difficult for USG officials to ensure that the GOI are abiding by the assurances to treat the MEK in accordance with Iraqi l [...] | 2009-08-03 16:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2097 | Supplemental Budget worth USD 3.3 billion submitted to the [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraq's Council of Ministers (CoM) submitted a USD 3.3 billion supplemental 2009 budget to the Council of Representatives (CoR) on July 22. (Note: The CoR has adjourned for its summer recess and will reconvene on September 8.) If passed by the CoR, the supplemental budget would [...] | 2009-08-04 03:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD EAIR IZ |
09BAGHDAD21 | PLANNING MINISTER BABAN ON SFA, 2009 BUDGET, ICI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Emin Ambassador Wall and Treasatt met with Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Ali Baban December 31 to discuss mechanisms for implementing the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA),asset transfers, the Iraqi fiscal outlook and development prospects, and Emba [...] | 2009-01-05 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EFIN ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD210 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: A SERIOUS CONTEST WITH [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's provincial elections represent a milestone in the country's political progression. In general, the campaigns have been competitive, sometimes Sharply so. Political parties and local officials in most regions have perceived the election commission to be competent and fair, [...] | 2009-01-27 12:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2100 | MINISTER SAFA AL-SAFI LAUDS BASRAH RECONSTRUCTION, [...] (C) Summary. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Safi al-Safi told Poloffs he is proud of his management of Prime Minister Maliki's $100 million reconstruction effort in Basrah province. Contrasting his efforts to the United Kingdom's "economic failure" in Basrah, he said over 80 perce [...] | 2009-08-04 10:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2101 | NAJAF GOVERNOR MEETS MULTI-NATIONAL DIVISION SOUTH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-04 12:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2102 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-08-04 15:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2103 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: MEK ON HUNGER STRIKE, REFUSING [...] (C) Summary. On August 4, Iraqi humanitarian situation commander in Ashraf COL Sa'di Habib Hussein al-Dulaymi informed USG officials that he had visited the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) detainees at the detention facility in Khalis on August 3, stating that the MEK detainees have refused food and [...] | 2009-08-04 15:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2104 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-08-05 07:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2105 | THE LIMITS OF CROSS-SECTARIAN POLITICS BEFORE THE [...] (C) Summary. Iraqi politicians are seeking to brand their parties as non-sectarian amid a whirl of alliance negotiations before the January national parliamentary election. A significant cross-sectarian, national electoral alliance would be a very positive development in Iraqi politics. Forma [...] | 2009-08-05 08:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2106 | IRAQ'S PROGRESS ON MCC INDICATORS: OUR ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq's post-conflict economy continues to improve but it remains challenged by deep-rooted problems of corruption, red tape, an ill-equipped workforce, and land disputes. Although the GOI still focuses a lot of energy on the development of its oil sector, future foreign investme [...] | 2009-08-05 08:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON IZ KMCA PGOV PHUM PREL |
09BAGHDAD2107 | IRAQ'S ARMENIAN COMMUNITY: GREATLY REDUCED, BUT [...] (C) The leader of Iraq's Armenian Community, Archbishop Avak Asadourian, tells us that the presence of Armenians in Baghdad has been greatly reduced since 2003, but that the Armenian Church continues to serve its remaining members. On August 5, Poloff traveled to the Armenian Cathedral in Bag [...] | 2009-08-05 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2108 | FM ZEBARI URGES MORE SUPPORTIVE USG STANCE ON [...] (C) Summary: FM Hoshyar Zebari, during an August 4 introductory call by Pol M/C, called for greater USG effort to help Iraq get out of Chapter VII, as it had committed to do. He criticized the initiative of recently departed SRSG de Mistura and blamed him for the current complications with [...] | 2009-08-05 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC PTER KU IR IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2109 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-08-06 05:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2110 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-08-06 05:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2115 | GOI Budget Update: 2009 Mid-Year and First Look at 2010 [...] (SBU) Summary: The delayed enactment of the 2009 budget law until mid-April contributed to a low rate of budget execution for the first part of 2009. Lower than expected oil prices and exports have contributed to significant deficit spending. Oil revenues were USD 3.8 billion less than antic [...] | 2009-08-06 06:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD EAIR IZ |
09BAGHDAD212 | MORE ON ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENCY'S VETTING OF [...] (C) The Commission on Integrity's (COI) acting head, Judge Rahim Al-Uqaili, denied any political pressure to vet educational certificates submitted by candidates in the upcoming provincial council elections. He indicated that the COI was acting on its own and doing its part to ensure good ele [...] | 2009-01-27 16:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2120 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: DISPELLING MEK CLAIMS OF [...] (C) Summary. U.S. military medical personnel will enter Ashraf, Diyala Province, in the next 24 hours to determine the extent of the hunger strike (reftel). While the residents of Ashraf have refused food shipments from the GOI, the residents' claims of GOI blockage of food shipments to Ash [...] | 2009-08-06 13:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2121 | PRT DIYALA: BOMBING TARGETS PARTY HQ IN BAQUBAH [...] (C) Summary: On July 30, a bomb exploded inside the party headquarters of the National Movement for Reform and Development (NMRD) in Baqubah, killing seven and wounding approximately ten party members. NMRD did not win seats in Diyala during the 2009 Provincial Council (PC) elections, but d [...] | 2009-08-06 13:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2124 | AMB AND PM DISCUSS SYRIA, KUWAIT AND KRG ELECTIONS [...] (S) Summary. In their regular weekly meeting on August 6 (and the first since the PM,s return from Washington),the Ambassador and PM discussed Iraqi participation in the proposed Syrian-Iraq-U.S. trilateral border initiative. Maliki stated that he currently has an ongoing dialogue with Syri [...] | 2009-08-06 17:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | CASC EWWT IZ PGOV PREF PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD2126 | DIWANIYAH: JOURNALISM TRAINING WORKSHOP IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Public Affairs Section and Diwaniyah PRT co-sponsored two-day training session by a visiting U.S. professor helped train local journalists and offered valuable insights into their thinking and concerns. Their limitations are due largely to their media outlets being owned and [...] | 2009-08-07 11:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2127 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. If possible, please expedite this request as the start date of training is this month August 2009. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security For [...] | 2009-08-07 11:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD213 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: TUZ ELECTIONS OVERVIEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Tuz Khormatu district in Salah ad Din (SaD) province has an ethnically mixed population made up of Kurds, Turcomans (both Sunni and Shi'a) and Sunni Arabs. While the district is unavoidably linked to the controversy over neig [...] | 2009-01-27 16:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2132 | MALIKI-BARZANI MEETING: AN ICEBREAKER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The long awaited meeting between Prime Minister Maliki and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Barzani took place on August 2 and resulted in agreement to establish a joint GOI-KRG team to address contentious Arab-Kurd issues. KRG insiders tell us Maliki agreed to int [...] | 2009-08-07 15:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2134 | CODEL BISHOP MEETING WITH IRAQI COUNCIL OF [...] (C) Summary: In an August 5 meeting with CODEL Bishop, Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Ayad Al-Samarraie asserted that Iraqis were now more willing to form issue-based vice sectarian/ethnic-based political alliances, which boded well for the future. Al-Samarraie declared that t [...] | 2009-08-08 16:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF OTRA IZ |
09BAGHDAD2138 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR IP [...] This is an action request. If possible, please expedite this request. This is a re-broadcast. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for t [...] | 2009-08-09 15:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2139 | SHI'A POLITICAL PARTIES STRUGGLE TO FORM A NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Shi'a political parties that comprised the United Iraqi Coalition (UIC) in 2005 are negotiating intensely to form a new alliance to contest parliamentary elections in January 2010. Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) leaders had hoped to announce the new coalit [...] | 2009-08-09 15:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD214 | DHI QAR ELECTIONS UPDATE: SHELL GAME FAVORS DA'WA [...] (C) Summary: All PRT contacts in Dhi Qar claim to want a change from the current elected officials, but the educated elite recognize that not many alternatives exist to the three main religious parties (ISCI, Da'wa, and Fadhila). Out of 67 political parties on the Dhi Qar ballot, only the Com [...] | 2009-01-28 07:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2142 | BAGHDAD FAILY KURDS - NOT SO KURD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Baghdad's Faily Kurds, a Muslim Kurd minority, continue to grapple with issues of identity that were exacerbated by Saddam Hussein's repressive policies. They appear to have little affinity for Iraqi Kurdistan and its leaders. Rather, they say they support PM Maliki's efforts [...] | 2009-08-10 06:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI SCUL SMIG KERF IZ |
09BAGHDAD2143 | IRAQI MINISTER OF FINANCE JABR [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Ambassador,s meeting with Finance Minister Jabr, they discussed the Minister,s approval for financing of the GE deal, the need for flexibility in bidding rounds to increase oil production, the need to encourage the World Bank to provide financing to complement the USD 5. [...] | 2009-08-10 08:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | BEXP EAID ECON EFIN EINV IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD2144 | INEXPERIENCE AND BUDGET CRUNCH MARK KARBALA [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Nearly three quarters of Karbala's 2009 provincial budget is allocated for water and housing projects. With reduced oil revenues driving funding shortfalls from Baghdad, many essential service projects remain uncompleted over three months into the tenure of the new local gove [...] | 2009-08-10 10:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD215 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: MOD TRIES TO EVICT RESIDENTS OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. (U) Summary ------------ 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has issued orders to the 4th Iraqi Army (IA) Division to expel thousands of people, some of them IDPs, from various neighborhoods in Tikrit that MOD considers its prop [...] | 2009-01-28 07:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2151 | IRAQI JOURNALISTS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER DRAFT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On July 31, the Government of Iraq (GOI) announced a draft law purporting to protect journalists' rights and freedom of the press. Many Iraqi and international media rights groups and individual journalists are concerned that, if passed, the law could be manipulated [...] | 2009-08-10 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PHUM PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2152 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. If possible, please expedite this request as the start date of class is September 2009. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has [...] | 2009-08-10 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2154 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (C) In remarks at an August 1 anti-corruption conference, Vice President Al-Hashimi repeated previous criticism of the controversial legal provision, 136(b) of the Criminal Procedure Code, allowing ministers to block prosecution of employees for corruption and other crimes. Citing the Commiss [...] | 2009-08-11 09:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2163 | ASSESSING RECENT VIOLENCE IN ANBAR [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary. Six car bombing and suicide bomber attacks in Anbar Province since mid-July appear to have been conducted by remnants of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) or by nationalist insurgent groups to create an atmosphere of instability and to degrad [...] | 2009-08-11 17:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD217 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: TRYING TO REHABILITATE [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In response to security improvements in Salah ad Din (SaD),the Ministry of Transportation (MOT) has begun efforts to restore the operational capacity of the Bayji Iraq Republic Railway (BIRR) Station. The PRT expects this effo [...] | 2009-01-28 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELTN EINV ETRD IZ |
09BAGHDAD2179 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. If possible, please expedite this request as the start date of training is September 2009. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who [...] | 2009-08-12 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD218 | NINEWA: SUNNI ARAB AND KURD POLITICAL ENTITIES [...] (C) Summary. Representatives of the Sunni Arab al-Hadba list, the National Iraqi Project Group (Hewar),and the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) alleged that they are victims of Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP)-inspired intimidation and violence. The KDP has also levied accusations of elections malfeas [...] | 2009-01-28 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2181 | IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER ZEBARI ON 3 AMCITS IN [...] (C) Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari confirmed to DCM August 12 that he had raised the situation of the three American citizens detained in Iran with Iranian Ambassador Qomi on August 8. Zebari said he had told Qomi that the three should be released immediately. According to Zebari, Qomi retu [...] | 2009-08-12 15:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC IR IZ PREL |
09BAGHDAD2184 | RECENT ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN TARGETS PROMPT CONCERN, [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Since late July, a series of explosions targeting political party offices, mosques and civilian gathering places across the country have unsettled Iraqis about the possibility of renewed sectarianism. While the number of overall casualties is relatively low compared t [...] | 2009-08-13 06:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2186 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF:MEK DETAINEES VISITED; STILL NO [...] (C) Summary. A U.S. military medical team, with the consent and coordination of the GOI, visited Khalis detention facility in Diyala Province August 11 to perform a welfare check on the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) detainees currently in GOI custody. TF-134 reported that the MEK detainees appear [...] | 2009-08-13 10:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD219 | KARBALANS KEEN TO CAST BALLOTS [...] (C) Summary: Karbala's citizens are eager to vote in the provincial elections on January 31. Preparations for "special needs" voting on January 28 are complete. Acting Provincial Council Chairman Abd al-Al al-Yasiri told the PRT on January 26 that there is nothing to prevent those voting o [...] | 2009-01-28 13:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD22 | VOICES FROM BAGHDAD-AREA STREETS PRE-ELECTION [...] This is an ePRT Baghdad-5 reporting cable. 2. SUMMARY: Following our previous report on local leaders, perceptions of the upcoming January 31 provincial council (PC) elections (reftel),we have recently focused on gauging the pulse of Iraqi voters throughout Abu Ghraib, Taji and Tarmiyah [...] | 2009-01-06 07:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD2204 | IRAQ MINISTER OF OIL OPTIMISTIC ON FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion of petroleum issues in Iraq, Minister of Oil Husayn Al-Shahristani told DCM for Assistance Transition that he - is optimistic about significantly improved oil production; - expects the British Petroleum/CNPC contract to manage Rumaila field to be [...] | 2009-08-14 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2214 | ANTI-CORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ [...] (C) Iraq's lead anti-corruption agency, the Commission on Integrity (COI),is expanding its outreach to the NGO community, according to COI head Judge Raheem Al-Ugaili. He agreed to attend the ACCO-hosted NGO event planned for the fall. Judge Raheem provided an update on the GOI's anti-briber [...] | 2009-08-16 14:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM EPET IZ |
09BAGHDAD222 | UPDATE ON IRAQ STATE OWNED ENTERPRISE JOINT VENTURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals (MIM) has completed two tender rounds for joint venture (JV) arrangements between MIM and private investors in its state owned enterprises (SOE). While progress has been slow, SOE investment commitments from investors from Japan, Germa [...] | 2009-01-28 13:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2222 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TALABANI [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Talabani cautioned the Ambassador, August 13, that recent U.S. outreach to Syria and Sunni insurgent groups is playing into perceptions that the USG supports the return of the Baathists. Talabani was likewise cautionary on overly visible U.S. advocacy for a resolution [...] | 2009-08-17 09:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PREL SY |
09BAGHDAD2223 | PLANNING FOR THE OCTOBER U.S.-IRAQ DIALOGUE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy offers our perspective on planning for the two events announced during PM Maliki's recent visit to Washington: The October 19 U.S.-Iraq Dialogue on Economic Cooperation (DEC) and the October 20-21 U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference. Both events, but partic [...] | 2009-08-17 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2230 | CODEL MCCAIN MEETING WITH IRAQI PRESIDENT TALABANI [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Talabani predicted to CODEL McCain that, with U.S. help, the Kurds and Arabs would be able to avoid conflict and resolve critical issues like the status of Kirkuk. He said Barhem Salih was on track to become the next KRG prime minister. FM Zebari emphasized that the Jan [...] | 2009-08-17 16:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM SY IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2237 | SENIOR IRAQI MFA OFFICIAL ON IRAN-IRAQ RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 17 meeting with Post's Iran Watcher (IW),Ambassador Taha Shukr al-Abbassi, head of the MFA's Neighboring Countries department responsible for Iran-Iraq relations (A/S equivalent),made the following points: (1) Iraq seeks a bilateral relationship with Iran base [...] | 2009-08-18 11:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2238 | KRG ELECTIONS: IHEC ANNOUNCES PROVISIONAL RESULTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Having announced last week provisional results of the Kurdistan regional elections, the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has shifted its attention to preparing for the national elections, expected to take place in January 2009. Overall, contacts at UNAMI, diplomatic [...] | 2009-08-18 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2239 | IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR ON PM'S TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary: Acting National Security Advisor Dr. Safa al-Sheikh told Pol M/C August 16 that PM Maliki would travel to Damascus August 18 armed with specific intelligence about SARG support for Baathists in Syria, and he would demand that it cease. Al-Sheikh noted that many Iraqi officials c [...] | 2009-08-18 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD224 | IRAQ NATIONAL LIST MEMBERS WEIGH IN ON PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-28 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2242 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. If possible, please expedite this request as training is scheduled to begin September 5, 2009. Our apologies for the late submission. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following c [...] | 2009-08-18 15:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2243 | VOTER REGISTRATION UPATE DRAWS IHEC INTO KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The national voter registration update (VRU) originally scheduled to begin August 15, has been postponed for a week as the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has been drawn into sectarian politics over the disputed province of Kirkuk. Although the VRU period will open [...] | 2009-08-18 15:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2244 | IRAQI CABINET SUBMITS DRAFT LAW FOR REFERENDUM ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: According to an August 17 press release, the Iraqi Council of Ministers has approved a draft law for holding a public referendum on the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement (SA) in conjunction with parliamentary elections in January 2010. The move is consistent with the Cabine [...] | 2009-08-18 15:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2245 | DA,WA PARTY CONFERENCE STRESSES NATIONAL UNITY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Maliki was reelected as his party's secretary-general during Da'wa's biennial convention August 13-15. GOI President Talibani and most members of the Iraqi Cabinet attended the opening ceremony, which emphasized the themes of national unity and Iraqi sovereignty. While hedgi [...] | 2009-08-18 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2246 | PM MALIKI, CODEL MCCAIN DISCUSS KIRKUK, MEDDLING [...] (C) Summary: In an August 14 meeting with PM Maliki, Senator McCain congratulated the PM for the impressive progress in Iraq since his last visit. PM Maliki acknowledged the significant security gains and pointed to the tremendous sacrifices of both Iraqis and Americans. Regarding Arab-Kur [...] | 2009-08-18 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF SY IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2251 | MEK/ASHRAF UPDATE: GOI PLANNING TO RELOCATE MEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 18 meeting with the Commander of Task Force 134 and Poloff, Ali al-Yassery, the chairman of the GOI's Ashraf Committee stated: (1) the GOI regrets the loss of life and will continue to abide by Iraq's laws and constitution in its dealing with the Mujahideen-e-Kh [...] | 2009-08-19 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER PREL IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2256 | MINISTER OF ELECTRICITY HAS A PLAN, BUT LACKS [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging initial meeting with DCM for Assistance Transition Patricia Haslach, Minister of Electricity Karim Hasan outlined Iraq,s significant infrastructural challenges; discussed his plans for short-term financing of an ongoing multi-billion dollar electricity generation [...] | 2009-08-20 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2261 | KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI, CODEL MCCAIN DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani reaffirmed to CODEL McCain August 15 that the Kurds will forever be an ally of the United States. Barzani claimed the KRG was ready to resolve the host of Arab-Kurd issues -- including disputed internal boundaries (DIBs) [...] | 2009-08-21 09:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET IZ IR SY |
09BAGHDAD2265 | ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS IN MOSUL [...] (C) Anti-Corruption Coordinator and staff (ACCO) visited Mosul, capital of Ninewa province August 15-16. Anti-corruption efforts in Ninewa include, inter alia, the conviction of the former Provincial Council President for contract fraud and the case of Ninewa's prison warden, Hussein Tawfiq, w [...] | 2009-08-21 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2270 | FM ZEBARI PROVIDES MESSAGE OF REASSURANCE, INSISTS [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari met with foreign Ambassadors August 21 to provide an official reaction to the August 19 bombing of the MFA (and other GOI buildings) and to provide assurances that the MFA would soon be back up and functioning, using auxiliary buildings on the MFA compound [...] | 2009-08-21 14:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2271 | PM MALIKI ON TRILATERAL SECURITY EFFORT, AUGUST 19 [...] (S) Summary: In an August 20 meeting, Iraqi PM Maliki expressed appreciation for the Ambassador's offer of condolences on the previous day's bombings, as well as for the technical assistance U.S. experts were providing in the field. Maliki requested the USG delay any further release of detai [...] | 2009-08-21 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2272 | FM ZEBARI ACCEPTS AMBASSADOR'S CONDOLENCES; SAYS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador visited the heavily damaged MFA building August 22 to offer his condolences on the bombings in Baghdad. Meeting in a room that had been largely cleared of damage for a makeshift receiving room, but surrounded by rooms and hallways filled with shattered glass, deb [...] | 2009-08-22 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2273 | ACTION REQUEST: UK SEEKING OPTIONS TO RESUME NAVAL [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 8. 2. (C//NF) Summary: British officials in mid-August made multiple inquiries of Post and U.S. military in Iraq regarding options for resuming UK naval training in Iraq, highlighting the mission's uncertain future. The UK pulled its naval train [...] | 2009-08-23 03:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ UK |
09BAGHDAD2277 | ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD IN KRG ELECTIONS POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the Independent Higher Electoral Commission's (IHEC's) recent certification of the results in the July 25 Kurdish Regional Elections, there remains lingering resentment among the Kurdish opposition and Christian parties that fraud, manipulation, and intimidation played [...] | 2009-08-23 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM KIRF IZ |
09BAGHDAD2279 | IRAQI MEDIA PLACEMENT OF PRESIDENT'S RAMADAN GREETING [...] (U) Summary: President Obama's special Ramadan greeting to the Muslim world was carried in several Iraqi newspapers and news websites, as well as on three Iraqi Television channels that broadcast throughout the region. Reporting of the greeting was immediate and positive. A number of news out [...] | 2009-08-23 14:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KCUL IZ |
09BAGHDAD228 | GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ TAXES: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, [...] (SBU) Summary: As businesses and individuals step up commercial activities and as oil revenues languish, the GOI is devoting more attention to other sources of revenues, particularly taxes. The GOI tax regime is partly old, based on administrative provisions dating from 1982, and partly new, [...] | 2009-01-28 16:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2282 | RRT ERBIL: KRG CONVENES NEW PARLIAMENT BUT [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: At a ceremony in Erbil August 20, the newly-elected Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) parliament was sworn in and President Barzani inaugurated. Barzani and President Talabani strongly condemned the Baghdad bombings and called for Iraqi un [...] | 2009-08-23 16:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV |
09BAGHDAD2285 | IRAQI JOURNALISTS PROTEST GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Iraqi journalists took to the streets on August 14 to protest a perceived Government of Iraq (GOI) crackdown on freedom of the press. Estimates of the number of participants in the demonstration range from 150 to 1,500. GOI police provided security for the event, a [...] | 2009-08-24 10:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PHUM PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2287 | IRANIANS THREATEN TO REDUCE PILGRIM VISITS TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala reporting cable. 2. (SBU) On August 12, Ridha Arjimand Zada, the Najaf representative of the Iranian Committee of Haj, Pilgrimages and Holy Visits told Karbala-based Noon al-Husayn Radio that Iran would indefinitely suspend sending pilgrims to Iraq as soon as Ramad [...] | 2009-08-24 13:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON IR IZ PGOV |
09BAGHDAD2288 | NEW SHIA ALLIANCE EXCLUDES MALIKI, BUT FINAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's main Shia parties, with the notable exception of PM Maliki's Da'wa, announced today the establishment of the Iraqi National Coalition (INC),a revitalized Shia grouping that seeks to run together during the national election scheduled for January. Saying the INC would buil [...] | 2009-08-24 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2293 | AMBASSADOR HILL AND MINISTER OF JUSTICE DARA VISIT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 12, Ambassador Hill toured the Rusafa Prison Complex with Minister of Justice Dara Noor Al-Deen Baha, Al-Deen. Minister Dara hosted the tour to assess the conditions and treatment of detainees, and to show Ambassador Hill the facility and operation. Ambassador Hill [...] | 2009-08-25 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | SOCI PGOV PHUM KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2294 | MANAGING IRAQI POLITICAL RESPONSE TO BAGHDAD [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Responding to reports that PM Maliki is considering firing senior officials, including Interior Minister and PM-hopeful Jawad al-Bolani, in reaction to the recent Baghdad bombings, the Ambassador and Emboffs engaged with members of the Presidency Council, parliament, and Malik [...] | 2009-08-25 16:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2298 | SRSG FOR UNAMI DISCUSSES ARAB-KURD, CHAPTER VII [...] (C) Summary: In an August 23 meeting with the Ambassador, UNAMI SRSG Melkert expressed concern about the ability of GOI forces to provide security, in the wake of the breakdowns evident in the August 19 bombings. Melkert said he intended to convene the High Level Task Force on disputed intern [...] | 2009-08-26 03:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KU IZ |
09BAGHDAD2299 | (C) IRAQ OIL: MINISTRY OFFICIALS SKEPTICAL AS [...] (C) Summary: In advance of the second oil and gas bid round, international oil companies (IOCs) are increasing their engagement with the Ministry of Oil (MOO). While the Government of Iraq (GOI) has yet to determine how it will deal with oil fields that were not awarded in the first bid roun [...] | 2009-08-26 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2301 | SECURITY ISSUES, NOT RAMADAN, CORRELATES WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In Iraq, as in other Middle Eastern countries, economic activity increases during Ramadan as families buy more traditional foodstuffs and gifts for Iftar dinners. Despite this increased demand for goods (and reports of price-gouging),our analysis of Iraq's Consumer Price Index [...] | 2009-08-26 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD2302 | DEATH OF SHIA LEADER ABD AL-AZIZ AL-HAKIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Shia political world marked a major milestone with the death today of Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, the chairman of the influential Shia party the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI). Hakim's death could herald a generational shift within ISCI and the Hakim dynasty that could bri [...] | 2009-08-26 16:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2303 | SADR CITY SHI'A IMAMS NOT SANGUINE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shi'a imams and community activists told Emboffs that: Sunni-Shi'a reconciliation would be impossible in the near- to mid-term; Iraqis would continue to vote on sectarian lines in upcoming elections; no existing political party enjoys genuine credibility; a major effort on voter [...] | 2009-08-26 16:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KIRF KCOR PTER PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2304 | FM ZEBARI ON TRILATERAL PARTICIPATION, POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 26 meeting at the MFA with Pol M/C, FM Zebari said that in light of Syria's involvement with Baathists suspected in the August 19 bombings, the GOI would have to defer participation in the upcoming U.S.-Syria trilateral border assessment that had been planned to begi [...] | 2009-08-27 12:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER UNSC IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2308 | PRT DIYALA: ELECTION OFFICIAL POINTS TO FRICTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The head of Diyala,s Governorate Elections Office (GEO),Mr. Amer Latif Mujiid, asserted that voter registration preparations for the upcoming January 2010 national elections in Iraq are proceeding as planned in Diyala; however, questionable security plans and his ongoing distr [...] | 2009-08-27 14:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD2312 | UPDATE ON ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS IN IRAQ [...] (C) The Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) "good governance and transparency strategy" is a welcome initiative -- if vigorously implemented -- that contains an array of action items, ranging from the creation of an "Executive Office of Governance and Integrity" to reform of the civil servi [...] | 2009-08-28 09:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2313 | UPDATE ON ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-28 09:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2318 | Alternative Energies to be integrated into Iraq's Energy [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives from eleven Iraqi ministries discussed the potential for alternative energy (solar, wind, biomass, hydro) in Iraq at the Iraqi Renewable Energy Steering Committee (IRESC) meeting on August 19. IRESC keynote speaker Dr. Al-Qaraghuli from the U.S. Department of [...] | 2009-08-28 14:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG OSCI SENV TNGD TPHY TRGY TSPL BEXP BTIO |
