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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09BAGHDAD361 |
MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP: A WAY FORWARD THROUGH NEW [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-11 15:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR IZ TU |
| 09BAGHDAD363 |
IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES PLANS TO EXPAND THE NAVY, [...] (C) Summary: At the February 8 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki acknowledged the need to improve the Iraqi Navy's ability to defend Iraq's ports and oil platforms, and that Iraq needed a more uniform posture when negotiating riparian border disput [...] |
2009-02-12 08:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD364 |
DA'WA WHEELING AND DEALING IN KARBALA [...] (C) Summary: In an apparent attempt to minimize the influence the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) will have in the new Provincial Council (PC), Da'wa leaders in Karbala are working furiously to form alliances with the second-place Hope of the Two Rivers and the fourth-place Independent [...] |
2009-02-12 12:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD366 |
IRANIAN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN BASRA [...] (S) Contacts during a visit to Basra by Senior Advisor Gordon Gray February 1-3 noted that Iranian soft power influence on the economy of the province takes several forms: trade, investment, financing of medical care for prominent Iraqi clerics, subsidies for Iranian goods, lending to benefit [...] |
2009-02-12 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ETRD ECON PTER PREL KTFN IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD367 |
RRT ERBIL: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR RULE OF LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) Erbil has launched a QRF-funded project to survey RoL institutions in the Region and develop a strategic plan for improving the administration of justice in the region over the next five-ten years. The project is supported by Prime Ministe [...] |
2009-02-12 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD368 |
MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP: A WAY FORWARD THROUGH NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi responsiveness to increased Turkish involvement in Iraq (both with the KRG and Baghdad) may present an opportunity for progress on the longstanding humanitarian and political objective of facilitating the voluntary return to Turkey and possibly other durable solutions for 11 [...] |
2009-02-12 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL MARR IZ TU |
| 09BAGHDAD37 |
IRAQ PROVIDES WRITTEN ASSURANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE OF [...] (S) The Government of Iraq (GOI) provided written security and humane treatment assurances for the transfer of four Iraqi detainees from Guantanamo, Cuba (GTMO) January 7. Mr. Hussain Al-Asady, Director of the Prime Minister's National Operation Center (PMNOC), signed the assurances with auth [...] |
2009-01-08 07:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US |
| 09BAGHDAD370 |
IRAQ: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-12 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD374 |
KRG JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AT ISSUE IN DRAFT LAW [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) will consider a draft bill to establish a Judicial Institute in the Kurdish region, similar to the Judicial Training Institute of Baghdad, after their winter recess in January. Rule of Law representatives from the Erbil RRT and Baghdad PRT a [...] |
2009-02-13 07:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD375 |
THE AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON ACTING [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassdor's farewell call at the Iraqi parliament, acting speaker Khalid Attiya expressed pleasure over the success of the provincial elections, regretted the continuing impasse over the parliamentary speakership, but predicted progress on the budget, the principal pend [...] |
2009-02-13 09:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD376 |
VP MAHDI DISCUSSES SARKOZY VISIT, CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. On February 10, Ambassador Crocker held a farewell meeting with Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi during which they discussed the visit of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Mahdi's concern that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is "monopolizing" power, the Islamic Supreme Council of [...] |
2009-02-13 09:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD377 |
ICRC DISCUSSES DETAINEES, MEK, AND OPERATIONS WITH [...] (S) Summary: In a February 4 meeting with the Ambassador and Commanding General (CG) Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I), ICRC Iraq Head of Delegation Juan-Pedro Schaerer thanked the USG for its cooperation with ICRC over the last year and hoped that the ICRC's recent report on USG arrests an [...] |
2009-02-13 09:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KREF KJUS IR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD378 |
PM MALIKI: STRENGTHENED CENTER OR EMERGING [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-13 10:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS KDEM KISL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD379 |
PM MALIKI: STRENGTHENED CENTER OR EMERGING [...] (C) With the strong performance of the Da'wa Party in the January 31 provincial council elections, Prime Minister Maliki will claim a public mandate. While many media analyses have tended to overstate this case (as Maliki won no more than 38 percent in two provinces, and less elsewhere) it is [...] |
2009-02-13 11:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS KDEM KISL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD380 |
THE AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALLS ON KEY SHI'A [...] (C) Summary: In farewell calls on Abdelaziz Al-Hakim, President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and Ammar al-Hakim, his son and likely successor, each admitted they had been caught by surprise by ISCI's anemic performance in the January 31 provincial elections. Allowing that ISC [...] |
2009-02-13 12:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD381 |
THE AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON FORMER PM ALLAWI [...] (C) Summary: Former PM Ayad Allawi, clearly pleased with the success of his Iraqiyya list in the recent provincial elections, told the Ambassador during a February 12 farewell call that he expected further gains for the party when the final results are released later this month. Allawi also r [...] |
2009-02-13 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD382 |
AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON DPM ESSAWI [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Rafi Essawi told the Ambassador that he was working with Osama al-Najafi to defuse lingering election-related tensions in Ninewa Province and help the winning parties in Anbar province form a power-sharing agreement. The DPM plans to travel to the KRG to dis [...] |
2009-02-13 12:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD383 |
IRAQI SHI'A PARLIAMENTARIAN PAINTS DIRE PICTURE OF [...] (S) Summary: Ayad Jamaleddin, a Council of Representatives member from the secular Iraqiyya list, painted an extreme view of Iranian religious influence in Iraq during a meeting with Emboffs on February 11. Claiming that Iran is paying clerics across Iraq to deliver Friday sermons sympathetic [...] |
2009-02-13 12:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR ECON IR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD385 |
KARBALA PILGRIM ATTACK WORSE THAN REPORTED [...] (C) Summary: According to Karbala's police chief, the blast near the Imam Husayn shrine on February 12 that killed multiple people on Arba'ayniyah pilgrimage was caused by an explosive device (IED), not a suicide bomber as reported in the media. However, witnesses have told the PRT that the at [...] |
2009-02-13 13:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR ASEC IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD386 |
PRT TEAM LEADERS CONFERENCE: FOCUSING EFFORTS POST [...] (U) Summary. On February 9-10, Embassy Baghdad Office of Provincial Affairs (OPA) hosted its quarterly Team Leaders Conference of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Addressing the post-provincial elections theme, Ambassador Ryan Crocker said the next 18 months will be pivotal to Iraq's [...] |
2009-02-13 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON AMGT EAID EAGR SOCI IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD387 |
SOUTHERN POST-ELECTION ALLIANCES [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa-led State of Law coalition list, which won a plurality of votes in nine of ten Shi'a-majority provinces, holds a commanding position as it negotiates with rival parties to develop coalitions and assign top provincial government positions. Da'wa and the Sadri [...] |
2009-02-13 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD388 |
OIL MINISTER'S UPDATE ON PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 12 meeting with EMIN, Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani reinforced his commitment to the licensing round process and the Shell flared gas deal; dismissed the relevance of the oil production workshop convened by Deputy PM Barham Salih; said relations with KRG and [...] |
2009-02-13 16:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD389 |
PRTS PROMOTE DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) As we discussed in our telephone call on Sunday, February 8, the Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq have been essential to the emerging democracy in this country. The January 31 provincial elections succeeded in no small measure because of the civil society organizations and women' [...] |
2009-02-13 16:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD39 |
ACTION REQUEST: U.S. WEAPONS RELEASE TO IRAQ - [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Country Team requests the immediate release of U.S. military specification night vision devices (NVDs) to the Government of Iraq (GOI). Specifically, this request is for AN/PVS-7D and AN/PVS-14 NVDs. These U.S military s [...] |
2009-01-08 13:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
| 09BAGHDAD393 |
GOI PUBLICIZES U.S.CORRUPTION CONVICTIONS [...] (SBU) In A recent meeting with Council of Ministers Secretary General Ali Alaq, Anti-Corruption Coordinator (ACC) provided a list of American citizens, official and private, convicted in U.S. courts in recent years on corruption charges in connection with U.S. reconstruction projects in Iraq. [...] |
2009-02-15 07:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KDEM PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD399 |
INITIAL MEETING OF ECONOMIC AND ENERGY JOINT [...] (SBU) The first meeting of the Economic and Energy Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) met under the Strategic Framework Agreement on February 12. Five working groups were launched on the financial sector; oil and gas; trade and investment; electricity (new plants and investment); and industry [...] |
2009-02-16 05:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON ENRG PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD40 |
ACTION REQUEST: U.S. WEAPONS RELEASE TO IRAQ - [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Country Team requests the immediate release of U.S. military specification night vision devices (NVDs) to the Government of Iraq (GOI). Specifically, this request is for AN/PVS-5, AN/PVS-7 and AN/PVS-7D NVDs. These U.S m [...] |
2009-01-08 13:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
| 09BAGHDAD401 |
ISCI ACCEPTS ELECTION RESULTS BUT COMPLAINS MALIKI [...] (C) Summary. Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) leaders tell us they were shocked by their poor showing in the January 31 provincial elections and complain Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa party, their main rival, unfairly swayed the results. However, ISCI does not plan to protest publicly [...] |
2009-02-16 11:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD402 |
ELECTION OF A NEW COR SPEAKER STILL ON HOLD [...] (C) Summary: The CoR has adjourned until February 18, at which time the major political blocs hope to have agreed on a candidate for the vacant CoR speakership an agreement that will allow the CoR to pass the 2009 Federal Budget bill and end the 2008 Fall legislative term. In addition to who w [...] |
2009-02-16 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD403 |
UN REVIEW OF IRAQ SCIENCE AND TECHNOLGY OFF TO A [...] (SBU) Minister of Science and Technology (MoST) Ra'id Fahmi Jahid told a visiting group of Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) representatives on February 11 that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) science, technology, and innovation policies (STIP [...] |
2009-02-16 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA |
| 09BAGHDAD405 |
MEK DEFECTORS TO BE RESETTLED IN TURKEY [...] (S/NF) Summary: According to the GOI's lead in Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) resettlement issues, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim, Iranian officials, contrary to recent public statements (ref A), do not want to repatriate MEK defectors to Iran. Instead, the Iranian Embassy will issue passp [...] |
2009-02-16 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM PREL KREF TU IR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD41 |
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. [...] |
2009-01-08 14:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD410 |
SIGNS OF IMPROVING IRAQI-KUWAITI RELATIONS [...] (C/REL MCFI) In a February 12 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, Deputy Foreign Minister Haj Hamoud detailed his February 4-5 visit to Kuwait. He said in meetings with Kuwait's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, he made progress on an array of issues, including: how to deal with shar [...] |
2009-02-16 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR |
| 09BAGHDAD412 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: MOBILE GASOLINE STATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Salah al-Din (SaD) Provincial Investment Commission (PIC) has successfully negotiated a deal that has created over a hundred privately owned, mobile gasoline stations. The stations, which comprise 10,000 liter containerized units equipped with fuel pumps, are already visible [...] |
2009-02-17 07:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON EPET ENRG EINV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD413 |
NEGOTIATING WITH IRANIANS: THE MEK IN IRAQ AS A [...] (S) Summary: In a case study of significant face-to-face dealing with Iranians, the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MeK) at Camp Ashraf in Iraq have been exasperating negotiators during six months of talks with Embassy and Multi-National Force ) Iraq (MNF-I) interlocutors on their future in Iraq. We believe [...] |
2009-02-17 11:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD417 |
MUTHANNA: MANY PARTIES REPRESENTED IN NEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Perhaps as many as nine separate party lists will be represented on Muthanna's next Provincial Council (PC). While Da'wa and ISCI won an equal number of seats, Da'wa appears to have a stronger negotiating position for [...] |
2009-02-17 13:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD418 |
COMMERCIAL ADVOCACY IN IRAQ - THE TIME IS NOW [...] (U) The following is a personal message from Charge d'Affaires Patricia A. Butenis. 2. (SBU) Our partnership and engagement with Iraq is about to hit another milestone with the release of the 2009 Country Commercial Guide (CCG) for Iraq. This first post-conflict CCG for Iraq captures and r [...] |
