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08ATHENS365	GREECE TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2008 - PART 2 [...] (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2008 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref request for "Prevention" Section. This is the second of four cables. 2. (SBU) PREVENTION: ----------- -- A. Does the government acknowledge that trafficking is a problem in that [...]	2008-03-07 15:20:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR

08ATHENS366	GREECE TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2008 - PART 4 [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-07 15:20:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR
08ATHENS371	GREECE/AFGHANISTAN: DEFENSE MINISTER MANAGES [...] (C) Ambassador Speckhard met with Defense Minister Meimarakis March 7 to press for increased Greek contributions to ISAF. Meimarakis said Greece recognizes the importance of the mission and wants to do more but that more time is needed to prepare the public. Greece cannot provide helicopters [...]	2008-03-11 11:44:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF GR MK
08ATHENS388	GREECE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TAIWAN OECD [...] (U) On March 3, Acting Deputy Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ralou Papogozolou, Attache of the Economic Committee for Europe of the MFA and Gerasimos Floros, Director of the General Directorate for International Economic Policy of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Floros said [...]	2008-03-14 14:40:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL OECD GR
08ATHENS399	PASOK PRESIDENT MANUEVERS TO HALT SLIDE [...] (SBU) At the PASOK party Congress over the March 14 - 16 weekend, party leader Papandreou moved to bolste PASOK's plunging poll figures by replacing old guard central committee members with new blood. PASOK rank and file and voters appear to remain dissatisfied with his leadership and apparen [...]	2008-03-17 15:58:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI GR
08ATHENS400	POWER BLACKOUTS AND TRASH-STREWN STREETS -- [...] (U) Rolling electrical blackouts and burgeoning trash piles persist across Greece as unions extend and intensify strikes against social security and pension reform (reftel). The Karamanlis government's social security/pension reform bill is now scheduled for vote in Parliament on Thursday, Mar [...]	2008-03-17 16:32:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ELAB SOCI ECON GR
08ATHENS433	STRIKES BRING GREECE TO STAND STILL - SOCIAL [...] (SBU) Private and public sector unions continued their ongoing strike against government-sponsored social security reforms today, a situation which has essentially brought most of the country to a stand still. Professionals from the ranks of lawyers, doctors, engineers, and teachers joined e [...]	2008-03-20 15:34:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ELAB ECON SOCI GR
08ATHENS438	ENERGY: GREEKS SEE BAKU READY TO COOPERATE, ANKARA [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Development Folias told the Ambassador he had found a spirit of "excellent cooperation" in Baku during his March 17 trip there. Folias was particularly pleased to hear from Baku that Azerbaijan had "lots of gas", some of which was available immediately. Unfortunately [...]	2008-03-21 11:31:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG GR
08ATHENS452	OPPOSITION TABLES NO CONFIDENCE MOTION AGAINST [...] (U) Main opposition PASOK leader George Papandreou tabled a motion of no confidence against the Karamanlis administration March 26, following a debate punctuated by sharp exchanges between government and opposition on the issue of social security reform. Although it is unlikely PASOK will mu [...]	2008-03-26 14:46:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI ECON MK GR
08ATHENS453	GREECE RELUCTANTLY ACQUIESCES TO CWC MEETING IN [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-26 17:49:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PARM PREL KTIA CWC GR
08ATHENS464	GREECE/MACEDONIA: KARAMANLIS AND BAKOYANNIS [...] (U) Following the March 25 meetings hosted by UN Envoy Nimetz in New York on the Macedonia name issue, the Greek press trumpeted that the proposed international name was "Republic of Macedonia (Skopje)." Almost immediately, Greek officials publicly laid out concerns with the proposal, both t [...]	2008-03-27 14:22:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL NATO MK GR
08ATHENS473	Background for April 9 Meeting Between U.S. Secretary of [...] (SBU) Summary: Greek Minister of Education and Religious Affairs Evripides Stylianides will meet with Secretary Spellings on April 9, 2008. Secretary Spellings is the only cabinet-level official Stylianides will be meeting on his trip to Washington. The meeting offers an excellent opportuni [...]	2008-03-31 12:57:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SCUL KPAO OEXC GR
08ATHENS563	GREEK PM MAY RAISE ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with Charge, MFA SecGen Agathocles and PM deputy diplomatic advisor Bitsios affirmed Greek support for Georgian sovereignty and the worrisome nature of the Kremlin's latest moves to establish "mechanisms" in dealing with Abkhazia and South Ossetia (reftel). B [...]	2008-04-21 14:36:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RS GR
08ATHENS575	GREEK VIEWS ON APRIL 29 GAERC ISSUES [...] (C) On April 23, DepPolCouns discussed issues likely to be addressed at the April 29 EU Foreign Ministers meeting (GAERC) with MFA European Correspondent Antonia Katzourou. Katzourou said the GAERC agenda was to be announced on April 24 but agreed that many of the following topics were likely [...]	2008-04-23 13:12:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN GR PGOV PREL
08ATHENS576	DAS BRYZA'S APRIL 10-12 VISIT TO GREECE [...] (C) Summary. Arriving in the wake of the Bucharest Summit, EUR DAS Bryza found his Greek counterparts expressing a strong commitment to work with the United States on a range of issues including, but not limited to, the Macedonia name issue. On Macedonia, his counterparts promised that Greece [...]	2008-04-23 16:19:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET GR
08ATHENS596	GREECE/MACEDONIA: RECENT IRRITANTS [...] (U) This message has been cleared by Embassy Skopje. 2. (SBU) In the aftermath of the veto of Macedonia's NATO accession, the Government of Greece has generally avoided escalating actions against Macedonia. We are not able to identify any major escalations in Greek behavior vis-a-vis Mac [...]	2008-04-30 12:04:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID EAIR EAGR MK GR
08ATHENS598	P.M. KARAMANLIS TRIP TO RUSSIA: ENERGY [...] (C) According to Raphael Moisis, Chairman of the Greek Energy Council, P.M. Karamanlis and Russian President Putin signed "an important but general" inter-governmental agreement during Karamanlis' April 28-29 visit to Moscow. The IGA, he said, includes provisions that: a. an international hol [...]	2008-04-30 14:38:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET GR
08ATHENS637	CONFERENCE CHALLENGES CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON U.S. [...] (SBU) In Greece, conventional wisdom holds that the United States was comlicit in the April 21, 1967 coup that put a mlitary junta in power through 1974. In a rare public conversation about these sensitive events, former PM Mitsotakis (father of current FM akoyannis) and his foundation hoste [...]	2008-05-12 14:12:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI GR
08ATHENS64	SEX, SUICIDE AND DVDS PART II: MORE SMOKE, SOME [...] (C) The scandal involving former Culture Ministry Secretary General Christos Zahopoulos (reftel) continues to SIPDIS dominate headlines and television news shows throughout Greece. Lurid photos of Zahopoulos and Evi Tsekou, a former contract employee at the Culture Ministry, supposedly take [...]	2008-01-16 15:50:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV GR
08ATHENS651	GREECE/IRAN: WHAT'S CAUSING GREEK RELUCTANCE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy head of the Greek MFA Middle East directorate told us Greek reluctance to sign on to further Iran sanctions stemmed from several factors, including lack of an EU consensus, doubts about the effectiveness of sanctions, belief that greater engagement, not less, provided great [...]	2008-05-13 15:02:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD TRGY UNSC KNNP IR GR PREL PGOV AORC
08ATHENS665	AMBASSADOR'S TRIP TO RHODES DURING USS TRUMAN [...] (U) Ambassador Speckhard visited Rhodes May 7-9 in conjunction with the visit of the USS Truman, a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier transiting the Mediterranean on its return to Norfolk from nearly seven months in the Persian Gulf. The visit afforded the Ambassador the opportunity [...]	2008-05-15 06:50:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL TU GR PARM NATO
08ATHENS671	GREECE/MACEDONIA: GREEK NAME NEGOTIATOR ON STATE [...] (C) Ambassador Speckhard and DCM met May 13 with Greek name negotiator Vassilakis to press for robust Greek engagement in resolving the name issue and to probe Greek positions. Vassilakis said FM Bakoyannis is determined to resolve this issue quickly, but the GOG is pessimistic much progress c [...]	2008-05-16 08:53:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK GR
08ATHENS678	GREECE/TURKEY: FALLOUT OF NATO DECISION NOT TO [...] (C) We understand NATO authorities have informed Greek military officials that NATO will not provide support for the proposed May 20 "Noble Archer" exercise, which involved overflight of Agios Efstratios island (but which had excluded overflight of the island of Limnos, which has long been a N [...]	2008-05-16 13:18:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MOPS TU GR
08ATHENS716	Scenesetter for Representative Sarbanes and former [...] (SBU) Dear Senator and Congressman, we are looking forward to your visit. I wanted to offer you the following background information that you may find interesting in preparing for your trip. I look forward to the opportunity to meet and discuss some of these issues in more detail when you ar [...]	2008-05-22 11:14:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI GR
08ATHENS721	CANCELLED NATO EXERCISE STIRS POLITICAL ROW [...] (SBU) The Government and opposition sparred over NATO's withdrawal of support to Noble Archer (ref),which the opposition claimed had led to the "indirect questioning" of Greek sovereignty over the island of Aghios Efstratios. In Parliament, Minister of Defense Meimarakis dismissed oppositio [...]	2008-05-22 16:00:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS TU GR
08ATHENS734	TOUR D'HORIZON WITH FM BAKOYANNIS [...] (C) In a May 23 meeting with Ambassador Speckhard, FM Bakoyannis said she and PM Karamanlis had told Macedonian President Crvenkovski that Greece seeks to conclude the name negotiations quickly. Macedonia must choose an adjective for "Macedonia" that makes clear the country is part of a broad [...]	2008-05-28 13:52:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO UNSC IR MK GR
08ATHENS792	SENIOR ADVISOR TAHIR-KHELI ATTENDS WOMEN [...] (SBU) Senior Advisor for WomenQs Empowerment Ambassador Tahir-Kheli visited Greece on behalf of the Secretary to attend the Women LeadersQ Working Group Conference hosted by Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis. The June 3 QLagonissi Declaration summarized the Working GroupQs initiative to [...]	2008-06-06 14:07:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI KWMN KPAO GR
08ATHENS81	INTERIOR MINISTER PLEDGES COUNTERTERORRIST [...] (S) On 16 January 2008, Ambassador Speckhard, accompanied by Regional Affairs (RAS) Counselor Chadason, paid a courtesy call on Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Deputy Interior Minister for Public Order Panayiotis Chinofotis. In his first official meeting with them, the Ambassador s [...]	2008-01-18 16:09:00	Embassy Athens	SECRET	PREL PGOV KTER KCRM ASEC KHLS EAGR SENV TU GR
08ATHENS819	DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF CENTRAL BANK ON BANK SADERAT [...] (SE) In a meeting on June 9, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG) Panayotis-Aristidis Thomopoulos told the Acting Deputy Economic Counselor that the Bank of Greece had just conducted a detailed control operation against Bank Saderat,s Athens branch as a follow-up to reftels A and B. Thom [...]	2008-06-10 15:24:00	Embassy Athens	SECRET	ECON EFIN ELAB KNNP MNUC PGOV GR
08ATHENS833	GREEK TEHERAN ENVOY URGES U.S.-IRAN TALKS, OFFERS [...] (S) SUMMARY: In seperate coversations with A/PolCouns and DepPolCouns, former Greek Ambassador to Iran and new head of the MFA D1 Directorate for International Organizations Merkourios Karafotias offered his interpretation of Iranian motives in recent events and urged the U.S. to open discrete [...]	2008-06-11 15:11:00	Embassy Athens	SECRET	GR IR POV PREL
08ATHENS835	GREEK PARLIAMENT RATIFIES LISBON TREATY [...] (U) Early on the morning of June 12 -- on the eve of Ireland's referendum on the Lisbon Treaty -- the Greek Parliament ratified the Lisbon Treaty 250 to 42. Greece has now joined the group of EU member states who have completed legal approval of the treaty. 2. (SBU) Parliamentary conside [...]	2008-06-12 12:09:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EU GR
08ATHENS842	GREEK, TURKISH JOURNALISTS BRING "EARTHQUAKE [...] (SBU) Meeting for the fifth time since 1999's "earthquake diplomacy" brought them together openly, some 70 members of the loosely-organized "Contact Group of Greek and Turkish Journalists" spent the weekend of June 6-8 at a luxury resort in Crete. Greece's Minister of Tourism (and former gov [...]	2008-06-13 09:58:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO TU GR
08ATHENS845	GREEK MFA ON JUNE GAERC ISSUES [...] (C) On June 11, DepPolCouns discussed issues likely to be taken up at the June 16-17 EU Foreign Ministers' meeting (GAERC) with Greek MFA European Correspondent Antonia Katzourou (ref A). Her responses below are keyed to likely agenda items: -- IRAN: Katzourou noted that EU foreign policy c [...]	2008-06-13 14:01:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV IR IZ IS SY CU GR
08ATHENS873	INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING [...] (C) Post is grateful for the opportunity per reftel to provide preliminary input on U.S. statements regarding Greece at the upcoming Warsaw OSCE Human Dimension Meeting (HDIM). As context, Embassy notes this is a sensitive period in U.S.-Greece bilateral relations, and the statements made at [...]	2008-06-19 14:20:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KCRM KPAO KWMN GR
08ATHENS874	GREECE ON IRAN: CARROTS BETTER THAN STICKS, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek MFA officials dealing with various aspects of Iran issues indicated that Greece did not intend to break an EU consensus on stiffening Iran sanctions, but that it had concerns about the direction of Iran policy. Greece believed the evidence did not indicate the Iranians were [...]	2008-06-19 14:24:00	Embassy Athens	SECRET	AORC EFIN ETRD ETTC EUN GR IR KCRM KNNP KTFN
08ATHENS899	GREECE: AS SUMMER HEATS UP, PASOK MELTS DOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite popular discontent with the New Democracy (ND) government stemming from steep rises in food and fuel costs, continued problems in the universities, and hard-to-swallow pension reforms, leading opposition party PASOK remains behind in the polls and has descended into an int [...]	2008-06-24 14:22:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GR
08ATHENS92	MANAGING GREECE ON KOSOVO AND MACEDONIA [...] (C) Managing Greece over the next few months is likely to be difficult on the key Balkan issues of Macedonia and Kosovo. To leverage Greek behavior we should: -- Engage the Greeks on Kosovo and Serbia, including through extending an invitation to them to participate in international struct [...]	2008-01-22 16:24:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS NATO MK KI SR GR
08ATHENS925	JOINT EXERISE HIGHLIGHTS DIFFERENT GREEK, ISRAELI [...] (S) In a June 25 conversation with DCM, PM Karamanlis' diplomatic advisor Constantinos Bitsios confirmed that the military exercise that took place in the eastern Mediterranean over Greek airspace in early June and reported in the NY Times June 20 was a joint Israeli-Greek exercise. Bitsios ex [...]	2008-06-27 15:42:00	Embassy Athens	SECRET	PREL PGOV GR IR IS
08ATHENS967	FM BAKOYANNIS ON MACEDONIA NAME, HSPD-6, AND [...] (C) In a July 3 conversation, FM Bakoyannis told Amb. Speckhard that although UN Mediator Nimetz' recent meetings had been "positive," she was skeptical that the Macedonians were prepared to "accept and use" a new name. Ambassador Speckhard emphasized the importance of flexibility, noting th [...]	2008-07-07 15:41:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CVIS NATO IZ MK IS GR
08ATHENS972	GREEKS TO ENVOY KENNEDY: WE'LL KEEP DIGGING IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: THIS IS A JOINT EMBASSY ATHENS AND CONGEN THESSALONIKI MESSAGE. Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, visited Athens June 25-26 and Thessaloniki 26-28 to discuss Holocaust restitution issues with Greek officials, with a special focus on the Thessal [...]	2008-07-08 12:33:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM GR
08ATHENS985	GREECE/IRAN: GREECE WON'T HINDER EU CONSENSUS ON [...] (C) DCM spoke July 10 with MFA Secretary General Agathocles to inquire about the Greek position on the EU package of measures to implement UNSCR 1803; DCM said that we understood many in the EU were supportive of a common position with robust measures, but that Greece and a few others were ex [...]	2008-07-10 13:17:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD ETTC EU GR IR KCRM KNNP KTFN
08ATHENS996	GREEK PARLIAMENT'S STEFANOU ON TGI, SOUTH STREAM, [...] (C) In a meeting on July 10, the Secretary General of Parliament, Nikos Stefanou, voiced his support for the TGI pipeline and confirmed the GoG,s strong support for this project. At the same time, he expressed skepticism on South Stream, implying there is no concrete plan in place for its dev [...]	2008-07-14 05:53:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG GR PGOV PREL RS CVIS KCRM EU EPET
08AUCKLAND9	NEW ZEALAND BUSINESS BETWEEN COMPLACENCY AND FATALISM [...] (SBU) Summary. New Zealand's business leaders - like their compatriots - are uneasy about their economy's ability to compete in a globalized world. While the cliche is that cheap travel and the Internet have made the world smaller, New Zealanders still feel disadvantaged by their small size [...]	2008-01-25 03:33:00	Consulate Auckland	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV NZ
08BAGHDAD1004	RRT ERBIL: IIP SPEAKER TRAINS BROADCAST [...] (U) RRT Erbil hosted IIP Specialist Professor Robert Hooper of the University of California - San Diego, who conducted a two-week training workshop from March 3 through March 13 for eighteen local television journalists. The program improved the technical skills of Iraqi journalists and str [...]	2008-04-01 12:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP OEXC SCUL OPRC KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD1005	ANATOMY OF A BAGHDAD RECONCILIATION EFFORT: [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Introduction: Reconciliation movements in Baghdad quickly spread through the province following the surge of Coalition Forces and the success of the "Anbar Awakening." Unlike other areas in Iraq with more homogeneous populations, reconci [...]	2008-04-01 15:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM PINR PHUM IR IZ
08BAGHDAD1008	MINISTERIAL CAPACITY SURGE ASSESSMENT - INTERIM REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As of March 30, 97 percent of the 75 "surge" advisors on Ministerial Capacity have arrived in Baghdad. Their arrivals were staggered; in mid-January, 53 percent were present and working in country. Surge personnel focus on providing targeted skills to several key non-security [...]	2008-04-01 16:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AMGT PGOV ECON PREL SOCI PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1015	RRT ERBIL: BARZANI ADVISOR SUPPORTS CRACKDOWN ON [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Fuad Hussein, a key advisor to Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani, told RRTOFF that Barzani voiced his support to PM Maliki's crackdown on criminal gangs and militia in Basra in a March 31 phone call. The call, the first conversation between the two [...]	2008-04-02 09:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD1017	Koya's Mayor Shortchanged by KRG's Incomplete Government [...] (SBU) Koya's Mayor, Kurda Omar, told RRTOffs March 31 that her district had received only $2 million in Provincial Reconstruction Funds from Erbil since 2006. Omar explained that Koya district had shifted administratively from Sulaymaniah province to Erbil province in 2006 as a result of the U [...]	2008-04-02 12:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD1019	MCNS ON MARCH 30 REVIEWS BASRAH, BAGHDAD, NINEWA [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: With PM Nouri al-Maliki still in Basra, Deputy PM Barham Salih chaired the March 30 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) foreshadowed by the sound of indirect fire (IDF) impacting in the International Zone as participants arrived at the meeting. The Commit [...]	2008-04-02 14:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD1020	FADILA BLOC MEMBER DR. BASIM SHARIF ON THE COR, PM [...] (C) Summary: In a frank conversation held at the al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad, COR and Fadila bloc member Dr. Basim Sharif al-Hechaimi discussed the recent Iraqi military operation in Basra. Decrying what he considered a unilateral act on the part of the PM, Dr. Basim highlighted the recent ac [...]	2008-04-02 18:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD1021	WHAT IS THE U.S. VIEW OF THE PROPOSED IN-KIND [...] (SBU) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Minister of Oil Husseyn Shahristani spoke to EMIN by phone April 1. Asked about progress on the negotiation of the oilfield technical service agreements (TSAs) under negotiation with major international oil companies (IOCs),Shahr [...]	2008-04-03 06:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD1022	NSA RUBAIE BLAMES IRAN FOR BASRAH CONFRONTATION; [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-03 06:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS IR IZ SA
08BAGHDAD1023	IRAQ'S PRIVATE-SECTOR TELECOMS FIRMS FORGE AHEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's private-sector led mobile and wireless telecommunications markets are developing apace. The Kurdistan-based, Barzani family-affiliated Korek Telecom recently concluded an interconnection agreement with Zain, the Kuwaiti-backed leading nationwide operator. The agreement ma [...]	2008-04-03 09:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINT ECPS
08BAGHDAD1028	AYAD ALLAWI: WE ARE ALL IN THIS BOAT TOGETHER [...] (S/NF) Summary. Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told PolCouns on April 2 that re-establishing peace and stability following the violence in Basrah will be critical to Iraq's long-term stability. Allawi said the GOI is not doing enough to reach out to its Arab neighbors, which is one strateg [...]	2008-04-03 14:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1029	PRT WASIT: 3ID DEP CG DISCUSSES WASIT SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary. On 29 March, 3ID Deputy Commanding General-Support (DCG-S),BG Edward Cardon, met with Wasit civilian and military leaders at the Wasit Governance Center (GC),site of the ISF HQ during the recent fighting against non [...]	2008-04-03 14:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV MOPS IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1033	BADR'S HADI AL-AMRI ON BASRAH CRACKDOWN AND TALKS [...] (C) Summary: Badr Organization strongman Hadi al-Amri told us April 2 that the recent GOI crackdown in Basrah was a largely successful and long-overdue first step in "the surgical removal of the disease of armed militias," a process that will continue in the coming days. Hadi claimed that Pri [...]	2008-04-03 18:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1036	JAM IN BAGHDAD -- HOW STRONG IS IT? [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy political-Baghdad PRT cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Jaysh Al-Mahdi's (JAM) show of force in Baghdad since March 23 has demonstrated its potential to bring Iraq's capital to a standstill for a limited period, but not without alienating large segments of the local popul [...]	2008-04-04 19:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1041	MOHR DISCUSSES AMNESTY LAW, COM DECISIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim discussed with PolOff on April 2 the state of amnesty implementation and recent Council of Ministers votes. A Ministry of Human Rights team has been investigating actual releases of detainees under the Amnesty Law and has found that far [...]	2008-04-05 12:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD1043	STUCK BETWEEN AN ARROGANT MAN AND A MAD MAN [...] (C) Summary: Wearing his mediator hat, Dr. Ahmed Chalabi spoke with PolCouns on April 3 to discuss Basra and the Iranian involvement in the conflict, as well as the subsequent Sadrist movement to oust Maliki. Chalabi urged the USG to take great caution in dealing with the Sadrists, and indic [...]	2008-04-05 14:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1045	VP ADEL ON SECURITY CRACKDOWN, "CONFUSED" [...] (C) Summary: In an April 5 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told us that the time is ripe for harsh and decisive GOI action against the "cancer" of armed outlaw groups, a measure supported by the Iraqi political class and public and even by Iranian General Qasim Sulaimani. He said th [...]	2008-04-05 17:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1047	SAI LEADER SHEIKH AHMED SPEAKS ON HIS NEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, leader of the Iraq Awakening Movement, or Sahawa Al-Iraq (SAI),spoke to us on April 2 for over two hours about SAI's movement towards becoming a national political party, his personal attitude on th [...]	2008-04-06 07:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD105	REACTION TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE LAW AND [...] (S) Summary: Sunni reaction to the January 12 passage of the Accountability and Justice Law, an early indicator of the ultimate political impact, has been somewhat tepid. The Sunni Tawafuq Front issued a statement January 13 calling the law "mediocre" but acknowledging it contains some positiv [...]	2008-01-14 16:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1051	VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI ON BASRA OPERATIONS, [...] (S) During an April 1 meeting, the Ambassador and Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi discussed the situation in Basra and the aftermath of the recent showdown with Sadrist forces there. Hashimi described how he had supported PM Maliki during the Basra campaign, putting personal differences aside [...]	2008-04-06 10:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1055	ECONOMIC IMPACT OF IRAQ'S ONGOING SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Post contacts report that the recent Basra security operations have led to economic disruptions throughout Iraq. Basra Province itself has borne the brunt of economic impacts. Supplies of health-related material have been stretched, but the Ministry of Health reports sufficient [...]	2008-04-06 13:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EAGR ELTN ENRG PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1056	PRT WASIT: LOCAL LEADERS ASSESS RECENT VIOLENCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. On 04 April, PRT TL and IPAO met first with the Wasit Governor and then with the PC Chairman to discuss events of the past week and the current situation in Wasit. Both officials shared their views of the Sadrist movement and their [...]	2008-04-06 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ PINS PINR
08BAGHDAD106	TALABANI ON KURDISH EFFORTS TO IMPROVE RELATIONS [...] (S) Summary: Iraqi President Talabani on January 12 told S/I Satterfield he and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Barzani had agreed on a list of measures to improve relations with the U.S. and restart political progress under the Maliki government. These include eliminating Kurd [...]	2008-01-14 18:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1061	Dialogue on Economic Cooperation -- Follow-up [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih's follow-up team for the Government of Iraq (GOI) hosted U.S.-Iraq Dialogue on Economic Cooperation (DEC) of February 27-28 have proposed to pursue implementation of actionable outcomes by breaking action items into functional groups. Onc [...]	2008-04-07 02:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAID EFIN EINV EAGR ENRG BEXP IZ
08BAGHDAD1065	MALIKI SCORES BIG AT APRIL 5 PCNS MEETING [...] (C) According to an ISCI representative, the April 5 meeting of the Political Committee for National Security (PCNS),a body comprised of representatives of all political blocs, was attended by President Talabani; Prime Minister Maliki; Deputy PM Barham Saleh; Vice Presidents Adel Abdel Mehdi [...]	2008-04-07 07:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD107	FLEDGLING "NATIONAL PROJECT" SEEKS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Billing their fledgling group as a broad-based CoR coalition that cuts across sectarian lines, organizers of the "National Project" told the media January 13 that they hope to attract as many as 145 CoR members from across Iraq's political spectrum with a common goal of fostering [...]	2008-01-14 18:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1070	DPM SALIH: TIME IS RIGHT FOR BIG MOVES ON BASRAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a cordial and far ranging conversation at the DPM residence April 6, EMIN introduced to DPM Barham Salih incoming Anti-Corruption Coordinator Ambassador Lawrence Benedict and discussed economic/reconstruction measures the GOI can take in coming days to solidify gains from th [...]	2008-04-07 14:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID EFIN MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD1080	COR SPEAKER MAHMOUD MASHADANI DEEMS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani told us the Political Council for National Security (PCNS) meeting (Saturday, April 5, 2008) was successful in bridging the key differences between the political blocs. He added the CoR will work to ban armed militias fr [...]	2008-04-07 18:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1084	D/PM BARHAM SALIH MEETS NEW EMBASSY [...] (C) Summary: In his introductory call on D/PM Barham Salih, AMB. Lawrence Benedict described his mission as identifying how the U.S. could best support GOI anti-corruption initiatives. AMB Benedict asked for D/PM Barham Salih's cooperation in this endeavor. D/PM Barham Salih welcomed AMB [...]	2008-04-08 11:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON KCOR PGOV PREL IQ
08BAGHDAD1088	TUWAITHA YELLOWCAKE NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Minister of Science and Technology held a conference call on April 6 at the Embassy to finalize contract negotiations with Cameco, the Canadian buyer of the uranium yellowcake. Negotiations went well, and the contract once finalized and reviewed by the parties may be signed a [...]	2008-04-08 14:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD1095	I WAS KIDNAPPED BY A BUNCH OF AMATEURS [...] (C) Summary. Tahseen Sheikhly, Government of Iraq (GOI) spokesman for the Baghdad Security Plan, told USMI and MNFI personnel during an April 1 debriefing that his kidnappers were a gang of amateurish Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) thugs. Released after 115 hours of captivity and reunited with his fami [...]	2008-04-08 20:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR PINS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD1099	FADHILA ON THE PCNS, PROSPECTS FOR RECONCILIATION [...] 1. (C) Summary: In a meeting held at the COR on Monday, April 7, Dr. Basim Sharif al-Hechaimi of Fadhila shared his views on the current crisis between the GOI and the Sadrists, including Fadhila's participation in the Political Council for National Security (PCNS) meeting held on Saturday eve [...]	2008-04-09 02:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD1100	DFM ABBAWI ON BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (S) SUMMARY AND REQUEST: In an April 7 call on Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi, Pol-Mil M/C discussed the upcoming Border Security Working Group, Iraq's preparations for the event, and what it could accomplish. Both agreed that a commitment to stopping the flow of weapons to criminal m [...]	2008-04-09 07:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PBTS PREL PTER IR IZ KU SY TU
08BAGHDAD1105	SADRIST CONFIDANTE WARNS OF BAD PRESSURE BUILDING [...] (C) Summary: In an April 8 meeting with Poloffs, Ibrahim al-Sumaydai - a local political observer with close ties to senior Sadrist Trend and JAM figures - told us Sadrists see an Iranian hand behind recent events, accusing Tehran of pushing Maliki into a confrontation with the Sadrist movemen [...]	2008-04-09 13:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD111	UPDATE ON GOI MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON RULE OF LAW [...] (U) Summary. Since its formal commissioning in mid-2007, the Ministerial Committee on Rule of Law and Detention (MCRLD) has made significant progress in the practical application of its operation. MCRLD has ensured all relevant ministries are adequately represented, meaningful issues are ide [...]	2008-01-15 08:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1111	NINEWA: WIDE-RANGING PRT SUPPORT BOOSTS [...] (SBU) Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ninewa has worked closely over the last year with farmers, produce processors and GOI agencies to support the province's struggling agricultural sector. The sector is crucial to fighting provincial unemployment: rural residents rely on grain producti [...]	2008-04-09 16:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR SENV EAID PGOV PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD1112	APRIL 6 MCNS: BASRAH NEXT STEPS, SADR CITY [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: The April 6 session of the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) featured upbeat assessments of the result of the GoI security operation in Basra, along with agreement on the need for job creation, development, and humanitarian initiatives to stabilize the [...]	2008-04-09 18:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD1113	ISCI'S AMAR AL-HAKIM ON POST-BASRAH UNITY, JAM, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 8 meeting, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) heir apparent Amar al-Hakim told us the recent GOI crackdown in Basrah was an important step in affirming Iraq's identity as a nation based on the rule of law and institutions rather than a country ruled by outlaw gang [...]	2008-04-09 19:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1115	TALABANI APPARENTLY PERSUADES IRAN TO CONDEMN IZ [...] (S) SUMMARY: NSC Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk spoke on April 7 with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to discuss the ongoing political situation including the recently held PCNS meeting and the Executive Council meeting scheduled for that evening. Talabani reiterated th [...]	2008-04-09 19:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1130	ELECTRICITY MINISTER DETAILS PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Electricity Kareem Wahid on April 9 detailed plans to attract private investment in power projects; complained about the lack of fuel for power; sought travel support from MNF-I for plans to show PM Maliki various projects; revealed intra-Ministerial obstacles to GOI c [...]	2008-04-10 17:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1134	GOI DELEGATION PREPARES FOR BORDER SECURITY [...] (S) On April 10, Pol-Mil M/C, DHS Attach, MNF-I analysts, and PolMilOffs attended a meeting with the GOI delegation to the Border Security Working Group (BSWG) in order to provide them with an intelligence briefing and USG recommendations for their course of action in Damascus (the latter deliv [...]	2008-04-12 12:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PBTS PREL PTER IR IZ SY
08BAGHDAD1142	WASIT STATE TEXTILE FACTORY SEWS ITSELF BACK TO LIFE [...] (U) This is a joint PRT Wasit/Embassy reporting cable. SUMMARY 2. (U) During a March 11 visit to the Wasit State Company for Textiles, Wasit PRT members observed production lines back up and running, after having been shuttered just two months ago. A grant from the Task Force for Busines [...]	2008-04-12 13:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD1147	SADIQ AL-RIKABI UPBEAT ON REBUILDING SADR CITY, [...] (C) Summary: Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk met on April 10 with Sadiq al-Rikabi, political advisor to Prime Minister Maliki. Rikabi detailed a $150 million plan to rebuild Sadr City and Shula, Sadrist-heavy neighborhoods in Baghdad which have seen heavy fighting since late [...]	2008-04-12 13:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1150	CHALABI'S PROVISION OF SERVICES COMMITTEE - APRIL 8 [...] SUMMARY: The first meeting to last over two hours in nearly four weeks, the April 8 Provision of Services Committee was otherwise business as usual. The Ministries of Defense, Health, Finance, Electricity, Trade and Transportation attended. The Amanat was also present. Services in Sadr City to [...]	2008-04-13 07:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD1157	PRT DIYALA: ENCOURAGING SIGNS IN DIYALA [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The Diyala Provincial Government is increasingly eager to engage with the PRT thanks to improving security, the onset of the election season, the long-delayed passage of the 2008 provincial budget coupled with initial exe [...]	2008-04-14 06:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD EAID EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD117	S/I SATTERFIELD PRESSES IRAQI OFFICIALS ON [...] Summary: In the days leading up to the passage of the Justice and Accountability Law on January 12, S/I Satterfield pressed the CoR leadership and other prominent leaders to reach agreement based upon a consensus that included Tawafuq leader VP Tariq al-Hashimi on the proposed amendments and [...]	2008-01-15 16:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1186	AYAD ALLAWI: RELUCTANT FOR IRAQIYYA LIST TO [...] (S/NF) Summary. Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told PolCouns and Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk on April 13 other GOI leaders are encouraging Iraqiyya to rejoin the GOI. He is open to this goal, he said, but demands that PM Maliki clear his name in unfair allegations fro [...]	2008-04-16 08:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1197	PRESIDENT TALABANI ON SUPPORT FOR MALIKI; IRAN, [...] (S) Summary: At a lunch on April 14, President Talabani told the Ambassador he was optimistic that broad political support for PM Maliki in the wake of Basra would hasten the return of Sunni Arab Tawafuq and secular Iraqiya blocs to government. He said that his analysis of Iran was that Tehr [...]	2008-04-17 07:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1198	THE AMBASSADOR'S AND GENERAL PETRAEUS' APRIL 14 [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister (PM) Maliki reviewed plans for security operations in Mosul with the Ambassador and General Petraeus on April 14. Maliki expressed consternation with what he saw as overly-generous descriptions of the Sadrists during the recent Congressional testimony; the Ambassado [...]	2008-04-17 08:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1199	PRT MAYSAN: IA GEN PLANS MAYSAN OFFENSIVE [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (S) Summary: On April 13 the PRT met with Major General Habib to discuss the recent clashes in al-'Amara as well as future prospects for security improvement. The clashes in al-'Amara between the Iraqi Army (IA) and militant elements of the Sa [...]	2008-04-17 12:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ MOPS PINS MCAP
08BAGHDAD1207	VP ADEL: JAM AND SADRISTS DOWN BUT NOT OUT, IRAN [...] (C) Summary: In an April 16 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador that Sadrist insiders have confirmed his analysis that Muqtada al-Sadr (who is in Iran, not Iraq) is mainly a symbolic leader of a fragmented and failing movement comprised of diverse bands of thugs, sheik [...]	2008-04-17 19:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1209	MALIKI'S MILITARY OPERATION IN BASRAH: LESSONS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Operation "Charge of the Knights" (OCK) - PM Maliki's campaign to wrest control of Basra from militias and criminals - demonstrated substantial deficiencies in Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) planning, logistics, command and control, individual loyalty and unit reliability. It als [...]	2008-04-18 13:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS IR IZ PINR MCAP MARR
08BAGHDAD1218	MCNS APRIL 13: BASRAH LESSONS LEARNED, MOSUL NEXT [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: PM Maliki chaired the 13 April Ministerial Committee on National Security, focusing on security operations in Basrah and Mosul. Discussion underscored the importance of analyzing recent operations in Basrah and elsewhere to correct deficiencies in Iraqi Army and Police [...]	2008-04-20 02:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS PINS PGOV PREL PTER IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1219	ADEL AND BARHAM OPTIMISTIC OVER BATTLE WITH JAM [...] (C) Summary: In separate April 15 meetings with Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh marveled at the new political atmosphere in Baghdad following PM Maliki's offensive in Basrah. Both leaders expressed optimi [...]	2008-04-20 06:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ MOPS
08BAGHDAD1221	MALIKI IMPATIENT TO BEGIN MORE INTENSIVE MILITARY [...] (S) SUMMARY: At an April 14 Crisis Action Cell (CAC) concerning operations in Ninewa province, Prime Minister Maliki complained that the operational plan briefing lacked substance; Vice President Hashimi and Deputy Prime Minister Salih concurred. Maliki--clearly frustrated by what he perceive [...]	2008-04-20 07:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IZ MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PINS PTER
08BAGHDAD1223	NINEWA: LOW-KEY REACTION IN TAL AFAR TO BASRA [...] (C) Key officials in Tal Afar, the second-largest city in Ninewa province with a large Shia Turkoman population, told PRT Leader and Western Ninewa Branch Office Chief March 30 that they supported Iraqi efforts to contain the violence in Basra generated by Shia militia. Tal Afar appeared focus [...]	2008-04-20 07:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PHUM PREL IZ

08BAGHDAD1238	GOI AMNESTY LAW MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: GoI officials held two recent meetings to discuss the problems with Amnesty Law implementation and to explore potential solutions. According to Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim, the first meeting on April 17 focused on finger-pointing, with participants blaming each other f [...]	2008-04-21 18:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PREL PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD1240	BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP IN DAMASCUS: DEFT [...] (C) SUMMARY: SARG MFA allowed the Iraqi delegation considerable latitude to pursue its agenda at Syria's second hosting of the Iraq Neighbors' Border Security Working Group (BSWG) April 13-14 (the first Damascus meeting was in August 2007). Surprisingly, given the state of Syrian Saudi relati [...]	2008-04-22 02:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PTER IZ KU
08BAGHDAD1245	CHALABI'S PROVISION OF SERVICES COMMITTEE - APRIL 15 [...] SUMMARY: At the April 15 Provision of Services Committee a large portion of time was dedicated to service delivery in Sadr City. The Deputy Minister of Transportation attended and provided a report to the committee on civil aviation in Iraq. Again, water was on the agenda with the Ministry of [...]	2008-04-22 13:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD1250	RUN-UP TO ANBAR PIC - WHO'S IN CHARGE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an occasionally animated three-hour meeting between representatives of Coalition Forces, the GOI and the leadership of Anbar province April 7, the senior provincial leaadership pushed back against what it believed to be central government efforts to take provincial security a [...]	2008-04-23 01:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD1251	MCNS APRIL 20: RULE OF LAW, MOSUL AND BASRAH [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: Topics covered at the April 20 MCNS session included implementation of the Amnesty Law (cases are moving through the system - but there were concerns that some judicial review committees were approving too many); planning for military operations in Mosul (additional for [...]	2008-04-23 01:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER PHUM ECON IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1255	MINFIN CLEANS UP BUDGET QUESTIONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Finance Jabr told EMIN on April 21 that he supports the concept of transferring USD 14 million, payable to the USG for transport to radioactive material from Iraq to Canada, to the USG ICERP account; that all provinces have gotten an initial release of 20 percent of [...]	2008-04-23 07:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EFIN EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD1257	ALLAWI: IRAQIYYA PARTICIPATING POLITICALLY WITHOUT [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk met on April 17 with Iraqiyya leader Ayad Allawi and MP Adnan Pachachi. Allawi gave little indication of near-term plans to re-enter the cabinet, but remains involved in the political process by participating in [...]	2008-04-23 09:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1258	SADR CITY SHEIKHS EXPRESS INTEREST IN SOI IN ORDER [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad 3 EPRT Team Leader and the 3BCT/4th ID Commander met on April 19, 2008 with five leading tribal sheikhs from Sadr City. During the course of a cordial two and a half hour meeting and lunch, the sheikhs: -- Expressed strong interest in launching a SOI program in the Ja [...]	2008-04-23 09:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV PTER MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD1262	IRAN MANAGING THE POST-BASRAH BACKLASH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) and its Special Group offshoots (JAM-SG) targeting ISF in Basrah with Iranian-provided weaponry March 23 to 30, Iraqi government officials are talking more about the need to confront Iran about its support for illegal militias in Iraq. Ir [...]	2008-04-23 14:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL IR IZ
08BAGHDAD1271	IRAQ CONFERENCE - CHANGE OF DATES TO JUNE 17 - 19 [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-24 08:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ MASS MOPS
08BAGHDAD1274	SRSG DISCUSSES TURKEY, ELECTIONS AND NEIGHBORS [...] (C) Summary: On April 18, the Ambassador met with UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura to discuss a wide range of issues. The SRSG briefed on his fact-finding mission to Erbil and Ninewa provinces, and his surprise that out of the four districts UNAMI is working on for early recommendations, the two [...]	2008-04-24 11:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1277	NECHIRVAN BARZANI: NASCENT PROGRESS ON [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani met on April 17 with the Ambassador and April 19 with S/I Satterfield and Economic Minister-Counselor Ries. Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk attended both meetings. Barzani reiterated that KRG-G [...]	2008-04-24 15:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1297	IRAQ'S CIVIL SERVICE APRIL PAY RAISE [...] (SBU) On April 10, the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) passed the Civil Service Salary Law in its third reading; the law now awaits endorsement at the Presidency Council. This law will substantially increase the monthly wages for the first time since 2004 of the approximately 2 million [...]	2008-04-27 10:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB IZ
08BAGHDAD1299	PROVINCIAL POLITICS IN BAGHDAD: ANOTHER KIND OF WAR [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: If we accept the adages that warfare is the expression of politics by other means, and that all politics is local -- it is clear why Baghdad's local political scene is looking more and more like a battlefield. The uneasy power-sha [...]	2008-04-27 15:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ
08BAGHDAD1304	NSA RUBAIE ON NEXT STEPS FOR STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-27 15:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER ECON IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1305	THE LAST DAYS OF A STATE MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary: In a April 27 meeting with PolOffs, members of the Ministry of State for Women's Affairs (MoSWA) expressed their overwhelming frustrating with the lack of support the Ministry is receiving since the Prime Minister's Office made the informal decision to eliminate the organization i [...]	2008-04-27 15:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD1306	IESC MEETING APRIL 25: SADR CITY SERVICES [...] (SBU) Summary: In place of an absent Prime Minister al-Maliki, National Security Advisor Muwafak al-Rubaie chaired the April 26 Iraq Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al-Qanoon ) FaQ). The meeting focused entirely on the situation in Sadr City [...]	2008-04-27 17:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV PINR PINS SENV
08BAGHDAD1315	MALIKI ON IRAN WEAPONS SMUGGLING, CURRENT MILITARY [...] (S) SUMMARY: During his weekly security meeting on April 24 with the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus, Prime Minister Maliki said he would privately confront Iran with evidence about its supplying weapons to criminal elements in Iraq. He said the delegation would depart for Teh [...]	2008-04-28 16:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ IR MASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD132	IRAQI VICE PRESIDENTS HASHIMI AND ABDEL MEHDI ON [...] (S) During a January 16 meeting, the Ambassador urged Vice President Hashimi to support early Presidency Council approval of a Justice and Accountability law (de-Baath),recently approved by the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR). While not committing to a specific course of action, he i [...]	2008-01-18 12:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD133	S/I SATTERFIELD AND FM ZEBARI DISCUSS THE UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary. S/I Satterfield, White House Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk, and PolCouns discussed with Hosyhar Zebari on January 16 the recent 3 plus 1 meetings earlier in the week and plans for negotiating the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Zebari said the composit [...]	2008-01-18 13:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1332	GOI ACTIVE ON SOLVING AMNESTY IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: We are detecting an increased sense of urgency within the GoI concerning implementation of the Amnesty Law. Barham Saleh hosted a third meeting of the core Amnesty group (reftel) on April 21, which led to a decision to have the Ministry of Human Rights track each amnesty releas [...]	2008-04-29 15:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PREL PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD1334	ANBAR MODERATE CLERICS SHARE THEIR VIEWS ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: While largely misunderstood by outsiders, the role of the mosque was crucial in winning the battle against Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in Anbar Province. Local contacts are firm in their belief that the re-taking of the mosques from ra [...]	2008-04-30 08:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ
08BAGHDAD1339	KRG-TURKEY DIALOGUE STIRRING DESPITE TURKISH [...] (S) We appear to be getting closer to direct contacts between Turkish officials and the KRG. We need to do everything possible to move the Turks and Iraqis along the political track as the improving weather heightens the temptation for both PKK and Turkey to launch cross-border operations. [...]	2008-04-30 12:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1343	ISCI CHAIR ABDEL AZIZ AL-HAKIM ON ANTI-MILITIA [...] (C) Summary: Flanked by his son and heir-apparent Amar, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Chairman Abdel Aziz al-Hakim told the Ambassador and S/I Satterfield on April 29 that the GOI and the vast majority of Iraqi citizens are tired of crimes perpetrated by armed outlaw gangs (read Muqt [...]	2008-04-30 19:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1348	RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-01 09:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KTFN KCRM PTER SNAR IZ
08BAGHDAD1349	PRT MAYSAN: MAYSAN ATMOSPHERICS [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (S) Summary: A Maysani employee reported to the PRT that Maysanis do not support Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) and hope the Iraqi government will conduct military operations in Maysan to bring stability to the province. Maysanis expressed similar views [...]	2008-05-01 13:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PINS PGOV MOPS IR
08BAGHDAD1355	MUTHANNA GOV URGES US ROLE IN ELECTIONS [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Governor Ahmed Marzook is deeply concerned about Iranian efforts to influence the October 2008 provincial elections. He believes U.S. moral support could help counter Tehran's attempt to stack the political deck. Marzook's role as an independent likely colors his alarmist [...]	2008-05-01 15:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINS PREL IR IZ