09BAGHDAD2319 | "BLAMESTORMING" OVER BAGHDAD BOMBINGS SHARPENS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 19 bombings in Baghdad prompted a flurry of finger-pointing, with government officials and politicians blaming various Sunni groups, especially Ba,athists in Iraq and Syria, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF)and rival Shi,a groups. The Saudis and Syrians, too, have come und [...] | 2009-08-28 15:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINR PTER SA SY POL |
09BAGHDAD2320 | EMBASSY BAGHDAD SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Ambassador Hill welcomes your visit to U.S. Embassy Baghdad. Your visit comes as we shift to a higher gear on transition amidst the initial stages of the U.S. military drawdown. We look forward to discussing in depth the 2011-2012 planning and explaining in detail our assistance, rig [...] | 2009-08-28 18:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID AMGT IZ |
09BAGHDAD2335 | UNAMI SRSG TO DONOR PARTNERS: TOGETHER WE STAND OR [...] (SBU) Summary: Summary: New UNAMI SRSG Ad Melkert told a well-attended Iraq Partners Forum meeting on August 26 that it is "time to close the ICI chapter and open a new chapter" of the book on GoI-donor coordination. Melkert said his current thinking is to aim for an Ambassadorial-level, vi [...] | 2009-08-30 12:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD2336 | UNAMI SRSG TO DONOR PARTNERS: TOGETHER WE STAND OR [...] (SBU) Summary: Summary: New UNAMI SRSG Ad Melkert told a well-attended Iraq Partners Forum meeting on August 26 that it is "time to close the ICI chapter and open a new chapter" of the book on GoI-donor coordination. Melkert said his current thinking is to aim for an Ambassadorial-level, vi [...] | 2009-08-30 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD2337 | FINANCE MINISTER JABR: MOF RESUMING ACTIVITY [...] (SBU) During an August 26 meeting with Ambassador Haslach, Finance Minister Jabr made special note of his good relationship with former deputy PM and KRG PM Barham Salih. Ambassador Haslach delivered condolence letters from Ambassador Hill and Department of Treasury Acting Assistant Secretary [...] | 2009-08-30 13:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EPET IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD2343 | WASIT PROVINCIAL COUNCIL DISMISSES OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) The Wasit Provincial Council (PC) on Aug. 20 voted to permanently remove two leading "opposition" figures, Ghadanfar Kadim Ubayd (Iraqi List) and Majid Ali Askar (Dawa-Maliki faction). The PC Chairman, Mahmud Abd Al-Rida Talal (aka Haiji Mahmud-ISCI),initiated the removal process and o [...] | 2009-08-31 08:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2348 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-08-31 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD235 | UPBEAT MINORITY LEADERS ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) While Christian and other minority leaders still smart over the single-seat minority quotas in the Provincial Elections Law (PEL),they no longer talk of a boycott and are encouraging their constituents in the north and other regions to vote in the provincial elections on January 31. Chri [...] | 2009-01-29 13:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2350 | PM MALIKI DECIDES THAT IT IS TOO DANGEROUS TO OPEN [...] (S) Summary. At the August 30 meeting of the International Zone (IZ) Security Joint Sub-Committee (JSC),the Government of Iraq (GOI) declared its intention to delay opening of the north-south highway bisecting the IZ until after national elections are complete. The GOI also stated that it w [...] | 2009-08-31 15:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ASEC IR IZ KCRS MARR PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD2357 | NINEWA,S KING-MAKER ARTICULATES NATIONAL AMBITIONS [...] (C) Summary: During an August 26 meeting with PRT Leader, Multi-national Division-North (MDN-N)Deputy Commanding General (DCG),and 3/1 Cavalry Brigade Commander, Sheikh Abdullah al Humaidi, head of the influential Arab Shammari tribe and the major force behind Ninewa,s governing Al Hadba coal [...] | 2009-09-01 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PTER |
09BAGHDAD2363 | FM ZEBARI ON GOI PURSUIT OF UN CRIMINAL INQUIRY, [...] (C) Summary: In a September 1 meeting, FM Zebari told Pol M/C the GOI has sent a letter formally requesting the UNSC to support formation of a UN-led fact-finding commission into the August 19 bombings, including Syrian complicity vis a vis Iraqis operating from Syria, and the broader scope o [...] | 2009-09-02 11:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2366 | PRESIDENT TALABANI'S TRAVEL TO THE U.S. [...] (C) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Post requests possible dates for a POTUS meeting with President Talabani. Talabani expressed his desire to meet POTUS in Washington, D.C. directly following his trip to New York to deliver speeches in New York at UNGA, the Clinton Initiative and the Socialist [...] | 2009-09-02 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA IZ |
09BAGHDAD2367 | PRT DIYALA: ONGOING CHALLENGES TO PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-02 16:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KDEM PGOV PINR PTER |
09BAGHDAD2369 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-03 06:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD237 | FEMALE CANDIDATES COULD WIN MORE THAN 25 PERCENT [...] (C) Summary: Despite confusion over the interpretation of the Provincial Election Law, and the failure to pass a late amendment to guarantee a 25 percent quota for women on each of the 14 provincial councils (PCs) to be elected in Iraq on January 31, the United Nations projects that new PCs [...] | 2009-01-29 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2370 | RRT ERBIL: KRG MINISTER,S HARSH CRITICISM OF U.S. [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister Responsible for Foreign Relations Falah Mustafa announced publicly that Embassy Baghdad fails to inform Washington about Kurdistan Regional issues. He repeated it again in a meeting with RRT Lead [...] | 2009-09-03 06:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PREL |
09BAGHDAD2372 | IRAQ CONTINUES TO MAKE PROGRESS ON KUWAITI MASS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq has made substantial progress recently in its search for mass graves containing the remains of Kuwaitis. Following a successful August 4 Technical Subcommittee meeting in Kuwait, the Government of Iraq (GOI) formally petitioned the International Committee of the Red Cross [...] | 2009-09-03 07:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR PGOV IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD2374 | WTO ACCESSION STEPS UNLIKELY BEFORE JANUARY [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI seems unlikely to make the sound economic but tough political decisions that would move Iraq closer to World Trade Organization (WTO) accession before Iraqi national elections in January 2010. Although Iraq has completed the requisites for the next round of accession ta [...] | 2009-09-03 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV EAID WTO ECON EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD238 | THE IRAQ MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT'S EVOLVING ROLE [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Environment (MoEnv) lacks sufficient training and equipment to execute its main responsibilities of environmental monitoring and clean up, Minister Narmin Othman told EMIN on January 22. Demining is presently a MoEnv responsibility, but the Ministry of Defense continues [...] | 2009-01-29 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EPET ECIN KHDP KSCA IZ |
09BAGHDAD2381 | PROGRESS ON DEMINING PICKS UP PACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraqi Minister of Defense Abd Al-Qadir Muhammad Al-Mufriji issued an order August 30 to allow nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to perform demining operations, according the Deputy MinEnv Kamal Hussein Latif. The directive represents a significant breakthrough for U.S.-suppor [...] | 2009-09-03 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KHDP PARM PGOV PREL UNDP IZ |
09BAGHDAD2384 | Are the Iraqi Prisons Working Yet? -- An Assessment of [...] (SBU) In October 2002, Saddam granted unprecedented amnesty to virtually all prisoners in Iraq releasing to the street as many as 100,000 convicted criminals. He publically stated this release was a 'thank you' to his countrymen for endorsing him as President in a national referendum. With t [...] | 2009-09-04 08:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PNAT PINS PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2385 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (C) The Higher Judicial Council's spokesperson reported that Iraq's judiciary had received 445 corruption cases so far this year and already adjudicated over half of them, issuing many guilty verdicts. He asserted that some cases involved senior GOI officials. A Deputy Interior Minister ack [...] | 2009-09-04 09:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2386 | AMMAR AL-HAKIM SUCCEEDS FATHER AS ISCI CHAIRMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six days after the death of Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Shura Council elected Hakim's eldest son, Ammar, to be ISCI's new chairman. The move was widely anticipated given the close association of the Hakim family to ISCI and the praise lavished [...] | 2009-09-04 10:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2388 | IRAQI MINISTER OF INTERIOR INVESTIGATES ATTACKS, [...] (S//NF) Summary: Minister of Interior Jawad Bolani told EmbOffs on August 31 that his primary focus now is security leading up to the national election, without which Iraq cannot have an effective democratic process. An important aspect of this to Bolani is the Iraqi government's response to [...] | 2009-09-04 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PTER PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2389 | OIL MINISTER FLEXIBLE WITH IOC IN PRIVATE ... BUT [...] (C) Summary: British Petroleum Iraq (BP) said Oil Minister Shahristani is under intense pressure to get the GOI's contract with British Petroleum/China National Petroleum Corporation (BP/CNPC) signed. According to BP, Shahristani has been personally engaged and responsive to BP's concerns, an [...] | 2009-09-04 16:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD239 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS KICK OFF WITH SPECIAL NEEDS [...] (C) Summary: Polling centers around Iraq opened for the day on January 28 to accommodate "special needs" voters. Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Police (IP),detainees in Iraqi and Multinational Force - Iraq (MNF-I) centers, and hospital patients and staff were eligible to vote early in the [...] | 2009-01-29 14:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2390 | MALIKI ADVISOR SAYS PM UNLIKELY TO JOIN SHI'A [...] (C) In a meeting with the DCM on September 2, PM Maliki's Chief of Staff, Tariq Abdullah, said it was "doubtful" that the PM would join the recently-formed Iraqi National Alliance (INA). (Note: As reported ref A, Iraq's main Shi'a parties, with the notable exception of Maliki's Da'wa Party, lau [...] | 2009-09-05 07:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2394 | GOI PROPOSAL FOR NEW ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (SBU) Summary: At an August 26 Iraq Partners Forum (IPF) meeting, Ministry of Planning Director General for International Cooperation Huda Malik proposed to move Iraq,s assistance coordination function from her ministry to a higher body, such as the Prime Minister's Office. She said the new [...] | 2009-09-05 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2395 | IRAQ POLICE STRENGTHENING ALONG SYRIAN BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Post is closely following Iraqi and international media reports of Iraqi police and security force deployments to its border with Syria, particularly along the common border with the Iraqi Anbar province. Reports and contacts involving Iraqi MoI and MoD sources so far indicate [...] | 2009-09-05 17:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL MOPS PINR PTER SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2396 | IRAQ POLICE AT SYRIAN BORDER: NO NEW MOVEMENT [...] (C) As of 0700 EST, there are no confirmed reports of an increase in security personnel along the Syrian border, despite numerous media accounts of thousands of Iraqi police heading west. According to Interior Minister Senior Advisor Dr. Norman Ricklefs, at this time this is more about the P [...] | 2009-09-06 11:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS PINR PTER SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2397 | ZEBARI SAYS IRAN WANTS TO TRADE FOR THE THREE [...] (C) Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari informed Pol M/C September 1 that Iranian FM Mottaki told him during his August 29 visit that Iran wants to trade the three Amcits detained since July 30 in exchange for seven Iranians held in Europe and the U.S. (NOTE: Zebari did not have information on which sev [...] | 2009-09-06 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CASC IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2398 | MEK/ASHRAF UPDATE: GOI WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 2 meeting with MNFI and Emboffs, Ali Yassery, Chairman of the GOI's "MEK/Ashraf" Committee stated: (1) the GOI will meet with the MEK after Ramadan to solicit their cooperation for the relocation; (2) the 36 MEK detainees in Iraqi police custody face secondary c [...] | 2009-09-06 14:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2399 | IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIALS DISCUSS REQUEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior MFA officials told Pol M/C September 4 that the GOI is determined to pursue a investigation of the role of neighboring countries, in particular Syria, in the bombings of August 19, as well as, the broader issue of intervention and external support for terrorism in Iraq. The [...] | 2009-09-06 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD24 | CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY IN NAJAF, ONLY MINOR ABUSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. The election campaign has begun in Najaf with incumbent ISCI officials hoping that the popularity of development projects will help keep them in control of the province. A top local politician from Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa party, meanwhile, hoped the Prime Minister's perso [...] | 2009-01-06 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL MARR IZ |
09BAGHDAD240 | IRAQI JUDGES DISCUSS ANTI-CORRUPTION ISSUES [...] (C) The Central Criminal Court of Iraq's top investigative judge, in familiar GOI terms, expressed resentment over Iraq's abysmal standing in Transparency International's global rankings on corruption. At the same time, he acknowledged the weaknesses of the GOI's anti-corruption institutions, [...] | 2009-01-30 08:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2403 | TRAFFICKED UGANDANS REPATRIATED FROM IRAQ [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) From August 18-30, the Embassy and MNF-I, with the assistance of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the GOI, successfully repatriated 14 women to Uganda who had been trafficked into Iraq for the purposes of labor exploitation. The women had escaped from thei [...] | 2009-09-07 06:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KWMN KLPM PHUM PREL ELAB SMIG UG IZ |
09BAGHDAD2417 | CODEL LEVIN PROBES SECURITY AND STABILITY IN IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of their September 3-4 visit to Iraq, Senators Levin, Reed, and Kaufman engaged Interior Minister Jawad Bolani and Defense Minister Abd al-Qadr al-Mufriji on Iraq's current security environment, conveying Washington's interest in Iraq's stability. In separate meetings, the [...] | 2009-09-08 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PTER MCAP PGOV INRPAZ EPET |
09BAGHDAD2419 | PRT DIYALA: POLITICAL INFIGHTING UNDERMINES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD242 | IRAQ'S PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: RAMIFICATIONS FOR [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The outcome of the upcoming provincial elections will have important implications for the stability of Diyala Province and the region. The PRT predicts one of three likely scenarios to result from the elections: coalitions will fo [...] | 2009-01-30 12:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2420 | PRT DIYALA: POLITICAL INFIGHTING UNDERMINES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2421 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH IRAQI DEPUTY SPEAKER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 31 meeting, First Deputy Speaker Khalid al Attiya spoke with the Ambassador about security issues -- and the impact that internal political conflicts can have on security -- in the wake of the August 19 bombings. For Attiya, a a Shia independent and Maliki supporter, [...] | 2009-09-09 05:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2422 | LETTER FROM DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER RAFE AL-EISSAWI [...] On August 28 Embassy Baghdad received the following letter from Deputy Prime Minister Rafe H. Al-Eissawi to Vice President Joseph Biden. The original letter will be passed to the Vice President's traveling party next week. Begin text of message: Republic of Iraq Deputy Prime Minister Of [...] | 2009-09-09 06:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2424 | JUDICIARY ISSUES ARREST WARRANT FOR PROMINENT [...] (C) The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) has issued a warrant for the arrest of a leading anti-corruption official, Board of Supreme Audit (BSA) head Abdel Basit Turki, widely respected as upright and competent. The warrant is based on alleged wrongdoing by Abdel Basit while serving the Saddam regime [...] | 2009-09-09 10:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2425 | CODEL LEVIN DISCUSSES IRAQ'S PLACE IN THE REGION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 4 meeting with visiting Senator Levin, FM Zebari requested USG support for establishing a UN tribunal, similar to the one set up following Rafik Hariri's assassination in Lebanon, to determine who was behind the August 19 attacks. Zebari called the attack "Iraq's [...] | 2009-09-09 11:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF SY IR KU IZ |
09BAGHDAD2426 | IRAQ/IRAN: KARBALA EAGER FOR PILGRIMS WITH DEEP POCKETS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: According to the governor of Karbala and the brother of the imam of the al-Abbas shrine, Iran continues to exert a dominating influence, notably in business dealings in Karbala province. Both interlocutors lamented Iraq's inability to negotiate with the Iranians for [...] | 2009-09-09 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ ECON |
09BAGHDAD2427 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-09 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2428 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. Please expedite as course start date is September 19, 2009. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for trainin [...] | 2009-09-09 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2429 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for visit to the United States to meet with OSD and DOS staff. 3. Th [...] | 2009-09-09 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2430 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-09 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2431 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for visit to the United States to meet with OSD and DOS staff. 3. Th [...] | 2009-09-09 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2432 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated visit to the United States to meet with OSD and DOS staff. 3. The na [...] | 2009-09-09 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2433 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-09 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2434 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for visit to the United States to meet with OSD and DOS staff. 3. Th [...] | 2009-09-09 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2435 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for visit to the United States to meet with OSD and DOS staff. 3. Th [...] | 2009-09-09 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2436 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated visit to the United States to meet with OSD and DOS staff. 3. The na [...] | 2009-09-09 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2437 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for visit to the United States to meet with OSD and DOS staff. 3. Th [...] | 2009-09-09 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2438 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-09 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2439 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. Please expedite as course start date is September 19, 2009. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for trainin [...] | 2009-09-09 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD244 | MINISTER OF FINANCE JABR DISCUSSES KUWAITI DEBT, [...] (C) Summary: Finance Minister Bayan Jabr told EMIN on January 26 that the GoI delegation to the Arab League Summit in Kuwait had discussed the GoI's debt with the Kuwaiti government, but that no resolution was reached over compensation for Kuwaiti Airlines damages. Although Kuwaiti Prince She [...] | 2009-01-30 12:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET ETRD IZ PGOV |
09BAGHDAD2441 | PM MALIKI, CODEL LEVIN DISCUSS FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Maliki told CODEL Levin Iraq faces interference from neighboring countries intent on fomenting sectarian discord, and Syria-based Iraqi Ba'athists and al-Qaeda in Iraq elements conspired to perpetrate the August 19 bombings. He expressed confidence in Iraqi Security Forces' (I [...] | 2009-09-10 06:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR UN KIRF IR IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2442 | DPM ISSAWI: ATTACKS ON INTERIOR MINISTER UNFAIR; [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Issawi told Pol M-C that criticism of Interior Minister Bolani in the wake of the August 19 Baghdad bombings was unfounded and designed to pressure Bolani to stay in the Shi'a fold for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Issawi was optimistic about reducin [...] | 2009-09-10 06:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2444 | SUNNI POLITICAL PARTIES FRACTURED DESPITE [...] (C) Summary: Realizing they disadvantaged themselves by boycotting earlier elections and alarmed at perceived Iranian efforts to increase influence and ensure Shi'a domination of Iraqi politics, Sunni politicians are participating in large numbers in the run-up to national elections in 2010. T [...] | 2009-09-10 14:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2445 | IRAQ UNEMPLOYMENT ESTIMATED AT 15.5 PERCENT [...] (SBU) Internal figures from the Central Office for Statistics and Information Technology (COSIT) estimate that Iraq's unemployment rate is currently at 15.5 percent. COSIT's last published estimate showed a 12 percent rate for the final quarter of 2008. In addition to the overall rate, a GOI [...] | 2009-09-10 15:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD245 | ANBAR CANDIDATES CONFIDENT FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of recent discussions in the week before Provincial Council (PC) elections, Anbari candidates and the Governorate Elections Officer (GEO) expressed enthusiasm and confidence that the elections will be a strong step forward for Anbar. Candidates predicted the number o [...] | 2009-01-30 13:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2452 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-11 10:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2453 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-11 10:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2454 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: A number of cases involving senior judicial and anti-corruption officials continue to bubble up in the media in Iraq, likely a manifestation of both intense political jockeying and real efforts to crack down on corruption, which polls show is an issue of increasing [...] | 2009-09-11 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD2455 | PM MALIKI ADVISOR ON SYRIA, ARAB-KURD TALKS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sadiq al-Rikabi, PM Maliki's political advisor, told Pol M/C September 9 that Maliki was intent on hitting every pressure point available, including through the UN, to get Syria to stop harboring anti-GOI Ba'thists and allowing insurgents to cross the border. Turning to Iran, Ri [...] | 2009-09-11 15:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2456 | IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY CHIEF: ELECTIONS ON TRACK; [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Islamic Party leader Osama al-Tikriti believes the Iraqi parliament will soon pass an election law providing for multiple districts and a closed list, and that national elections will occur on schedule in January. He asserted that PM Maliki would not be able to gain broad Su [...] | 2009-09-11 16:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2459 | CONVERSATION WITH KDP REPRESENTATIVE ROWSCH [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 7, former Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways arrived in Baghdad to represent the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) at UNAMI's September 8 High Level Task Force (HLTF) meeting. Shaways has not been a regular fixture in Baghdad politics for over 9 months. As KR [...] | 2009-09-12 09:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD246 | ANBAR CANDIDATES PREDICT NEW PROVINCIAL COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of discussions with poloffs on the upcoming Anbar Provincial Council (PC) elections, Anbari candidates predicted that the Awakening Conference of Iraq (MSI, the "Sahwa"),the Iraqi Islamic Party, the Iraqi National Dialogue Front, the National Movement for Reform and [...] | 2009-01-30 13:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2461 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] This is an action request. 2. Post wishes to confirm the screening of the following individuals 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 nominated for US Government prov [...] | 2009-09-12 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2463 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN TO [...] (S/NF) Mr. Vice President, your upcoming trip to Iraq comes at an important time in Iraq's political calendar. As the Islamic month of Ramadan draws to a close, Iraqi political leaders are furiously at work negotiating potential alliances in advance of the January 2010 parliamentary elections [...] | 2009-09-12 14:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ENRG KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2466 | LETTER FROM DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER RAFE AL-EISSAWI [...] (U) On August 28 Embassy Baghdad received the following letter from Deputy Prime Minister Rafe H. Al-Eissawi to Vice President Joseph Biden. The original letter will be passed to OVP. 2. (U) Begin text of message: Republic of Iraq Deputy Prime Minister Office Rafe H. Al-Eissawi The [...] | 2009-09-13 07:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2469 | Iraq Depends on Others for Water; Low River Flows Have [...] (U) Note: Post intends this message to be the first periodic report on water issues - and their growing prominence - in Iraq. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Tigris and Euphrates river systems supply almost all of Iraq's water needs. Ninety percent of the two rivers' water flows first through Turk [...] | 2009-09-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV ENRG PBTS PREL TPHY TRGY TSPL EAGR EAID |
09BAGHDAD247 | ANBARI CANDIDTATES' FRET ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Anbari Provincial Council (PC) elections candidates and the Governorate Elections Officer (GEO) recently detailed concerns to poloffs about potential campaign irregularities and/or electoral intimidation, especially by Iraqi Police (IP). Two candidates protested that Al Anbar t [...] | 2009-01-30 14:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PTER KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2473 | MOI TO HIRE 500 CHRISTIANS AND MANDEANS TO GUARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to requests from the non-Muslim Endowment and the bombings of six churches in Baghdad on July 12, the GOI has authorized the Ministry of Interior (MOI) to hire, train and pay 500 guards drawn from Iraq's Christians and Sabean-Mandean communities to serve as guards at ch [...] | 2009-09-14 05:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PTER SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2474 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-14 05:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2475 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-14 05:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2478 | MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON MEK, RESOURCES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 7 meeting with the POL M/C, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim criticized the GOI's handling of the Mujahadeen el-Khalq (MEK) issue, noting that Iraq has already lost the battle for public opinion within the international community. In addition, Salim cited a l [...] | 2009-09-14 07:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KJUS PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD248 | PRT DIYALA ELECTIONS PREPARATION AND SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala and ePRT South Diyala reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Provincial Leaders in Diyala express confidence that preparations are on track for the January 31 Provincial Council (PC) elections. The Governorate Election Office (GEO) reports necessary resources are in pl [...] | 2009-01-30 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM ASEC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2484 | U.S. OUTREACH TO THE MUSLIM WORLD: FARAH PANDITH DESCRIBES [...] Summary: The Department's Senior Advisor on Muslim Engagement Farah Pandith conducted a digital video conference with Iraqi media and cultural contacts to explain her office's role in reaching out to Muslim communities. This event engaged major media players in Iraq during Ramadan, allowing for [...] | 2009-09-14 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KISL KPAO KCUL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2487 | AHMED CHALABI DISCUSSES HIS NEW POLITICAL ALLIANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 12 meeting with POL M/C, Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress party and member of the newly-formed and predominantly Shia Iraqi National Alliance (INA) (see reftel),criticized the GOI and PM Maliki for failing to govern effectively. He said the I [...] | 2009-09-14 14:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD249 | KARBALANS "SPECIAL NEEDS" VOTING PROBLEM-FREE [...] (C) Summary: "Special needs" voting in Karbala on January 28 proceeded smoothly. Some 19,000 out of approximately 24,000 eligible voters cast ballots. Polling sites in the western, central and eastern sectors of the province were calm and orderly, with voters taking evident care to read and [...] | 2009-01-30 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2491 | MINORITY QUOTAS IN NATIONAL ELECTIONS LIKELY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minority political leaders tell us that it is increasingly likely that the forthcoming national election law will include reserved seats for Iraq's minority communities. Such a move would continue the trend of providing for minority representation that began in the Provincial Cou [...] | 2009-09-15 10:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2492 | FM ZEBARI WELCOMES IDEA OF A SYG-DESIGNATED SENIOR [...] (S) Summary: Iraqi FM Zebari welcomed the proposal contained in reftel points that the SYG designate a senior official to help examine foreign support or involvement in the August 19 bombings and other acts of terrorism and interference in Iraq's internal affairs. Spinning the proposal in h [...] | 2009-09-15 11:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD2493 | DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION DELIVERED TO GOI [...] (C) Pol M/C delivered the points in reftel demarche on Kosovo recognition September 14 to Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari. Zebari agreed to meet with Kosovo officials at UNGA, as scheduling permitted. HILL [...] | 2009-09-15 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV |
09BAGHDAD2494 | IRAN-RELATED DEMARCHES ON RELEASE OF AMCITS AND [...] (S) Pol M/C raised with Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari September 14 points in ref A, regarding the six Americans in Tehran and the points in ref B, regarding key messages for host governments to deliver to Iran. Zebari was amenable to the points raised. He committed to raising the fate of the six [...] | 2009-09-15 13:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PHUM CASC PINR PTER PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2495 | FM ZEBARI ON THE MEK [...] (C) In a September 14 meeting with Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari, Pol M/C urged caution as the GOI tackled the issue of moving the Mujahideen el-Khalq (MEK) out of Ashraf. While recognizing that the GOI had a sovereign right to act, he pressed for it to delay taking action for a couple of months a [...] | 2009-09-15 15:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2496 | IMPORTANT SIGNS FROM MARJIYAH AND IRAN ON [...] (C) Summary: On September 4, 2009, Najaf Governor Adnan Zurfi met Multi-National Corps-Iraq Commanding General (MNC-I CG) Jacoby to discuss upcoming elections and security conditions. Governor Zurfi discussed his concerns related to the upcoming campaign and elections, especially interference [...] | 2009-09-15 15:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD250 | MAYSAN DAWA DEPUTY PC CHAIR CONCERNED ABOUT VOTER [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Deputy Provincial Council (PC) Chairman and Da'wa provincial party head Latif Abud Kaseem expressed concerns about pre-election security and the potential for voter fraud committed by voting centers staff on election day in a meetin [...] | 2009-01-30 14:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2502 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-16 08:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2504 | IRAQI FM URGES P-5 AMBASSADORS FOR SUPPORT OF [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi FM Zebari summoned P-5 ambassadors to the MFA September 16 and pressed for support for the GOI's plans to call for a senior official, appointed by the UNSYG, to investigate the August 19 bombings and the broader issue of external support for terrorism in Iraq. Noting that [...] | 2009-09-16 13:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2507 | DCM HASLACH MEETING WITH MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION [...] (C) Summary. In his first meeting with DCMAT Haslach, Transportation Minister Amir Abul Jabbar Ismail pressed the USG to make greater use of Iraqi transport assets, particularly air and rail. Ismail defended the GOI,s recent decision to enforce Iraqi Airways, monopolies of cargo and charter [...] | 2009-09-16 14:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON IZ PGOV |
09BAGHDAD251 | MALIKI TO FORM BASRA POST-ELECTION COALITION WITH [...] (C) Summary: Leading provincial contacts told Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on January 26-27 that Prime Minister (PM) Maliki's State of Law list will form a post-provincial election coalition on the Basra Provincial Council (PC),including Fadhilah, Iraqi National Accord, National Dialogue Fron [...] | 2009-01-30 14:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2514 | IRAQ: PRIVATE BANKS' LOANS SURPASS CAPITAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: For the first time since 1964, Iraqi private banks' total lending has surpassed their total capital. The relationship between banks and their customers is maturing, with both sides gaining confidence in the financial system. If private bank lending and deposits continue to grow a [...] | 2009-09-17 10:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD252 | DIYALA IDPS: SHIA AND KURDS' COLD CALCULATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala and ePRT South Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Controversial statements by Shi'a and Kurdish political leaders about internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Diyala aim to underdermine the credibility and legitimacy of the provincial elections in the province [...] | 2009-01-30 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2520 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE FOR SEPTEMBER 18 [...] (SBU) GOI anti-corruption officials finalized a new anti-corruption strategy at an UN-organized gathering and plan to unveil it in October; they expressed appreciation for USG as well as UN assistance in devising the strategy, focused on achieving compliance with the UN Convention Against Corr [...] | 2009-09-18 13:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2521 | MEK DEFECTORS ON LIFE IN ASHRAF AND RESETTLEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 17 meeting with Emboffs, several recent defectors from the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) organization residing in a Baghdad hotel under GOI auspices expressed frustration and disappointment at the absence of resettlement options and the alleged indifference of Wester [...] | 2009-09-18 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2527 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT COMPLAINTS CONTINUE TO DECLINE [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's status as a "boycotting country" under the Arab League Boycott of Israel (ALB) has been "under review" since 2006, when ALB compliance requests peaked at 33. Since that time, official reports -- as compiled by the Department of Commerce in accordance with reporting requi [...] | 2009-09-21 03:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2528 | MANDEANS FACE INTERNAL SPLIT EVEN AS THEY SEEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sabean-Mandean leaders tell us they are making a united full-court press to secure guaranteed representation in the next Iraqi Parliament, even as current leader Sheikh Sittar Hillo fends off a challenge from a younger rival. While the Mandeans acknowledge that the GOI has taken [...] | 2009-09-21 10:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD253 | MAYSAN ISCI HEAD REVEALS PRE-ELECTION OPTIMISM [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: In a January 21 meeting with the PRT, ISCI Deputy Governor Abdul Hussein Abdul Radha expressed optimism over the provincial election process in and his party's chances in Maysan. Radha confidently predicted that the ruling Sadrists' [...] | 2009-01-30 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2530 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: VOTE TO REMOVE GOVERNOR TRIGGERS [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary: In a September 3 session, the Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) voted to remove the Provincial Governor, Mutashar Hussein Ilaiwee Yaseen, from office. The Governor appeared before the PC in response [...] | 2009-09-21 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2536 | NAJAF AIRPORT TERMINAL EXPANSION; DISSATISFACTION WITH [...] This is a PRT Najaf reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Najaf airport opened its passenger terminal expansion on September 8, 2009. The provincial government is very dissatisfied with performance of investment partner Al Aqeeq (AA),which has only spent US$7 million of the US$50 million th [...] | 2009-09-22 07:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2539 | (U) DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S MEETING WITH [...] (U) Date and Venue: September 17, 2009; 11:00 a.m.; Baghdad, Iraq. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Dr. James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary Amb. Gary A. Grappo, POL M/C Elissa Slotkin, NEA Senior Advisor for Iraq and Regional Affairs Mike Castiglione, Embassy notetaker IRAQ Qasim Daud, Co [...] | 2009-09-22 10:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD254 | MAYSAN SADRIST HUSSEIN IDEOLOGY FRONT TO SUPPORT [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Maysan Sadrist-affiliated Hussein Ideology Front (HIF) party official and Provincial Council (PC) member Mohammed Wahid told the PRT on January 28 that HIF would support three Sadrist lists in the provincial elections: the two OMS/S [...] | 2009-01-30 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2547 | PRT DIYALA: DG FOR OIL FIRED-TESTING THE [...] THIS IS A PRT-DIYALA REPORTING CABLE 2. (C) SUMMARY: On July 28, 2009 the Diyala Provincial Council terminated the Director General for the Administration of Petroleum Products for professional malfeasance. Though the termination order is supported by the Provincial Governor, the Ministry [...] | 2009-09-23 06:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2550 | UNAMI ON THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS, KIRKUK AND THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNAMI Deputy SRSG Andrew Gilmour discussed with POL M/C the challenges of passing a timely national elections law, suggesting that UNAMI, the Embassy, and others would need to make a major push with Iraqi political players in October to rally support for passage of the law and to [...] | 2009-09-23 07:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2551 | GOI INCREASES CAPACITY OF IRAQI JUDICIARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In September, 66 new judges graduated from the entry-level judicial education program at the Iraqi Judicial Training Institute (JTI),which is administered by the Ministry of Justice. These newly graduated judges are evidence of the Iraqi judiciary,s advancement as an instituti [...] | 2009-09-23 07:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2554 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-23 13:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2561 | THE GREAT GAME, IN MESOPOTAMIA: IRAQ AND ITS [...] (U) This is the second of two cables reviewing Iraq's relations with key neighboring countries. this cable focuses on Iraq's relations with Syria, in the wake of the August 19 bombings. 2. (C) Summary: Iraq's improving relations with its neighbors in 2008 and early 2009 represented a critica [...] | 2009-09-24 03:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ SY KU IR TU |
09BAGHDAD2562 | THE GREAT GAME, IN MESOPOTAMIA: IRAQ AND ITS [...] (U) This is the first of two cables reviewing Iraq's relations with key neighboring states, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and Turkey, in the wake of the August 19 bombings. Part II reviews Iraq's relations with Syria, in the wake of the August 19 bombings. 2. (C) Summary: Iraq's relations [...] | 2009-09-24 03:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2563 | PRIME MINISTER ON DISPUTED INTERNAL BOUNDARIES AND [...] (S) In a September 22 meeting, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the Ambassador that he felt the Council of Representatives (CoR, the Iraqi Parliament) is no longer effective and cannot be relied upon to pass legislation. The GOI, he said, is effectively at a standstill. The CoR is no [...] | 2009-09-24 08:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL ECON ENRG EPET IR IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2564 | PRIME MINISTER ACCUSES SYRIA OF MILITARY ACTIONS [...] (S) In a September 22 meeting, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the Ambassador that the GOI intelligence services had uncovered a plot to detonate four Vehicle Bourne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIEDs) during this week's festival of Eid al Fitr. According to Maliki, this is only t [...] | 2009-09-24 08:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL ECON ENRG EPET IR IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2565 | PRIME MINISTER MALIKI: "NO CHANCE" OF HYDROCARBONS [...] (S) In a September 22 meeting, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told Ambassador that pending hydrocarbons sector reform legislation "will not see the light of day" during this session of the Council of Representatives (CoR, the Iraqi Parliament). The current CoR, Maliki said, is &dead8 an [...] | 2009-09-24 08:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL ECON ENRG EPET IR IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2566 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: VOTE TO REMOVE GOVERNOR TRIGGERS [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary: In a September 3 session, the Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) voted to remove the Provincial Governor, Mutashar Hussein Ilaiwee Yaseen, from office. The Governor appeared before the PC in response [...] | 2009-09-24 08:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2567 | BAHAI CASE TESTS IRAQ'S RESPECT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leaders of Iraq's small Bahai community are requesting the assistance of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) in their bid to receive identification documents that would list their religion as Bahai rather than Muslim. Although the MOI issued a small number of ID cards listing the Bahai [...] | 2009-09-24 11:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2568 | OPTIONS NARROW AS PARLIAMENT DEADLOCKED ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the self-imposed deadline of October 15 fast approaching, Iraqi politicians are still haggling over the terms of a law for the national elections scheduled for January 16. Political posturing over hot-button issues -- in particular Kirkuk -- is complicating parliamentary d [...] | 2009-09-24 11:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL KDEM |
09BAGHDAD2569 | PRIME MINISTER ACCUSES IRAN OF TRYING TO [...] (S) In a September 22 meeting, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the Ambassador that Iran is intervening increasingly boldly in the Iraqi political process in a bid to "control the COR" (the Council of Representatives, the Iraqi Parliament). Iran has not discarded use of military means [...] | 2009-09-24 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL ECON ENRG EPET IR IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2570 | Response to MERO Interim Report on Regional Embassy (REO) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Dated March 24, 2009, State IG Middle East Regional Office (MERO) Interim Report on Role, Staffing, and Effectiveness of the Regional Embassy Office (REO) in Hillah, Iraq (MERO-IQO-09-04) made a number of recommendations about the future of the REO. Specifically, it recommended [...] | 2009-09-24 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASIG AMGT ABLDG ASEC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2574 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: VOTE TO REMOVE GOVERNOR TRIGGERS [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary: In a September 3 session, the Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) voted to remove the Provincial Governor, Mutashar Hussein Ilaiwee Yaseen, from office. The Governor appeared before the PC in response [...] | 2009-09-25 09:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2575 | RRT ERBIL: KRG OPPOSITION VOWS CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Change List officials, including both the leaders of their parliamentary bloc and Change Movement leader Nawshirwan Mustafa, pledged to play a constructive role in parliament, focusing on internal KRG governance issues, such as rule of law, [...] | 2009-09-25 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PGOV PHUM |
09BAGHDAD2576 | CONFERENCE ON IRAQ'S ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Leaders of Iraq's main anti-corruption institutions held a conference with UNDP project managers and officials of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Amman September 7-10 to put finishing touches on Iraq's national strategy for compliance with the UN Convention against [...] | 2009-09-26 11:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2577 | CONFERENCE ON IRAQ'S ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Leaders of Iraq's main anti-corruption institutions held a conference with UNDP project managers and officials of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Amman September 7-10 to put finishing touches on Iraq's national strategy for compliance with the UN Convention against [...] | 2009-09-26 11:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD258 | UN LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR IRAQ ANTI-CORRUPTION PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Development (UNDP) program held in January in Amman the first workshop as part of its 2008-2010 anti-corruption program for Iraq, which comes with the support of US funding. Statisticians and experts in survey design from the United Nations Office on Drugs an [...] | 2009-01-31 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KDEM PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2580 | CONFERENCE ON IRAQ'S ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Leaders of Iraq's main anti-corruption institutions held a conference with UNDP project managers and officials of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Amman September 7-10 to put finishing touches on Iraq's national strategy for compliance with the UN Convention against [...] | 2009-09-27 04:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2586 | PM MALIKI CHARGES IRAN, SYRIA WITH SHIPPING WEAPONS [...] (S) Iran and Syria have both been providing weapons -- including "Strela" (SA-7B) shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles -- to insurgent groups within Iraq, Prime Minister Maliki claimed to Ambassador Hill September 22. Five members of the Sadrist- affiliated Promise Day Brigade (also linked to the [...] | 2009-09-27 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER IZ IR SY |
09BAGHDAD2599 | MOSQUE DISPUTE RAISES SECTARIAN TENSIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: An ongoing dispute over whether a mosque located in the Salman Pak neighborhood of southern Baghdad rightfully belongs to the Sunni or the Shia Endowment is raising sectarian tensions and undermining economic reconstruction efforts in the area. The Prime Minister has appointed a [...] | 2009-09-28 08:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD26 | IRAQI REFINERIES PRESENT AND FUTURE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-06 14:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET ENRG IZ |
09BAGHDAD260 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS -- POLLS OPEN, VOTING [...] (C) Summary: Voting in Iraq's provincial elections is underway. The vast majority of 39,000 polling stations around the country are reported to have opened as scheduled at 0700 and UNAMI confirmed at 1200 that all polling centers are now open. U.S. election observer teams report heavy sec [...] | 2009-01-31 14:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2600 | US MARSHALS SERVICE,S SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following the removal of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, the United States Marshals Service, Special Operations Group (SOG),ensured that Saddam and members of the regime remained in custody to stand trial for their crimes, worked to provide security for the nation,s judges a [...] | 2009-09-28 10:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KCRM IZ KAWC |
09BAGHDAD2605 | NEW ISCI CHAIRMAN AMMAR AL-HAKIM UPDATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the Embassy's first meeting with Ammar al-Hakim since he was elected to succeed his father as the chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),Ambassador Hill on September 23 stressed the U.S. commitment to transitioning from a military- to a civilian-led U.S. presen [...] | 2009-09-28 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2606 | CHAIRMAN OF IRAQ'S ELECTION COMMISSION DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Head of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC),Faraj al-Haydari, told POL M/C September 17 that IHEC is being subjected to a smear campaign orchestrated by the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) party and others. In his view the criticisms -- and calls to [...] | 2009-09-28 15:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD261 | POLLS CLOSE AFTER A PEACEFUL DAY OF VOTING IN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Iraq remained relatively peaceful as millions of Iraqis went to the polls on January 31 to elect new provincial councils. Polls closed throughout the country at 1800 after eleven hours of voting, with a one-hour extension authorized late in the day. Embassy received isolated [...] | 2009-01-31 19:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
09BAGHDAD2621 | REFORMING THE PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM -- EASIER [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The GOI won't soon take the tough political decisions needed to reform Iraq's Public Distribution System (PDS),despite the burden it places on national finances and the market distortions and corruption it engenders. The UN World Food Program (WFP) has proposed a [...] | 2009-09-29 14:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD IZ KCOR PREF WFP |
09BAGHDAD2622 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-09-29 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2623 | VPOTUS MEETING WITH UNAMI ACTING SRSG GILMOUR [...] (U) September 16, 2009; 2:30 p.m.; Baghdad, Iraq. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden Ambassador Christopher R. Hill GEN Raymond Odierno, Commanding General MNF-I Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor, OVP James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State Colin Kahl, D [...] | 2009-09-29 18:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2627 | SRSG MELKERT DISCUSSES IRAQ-SYRIA RELATIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a September 26 meeting with CDA Haslach and A/DCM Grappo, SRSG Ad Melkert assessed the role the UN might play in Iraqi-Syrian relations and in transitioning the Mujahideen-e-Khalq's (MEK) presence in Iraq. Melkert emphasized the need for broad regional and international [...] | 2009-09-30 16:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2628 | UNAMI TECHNICAL ADVISOR LAYS OUT PLANS FOR IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-30 16:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD2629 | UNAMI TECHNICAL ADVISOR LAYS OUT PLANS FOR IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: At their meeting on September 22, the head of UNAMI's technical assistance team for elections, Sandra Mitchell, advised Pol/C that the 2005 election law would provide the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) with adequate guidance to carry out elections by January 16, 20 [...] | 2009-09-30 16:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD2632 | MINISTER OF OIL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT IRAQ'S OIL FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: In a September 17 meeting with Deputy Secretary James Steinberg, GOI Minister of Oil Hussayn Shahristani expressed optimism about the upcoming second oil licensing round, as well as for Iraq's future willingness to sign a gas agreement with Europe. In the wide ranging discussion, [...] | 2009-10-01 09:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2633 | IS THE BELL TOLLING FOR THE ICI? [...] (C) In separate meetings with Charg Haslach on September 26 and major donor countries on September 28, UNAMI SRSG Ad Melkert confirmed that he would deliver the following points to the Prime Minister's office regarding the International Compact with Iraq (ICI): - The ICI has largely outlive [...] | 2009-10-01 09:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2636 | RRT ERBIL: KRG OPPOSITION VOWS CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Change List officials, including both the leaders of their parliamentary bloc and Change Movement leader Nawshirwan Mustafa, pledged to play a constructive role in parliament, focusing on internal KRG governance issues, such as rule of law, [...] | 2009-10-01 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PHUM |
09BAGHDAD2637 | RRT ERBIL: KRG BULLISH ON RELATIONS WITH TURKEY [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials told us recently they are pleased with the KRG's improving relations with Turkey, casting this development -- along with strong relations with the United States -- as a counter to malign Iranian [...] | 2009-10-01 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD2639 | MALIKI'S REVAMPED ELECTORAL ALLIANCE FAILS TO [...] (C) Summary and Comment: During an October 1 press conference in Baghdad, Prime Minister al-Maliki unveiled his new State of Law Alliance (SLA) that will contest the January national election. While Maliki emphasized the diversity of his list as a reflection of Iraq and physically surrounded [...] | 2009-10-01 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2649 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE OCTOBER 2, 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Recent focus by the Commission on Integrity (COI) on validating credentials of government employees has expanded to other public documents, i.e., forged deeds that are now being investigated in Basra. Also in Basra, media reports alleged widespread bribe-taking by local poli [...] | 2009-10-02 11:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR EPET IZ |
09BAGHDAD265 | 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-02 05:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2650 | PRT NINEWA: THE GRAINS OF WRATH: NINEWA,S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-02 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON IZ PHUM |
09BAGHDAD2656 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-02 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2658 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW DEBATE SLOUCHES TOWARDS MESSY [...] (C) Summary: On October 1, Council of Representative members voted to add a first reading of a draft election law to the agenda, a procedural move just short of a formal "first reading." The decision was accompanied by debate and then boisterous dissent by some Sunni Arab COR members from K [...] | 2009-10-03 06:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2659 | CORRECTED VERSION: ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE OCTOBER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-03 10:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2660 | IRAQ'S ECONOMY ON THE EVE OF THE ELECTION: ARE YOU [...] (SBU) On the eve of the election season in Iraq, we do not expect any major party or coalition to campaign on a record of economic success. Security and stability continue to be the primary focus, and are essential for economic success. However, it is worthwhile to compare today,s Iraqi econom [...] | 2009-10-03 11:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ETRD ECON PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2661 | RECONSIDERING IRAQ'S FIRST OIL BID ROUND AND [...] (C) Summary: While the results of Iraq's June 30 oil and gas bid round may at first seem disappointing, the bid round could be considered a modest success. Although only one oil field was awarded, the planned expansion of that field should increase Iraq's oil production over the next six year [...] | 2009-10-03 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2662 | ELECTION AND INVESTMENT LAWS WEIGH HEAVILY ON PM'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki focused on passage of the election law and an amendment to the investment law in an October 1 meeting with Ambassador and Deputy Commanding General (DCG) Hunzeker. The PM noted that disputes over the distribution of parliamentary seats in Kirkuk still posed a [...] | 2009-10-03 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2666 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-04 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2669 | Baghdad Response to IG Report Regional Embassy Offices in [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. State IG Middle East Regional Office (MERO) Review of the Roles, Staffing, and effectiveness of Regional Embassy Offices in Iraq dated August 18, 2009 (Report Number MERO-IQO-09-09, August 2009) made one recommendation about planning for the eventual opening of U.S. Consulates i [...] | 2009-10-05 08:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASIG AMGT ABLDG ASEC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2671 | PROMINENT SUNNI SHEIKH TO ANNOUNCE COALITION; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sheikh Abdallah al-Yawar al-Shammari, acting paramount sheikh of the influential al-Shammari tribe and an architect of the major Arab political party in Ninewa, told the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq that he will soon announce a cross-sectarian, nationalist coalitio [...] | 2009-10-05 11:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2672 | LETTER FROM ISCI PRESIDENT AMMAR AL-HAKIM TO VICE [...] On October 1, 2009, Embassy Baghdad received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Iraq, which forwarded a letter from the President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar Al-Hakim to Vice President Biden. Below is the text of the letter. Begin text messa [...] | 2009-10-05 11:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL OPDC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2675 | IIER HOLDS CONFERENCE ON TRANSPARENCY AND ECONOMIC LAWS [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform (IIER) held a successful conference entitled "The Absence of Economic Legislation and Transparency in Iraq" October 3. The conference was financed under a $1.5 million USG-Targeted Development Grant (TDG). About 70 people attended, includin [...] | 2009-10-05 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KCOR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2677 | IRAQI TELECOMMUNICATIONS: AT THE FRONTLINE OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent developments in the Iraqi Telecommunications sector reveal fault lines in Iraq's attitudes toward independent regulation. The Ministry of Communication (MOC) continues to actively oppose a private sector-led, competitive telecommunications market and an independent regul [...] | 2009-10-05 16:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV EINV ECPS EINT KGIT KWIR TINT TSPL |
09BAGHDAD2678 | 36 MEK DETAINEES TRANSFERRED TO MUTHANNA AIRFIELD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI tells us that the 36 Mujahideen al-Khalq (MEK) detainees arrested at Camp Ashraf on July 28 have been moved to a detention facility at Muthanna Airfield in Baghdad pursuant to a deportation order issued on October 1 declaring them illegally present in the country. An earli [...] | 2009-10-05 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2680 | FRAUD SUMMARY - BAGHDAD [...] Security remains a concern in Iraq; however, conditions are gradually improving. Traveling both domestically and around the region remains difficult for Iraqi nationals. High numbers of Iraqis continue to pursue plans to immigrate to the US for economic and security reasons. Post is prepari [...] | 2009-10-06 03:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC PREF KFRD IZ |
09BAGHDAD2683 | EVANGELICAL CHURCHES FIND PATH TO OFFICIAL [...] (C) A key Iraqi Evangelical Church leader tells us that Evangelical Churches are unable to obtain official recognition from the GOI because of overly stringent registration requirements imposed by the non-Muslim Endowment, thus preventing these churches from conducting legally sanctioned marri [...] | 2009-10-06 09:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2685 | IRAQ CULTURAL HERITAGE PROJECT: CAPACITY BUILDING [...] Summary: Capacity building is one of the main objectives of the Iraq Cultural Heritage Project (ICHP),a key program in section IV of the Strategic Framework Agreement. Six conservators working for the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) at the Iraq National Museum spent six months [...] | 2009-10-06 10:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL KPAO OEXC PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2686 | IRAQ OIL: EXXONMOBIL AGGRESSIVELY PURSUING WEST [...] (C) Deputy Oil Minister for Midstream Shamma told econoffs that ExxonMobil--which unsuccessfully bid on the West Qurna oil field in Iraq's June 30 bid round--has agreed to accept the Oil Ministry's low remuneration fee and enter negotiations for the production service contract for West Qurna. [...] | 2009-10-06 10:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2694 | BAGHDAD: INL PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE [...] (U) Summary: INL faces significant challenges in its effort to ensure contractor performance in Iraq. Some of the challenges are due to current constraints on the number of program officers and in-country contracting officer representatives (ICOR) in Baghdad, while others appear to be inhere [...] | 2009-10-06 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SNAR MOPS SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2695 | IRAQI SPEAKER ON ELECTIONS LAW, INVESTMENT LAW, [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Speaker of the Council of Representatives Ayad Sammarraie confirmed to the Ambassador October 5 that that the first reading of the draft election law took place the day before. He expressed hope that the election law would be passed in the next ten days. The speaker ackno [...] | 2009-10-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN IZ |