2009-02-17 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD EAGR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD419 |
IRAQ MAKING ENCOURAGING PROGRESS ON NUCLEAR CLEAN-UP [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) took EconOffs, MNFI, and two visiting Texas Tech University (TTU) Professors on a walking tour of the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility (TNRF) February 9 to assess the progress of MoST's nuclear facility dismantlement and disposal project. T [...] |
2009-02-18 07:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | TPHY SEVN TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA ENRG |
| 09BAGHDAD420 |
MEK/CAMP ASHRAF UPDATE: MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (S/NF) Summary: As the Iraqi National Security Staff and some of the internal security forces agitate for rapid movement against the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) at Camp Ashraf, Minister of Human Rights Widjan Salim has moved to a more prominent position on the GOI Ashraf Committee. She visited C [...] |
2009-02-18 10:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD421 |
MP QASIM DAOUD ON PRO-/ANTI-MALIKI ALLIANCES IN [...] (C) Summary. Parliamentarian Qasim Daoud, leader of the Solidarity Party, told Poloffs on February 16 that the opposition to, and support for, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in parliament is becoming more cohesive. Daoud expressed optimism over a possible ISCI, IIP, Kurdish, Solidarity, and [...] |
2009-02-18 11:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD422 |
HANDOVER CEREMONY MARKS WATERSHED IN BASRAH [...] On February 9, Ambassador Crocker and Minister of Health (MOH) Salih Madhi signed a Memorandum of Understanding that laid out the roles and responsibilities for completion and transfer of the Basrah Children's Hospital to the GOI. The transfer will take place in stages over the next several [...] |
2009-02-18 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PREL SOCI IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD423 |
MINISTRY OF FINANCE CONSIDERS USD 5 BILLION BOND [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq's Ministry of Finance (MoF) is considering a new bond issue worth USD 5 billion in order to better manage its cash-flow in the face of reduced oil export revenue. Demand for the T-bills offered at price-capped auctions is "variable," with two state-owned banks accounting f [...] |
2009-02-18 13:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD427 |
Initial Meeting of Services and Technology Joint [...] (SBU) The Co-Chairs of the Services and Information Technology Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) agreed to launch the work of the Committee under the Strategic Framework Agreement. In a meeting on February 14, Deputy Prime Minister Rafae al-Essawi and EMIN Wall, Coordinator for Economic Trans [...] |
2009-02-18 23:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV ETRD PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD428 |
PRT KIRKUK: ARTICLE 23 COMMITTEE - LIMITED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Article 23 committee of the Council of Representatives followed up on its initial visit to Kirkuk last week (REFTEL) by returning on February 17. A promising agenda proposed by UNAMI covering voter registries, land issues and power sharing was derailed by the Committee's del [...] |
2009-02-18 23:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD429 |
RRT ERBIL: THE SILENT IMAMS, DEALING WITH EXTEMIST [...] (C) Summary: A number of Muslim leaders in the Kurdistan region took to the pulpit in December/January to denounce Israeli actions in the Gaza strip and call for the destruction of the Israeli state and death to Jews. In response, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) banned these Imams fr [...] |
2009-02-18 23:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PRL PHUM PTER SOCI PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD430 |
RRT ERBIL: PUK REFORM WING GATHERS MOMENTUM - [...] (C) Summary. A group of PUK members led by former PUK Deputy Secretary General Nawshirwan Mustafa is confident that their reform agenda will lead them to prevail over other PUK contenders in the contest for PUK leadership in a post-Talabani world. For the time being, this group does not com [...] |
2009-02-18 23:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD431 |
SUPPORT COUNCILS IN SUNNI REGIONS: FAILURE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Support Councils (SC) (Arabic: Majlis Al Isnad), have not had as great an effect in the central Sunni-Arab majority provinces as in southern, Shi'a-dominated provinces (refs). Sunni suspicions of the Maliki Government of Iraq (GOI), already established tribal groupings and othe [...] |
2009-02-19 10:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD432 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: IRAQI POLICE RECRUITMENT ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Police (IP) force in Salah ad Din (SaD) continues to meet its targets for recruitment and training, but faces several challenges that could limit its effectiveness. With the number of recruits scheduled to graduate [...] |
2009-02-19 10:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD433 |
IRAQ'S ELECTION COMMISSION QUICKLY REVIEWS [...] (C) Summary. Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission (IHEC) has completed its review of the 2,023 complaints submitted after the provincial elections. According to UN and international technical advisors, the number of complaints has been much lower than anticipated. However, IHEC has iden [...] |
2009-02-19 11:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD435 |
BANKING IN BASRAH [...] (U) Summary: Banks in Basrah, Iraq's second largest city, are a mix of state-owned and private insitutions. Challenges for Basrah's bankers include low rates of loan repayment and establishment of "know-your-customer." No international banks currently operate in Basrah, although five such ban [...] |
2009-02-19 12:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD436 |
POSSIBLE FTO DESIGNATION FOR ASA'IB AHL AL HAQ [...] (U) In response to reftel, post provides the following response. 2. (S/NF) Regarding Kata,ib Hizballah (KH), post considers this group an irreconcilable Iranian proxy and supports its designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Post believes the summary provided is accurate and [...] |
2009-02-19 13:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC PGOV PREL KCRM KJUS IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD437 |
LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM ACTING PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-19 14:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ OPDC OVIP PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD44 |
ASHURA CROWDS, SADRIST STATEMENT ON GAZA SPARK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Muqtada al Sadr's January 7 declaration to his followers to "carry out revenge operations" against Israel's "great accomplice" for Israel's military assault on Gaza caused concern to PRT local staff and contacts due to the enhanced crowds and religious fervor in the province dur [...] |
2009-01-08 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV PTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD441 |
GOI RAISES PROFILE OF ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS [...] (SBU) In recent days, statements and actions by the Prime Minister, parliamentarians, and others have pointed up the GOI's heightened concern over corruption -- but there is also recognition that the GOI has a ways to go in establishing a strong anti-corruption regime. END SUMMARY. PRIME M [...] |
2009-02-20 09:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KDEM PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD442 |
CDA, CG AND PM DISCUSS CONTRACTS, RECONCILIATION, [...] (S/NF) Summary: In their regular weekly meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on February 19, Charge d' Affairs Butenis and Commanding General MNF-I Odierno pressed al-Maliki to get GOI action on critical, long-delayed civil aviation contracts, emphasized that Iraq should be aware of [...] |
2009-02-20 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD446 |
ARAB-KURD RELATIONS: CURRENT TENSIONS THREATEN [...] (C) Summary. Tension between Arabs and Kurds is historical, multifaceted, and currently fueled by unresolved conflicts over oil revenue sharing, disputed internal borders (DIBs), and the struggle for authority between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central government (GOI). P [...] |
2009-02-21 10:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD447 |
RRT ERBIL: THE KURDISTAN ISLAMIC UNION - KRG'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the "Third Party" in the Kurdistan Region, the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) is a long way from threatening the tight patronage and emotional hold of the KDP and the PUK on the electorate. Nonetheless, with its strong anti-corruption message and popular media outlets, it appe [...] |
2009-02-21 11:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD449 |
FRIEND OF MALIKI AND MUQTADA DISCUSSES SADRIST-GOI [...] (C) Sheikh Mohammed Reda al-Numani, a close contact of both Prime Minister Maliki and the Sadr family, spoke optimistically in his February 18 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray about efforts to mediate between the Prime Minister and Sadrists. Numani, a Maliki supporter, offered insights [...] |
2009-02-22 08:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD45 |
DPM BARHAM SALIH - IRAQ LOOKING FOR A NEW APPROACH [...] (U) This cable is an action request, please see paragraph 10 2. (C) Summary: In a January 7 meeting with EMIN Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih stated that Iraq's Ministry of Oil has failed at the highest levels of management and that the situation of Iraq's oil sector is a "disaster". T [...] |
2009-01-08 15:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD454 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: PARTY AND INDIVIDUAL RIVALRIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even before confirmation of which individuals have won seats, jockeying has begun in Salah Ad Din (SAD) for the five provincial offices that the new Provincial Council (PC) will elect. At the party level, the Tawafuq list (which includes the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP)) received [...] |
2009-02-22 09:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD46 |
WAIVER REQUESTED -- Section 565 Waiver of Prohibition [...] (SBU) Section 565 of Title V, Part C of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (PL 103-236, 22 USC 2679c) prohibits the Department of State from entering into any contract, except real estate leases and contracts below the small purchase threshold (currently $100,00 [...] |
2009-01-08 15:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KBCT ABLD PHUM AL ECON AMGT ASUP AFIN IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD462 |
This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) forecasts the emergence in the next Provincial Council (PC) of a strong "Nationalist" coalition, which includes PM Maliki's Da'wa party, and a weaker, though significant, "Regionalist" coalition, which includes the Islamic Supreme Co [...] |
2009-02-22 15:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ASEC IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD467 |
PRT KIRKUK:KIRKUK'S LOCAL ARTICLE 23 WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary. Kirkuk's Provincial Council Working Group (A23WG), established to address issues related to Article 23 of the Provincial Elections Law, has made a set of recommendations to present to the Council of Representatives (CoR) Article 23 Committee. The A23WG suggested that government [...] |
2009-02-23 05:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD469 |
ROMANIAN FORCES IN IRAQ SET TO RESUME FULL [...] (C) Summary: Romanian forces are engaged in operational support of Coalition and Iraqi forces but are not conducting off base activities in Tallil pending the establishment of a Joint Committee for the implementation of their January 26 MoU. This is on track to be completed in conjunction wit [...] |
2009-02-23 13:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD47 |
IRAQI REFINERIES PRESENT AND FUTURE (CORRECTED COPY) [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq's refineries are plagued by poor maintenance and antiquated design. Modern refineries produce 80% to 90% of a barrel of oil into light or medium distillates, while Iraq's refineries produce between 50% and 55%. This creates large amounts of heavy fuel oil (HFO), which mus [...] |
2009-01-08 15:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET ENRG IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD470 |
PRT KIRKUK: ARAB NATIONAL PARTIES SEEK FOR [...] (C) Summary. While outside political parties continue to wield the most power and influence in Kirkuk, three Arab national parties are now attempting to get a foot in the door to compete in Kirkuk's elections. Since 2005, Kirkuk's Arab leaders have remained independent with minimal direction [...] |
2009-02-23 15:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EMIN KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD471 |
PRT KIRKUK:MOI DIRECTS KIRKUK POLICE TO HIRE 241 [...] (C) Summary. On February 17, Kirkuk Provincial Council Acting Chair Ali Salihi convened a press conference to denounce the official Ministry of Interior (MoI) directive ordering the PC to hire 241 Dawa party affiliates into Kirkuk's Iraqi Police (IP) force. He described the directive as ill [...] |
2009-02-23 15:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD475 |
SADR CITY POST-ELECTION: HIGH EXPECTATIONS AMID [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of informal conversations with Poloff, a diverse group of Sadr City residents -- ranging from day laborers and students to shopkeepers -- voiced overall confidence in the fairness and credibility of the January 31, 2009, Provincial Council (PC) elections, in which can [...] |
2009-02-24 12:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD476 |
RRT ERBIL: NAWSHIRWAN'S PLANNED ELECTORAL LIST [...] (C) Summary: Former PUK Deputy Secretary General Nawshirwan Mustafa's announcement of his intentions to run an independent list in the upcoming Iraqi Kurdistan Parliamentary elections has forced another showdown between President Talabani and PUK Politburo "reformists" who objected to Talaba [...] |
2009-02-24 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD477 |
DA,WA FORMING PARTNERSHIP WITH HOPE OF TWO RIVERS [...] (C) Summary: The State of Law Coalition (Da'wa) and the Hope of the Two Rivers (disaffected Da'wa, tribal and others) each won nine Provincial Council (PC) seats in last month's provincial elections. Both separately have announced that their lists may form a governing partnership. State of L [...] |
2009-02-24 13:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD482 |
PRT DIYALA: LEGAL CONFERENCE IN DIYALA LAYS THE [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala Reporting Cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: An increased interest in standing up to corrupt practices by government officials is returning to Diyala Province, which hosted a legal conference January 19 and 20 in Ba'aquba, Diyala. PRT Diyala supported the conference. Topi [...] |
2009-02-25 06:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PSOCI KCOR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD486 |
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. [...] |