08BAGHDAD1364	SHIA RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR ON WAY OUT OF SADR CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on May 1, Sheikh Fateh Keshef al-Ghita, an esteemed Shia religious scholar and informal advisor to the Prime Minister, discussed the ongoing political crisis between the GOI and the Sadrists. Stating that, "The time for talking is over," al-Ghita confirmed that the P [...]	2008-05-02 15:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD1366	REPORTS OF ZAIN'S IMMINENT DEMISE ARE GREATLY [...] (C//REL MCFI) SUMMARY: Several former USG officials and some non-mainstream media reports have claimed that Zain, Iraq's leading mobile telecommunications operator, risks the collapse of its network infrastructure on May 14, 2008, if it fails to conclude negotiations with its private security [...]	2008-05-02 19:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECPS EINT
08BAGHDAD1381	APRIL 27 MCNS: SADR CITY, MOSUL, BASRAH, DEFENSE [...] (S REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: Topics covered at the April 27 MCNS session included preparation for operations in Sadr City and Mosul; opportunities to boost the role and capabilities of the Department of Border Enforcement and Iraqi Navy, particularly around Basrah; the future of the Facilities Prot [...]	2008-05-03 12:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS IR IZ PINR MCAP MARR
08BAGHDAD1389	SCENESETTER FOR OPIC PRESIDENT AND CEO MOSBACHER'S [...] (C) Welcome to Iraq. Despite sustained senior level economic engagement with Iraqis during the period of the security surge, security gains have not been cemented in place with jobs and investment. Much is required on many levels to make this happen. Major Barriers to Investment -------- [...]	2008-05-04 10:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN EINV EAID OPIC IZ
08BAGHDAD1401	OIL MINISTER ON OIL LAW, CONTRACTS, BUDGET AND GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Oil (MOO) Shahristani told EMIN on May 4 the GOI had not heard anything more from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) about continuing with negotiations to enact the hydrocarbon framework law (HCL). He is hopeful that he will sign a Technical Service Contract (TSC) t [...]	2008-05-05 14:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD1404	MOHR VISITS CAMP CROPPER [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim noted improvements in detainee operations during her May 1 inspection of Camp Cropper, but stressed that releases should be expedited. She offered her ministry's help in facilitating releases by contacting and bringing families to the deten [...]	2008-05-05 18:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM PJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD1416	(SOUTHERN) POLITICS AS USUAL: IRAN'S PLAN FOR [...] (U) The following is a joint POL, REO Basrah, PRT Diwaniyah, Babil, Wasit, Maysan, Muthanna, Najaf, Karbala and Dhi Qar cable. 2. (S) Summary: All indications show that Iran sees the Iraqi provincial elections as an opportunity to advance its goals of continued ties to and influence over [...]	2008-05-06 18:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINS IR IZ
08BAGHDAD1421	JABR CLARIFIES SAUDI DEBT ISSUE, REVEALS PLANS FOR [...] (C) Begin Summary: During a wide-ranging conversation May 5, Finance Minister Bayan Jabr clarified the Government of Iraq (GOI) position on the Saudi debt issue. He explained that the GOI believed the total principal amounted to USD 15.7 billion, of which the GOI was prepared to pay 20 percent [...]	2008-05-07 07:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD1423	UPDATE ON IRAQ'S DRAFT ELECTION LAW [...] (C) Summary: The draft provincial election law written by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has been sent to the Council of Representatives (CoR); it is expected to have its first reading on May 6. This draft, while somewhat better than previous drafts we have seen from the PMO, is still i [...]	2008-05-07 11:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1424	PM MALIKI RECOGNIZES ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C//REL MCFI) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki acknowledged several priorities for improving Iraq's energy infrastructure security at a special May 1 meeting of a newly formed Infrastructure Protection Committee (IPC). Discussion of security challenges at the Bayji Oil Refinery (BOR) dur [...]	2008-05-07 11:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG IZ
08BAGHDAD1426	THE AMBASSADOR'S MAY 6 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (S) Summary: President Talabani, accompanied by DPM Barham Saleh, told the Ambassador that he had advised PM Maliki to wait and see whether Iran implemented its promises to not support Shi'a militants before deciding whether to visit Tehran. Talabani said he warned Iranian Ambassador Qomi ear [...]	2008-05-07 18:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD143	NINEWA: DROUGHT THREATENS ALREADY STRESSED FARM [...] (SBU) A late start to the rainy season in the northern Iraqi province of Ninewa threatens the province's wheat crop and sheep herds in an agricultural economy already suffering from tight credit, a lack of fuel and security constraints on marketing. While rains usually begin in late October in [...]	2008-01-20 07:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR SENV EAID PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1445	RRT ERBIL: KRG LEADERSHIP WAITING FOR DE MISTURA [...] (C) Summary: KRG leadership told the Ambassador,s Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq and RRTOffs May 6 that they look forward to hearing SRSG de Mistura,s first cut at resolving boundary disputes, promised for delivery in mid-May. KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said the KRG must &compro [...]	2008-05-09 11:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1454	WHY THE NINE JEWS OF BAGHDAD STAY IN BAGHDAD [...] (S) SUMMARY: Despite the insecurity they face, and the necessity of hiding their identity, the nine Jews living in Baghdad appear set to stay here. Several are simply too old to leave, while others fear the unknown challenges of a new land more than they fear the more familiar, if deadly, pe [...]	2008-05-10 12:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM KIRF PREF PGOV IS NL UK IZ
08BAGHDAD1466	BAGHDAD LEAGUE CREATES FORUM FOR MODERATES [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: The "Baghdad League," a nascent organization dedicated to supporting social, cultural and educational activities in Baghdad, met Sunday May 3 to review the organization's bylaws and plan the group's activities for the coming mon [...]	2008-05-11 12:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ
08BAGHDAD1480	TRADE MINISTRY SEEKS BILLIONS TO FUND PDS IN 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Minister of Trade Abdul Hadi Kadhim al Hameiri told Emboffs that the Ministry of Trade (MinTrade) needs USD 4 to 4.5 billion to fund the Public Distribution System (PDS) for the remainder of 2008; increased commodities and shipping costs will consume MinTrade's roughly USD 3 [...]	2008-05-12 14:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR EFIN
08BAGHDAD1481	TRADE MINISTRY SEEKS BILLIONS TO FUND PDS IN 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Minister of Trade Abdul Hadi Kadhim al Hameiri told Emboffs that the Ministry of Trade (MinTrade) needs USD 4 to 4.5 billion to fund the Public Distribution System (PDS) for the remainder of 2008; increased commodities and shipping costs will consume MinTrade's roughly USD 3 [...]	2008-05-12 14:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR EFIN
08BAGHDAD1483	MALIKI DEMANDS HALT TO IRANIAN AND SYRIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: During his weekly security meeting on May 7 with the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus, Prime Minister Maliki cited increasing evidence of Iran's direct interference in Iraqi affairs and the backlash it has engendered among Iraqis at all levels of society. He said he [...]	2008-05-12 16:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD1484	2008 KRG BUDGET: $6.4 BILLION AND SMALL GAINS IN [...] (C) Summary: The Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA, regional parliament) passed a 7.6 trillion Iraqi dinar ($6.4 billion) budget to fund the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for 2008. Approval came on April 30, nearly three months earlier than in 2007. The 2008 budget includes 4.7 trill [...]	2008-05-12 18:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1489	DE MISTURA PLANS MAY 22 DIB ANNOUNCEMENT [...] SUMMARY: In a May 10 meeting, Special Representative Staffan de Mistura told Ambassador Crocker and Senior Advisor Krajeski that he planned to announce UNAMI recommendations regarding the first four internal disputed boundary (DIB) districts (Makhmour, al Hamdaniyah, Amre and Mandali) as soon [...]	2008-05-13 13:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN IZ
08BAGHDAD149	SENIOR ISF OFFICERS KILLED IN NASIRIYAH CLASHES [...] (C) Summary: Several senior Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) officers died during January 19 clashes between members of Jund al-Sima'a (Army of Heaven - JAS) and ISF. Although the situation now appears to have stabilized, the killing of several ISF leaders raises questions about the nature of the [...]	2008-01-21 08:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD150	UPDATE ON THE IRAQI FLAG CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Summary and comment: A brief but impassioned debate over revising the Iraqi flag appears to have yielded an agreement on a one-year placeholder flag, resembling the older one but with less Ba,th party and Arab nationalist symbology. The Kurdistan Alliance in the Council of Representative [...]	2008-01-21 08:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1514	KRG BOUNDARIES STILL CONTENTIOUS ON EVE OF UNAMI'S [...] (C) Special Advisor for Northern Iraq Tom Krajeski in early May visited Kirkuk, Mosul, and Erbil to discuss the status of Kirkuk and other disputed internal boundaries in the run-up to the first United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) recommendations on resolving KRG boundaries. Ambassador Kra [...]	2008-05-15 14:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1523	PRT WASIT: GEN CARDON DISCUSSES SECURITY WITH [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary. On May 14, Sadrist Trend (ST) Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Ebrah, a regular PRT contact (REF A),met for the first time with 3ID DCG-S, BG Cardon. BG Cardon emphasized that security must be present for econ [...]	2008-05-16 14:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD1524	THE IRAQI COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES: AN [...] (C) Summary. The Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) held its first session on March 16, 2006, and since then, has developed into a working democratic institution. Speaker Mashadani and Deputy Khalid Attiyah are increasingly pressing CoR members to adhere to the CoR by-laws, but hiccups in [...]	2008-05-17 08:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1526	SCENESETTER FOR NECHIRVAN BARZANI'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani is visiting Washington on May 17-21 after receiving an honorary degree from Washington and Jefferson University. His meetings will include the Vice President, the Secretary, and the Deputy Secretary. Nechirvan [...]	2008-05-18 07:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1532	COR MEMBER ALLEGES HORRIFIC CONDITIONS AT WOMEN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nada Ibrahim, a parliamentarian in the Hewar party, recounted her May 12 visit to Khadimiya women's prison to PolOff on May 13. She was shocked at the conditions of the prison and the lives of the female detainees. She said the prison had been infiltrated by militias and was ope [...]	2008-05-18 14:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD154	PRT ANBAR: ANBAR HIGHER COMMITTEE ENGAGES GOI [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. The six members of the recently-established Anbar Higher Committee (AHC) visited Bagdad January 15-16 in their first engagement as a group with senior GOI officials. The proximate reason was to follow up on unfulfilled GOI commitme [...]	2008-01-21 15:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD1553	NEW AMNESTY AMENDMENTS: A THREAT TO CONTINUED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Ministers approved amendments to the Amnesty Law on May 6 that would exempt more detainees from receiving amnesty due to concerns of granting amnesty to terrorists (reftel). The new provisions would exclude anyone charged with or convicted of crimes of terrorism [...]	2008-05-19 17:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD1556	UNAMI TO PRESENT DISPUTED BOUNDARIES [...] (C) UNAMI now plans to present phase one of its disputed boundaries recommendations to the GOI Executive Council on June 4. UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura told Senior Advisor May 19 that he now plans to wait until after the May 29 International Compact for Iraq (ICI) conference in Stockholm to [...]	2008-05-20 07:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1558	IT'S TRIBAL TIES THAT BIND IN NORTHERN BAGHDAD [...] (U) This is a PRT Baghdad and e-PRT 5 reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Introduction: Reconciliation in Baghdad takes many shapes: it can mean dialogue between sects and tribes, acceptance of the Government of Iraq (GOI),and/or cooperation with Coalition Forces. The role of tribal leaders in al [...]	2008-05-20 09:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ
08BAGHDAD156	FM ZEBARI DISCUSSES NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: On January 20, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and the Deputy Chief of Mission met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari to discuss Iraq's relationship with its neighbors, the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and current Iraqi legislation. Zebari updated Menendez on the u [...]	2008-01-22 10:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1564	RRT ERBIL: INFLUENTIAL KRG MINISTER EYES [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting May 6 with the Ambassador,s Senior Advisor and RRTOffs, KRG Minister of Finance Sarkis Aghajan (Sarkis) provided maps outlining the proposed zone, and said a decision must be made &now8 to save Iraq,s Christians. Since 2003, up to 40,000 Iraqi Christians have fled [...]	2008-05-20 15:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KIRF VT IZ
08BAGHDAD1565	CHANGING EUROPEAN UNION ATTITUDES TOWARD IRAQ [...] (SBU) During a May 6 presentation to the Defense Attache Association in Iraq (DAAI),the Ambassador of the European Commission to Iraq, Ilkka Uusitalo, noted a rapidly changing view within the EU towards Iraq. Admitting that the EU has been strongly divided since 2003, Uusitalo emphasized that [...]	2008-05-20 18:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECIN ETRD PREL EU IZ
08BAGHDAD1577	FM ZEBARI ON REGIONAL ISSUES; AMBASSADORIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 21 meeting with PolCouns and Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari was skeptical about the prospects for a June Arab League ministerial in Baghdad, but more upbeat about an Expanded Neighbors FM-level meeting here. Zebari described bilatera [...]	2008-05-22 11:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1582	PM MALIKI TELLS CODEL PELOSI: IRAQ WANTS [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told CODEL Pelosi and the Ambassador on May 17 that Iraq is making great political and security strides this year. When asked about Iraq's relationship with its Arab neighbors, PM Maliki responded that Iraq receives little support and added Iraq sho [...]	2008-05-23 11:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1586	PRT WASIT: GOVERNOR'S AIDE HINTS AT LARGER U.S. [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. On May 22, PRT met with the director of the Governor's Management Office, Hajji Kareem Yusif Shenein, to discuss provincial elections. Kareem suggested the possibility that the marja'iyya might guide voters if they "see that the p [...]	2008-05-23 14:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR
08BAGHDAD1588	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Beginning with the GOI,s Anti-Corruption Conference in January there have been a number of newsworthy events on the anti-corruption front so far in 2008. The January Conference was followed by a UN Office of Drugs and Crime meeting in mid-March timed to coincide with the signing and rat [...]	2008-05-24 06:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PGOV ECON EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD1592	KARBALA PRT MEETS WITH SADRIST PC MEMBERS [...] (U) This a PRT Karbala reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: On May 8, PRT met two Sadrist members of the Karbala Provincial Council (PC). The Sadrists had only recently returned to the Council after warrants for their arrests were withdrawn. The Sadrists warned of Iranian influence in south [...]	2008-05-24 09:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD1598	MAY 23 I-ESC MEETING FOCUSES ON SADR CITY [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki chaired the May 23 meeting of the Iraq Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) in support of Fardh Al Qanoon (FaQ),the Baghdad Security Plan. Maliki declared that Iraqi Security Forces in Sadr City "will never leave," and said a quick plan is now needed to demonstrate [...]	2008-05-24 18:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ
08BAGHDAD1601	IRANIAN-BACKED PARTIES PREPARED TO DOMINATE [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: The failure of the Shiite religious parties since 2005 to improve the daily lives of average Iraqis has left many Shia disillusioned. In Muthanna, nationalist, tribal, technocratic, and secular groups are coalescing to offer a [...]	2008-05-25 14:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINS PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1602	TURKMAN BLOC ENDS BOYCOTT OF KIRKUK PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Turkman Front (ITF)-led Turkman bloc officially ended its seventeen month-long boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (KPC) by returning to the regularly-scheduled KPC session on May 20. Eight of the nine Turkman bloc members returned on May 20 while the ninth member [...]	2008-05-25 14:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU IZ
08BAGHDAD1609	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 24 VISIT TO KARBALA AND NAJAF [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Crocker's May 24 visit to Karbala and Najaf focused on opportunities for future cooperation in light of the opening of new PRTs in both cities. Importantly, the visit showcased the vast improvement in the provinces' security situation and the lead role Iraqi forces hav [...]	2008-05-26 15:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD1610	PRESIDENT TALABANI ON TAWAFUQ RETURN, SFA/SOFA, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 25 meeting, President Jalal Talabani told the Ambassador that he has been mediating between Prime Minister al-Maliki and Vice President al-Hashemi to secure the return of Tawafuq officials to the GOI cabinet, and he expressed optimism that a final deal could be reached bef [...]	2008-05-26 16:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1612	ABDEL AZIZ AL-HAKIM ON SOFA/SFA AND TAWAFUQ RETURN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 25 meeting, ISCI Chairman Abdel Aziz al-Hakim told the Ambassador that Grand Ayatollah Sistani and the Najaf-based Marja'iyyah will support a bilateral security agreement with the USG as long it upholds Iraq's sovereignty, is transparent, and draws the support of all Ira [...]	2008-05-27 03:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD162	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - January 17 & [...] SUMMARY: The Provision of Services Committee met for the first time in slightly more than a month on Tuesday, January 15. The Ministries of Oil, Trade, Health, Education and Defense attended. The National Security Advisor was represented as was the Joint Planning Commission, Iraqi Ground Forces [...]	2008-01-22 15:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD1620	VP HASHEMI ON TAWAFUQ RETURN, SFA/SOFA, AND MOSUL [...] (C) Summary: In a May 25 meeting, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi told the Ambassador that his May 24 meeting with Prime Minister al-Maliki had not achieved the return of Tawafuq officials to the GOI cabinet and that Maliki had unexpectedly raised a new issue that could obstruct the return pro [...]	2008-05-27 10:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1621	GOI-DONOR CO-FINANCING MECHANISM EVOLVING, BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: According to Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Senior Advisor Faik Ali Abdalrasool on May 21, the GOI co-financing mechanism that it will headline at the upcoming International Compact with Iraq Ministerial on May 29, is designed to allow international donor [...]	2008-05-27 14:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1634	PRESIDENT TALABANI ON TAWAFUQ, SOFA/SFA, LEBANON, [...] (C) In a May 27 meeting, President Talabani said VP Hashimi and PM Maliki had agreed on the names of seven Tawafuq ministers who would join the Cabinet, and were working on a compromise to replace Minister of Planning Ali Baban in two months. He said the May 26 Political Council for National [...]	2008-05-28 14:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1637	SHIA REACTION TO SADR CALL FOR ANTI-SOFA PROTEST [...] (C) On May 27, Muqtada al-Sadr issued a statement decrying "the security agreement between the forces of darkness, by which I mean the occupation, and the current Iraqi Government." Sadr asked Iraqis to stage demonstrations throughout Iraq, and prodded political blocs to oppose the agreement [...]	2008-05-28 15:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD164	CONCERNED LOCAL CITIZENS PROGRAM: SECURING [...] (C) Summary: The expansion of the Concerned Local Citizens (CLC) program in 2007 has augmented Multinational Force - Iraq (MNF-I) efforts to bring security to Iraq. CLCs are temporary arrangements that were organized by Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces in order to augment local force prote [...]	2008-01-22 15:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV MOPS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD1650	KDP - PUK RELATIONS: CABINET NEGOTIATIONS SHOW [...] (C) Through a broad range of discussions with party officials and a drawn out, public airing of party laundry in the press, RRT has learned that mistrust, greed, and political jockeying have greatly delayed decisions on the Kurdistan Region Government,s sixth cabinet. Despite six months of n [...]	2008-05-30 04:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD166	MALIKI ON CABINET SHAKE-UP, RETURN OF TAWAFAQ, AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging weekly security meeting on January 17, Prime Minister Maliki told Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus that a Cabinet shake-up was very possible within a few weeks which would likely result in a technocratic government with fewer ministries. Maliki expressed h [...]	2008-01-22 16:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER TU
08BAGHDAD1668	ENGAGING IRAQ'S NEIGHBORS ON GOI EFFORTS TO [...] (U) Para 11 contains talking points that addressees may wish to use in updating the engagement approach laid out in Refs A and B. 2. (C) Summary: The government of Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki has undertaken significant steps to confront militias and criminal groups supported by Iran and to [...]	2008-06-02 02:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1676	KOUCHNER MEETS CG PETRAEUS, LAUDS SPECTACULAR [...] (C) Summary: French FM Kouchner congratulated MNF-I Commanding General (CG) Petraeus on "spectacular" progress in Iraq during an hour-long June 1 meeting held at the Guest House on President Talabani's Karrada compound. Also attending were S/I Satterfield, and, for the French, Ambassador Je [...]	2008-06-02 16:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR IZ
08BAGHDAD1693	NSC JUNE 1 REVIEWS ONGOING OPERATIONS, AMNESTY [...] (S REL MCFI) Summary: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki chaired June 1 the National Security Council (NSC) that reviewed security operations in Basra, Sadr City, and Mosul. (Note: Deputy PM Barham Salih, National Security Advisor Mowaffak Rubaie, and Minister of State for National Security Shirwan [...]	2008-06-04 11:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD1695	MAINTENANCE PROGRAM YIELDS ROBUST ELECTRICITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraqi electricity output in the first four months of 2008 outstripped output for the same period of 2007. A year-to-year comparison for the January - April period shows that overall, the ME experienced a system-wide increase in electricity output of 20 percent per month. Only [...]	2008-06-04 11:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD1701	NINEWA: WESTERN SUNNIS STILL BOTHERED BY KURDISH [...] (C/REL ACGU) Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) actions in western Ninewa remain the biggest point of political conflict, according to a cross-section of Sunni Arabs based around the Rabia'a border crossing. In a series of late May meetings with Special Advisor on Northern Iraq Affairs Ambassador [...]	2008-06-04 18:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EAID PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1706	NINEWA: INTERNATIONAL VISITOR RETURNS FROM PROGRAM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After his recent International Visitor Leadership program, Younis Faisel Kanjo, a Sunni Kurd member of the Ninewa Provincial Council, returned to Mosul ready to push forward a plan for interfaith communication in Iraq. He reported that he intends to meet with Iraqis to share his [...]	2008-06-05 07:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SCUL PHUM PGOV EAID PREL PINR ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD1707	NINEWA: SUNNI IDPS RETURNING TO TAL AFAR [...] (C/ REL ACGU) Ninewa PRT Western Branch Office PRTOFFS met on May 29 with the Tal Afar-based committee charged with facilitating the return of approximately 3,100 Sunni families displaced during conflict with the city's Shia majority since 2004. Tal Afar's Mayor Najim and senior representati [...]	2008-06-05 08:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD1708	VP ADEL ON IRAN'S VIEW OF SFA AND IRANIAN MEDDLING [...] (C) Summary: In a June 4 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told S/I Satterfield that his recent discussions with top-tier Iranian Government officials had succeeded in blunting Tehran's intense hostility toward a USG-GOI security agreement. Claiming that Iran is less powerful in Iraq t [...]	2008-06-05 09:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1727	PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (C) The issue of how to handle elections in Kirkuk province now poses the biggest obstacle to speedy passage of the provincial election law. The requirement to hold district and sub-district elections within six months of provincial elections will probably be dropped; there is controversy ove [...]	2008-06-06 17:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1743	DPM BARHAM SALIH CALLS UNAMI REPORTS "STUPID" [...] Summary: (C) Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih (Kurd, PUK) told Senior Adviser Krajeski on June 8 that he was unhappy with United Nations Mission to Iraq (UNAMI)'s Phase I reports on Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs),provided by UNAMI to the Presidency Council, Prime Minister and Kurdistan [...]	2008-06-09 07:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD175	JANUARY 20 MCNS DISCUSSES ASHURA SECURITY, [...] (S) Summary: The Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) met January 20 to review the readiness of the Ministry of Interior forces, Baghdad International Airport's security contract, fuel allocations/deliveries for border security forces, and the success of security measures for the [...]	2008-01-23 17:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR SENV EAGR IZ
08BAGHDAD1763	MEETING BETWEEN S/I AMBASSADOR SATTERFIELD AND [...] (C) Summary: In a June 8 meeting with S/I Satterfield, Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khalid Attiya said that most remaining obstacles to a new election law can be resolved, but that there is no agreement on the division of seats for the Kirkuk council. Delaying the election there might be the most [...]	2008-06-10 18:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD177	AMIDST THREATS, A GLIMPSE OF COURAGE IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a raw and revealing moment following the assassination of a colleague and direct threats against another, a close-knit group of Iraqi officials in Baghdad demonstrated January 22 their determination to continue fighting corruption and militia profiteering in an essential servi [...]	2008-01-23 18:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR PINS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD1772	TURKISH SPECIAL ENVOY UPDATES S/I SATTERFIELD ON [...] (S) Summary: During a June 9 meeting, Turkish Special Envoy Murat Ozcelik provided S/I Satterfield with an update on the state of play of issues discussed ref A, following Ozcelik's meetings in Baghdad over the past several days. Overall, Ozcelik said he came away impressed with the level of c [...]	2008-06-11 14:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD1775	JUNE 11 MEETING WITH GOI ON TUWAITHA YELLOW CAKE [...] (S) SUMMARY: EMIN and Energy Attach met with GOI's Science & Technology Minister Raid Fahmi on June 11 to inform Fahmi that the current estimate is USG will deliver the 550 MT of GOI's natural uranium (Yellow Cake or YC) to Cameco, Inc. in Montreal, Canada on July 3,2008. Fahmi expressed alarm [...]	2008-06-12 15:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	CA ECON ENRG IZ KNNP PARM PREL
08BAGHDAD178	SAMI AL-ASKERI DESCRIBES JANUARY 19 ATTACK ON NSA [...] (S) Summary: PM Advisor Sami al-Askeri described scrambling to reach out to Sadr/JAM contacts and organize a GOI response to an apparent JAM attack on a mosque where National Security Advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaie was attending Ashoura services Saturday evening. As Rubaie remained holed up in th [...]	2008-01-23 19:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD180	ERBIL: KRG PM DISCUSSES 2008 [...] (C) Summary: Secure as Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister for the foreseeable future, Nechirvan Barzani told RRTOFFS January 15 that 2008 will be a challenging year for the Kurds and for the KRG. He outlined a number of long pending reforms within the regional government (red [...]	2008-01-24 08:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD1804	NINEWA: WHAT A DIFFERENCE FIVE MONTHS MAKE - MOSUL [...] (C) Summary: The January 2008 massive explosion in the Zinjali neighborhood (ref a) appears in retrospect to have been the turning point in the Iraqi central government's determination to make a serious effort at Mosul reconstruction after years of conflict, neglect and terrorist intimidation. [...]	2008-06-15 13:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL EAID MARR PINR ECON EAIR IZ
08BAGHDAD1814	ICI: BAGHDAD MEETINGS ON WAY FORWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In separate Baghdad meetings UNAMI and the ICI secretariat have laid out somewhat different visions of the way forward on ICI commitments made at Stockholm. Section three of the ICI annual report, titled "Investing in the Future," laid out several of these commitments in the p [...]	2008-06-16 10:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD1826	RRT ERBIL: KRG OIL MINISTER ON UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Natural Resources Dr. Ashti Hawrami expressed cautious optimism that KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani's upcoming meetings with PM Maliki in Baghdad could lead to passage of some hydrocarbon legislation "by October." This optimism [...]	2008-06-17 12:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET IZ

08BAGHDAD1830	RRT ERBIL: NEA-I DIRECTOR DISCUSSES MINORITY [...] (C) Special Representative on Minorities in Iraq, NEA-I Director Richard Schmierer met June 11 and 12 Iraq with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials, Christian leaders, and other minority communities that have taken refuge in the KRG. Clear themes emerged, demonstrating the opportun [...]	2008-06-17 13:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KIRF VT IZ
08BAGHDAD1831	REACTION TO UNAMI DISPUTED INTERNAL BOUNDARIES [...] (C) Summary: Senior Adviser's June 10-12 talks with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leaders in Erbil following United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI)'s submission to the GOI and KRG of its initial Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) reports on June 5 revealed general dissatisf [...]	2008-06-17 13:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1838	MFA GOSSIP ON POSSIBLE KEY DIPLOMATIC POSTINGS [...] (C) During a June 17 meeting on embassy property issues (septel),Ambassador Srood Najib (strictly protect),MFA Director for Americas Affairs, shared gossip on possible Iraqi Ambassadorial assignments to a number of key diplomatic posts. According to Ambassador Najib, those on the inside tr [...]	2008-06-17 16:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1848	WAY AHEAD ON ASSISTANCE TO RELIGIOUS MINORITIES [...] (S) Post is actively engaged in efforts to address the plight of vulnerable religious minority populations in Iraq, in particular in the areas of jobs and security. The USG already provides significant assistance to regions of Iraq with large religious minority populations, particularly in the [...]	2008-06-18 16:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV KIRF PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD1850	RRT ERBIL: DOHUK'S PESHMERGA AND ASAYEESH [...] (C/NF) RRTOff and the MNC-I Liaison Officer to the KRG met on June 15 in Dohuk City with General Sheikh Ali, commander of approximately 30,000 peshmerga soldiers located in Dohuk province. General Ali's forces are also stationed in the disputed territories under peshmerga security control that [...]	2008-06-19 08:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ
08BAGHDAD1851	PRT MAYSAN: TOUR D'HORIZON WITH GOVERNOR'S ADVISOR [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In a June 17 meeting with PRT Team Leader, Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi, a close advisor to Maysan Governor Maliki, rejected rumors that the Governor had offered his resignation to PM al-Maliki. Zaid described the current atmosphere in Amarah as normal and claimed that wanted cr [...]	2008-06-19 09:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD1852	SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON REFUGEES, SIDA [...] (C) Summary: In a June 17 meeting with the Charge, Swedish Ambassador to Iraq (resident in Amman) Niclas Trouve provided updates on implementation of the Swedish-Iraqi refugee "Return Agreement" (which he said is running smoothly) and the status of reopening an Embassy in Baghdad (expected to b [...]	2008-06-19 10:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF SW IZ
08BAGHDAD1871	PRT SALAH AD DIN: UN STEPS UP EFFORTS IN SAMARRA [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. The United Nations (UN) has dramatically increased its activity in Samarra over the last several months. The main focus of UN activities in Samarra has been on reconstruction of the Golden Mosque. While the increased activ [...]	2008-06-20 14:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD1891	UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD - CLASS OF 2008 [...] (U) Summary: University of Baghdad (UB) President Dr. Mosa Aziz Al-Mosawa exulted at the success of the 2008 academic year during a June 15 meeting with Poloff. UB is at full capacity, with 70,000 undergraduate students and 10,000 graduate students. July 15 will mark the end of the UB acade [...]	2008-06-22 15:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KPAO KCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD19	A HARD COR BATTLE OVER PROVINCIAL POWERS? [...] (C) Summary: Of all the legislation that Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR) will grapple with in 2008, none will do more to shape the future of Iraq politically than the Provincial Powers law. Because Iraq's Constitution is deliberately ambiguous about the balance of power between Iraq's [...]	2008-01-02 17:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD190	WASIT IHEC LEADER PREDICTS ELECTIONS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary. In a January 23 meeting with Wasit PRT Team Leader and Poloffs, Wasit Director of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Haydar Abd Allawi said he expected elections to happen in 2008 and expressed a strong preference for an open-list system. He maintained his office [...]	2008-01-24 12:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1907	INFLATION STABLE, BUT PRICE PRESSURES INCREASE AS [...] (SBU) Summary: The latest official data show a small decline in Iraq's consumer prices in May. The annual rate of core inflation now stands at 14.7 percent, close to its average level over the past year. Inflationary pressures are likely to rise in coming months as Iraq's economy runs agains [...]	2008-06-23 09:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD1908	PRT-WASIT: CHIEF JUDGE THANKS AMERICANS, [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL) Summary: On 3 June 2008, Wasit Chief Judge told PRT and CDR 214 Fires Brigade that there are continuing problems receiving support from the provincial and central governments including assistance with judge and courthouse security. Chief [...]	2008-06-23 12:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1921	MOHR: 5000 AMNESTY RELEASES, PROBLEMS WITH HJC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim said on June 19 that her ministry has confirmed that amnesty releases around the country reached almost 5,000. Her estimates are far greater than our numbers, as they include previously unavailable numbers from the Ministry of Interior, whic [...]	2008-06-23 18:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD1922	AYAD ALLAWI DISCUSSES RECENT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Former Prime Minister and Iraqiyya Bloc Leader Ayad Allawi played down rumors of a formal alliance with the Sadrists, Fadila, Iraqi National Dialogue Front (INDF),and Ibrahim Jafari's party in a June 22 meeting with PolCouns, but admitted that Iraqiyya coordinates on some com [...]	2008-06-24 07:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1929	EMBASSY AND MFA CLARIFY LINES OF COMMUNICATION ON [...] (C) On June 17, Pol and Management Counselors met with Ambassador Srood Najib, MFA's Americas Director, to review recent developments related to turning over USG-occupied property in the International Zone (IZ) to the MFA as sites for future foreign embassies. In particular, POL and MGT Counse [...]	2008-06-24 16:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AMGT ABLD IZ
08BAGHDAD193	ERBIL: KURDISTAN REGIONAL PRESIDENT MASOUD BARZANI [...] (C) Summary. In response to extensive criticism by NGOs (both local and international) and local journalists, Kurdistan Regional President Masoud Barzani rejected the Press Law bill passed by the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) on December 11. He returned the bill on January 15 to the KNA [...]	2008-01-24 16:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD1946	IRAQI BANKS MOVE ELECTRONS INSTEAD OF PAPER [...] Summary: While Iraq's economy remains predominately cash-based, the banking system has begun a shift toward electronic payments. From December through April, Iraqi-owned banks more than quadrupled the monthly value of transactions they direct through electronic funds transfers (EFT). Private [...]	2008-06-25 13:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD1947	PRODDING THE IRAQIS TOWARDS PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador, UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura, and UK Ambassador Christopher Prentice agreed at a June 24 meeting on a way forward to prod the Iraqis into reaching consensus on how to handle elections in Kirkuk so that the draft provincial election law can pass and provincial elections be [...]	2008-06-25 14:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD195	NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE JANUARY [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. Mosul Tense After Explosion --------------------------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, 3 Iraqi Army (IA) soldiers, an [...]	2008-01-24 19:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD196	PRT NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE [...] (U) This is a PRT Ninewa reporting cable. Mosul Tense After Explosion --------------------------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, three Iraqi Army (IA) soldiers, and wounded over 170 ci [...]	2008-01-24 19:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1962	NON-MUSLIM ENDOWMENTS DIRECTOR PLEADS FOR ACCESS [...] (C) During a meeting with Poloff, Abdullah Alnoufali, Director of the Iraqi Non-Muslim Endowments Office, said he was satisfied with the size of his budget which is dedicated primarily towards restoring and maintaining Christian worship sites; what is hampering the Endowment's work is that t [...]	2008-06-26 15:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1965	IRAQI NSC JUNE 22 REVIEWS RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS, [...] (S REL UK AS) Summary: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki chaired June 22 the National Security Council (NSC) that reviewed reconstruction efforts in Basra, Sadr City, and Mosul. (Note: Minister of Defense Abdul Qadr, Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bulani, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hoshyar Zebari [...]	2008-06-27 10:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER KCRM IZ
08BAGHDAD1968	KIRKUKI GROUPS WEIGH IN ON PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary. Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq Tom Krajeski visited Kirkuk with United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) Political Director Andrew Gilmour to gauge reactions to recent debates over Kirkuk,s provincial elections and UNAMI,s work on disputed internal boundaries. Turkome [...]	2008-06-27 13:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF IZ
08BAGHDAD1984	WOMEN ACTIVISTS PRESS FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT ON [...] (SBU) Prominent members of the Iraqi Women's Movement discussed the political and economic concerns of Iraqi women at a seminar aimed at encouraging international support for the participation of Iraqi women in the democratic transitional process. The roundtable discussion included female mem [...]	2008-06-28 14:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD1989	NECHIRVAN BARZANI ON SOFA, OIL LAW, ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, accompanied by Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official Rowsch Shaways and KRG Oil Minister Ashti Hawrami, on June 26 met with the Ambassador, Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk, Econ Minister-Cou [...]	2008-06-29 08:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD199	NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE JANUARY [...] (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, 3 Iraqi Army (IA) soldiers, and wounded over 170 civilians, according to local Ministry of Health (MOH) sources. The casualty total will likely change as recovery [...]	2008-01-25 03:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD200	NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE JANUARY [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) reporting cable. Mosul Tense After Explosion --------------------------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, three Iraqi Army (IA) [...]	2008-01-25 03:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2000	FORMER BASRAH IP CHIEF MISSES OLD LIFE [...] (C) Summary: During a June 24 dinner, former Basrah IP Chief MG Jalil expressed frustration over his transfer to Baghdad. He credited the GOI offensive in March for improving security in Basrah, but predicted that JAM would regain its strength as the government shifted its attention elsewher [...]	2008-06-29 13:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2024	IRAQIYYA VENTS OVER IRAN, PROVINCIAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: A group of Iraqiyya leaders assembled by former PM Iyad Allawi for a June 29 meeting with Special Advisors Krajeski and Gray were vociferously anti-Iran and blamed the U.S. for what they claimed is Iran,s current political and economic domination of Iraq. They compl [...]	2008-07-01 07:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EAID IR IZ
08BAGHDAD203	SRSG'S STRATEGY ON IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: On January 18, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Iraq Staffan de Mistura met with the Ambassador to discuss the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq's (UNAMI) plan of action to fulfill its expanded mandate under Resolution 1770. Topics included i [...]	2008-01-25 13:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN IZ
08BAGHDAD2045	ECA A/S AMERI FROM AMBASSADOR ERELI [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Ameri: As the new Public Affairs Counselor at Embassy Baghdad, I have been on the ground now for about a month. In that time, it has become clear to me that U.S.-Iraqi relations are at an important crossroads and that the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs can ha [...]	2008-07-03 02:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD205	ANBARIS RAISE CONCERNS OVER KARBALA BOUNDARY [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: At a January 20 meeting in Ramadi, Anbar Governor Ma'amoun Sheikh Ahmad Abu Risha, the leader of the "Iraq Awakening Movement," and several other local notables raised their concerns with the Ambassador over putative Shi'a attempts on [...]	2008-01-25 13:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2052	NINEWA: SULFUR PLANT REPRESENTS HUGE UNTAPPED [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Mishraq Sulfur Plant in south-central Ninewa Province contains half a billion tons of recoverable sulfur. Repairs and reconstruction to the plant following a fire in 2003 would be inexpensive when comp [...]	2008-07-03 11:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PGOV EPET EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD2069	AMBASSADOR AND CG DISCUSS SECURITY AGREEMENT WITH [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Ambassador Ryan Crocker and MNF-I Commanding General (CG) David Petraeus met with Prime Minister Maliki June 26 to discuss a "bridge" security agreement between the United States and Iraq to facilitate continued U.S. support for the GOI while the Status of Forces Agreement nego [...]	2008-07-04 14:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR MASS MOPS IR IZ PREL
08BAGHDAD2071	NSC JUNE 29 REVIEWS SUCCESSFUL SECURITY [...] (S/REL UK AS) Summary: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chaired June 29 the National Security Council (NSC) that discussed security operations in Amarah (Maysan Province),the security situation in Diyala, and the need for supplemental funding of the Ministry of Interior. The Prime Minister ope [...]	2008-07-05 08:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2077	PRT SALAH AD DIN: I-CERP BUILDING MORE THAN [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable coordinated with the partner Brigade 1/101 BCT. Summary ------- 2. (C) The Iraqi - Commanders Emergency Response Program (I-CERP) has been a great success in Salah ad Din province, helping to quickly address critical project implementation [...]	2008-07-06 07:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD2084	FADILAH LEADER SUGGESTS SADR REPLACEMENTS [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In a wide-ranging June 29 conversation with Poloff and Wasit PRToffs, Fadilah spiritual leader Abbas al-Zaydi explained that Iran supported both ISCI and JAM, but for different functions; "JAM is tactical; ISCI is strategic." He complained that the GOI was "acting as a [...]	2008-07-06 12:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PINS PGOV IR IZ PINR
08BAGHDAD2085	DPM BARHAM SALEH TO CODEL HIRONO: WE ARE MAKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh told CODEL Hirono Iraq is making significant progress toward standing up its own security forces, reconciling politically, and developing economically, but the country nevertheless needs continued USG assistance to cement the gains. Saleh said t [...]	2008-07-06 12:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV IZ PREL MARR
08BAGHDAD2087	AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETING WITH IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy Party leader Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein told the Ambassador he has been approached by Sunni Sahwa leaders for advice on dealing with the U.S. and the upcoming provincial elections. Sahwa leaders, he said, worried that the U.S. does not trust them and [...]	2008-07-06 14:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2089	DECLARING THEIR INDEPENDENTS: WASIT PARTIES RUSH [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Wasit party officials from ISCI, the Sadrist Trend, INA, Fadilah, and Da'wa outlined their provincial election strategies in recent meetings with the PRT. While a Sadrist PC member said he would join the list of another party as an [...]	2008-07-06 14:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2102	NINEWA-SALAH AD DIN BORDER AREA DEPRESSED BUT HAS [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message, in cooperation with the Salah ad Din PRT. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Southern Ninewa Province and the Sharqat district in northern Salah ad Din Province suffer from lack of infrastructure investment and unemployment of at l [...]	2008-07-07 11:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PGOV EPET EINV EAID MARR PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2106	JULY 7 PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE: NO SOLUTION [...] (C) Speaker Mashadani's "small group" of Arab, Turcoman and Kurdish CoR members has not reached agreement; it may ask for more time. Mashadani has announced his intention to force a CoR vote on July 15. The Turcoman position appears to have evolved to accepting either "32-32-32-4" or a mo [...]	2008-07-07 13:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2107	BANKING IN FALLUJAH [...] (U) This is a joint EPRT Fallujah/Embassy Baghdad reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: As life in Fallujah has returned to a semblance of normalcy, its banking sector -- both private and public -- has rapidly developed to meet a growing economy's demand for financial services. Three state-ow [...]	2008-07-07 14:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2114	NINEWA: PROVINCIAL ELECTION PREPARATIONS MOVING [...] (C) Preparations for provincial elections in Ninewa are moving forward well, with the Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) beginning to work closely with the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to coordinate security for voter registration sites and election sites. Most people in Ninewa are ready to vo [...]	2008-07-08 02:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IZ KDEM PGOV PREL PINR
08BAGHDAD2115	RRT ERBIL: VOTER REGISTRATION PREPARATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: Erbil Governorate Electoral Officer, Handreen Muhammed Salih, told RRTOff and IFES Liaison Officer June 30 that the Independent High Electoral Commission's (IHEC) centralized approach to hiring, message development, and approving costs hampers his office's abilities to organize [...]	2008-07-08 06:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PTER EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD2121	POST-MNF-I SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS FOR UNAMI [...] (C/REL MCF-I UN) Summary: Pursuant to reftel, EmbOffs and MNF-I officers met June 26 with UNAMI staff to discuss modalities for providing security to UNAMI if UNSCR 1790 expires on December 31, 2008. A follow-up meeting took place July 1. We heard that the maintenance of U.S.-led security [...]	2008-07-08 11:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MASS MARR UNSC IZ
08BAGHDAD2124	REPORTED UNIFIED SLATE FOR DAWA AND KARBALA TRIBAL [...] (S) Summary: On July 1 in Karbala, a delegation of tribal sheiks from Salah ad Din Province and tribal sheiks from Karbala signed an agreement in support of security, reconciliation, national unity, democracy, reconstruction, and private investment. Also on July 1, tribal sheiks from Karbala, [...]	2008-07-08 14:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD2134	DE-BAATH AMENDMENTS AND COMMISSIONERS PENDING [...] (C) Member of Parliament Rashid Azzawi, (Sunni/Arab, Tawafuq, Iraqi Islamic Party) explained to Poloffs on July 6 the state of play regarding the law on Accountability and Justice which passed last February but has been neither implemented nor amended until now. Azzawi confirmed that the Pr [...]	2008-07-09 11:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2137	IRAQI PLANS TO FACILITATE NAVIGATION IN THE KHOR [...] (C/REL MNFI) A proposed memorandum of understanding (MOU) on improving navigation in the Khor Abdullah waterway is awaiting Prime Ministerial approval, Deputy Foreign Minister Hamoud told us on July 7. Citing the importance of the waterway, Hamoud expressed confidence the Prime Minister wil [...]	2008-07-09 13:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR
08BAGHDAD2140	PRT ANBAR: VOTER REGISTRATION - GETTING THE WORD [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) PRT members met with the head of the Sunni Endowment in Anbar Province, Sheikh Abdullah Jallal al-Faraj, to discuss upcoming voter registration and to propose that the Sunni Endowment utilize the traditional Friday evening [...]	2008-07-09 17:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER KDEM SOCI UNSC IZ