09BAGHDAD2698 | UNAMI EXPLORING BIGGER ROLE ON MEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNAMI is exploring the possibility of establishing an observation presence at Camp Ashraf and assuming a more direct role in mediating between the GOI and the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) after two weeks in which the Embassy has worked with senior GOI officials, UN and ICRC representat [...] | 2009-10-07 06:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD270 | IN COUNTRY REFUGEE PROCESSING - RESPONSE [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Baghdad appreciates Department,s interest in the details of the in-country refugee processing and support for expanding capacity to implement the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act. Responses to REF A questions are contained below. We urge Department to work with us to ensure th [...] | 2009-02-02 11:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF IZ |
09BAGHDAD2701 | PROGRESS IN THE CULTURAL COOPERATION OF THE STRATEGIC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-07 12:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL KPAO OEXC PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2702 | GOI SAYS MEK RELOCATION WILL HAPPEN BY END OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on October 6, the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Tariq Abdullah and Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali al-Yassery told Pol M/C and SRSG Melkert that the GOI plans to initiate its plan to relocate the Muhajideen-e Khalq (MEK) from Camp Ashraf by the end of October. Yasser [...] | 2009-10-07 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2703 | 36 MEK DETAINEES RETURNING TO ASHRAF AFTER DEAL [...] (C) The 36 detainees from the Muhajideen-e Khalq are set to return to Camp Ashraf on October 7 after agreeing to a deal with the GOI. In a meeting on October 6, the Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Selim and Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali al-Yassery told the Embassy, UNAMI, and ICRC that the GOI [...] | 2009-10-07 12:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PREL PINR PHUM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2704 | CHALABI OFFERS VIEWS ON IMPROVING IRAQ'S ECONOMY, [...] (C) Summary. On October 6, A/DCM Grappo discussed with Iraqi National Alliance (INA) member Ahmed Chalabi the poor state of Iraq's private economy, the INA's campaign platform of improving services and taming corruption, and his opinion about Saudi Arabia and Iran. Chalabi opposed the Amendmen [...] | 2009-10-07 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2705 | NGO'S SEEK ROLE IN FIGHTING CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Embassy's Anti-Corruption Coordinator's Office (ACCO) hosted a half-day seminar on September 28 to advance coordination between Iraq's anti-corruption institutions and members of Iraqi civil society. Participants agreed on the need for civil society to take a more prominen [...] | 2009-10-07 14:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2706 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-07 15:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2707 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-07 15:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2708 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-07 15:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2709 | AUGUST 19 BOMBINGS DEMONSTRATE NEED FOR INCREASED [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the past year, Embassy Baghdad has seen a dramatic increase in the utilization of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Attach office with regard to explosives and post- blast investigation in support of the Government of Iraq (GOI) and in accordanc [...] | 2009-10-07 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS IZ KCRM PTER |
09BAGHDAD2710 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-07 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2711 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-07 16:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2714 | DISTURBANCE AT BAGHDAD CENTRAL PRISON LEADS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of a disturbance at Baghdad Central Prison (formerly Abu Ghraib) on September 10, the US Embassy and MNF-I facilitated the Ministry of Justice,s transfer of 2,630 inmates and 273 Iraqi Correctional officers (ICOs) to the recently completed USG funded Chamchamal [...] | 2009-10-08 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2715 | CHINA TRAINS IRAQI ARMY PERSONNEL IN DEMINING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Chinese Defense Attach to Iraq confirmed September 21 that the Chinese military is providing training in demining to approximately 20 Iraqi Army officers and 20 Afghan Army officers in the vicinity of Nanjing. People's Republic of China (PRC) Defense Attach Senior COL Wang Ru [...] | 2009-10-08 13:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PARM EPET KHDP AF CH IZ |
09BAGHDAD2716 | PRT WASIT: CHAIR OF IHEC'S PROVINCIAL OFFICE [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a routine weekly meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 7, Wasit IHEC Chairman Dr. Khadem Abdallah Hussien told Acting Team Leader (ATL) Schlaefer and PDO Steve Smith that he would likely resign in a short period, in response to harsh criticism and a series of death threats. An emot [...] | 2009-10-08 14:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2717 | PROPOSED COURSE OF ACTION ON THE MEK [...] (C) In this cable, the Embassy offers our recommended course of action and associated talking points for addressing the issue of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK). In the last six to eight weeks, the Embassy has made significant strides in addressing this issue, the most important of which has bee [...] | 2009-10-08 18:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2718 | EPRT ANBAR 1: FALLUJAH SHEIKS FEAR SECURITY RISKS [...] (U)This is an ePRT Anbar 1 (Fallujah) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On September 24, Fallujah's city council sheikhs complained that reduced U.S. aid and GoI budget austerity are spurring unemployment and creating fertile ground for Al Qaida recruitment. They lobbied for increased U.S. aid proje [...] | 2009-10-10 07:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID EAGR ENRG PTER PHUM ASEC KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2727 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-10 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2730 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-10 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2731 | DPM ISSAWI ADVANCES NINEWA'S ARAB-KURD DIALOGUE [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Rafi al-Issawi visited Mosul and Erbil on October 1 to further efforts to resolve the (Kurdish) Ninewa Fraternal League's (NFL) boycott of the Ninewa Provincial Council (PC) and its r [...] | 2009-10-10 19:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2736 | POST PROPOSES SHOULDER-FIRED MISSILE ABATEMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY: Embassy seeks to develop with the Government of Iraq (GOI) a Man-Portable Air Defense Systems Reduction Program (MANPADS Program). The program would follow a "host-country model", used in Yemen and Pakistan, through [...] | 2009-10-11 14:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | AF IR IZ PARM PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER XD XF |
09BAGHDAD274 | IRAQ PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT [...] (C) Summary: Turnout for the Iraqi provincial elections held 31 January, 2009 was 51 percent nationwide, according to the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC). The votes have been counted, and the tally sheets are arriving in Baghdad two days after the elections, and the IHEC expect [...] | 2009-02-02 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
09BAGHDAD2741 | PM MALIKI ON THE ELECTION LAW, INVESTMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM PGOV KREF EPET PTER IZ IR SY |
09BAGHDAD2744 | EVOLUTION OF INFLUENCE IN IRAQ: COMMERCIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's evolving political and economic environment has led to increased engagement from other countries using commercial advocacy on behalf of their national political interests. The GOI has begun to engage a number of countries in high level commercial dialogue, and despite its [...] | 2009-10-12 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON POL PGOV PREL IZ EINV |
09BAGHDAD2745 | STAGE IS SET FOR ACTION ON IRAQ'S ELECTION LAW [...] (C) After weeks of speculation, Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) performed two of three required readings of an election law October 4-6. The chair of the legal committee minimally satisfied this procedural requirement by reading a brief amendment to the 2005 election law which party [...] | 2009-10-12 19:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2748 | IRAQ'S REMAINING JEWS STAY HIDDEN [...] (C) On October 10, Poloff met with one of the last remaining Jews in Iraq, Khalida Fouad Liahu Moualim (strictly protect),to discuss the current state of the Iraqi Jewish community. Moualim stated that there are now eight remaining members of the Iraqi Jewish community in Baghdad including h [...] | 2009-10-13 06:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD275 | KARBALA: ELECTIONS RUN SMOOTHLY, PM-BACKED SLATE [...] Summary: Election Day in Karbala proceeded smoothly amid tight security. According to IHEC figures, 60 percent of registered voters participated. The decision to extend voting for an hour enabled as many as 4,000 voters whose names were not properly recorded to cast their ballots. Initial b [...] | 2009-02-02 15:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2750 | SPEAKER SAMMARRAIE ADDRESSES CONCERNS OVER IHEC [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Council of Representatives Speaker Ayad Sammarraie told the Ambassador October 11 that as a result of the harsh interrogation of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) chairman October 5, it was possible that the COR would dismiss two IHEC commissioners. The Amba [...] | 2009-10-13 09:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2751 | PM MALIKI ON THE ELECTION LAW, INVESTMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an October 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked the Ambassador to help stave off efforts in the COR to remove the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Chairman for fear it could dissolve the entire organization and possibly lead to a dela [...] | 2009-10-13 09:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM PGOV KREF EPET PTER IR SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2752 | VP HASHIMI OFFERS ONE MORE NINEWA INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary: A key advisor to Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi said the VP intends to pursue a reconciliation initiative in Ninewa before the upcoming election, and to then focus on Kirkuk. In Ninewa, he plans to focus not just on brokering a power-sharing agreement between feuding Sunni Arabs [...] | 2009-10-13 14:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2753 | VISAS VIPER: SEPTEMBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post: Baghdad MEETING DATE: 04 Oct 2009 CHAIR: Consul General David Schwartz COORDINATOR: CONOFF David Brownstein ATTENDEES: POL, ECON, ORA, CONS, MNFI (CJ9),OHA, POLM, FBI, DHS 3. (U) THE COMMITTEE IS SUBMITTING INFORMATION ON [...] | 2009-10-13 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINR PTER ASEC CMGT CVIS KPRV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2754 | CENTRAL BANK CONSIDERING COMMUNITY BANKS IN IRAQ [...] (U) SUMMARY: As existing Iraqi banks mature, open new branches nationwide, and focus on their wealthiest customers, accessible community banks may provide a viable option for low- to middle-income villagers. The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) is considering a proposal to create second-tier "commun [...] | 2009-10-13 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID IZ |
09BAGHDAD2755 | IRAQ-UK SECURITY AGREEMENT APPROVED BY COUNCIL OF [...] (C) Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) passed the UK bilateral security agreement October 13 with 139 votes. British Defense Attach Brigadier Ben Bathurst said the British Ambassador had been working closely with Iraqi Speaker Ayad al-Samarraie to encourage the passing of the agreement. [...] | 2009-10-13 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS UK IZ |
09BAGHDAD2756 | COR COMMENCES ELECTION LAW DISCUSSION, APPROVES [...] (C) As part of their process toward passing a new election law, on October 13 members of the Council of Representatives (COR) discussed elements of the law for three hours. Continuing where they left off on October 6 (Ref A),roughly thirty MPs took turns making public statements on key issu [...] | 2009-10-13 19:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2758 | CHRISTIANS RECRUITED FOR SHI'A-LED ELECTORAL [...] (C) Two prominent Christian leaders, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Selim and the Prime Minister's Advisor for Christian Affairs Georges Bakoos, tell us that the Prime Minister's State of Law Alliance (SLA) has recruited six prominent Christian candidates, including themselves, to run in the [...] | 2009-10-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2759 | CUSTOMS HURDLES TO IRAQ TRADE LIBERALIZATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Iraq's customs and trade dispute resolution procedures lack the structure and transparency to ensure orderly, consistent resolution of complaints by importers. According to the President of Iraq's Customs Court, the court does not have jurisdiction over civil cases [...] | 2009-10-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV KCOR EAID WTO ECON EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2760 | ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS IN KURDISTAN [...] (C) During October 7-8 visit to Erbil, Anti-Corruption Coordinator and staff (ACCO),joined by Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) Erbil officers, met with various Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials, parliamentarians, and civil society reps. Incoming KRG Prime Minister Barham Salih [...] | 2009-10-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2762 | FM ZEBARI DEMARCHED ON IRAN, COMMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary: In an October 12 meeting, A/DCM delivered the (reftel) points relating to the P5 1 talks with Iran to FM Zebari. Zebari responded with a brief readout from a recent meeting with Iranian President Ahmedinajad, suggesting that Iran will not immediately comply with P5 1 demands. [...] | 2009-10-14 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TU SY |
09BAGHDAD2765 | IRAQ UPDATES ITS INVESTMENT LAW: EXPLAINING THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: After nearly six months of sustained U.S. and GOI effort, Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) passed the amendment to the National Investment Law (NIL) on 13 October. Significantly, the amendment will provide for limited foreign ownership of land in Iraq for the purposes of de [...] | 2009-10-14 16:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD PGOV IZ PREL |
09BAGHDAD2766 | SPEAKER PREDICTS PASSAGE OF ELECTION LAW OCTOBER [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Speaker of the Council of Representatives (COR) Ayad Samarra'i told the Ambassador October 14 that he expects a vote (and passage) of the election law October 17 or 18. As a way of coaxing agreement over the divisive issue of Kirkuk, the Speaker said he would float a prop [...] | 2009-10-14 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2767 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 14, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The COR did not address the election law in its session on October 14 (Ref A). Speaker Ayad al-Samarra'i told the Ambassador October 14 that he hopes for a vote on the election law amendments under discussion in the Council of Representatives (COR) as early as October 17 but was [...] | 2009-10-14 16:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2768 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-14 20:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2769 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-14 20:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2770 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-14 20:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2771 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-14 20:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2772 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-14 20:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2773 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-14 20:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2774 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-14 20:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2775 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-14 20:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2776 | IRAQ INVESTMENT CONFERENCE: DELIVERING A CLEAR [...] (C) Summary: The October 19 U.S.-Iraq Dialogue on Economic Cooperation (DEC) and the October 20-21 Business and Investment Conference (BIC) will put the spotlight on Iraq's aspirations to participate more fully in the global economy. U.S. and Iraqi government officials can expect questions fro [...] | 2009-10-15 08:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON POL PGOV PREL EINV ETRD EINT IZ |
09BAGHDAD2778 | LETTER FROM VICE PRESIDENT TARIQ AL-HASHIMI TO [...] On October 9, 2009 Embassy Baghdad received the following letter from Vice President Hashimi to President Obama. The original letter will be transmitted to NEA/I/POL via pouch mail. Begin text of message: Republic of Iraq The Vice President Tariq Al-Hashimi The Honorable Barack Obam [...] | 2009-10-15 10:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2779 | LETTER FROM PRIME MINISTER NORI KAMIL AL MALIKY TO [...] On October 11, 2009 Embassy Baghdad received the following letter from Prime Minister Nori Kamil Al Maliky to President Obama. The original letter will be transmitted to NEA/I/POL via pouch mail. Begin text of message: Republic of Iraq Nori K. Al Maliky Prime Minster His Excellency [...] | 2009-10-15 10:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC IZ |
09BAGHDAD278 | VISAS VIPER MANDATORY STATUS REPORT AND WATCHLIST [...] (U) VISAS VIPER 2. (U) POST: BAGHDAD MEETING DATE: 01FEB2009 CHAIR: CONS JEFF LODINSKY COORDINATOR: CONOFF MCHESSEN ATTENDEES: RSO, POL/MIL, EXEC, DOJ, ECON, DHS, FBI, POL, CONS, MNF-I (CJ9) 3. (U) THE COMMITTEE HAD NO NEW SUBMISSIONS FOR JANUARY CROCKER [...] | 2009-02-03 08:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2783 | LETTER FROM AHMAD CHALABI TO PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] On October 13, 2009 Embassy Baghdad received the following letter from Ahmad Chalabi to President Obama. The original letter will be transmitted to NEA/I/POL via pouch mail. Begin text of message: The Honorable President Barack Obama, President of the United States of America The Whi [...] | 2009-10-15 14:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2784 | PRT ANBAR: SUNNI ENDOWMENT TO SUPPORT ELECTIONS FROM THE [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar (Ramadi) cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Sheikh Riyad Ziad al-Zobayee, a religious sheikh and deputy head of the Sunni Endowment in Anbar, briefed PRT on the Endowment's current and future activities in support of the electoral process. Among several efforts by the Endowment, [...] | 2009-10-15 14:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2785 | ANTI-CORRUPTION LAWS ON HOLD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. As Iraq anticipates the release of a new anti-corruption strategy (Ref A),three statutes that would strengthen institutional frameworks remain pending in parliament, while a separate, general anti-corruption statute is still being reviewed by the Council of Ministe [...] | 2009-10-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2786 | IRAQI FINANCE: JABR ON BUDGET, TRADE, OIL AND THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-15 15:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON POL ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2787 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 15, 2009 [...] (C) At the October 15 Council of Representatives (COR) session, Speaker Ayad al-Samarra'i announced that a vote on the election law would take place on Sunday, October 18 at the soonest. He added that, in the event that the Legal Committee, which is responsible for drafting the text, was not [...] | 2009-10-15 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2788 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR RICE'S VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (C) Ambassador Rice, your upcoming trip to Iraq comes at an important time in Iraq's political calendar. Iraqi political leaders are furiously at work negotiating potential alliances in advance of the January 2010 parliamentary elections. The maneuvering will become even more frenetic after [...] | 2009-10-16 13:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2789 | SCENESETTER: MALIKI HEADS TO THE WASHINGTON [...] (C) Maliki's visit to Washington for the Business and Investment Conference comes at a time of great promise and significant risk for Iraq. Maliki himself has unhitched his political fate from the Shia power brokers who made him Prime Minister four years ago and has embarked on a political j [...] | 2009-10-16 18:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2793 | PM MALIKI ON ELECTIONS LAW, INVESTMENT CONFERENCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 17 meeting, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed his concern to the Ambassador about the elections law and the timing for its passage due to political party manuevering and to continued wrangling within the COR over Kirkuk and open vs. closed lists. The PM expre [...] | 2009-10-17 17:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM KREF PTER EPET SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2794 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 17, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. While the Council of Representatives (COR) was out of session on October 17, it is clear that private discussions about the planned amendment to the election law continue among political leaders (Ref A). From the Ambassador's meeting with PM Nuri al-Maliki today (septel) to dis [...] | 2009-10-17 17:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2795 | CORRECTED COPY: IRAQI FINANCE: JABR ON BUDGET, [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Council of Ministers (COM, the Cabinet) has set a 2010 Budget ceiling of 67 Billion USD and is continuing internal negotiations regarding ministerial allocations this week in Baghdad, Minister of Finance Jabr told USG officials on October 14. Jabr expected the budget wo [...] | 2009-10-17 17:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON POL ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2797 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 18, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 18, the Council Of Representatives (COR) postponed by a day consideration of a draft election law. On the margins of a pro-forma plenary session, committee chairs and bloc leaders continued the frenzy of informal meetings that may result in a draft law in time for a [...] | 2009-10-18 17:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2798 | PRT NINEWA: AMBASSADOR'S SENIOR ADVISOR FOR [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador,s Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq, Alan Misenheimer, joined Ninewa PRT on September 22-24 for a tour of Ninewa, meeting key political and religious leaders and gaining a first-hand view of the province. In extended conversations, the Senior Advisor heard from Sun [...] | 2009-10-18 19:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2799 | ISCI BLOC LEADER GUNNING FOR IHEC, OPTIMISTIC ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) COR bloc leader Jalal al-Din al-Saghir predicted to POL M/C that the Council of Representatives (COR) would pass an open list election law by October 19. Despite advising him against dismissing members of the Independent High Electoral Commi [...] | 2009-10-19 03:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD28 | BABIL PROVINCIAL COUNCIL AT END OF TERM: WHERE [...] (SBU) The Babil PC's last session of 2008, in which it wrestled with whether and how to spend the remaining balance of its 2008 capital budget, underscored that politics in the province is dominated by personal ties and interests over party solidarity, even with provincial elections only one [...] | 2009-01-07 07:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD280 | CHAIRMAN OF COR FINANCE COMMITTEE SPEAKS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: A 19 January 2009 impromptu dinner invitation extended to USAID and IFES with Mr. Ayad Samarai, Chairman of the Council of Representatives (COR) Finance Committee, provided a window into what he is thinking on a broad range of subjects as he contests the position of Speaker at [...] | 2009-02-03 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AORC |
09BAGHDAD2800 | TURKISH PM ERDOGAN'S OCTOBER 15 VISIT TO BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: Turkish PM Erdogan arrived in Baghdad on October 15 for a one-day visit to meet with Iraqi President Talabani and Iraqi VPs al-Hashemi and Abdul-Mahdi, as well as to conduct bilateral and expanded talks with Iraqi PM al-Maliki as part of meetings of the Iraqi-Turkish Strategic [...] | 2009-10-19 05:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TU SY |
09BAGHDAD2801 | DESIGNATION OF EMBASSY BAGHDAD CONTACTS FOR EUJUST [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post supports the EUJUST LEX training and mentoring mission in Iraq, and designates Senior Advisor to the Rule of Law Coordinator Robert Ogburn and Civilian Police and Judicial Affairs Officer Jenifer Moore as the US Embassy Rule of Law Points of Contact for discussions with [...] | 2009-10-19 08:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2804 | Dyncorp CP Incident Highlights Need for Additional PSD [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 28, Iraqi soldiers manning an international zone (IZ) checkpoint beat four U.S. citizen members of a Dyncorp International (DI) personal security detail (PSD) convoy. The DI PSD had violated at least two Embassy checkpoint policies, as well as Iraqi instructions. N [...] | 2009-10-19 10:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PINS CASC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2805 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to take part in site visits to police and emergency agencies in National [...] | 2009-10-19 11:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2806 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to take part in site visits to police and emergency agencies in National [...] | 2009-10-19 11:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2807 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to take part in site visits to police and emergency agencies in National [...] | 2009-10-19 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2808 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to take part in site visits to police and emergency agencies in National [...] | 2009-10-19 11:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2809 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to take part in site visits to police and emergency agencies in National [...] | 2009-10-19 11:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2810 | BARZANI ON NINEWA: KRG PRESIDENT LOOKS WEST [...] (C) Summary: During a joint MND-N DCG and Ninewa PRT Team Leader engagement on October 7, KRG President Barzani observed that security differences between the GOI and the KRG in disputed areas would not be solved without the presence of U.S. forces (USF). He expressed appreciation for joint [...] | 2009-10-19 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2812 | KIDNAPPINGS OF IRAQI CHRISTIANS RAISES CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A series of high profile kidnappings of Iraqi Christians over the past several months in Mosul, Kirkuk, and Baghdad have raised concerns amongst Christian leaders that the community is being deliberately targeted by criminal gangs. Whether the kidnappings are politically motivated [...] | 2009-10-19 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF KJUS PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2813 | GOI REINFORCES COMMITMENT TO CHRISTIAN CHURCHES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Over the past several months, the GOI has reinforced its commitment to Iraq's Christian community by inviting the Assyrian Church to relocate its headquarters back to Baghdad and by returning schools expropriated during the Saddam-era back to the Chaldean Church. At [...] | 2009-10-19 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2814 | IRAQI MFA STRUGGLES TO REBUILD, EVEN AS IT [...] (C) Summary: On October 16, the Iraqi MFA hosted a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the August 19 bombing that killed some 30 MFA employees. PM Nouri al-Maliki and other senior officials delivered eulogies to the fallen. In the days and weeks leading up to this event, the MFA has [...] | 2009-10-19 14:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2816 | IRAQ'S PROGRESS REPORT ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI's completion of its "Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Monitoring Indicators" report shows that the government may be serious about tracking progress on socio-economic indicators. According to the Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology's (COSIT's [...] | 2009-10-19 16:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KMCA PHUM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2817 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 19, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) failed to reach agreement October 19 to move the election law forward. At an early meeting on October 19, Speaker Ayad al-Samarra'i cautioned CDA and POL M/C that October 18 negotiations on a draft amendment to the 2005 election law had b [...] | 2009-10-19 17:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2821 | INCONSISTENCIES IN ARREST OF YEZIDI POLITICIAN [...] (C) Summary. Outspoken critic of Kurdish security forces, Yezidi Progress Party (YPP) Head Wa'ad Hammad Matto was arrested by Iraqi military intelligence at his Ninewa home and continues to be held in communicado. The warrant for his arrest was issued four days after his detainment. According [...] | 2009-10-20 13:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2824 | INITIAL AGREEMENT ON NORTHERN SECURITY INITIATIVE [...] (S/NF) Summary & Comment: GOI, KRG and U.S. senior officials agreed on the text of a Northern Security Initiative that would create a joint security architecture for the disputed internal boundary (DIBs) areas in the northern provinces of Ninewa, Kirkuk and Diyala. The plan would bring select [...] | 2009-10-20 19:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER MARR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2825 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 20, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 20 parliamentarians dutifully reported to the Council of Representatives (COR),and likely comprised a quorum, but the session was never convened, as the deadlock on the Kirkuk issue continued. A/DCM held extensive meetings with COR members today, including key Kurdi [...] | 2009-10-20 19:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2827 | GOOGLE IMAGES THE IRAQ NATIONAL MUSEUM [...] (U) Summary: In support of Section IV of the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA),post supports programs to preserve Iraq's cultural heritage. To augment these efforts and harness the interest and expertise of the American private sector, we have partnered with several leaders from the IT ind [...] | 2009-10-21 14:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EINT KPAO SCUL TINT PGOV ECPS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2829 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 21, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Midday on October 21, Speaker Ayad al-Samarra'i announced that the Presidency Council of the Council of Representatives (COR) would refer the election law to the Political Council for National Security (PCNS). This action was predicted October 20 in conversations A/DCM had with [...] | 2009-10-21 19:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2830 | PROGRESS REPORTED IN REDUCING IRANIAN DOMINANCE IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala reporting cable. 2. (C/NF) Summary. According to a trusted source in Karbala,s tourism industry, private Iraqi and Iranian tourist agencies are successfully working around an unfavorable deal the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) struck with the Iranian gove [...] | 2009-10-21 19:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2831 | IRAQ OIL LEGISLATION, THE ROAD AHEAD: DELAYS AND [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with econoffs, both the chair (KDP) and vice-chair (Da'wa) of the Oil and Gas and National Resources Committee of the Council of Representatives (parliament) reaffirmed that progress on hydrocarbons legislation must wait until the new central government is sea [...] | 2009-10-22 06:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2832 | OPERATION IRAQI BASEBALL: TIGRIS TIGERS VISIT EMBASSY [...] Summary: In support of Section IV of the Strategic Framework Agreement, PAS hosts a number of cultural and social exchanges to forge stronger connections between our citizens, with particular emphasis on youth. Baseball and softball are two sports that are central to our culture and form the b [...] | 2009-10-22 07:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CVIS |