2009-02-25 10:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD487 |
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. [...] |
2009-02-25 10:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD488 |
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. [...] |
2009-02-25 10:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD489 |
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. [...] |
2009-02-25 10:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD49 |
CALLS TO POSTPONE DIYALA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: During his December 30-31 visit to Diyala Province, Kurdish and Shi'a political leaders explained to visiting PMIN their demands for a postponement of the January 31 provincial elections in Diyala. The leaders cited security and logistical concerns to justify a delay, though it s [...] |
2009-01-09 09:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD491 |
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. [...] |
2009-02-25 10:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD492 |
GOI INSIDERS ON MINISTER OF WOMEN'S AFFAIRS [...] Summary: (C) In the days following her abrupt resignation on February 5, it was unclear why Minister of State for Women's Affairs (MoSWA) Dr. Nawal Al-Samara'e she resigned, whether PM Maliki had in fact accepted her resignation, and whether Al-Samara'e might return if she could get more au [...] |
2009-02-25 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KWMN PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD493 |
BAGHDAD TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS RESPONSES [...] (SBU) Summary and recommendations: This is Post's summary of trafficking in persons (TIP) activities for the period April 2008-February 2009. Some progress has been noted since the previous report in that a few GOI officials privately acknowledge the existence of a TIP problem. In additio [...] |
2009-02-25 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KWMN PHUM ELAB KCRM KFRD PREF SMIG |
| 09BAGHDAD495 |
NAJAF BUSINESSMEN ON TRADE WITH IRAN: "NO OTHER [...] (C) Summary: Najaf businessmen expressed frustration with their limited choices of foreign business partners in a February 23 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray. Too often, they said, they are finding doors closed to them in Jordan, the Arab Gulf states, and Europe. End summary. 2. [...] |
2009-02-26 07:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD ECON IR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD498 |
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. [...] |
2009-02-26 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD499 |
HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR 9 CANDIDATES FOR 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 from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] |
2009-02-26 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD500 |
KARBALA: DA'WA-SADRIST DEAL ON CASE REVIEWS BEING [...] (C) As reported in reftels, Da'wa -- in order to guarantee the Sadrists' continued political quiescence in Karbala -- has offered to expedite the closure of criminal cases stemming from the deadly violence that marred the Shabaniyah observances in August 2007. In the crackdown that followed, [...] |
2009-02-26 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KJUS IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD501 |
IRAQ'S ECONOMY GROWING IN 2009, BUT JOBS STILL A [...] (SBU) Summary: There is some good news in Iraq's macro-economic data, despite the global downturn and the collapse of oil prices. The economy should grow by at least 5 percent this year in real terms, provided the GoI can sustain spending growth. Core inflation should remain stable at about [...] |
2009-02-26 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD502 |
NAJAF INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT EXPANDING RAPIDLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Najaf Airport is expanding rapidly to accommodate the demand from Shi'a pilgrims coming to religious shrines in the province. Religious pilgrims visiting the province have increased dramatically over last year, and most pilgrims stay for at least a week. Currently the bulk of [...] |
2009-02-26 13:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD EINV IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD503 |
PM ADVISOR RIKABI ON DEVELOPING THE BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary. Sadiq al-Rikabi, a close political advisor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, told Emboffs in February that the Maliki government seeks a special, long-term alliance with the U.S. and asked for the U.S. to remain engaged in helping Iraqis solve internal political disputes. Iraq o [...] |
2009-02-26 13:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD504 |
MAYSAN ELECTION: COALITION-BUILDING TIED TO BAGHDAD [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C/REL MCFI) Maysan's new 27-member Provincial Council (PC) will be governed by four parties -- Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa-led State of Law, ISCI's Shahid al-Mihrab, the Sadrist-backed Free Independent Trend, and Dr. Ja'afar [...] |
2009-02-26 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD505 |
TURKISH SPECIAL ENVOY NOTES GOT SURPRISE AT MALIKI [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a February 17 meeting, Murat Ozcelik, Turkey's Special Envoy to Iraq discussed Turkey's surprise at the success of PM Maliki's list in the provincial elections and his strengthened position as a result. Ozcelik said Turkey would use its good relations within the KRG and the G [...] |
2009-02-26 14:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TU IR |
| 09BAGHDAD507 |
NAJAF: GOVERNOR OPTIMISTIC ON U.S.-IRAQI [...] (C) In a February 23 meeting, Najaf Governor As,ad abu Gulal appeared upbeat about the January 31 provincial election results and the Iraqi-U.S. relationship. Once the election results are certified, he expects the Provincial Council to be seated quickly and confided the Council may ask him [...] |
2009-02-26 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KIRF IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD508 |
CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ MONETARY POLICY AND [...] (C) Summary: The Central Bank of Iraq's (CBI's) moves to ease monetary policy, in light of the global economic slowdown, should dampen commodity prices and inflation. While the CBI still believes high interest rates have not impeded serious bank lending, their new policy stance will challenge [...] |
2009-02-26 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | BEXP ECON EFIN IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD511 |
SHIFT TO IRAQI PRIORITIES IN FIFTH ANNUAL RULE OF LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Embassy Rule of Law Coordinator's Office (ROLC) and the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) Staff Judge Advocate's Office co-hosted the Fifth Annual Rule of Law Conference at the New Embassy Compound February 17-18. The purpose of the conference was two-fold. The first day [...] |
2009-02-27 04:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ US |
| 09BAGHDAD513 |
ANTI-CORRUPTION ITEMS [...] (C) Amidst the GOI's heightened profile of late on the anti-corruption dossier (ref a), sources in the Inspectors General (IG) corps claimed to us that PM Maliki recently instructed each of the 35 IG's (located in ministries and other GOI institutions)to come up with two "major" anti-corruptio [...] |
2009-02-27 11:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD514 |
PUK RESHUFFLE POINTS TO DPM BARHAM SALIH FOR KRG PM [...] (C) Summary. Internal wrangling among the Kurdish political leadership is going to generate changes among the Kurdish leaders in Baghdad and Kurdistan and will likely leave the Kurds less able to work with PM Nouri al-Maliki in a serious way, at least in the short term. The latest spate of h [...] |
2009-02-27 11:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD515 |
CDA, CG AND PM DISCUSS DRAWDOWN OF U.S. FORCES IN [...] (S) Summary: In a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on February 26, Commanding General MNF-I Odierno briefed the details of the new Administration's plan for the responsible drawdown of U.S. Forces in Iraq. U.S. Forces will cease all combat operations, except for counterterrori [...] |
2009-02-27 17:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD518 |
GOI REACTION TO THE PRESIDENT'S IRAQ SPEECH [...] (C) Foreign Minister Zebari told the Charge this afternoon that he liked the President's Camp Lejeune speech on Iraq, especially the clear statement that the U.S. does not support sectarian security forces. He also liked the President's insistence that the GOI focus on building its capacity [...] |
2009-02-28 14:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PREL GCC IR |
| 09BAGHDAD520 |
IN DIWANIYAH PROVINCE, POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Although Da'wa, which won 11 of Diwaniyah's 28 Provincial Council (PC) seats, is in a strong political position, infighting within that party has left the governorship and PC chairmanship up for grabs. Under the circumstances, coalition-building is proving a difficult, albeit p [...] |
2009-02-28 14:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD522 |
"SHOW ME THE POWER," SAYS EAST BAGHDAD BUSINESSMAN [...] This is a Baghdad EPRT-2 reporting cable. 2. SUMMARY: Electricity is now the biggest problem for manufacturers in eastern Baghdad. In the continuing absence of reliable power from the national grid, many manufacturers must generate their own power but cannot buy an adequate supply of fue [...] |
2009-03-01 09:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ASEC IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD528 |
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. [...] |
2009-03-01 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD530 |
IRAQI OIL MINISTRY NEGOTIATING UNITIZATION OF [...] (U) This is a request for guidance. See para 2. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Some modest movement recently has generated publicity regarding the possible signing of agreements between Iraq and Kuwait or Iraq and Iran to develop cross-border oil and gas fields. A committee formed by the Iraq Ministry o [...] |
2009-03-01 16:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EPET ENRG EINV ETTC PREL KU IR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD531 |
RRT ERBIL: OIL FOUND AT SEVERAL NEW SITES IN KURDISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The hydrocarbon potential of the Kurdistan Region was almost completely ignored until only the past few years, when the regional government launched an aggressive program to develop the area's hydrocarbon potential. Exploration, while still in the early phase, is already yieldi [...] |
2009-03-02 03:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PGOV EINV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD532 |
KUWAITI FM'S VISIT TO IRAQ: SHORT ON SUBSTANCE [...] (C) Summary: Ending 20 years of senior-level bilateral estrangement, Kuwait's Foreign Minister visited Iraq February 26. In his meetings with Vice Presidents Abdul-Mehdi and Hashmi (President Talabani is in Iran) and Prime Minister Maliki, and over lunch with Foreign Minister Zebari, the [...] |
2009-03-02 07:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IZ KU |
| 09BAGHDAD533 |
PARLIAMENT LIFTS MEMBER'S IMMUNITY AS SUNNI ARABS [...] (C) Summary: On February 25, the Council of Representatives (CoR) voted to remove parliamentary immunity from Mohamed al-Daeni, from the Sunni Arab Hewar party, the second time in six months that it has voted to lift immunity from a member. In the other case, in September, Parliament voted to [...] |
2009-03-02 10:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD536 |
MOD HOSTS INAUGURAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE [...] (U) Summary: The Ministry of Defense's (MOD) first-ever conference on human rights on February 10 highlighted the actions the Ministry has undertaken to promote respect for human rights, including: education and training programs for soldiers; establishment of internal procedures to handle [...] |
2009-03-02 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD537 |
IRAQIS REACT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SPEECH: MOST [...] (U) SUMMARY: Iraqi leaders and citizens largely welcomed President Obama's February 27, 2009, speech announcing U.S. plans to begin the drawdown of American combat units from the country in line with the Seucurity Agreement. Most said they favored the continuation of a strong American partner [...] |
2009-03-02 12:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD54 |
WAIVER REQUESTED -- Section 565 Waiver of Prohibition [...] (SBU) Section 565 of Title V, Part C of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (PL 103-236, 22 USC 2679c) prohibits the Department of State from entering into any contract, except real estate leases and contracts below the small purchase threshold (currently $100,00 [...] |
2009-01-09 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KBCT ABLD PHUM AL ECON AMGT ASUP AFIN IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD543 |
MOHR ON NEW MINISTERS, MASS GRAVES, MP AL-DAINI [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told us on February 24 that she expects the newly appointed Judge Dara will be an effective Minister of Justice, once he negotiates his learning curve. By contrast, she expressed concern about the new Acting Minister of State for Women's A [...] |
2009-03-02 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS KWMN PTER KU IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD544 |
DETENTION OF DIYALA SUNNI ARAB PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The circumstances surrounding the arrest and subsequent five month detention of a high-ranking government official in Diyala Province, Dr. Hussein al-Zubaydi, raise questions as to whether it is politically motivated. A Sunni Arab provincial council member, Dr. Hussein was ar [...] |
2009-03-02 15:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI |
| 09BAGHDAD545 |
IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIAN DENOUNCES CORRUPTION IN [...] (U) In a February 28 press statement, the chairman of the Council of Representatives' (COR) Integrity Committee, Sheikh Sabah, called for the removal of Trade Minister Abdel Falah Sudani as well as Labor and Social Affairs Minister Mahmud Radi because of the "growing corruption" in their minist [...] |
2009-03-02 16:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM KCRM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD546 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: PROVINCIAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In recent months, the Salah al-Din (SaD) Provincial Investment Commission (PIC) has improved its working relationship with the National Investment Commission (NIC) and committed itself to a rigorous campaign of outreach to pot [...] |
2009-03-03 03:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREF EAID ETRD IZ PINR |
| 09BAGHDAD548 |
BAATHISTS IN NORTHWEST BAGHDAD: 500 PARTIES, WHY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Tarmiyah, Taji and Abu Ghraib "qadas" (rural counties) of northwest Baghdad Province are home to many former members of the Baath Party, Iraqi Army, and other security institutions of the former regime. Most were low-ranking members, but many remain unemployed and suspicious [...] |
2009-03-03 12:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD553 |
MEK/CAMP ASHRAF - THE WAY AHEAD [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) faces a difficult position in Iraq as the GOI has made clear it considers the group a terrorist organization and seeks the closure of the Camp Ashraf facility and the departure of all the residents from Iraq. It plans to prosecute some members of t [...] |