08BAGHDAD2145	VOTER REGISTRATION TO BEGIN AT LAST [...] (C) The 30-day voter registration process will start on July 15. Potential problems include lack of accessibility and lack of information. We have been working with UNAMI and the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) for months to forestall such problems. There have been concerns that [...]	2008-07-10 08:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2146	NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON SECURITY, [...] (C) In a July 8 courtesy call with Ambassador Crocker, Norwegian Ambassador Mette Ravn (resident in Amman) remarked on the clear difference in the improved security atmosphere she felt on this trip to Baghdad for the IRFFI Donors, Committee meeting as compared to her first visit last December [...]	2008-07-10 08:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NO IZ
08BAGHDAD2152	VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI ON: THE PROVINCIAL [...] (S) Summary: In a July 8 meeting with Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, Ambassador Crocker, joined by NSC Senior Director Brett McGurk and DASD Mark Kimmitt, discussed progress on the Provincial Elections Law and on the Strategic Framework Agreement and accompanying protocol/MOU. On the Provinc [...]	2008-07-10 16:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD2153	TALABANI ON SOFA, IRAQI FOREIGN RELATIONS, KEY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on July 7 with President Jalal Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih. Talabani called for a specific USG-GOI plan for countering Iranian opposition to the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),but praised recent st [...]	2008-07-11 02:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2160	ISCI LEADER ABDUL AZIZ AL-HAKIM ENCOURAGING ON [...] (S/NF) Summary. In a July 1 meeting, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) leader Syed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and the Ambassador discussed SFA/SOFA negotiations, provincial elections, and post-operations reconstruction. Hakim expressed support for reaching a strategic framework agreement (SFA) a [...]	2008-07-11 12:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD2162	SEVENTH IRFFI DONORS MEETING [...] (C) Summary: The International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq's Seventh Donor Committee Meeting in Baghdad on July 7, the first major international conference in Baghdad since 2007, was hailed by Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih as an indication of the growing confidence in Iraq's fu [...]	2008-07-11 13:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2163	IMPROVING IRAQI BORDER SECURITY: A WORK IN PROGRESS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Border security continues to be a focus of both GOI and Coalition attention as the security situation improves and Iraq takes increasing responsibility for its own affairs. Al Qaeda in Iraq's reliance on transnational networks is increasing as its operating space and popularity [...]	2008-07-11 14:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PBTS PREL PTER IR IZ SY
08BAGHDAD2166	EPRT DIYALA SOUTH: CRIMINALIZED SONS OF IRAQ [...] (U) This is an ePRT Diyala South reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (S) The ePRT has received various reports that some SOIs in the provincial capital of Baqubah in Diyala province are engaged in criminal activities and conduct that runs counter to the efforts to revive local city [...]	2008-07-11 17:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2174	SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON T-WALLS, PROGRESS OF [...] (C) Summary: In a July 5 meeting, Swedish Ambassador to Iraq (resident in Amman) Niclas Trouve accepted Ambassador Crocker,s apology for the manner in which the transportation of a generator through the Swedish Embassy,s construction site in Baghdad was handled. He provided an update on ongoi [...]	2008-07-13 08:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF SW IZ ASEC
08BAGHDAD2175	AMBASSADOR'S JULY 9 MEETING WITH CHALDEAN [...] (C) Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Emmanuel Karim Delly thanked the Ambassador for all he has done for Iraqis of all religions. He noted the security situation had perceptibly improved for minorities over the past months, although fear remained pervasive. Delly emphasized the need to focus on t [...]	2008-07-13 09:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2180	KRG NEGOTIATOR ON HYDROCARBONS LAW [...] (C) Summary: KRG senior adviser Dr. Rosch Shaways met July 9 with EMIN to discuss Kurdish positions on the hydrocarbon and related legislative proposals. Shaways presented scaled-back Kurdish requirements for a hydrocarbon package: an independent federal-regional regulatory body to set st [...]	2008-07-13 12:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2191	MUTHANNA: PC CLASH SHOWS POTENTIAL FOR ELECTIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: A recent clash between rival tribal members on the Muthanna Provincial Council (PC) nearly degenerated into inter-communal violence in late June. Although the standoff was eventually resolved peacefully, the incident underscore [...]	2008-07-14 05:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2202	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SUNNI WAQF CHIEF AHMED [...] (C) Summary: In their first formal meeting, Sunni Waqf Chief Ahmed Abdel Ghaffur al-Samaraie detailed for the Ambassador a number of reconciliation projects he is directing to bring Sunni political voices back into the Iraqi political process. He said he has worked to strengthen the Sahwa gro [...]	2008-07-14 14:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD2204	PRT SALAH AD DIN: GEO REPORTS VOTER REGISTRATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) During a July 14 meeting, Salah ad Din (SaD) Governorate Election Officer (GEO) Hatim Abdulhamid provided PRT/CF officials with an upbeat assessment of the state of voter registration readiness in the province. He [...]	2008-07-14 15:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KDEM KCRS SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD221	IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE PART 1: [...] (C) Summary: Post believes nationwide provincial elections can occur in 2008. Technical preparations for elections are broken down into three areas: voter registration, Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) capacity building, and Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) capacity building [...]	2008-01-26 07:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2210	EPRT DIYALA: LACK OF NGO SUPPORT IMPEDES FURTHER PROGRESS [...] (U) This is an ePRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Development at the Qa'da and Nahia level in South Diyala is being held up by lack of Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) support. Efforts by the South Diyala embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team (ePRT) have had a s [...]	2008-07-15 14:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID ECON PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD2216	PRT WASIT: PC MEMBERS ATTEMPT TO REMOVE IP CHIEF [...] (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: During a July 11 meeting at the PRT, Wasit Provincial Council (PC) member Saa'd Sharhan and Wasit Chief of Police General Abdul Haneen (both political independents) discussed an ongoing attempt by religious parties to appeal to Prime Minister Maliki to remove G [...]	2008-07-17 03:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL KIRF IZ
08BAGHDAD223	HYDROCARBON FRAMEWORK LEGISLATION STILL STALLED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Under Secretary Jeffery lobbied a series of GOI officials January 14-18 for speedier passage of the hydrocarbon framework legislation, but technical and political issues abound, and the law remains entangled among other legislative priorities (reftels). END SUMMARY. DPM Sal [...]	2008-01-26 10:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EPET ECON ENRG PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2231	WASIT: SADRIST PC MEMBERS MEET PRT AND BRIGADE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-18 02:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2232	(S) TRIBAL FEUD HAS SECTARIAN, JAM DIMENSIONS [...] (S) Summary: The Shia village of Ayn Tamur in Karbala Province has been embroiled in a tribal feud with the Sunni hamlet of al-Rahaliyyah in al-Anbar since June 2007. In that month, six Ayn Tamur residents were murdered shortly following successful attacks by Ayn Tamur villagers on Jaysh al-M [...]	2008-07-18 02:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2233	DAWA TANZIM LEADER ON BASRAH AND FEDERALISM, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Dawa Tanzim COR members Dr. Abdulhadi al-Hassani and Qassim al-Sahlani July 16 at the Dawa Tanzim party's COR office, Hassani spoke about his recent trip to Basrah, expressing dismay at the lack of reconstruction in Iraq's second city while intimating that Basra [...]	2008-07-18 12:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD224	VP ADEL ON BUDGET, NEW CABINET, SECURITY, REGIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador January 24 that Prime Minister Maliki continues to obstruct passage of the 2008 GOI budget, but it is unlikely that the budget would need to be submitted for an additional, time-consuming cabinet vote prior to final parliamentary [...]	2008-01-26 10:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2242	BASRAH'S RELIGIOUS MINORITY LEADERS HOPE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray and REO incoming and outgoing directors met on July 15 and 16 with Father Emad and Abdel Kareem al-Khazraji, the leaders of Basrah's minority Christian and Sunni communities. Both leaders expressed dismay over the widespread emigrat [...]	2008-07-19 11:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2243	BASRAH SECURITY COMMANDERS: SITUATION IMPROVED, [...] (C) In separate July 16 meetings with Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray and incoming and outgoing REO Directors, Basrah's Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police leadership proudly noted the security improvements following the March 2008 'Charge of the Knights' operation but warned of danger [...]	2008-07-19 12:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PTER PGOV MCAP IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2251	MOHR ON SAUDI DETAINEES, TORTURE, NATIONAL HR [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told PolOff on July 17 about her July 14 meetings in Amman with Saudi officials on Saudi detainees in GOI and MNF-I custody. The Saudi officials from the Human Rights Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested a list of Saudi d [...]	2008-07-20 05:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM KJUS PINS PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2268	BASRAH GOV CRITICAL OF GOI AND SAFA AL-SAFI [...] (C) Summary: In a July 15 meeting with Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray and incoming and outgoing REO Directors, Basrah Governor Mohammad Musabeh al-Waeli said the security situation had improved since the March 2008 Operation Charge of the Knights (COK). He decried Iranian i [...]	2008-07-21 12:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2273	MUTHANNA GATHERING SHOWS POTENTIAL OF ORGANIZED [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL USA, MCFI) Summary: Over 900 sheikhs from tribes stretching from Wasit to Basra gathered July 16 in Muthanna under the auspices of two emerging political parties, the Assembly of the Middle Euphrates and the Sheikhs' Council of Southe [...]	2008-07-22 07:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KU IZ IR
08BAGHDAD2276	KARBALA DROUGHT MASKS DEEPER WATER WOES [...] (C) Summary: Water, Karbala,s most precious resource, has become increasingly scarce in recent years, posing challenges to continued economic development in the province. Drought is the apparent culprit, with below-average rainfall during the past several years. Water scarcity is also the pro [...]	2008-07-22 11:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SENV EAGR PREL PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD2281	TUSSLE FOR KIRKUK OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent events at the Kirkuk oil field threaten to increase tensions between the Kurdish Region and the GOI. Both the KRG and the GOI are making tentative moves to assert greater control over the disputed oil resources. END SUMMARY The Khormala Dome ----------------- 2. (SBU [...]	2008-07-23 06:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2296	KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI PLEDGES COOPERATION ON [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's July 20 trip to Erbil, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani said he is ready to travel to Baghdad within the week to discuss the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) with PM Maliki. Ambassador noted the KRG's improved relations with Tur [...]	2008-07-23 19:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON EPET ENRG PHUM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2297	VP HASHIMI, AMB CROCKER, CG PETRAEUS DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 18 dinner hosted at his residence for Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus to discuss how to promote better relations between the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) and Coalition Forces (CF) in Anbar Province, IIP Secretary-General and Iraqi Vice President Hashimi, IIP MPs, an [...]	2008-07-23 19:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PMIL IZ
08BAGHDAD2298	HARIRI VISIT FURTHERS OPENING TO ARAB NEIGHBORS, [...] (C) Summary: Lebanese MP and Future Movement leader Saad Hariri on July 17 briefed Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus at the end of his one-day visit to Baghdad and Najaf. Hariri viewed the trip as an opportunity to increase contacts and understanding between his Saudi allies and both t [...]	2008-07-23 19:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD23	PRT MAYSAN: IA OFFICIALS SHARE SECURITY CONCERNS [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: In private and official discussions the Iraqi Army 10th Division Commander and his Maysan Brigade Commander expressed concern over the security situation in al-Amarah since the December 12 bombing. They advised that an ongoing se [...]	2008-01-03 06:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD2303	MALIKI CALLS FOR DOWNSIZING IRAQI SECURITY FORCES [...] (S) During the weekly Iraqi National Security Council (NSC) meeting on July 13, Prime Minister Maliki called for an immediate freeze in the growth of Iraqi security forces and ordered development of a plan to reduce numbers. MinDef Abdel Qadr and Commander of Joint Forces (CHOD) General Babaki [...]	2008-07-24 13:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	IZ MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER
08BAGHDAD2304	MEK SECURITY TRANSITION: INFORMAL MULTI-PARTY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Informal discussions on July 20 among the GOI, USG, ICRC, UNAMI, and Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK)leaders from Ashraf helped to clarify the positions and roles that each party would play in the transfer of responsibility for the MEK from the USG to the GOI, and the ensuing questions of [...]	2008-07-24 13:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM KJUS PINS PTER PREL UN IZ
08BAGHDAD2305	ELECTION LAW FALLOUT: KURDS RAGE, ARABS REJOICE, [...] (C) Summary: The surprise passage on July 22 of a controversial draft of the provincial election law (Reftel) has infuriated the Kurds, emboldened Sunni and Shia Arabs, marked the overflow of simmering anti-Kurdish sentiment, and set the stage for a Presidential veto and further talks in the [...]	2008-07-24 13:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2312	SCENESETTER FOR WASHINGTON VISIT OF IRAQI MINISTER [...] (S) Iraqi Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani is a hard working, honest broker achieving real but fragile success in his efforts to rid the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) of corruption and sectarianism. He arrives in Washington against a backdrop of increasing good news about security in Ira [...]	2008-07-24 15:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PINS PGOV PTER PNAT MOPS MCAP MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD2326	PAPAL NUNCIO ASSESSES FEASIBILITY OF RESTORING [...] (C) Embassy and 1BCT (Brigade Combat Team)/4ID - ePRT Baghdad-1 facilitated a joint visit with Papal Nuncio Archbishop Francis Chullikatt on July 22 to explore the condition of Chaldean and other Church facilities in Baghdad's Doura neighborhood. The Nuncio's primary purpose was to assess t [...]	2008-07-26 11:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2327	DHI QAR HUMAN RIGHTS DIR: SITUATION DETERIORATING [...] (C) Summary: The human rights situation is "deteriorating, with some areas of improvement," according to Dhi Qar Ministry of Human Rights Office Director Mohammad Radhi Bahar. In a July 17 meeting with the PRT, Bahar outlined a number of areas in which the PRT could work jointly with the Of [...]	2008-07-26 11:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD2332	THE NEW VOICE OF THE SADR CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks, the Sadr City District Council (DC) has shown new life as it asserts its independence from malign actors and provides a voice for the district's two million residents. Since the June 17 ousting of Sadrist puppet Abd Al Hussein Jabara as DC Chairman and the subse [...]	2008-07-27 08:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2348	MOHR TELLS AMBASSADOR GOI DOES NOT SUPPORT HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told the Ambassador on July 22 that the GOI does not support human rights and threatens to undermine her ministry in its work with the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) and detention facilities. She sought guidance from the Ambassador on how to deal wi [...]	2008-07-28 06:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KJUS PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2354	OIL CONTRACTS LOSE STEAM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Oil Minister Shahristani is backpedaling on the technical support contracts that he had previously intended to sign with international oil companies. He intends to stop negotiating actively for the contracts. He will shorten the period of the contracts from two years to as lit [...]	2008-07-28 14:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EPET ENRG EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD2355	MAYSAN IA OFFICERS: OPS GOING WELL, BUT GOVERNOR [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) operations in Maysan went "better than planned," said 10th Iraqi Army (IA) Division Deputy Commander Brigadier General Jabar Nehma and 38th Brigade Deputy Commander Colonel Mustafa Khydair in a July 24 meeting with MND-C DCG-S COL Smith and poloffs. Th [...]	2008-07-28 15:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2358	VP ADEL AND ISCI CHAIR HAKIM: WE'LL TRY TO BROKER [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on July 24 that he and President Talabani had vetoed the recently-passed Provincial Election Law and that ISCI would work with the Kurdish Alliance and other CoR blocs to find a solution to the Kirkuk election issue. He said th [...]	2008-07-28 15:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR
08BAGHDAD2368	LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY OF MOI CRIMES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although there is much evidence of torture and abuse in Ministry of Interior (MoI) detention facilities and police stations, no one has been sentenced and imprisoned in 2008. The MoI Inspector General's office and Human Rights office seem to have little power to do anything more [...]	2008-07-29 07:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD238	VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI ON LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTS, [...] (S) During their January 25 meeting, the Ambassador and Vice President Hashimi discussed the Executive Council, a draft amnesty law, Mosul, Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs),and Iran. Hashimi voiced concern that PM Maliki might decrease relative authority of the Executive Council in favor of [...]	2008-01-27 17:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2387	VOTER APATHY IN EASTERN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: Anecdotal evidence from ePRT engagements as well as other organizations operating in eastern Baghdad indicate that while residents are knowledgeable about the voter registration process and the current political impasse over the elections law, their interest in or willingness to [...]	2008-07-30 13:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD239	"THE STREET IS STRONGER THAN PARLIAMENT:" SADRIST [...] (C) Summary: As a harbinger of Sadrist Trend hostility to a prospective USG-GOI long-term strategic relationship (LTSR) agreement, Sadrist Deputy Governor of Karbala Jawad al-Hasnawi told us January 24 that if Trend efforts to quash parliamentary approval of the agreement were to fail (a highl [...]	2008-01-27 18:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2391	IDP AND REFUGEE RETURNS CONTINUE IN BAGHDAD, BUT [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Since late 2007, the UN estimates that 110,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees have returned to Iraq, primarily to Baghdad. However, the UN concedes that return data are not precise, particularly as not all retur [...]	2008-07-30 14:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ

08BAGHDAD2396	GOI CALLS DETENTION OPERATIONS AND AMNESTY LAW A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim convened a meeting on July 27 with representatives of all three branches of government to address problems in the GOI detention system and with implementation of the Amnesty Law. Each branch representa [...]	2008-07-31 11:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM KJUS PINS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD241	MALIKI REAFFIRMS DESIRE FOR CABINET SHAKE-UP, [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the weekly security meeting on January 24 with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Maliki reaffirmed his desire to reduce the number of cabinet posts and form a national unity government with ministers from a broad spectrum of parties including Tawafuq and Iraqiyya. He express [...]	2008-01-28 02:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ JO SY
08BAGHDAD2414	SONS OF IRAQ (SOI) PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (U) This is the second in a series of reports on the Sons of Iraq (SOI),formerly known as Concerned Local Citizens (CLC). For information regarding the origins, training, equipment, operations, and the initial prospects for integration of the former CLC, see Ref A. 2. (S) Summary. As of [...]	2008-08-02 05:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PINS MOPS PGOV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2421	(SBU) KARBALA'S LARGEST JAIL BURSTING AT SEAMS. [...] (SBU) Summary: Karbala's largest jail (technically a pre-trial detention facility) is filled beyond capacity. Because the province does not have a prison and the regional prison in al-Hillah also is full, Karbala's jail also houses post-trial detainees, including ten people (one female) convic [...]	2008-08-04 05:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KJUS SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD2422	ELECTION LAW STALLED AS BLOC LEADERS NEGOTIATE [...] (C) Summary: Late on August 3, the highly anticipated vote in the Council of Representatives (CoR) to resolve the vetoed articles in the Provincial Election Law (PEL) stalled while members awaited instruction from their bloc leaders who were in intense negotiations led by the UN and the U.S. [...]	2008-08-04 08:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2424	S/I SATTERFIELD DISCUSSES IZ PROPERTIES, FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: S/I Satterfield and Management Counselor Austin-Ferguson met August 2 with Ambassador Srood Najib, the MFA's point person on the transfer of U.S.-held properties in the International Zone (IZ). The discussion focused on the various IZ properties currently in Department of State ( [...]	2008-08-04 11:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	AGMT ABLD PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2427	IRAQI-KUWAITI BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C/REL MNFI) In an August 2 meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Foreign Minister Muhammad Hamoud discussed the state of relations between Iraq and Kuwait with Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq Affairs Gordon Gray. Addressing a wide range of border and other bilateral issues, Ham [...]	2008-08-04 12:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR
08BAGHDAD2429	PRT ANBAR: ANBAR VOTER REGISTRATION ECLIPSES 2005 [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Anbar Governate Electoral Office (GEO) Director Khalid Rijab Abdul-Razak told the PRT that more than 46,600 Anbaris have verified their names on the list of the Province's pre-registered voters. At six percent of eligible voters [...]	2008-08-04 12:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER KDEM SOCI UNSC IZ
08BAGHDAD243	NINEWA/MOSUL EXPLOSION: CURFEW LIFTED, MARKETS [...] (C/REL ACGU) On January 26 Ninewa Governor Kashmoula lifted the all-day curfew imposed on Mosul after the massive explosion of January 23. Shops and markets are open. PRT Leader met January 27 with the Governor, Vice-Governor, other provincial officials, and Zuhair Al-Chalabi, the Director G [...]	2008-01-28 02:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID PREL SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD2431	NO SUB-PRIME CRISIS HERE: CONSTRAINTS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI wants the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) to loosen its monetary policy to promote economic growth. But cuts in the CBI's interest rates or reserve requirements will not deliver the growth boost GOI officials seem to expect. Iraqi banks already have plenty of money to lend, [...]	2008-08-05 03:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2439	MOJ AL-SAFI "SHOCKED" BY WOMEN'S PRISON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Acting Minister of Justice Safa al-Safi accompanied an MNF-I and Embassy inspection visit on August 2 to Kadhamiya Maximum Prison and Kadhamiya Women's Prison in Baghdad. At Kadhamiya Maximum, a high-value detainee prison that is monitored by ICITAP officials five days a week, a [...]	2008-08-05 07:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD244	NINEWA/MOSUL EXPLOSION: CURFEW LIFTED, MARKETS [...] (C/REL ACGU) On January 26 Ninewa Governor Kashmoula lifted the all-day curfew imposed on Mosul after the massive explosion of January 23. Shops and markets are open. PRT Leader met January 27 with the Governor, Vice-Governor, other provincial officials, and Zuhair Al-Chalabi, the Director G [...]	2008-01-28 02:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID PREL SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD2441	WASIT ISF OFFICERS WARN BORDER IS COMPLETELY OPEN [...] (C) In a July 29 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, 41st Fires Brigade Commanding Officer Colonel Richard Francey, and PRT members, Wasit's chief security officials complained about political and judicial resistance to Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) operations and warned that the border wi [...]	2008-08-05 07:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2446	WASIT SADRIST: THERE IS NO MORE JAM [...] (C) "The character of the GOI justifies Sadrist resistance," claimed Sadrist Provincial Council (PC) Member Ahmed Ebrah in a July 29 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray and PRT members. However, Ebrah claimed that Sadr's June 13 statement was tantamount to a dissolution of Jaysh al-Mahdi [...]	2008-08-05 07:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2447	SOUTHWEST TRIBES BEGINNING TO AWAKE [...] (C) Summary: The south's tribes are poised to play a significant role in the provincial elections. On July 30 and 31 Senior Advisor Gordon Gray met with leaders of three emerging tribal-based political parties, two of which - the Sheikhs' Council of Southern Tribes and the Mid-Euphrates Alli [...]	2008-08-05 07:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2452	MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS SEEKS GREATER CONTROL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraq Ministry of Communications (MoC) awarded contracts to several little known telecommunications firms to build and operate MoC-owned international gateways and provide international carrier services to Iraq's licensed Global System Mobile (GSM) and Wireless Local Loop (WLL) [...]	2008-08-05 12:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECPS ECON EINT
08BAGHDAD2456	IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL ON OPERATIONS IN [...] (S) Summary. Prime Minister Maliki chaired the July 27 National Security Council (NSC),which began with a review of current security operations in Diyala and Ninewa provinces. Ministers devoted most of the two-hour meeting to Diyala, where military operations are quickly ramping up. The Diyala [...]	2008-08-05 15:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PTER
08BAGHDAD2463	KIRKUK: TENSE, RETURNING TO NORMAL, BUT NO RESUMPTION OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the past two weeks, ethnic relations in Kirkuk have been buffeted by the passage - and subsequent veto - of a controversial provincial elections law in Baghdad, a terrorist attack at a Kurdish demonstration resulting in mass casualties, a violent confrontation between Kurdis [...]	2008-08-06 15:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MOPS KCRM IZ
08BAGHDAD2464	COR FAILS TO PASS PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW, PASSES [...] (SBU) On August 6, the Council of Representatives (CoR) passed the 2008 budget supplemental, but failed to vote on the provincial elections law. It then recessed until September 9. Speaker Mashadani ordered the creation of a committee to find a compromise solution on Kirkuk, and promised t [...]	2008-08-06 17:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2474	BASRAH GOVERNOR: REGIONS FORMATION IMMINENT [...] (C) Summary: "We are in the last steps" to making Basrah a region, said Governor Waeli in an August 6 conversation with poloffs. Waeli said the necessary signatures had already been collected and expressed confidence that the delay over the passage of the elections law would provide further [...]	2008-08-07 11:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD249	NINEWA: MOSUL UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT PROPOSES BROAD [...] (S/REL ACGU) Summary: Mosul University President Dr. Obay al-Dewachi told us he was open to broad cooperation with the PRT. Although the university was a bastion of the Ba'athist system and is a known safe haven for terrorists, as one of the best universities in Iraq the PRT will begin immedia [...]	2008-01-28 07:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2510	IRAQI NSC ON AUGUST 3 REVIEWS DIYALA OPERATIONS [...] (S/REL UK AS) Summary: The weekly Iraqi National Security Council meeting on August 3 discussed ongoing security operations in Diyala, resolving the MEK situation, and conforming to UNSCR 1373 (Counter Terrorism measures). The Council also touched on the protection of judicial officials and t [...]	2008-08-10 15:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2511	IRAQI MINISTER OF DEFENSE: NEXT STOP, NINEWA [...] (C) SUMMARY: POL-MIL Minister-Counselor and her incoming successor met with Iraq Minister of Defense (MoD) Abdul Qadr August 6 to discuss security developments in Iraq. Citing with approval the current operation in Diyala, MoD said his plan was to next turn to Ninewa "to clean it out." He sai [...]	2008-08-11 03:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ TU IR
08BAGHDAD2518	MAYSAN GOVERNOR PLAYS IT COOL WHILE SHEIKHS RUN HOT [...] (C) Summary: Maysan Governor Adil al-Maliki said all the right things in an August 9 meeting with PRT Team Leader (TL) at the Governor's offices in downtown Amarah. The Governor expressed satisfaction with security gains in the province as a result of Operation Tidings of Peace and the presen [...]	2008-08-11 07:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ PTER MOPS PINS
08BAGHDAD252	(C) TUWAITHA YELLOW CAKE BUYER UPDATE [...] (S) SUMMARY: On Jan 25, 2008, a DOE and MNF-I team met with Iraqi Minister of Science and Technology Raid Jahid (FAHMI) to discuss next steps for Iraq to begin contract negotiations with a qualified buyer for the Tuwaitha yellow cake. Although Minister Fahmi and team are not yet ready to meet [...]	2008-01-28 15:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON ENRG PARM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2520	REPERCUSSIONS OF PROVINCIAL ELECTION DELAY [...] (C) Summary: Parliament's recess August 6 without passing a provincial election law makes provincial elections unlikely before the end of 2008. Based on discussions with Iraqi contacts (including extensive input from PRTs),it is clear that many Iraqis were disappointed but not surprised. The [...]	2008-08-11 08:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2525	NINEWA: YEZIDI SPIRITUAL LEADER PLEADS FOR HIS [...] (C) Summary: The spiritual leader of the Yezidi faith told us that his community's security depends on its remaining within the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) area. Citing the KRG's commitment to secular governance and its superior record of ensuring religious minority rights, he pleaded w [...]	2008-08-11 13:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2531	IRAQ: POLMIL MINSCOUNS MEETS GENERAL ABUD [...] (C) During an August 6 meeting, Baghdad Operations Center commander General Abud told POL-MIL Minister Counselor and her incoming successor that GOI knows Special Groups (SG) are armed and funded by Iran. He explained the GOI is unwilling to state so publicly in a direct manner, but would do s [...]	2008-08-11 15:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ IR
08BAGHDAD254	SENIOR DAWA OFFICIAL ON LTSR, SADRIST "GHOSTS," [...] (C) Summary: Senior Dawa Party CoR member Haidar al-Abadi told us January 27 that CoR ratification of any long-term strategic relationship (LTSR) agreement will likely turn on provisions governing legal immunity and the U.S. military's ability to arrest and detain Iraqi citizens. He claimed th [...]	2008-01-28 17:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2545	LEGAL CLAIMS AGAINST IRAQI ASSETS: WHAT NOW? [...] (C) An interagency team led by Principal Deputy Legal Adviser Joan Donoghue traveled to Baghdad July 18-24 to discuss with GOI officials the protection of Iraq's assets, the settlement of Iraq's remaining Saddam-era debt and commercial claims, and the resolution of Saddam-era personal injury s [...]	2008-08-12 13:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2552	MORE ON MUQTADA AL-SADR'S MUMAHIDOON [...] (C) Summary: Senior Sadrist Trend officials are working overtime in media interviews to tout "al-Mumahidoon," the newly-established unarmed wing of Muqtada al-Sadr's Jaysh al-Mehdi (JAM) militia, as a "social, cultural, and religious" entity. The Mumahidoon will purportedly abandon armed str [...]	2008-08-13 08:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD2555	IRAQ: MOI INTEL DEPUTY SAYS COOPERATION BETWEEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an August 12 meeting with POL-MIL Minister-Counselor and S/CT Regional Coordinator, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior's Deputy Chief of Intelligence said he considered cooperation between Syria and Iran to be a serious problem, including the likely return to Iraq of Special Groups [...]	2008-08-13 12:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR TU IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2561	PRT TEAM LEADER'S CONFERENCE - MOVING FORWARD [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: The message of the July 6-7 Team Leader's Conference was clear: Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) must lay the groundwork for Iraqis to assume greater responsibility, which will occur sooner rather than later. State-DoD cooperation will be essential as DoD turns it [...]	2008-08-13 14:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREZ IZ
08BAGHDAD2582	ICRC TO INCREASE GOI DETENTION INSPECTIONS AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with PolOff and Embassy Legal Adviser on August 5, ICRC Iraq delegation members discussed their increased access to GOI detention facilities, ICRC support for USG efforts to obtain humane treatment assurances before transferring third country national detai [...]	2008-08-14 08:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ICRC PHUM KJUS PINS IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2590	BABIL: SONS OF IRAQ TRANSITION KEY TO CONTINUED [...] (SBU) Separate walkabouts through the towns of Jurf as Sakhr (August 6) and Iskandariyah (August 7) -- both organized by the 4th Battalion/3rd Division -- indicated a security situation markedly improved from the previous year but still fragile. Local politicians and tribal leaders expressed [...]	2008-08-14 15:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD26	SCENESETTER FOR IRAQI MINISTER OF DEFENSE ABDEL [...] (S) Iraqi Minister of Defense Abdel Qadr arrives in Washington against a backdrop of encouraging news about security in Iraq, still tentative legislative progress, and just as the USG SOFA negotiating team begins its preliminary work prior to its initial meeting with the GOI later this month. [...]	2008-01-03 11:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER
08BAGHDAD2605	UNEMPLOYMENT IN FALLUJAH [...] (U) THIS IS AN ANBAR EPRT REPORTING CABLE. 2. (U) SUMMARY: ACCORDING TO THE LOCAL BUSINESS SCHOOL AND THE GOI, FALLUJAH DISTRICT'S 15.9 PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS LOWER THAN EXPECTED, AND MAY REFLECT A NORMALIZING ECONOMY. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE RATE ALSO REFLECTS A 15 PERCENT INCREASE [...]	2008-08-17 06:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB IZ
08BAGHDAD2612	BLOODY THUMBPRINT ASIDE, NOT MUCH NEW IN SADR'S [...] (C) Summary: Issued on a Sadrist website and read aloud during Friday August 15 sermons at Sadrist-controlled mosques throughout Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr's "oath of allegiance" was purportedly signed and sealed with his own bloody thumbprint, and Sadr asked his followers to take a similar blood oa [...]	2008-08-17 13:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR
08BAGHDAD2613	KIRKUK: S/A KRAJESKI FINDS NO COMPROMISE IN KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor Thomas Krajeski traveled to Kirkuk August 13 to engage political leaders on the failed passage of the Provincial Elections Law and to encourage compromise from all sides toward a workable solution for the troubled province. Kurdish leaders made clear their desire [...]	2008-08-17 14:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU IZ
08BAGHDAD2618	NINEWA: IMPROVED DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED KEROSENE [...] (C) Summary: Over the last two winters, Ninewa residents suffered from a severe shortage of kerosene, which they use for cooking and home heating in the province's sub-freezing winters. Hoping to avoid the long fuel lines and exorbitant black market kerosene rates of 2006 and 2007, provincial [...]	2008-08-17 15:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG PGOV PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2628	THE AMBASSADOR'S DINNER WITH PROMINENT SHI'A [...] (C) Summary: A prominent Shi'a cleric told the Ambassador August 13 that Iraqis perceive significant security improvements, but stressed that regional engagement against foreign fighters would be key to sustaining this progress. Sayyed Mohammed Bahr al-Uloom and his two sons, politicians in th [...]	2008-08-18 06:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD2629	MOH AGREES TO ANTI-ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT LANGUAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Health has agreed to eliminate Arab League Boycott (ALB) language in all future procurement contracts. With this breakthrough, two of three areas in which the GOI had been using contracting language that violated U.S. anti-ALB legislation (trademark applications a [...]	2008-08-18 07:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KPBT PREL EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD2632	NINEWA: UPDATE ON AL-MISHRAQ SULFUR PLANT [...] (C) According to the facility's deputy manager, the al-Mishraq Sulfur Plant north of Qayyarah, Ninewa, has sold almost the entire stockpile of sulfur that had been mined before a catastrophic fire closed the plant in 2003. The deputy manager reported that the unrefined 70 to 80 percent pure s [...]	2008-08-18 07:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV EPET EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD2638	OIL MINISTRY RENEGOTIATING CHINESE CONTRACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 11, the Ministry of Oil announced that it would renegotiate terms of a 1997 contract with the China National Petroleum Company to develop the Ahdab oil field in Wasit province. On August 17, Oil Minister Shahristani left on an overseas trip that reportedly would includ [...]	2008-08-18 14:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD264	BATTLE FOR BAGHDAD PART 1: MAKING PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: As violence drops, community life rebounds, and markets revive, substantial improvements in the security environment in Baghdad have precipitated a shift in attitude among many Baghdad residents. Locals seem buoyed by the fragile hope that the near future may be better than the [...]	2008-01-29 15:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2643	KARBALA CELEBRATES SECURE SHABANIYAH [...] (SBU) Summary: Karbala officials and residents alike are breathing a sigh of relief after the annual Shabaniyah observance, which culminated in the early morning hours on September 17, passed without incident within the province (although violence was recorded in other provinces among pilgrim [...]	2008-08-18 15:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL SOCI KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD265	BATTLE FOR BAGHDAD PART 2: IT'S NOT OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a substantially improved security environment in Baghdad, local residents continue to stress that the battle for Baghdad is not yet won. Most importantly, they assert that the Government of Iraq (GoI) and the Coalition have not achieved irreversible momentum toward the e [...]	2008-01-29 15:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINR PINS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD267	OPERATIONS IN MOSUL DOMINATE JANUARY 27 MCNS [...] (S REL MNF-I) Following brief remarks from MOD on Army escorts for fuel deliveries, Prime Minister Maliki moved the discussion from the scheduled topics to the situation in Ninewa province, especially in Mosul (ref. A). MOD painted a picture of disorganized security forces in Mosul and outlin [...]	2008-01-29 17:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER PHUM SY IZ
08BAGHDAD2688	NINEWA: ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: The Assyrian Catholic communities of Kermalais and Bartala in northeast Ninewa are focused on their future political status and the security of their communities. Their stated demand for some form of autonomy under the Article 140 process reflects a desire for control of local g [...]	2008-08-21 15:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2689	PDS UPDATE: "DIFFICULT, COMPLICATED AND SLOW" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reform of the Iraqi Public Distribution System (PDS) may be delayed "by months, not years," according to Trade Minister Al-Sudani. The MOT had hoped to reduce the PDS roles by 25 percent beginning in January 2009. However, it has run into political opposition, as well as concerns [...]	2008-08-21 15:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAGR ETRD EAID ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2707	PRT SALAH AD-DIN: SAD VOTER REGISTRATION GOING [...] (C) Voter registration in Salah ad Din (SaD)is proceeding smoothly, but many other SaD residents are uninformed about the elections and not aware that voter registration is taking place, SaD Governorate Electoral Officer (GEO) informed PRT members on August 18 The GEO believed many people who [...]	2008-08-22 13:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2708	CONFIDANTE TO SUNNI ARAB VICE PRESIDENT BLASTS PM [...] (C) Summary: A senior advisor to (Sunni) Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi complained August 21 that Prime Minister Maliki, emboldened by the success of this spring's security operations in Basra and Sadr City, was increasingly dropping the pretense of partnership with the ruling coalition's Sunn [...]	2008-08-23 11:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD2712	MOPDC MINISTER BABAN ON MATCHING, BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: At an August 18 meeting with Ambassador Ries and Ambassador Wall (CETI),Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Ali Baban said that DPM Barham Salih was circulating a draft letter related to the "commitment to obligate funds" for GOI ministerial approval. Baban o [...]	2008-08-24 06:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EPET PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2713	SALAH AL DIN: PROGRESS IN THE ECONOMIC SITUATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. (U) Summary ------------ 2. (SBU) Improved security conditions have had a positive impact on the economic situation in Salah-ad-Din (SaD); it is easier for goods to reach markets; produce prices are dropping and progress is being made i [...]	2008-08-24 08:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV EAGR IZ
08BAGHDAD2714	SAMARRA RECONSTRUCTION EXTENDS BEYOND GOLDEN MOSQUE [...] (C) Reconstruction of the Al-Askari Mosque continues to advance. The Shi'a Mosque recently opened to local citizens for the first time since the terrorist bombing in February 2006. Additionally, reconstruction efforts are now expanding more noticeably beyond the Mosque with an increased focus [...]	2008-08-24 10:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD2719	KIRKUK: PIC ESTABLISHED; PC CHAIRMAN ADDRESSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Months of negotiations between the different blocs of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC) ended on 18 August with an agreement signed by representatives of each of the major ethnicities (Kurds, Arabs, Turkomen) establishing the Kirkuk Provincial Investment Commission (PIC). The [...]	2008-08-24 12:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV PGOV ETRD ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2725	MAYSAN ISCI HEAD: IRAN'S NOT SO BAD [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Local ISCI head and PC member Sayyid Hashim al-Shauki called the Maysani provincial government "ineffective" in an August 21 meeting with U.S. officials, blaming in part militant pressure on Sadrist politicians. He identified provincial elections as the sole means of i [...]	2008-08-25 06:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2727	UPDATE ON INVESTMENT IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the recent months, Iraq has seen some early but significant successes in attracting foreign (and, to a lesser extent, domestic) investment. The Ministry of Industry and Mining has moved several SOEs toward point of sale or joint venture status and received 56 JV bids. The [...]	2008-08-25 07:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD2729	IRAQI NSC ON AUGUST 17 REVIEWS MOSUL [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chaired the August 17 meeting of the National Security Council (I-NSC) that focused on reconstruction efforts in Mosul, MOD's logistics modernization, and protection of infrastructure. The Council also reviewed operations in Diyala, protec [...]	2008-08-25 10:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD2731	ENTRENCHED CORRUPTION IN KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ [...] (S) Anti-Corruption Coordinator, Lawrence Benedict, Embassy Baghdad Anti-Corruption Coordination Office (ACCO) and Erbil RRT officers met August 11-14 with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials, non-governmental organizations, and representatives of the private sector to gauge the corr [...]	2008-08-25 11:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2741	A GREEN LINE AND A RED LINE DIVIDE THE SHIA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdish-Shia Islamist tensions about Kirkuk complicate passage of a new election law but also reflect a deeper dissatisfaction among some important Shia Islamists about Kurdish policies. An influential Shia parliamentarian ranted to us on August 24 about alleged Kurdish selfis [...]	2008-08-26 10:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2751	NINEWA: A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CONSIDERS ITS FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Two prominent Assyrian Christian leaders in Tel Kaif district told the PRT they want to remain a part of Ninewa Province, believing that the KRG is increasingly authoritarian, likely to split on tribal lines, and more prone to Islamic extremism than is currently apparent. By cha [...]	2008-08-27 07:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2758	MAYSAN DA'WA HEAD: WE ARE THE PEACEMAKERS [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Latif Abud, the head of the Da'wa party in Maysan and a Provincial Council (PC) leader, painted his party as a major conciliator in an August 26 meeting with the PRT. He expressed cautious satisfaction with improved security since Operation Good Tidings of Peace and empha [...]	2008-08-27 17:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2770	ELECTRICITY MINISTER OBTAINS RUSSIAN SUPPORT; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Outgoing Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq (CETI) Ambassador Charles Ries and incoming CETI Ambassador Marc Wall met with Electricity Minister Karim Wahid al-Hasan on August 24. Karim, who had just returned from Moscow, reported that the Russians would be sending a te [...]	2008-08-28 14:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EINV PREL RS IZ
08BAGHDAD2771	PM MOVING TO REINSTATE BAGHDAD DEPUTY MAYOR NAEEM [...] (C) Summary: Sadrist-linked Naeem Aboub al Kaby looks poised for reinstatement as Deputy Mayor of Baghdad by order of Prime Minister Maliki. Naeem,s return follows his politically motivated dismissal in February 2008. Baghdad Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Mueen has voiced disapproval of [...]	2008-08-28 14:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2772	PRT SALAH AD DIN: MICRO-FINANCE PROGRAM STALLED [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: On 11 August, the PRT met with the Director General of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA) loan program for Salah ad Din (SaD) to gauge the status of the MOLSA credit program in the province. The MOLSA loans in [...]	2008-08-28 14:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD2781	SUNNI ARAB INSIDER WARNS PM MALIKI WILL REIGNITE [...] (C) Summary: Tens of thousands of Sunni Arab "Sons of Iraq" and Sahwa ("Awakening") fighters, who were instrumental in pushing Al-Qa'ida out of Anbar Province, and on the defensive elsewhere, will not be absorbed into the Iraqi Security Forces and vocational training programs as projected, a [...]	2008-08-29 12:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PTER MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD2782	MALIKI CONFIDANTE CAREFUL ON SOFA AND DISPUTES [...] (C) SUMMARY: One of Prime Minister's closest confidantes told us August 28 that the Prime Minister will keep asserting the Baghdad government's right to deploy the Iraqi army up to the Green Line. He acknowledged Kurdish sensitivities over towns like Khanaqin and Kirkuk but insisted they a [...]	2008-08-29 12:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2783	SUNNI SHEIKHS FEELING EXCLUDED FROM THE PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Many Sunni tribal views of the GOI are defined by perceptions of corruption, and the belief that political and sectarian motives drive a Shi'a-dominated government that utilizes the Iraqi Security Forces (both police and military) as a political tool. Sunni tribal contacts are ge [...]	2008-08-29 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2784	IRAQI NSC ON AUGUST 24 REVIEWS READINESS OF [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: The National Security Council (I-NSC),chaired by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, focused its discussions August 24 on the readiness of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to provide security for Iraq and command and control of Ports of Entry (POEs). The council also heard [...]	2008-08-29 13:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD2792	ERBIL: MORE BELLIGERENT KURDISH RHETORIC SIGNAL [...] (C) Summary: Increasingly heated rhetoric from Kurdish interlocutors is a sign of the strain placed on the Shia/Kurdish alliance following the failed effort to pass the provincial elections law and the GOI demand that the 34th Peshmerga unit withdraw from Diyala. In an August 21 meeting, a [...]	2008-08-31 11:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2795	PRT ANBAR: ANBAR PROVINCE ON THE EVE OF PIC [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Security responsibility in Anbar Province is scheduled to be transferred from the Coalition Forces (CF) to Iraqi national and provincial authorities in a ceremony in Ramadi on September 1. Called Provincial Iraqi Control [...]	2008-08-31 13:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2796	MAYSAN FADILAH HEAD: WE'RE 100 PERCENT IRAQI [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Ali Kadhem Khalaf, the leader of Fadilah in Maysan and a deputy Provincial Council (PC) chairman, presented his party as nationalistic, anti-extremist, anti-militia, and free of foreign influence in an August 30 meeting with PRT leader. He provided additional color on t [...]	2008-08-31 14:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD280	FM ZEBARAI ON NEIGHBORS PROCESS; SFA FRAMEWORK; [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 29 meeting, Foreign Minister Zebari told PolCounselor he expected a complete round of Neighbors Working Group meetings to take place in February and a Baghdad PrepCon (level to be determined) to be held in March. He said another top MFA priority was to appoint car [...]	2008-01-30 18:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2801	NINEWA: SHEBAK LEADERS FROM BARTALA TOWN RESIST [...] (C) Summary. Shebak political leaders from Bartala town told us that they prefer to remain a part of Ninewa Province in an August meeting. Shebak Democratic Assembly representatives said that the short-term security benefits of existence under KRG control are not worth the dangers of the com [...]	2008-09-01 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER ECON KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2802	GENERAL OTHMAN TALKS TRIBES, SECURITY, IRAN [...] (C) General Othman, Commander of the Iraqi Army (IA) 8th Division (responsible for all five Middle Euphrates provinces),spoke openly with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on August 27 regarding political dynamics in the region, particularly developments that will impact the security situation. Key [...]	2008-09-01 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2803	BASRA GOV WAELI MAKES CASE FOR ONE-PROVINCE REGION [...] (C) Basra Governor Wa'eli (Fadhilah) confidently outlined for Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on August 30 the progress made toward forming a regional government in Basra. The Governor emphasized that Basra would pursue a referendum on a one-province region in early 2009, with the possibility of a [...]	2008-09-01 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2804	ENGAGING GOI ON DRAFT UNSCR FOR TERRORIST [...] (C) Per Reftel A instructions, Econoff met August 31 with MFA Deputy IO Director Mohammed al-Humaimidi to urge the GOI to accept a different formulation of preamble Paragraph 10 of subject draft UNSC resolution, and to seek GOI agreement on the list of seven names provided by the USG for inclu [...]	2008-09-01 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC EFIN PREL PTER IZ RU UK