09BAGHDAD2833 | IRAQ OIL LEGISLATION, THE ROAD AHEAD: DELAYS AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-22 08:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2834 | KRG MAY BE PLOTTING AGAINST IRAQ OIL MINISTER AND [...] (C) Summary: The chair and vice-chair of the Oil and Gas and National Resources Committee of the Council of Representatives (parliament) disagree over whether the Council of Ministers (cabinet) or parliament has final authority to approve the large oil-field development contracts currently bei [...] | 2009-10-22 08:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2842 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 22, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 22 the Council of Representatives (COR) was in recess and CDA and A/DCM continued political engagements with UNAMI, Vice Presidents Tariq al-Hashimi and Abd al-Mahdi and President Jalal Talabani (septels). Early indications are that the Political Council for National [...] | 2009-10-22 17:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2844 | KURD LEADERS IN DIYALA: INCREASED ARAB [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT Message. 2. (C) Summary: Kurdish leaders in Khanaqin (Diyala Province) claimed increasing tensions between Arabs and Kurds in nearby Jalula and Saadiya are a result of intimidation from Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and a Ba,athist resurgence in the area. The Kurdis [...] | 2009-10-23 12:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2846 | PRT TEAM LEADERS CONFERENCE: MANAGING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Baghdad's Office of Provincial Affairs (OPA) held its quarterly Team Leaders Conference of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Adder, home to the Dhi Qar PRT. Embassy, NEA, and military officials briefed Team Leaders on plans for the c [...] | 2009-10-23 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2847 | PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW USED IN HISTORIC TEST TO [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (U) Summary: On October 13 an Iraqi federal court upheld the Salah Ad Din (SAD) Provincial Council (PC) dismissal of the Provincial Governor following a six-week struggle between the two principal governing entities i [...] | 2009-10-23 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2849 | INVESTMENT CONFERENCE GENERATES POSITIVE MEDIA COVERAGE IN [...] SUMMARY: The U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference (USBIC) in Washington was headline news throughout the week of October 19 in Iraq. Arabic-language papers, Radio Sawa and television channels Al-Iraqiya, Al-Hurra, and Al-Sharqiya devoted lead coverage to the Prime Minister's visit to [...] | 2009-10-23 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL IZ ECON EINV |
09BAGHDAD285 | CRUNCH TIME: GOI SCRAMBLING TO MEET DEADLINES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI still hopes to submit an updated Legislative Action Plan and its initial goods offer in time to allow for its Third WTO Working Party to meet late this spring. Good progress has been made on draft bills covering Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Technical Barriers t [...] | 2009-02-04 07:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN PGOV ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2851 | SWIRLING CROSS-CURRENT OF HIDDEN AGENDAS AND [...] (C) Summary: The roiling debate over whether and how Kirkuk participates in the upcoming election remains the crucial issue in the Iraqi Council of Representatives' (COR) deadlock over passage of a new election law. However, there are other, less visible factors that are also contributing to [...] | 2009-10-23 17:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2856 | IMPASSE ON KIRKUK: LEADERS DISAGREE BUT OFFER FEW [...] (C)Iraq's three Presidency Council members acknowledge that efforts to pass an elections law continue to founder on disputes over Kirkuk's participation in the elections. In separate meetings with with either General Odierno and/or CDA and A/DCM October 22, President Jalal Talabani, and Vice [...] | 2009-10-24 09:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD286 | US LEADERSHIP AND FUNDING NEEDED TO RETURN IRAQ,S [...] (C) Summary: Security gains have started to reverse the tide of displacement in Iraq ) UNHCR estimates that 185,000 IDPs and 23,000 refugees returned in 2008, out of nearly three million Iraqis displaced in 2006 and 2007. If security and other conditions continue to improve, UNHCR estimates [...] | 2009-02-04 08:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2860 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-25 11:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2861 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-25 11:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2864 | TURKOMANS: THE THIRD WHEEL ON ELECTION LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkoman intransigence on Kirkuk's treatment in the national elections has become a key sticking point in achieving consensus on a national election law. In discussions over how to divvy Kirkuk's allocation of seats in Parliament, the minority Turkoman insist on representation eq [...] | 2009-10-25 13:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2865 | POLITICAL TURMOIL IN DIWANIYAH PROVINCE: A [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a lengthy period of tranquility, politics have heated up sharply in Diwaniyah Province. The forging of national electoral coalitions in Baghdad reverberated in the province, but new coalitions in the Provincial Council (PC) appear to be driven by local considerations rath [...] | 2009-10-25 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2868 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in site visits to police and emergency agencies in the Uni [...] | 2009-10-26 09:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2869 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ MEETING SET FOR [...] (SBU) The GOI has agreed to an International Compact with Iraq (ICI) meeting on Novmeber 7, UNAMI Senior Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Ad Melkert has told donor countries. Melkert said this meeting would "mark the transition to the next new stage of interaction between the Go [...] | 2009-10-26 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD287 | GOI ASKS WESTERN COUNTRIES TO RESETTLE MEK [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 14. 2. (C) Summary: GOI point person for the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK),National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffaq Al-Rubaie (in the presence of the Iranian Ambassador),briefed international organizations and countries the GOI believes may have r [...] | 2009-02-04 09:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PINS PREL IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2870 | KURDISH PM CRITICIZES CELEBRATIONS FOR PKK [...] (U) Speaking with reporters in Erbil on October 25, outgoing KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani criticized Kurds in southeastern Turkey for throwing celebrations and giving a hero's welcome to PKK rebels who returned to Turkey on October 19 (reftel) as reported in international press. Barzani opined th [...] | 2009-10-26 15:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PHUM PREF PTER TU |
09BAGHDAD2872 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 26, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Political Council for National Security (PCNS) met on October 25 to discuss the elements for an election law after the matter was referred to it by the Council of Representatives (COR) (Ref A). Contacts tell us that the meeting was very large, with several proposals, which [...] | 2009-10-26 18:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2877 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (C) Summary: Post has established an interagency working group to coordinate assistance to the GOI following the October 25 car bombings at several GOI buildings, including the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),Ministry of Interior (MOI),Higher Judicial Council (HJC),Ministry of Municipalities and [...] | 2009-10-27 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2879 | SADRIST TREND AND ISCI OFFER PRIMARY ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Declaring its commitment to an open-list electoral system, the Sadrist Trend this month held Iraq's first primary election, claiming a likely exaggerated turnout of 1.5 million. Days later, their electoral ally, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),announced it too is acce [...] | 2009-10-27 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD288 | ANBAR SHEIKHS ACCUSE IIP OF FRAUD, THREATEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post-provincial election tension has arisen in Anbar province as Anbari tribal leaders have accused the (incumbent) Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) of manipulating election results with the assistance of the allegedly IIP-influenced Governorate Elections Officer (GEO). Conference of t [...] | 2009-02-04 12:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC KDEM PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2880 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE OCTOBER 26, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) has resumed its questioning of senior officials on corruption allegations. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has singled out "political corruption" for condemnation at a recent Defense Ministry-sponsored conference. ACCO contacts tell us th [...] | 2009-10-27 16:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2883 | BATTERED AND BRUISED BUT CARRYING ON: BAGHDAD IN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two car bombs detonated in close succession in Baghdad on October 25, heavily damaging the Ministry of Justice and the Baghdad Provincial Council building. As of October 27, the Ministry of Interior told MNF-I that 93 Iraqis were killed and 641 injured in the xplosion [...] | 2009-10-27 18:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KJUS ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2884 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: INVESTIGATION CONTINUES AS MOJ, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the October 25 car bombings at several key GOI buildings, Embassy law enforcement personnel have visited both sites and are working with MOI investigators. Despite heavy damage, the MOJ and Higher Judicial Council (HJC) have resumed partial operations both at the h [...] | 2009-10-28 09:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PINS PREL PTER PNAT KCRM KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2885 | CHAPTER VII DOMINATES AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki and FM Zebari seized upon Ambassador Rice's visit to express their dissatisfaction with the UN Secretary-General (UNSYG)'s decision to appoint a political official to gather information on foreign support for the perpetrators of the August 19 bombings. While [...] | 2009-10-28 09:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC UN IZ |
09BAGHDAD2886 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior GOI and judicial officials tell us that trafficking in women and young boys for the purposes of prostitution remains a widespread problem in Iraq, with victims either sold to traffickers by their families or kidnapped by criminal gangs. Iraqi trafficking victims often fi [...] | 2009-10-28 10:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP KWMN KLPM PHUM PREL PTER ELAB SMIG SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2887 | ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS WITH SENIOR GOI [...] (C) Council of Ministers Secretary General Ali Alaq, the Prime Minister's point-man on the anti-corruption dossier, told us the GOI was considering delaying the release of its new anti-corruption strategy, previously planned for early November, until after the January 2010 elections. He stated [...] | 2009-10-28 12:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2889 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Post's USG Assistance Coordination Working Group has identified areas of immediate need following the October 25 bombings in response to GOI requests. We are providing vehicles, office equipment, and generators to the affected government offices, and continuing to support forens [...] | 2009-10-28 16:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD289 | IRAQ-IRAN DIPLOMACY A SIGN OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE OR [...] (S) Summary: Recent Iraqi-Iranian visits (most notably PM Maliki and National Security Advisor al-Rubaie's visits to Tehran) indicate that Iraq is being increasingly assertive toward its ambitious neighbor, and that Iran is showing Iraq overdue respect, although the relationship might be char [...] | 2009-02-04 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINR ECON EAIR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2890 | IRAQ AGREES TO HOST UN SENIOR OFFICIAL AUGUST 19 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-28 17:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC UN IZ |
09BAGHDAD2895 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-10-29 12:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2896 | KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI WILLING TO COOPERATE ON [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq, Kurdistan Regional President (KRG) Masoud Barzani expressed his commitment to working with the U.S. and the GOI on a draft election law. He pledged flexibility regarding the terms, but firmly expressed his disa [...] | 2009-10-29 13:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2897 | KIRKUK PARTIES EXPLORE COALITION OPTIONS, AWAIT [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk Message. 2. (U) Summary: Amid continuing uncertainty over the election law, political parties in Kirkuk province are hard at work sizing up potential coalition partners. While final choices of partners will largely be determined by the election law, the outlines of [...] | 2009-10-29 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2899 | Reduced Turkish and Iranian Water Flows to Iraq's Tigris [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daily water flows into three major Iraqi dams (the Mosul, Dokan, and Derbendikahn) indicate significant reductions in waters crossing into Iraq from both Turkey and Iran. Iranian river blockages and diversions contribute to low Tigris River and Shatt Al Arab water flows in Iraq [...] | 2009-10-29 15:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PBTS PREL SENV TPHY TRGY TSPL EAGR EAID |
09BAGHDAD2900 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Baghdad's Assistance Coordination Working Group continues to meet daily to assess the damage and respond to needs following the October 25 bombings. INL has delivered 12 vehicles and several work stations to the Higher Judicial Council (HJC) and is expediting delivery of additi [...] | 2009-10-29 16:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2901 | IRAQ ELECTION LAW UPDATE, OCTOBER 29, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Hopes of a vote on an election law in the Council of Representatives melted away over the course of the day October 29 as party bloc leaders continued to haggle over terms for voting rules in Kirkuk. The Ambassador and poloffs engaged key leaders and a wide spectrum of influenti [...] | 2009-10-29 19:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2902 | Reduced Turkish and Iranian Water Flows to Iraq's Tigris [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daily water flows into three major Iraqi dams (the Mosul, Dokan, and Derbendikahn) indicate significant reductions in waters crossing into Iraq from both Turkey and Iran. Iranian river blockages and diversions contribute to low Tigris River and Shatt Al Arab water flows in Iraq [...] | 2009-10-30 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PBTS PREL SENV TPHY TRGY TSPL EAGR EAID |
09BAGHDAD2904 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Post's Assistance Coordination Working Group continues to monitor and organize assistance to the GOI following the October 25 bombings. Delivery of laptops and other equipment to the Higher Judicial Council (HJC) will allow it to become functional by November 1. The Ministry o [...] | 2009-10-30 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2905 | SENIOR ADVISOR MISENHEIMER,S MEETINGS IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador,s Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq, Alan Misenheimer, held a round of meetings in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah October 19-22. He met with the incoming and outgoing KRG Prime Ministers, the KRG Parliamentary leader, KDP and PUK officials, President Barzani,s Chief of Sta [...] | 2009-10-30 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2906 | CORRECTED COPY: SENIOR ADVISOR MISENHEIMER'S [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq, Alan Misenheimer, held a round of meetings in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah October 19-22. He met with the incoming and outgoing KRG Prime Ministers, the KRG Parliamentary leader, KDP and PUK officials, President Barzani,s Chief of Staf [...] | 2009-10-30 16:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2907 | IRAQI ELECTORAL COALITION UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political cohesion continues to elude Iraq's Sunni Arabs, as the various party leaders -- each clinging to his own ambitions -- struggle to form coalitions that will appeal to the country's political and religious middle. The once dominant Tawafuq coalition, centered around the [...] | 2009-10-30 18:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2909 | RRT ERBIL: SLIMMED DOWN KRG CABINET SWORN IN [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: On October 28, following over three months of intense inter-party negotiations, the sixth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was sworn in. The new cabinet, led by former GOI Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Barham Salih, consists o [...] | 2009-10-31 13:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD291 | MAYSAN ELECTION: DA'WA AND SADRISTS CONFIDENT [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: On February 3, Da'wa leader and current Provincial Council (PC) Deputy Chairman Latif Abud told the PRT that he expects his coalition list will take nearly half of the 27 PC seats contested in Maysan's January 31 election. [...] | 2009-02-04 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2910 | CHALABI ON LARIJANI VISIT, IRAN, AND IRAQI [...] (C) SUMMARY: MP and Iraqi National Alliance (INA) member Ahmed Chalabi blamed Iraq's "unprofessional and mostly Ba'thist" intelligence for having worked with Al-Qaeda to facilitate the October 25 bomb attacks in Baghdad. Chalabi told poloffs October 28 that PM Maliki was undermining the work [...] | 2009-10-31 14:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD2911 | LEADER OF SABEAN-MANDEANS SAYS COMMUNITY UNDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The leader of Iraq's Sabean-Mandean community, Sheikh Sittar Hillo, tells us that the Mandeans have received new death threats from extremist elements over the past ten days and that 10 Mandeans have been murdered over the past year. Hillo complained that the GOI has been neglige [...] | 2009-10-31 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF KJUS PHUM SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD2912 | AMBASSADOR REVIEWS REVISED UNAMI ELECTIONS LAW [...] (C) Summary: Council of Representatives (COR) Speaker Ayad Samarra'i told the Ambassador on October 28 that he supported the revised election law plan from UNAMI that called for one-year terms for COR representatives elected from Kirkuk in the January 2010 elections. Samarra'i also queried [...] | 2009-10-31 17:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2913 | ACTION REQUEST: IRAQI ELECTION LAW [...] (U) This is an Action Request, please see para. 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Following discussions with Iraqi politicians, UNAMI SRSG Melkert presented October 31 a new proposal for voting in Kirkuk province that blends elements of prior schemes. The new approach followed a failed effort on Octo [...] | 2009-10-31 19:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2916 | AMBASSADOR REVIEWS ELECTION LAW OPTIONS WITH PM, [...] (C) Summary: After expressing condolences for the October 25 bombings, the Ambassador engaged in a sustained conversation with PM Maliki October 26 about possible compromises to break the impasse over the election law. The two agreed, with the concurrence of CG MNF-I, who also attended, tha [...] | 2009-11-01 09:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2919 | SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FARAH PANDITH'S VISIT TO IRAQ, [...] Summary: On her first visit to Iraq, the Secretary's Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith reached out to a broad cross-section of Baghdad's civil society. She emphasized President Obama's promise (as enunciated in his June 2009 Cairo speech) of a renewed U.S. dialogue ba [...] | 2009-11-01 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL KPAO KISL PHUM EINT IZ |
09BAGHDAD292 | MUTHANNA: IRANIAN MFA POSSIBLY BEHIND IRON FACTORY [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: A delegation of Iranian investors came to Muthanna province in January to continue negotiations for an 81 million USD iron plant. According to Haider al-Musawi, a local political adviser for the PRT, the Iranian delegation was largely comprised of former, and possibly c [...] | 2009-02-04 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EFIN ECON PGOV IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2920 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE, NOVEMBER 1, 2009: UNAMI [...] (C) SUMMARY. Influential Arab and Turkoman lawmakers in Baghdad and Kirkuk told U.S. and UNAMI officials on November 1 they would support the UNAMI proposal, and Speaker Sammara'i agreed to call a vote on the election law the next day (November 2). Yet, although the vote may be near, it is [...] | 2009-11-01 18:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2924 | PRESSING FM ZEBARI OVER DFI, SADDAM-ERA VICTIMS' [...] (C) Summary: Pol M/C raised points contained in reftel with FM Zebari on October 23 regarding a final one-year extension of the arrangements for the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) and the need to settle Saddam-era claims of U.S. victims. Zebari expressed overall support for the approach, i [...] | 2009-11-02 14:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC KJUS IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD2925 | ESTABLISHMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION COMES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has announced members of the Advisory Council for Iraq's Human Rights Commission, marking a step toward the establishment of an independent human rights commission. The 14-member Advisory Council, composed of representatives from the Council of Ministers, Council of Repre [...] | 2009-11-02 14:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2927 | ICCTF COMBATS CONTRACT FRAUD AND CORRUPTION IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: To address corruption and fraud that pervaded the government procurement process during the initial stages of the USG's Iraq reconstruction effort, DOJ created the International Contract Corruption Task Force (ICCTF) in March 2006. The ICCTF is a joint law enforcement task forc [...] | 2009-11-02 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI IZ KCRM KJUS |
09BAGHDAD2929 | MFA OFFICIAL PREVIEWS FERNANDEZ-TARANCO VISIT [...] (C) Summary: On November 1, MFA Senior Policy Advisor at Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Farid Yassen, met with Pol Deputy Counselor to discuss the imminent visit of UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco to Baghdad. Yassen welcomed the visit and el [...] | 2009-11-02 14:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2930 | WATER RESOURCES MINISTER DISCUSSES MAJOR WATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Transboundary water negotiations, repair of the Mosul Dam, salinity issues in Basra province, and improvement of irrigation drainage are the major water issues facing Iraq, Minister of Water Resources Dr. Latif Rashid told USG personnel in late October. END SUMMARY Three Prima [...] | 2009-11-02 15:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PBTS SENV TNGD TPHY EAGR |
09BAGHDAD2931 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE, NOVEMBER 2, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Unable to overcome Kurdish intransigence on the UNAMI proposal on Kirkuk in the national election, the Council of Representatives (COR) ended session November 2 without a vote but agreed to return for an additional session the next day. Embassy and UNAMI discussions with Kurdish [...] | 2009-11-02 17:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2934 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Iraq continues to recover from the October 25 bombing. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is preparing to move into its new quarters on November 8 and will receive some equipment from INL. The Minister of Justice has appointed the DG for Administration and Finance [...] | 2009-11-03 16:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEX PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2935 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE, NOVEMBER 3, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Efforts to pass an election law remained stuck on Kurdish objections to UNAMI's proposal for the inclusion of Kirkuk in the national election (Reftel). KRG PM Barham Salih told the Ambassador the Kurds want deletion of any specific mention of Kirkuk and inclusion of a compensat [...] | 2009-11-03 17:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2936 | FLASH FLOODS HIT ERBIL PROVINCE [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (U) Summary: On October 31, up to five inches of rain fell in the Kurdistan Region resulting in flash flooding in several mountainous sub-districts, particularly in Erbil Province. A woman and her young child died, and 200 adobe houses were damaged or d [...] | 2009-11-04 06:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD2937 | SUNNIS CONVINCED OF POLITICALLY MOTIVATED ARREST [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala message. 2. (C) Summary: On October 24th, Iraqi press reported the issuance of arrest warrants for Diyala Provincial Council (PC) member Hisham al-Hiyali and his wife, Council of Representatives (COR) member, Tayseer al-Mashandani. These arrest warrants are the lat [...] | 2009-11-04 07:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD294 | IRAQI EFFORTS TO CLOSE OUT OIL FOR FOOD CONTRACTS [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi MFA is optimistic that it can make serious progress over the next month to close out the remaining Oil For Food contracts. The GOI goal is to collect all necessary documentation and convene a final meeting in New York to review all the disputed contracts and make a fin [...] | 2009-02-04 15:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2942 | MUTHANA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL REJECTS GOI PLAN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI's plan to relocate Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) residents from Ashraf to Muthana on December 15 appears to have fallen apart, as the Muthana Provincial Council (PC),with the backing of the governor and local Iraqi security forces (ISF) commanders, rejected the plan on grou [...] | 2009-11-04 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2944 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE: NOVEMBER 4, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. After another intense day of competing negotiations among key blocs over multiple proposals on voting rules for Kirkuk province, momentum appears to be building toward a vote at the Council of Representatives (COR) tomorrow, November 5. Negotiations have centered on two new pro [...] | 2009-11-04 18:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2945 | DROP-DEAD DATE FOR IRAQ ELECTION LAW IMMINENT; [...] (C) SUMMARY: November 5 is the drop-dead date for legislative action to hold legitimate, credible elections in Iraq on January 16, according to Iraq,s election authorities and UNAMI experts. This drop-dead date is pegged to December 5, the date by which the ballots must go to the printer, an [...] | 2009-11-04 19:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2946 | INL Baghdad October Highlights [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Baghdad's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) office supports the development of rule of law in Iraq through police, judiciary, corrections, and anti-corruption programs. In response to challenges facing the GOI, INL Baghdad has worked throughout October t [...] | 2009-11-05 03:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2947 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR STATE DEPARTMENT US SPONSORED [...] 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 who have been nominated for Department of State Evidence Training that will be conducted each Wednesday for one to two hours p [...] | 2009-11-05 08:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD2948 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR STATE DEPARTMENT US SPONSORED [...] 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 who have been nominated for Department of State Evidence Training that will be conducted each Wednesday for one to two hours p [...] | 2009-11-05 08:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD295 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: ELECTIONS GO SMOOTHLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRT observers visited polling centers in four of Salah ad Din's (SaD) eight districts. The sites were consistently well organized and secured, though screening procedures and equipment were inconsistent. Turnout was lower in rural areas where heads of household expected to vot [...] | 2009-02-04 16:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2950 | NAJAF POLICE CHIEF CONTINUES TO COURT CONTROVERSY [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Najaf police chief MG Karim continues to hold onto his job, despite having become a lightning rod for criticism in the province. Governor Zurfi has been forthright in expressing his wish to have Karim replaced, and sever [...] | 2009-11-05 11:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2951 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE: NOVEMBER 5, 2009 [...] SUMMARY. Speaker Ayad al-Samarra'i, joined by Sunni Arab and Kurdish MPs from Kirkuk, announced mid-afternoon November 5 agreement in principle on a proposal for voting rules for Kirkuk province and that a vote would take place November 7 (Text at para. 6). The run-up to Saturday, however, p [...] | 2009-11-05 17:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2953 | MND-N CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) representatives from Kirkuk, Ninewa, Diyala, Erbil, and Salah ad Din provinces, emboffs, and Multi-National Division-North (MND-N) discussed local economic development issues at the quarterly conference held on October 16-17 in Tikrit. Discuss [...] | 2009-11-06 12:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2954 | DISCUSSION WITH BOARD OF SUPREME AUDIT HEAD [...] (C) A prominent anti-corruption official, Board of Supreme Audit (BSA) President Dr. Abdel Basit, stated that the courts had dismissed the charges brought against him by Iraqi High Tribunal, but registered concern that he would face further such harassment by "some in government" opposed to BSA [...] | 2009-11-06 14:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2955 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE: NOVEMBER 6, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a day of reduced engagements as most Iraqis attended Friday prayers, poloffs learned that parliamentarians appear to be waiting on the Kurds' reaction to the November 5 election law compromise proposal (Ref A),to which all parties had agreed in principle and on which Spe [...] | 2009-11-06 17:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2958 | IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE: NOVEMBER 7, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Representatives (COR) achieved quorum for a vote on an election law, but after strenuous objections from the Sunni Arabs, decided to postpone the vote until the following day at 9:30 a.m. The proposal to be tabled is an undated version of the Abd al-Mahdi proposa [...] | 2009-11-07 19:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD296 | MFA CHIEF OF STAFF ON FOLLOW-UP WITH KUWAIT AND [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Zebari's Chief of Staff, Ambassador Srood Najib, provided Emboffs an update February 3 on follow-up with Kuwait and Turkey, in light of discussions FM Zebari had on the margins of the January 19-20 Kuwait Economic Summit and during his January 23 visit to Ankara [...] | 2009-02-04 16:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PROG ECON EFIN IZ KU TU |
09BAGHDAD2960 | IRAQ/IRAN: IRAN MAKES BIG SHOWING AT BAGHDAD TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Among the nearly 400 firms present at the 2009 Baghdad International Fair that kicked off on November 1, 51 were from Iran; making it the largest single delegation among the 32 countries in attendance. With annual trade between Iran and Iraq estimated at USD 4 billion (up 30 p [...] | 2009-11-08 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL BEXP BTIO IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2961 | PM ADVISOR RIKABI ON DFI, SADDAM-ERA CIVIL CLAIMS, [...] (C) Summary: Pol M/C and Embassy Legal Advisor (ELA) met with PM Advisor Sadiq Rakabi November 4 to review the points contained in refs A and B, regarding the settlement of Saddam-era civil claims and a one year extension of the arrangements for the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI). Rikabi s [...] | 2009-11-08 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD2966 | A GOOD WEEK FOR IRAQ'S ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary. Overshadowed by the October 25 bombings and wrangling over the election law, it has been a good few weeks for Iraq on the economic front. Washington hosted the oversubscribed U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference from October 20-21. The Ministry of Oil signed an agreem [...] | 2009-11-09 09:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET PGOV BEXP IZ CH |