2009-03-04 05:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
| 09BAGHDAD554 |
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. [...] |
2009-03-04 07:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD556 |
HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR IP [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for US Government provided training in Iraq. Post has no derogatory info [...] |
2009-03-04 11:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD559 |
THE U.S.-IRAQI RELATIONSHIP IN 2009: THE VIEW FROM [...] (C) Provincial-level contacts throughout Iraq, while excited about the prospect of full Iraqi sovereignty, hope and expect that the U.S. will continue to provide development and security assistance and maintain a role in internal dispute resolution over the next year. The U.S.-Iraq Security [...] |
2009-03-04 15:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD560 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: OLD AND NEW PROVINCIAL COUNCIL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Chairman of the outgoing Salah ad Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) hosted an introductory meeting on March 1 for members of the outgoing and incoming PC's. The outgoing PC members offered their full support to the incomin [...] |
2009-03-04 16:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD561 |
IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. TRILATERAL DIALOGUE WORKING GROUP [...] (C) The second Sub-Committee meeting (SC) (of the Iraq-Turkey-U.S. Trilateral Security Dialogue took place February 26, a week after the latest Working Group (WG) meeting held on February 19 when Iraq provided to Turkey for the first time, intelligence on the PKK. At the SC, the GoI presented [...] |
2009-03-04 17:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS IZ TU |
| 09BAGHDAD563 |
PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS JUDGE DARA NOOR-ELDEEN AS NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 19, the Iraqi Parliament voted by an overwhelming majority to confirm the appointment of Judge Dara Noor-Eldeen Baha,-Eldeen as the new Minister of Justice. Subsequent to the vote, Judge Dara Baha,-Eldeen took the oath of office and was sworn in as the Minister of [...] |
2009-03-05 06:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS SNAR IQ |
| 09BAGHDAD565 |
IRAQ'S NEGLECTED MONEY LAUNDERING REPORTING OFFICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's two year-old Money Laundering Reporting Office (MLRO) is under-budgeted and under-staffed; lacks capacity; works out of woeful office conditions; and its work is hindered further by loophole-ridden anti-money laundering legislation that is self-contradictory and unenforceab [...] |
2009-03-05 08:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KCRM PGOV SNAR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD567 |
BAGHDAD UPDATE: WHAT'S AHEAD? [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-05 08:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD570 |
A NEW SUNNI ARAB COALITION THAT CALLS ITSELF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 1, ex-Council of Representatives (COR) speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani joined the leaders of three political blocs, Saleh al-Mutlak (Iraqi Front for National Dialogue/IFND), Abid Mutlak al-Jeboori (Iraqi Arab Independents), and Khalaf al-Ulyan (National Dialogue Council) to an [...] |
2009-03-05 10:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD574 |
BAGHDAD UPDATE: WHAT'S AHEAD AS TROOPS DRAWDOWN? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As Iraq's capital, Baghdad is inherently important. It is home to a large and diverse population (approximately six million of Iraq's estimated 28 million total), with increasing numbers of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) returning to mixed neighborhoods. Baghdad's politica [...] |
2009-03-05 13:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD575 |
IRAQ: MAKE IT A STRONG PARTNER IN DEALING WITH [...] (C) The 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent seating of a Shia-led government, opened new opportunities for Iran to influence Iraqi politics and to bleed U.S. forces. Many Iraqis, especially Sunnis, still view Shi'a Islamist parties ISCI and Badr, which have their origins in Iran, as n [...] |
2009-03-05 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD578 |
IRAQ'S MINORITIES [...] (U) Summary: Iraq's minorities have a long and colorful history in the "Land Between the Two Rivers." While their numbers have declined significantly in recent years, those who remain contribute significantly to the cultural and political fabric of Iraq. Most minority communities are loca [...] |
2009-03-05 17:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD579 |
THE SUNNI ARAB CENTRAL PROVINCES: MORE STABLE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Anbar, Salah Ad Din (SAD), and Diyala, the three majority-Sunni Arab provinces stretching west to east across Iraq's center, have witnessed a dramatic reduction in violence over the past two years. Thanks to the Sahwa (Awakening)/Sons of Iraq (SOI) security programs, aggressive [...] |
2009-03-06 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD583 |
PRIME MINISTER CLOSELY MANAGING PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki is closely managing coalition-building in provinces where his Da'wa-led State of Law list performed well in the elections, and has reached agreements on alliances in most of the ten Shi'a-majority provinces. March 2-3 meetings in Babil and Karbala with Senior Adviso [...] |
2009-03-06 15:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD584 |
CORRUPTION IN IRAQ REMAINS IN THE PUBLIC SPOTLIGHT [...] (C) The Prime Minister's point-man on the anti-corruption dossier announced a "campaign to combat bribery," while the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry's Inspector General reported the uncovering of widespread corruption in a provincial social welfare program. The Interior Ministry's Inspecto [...] |
2009-03-06 15:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD585 |
IRAQI FY09 BUDGET AS A TOOL FOR PARLIMENTARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: After more than two months of difficult negotiations and multiple draft laws, Iraq's parliament approved on March 5 a 2009 budget that both spends less money than the government requested and allocates spending on COR priorities that differ from those of the government. There was [...] |
2009-03-06 16:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD587 |
MAYSAN: SADRIST LEADER EAGER TO WORK WITH U.S. [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: The leader of the OMS-backed Tayar al-Ahrar (Free Independent Trend) party in Maysan, Fadil Na'ama Hussein al-Tammimi, expressed enthusiasm about the current direction of American policy in Iraq and an eagerness to coopera [...] |
2009-03-07 12:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD588 |
THE SOUTH AND ITS POLITICAL INFLUENCE [...] (C) As evidenced by the recent provincial elections, won decisively by Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa-led State of Law coalition, southern Iraqis have moved from overt Shi'a identification to a more nationalist, pragmatic stance. Maliki catalyzed and capitalized on this shift by carrying out mi [...] |
2009-03-07 12:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD589 |
Status of Sabaeans in Kirkuk Province [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PRT officers traveled to the Sabaean temple in Kirkuk City in December to meet with Sabaean leaders. The Sabaeans, numbering approximately 173 families in Kirkuk province, listed cultural and linguistic preservation, unemployment, and inclusion in governmental jobs as their pri [...] |
2009-03-07 12:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD590 |
HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR VIP [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for US Government provided training in Iraq. Post has no derogatory info [...] |
2009-03-08 05:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD592 |
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. [...] |
2009-03-08 06:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD594 |
INFLUENTIAL SUNNI ARAB SHEIK HOSTS PRT AT HIS HOME [...] (C) SUMMARY: At his country home on 24 February, Sheikh Abdullah Sami al-Assi hosted a diwan attended by the PRT and Sunni Arab tribal sheikhs and notables in the area. Among the main questions and concerns raised by the assembled Arabs were the future status of Kirkuk province, detentions, [...] |
2009-03-08 07:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD597 |
WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE BAGHDAD RUSTBELT [...] This is a Baghdad EPRT-2 reporting cable. 2. SUMMARY: While many of Iraq's state-owned enterprises are doomed to extinction (ref A), some are thriving. Among firms in which the GOI has only a partial stake -- so-called mixed enterprises -- market sector and leadership appear to be the de [...] |
2009-03-08 11:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV IQ |
| 09BAGHDAD598 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: BA'ATHISTS READY TO RECONCILE, [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The top sheikh of Saddam Hussein's tribe, along with other local figures from his home village in Salah Ad Din (SAD) province, recently asked the PRT to convey to the USG that Ba'athists in SAD seek direct dialogue and reconciliation [...] |
2009-03-08 11:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD599 |
CDA, CG AND PM DISCUSS INITIAL DRAWDOWN OF US [...] (S) Summary: In their regular weekly meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on March 5, Charge d' Affaires (CDA) Butenis and Commanding General (CG) MNF-I Odierno discussed the initial drawdown of U.S. forces, foreign fighters, airport development, and former Iranian President Rafsa [...] |
2009-03-08 11:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD605 |
IRAQ HEALTH INVESTMENT SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS PROGRESS, [...] SUMMARY. The Iraq Health Investment Summit, held on February 19-20 in Istanbul, Turkey, was a key opportunity for the Minister of Health (MOH), Dr. Salih al-Hasnawi, to showcase Iraq's 2009-2013 strategic health plan and to solicit partnerships with private companies for Iraq's healthcare sys [...] |
2009-03-09 07:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECIN BEXP CVIS IZ ECON PGOV PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD611 |
IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES FALSE ACCUSATIONS AND THE [...] (C) Summary: At the March 1 National Security Council meeting, Chief Justice Medhat briefed the NSC on issues involving false accusations in the justice system, as well as the use of secret informants. The PM directed that a press conference be organized to discuss false accusations, includin [...] |
2009-03-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ MARR PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD612 |
CHRISTIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS ASSESS PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Key Christian politicians acknowledge that the January 31 provincial elections were generally well organized and that security was excellent, and are pleased that nationalist and secular parties gained at the expense of major Islamic parties. They complained, however, that int [...] |
2009-03-09 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD615 |
IRAQ 201: WHERE IS THE GREEN LINE? [...] (C) Summary: None of the many interpretations of a "Green Line" separating Kurdish-administered areas from the rest of Iraq has either support across ethnic lines or a conclusive legal basis. The term "Green Line" was first used to describe the "front-line trace" between Peshmerga and Iraqi [...] |
2009-03-10 07:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PMIL MOPS IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD616 |
KIRKUK: ARTICLE 23 COMMITTEE PLEDGES TO WORK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Representatives (CoR) Article 23 Committee returned to Kirkuk on March 8 and decided that the March 31 deadline set by the Provincial Elections law was "artificial" and therefore set April 14 for release of their report. The Committee deferred until the end of the M [...] |
2009-03-10 08:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD617 |
PRT DIYALA: THE KURDISTAN ALLIANCE OUTLINES [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala Reporting Cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Diyala met the newly elected Provincial Council (PC) members from the Kurdistan Alliance (KA), the Kurdish bloc in Diyala, which is likely to be included in any governing coalition. Although the PRT has worked with representat [...] |
2009-03-10 08:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD62 |
ACTION REQUEST: U.S. WEAPONS RELEASE TO IRAQ - [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Country Team requests the approval for the sale of thirty-six (36) F-16 block 50/52 aircraft and associated equipment and munitions to the Government of Iraq (GOI). This sale will continue to build the Iraqi Air Force ( [...] |
2009-01-11 10:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
| 09BAGHDAD622 |
PRT NINEWA: AL-HADBA ALLIANCE ON SHEIKHY GROUND [...] (C) Summary. Riding high in the wake of the Sunni Arabs' Al-Hadba list dominance in the provincial elections, Iraqi Justice and Reform Movement Party Founder Sheikh Abdullah Hemdi Ajil al-Yawar is now distancing himself from Al-Hadba leader Athiel al-Najaifi and presenting himself as the real [...] |
2009-03-10 09:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD623 |
PUK INTERNAL SQUABBLING AND THE KRG ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. While we monitor Arab-Kurd tensions, the control-oriented Kurdish political leadership is traversing serious political turbulence. Protracted Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) internal power negotiations with Nawshirwan Mustafa have Kurdish leaders insisting on a closed candida [...] |
2009-03-10 09:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD624 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: PILGRIMAGE SIGNALS [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The predominantly Sunni city of Samarra in Salah Ad Din (SAD) province has made significant progress in Sunni and Shi'a reconciliation. On March 6, up to three million Shi'a pilgrims from Karbala, Baghdad and elsewhere visit [...] |
2009-03-10 11:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD625 |
NSC DISCUSSES COMBATING AQI, SECURITY SERVICES [...] (C) Summary. At the March 8 National Security Council, Iraqi officials discussed the ongoing threat from Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), how to fix the overlapping duties across Iraq's intelligence services, moving ahead on a draft agreement with Saudi Arabia regarding prisoner exchanges, and avoiding [...] |
2009-03-10 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD628 |
PRT DIYALA: SUNNI ARABS CLAIM GOI REINSTITUTING [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Members of the Tawafuq/IIP party in Diyala fear that the Government of Iraq (GOI) is using the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to prevent Sunni Arab leaders from forming a new provincial government in Diyala (reftels). They claim that after a p [...] |
2009-03-10 13:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD629 |
PRT DIYALA: DIYALA TAWAFUQ/IIP AIMS TO SHARE PC [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Diyala recently discussed formation of the new Provincial Council (PC) with members of the United Accord and Reform Front (Tawafuq) list, the leading vote getter in Diyala's PC elections. Tawafuq members asked for PRT technic [...] |