08BAGHDAD2809	ERBIL: S/A KRAJESKI MEETS WITH ANGRY KRG LEADERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: KRG officials are frustrated with the stagnation in the implementation of Article 140, dismayed about recent Iraqi Army attempted deployments into Khaneqin and other disputed territories, and fearful for their future within a federal Iraq if the perceived anti-Kurd sentiment gro [...]	2008-09-01 16:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD2811	NIC CHAIRMAN OPTIMISTIC DESPITE CHALLENGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Investment Commission (NIC) Chairman-Designate Ridha continues to aggressively court foreign investors, even though the GOI has not promulgated implementing regulations for the 2006 Investment Law to support his mission. Ridha is creative and well-intentioned, but he is [...]	2008-09-02 06:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD PGOV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2815	ERBIL AND KIRKUK: MURDER AND INTIMIDATION [...] (C) Summary: Credible death threats from the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Iranian intelligence service may force one of the Kurdistan Region's boldest independent media outlets, Lvin magazine, to move its operations to Europe, according to Lvin's Editor-in-Chief Ahmad Mira. Mira [...]	2008-09-02 12:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2819	CETI: DPM BARHAM SALIH WANTS CONTINUED [...] (C) Summary: At his introductory meeting with EMIN Wall on September 1, DPM Barham Salih provided a tour d'horizon of economic issues. He noted that Iraq is in a transitionQperiod; key challenges include: political reorganization (including the status of Kirkuk),energy -- especially hydroc [...]	2008-09-02 14:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ETRD EAID ECON
08BAGHDAD2820	DIYALA STANDOFF RECEDES BUT GOI-KRG TENSIONS [...] (C) The standoff in the northeastern Diyala province town of Khanaqin between Kurdish Peshmerga and the Iraqi Army (IA) forces appears to have passed its most dangerous phase, but an armed showdown between KRG and GOI security forces in this or another disputed territory remains a threat. Dep [...]	2008-09-02 14:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2828	NINEWA: MINORITY COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES SHARE [...] (C) Summary: Ninewa,s minority communities are divided between and among themselves over the article 140 process. Some claim that their communities will be better off under Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) rule; others prefer to remain part of Ninewa Province. Some cite the KRG as their pri [...]	2008-09-03 03:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2829	MINORITIES COMMITTEE ON CONFERENCE PLANNING, WHAT [...] (C) Summary: While there is general consensus among Iraq's Christians on economic and cultural issues requiring ameliorative GoI action (e.g., de-Islamicising the national educational curriculum and removing religious identification from national ID cards),the community is divided on polit [...]	2008-09-03 06:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2831	SUNNI LEADER PESSIMISTIC ABOUT GOI INTENTIONS WITH [...] SUMMARY (C) According to Sahwa leader Abu Azaam, the GOI and Shi,a have opposed Sahwa and the Sons of Iraq (SOI) since its establishment, and transitioning the Sahwa to GOI administration would lead to its dissolution. This will increase the sense of betrayal among Sunni Arabs, and could lead [...]	2008-09-03 12:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2838	PRT DIYALA: IRAQI ARMY ACTIONS IN KHANAQIN RAISE [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Diyala Provincial Council Chairman Ibrahim Bajellan (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK) told us that negotiators, who have met the past few days in Baghdad, have worked to defuse the tense confrontation between Kurdish fo [...]	2008-09-04 14:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL PREL PTER PINS PINR MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD284	NINEWA: MOSUL UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT PROPOSES BROAD [...] (S/REL ACGU) Summary: Mosul University President Dr. Obay al-Dewachi told us he was open to broad cooperation with the PRT. Although the university was a bastion of the Ba'athist system and is a known safe haven for terrorists, as one of the best universities in Iraq the PRT will begin immedia [...]	2008-01-31 08:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2854	IRAQI DINAR CASH CRUNCH: TIGHT BUT MANAGEABLE [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's vastly increased public spending combined with bureaucratic delays in the purchase of new cash supplies by the Central Bank of Iraq, an antiquated and not-yet interconnected banking sector, and continued reliance on cash payments for government salaries has caused a cash c [...]	2008-09-05 10:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2857	SOUTHERN SHEIKH ALLIANCE ASKS U.S. TO BROKER A [...] (S/REL MCFI) Two tribal leaders who represent a nascent nationalist, cross-sectarian political movement continued their dialogue with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray about their motives, Iranian influence, and the need for U.S. financial support. When informed that the U.S. could not sponsor or [...]	2008-09-05 13:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	POL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2859	GOI REVERTING TO HARD LINE ON KHANAQIN STANDOFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Shia-led GOI position on Kurdish security forces in the Khanaqin district of Diyala governorate appears to be hardening since an August 31 agreement to allow Kurdish security forces to remain in Khanaqin city. Shia leaders close to Prime Minister Maliki have stressed that th [...]	2008-09-05 14:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2860	IRAQI NSC AUGUST 31 DISCUSSES COUNTERING [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki chaired the August 31 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC) that followed up on the previous week's (reftel) discussion of preventing assassinations, detainee releases, and operations in Diyala. The Council also spent consi [...]	2008-09-05 15:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MASS MARR ENGR ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD2862	PRT SALAH AD DIN: KIRKUK ISSUE HEIGHTENS TENSIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) For Salah ad Din (SaD) residents, the Kirkuk Provincial Council's (PC's) call for Kirkuk to join the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has proved to be a very emotive issue. This is a particularly sensitive issue [...]	2008-09-05 19:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD2875	SOUTH PREPARES FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS; ISCI AND [...] (C) In a series of discussions with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, leaders of all major Shi'a political affiliations expressed a preference that provincial elections occur in December 2008, though they doubt that the soon-to-reconvene Council of Represenatives (CoR) will pass a law in time for el [...]	2008-09-07 08:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD288	IRAQI PARLIAMENT SPEAKER MASHADANI ON PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: COR Speaker Mashadani told us on January 30 that he expects the Provincial Powers law to pass the CoR on February 4. He does not agree with those arguing that a date for elections should be in the law but does believe that elections should be held as soon as possible, hopefully [...]	2008-01-31 11:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINR PROV
08BAGHDAD2890	STATE OF DETENTION FACILITIES IN IRAQ: SOUTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There are still big problems with overcrowding in detention facilities in southern Iraq, with the consequent effect on supplies of food and medicine and judicial processing delays. There is an immediate need for more facilities, especially prisons, and more trained correctio [...]	2008-09-08 07:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KJUS PINS IQ
08BAGHDAD2891	SHELL LOOKS TO ESTABLISH A PRESENCE IN BASRA [...] This is a Regional Embassy Office Basra cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: A Shell International executive team visited Basra between August 28 and September 1 as part of its negotiations on a potential joint venture with the Iraqi government. Under the multi-billion dollar, 25-year agreement, She [...]	2008-09-08 07:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD2898	CETI: MOT AL-SUDANI DISCUSSES TARIFFS, WTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Trade Minister Al-Sudani told EMIN that the GOI remains fully committed to WTO accession, even though some in government "who still cling to a regime mentality" continue be skeptical about the process. He confirmed once again that reform of the Public Distribution System wou [...]	2008-09-08 14:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV EAGR ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD290	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - January 29 [...] SUMMARY: At this week's regularly held Provision of Services Committee meeting, the committee met for 2.5 hours to discuss issues ranging from trash collection privatization and re-opening previously closed streets to electrical supply for pumping stations and service problems in specific qadas [...]	2008-01-31 15:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD2900	RRT ERBIL: ONE IRAQ: THE JUDICIARY CROSSES THE GREAT DIVIDE [...] (SBU) Summary: Chief Justice Medhat on August 29 led a delegation of nine judges from the Iraq High Judicial Council (HJC) to meet with thirteen judges from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq who were selected by the Kurdistan Judicial Council (KJC). This was the first meeting between representative [...]	2008-09-08 15:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KJUS PINR IZ

08BAGHDAD2904	SOUTHERN ELECTIONS FORECAST: MORE OF THE SAME [...] (C) Summary: Provincial elections are unlikely to result in a radical shift of the southern political map. Despite concerns about voter fraud and low voter registration numbers the overwhelming majority of southern Shi'a say they intend to vote in the elections. Iraq's Shi'a remain deeply d [...]	2008-09-09 05:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD2906	IRAQ PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE CHAIRS ON CAPACITY [...] (C) Summary: Council of Representatives (COR) Economic Committee Chairman Haider al-Abadi and COR Finance Committee Chairman Ayad al-Sammarai told EMIN in separate meetings that the overall situation in Iraq has greatly improved. Abadi warned that these improvements have led Iraqis to have hig [...]	2008-09-09 07:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB EPET PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2913	STATE OF DETENTION FACILITIES IN IRAQ: NORTH AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Similar to conditions in southern and central Iraq, there are serious problems with overcrowding in detention facilities in northern and western Iraq. Ongoing GOI military operations and a lack of sufficient facilities, especially prisons, have exacerbated overcrowding in Diy [...]	2008-09-09 11:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KJUS PINS IQ
08BAGHDAD2914	MOHR CAUTIONS GOI WILL MOVE SLOWLY ON MEK AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim recognizes the need for the GOI to formulate a comprehensive plan for the transfer of security authority for Camp Ashraf and the post-transfer stage, but said the GOI has not yet reached consensus on modalities for the transfer and how the cam [...]	2008-09-09 13:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM KJUS PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2928	IRAQ NOT IN A TIME OF CHOLERA [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq Ministry of Health (MoH) officials said September 9 that there have been a total of 26 cases of cholera reported in 2008; according to health officials, this is far below the number of cases reported by this time last year and falls well short of the threshold of an outbreak [...]	2008-09-10 11:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI KSCA IZ
08BAGHDAD2929	PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: ELECTIONS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: Senior Iraqi election commission (IHEC) officials told us September 9 that they require 135 days of lead time between passage of an election law and the holding of elections to organize credible provincial elections. They indicated that January 2009 was the earliest date an ele [...]	2008-09-10 11:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD293	BLUEBLOOD SHIA CLERIC COMMENTS ON "BACKWARD" [...] (C) Summary: Scion of a prominent Najafi clerical family and related to both Grand Ayatollah Sistani and Moqtada al-Sadr, Emad Klanter told us January 30 that bumbling Iraqi politicians fail to make progress of any sort but actively encourage a public perception of "American Occupation" throug [...]	2008-01-31 15:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2930	PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: ELECTIONS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: Senior Iraqi election commission (IHEC) officials told us September 9 that they require 135 days of lead time between passage of an election law and the holding of elections to organize credible provincial elections. They indicated that January 2009 was the earliest date an ele [...]	2008-09-10 12:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2933	NSC SEPTEMBER 7: STEMMING ASSASSINATIONS AND [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Rafi Isawi chaired the sparsely attended September 7 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC). The Council considered plans to tackle the rising number of assassinations in Baghdad, reconstruction coordination, and the achievements of [...]	2008-09-11 06:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2936	CG DISCUSSES PESHMERGA-GOI CONFLICT, FORCE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In their regular weekly meeting on 4 September 2008, Commanding General MNF-I GEN David Petraeus and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (joined by CDA) discussed disposition of Kurdish forces (Peshmerga) near the city of Khanaqin and the Green Line, Iraqi military force struct [...]	2008-09-11 11:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER ENGR EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD2944	FINANCE MINISTER JABR ON KUWAIT DEBT ISSUES: LET'S [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para seven. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Finance Minister Jabr told EMIN September 11 that "as a politician" he hoped that the Kuwaiti government would understand (and hear from the USG) that the future relationship between the people of Iraq and Kuwait i [...]	2008-09-11 18:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ECON KU IZ
08BAGHDAD295	IRAN-IRAQ BORDER NEGOTIATIONS TO RESUME IN FEBRUARY [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: At a January 28 meeting with Acting PolMil Counselor, Iraqi MFA Under Secretary Mohammad Hamoud discussed GOI preparations for a further round of bilateral talks with Iran regarding their shared border. He indicated talks would take place on February 19, since negotiations pla [...]	2008-02-01 06:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PBTS IR IZ KU
08BAGHDAD2953	TENSIONS SIMMER BETWEEN ANBAR,S GOVERNOR AND THE [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Long submerged tensions between the Provincial Council (PC) and Governor Ma'amoun surfaced in Ramadi September 9, with a threat to remove Ma'amoun from office unless he improves essential services. Published minutes of a [...]	2008-09-13 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD2960	GOI LAUNCHES PROPERTY RESTITUTION PROGRAM; POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI's policy on property restitution and evictions coincides with improved security in some neighborhoods and has the potential to encourage increased returns of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees to those districts. According to the GOI, over 7,500 families, [...]	2008-09-14 10:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD2962	AMB, CG AND PM DISCUSS ELECTIONS, GOI/KRG [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In the regular weekly meeting held on September 11 with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Ambassador and Commanding General MNF-I General David Petraeus discussed the elections law, relations between the KRG and GOI, foreign business investment in Iraq, crude oil processing [...]	2008-09-14 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER ENGR EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD2963	IRAQI-KUWAITI BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C/REL MNFI) Deputy Foreign Minister Hamoud told us on September 11 the Kuwaiti Prime Minister would visit Iraq shortly after Ramadan concludes. He said a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on clearing the Khor Abudllah waterway of shipwrecks remained 'stuck' in the Prime Minister's [...]	2008-09-14 15:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR
08BAGHDAD297	PRT MAYSAN: MAYSAN'S TRIBAL LANDSCAPE [...] (U) The material in this cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. SIPDIS 2. (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 3. (SBU) Summary: Maysan,s tribal landscape is primarily made up of five tribal confederations and over thirty tribal organizations. The B [...]	2008-02-01 13:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ
08BAGHDAD2981	IRAQ-IRAN BORDER NEGOTIATIONS TO MOVE AHEAD - MAYBE [...] (C) Iraq and Iran appear ready to commence work soon to resolve outstanding border issues, assuming PM Maliki and other key GOI constituencies give the political green light and make available necessary funding. Senior MFA officials who participated in late-August bilateral talks in Tehran s [...]	2008-09-16 09:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS IZ IR
08BAGHDAD299	ARTICLE 140: WHERE ARE WE NOW? [...] (C) Summary: The issue of Article 140 and the status of Kirkuk and the disputed territories is solidly in the middle of the national debate, although there are significant disagreements on all sides in terms of addressing this complex problem. A fair, transparent and agreed resolution to the [...]	2008-02-01 16:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2993	SADR CITY UPDATE: BOSS SHAMA,S RETURN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Hassan Shama, the Sadr City politician wounded in the June 24 blast that killed several EPRT members and U.S. military personnel, returned to work on August 12 and, after a small public wrangle, resumed his role as District Council (DC) chairman. Since then, Shama has moved aggr [...]	2008-09-16 14:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PTER PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2995	DIYALA BUDGET EXECUTION DELAYED BY CIVIL STRIFE [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable 2. (SBU) Summary: Reports on budget execution show Diyala last or near last among provinces in regard to disbursements against its 2006 and 2007 development budgets. Improvements in performance are needed and PRT Diyala is working on those it has id [...]	2008-09-17 06:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2997	BAYJI OIL REFINERY DEALING WITH HFO AND CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: On September 10, 2008, senior Ministry of Oil (MoO) officials, accompanied by Embassy and MNF-I staff, visited Bayji Oil Refinery (BOR) and discussed the situation at the refinery, including measures to cope with a build-up of heavy fuel oil (HFO) levels, which currently restrict [...]	2008-09-17 11:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ETRD IZ PREL SY TU
08BAGHDAD300	DOWN BUT HARDLY OUT: ISCI 2008 ELECTION PROSPECTS [...] (U) This is a joint southern PRT, REO, ePRT and Baghdad POL reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Public opinion is turning against the religious parties, including Da'wa, ISCI, and the Sadr Trend, throughout the south. This reflects widespread disappointment with the performance and corrupti [...]	2008-02-01 18:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3002	USAID/IRAQ HELPS CAPTURE $1 BILLION PER YEAR [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: With elections approaching and essential services still lagging, improved service delivery of electricity is critical. Yet every day Iraq's southern oil fields burn off gas associated with oil production, gas that could drive 3,500 megawatts (MW) of generator power worth $9 b [...]	2008-09-17 14:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL ECON SOCI PINS SNAR ENRG
08BAGHDAD3003	PRT SALAH AD DIN: SAD DEPUTY GOVERNOR FOCUSED ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) The Salah ad Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein al-Jubara told PRT officers that private sector investments and development are the best way to create further economic progress in SaD. Abdullah reported that [...]	2008-09-18 09:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD PGOV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3004	A TALE OF TWO NEIGHBORHOODS - IDP RETURNS IN [...] (C) Summary: In the past two months, security gains and GOI evictions of illegal tenants have contributed to return of internal displaced persons (IDP) in Baghdad, but progress is far from uniform. Hurriya, a district in western Baghdad, and Doura, on the city's southern flank, both suffere [...]	2008-09-18 09:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF IZ
08BAGHDAD3006	UNPRECEDENTED BILL AIMS TO ADDRESS CHRISTIAN [...] (C) Non-Muslim Endowments Office Director Abdullah Al-Naufali and associates are drafting a new law that will aim to protect the personal status rights of Christians. According to one of the drafting committee lawyers, the nearly completed draft will be submitted to the Shura Council by the e [...]	2008-09-18 10:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3007	PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW: MORE CHURNING BUT NO [...] (C) A parliamentary committee came close to agreement September 16 evening on language for the disputed Kirkuk election language of the draft provincial elections law. Proposed changes by Arab and Turcoman members about this disputed text for Article 24 of the draft law scuttled consensus a [...]	2008-09-18 10:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3008	ANBAR'S AWAKENING AT TWO YEARS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) The Anbar's "awakening movement" was founded in September 2006, a date that arguably marks the turning point in the battle against Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). It is now a political party, the Iraq Awakening Conference (Muatam [...]	2008-09-18 14:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3009	VISIT REQUESTED BY HOLY SEE LIKELY TO LEAD TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 10, the Holy See asked the USG to arrange for a human rights attorney from Rome to meet with former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who was the highest ranking Christian in Saddam Hussein,s government and is now on trial before the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT). On S [...]	2008-09-18 15:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3023	ISCI/BADR FEELING UNDER THREAT, RAISING INTER-SHIA [...] (S) The influential Shia Islamist party ISCI/Badr has become increasingly isolated among Shi'a parties in the past month, and its governing practices have become increasingly restrictive. Tensions have risen dramatically between ISCI/Badr and its fellow Shi'a Islamist coalition partner Da'wa [...]	2008-09-19 13:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3024	WASIT ISCI PARTY CHIEF SLAMS DA'WA, SADRISTS, AND [...] (C) Summary. PRT met on September 14 at al-Kut's ISCI headquarters building with Wasit ISCI party chief Ahmed al-Hakim. Al-Hakim is vehemently critical of Da'wa and the tribal support council concept, and mildly negative about ISCI's electoral prospects given public irritation over the lack [...]	2008-09-19 13:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3030	SENIOR KURDISH OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGES KURDISH [...] (C) Summary: In a September 21 meeting, Senior KRG official in Baghdad Mohamed Ihsan admitted to Senior Advisor Krajeski that Kurds had mismanaged their political alliances and were partly to blame for widespread anti-Kurd sentiment. But he also blamed PM Maliki for seeking to roll back feder [...]	2008-09-21 12:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3031	AMB, CG AND PM DISCUSS SOFA, SOI, AMBASSADOR'S [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In the regular weekly meeting held on 18 September 2008, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Ambassador and Commanding General (CG) MNF-I General Raymond Odierno discussed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),Sons of Iraq (SOI),the Ambassador's trip to KRG and relations bet [...]	2008-09-21 13:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER ENGR EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD3032	KARBALA: TRIBAL FEUD RESOLUTION IN OFFING [...] (C) Summary: Resolution of the long-simmering dispute between Shi'a tribes in Karbala's eastern Ayn al-Tamr district and Sunni tribes in neighboring al-Rahaliyah in al-Anbar Province now appears possible. In response to a request from PRT Karbala, a prominent mediator has brought leaders fro [...]	2008-09-21 14:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PREL PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3033	KARBALA: LOCAL UNEASE AT IRANIAN ACTIVITIES [...] (S) Summary: Many tribesmen and others in Karbala are mistrustful of Iranian activities here, and Iran's Consul in particular is held in low regard. Some would like to express publicly their displeasure with Tehran's machinations, but refrain from doing so out of fear of retribution. Althou [...]	2008-09-21 14:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3035	NINEWA: MURDER OF ASSISTANT GOVERNOR WILL FURTHER [...] (C) Summary: Assailants gunned down Ninewa's Assistant Governor for Technical Affairs September 17 outside his mosque. Shamil Younis was a prominent Sunni Arab working for Governor Kashmoula and a close contact of PRT Mosul. A distraught Kashmoula told us that Younis was the seventeenth of [...]	2008-09-21 16:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3040	SENIOR AYATOLLAH JITTERY ABOUT U.S. SECURITY RAMP [...] (C) Summary: Ayatollah Hussein Al-Sadr, Baghdad's senior Shi'a cleric, warned PMIN on September 19 that the Iraqi government was extremely fragile and would be quickly toppled if the U.S. withdrew forces too quickly. Generally supportive of the U.S., he criticized the USG's current course and [...]	2008-09-22 05:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3054	BASRAH REGIONAL COURTHOUSE NEARING COMPLETION [...] (C) Summary: The Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region South (GRS) will complete construction of the new Basrah Regional Courthouse on September 25 and plans to transfer possession to the Iraqi government on that date. After some debate, the Iraqi High Judicial Council (HJC) has agreed to ass [...]	2008-09-23 12:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3060	IRAQ VICE PRESIDENT AL-MAHDI - LACK OF STRATEGY [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraqi Vice Predident Adel Abdul Al-Mahdi told EMIN on September 16 that progress in the energy sector was impaired by a lack of overall strategy, but is now moving ahead with large contracts. Problems in the Nasariyah water supply plant were gradually being addressed, he added. [...]	2008-09-23 14:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EAIR EINV EAGR PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3062	PRESIDENT BARZANI - NOTHING IS AS IT SHOULD BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 16, an agitated Kurdistan President Barzani told the Ambassador that he had lost trust in Prime Minister Maliki and if the Prime Minister pushed too far with Iraqi army units there would be armed conflict. Barzani inferred that Maliki has betrayed their friendship [...]	2008-09-23 15:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ IR TU
08BAGHDAD3065	IRAQI OIL MINISTRY'S PENDING HUMAN RESOURCES CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: With the retirements in the next few years of its top cadre, who are on one-year waivers of the mandatory 63-year-old retirement age, the Ministry of Oil will lose a generation that has the international exposure and experience to lead the Ministry during a period when it restr [...]	2008-09-24 06:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EAID SOCI PGOV KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD3066	SRSG DEMISTURA ON PROSPECTS FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: SRSG DeMistura told the Ambassador that revalidating the 2005 election law could work as a Plan B if the CoR does not pass a new election law, but that IHEC would still need 135 days to prepare for an election. He said that IHEC could promulgate regulations under the 2005 law t [...]	2008-09-24 06:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TU
08BAGHDAD3067	DPM SALIH ON 2009 BUDGET, OIL LAW, AND A NEW [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 16. 2. (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told EMIN September 22 that he would like to host a second session of Dialogue on Economic Cooperation before the end of 2008 to bring both senior U.S. government and business leaders [...]	2008-09-24 07:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD308	PRT WASIT: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIR AIRS SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary: In a 29 Jan meeting with PRT Team Leader (TL),Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Mohammad Hassan Jabir expressed fear that potential Sadrist election victories and the advent of Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) in Wasit wo [...]	2008-02-02 14:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD3081	ADVANCING CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IN IRAQ [...] SUMMARY: The Prime Minister is leading a new Civil Service Reform Committee to overhaul federal personnel management in Iraq. The Iraqi Government has requested USG help to make this happen. The goals are to have merit- based appointment and promotion; performance management, grading, and p [...]	2008-09-24 14:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL ECON SOCI PINS SNAR ENRG EPET
08BAGHDAD3082	PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW PASSES COUNCIL OF [...] (SBU) The provincial election law passed the Council of Representatives on September 23, after unanimous approval of compromise language on the final sticking point about the eventual election in Kirkuk province. The Council also voted on other items that had been vetoed by the Presidency Co [...]	2008-09-24 15:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3086	GOI ON NEIGHBORS PROCESS SECURITY WORKING GROUP: [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi told Political Military Counselor and Deputy Political Counselor September 18 that the GOI is moving ahead on plans to host the next Expanded Iraq Neighbors Ministerial meeting in Baghdad in November. He said that Jordan had just notified the MFA tha [...]	2008-09-25 08:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3088	IRAQ MINISTERIAL PARTNERSHIPS RE-START WATER [...] SUMMARY: In the midst of Iraq's struggles with a crippling drought, the USAID-funded Tatweer and Inma programs have facilitated a partnership between the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) and Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) to help secure a rehabilitation budget allotment to keep the water flow [...]	2008-09-25 10:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL ECON SOCI PINS SNAR ENRG EPET
08BAGHDAD3096	NSC REVIEW SEPTEMBER 21, 2008: SECURITY OPTICS, [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary. The September 21 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC) opened with the Ministry of the Interior asserting its control of the Petroleum Security Police (PSP). Emphasizing his desire both to improve optics in the international zone for the Iraqi public, [...]	2008-09-25 16:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3099	IDP RETURNS - WHAT WE SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of 2008, over 125,000 Iraqis have returned to their homes out of a total displaced population of 4.8 million persons (internally displaced and refugees). About half of the returns have been to Baghdad. All measures show the numbers are increasing, albeit slowl [...]	2008-09-25 17:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF
08BAGHDAD3101	SHELL-SOUTH GAS JOINT VENTURE -- ENDING NATURAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The headline-grabbing signing ceremony on September 22 between Royal Dutch Shell and the Ministry of Oil only finalized a Heads of Agreement that must be followed within a year or so by a joint venture agreement between Shell and the South Gas Company to gather and market associ [...]	2008-09-26 10:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EPET ENRG SENV EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3107	TOP SHI'A LEADER DEMANDS DECENTRALIZATION, FRETS [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad is not delivering, complained Ammar Al-Hakim, leader-in-waiting of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),the country's largest Shi'a political grouping. The government's failure to deliver services and distribute resources points to the need for wholesale decentraliza [...]	2008-09-26 12:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD3108	IDP RETURNS - WHAT WE SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of 2008, over 125,000 Iraqis have returned to their homes out of a total displaced population of 4.8 million persons (internally displaced and refugees). About half of the returns have been to Baghdad. All measures show the numbers are increasing, albeit slowl [...]	2008-09-26 12:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF
08BAGHDAD3109	IDP RETURNS - WHAT WE SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of 2008, over 125,000 Iraqis have returned to their homes out of a total displaced population of 4.8 million persons (internally displaced and refugees). About half of the returns have been to Baghdad. All measures show the numbers are increasing, albeit slowly [...]	2008-09-26 12:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF
08BAGHDAD3111	IRAQ WTO ACCESSION: BETTER NEWS ON CUSTOMS LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to Iraqi officials, political differences over the stalled draft Law on Customs and Tariffs appear to have been resolved, and it could be enacted as early as January. Passing a WTO-compatible customs law would mark a significant step forward on Iraq's WTO Legislative Ac [...]	2008-09-26 14:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIN EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3128	FUEL AVAILABILITY IN ANBAR PROVINCE IMPROVES, BUT [...] (SBU) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Anbar Province experienced severe fuel shortages during the Sunni insurgency in 2006-2007. Fuel supplies have now increased, notably with the re-establishment of security, the reopening of a small refinery in the wester [...]	2008-09-28 07:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EINV ELTN
08BAGHDAD3134	IRAQ WTO ACCESSION: BETTER NEWS ON CUSTOMS LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to Iraqi officials, political differences over the stalled draft Law on Customs and Tariffs appear to have been resolved, and it could be enacted as early as January. Passing a WTO-compatible customs law would mark a significant step forward on Iraq's WTO Legislative Ac [...]	2008-09-28 11:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIN EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3139	ERBIL: KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (KDP) POLITBURO [...] (C) Summary: In a September 23 courtesy call, KDP Politburo head Fadhil Merani expressed the view that a political solution could be found to resolve the Article 140 impasse, and stated that in the absence of agreement, a delay was better than resorting to violence. He made a number of obse [...]	2008-09-28 12:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3142	PRT WASIT: SADRIST PC MEMBERS DELIVER DOCUMENT TO [...] Prepare for the coming religious state 2. Prepare the people spiritually 3. Guide society by spreading a correct Islamic awareness 4. Teach people about God and Islamic laws 5. Spread social equality and justice through the Islamic system 6. State and spread human rights according to Isl [...]	2008-09-29 08:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3143	MOVING FORWARD FROM UNMOVIC/UNSCR 1762: THE BALL [...] (C) Responding to reftel points on Iraq's normalization of its civil nuclear program and lifting UNSCR restrictions, Minister of Science and Technology (MoST) Ra'id Fahmi told EMIN that "the ball is in Iraq's court." Betraying limited understanding of the international nonproliferation regime, [...]	2008-09-29 08:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	TPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA
08BAGHDAD3144	PRT WASIT: SADRIST PC MEMBERS DELIVER DOCUMENT TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: On September 14, Sadrist Trend Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Hasan E'barah delivered a statement to the PRT from Muqtada al-Sadr ordering his followers to turn away from armed struggle and enter his new pro [...]	2008-09-29 13:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3148	FINALLY, SIX IRAQI AMBASSADOR APPOINTMENTS TO [...] (C) Summary: While Foreign Minister Zebari has been in New York, the Prime Minister's office announced the pending retirement of two dozen members of the Iraqi MFA and the Prime Ministry also named six ambassadors to states in the region. The naming of six ambassadors is an important gestur [...]	2008-09-29 16:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3160	NEXT STEPS FOR MINORITIES IN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has agreed to assist parliament with resolving the issue of minority representation for the upcoming provincial council elections. UNAMI is hoping that this can be achieved through a political agreement and an election commi [...]	2008-10-01 07:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF IZ
08BAGHDAD3166	BAYJI OIL REFINERY DG TAKING ACTION AGAINST FUEL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) In a September 18 meeting Bayji Oil Refinery (BOR) Director General Ali Obeidi (protect throughout) told PRT and Joint Security Station officers (JSS) that he has made progress in shutting down corruption and black ma [...]	2008-10-01 11:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL KCOR PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD317	MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP: BREAKING THE LOGJAM [...] (C) Post believes that there now exists an opportunity to make progress on the closure of Makhmour refugee camp, given a more positive attitude by the GOI, and what appears to be political breathing space in Ankara. Post read with great interest Ref A on the probability of closing Makhmour re [...]	2008-02-04 08:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL IZ TU
08BAGHDAD3172	UNAMI TO OPEN OFFICE IN RAMADI [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. A UNAMI delegation led by Special Representative for the Secretary de Mistura visited Ramadi on September 29 to announce the formal opening of UNAMI operations in the province. The delegation met with Governor Ma'amoun and some tw [...]	2008-10-01 14:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL IO IZ
08BAGHDAD3174	PROPOSED U.S.-IRAQ CONFERENCE ON INVESTMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Embassy proposes a one-day conference on Iraq,s business and investment climate in late October/early November. This is in response to DPM Salih's requests for a bilateral dialogue before the end of the year. However we do not [...]	2008-10-02 02:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3175	IRAQ READY TO PAY $300 MILLION TO SETTLE KUWAIT [...] (C) Summary: On September 29, EMIN and Treasury Attache met with Finance Minister Jabr to discuss Kuwait's efforts to attach GOI assets, transfer of assets from the USG to the GOI, and the 2009 budget. Jabr said the GOI was willing to pay $300 million to settle claims by Kuwait Airways, not th [...]	2008-10-02 02:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3184	INTERNAL DEBATE ON IRAQ'S PDS REFORM [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Trade and the Prime Minister's Advisory Board are actively debating how to reform the Public Distribution System (PDS),but there is no consensus on the way forward. Failure to reconcile the two sides could impede the GOI's ability to phase out the PDS in accordance with [...]	2008-10-02 13:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR ETRD ELAB PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3185	SOUTHERN PROVINCES AIR CONCERNS WITH DPM AL-ISSAWI [...] (SBU) On September 17-18, Deputy Prime Minister Rafa Al-Issawi hosted a conference on "Providing Services to the Southern and Middle Provinces" in Baghdad. Governors and Provincial Council members from the nine southern provinces and Anbar directly presented their concerns about essential ser [...]	2008-10-02 13:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD ENRG ELTN EAGR PREF EAIR SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD3198	RRT ERBIL: CHRISTIANS IN THE KURDISTAN REGION [...] (SBU) Summary: Long-term Christian residents of the Kurdistan Region enjoy unique material and political advantages, but this has failed to stem the tide of emigration in search of better economic conditions. Christians do not feel that they suffer discrimination as a result of religious and [...]	2008-10-03 15:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3204	NINEWA: YEZIDI SEEK CONTROL OF SHAIKHAN DISTRICT [...] (C) The Yezidi Prince Tahseen Beg told us that his community seeks political control of Shaikhan district plus guaranteed rights as a religious minority under the KRG constitution. He believes that the KRG seeks to engineer demographic changes that will make Sunni Kurds the majority in Shai [...]	2008-10-04 11:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3210	RRT ERBIL: JOURNALISTS GIVE NEW KRG MEDIA LAW A TENTATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Key independent media editors in the Kurdistan Region have cautiously welcomed passage September 22 of a new KRG Press Law, with one veteran editor characterizing it as "80 percent good." Our interlocutors were pleased with revisions in the law that cap defamation fines, prohib [...]	2008-10-05 02:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3219	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES WAY FORWARD ON MINORITIES [...] (C) Summary: According to the Papal Nuncio to Iraq, Iraq's Christian religious leadership is stunned and distressed over the exclusion of Article 50 from the Provincial Elections Law (PEL),which would have guaranteed minority quotas in provincial councils (Ref A). He noted that Christian l [...]	2008-10-05 15:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3238	D PRESSES PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER ON SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Speaker Mashadani told DepSec Negroponte that a majority in the parliament supported the bilateral security agreement, but that many deputies would not support it publicly. Noting that other countries benefit from security agreements with the U.S., he said the continued American [...]	2008-10-07 05:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3241	IRAQ MINISTRY OF OIL PREPARES TO INVITE IN FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Iraq will launch talks with international oil and gas companies on long-term Technical Service Contracts (TSCs) at a conference in London on October 13. Oil Minister Shahristani will meet with representatives of 41 pre-qualified companies to invite their participation in six oil [...]	2008-10-07 09:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EPET ENRG EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3244	DWINDLING SABAEAN-MANDAEAN COMMUNITY VICTIMIZED BY [...] (C) Zahroon Toma, Sabaean-Mandaean Representative in the Non-Muslim Endowments Office, told Poloff on October 5 that he holds out no hope that the killers of several members of a Mandaean family will ever be caught, much less brought to justice. The Ministry of the Interior (MoI) is investig [...]	2008-10-07 14:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3250	IRAQ ATTENDING ISTANBUL TRILATERAL GAS TALKS; [...] (C) Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani assured EMIN Wall October 6 that a Ministry of Oil (MoO) Director General would attend the October 12 U.S.-Turkey-Iraq trilateral meeting on natural gas in Istanbul. He noted that, in general, the process of consultations with Turkey needed to be streaml [...]	2008-10-08 09:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG TU IZ
08BAGHDAD3251	PRT WASIT: LOCAL LEADERS ALONG IRANIAN BORDER: [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Local leaders, in towns along and near the Iraq- Iran border, report stable security situation voiced concerns about government services and local economic development. The upcoming provincial elections provoked criticism of the c [...]	2008-10-08 10:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3252	BULGARIAN AMBASSADOR: WE WANT TO SUPPORT IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Bulgaria is proud of its service in the Coalition and wants to remain engaged in Iraq, regardless of the probable departure of its 155 troops from Iraq at the end of the year, according to Bulgarian Ambassador Valeri Ratchev. Ratchev, who has just begun a three week visit to Bagh [...]	2008-10-08 12:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ BG
08BAGHDAD3263	SAHWA LEADER ABU AZZAM AN AMBITIOUS POLITICAL [...] (C) Sahwa leader Thamir Al Tamimi, aka Abu Azzam, said that the Sahwa issues are not yet over for the government of Iraq (GOI),despite his own claims in the press that the process is going smoothly. This is not the only time Abu Azzam has issued contradictory statements weeks. He has also [...]	2008-10-09 12:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3269	KIRKUK: DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE HEARS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Deputy Secretary Negroponte's October 4 visit to Kirkuk, local political leaders expressed support for the provincial elections law and denounced the removal of Article 50 that contained quotas for minority representation. They also demonstrated support for the committee t [...]	2008-10-09 14:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3288	AYATOLLAH TELLS NEGROPONTE: U.S. MUST STAY UNTIL [...] (C) Baghdad's leading Shi'a cleric Ayatollah Hussein Al Sadr told Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte October 6 that the United States and Iraq are "working toward a greater good" to establish a "strong, free, and prosperous" Iraq, but he urged the U.S. to "ensure we reach this goal," an [...]	2008-10-11 13:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3291	DPM ISSAWI TO DEPUTY SECRETARY: "IRAQI DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) On October 6, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte met with Deputy Prime Minister for Essential Services Rafae Issawi in the DPM's Residence. Ambassador Marc Wall, Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, and Sunni Tawafaq parliamentarians Salman al-Jumaili and Dhafer al-Ani al [...]	2008-10-12 10:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3295	WASIT PROVINCIAL COUNCIL (PC) CHAIR: WASIT [...] (U) This is a Wasit PRT reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) In a slew of recent meetings and phone conversations with PRT, Wasit PC Chair Mohammed Hassan Jabbar, a friendly but normally circumspect PRT contact, has been increasingly frank with TL about his displeasure with Governor [...]	2008-10-13 07:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3296	SWEDISH ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAQ INCREASING; SWEDISH [...] (C) Summary: Sweden has made a large commitment to Iraq and intends to do more, particularly as it looks ahead to its July 2009 European Union (EU) Presidency. In an October 8 meeting, visiting Swedish Ambassador Niclas Trouve and Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Deputy Director G [...]	2008-10-13 07:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EINV ETRD IZ SE
08BAGHDAD3305	IRAQI DPM SALIH ON OIL PRODUCTION AND OIL MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with EMIN, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih complained bitterly about the performance of Minister of Oil Shahristani. Salih is worried by signs that output from the southern oil fields is declining, although he does not anticipate short-term cash flow problems. H [...]	2008-10-14 06:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL KU IZ
08BAGHDAD3309	IRAQ OIL MINISTER ON OIL INVESTMENTS, KRG, FUEL [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with EMIN, Iraqi Oil Minister Shahristani blamed international oil firms for the end of negotiations on short-term contracts, and said the Ministry of Oil (MoO) would try to raise crude oil production by 250,000-300,000 barrels per day by 2009 on its own. Shahris [...]	2008-10-14 08:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG MOPS EINV PGOV PREL KU IZ
08BAGHDAD3310	ERBIL: DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES SOFA, PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 4 meeting in Sulaymaniyah with Iraq's Presidency Council and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, Iraq President Jalal Talibani told visiting Deputy Secretary Negroponte and Ambassador Crocker that the Presidency Council would propose adding Article 50 (election quo [...]	2008-10-14 08:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3320	ICRC ON MEK, PLANS TO EXPAND ACTIVITIES IN IRAQ, [...] (S) Summary: In an October 8 meeting with the Ambassador, ICRC Iraq head of delegation Juan Pedro Schaerer said that ICRC will increase its detention monitoring, hospital training, staffing, and other projects in Iraq in 2009. ICRC has stepped up its inspections of GOI detention facilitie [...]	2008-10-14 17:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PHUM PREL PREF PTER IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3324	KARBALA: EXPLOSION RAISES CONCERNS DURING TIMES OF [...] (S) Summary: An explosive device killed an employee of the Karbala Provincial Council (PC) on October 9, 2008, raising concerns about the safety of provincial officials. Emerging evidence suggests that the deadly explosion might have been intended to threaten council members in advance of a [...]	2008-10-15 06:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3325	I-NSC OCTOBER 12 REVIEWS SITUATION IN MOSUL, [...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary. The October 12 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC) opened with the Prime Minister setting aside the prepared schedule and calling for a briefing on the situation of reported Christian persecution in Mosul City, Ninewa. All members of the NSC wanted to [...]	2008-10-15 06:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3329	IMPROVING IRAQI DELIVERY OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With significant improvements in security, the Iraqi public is becoming increasingly impatient with electricity and fuel shortages and deficiencies in delivery of essential services. The GOI must be seen as recognizing the problem and working to improve essential services. To d [...]	2008-10-16 10:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI EINV ECON ENRG IZ