09BAGHDAD2967 | IRAQI PARLIAMENT PASSES ELECTION LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-09 14:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2968 | VISAS VIPER: NOVEMBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post: Baghdad MEETING DATE: 04 November 2009 CHAIR: Consul General David Schwartz COORDINATOR: CONOFF David Brownstein ATTENDEES: RSO, ECON, POL/MIL, FBI, PAS, CONS 3. (U) THE COMMITTEE IS SUBMITTING INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWI [...] | 2009-11-09 15:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PTER ASEC CMGT CVIS KPRV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2969 | THE ELECTION LAW THAT ALMOST WASN'T; KEEPING IT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Representatives (COR) passed the Iraqi election law November 8 by a wide margin. After weeks of increasingly intense Embassy and UNAMI engagement, the final day witnessed dramatically more intense engagement, as the Ambassador met with Kurdish and Arab/Turkoman bl [...] | 2009-11-09 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD297 | IRAQI MINISTERS SEEK MEETING WITH COUNTERPARTS IN [...] At a February 2 meeting with EMIN Wall, Deputy Prime Minister Rafa'a Al-Issawi expressed interest in leading a delegation of ministers to Washington, DC. The delegation would include the Minister of Health, Agriculture, Transportation, and Electricity who would like to meet with their U.S. c [...] | 2009-02-04 17:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD IZ OTRA PGOV PREL SOCI |
09BAGHDAD2970 | THE LEADER OF IRAQ'S ASPIRING, BUT STILL UNLAWFUL, [...] (C) During an October 24-26 trip to Basra to assess Iraq,s southern oil and gas facilities (septels),emboffs met with the leader of a group aspiring to represent Iraq's oil workers. (Note: At the moment, unions are illegal in Iraq. End note) Hassan Jum,ah Al-Asadi, the apparently self-appo [...] | 2009-11-10 07:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EINV ENRG EPET IZ PREL |
09BAGHDAD2971 | IRAQ'S SOUTHERN IRAQ OIL AND GAS SITUATION [...] (C) Summary: BP plans to sign and implement its contract to increase the production of Rumaila oil field as soon as early December, even though some Government of Iraq (GOI) officials claim parliament must first approve the contract. While a significant production increase will likely not occ [...] | 2009-11-10 07:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EINV ENRG EPET IZ PREL |
09BAGHDAD2973 | SOUTHERN IRAQ OIL AND GAS SITUATIONAL ASSESSMENT, [...] (C) Summary: In the run-up to what promises to be an historic expansion of Iraqi oil and gas production, Econoffs visited Basrah-based Southern Oil, Southern Gas, and Southern Refining companies to assess their preparations and solicit their views. Southern Gas seemed upbeat but ill-prepared f [...] | 2009-11-10 07:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2975 | SOUTHERN IRAQ OIL AND GAS SITUATIONAL ASSESSMENT, [...] (C) Summary: USG help is still crucial to the security and operations of Iraq,s two offshore oil export terminals, through which 75 percent of Iraq,s oil exports flow. Without USG help, we assess that both terminals, at least in the short term, would experience periodic reduced throughput or [...] | 2009-11-10 08:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2976 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH BARZANI IN ERBIL [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: Ambassador Rice met with KRG President Masoud Barzani in Erbil October 24. She stressed the importance of holding national elections on time and including Kirkuk. She pressed for KRG flexibility to allow for the election law to move forwar [...] | 2009-11-10 08:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2977 | ISCI'S HAKIM DISCUSSES ELECTORAL POLITICS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a November 1 meeting, the Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),Ammar al-Hakim, told the Ambassador that U.S. praise for "secular" parties could be viewed as approval of the Ba'ath Party. Hakim lauded the October 20-21 Business Investment Conference in W [...] | 2009-11-10 10:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ EINV |
09BAGHDAD2979 | IRAQI PARLIAMENT PASSES ELECTION LAW [...] (U) This message provides a correction to Reftel in para. 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 8, Iraq's Council of Representatives finally passed an election law that will enable Iraq to hold elections on January 21, 2010 -- five days later than originally planned but well within the requ [...] | 2009-11-10 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2980 | IRAQI WATER RESOURCES NEGOTIATOR DESCRIBES WATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Iraq-Iran bilateral negotiations on water resources held October 23-25, Iraqi negotiators confronted their Iranian interlocutors with unclassified photographs of Iranian river blockages and diversions provided to the GOI by Embassy Baghdad, Ministry of Water Resources Gener [...] | 2009-11-10 13:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON IZ PBTS SENV TNGD TPHY |
09BAGHDAD2981 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON SECURITY [...] The answers below are keyed to the questions contained in reftel. 2. Does the United States currently have an established security dialogue with Iraq? (Please report on all established or ad hoc dialogues of a pol-mil nature, regardless of the terminology by which they are described (in [...] | 2009-11-10 14:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD2984 | LARIJANI'S VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Iranian Parliament Speaker Larijani visited Iraq November 4-7, where he traveled to Baghdad, Karbala, and Najaf to meet with his Iraqi counterpart, parliamentary bloc leaders, PM Maliki, President Talabani, and Grand Ayatollah Sistani. His primary objective appears to [...] | 2009-11-10 16:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2986 | Iraqi Women Plant Flag As First Female Police Officers [...] (SBU) Summary: Coordinator for Assistance Transition Patricia Haslach attended Baghdad Police College's graduation ceremony, including its first class of 50 female police officers on November 9. Recruited from around Iraq, the new first lieutenants will serve at Ministry of Interior (MOI) a [...] | 2009-11-12 10:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2991 | EXPO NAJAF DRAWS SUPPORT FROM SHI,A CLERICS, [...] (U) This is a Najaf PRT reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY. PRT members attended the October 12 opening session of Expo Najaf organized and hosted by the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and the Najaf Chamber of Commerce. The event was organized with the explicit support of their spi [...] | 2009-11-12 15:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON IR IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD2992 | IRAN'S EFFORTS IN IRAQI ELECTORAL POLITICS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Iran is a dominant player in Iraq's electoral politics, and is using its close ties to Shia, Kurdish, and select Sunni figures to shape the political landscape in favor of a united Shia victory in the January election. A pro-Iran, Shia-dominated, and preferably Islamist governme [...] | 2009-11-13 12:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER TU IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2993 | MANDATORY FIELD TRAINING EXERCISE FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified; handle accordingly. Not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: This is an action request. Embassy Baghdad requests that State include a mandatory military field training component in the series of training courses currently requ [...] | 2009-11-13 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | APER AFSI AMGT AFIN IZ |
09BAGHDAD2994 | COORDINATOR FOR ASSISTANCE TRANSITION MEETS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 5, Coordinator for Assistance Transition Patricia Haslach, EMIN, Finatt, and Brigadier General Stephen Lanza met Minister of Finance Baqir Jabr Al Zubaidi to discuss follow up to the Dialogue on Economic Cooperation (DEC) and the U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Con [...] | 2009-11-13 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EAIR ETRD IZ |
09BAGHDAD2995 | WILL SHI,A COALITIONS JOIN FORCES? BALANCING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Local media is rife with speculation that the two leading Shi'a electoral coalitions, the Prime Minister's State of Law Alliance (SLA) and the ISCI/Sadrist-led Iraqi National Alliance (INA),will merge before coalition registration ends on November 13. Sources from bo [...] | 2009-11-13 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2996 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO IRAQI MFA: UNGA COUNTRY [...] (C) On November 11, POL M/C delivered the UNGA Country Specific Human Rights Resolutions demarche per reftel to MFA Chief of Staff, Srood Najib and Senior Policy Advisor Farid Yaseen. Najib and Yaseen were attentive, but noncommittal, saying they would examine our request. Post will report [...] | 2009-11-14 09:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ PHUM UNGA |
09BAGHDAD2997 | SHEIKH WELCOMES U.S. PARTNERSHIP, STRESSES [...] (C) Summary: Mohsin Nayef Faisal al-Jarba, a politically well-connected sheikh in the influential Shammar tribal confederation, told poloff and military chaplains on November 10 that he welcomed continued partnership with the United States. The sheikh stressed support for non-sectarianism, in [...] | 2009-11-14 09:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2998 | PM MALIKI AND PRESIDENT TALABANI DISCUSS ELECTIONS [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY. On October 25, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki hosted General David Petraeus at his residence, shortly after returning from visiting the blast sites at the Ministry of Justice and Baghdad Provincial Council. The PM stressed that there continued to be successful operations aga [...] | 2009-11-15 06:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL MARR MOPS PARM IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD3 | SECURITY TRANSITION FOR CAMP ASHRAF - ALL QUIET ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY. After receiving what Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) leaders at Camp Ashraf described as "three blows" in the last week - a visit by Iraqi National Security Advisor (NSA) Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie, an Iraqi NSA press release on the vi [...] | 2009-01-03 07:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD30 | NEXT SPEAKER OF THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT - A HERD OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: There is currently no clear Sunni Arab candidate emerging to succeed the erratic Mahmoud Mashhadani, who flamed out late last month (reftel) as speaker the Council of Representatives (CoR),Iraq's parliament. There is much jockeying for position, however, among the (Sunni Arab) Na [...] | 2009-01-07 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3001 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE FOR NOVEMBER 15 [...] (C) Commission of Integrity (COI) head Judge Raheem Al-Ugaily asserted that there was resistance among some parliamentarians to submitting the legally required financial disclosure reports. The Baghdad Provincial Council's Integrity Committee chairman said that the Committee had uncovered "ma [...] | 2009-11-15 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3002 | COORDINATOR FOR ASSISTANCE TRANSITION HASLACH'S [...] (SBU) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Rafi al Issawi described the Iraqi leadership as completely consumed with politics and very unlikely to move forward any significant legislation prior to January's elections. He suggested formally calling for meetings of the Strategic Framework Agreement Jo [...] | 2009-11-15 14:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3003 | BIG OIL'S ABOUT-FACE ON IRAQ: THREE WORLD CLASS [...] (U) The first week of November saw significant progress towards realizing the GOI's vision of tripling oil production over the next eight years. On November 1, a consortium led by Italian firm ENI and including U.S. firm Occidental and South Korea's Kogas initialed a contract for the Zubair oi [...] | 2009-11-15 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3004 | UK NAVAL TRAINING MISSION SET TO RETURN TO IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: President Jalal Talabani earlier this week confirmed for the British Ambassador that the UK-Iraq bilateral security agreement has passed the Presidency Council and the British naval training contingent can return to Iraqi waters. Upon receiving this confirmation, the UK is planni [...] | 2009-11-15 15:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS UK IZ |
09BAGHDAD3005 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: HASHIMI CALLS FOR MORE SEATS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two of the three members of the Presidency Council -- President Talabani and Vice President Abd al-Mahdi -- have signed the election law passed by Parliament on November 8. However, the third member, Vice President Hashimi (Sunni Arab),is withholding his signature, [...] | 2009-11-15 16:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3006 | RRT ERBIL: KURDISTANI REACTION TO THE ELECTION LAW [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) welcomed passage of the election law. The Kurds achieved their paramount objectives, by virtue of the law passing with the inclusion of Kirkuk and without compensatory seats reserved for Arabs or Turk [...] | 2009-11-16 11:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD3007 | IRAQ'S TELECOM REGULATOR: PUSHING FOR INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's recently reconstituted Communications and Media Commission (CMC) has been asserting its role as an independent regulator with increasing effectiveness. Noting he was working closely with Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) to ensure "appropriate" media condu [...] | 2009-11-16 13:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS EINT EINV IZ PGOV |
09BAGHDAD3008 | AMBASSADOR HILL DISCUSSES SECURITY, DETAINEES, AND [...] (C) Summary: In a November 10 meeting between the Ambassador and ICRC Head of Iraq Delegation Juan Pedro Schaerer, the latter provided an overview of the ICRC's activities related to detainees and the MEK, and introduced his replacement, Magne Barth. Schaerer praised the close cooperation [...] | 2009-11-16 15:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KREF KJUS IO IZ |
09BAGHDAD3011 | VP HASHIMI LOOKS FOR FACE-SAVING ALTERNATIVE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi continues to refuse to sign the amended election law on the grounds that it unfairly dilutes the ballots of out-of-country voters. In a letter presented to the Council of Representatives (COR) on November 16, he proposed remedying the situat [...] | 2009-11-16 20:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3012 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in shipyard site visit, in the United States. Request exp [...] | 2009-11-17 04:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3013 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in shipyard site visit, in the United States. Request exp [...] | 2009-11-17 04:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3014 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in shipyard site visit, in the United States. Request exp [...] | 2009-11-17 04:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3015 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in shipyard site visit, in the United States. Request exp [...] | 2009-11-17 04:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3016 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in shipyard site visit, in the United States. Request exp [...] | 2009-11-17 04:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3025 | National Development Plan Workshop: First GOI Interagency [...] (SBU) Summary: At a November 5-8 workshop in Erbil, the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) briefed other GOI ministries and the international community on progress on Iraq's National Development Plan (NDP) for 2010-2014. The NDP is a follow-on to the 2007-2010 National De [...] | 2009-11-17 06:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3028 | GOI PROPOSED 2010 BUDGET: RIDING THE OIL ROLLER COASTER [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI has proposed a 2010 budget to the Council of Representatives (CoR) that would increase expenditures by 22 percent. While security remains a budget priority, as do the essential services of oil and electricity, more resources are proposed for health, education, municipal [...] | 2009-11-17 06:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3030 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF FIRST EAST EXPORT BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 07:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KNNP EFIN PARM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3031 | National Development Plan Workshop: First GOI Interagency [...] (SBU) Summary: At a November 5-8 workshop in Erbil, the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) briefed other GOI ministries and the international community on progress on Iraq's National Development Plan (NDP) for 2010-2014. The NDP is a follow-on to the 2007-2010 National De [...] | 2009-11-17 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3033 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: VP HASHIMI MULLS OVER IHEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi did not follow through on a threat to veto today the election law unless the percentage of compensatory seats was increased in consideration of the size of the out-of-country voter population. After a detailed discussion with election officials las [...] | 2009-11-18 07:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3034 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: VP HASHIMI MULLS OVER IHEC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-18 07:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3035 | PRT NINEWA: A RISE IN ARAB-KURD RHETORIC [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) cable. 2. (U) Summary. A recent increase in public rhetoric and posturing between al-Hadba Gathering (AHG) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials in Ninewa Province has raised political tensions to a level not seen since the Ap [...] | 2009-11-18 07:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PMIL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3036 | PRT NINEWA: A RISE IN ARAB-KURD RHETORIC [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) cable. 2. (U) Summary. A recent increase in public rhetoric and posturing between al-Hadba Gathering (AHG) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials in Ninewa Province has raised political tensions to a level not seen since the Ap [...] | 2009-11-18 07:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PMIL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3039 | LETTER TO THE SECRETARY FROM DR. SAMI AL-ARAJI, [...] Post has received a diplomatic note from the GOI dated 4 November 2009 forwarding a letter to the Secretary from Dr. Sami Al-Araji, Chairman, Iraq National Investment Commission. Text of the Diplomatic Note and Letter follow: 2. Begin Text of Diplomatic Note Republic of Iraq Ministry of [...] | 2009-11-18 07:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC EINV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3042 | RIDING HIGH AFTER THE CONFERENCE: IRAQ'S NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Sami al-Araji, the chairman of Iraq's National Investment Commission (NIC) and our organizational partner for the October 20-21 U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference (BIC) in Washington, outlined for us his plans to capture the momentum from Iraq's investment conference [...] | 2009-11-18 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD IZ PREL FR GM PL |
09BAGHDAD3044 | ASSISTANCE COORDINATION IN IRAQ: A NEW PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) Summary: In a clear show of support for the GOI, over twenty heads or deputy heads of missions resident in Iraq attended an International Compact with Iraq (ICI) / New Partnership meeting in Baghdad on November 7, followed by a similarly well-attended Donor Committee meeting of the Intern [...] | 2009-11-18 14:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3045 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI VETOES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite indications to the contrary the previous day, Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi vetoed Iraq's amended election law shortly before noon on November 18. In an explanatory letter to the Council of Representative (COR),Hashimi asked the parliament to make several revisions to [...] | 2009-11-18 19:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3049 | IRAQ - 2010 BUDGET ISSUES: INITIAL VIEW FROM THE [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 16, the Chairman of the Council of Representatives' (CoR) Finance Committee discussed issues in the draft 2010 budget with Emboffs. She confirmed the Committee is trying to get final CoR passage of the budget before mid-December so it can be signed by the Presidency [...] | 2009-11-19 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD305 | ARTICLE 23 COMMITTEE FINALLY VISITS KIRKUK, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The seven members of Parliament's Article 23 Committee traveled to Kirkuk February 2 and had a mostly positive, and somewhat productive, series of meetings with local officials. The Committee was facing a March 31 deadline, and had done little since the establishment of the com [...] | 2009-02-05 12:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3052 | AMBASSADOR AND MINISTER OF FINANCE SIGN MOU ON USG [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 20:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN IZ |
09BAGHDAD3053 | VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI CONSIDERS COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: After meeting with Speaker Samarraie and consulting other key political leaders, the Ambassador met with Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi to discuss a possible way forward in the wake of the vice president's veto of the election law. Appearing reluctant to compromise, Hashimi com [...] | 2009-11-19 20:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3054 | RRT ERBIL: PUK PLENUM - WOOING THE DISAFFECTED [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) political party held its first party plenum since 2006 on October 29-31 with the goal of reinvigorating the party and increasing party unity in the lead up to the national elections in January. The pa [...] | 2009-11-20 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3055 | THE PDS IN ANBAR: LET THEM EAT SOAP [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: An early November call on a panel of Iraqi Trade Ministry officials who administer the Public Distribution System (PDS) in Anbar province provided insight into the decaying utility of the GOI's program. More than 2,000 agents licensed by the Ministry of Trade (MOT) a [...] | 2009-11-20 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD IZ KCOR PREF WFP |
09BAGHDAD3056 | IN BAGHDAD, TURKEY AND U.S. DISCUSS [...] (S) SUMMARY: On November 18, Major General (MG) Erdal Ozturk and delegation flew to Baghdad for a meeting with MG Steven Hummer and other U.S. officials to discuss the progress of the Turkey-Iraq-U.S. Trilateral Security Dialogue. During a one-on-one meeting between MG Ozturk and MG Hummer, [...] | 2009-11-20 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV PINR PREF PTER TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD3057 | ANBAR CORRUPTION UPDATE NOVEMBER 2009 [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Officers of the Anbar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and the Embassy Anti-Corruption Coordinator's Office met October 31-Nov 2 with local officials and PRT officers to discuss anti-corruption efforts in Anbar. Anti-corruption institutions are gaining legitimac [...] | 2009-11-21 08:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM MOPS IZ |
09BAGHDAD3058 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: CHIEF CRIMINAL JUDGE USES [...] This is a PRT Salah ad Din cable. 2. (U) Summary: On October 22, 2009, Salah ad Din Chief Criminal Judge Faisal Ibrahim Ali Al Azawi sentenced a young man to death for killing his mother in September 2007. Forensic evidence analyzed by the Baghdad Crime Laboratory cleared Coalition Forces ( [...] | 2009-11-21 14:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3059 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: KURD-SHIA OUTMANEUVER HASHIMI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Council of Representatives (COR) failed to reach a consensus at its November 21 session on either reaffirming the election law amendments it adopted on November 8 or on a new amendment to the law. The latest UNAMI proposal gained, then quickly lost, traction this morni [...] | 2009-11-21 20:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD306 | RESULTS OF IRAQ'S PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: AN INITIAL [...] (C) Summary: A complex and nuanced political picture is emerging out of Iraq's provincial elections as preliminary results are announced. Across the board, the results are diffuse: in all but one case, no electoral list secured more than 38%, and in a number of cases, the leading parties sec [...] | 2009-02-05 18:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3065 | PRT DIYALA: PROSECUTOR CLAIMS CONFESSION LED TO [...] This is a PRT Diyala cable. 2. (C) Summary: Multiple sources claim that the recent Anti-Terrorism Law-based warrants for Diyala Provincial Council member Hisham al-Hiyali and his wife, Council of Representatives (COR) member Tayseer Mashandani, originate with the un-coerced confession of [...] | 2009-11-22 08:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3066 | IRAQI MPS OFFER DEAL TO VP HASHIMI FOR WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shia and Sunni bloc leaders have submitted a letter to Vice President Hashimi requesting that he withdraw his veto of the amended election law in exchange for a promise that the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) will treat out-of-country voters as they do those in-countr [...] | 2009-11-22 18:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3074 | IRAQI MFA WELCOMES COHEN-GOOGLE DELEGATION [...] (U) Summary: On November 22, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hoshyar Zebari and MFA Senior Policy Advisor Fareed Yasseen met with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, State Department Policy Planning Staff member Jared Cohen, Trident Capital CEO Don Dixon, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter [...] | 2009-11-23 08:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL IZ TINT ECON SCUL |
09BAGHDAD3075 | HASHIMI'S VETO BACKFIRES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dragging his feet on withdrawing his electoral law veto, Vice President Hashimi allowed his political opponents in the Council of Representatives (COR) to maneuver a successful vote on a new amendment that, among its provisions, could reduce parliamentary seats from Sunni-majority [...] | 2009-11-23 20:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3076 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to attend a summit in the United States. If possible, please expedite th [...] | 2009-11-24 03:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD308 | MUTHANNA'S TOP CRIME FIGHTER MAY BE REPLACED [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Criminal Investigative Unit (CIU) Chief, Brigadier General Ali, generally regarded as Muthanna's top crime fighter, was recently scheduled for reassignment by the Ministry of Interior (MoI). Provincial Council (PC) contacts state [...] | 2009-02-06 12:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PGOV EFIN IZ |
09BAGHDAD3080 | EMBASSY BAGHDAD 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Human trafficking for the purposes of labor and sexual exploitation continues to be a problem in Iraq according to senior GOI and judicial officials. While the GOI has drafted legislation to prosecute and punish those who engage in trafficking, the draft law remains stalled i [...] | 2009-11-24 12:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TIP NEA RA |
09BAGHDAD3082 | RRT ERBIL: KRG PM PROBING GOI TO RESOLVE OIL [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Barham Salih told RRT Team Leader that he has begun to explore with GOI officials how to resolve the impasse over payment to the producing companies on the two pre-2005 Kurdistan Region (KR) [...] | 2009-11-24 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EFIN PGOV PREL IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD3083 | POSSIBLE NEW WAY FORAWRD ON ELECTION LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: After the previous day's wild and disappointing parliamentary session on the election law, Shia MP Hadi al-Amiri emerged November 24 with a proposal designed to persuade Vice President Hashimi to accept the latest electoral law amendment. This plan, which reportedly enjoys the su [...] | 2009-11-24 20:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3090 | ATTACKS IN NAJAF MAY SIGNAL TREND IN LEAD-UP TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 12:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3092 | GOI HAS AGREED TO CO-SPONSOR UNSCR 1267 LISTING AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PINR PTER ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD3093 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to attend a Logistics Seminars in the United States. If possible, please [...] | 2009-11-25 14:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3094 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to attend a Logistics Seminars in the United States. If possible, please [...] | 2009-11-25 14:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3095 | EDUCATING ALI -- TEACHING SADDAM,S LOST GENERATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Illiteracy plagues Dhi Qar. Thirty-seven percent of the residents of this Shi,a heartland province, and a higher percentage of women, can neither read nor write Arabic, according to Dhi Qar,s Director General (DG) of Education. Coa [...] | 2009-11-25 14:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3096 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: SUNNI AND SHIA EDGE TOWARD [...] (C) A opening to Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi's initial hard-line stance regarding the Shia-Kurd backed amendment to the election law appeared late the evening of November 24, after Hadi al-Amiri, who has taken the lead for the Iraqi National Alliance (Shia) on the law, had visited Hashimi [...] | 2009-11-27 04:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3097 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: SUNNI AND SHIA EDGE TOWARD [...] (C) A opening to Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi's initial hard-line stance regarding the Shia-Kurd backed amendment to the election law appeared late the evening of November 24, after Hadi al-Amiri, who has taken the lead for the Iraqi National Alliance (Shia) on the law, had visited Hashimi [...] | 2009-11-27 04:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3098 | WASIT PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN DISCUSSES [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Speaking to PRTOffs, the Provincial Council (PC) Chairman alleged that JAM "special group" terrorist cells are re-infiltrating Wasit from Iran. The PC's Security Committee Chairman agreed and added his view that the JAM i [...] | 2009-11-27 04:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD31 | GEN PETRAEUS' MEETING WITH PM MALIKI [...] (C) During a December 26 meeting, CENTCOM Commander Gen. David Petraeus and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki discussed the security situation in different regions of Iraq, the implementation of the Security Agreement, and the drawdown of coalition forces. General Petraeus congratulated the Prime M [...] | 2009-01-07 09:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD3104 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: SUNNI-SHIA COMPROMISE [...] (C) Having reached agreement on the implementation of the November 23 amendment to the election law, Sunni and Shia negotiators (DPM Rafi al-Issawi and MP Hadi al-Amiri, respectively) today met with Kurdistan Alliance leader Fuad Massoum to seek Kurdish buy-in. Although Massoum said he was un [...] | 2009-11-27 17:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3108 | UNAMI PROPOSES ELECTION REVIEW COMMITTEE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Deputy SRSG Andrew Gilmour met with Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq Alan Misenheimer on November 12 to discuss the status of UNAMI's High Level Task Force (HLTF) and UNAMI's role in facilitating Arab-Kurd reconciliation. While [...] | 2009-11-29 15:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ TU IR |
09BAGHDAD3109 | ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS IN BASRA [...] (C) During November 22-24 visit to Basra, Anti-Corruption Coordinator (ACCO),joined by officers of the Basra Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT),met with judicial officials, the Commission of Integrity's (COI) provincial office director and deputy, and the PRT-supported "Transparency Commit [...] | 2009-11-30 03:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3110 | UK CONFIRMS IRAQ HAS RATIFIED MARITIME TRAINING [...] (U) The British Embassy in Baghdad on November 22 received a Diplomatic Note from the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirming that the UK Training and Maritime Support Agreement is in effect. The Diplomatic Note re-affirms what Post learned informally (Ref),that the UK has accepted the [...] | 2009-11-30 05:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS UK IZ |