2009-03-10 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PSOCI IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD63 |
ASHURA IN KARBALA: PEACEFUL, CROWDED, SANGUINE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ashura commemorations passed peacefully in Karbala amid a heavy security presence, elements of which will remain in place through Arba'ayniyah (February 15-16), which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period. A record number of pilgrims, estimated at two million, participated [...] |
2009-01-11 13:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KISL SOCI IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD630 |
DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY: INTEGRATING IRAQ WITH ITS [...] (S) Iraq is undergoing a fundamental shift. For 50 years, since the revolution of 1958, Iraq has destabilized the region, launched two wars, countered U.S. interests and defied the international community-while brutalizing its own people. Iraq is now a moderate force for stability in the reg [...] |
2009-03-10 16:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL ECON IR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD636 |
IRAQ WANTS A JUNE WTO WORKING PARTY BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Ministry of Trade is eager to hold its Third WTO Working Party (WP) in June. However, Trade Minister al-Sudani and WTO Unit officials acknowledge that if they do not make substantial progress in several areas by April, a June WP would not be justified. They appear to be [...] |
2009-03-11 12:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV EINV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD64 |
GOI ARRESTS STOKE DIYALA SUNNIS' SENSE OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) operations in Diyala province have exhibited a consistent pattern of sectarian bias. The Government of Iraq (GOI) has launched a number of security operations in Diyala ostensibly to combat Al-Qa'ida in [...] |
2009-01-11 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD642 |
RRT ERBIL: KRG ELECTIONS PREVIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Key issues for the Kurdistan regional parliamentary elections remain undecided, and the President has yet to sign an important amendment to the election law. Nonetheless, the KDP and PUK have already announced the details of post-elections power-sharing, including swapping the po [...] |
2009-03-11 14:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD643 |
FY 2009 IRAQI BUDGET -- INITIAL NUMBERS [...] (C) The GOI has yet to complete an accounting of the impact of the last minute amendments to the 2009 Iraqi budget, which was approved on March 5 (reftel). The bill has yet to be sent from the Council of Representatives (CoR) to the Presidency for formal approval. Debate continues within the [...] |
2009-03-11 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD645 |
PRT DIYALA: DIYALA'S IRAQ NATIONAL PROJECT [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala Reporting Cable 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Diyala recently met local representatives from the Iraqi National Project Gathering (INPG) list, which tied for second in Diyala's provincial elections. INPG representatives articulated a vision for improving Diyala that focus [...] |
2009-03-12 06:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD649 |
PM Barzani Pledges Strong Support for Cultural Heritage [...] (U) During a 2/19 meeting at his residence, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Barzani told a visiting State Department delegation that he fully supports the establishment of a national cultural heritage preservation training institute in Erbil. The PM said the KRG would cost- [...] |
2009-03-12 13:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL SOCI PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD65 |
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. [...] |
2009-01-11 14:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD650 |
Rock Chalk, Jayhawk! U Kansas Professor Wows Kurdistan [...] (U) During a jam-packed visit to the Kurdistan Region, University of Kansas Political Science Department Chairman Burdett Loomis spoke to students and faculty at major universities in Dohuk and Erbil on the transition to the new Obama administration and the effects it will have on domestic and [...] |
2009-03-12 13:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL SOCI PGOV OEXC OIIP IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD651 |
IRAQ CONSIDERS STEPS TO BOOST OIL OUTPUT; EARLY [...] (C) Summary: The GOI is considering a number of steps to improve management of the oil sector and streamline contracting procedures, all with a view to boosting near-term output. The steps, including creation of an Oil and Gas Council led by the PM that would reduce the Oil Ministry's role, [...] |
2009-03-12 14:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD655 |
MUTHANNA: NEW PC LEADERS FOCUS ON DELIVERING [...] (C): The Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq and Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) officers held separate meetins with representatives from three of the leading winning political lists in Muthanna on March 9. The next governing coalition will be led locally by Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa-b [...] |
2009-03-12 15:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD657 |
IRAQ REGIONAL STRATEGY - PRELIMINARY UNAMI [...] (C) The UN, like us, is in the process of formulating ideas on how best to promote Iraq's regional engagement. On March 11, Ambassador Gerard Sambrana, SRSG de Mistura's Special Political Advisor (and the senior UNAMI official most directly involved in the Neighbors Process), shared with us [...] |
2009-03-13 10:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TU KU IR UN |
| 09BAGHDAD658 |
MOI OFFICIALS SEEK CONTINUED, EVOLVING U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy and U.S. military officials met between February 21 and March 7 with senior Government of Iraq (GOI) officials to discuss Iraq's priorities for the future development of its civilian security forces. Mi6dqOS8QA](KQAffairs (DOIA) met with several senior Government of Ira [...] |
2009-03-13 11:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MARR MOPS PGOV PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD659 |
SUNNI POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: SECTARIAN VERSUS SECULAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Sunni Arabs are a composite group of moderate Islamists, secular nationalists, unreconstructed Ba'athists, Former Regime Elements (FRE), and tribal leaders. While Sunni Arabs share a sense of marginalization in post-Saddam Iraq, they are highly divided and have been unable [...] |
2009-03-13 12:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD66 |
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. [...] |
2009-01-11 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD660 |
SRSG DE MISTURA LAYS OUT UNAMI'S IMMEDIATE [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-13 13:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD661 |
DHI QAR UNEASILY PREPARES FOR SADRISTS IN [...] (C) Leading Dhi Qar politicians and religious authorities are uneasy with Sadrist participation in an incoming provincial governing coalition with the Prime Minister's State of Law list and ex-Prime Minister Ja'afari's National Reform Trend. In March 8 meetings with visiting Senior Advisor [...] |
2009-03-13 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD662 |
SRSG DE MISTURA LAYS OUT UNAMI'S IMMEDIATE [...] (C) In his March 9 debrief of his recent trip to Washington, SRSG Staffan de Mistura told the Charge that he plans to use the political capital he's gained after the successful elections to advance the UNAMI agenda on Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs). The UN seeks close support from the U [...] |
2009-03-13 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD670 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: TUZ DISTRICT'S ELECTION RESULTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Credible, legitimate, and peaceful Provincial Council (PC) elections in the Tuz district of SAD province reflect low ethnic tensions in this disputed area. The Kurdish parties in SAD added non-Kurds to their electoral list, and Turcoman engagement in the democratic process resu [...] |
2009-03-14 11:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD671 |
MALIKI RESHAPING KARBALA POLITICAL SCENE IN [...] (C) Summary. Senior political leaders tell the PRT that Prime Minister Maliki has been the decision-maker in determining the Karbala political line-up following the January 31 elections. Maliki reportedly brokered the political deal between the Dawlat al-Qanun (State of Law) and Amal al-Raf [...] |
2009-03-14 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD675 |
ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (C) Anti-Corruption Coordinator (ACC) and staff recently met separately with three Iraqi religious figures: Grand Ayatollah Hussein Al-Sadr, the senior Shia cleric in Baghdad, Ahmed Abdel Ghafour Al-Sammarraie, head of the GOI's Sunni Endowment, and Harith Al-Obaidy, Sunni cleric and parliamen [...] |
2009-03-15 09:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD676 |
RRT ERBIL: PROFILE OF PUK NAWSHIRWAN MUSTAFA [...] (C) Summary. This cable profiles Nawshirwan Mustafa, the former Deputy Secretary General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and leader of the "unofficial" PUK reformist movement in Sulaimaniyah. Long an advocate of change within the PUK, he continues to be a gadfly to the PUK establis [...] |
2009-03-15 11:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD677 |
IRAQI ARMY CONFRONTS MEK AT CAMP ASHRAF [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-15 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
| 09BAGHDAD680 |
NINEWA: BIO OF LIKELY INCOMING NINEWA GOVERNOR [...] (C) Summary: Ninewa,s likely future Governor, Atheel Alnujaifi, is a sophisticated politician and astute businessman, but also a polarizing figure in a province where Arab and Kurdish Iraq meet along a legally, ethnically and geographically blurred line. He has deep links to former Ba,ath p [...] |
2009-03-15 17:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD681 |
IRAQI ARMY CONFRONTS MEK AT CAMP ASHRAF [...] (SBU) Summary: Although tensions have escalated at the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) Camp Ashraf in Iraq, press reports may exaggerate the situation on the ground. After failure to resolve a three-week long discussion, Iraqi Army (IA) elements at Camp Ashraf moved to seize control of a building on [...] |
2009-03-15 18:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
| 09BAGHDAD682 |
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. [...] |
2009-03-16 05:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD691 |
IRAQ 201: IRAQ'S PRESIDENCY AND CABINET [...] (C) Summary. The Presidency Council and Council of Ministers (Cabinet) reflect a broad-based membership of the Iraqi Government and are institutions that sometimes attempt to restrain an increasingly assertive Prime Minister. The Presidency has used its authorities to ensure consensus on key i [...] |
2009-03-16 07:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD692 |
RRT ERBIL: BORDER ISSUES WITH IRAN AS SEEN FROM [...] (S) Summary. Local security officials in Sulaimaniyah admit that the province,s long and porous border with Iran is under-patrolled and claim that Baghdad does not give them the resources they need to guard it effectively. They consider the main threat to be the Iran-based &Kurdistan Battal [...] |
2009-03-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER PINR PBTS SNAR IZ TU IR |
| 09BAGHDAD699 |
CONSULAR VISITS TO MEK/CAMP ASHRAF AMCITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As previously reported in an email to CA/OCS/ACS/NESA February 12, ConOffs met with the five AmCit residents of Camp Ashraf on December 31, 2008 and February 12, 2009. All five are in good condition. Despite Embassy encouragement to consider their futures as individuals outsi [...] |
2009-03-16 11:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC |
| 09BAGHDAD700 |
RRT Erbil: The 1991 Generation on College, Jobs [...] (U) Summary: Given that half of the Kurdistan Region's population is under 25, understanding the concerns of the so-called "1991 Generation" -- those born during or after the Kurdish Uprising -- is key to understanding the Region's future. Right now, the Generation's primary concern is getting [...] |
2009-03-16 12:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL SOCI PGOV PINR ECON IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD706 |
KIRKUK: SIXTH ANNUAL ARAB CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During the sixth annual Arab Conference in Kirkuk, held March 14, speakers addressed the need for Arab unity, and progress on Article 23, Article 140 and detainees. The conference was notable for the unity of its speakers in calling for support of the Article 23 process and the [...] |
2009-03-16 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD709 |
MALIKI COURTS THE SADRISTS: STRATEGY, FEAR AND [...] (C) The Sadrists' journey in the Iraqi political wilderness may be coming to an end. A Sadrist return to government, while not without risks, offers hope for a durable peace in Shi'a-majority parts of Iraq. It will also offer big challenges for us. Less than a year after his military opera [...] |
2009-03-17 06:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD712 |
DISGRUNTLED SHI'A THREATEN TO BOYCOTT NEW [...] (C) Representatives of four major Shi'a parties that fared poorly in the 2009 Diyala Provincial Elections have rejected the election results, alleging fraud and irregularities. They say they will boycott the new Provincial Government unless there is a new election under different conditions. [...] |
2009-03-17 08:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD719 |
NINEWA PROVINCIAL ELECTION RESULTS NOT DIRECTLY [...] (C) Summary: Ninewa's January 31 provincial election results may be a starting point for discussions on the resolution of the disputed internal boundaries issue but should not be considered a de facto Article 140 referendum. The largest minority in the DIBs region, the Yezidis, returned a m [...] |
2009-03-17 12:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL TU IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD72 |
ACTION REQUEST: MANAGING NATO EXPECTATIONS FOR [...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraphs 6 and 7. 2. (C) Summary: According to USNATO (Ref A and B), in the North Atlantic Council (NAC) meeting on 7 January, NATO member states proposed to send Assistant Secretary General for Operations Howard and Legal Advisor DeWidts to Baghdad to c [...] |
2009-01-12 04:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ NATO |
| 09BAGHDAD721 |
JOURNALISTS ASSESS IRAQ'S PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Local and international media gave a mixed press freedom grade to Iraq's January 31 provincial elections. While many journalists cited the event as a noteworthy step forward in the country's push toward greater freedom of the press, they also complained that overly restricti [...] |
2009-03-17 15:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD722 |
Judicial Training a Potential Change Agent for Iraq's Rule [...] SUMMARY: Speaking before the U.S. Embassy-hosted Rule of Law (ROL) Community Forum, the Dean of the Judicial Training Institute (JTI), created in the wake of the Baathist "bloodless revolution" of 1968 as part of the Ministry of Justice, advocated increasing the institute's resources and upd [...] |
2009-03-17 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD723 |
IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. TRILATERAL DIALOGUE: PREPARATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a March 10 meeting with Pol-Mil MinCouns and MNF-I CJ3, and at the March 12 Subcommittee meeting of the Iraq-Turkey-U.S. Security Dialogue, Minister of State for National Security Affairs (MSNSA), Shirwan al-Waeili said the GoI supports the opening of an Erbil intelligence liais [...] |
2009-03-17 18:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR IZ TU |
| 09BAGHDAD729 |
GOI TO MOVE FORWARD ON KUWAITI MASS GRAVES [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Minister of Human Rights told us that she regrets the delays the GOI has caused in the ICRC-assisted effort to find Kuwaiti missing persons and open Kuwaiti mass graves. Noting that the GOI has worked out the internal issues that had stymied progress, Salim said she has [...] |
2009-03-18 08:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS KU IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD730 |
MEK/CAMP ASHRAF - GOI MISHANDLING UNDERLINES NEED [...] (U) This is an action request (see para 11). 2. (S/NF) Summary: The GOI is expressing increasing frustration with the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) residents of Camp Ashraf. In response to GOI assertions that the MEK are "breaking the rules," more stringent controls have been placed on personne [...] |
2009-03-18 10:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
| 09BAGHDAD731 |
IRAQ 201: SHI'A POLITICAL LANDSCAPE COLORED BY [...] (C) Summary. This cable outlines Iraq's primary Shi'a parties and the major events Shi'a actors will likely face before national elections, planned for late 2009 or early 2010. Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa party, and the other Shi'a who won seats during the January 31 provincial elections n [...] |
2009-03-18 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD733 |
IRAQ 201: SNAPSHOT OF IRAQ'S REGIONAL DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Ref A provided a broad overview of Iraq's diplomatic relations with its neighbors and a proposed U.S. strategy for consolidating Iraq's regional reintegration. Ref B analyzed Iraqi-Iranian relations. This cable aims to complement those messages by providing a snapshot of practical effort [...] |
2009-03-18 12:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ GCC |
| 09BAGHDAD740 |
COR PASSES BUDGET BILL [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-18 15:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD741 |
IRAQ 201: THE COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES [...] (SBU) Summary: The three-year old, 275 member Council of Representatives (CoR) is suffering from growing pains, but has recently demonstrated potential to act as a more effective institution that can challenge executive power. Among its shortcomings, the CoR's credibility as a representative [...] |
2009-03-18 15:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD742 |
HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR IP [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for US Government provided VIP Protection Course training in Iraq. Post [...] |
2009-03-18 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD750 |
NINEWA: SONGS IN THE KEY OF AIN SIFNI [...] (C) Summary: What do you get when a US Army band plays an Eastern Orthodox wedding hall in a Yezidi town with Arab, Christian and Kurdish musicians under the watchful gaze of the Barzani patriarch, a crucifix, and the Iraqi flag, plus a banner celebrating the anniversary of an anti-Saddam up [...] |
2009-03-19 08:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD751 |
IRAQI BUDGET: "DIFFICULT YEAR" SAYS MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary: Finance Minister Bayan Jabr told EMIN on March 16 that the USD 59 billion FY 2009 Budget as passed by the Council of Representatives was lower than the government had requested and that Iraq faces "a difficult year." Cuts to operational budgets are expected in every ministry. Jab [...] |
2009-03-19 08:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON CVIS PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD756 |
IRAQ DPM BARHAM SALIH ON OIL, ICI, AND BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih expressed satisfaction with the results of the late February oil symposium and said that he expects swift cabinet approval of recommendations to streamline management of the oil sector. While Oil Minister Shahristani has agreed to the recommendat [...] |
2009-03-19 09:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EPET ETRD IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD757 |
SPECIAL LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR PRT TEAM LEADERS [...] This is an action request. Embassy Baghdad's Office of Provincial Affairs (OPA) requests that FSI/NFATC in consultation with NEA develop a special 3-5 day course on "Leading Diverse Teams in Conflict Zones" for senior and FS-01 officers assigned to Team Leader positions in Provincial Reconstru [...] |
2009-03-19 10:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD758 |
BRINGING IT BACK HOME; AN IRAQI BUSINESS RETURNS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent meeting with an Iraqi owned electrical equipment manufacturer which re-opened in 2008, the owners expressed optimism for 2009 and made special mention of plans to expand their business with a self funded 4 Million USD manufacturing facility. While noting that gross [...] |
2009-03-19 12:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD759 |
SALAH AD DIN: YUNIS BA'ATH FACTION SEEKS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Men purporting to represent the Muhammad Yunis Ahmed (MYA) faction of the Ba'ath Party (BP) told Coalition Forces (CF) and the PRT on March 14 that the faction wants to reconcile now, and can bring some of Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri's IAD faction along. MYA is ready to meet with a seni [...] |
2009-03-19 13:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD762 |
IRANIANS RECEIVE WARY WELCOME IN IRAQ [...] (S) Summary: Plane-loads of Iranian officials have arrived in Iraq recently to tout economic relations, take pilgrimages to religious shrines and confer with their Iraqi counterparts, some of whom welcome the diplomatic overtures while others are less than enthusiastic about associating with [...] |
2009-03-19 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR PGOV IR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD763 |
AFTER THE AWAKENING: TRIBES AS GOVERNMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Sahwa's success at helping beat back Al-Qaida and associated extremists led to its first-place finish in Anbar Province's January provincial election. Winners now move, amid high expectations, from electoral victory into governing. Fallujah-area tribal sheikhs, including the pro [...] |
2009-03-19 14:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL PINR KDEM |
| 09BAGHDAD766 |
FINANCE MINISTER JABR ON BUDGET, SONS OF IRAQ, AND [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr on March 19 told EMIN that the government has not yet decided whether to acquiesce with the changes that parliament included in the 2009 budget or to insist that the Council of Representatives (CoR) approve additional expenditures. The Council of Mi [...] |
2009-03-19 17:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EAIR ETRD IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD768 |
IRANIAN VISITORS AND DEVELOPERS WORRY BASRAWIS [...] (S/NF) One year after militias supported by Iran were routed in the Charge of the Knights operation, Basra residents continue to be worried about Iranian influence over national politics and local security. In separate meetings with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, held March 17-18, tribal and Ira [...] |
2009-03-20 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PBTS IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD769 |
Guidelines for PRT and MND/BCT Engagement with Newly [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified; handle accordingly. Not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: This message provides guidelines for PRT and MND/BCT engagement with newly elected provincial officials. This guidance is being issued to assist PRT and MND/BCT pe [...] |
2009-03-21 07:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM KCOR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD77 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: GEO PREPARES FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Salah Ad Din (SaD) and local Coalition Forces (CF) met recently with the SaD Governorate Elections Officer (GEO) to discuss preparations for upcoming provincial elections. The GEO detailed the procedure for holding electi [...] |
2009-01-12 13:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD770 |
ERBIL RRT: KURDISTAN REGIONAL POLITICS THROUGH THE EYES OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: Students in the Kurdistan Region (KR) uniformly stress that the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) dominate both the political and private spheres of the KR. But their opinions differ on whether these political parties have advanced th [...] |
2009-03-21 07:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV IZ SOCI |
| 09BAGHDAD772 |
RSO AVIATION SUPPORT FOR IRAQ [...] (C/NF) In a regularly scheduled meeting on March 19, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki asked the Charge about a Washington Post story (Arabic version in hand) that the State Department had renewed a contract with Blackwater, despite the GOI's denial of an operating license to the security compa [...] |
2009-03-21 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC AMGT |
| 09BAGHDAD773 |
RSO MEETING WITH KRG MINISTER OF INTERIOR [...] (S/NF) Summary: On 03/17/2009, the RSO met with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Interior to extend courtesies, apprise him on the status of Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) training, and discuss possible recruitment/probes by the Asayesh (Kurdish Security Service) on Peshmerga c [...] |
2009-03-21 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | AMGT ASEC IZ PTER |
| 09BAGHDAD774 |
RRT ERBIL: KURDISH PUBLIC SYMPATHETIC TO PKK [...] (U) This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Even those Iraqi Kurds who disagree with the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) methods find it emotionally difficult to separate the PKK cause from the larger struggle for Kurdish rights and the hope for Kurdish un [...] |
2009-03-22 07:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR SY TU XF IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD775 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: PC JOCKEYING ATTEMPTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sources told the PRT that many members of the new Salah ad Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) met on March 15 to form a coalition called "Fortress Salah ad Din." The coalition aims to prevent current Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein Jebara or any Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP)/Tawafuq [...] |
2009-03-22 07:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD778 |
RRT Erbil: Nawshirwan Mustafa on Free Press, Elections [...] (SBU) During a March 17 visit to Sulaimaniyah, legendary Peshmerga commander and Talabani political rival Nawshirwan Mustafa gave RRT officers an impromptu tour of his Kurdistan News Network (KNN), the Region's first private TV station. KNN is finishing its test broadcast phase and will soon g [...] |
2009-03-22 08:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD787 |
POTENTIAL ISSUES WITH KRG ELECTIONS: USG SHOULD [...] (C) Summary: Elections for the 111-member Kurdish parliament are planned for May 19. These elections are not likely to be a potential flashpoint in Kurd-Arab tensions. That said, the Kurdish elections are important to U.S. interests. How they are conducted, both in terms of meeting (or not [...] |
2009-03-23 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD788 |
KURDISH PRESS IN POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's (PUK) internal power-sharing negotiations (Ref A, B, C) have generated a plethora of wildly inconsistent press reports about upcoming KRG elections as well as the negotiations themselves. Parliamentary recess combined with Kurdish New Year's and [...] |
2009-03-23 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD789 |
DA'WA TANZIM CLAIMS MALIKI IS TARGETING CORRUPT [...] (C) Summary. During a series of recent meetings, Da'wa Tanzim members of parliament said that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is investigating high-ranking Iraqi officials involved with violence and corruption and voiced concern over a lingering threat from Ba'thists who seek to return to power. [...] |
2009-03-23 07:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD791 |
CDA, CG AND PM DISCUSS EVOLVING SECURITY CONCERNS, [...] (S) Summary: In a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on March 19, Charge d' Affaires (CDA) Butenis and Commanding General MNC-I Lieutenant General (LTG) Austin discussed evolving security concerns, politics surrounding the budget, efforts to capture former Sons of Iraq (SOI) leader Ad [...] |
2009-03-23 09:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ EPET EFIN |
| 09BAGHDAD792 |
RSO MEETING WITH ERBIL POLICE CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: On 03/19/2009, the RSO met with the Erbil Police Chief, Brigadier General Adbulkhaliq Talat, to extend courtesies, discuss items of mutual interest, and forge a working protocol regarding notification of incidents and investigations that cross into Iraqi jurisdiction. The Poli [...] |
2009-03-23 09:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC |
| 09BAGHDAD793 |
RSO MEETING WITH KRG ZEREVANI COMMANDER [...] (SBU) Summary: On 03/19/2009, the RSO met with the Commanding General of the Zerevani (Peshmerga), Major General Aziz Wayse, to extend courtesies and discuss further specifics regarding Antiterrorism Assistance Training and the integration of Zerevani forces into RSO's protective security oper [...] |
2009-03-23 09:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD796 |
ERBIL RRT: KURDISTAN REGION TALKS ABOUT CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Perceptions of widespread government corruption are common in the Kurdistan Region (KR). The dominant role that the two major parties play in the political and economic life of the KR is believed to encourage corruption and act as an impediment to reform. Domestic and internatio [...] |
2009-03-23 13:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV SOCI ECON IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD797 |
ICRC PRESIDENT DISCUSSES SECURITY, DETAINEES, MEK [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Iraq for the first time since May 2003, ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger praised relations with the Embassy and Multinational Forces-Iraq (MNF-I) in a meeting with the Charg and MNF-I CG Odierno on March 17. Kellenberger noted that ICRC is involved in many protection [...] |
2009-03-23 13:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KREF KJUS IO IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD799 |
DIWANIYAH: COALITION-BUILDING REMAINS STYMIED, [...] (C) Summary: Impatience appears to be growing that Diwaniyah's new Provincial Council (PC) has not been seated. The composition of the eventual ruling coalition and the identity of the new governor remain highly uncertain due to a lack of clear signals from Baghdad, coupled with continued in [...] |