08BAGHDAD333	IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE PART 2: [...] (C) Summary: We believe Iraq will have the technical capability to conduct credible, nationwide provincial elections in early fall of 2008. However several political obstacles must be overcome over the next seven months, including the passage of a well-crafted elections law, a start to reso [...]	2008-02-05 17:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3341	SAHWA LEADER TO AMB CROCKER: WE MUST HAVE [...] (C) Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, the leader of Anbar's Iraqi Awakening Conference (Sahwa) party, and prominent Anbari politician Sa'adoun Duleimi, told Ambassador that Anbar province needs investment from U.S. companies. Sheikh Ahmed bemoaned the current weak state of the economy in Anbar, partic [...]	2008-10-16 15:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3373	NINEWA: CHRISTIAN IDPS FLEE MOSUL FOR SAFER [...] (C) Summary: Christian IDPs who fled Mosul in the last two weeks are currently out of grave danger and there is currently no humanitarian crisis. It appears that local authorities in the safe-haven communities, with assistance from UNHCR and NGOs, have the capacity to supply food, water, an [...]	2008-10-21 13:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF MOPS PTER KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3381	SOUTHERN OIL EXPORT PIPELINES: IRAQ'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: More than ninety percent of Iraq's revenues come from its crude oil exports. Iraq's southern export pipelines account for greater than eighty percent of that total. The two 48-inch pipelines feeding the Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT) platform were installed in 1975 with a 20 y [...]	2008-10-22 07:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL SENV EWWT IZ
08BAGHDAD3382	SOUTHERN OIL EXPORT PIPELINES: IRAQ'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: More than ninety percent of Iraq's revenues come from its crude oil exports. Iraq's southern export pipelines account for greater than eighty percent of that total. The two 48-inch pipelines feeding the Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT) platform were installed in 1975 with a 20 y [...]	2008-10-22 07:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL SENV EWWT IZ
08BAGHDAD3383	PM DEMANDS ACTION TO PROTECT CHRISTIANS IN MOSUL [...] (S) Summary. In an uncharacteristically short meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (I-NSC),Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki demanded quick action by the Government of Iraq (GOI) to end the intimidation and fear that had driven thousands of Christians from their homes in Ninawa Provinc [...]	2008-10-22 08:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ KIRF MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER SY

08BAGHDAD3385	SECRETARY LEAVITT PRESSES PM MALIKI FOR QUICK [...] (C) In their October 20 meeting in Baghdad, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt and Iraq Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki agreed on the importance of continued U.S.-Iraq health cooperation in "solidifying" the two countries' partnership. Encouraging quick passage of the S [...]	2008-10-23 10:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO PREL PGOV OVIP SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3394	CAPITAL BUDGET SNAPSHOT: Dhi-QAR. [...] Summary. Dhi Qar Capital budget planning is marked by a mild trend towards transparency and input from local government. While party politics politicized budget negotiations at the Council and Sub-district level, the negotiation of a Provincial Development Plan and Strategy helped focus the e [...]	2008-10-24 06:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3397	IRAQ OIL MINISTER LAUNCHES FIRST LICENSING ROUND [...] (C) Summary: During an October 13-14 session in London, Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani presented terms and conditions for 20-year Technical Service Contracts to develop six oil fields and two gas fields to representatives of the 41 oil and gas companies that had qualified to bid. The cont [...]	2008-10-24 14:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3398	PRT SALAH AD-DIN: EXPATS FROM THE PROVINCE KEEN TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad-Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) PRT Econ Section chief met with Hassan Ahmad Mahjoob al-Qaisy (strictly protect throughout),October 13 to discuss the investment climate in Salah ad-Din province. Mahjoob, the owner of a fuel transportation company [...]	2008-10-24 17:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON EIND EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3423	HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVEMENTS IN INTERIOR AND DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: Due to recent changes in their organizational structures, the Human Rights Offices in the Ministries of Defense (MoD) and Interior (MoI) now face fewer restrictions in pursuing their human rights agendas. The Human Rights Directorate in the MoD was placed under the ministry's [...]	2008-10-27 09:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3424	NINEWA: SMALL-SCALE RETURNS TO MOSUL OF CHRISTIAN [...] (C) Summary: The commander of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) in Ninewa, LTG Riyad, told us October 26 that 130 displaced Christians have returned to the city. Ninewa governor Kashmoula said all Christian civil servants who work in Provincial Hall are back on the job. One of his deputies told u [...]	2008-10-27 13:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3425	PM'S COMMISSIONS TO INVESTIGATE ATTACKS ON [...] (C) In an October 27 meeting with poloffs, Gorges Bakoos, Political Advisor for Christian Affairs to Prime Minister Maliki, intimated that Kurdish politics lay behind the attacks on Christians in Mosul earlier this month. He provided no specific evidence, but cited the interest of "political [...]	2008-10-27 14:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KIRF IZ
08BAGHDAD343	CHARGE AND CG MEET PM TO DISCUSS MOSUL SECURITY, [...] (C) MNF-I Commanding General (CG) David Petraeus and CDA Patricia Butenis met Thursday, January 31, 2008 with Prime Minister Maliki. In a cordial and relaxed hour-long meeting, they discussed security operations in Mosul, Turkish cut-off of electricity deliveries, implications for current GOI [...]	2008-02-06 10:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER EINV ENGR KU TU IZ
08BAGHDAD3431	KARBALA ISF COMMANDER SHOWN THE DOOR [...] (C) Summary: Karbala ISF commander MG Ra'ad Shaker Jawdat al-Hasnawi, whose ouster by Governor Aqeel Mahmoud al-Khazali on September 22 was reversed days later by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, has been shown the door. He departed Karbala in mid-October following Aqeel's survival of a no-co [...]	2008-10-28 06:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3443	NOMINATIONS FOR 2009 SECRETARY'S WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] (SBU) Per Reftel, Embassy Baghdad is pleased to submit its list of nominees for the Secretary's 2008 Award for International Women of Courage, keyed to the priorities in the reference. Embassy Baghdad is submitting four (4) nominees, but understands that only three of them will be considered [...]	2008-10-28 15:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3446	BRIEF MOVEMENT OF IRAQI HYDROCARBONS LAW [...] (C) Summary: The long-delayed Hydrocarbons Framework Law saw brief movement in recent days; it is not yet clear if this signifies a genuine thaw and some possibility of the legislation actually moving toward approval in the near future. The bill was unexpectedly forwarded to Parliament late l [...]	2008-10-29 06:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3447	BAGHDAD BUDGET EXECUTION PROBLEMS START AT THE [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad's municipal authorities, at the lowest level, suffer from a host of weaknesses that sharply constrain their ability to deliver essential services effectively. The list is long: insufficient budgets and resources, poor management skills, human resource deficiencies, limit [...]	2008-10-29 07:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3454	GOI DISCUSSES COMPENSATION FOR DISPLACED [...] (S) Summary. Prime Minister al-Maliki opened the October 26 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (NSC) with an appeal for Iraqi and Coalition Forces to do everything to avoid use of excessive force while continuing to conduct operations against insurgents. The NSC went on to discus [...]	2008-10-29 14:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3457	MUTHANNA: CIU CHIEF SAYS IRANIAN-BACKED HIT [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable 2. (C) Summary: Brigadier General Ali, Muthanna,s Criminal Investigative Unit (CIU) Chief told PRT in two late October meetings that alleged hit squads funded by the Iranian government have entered Muthanna and are preparing to strike during prov [...]	2008-10-30 06:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL PGOV EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD3460	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PRIVATE BANKS DEVELOPING [...] (U) This is a reporting cable from PRT Salah ad Din. 2. (SBU) Summary: It is difficult to imagine a provincial business or economic sector that has more fully exploited the vastly improved security environment than has the private-banking sector within Salah ad Din. The calculated exploitat [...]	2008-10-30 12:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3468	DEFENSE UNDER SECRETARY EDELMAN MEETS LEADERS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman engaged Arab, Turkoman and Christian provincial leaders of Kirkuk on 20 October 2008 to discuss ethnic cooperation and Article 23 of the provincial elections law. Kurdish leaders declined to attend due to the inclusion of Sheik A [...]	2008-11-01 06:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3474	BASRA LEADERS VOICE QUIET SUPPORT FOR SOFA [...] (C) Summary: Basra politicians, security officials, and community leaders voiced quiet support for the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) during a visit October 26-29 by Gordon Gray, Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq Affairs. Basrah Governor Mohammed Wa'eli predicted that the SOFA would lead to [...]	2008-11-02 02:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3475	BASRAH RESIDENTS ANGRY, WORRIED ABOUT IRANIAN [...] (C) Basrawis blame Iran for the Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) violence and intimidation that ended in April following Operation Charge of the Knights, community leaders and security officials told Senior Advisor Gray during a visit October 26-29. With the exception of an Islamic Supreme Council of Ir [...]	2008-11-02 02:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3476	PLANNING MINISTER BABAN'S BUDGET AND ICI CONCERNS [...] (C) EMIN and Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Ali Baban met October 26 and discussed Baban's concerns about the 2009 budget, the International Compact with Iraq (ICI),and future assistance. Baban believes that the GOI's favoring the operational portion of the pared-do [...]	2008-11-02 05:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD3478	FALLING OIL PRICES FORCE TOUGH IRAQI BUDGET [...] (C/NF) Summary: Given the sharp fall in the price of oil and declining exports, Iraq's budget situation had radically changed and cuts would be made to both Iraq's FY 2009 capital expenditures and operating costs, according to Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr in an October 27 meeting with EMIN. [...]	2008-11-02 09:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON PREL EPET EINV IZ KU
08BAGHDAD3479	UNHCR DOUBLES PROGRAMMING AND SUPPORTS RETURNS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant UN High Commissioner for Refugees for Operations Judy Cheng-Hopkins briefed the Ambassador October 28 on UNHCR,s new strategy to sharply increase engagement inside Iraq to support returns. Ambassador Crocker encouraged UNHCR to continue direct engagement with the Iraq [...]	2008-11-02 11:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PHUM PREF PREL
08BAGHDAD3488	PRINCE OF THE MARSHES ON SOFA AND MAYSAN,S FUTURE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion, prominent Maysani Sheikh Abed al-Kareem al-Mohammedawi of "Prince of the Marshes" fame explained that he was pitching the SOFA to local and tribal leaders to counter attempts by Iran and others [...]	2008-11-03 12:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3489	COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES MINORITY QUOTAS [...] (U) On November 2, the Council of Representatives (CoR) passed an amendment to Article 50 of the Provincial Elections Law. The amendment specifies quotas for seats in the Provincial Councils of three provinces for several minority groups. The vote came after lengthy committee deliberations [...]	2008-11-03 12:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF IZ
08BAGHDAD3492	MUTHANNA: IRANIAN IRON AND STEEL INVESTMENT [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna Reporting Cable. 2. (C/REL) SUMMARY: Muthanna Provincial Investment Committee (PIC) Chairman Adel Dakhel al-Yasiri told local media that the PIC has nearly completed negotiations with an Iranian company to build a 100 million USD iron and steel plant near t [...]	2008-11-03 15:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3497	IRAQI OIL PRODUCTION: WILL THE SOUTH RISE AGAIN? [...] (S) Summary: Oil Ministry officials estimate production in Iraq's southern oil fields has declined by approximately 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) so far this year, bringing the target production rate to 1.8 million bpd. The main culprits are the reliance on mismanaged enhanced recovery techni [...]	2008-11-04 11:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	EPET ENRG EINV EFIN PGOV PREL SENV EWWT IZ
08BAGHDAD3498	IRAQI TRADE MINISTER DISCUSSES GRAIN IMPORT [...] (SBU) FAS and FCS Attaches met October 27 with Minister of Trade Dr. Abdul-Falah Hassan Al-Sudani and other MoT officials to discuss the Iraqi grain import situation, planned GOI renovations at the port of Umm Qasr, and the Public Distribution System (PDS),the GOI's subsidized food distributi [...]	2008-11-04 13:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD3503	OMS LEADER REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT, MUQTADA CALLS [...] (S/NF) Sheikh Mohammed al-Faraji, self-described Office of the Martyr Sadr (OMS) representative for Basra and the surrounding provinces, met with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray to demand that the U.S. engage more directly with Iraqi-born Shi'a clergy. In the October 28 meeting, Faraji argued that [...]	2008-11-04 15:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3504	IRAQI NSC MEETING ON NOV 2 REVIEWS SITUATION IN [...] (S) Summary. At the November 2, 2008 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki received the reconstruction report for Mosul. The report indicated that while many infrastructure projects were planned, implementation was slow and the province appeared una [...]	2008-11-04 16:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3511	KRG VIEWS ON SOFA, MALIKI, KIRKUK, MOSLAWI [...] (C) Summary: In a November 5 meeting, KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani was critical of PM Maliki's "double game" on the SOFA but believes Iraqi leaders will eventually sign it. He told how KRG President Masoud Barzani disappointed his Iranian hosts on his most recent visit to Tehran by p [...]	2008-11-06 13:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PTER MOPS TU IZ
08BAGHDAD3517	KARBALA WELCOMES IRANIAN TOURISTS BUT WARY OF [...] (C) Summary: Karbala business leaders and government officials discussed their concerns about Iranian influence and reliance on tourism revenue from Iranian pilgrims in a visit November 2-3 by Senior Advisor Gordon Gray. Governor Aqeel al-Khazali (Da,wa) hinted that the Iranians were behind [...]	2008-11-07 13:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER EFIN IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3526	SUNNI AND SHIA POLITICIANS EXPRESS OPPOSING VIEWS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Secretary's Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues, Ambassador James Foley, visited Baghdad October 22-27 to review Iraqi refugee admissions and special immigrant visa (SIV) programs and to assess the role the U.S. can play in facilitating refugee and IDP returns. Dep [...]	2008-11-08 12:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
08BAGHDAD3538	AMBASSADOR PRESSES CHRISTIAN LEADERS TO [...] (C) During a November 5 meeting, the Ambassador pressed four Christian leaders to consolidate the gains from the November 3 Article 50 vote and avoid the Sunni disaster of 2005 by not boycotting the upcoming provincial elections. The Ambassador acknowledged that the paucity of seats allocated [...]	2008-11-09 10:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD354	BAGHDAD PC CHAIRMAN FIGHTS TO STAY ON TOP [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. The Chairman of the Baghdad Provincial Council, Mueen al-Khademy (ISCI/Badr) is working overtime to shore up his position in the increasingly uncertain environment of provincial politics in Baghdad. Chairman Mueen must prepare for [...]	2008-02-06 18:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3549	KARBALA SECURITY STABLE; MILITIAS DISCREDITED [...] (C) Karbala's security situation remains good, with no sign that militia-inspired violence, which last flared in 2007, will return. Nevertheless, the province -- which local officials reckon as "the world Shi'a capital" -- remains a tempting target for malefactors. During a November 3 meeting [...]	2008-11-10 08:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD355	JANUARY 2008 UPDATE ON IRAQ'S INTERNALLY DISPLACED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The latest reports on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the United Nations (U.N.) Cluster F and Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MoDM) show an increase in the number of IDPs in the past 3 months. This increase likely reflects a lag in data processing and a spi [...]	2008-02-07 06:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOG PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3551	GOI PLEDGES $50 MILLION OVER TWO YEARS TO FUND NEW [...] (C) UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura told us (and the Prime Minister's office confirms) that the Prime Minister has agreed to contribute $25 million towards the construction of the new UNAMI compound in 2009. The GOI will also pay an additional $25 million in 2010 for a total of $50 million ov [...]	2008-11-10 10:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3553	PROGRESS ON CAMP ASHRAF (MEK) TRANSITION [...] (S) SUMMARY. EmbOffs recently met with senior GOI stakeholders, including Minister of Interior (REF A),Minister of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Minister of Human Rights, regarding the transfer of security responsibility for the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) residents of Camp Ashraf. In [...]	2008-11-10 11:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3555	KARADA AND COUNCIL BLUFFS - SISTER CITIES [...] Summary: A new sister-city partnership between Council Bluffs, Iowa and the Karada district of Baghdad promises to be a foundation for cooperation between the two cities. Leaders from Council Bluffs and the Karada District Council, joined up by videoconference on October 28, committed themse [...]	2008-11-10 14:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD3558	KARBALA: NOT MUCH SOFA TALK [...] (SBU) SOFA is not a hot topic in Karbala. Among the Provincial Reconstruction Team,s (PRT,s) contacts who have a view on the matter, opinions range from hardline nationalism ("Send all the Americans home now") to profit-oriented pragmatism ("Let Washington pay to stay however long it wants") [...]	2008-11-11 11:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3561	THE SADRIST PROGRAM FOR KARBALA [...] (SBU) Summary: The PRT obtained in early November a copy of an Arabic-language pamphlet titled The General Program of the Martyr al-Sadr Office in Karbala, signed by Shaykh Muhannad Abd al-Hussein al-Karbala'i, Manager of the al-Sadr Office in Karbala, and dated 2008. We have sent a scanned c [...]	2008-11-11 13:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PREL PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3562	NAJAF: ISCI LOOKS STRONG BUT FACES WELL-ORGANIZED [...] (C) Summary. Days before the release of the open list candidates for January provincial elections, the relative surface calm of Najaf,s ISCI domination of the provincial government is beginning to reveal turbulent anti-ISCI undercurrents. ISCI officials, led by Deputy Governor Abtan, continu [...]	2008-11-11 13:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3564	IRAQ-KOREA ECONOMIC RELATIONS -- SECURITY STILL A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Korean Embassy Counselor Kwang Yong Chung said, during an October meeting with EconOffs, that virtually the only Korean business activity in Iraq is in the KRG, with the Korean National Oil Company holding interests in eight exploration and production blocks. One problem hamperi [...]	2008-11-11 14:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EINV ENRG EPET EAID KS IZ
08BAGHDAD3565	ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY GETS BOOST FROM NEW LAW [...] (C) Minister of Environment Narmin Othman told EmbOffs on November 3 the Council of Representatives (CoR) had ratified the new law establishing the Ministry of Environment (MoEnv). She claimed the Prime Minister told the Cabinet to enlarge MoEnv funding, "even if it means taking money away fro [...]	2008-11-12 04:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EPET EWWT ECIN KHDP KRAD KSCA IZ
08BAGHDAD357	IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS ON PERSONAL [...] (C) This cable is the third update of Embassy Baghdad,s implementation of the relevant eighteen recommendations of the Secretary,s Panel on Protective Services. The following recommendations have been implemented by Post (reftel D): A. (C) Kennedy Recommendation 12 - Joint Review Board B. ( [...]	2008-02-07 07:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT ASEC PREL PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD358	INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ: BAGHDAD PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Both the GOI and UNAMI are working to enhance the prospects of meeting the benchmarks outlined in the International Compact with Iraq (ICI). The GOI is building the size and capacity of the small ICI secretariat, and has embarked upon a serious effort to pull together its dr [...]	2008-02-07 08:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID EAGR IR
08BAGHDAD3585	STATE OF FREEDOM OF PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Journalists and freedom of press organizations in Baghdad raised concerns during recent meetings about the decreasing independence of the media and continued violations against the press. They said a lack of freedom of press hinders journalists' ability to report independent [...]	2008-11-12 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD3590	NINEWA CHRISTIANS SLOWLY RETURN [...] (C) Estimates of the number of Mosul Christians killed in early-October attacks range between eight and 15, with military sources (ISF and CF) giving lower figures than the Christian IDPs who fled the city. Since then, a well-coordinated humanitarian assistance effort has provided for appro [...]	2008-11-12 13:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3596	SIX INSPECTORS GENERAL RELIEVED OF DUTIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Ministers issued orders in mid-October firing one Inspector General and putting five others into early retirement following performance audits of the IGs conducted by the Board of Supreme Audit. Another IG expects to be relieved of his duties, while the head of the [...]	2008-11-13 12:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3597	KARBALA'S PREPARATIONS FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) PRT members met with the Government Elections Officer (GEO) on November 6 and the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) Representative on November 9 to discuss preparations for the provincial elections, expected to be on January 31. The GEO believed that Karbala was on track [...]	2008-11-13 12:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3598	GOI AGREES UPON MODALITIES FOR IRAQ-TURKEY-USA [...] (S) Summary: GOI spokesman told Ambassador and MNF-I CG November 11 that GOI needs more time to make arrangements for the security trilateral with Turkey and the U.S. He explained the idea is the GOI's and that the goals are to both achieve tangible results (absent from Turkish visits to B [...]	2008-11-13 13:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ TU PREL PTER KSEC MARR MOPS
08BAGHDAD3600	CHRISTIAN ELECTION BOYCOTT THREATS: A ROAD TO [...] (C) Christian religious and political leaders continue to sound off against the paucity of guaranteed seats -- one each for Baghdad, Basrah, and Ninewa -- allocated to them following the Council of Representatives' November 3 vote on Article 50. The threat of a boycott of the provincial elec [...]	2008-11-13 14:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3601	CHRISTIAN ELECTION BOYCOTT THREATS: A ROAD TO [...] (C) Christian religious and political leaders continue to sound off against the paucity of guaranteed seats -- one each for Baghdad, Basrah, and Ninewa -- allocated to them following the Council of Representatives' November 3 vote on Article 50. The threat of a boycott of the provincial elec [...]	2008-11-14 03:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3602	BASRA REGION FORMATION SUPPORTERS SUBMIT [...] (C) Summary: On November 10, allies of Basra Governor Mohammed Wa'eli (Fadhilah) submitted 35,000 signatures in favor of a referendum to form a one-province Basra Regional Government. Several additional steps will be needed, however, to force a referendum, and it is unlikely that a referendu [...]	2008-11-14 03:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3614	WASIT SADRISTS FRACTURING; SOME MAY SUPPORT PRIME [...] (C) In separate November 9 discussions with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray in Wasit, Sadrist Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Hassan E'barah and independent PC Chairman Hassan Jabbar described further splits among Sadrists in Wasit and other southern provinces. E'barah, who recently delivered [...]	2008-11-14 13:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3622	US-IRAQ DIALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS IMPEDIMENTS TO BUSINESS AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-15 12:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV CVIS IZ
08BAGHDAD3626	ANBAR GEO DIRECTOR'S PREPARATIONS FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. This message is Sensitive But Unclassified; handle accordingly. Not for distribution on the Internet. SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) On October 25, Anbar Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) Director Khalid Rajab met with PRT PolOff and MNF-West to discu [...]	2008-11-16 05:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3628	US-IRAQ DIALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS IMPEDIMENTS TO BUSINESS AND [...] (SBU) On November 1, Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt, Deputy Commerce Secretary John Sullivan, and Assistant US Trade Representative Mike Delaney participated in the Iraqi-U.S. Dialogue on Business and Investment (DBIC). During the day-long event, which also included American and Iraq [...]	2008-11-16 06:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV CVIS IZ
08BAGHDAD3633	COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER NOT KEEN ON INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary: Iraq Minister of Communications Farouk Abdel Qadir told ECOUNS on November 5 that "Iraqi people suffer from poor quality of service," so the Ministry of Communications (MoC) must provide not only infrastructure and clear laws, but also strict monitoring of service quality. Admitti [...]	2008-11-16 11:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON ECPS KINT IZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD3634	MAYSAN DEPUTY PC CHAIR LAUDS CONTINUED USG PRESENCE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Da,wa provincial party head and Deputy Provincial Council Chair Latif Abud Kaseem told PRT members that Maysan has benefited from the increased USG presence in the province, and emphasized the need for continuing USG traini [...]	2008-11-16 12:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR PINR EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3636	IRAQ PRT TEAM LEADERS CONFERENCE: TRANSITION IN 2009 (SBU) [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14-15, 2008, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Team Leaders convened in Baghdad for the quarterly Team Leaders Conference. The theme of transition animated this Team Leaders Conference. Presenters highlighted the need for continuing State Department-Department o [...]	2008-11-16 13:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREZ IZ
08BAGHDAD3638	KIRKUK LEADERS' DISCUSSIONS WITH SPECIAL ADVISOR, [...] (SBU) This is the second of two PRT Kirkuk cables reporting meetings of Senior Advisor (S/A) Krajeski with Kirkuki Arab, Turkmen, and Kurdish provincial leaders. This message reports their views on the dispute over agricultural land contracts under Article 140, and on Prime Minister Maliki's [...]	2008-11-16 14:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD364	BARZANI: NO PEACE, NO STABILITY WITHOUT ARTICLE 140 [...] (S) Masood Barzani February 4 warned that external and internal pressures were aligning to stall the Constitution's Article 140 process for resolving the status of Kirkuk and other disputed territories. The Kurds would not accept this. If Article 140 was dead, the KRG President said, the Con [...]	2008-02-07 15:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU IZ
08BAGHDAD3643	ELECTION COMMISSIONERS ASSURE AMBASSADOR BASRAH [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Chair Faraj al-Haydari and Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Judge Kasim al-Aboodi told the Ambassador on November 11 the Basrah region formation initiative (reftel) would not derail provincial elections and that preparations for [...]	2008-11-18 02:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3646	UPBEAT FM ZEBARI HAILS CABINET SOFA APPROVAL "A [...] (S) Summary: A beaming Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari greeted Ambassador Crocker with a hearty "Mabruk" November 16, a few hours after the Iraqi Council of Ministers (CoM) had approved the SOFA by a near-unanimous vote. Zebari, in a decidedly upbeat mood that was a striking contrast from hi [...]	2008-11-18 06:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3650	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS WITH SRSG [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 1, 2008, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt, accompanied by Deputy Assistant Secretary Andrew Baukol and Treasury Attache Ged Smith, met with UN Secretary General Special Representative Staffan de Mistura and members of his team in the United Nations offices [...]	2008-11-18 13:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PREF IZ
08BAGHDAD3671	IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES NTM-I AND OTHER ISSUES AT [...] (S) Summary. At the November 16, Iraqi NSC meeting, NSA Rubaie unexpectedly raised the future of the NATO Training Mission Iraq (NTM-I). When the NSC became bogged down on the issue of the wide range of other possible areas of cooperation proposed by NATO in addition to the training already [...]	2008-11-20 10:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3678	NEW GOI AMNESTY LAW VOTED DOWN BY MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki proposed a new amnesty law during the November 4 Cabinet meeting, but ministers voted against it during the November 18 Cabinet meeting. According to Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim, although the PM was supporting the law, key ministers spoke agains [...]	2008-11-21 12:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PINS PHUM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3680	PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION AND FOOD SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Improved physical security in Iraq has led to dramatically improved food security, with the number of "food insecure" Iraqis falling to 930,000 in 2008 from a high of more than 4 million in 2005. Although Iraq's Public Distribution System (PDS) is expensive and woefully ineffici [...]	2008-11-21 13:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREF EAID ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD3681	ANBAR: THE COWS COME HOME [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary: Respected women in the community pitched a plan to form a women's cooperative for dairy products to help widows and divorcees in the Anbar province, in an effort to raise up this marginalized sector of society that is considered parti [...]	2008-11-21 13:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON ETRD IZ
08BAGHDAD3698	2009 BUDGET: FALLING OIL PRICES MEAN CUTS, DEFICIT, DFI [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite pressures from key members of the Maliki Government for fiscal largesse, Finance Minister Bayan Jabr cut the proposed 2009 budget while it was under consideration by the Council of Ministers (CoM),where it secured approval before moving on to the Council of Representa [...]	2008-11-23 16:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3701	KARBALA RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: PREPARATORY LEVEL [...] (U) Summary: Karbala has seven Islamic preparatory academies, whose all-male students often go on to attend one of the 21 religious schools comprising the Hawza, or seminary center, in Najaf. The academies provide free education to their students, some of whom also receive room and board. En [...]	2008-11-24 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD3710	IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. DECIDE TO ESTABLISH COORDINATING [...] (C) The November 19, Baghdad, Turkey/Iraq/U.S. security trilateral on combating the PKK resulted in an agreement to form a trilateral committee to be based in Baghdad within ten days to share intelligence and discuss operational coordination and also saw successful participation by KRG repres [...]	2008-11-25 05:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ TU PREL MARR GR
08BAGHDAD3722	WASIT: SADRIST LEADER SUPPORTS SOFA, MALIKI [...] (C / / REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: Over 1,000 people participated in a November 20 pro-SOFA rally in Kut, organized by Sheikh Mohammed Reda al-Numani, an associate of Prime Minister Maliki and a long-time friend of the al-Sadr family. On the preceding day, PRT, 41st Fires Brigade, and Iraqi A [...]	2008-11-25 13:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD3723	KARBALA'S TRIBES AND THE SUPPORT COUNCILS [...] (C) Summary: Karbala's tribes are an enduring source of order and security. They participate in the tribal Support Councils initiated by Prime Minister Maliki, but should be viewed as "rented" rather than "owned" by the Da'wa Party. Tribal backing, key to candidates' success in the provincial [...]	2008-11-25 13:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3725	COR PASSES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: The Iraqi parliament passed the previously languishing High Commission of Human Rights law on November 16. After little movement since the February 13 second reading and some opposition since then, the law passed with the vast majority of the votes, likely due to members' fo [...]	2008-11-25 15:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS IZ
08BAGHDAD3731	USAID IRAQ MISSION WAIVERS AND EXCEPTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID/Iraq requests waivers to collocation and setback requirements required by the Secure Embassy Construction and Counter-Terrorism Act (SECCA) of 1999. Additionally, USAID/Iraq requests exceptions to the following OSPB standards: 12 FAH-5 H-433.1-1 paragraph (c),clear z [...]	2008-11-25 17:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC AMGT ABLD EAID
08BAGHDAD3747	IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES TRILATERAL MEETING WITH U.S. [...] (S) Summary. At the November 23 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (NSC),with Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Rafi Essawi sitting in as chair for the Prime Minister, the Council received a report from Minister of State for National Security Affairs Shirwan Waeili on the recent U.S.- [...]	2008-11-28 16:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD3749	FIRST YEAR WRAP UP: OPA'S QUICK RESPONSE FUND HELPS PRTS [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Baghdad's Office of Provincial Affairs (OPA) recently concluded the first year of its $135 million Quick Response Fund (QRF) program. QRF was created to finance Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) projects designed to promote socio-economic development and stability througho [...]	2008-11-29 09:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SOCI PREL ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD375	FEBRUARY 3 MCNS EXAMINES SECURITY IN MOSUL AND [...] (S REL AS UK) Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki opened the meeting by outlining the agenda and asking for a report from MOD on the security situation in Mosul and the outcome of the Crisis Action Cell (CAD) held in Mosul on Saturday, February 2. The MCNS also discussed reform of the administrati [...]	2008-02-09 09:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD376	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY GATES VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (S) Mr. Secretary: Since your visit in December (reftel),we have seen further progress on security: CLCs, now renamed the Sons of Iraq, continue to flourish; and the Iraqi people's confidence in the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) is increasing, evidenced by greater commercial activity in urban [...]	2008-02-09 11:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD3763	EPRT BAGHDAD: IDP RETURNS IN SAB AL BOUR -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two years ago, Sab al Bour was a virtual ghost town, with fewer than 2,000 people of a population that had numbered 58,000 in 2003 (and an almost equal mix of Sunni and Shia). The village could now be a model of reconstruction and reconciliation for other Iraqi cities. Over 3,5 [...]	2008-11-30 16:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL PREF
08BAGHDAD3764	IRAQI-KUWAITI BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (S/REL MNFI) In a November 26 meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Haj Hamoud told Senior Advisor Gordon Gray that the proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for notifying Kuwait prior to undertaking a wreck-clearing project in the Khor Abdullah (KAA) waterway remained mired in the bureaucracy [...]	2008-11-30 16:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU
08BAGHDAD3771	PRT SALAH AD DIN: INDEPENDENT MEDIA FACE [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Government officials and insurgents continue to intimidate and harass journalists in Salah ad Din (SaD). Many journalists associate themselves with powerful clients who can offer protection, such as political part [...]	2008-12-01 15:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KPAO PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3774	SALAH AD DIN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS PART I: PARTIES [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Political entities in Salah ad Din (SaD) province have been working intensively to forge alliances for upcoming provincial elections. The Governor, Deputy Governor, and Provincial Director of Police (PDOP) a [...]	2008-12-01 17:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3776	KRG DIVIDED: SPECIAL ADVISOR KRAJESKI DISCUSSES [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) During Senior Advisor Krajeski's recent visit to the Kurdistan Region, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and non-KRG interlocutors suggested that the power struggle between the two dominant Kurdish political pa [...]	2008-12-01 18:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3782	PARLIAMENT'S REFORM RESOLUTION PRESENTS REBUKE TO [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On November 27 Iraq's parliament passed a non-binding political reform resolution in conjunction with the U.S. - Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA). This resolution was a key element of a political deal to reassure the Sunni [...]	2008-12-02 14:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3784	THE SIMMER BEFORE THE BOIL? SPECIAL ADVISOR [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Senior Advisor (S/A) for Northern Iraq Thomas Krajeski engaged Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and non-KRG interlocutors on KRG relations with the Government of Iraq (GOI),upcoming provincial elections, arti [...]	2008-12-02 16:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3787	RRT ERBIL -- THE LIGHTS ARE ON -- KRG BENEFITS FROM PRIVATE [...] Summary: Electricity supply has jumped in Erbil Province, thanks partly to a privately-owned power plant fueled by gas from the Dana Gas/Crescent Petroleum gas field. Private power generation could produce as much as 1,900 MW by 2010 when plants in Dohuk and Sulaimaniyah are projected to come [...]	2008-12-03 08:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ENRG ECON EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD3789	IRAQI POLITICS: SHIFTING ALLIANCES AND THE [...] (C) Summary: The grueling Iraqi political debates that eventually yielded consensus on the provincial elections law and the ratification of the Status of Forces Agreement pointed to an evolution in Iraqi politics in late 2008 as opposed to the way they worked in 2004-06. The contrasts are ge [...]	2008-12-03 12:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3791	IRAQI POLITICS: SHIFTING ALLIANCES AND THE [...] (C) Summary: The grueling Iraqi political debates that eventually yielded consensus on the provincial elections law and the ratification of the Status of Forces Agreement pointed to an evolution in Iraqi politics in late 2008 as opposed to the way they worked in 2004-06. The contrasts are ge [...]	2008-12-03 12:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3794	STATUS OF COALITION PARTNERS IN IRAQ; RECOMMENDED DEMARCHE FOR AUSTRALIA [...] (S) This is an action request, see paragraph 11. 2. (S) Summary: As the GOI moves beyond the process of gaining agreement for the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement, it is focusing on the terms for the continued presence of four Coalition partners (Australia, Romania, El Salvador and Estonia) be [...]	2008-12-03 15:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ ES RO AS EN
08BAGHDAD3796	GOI DELIVERS ASSURANCES TO MEK, TAKES CUSTODY OF [...] (C) Summary: A GOI delegation led by Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim conveyed the GOI's humanitarian assurances to the USG to the Camp Ashraf (Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK)) leadership during a November 26 visit. The GOI had been reluctant to officially convey the assurances, concerned tha [...]	2008-12-04 06:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PTER PINS PREF IR IZ
08BAGHDAD3807	IRAQ WTO ACCESSION UPDATE: BACK TO SQUARE ONE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Customs and tariff legislation, a key but politically sensitive component of Iraq's WTO Legislative Action Plan, is once again apparently stalled within the Ministry of Finance (MOF). An exhaustive tariff schedule is nearly ready. However, senior MOF officials oppose the schedul [...]	2008-12-04 12:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3808	KURDISH WAR OF WORDS WITH MALIKI ESCALATES OVER [...] (C) Summary/Comment: A war of words between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG),precipitated by Maliki's plan to create Tribal Support Councils in areas disputed by the KRG and the GOI, has steadily escalated in the past week, drawing attention to a range [...]	2008-12-04 13:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3819	TURKISH ENVOY DISCUSSES VISIT OF PRESIDENT GUL TO [...] (C) During a two-week stint in Iraq in which he focused mainly on supporting efforts to gain a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, Turkish Special Envoy for Iraq Murat Ozcelik told the Ambassador that leading Shi'a cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani agreed to a visit by Turkish President Gul to [...]	2008-12-05 14:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ TU PREL
08BAGHDAD3835	ENCOURAGING CREDIBLE VOICES TO COUNTER VIOLENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Few places have suffered the ravages of violent extremism more than Iraq. There is a wealth of powerful and persuasive Iraqi voices that speak out against this violence. In coordination with Mission elements, the Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) and Provincial Reconstruction Tea [...]	2008-12-08 11:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD3836	TALABANI GIVES PUK DEPUTIES EQUAL AUTHORITY - TALK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leaders have denied press reports that PUK General Secretary Jalal Talabani has been removed from power. As a result of recent PUK leadership meetings, Talabani empowered both KRG VP Kosrat Rasoul and DPM Barham Salih with equal authority to ma [...]	2008-12-08 13:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3844	NINEWA: KEROSENE SHORTAGE THREATENS AGAIN [...] (C) Over the last two winters, Ninewa residents suffered from a severe shortage of kerosene, which they use for cooking and home heating in the province's sub-freezing winters. Despite efforts by the Director of the Northern Oil Products Distribution Company (NOPDC) to obtain either larger al [...]	2008-12-10 09:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG PGOV PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3845	KIRKUK: CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS FORCE OBEIDI TO [...] (C) Summary: Ahmed Obeidi from the Iraqi Republican Gathering (IRG) was removed as Coordinator of the Arab Unity Bloc (AUB) in Kirkuk, due to allegations of stealing IRG funds targeted to the AUB. Obeidi's membership in the IRG was also revoked. Sheikh Khary al-Assi took his place as the new [...]	2008-12-10 09:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3847	TURKISH-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS: FIRST [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-10 09:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ TU PREL MARR

08BAGHDAD3849	MAYSAN MARSH PRINCE DISCUSSES POST-SOFA ISSUES [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a December 6 meeting with PRT members, prominent Maysani Sheikh Abed al-Kareem al-Mohammedawi (aka the Prince of the Marshes) lauded the timely passage of the SOFA and recommended that the U.S. should now look for opportu [...]	2008-12-10 09:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3851	CORRECTED COPY: MAYSAN MARSH PRINCE DISCUSSES [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a December 6 meeting with PRT members, prominent Maysani Sheikh Abed al-Kareem al-Mohammedawi (aka the Prince of the Marshes) lauded the timely passage of the SOFA and recommended that the U.S. should now look for opportu [...]	2008-12-10 12:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3852	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD BRIEFS VP HASHIMI ON IRAQI [...] (C) On December 2, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad told Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi that Iraq must request a new United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to extend Chapter VII protection over its financial assets. Claiming that "no one is satisfied [...]	2008-12-10 12:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3855	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD DISCUSSES PROTECTION OF IRAQI [...] (C) On December 1, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad discussed with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki next steps to protect Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) assets through a new United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR). Khalilzad urged Iraq to quickly submit a dr [...]	2008-12-10 13:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ
08BAGHDAD3857	IRAQ-TURKEY-US TRILATERAL: SIGNS OF COMMITMENT; NO [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-10 15:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ TU PREL MARR
08BAGHDAD3865	CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS DESTRUCTION (CWD) ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: With one of the highest levels of landmine and unexploded ordnance contamination in the world, and possibly millions of small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) in the hands of insurgent groups, militias and private citizens, Iraq has struggled to make progress in reducin [...]	2008-12-11 11:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3893	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PLOT THICKENS IN DEPUTY [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Questions surround the potential disqualification of Salah ad Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein Jebara from running as a candidate in the upcoming provincial elections. The Government of Iraq's (GOI) Commission on [...]	2008-12-14 06:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3896	VP MAHDI PRAISES POLITICAL BLOCS FOR OVERCOMING [...] (C) U.S. Representative to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad on December 1 reported to Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi that Iraq must request a new United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to protect its financial assets. Mahdi characterized the post-SoFA political environme [...]	2008-12-14 09:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ
08BAGHDAD39	ANBAR POLITICAL LEADERS DISCUSS POLITICAL AND [...] (C) Summary: Four Anbari leaders met with the Ambassador December 31, to highlight the newly formed Anbar Higher Committee (AHC) as a conflict-resolution mechanism in the province. Anbar is eager to pursue an economic zone (EZ),perhaps in the city of al-Qaim. The Anbaris noted the lack of [...]	2008-01-04 14:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD3904	UPDATE ON INVESTMENT IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Industry and Minerals (MIM) has successfully concluded negotiations with a Japanese and an Egyptian consortium on joint venture (JV),production-sharing agreements for two state owned enterprises -- Beiji Fertilizer and Diyala Electric. MIM senior officials are confident [...]	2008-12-14 12:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON EIND ETRD PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3906	UPDATE ON INVESTMENT IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Industry and Minerals (MIM) has successfully concluded negotiations with a Japanese and an Egyptian consortium on joint venture (JV),production-sharing agreements for two state owned enterprises -- Beiji Fertilizer and Diyala Electric. MIM senior officials are confident [...]	2008-12-14 13:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON EIND ETRD PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3917	URGING U.S. NGOS TO OBSERVE IRAQI PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (SBU) Iraq's provincial elections, scheduled for January 31, 2009, will be vital in determining the shape of local government in Iraq for the next four years. The provincial councils to be elected will also hold greater powe [...]	2008-12-15 06:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3918	WASIT TRIBES, SHEIKHS AND THE ELECTIONS [...] (C / / REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: In meetings with the PRT held December 5 and 7, leading representatives from three Wasit tribes explained Prime Minister Maliki's growing popularity in terms of his ability to provide security and stand up to Iran. Sheikhs who were active in the province's S [...]	2008-12-15 07:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3923	RRT ERBIL: THE PLIGHT OF THE SMALL: YAZEIDI COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The supreme leader of the Yazeidis believes that association with the Kurdistan Region (rather than the central Iraqi government) is better for his community, but resents the top-down imposition of KDP-chosen authorities in local communities and the diminution of his own powers [...]	2008-12-15 11:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD3924	JURASSIC PARK ON THE TIGRIS: SAVING BAGHDAD'S [...] Summary: The Baghdad economy depends heavily on state-owned enterprises (SOEs),but these dinosaurs have uncertain prospects in Iraq,s nascent free-market economy. Poor leadership and daunting capital needs are their biggest challenges. We need to have realistic expectations for the restructu [...]	2008-12-15 12:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND EINV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3928	TRIBES AND TECHNOCRATS MARK PRE-ELECTION [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Several months ago, outsiders looking at the electoral line-up in Anbar Province saw what appeared to be a head-on match up between the governing Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) and its nemesis, the Iraq Awakening Conference (MSI). Today th [...]	2008-12-16 06:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3929	BASRA RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES SHARE COMMON [...] (C) Senior Advisor Gordon Gray and REO Director met with leaders of Basra's minority Christian, Sunni, and ethnic African communities during three separate meetings November 30 to December 2. Leaders of all three communities called for job creation, expressed caution toward regionalism, and [...]	2008-12-16 12:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3932	KEY BABIL SHEIKH ON SUNNI PERSPECTIVES, BABIL [...] Summary (C) In a two-hour meeting on December 10 with PRT Leader and DCG-S, Sunni Sheikh Adnan Janabi painted a largely positive picture of the Sunni community's outlook in Babil. His candidate slate of largely Sunni tribal sheikhs has engaged in discussions with a wide variety of other parti [...]	2008-12-16 13:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD3947	FIRST USG/GOI MEETING ON SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (S) Summary: In the first meeting on implementation of the detainees article of the USG-GOI Security Agreement on December 10, the CG detailed the USG plan for releasing and/or transferring up to 1,500 detainees per month. Barham Saleh, the head of the existing GOI detention committee, pro [...]	2008-12-17 13:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PINS PTER KJUS PHUM IZ