09BAGHDAD3112 | ACTION REQUEST: INCREASING WORLD BANK [...] (SBU) Summary: Overall assistance funding to Iraq is decreasing and the GOI is increasingly looking for technical assistance and capacity development from all donors, including multilateral institutions. The UN and World Bank will both be critical partners for Iraq's future, and while UNAMI [...] | 2009-11-30 09:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD3116 | PRT NINEWA: TURKMAN POLITICAL FIGURE ASSASSINATED [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. The November 22 assassination in Mosul of Yauz Ahmad Efendi, head of Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) party operations in Ninewa, shocked the province's large Turkmen community, but sparked little public backlash. Ni [...] | 2009-11-30 17:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL ASEC KDEM IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD3117 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: NOVEMBER 30 [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a two-day "technical review" of a compromise election law proposal backed by both Shia and Sunni political leaders (ref A),the Kurds are hesitating and may reject the proposal. Kurdish Region President's Chief of Staff Fuad Husayn told CDA late November 30 that the Kurds [...] | 2009-11-30 19:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3120 | IRAQI REFUGEES AND IDPS: A/S SCHWARTZ AND NSC SR. [...] (SBU) The following is the second of two reporting cables on the visit to Iraq by the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Assistant Secretary Eric Schwartz and National Security Council Senior Director and coordinator for Iraqi refugees and IDPs Samantha Power, who visited the [...] | 2009-12-01 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3121 | NOMINATION FOR 2010 SECRETARY'S WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] (SBU) Per Reftel, Embassy Baghdad is pleased to submit its nominee for the Secretary's 2010 Award for International Women of Courage, keyed to the priorities in the reference. The nominee has been informed of the Ambassador's intention to nominate her and is available to travel in March 2010. [...] | 2009-12-01 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3122 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: KURDISH DEMANDS NECESSITATE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Kurdish leaders have yet to provide an official response to the election law compromise proposed by Shia political leader Haydi Al-Amiri and Deputy Prime Minister Rafe Issawi (reftel) on November 28. Initial readouts from Kurdish contacts indicate that the Kurds will [...] | 2009-12-01 17:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3124 | IRAQ'S ACTING NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER ON THE MEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 25 meeting with Post's Iran Watchers (IW),Dr. Safa Al-Shaykh (Da'wa party),the GOI's Acting National Security Adviser (A/NSA),said the GOI's policy on the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) is dictated largely by domestic and regional (vice international) political cons [...] | 2009-12-02 07:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3125 | UNCERTAIN FATE FOR MILITARY SERVICE AND RETIREMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 22, the Iraqi parliament re-adopted a Military Service and Retirement Law after the first iteration, passed on November 2, was vetoed by Vice President Hashimi. The law would potentially provide hundreds of thousands of former soldiers and officers with a government- [...] | 2009-12-02 07:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF IZ |
09BAGHDAD3128 | CHILDREN BEHIND BARS: IRAQI JUVENILES CHARGED WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Within the past year, there have been several high-profile cases of juveniles charged with terrorism. In the face of increasing detentions of children for serious crimes under Iraqi law, including terrorism, the Iraqi judiciary is ill-equipped to handle the volume and [...] | 2009-12-02 12:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PHUM KCWI IZ |
09BAGHDAD3129 | IRAQ'S POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY - CUT POVERTY BY 30 PERCENT [...] (U) Summary: On November 24, the Council of Ministers (CoM) endorsed Iraq's first Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS),a requirement for the release of any potential World Bank Development Policy Loan. The PRS aims to reduce by 30 percent the number of Iraqis living below the country's poverty l [...] | 2009-12-02 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3133 | TRILATERAL COUNTER-PKK COOPERATION REMAINS ON TRACK [...] (SECRET/NOFORN) Summary: MNF-I MGEN Stephen Hummer led a MNF-I/EMB Baghdad group, accompanied by MSNSA Staff MGEN Fukaiki, to the Trilateral Intelligence Sharing Office (TISO) on November 25. Bilateral U.S.-GoI (with KRG host) discussions on the margins with hosting KRG Zerevani (paramilita [...] | 2009-12-02 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER MARR PINR SNAR TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD3134 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: KURDS ENGAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Having been advised by U.S., UNAMI, and Iraqi interlocutors that their foot-dragging on negotiations could diminish their clout with all, the Kurds conveyed late December 2 a formal response to the Sunni-Shia proposal. The Kurds say they are rejecting the proposal as [...] | 2009-12-02 19:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3135 | IRAQ'S PARTICIPATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES [...] (C) Iraq has constituted its stakeholder group as the third prerequisite for candidacy in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and intends to convene these stakeholders to formally adopt a workplan for EITI implementation that has been produced by the GOI under the leader [...] | 2009-12-03 06:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EPET EINV KCOR IZ NO |
09BAGHDAD3137 | SADRIST TREND LEADER DISCUSSES POLITICAL, SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: PRTOff met with Sadrist Trend leader Achmed Hussein Aberah on November 24 in al-Kut. Aberah, the primary organizer of the Sadrist Trend primary election in Wasit, described the high-turnout and "transparency" of the election, credit [...] | 2009-12-03 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD314 | DIWANIYAH CALM AFTER ELECTIONS, DA'WA SET TO [...] (C) Summary: Following peaceful voting in Diwaniyah Province, calm has prevailed as voters await preliminary and final results. Preliminary results, released February 5, show that Prime Minister Maliki's State of Law coalition came in first with over 23 percent of the vote. ISCI, which cur [...] | 2009-02-06 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3140 | ELECTION LAW UPDATE: ALL ENGAGED, SUPREME COURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the arrival in Baghdad of Kurdish negotiators, all parties are now present and engaged in discussions aimed at reaching agreement on an election law before December 6, by which time the Presidency Council must either accept or veto the law approved by the Iraqi parliament on [...] | 2009-12-03 17:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3141 | SUSTAINED CORRECTIONS ADVISEMENT CRITICAL FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. military will transition several thousand mid-to-high threat coalition security detainees to the Government of Iraq (GOI) in 2010. Task Force 134, which is charged with detainee operations, stresses the need to maintain a sufficient number of corrections advisors in s [...] | 2009-12-04 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3142 | U.S. FORCES DETAINEE OPERATIONS ROUND-UP [...] (C) Summary. U.S. military forces continue to meet detainee release/transfer benchmarks and remain on track to either transfer to the GOI or release all legacy detainees currently in U.S. custody no later than September 2010. Multi-National Force Iraq (MNF-I) originally planned to release/tr [...] | 2009-12-04 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PHUM PINS PTER CASC IZ XF |
09BAGHDAD3143 | MEK/ASHRAF: GOI PLANNING "SOFT MOVE" OF ASHRAF [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: According to senior GOI officials, the GOI will send buses and trucks to Ashraf on December 15 in order to encourage voluntary defection and departure of Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) residents from Ashraf. The GOI still ultimately plans to relocate residents to Camp Sama [...] | 2009-12-05 07:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3144 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE DECEMBER 4, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: A major anti-corruption case is breaking over the Baghdad Amana (mayor's office),with early indications that the Commission on Integrity (COI) is planning enforcement actions on a possible theft of over USD 20 million in employee salaries. Iraq's Board of Supreme Audit (BSA) [...] | 2009-12-05 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3145 | E-PRT FALLUJAH: AUTUMN VIOLENCE FUELS PUBLIC [...] (U) This is the final e-PRT Anbar 1 (Fallujah) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. As the embedded PRT (e-PRT) in Fallujah prepared to close in mid-November, e-PRTOffs held a series of farewell meetings with various local partners. They heard a common theme of rising anxiety from renewed vi [...] | 2009-12-05 08:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD315 | ELECTIONS RESULTS SPELL DIVIDED KARBALA COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: The results of the provincial elections in Karbala reveal a fractured electorate and presage a divided Provincial Council (PC). Only Yusef Majid al-Haboubi and his one-man "list" received double-digit support. The other 26 seats likely will be divided among candidates representi [...] | 2009-02-06 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD3152 | RESPONDING TO ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT REPORTING [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Post regularly engages GOI officials at all levels to encourage de facto non-compliance with the Arab League Boycott of Israel (ALB). Senior GOI officials repeatedly tell us that Iraq is not pursuing the boycott, but a tangled web of conflicting laws, regulations a [...] | 2009-12-07 06:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KBCT ECON ETRD XF IZ |
09BAGHDAD3154 | COMPENSATION FINALIZED TO REPAIR "HEART" OF IRAQ'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 20, a compensation agreement in the amount of USD $981,405 was finalized between MNF-I and the Chaldean Church of Iraq for rents incurred from the use of and damages caused to the Babel College seminary that Coalition forces occupied from March 1, 2007 until November 5 [...] | 2009-12-07 12:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD3155 | IRAQ REFUGEES AND IDPS - BROOKINGS DOHA CONFERENCE [...] (U) Summary: The November 18-19 Brookings conference "Regional Perspectives on Iraqi Displacement" in Doha brought together representatives of major donor countries, development agencies, humanitarian players, and some regional representatives, but suffered from the absence of any senior Gover [...] | 2009-12-07 12:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3156 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: BOMBS AT TIKRIT UNIVERSITY [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY The normally quiet University of Tikrit experienced two bomb incidents on November 22 and 23. In the past, this would have sent students and professors scurrying away from any American contact. Yet, ju [...] | 2009-12-07 13:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3157 | DELAYED GRATIFICATION: ELECTION LAW ADOPTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following strong Embassy and UNAMI engagement with key Kurdish leaders in Baghdad, crucial calls by POTUS and VPOTUS to Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani broke the logjam to permit consensus approval of a UNAMI election law compromise proposal late Decemb [...] | 2009-12-07 16:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3158 | RRT ERBIL: RAPID GROWTH IN KURDISTAN REGION,S AIR [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: The growth of two international airports in the Kurdistan Region (KR) -- Erbil International Airport (EIA) and Sulaimaniyah International Airport (SIA) -- has significantly increased air travel options for consumers and paved the way for b [...] | 2009-12-08 09:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD316 | FOREIGN ASSISTANCE BUDGET PRIORITIES FOR IRAQ [...] (U) Summary: U.S. assistance to Iraq has changed substantially, moving from "bricks and mortar" projects to improving Iraq's ability to govern effectively and democratically. Our assistance will help the GOI meet the needs of its citizens, preserve security, reform its economy, and foster po [...] | 2009-02-06 18:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD3161 | ELECTION DATE TO BE FIXED FOR MARCH 6 [...] (C) Despite assurances early on December 8 from advisors to the Presidency Council's members that elections would take place on February 27, Reuters reported late in the day that the date would instead be fixed for March 6. (Note: Under Iraqi law, the Presidency Council - President Talabani, VP [...] | 2009-12-08 15:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3166 | UNHCR IN IRAQ OUTLINE OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION PLAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistance Refugee Coordinator met with UNHCR Deputy Representative Shoko Shimozawa and Senior Program Officer Naomi Kawahara on December 6 to discuss Post's monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan for the agency in Iraq. In December and January UNHCR will provide Post with a pres [...] | 2009-12-09 11:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD317 | VISAS FOR IRAQIS - A STRATEGIC VULNERABILITY [...] (U) As we proceed to implement the Strategic Framework Agreement, the United States faces a significant obstacle to achieving its objective of an Iraq that is a stable ally with effective institutions accountable to its people. That obstacle is the 120 to 150-day wait time required of most Iraq [...] | 2009-02-07 05:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CMGT PREL |
09BAGHDAD3173 | IRAQ'S NEW-AND-IMPROVED CONSUMER PRICE INDEX [...] (U) Iraq's Central Office for Statistics and Information Technology (COSIT) has unveiled new consumer price index (CPI) weights. The weights are based upon data collected in the 2007 World Bank-sponsored Household Socio-economic Survey, which included a comprehensive study of household spendin [...] | 2009-12-09 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3174 | EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE COORDINATION TEAM CONVENES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 9, Coordinator for Assistance Transition Patricia Haslach convened Post's interagency Emergency Assistance Coordination Team (EACT) in response to the December 8 bombings in Baghdad. The blasts damaged the Karkh courthouse, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOL [...] | 2009-12-09 17:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3175 | ELECTION LAW CRISIS FOSTERS SUNNI-SHIA COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: A significant side-effect of the recent election law crisis was the emergence of greater political cooperation between some Sunni and ISCI Shia political leaders. In mid-November, traditional Shia hard-liner and ISCI/Badr bloc leader Hadi al-Amiri unexpectedly emerged as a vo [...] | 2009-12-09 18:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3176 | OBSERVATIONS FROM POST-VETO ELECTION LAW CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Events leading to the successful resolution of Iraq's election law crisis in the Council of Representatives (COR) on December 6 (ref A) showed encouraging signs of slowly growing political maturity among Iraqi political leaders. Although we saw a rise in sectarian tensions follo [...] | 2009-12-09 18:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3177 | EXECUTIONS IN IRAQ SET TO INCREASE [...] (C) The GOI appears set to accelerate the number of executions it carries out after the Eid holiday, having received signed death warrants from the Presidency Council for virtually all of the approximately 1,000 prisoners (including 17 women) currently sitting on death row. In a meeting on De [...] | 2009-12-10 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KWMN SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD3178 | PRT DIYALA: ARAB AND KURD LEADERS ACCUSE GOI OF [...] This is a PRT Diyala cable. 2. (C) Summary: During recent meetings with PRToffs, Kurd and Arab sheikhs and mayors in the disputed areas in Khanaqin agreed that their communities face ongoing neglect by both the GOI and Diyala provincial government (PGOV). They also voiced concerns about [...] | 2009-12-10 15:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3179 | EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE COORDINATION TEAM: DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary: Post's Emergency Assistance Coordination Team continues to monitor recovery efforts from the December 8 bombings to coordinate USG assistance. At the GOI's request, PRT Baghdad sent four teams of cadaver dogs to search two blast sites. The Higher Judicial Council (HJC) reported [...] | 2009-12-10 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3180 | SALAH AD DIN'S PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR DISPUTE HEATING [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. Political maneuvering both in Baghdad and in the Salah Ad Din Provincial Government (PG) have led to an increasingly tense impasse in the province. Since the Iraqi Supreme Court upheld the Salah ad Di [...] | 2009-12-10 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3181 | SALAH AD DIN'S PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR DISPUTE HEATING [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. Political maneuvering both in Baghdad and in the Salah Ad Din Provincial Government (PG) have led to an increasingly tense impasse in the province. Since the Iraqi Supreme Court upheld the Salah ad Di [...] | 2009-12-10 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3183 | PM RESPONDS TO PARLIAMENT'S DEMAND FOR ANSWERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Nouri al-Maliki appeared alone in a closed session of the Council of Representatives (COR) on December 10 in response to MPs' demands for answers in the aftermath of the December 8 bombings. The Prime Minister emphasized to roughly 200 COR members that the bombings were not [...] | 2009-12-10 17:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3184 | DECEMBER 8 BOMBINGS TAKE THEIR TOLL, BUT IMPACT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The four car bomb blasts that hit Baghdad December 8 bore the hallmarks of a coordinated terrorist attack. The intended targets of two of the bombs, which may have detonated prematurely, remain unclear. Contrary to press reports, the Ministry of Labor was not directly target [...] | 2009-12-10 17:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3186 | IRAQ OIL, MAYSAN PROVINCE: AN ALLOTMENT? REPLACE [...] (U) On December 3, on the margins of a meeting hosted by Deputy Chief of Mission Ford, the Second Deputy Governor of Maysan Province Khalid Abdulwahid Qubian told Econoff the Baghdad federal government was considering allotting the Maysan provincial government -- as a "deprived region" under a [...] | 2009-12-11 10:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3187 | GOI AND USG FURTHER DIALOGUE ON CHAPTER VII ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 9, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Senior Policy Adviser, Ambassador Fareed Yasseen, and MFA Policy Planner Sarhad Fatah, engaged in a video-conference with a six-member pre-JCC technical group at the Department of State in Washington and the U.S. Mission to the United [...] | 2009-12-12 08:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD3188 | MEK/ASHRAF: UNAMI RECONVENES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a follow-up meeting with members of the international community, UNAMI reiterated its call for (largely) EU cooperation on resettlement of Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) refugees and those with ties to Europe. He voiced concern about the possibility of MEK-provoked violence on [...] | 2009-12-12 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3190 | DEMINING IRAQ: HUMANITARIAN PROJECTS RESUME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the 6-month Sisyphean effort to get the GOI to properly utilize humanitarian support for demining, it appears that a rock has finally crested the hill. On November 6, our largest Iraqi grantee, the Iraqi Mine Clearance Organization (IMCO),announced that it received GOI accr [...] | 2009-12-13 06:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHDP PARM PGOV PREL UNDP IZ |
09BAGHDAD3192 | Four Iraqi Journalists Given Awards for Courageous [...] Summary: The leading Iraqi NGO media watchdog, the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO),held the first ever Press Courage Awards ceremony in central Baghdad on December 6, 2009. Four journalists, one of whom was badly injured in a recent assassination attempt, received awards for reporting [...] | 2009-12-13 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3193 | SECRETARY OF DEFENSE'S MEETING WITH KRG PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 11, 2009 Secretary of Defense Gates (SecDef) met Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masud Barzani in Irbil. SecDef discussed the importance of a timely, inclusive government formation process and reiterated the key messages delivered to Barzani on December [...] | 2009-12-13 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3195 | IRAN/IRAQ: THE VIEW FROM NAJAF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local interlocutors from Najaf's social, economic, political and military circles discussed with Post's Senior Iran Watcher (IW) and PRToffs the scope of Iranian influence in the province, the role of the Shia clerical establishment (Marja'iyyah),notably Grand Ayatollah Ali Sista [...] | 2009-12-14 09:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ ECON |
09BAGHDAD3196 | OIL STAMPEDE: IRAQ,S 2ND BID ROUND RESULTS [...] (U) Summary: In a landmark event for Iraq and the global oil industry, Iraq's 2nd oil bid (licensing) round on December 11-12 showcased the potential of Iraq's oil sector. Overall, the event proceeded with remarkable organization, precision, and transparency. The bidding started as a rush and [...] | 2009-12-14 12:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD32 | PRESIDENT TALABANI ON KIRKUK, SYRIA, MALIKI [...] (C) Summary: During a December 27 lunch, Iraqi President Talabani told the Ambassador that his recent mission to Kirkuk had yielded tangible progress in reconciling the different ethnic groups in the area. Talabani confirmed that the Presidency Council had signed the parliamentary resolution [...] | 2009-01-07 11:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD3201 | SECOND TECHDEL BOOTS UP BAGHDAD [...] Summary: S/P's Jared Cohen led a technology delegation to Baghdad from November 22-24 featuring Google CEO Eric Schmidt along with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Don Dixon, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace, and YouTube videographer Sophie Schmidt. The delegation came [...] | 2009-12-14 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EINT KPAO SCUL TINT PGOV ECPS IZ |
09BAGHDAD3202 | IRAQ: STATUS OF DRAFT LABOR CODE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI's efforts to enact meaningful labor standards continue, albeit at a slow pace. MOLSA Labor Directorate Director General Dr. Reyad Hassan is pushing to have the Shura Council approve a draft labor code that has been under consideration since 2007. (The draft code is then [...] | 2009-12-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EFIN EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3205 | RRT ERBIL: GORAN (CHANGE) LEADERSHIP ON KURDISH [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary. Goran (aka Change) Movement leadership has consistently said in meetings with USG officials that it does not want to be seen as differing with the two main Kurdish parties, the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdist [...] | 2009-12-14 16:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3206 | MEK/ASHRAF: GOI EXPECT "QUIET DAY" FOR DECEMBER 15 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 17:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD321 | 5 FEB MEETING OF THE IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. TRILATERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-08 06:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD3210 | PRESSURE MOUNTS TO OUST MOD'S HUMAN RIGHTS DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past few months, the Ministry of Defense's (MOD) Human Rights Director, Iman Naji, has come under increasing pressure as the Ministry has launched (seemingly baseless) investigations into her conduct on a recent prison inspection as well as her professional/academic crede [...] | 2009-12-15 07:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD3211 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in site visits to be conducted in the United States. 3. [...] | 2009-12-15 07:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3212 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3213 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3214 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3215 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3216 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3217 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3218 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3219 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in site visits to be conducted in the United States. 3. [...] | 2009-12-15 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3220 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3221 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3222 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3223 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3224 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in site visits to be conducted in the United States. 3. [...] | 2009-12-15 07:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3225 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3226 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 07:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3227 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...] | 2009-12-15 09:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3228 | IRAQ LICENSING OF BANK MELLI BRANCHES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 12:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | GM IR IZ KNNP MNUC XF XG XT ZP ZR |
09BAGHDAD3229 | THE U.S. POSITION ON ARTICLE 140 AND KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Calls by POTUS and VPOTUS to Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani were critical in forging consensus approval of an election law compromise proposal. The related White House statement of December 7, including affirmation of respect for Article 140 in conne [...] | 2009-12-15 12:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UNSC IZ |
09BAGHDAD323 | UNSYG BAN KI MOON IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: In a cordial February 6 meeting with Ambassador Crocker and General Odierno, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said he was deeply impressed by the progress Iraq has made since his last visit in March 2007. The international community, led by the U.S., has achieved much and the c [...] | 2009-02-08 08:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IZ |
09BAGHDAD3232 | VISAS VIPER: DECEMBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post: Baghdad MEETING DATE: December 6, 2009 CHAIR: DCM Robert Ford COORDINATOR: CONOFF David Brownstein ATTENDEES: POL, ECON, CONS, MNFI (CJ9),OHA, POLM, FBI, DHS, PAS, RSO, MNF-I 3. (U) THE COMMITTEE IS SUBMITTING INFORMATION [...] | 2009-12-15 14:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINR PTER ASEC CMGT CVIS KPRV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3233 | SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MEETING WITH THE GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 11 meeting with Prime Minister Maliki in Baghdad, Secretary of Defense Gates (SecDef) expressed his condolences for the December 8 bombings and reassured Maliki that the United States was willing to assist in any way possible. SecDef explained the importance of coo [...] | 2009-12-15 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3234 | SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MEETING WITH THE GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 10 meeting with the Presidency Council (PC) in Baghdad, Secretary of Defense Gates (SecDef) expressed his condolences for the December 8 bombings and reassured the Iraqis that the United States was willing to assist in any way possible. SecDef explained the importanc [...] | 2009-12-15 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3235 | EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE COORDINATION TEAM: DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary: Post's Emergency Assistance Coordination Team (EACT) continues to monitor damage assessments and requests for USG assistance following the December 8 bombings. While we have received small requests for assistance, GOI ministries and entities have addressed immediE56>jBGRQ=IQQQQc [...] | 2009-12-15 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3236 | MEK/ASHRAF: NO VIOLENCE, NO MEK DEPARTURES ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 16:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD3245 | THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IRAQ'S OIL BID ROUNDS [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI's June and December oil bid rounds ) history's largest (by reserves) ) have the potential to significantly alter Iraqi economics and politics. While much can easily go astray (on contracts, timetables, onshore construction, or export infrastructure),Iraq could conceiv [...] | 2009-12-16 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3246 | IRAQ'S OIL BID ROUND 2: DOMESTIC POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The job creation and spin-off benefits of economic development should provide a significant boost to the citizens of Basrah. If developments in other countries offer a guide, however, there remains a chance that Basrah residents, living near the source of much of Iraq's wealth, [...] | 2009-12-16 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3249 | RECOMMENDATION FOR VPOTUS INVITATION TO IRAQ VP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-16 14:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3256 | U.S. FORCES DETAINEE UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the Joint Subcommittee on Detainee Affairs (JSC-DA) meeting held Saturday, December 12, TF-134 commander BG Dave Quantock stated there are 6,358 detainees currently in U.S. custody. Since January 2009, the U.S. has released 7,570 detainees and transferred 1,481 detainees to [...] | 2009-12-17 08:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PINS PTER CASC IZ XF |
09BAGHDAD3257 | IRAQ'S OIL BID ROUND 2: CAN IRAQ FULFILL THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq's proposal to increase national oil production from 2.5 million barrels per day to perhaps as high as 12 million barrels per day is extremely aggressive and delivering on that promise poses significant challenges. These challenges include: limited project management capabil [...] | 2009-12-17 09:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3259 | A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES MEK, MINORITIES AND LGBT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on December 14 with NEA A/S Feltman, the Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Selim, expressed her belief that her Ministry has made progress in inculcating a greater respect for human rights throughout Iraqi society, but that the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) remain proble [...] | 2009-12-17 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF IZ |
09BAGHDAD3260 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI),who have been nominated to witness two IA systems and observe a functional and effic [...] | 2009-12-17 13:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3262 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) Security Forces, who have been nominated to participate in the C-130 Refresher Simulat [...] | 2009-12-17 15:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3267 | AMBASSADOR AND CG DISCUSS OIL AND SECURITY ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 17 meeting, Ambassador Hill congratulated Prime Minister Maliki on the recent successful and transparent oil development bidding round, but cautioned the PM to resist pressure to renegotiate the terms of the signed contracts. Maliki agreed the contracts should stand [...] | 2009-12-19 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV EWRG ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD3268 | SALAH AD DIN: TIKRIT UNIVERSITY CONTINUES TO [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Tikrit University's president Ali Salah Al Jebouri continues to defy insurgents by leading staff and students to forge even closer ties with Salah Ad Din PRT members and U.S. soldiers, despite Al Qaida' [...] | 2009-12-19 13:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC KTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3275 | Iraq Partners Forum Discusses Election Preparations and UN [...] (SBU) The Iraq Partners Forum (IPF),which holds monthly meetings among the donors, UN, and World Bank to discuss international donor coordination, met on December 16 and focused on the UN's efforts for the upcoming elections and its strategic planning for assistance in the upcoming years. Emb [...] | 2009-12-20 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD328 | WOMEN'S AFFAIRS MINISTER AL-SAMARA'E RESIGNS [...] (C) Minister of State for Women's Affairs (MoSWA) Dr. Nawal Hamed Majid Al-Samara'e unexpectedly unannounced at a February 5 meeting with Poloff and Strateff CJ9 Women's Initiative Team Lead Officer that she had resigned from her post the same day. In a voice that belied anger and frustrati [...] | 2009-02-08 15:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWMN PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3282 | IRAQ'S OIL BID ROUND 2: U.S. FIRMS' PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Only one U.S. firm bid for a contract in Iraq,s second oil bid round, as part of a larger consortium, and that consortium did not win. U.S. companies' decisions on whether or not to participate were driven by myriad complex factors and judgments the companies hold very close t [...] | 2009-12-21 09:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3286 | TRADE MINISTRY CONSIDERING MARKET-ORIENTED APPROACH WITH [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Two reform proposals originating from within the Iraqi Ministry of Trade (MOT) would liberalize state control over food production and processing. The first deals with Iraq's corrupt and inefficient food rationing program, the Public Distribution System (PDS). The [...] | 2009-12-21 09:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD KCOR PREF WFP IZ |
09BAGHDAD3287 | IRAQ'S OIL BID ROUND 2: WHAT WILL OPEC SAY? [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq is currently exempted from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil production quotas. Iraq's future quota would likely be similar to Iran's current quota of approximately 4.1 million barrels per day. We estimate that Iraq could reach levels of four million [...] | 2009-12-21 10:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3289 | POST REQUESTS FY 2011 FUNDING FOR CORRECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The corrections advisor program in Iraq is needed to ensure humane treatment of detainees turned over to the GOI as well as to bolster GOI institutional capacity through December 2011. MNF-I will provide partial funding for the continuation of the corrections advisory program fo [...] | 2009-12-21 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS KCRM IZ PGOV |
09BAGHDAD329 | UPDATE ON CONSULTATIONS WITH ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) Anti-Corruption Coordinator (ACC) and staff recently paid introductory calls separately on Iraq's top judicial official, Judge Medhat Al-Mahmoud, Interior Ministry Inspector General (MOI IG) Akeel Saeed, and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih's Office Director, Sirwan Ibrahim. Judge Medhat [...] | 2009-02-08 16:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3290 | IHEC PREPARING FOR MARCH 7 ELECTIONS, BUT SECURITY [...] (C) Election Commissioners told poloff December 17 that the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) is working toward national parliamentary elections on March 7, as confirmed in the Presidency Council decree sent December 13, but a recent rise in attacks on IHEC personnel, including one [...] | 2009-12-21 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD3294 | IRAQI DEFENSE MINISTRY DEAL WITH UKRAINE RAISES [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. The Government of Iraq (GOI) and the Government of Ukraine (GOU) announced an arms deal for armored personnel carriers, light transport aircraft, and helicopter repair. The deal is valued at $560.1 million, but was announced as a $2.5 billion commitment, with the additional [...] | 2009-12-22 08:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL MARR EFIN IZ UP |
09BAGHDAD3295 | DEC 8 BOMBINGS RESULT IN FINGER POINTING, NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: The combination of Iraqi Council of Representatives (COR) high profile questioning of senior Iraqi security officials, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and Maliki's own public effort to coordinate intelligence agencies is doing little to bolster Iraqi public confidence i [...] | 2009-12-22 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3296 | UNAMI BRIEFS A/S FELTMAN ON IRAQ ELECTIONS, DIBS, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Substantive discussion of Iraq's elections dominated NEA A/S Feltman's December 14 meeting with Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Ad Melkert, including UNAMI's current assessments of out of country voting, election observers, security, and the complaints pr [...] | 2009-12-22 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
09BAGHDAD3297 | A/S FELTMAN MEETING WITH IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT ADIL [...] (C) Summary: A/S Feltman on December 15 met with Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi to offer congratulations on the Iraqi government successfully reaching agreement on an election law compromise and to discuss the road ahead as Iraq prepares for the national election and government formatio [...] | 2009-12-22 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD3299 | HASHIMI ON ELECTION DIALOGUE, EMPOWERED [...] (C) Summary: DCM and PolM/C met with Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi on December 19 to follow up on a range of issues that NEA Assistant Secretary Feltman had raised with Iraqi leaders during his recent visit. During the meeting, Hashimi affirmed his dedication to pre-election dialogue with o [...] | 2009-12-22 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3300 | A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES GOVERNMENT FORMATION, THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: NEA Assistant Secretary (A/S) Feltman on 15 December met with Iraqi Council of Representatives (COR) Speaker Ayad al-Samarrai to discuss the ongoing U.S. commitment to Iraq and the near-term tasks for the Iraqi government, to include the budget law, the national election, and gove [...] | 2009-12-22 13:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL XF |
09BAGHDAD3301 | PM MALIKI, A/S FELTMAN DISCUSS IRAN, SYRIA, [...] (C) Summary: NEA Assistant Secretary Feltman congratulated Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki December 14 on the recently passed election law and expressed confidence that the upcoming elections would facilitate fair representation of all Iraqi segments of society. Maliki acknowledged the importance [...] | 2009-12-22 13:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ IR SY |
09BAGHDAD3302 | A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES NATIONAL ELECTION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: NEA Assistant Secretary (A/S) Feltman on 15 December met with former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to discuss the ongoing U.S. commitment to Iraq, the upcoming Iraqi national election and government formation process, and the importance of increasing regional engagement with Ira [...] | 2009-12-22 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL SA |
09BAGHDAD3307 | Louis Dreyfus Commodities Moves Closer to Large [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ETRN BEXP IZ |
09BAGHDAD3310 | EMBASSY DELIVERS U.S. PROPOSAL ON OUT OF COUNTRY [...] (C) On December 22, Poloffs delivered the text of a proposed diplomatic note on Out of Country Voting (OCV) to Dr. Fadil Alwan Issa and Dr. Salwan Sinjaree of the International Conventions Section of the Iraqi Ministry of Affairs. The draft diplomatic notes were identical copies of those del [...] | 2009-12-22 15:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3311 | A/S FELTMAN, PM ADVISOR DISCUSS CHAPTER VII [...] (C) Summary: NEA A/S Jeffrey Feltman told PM Advisor December 17 that the U.S. is committed to a long-term partnership with Iraq. Rikabi welcomed the commitment but signaled frustration about the lack of progress on some issues and called for the two sides to establish some "milestones" and [...] | 2009-12-22 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD3312 | REGIONAL EMBASSY OFFICE HILLAH CLOSES; BABIL GOVERNOR FILLS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The Regional Embassy Office (REO) Hillah handed over its facility in a former hotel building to representatives of the Ministries of Interior and Tourism on December 15 (reftel). The GOI representatives appeared to disregard the PRT's briefing on security, operatio [...] | 2009-12-23 03:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI |
09BAGHDAD3313 | A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES CHAPTER VII ISSUES WITH MFA [...] (C) Summary: Acting Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Haj Hamoud told visiting NEA Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feltman on December 17 that the GOI accepts the border as demarcated in 833, noting "We must accept it," but also making clear in a sustained series of exchanges that the G [...] | 2009-12-23 07:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD3314 | NEA A/S FELTMAN'S MEETING WITH DPM AL-ISSAWI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with visiting NEA A/S Feltman on December 14, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Rafi al-Issawi said that while erosion of the Kurdish, Shi'a and Sunni blocs that had dominated the last national election potentially opened opportunity for a more cross-sectarian, nationalist a [...] | 2009-12-23 07:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UNSC IZ |
09BAGHDAD3315 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) Security Forces, who have been nominated to participate in the Swiftboat Training and [...] | 2009-12-23 09:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3316 | NEA A/S FELTMAN'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TALABANI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging discussion with visiting NEA A/S Feltman on December 14, President Talabani underscored the importance for Kurds of the POTUS/VPOTUS telephone calls with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Barzani, the December 7 White House statement on Iraq's electio [...] | 2009-12-23 09:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SY TU EG IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3317 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) Security Forces, who have been nominated to participate in the Swiftboat Training and [...] | 2009-12-23 09:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3318 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) Security Forces, who have been nominated to participate in the Swiftboat Training and [...] | 2009-12-23 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09BAGHDAD3319 | PRT KIRKUK: WILL GORAN BE A FORCE IN KIRKUK? [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Goran ("Change") Movement's top priority in Kirkuk is to capitalize on its strong showing in the July 2009 Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) parliamentary elections to make further inroads against the PUK in Kirkuk in the upcoming nati [...] | 2009-12-23 13:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3320 | DELIVERING DEMARCHE ON WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION [...] (C) Pol M/C delivered the points contained in Ref A in general terms to FM Zebari at an already scheduled meeting December 23. Pol M/C committed to following up with senior officials at the MFA early next week to provide details of the three options for getting the WMD resolutions lifted. Ze [...] | 2009-12-23 13:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
09BAGHDAD3321 | FOURTH TURKEY-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL MINISTERIAL [...] (U) This cable has an action request, please see paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: The fourth ministerial meeting of the Turkey-Iraq-U.S. trilateral security dialogue was held in Baghdad on December 20. The Turkish delegation also had a meeting with MNF-I CG immediately following the meetin [...] | 2009-12-23 14:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ MARR PGOV PINR PREF PTER |
09BAGHDAD3323 | ELECTION COMMISSION SEEKS CIVIL SERVICE STATUS, [...] (C) Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Board Chairman Faraj al-Haydari reported to POL M/C December 21 that IHEC is adhering to its operational time line for the March elections, but that security concerns have become the central focus at IHEC this week. Haydari briefed POL M/C on [...] | 2009-12-23 15:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3325 | GOI RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE [...] (S) Acting DCM delivered demarche points contained reftel to FM Zebari on December 23 (other topics covered septel). Zebari said he had discussed the issue of the Amcits being held by Iran in some detail with Iranian FM Mottaki on the margins of the Manama dialogue earlier in December. Zebari [...] | 2009-12-23 16:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL CASC PHUM PINR PTER IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD3326 | IRAN-IRAQ OIL WELL INCIDENT HIGHLIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-26 06:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON IR IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD3332 | DUST TO DINARS: WASIT PC PROFITS FROM AN [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Wasit Provincial Council (PC) is pursuing independent efforts to offset resource shortages from the national government. A provincially owned - and potentially lucrative - truck staging area at the Zurbatiyah Iran/Iraq [...] | 2009-12-26 11:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ETRD IZ PBTS PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD3334 | IRAN-IRAQ OIL WELL INCIDENT HIGHLIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-26 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON IR IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD3335 | DIYALA GOVERNOR HIGHLIGHTS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Growing tension between Baghdad and provincial governments was highlighted during NEA Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feldman,s meeting with Diyala Governor Abd al-Nasir al-Mahdawi on December 16 in Baqubah. The Governor raised his concern that the central government of Iraq was not [...] | 2009-12-26 14:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3340 | PM ADVISOR ON PRESIDENCY COUNCIL, IHEC, ADDITIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Advisor Sadiq Rikabi told A/DCM December 21 that according to the Iraqi constitution, the Presidency Council would expire with the current government and that any constitutional fix to extend it would be extremely difficult. He expressed uncertainty about whether the Presiden [...] | 2009-12-27 12:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UNSC KJUS IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD3343 | FM ZEBARI ON DISPUTE WITH IRAN, PM'S CAIRO TRIP, [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Zebari told A/DCM December 23 that while the Iraqi side did not want to escalate the situation with Iran regarding the contested oil well in Fakka field, he had told Iranian FM Mottaki, in a "tough" conversation, that the Iranian move represented a "clear provocation. Zebari [...] | 2009-12-27 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ IR SY |
09BAGHDAD3344 | IRAQ: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Iraq remained a committed partner in counterterrorism efforts. As a result of the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement, Iraqi security forces assumed primary responsibility for the security and stability of Iraq, with support from Multi-National Forces-Iraq (MNF-I, which became U.S. Forces-Iraq (USF- [...] | 2009-12-27 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC IZ |
09BAGHDAD3346 | RRT ERBIL: SULEYMANIYAH RIOT UNDERSCORES PUK,S [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: A riot, unusual in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR),recently broke out in the small town of Peramagron, Suleymaniyah Province, after the local mayor claimed in a television interview that his constituents were unaware of the benefits they [...] | 2009-12-28 09:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3347 | RRT ERBIL: KRG SUCCESS IN ELECTRICITY SECTOR [...] This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is succeeding with its electricity sector strategy, expanding generation capacity in the near future to meet most demand, at least in towns and cities. Out of an estimated [...] | 2009-12-28 10:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3348 | TRAINING FOR COMMISSION ON INTEGRITY INVESTIGATORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the expanded capacity of Iraq's primary anti-corruption enforcement agency, the Commission on Integrity (COI),the U.S. has begun working with the agency's managers to extend training programs for investigators in selected provincial locations. The first session was deliv [...] | 2009-12-28 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD3353 | IRAQ: INCSR Report Part I - Drug and Chemical Control [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Iraqi Government officials acknowledge that illicit drugs enter Iraq from Iran, some to be used by Iraqis, but most transshipped south out of Basra or north through Iraqi Kurdistan. However, officials deny that illicit narcotics are a major problem in Iraq. Indeed, faced w [...] | 2009-12-29 04:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3354 | IRAQ: INCSR Report Part II - Money Laundering and Financial [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq's economy is primarily cash-based, and there is little data available on the extent of money laundering in the country. Smuggling is endemic, involving consumer goods, cigarettes, and petroleum products. Bulk cash smuggling, counterfeit currency, trafficking in persons, and [...] | 2009-12-29 04:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3355 | PRT NINEWA: PERCEPTIONS OF SECURITY IN NINEWA [...] (U) This is Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. The PRT queried a number of contacts throughout Ninewa Province to gauge perceptions of security, safety, and service delivery. These contacts came from a variety of economic, political, ethnic, tribal, and [...] | 2009-12-29 13:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KCOR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3356 | ACTION REQUEST: FOLLOWING UP ON ISCI REQUEST FOR [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Chairman Ammar al-Hakim on December 23, 2009 met with A/DCM and inquired as to the status of previously discussed U.S. government assistance in procuring a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan machine for a hospital in Tehran, notin [...] | 2009-12-29 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AMED IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3358 | MEK/ASHRAF: GOI SAYS IT WILL NOT MOVE MEK UNTIL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-29 16:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD3359 | ISCI CHAIRMAN AMMAR AL-HAKIM ON REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A/DCM on December 23, 2009 met with Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Ammar al-Hakim to discuss al-Hakim's recent regional engagement tour, election planning, and the Fakkah oil field dispute. Al-Hakim projected a more moderate tone than in previo [...] | 2009-12-29 16:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD3360 | SENIOR IRAQI OFFICIALS CONVICTED OF CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) While prosecution of senior GOI figures for corruption has been rare in recent years, of late the courts have convicted four upper-echelon officials for abuses. On December 21, the Commission of Integrity (COI) announced the Baghdad-based Central Criminal Court of Iraq's (CCC-I) convict [...] | 2009-12-30 07:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3361 | PUBLIC CONDEMNATION OF CORRUPTION AND POVERTY ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: According to press and GOI reports, over three million Shi'a pilgrims commemorated the holy day of Ashura in Karbala on December 27. While the Washington Post and some Iraqi media outlets reported a significant anti-government protest in Karbala during Ashura process [...] | 2009-12-30 10:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD3362 | DPM ISSAWI ON NINEWA MEDIATION EFFORT [...] (C) In a meeting with POL M/C and MG Lanza on December 28, DPM Rafi al-Issawi said that for "well-known" political reasons he strongly doubted that further progress could be made before national elections in March to reconcile the feuding (Sunni) al-Hadba Gathering (AHG) and (Kurdish) Ninewa F [...] | 2009-12-30 10:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGO KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD3363 | DPM ISSAWI ON COALITION NEGOTIATIONS, ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: DPM Rafi al-Issawi told the POL M/C and MG Lanza the Iraqia Alliance (IA) of which he is a part, and which includes significant Shi'a (including Sadrist Trend) elements will be formally announced in early January. Negotiations over possible post-election government coalitions were [...] | 2009-12-30 11:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD3364 | KRG SEEKS TO BALANCE RELATIONS WITH TURKEY AND PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In recent meetings in Erbil, KRG interlocutors told the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq (SANI) that the Turkish constitutional court's recent decision to outlaw the Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey, together with the insistence by leaders of the Kurdi [...] | 2009-12-30 11:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR PREF IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD3365 | UPCOMING TRANSFER OF AAH LEADER QAYS AL-KHAZALI TO [...] (S) Summary: Asa,ib Ahl Al Haq (AAH) leader Qays al-Khazali will be transferred (not released) with a warrant to Government of Iraq. The transfer, which is expected December 30, is being done in accordance with the Security Agreement, the Rule of Law, and at the express request of Prime Min [...] | 2009-12-30 11:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER |
09BAGHDAD3366 | MINISTRY OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ACCUSES KRG OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent Ministry of Human Rights (MOHR) report on its inspection of prisons in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR) documents allegations by detainees that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is responsible for the illegal arrest and detention of Arabs from territories outside of [...] | 2009-12-30 11:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD3367 | FOLLOW UP ON THE WMD DEMARCHE AT MFA, BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior MFA officials December 29 responded positively to follow-up on the WMD points contained in ref A. They seemed initially to favor the second option presented, pursuing a Security Council resolution that would automatically terminate Chapter VII WMD restrictions under UNSC [...] | 2009-12-30 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
09BAGHDAD3368 | SENIOR ADVISOR'S MEETING WITH KRG INTELLIGENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on December 21 with the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq (SANI),the KRG's Director for National Security (intelligence),Masrour Barzani, said the election law compromise agreement was unfair to the Kurds, who had been disproportionately pressured to make [...] | 2009-12-30 13:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3369 | HIGH-LEVEL TASK FORCE MEETS ON DIBS ISSUES [...] (C) The High-Level Task Force (HLTF) - a contact group of GOI, KRG and UN officials run under the auspices of UNAMI to address issues in the disputed internal boundary (DIBs) areas - met on December 23. Sadiq Rikabi (advisor to PM Maliki) and Faruq Abdullah (an Iraqi Turkoman and former member [...] | 2009-12-30 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3371 | PRT NINEWA: MOSULIYYA IN A MUDDLE: PRESSURE ON [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: With a December 20 announcement to open a new satellite television station, Ninewa Provincial Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi publicized his festering battle with U.S.-supported station, al-Mosuliyya. Pointed in [...] | 2009-12-30 15:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM KPAO IZ |
09BAGHDAD3372 | NSC ADVISOR ON ELECTIONS, FAKKA OIL WELL DISPUTE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi NSC Advisor Dr. Safa al-Sheikh told A/DCM December 29 that the post-election period will be a difficult, challenging period, in terms of formation of the new government and caretaker government performance, which could impact Iraqi security capability and decision-making. [...] | 2009-12-30 15:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD3373 | PRT DIYALA: CENTER OF GRAVITY FOR IRAQ'S PROBLEMS [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala message. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT With its long border with Iran, Diyala remains a strategically vital focal point for some of Iraq's most pressing problems, yet its Provincial Government remains ill-equipped to confront the challenges facing it. Although Diyala [...] | 2009-12-30 16:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KTER PTER KDEM PINR PINS PHUM PREF |
09BAGHDAD3374 | CHURNING IN NORTH BAGHDAD'S SUBURBAN GOVERNMENTS [...] (U) This is a Baghdad ePRT North message. 2. (U) Summary: Sub-provincial public managers and councils in North Baghdad's districts (qadas) of Tarmiyah, Taji, and Istiqlal, with a combined population of roughly 1.2 million, are unsure of their roles vis-a-vis the provincial and national g [...] | 2009-12-31 07:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3375 | VIEW FROM NAJAF: GOVERNOR ZURFI PROVIDES UPDATE ON [...] (C/NF) Summary. On December 10, provincial governor Adnan Zurfi welcomed Multi-National Division-South (MND-S) Major General Nash to Najaf. Governor Zurfi announced the arrests of suspects related to recent attacks on a PRT mission and IED detonations near Forward Operating Base (FOB) Endeav [...] | 2009-12-31 07:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EINV PTER PGOV ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD3377 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: GOI INTERFERENCE IN PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah Ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Following a two month standoff with the GOI central Government, the Salah Ad Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) is poised to forcibly remove the former Provincial Governor (PGOV) of SAD--which it voted from office on October 27 [...] | 2009-12-31 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD3378 | FOLLOW ON REPORT FOR RAMADI PGC ATTACKS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-31 16:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER |
09BAGHDAD339 | PM ADVISOR ON STRATEGY TO INCREASE OIL PRODUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 5 meeting with EMIN, Prime Ministerial Advisor Thamir Ghadban was confident that Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih's initiative to examine ways to boost oil production would not undercut the Ministry of Oil's licensing round. We heard separately that the Februa [...] | 2009-02-09 16:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV IZ |
09BAGHDAD342 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: IRANIAN LOSS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Despite pre-election concerns about Iranian-sponsored violence and fraud in the January 31 provincial elections, observers found no indication of significant Iranian interference on election day. The first-place showing of PM Maliki's State of Law list in most of southern Iraq [...] | 2009-02-10 09:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD343 | IRAN-IRAQ BORDER CROSSING VULNERABLE TO SMUGGLING, [...] (S/NF) Iraqi border inspectors at the Shalamsha port-of-entry (POE) are ill-equipped to prevent smuggling of weapons, drugs, and other contraband from southern Iran, border officials told Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq Gordon Gray during a visit February 2. MNF-I forces and U.S. contractors [...] | 2009-02-10 11:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ETRD PTER KTFN KCOR PREL KNNP IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD344 | DHI QAR: APPOINTMENT OF POLICE CHIEF RAISES LEGAL [...] (C) Summary. At a recent meeting with PRT Team Leader, Dhi Qar Provincial Police Commander MG Sabah al-Fatlawi stated that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had abandoned previous plans to transfer Sabah to Baghdad, and instead had appointed him permanently to his current position as Chief of Pol [...] | 2009-02-10 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD345 | AL MAQAL PORT BASRA KEEN FOR MORE BUSINESS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-10 12:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EWWT ECON EINV PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD346 | BASRA SEEKS INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) Basra has several business and investment organizations that are encouraging new investment in the province. Basra, like all of Iraq, is suffering from infrastructure constraints, but the situation is improving. The Basra Investment Commission is getting good advice and training from th [...] | 2009-02-10 12:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD347 | AL MAQAL PORT BASRA KEEN FOR MORE BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Al Maqal port, one of five ports in Basra, is keen to become an important shipping center again, but requires a permanent bridge to replace the pontoon bridges blocking most ships. Al Maqal port was neglected by Saddam Hussein after Shia uprisings in favor of Umm Qasr port. Silt has ac [...] | 2009-02-10 13:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EWWT PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD35 | KBR SUBCONTRACTOR SUSPECTED OF TIP VIOLATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: During an early December inspection visit, Emboffs confirmed media reports of some 1,000 third country nationals (TCN) living in transit housing facilities, "man camps," near the Baghdad airport while waiting for employment with MNF-I contractors. Many of the TCNs have been [...] | 2009-01-07 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB IZ PGOV PHUM PREL |
09BAGHDAD350 | IRAQI BUDGET NOT YET PASSED, CONTINUING RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI has yet to pass a budget for FY 2009, which began on January 1. GOI operations continue under an automatic continuing resolution, according to Iraqi law, that maintains spending at a monthly rate based on the previous fiscal year's budget. Delays have been caused by b [...] | 2009-02-11 06:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD351 | WAITING ON BAGHDAD; KRG SHARES ECONOMIC VISION AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Accompanying a U.S. Chamber of Commerce delegation during a February 3-4 visit to Erbil, EMIN met with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials to discuss private sector development in Iraq and underscore the importance of transparency and the rule of law. KRG PM Nechervan [...] | 2009-02-11 08:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EINV ENRG EPET ETRD IS IZ PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD352 | KRG PM BARZANI TAKES ISSUE WITH GOI OIL MINISTER [...] (S) Summary: At a 4 February meeting with EMIN Wall, KRG PM Nechervan Barzani expressed his displeasure with GOI Minister of Oil Husayn Al Shahristani for his lack of competence, focus and willingness to work on KRG-GOI oil issues and was puzzled with inquiries by Shahristani during a recent m [...] | 2009-02-11 08:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON EPET PGOV PREL EINV IZ POL |
09BAGHDAD353 | KRG PM BARZANI TAKES ISSUE WITH GOI OIL MINISTER [...] (S) Summary: At a 4 February meeting with EMIN Wall, KRG PM Nechervan Barzani expressed his displeasure with GOI Minister of Oil Husayn Al Shahristani for his lack of competence, focus and willingness to work on KRG-GOI oil issues and was puzzled with inquiries by Shahristani during a recent m [...] | 2009-02-11 08:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON EPET PGOV PREL EINV IZ POL |
09BAGHDAD357 | PM MALIKI CHOOSES ALI ALLAWI AS NEXT CHAIRMAN OF [...] (SBU) Summary: GOI officials confirmed to us on February 9th that Ali Allawi is PM Maliki's choice to be the next Chairman of the National Investment Commission (NIC). While Allawi will still need to be formally nominated by the Council of Ministers (COM) and confirmed by the Council of Repre [...] | 2009-02-11 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD358 | MOHR REPORTS ON 2008 STATS ON AMNESTY, DETAINEES, [...] (U) Summary: The Ministry of Human Rights has released and will soon publish its annual reports on detention facilities and victims of terrorism. According to the detentions report, 7,542 detainees were released on amnesty release orders during the year. The victims of terrorism report as [...] | 2009-02-11 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD359 | BAGHDAD CONSULAR LEADERSHIP DAY 2009 [...] Baghdad's Consular Section marked the 2009 Consular Leadership Day with a series of events and programs that highlighted the Section's teambuilding inside the DOS community and beyond. The day began by concluding a two-day Military Passport Acceptance Agent training program for five U.S. Army [...] | 2009-02-11 14:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT CVIS CASC |