2009-03-23 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD80 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR RETURNS TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Following a successful last-minute appeal of his disqualification from provincial elections on de-Ba'athification grounds, Salah ad Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein Mohammed Jebara is now on the ballot for provincial [...] |
2009-01-12 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD804 |
MALIKI'S CALL FOR "RECONCILIATION" STIRS BA'THIST [...] (C) Summary. Rivals of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki are using his recent call for "national reconciliation" to score political points by portraying him as soft on the loathed Ba'th Party. As a consequence, Maliki's office has been on the defensive, clarifying that the government distinguishes [...] |
2009-03-24 11:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD805 |
HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR IP [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for US Government provided training in Iraq. Post has no derogatory info [...] |
2009-03-24 11:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD807 |
ISCI WORRIED ABOUT SADRISTS, RECRIMINATIONS IN FAR [...] (C) ISCI/Badr provincial leaders in the far south (Basra, DhiQar, Muthanna) expect Da'wa/State of Law and its coalition partners to target ISCI/Badr members for removal from key positions in provincial ministry offices and the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). The potential re-entry of Sadrists i [...] |
2009-03-24 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD808 |
NAJAF: ISCI BOXED OUT AS COALITION-BUILDING [...] (C) Summary: The provincial election results mark the end of one-party Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) domination in Najaf and will usher in a power-sharing coalition in one of southern Iraq's most religiously and politically important provinces. ISCI's Shahid al-Mihrab list and Prim [...] |
2009-03-24 13:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD811 |
KRG & GOI PRIME MINISTERS AGREE TO RE-START [...] (C) Summary: Kurdish Regional Government Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani (Massoud's nephew) agreed with Prime Minister Maliki during their meeting in Baghdad on March 24 to reduce tensions between the central and Kurdish region governments. Barzani told us after that meeting that he and Ma [...] |
2009-03-25 09:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD815 |
IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES TURKISH VISIT, COMBATING [...] (S) Summary: At the April 22 National Security Council meeting, Prime Minister Maliki warned security agencies against complacency in the fight against violence, and said he would visit key provinces to meet with local leaders, including Basrah, Ninewa and Diyala. He expressed concern that al [...] |
2009-03-25 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR SA IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD816 |
PRT KIRKUK: FAILURE TO PRIVATIZE LAYLAN CEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Laylan Cement Factory, a State Owned Enterprise Joint Venture (SOE JV)recently lost its contract with the GOI Ministry of Industry and Materials (MoIM). GOI officials cited of lack performance and inability to meet contractual obligations for terminating the relationship wi [...] |
2009-03-25 15:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD82 |
U.S. AND IRAQ CONDUCT INAUGURAL MEETING OF [...] (C) Summary. On January 8, 2009, the United States and the Republic of Iraq conducted the first meeting of the Joint Military Operations Coordinating Committee (JMOCC) established under the new U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement (SA). The Iraqi delegates proved enthusiastic but had failed to resolv [...] |
2009-01-13 06:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR MASS PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD828 |
ANTI-CORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) Per a March 17 letter to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) from the head of the Commission on Integrity (COI), Judge Rahim Al-Ugaili, the GOI has submitted a formal request to join the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative, jointly sponsored by the UNODC and the World Bank. This [...] |
2009-03-27 09:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD83 |
SHIA PARTIES FACE ISSUE-BASED FISSURES BEFORE [...] (C) Shia political parties, especially ISCI and Da'wa, are engaged in ideological and policy-based battles among themselves that might foreshadow a permanent split of the Shia electoral alliance at the national level, according to numerous meetings with our Shia contacts in Baghdad. These ba [...] |
2009-01-13 12:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KISL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD831 |
KURDISH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RULES ON UPCOMING [...] (SBU) According to contacts at UNAMI, on 25 March the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) adopted a number of amendments to the electoral law for the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly. KRG President Barzani is expected to sign the bill shortly, and we do not anticipate challenges. These amend [...] |
2009-03-27 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV |
| 09BAGHDAD832 |
LEAVING FALLUJAH -- AND ANBAR: "TIME TO TEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: The last Marine departed the symbolic city of Fallujah -- twice the scene in 2004 of the Iraq war's most intense fighting -- on March 3, 2009. In a series of recent discussions, a diverse cross-section of Fallujah residents (a shopkeeper, an Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) official, tw [...] |
2009-03-27 12:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD836 |
COORDINATION, CAPACITY AND BUDGET, MISSING IN GOI [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Iraq's (GOI) efforts to support returns of internally displaced persons and refugees suffer from a chronic lack of coordination, capacity and resources. The GOI cut the Ministry of Displacement and Migration's (MODM) budget for benefits to the displaced by 80 [...] |
2009-03-27 14:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL EAID IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD84 |
OIL MINISTER ON BID ROUNDS, KRG RELATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 4 meeting with EMIN, Oil Minister Shahristani stated that the MoO will add 250,000 barrels of oil production over 2009 through additional capacity and KRG oil exports. He said that the fields offered in the first bid round, opened on October 13, 2008, and the fields [...] |
2009-01-13 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EPET ENRG SENV EINV PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD840 |
MEK DEFECTOR GOES TO TURKEY DUE TO LIMITED ICRC [...] (S/NF) Summary: Frustrated at the restrictive support provided to him in Iraq and afraid of returning to Iran, one of the two current Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) defectors has moved to Istanbul. ICRC met regularly with the defectors (most recently on March 12) and offered to assist them to ret [...] |
2009-03-28 15:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KREF IO IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD842 |
IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. TRILATERAL DIALOGUE WORKING GROUP [...] (C) The Iraq-Turkey-U.S. trilateral security dialogue working group met on March 26 and agreed on an agenda for the Ministerial-level meeting proposed for Baghdad on April 11: Â [...] |
2009-03-29 07:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR TU IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD844 |
NATIONAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION TAKES TWO STEPS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 27, the Council of Ministers approved Deputy Minister of Industry Sami Al-Araji as the new chairman of the National Investment Commission (NIC). The Council of Representatives (COR) must still confirm the appointment. Al-Araji has strong connections, experience, and a [...] |
2009-03-29 07:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD845 |
PRT DIYALA: POTENTIAL NEW PC ALLIANCES CROSSING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Coalition negotiations in Diyala province remain fluid and inconclusive. After weeks of behind-the-scenes talks, two major blocs are forming; both cross traditional ethnic and sectarian divisions. The first bloc is comprised of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP)-dominated Tawafuq coa [...] |
2009-03-29 08:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD847 |
CG, CDA AND PM DISCUSS FOREIGN VISITS, SECURITY [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-29 10:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ EPET EFIN |
| 09BAGHDAD85 |
IRAQ PROVIDES ADDITIONAL ASSURANCE TO ALLOW ACCESS [...] (S) The Government of Iraq (GOI) provided written security and humane treatment assurances for the transfer of four Iraqi detainees from Guantanamo, Cuba January 7 (REF A). Mr. Hussain Al-Asady, Director of the Prime Minister's National Operation Center, who had signed the assurances with aut [...] |
2009-01-13 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US |
| 09BAGHDAD856 |
OIL MINISTER HANGS IN THERE, BUT REFORMS NEEDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Cabinet has received recommendations from the "oil policy symposium" called by DPM Barham Salih to reform management of the petroleum sector, but postponed any decision until the week of March 29. In the meantime, the Ministry of Oil (MoO) continues the bid round proce [...] |
2009-03-30 08:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EPET ENRG PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD857 |
IRAQ'S PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: AN IRAQI SHOW, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Although the GOI was in the lead on the successful January provincial elections, U.S. assistance greatly facilitated the elections logistically and helped the GOI to conduct the voting in a manner approximating international norms. Our support for the Iraqi provincial election [...] |
2009-03-30 09:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD858 |
PRT NINEWA: SINJAR PARTY BOSS AND THE PARADE OF [...] (C) Summary. A crowd of 300 Sinjar residents under the choreography of KDP Branch Chairman Serbast Turwanishi pressed for the integration of Sinjar district into the Kurdistan Region on March 26. Speaker after speaker insisted that if Sinjar reverted to Arab control following the departure [...] |
2009-03-30 09:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD859 |
IRAQ 201: KURDISH POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (C) Summary. The Kurdish political landscape is mostly about the delicate balance maintained by the two dominant secular parties - the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Changes in leadership for either party set off a game of musical chairs for Kur [...] |
2009-03-30 09:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD860 |
ARREST OF "SONS OF IRAQ" LEADER LEADS TO FIGHTING [...] (S) SUMMARY: The March 28 arrest of a prominent "Sons of Iraq" (SOI) leader, Adil al-Mashadani, in the Fadhil neighborhood of central Baghdad led to fighting between Iraqi Army units and SOI forces. U.S. military advisor units participated in the Iraqi Army operation. The incident increase [...] |
2009-03-30 11:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD861 |
GLOBAL INTEGRITY LOOKS AT THE POSITIVE ELEMENTS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: When discussing anti-corruption efforts with Iraqi officials, they frequently refer to the 2008 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (CPI), rating Iraq as tied for second with Myanmar for the most corrupt country, as an unfair and unrealistic representation o [...] |
2009-03-30 12:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD871 |
MUTHANNA INTEGRITY COMMISSION: A TOOTHLESS TIGER [...] This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable 2. (C) Summary: Muthanna PRT Team Leader met with the province's Commission on Public Integrity (CPI) representative to better understand that organization's function, limitations and track record. This group has been largely ineffective due to a la [...] |
2009-03-30 14:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EFIN IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD872 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: FIRST JUDICIAL CONFERENCE SINCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 12 - 14, the Salah ad Din (SAD) judiciary held its first conference since 1999. The conference enhanced esprit de corps and exchange of information among the judges, and helped facilitate improved relations between the judiciary and police. The Iraqis gladly gave up [...] |
2009-03-30 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD873 |
RRT ERBIL: KURDISTAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES ELECTIONS LAW A [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 25, the Kurdistan Regional Parliament ratified the Kurdistan election law for the second time. The bill is expected to be signed into law shortly with no challenges. IHEC will continue to be the election supervision authority, and irregularities will be decided by a co [...] |
2009-03-30 15:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD880 |
IRAQ 201: CENTRALIZATION AND POWER-SHARING -- A [...] (C) Summary. Conflicting visions of the role of the state are increasing divisions among Iraqis, and have become a catalyst for political realignment at the national level. Most Sunni and Shi'a Arabs are inclined toward a strong central state, especially for the purpose of maintaining a unifi [...] |
2009-03-31 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD882 |
IRAQ LACKS CAPACITY FOR OIL TRUST FUND [...] (SBU) Summary: A common mechanism to manage revenue from natural resources is the establishment of a form of natural resources fund, such as an "oil trust fund." However, Iraq currently does not have the resources or capacity to establish such a stabilization fund. The Government of Iraq's (G [...] |
2009-03-31 10:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PGOV EINV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD883 |
THE GROWTH OF IRAQ'S HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER AND HER [...] (U) Summary: The Ministry of Human Rights has grown into a stronger and more independent ministry under the leadership of Minister Wijdan Salim, particularly during the last year. In her almost three years as minister, Salim has increased the capacity of her staff, giving them the resource [...] |
2009-03-31 11:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD884 |
DETAINEE RELEASES: BALANCING SECURITY WITH [...] (S) Summary: Aside from its compelling humanitarian aspects, the detainee issues continues to be a serious obstacle hindering nation-wide political accommodation. The GOI has a legitimate interest in safeguarding its citizens and establishing control throughout the country's cities and rur [...] |
2009-03-31 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KJUS PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD885 |
IN SUNNI PROVINCES, NO MAJOR REACTIONS YET TO SOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent arrest of Sahwa/Sons of Iraq (Awakening/SOI) leader Adel Al Mashhadani and the subsequent violence in the Fadhil section of Baghdad has not yet raised strong concerns from other SOI leaders and members, or from other Sunni Arab leaders outside of Baghdad. In one hopef [...] |
2009-03-31 12:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD887 |