08BAGHDAD3949	THE NEED FOR OPIC FINANCING OF PROJECTS IN IRAQ [...] (U) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy Baghdad strongly urges the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to increase its participation in projects in Iraq. Specifically, the Board should consider on an urgent basis debt financing for the Summit Group's hotel [...]	2008-12-17 15:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD395	AQI USES WOMAN WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME TO ATTACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: District Council chairmen in Baghdad told poloff February 2 that Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) detonated bombs in two popular markets on February 1 as part of a desperate bid for attention on the one year anniversary of the launch of the Baghdad Security Plan and the second anniversary o [...]	2008-02-10 20:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINR PINS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3977	PM VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE ON HOLD FOR NOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. There is plenty of talk about a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Maliki, but it appears unlikely that his opponents will force action any time soon. There was more discussion about removing Maliki among the Kurdish, Sunni Arab and one Shia Islamist party during the Musl [...]	2008-12-19 16:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3994	(C) PRT SALAH AD DIN: IRANIAN INVOLVEMENT IN [...] (SBU) Over the last six months, Samarra residents have grown increasingly concerned that Iranian interests are coordinating to influence the reconstruction of the Al Askari shrine (Golden Mosque) in Samarra, as well as the overall development of the city itself. People fear that the GOI and [...]	2008-12-21 11:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3999	PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS ON TRACK, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: Preparations for the January 31 provincial elections are on track. Iraq's electoral commission has overcome political pressure and in-fighting among the commissioners to approve ballot design and the methodology for seat allocation, although the quota for female representation [...]	2008-12-22 10:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD4003	TURKISH-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS: [...] (S) SUMMARY: The third meeting of the Iraqi-Turkish-US security committee/working group on Dec. 20 ended without an agreement on terms-of-reference for the group or an exchange of intelligence, although the increased level of participation, organization, and orderly discussion indicated that [...]	2008-12-22 13:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR PINR PREL TU IZ
08BAGHDAD4005	MINISTER OF FINANCE ON NON-SOVEREIGN DEBT ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: EMIN and TREASATT reviewed the status of Iraq's non-Paris Club country sovereign debts in a meeting with Minister of Finance Jabr on December 17. Iraq owes between USD 50-80 billion to non-Paris Club countries, though some of these countries, such as China and Poland are modeling [...]	2008-12-22 14:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD4006	GOI TO ASSUME REPONSIBILITY FOR CAMP ASHRAF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 16. 2. (S) SUMMARY. National Security Advisor (NSA) Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie led a joint GOI-USG delegation to Camp Ashraf December 20 to discuss the assumption of security responsibility for the camp, home to over 3000 Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) [...]	2008-12-22 14:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD4014	IRAQI OIL MINISTER ON HIS MEETING WITH KRG [...] (C) Summary: Oil Minister Shahristani told UN Ambassador Khalilzad December 1 that oil issues took up "only 10 percent" of his two-hour meeting with KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani on November 24 (ref A),but that he and Barzani had agreed to allow Ministry of Oil employees back to work [...]	2008-12-23 08:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV EINV EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD4019	PARLIAMENT APPROVES ALLIED FORCES RESOLUTION AFTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Shia, Kurd and Sunni parliamentarians successfully joined together in forcing mercurial Speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani to resign his position as speaker and member of the Iraqi Parliament. And while most of the day was taken up with behind-the-scenes negotiations to oust him from powe [...]	2008-12-23 18:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ MARR PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD4026	RRT ERBIL: EFFORTS TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Violence against women in the Kurdistan Region (KR) is widespread, including honor killings, provoked "suicide" by burning, and female genital mutilation. Tackling this issue requires combining law enforcement and education; it will take time. We don't know whether there is mo [...]	2008-12-26 03:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD4033	IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES INSURGENT FINANCING, AGREEMENT [...] (S) Summary. At the December 21, 2009 meting of the Iraqi National Security Council (NSC),Prime Minister (PM) Nouri al-Maliki received a detailed report from the Minister of Defense (MoD) on the internal sources of financing for Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and other insurgent organizations. Accor [...]	2008-12-26 14:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD4042	RRT ERBIL: ANOTHER INDUSTRY ENDANGERED BY KRG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The sole foreign insurance broker in the Kurdistan Region (KR) says that he would like to provide a wider array of insurance products to the Kurdish market, but has faced numerous hurdles due to the party/family-dominated Kurdistan Regional Government's vested interest in margin [...]	2008-12-28 08:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD4046	SADR CITY'S NATIVE SON AND HIS SHOES: MUTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reactions in Sadr City to its native son's Muntader al-Zaidi's shoe-throwing incident during President Bush's recent press conference in Baghdad led to varied -- though mostly muted -- reactions in the capital's largest district, home to approximately 40 percent of the city's pop [...]	2008-12-28 13:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD4057	PRT SALAD AD-DIN: MATTRESS MILLIONAIRES LOOK TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad-Din reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Balad's newly rich want to get richer, but the opportunities they see look too risky. At a December 16 meeting with the PRT, a dozen wealthy sheikhs said they did not know where to put the millions they had amassed since 200 [...]	2008-12-29 13:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD4058	SUMMING UP IRAQ'S YEAR OF ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih declared in January that 2008 was to be Iraq's year of combating corruption but Iraq has made only incremental gains in doing so. Salih issued an 18-point plan to fight administrative corruption that was issued in the PM,s name, of which four [...]	2008-12-29 14:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD4060	GOI BEGINS WIDENING LABOR RIGHTS IN ANTICIPATION OF NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI is determined to bring its labor code into compliance with international standards, but is still struggling to move a new ILO-compatible draft bill through the legislative process. The constitutional review is nearly complete, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs [...]	2008-12-30 03:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ETRD EFIN EINV IZ
08BAGHDAD4064	PRT SALAH AD DIN: APPREHENSION OVER COMING SOI [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial leaders are concerned that the upcoming transition of responsibility for Sons of Iraq (SOI) contracts from Coalition Forces (CF) to the Government of Iraq (GOI) could undermine security improvements in Salah ad Din ( [...]	2008-12-30 14:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD4067	AMBASSADOR AND DPM SALIH DISCUSS FALLING OIL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and EMIN delivered a letter from Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt to Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on December 28. In a wide-ranging discussion, Salih noted with alarm that the GOI's oil exports in 2009 will most likely not exceed 1.6 million barrels per day [...]	2008-12-30 15:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV KCOR EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD4078	ERBIL RRT: Movement on the KRG Provincial Powers Law [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The KRG Council of Ministers (COM) and the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) are discussing the latest draft of the KRG Provincial Powers Law. In a sign of the KNA's limited but growing political independence from the KRG executive branch, the KNA rejected the previous draft on [...]	2008-12-31 15:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD409	GOI SEEKS LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) PM Reconstruction Advisor Haq al-Hakim told us on February 7 that the GOI expects reconstruction on the Shia Golden Mosque of Samarra to be in full swing by October or November 2008. EmbOffs joined a delegation led by al-Hakim to Samarra in Salah ad Din (SaD) Province for February 6 me [...]	2008-02-11 19:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD428	PRIME MINISTER MALIKI UPDATES AMBASSADOR AND CG ON [...] (S) During a February 11 meeting with the Ambassador and General Petraeus, Prime Minister Maliki blamed the Kurds for the present budget impasse, insisting their behavior was a challenge to his governance that required a firm hand lest other provinces be so emboldened. The Ambassador encourag [...]	2008-02-13 13:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD429	IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEBRUARY 8 [...] SUMMARY: In place of an absent PM Maliki, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih chaired the 8 February Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh Al Qanoon - FaQ). The meeting featured calls to limit political and religious interference menacing co [...]	2008-02-13 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD430	FCO'S HOWELLS:BRITISH ELECTORATE MONITORING IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 9 meeting, UK Foreign Office Minister of State Kim Howells told Ambassador Crocker that he had not gotten the sense from intense U.K. Cabinet discussions that the British were going to relinquish responsibility in Basrah. Howells was clear, however, that the U.K. [...]	2008-02-13 15:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ UK
08BAGHDAD434	FRENCH DIPLOMATS WELCOME VISIT; GUARDED ABOUT IRAQ [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. In a February 12 meeting - the first on French Embassy premises with U.S. Emboffs in at least 18 months, if not since 2003 -- French DCM Alexandre Garcia and Political Counselor Sylvain Fourriere (protect both) told DepPolCounselor that ongoing security concerns and pervasive [...]	2008-02-14 14:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD438	VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI: SISTANI "VERY NERVOUS" ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on February 10 that his recent meetings in Najaf with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Iraq's other three leading Shia clerics revealed great unease over current economic and social conditions in Iraq, but the four Maraja offer [...]	2008-02-15 10:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD450	IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE PART 3: TIMING [...] (C) Summary: Passage of "The Law of the Governorates Not Organized Into a Region (Provincial Powers)" on February 13 has set into motion a timetable for holding provincial elections in Iraq this year. While we believe the elections deadline as outlined in the law is overly ambitious given its [...]	2008-02-16 05:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD456	TALABANI, SALIH AND SHAWAYS ON LTSR, GOVERNMENT [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador met with President Talabani, DPM Barham Salih and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) representative Rowsch Shaways in two separate meetings on February 12. All noted that the Prime Minister will oversee the technical team's negotia [...]	2008-02-17 11:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD457	PRT ANBAR: ANBAR POLITICAL FIGURES DEMAND COUNCIL [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Sheikh Ali Hatim Suleiman and Hameed Al-Heiss aired their grievances with the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) in a meeting with MNF-West and the PRT at Camp Fallujah on February 16. Both disavowed any support for political violence, alt [...]	2008-02-17 17:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD459	UNAMI CHIEF ON ELECTIONS AND UPCOMING MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: UNAMI Special Representative of the Secretary General to Iraq Staffan de Mistura told the Ambassador on February 15 that UNAMI's decision to assist the CoR in filling eight vacant Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) director positions, rather than firing all GEO directors and selec [...]	2008-02-18 05:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD470	NEA/DAS BUTLER MEETING WITH FM ZEBARI [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 14 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told NEA DAS Lawrence Butler that he thought Iran postponed the trilat scheduled for February 15 because of the February 12 assassination in Damascus of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyah. Zebari confirmed that Iranian Pre [...]	2008-02-19 07:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD472	EPRT FALLUJAH: CITY COUNCIL BECOMING LEGITIMATE [...] (U) This is a joint ePRT Fallujah/POL reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Nearly non-existent only eight short months ago, the Fallujah City Council (FCC) is developing into a legitimate governing force that is building political capacity and driving economic development in Fallujah. The Co [...]	2008-02-19 08:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD473	GOI FIGHTS KEROSENE CORRUPTION, MILITIA RACKETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sayid Nemah Jabour of the office of the Iraqi National Security Advisor told poloff February 15 that the new Project Clean Delivery (PCD) kerosene distribution system had significantly diminished militia revenue from the theft and sale of kerosene. Jabour said that an Iraqi inte [...]	2008-02-19 10:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PINR PINS PTER IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD474	MALIKI RECONSIDERS CABINET RE-SIZING, MAKES [...] (S) SUMMARY: At the weekly security meeting with the Ambassador and General Petraeus on February 14, Prime Minister Maliki expressed optimism on the return of the Tawafaq and Iraqiyya parties to the government, but noted their objection to reducing the number of ministries. On services, Maliki [...]	2008-02-19 10:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER
08BAGHDAD477	THE PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW: A HARD COR BATTLE WON, [...] (C) Summary. CoR members passed the provincial powers law February 13 as part of an omnibus package with the 2008 budget and amnesty law. Among the three pieces of legislation, the provincial powers law was the most controversial, as it delineates the authorities between Iraq's central and [...]	2008-02-19 14:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD48	PASSENGER RAIL'S RETURN HINTS AT CHALLENGES AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 16 the Iraqi Republic Railway (IRR) renewed scheduled passenger service between Baghdad and Basrah for the first time since before the 2003 invasion. The first week of service was marred by two attacks--one suicide bomb and one IED--and a train-automobile collision und [...]	2008-01-07 08:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELTN IZ
08BAGHDAD481	IRAQ: UN LAUNCHES 2008 HUMANITARIAN APPEAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 12 February, the United Nations (UN) launched a humanitarian appeal for Iraq in Baghdad and requested $265 million for humanitarian activities for vulnerable Iraqis. The UN faces challenges related to its security stance to increasing its presence in Iraq, but may modify the [...]	2008-02-20 05:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PREF PGOV UN IZ
08BAGHDAD484	AFTERMATH OF DE-BA'ATHIFICATION LAW PASSAGE [...] (C) Summary: Although the Law of Accountability and Justice was ratified by the Presidency Council on February 3 and awaits publication in the official gazette, the GoI still has a significant amount to accomplish before the law can be implemented in any meaningful way. VP Hashimi's unrealized [...]	2008-02-20 07:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD485	VP ADEL MULLING VETO OF PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW [...] (C) Summary: In a February 19 meeting, the Ambassador urged Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi to put aside misgivings about the recently-passed Provincial Powers law and not to veto the bill, a move that would also block enactment of the 2008 GOI budget and an Amnesty law (all were approved as a [...]	2008-02-20 11:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD49	CODEL COLEMAN DISCUSSES 2008 OUTLOOK WITH HAKIM [...] (C) On January 5 CODEL Coleman (Sens. Norm Coleman (R-MN),John Cornyn (R-TX),Johnny Isakson (R-GA)) met with ISCI Leader Abd al-Aziz Al-Hakim. MPs Hadi al-Amri and Redha Taki also attended the meeting. Hakim opened by saying 2007 ended on a better note than it began, citing a "20-25%" dec [...]	2008-01-07 13:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD495	IRAQ'S COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES [...] (C) Its powerful constitutional role notwithstanding, Iraq's parliament remains a weak institution. Its problems are Iraq's problems: deep-seated sectarian, ethnic and personal animosities that inhibit and frequently prevent compromise, cooperation and agreement. Given the magnitude of thes [...]	2008-02-21 09:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD50	SEEKING KUWAITI CONCURRENCE ON MNF-I SALVAGE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. On December 18, 2007, the Kuwaiti Navy ordered two vessels contracted by the Multi-National Force in Iraq (MNF-I) to depart disputed waters in the Khawr Abd Allah (KAA) waterway. These contracted vessels were surveying tw [...]	2008-01-07 15:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT KU MARR MCAP MOPS PBTS PINS PNAT PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD501	BAGHDAD ZOO -- RESPITE FROM THE URBAN JUNGLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Baghdad Zoo has reportedly become the most popular destination for family outings in Baghdad. Attendance increased dramatically in 2007, and continues to rise. The Zoo Director told visiting poloff on February 11 that approximately 8,000 people visit the Zoo every weekend, with fam [...]	2008-02-21 13:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD503	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL AND ITS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) After months of meeting sporadically and without achieving quorum, the Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) has been increasingly active, meeting with quorum and efficiently conducting its business. PC Chairm [...]	2008-02-21 15:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS PINR KCRS IZ
08BAGHDAD509	NEIGHBORS PROCESS: UNAMI ROLLS UP ITS SLEEVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: At his February 20 introductory call at Embassy Baghdad, Ambassador Gerard Sambrana, Special Political Advisor to SRSG de Mistura, exchanged views on the Neighbors Process with PolMil M/C and PolCouns. Sambrana communicated de Mistura,s commitment to try to improve the "process" [...]	2008-02-22 09:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EG IR IZ KU TU UN SY
08BAGHDAD512	FORMER PRIME MINISTER AYAD ALLAWI IS BACK ON THE [...] (S/NF) Summary. Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi emphasized with the Ambassador in a dinner meeting on February 19 that Iran's growing interference is deterring Iraq's Arab neighbors from establishing stronger diplomatic ties. He received a request to meet with President of Iran Mahmoud Ahm [...]	2008-02-22 11:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD518	CHIEF JUSTICE OFFERS VIEWS ON AMNESTY [...] (C) Summary: At a February 20 meeting with members of the MNF-I and Embassy communities, Iraqi Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud offered his views on the recently passed General Amnesty Law. Commenting that the entire law could not be applied to those in MNF-I detention, he reiterated that arti [...]	2008-02-22 16:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD539	DPM SALEH'S GRAND BARGAIN--KURDS NEED SUNNIS; [...] (C) During a two-and-one-half hour discussion on February 20, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Saleh told Ambassador Crocker and Special Adviser Pearce that both Massud and Nechirvan Barzani would shortly arrive in Baghdad for lengthy stays. Saleh emphasized that the USG must act as the mae [...]	2008-02-25 02:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD544	IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEBRUARY 15 [...] SUMMARY: An assertive Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki chaired the 15 February Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh Al Qanoon - FaQ). The meeting featured praise of FaQ on its one year anniversary; discussions of remedies to the shortage of [...]	2008-02-25 13:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD557	MINISTER OF HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION EXPLAINS [...] (C) In a cordial 90 minute meeting on February 24, Minister of Housing and Construction Bayan Diyazee told Ambassador Charles Ries, the Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, and Major General Kevin Bergner, Deputy Chief of Staff for MNF-I Strategic Effects, that foreign investment was a [...]	2008-02-26 13:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EFIN SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD57	MCNS FOCUSES ON IRAQI MINISTRY OF INTERIOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: At the Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) on January 6, Prime Minister Maliki and security ministers set aside most of the prepared agenda and focused on two issues raised by MinInt Bolani--apprehension about foreign ownership of Iraqi communications companies and dis [...]	2008-01-09 02:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	KU MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD570	MCNS ON FEBRUARY 24 DISCUSSES TURKISH INCURSION, [...] (S/REL AS UK) Deputy Prime Minister (D/PM) Barham Saleh opened the February 24 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) meeting with a discussion of the Turkish incursion into northern Iraq (ref. A). National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwaffaq Rubaie presented a list of intelligence col [...]	2008-02-27 13:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ TU
08BAGHDAD571	MALIKI REASSESSES ONGOING CABINET NEGOTIATIONS, [...] (S) SUMMARY: During his weekly security meeting with the Ambassador and General Petraeus on February 21, Prime Minister Maliki said he was discouraged by lack of progress in negotiations with the Tawafaq and Iraqiyya parties on rejoining the government, blaming their senior leadership for ever [...]	2008-02-27 13:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR MOPS MCAP PGOV PTER PINS PNAT IZ
08BAGHDAD575	BAGHDAD: RIVALRY HEATS UP AMONG SHIA PARTIES [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Over 75 percent of Baghdad's ISCI-dominated Provincial Council (PC) voted February 19 to dismiss Baghdad's three Deputy Mayors, one of whom was the highest-ranking Sadrist in Baghdad's city government. PC members announced publicly that the Amanat needs more "effort and [...]	2008-02-28 02:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PTER KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD576	PRT DIWANIYAH HAS RELOCATED TO THE PROVINCE [...] On February 22, the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Diwaniyah moved from REO Hillah and into temporary quarters at Camp Echo, a base operated by Coalition Forces. This move will greatly enhance the team's effectiveness to engage more frequently with Iraqi counterparts, and will relieve t [...]	2008-02-28 06:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREZ IZ
08BAGHDAD578	GOI BEGINS TO MAKE SOME PROGRESS IN IMPROVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has begun to make some progress on addressing overcrowding in the juvenile justice system in Baghdad. The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA) has identified a suitable site and has begun planning for a new juvenile facility in the 9 Nissan neighborhood and has b [...]	2008-02-28 08:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD581	KIRKUK PRT: LION DAY MARKET-WALK RESTORES KIRKUK LEADERS [...] This is a PRT Kirkuk cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) and the Arab Bloc continue to work together to identify mechanisms for the implementation of the last of the 13 points cited in the agreement between the two blocs that resulted in the Arab bloc's return to the [...]	2008-02-28 12:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD585	NINEWA: IRAQI GOVERNMENT SAYING THE RIGHT THINGS [...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary and Comment: The Iraqi Government is focused on Mosul security and reconstruction. The massive explosion in January in West Mosul's Zanjali market and ongoing military operations served as catalysts to focus the Iraqi Government at the highest level on the critical import [...]	2008-02-28 14:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PREL ECON MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD586	PRT KIRKUK: KURDISH BROTHERHOOD VIEWS ON THE [...] (U) This is a Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Kirkuk Provincial Council members Ali Al-Salhi and Awad M. Ameen (Kirkuk Brotherhood League-KBL) told us February 14 that the KBL had accepted the Turkman bloc's request to resume negotiations [...]	2008-02-28 14:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD591	TUWAITHA BUYER UPDATE: POST PARIS MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-29 12:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON ENRG PARM PREL POL EXEC
08BAGHDAD594	TURKISH ENVOYS AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS GOI [...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkish PM Advisor Ahmet Davutoglu asserted to Ambassador that Turkish ground operations were inevitable after the October kidnapping of Turkish soldiers and refused to predict when the operation would end. Ambassador pressed for operations to end before they upset the fragile [...]	2008-02-29 18:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD595	DE-BA'ATH PUBLISHED -- CLOCK NOW TICKING [...] (C) Summary: Two separate sources report that the Law of Accountability and Justice (De-Ba'ath Reform) was published in the official gazette approximately two weeks ago (around February 14). Its publication begins the countdown on a 60-day (or 90-day) window for former Ba'athists covered by t [...]	2008-02-29 18:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD600	KIRKUK PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIR DESCRIBES ROLES AND [...] This is a PRT Kirkuk cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Chairman of the Kirkuk Provincial Council Rizgar Ali convened an information sharing session on February 17 with the district and sub-district councils of the predominantly Arab areas. Regarding the Provincial Powers Law (PPL),he said it woul [...]	2008-03-01 07:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD601	FOREIGN MINISTER PROVIDES AHMEDINEJAD VISIT [...] SUMMARY. During a February 28 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told Political Counselor Matt Tueller and NSC Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk that he would urge the Iranians to avoid making inflammatory statements directed at the United States during President Ah [...]	2008-03-01 07:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD610	DPM ON OIL, SOFA AND TUWAITHA [...] (S) SUMMARY: DPM Barham Salih on February 25 urged Under Secretary Jeffrey to sustain USG engagement to help Iraq pass SIPDIS the hydrocarbon framework legislation, and while he agreed with Ambassador Loftis on the need to move quickly on a new strategic relationship and status of forces a [...]	2008-03-02 02:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL EPET ECON ENRG PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD613	AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 1 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) In a March 1 meeting with the Ambassador, President Talabani said the Turkish withdrawal from the north opens the door for a political solution; said he hopes to visit Turkey March 10-12 to talk frankly with them about the PKK as well as come away with an agreement to restart the trilateral [...]	2008-03-02 11:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IR IZ
08BAGHDAD615	HUGE SHIA ARBA'EEN COMMEMORATION REFLECTS [...] (C) Summary: As many as several million Iraqi and foreign Shia pilgrims converged on the central Iraq city of Karbala February 26-29 to mark the end of the symbolic forty-day "Arba'een" commemoration to honor the seventh-century death of Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who is ento [...]	2008-03-02 13:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD620	PRT NINEWA: PROVINCIAL BUDGET EXECUTION: HARD-WON [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Despite corruption in provincial budget execution in 2006 and delays in 2007, Ninewa was the first province to submit its 2008 capital budget to the Government of Iraq, for which it received special [...]	2008-03-03 08:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD623	PRT KIRKUK: MAJOR CRIMES COURT RESUMES TRYING [...] (U) THIS IS A PRT KIRKUK REPORTING CABLE. SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) THE KIRKUK MAJOR CRIMES COURT (MCC) RESUMED OPERATIONS FEBRUARY 28 HEARING A SECOND DOCKET OF 42 CASES. CREATED IN OCTOBER 2007, THE MCC HAS TRIED 26 CASES AND CLEARED A TWO-YEAR BACKLOG OF MAJOR CRIMES CASES, INCLUDING [...]	2008-03-03 09:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD631	AHMADINEJAD VISIT MOSTLY PR; STRONG SIGNAL THAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's overnight visit largely confirmed its advance billing as a PR exercise. The substance, centered around the signing of seven MOUs, including a USD 1 billion loan package, will require time to evaluate. The trip did send a strong visual that shoul [...]	2008-03-03 18:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD638	SOME PROGRESS ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: The High Commission on Human Rights law received its second reading in the Council of Representatives (CoR) on February 13, almost a year after its first reading. According to members of the CoR Human Rights Committee, the third and final reading should take place shortly after t [...]	2008-03-04 13:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD642	SRSG DE MISTURA DISCUSSES UNAMI'S PLANS ON ARTICLE [...] (C) Summary: On February 20, Counselor Eliot A. Cohen met with Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) to the UN Assistance Mission for SIPDIS Iraq (UNAMI),to discuss UNAMI's plans for negotiating disputed internal boundaries and assisting with provinci [...]	2008-03-05 02:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD643	Dialogue on Economic Cooperation Ends With Follow-Up [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Iraq (GOI) hosted the U.S. Government (USG) at the Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad February 27-28, 2008 for the U.S.-Iraq Dialogue on Economic Cooperation (DEC). Senior officials from both governments discussed the nature of the bilateral economic relationship, its [...]	2008-03-05 07:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAID EFIN EINV EAGR ENRG IZ
08BAGHDAD647	OIL MINISTER PRESENTS DEVELOPMENT PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Oil has presented to the Council of Ministers his three-part plan for oil field development in the absence of a national hydrocarbon law: to sign 2-year technical service agreements in 2008 with major international oil companies (IOCs) to increase production in f [...]	2008-03-05 08:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON ENRG IZ
08BAGHDAD649	IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEB 29 [...] Summary. PM Maliki and DPM Salih co-chaired the 29 February 2008 IESC in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh Al-Qannon). The meeting featured lengthy discussion of steps being taken to improve electricity in Baghdad, PM Maliki's number one priority. More optimism than usual was sou [...]	2008-03-05 13:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD65	NINEWA: SUCCESSFUL HAJJ FLIGHTS CREATE HOPES FOR [...] (C) Sumamry: Mosul Airport in December successfully processed thousands of Hajj pilgrims, arousing a sense of local pride and hope that commercial flights will continue for the betterment of the Ninewa economy. While there are many logistical hurdles to dividing Ninewa,s airport and airspace [...]	2008-01-09 15:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EAIR EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD656	IRAQ OIL MINISTER OUTLINES PLANS TO U/S JEFFERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Oil (MOO) Shahrishtani, in a February 25 meeting, told Under Secretary of State Jeffery that the MOO and the Cabinet are prepared to proceed with the February 07 draft hydrocarbon law (HCL),but said that the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) should cancel its post-F [...]	2008-03-05 15:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD657	GOI OFFICIALS DISCUSS HYDROCARBONS LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq officials told Under Secretary Jeffery in a series of meetings held February 24-28 in Baghdad that the time is ripe to move forward on the hydrocarbon legislative package (septels). VP Adil Mahdi agreed to place the item on the agenda for the next Executive Council meeting, [...]	2008-03-05 15:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON PGOV EPET IZ
08BAGHDAD66	KURDS STILL SEEKING CHANCE TO REPLACE MALIKI [...] (C) Summary: Kurdish leaders have agreed not to remove Prime Minister Maliki in the short term, but have little faith in him and probably would move to replace him if not for the Secretary,s strong message that Iraqi leaders must focus on issues instead of personalities. While that message r [...]	2008-01-09 15:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD661	PRT KIRKUK: NEGOTIATIONS TO END TURKMAN BOYCOT OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) met with the Turkman Bloc on March 2 to continue discussions on a resolution to the Turkman Bloc's boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council. The KBL arrived prepared to sign on five of [...]	2008-03-05 20:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD662	PRT DHI QAR: CONFLICT BETWEEN GOV AND PC [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: In the past two weeks Aziz Alwan, the ISCI Governor of Dhi Qar, has openly clashed with non-ISCI members of the Provincial Council (PC). The PC initially angered the Governor by refusing to allow funding for a road project whi [...]	2008-03-06 07:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PTER PGOV IZ

08BAGHDAD663	PRT NINEWA: RAIN AND JOBS - NOT SECURITY - ARE [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. Summary ------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) Even as the 29 February kidnapping of Chaldean Christian Archbishop Faraj Rahu from a neighborhood in east Mosul remains unresolved, community leaders and municipal officials in the outlyi [...]	2008-03-06 13:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EAGR PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD678	ICI: BAGHDAD DONOR MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNAMI convened an informal donor meeting March 4 to: a) update Baghdad-resident donor reps on GOI preparation for the ICI first anniversary, b) brief on the January 23 IRFFI meeting in Naples, and c) brief a visiting EC delegation on a and b. UNAMI Deputy Guy Siri and World B [...]	2008-03-07 11:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD684	THE PARTY OF PRIME MINISTERS: DAWA UNITY REMAINS [...] (C) Summary: The Islamic Dawa Party, the grandfather of Iraq's Shia religious-based political parties, is no stranger to division, and the latest fissure pits a faction led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki against a smaller but scrappy camp headed by former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaffri. F [...]	2008-03-08 09:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD691	PRT NINEWA: MOSUL MUSEUM, CLOSED AND WITH A [...] (C) PRT Leader, Public Affairs Officer, and other PRT staff visited the Mosul Museum February 21 to meet Museum Director Muzahem Hussein (please protect) and assess conditions at this important cultural institution, which has been closed since 2003 because of security. The museum is housed in [...]	2008-03-08 19:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SCUL EAIR PINR PREL MARR IZ
08BAGHDAD700	MALIKI CHASTISES JUDICIARY, REQUESTS HELP ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: At the Prime Minister's weekly security meeting with Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus, Maliki immediately turned to the acquittal of the former Deputy Minister of Health. Maliki lamented the failure of the judiciary to promote justice and promised to seek redress. During [...]	2008-03-09 16:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR MOPS MCAP PGOV PTER PINS PNAT IZ KU
08BAGHDAD702	PRT KIRKUK: DEPUTY GOVERNOR RECEIVES OFFICIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Governor Rakan Saeed Ali Radwan al-Jubori received his official duties and authorities in an official communiqu from Kirkuk Governor Abdul Rahman Mustafa Fatih on February 27. The document cites each responsibility in ver [...]	2008-03-09 21:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD717	IRAQ FY08 REPORT ON FISCAL TRANSPARENCY [...] (U) As requested in reftel, Embassy Baghdad's submission for the congressionally-mandated report on fiscal transparency for countries receiving USG assistance follows: 2. (SBU) Begin text: The Government of Iraq (GoI) recently reiterated its commitment to fiscal transparency in the U.S.-Ira [...]	2008-03-10 15:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD724	SUMMARY OF GOI MEETINGS ON RULE OF LAW, DETENTIONS [...] This is an update on the continuing Ministerial Committee on the Rule of Law and Detention meetings (MCROLD). Since our last summary the MCROLD has been marked by more senior participants - most ministries or agencies are now represented at the deputy minister level - and more organized meeti [...]	2008-03-11 14:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KJUS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD726	UPDATE ON AMNESTY IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) Summary: The General Amnesty Law passed by the COR on February 13 is now in effect, and Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud continues to issue implementing regulations that address only administrative aspects of the law. Already families and concerned individuals have lined up at courthouses [...]	2008-03-11 18:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD734	SHAWAYS GUARDED ABOUT SFA/SOFA PROCESS [...] (C) In a March 8 meeting, KDP Baghdad Representative (and former Deputy Prime Minister) Rosch Shaways told Ambassador Crocker, Senior Advisor to the Secretary on Iraq Satterfield and NSC Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan McGurk that KRG leadership was prepared to take positive, practi [...]	2008-03-12 09:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD743	IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - MARCH 7 [...] (C) Summary. In the absence of Prime Minister Maliki, the Minister of Defense Abdul Qadir (MoD) Chaired the Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (FaQ). The meeting featured complaints from representatives of Sadr City about the extremely poor state [...]	2008-03-13 12:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IZ PGOV
08BAGHDAD747	MND-C ECONOMIC SITUATION: A VIEW FROM MND-C POLAD [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- ENTIRE TEXT. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. In the Multi-National Division Center (MND-C) area of responsibility (AOR) improved security, the return of stability and normalcy, the emergence of economic activity and our increasing ability to engage with Iraqis have combined [...]	2008-03-13 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID IZ
08BAGHDAD748	PRT WASIT: PRT INCREASES SADRIST ENGAGEMENT [...] (S//REL USA, ACGU) Summary. In a meeting with Wasit PRT on 1 March, Sadrist Trend Provincial Council member Ahmed Hasan Ebrah and Deputy PC Chairman Nisar Kathim Fraieh described the continued adherence to the ceasefire in al Kut by "true" Jaysh al Mahdi and applauded perceived changes in the [...]	2008-03-13 15:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD749	AWAKENING LEADER ABU AZZAM ON GOI COOPERATION [...] (S) Summary: Abu Ghraib Awakening movement leader Abu Azzam told FSEC that the Awakening movement continues to progress, though some GOI and ISF elements remain opposed to them. In Abu Ghraib, Iraqi Army units target Awakening members for harassment, even after the GOI hired 1500 local men [...]	2008-03-13 15:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD755	DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON GOI PLANS FOR REFUGEE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 13 meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Haj Hamoud said that the Iraqi Ambassador in Amman would disburse the USD 8 million Iraq had pledged to help its refugees in Jordan within a day or two, but did not mention any additional GOI funding initiatives for refugees. [...]	2008-03-13 18:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD763	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - March 11 [...] SUMMARY: Despite the Chairman's absence, the Provision of Services Committee met this week, hosted by the Deputy Minister of Electricity (DMoE). The meeting was well attended - the Baghdad Governor and a representative from the National Reconciliation Committee attended for the first time. The [...]	2008-03-14 10:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD764	ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT: STRATEGY FOR IRAQ [...] This is an action request (see para 16). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's status as a "boycotting country" under the League of Arab States' boycott of Israel (Arab League Boycott -- ALB) has been listed as "under review" since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003. Some elements in [...]	2008-03-14 12:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KBTC ECON ETRD PREL EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD767	2008 IAGGA: IRAQ'S Anti-Corruption Efforts in 2006-2007 [...] Summary. While the corrosive effects of public corruption continue to plague Iraqi society, the Government of Iraq (GOI) recently has taken a number of positive steps aimed at ameliorating this problem. Cognizant of the fact that corruption endangers the stability and security of the state, [...]	2008-03-14 13:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL
08BAGHDAD768	IRAQI DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF SURVEYS IRAQI JOINT [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) At the monthly Defense Attach Association of Iraq (DAAI) meeting on March 4, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff (DCOS),General Nasier Abadi, presented a frank overview of the Iraqi military and the challenges it faces in the coming years. He observed that the current counte [...]	2008-03-14 14:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PINS PNAT PTER
08BAGHDAD780	TALABANI VISIT TO TURKEY: PURSUING THE POLITICAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: The successful March 7/8 visit of President Talabani to Turkey has changed dramatically the political atmosphere between the two countries, and created the space for setting in motion diplomatic steps that can lead to concrete cooperation on the PKK problem. To be successful, th [...]	2008-03-15 13:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS PGOV PREL PTER IZ TU
08BAGHDAD784	ARAB PARLIAMENTARY SUMMIT FLAUNTS KURDS' [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Arab Parliamentary Union (APU)'s semi-annual conference convened March 11-13 in Erbil. Kurdistan Regional Government officals called the event immensely important for the Kurdish region for three reasons: it advertised Erbil as an investment haven, demonstrated the KRG's comm [...]	2008-03-15 14:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD786	AN ODE TO COR SPEAKER MASHADANI [...] (C/NF) Summary: CoR Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani is becoming more comfortable in his role as leader of Iraq's parliament, though he continues to breed controversy on a regular basis and is prone to emotional outbursts in the CoR chamber. Behind the scenes, Mashadani has become a legislative "deal [...]	2008-03-15 17:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD799	AMBASSADOR RAISES SOFA/SF AND ICI WITH D/PM BARHAM [...] (S) Ambassador met March 13 with Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih to discuss the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Strategic Framework (SF) negotiations, the Prime Minister's participation in the International Compact for Iraq (ICI) ministerial, and security at Umm Qasr port and in Basra [...]	2008-03-17 08:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PGOV MASS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD806	DFM ABBAWI ON BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP, THE [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a March 16 call on Pol-Mil M/C, Iraqi DFM Labeed Abbawi discussed preparations for the next Border Security Working Group in Damascus and Iraqi participation in the Arab League Summit. PM Maliki would lead Iraq's delegation to the latter in what Abbawi attempted to portray as [...]	2008-03-17 14:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PBTS PREL PTER EG IR IZ LE RU SY
08BAGHDAD807	BAHA AL-ARAJI: LACK OF TIMELINE IS BIGGEST U.S. [...] (C) Summary: In a March 16 meeting with Poloffs, Sadr Trend bloc leader Baha al-Araji acknowledged common U.S. and Sadrist interests but catalogued a long list of what he said were mistakes in America's handling of the post-regime period. Foremost among these, he claimed, is the failure to s [...]	2008-03-17 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD823	PRT ANBAR: EMBASSY KABUL DCM DISCUSSES AWAKENING [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar Reporting Cable. 2. (C) Summary: On March 12, Embassy Kabul DCM, Ambassador Chris Dell, met with Sheikh Ahmad, the leader of the tribal-based anti-Al Qaeda Awakening Movement of Iraq (SAI),to discuss the origins and success of SAI and what lessons could potentially [...]	2008-03-18 15:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD848	VP ABD AL-MEHDI ON INVESTMENT ISSUES, CORRUPTION, [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, March 14, the Ambassador met with Vice President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) compound in Baghdad. During the meeting, the Ambassador and Adel discussed a host of issues, including foreign investment in Iraq, the activities of the GOI [...]	2008-03-20 06:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD849	UNAMI SRSG VISITS NAJAF [...] (C) Summary: On March 11, UNAMI Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura made a quiet, one-day visit to Najaf, Iraq's holiest city and home of the much-revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The SRSG and Deputy for Political Affairs Andrew Gilmour provided [...]	2008-03-20 08:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD855	WEEKLY MEETING WITH PM, MARCH 13: SOFA/STRATEGIC [...] (S) In a cordial meeting March 13 at Prime Minister Maliki's weekly security meeting with Ambassador Crocker and GEN Petraeus, Ambassador briefed Maliki on the dual-tracked, concurrent negotiation of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and the Strategic Framework (SF) by a technical experts [...]	2008-03-20 14:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PGOV MASS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD857	PRT TEAM LEADERS CONFERENCE - BRINGING TEAMWORK AND [...] Summary. On March 3 and 4, the embassy's Office of Provincial Affairs (OPA) hosted the second quarterly Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Team Leaders Conference in Baghdad. This gathering of nearly every PRT, ePRT, and RRT team leader provided an ideal venue for State, DoD, and interagency [...]	2008-03-20 15:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREZ IZ
08BAGHDAD859	UNAMI ELECTIONS PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On March 16, UNAMI election advisors Sandra Mitchell and Richard Gee apprised representatives of the diplomatic community of the status of UNAMI's elections assistance programs. Sandra Mitchell broke down the assistance into two tracks -- political and technical. On the polit [...]	2008-03-20 17:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD864	CODEL LEVIN MEETING WITH VP ABD AL-MEHDI [...] (C) Summary: On Sunday, March 16, CODEL Levin met with Vice-President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Hakim Compound in Baghdad. In a civil yet frank exchange, Senator Levin and Adel discussed a host of topics. Focusing initially on the political and security environment in Iraq, Senator Levin pres [...]	2008-03-21 13:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OREP IZ
08BAGHDAD866	TURKISH ENVOY VISITING IRAQ TO IMPROVE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkish Special Envoy to Iraq Murat Ozcelik told Ambassador March 20 that he will stay flexible with how long he remains in Iraq during this visit in the hopes of holding a meeting with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani next week, which the GO [...]	2008-03-21 14:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD867	NEXT STEPS ON PROVINCIAL POWERS [...] (C) On March 19, 2008 the Presidency Council released a statement announcing that after deliberations with the leaders of the Council of Representatives (CoR) and party blocs, it has unanimously decided to withdraw its objections to the Provincial Powers Law (or PPL; see ref A). It is our und [...]	2008-03-21 14:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ PGOV POL
08BAGHDAD87	TALABANI ON RESTARTING THE 3+1 AND MODERATING [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on January 9 met with the Ambassador on the occasion of Talabani,s return to Baghdad from the Kurdistan region. Talabani said he is ready to move forward on the 3 1 mechanism now that all the principals are bac [...]	2008-01-12 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD875	Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - March 18 [...] SUMMARY: Dr. Chalabi's March 18 Provision of Services Committee meeting focused primarily on potable water theft around Baghdad, with Dr. Chalabi stressing the importance of prosecuting those responsible. Additional discussion centered on problems with ground transportation in the country, and [...]	2008-03-23 12:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL IZ REL UK
08BAGHDAD880	MCNS MARCH 16 DISCUSSES BASRAH SECURITY, TAJI [...] (U) The March 16 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on dealing with security in Umm Qasr port and Basrah Province, implementation of the 2008 budget, and mine action. MNF-I briefed on the now operational Taji Maintenance Facility. End Summary. Umm Qasr/Basrah Securit [...]	2008-03-23 15:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD890	CORRECTED COPY (REFTEL): MCNS MARCH 16 DISCUSSES [...] (U) The March 16 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on dealing with security in Umm Qasr port and Basrah Province, implementation of the 2008 budget, and mine action. MNF-I briefed on the now operational Taji Maintenance Facility. End Summary. Umm Qasr/Basrah Securit [...]	2008-03-24 16:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD895	NEXT STEPS ON PROVINCIAL POWERS [...] (C) On March 19, 2008 the Presidency Council released a statement announcing that after deliberations with the leaders of the Council of Representatives (CoR) and party blocs, it has unanimously decided to withdraw its objections to the Provincial Powers Law (or PPL; see ref A). It is our und [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ PGOV POL
08BAGHDAD897	CODEL LEVIN MEETING WITH VP ABD AL-MEHDI [...] (C) Summary: On Sunday, March 16, CODEL Levin met with Vice-President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Hakim Compound in Baghdad. In a civil yet frank exchange, Senator Levin and Adel discussed a host of topics. Focusing initially on the political and security environment in Iraq, Senator Levin pres [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OREP IZ
08BAGHDAD898	UNAMI SRSG VISITS NAJAF [...] (C) Summary: On March 11, UNAMI Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura made a quiet, one-day visit to Najaf, Iraq's holiest city and home of the much-revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The SRSG and Deputy for Political Affairs Andrew Gilmour provided [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD90	DE FACTO NON-IMPLEMENTATION OF ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy's quiet diplomacy on the issue of Iraq's implementation of the Arab League Boycott (ALB) has borne fruit. The Council of Ministers (CoM) has agreed to allow trademark applications submitted by PepsiCo to be registered, and the first five were officially registered on Jan [...]	2008-01-13 06:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN IZ
08BAGHDAD900	CORRECTED COPY (REFTEL): MCNS MARCH 16 DISCUSSES [...] (U) The March 16 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on dealing with security in Umm Qasr port and Basrah Province, implementation of the 2008 budget, and mine action. MNF-I briefed on the now operational Taji Maintenance Facility. End Summary. Umm Qasr/Basrah Securit [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD904	MCNS MARCH 16 DISCUSSES BASRAH SECURITY, TAJI [...] (U) The March 16 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on dealing with security in Umm Qasr port and Basrah Province, implementation of the 2008 budget, and mine action. MNF-I briefed on the now operational Taji Maintenance Facility. End Summary. Umm Qasr/Basrah Securit [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
08BAGHDAD905	TURKISH ENVOY VISITING IRAQ TO IMPROVE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkish Special Envoy to Iraq Murat Ozcelik told Ambassador March 20 that he will stay flexible with how long he remains in Iraq during this visit in the hopes of holding a meeting with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani next week, which the GO [...]	2008-03-25 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD908	VP ABD AL-MEHDI ON INVESTMENT ISSUES, CORRUPTION, [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, March 14, the Ambassador met with Vice President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) compound in Baghdad. During the meeting, the Ambassador and Adel discussed a host of issues, including foreign investment in Iraq, the activities of the GOI [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD909	WEEKLY MEETING WITH PM, MARCH 13: SOFA/STRATEGIC [...] (S) In a cordial meeting March 13 at Prime Minister Maliki's weekly security meeting with Ambassador Crocker and GEN Petraeus, Ambassador briefed Maliki on the dual-tracked, concurrent negotiation of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and the Strategic Framework (SF) by a technical experts [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PGOV MASS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD91	VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI: KEEP PRESSURE ON MALIKI [...] (S) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told S/I Satterfield January 12 that ISCI fully supports the USG position that the Maliki government must reform in order to operate in a more inclusive and effective manner. However, Adel opined that Prime Minister Maliki is misreading USG attitu [...]	2008-01-13 08:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD914	UNAMI ELECTIONS PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On March 16, UNAMI election advisors Sandra Mitchell and Richard Gee apprised representatives of the diplomatic community of the status of UNAMI's elections assistance programs. Sandra Mitchell broke down the assistance into two tracks -- political and technical. On the polit [...]	2008-03-25 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD92	PROVINCIAL OPERATIONS CENTERS CHANGING THE PREMISE [...] (C) On December 16th, Basrah become the second province to transfer to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) with a federally-mandated provincial operations command in charge of the province,s security forces. Established in several volatile provinces by Prime Minister Maliki, these operations comma [...]	2008-01-13 11:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD921	NSA RUBAIE ON UPCOMING DIPLOMATIC OUTREACH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a March 21 meeting with the Ambassador, Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowafuq Rubaie reviewed a series of upcoming diplomatic engagements including his trip to Saudi Arabia, possible PM attendance at the Arab League Summit, the Prime Minister's trip to Brussels, and the Expan [...]	2008-03-26 02:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ KU SA SY
08BAGHDAD944	DPM SALIH ON VIOLENCE IN SHIA AREAS, ECONOMIC [...] (S/NF) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told Ambassador March 25 that he believes Moqtada al-Sadr has decided to try to bring down the government. They discussed developments around the south and in Baghdad regarding the increased violence since March 23. Ambassador asked Salih to [...]	2008-03-27 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON TU KU IZ
08BAGHDAD945	SOUTHERN IRAQ SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 27, 13:00 [...] (S/REL MCFI) SUMMARY: The below is a situation report for Basrah and other southern provinces, reflecting reporting from PRTs and REO Basrah, open-source media, and Embassy Baghdad. In Basrah, JAM continues to occupy its traditional strongholds and conduct harassing attacks on ISF throughout [...]	2008-03-27 15:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS PGOV PINS PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD953	PM ADVISOR: MALIKI NEEDS REALISTIC GOALS IN BASRAH [...] (S) In a March 27 meeting punctuated by explosions and sirens in the background as indirect fire pummeled the International Zone, PM Maliki's political advisor, Sadiq Rikabi, predicted that Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) would gain the upper hand in Basrah within the next two to three days, an ou [...]	2008-03-28 10:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD959	SOUTHERN IRAQ SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 28, 1300 [...] (S REL MCFI) Fighting continues in numerous areas of Basra city and the surrounding province. Sporadic violence is also reported in other southern provinces as well as Baghdad, which is now under curfew until March 30, 0500 local. Council of Representives (COR) Speaker has called for an emerg [...]	2008-03-28 17:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	IZ KU MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD960	SOUTHERN PROVINCES MARCH 28 UPDATE AS OF 2100L [...] (S/NF) Summary: Despite ongoing clashes in Basrah, the other southern provinces remain tense but relatively stable, with incremental security improvements through the day reported in Dhi Qar, Maysan, Karbala and Wasit. Muthanna remains stable. Periodic clashes have occurred in Diwaniyah, an [...]	2008-03-28 18:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV MOPS IR
08BAGHDAD962	BAGHDAD BATTENING DOWN, TENSIONS SIMMER [...] (C) Iraqi contacts of various Mission elements report that Baghdad's neighborhoods were generally quiet March 28, with most residents staying at home due to a combination of the GOI-imposed 24-hour curfew, JAM intimidation, and the typical Friday closure of businesses and schools. JAM remained [...]	2008-03-28 20:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ
08BAGHDAD963	VP ABD AL-MEHDI, AMB, AND S/I DISCUSS SADRIST [...] (S) Summary. In a March 27 meeting with Ambassador Crocker and S/I Satterfield, VP Adel Abd al-Mehdi weighed in on the current Sadrist insurrection, labeling the Sadrists as "fragmented and weak." He also highlighted the incredible restraint that the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) has [...]	2008-03-29 12:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD968	RUBAIE ON CURRENT SECURITY AND POLITICAL SITUATION [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a March 28 call on National Security Advisor Mowafuq Rubaie, the Ambassador discussed the current security situation in Baghdad, Basrah, and the southern provinces, all of which were the scenes of intensified conflict with criminal elements associated with Moqtada al-Sadr [...]	2008-03-29 13:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS PGOV PREL PTER EG IR IZ JO SA SY
08BAGHDAD969	MILITARY AND POLITICAL DEADLOCK IN BASRAH [...] (S/NF) Summary: Basrah is gripped by military and political deadlock six days into Maliki's "Charge of the Knights" offensive. PM Maliki seems unwilling to compromise his hard-line stance against JAM even as the militia consolidates its position in Basrah's neighborhoods; on March 28 he reb [...]	2008-03-29 16:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV IR MOPS PINS
08BAGHDAD97	ERBIL: KRG PRESIDENT AND PM CRITICIZE GOI [...] (C) During their meetings on January 6 in Erbil with U.S. Senators Norm Coleman (R-MN),John Cornyn (R-TX) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA),the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) President and Prime Minister expressed their continued strong support for national reconciliation and passage of a natio [...]	2008-01-13 17:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU IZ
08BAGHDAD976	SPECIAL IESC MEETING MARCH 29 [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih chaired a special session of the Iraq Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (FAQ) at his residence March 29. Normally a weekly session held on Fridays, the March 28 session had been cancelled. During this [...]	2008-03-30 18:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD977	THE AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 29 MEETINGS WITH MASHADANI, [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador met separately on March 29 with Sheikh Khalid Al-Attiya, Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR); Mahmoud Mashadani, Speaker of the CoR, and Sadiq Rikabi, political advisor to Prime Minister Maliki. The Ambassador stressed that failure in Basrah was [...]	2008-03-30 18:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD981	NINEWA: CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN TURKISH [...] (C) Over the past six months, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ninewa and the Turkish Consulate General for northern Iraq, based in Mosul, have combined efforts across a variety of fields to advance our common interests for stability, development and peace in Ninewa. We have been fortunat [...]	2008-03-31 11:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL ECON TU IZ
08BAGHDAD983	NINEWA: TURKISH SPECIAL ENVOY ELABORATES ON GOT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Turkish Special Envoy Murat Ozcelik told PRT officers, Multi-National Division-North Deputy Commanding General BG Thomas and 3 Armored Cavalry Regiment Commander COL Bills at a March 26 meeting at the Turkish Consulate General in Mosul that ongoing Turkish military opposition wa [...]	2008-03-31 14:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER PINR ECON ENRG TU IZ
08BAGHDAD984	REQUEST TO CLOSE DOWN AL-RAFIDAYN SATELLITE TV [...] (SBU) The Al-Rafidayn Satellite Channel is a Cairo-based Iraqi television channel that appears to be affiliated with the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) -- a group of Sunni clerics led by Harith al-Dari -- and which adopts a pro-resistance, anti-U.S., anti-Iraqi Government, and anti-Iran [...]	2008-03-31 15:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PROP PTER EG IZ
08BAGHDAD990	PM CHIEF OF STAFF ABDALLAH TELLS AMBASSADOR GOI [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador met March 30 with Prime Minister Maliki's Chief of Staff Tariq Abdallah to counsel the GOI to add political and economic measures to its military efforts in Basra. He also expressed concern that the PM's decision to pursue operations to take control of Umm Qasr port ha [...]	2008-03-31 16:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PGOV MASS MOPS IZ
08BAGHDAD991	COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SECRETARY-GENERAL DISCUSSES [...] (C) During their weekly meeting at the Council of Ministers Secretariat (COMSEC) on March 31, 2008, Council of Ministers Secretary-General Ali Ala'aq and Poloff followed up on several issues that had been raised in a previous meeting (Reftel). Ala'aq told Poloff the COM had some issues with [...]	2008-03-31 17:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD995	MCNS ON MARCH 23 REVIEWED RECENT BAGHDAD ATTACKS, [...] (S REL MNFI) Prime Minister Maliki opened the March 23 Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) by soliciting comments on responding to recent rocket and other attacks in Baghdad. Following discussion, all agreed with GEN Petraeus that intelligence to target the perpetrators and thei [...]	2008-04-01 07:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL PTER KU AE SA IZ
08BAGHDAD998	PM'S ADVISORS DISCUSS BASRAH EXIT STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: In separate March 30 conversations with S/I Satterfield and Polmilcouns, both National Security Advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie and Political Advisor Sadiq Rikabi acknowledged the seriousness of the current crisis facing PM Maliki and the need to provide him with a face-saving exit bu [...]	2008-04-01 08:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PINS MOPS IR IZ
08BAKU10	IMPLICATIONS OF FSA BUDGET REDUCTION FOR AZERBAIJAN [...] (U) As we have started to implement our FY08 assistance programs, we are beginning to appreciate in very real terms the magnitude of the FY08 budget cuts. The 40 percent reduction in our FSA budget in a single year will have a serious impact on our ability to advance our political and econom [...]	2008-01-04 11:38:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV AJ
08BAKU1012	SOCAR WILLING TO PROVIDE GAS TO GEORGIA BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to Azerbaijan's State Oil Company, Azerbaijan is prepared to provide necessary volumes of gas to Georgia during the winter months, but prefers to do so on more commercial vice concessionary terms. According to SOCAR and BP Azerbaijan sources, Georgian winter gas needs a [...]	2008-10-22 12:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AZ ENRG GA
08BAKU1018	HAIDAR ALIYEV'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS ADVISOR ON IRAN [...] (S) During a wide-ranging tour d'horizon with Embassy Iran watcher, former President Haidar Aliyev's chief foreign relations advisor, and regionally prominent international affairs commentator, Vafa Guluzadeh provided recommendations for USG Iran strategy and discussed Iran's economic "Achille [...]	2008-10-24 08:57:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PREL ECON PGOV IR RU AJ
08BAKU1026	SCENESETTER FOR DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE DEPURTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit to Baku comes on the heels of Azerbaijan's October 15 presidential election, which resulted in a landslide victory for President Ilham Aliyev. This fall also marked a troublesome time for the region, with Russia's invasion of Georgia casting a shadow on security and [...]	2008-10-27 14:07:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EINV ENRG PREL AJ GG
08BAKU1039	PRESIDENT ALIYEV TELLS BENS HE SEEKS GREATER US [...] (C) Summary: Just ahead of his inauguration, President Aliyev told visiting U.S. business executives that Azerbaijan is a force for stability in an insecure neighborhood. During his second administration, Nagorno-Karabakh will remain "issue number one." By occupying Azerbaijan's territories, [...]	2008-10-29 12:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ AM
08BAKU1069	IRAN-AZERBAIJAN SNAPSHOT AND OVERVIEW [...] This cable provides a general unclassified snapshot of Iranian political, economic, and commercial activities in Azerbaijan, outlining apparent evolving Iranian regional priorities and recent and pending developments in bilateral political and economic relations. Many issues noted in the cab [...]	2008-11-07 13:31:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ENRG ECON RU IR AZ
08BAKU1083	MINISTER SHARIFOV DISCUSSES EPC, BUDGET AND ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan Minister of Finance Sharifov heads to Washington next week for EPC meetings and WTO discussions with views on the international financial crisis -- and lower oil prices -- formed in part by Russian Minister of Finance Kudrin, who recently hosted a CIS financial summit. [...]	2008-11-12 08:53:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV EIND PGOV AJ
08BAKU1089	EXPORT-IMPORT BANK DIRECTOR VISIT BUILDS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Export-Import Bank Director Bijan Kian visited Baku October 13-16 to follow-up on his February 2008 trip, checking in on U.S. based companies, their partners and projects, and to reassure interlocutors of the Bank's ability to continue to support those projects in spite of the rec [...]	2008-11-13 12:52:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR ECIN AJ
08BAKU1091	AZERBAIJAN BEGINNING TO CONSIDERING FUTURE NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Envoy Frank Mermoud met with the Minister of Emergency Situations during his November 10-14 trip to Baku. They discussed successful past projects, as well as areas for future cooperation and trade in both goods and services, including possible projects for soil remediati [...]	2008-11-14 13:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ENRG EFIN PARM ECIN SENV
08BAKU1098	SECRETARY BODMAN'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] (C) Summary. Secretary Bodman, accompanied by Ambassador and DAS Matthew Bryza, met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on November 12 in Baku before the opening of the Baku Energy Summit. During or in the weeks following the Summit, Azerbaijan intends to sign a memorandum of intent with Turke [...]	2008-11-18 03:37:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	AJ AM PREL PGOV RU TU TX
08BAKU1108	FIRST MEETING WITH NEW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his November 11-12 visit to Baku Senator Corker met with the newly appointed Minister of Economic Development Shahin Mustafayev. In his first meeting with USG officials, the new minister stuck closely to his prepared talking points, emphasizing GOAJ plans to improve the [...]	2008-11-20 11:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR ECIN AJ
08BAKU1117	TRANSCOM GEN MCNABB SECURES SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Commander USTRANSCOM General Duncan McNabb, USAF met Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov in Baku on November 17 to discuss GOAJ support for overland transport of supplies to U.S. and Coalition forces in Afghanistan. The Minister responded enthusiastically to the concept, and als [...]	2008-11-25 05:27:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PGOV PREL AF AM AJ IZ TX KZ
08BAKU1136	DRL A/S KRAMER, PRESIDENT ALIYEV DEBATE PACE OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On November 18 DRL A/S David Kramer and the Ambassador met with President Ilham Aliyev for a two-hour discussion of democracy and human rights issues. Most of the discussion centered on the deteriorating state of media freedom in Azerbaijan, including the jailed journal [...]	2008-12-01 05:15:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU1140	AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT GIVES GREEN LIGHT FOR [...] (C) Commander USTRANSCOM General Duncan McNabb and Ambassador Derse met Azerbaijani President Aliyev in Baku on November 17 to discuss proposed overland transport of supplies through Azerbaijan to U.S. and Coalition forces in Afghanistan. The President responded enthusiastically to the concep [...]	2008-12-02 03:50:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF AJ IZ TX KZ
08BAKU1147	PRESIDENT GUL TELLS SECRETARY BODMAN OF SOUTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 13 meeting with President Gul, Energy Secretary Bodman stressed U.S. support for the region and the Southern Corridor, with Gul expressing appreciation for USG support and noting its importance to future projects. Gul indicated that Turkey and Azerbaijan are close t [...]	2008-12-03 12:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU ENRG
08BAKU1148	DRL A/S KRAMER: DIALOGUE ON DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: On November 19 DRL A/S David Kramer and the Ambassador attended a marathon meeting at the Foreign Ministry with a wide range of government and non-government officials, chaired by a Deputy Foreign Minister, on the full realm of democracy and human rights issues. Attendees gave b [...]	2008-12-04 04:27:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ
08BAKU1152	LATVIA TO PUSH FOR EU EASTERN PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 1 the Ambassador met with the Latvian MFA's Undersecretary of State Peteris Ustubs to discuss the EU's proposed Eastern Partnership. Ustubs stressed that while it is a multilateral proposal, all six countries will not receive the same engagement. Expanded EU engage [...]	2008-12-05 07:24:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM LG AJ
08BAKU1153	BBG VISIT TO BAKU TO SUPPORT USG BROADCASTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 3 a delegation from the Broadcasting Board of Governors and Radio free Europe/Radio Liberty visited Baku to discuss the GOAJ's possible removal of Voice of America and Radio Liberty broadcasts from national frequencies. The delegation met with the chairman of the Nat [...]	2008-12-05 08:26:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU1157	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR GUARDEDLY [...] (C) Ambassador Derse, accompanied by EUR/CARC Office Director Baxter Hunt, met Novruz Mammadov, chief foreign policy advisor at the Presidential Apparat, on December 3. Ambassador unequivocally warned Mammadov that closure of United States-sponsored broadcasting in Azerbaijan would cause a ser [...]	2008-12-05 09:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ
08BAKU1158	USAID ADMINISTRATOR AND DIRECTOR OF [...] SUMMARY: The visit of USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore to Azerbaijan capitalized on the existing USG strong host-country counterpart relationships. During her three-day visit, Administrator Fore held meetings with AzerbaijanQs President (see reftel),[...]	2008-12-05 09:25:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EPET ADPM AJ
08BAKU1183	AZERBAIJAN: POSSIBLE REFERENDUM ON PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Several recent reports have surfaced in the Azerbaijani press of proposals in the Milli Majlis (Parliament) for a referendum on removing the constitutional prohibition against an individual serving more than two terms as president, which at present requires President Aliyev to st [...]	2008-12-18 11:30:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AJ
08BAKU1185	AZERBAIJAN: PARLIAMENT CALLS REFERENDUM ON TERM [...] (C) Summary: As expected (Reftel),the Milli Majlis today approved a measure calling for a referendum on changing Azerbaijan's constitution to remove the present two-term limit on the President. For such a referendum to pass, over fifty percent would have to vote for passage in a turnout of [...]	2008-12-19 12:16:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AJ
08BAKU1186	AZERBAIJAN: WHERE WE ARE WITH SHAH DENIZ PHASES [...] (C) SUMMARY (CONT): As 2008 ends, the 16-month long stasis surrounding the marketing of Shah Deniz Phase Two (SD2) gas continues, as Turkey and Azerbaijan remain unable to agree on a gas marketing mechanism which would allow them to agree on volumes, prices, and transit. Price negotiations f [...]	2008-12-19 13:33:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TU
08BAKU1196	AZERBAIJAN: CIVIL NUCLEAR ENERGY SECTOR OVERVIEW [...] SUMMARY: In response to Ref. A tasking, this report summarizes the structure plans and potential players in Azerbaijan's nascent civil nuclear energy sector. End Summary. OVERVIEW OF CIVIL NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAM --------------------------------------- 2. As noted in Azerbaijan's 2004 r [...]	2008-12-24 06:25:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO AJ
08BAKU1205	AZERBAIJAN: READOUT OF PRESIDENT ALIYEV NOVEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Italian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, during President Aliyev's November 25 visit to Italy he expressed a clear preference for the Turkey-Greece-Italy pipeline project over the Nabucco one, citing it as achievable in the short-term. It is unclear to Embassy how accu [...]	2008-12-30 12:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TK
08BAKU128	THE ELECTION MONITORING CENTER RECEIVES [...] (SBU) On February 12, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) approved the Election Monitoring Center's (EMC's) registration application. This was the EMC's seventh registration application; the NGO previously had applied for registration six times over the past five years. The MOJ denied each of the [...]	2008-02-12 14:21:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID AJ
08BAKU132	AZERBAIJAN COMMERCIAL UPDATE, January 15, 2008 - January [...] SUMMARY: This information is drawn primarily from the Azerbaijani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. END SUMMARY. - VAT RATE MAY BE REDUCED - KAPITAL BANK TO BE FULLY PRIV [...]	2008-02-13 11:38:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ETRD ENRG EFIN AJ
08BAKU136	AZERBAIJAN ENERGY PLAYERS GIVE STATUS UPDATE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Key Azerbaijan energy interlocutors agree the key to timely development of the Shah Deniz Stage Two gas project is settling issues of gas transit through Turkey. BP and Statoil claim that the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) is moving too slowly in signing commercial cont [...]	2008-02-13 15:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL PGOV PBTS TU AJ
08BAKU140	AZERBAIJAN'S OIL COMPANY UPBEAT ON COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: SOCAR President Abdullayev was very upbeat upon hearing of Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov's willingness to increase bilateral cooperation with Azerbaijan and looked forward to follow up discussions with the USG as soon as possible. He denied European charges that SOCAR was no [...]	2008-02-14 14:36:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG PBTS TU TX AJ
08BAKU152	GTIP VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN, JANUARY 28-31, 2008 [...] (C)Summary: From January 28-31, 2008, Jennifer Schrock Donnelly, Foreign Affairs Officer, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),visited Baku to meet with local NGOs, International Organizations and GOAJ agencies that deal with the issue of trafficking in persons in [...]	2008-02-20 11:29:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL OTRA KCRM KWMN CY AJ

08BAKU160	KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AZERBAIJANI DEPUTY [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Azimov on February 20 (FM Mammadyarov was out of the country). Despite Azerbaijan's opposition to Kosovo's independence, Azimov said, he had instructed the MFA to be "measured" in its public statements, making only two [...]	2008-02-21 15:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS UN AZ
08BAKU178	S/CT URBANCIC DISCUSSES ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (S/NF) Summary: S/CT Principal Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator Urbancic's February 14-15 visit to Baku reaffirmed USG appreciation for Azerbaijan's cooperation in the war on terror and underscored USG interest in deepening bilateral CT cooperation. GOAJ officials confirmed they are work [...]	2008-02-29 10:44:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV ENRG KTFN KISL AJ
08BAKU182	AZERBAIJAN: EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) Paragraph 4 below provides Embassy Baku's submission on the status of action the GOAJ has taken to combat human trafficking. Answers are keyed to questions in reftel. 2. (SBU) Summary: Anti-TIP efforts in the Republic of Azerbaijan are conducted under the direction of the Deputy Ministe [...]	2008-03-03 08:51:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG AJ
08BAKU187	DFM AZIMOV REQUESTS USG SUPPORT ON [...] (C) Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov requested a meeting with Ambassador Derse on February 29 to discuss Azerbaijan's pending UNGA resolution "on the situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" (other topics septel). European embassies were similarly summoned to a gr [...]	2008-03-04 13:55:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS UN AZ
08BAKU191	AZERBAIJAN: AMBASSADOR MANN TALKS ENERGY WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Aliyev seeks enhanced cooperation with Turkmenistan on offshore energy development, and is willing to be minority partner with the GOTX in developing the Serdar-Kapaz field. Aliyev seeks concrete action from Turkmenistan showing it is interested in such cooperation, an [...]	2008-03-05 08:17:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU TX ENRG
08BAKU195	PROFILE OF IRANIAN-EDUCATED AZERBAIJANI SHIA [...] (C) Summary: While most Azerbaijani clerics espouse moderate religious and political views, the Embassy has been developing a relationship with one Shia cleric trained in Qom, Iran who espouses anti-Israeli and pro-Hezbollah rhetoric. Haji Namik Babahanov was the head imam at a local Baku m [...]	2008-03-05 12:33:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KISL KPAO KIRF IR AJ
08BAKU203	PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE [...] (SBU) At a February 11 conference on the State Program for the Economic Development of the Regions, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev outlined a long list of successes and accomplishments, stating that the government's program has been 98 percent fulfilled. The President highlighted the foll [...]	2008-03-06 11:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV AJ
08BAKU21	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LUGAR'S VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN, [...] (SBU) Azerbaijan's pro-Western foreign policy orientation, geopolitical setting -- sandwiched between Iran and Russia -- and ability to provide alternative energy supplies to Europe make it an important U.S. partner. It is in our interests to have a reforming, stable, pro-western Azerbaijan, [...]	2008-01-08 10:29:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG MARR MASS AJ
08BAKU210	EMBASSY BAKU INFORMATION ON THE OIC SUMMIT IN DAKAR [...] (C) Per ref a, poloff informed the MFA of Sada Cumber's recent appointment. The Embassy also has communicated Cumber's interest in meeting with either Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov or Deputy Foreign Minister Vagif Sadikov. Both Azerbaijani officials will be at the conferenc [...]	2008-03-07 11:19:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC SG OIC AJ
08BAKU219	AZADLIQ NEWSPAPER EDITOR SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS' [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 7, Baku's Yasamal District Court convicted opposition Azadliq newspaper Editor-In-Chief Ganimat Zahid of hooliganism and inflicting minor bodily harm and sentenced him to four years' imprisonment. In the same hearing, the court convicted Vusal Hasanov, the other party i [...]	2008-03-07 15:58:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ
08BAKU224	AZERBAIJAN: AMBASSADOR MANN TALKS ENERGY WITH FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Eurasian Energy Coordinator Ambassador Mann told Foreign Minister Mammadyarov that BTC expansion was "imperative." On Turkmenistan, Mann said President Aliyev and Azerbaijan could provide a good example to Berdimuhamedov of how to invite foreign energy companies into a productive [...]	2008-03-11 07:58:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TX ENRG
08BAKU232	AZERBAIJAN: AMBASSADOR MANN DISCUSSES EUROPEAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Referring to Shah Deniz Stage Two, ACG Associated and Deep Gas and the offshore "Umid" field which Socar is developing, President Aliyev said that Azerbaijan will have much gas available for export. He told Ambassador for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Mann that "it was important for [...]	2008-03-12 05:54:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG
08BAKU246	DEPUTY FM AZIMOV RAISES THE ANTE ON AZERBAIJAN'S [...] (C) Summary: An angry Deputy Foreign Minister Azimov told the DCM that a U.S. vote against Azerbaijan's UNGA resolution on March 14 would be "the biggest mistake" the U.S. could make, which he would interpret as the U.S. voting against a strategic partnership with Azerbaijan. Azimov threate [...]	2008-03-13 10:23:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PREL PGOV UNGA AJ AM
08BAKU250	SENATOR BROWNBACK'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] (C) Summary: In a February 20 meeting with Senator Brownback, President Aliyev affirmed Azerbaijan's commitment to developing new Caspian gas reserves and export routes to Europe in spite of increasing pressure from Russia and Iran. He said that continued U.S. support would be key to these i [...]	2008-03-14 06:41:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ECON ETRD PBTS AJ
08BAKU262	AZERBAIJAN: 2007 HRR ROLLS OUT TO MIXED REACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 12 press event, the Ambassador rolled out the 2007 Human Rights Report to a group of human rights activists, representatives of the Human Rights Ombudswoman's office, and Parliament's Human Rights Commission Chair. Although the Human Rights Commission Chair questioned [...]	2008-03-17 13:38:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS KPAO AJ
08BAKU263	AZERBAIJAN: TGI SAYS IT IS MOST VIABLE PROJECT FOR [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY. A representative of the Italian Energy Company Edison argued that of the three pipeline projects vying for volumes of Shah Deniz Phase Two (SD2) gas, the Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) project is the most commercially viable. Given t [...]	2008-03-18 08:51:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG
08BAKU276	AZERBAIJAN ENERGY UPDATE, MARCH 2008 [...] SUMMARY: This is the first in a series of regular energy updates, highlighting developments outside of the major off-shore oil and gas production and transport projects. The information contained in these reports is drawn primarily from the Azerbaijani local press, and has not been checked for [...]	2008-03-19 14:41:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG
08BAKU277	LOOKING TO ARMENIA,"AZERBAIJAN NOW SYMBOL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: A clearly pleased President Aliyev branded the recent Armenian Presidential elections "a fraud," the incoming and outgoing Armenian President "criminals," and said that the sham elections and subsequent violence, where the Armenian government was forced to kill its own people, al [...]	2008-03-25 05:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TX AR ENRG
08BAKU280	DAS BRYZA PROMOTES DEMOCRACY AGENDA WITH FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate March 4-5 meetings with Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev, EUR/DAS Bryza reviewed election assistance and the issue of our bilateral democracy dialogue agenda with Azerbaijan, underscoring the importance of democratic ref [...]	2008-03-26 05:55:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AR GA AJ
08BAKU281	DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH POLITICAL PARTIES, CIVIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 4-5 visit to Baku, EUR/DAS Bryza met separately with a group of Islamic commentators, members of the Karabakh Forum (an informal association of prominent commentators),and leaders of many of Azerbaijan's prominent political parties. The Islamic commentators agreed [...]	2008-03-26 06:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KIRF KISL AJ
08BAKU282	DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES ENERGY COOPERATION WITH FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 4-5 visit to Baku, EUR/DAS Bryza discussed energy cooperation in separate meetings with Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Economic Development Heydar Babayev, and Deputy Speaker of Parliament Valeh Alasgarov. Bryza briefed Mammadyarov on his recent e [...]	2008-03-26 06:40:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV PREL AJ
08BAKU291	UPDATE ON SOFAZ, AZERBAIJAN'S OIL FUND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Since its creation in 1999, the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) has acted as Azerbaijan's energy revenue sterilizer and long-term savings vehicle. With current assets in excess of USD 2.5 billion (expected to grow to USD 6 billion this year, and USD 10 billion by 2010, based [...]	2008-03-28 08:41:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG PREL AJ
08BAKU292	REQUEST FOR U/S JEFFREY TO VISIT BAKU IN [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 2. 2. (U) Embassy Baku requests that Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III consider visiting Azerbaijan June 3-4, in conjunction with the June 3-6 International Caspian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Confer [...]	2008-03-28 09:04:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP AJ ENRG
08BAKU293	REQUEST FOR U/S JEFFERY TO VISIT BAKU IN [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 2. 2. (U) Embassy Baku requests that Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III consider visiting Azerbaijan June 3-4, in conjunction with the June 3-6 International Caspian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Confer [...]	2008-03-28 10:03:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP AJ ENRG
08BAKU3	AZERBAIJAN'S INCREASINGLY CONFIDENT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: In the past few years and especially the last year as oil revenues have come on-line, the GOAJ has adopted a strikingly more confident and activist foreign policy. The GOAJ's new activism is reflected in a high volume of foreign visits to and from Azerbaijan, the large number o [...]	2008-01-03 10:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG KDEM AJ
08BAKU320	UPDATE ON AZERBAIJANI FRUSTRATION WITH CO-CHAIR [...] (C) Summary: Public attention on the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries' vote against Azerbaijan's "Situation in the Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan" UNGA resolution continues, as do GOAJ official statements and some orchestrated political activities. While the issue has gradually slipp [...]	2008-04-04 11:13:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM KPAO AJ
08BAKU34	AZERBAIJAN STATE OIL COMPANY APPOINTS NEW VICE PRESIDENTS [...] (U) On December 27, 2007, President Ilham Aliyev appointed three new vice presidents of the State Oil Company (SOCAR). Under the decree, Qorkhmaz Huseynov was appointed VP for social issues, Mukhtar Babayev VP for ecology issues, and Khalik Mammadov VP for personnel, regime, and information t [...]	2008-01-15 05:42:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD ENRG EFIN AJ
08BAKU354	OSCE MEDIA REPRESENTATIVE BLASTS "UNFORTUNATE [...] (C) Summary: OSCE Media Freedom Representative Haraszti capped off an April 6-9 visit to Baku with a press conference in which he blasted an "unfortunate trend" of pressure against Azerbaijani journalists, and specifically blamed Prosecutor General Garalov for a "disgraceful" propaganda camp [...]	2008-04-10 14:09:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AJ
08BAKU371	SCENESETTER FOR U/S JEFFERY'S APRIL 22-23 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: Energy continues to figure prominently in Azerbaijan's geostrategic vision, economic development, and partnership with the United States. President Aliyev and his senior advisors have repeatedly expressed their commitment to working with the U.S. on a new phase of energy coopera [...]	2008-04-17 13:46:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG PGOV PBTS AJ
08BAKU377	PRESIDENT ALIYEV REJECTS CRITICISM ON MEDIA [...] (C) Summary: In an April 15 meeting with visiting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President Jeff Gedmin, President Aliyev firmly denied that Azerbaijan has any problems in the area of media freedom, and accused the U.S. of applying a "double standard" in its criticisms. The Preside [...]	2008-04-21 13:26:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PBTS KDEM KISL AJ
08BAKU383	FATA-ALIYEV MEETING - APRIL 16, 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a cordial one-hour meeting with visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Daniel Fata on April 16, President Aliyev delivered a direct plea for greater US support for Azerbaijan's security in the face of growing regional pressures, especiall [...]	2008-04-23 08:19:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MASS ENRG AJ
08BAKU392	FATA-MAMMADYAROV MEETING - APRIL 16, 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 16 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Daniel Fata, Foreign Minister Mammadyarov underscored increasing volatility in the region and pressure from Azerbaijan's neighbors, especially in connection with Azerbaijan's commitmen [...]	2008-04-24 06:04:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MASS ENRG AJ
08BAKU397	AGIL KHALIL FRUSTRATED BY GOAJ'S "BLACK PR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a April 24 meeting, opposition Azadliq newspaper correspondent Agil Khalil told Poloff that the GOAJ's investigation into his case was "fake and biased." He said he would not participate in further questioning or in court should the case go to trial. Khalil expressed frustra [...]	2008-04-25 13:14:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ
08BAKU412	MOJ APPEALS TO REVOKE REGISTRATION AND SHUT DOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 28, the USAID-supported Election Monitoring Center (EMC) received notification that the Ministry of Justice has filed an appeal to revoke EMC's registration and disband the organization. The preliminary hearing is set for May 5. According to EMC's lawyer, the Ministry [...]	2008-04-30 15:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID AJ
08BAKU432	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PRE-ELECTION ENVIRONMENT WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 28 meeting, a group of key civil society leaders discussed the pre-election environment and briefed the Ambassador on their plans for the October 15 presidential election. The group believes that the media environment is the biggest problem in the pre-election enviro [...]	2008-05-05 12:33:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU446	U/S JEFFERY MEETS WITH KEY AZERBAIJANI MINISTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an April 22 visit to Baku, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Reuben Jeffery III discussed with the Foreign Minister and State Oil Company president the importance of gas transit and securing Caspia [...]	2008-05-12 05:26:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AJ
08BAKU447	AZERBAIJAN: SENIOR OFFICIALS REACT STRONGLY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior GOAJ officials have reacted unusually harshly to recent USG statements criticizing Azerbaijan's lack of political will to resolve its separatist conflict, its imprisonment of journalists and especially, comparing Azerbaijan's record on democracy unfavorably to that of Arm [...]	2008-05-13 13:06:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ PGOV PHUM PREL
08BAKU461	GOVERNMENT "SHARKS" PUSH LARGE AMERICAN INVESTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a sign of the difficult business environment in Azerbaijan, a major foreign investor has decided to sell its investment and leave Azerbaijan. Russia's Baltika Breweries, a subsidiary of Carlsberg, announced the purchase of Baku Castel on May 15. CEO of the local brewery Baku C [...]	2008-05-16 12:59:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN KCOR PREL PGOV AJ
08BAKU467	PRESIDENT ALIYEV SHARES HIS VISION WITH U/S JEFFERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 22 conversation with U/S Jeffery and Ambassador Derse, President Aliyev said that he was seeking "greater clarity" from the Nabucco countries as to their real intentions, and from Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov on how active the GOTX will be in seeking energy cooper [...]	2008-05-21 06:32:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG
08BAKU478	SCENESETTER FOR SCA A/S BOUCHER,S MAY 30 VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Building on the success of the BTC and SCP pipelines, Azerbaijan could become a still more important producer and transit country for Capsian energy reserves. Several key issues must be resolved. Azerbaijan is working quietly with Turkmenistan to improve their relationship, sett [...]	2008-05-23 11:56:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG
08BAKU482	INITIAL READOUT OF TURKMEN PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan President Berdimuhamedov's May 19-20 visit to Baku was a significant step in the ongoing improvement of bilateral relations. According to SOCAR President Abdullayev, although the two heads of state seems to have reached no specific agreement on offshore energy devel [...]	2008-05-23 15:04:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TX
08BAKU483	ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN: MIXED MESAGES FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL APPARAT ON U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary: On May 23, the President's senior legal advisor told the Embassy that the USAID-funded Election Monitoring Center (EMC) would not be allowed to conduct election monitoring following the recent court decision to de-register and disband the organization. In contrast, on May 15 in [...]	2008-05-23 15:19:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ PGOV PREL
08BAKU494	AZERBAIJAN SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Building on the success of the BTC and SCP pipelines, Azerbaijan could become a still more important producer and transit country for Caspian energy reserves. Several key issues must be resolved. Azerbaijan is working quietly with Turkmenistan to improve their relationship, sett [...]	2008-05-30 04:31:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ PGOV PREL ENRG
08BAKU496	KOREAN COMPANIES FACE CHALLENGES IN AZERBAIJAN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the press has reported that South Korean companies are winning major construction and transportation deals, the Baku-based Director of the Korean Ministry of Construction and Transportation Yong Seog Kim reports that Korean companies are facing problems in concluding the [...]	2008-05-30 10:43:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCOR EFIN ETRD AJ
08BAKU499	RECOMMENDING GREATER ENGAGEMENT WITH AZERBAIJAN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Azerbaijan is an increasingly important partner for the United States. A Muslim country bordered by Russia and Iran, it is a firmly secular, pro-American partner in a region beset by radical Islam. Our security cooperation is excellent and growing, and could take on still m [...]	2008-05-30 13:26:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ENRG MOPS KDEM PBTS AJ
08BAKU51	AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT TELLS SENATOR LUGAR HE WANTS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 14 meeting with Senator Lugar, President Aliyev said that the Turkmen President is moving too slowly on trans-Caspian gas discussions while at the same time continuing to sign deals with Russia. Aliyev said that he needs a political signal in the next six months to [...]	2008-01-18 12:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG MARR AJ RS IR
08BAKU535	AZERBAIJAN: TURKEY NAKHCHIVAN SUMMIT A SUCCESS, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Initial press accounts indicate that Azerbaijani President Aliyev and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's June 4 meeting in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan was successful, with the two countries announcing that their positions coincide "in all spheres." However, SOCAR Vice Pre [...]	2008-06-09 13:19:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TK
08BAKU547	NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE SPLITS WORLD AZERBAIJANIS [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijani Member of Parliament Sabir Rustamxanli and current World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) President Ghulamriza Sabri-Tabrizi are both claiming leadership of the organization and organizing rival annual congresses. The organization's split appears to be driven by differen [...]	2008-06-12 10:40:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM IR AJ
08BAKU559	SCENESETTER FOR DRL A/S KRAMER'S VISIT TO BAKU, [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev and his closest advisors are still perturbed over what they perceive as a series of slights from the USG, which they view as inconsistent with our bilateral partnership. They are expressing their anger through a new, tough line on democracy and human rights iss [...]	2008-06-18 08:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ
08BAKU560	SCENESETTER FOR DRL A/S KRAMER'S VISIT TO BAKU, [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev and his closest advisors are still perturbed over what they perceive as a series of slights from the USG, which they view as inconsistent with our bilateral partnership. They are expressing their anger through a new, tough line on democracy and human rights iss [...]	2008-06-18 08:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ
08BAKU565	AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT SAYS ENERGY COOPERATION MUST [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 2 meeting with Special Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Ambassador Steve Mann, President Aliyev said the recent visit of Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov helped moved forward the bilateral relationship, which could well lead to expanded cooperation on energy sector devel [...]	2008-06-18 11:24:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ENRG PGOV PREL TU TX
08BAKU566	AZERBAIJAN: SOCAR TELLS SE GRAY EVERYONE WANTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. SOCAR President Rovnaq Abdullayev told a USG delegation on June 2 that in addition to competition among the Nabucco, TGI and TAP pipeline projects for Shah Deniz Phase Two gas, Turkey, Israel, Iran and Russia have each individually notified SOCAR that they wish to purchase all o [...]	2008-06-18 11:36:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG AJ TX TK
08BAKU584	AZERBAIJAN: RWE, TGI, OMV, DEPA ALL SAY 'TIME IS NOW' FOR SHAH DENIZ PHASE TWO DECISON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Companies involve with TGI and Nabucco, two of the three pipelineprojects seeking to buy Shah Deniz Phase Two gas agree that the next six months are crucial for rogress in the Southern Corridor project, and that main stumbling block currently is the issue of gas transit through T [...]	2008-06-20 14:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ ENRG
08BAKU585	AZERBAIJAN: PENDING BREAKTHROUGH IN TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Aliyev told the Ambassador on June 20 that the June 19 Ashgabat visit of a delegation headed by SOCAR President Rovnaq Abdullayev went well, and that Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan "may have some news on gas soon." In a separate conversation, SOCAR Marketing Vice-President [...]	2008-06-20 15:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG AJ TX TU
08BAKU602	PRESIDENT ALIYEV PITCHES AZERBAIJAN AS STRONGER [...] (C) Summary: In a May 24 meeting with CODEL Schiff, President Aliyev outlined Azerbaijan's cooperation with the U.S., highlighting contributions in security, counter-terorrism and energy security, and contrasting them to Armenia's continuing dependence on Russia. He said Azerbaijan seeks gr [...]	2008-06-26 08:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KDEM PHUM AM AJ
08BAKU603	AZERBAIJANI POLICE IMPRISON BAPTIST PASTOR [...] (C) Baku-based Baptist representative Ilya Zenchenko told the Embassy that Baptist pastor Hamid Shabanov has been detained by police in the northwestern village of Aliabad. Police arrested Shabanov on June 20 after searching his residence and finding a handgun. Shabanov, Shabanov's family me [...]	2008-06-26 09:07:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF AJ
08BAKU604	CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF AND AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 24 meeting with Representative Schiff and the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Mammadyarov underscored Azerbaijan's interest in an early peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) conflict and the benefits that increased cooperation with a rapidly developing Azerbaija [...]	2008-06-26 10:45:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS AM AJ
08BAKU61	OPPOSITION JOURNALIST RECEIVES SIX-YEAR PRISON [...] (SBU) On January 21, the Court of Grave Crimes convicted opposition Bizim Yol newspaper correspondent Mushvig Huseynov of accepting a bribe (Criminal Code article 331),and sentenced him to six years' imprisonment. In addition to the prison sentence, the court banned Huseynov from engaging in [...]	2008-01-24 08:56:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR AJ
08BAKU620	AZERBAIJAN'S SOCAR UPBEAT ON TURKMENISTAN; WORRIED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 24 meeting, SOCAR President Rovnaq Abdullayev told the Ambassador that during a recent meeting in Ashgabat he had outlined to Turkmenistan President Berdimuhamedov a vision of bilateral energy cooperation between the two countries. Berdimuhamedov struck him as a reasona [...]	2008-06-30 13:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TK ENRG
08BAKU621	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION PREPARATIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 25 meeting with the Ambassador, Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Panahov reviewed preparations for Azerbaijan's October presidential election, including voter education and efforts to improve the voter lists. He defended recent changes to the electoral cod [...]	2008-06-30 13:21:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU624	AZERBAIJAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH RUSSIA IN THE LEAD [...] (C) Summary: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will make his first state visit to Baku on July 3-4, following on the heels of recent stops in Azerbaijan from the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin, and Speaker of the Lower House of the Duma Boris G [...]	2008-07-02 04:46:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG RU AJ
08BAKU629	P-1 REFERRAL FOR U.S. RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM: [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Embassy has identified Azerbaijani journalist Agil Khalil as a candidate for the U.S. Resettlement Program as a Priority One referral. Khalil submitted a written request for refugee resettlement in the U.S. to the Embassy. In this request, Khalil alleges that he is in dange [...]	2008-07-02 12:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM CVIS AJ
08BAKU652	DRL A/S KRAMER URGES PRESIDENT ALIYEV TO IMPROVE [...] (C) Summary: In a very frank June 27 meeting, DRL A/S Kramer urged President Aliyev to "turn an area of friction into an area of improvement" in the bilateral relationship by taking concrete steps to address Azerbaijan's human rights problems. Although initially cool and somewhat testy, Pre [...]	2008-07-08 08:47:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PBTS AJ
08BAKU658	DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: DRL A/S Kramer and Foreign Minister Mammadaryov conducted the fourth round of the DRL-led U.S.-Azerbaijan Democracy and Human Rights Dialogue on June 27 in Baku. Mammadyarov defended Azerbaijan's recent electoral changes as in keeping with European standards and agreed that imp [...]	2008-07-09 07:01:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS KIRF PBTS AJ
08BAKU67	PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF RAMIZ MEHDIYEV REVIEWS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 14 meeting with visiting EUR DAS Matt Bryza, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev repeated long-standing policy that Azerbaijan is prepared to give Nagorno Karabakh "the highest autonomous status" but cannot agree to "give territory to Armenia." Arguing that [...]	2008-01-28 06:32:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KDEM PHUM AJ
08BAKU674	PRESIDENT ALIYEV SAYS NO COUNTRY HAS RIGHT TO [...] (C) Summary: In a speech delivered to the biannual conference of all Azerbaijani heads of diplomatic missions, President Aliyev pushed for a strong public diplomacy effort to bolster Azerbaijan's position in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, presented a confident vision of Azerbaijan's place in [...]	2008-07-11 15:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ
08BAKU675	PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV'S VISIT MEANT TO TELL [...] (C) Summary: According to the Russian Ambassador to Baku Vasily Istratov, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Baku had one major purpose: to convey the message to the GOAJ that "Azerbaijan matters" to Russia. Defining the new relationships as "same book, different page," Istratov c [...]	2008-07-11 15:19:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG RU AJ
08BAKU686	OIL FUND AGAIN REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT TO BRING [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (C) The Executive Director of Azerbaijan's State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) Shahmar Movsumov called Ambassador Derse July 11 to ask that the United States now support bringing the Azerbaijan-sponsored United Nations resolution on Extractive Industrie [...]	2008-07-17 12:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL AJ
08BAKU70	RUMORS SWIRL OF MINISTER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since his 2005 appointment as Minister of Economic Development, Heydar Babayev's political influence and personal financial wealth have been growing. Many attribute his appointment to his close personal relationship with President Ilham Aliyev; the two studied in Kyiv and are ru [...]	2008-01-28 11:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ETDR ECON WTRO PINR PGOV KCOR PREL AJ
08BAKU717	AZERBAIJAN STICKS TO ITS STORY ON CONFRONTATION [...] (S) Summary: Embassy contacts have provided a consistent account of an incident in early April during which they claim a Turkmen oil exploration rig, accompanied by a Russian research vessel, crossed into Azerbaijani waters from Turkmenistan. The GOAJ's description of the events differs wid [...]	2008-07-31 13:22:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PGOV PREL ENRG AJ TX
08BAKU726	AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT, SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 14 meeting with Special Envoy Gray, President Aliyev sought USG views on how to best proceed on the Southern Corridor project. SE Gray reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to work with Turkey and the EU to enable gas transit. To entice Turkmenistan into shipping gas west, [...]	2008-08-04 10:30:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL AZ TU
08BAKU729	BOEING TO SELL ADDITIONAL AIRCRAFT TO AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 4, Boeing Regional Sales Director Serdar Gurz, visiting from London, reported a successful upgrade of Azerbaijan Airlines's (AZAL's) aircraft order from a total of five aircraft (three 787s and two 737-900s) to a total of eight aircraft: two 787s, two 767-300ERs, and fou [...]	2008-08-05 04:43:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINT EAIR AZ TX
08BAKU733	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PRE-ELECTION AZERBAIJAN WITH [...] (C) Summary: EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby won President Aliyev's commitment to launch an EU democracy dialogue with Azerbaijan, but met some resistance from the Foreign Minister, who suggested expanding the theme of the discussions. Azerbaijan's leaders have [...]	2008-08-05 12:46:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ENRG AZ
08BAKU737	OSCE CHAIRMAN IN OFFICE REPRESENTATIVE BRIEFS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 30 the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman in Office Heikke Talvitie briefed the OSCE member country Ambassadors about his trip to Baku. He discussed the OSCE's role in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its role in observing elections. In his meeting with Presi [...]	2008-08-06 11:11:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AJ
08BAKU739	PRESIDENT ALIYEV WELCOMES HIGHEST-LEVEL USG [...] (C) Summary: In an August 4 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting OVP Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs Joe Wood, President Aliyev welcomed the proposed visit of the Vice President, expressing general satisfaction with the U.S.-Azerbaijan relationship. Identifying Nagorno-Kar [...]	2008-08-06 12:59:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PGOV PREL ENRG AJ
08BAKU761	AZERBAIJAN SCALES BACK PRODUCTION, LOOKS FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-12 04:43:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG AJ GG TU
08BAKU765	AZERBAIJAN OIL & GAS EXPORT WOES: BAKU-SUPSA, SCP [...] (C) BP External Affairs and Policy Forum Manager Seymour Khalilov briefed Embassy officers August 12 on developments in oil and gas production and transport in light of fire damage to the BTC pipeline and the Russia-Georgia conflict over South Ossetia. Khalilov confirmed that the BTC fire was [...]	2008-08-13 04:38:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINT PREL AZ TU
08BAKU773	IRANIAN STUDENTS IN BAKU SPEAK OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY The Iranian public is keen for more opportunities to engage with the United States. Three Iranian students studying in Baku conveyed this sentiment to polecon officer during two wide-ranging discussions on life in Iran. Polecon officer outlined the ways the USG reaches out to the [...]	2008-08-15 05:26:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AZ PGOV PREL
08BAKU787	AZERBAIJAN'S SOCAR: OIL & GAS TRANSIT THROUGH [...] (C) Embassy officers met August 20 with State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Deputy Vice President Vitaliy Baylarbayov to discuss oil and gas production and transport in light of the ongoing security crisis in Georgia. Baylarbayov offered the following observations on specific export routes [...]	2008-08-21 04:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINT PREL AZ TX TU
08BAKU789	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES VP VISIT, PRESSES [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador August 6 highlighted to Head of the Presidential Apparat Remiz Mehdiyev the historical significance of the Vice President's upcoming visit to Azerbaijan. The Ambassador also pressed Mehdiyev on free and fair presidential elections, including the need for internati [...]	2008-08-21 09:31:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM PHUM AJ
08BAKU79	AZERBAIJAN UPBEAT ON TURKMAN RELATIONS AFTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In conversations with the Ambassador, GOAJ officials were highly positive about he January 17 GOAJ-GOTX Intergovernmental Commission meeting and the bright prospects they now see to accelerate the improvement in relations with Turkmenistan. Ascribing improved relations largely to [...]	2008-01-30 13:36:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ TU PREL PGOV ENRG
08BAKU790	AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT: I DIDNâ€™T STAND BEHIND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 19, President Aliyev told visiting British Petroleum CEO Inglis that Azerbaijan is taking quiet steps to support Georgia, although Aliyev himself did not publicly support the Georgian President. For example, Azerbaijanis are repairing a critical rail bridge destroyed by the R [...]	2008-08-22 04:03:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD PREL AJ RU TR
08BAKU791	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES EPC, CO-FINANCING, BUSINESS [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met August 8 with Minister of Finance Samir Sharifov to discuss a wide range of economic issues, including prospective dates this fall for the next meeting of the U.S.-Azerbaijan Economic Partnership Commission (EPC) and co-financing of assistance projects. Ambassador also [...]	2008-08-22 04:03:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EFIN EIND ETRD ETTC AJ
08BAKU796	TURKISH PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN PITCHES CAUCASUS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Embassy First Secretary Cem Ornekol told the Embassy the goal of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's August 20 visit to Baku was to gain Azerbaijan's support for Turkey's proposed Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform. Ornekol said President Aliyev was receptive to th [...]	2008-08-22 13:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV PHUM PREL TU AJ IR
08BAKU797	SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR LUGAR'S AUGUST 24-25 VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Baku warmly welcomes Senator Lugar back to Azerbaijan. This visit comes at a particularly critical time, during the ongoing Georgia-Russia conflict and in the wake of several public USG-GOAJ bilateral disagreements. While the GOAJ, and President Aliyev in particular, ha [...]	2008-08-22 14:58:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ GG PGOV PREL OTRA
08BAKU804	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF THE VICE PRESIDENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The unfolding Russia-Georgia conflict has critical and sensitive ramifications for Azerbaijan. In particular, President Aliyev worries about the implications of the crisis in terms of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its impact on Azerbaijan's westward oil and gas exp [...]	2008-08-25 15:47:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	OTRA CHENEY RICHARD AJ GG
08BAKU812	FOREIGN MINISTER: RUSSIAN INVANSION SENDS MESSAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Foreign Minister told the Ambassador August 26 that the Russian invasion of Georgia was primarily intended to send a message to the U.S. that Russian power in the region "is back." He warned that Russian insistence on buffer zones in Georgia around the conflict areas will af [...]	2008-08-27 13:51:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ENRG GG PREL RS
08BAKU813	PRESIDENT ALIYEV DISCUSSES GEORGIA, ENERGY WITH [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev told Senator Lugar August 25 that his visit to Azerbaijan was very important and timely, coming on the heels of a stopover in Tbilisi. Azerbaijan, the President said, was first to send assistance to Georgia and will continue to do so, despite grave errors and "ir [...]	2008-08-28 03:52:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM PHUM AJ
08BAKU815	BP BRIEFS SENATOR LUGAR ON CASPIAN ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: The Russia-Georgia conflict, according to BP, may be forcing Azerbaijan to re-examine needs for regional stability and security, perhaps with leaders concluding that a large foreign presence in Azerbaijan and the region is necessary to create an environment of greater security, predict [...]	2008-08-28 08:57:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINT PREL AJ TX TU GG
08BAKU821	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR FEARS RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev's International Relations Advisor sees Russian actions in Georgia as "the beginning of a new era," with Azerbaijan's energy export routes, and consequently, the country's independence and sovereignty, ultimately at risk. Russia's acts were premeditated, with a g [...]	2008-09-02 10:09:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KPKO MARR AJ GG RU
08BAKU833	AZERBAIJAN: VICE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE WELL [...] (SBU) Summary: Vice President Richard Cheney's September 3-4 visit to Baku was widely seen as significant and timely given concerns about energy and security in the wake of the Russian invasion of Georgia. Azerbaijan's media gave extensive and decidedly positive coverage to VP Cheney's visit [...]	2008-09-05 13:38:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM ENRG KIRF AJ
08BAKU850	AZERBAIJAN'S 2008 ELECTION: FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijani performance in assuring freedom of assembly has been positive from the standpoint of new legislation and presidential statements. The Venice Commission positively assessed Azerbaijan's revised law on freedom of assembly. From a legal and technical point of view, th [...]	2008-09-10 12:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AJ
08BAKU852	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION, GEORGIA WITH HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 29, leading Azerbaijani human rights activists Novella Jafaroglu-Appelbaum, Saida Gojamanly, and Saadat Benanyarly discussed with the Ambassador their concern over the conflict in Georgia and the threat it poses for Azerbaijan. In a surprising twist, they explained that [...]	2008-09-10 13:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ GG
08BAKU856	MAJOR OPPOSITION PARTIES SIGN JOINT BOYCOTT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 5 the heads of the five largest opposition parties signed a public statement boycotting the October 15 presidential election. This represents a step forward in organization for the normally fractured opposition. Discussions with opposition party leadership reveal, [...]	2008-09-11 11:59:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG RS AJ
08BAKU86	AZERBAIJAN: STATE OIL COMPANY COMMITTED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In 2006 President Aliyev issued a decree mandating a five-year effort to clean up the notoriously polluted Azerbaijani environment. As part of these efforts, in January 2008 the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) created a new position, Vice-President for Ecology. The newly [...]	2008-01-31 10:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV PGOV PREL AJ
08BAKU865	AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT SAYS JOINT EFFORTS MUST [...] (C) Summary. In a September 9 meeting with a USG delegation headed by Special Envoy C. Boyden Gray, President Aliyev said he was pleased with Vice-President's Cheney's recent visit, in which he and the Vice President agreed that a strong bilateral relationship was even more important followin [...]	2008-09-12 12:59:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TX ENRG TU
08BAKU868	SOCAR STILL SEEKING SOLUTIONS FOR TURKISH TRANSIT [...] (C) Summary: SOCAR continues to seek to find a way to convince Turkey to allow transit to Europe for its Shah Deniz Phase Two gas. However, according to SOCAR Marketing Vice-President Elshad Nassirov, Turkey continues to insist as a prelude to granting transit that Azerbaijan must sell it an [...]	2008-09-12 13:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU TX ENRG
08BAKU879	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER DISCUSSES THE [...] (C) Summary: Head of the President's Socio-Political Department Ali Hasanov described for the Ambassador a highly successful and productive visit to the United States in August, including attendance at the Democratic National Convention in Denver and meetings in Washington, DC. Hasanov pledg [...]	2008-09-17 07:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU883	AZERBAIJAN: GAS LEAK SLASHES OIL PRODUCTION IN [...] (C) According to BP Azerbaijan Vice-President for Communications and External Affairs Seymour Khalilov, at 0820 hours Baku local time Central Azeri Offshore oil platform workers noticed gas bubbles "about one-third the size of soccer balls" coming to the water's surface around the platform. S [...]	2008-09-17 13:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ CASC ENRG PGOV PREL
08BAKU891	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR CALLS FOR U.S. TO FILL VOID [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 15 meeting with the Ambassador, International Relations Advisor to President Aliyev Novruz Mammadov said he did not think that withdrawal of Azerbaijani forces from Iraq by the end of 2008 "would be a problem." (reftel) Mammadov also shared his views on a number [...]	2008-09-18 11:31:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ IR TU RS

08BAKU897	AZERBAIJAN ACG FIELD OIL PRODUCTION STILL WAY DOWN [...] (C) According to BP Azerbaijan Vice-President for Communications and External Affairs Seymour Khalilov, as of 1400 hours local time, Friday September 19, oil production from the offshore ACG mega-field is down from a pre-incident level of over 900,000 bpd to approximately 250,000 bpd (NOTE: ot [...]	2008-09-19 11:16:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG
08BAKU9	AZERBAIJANI HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS ARGUE PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: During a December 28 meeting with the Ambassador, eight of Azerbaijan's leading human rights activists said GOAJ pressure against government critics is rising, with the GOAJ relying on political charges such as espionage, libel, and terrorism to silence or intimidate critics. T [...]	2008-01-04 11:19:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU90	AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES ENERGY AND [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijani Foreign Minister appeared unaware that Iran may soon move the Alborz oil rig, while noting that Azerbaijan would respond through diplomatic and legal means if Iran moves the rig into disputed waters. Mammadyarov raised the need for an EU energy summit in Brussels, co [...]	2008-02-01 12:16:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG PHUM AMGT ABLD AJ IR
08BAKU900	ACCOUNTING FIRM EXECUTIVE DISCUSSES ACTIVITIES OF [...] (C) Moore Stephens International accounting firm chief discussed with Baku Iran Watcher the firm's consulting activities in Iran and his personal impressions of the Iranian business and investment climate. He stated that Moore Stephens has been hired to advise several Iranian companies on m [...]	2008-09-23 07:24:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV IR AJ
08BAKU914	PRESIDENT ALIYEV: REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev presented a sober view of the impact of regional developments on Azerbaijan's key interests to EUR DAS Matthew Bryza on September 18. He repeated his longstanding contention that Azerbaijan is "alone" in facing serious regional pressures, underscoring again tha [...]	2008-09-25 13:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG AJ
08BAKU919	AZERBAIJAN INCOME TAKES A HIT AS NO SHORT-TERM FIX [...] (C) SUMMARY. As Operator BP continues to look for the cause of the gas leak in its offshore ACG oil mega-field that has resulted in slashed oil production (reftels),possibilities center on either a failure in one of the wells or damage in the underlying geologic formation. A quick fix is unlikely [...]	2008-09-26 11:35:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG
08BAKU933	AZERBAIJAN 2008 ELECTION: WHO ARE THE OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The campaign for the presidency of Azerbaijan began on September 17, with current president Ilham Aliyev and six other candidates competing. Major campaign themes, to the extent that they are voiced, include increasing the power of the parliament, fighting corruption, and "liber [...]	2008-10-03 13:57:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU935	AZERBAIJAN 2008 ELECTION: WHO ARE THE OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The campaign for the presidency of Azerbaijan began on September 17, with current president Ilham Aliyev and six other candidates competing. Major campaign themes, to the extent that they are voiced, include increasing the power of the parliament, fighting corruption, and "liber [...]	2008-10-03 14:16:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAKU937	AZERBAIJANI CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS HOST [...] (C) Summary: The Azerbaijan National Committee for European Integration (ANCEI) hosted a conference entitled "The Russia - Georgia Conflict and Its Security, Economic, and Humanitarian Implications" in Baku on September 29. During the first panel on international security in the aftermath of [...]	2008-10-06 05:11:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG AJ
08BAKU945	AZERBAIJAN: DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: Over dinner October 1 with the Deputy Secretary, key Azerbaijani foreign policy thinkers discussed the role of Russia and Iran in the Caucasus, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and efforts to intensify the U.S.-Azerbaijan relationship. Participants highlighted Azerbaijan's diffic [...]	2008-10-08 08:00:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ AM ENRG GG PGOV PREL RS
08BAKU969	AZERBAIJAN'S 2008 ELECTION: MEDIA FREEDOM [...] (C) Summary: Media contacts state that media in Azerbaijan has worsened under a "personally insecure" president, who has condoned a clampdown on influential, critical media outlets. They point to a number of factors behind the gradual, but steady, decline in media freedom since Ilham Aliyev [...]	2008-10-10 13:55:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AJ
08BAKU970	PRESIDENT ALIYEV, DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev, meeting with Deputy -Secretary Negroponte on October 2, lauded the timely September visit of Vice President Cheney and re-emphasized the importance of further enhancing U.S.-Azerbaijan relations in the aftermath of the Russia-Georgia conflict. President Aliyev, [...]	2008-10-10 14:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG KDEM AJ
08BAKU977	AZERBAIJAN ELECTION 2008: ALL QUIET ON THE [...] (C) Summary: During a trip to Sumqayit to gauge the pre-election environment, the head of the local Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) told the Embassy that YAP has been at the forefront of grassroots campaigning. The official believes President Aliyev will win by 85-90 percent, with 65-75 percent [...]	2008-10-14 09:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AJ
08BAKU980	AZERBAIJAN: ELECTION UPATE, OCTOBER 10-14 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Election Monitoring Center (EMC) and the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety released pre-election, interim reports October 10 and 11, respectively, noting certain improvements in the election process, while raising concerns about the slow handling of complaints b [...]	2008-10-14 14:56:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV RS GG AJ PHUM PREL
08BAMAKO219	GENERAL WARD'S MEETING WITH MALIAN DEFENSE MINISTER [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-03 13:46:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR MASS MARR
08BAMAKO221	(S/NF) MALI'S REGULATION OF EXPLOSIVE PRECURSORS [...] (S/NF) Mali does not yet have a law place to regulate the purchase, concentrations, and use of referenced explosive precursors (reftels). However, according to Mr. Abdramane Sidibe, the Chief of the Regulation and Control Division at the Ministry of Agriculture, the Council of Ministers appr [...]	2008-03-03 15:12:00	Embassy Bamako	SECRET	PINR EAGR PTER ML
08BAMAKO239	TRIBAL FAULT LINES WITHIN THE TUAREG OF NORTHERN [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-06 14:21:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR ML
08BAMAKO256	BAHANGA RELEASES PRISONERS AFTER QUIET NEGOTIATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-11 15:42:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ML
08BAMAKO295	MALIAN ARMY RUNS INTO BAHANGA, AND LOSES, AGAIN [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-21 11:15:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO305	MALI NEGOTIATES WITH BAHANGA AS NEW GROUP ATTACKS [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-28 06:30:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR PTER ML
08BAMAKO312	MALI INTERCEPTS 26 TRAFFICKED CHILDREN IN KITA [...] On March 12 police in the western town of Kita intercepted 26 children who were trafficked to Kita from towns along the Guinea-Mali frontier. The children ranged in age from 6 to 17. Two of the children were Malian, and the rest Guinean nationals. Four suspects are currently under arrest i [...]	2008-04-01 07:15:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC ML
08BAMAKO313	MALI INTERCEPTS 26 TRAFFICKED CHILDREN IN KITA [...] On March 12 police in the western town of Kita intercepted 26 children who were trafficked to Kita from towns along the Guinea-Mali frontier. The children ranged in age from 6 to 17. Two of the children were Malian, and the rest Guinean nationals. Four suspects are currently under arrest i [...]	2008-04-01 07:15:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC ML
08BAMAKO339	TUAREG LEADERS FROM GAO AND TIMBUKTU: TIME FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-07 13:38:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO357	ENGAGING WITH MALI ON NORTHERN INSECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Concerned by continuing instability in the north and the absence of a clear path towards its resolution, the Ambassador called separately on President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) and Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane on April 8 and 9 to exchange views on the evolution of the situation [...]	2008-04-11 12:26:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS ML
08BAMAKO364	AS NORTHERN CRISIS DEEPENS, MALI DRIFTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-14 14:15:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO371	BERABICHE AND AQIM IN NORTHERN MALI [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-17 11:36:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO385	COMMISSION OF TUAREG LEADERS TO MEET WITH ADC AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-22 16:03:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO396	EFFORTS CONTINUE TO SAVE MALI'S ELEPHANTS [...] SUMMARY: An estimated 550 to 700 elephants in Mali's Gourma region are threatened by drying climate, landscape degradation, and increasing human contact. The Malian herd is the northernmost group of elephants in west Africa and the only surviving group in the Sahel. International conservat [...]	2008-04-24 16:21:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV ML
08BAMAKO419	ADC ATTACKS MILITARY POST NORTH OF SEGOU [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-06 16:47:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO435	BANDITS ATTACK GENDARMARIE IN ANSONGO WHILE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 17:00:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO446	TUAREG CLAIMS AND COUNTER-CLAIMS FOR RECENT ATTACKS [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-16 12:04:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO462	OF TUAREGS AND TERRORISTS: A REBEL'S VIEW OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-21 14:18:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO482	MALI USING TUAREG MILITIAS TO COMBAT TUAREG REBELS [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-30 12:06:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO491	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MOSS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-02 10:54:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON EAGR ML
08BAMAKO507	A FORMER MINISTER OF DEFENSE'S VIEW OF THE CRISIS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-04 15:53:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR PREL
08BAMAKO589	PRIVATIZATION OF MALI'S STATE-OWNED COTTON COMPANY [...] Summary: On May 28 Mali's Council of Ministers' passed a draft law authorizing the sale of government stock in the cotton parastatal, Malian Textile Development Company (CMDT),marking a major step in the World Bank-sponsored reconstruction of the Malian cotton sector. The text now goes to [...]	2008-06-24 14:04:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON ETRD ML
08BAMAKO606	SCENESETTER FOR HHS SECRETARY MICHAEL O. LEAVITT'S [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-30 16:52:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ML
08BAMAKO610	DISTANCES AND DISORGANIZATION HAMPER ASSESSMENT OF [...] Summary: On June 26 the Embassy met with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) delegate Andreas Schmidt to discuss the living conditions of populations displaced by fighting in northern Mali. A hand-written report sent to the Embassy by the Director of the Malian Red Cross in Kida [...]	2008-07-01 15:03:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM EAID SOCI ML
08BAMAKO660	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RATIFIES TERRORISM LAW BUT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-16 08:50:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PTER PHUM EAGR ECON EIND ELAB EINV
08BAMAKO675	TUAREG BANDITS ATTACK TESSALIT WHILE MALI AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-22 15:03:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO676	SAHEL-SAHARA SECURITY SUMMIT NOW SCHEDULED FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-22 15:05:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PREL ML
08BAMAKO684	FIVE MALIAN SOLDIERS RELEASED FOLLOWING TALKS IN [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-28 13:48:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO702	JUSTICE SLOW FOR VICTIMS OFSLAVERY IN NORTHERN [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-04 21:40:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOI ELAB ML
08BAMAKO712	DETAILS ON RECENT HOSTAGE RELEASE AND NEXT STEPS [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-07 15:50:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR PREL ML
08BAMAKO722	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES PRIVATIZATION OF COTTON [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-12 16:25:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EIND ELAB EINV PGOV KDEM ML
08BAMAKO759	CHILD PROTECTION OFFICIALS DISAPPOINTED WITH [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-02 07:34:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV ML
08BAMAKO779	MALI AND ADC CONTENT TO LEAVE BAHANGA BEHIND IN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-09 16:06:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO785	BAHANGA RELEASES MOST - BUT NOT ALL - MALIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-11 15:19:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR PHUM ML
08BAMAKO798	MALI'S MCC COMPACT ENTERS IMPLEMENTATION PHASE [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-16 15:51:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EINV ECON EAGR ML
08BAMAKO800	POLICE ROUND UP MORE GANDA-IZO SUSPECTS AND RAID [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-17 16:17:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO821	MALI CREATES UNIT FOR COUNTERING TERRORIST [...] On September 25 the Embassy met with former Minister of Housing Modibo Sylla and Customs Inspector Seydou Diawara to discuss Mali's newly created financial information unit (CNTIF). The CNTIF was created in May 2008 to comply with requirements of the West African Monetary Union (UEMOA) and s [...]	2008-10-01 14:15:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KTFN SNAR PTER ML
08BAMAKO831	NEW NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF POLICE SHAKES UP POLICE [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-10 11:09:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS SOCI ML
08BAMAKO867	ALGERIAN AMBASSADOR'S VIEW OF SECURITY SUMMIT AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-04 06:56:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINR ASEC ML
08BAMAKO888	THE LIBERATION OF AQIM'S AUSTRIAN HOSTAGES: AN [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-14 10:26:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO897	A MEETING OF THE MINDS, BUT NOT HEADS OF STATE, ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-18 14:34:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ASEC PINS ML
08BAMAKO898	ARAB-TUAREG TENSIONS IN LERE RISE AFTER SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-19 16:04:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PINS PINR ML
08BAMAKO918	TUAREG REBEL LEADER IYAD AG GHALI WANTS OVERHAUL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-01 10:16:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PINR PTER PREL ASEC ML
08BAMAKO920	GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM LAW ENACTED IN MALI [...] On November 13, the Malian National Assembly passed legislation regulating the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Mali. Originally submitted to the Assembly in 2006, the GMO legislation had sparked controversy due to the complexity of the issue and the opposition of Mali's well- [...]	2008-12-01 12:18:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED	BTIO EAGR PGOV TBIO ML
08BAMAKO932	TOP REBEL: THE RETURN OF IYAD AG GHALI [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-11 09:45:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PINS ASEC ML
08BAMAKO954	(S) MALIAN OFFICIALS CONFIRM PRESENCE OF KIDNAPPED [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 14:25:00	Embassy Bamako	SECRET	PTER PINR PINS ASEC ML
08BAMAKO968	EFFORTS TO SAVE ALGIERS ACCORDS ACCELERATE AS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-29 16:38:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR ASEC ML
08BAMAKO970	GOVERNMENT OF NIGER QUIETLY LOOKING FOR MISSING UN [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-30 16:46:00	Embassy Bamako	SECRET	PREL PTER PINR ML
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN103	BRUNEI: DEMARCHE ON BURMA REFERENDUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Brunei views the Burmese regime's announcement of a referendum as a "positive step" and believes it should be given a chance to move its roadmap process forward. The Bruneians have privately advised the Burmese government that they hope to see a peaceful and inclusive process of [...]	2008-03-28 08:06:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN105	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF ADMIRAL KEATING TO [...] (C) Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan is pleased to welcome you to Brunei. Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) Commander General Halbi is enthusiastic about your visit, and his staff has supported our request for you to meet with Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah (not yet confirmed). Yours is the highest- [...]	2008-04-03 02:59:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MARR MOPS PREL PGOV BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN108	BRUNEI - BFIF FY08 FUND CITE - SINGAPORE AIRSHOW OUTCOME [...] As per reftel, the following is the outcome and expenditure report for post's participation at the Singapore Airshow, February 19-24, 2008: Program outcome and follow-up ----------------------------- Post participated in the Asia Now showtime one-on-one meetings with U.S. companies at the A [...]	2008-04-08 07:51:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	UNCLASSIFIED	ABUD BEXP BTIO EINV ETRD AFIN BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN12	BRUNEI TO "LISTEN" TO VISITING BURMA PM [...] (C) The Ambassador called on Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Pengiran Dato Osman Patra on January 9 to urge that the Government of Brunei (GoB) challenge Burma Prime Minister Thein Sein about decreased regime cooperation with UN Special Envoy Gambari during Thein Sein's visit to [...]	2008-01-11 08:07:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BM BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN131	SULTAN SAYS BRUNEI WILL STAY IN PHILIPPINES IMT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: After a confused initial Bruneian reaction to Malaysia's announcement that it will begin a phased withdrawal of its peacekeeping troops from the International Monitoring Team (IMT) in Mindanao, the Sultan of Brunei has reportedly decided that Royal Brunei Armed [...]	2008-05-01 07:52:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL RP BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN136	Brunei Fraud Conditions Summary - FY2008 [...] (U) Brunei is a low-fraud environment for consular services and historically has had low rates of fraud and low non-return rates. Brunei has been a member of the Visa Waiver Program since its inception. On May 5, the Government of Brunei announced that it would begin issuing ICAO compliant bio [...]	2008-05-06 07:38:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN156	BRUNEI ROYALS STRESS IMPORTANCE OF U.S. ROLE IN [...] (C) In the Ambassador's farewell calls, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, Crown Prince Al Muhtahdee Billah, and Acting Foreign Minister Princess Masna emphasized that Brunei welcomes and recognizes the importance of a robust U.S. presence in Southeast Asia and desires a close bilateral relationshi [...]	2008-05-22 01:30:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN173	BRUNEI SEEKS MEASURED ENHANCEMENT OF DEFENSE [...] (C) At Ambassador Skodon's final farewell call, Deputy Minister of Defense Pehin Yasmin Umar suggested some targets for enhancing the bilateral defense relationship to go along with the growing mil-mil relationship as the Government of Brunei (GoB) signaled in reftels, including: signing an A [...]	2008-06-03 06:24:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN27	HARRIS CORP WINS BRUNEI COMBAT RADIO NET CONTRACT [...] (C) Harris Corporation has won a USD 25 million contract to provide a combat radio network to the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF). In beating French and German competitors, Harris has secured an important deal that could lead to significant follow on sales for itself and other U.S. defense f [...]	2008-01-18 07:50:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL ETRD BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN36	BURMA PM GETS LUKEWARM RECEPTION IN BRUNEI [...] (C) Brunei gave Burmese PM Thein Sein a correct, but lukewarm reception on a long-delayed official visit to Brunei January 15-17. Comments by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah at the obligatory palace banquet were notable for their focus on ASEAN and only limited mention of bilateral ties. Thein Sein' [...]	2008-01-25 09:59:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BM BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN43	USTR VISIT MAKES PROGRESS ON IP PROTECTION, TIFA AGENDA [...] (SBU) Assistant USTR Barbara Weisel opened the door for closer Government of Brunei cooperation with the USG and rights-holders on enforcement of intellectual property rights. She also suggested that the GoB submit comments for the Special 301 process by the February 29 deadline and that it co [...]	2008-01-29 08:21:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR PREL BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN69	BRUNEI: SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Having recently reengaged with the Government of Brunei on IPR protection and enforcement (refs B, C and D),it is not yet time to put Brunei on the Special 301 Watch List. GoB enforcement efforts have been minimal in the past, but we see increased willingness to work with rights holders [...]	2008-02-21 08:27:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON PREL BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN88	BRUNEIAN VIEWS OF ASEAN'S FUTURE [...] (SBU) Brunei's First and Second Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Trade have outlined a broad vision for ASEAN emphasizing the creation of a regional identity via actions that directly address the day-to-day problems of the population in member states. They appear to see ASEAN integration as [...]	2008-03-11 05:14:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ASEAN BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN98	BIA MANAGING DIRECTOR PROPOSES DIFFERENTIATED SWF [...] (C) Brunei Investment Agency Managing Director Dr. Mohamed Amin Liew told Ambassador that BIA intended to continue a conservative international strategy that emphasizes fixed income assets and passive portfolio investments. It would avoid country-specific funds as well as direct equity stakes [...]	2008-03-21 07:56:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV BX
08BANGKOK1006	USTR PUSHES RTG TO ESTABLISH ECONOMIC DIALOGUE, RESOLVE CL [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 17 and 18, Assistant USTR Barbara Weisel and USTR Director for Southeast Asia David Bisbee met with a range of RTG officials and private sector contacts in a bid to renew regular contact on economic issues with the newly elected government. Weisel proposed the two gov [...]	2008-03-31 03:56:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR TH
08BANGKOK1068	HIGH RICE PRICES FUEL FEARS OF SHORTAGES [...] Summary: Export prices for Thai rice have doubled in the pasta few months, with white rice hitting $800 dollars per ton. High domestic prices have led some of Thailand's top rice exporting competitors like Vietnam and India to restrict exports, reducing an already thin trade of rice and fuel [...]	2008-04-04 00:06:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD ECON TH
08BANGKOK107	PRO-THAKSIN PARTY ON TRACK TO FORM GOVERNMENT, [...] (C) The pro-Thaksin People's Power Party (PPP) appears poised to bring all parties except for the Democrats into a formal coalition that would control two-thirds of the House of Representatives. The Election Commission has yet to decide the outcome of 58 House races that were under investigat [...]	2008-01-10 10:26:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TH
08BANGKOK1210	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: RTG TALKS WITH INSURGENTS [...] (S/NF) Summary: A Henri Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HDC) representative, Michael Vatikiotis, told the Ambassador in mid-April that secret talks between the RTG and southern insurgents were stalled and would likely remain so for four to six months. HDC, which is brokering talks b [...]	2008-04-18 10:03:00	Embassy Bangkok	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
08BANGKOK1218	SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY OF COMMERCE PADILLA [...] (U) Summary. Your visit to Thailand gives you the opportunity to affirm our strong economic relationship with Thailand as we celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce. After being led for 15 months by an interim military-appointed government following a coup in Sept [...]	2008-04-22 10:53:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV EFIN OVIP PGOV PREL TH
08BANGKOK125	THAILAND TO STUDY KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] (C) DCM met with MFA Director General for European Affairs Ambassador Suthee Na Lumpang on January 11 to deliver reftel points on the resolution of Kosovo's status and emphasized that the USG intends to recognize Kosovo once independence is declared. The USG hopes Thailand will do the same. A [...]	2008-01-14 00:15:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI TH
08BANGKOK1283	MFA ON INTRA-ASEAN RELATIONS, IMPORTANCE OF US ROLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Permanent Secretary Virasakdi Futrukul met with DOD A/S James Shinn and DAS James Clad on April 22. He encouraged the US to strengthen its engagement in the region, suggesting the establishment of a regular US-ASEAN Defense Ministers meeting, and increased joint training for [...]	2008-04-28 00:19:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH
08BANGKOK1314	AMBASSADOR REES DISCUSSES BURMA WITH RTG, NGOS [...] (C) During a April 17-21 visit to Thailand, U.S. Special Representative for Social Issues Ambassador Rees discussed Burma with MFA North America Division Director General Nongnuth Petcharatana and in a separate meeting with International Organizations Deputy Director General Ittiporn Boonpraco [...]	2008-04-30 05:28:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KDEM TH BM
08BANGKOK1327	AMBASSADOR PRESSES RTG ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary: I spoke separately to the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, asking them to use the occasion of the Burmese Prime Minister's visit to advocate for genuine democratic reform in Burma. The PM said he was prepared to be a messenger for the West, but clearly has his own ideas about [...]	2008-04-30 11:31:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM TH BM
08BANGKOK1348	STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE BURMESE EXILE [...] (C) Thailand's Burmese exile community, based in Chiang Mai and Mae Sot, has undergone drastic changes in recent years. Younger members are taking on more grassroots endeavors aimed at addressing the immediate needs of Burmese inside Burma and Thailand. Several prominent exiles have broken [...]	2008-05-01 05:05:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KDEM TH BM
08BANGKOK1392	LEADING DEMOCRAT LEGISLATOR COMMENTS ON THAI [...] (C) Leading Democrat Party legislator Sukhumbhand Paribatra told us on May 7 that current media speculation about a possible coup d'etat evoked earlier rumors that former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra might orchestrate a seizure of power to undo the effects of the 2006 coup. Sukhumbhand as [...]	2008-05-07 10:27:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM TH BM
08BANGKOK156	ELECTION UPDATE: MORE WINNERS, MORE RUMORS [...] (C) To date, the Election Commission has certified the outcome of 431 (of 480) races in the December 23 House of Representatives election. The three People's Power Party (PPP) candidates whose victory was annulled in Nakhon Ratchasima province won in a re-run election held on January 13; PPP [...]	2008-01-15 12:09:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TH
08BANGKOK1562	DSI RAID NETS THAILAND'S LARGEST CD SEIZURE [...] (SBU) On May 7, a Department of Special Investigations (DSI) team hit a major distributor of piated optical discs outside of Bangkok, netting oer 500,000 CDs and DVDs valued at over 50 million baht (USD 1.5 million). The raid was the largesthaul of optical discs in DSI's six-year history and [...]	2008-05-21 08:52:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD TH
08BANGKOK1612	HOW HOT IS IT, ANYWAY? [...] (S) SUMMARY: The current state of political deadlock is similar in many ways to the protracted statemate of 2006. Of greatest concern are the repeated references in the media and by contacts of a serious threat to the monarchy. This fear is based on the increase in criticisms of the monarch [...]	2008-05-24 11:37:00	Embassy Bangkok	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH
08BANGKOK1613	RTG HACHET MAN TAKES AXE TO MEDIA, BUT WOUNDS HIMSELF [...] (SBU) Embattled Prime Minister's Office Minister Jakrapob Penkair suffered another blow when the Democrat Party filed a motion on May 21 to impeach him. Jakrapob, the bete noir of the media, has been accused of abuse of power and lese majeste. This is the latest chapter in a series of running [...]	2008-05-25 09:33:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KPAO TH
08BANGKOK1619	CONFLICT OVER CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT CONTINUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minor clashes marred the otherwise peaceful rally by opponents of the current government on May 25. The anti-Thaksin People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) will continue demonstrating to rally opposition to the government and its plans to amend the 2007 Constitution. PM Samak wo [...]	2008-05-27 10:59:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH
08BANGKOK1632	THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary: In a May 20 courtesy call by Ambassador John, Minister of Interior Chalerm Yoobamrung made a forceful request for more counter narcotics assistance and assured us human rights would be respected in Thailand's new "war on drugs." The Ambassador acknowledged Chalerm's request, and [...]	2008-05-28 09:55:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SNAR TH
08BANGKOK1662	LESE MAJESTE ACCUSATIONS STIFLE DISCOURSE IN [...] (C) Politicians and allies of the Palace, under the guise of protecting the King, often use lese majeste accusations to silence critical media or opponents. In the last six months, lese majeste complaints have been filed or threatened against a wide range of figures, including a cabinet minist [...]	2008-05-30 10:56:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPAO TH
08BANGKOK1693	AMBASSADOR AND FORMER PM SURAYUD DISCUSS POLITICAL [...] (C) The Ambassador called on Privy Councilor Surayud Chulanont on June 3. Responding to the Ambassador's concern over the polarized political environment, Surayud said that he hoped both sides could enhance their communication. Although he did not know how best to resolve the tension between [...]	2008-06-04 07:53:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF KDEM ECON TH
08BANGKOK1753	THAILAND CONSIDERS SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND [...] Summary: With over $100 billion in accumulated foreign exchange reserves, Thailand is considering whether to establish a Sovereign Wealth Fund to better invest its excess foreign holdings. Bank of Thailand and Ministry of Finance officials believe they have sufficient funds available to star [...]	2008-06-09 08:59:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD TH
08BANGKOK1778	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: IDENTITY, CULTURE AND RELIGION [...] (SBU)Summary: On May 26 and 27, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff members Jonah Blank and Frank Jannuzi traveled with Poloff to Narathiwat, Pattani, Hat Yai and Songkhla in southernmost Thailand for discussions about the root causes of the insurgency in Thailand's deep south, and the po [...]	2008-06-10 10:43:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
08BANGKOK1833	DIESEL UP, CABBAGE DOWN, THAI PROTESTS ALL AROUND [...] (U) Summary. This week in Thailand, farmers, fishermen, laborers and truckers staged demonstrations around the country to protest high fuel prices and low crop prices. The protests appear neither coordinated nor partisan but rather are a reaction to record high diesel prices and downward pric [...]	2008-06-13 09:04:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ELAB ENRG EPET PGOV SOCI TH
08BANGKOK1897	OPPOSITION PRESSES FOR PM'S RESIGNATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Anti-government protesters, using hard-line rhetoric, are threatening to march on Government House on June 20, a move that is likely to be met by stiff resistance from the police. Meanwhile, the opposition Democrat Party has tried to bring the debate to the Parliament, filing a [...]	2008-06-19 11:16:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TH
08BANGKOK1978	LEADING GENERAL PRAISES SAMAK'S APPROACH TOWARDS [...] (C) Defense Ministry Permanent Secretary General Winai Phattiyakul told the Ambassador on June 25 that Prime Minister Samak appeared unlikely to crack down harshly on anti-government protestors, and, even if Samak were to do so, this would not necessarily prompt military intervention in politi [...]	2008-06-26 09:46:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS MOPS KDEM TH

08BANGKOK198	ALL CLEAR FOR PARLIAMENT TO OPEN, NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Everything appears on track for the opening of Parliament on Monday, January 21. Chart Thai and Motherland parties have formally announced they will join the coalition led by the People's Power Party (PPP). Negotiations over the ministerial portfolios are ongoing; the PPP leade [...]	2008-01-18 11:39:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH

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