IRAQ 201: CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW [...] (C) Summary: For more than three years an issue hovering in the back of the political debates in Iraq is that of amending the Iraqi constitution that had been ratified in late 2005. Contentious issues such as hydrocarbons revenue sharing, federalism, and the status of Kirkuk and other disp [...] |
2009-04-01 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD892 |
Armenian Community Clings to Independence in Kirkuk. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 11 PRT Kirkuk visited leaders of the Armenian community at their headquarters in Kirkuk City. The 93 Armenian families in Kirkuk (520 people) are the remnants of the Armenians that fled persecution in Turkey between 1915 and 1918. While the Armenian population has drop [...] |
2009-04-01 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ AM |
| 09BAGHDAD898 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: TUZ KHURMATO: THREE VERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 26, Poloffs and PRT and CF staff met with representatives from each of the three main ethnic groups in the Tuz Khurmato district of Salah ad Din (SaD): Turkmen, Sunni Arabs, and Kurds. The United Nations (UN) views Tuz as one of the areas with Disputed Internal Boundari [...] |
2009-04-01 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD899 |
SOI OUTSIDE BAGHDAD WANT TO SEE THE MONEY, LESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sahwa/Sons of Iraq (SOI) and Sunni Arab contacts outside of Baghdad have not voiced major interest in the weekend arrest of local SOI leader Adel Al Mashhadani in the Fadhil neighborhood of Baghdad (ref B). In discussions with PRTs and Coalition Forces (CF) in the majority Sunn [...] |
2009-04-01 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD90 |
PROSPECTS FOR IRAQI NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION AND [...] (C) Summary: Iraq sits on top of the world's tenth largest natural gas reserves. The vast majority of the gas is associated gas suspended in oil reservoirs and separates as the oil is produced; while some of this associated gas is captured for use in power generation and domestic production, [...] |
2009-01-13 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD91 |
MFA READOUT OF PM MALIKI'S VISITS TO TEHRAN AND [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki was warmly received during his January 3-5 visit to Tehran, in sharp contrast to his last trip in June, which was soured by belligerent Iranian opposition to the SOFA negotiations. According to a senior MFA official who accompanied Maliki, the visit focuse [...] |
2009-01-14 06:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD IZ IR |
| 09BAGHDAD910 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: MOI HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 24 meeting, Idris Ahmed Khalaf, Deputy Chief of the Salah ad Din (SaD) Office of Human Rights, told the PRT that overall conditions in Ministry of the Interior (MOI) Detention facilities have "marginally" improved but are still severely overcrowded. Idris said that al [...] |
2009-04-02 07:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD911 |
FINANCE MINISTER ON GE PAYMENTS, SONS OF IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary. Finance Minister Bayan Jabr told EMIN on March 30 that he had directed Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) to make $400 million in loan proceeds available to the Minister of Electricity to pay some of the $580M arrearage due to General Electric (GE) on March 29 Jabr further discussed his [...] |
2009-04-02 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD912 |
LIKELY REACTIONS TO UNAMI'S DIBS REPORTS AND [...] (C) Summary: Likely reactions to the release by UNAMI of its reports on the Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) areas in mid-April, absent diplomatic intervention by us, will range from public outrage to suspicious dismissal to private relief. In our recent, very light conversationswith Kurd [...] |
2009-04-02 11:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD918 |
SENIOR GOI FIGURE REPORTS CHILLY IRAQ-KUWAIT [...] (C) During an April 1 meeting, Dr. Tariq Najm Abdullah, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Maliki, told the Charge that PM Maliki had held a chilly bilateral meeting with Sheikh Sabah, the Amir of Kuwait, on the margins of the Doha Arab League Summit. According to Dr. Tariq, the Kuwaitis linked [...] |
2009-04-02 15:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ KU |
| 09BAGHDAD92 |
NINEWA: IHEC SAYS IDP VOTING MAY CAUSE PROBLEMS [...] (C) Summary: The Ninewa Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) representative, Abdel Khaleq al-Dabbagh, said he foresees Election Day complications, including possible voting disruptions, due to unresolved issues surrounding Ninewa IDPs who now reside in the KRG. Dabbagh claimed that N [...] |
2009-01-14 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD921 |
IRAQ 201: TURKEY'S INTERESTS AND INFLUENCE IN IRAQ [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The relationship between the Governments of Iraq and Turkey has improved substantially in the last one and a half years, though it remains fraught with long-standing differences. Ongoing areas of concern include KGK/PKK terrorists in northern Iraq; Kurdish demands to control K [...] |
2009-04-05 07:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PMIL MOPS TU IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD929 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: TRANSPORTATION OF CRUDE OIL VIA [...] This is a joint reporting cable from PRT Salah ad Din and PRT Anbar. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT and MND-N representatives called on Dr. Ali M. Al-Obaidi and Iraqi Railroad officials at the Bayji Refinery on 19 March to discuss issues related to the movement of crude oil from Salah ad Din Province [...] |
2009-04-05 09:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON EPET PGOV ELTN IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD931 |
IRAQIS STILL THIRSTY FOR TURKISH WATER AFTER [...] (C) Summary: GoI contacts are pleased with Turkish President Gul,s visit to Iraq last week. They described a trust and warmth between the two countries not known for years. However, differences remain over Iraq,s desire for an increased flow of water from the Tigris and Euphrates. In the a [...] |
2009-04-05 11:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON MOPS TU IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD933 |
BAGHDAD U.: STUDENTS TALK POLITICS, OFFER BLUNT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Poloffs met for two hours on April 2 at Baghdad University with eight professors, the acting president, and approximately 120 students from the political science college. The group offered frank views about the U.S. decision to invade Iraq, what had happened in the country sinc [...] |
2009-04-06 07:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO |
| 09BAGHDAD934 |
COALITION DRAWDOWN DEMONSTRATES IRAQ,S MIXED [...] (C) Coalition Forces, once representative of 39 countries participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom, have now mostly departed Iraq, indicative of significant improvements in Iraq's security environment and Iraq's own recognition of its sovereignty. Coalition members provided varying degrees of [...] |
2009-04-06 09:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ ES RO AS EN UK |
| 09BAGHDAD937 |
FM ZEBARI PESSIMISTIC ON IRAQ-KUWAIT RELATIONS [...] (C) Iraq-Kuwait relations are stuck following what appears to have been a difficult bilateral on the margins of last week's Arab League Summit in Doha. FM Zebari, in an April 4 meeting with PMIN, recounted a tense exchange between PM Maliki and Kuwaiti Amir al-Sabah: Maliki refused to commit [...] |
2009-04-06 10:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ KU |
| 09BAGHDAD938 |
FM ZEBARI ON PROPOSED APRIL 26 GCC3 MEETING IN [...] (C) This message contains an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Foreign Minister Zebari confirmed to PMIN April 4 Iraq's intention to host a one-day GCC 3 Ministerial in Baghdad on April 26, as proposed in Zebari's April 2 letter to Secretary Clinton (reftel). Zebari said the date [...] |
2009-04-06 10:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GCC IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD939 |
SYRIAN FM MU'ALLIM'S VISIT TO BAGHDAD: SECURITY IS [...] (S) Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mu'allim became the latest high-level visitor to Baghdad March 25-26, following on the heels of Turkish President Gul's visit the day before (Ref A). (Note: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas subsequently visited Baghdad April 5.) During the two-day visit, [...] |
2009-04-06 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ SY |
| 09BAGHDAD946 |
PRT NINEWA: IN RABIYA DID ABDULLAH A STATELY [...] (C) Summary: Sheikh Abdullah Hamedi Ajil al-Yawer al-Shammari has parlayed control of the Rabiya port of entry, large tracts of irrigated farmland, and a close relationship with Coalition Forces (CF) into a strong position in the incoming Ninewa Provincial Council and administration. His rel [...] |
2009-04-07 07:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD947 |
HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR IP [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for US Government provided training in Iraq. Post has no derogatory info [...] |
2009-04-07 07:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD951 |
HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR IP [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for US Government provided training in Iraq. Post has no derogatory info [...] |
2009-04-07 11:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD952 |
PM DISCUSSES SECURITY, SONS OF IRAQ, ANBAR [...] No summary [...] |
2009-04-07 11:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ EPET EFIN |
| 09BAGHDAD953 |
SECOND MEETING OF ECONOMIC AND ENERGY JOINT COORDINATION [...] (SBU) Summary. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih and EMIN Ambassador Marc Wall co-chaired the second Economic and Energy Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) under the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) on March 31. This follows the initial kick-off meeting held on February 12. Th [...] |
2009-04-07 11:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EINV ENRG ETRD PREL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD954 |
DHI QAR: AT LAST, A COALITION [...] (SBU) After long negotiations, representatives of the Dhi Qar branches of the Da'wa/State of Law, National Reform Trend, and the Sadrist Free and Independent People's Trend parties jointly announced they had formed a coalition in the provincial council (PC), dubbed the "Coalition for Dhi Qa [...] |
2009-04-07 12:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD955 |
Shell Moves Forward on Southern Flared Gas Project [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the media trumpeted news of the September 22, 2008, signing ceremony to end flaring of associated natural gas from southern oil fields, Shell and the South Gas Company only signed a heads of agreement commitment to form a joint venture to execute the 25-year project. S [...] |
2009-04-07 13:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EAID EINV PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD958 |
ABU MAZEN COMES TO BAGHDAD - FINALLY [...] (U) After repeated delays caused by conflicting schedules, the Gaza crisis, and most recently a press leak, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) visited Baghdad April 5 -- his first as President of the Palestinian Authority and the first by a Palestinian leader since the 2003 fall of Saddam. During the [...] |
2009-04-08 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ KPAL |
| 09BAGHDAD959 |
IRAQI MARSHES STRUGGLING TO MAKE A COMEBACK (PART [...] (SBU) Iraq's marshes have been in trouble for a long time. Considering the marshes to be a waste of land and a breeding ground for mosquitoes, early British plans called for the near complete drying out of the marshes. By 1990, the marsh area had already been reduced by 50%. Saddam greatly [...] |
2009-04-08 07:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID SOCI SENV EWWT KGHG IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD960 |
WHO'S WHO IN MARSHLAND RESTORATION (PART 2 OF 2) [...] (SBU) Marsh restoration is a nexus of delicate political, economic, and cultural issues, spanning three provinces and 12 Iraqi ministries. While only a few tens of thousands of Iraqis still lived in the marshes area in early 2003, estimates are that over 150,000 people have returned, with man [...] |
2009-04-08 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID SOCI SENV EWWT KGHG IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD961 |
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. [...] |
2009-04-08 07:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD963 |
UNAMI'S DIBS REPORT ROLLOUT STRATEGY: SRSG DE [...] (C) In an April 6 meeting with Charge and poloffs, SRSG De Mistura laid out his strategy and the specific steps he intends to take in the next ten days to roll out UNAMI's Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) reports. De Mistura and his team have thought through possible reactions and strate [...] |
2009-04-08 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD964 |
HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR IP [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for US Government provided training in Iraq. Post has no derogatory info [...] |
2009-04-08 08:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD965 |
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. [...] |
2009-04-08 08:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD967 |
ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS IN DIYALA PROVINCE [...] (C) During a recent visit to Ba'aquba, capital of Diyala province, the Anti-Corruption Coordinator and staff (ACCO) attended a PRT/USAID-organized workshop for the recently elected provincial council members, giving a presentation on ways of combatting corruption at the provincial and local le [...] |
2009-04-08 10:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KCOR IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD968 |
HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR IP [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for US Government provided training in Iraq. Post has no derogatory info [...] |
2009-04-08 11:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD969 |
IMPROVING COORDINATION: SCIENTIAL GLOBAL STUDY ON [...] Summary: The recently completed assessment of U.S. capacity development (CD) programs in Iraq by the independent consultant Scientia Global, Inc. calls for stronger coordination among the ministerial advisors, a comprehensive strategic framework, metrics for measuring progress, support for su [...] |
2009-04-08 13:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ ECON PGOV PREL EAID |
| 09BAGHDAD970 |
IRAQ TO OFFER (ANOTHER) ROUND OF JOINT VENTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraqi Minister of Industry and Minerals Fawzi Hariri recently announced a third round of Joint Venture (JV) opportunities in Iraq's state owned enterprises (SOE) (Reftel A). The current bid round will include 15 SOEs, representing the construction, engineering, chemical-petroleu [...] |
2009-04-08 14:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD972 |
IRAQI MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (U) Summary: Iraqi media outlets called President Obama's April 7, 2009, visit to Baghdad an opportunity to stress the significance of the next 18 months leading to the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq and to reaffirm his commitment to implement the U.S.-Iraq Security and Strategic F [...] |
2009-04-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |