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| 00HARARE4999 | NEW TALE OF CORRUPTION IN ZIMBABWE'S ENERGY [...] (C) AMBASSADOR MCDONALD ATTENDED A DINNER SEPTEMBER 7 WITH A VARIETY OF RESIDENT AMBASSADORS AND A FEW ZIMBABWEANS, DURING WHICH GIDEON GONO (PROTECT), MANAGING DIRECTOR OF COMMERCIAL BANK OF ZIMBABWE (CBZ), REPORTED A CREDIBLE STORY ABOUT NEW GOVERNMENT MALFEASANCE IN THE ENERGY SECTOR. BEF [...] |
2000-09-08 11:14:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON SENV ZI SA |
| 00HARARE5397 | ZIMBABWE BANK DIRECTOR PROVIDES SOME HOPE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: DCM AND POLOFF CALLED ON GIDEON GONO, DIRECTOR OF THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF ZIMBABWE (CBZ), SEPTEMBER 25 TO GET AN UPDATE ON ZIMBABWE'S FUEL SITUATION. AS REPORTED REF B, THE CBZ, AND GONO PERSONALLY, HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN KEEPING FUEL FLOWING INTO ZIMBABWE UNDER THE MOST ARDUO [...] |
2000-09-26 14:04:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL PINR ECON SENV ZI SA |
| 00HARARE5602 | MBEKI TO CONVENE MEETING OF EXTERNAL [...] (C) AMBASSADOR REACHED FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER STANISLAUS MUDENGE BY PHONE ON OCTOBER 2 TO FOLLOW UP ON REF A DEMARCHE. MUDENGE HAD BEEN UNAVAILABLE WHEN DEMARCHE WAS DELIVERED TO MFA PERMANENT SECRETARY WILLARD CHIWEWE SEPTEMBER 29 (REF B). AMBASSADOR URGED MUDENGE TO USE ZIMBABWE'S INFLU [...] |
2000-10-03 12:42:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS ZI CG SA |
| 00HARARE6032 | ZIMBABWE VIEWS ON DRC PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) POLOFF SPOKE TO CONGO DESK OFFICER MAXWELL CHIKOROWONDO IN ZIMBABWE'S MFA ON OCTOBER 18 ABOUT ZIMBABWE'S VIEWS ON RECENT EVENTS REGARDING THE DRC. HE STATED THAT THE OCTOBER 14-15 MAPUTO SUMMIT GAVE NEW MOMENTUM TO THE LUSAKA PEACE PROCESS. REAFFIRMING THE KAMPALA DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMEN [...] |
2000-10-25 16:21:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS ZI CG SA |
| 00HARARE6677 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY MEETS WITH ZIMBABWE [...] (C) SUMMARY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY SUSAN E. RICE MET MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) PRESIDENT MORGAN TSVANGIRAI ON NOVEMBER 16. TSVANGIRAI OFFERED FOUR SIPDIS SCENARIOS UNDER WHICH THE CURRENT POLITICAL CRISIS COULD UNFOLD. HE BELIEVES A TRANSITIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT IS THE BEST WAY OUT OF THE [...] |
2000-11-29 13:59:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR ZI SA |
| 00RIYADH3360 | SAUDI ARABIA: 2000 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] THE FOLLOWING RESTATES AND RESPONDS TO QUESTIONS IN REFTEL: A) DESCRIBE THE RESPONSE OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF EACH COUNTRY TO ACTS OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND/OR SIGNIFICANT ACTS OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM DURING 2000, INCLUDING ANY HOST GOVERNMENT PROSECUTIONS RELATING TO TERRORISM. PART [...] |
2000-12-03 08:50:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER SA |
| 01HARARE969 | MEETING WITH LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON MARCH 9, ACTING PRINCIPAL DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MARK BELLAMY HELD DISCUSSIONS WITH MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) PRESIDENT MORGAN TSVANGIRAI ON THE STATE OF ZIMBABWE'S POLITICAL CRISIS SIPDIS AND WHAT CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE THE U.S. COULD PLAY, IF ANY, TO HELP RESOLV [...] |
2001-03-09 15:55:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ZI SA MDC |
| 01RIYADH1771 | THE AL SAUD AND CHALLENGES TO STABILITY [...] (C) AT PRESENT, SAUDI ARABIA ENJOYS AT LEAST SUPERFICIAL STABILITY. THERE IS NO DEBILITATING DISUNITY AMONG SENIOR AL SAUD PRINCES, REGIME CRITICS HAVE BEEN EXILED OR MARGINALIZED ABROAD AND CO-OPTED OR MUZZLED AT HOME, AND A LARGELY APOLITICAL CITIZENRY SHOWS NO INCLINATION TO DEMAND GREATER [...] |
2001-06-27 12:09:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI SA |
| 01RIYADH2627 | TFUS01: SAUDI REACTION TO SEPTEMBER 11 [...] ON THE EVENING OF SEPTEMBER 11, THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT ISSUED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT (UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION): THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA EXPRESSES ITS CONDEMNATION OF THE REGRETTABLE AND INHUMAN EXPLOSIONS AND ATTACKS WHICH OCCURRED AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK AND THE PENTAGON I [...] |
2001-09-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER SA |
| 01RIYADH3968 | SAUDI ARABIA: 2001 ANNUAL TERRORISM [...] FOLLOWING RESPONDS TO QUESTIONS IN REFTEL: A) POST SHOULD HIGHLIGHT SIGNIFICANT ACTIONS TAKEN BY HOST GOVERNMENTS TO SUPPORT THE GLOBAL COALITION, PARTICULARLY ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST AL-QAIDA AND THE TALIBAN. RESPONSE: THE SAUDI ARABIAN GOVERNMENT (SAG) HAS SUPPORTED THE GLOBAL COALITIO [...] |
2001-12-12 13:33:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL SA |
| 02AMMAN2907 | DEMARCHE: IRANIAN AIRCRAFT [...] (S) THE DCM MADE THE POINTS IN REF A ON JUNE 2 TO ALI AL-AYED, THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO FOREIGN MINISTER MUASHER. AFTER REVIEWING THE SUBSTANCE OF THE AMBASSADOR'S DEMARCHE TO THE MINISTER ON MAY 27 (REF B), THE DCM EXPRESSED OUR DEEP CONCERN THAT THE IRANIAN PLANE HAD BEEN ALLOWED TO OVERFLY [...] |
2002-06-03 15:52:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER IR IS LE SA SY |
| 02AMMAN6024 | S/CT COORDINATOR TAYLOR'S OCTOBER 10 MEETING WITH [...] (S/NF) In a cordial meeting October 10 with FonMin Muasher, visiting S/CT Coordinator Francis X. Taylor conveyed the U.S.'s appreciation for Jordan's superb cooperation on the war on terrorism, reiterated strong U.S. interest in stopping Iranian resupply flights to Hizbullah, and said that as [...] |
2002-10-17 04:59:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL SY SA JO MEPP |
| 02KUWAIT5296 | QATAR GAS TO KUWAIT [...] No summary [...] |
2002-12-10 06:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL PGOV ENRG ECON KU SA |
| 02KUWAIT5415 | KUWAIT ACTING OIL MINISTER ON PROJECT KUWAIT, [...] No summary [...] |
2002-12-17 07:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD PREL KU SA QA IR ENRG EINV |
| 02ROME1511 | ITALY ON ZIMBABWE: PEER PRESSURE BEST HOPE FOR [...] (C) MFA'S OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR SOUTHERN AFRICAN AFFAIRS REPLIED TO OUR RECENT DEMARCHE AND LETTER ON ZIMBABWE. THE GOI SHARES THE EU POINT OF VIEW THAT CONDEMNATIONS AND SANCTIONS ARE NECESSARY. HOWEVER, MARINI BELIEVES THAT THEY WILL PROBABLY PROVE INSUFFICIENT TO FORCE CHANGE. THE ROLE [...] |
2002-03-25 15:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ETTC OPDC SA ZI IT SADC |
| 02VATICAN1171 | THE VATICAN'S ""OTHER"" INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST [...] No summary [...] |
2002-03-06 13:35:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | EG IS IT JO LE PREL SA SY VT VTEG |
| 03ABUDHABI1384 | (S) JORDANIAN OIL NEEDS: UAE READY TO [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (S) IN THE COURSE OF A MEETING ON THE AFTERNOON OF 3/23, MFA MINSTATE SHAYKH HAMDAN BIN ZAYID STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN CALLED BY JORDANIAN FM MUASHER THE PREVIOUS EVENING, WHO HAD TOLD HIM THAT IRAQ HAD CUT ITS OIL P [...] |
2003-03-23 13:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL EPET EAID PGOV JO SA KU TC |
| 03ABUDHABI2013 | IRAQI SUNNI IMAM AL-KUBAYSI STIRS [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) Ahmed Al-Kubaysi the Iraqi Sunni Imam who delivered a fiery sermon in Baghdad on April 18, continues to be a source of controversy even in the UAE, his adopted land. We received two very different takes on [...] |
2003-04-28 12:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL MOPS EAID SA IZ TC |
| 03ABUDHABI2234 | AS REGIONAL POWER CENTER SHIFTS, UAE [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) During a May 7 meeting with the Ambassador, MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid Al-Nahyan shared the substance of a spat he had with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Apparently, Abdullah had told an Arab expat (well [...] |
2003-05-07 13:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC GCC SA TC |
| 03ABUDHABI2641 | UAE TO SUPPORT JORDAN OIL NEEDS FOR [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid contacted the Ambassador on June 2 to convey information about the UAEG's ongoing assistance to Jordan and Morocco. With regard to Jordan, Hamdan reported that the UAE has agreed t [...] |
2003-06-03 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET EAID PGOV JO MO SA KU TC |
| 03ABUDHABI2942 | UAE NO LONGER REPRESENTS LIBYAN INTERESTS [...] No summary [...] |
2003-06-18 11:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AMGT OFDP LY SA TC |
| 03ABUDHABI4764 | UAE, OMAN FORMALIZE BORDER PACT [...] (U) Summary: The historical dispute between the UAE and Oman over their common international border appears to be over. On October 11, the two neighbors exchanged authenticated documents on the agreement reached on the common border from east of Al Aqeedat to Al Daar in the north on the Arabi [...] |
2003-10-27 11:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR QA SA IR MU TC |
| 03AMMAN1264 | FONMIN MUASHER: ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT AVOIDS A SPLIT [...] (S) Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher told Ambassador and A/DCM March 2 that he was "perplexed" by Egyptian behavior in calling for an extraordinary summit, then not injecting any new content or energy. He said the Egyptians were totally passive. The Sharm al-Sheikh Summit, he said, had the [...] |
2003-03-03 15:28:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL AL SA EG IZ JO |
| 03AMMAN3512 | JORDAN'S ENERGY MINISTER CONFIRMS CONTINUATION OF [...] (sbu) Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Mohammed Batayneh confirmed on June 12 press reports that the GOJ had reached agreement with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE on a 3-month extension to the deal reached prior to the war to supply Jordan with concessional oil. Batayneh said the [...] |
2003-06-15 06:33:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ETRD PREL KU SA JO TC |
| 03AMMAN7115 | MUASHER SAYS PRINCE SAUD'S ATTENDANCE IN DAMASCUS [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 5 below. 2. (C) Ambassador covered ref points on the November 1-2 meeting of foreign ministers in Damascus October 31 with Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher. Ambassador stressed the need to ensure that the SARG invites an Iraqi Governing Council ( [...] |
2003-10-31 13:16:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY SA KU JO IQ |
| 03AMMAN861 | SAUDIS TELL KING ABDULLAH THEY WILL JOIN OIL DEAL; [...] (S) King Abdullah told the Ambassador and PolCouns February 5 that Saudi CP Abdullah confirmed to him during his February 4 visit to Saudi Arabia that the Saudis are prepared to provide Jordan with oil in the event of a cutoff in supplies from Iraq. The King said the oil would come through [...] |
2003-02-06 16:42:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL EPET MARR IZ EAID SA KU JO UA |
| 03ANKARA6779 | SYRIA'S IRAQ MEETING: PART OF A PROCESS [...] (C) MFA MidEast DDG Safak Gokturk told polmilcouns October 30 that the meeting of foreign ministers from Iraq's neighbors plus Egypt in Damascus this weekend will be the fourth of its kind since January when the GOT convoked ministers in Istanbul, which they dubbed the "Regional Initiative." [...] |
2003-10-30 16:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KU SY IZ TU IR EG JO SA |
| 03ANKARA6923 | IRAQ: TURKISH READOUT OF DAMASCUS MEETING: SAUDIS, [...] (C) POLMILCOUNS called on MFA Deputy DG for Middle East Safak Gokturk Nov. 5 for a readout of the Nov. 1-2 Damascus meeting on Iraq. Gokturk, who had been at the Damascus meeting, said Turkey worked hard to make the original Syrian draft communique moderate and balanced, and found the meeting [...] |
2003-11-05 16:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU SY IZ TU IR EG JO SA |
| 03BEIRUT5454 | LEBANON: ISLAMIC REFORM: THE BEGINNING OF A [...] (C) Summary. Meeting in Beirut to address the misuse of Islamic endowments by extremist groups, the Executive Council of the Ministers of Islamic Endowments rejected any link between Islam and terrorism, denouncing terrorists as "infidels." Prime Minister Hariri called for reforming Islamic [...] |
2003-12-23 10:22:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KISL KIRF SOCI EFIN LE SA |
| 03HARARE1712 | ZIMBABWE WAFFLING ON EFFORT TO CONTROL FOOD RELIEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings with House International Relations Committee Africa Subcommittee staffer Malik Chaka August 20-21, Minister for Special Affairs (and ZANU-PF Party Chairman) John Nkomo and Minister of Public Service, Labor and Social Services July Moyo emphasized the government's pr [...] |
2003-08-28 15:01:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SA ZI |
| 03HARARE2443 | MBEKI VISIT REKINDLES TALKS ON TALKS [...] (C) MDC Secretary for Presidential Affairs Gandi Mudzingwa on December 19 briefed poloff on South African President Mbeki's 20-minute December 18 meeting with MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai and Secretary General Welshman Ncube. According to Mudzingwa, Mbeki told the party leaders at the end [...] |
2003-12-19 09:12:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA ZI |
| 03JEDDAH828 | TWO SAUDI PROFESSIONALS: BET ON THE PEOPLE, NOT [...] (C) ON APRIL 2, POLOFF MET WITH A LOCAL SAUDI LAWYER, DR. BASIM ALIM (STRICTLY PROTECT), TO DISCUSS HIS OPEN LETTER TO CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH CALLING FOR REFORM. A "SELF-MADE" LAWYER, ALIM WAS CHOSEN IN DECEMBER 2002 TO REPRESENT SEVERAL SAUDI CHARITIES IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 LAWSUIT AND ADMITS T [...] |
2003-04-14 13:18:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI KISL SA |
| 03KUWAIT1063 | KUWAIT REQUESTS IMMEDIATE U.S. ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 5. 2. (C) Summary: On March 24, the GOK requested immediate USG assistance in facilitating an oil swap with Saudi Arabia, thereby providing Jordan with badly needed crude oil. End Summary. 3. (C) During their March 24 meeting, Kuwaiti MinS [...] |
2003-03-24 18:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EPET KU SA JO |
| 03KUWAIT1153 | TFIZ01 - KUWAITI OIL FOR JORDAN [...] (S) Ambassador spoke with Kuwaiti Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah afternoon of Thursday, March 27 on the status of Kuwait's agreement to provide Jordan with 25,000 barrels of oil per day (BPD) in light of the loss of Iraqi oil supplies. Ambassador [...] |
2003-03-30 07:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EPET EAID PREL KU SA JO |
| 03KUWAIT1250 | (U) GOK TO TAKE ITS CASE ON THE ROAD [...] (C) Summary: During their April 2 meeting, the Ambassador and MinState for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah discussed the progress of the war and Dr. Mohammed,s upcoming trip to key UNSC member states. The Minister said the focus of his visits would be to discuss an array of issues surr [...] |
2003-04-05 11:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ SY SA |
| 03KUWAIT3409 | KUWAIT ON SUPPORT FOR POLISH STABILIZATION FORCES [...] (S) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah during their July 28 meeting (other topics septel). The FM said Kuwait had already agreed in principle to supporting Polish forces, as long as the burden was also shared by other nations. He added that Pri [...] |
2003-07-29 06:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | MARR MASS PREL KU QA BA SA MU TC |
| 03KUWAIT3410 | DEMARCHE ON BORDER CONTROL DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2003-07-29 06:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | MARR MASS PREL KU SA JO |
| 03KUWAIT4680 | (C) GOK SEES STRONG SAUDI COMMITMENT AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOK assesses that key Saudi leaders Prince Sultan and Prince Nayif have become strongly committed against terrorism since the May 12 Riyadh attacks. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) NEA PDAS Larocco called on Shaykh Sabah al-Khalid al-Hamad al-Sabah, Chairman of Kuwait's National Security Bur [...] |
2003-10-14 12:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA KU |
| 03KUWAIT4682 | (C) IRAQ: GOK SAYS SAUDIS RELUCTANT TO COMMIT [...] (S) SUMMARY: GOK insider confides that Saudi Arabia is reluctant to commit specific funding for Iraq at the Madrid conference. Kuwaiti PM and FM intend to revisit the issue with Saudi counterparts on the margins of the OIC Summit. GOK urges USG to push the Saudis hard in the next few days, preferab [...] |
2003-10-14 12:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL EAID IZ SA KU |
| 03KUWAIT4960 | SYRIA TO CONVENE FM'S ON IRAQ [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) MFA Undersecretary, Ambassador Khaled Al-Jarallah told the Ambassador during an October 28 telephone conversation that Syria has invited Foreign Ministers from states bordering Iraq to a meeting in Damascus on November 1 to discuss Iraq. Ja [...] |
2003-10-28 12:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU SY IZ TU IR EG JO SA |
| 03KUWAIT4988 | (C) MORE ON SYRIA'S IRAQ MEETING [...] (C) After we sent ref A, MFA Undersecretary Ambassador Khaled Al-Jarallah told the Ambassador that FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah had consulted with his Saudi, Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts. They had agreed that Saudi FM Prince Saud al-Feisal would call Syrian FM Sharaa and press him to invi [...] |
2003-10-29 14:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU SY IZ TU IR EG JO SA |
| 03KUWAIT5129 | (C) SAYED BAHR AL-OLOUM TELLS AMBASSADOR IRAQIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: IGC member Sayed Mohammed Bahr al-Oloum told the Ambassador November 5 that our success in Iraq is very important to him, but that it requires changing policy so as to give the impression that Iraqis are ruling themselves, with the Coalition providing strong but discreet support from " [...] |
2003-11-10 05:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ IR SA SY KU |
| 03KUWAIT5209 | GCC CONFORMITY CERTIFICATION SCHEME FOR COUNTRIES [...] No summary [...] |
2003-11-17 05:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD MU QA BA SA KU WTRO GCC USTR TC |
| 03KUWAIT5342 | (C) FORMER GCC SECGEN OPTIMISTIC FOR THE REGION [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs met with senior Adviser to the Prime Minister and former GCC Secretary General Abdullah Bishara on November 19. After sharing details of Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed's domestic agenda (septel), Bishara offered an upbeat view on prospects for the region, based on the US [...] |
2003-11-22 11:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KU IZ IR SA EG SY |
| 03KUWAIT5756 | (C) GOK STILL AWAITING QATARI GAS; UNLIKELY TO [...] (C) Summary: Despite increased publicity surrounding a possible Kuwaiti-Iranian natural gas deal, the GOK is unlikely to conclude an agreement with Iran, according to a well-placed Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) official. Rather, Kuwait is betting that Qatar will eventually serve as its prima [...] |
2003-12-20 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ETRD PREL KU SA QA IR |
| 03KUWAIT85 | (S/NF) KUWAIT OKAYS U-2 OVERFLIGHT OF IRAQ IN [...] No summary [...] |
2003-01-12 15:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MOPS PBTS PREL CY IZ KU SA TU UK TC |
| 03RIYADH5821 | RIYADH GOVERNOR ON ISLAMIC EXTREMISM AND REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: An exceptionally cordial and frank Riyadh Governor Prince Salman told the Ambassador on September 16 that Muslim fanatics were damaging the image of Islam and Saudi Arabia and engendering hatred amongst peoples. He acknowledged that preachers who taught hatred of others bore so [...] |
2003-09-16 13:36:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KISL MEPP KPAL SA IZ |
| 03ROME1499 | THE DEPARTURE OF THE ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO RIYADH [...] (C) POL OFF INQUIRED OF LUIGI MACCOTTA, THE MFA'S OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR THE GULF STATES, ABOUT THE "PREMATURE" DEPARTURE (REF A) OF THE ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO SAUDI ARABIA, TORQUATO CARDILLI, AND HIS REPLACEMENT BY ARMANDO SANGUINI (BIO TO FOLLOW SEPTEL.) MACCOTTA, VERY CANDID IN HIS RESPONSE [...] |
2003-04-08 15:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR SA IT ITALIAN POLITICS |
| 03ROME5694 | ITALY: 2004 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] (U) The following is Rome's contribution to the 2004 burdensharing report to Congress. For the purpose of this cable, US. dollar amounts are calculated at the exchange rate of USD 1 = Euro .90 except when noted. Embassy point of contact for this report is Pol-Mil Officer Susanne Rose, tel: [...] |
2003-12-23 11:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | JA KS KU MCAP PREL SA US MARR IT QU TC NATO |
| 03SANAA1256 | FBI DIRECTOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT SALEH, MINISTER [...] (S/NF) Begin summary: FBI Director Mueller met with President Saleh on Monday, June 2 during a brief visit to Aden. Mueller and his delegation also met with Minister of Interior Rashad Alimi and head of the Political Security Organization (PSO) General Ghaleb Gamish. Issues discussed in t [...] |
2003-06-04 20:27:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PREL PGOV KJUS IZ SA YM COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN |
| 03SANAA1451 | MINISTER OF INTERIOR ON YEMEN-SAUDI SECURITY [...] (C) Begin summary: On June 21, Charge met with Minister of Interior Alimi to discuss recent developments in Yemen-Saudi border security, Red Sea counter-terrorism cooperation, press reports of Yemeni terrorist arrested in Saudi Arabia, and other issues. The Charge was accompanied by RSO an [...] |
2003-06-23 15:04:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PTER PGOV SA YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 03SANAA2463 | NEA A/S BURNS OCTOBER 4 MEETING WITH SALEH: CT [...] (S/NF) Summary: In a 10/4 meeting with President Saleh, NEA A/S Burns welcomed U.S.-Yemeni CT cooperation and supported U.S. assistance for Yemen's security and development. Saleh briefed on expanding Saudi-Yemeni CT cooperation, which he characterized as better than ever before, despite (acc [...] |
2003-10-08 06:46:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PREL PTER AMGT EAID PARM MCAP KPAL SA IZ YM ICC DPRK COUNTER TERRORISM ECON COM |
| 03SANAA2476 | NEA A/S BURNS' 10/4/03 MEETING WITH FM QIRBI: CT [...] (C) Summary: During a 10/4/03 call on FM Qirbi, NEA A/S Burns reviewed U.S.-Yemeni CT cooperation and focused on U.S. development assistance. Burns stressed the need for Yemen to pursue domestic reforms as the U.S. works to increase assistance, e.g. via MEPI and, if Yemen qualifies, the MCA. [...] |
2003-10-10 08:25:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AMGT EAID PARM MCAP SA YM IZ ICC COUNTER TERRORISM DEMOCRATIC REFORM ECON COM |
| 03STATE23994 | TERRORIST FINANCING - UPDATED NONPAPER ON AL [...] (S) THIS CABLE REPLACES THE EARLIER VERSION OF THE NON- PAPER SENT OUT IN REFTEL. PLEASE DISCARD EARLIER VERSION. CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST CONVEYED BY NSC STAFF, ARE THE FOLLOWING: REFERENCE TO U.S. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF U.S. BRANCH HAS BEEN DELETED AND DELETIO [...] |
2003-01-28 02:43:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PTER EFIN ECON PREL SA IS JO |
| 04ABUDHABI1989 | UAE HAS UNFINISHED BUSINESS OVER ITS BORDER [...] (S) Summary: Thirty years after signing an agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over their common border, the UAE Government still views three issues as unsettled and needing discussion: exploitation of the Zarrarah/Shaybah oil field; the maritime border between Saudi Arabia and the UAE [...] |
2004-06-16 11:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL SA TC |
| 04ABUDHABI2006 | UAE CONDEMNS MURDER OF PAUL JOHNSON, PRAISES [...] (C) UAE President Shaykh Zayed and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Shaykh Khalifa have sent messages of condolence to President Bush and to the family of Paul Johnson in the wake of Johnson's murder by terrorists. The UAE leadership also sent cables to the Saudi leadership praising the Saudi security [...] |
2004-06-19 11:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SA TC |
| 04ABUDHABI2194 | DEPUTY CENTCOM COMMANDER DISCUSSES REGIONAL SITUATION WITH UAE ARMED FORCES DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF [...] No summary [...] |
2004-07-04 10:02:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | IZ MARR MASS MOPS PK PREL SA TC YM |
| 04ABUDHABI2272 | A trickle, but no rush of people and capital [...] (C) Summary: Terror attacks and insecurity have prompted a small number of expatriates to leave Saudi Arabia and relocate to the United Arab Emirates, according to business, government, and diplomatic contacts, as well as press reports. The limited exodus concerns individuals, not entire firm [...] |
2004-07-07 13:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EINV SA TC |
| 04ABUDHABI3210 | LOCAL VIEWS ON PROSPECTS FOR UAE [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Michele J. Sison for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) This message was jointly drafted by Embassy Abu Dhabi and ConGen Dubai. 3. (C) SUMMARY: The slow but steady regional trend toward democratization has triggered some, albeit limited, discussion in Emirati c [...] |
2004-09-16 06:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN KDEM KMPI TC SA |
| 04ABUDHABI4332 | ABU DHABI POLICE COLLEGE HOSTS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Summary: The Abu Dhabi Police Officers, Training Institute, in coordination with the Police Research and Studies Center and the Ministry of Interior (MOI), held a training symposium entitled &Police and Human Rights8 November 27-28. Seven speakers from different branches of the MOI, Interpol, [...] |
2004-11-30 12:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PREL SA TC |
| 04ABUDHABI4411 | CENTCOM CDR VISITS UAE [...] (C) Summary: During his November 28-30 visit to UAE, Commander USCENTCOM General Abizaid met Abu Dhabi Crown Prince/UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) and Dubai Crown Prince/UAE MinDef Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid (MbR); toured Jebel Ali port and Al Dhafra and Minhad Air Ba [...] |
2004-12-06 10:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR AF IR IZ SA SY TC |
| 04AMMAN3488 | FREE SAUDI OIL FOR ANOTHER YEAR! OR MAYBE NOT... [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOJ announced yesterday that Saudi Arabia will provide Jordan with free oil for another year. Unfortunately, this public announcement may well endanger Jordan's informal accord with the publicity-shy Saudis. If the oil deal falls through, Jordan still faces a bleak budgetary [...] |
2004-05-06 19:44:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON EFIN JO SA |
| 04AMMAN3956 | U/S LARSON MEETING WITH AFGHAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN [...] (SBU) U/S Larson met with Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah on the margins of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Saturday, May 15. Larson asked Abdullah to review the latest draft of the G-8 plan of support for reform. After handing over a copy, Larson outlined the scope of the initiati [...] |
2004-05-19 13:56:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EINV AF SA |
| 04AMMAN401 | KING ABDULLAH ON IRAQ, MEPP, SAUDI ARABIA WITH [...] (C) King Abdullah addressed his concerns on Iraq, the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and Saudi Arabia in a meeting with Staffdel Nordquist on January 13. The King voiced concerns over the U.S. timetable in Iraq, in-fighting in the Palestinian Prime Ministry, and extremists in Saudi Arabia. [...] |
2004-01-19 17:21:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL IS SA IZ JO |
| 04AMMAN407 | FM MUASHER SAYS ISRAELI WALL IS KILLING PROSPECTS [...] (C) FM Muasher told a Senate staff delegation on January 15 that the Israeli separation barrier - "the wall" - is killing prospects for a two-state solution, and that he expects negative movement in the peace process this year. He fears a future partitioning of Iraq if any arrangement is made [...] |
2004-01-19 17:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL IS IZ SY IR SA JO MEPP |
| 04AMMAN459 | PM FAYEZ ON RELATIONS WITH GULF, ISRAEL, IRAQ [...] (C) PM Fayez told the Ambassador January 19 that he did not receive a promise from Kuwait to continue its supply of free oil to Jordan on his recent trip there, but that he would keep "chipping away." It was more important to continue the larger Saudi supply, and he hoped his family connect [...] |
2004-01-20 16:00:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL ECON EAID KU IS SA JO |
| 04AMMAN469 | KING COVERS SYRIA, BORDER ISSUES, SECURITY [...] (S) King Abdullah told visiting Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) January 11 that increasingly sophisticated weapons continue to be smuggled across the Syrian border. He expressed concern over the security of his border with Saudi Arabia as well as Saudi stability, hoping that Saudi internal efforts [...] |
2004-01-21 07:10:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL PTER IZ SA SY JO |
| 04AMMAN581 | MUASHER ON ARAB INITIATIVE, TUNIS SUMMIT, [...] (S) FonMin Muasher told the Ambassador that he is trying to revive the Arab initiative for the upcoming Arab summit in Tunis and wants to add an element of public diplomacy outreach to Israelis, but has found little interest from the Saudis or Egyptians in moving in this direction. He plans [...] |
2004-01-22 15:44:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL KPAL IS EG SA JO |
| 04AMMAN5989 | JORDAN'S CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON ARAB BANK, [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Jordan's Central Bank Governor Touqan asserted that the legal suit filed against Jordan's Arab Bank in New York hinges on payment orders issued by Saudi authorities through Arab Bank to beneficiaries in the West Bank. Although some of these beneficiaries may inadvertently b [...] |
2004-07-18 04:38:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER JO IZ SA IS |
| 04AMMAN665 | MUASHER ASKS FOR HELP WITH THE SAUDIS ON OIL [...] (C) Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher told the Ambassador and PolCouns January 21 that neither Kuwait nor the UAE had yet provided all the free oil they had promised to Jordan in the aftermath of the Iraq war. Kuwait, he asserted, had committed to providing 25,000 bpd for six months, and Jorda [...] |
2004-01-27 13:05:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON PREL KU SA JO TC |
| 04AMMAN7179 | IRAQ, PEACE PROCESS, SYRIA DOMINATE LANTOS VISIT [...] (C) During separate meetings with King Abdullah, GID Director General Sa'ad Kheir, and Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher, in Amman on August 19, Congressman Tom Lantos focused on the positive in Jordan and criticized leaders from neighboring Arab countries. The Jordanians reiterated their suppor [...] |
2004-08-26 05:55:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ SA SY JO |
| 04ANKARA3576 | TERRORIST FINANCE: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 2. 2. (S) On 23 June, Pol Counselor delivered Ref demarche to MFA DDG Safak Gokturk. Gokturk described the inquiry as "serious" and said that he would pursue it. On 24 June, Econoff delivered same demarche to Ahmet Arda, MFA Department Head, Offi [...] |
2004-06-24 14:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER SA TU |
| 04ANKARA3577 | GOT CONDEMNATION OF MURDER OF PAUL JOHNSON [...] No summary [...] |
2004-06-24 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER ASEC CASC SA TU |
| 04DJIBOUTI1572 | DISCUSSING SECURITY IN DJIBOUTI: OUR RESPONSE TO [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-09 08:32:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC CMGT CASC AMGT APER SA ZP ZR DJ |
| 04DJIBOUTI1617 | GUELLEH UNLIKELY TO TRAVEL TO SUDAN; DJIBOUTI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Ragsdale delivered reftel (B) demarche on December 22 to Minister of Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf. Youssouf told the Ambassador that the meeting in Khartoum on December 28 is a regularly scheduled one among the self-proclaimed "a [...] |
2004-12-22 12:17:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | DJ ODIP PREL SA SO SU YM |
| 04DJIBOUTI1618 | GUELLEH WILL NOT TRAVEL TO SUDAN DESPITE SALEH'S [...] (C) Minister of Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, confirmed today that Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh will not/not travel to Sudan at the end of the month to attend the axis meeting of Ethiopia, Sudan and Yemen (see reftel A). Youssouf told Ambass [...] |
2004-12-23 10:25:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | DJ ODIP PREL SA SO SU YM |
| 04DJIBOUTI340 | INVESTMENT IN DJIBOUTI DOMINATED BY ARAB WORLD [...] (U) SUMMARY: President's Advisor on Investment, Fahmi Ahmed Al-Hag, says Djiboutians favor Arab development funds over western funds because of the simplicity of their financing procedures. Al-Hag detailed the current investments to Djibouti from the Arab world. He twice commented that both [...] |
2004-03-09 14:12:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV PREL EAID ENRG EWWT SENV SOCI ABLD SA KU DJ TC |
| 04DJIBOUTI383 | CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT SEES U.S. BUSINESS [...] (U) Summary: Said Omar, President of Djibouti's Chamber of Commerce, advises U.S. business to consider investment in Djibouti by a change in mindset. He implored U.S. companies to think "can-do," to think about "regional" possibilities, to consider "Doraleh's potential," and to see the potenti [...] |
2004-03-14 14:15:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL BEXP DJ EAGR ECON EIND SA |
| 04DJIBOUTI492 | SAUDI INVESTOR DEVELOPING HARAMOUS REGION [...] (U) PolOff, Econ/Comm Assistant and OBO representative met April 4 with Mohammed M. Ali Yamani, Managing Director of Maya Trading Company in Jeddah and Fahmi Ahmed Al-Hag, President Guelleh's Advisor on Investment. Yamani recently signed a contract with the Government of Djibouti, including f [...] |
2004-04-05 13:10:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AMGT ABLD ECON ETRD EINV DJ SA |
| 04DJIBOUTI578 | MINISTER OF AWQAF AND ISLAMIC AFFAIRS: RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Mogueh Samatar Dirir described to Ambassador, during her courtesy call April 7, the role of his ministry as one of having authority over all Islamic issues affecting Djibouti. These issues include the manner in which mosques and religious schools shou [...] |
2004-04-18 14:20:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI SA DJ |
| 04HARARE128 | DAILY NEWS BACK ON STREETS [...] (U) High Court Judge Tendai Uchena on January 21 again ordered the police to vacate the premises of The Daily News (TDN) following an admission in court by the Attorney General's office that there was no legal basis for police occupation of the premises. After receiving a call on January 21 [...] |
2004-01-22 14:03:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO PREL SA ZI |
| 04HARARE188 | MDC UPDATE ON PROGRESS IN TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MDC Secretary-General Welshman Ncube on January 30 told the Ambassador that he expected to engage his ruling party interlocutor, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, soon on key issues relating to prospective talks. A new electoral law would address many issues, while the fate of [...] |
2004-02-03 04:37:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SA ZI MDC |
| 04KATHMANDU1201 | STATE DEPT. 2004 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...] |
2004-06-28 07:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB EAID SMIG ASEC PREF KCRM KWMN KFRD CASC NP SA PPD |
| 04KUWAIT1500 | (S) DNSA TOWNSEND PRESSES GOK TO DO MORE AGAINST [...] (S) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: DNSA Townsend met with the Prime Minister May 4, delivered the President's letter to the Amir, and pressed for more aggressive action against extremists. The PM instructed his security services to cooperate strongly with the U.S., but was clearly focused on ma [...] |
2004-05-12 10:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL MARR ASEC IZ SY SA IR KU |
| 04KUWAIT1933 | KUWAIT CONDEMNS MURDER OF AMCIT PAUL JOHNSON [...] The GOK, National Assembly, and Muslim religious leaders have condemned the Johnson murder and expressed support for Saudi actions against terrorists in the Kingdom. On June 19, Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed publicly condemned the murder as a terrorist act and stressed that those who "k [...] |
2004-06-21 12:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER ASEC CASC SA KU |
| 04KUWAIT4411 | KUWAITI FM ON BAHRAIN FTA AND THE GCC SUMMIT [...] (C) During a December 18 meeting on another topic, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah updated Ambassador LeBaron and British Ambassador Christopher Wilton on the GCC ministerial gathering earlier this month. As reported by others, Saudi FM Saud Al-Faisal's obje [...] |
2004-12-19 13:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON KU SA BA |
| 04KUWAIT786 | (SBU) KUWAIT AND IRAQ BEGIN ADDRESSING BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Energy Ministry Undersecretary Al-Own told USG officials that Kuwait and Iraq have begun direct discussion of bilateral energy issues through the creation of a technical committee, but he remains concerned that Iraq is lacking well-organized plans for the sector. (See septel o [...] |
2004-03-09 04:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD EINV KU IZ SA QA IR |
| 04KUWAIT928 | (C) KUWAIT PETROLEUM COMPANY: UNCOMPROMISING ON [...] (SBU) Summary. On 9 March Embassy and US Military officials from OMC-K and the 143rd Transportation Unit met with Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) Deputy Chairman Nader Sultan to discuss the current status of the Iraq humanitarian fuel contract and the US military's future land needs at the po [...] |
2004-03-22 11:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD EINV EWWT PREL MARR KU IZ SA QA IR |
| 04MANAMA1553 | SECRETARY OF DEFENSE OCTOBER 9, 2004 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: SecDef met with Bahrain King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa on October 09, 2004, in Bahrain. The King made the following points: (1) The ultimate responsibility for the security of Iraq rests with the Iraqis, not the U.S. (2) Reaffirmed Bahrain's commitment to support the U.S. both [...] |
2004-10-12 12:53:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV BA SA IZ |
| 04MANAMA1882 | DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal December 5 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. DNSA Hadley encouraged Saud to reach out to Iraqi Sunnis to participate in the January 30 elections. The Foreign Mini [...] |
2004-12-15 12:33:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KDEM PGOV SA IR SY IZ |
| 04MANAMA1889 | DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Yemeni Interior Minister Rashed Mohammed Al Alimi December 5 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Al Alimi thanked the U.S. for its counter terrorism assistance and expressed his desire to increase cooper [...] |
2004-12-15 12:39:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR ASEC YM SA BA |
| 04MAPUTO1658 | NEW MOZAMBICAN AIRLINE RAISES SAFETY AND SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: In August 2004, Air Corridor became Mozambique's first private commercial airline to operate nationwide, breaking the monopoly that the government-owned Linhas Aereas de Mocambique (LAM) had maintained since independence. Air Corridor has injected much-needed competition in Moza [...] |
2004-12-29 15:06:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR SNAR KCRM MZ SA |
| 04MUSCAT2146 | OMAN DENOUNCES ATTACK ON U.S. CONSULATE IN JEDDAH [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement December 7 to the Oman News Agency (ONA) in reaction to the December 6 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate General in Jeddah. Per Omani standard practice, the only available version of the MFA statement is that carried by ONA. Begin text: [...] |
2004-12-08 14:07:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPRC PTER SA MU |
| 04RIYADH5103 | TERRORIST FINANCING: AL-RAJHI BANK [...] (S) SUMMARY: At the end of the meeting between Treasury A/S Zarate and Ali Al-Gaith, Director of Banking Inspection, Insurance and Financial Leasing at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) on September 15, Al-Gaith discussed Al-Rajhi Bank and the recent information forwarded to the SAG via [...] |
2004-09-27 08:57:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL SA |
| 04RIYADH6449 | SAUDI ARABIA: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) Per reftel, post submits the following language for use in the 2004 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report. Embassy POC for this report is Julie Eadeh (eadehja@state.gov). 2. (U) During the year, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continued to support the global war on terror. Al Qai'da, in the [...] |
2004-12-19 10:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL SA |
| 04SANAA414 | BEHIND THE SCENES ON YEMEN-SAUDI BORDER COOPERATION [...] (s) Summary: President Saleh told CDA on February 19 that DCI George Tenent played a major role in facilitating the new border agreement between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Both countries agreed to halt new construction and begin joint Ministry of Interior patrols. A resolution was a political n [...] |
2004-02-24 09:54:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PREL PTER ASEC PBTS SA YM COUNTER TERRORISM ECON COM |
| 04SANAA724 | IMPROVED YEMEN-SAUDI COOPERATION, BUT STILL NO [...] (c) Summary: Saudi Poloff al-Mqhm told Pol/Econ Chief on 3/27 that there is strong interest in Saudi-Yemen cooperation, including projected committee meetings to develop a joint strategy for border security. He confirmed that because of concerns over smuggling, the SAG opted to construct a " [...] |
2004-03-31 13:03:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ASEC PBTS SA YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 04STATE251768 | JOINT EXAMINATION OF AL RAJHI BANK THROUGH THE [...] (S) Summary and action request. This is an urgent action cable. Please pass the proposed terms of reference for the joint examination of the Al Rajhi Bank through the Joint Terrorist Financing Task Force to appropriate Saudi officials at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the Ministry of Finan [...] |
2004-11-25 02:21:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | EFIN PTER PREL KTFN SA |
| 04THEHAGUE100 | DUTCH: NO EU DISCUSSION YET ON CSW AFGHAN [...] Kabul minimize considered. 2. According to Dutch MFA contacts, the EU has not/not made a decision yet to propose and/or support a UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) resolution on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan, nor has it begun fruitful discussions on the issue. P [...] |
2004-01-16 09:21:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM KWMN SA NL UN CSW |
| 04THEHAGUE771 | TERRORIST FINANCE: AL-HARAMAIN ACTIVITIES IN THE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Al Haramain does operate in the Netherlands under the name "Stichting Al Haramain Humanitarian Aid," located at Jan Hanzenstraat 114, 1053SV Amsterdam, telephone number 020-618-2645. Embassy/ROAL have no substantive information indicating that the Dutch Al-Haramain chapter sup [...] |
2004-03-24 12:31:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC PTER SA NL |
| 05ABIDJAN487 | COTE D'IVOIRE -- OUTSIDE LEGAL EXPERTS REVIEW [...] (C) Summary. A panel of legal experts from Burundi and Rwanda, led by the Advisor to South African President Thabo Mbeki, has issued an analysis of the Linas-Marcoussis legislation, and determined that many of the bills are not in compliance with either the letter or spirit of the Linas-Marc [...] |
2005-03-25 08:53:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO IV SA |
| 05ABUDHABI1712 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON U.S. - UAE BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: On April 16, Ambassador called on long-time presidential advisor Mohammed Habroush Al-Suwaidi to review our bilateral agenda (FTA, MLAT, and Camel Jockey Trafficking). On FTA, Al-Suwaidi opined that there was no reason the process would not move ahead. The concerns of some busin [...] |
2005-04-17 11:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET PHUM ELAB ETRD SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2178 | MBZ ON IRAQ, IRAN, PAKISTAN [...] (U) Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed,s weekly Sunday "VIP Majlis" provided an excellent opportunity for a visiting National Defense University delegation to observe first-hand the UAEG,s informal consultative process. MbZ, brothers MinState Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan and Interior [...] |
2005-05-16 09:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL MASS PHUM ELAB IR IZ XF SA PK FR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2180 | MFA UNDER SECRETARY MEETS NDU DELEGATION [...] (C) Summary: MFA Under Secretary Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi met May 14 with Ambassador and a visiting delegation from the National Defense University's (NDU) National War College and reviewed the UAE's security concerns, and the political reform trends that are under way in the region. Al Noaim [...] |
2005-05-16 09:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KDEM PGOV IZ IR SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2816 | UAE REQUESTS PARTICIPATION IN NATO'S ICI [...] (C) The UAEG on June 14 formally notified the NATO SecGen of its interest in participating in NATO's Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI). NATO's approval of the request would mean the UAE would join Gulf neighbors Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar as ICI partners. Assuming NATO brings the UAE into [...] |
2005-06-21 15:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PTER SA IR AF IZ NATO TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2946 | PDAS CHENEY CONSULTS WITH SHEIKH HAMDAN ON KSA, [...] (S) Summary: NEA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Cheney consulted with Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) on June 26 on debt relief for Iraq, Saudi Arabia, political reform, assistance for the Palestinians, and free trade. With respe [...] |
2005-07-01 09:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PGOV ETRD KMPI KPAL SA WE GZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2975 | CENTCOM DEPUTY COMMANDER GENERAL SMITH VISITS UAE [...] (C) Summary: CENTCOM Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Smith met July 2 with UAE Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Mohammed Al Kaabi and UAE Air Force and Air Defense Commander Staff Pilot Major General Khaled Al Buainnan. Smith briefed Al Kaabi on international troop deploym [...] |
2005-07-05 03:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MASS AF IZ IR PK SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3244 | GENERAL ABIZAID MEETING WITH ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE [...] (C) Summary: CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid met July 20 with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ). Abizaid praised the UAEG for its steadfast determination to wage a public campaign against extremist i [...] |
2005-07-25 07:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MASS PREL IZ AF PK IR SY SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3272 | SHEIKH ABDULLAH ON SYRIA, GAZA, SAUDI BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY. On July 24, UAE Minister of Information Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan and Ambassador discussed UAE attention to halting the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq; Abdullah's planned travel to Damascus to meet with Syrian President Bashar Al Asad; Gaza disengagement and the UAE [...] |
2005-07-26 09:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC PHUM PINR EAID SY IZ GZ SA |
| 05ABUDHABI3851 | WHAT'S BEHIND THE UAE-SAUDI BORDER DISPUTE [...] This is an Action Request. Please see para. 15 2. (C) Summary: In response to the rising volume of private and public sniping between the UAE and Saudi Arabian governments over the status and meaning of their 1974 Agreement on the Delimitation of Boundaries (refs), Embassies Abu Dhabi and [...] |
2005-09-10 15:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PBTS EPET PGOV ETRD SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4025 | MINSTATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS HAMDAN ON IRAQ, SAUDI [...] (U) Summary. Ambassador called on Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed al Nahyan (HbZ) September 19 to thank the UAE for its $100 million in Hurricane Katrina assistance and to discuss Iraq, the UAE-Saudi border, UAE assistance to the Palestinians, and possible addi [...] |
2005-09-22 15:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SA JO TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4045 | MBZ ON IRAQ, EXTREMISM, PALESTINIANS, SAUDIS [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) told Ambassador and a visiting delegation led by retired U.S. four-star generals over dinner September 20 that he expected the Iraqi people would approve a new Constitution on October 15. MbZ reiterated his support for former [...] |
2005-09-25 10:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IZ IR SA SY PK TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4074 | MFA U/S ON IRAQ; WELCOMES IRAQ COORDINATOR'S VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi September 24 to preview Iraq Coordinator Ambassador Jeffrey's October 8 visit to the UAE. She had earlier previewed the goals of the Jeffrey visit with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and MinState for Foreign Affair [...] |
2005-09-26 12:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ SA IR SY TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4308 | MBZ MEETING WITH SENIOR ADVISOR ON IRAQ JEFFREY [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) October 8, Senior Adviser on Iraq Ambassador Jeffrey and an interagency team received a pledge of further UAEG assistance in reaching out to Sunni Arab Iraqis and other moderates to encourage them to play a p [...] |
2005-10-15 07:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EFIN IZ IR SY SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4696 | UAEG RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (S) Summary: On November 9, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald Neumann, visited Abu Dhabi and met with Minister of Information Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan (AbZ) and MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid al Noaimi. He inquired about GCC states, views and UAEG's recommendations on Afghanistan. [...] |
2005-11-19 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PGOV AF KU QA SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI470 | UAE ATTENDANCE AT SAUDI COUNTERTERRORISM CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-01 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4741 | ENERGY SECRETARY BODMAN'S VISIT TO THE UAE [...] (C) Summary: UAEG and Abu Dhabi government interlocutors told Secretary Bodman during his November 11-13 visit that the UAE is committed to expanding crude oil production (including condensates) to 4 mb/d over the next seven to ten years, with 200,000 b/d coming on line in early 2006. The UAE [...] |
2005-11-21 14:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ETRD PK AF SA IR IZ |
| 05ABUDHABI4815 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD VISITS ABU DHABI [...] (C) Summary: On November 23, Ambassador Khalilzad met with Deputy Prime Minister/MinState for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ). They discussed the role Dubai-based Iraqi cleric Ahmed Al Kubaysi might play in encouraging greater Sunni Arab participation in Iraq's political process [...] |
2005-11-27 09:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PINR PTER IR IZ SA AE |
| 05ABUDHABI713 | WHITE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR FRAN [...] (S) Summary. In a February 7 meeting with HSC Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend, the Director of UAE State Security Department (SSD), Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, expressed support for U.S. efforts regarding the Israeli/Palestinian situation. Sheikh Hazza also said that the UAE [...] |
2005-02-15 12:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | IR IZ PREL PTER SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI718 | HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR TOWNSEND MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a February 7 meeting with Dubai Crown Prince (and UAE Defense Minister) Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid (MBR), White House Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend expressed appreciation for the UAE's contributions to our counterterrorism efforts. Noting that it was a hopeful time [...] |
2005-02-15 12:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PREL PTER SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI721 | WHITE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR FRAN [...] (C) Summary: White House Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) February 7 to discuss counter terrorism trends in the Gulf region, U.S.-UAE CT cooperation, and the th [...] |
2005-02-15 12:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | IR IZ PTER SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI767 | GENERAL ABIZAID VISITS ABU DHABI [...] (S) Summary: CENTCOM Commander Gen. Abizaid met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) February 14 to discuss Iraq,s security situation in the wake of the January 30 elections. They also discussed othe [...] |
2005-02-20 02:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER MCAP IZ IR SA SY LE AF TC |
| 05AMMAN2753 | FINANCE MINISTER REVIEWS STATUS OF OIL GRANTS [...] (C) In a March 30 meeting with Charge, Finance Minister Mohammed Abu Hammour reviewed the likelihood of Jordan's receipt of oil grants in 2005. Abu Hammour noted that during the most recent visit by King Abdullah to Saudi Arabia in early March, the Saudis had promised to grant Jordan 25,000 ba [...] |
2005-04-03 14:49:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL EFIN SA KU JO TC |
| 05AMMAN9319 | JORDAN SEEKS US SUPPORT IN ADVANCE OF OIC SUMMIT [...] (C) King Abdullah II and Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdulillah Al Khatib separately briefed Ambassador December 1 on GOJ efforts to prepare for the December 7-8 summit in Mecca of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Khatib explained that the GOJ is working for a final communiq [...] |
2005-12-01 13:04:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PTER SA QA JO |
| 05ANKARA2490 | JOINT STATEMENT FROM ISTANBUL IRAQ NEIGHBORS [...] On May, 2, the Turkish MFA passed us a copy of the text of the joint statement from the April 29-30 Iraq neighbors' meeting (full text in para. 2). We will provide MFA's readout of the meeting septel. 2. Joint statement follows (original was in English): BEGIN TEXT (note internal paragra [...] |
2005-05-02 14:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER AORC TU IZ IR EG JO SY KU BA SA |
| 05ANKARA2548 | IRAQ: TURKISH READOUT ON ISTANBUL NEIGHBORS MEETING [...] (C) Iraq and its neighbors--and numerous guests--held a "friendly and interactive" foreign ministers' meeting in Istanbul April 29-30, according to Turkish MFA officials. Our interlocutors reported relatively little squabbling over the communique text, though they apparently had to beat back a [...] |
2005-05-04 12:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER AORC TU IZ IR EG JO SY KU BA SA |
| 05ANKARA4230 | TURKS ANNOYED WITH IRAQI AND IRANIAN INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, seemed to take his lead from the Iranians at the July 18-19 meeting of Iraq's neighbors' interior ministers. Jabr annoyed the Turks by ignoring their advice to steer clear of the press, especially on the PKK issue; his private assurances to th [...] |
2005-07-21 15:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KCRM TU IZ IR BA EG SY KU SA JO |
| 05BAGHDAD2954 | ACTION REQUEST--CONTINUED DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND [...] (C/REL TO UK AND AUS) This is an action request. See paragraph 2. 2. (C/ REL TO UK AND AUS) Action Request: Post asks that the Department of State request the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (Customs and Border Protection) to continue its support of the Border Support Team missi [...] |
2005-04-13 19:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PTER PINS PREL PGOV IZ IR JO KU SY SA TU |
| 05BAGHDAD4118 | IRAQI SHIA DON'T THINK MUCH OF SAUDI FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent comments by the Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs, combined with the Arab League Secretary General's decision to travel to Iraq, have raised SIPDIS the ire of many Iraqi Shia. They expressed anger at assertions that Iran has undue influence in Iraq, and they a [...] |
2005-10-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SA |
| 05BAGHDAD4777 | PRIME MINISTER JAFARI TO VISIT SAUDI ARABIA [...] (C) Prime Minister Jafari told the Ambassador that he has been invited to visit Saudi Arabia. He departs November 29. He plans to meet the Saudi king during his visit. 2. (C) The PM may raise the following issues: -- Increasing the number of hajj slots for Iraqis; -- Sending a Saudi Am [...] |
2005-11-29 16:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SA |
| 05BAGHDAD4806 | NATIONAL DIALOGUE COUNCIL MEMBER ON ELECTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY. National Dialogue Council member Mahmoud Mashadani told the Ambassador November 29 that Iraqi Security Forces are preventing campaigning and that terrorists are targeting Tawafoq (consensus) leaders. He called for a national unity government after the election. He also said his [...] |
2005-12-01 17:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ SA |
| 05BAGHDAD4842 | CHALABI ALLY: THERE IS NO RESISTANCE, ONLY [...] (C) In a December 3 meeting with Poloffs, INC candidate Mariam al-Rais argued in favor of her party's platform and party leader Ahmed Chalabi's qualifications to lead the next government. Al-Rais faulted Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia for contributing to Iraq's instability. In a clear allusio [...] |
2005-12-04 21:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SA |
| 05BAGHDAD4940 | ACTION REQUEST REGARDING KUWAITI AND SAUDI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post asks that the Department request that Embassy Kuwait and Embassy Riyadh consult with GOK and and KSA as a matter of priority as to whether either government is interested in providing assistance to the Kuwaiti and Saudi nationals listed below upon their release from the Ba [...] |
2005-12-12 06:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PHUM PGOV KJUS IZ KU SA |
| 05CAIRO4221 | ERITREAN MILITARY GROUP IN KSA PROPOSED FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-06 11:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM SA EG UNHCR |
| 05CAIRO6271 | LIBYA: EGYPT HELPING HEAL RIFT BETWEEN SAUDIS AND [...] (S) During an August 14 conversation on Gaza disengagement, Presidential Spokesman Soliman Awad volunteered to the Charge that Libyan leader Qadhafi had "rescinded his support" for hostile elements in the Saudi Kingdom, and that the Saudis had forgiven Qadhafi for the assassination attempt on [...] |
2005-08-15 15:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER EG SA LY PINR |
| 05CAIRO6509 | SUDAN: DARFUR REBEL GROUPS AND ZAM ZAM BLOCKADE; [...] (C) Post is unaware of any permanent official representation in Egypt of either the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) or the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). While representatives of these Darfur rebel groups may occasionally transit Cairo and engage locally-based Sudanese oppositio [...] |
2005-08-24 10:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MOPS EG SU SA KBIO |
| 05DARESSALAAM150 | Tanzanian Participation at the Saudi Counter- [...] As of January 24, Ms. Agnes Kayola, an officer in the Foreign Ministry's Multilateral Affairs Department, was planning to attend the Saudi Counter-terrorism Conference. She noted that one, unnamed official at the Justice Ministry also planned to attend, but that the Ministry of Home Affairs ha [...] |
2005-01-25 13:53:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL SA TZ |
| 05DJIBOUTI1266 | DJIBOUTI ENGAGES SAUDI INVESTOR FOR USAID [...] (C) Summary: With a claim of dissatisfaction with technical aspects of construction and progress of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Livestock Export Facility in Djibouti, the Government of Djibouti has advised Embassy and Regional Economic Development Services Offi [...] |
2005-12-28 09:41:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAGR PREL PGOV ECON ETRD DJ SA |
| 05DJIBOUTI246 | DJIBOUTI SEEKS ASSISTANCE IN MONITORING ISLAMIC [...] (C) During Ambassador and USAID Director's February 23 call on Minister of Education Abdi Ibrahim Absieh (see septel), the Minister informed us of his concern that his Ministry lacked knowledge of and control over the country's growing network of Islamic schools. These schools, he said, which [...] |
2005-03-07 13:11:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SCUL SOCI DJ SA |
| 05DJIBOUTI338 | CORNERSTONE LAID FOR SAUDI-FUNDED DIALYSIS CENTER [...] (U) Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita, Saudi Ambassador to Djibouti Abdulaziz bin Mohamed Al-Eifan, and Army Major Khatab Bin Eid Al-Otaibi of the Saudi Army's Medical Corps, led ceremonies April 6 in Djibouti laying the cornerstone for a future dialysis center donated by Prince Sultan Bi [...] |
2005-04-07 14:28:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SOCI SA DJ |
| 05DJIBOUTI391 | DJIBOUTI AT LOGGERHEADS WITH SAUDI ARABIA OVER [...] (C) The 4/19-20 visit of the president of Al-Imam Mohamed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Dr. Mohamed Al-Salem, gave Arab League member state Djibouti the opportunity to reiterate to Saudi Arabia its concerns about instruction offered Djibouti's youth under Saudi auspices. Acting Minister of For [...] |
2005-04-20 13:44:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL SOCI PINR EAID SA DJ |
| 05HARARE1009 | SAG-GOZ NEGOTIATIONS AND THE USG [...] (C) The Mugabe regime is confronting a "perfect storm" of converging challenges - international opprobrium over Operation Restore Order, the economy's accelerating implosion, and a looming IMF vote on Zimbabwe's expulsion. As a result, the GOZ is showing growing desperation and signaling unch [...] |
2005-07-25 13:54:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EFIN SA ZI |
| 05JEDDAH3366 | SAUDI KING PLEASED WITH PROGRESS AGAINST [...] (S) SUMMARY. On September 5, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security Fran Townsend met with King Abdullah at his invitation at the King's home in Jeddah. The meeting, notable for its warm and friendly tone, focused on the Saudi progress in subduing Saudi terrorists and the need to c [...] |
2005-09-13 11:44:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | PGOV PTER PREL SA |
| 05KINSHASA1647 | CONGO/B: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHES [...] The following demarches were delivered on September 16, 2005 to Mr. Felix Ngoma, the Americas Desk Officer for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Note: REF G had also been earlier delivered, on September 9, 2005, by Charge' d'Affaires Rutherford to the Minister of Finance (see paragraph 6). [...] |
2005-10-04 07:14:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETTC KTFN EFIN PGOV PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR KISL KPAO OIIP TBIO EAGR ECON ECIN EAIR EAID KSCA SOCI UK SA CF UNGA WTO AID |
| 05KUWAIT2228 | KUWAIT'S INTERIOR MINISTER APPLAUDS WOMEN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting with the Ambassador on May 24, Interior Minister Shaykh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, said that the Prime Minister is seeking to place a woman in the Cabinet. (Note: The Prime Minister confirmed this in a meeting later in the day.) On C/T training, the Ambassado [...] |
2005-05-24 16:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | ASEC KISL KU PGOV PREL PTER SA TERRORISM |
| 05KUWAIT4322 | UPDATE ON PENINSULA LIONS: PROSECUTION CALLS FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Peninsula Lions terrorist cell case completed its procedural phase and began actual deliberations on the charges facing the thirty-seven defendants on Saturday, September 24. The accused are all implicated in the January 10, 15, 30, and 31 police actions that left four Kuwai [...] |
2005-10-05 07:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
| 05KUWAIT4451 | SHI'A MOSQUE ATTACKED BY YOUTH IN JAHRA; SHI'A [...] (C) Summary: A group of youth between the ages of 14 and 18 attacked a Shi'a mosque in Jahra on October 7, burning a stolen car, breaking the mosque's spotlights, pelting worshippers with stones, and chanting anti-Shi'a slogans, including: "Death to infidel Shi'a, agents of America." No one was rep [...] |
2005-10-17 10:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KISL KDEM SA KU SHI |
| 05KUWAIT4794 | PENINSULA LIONS UPDATE: DEFENSE CHALLENGES CHARGES [...] (SBU) The trial of the Peninsula Lions resumed on November 12 amid tightening security with over a dozen defense lawyers presenting their arguments one-by-one as the trial judges sat and listened. The hearing, which began at 2 pm, has continued in extraordinary sessions finishing after 8 pm [...] |
2005-11-16 14:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
| 05KUWAIT4813 | 28TH MEETING OF THE TRIPARTITE COMMISSION: 28 [...] (C) Summary: Kuwait hosted on November 15, the 28th meeting of the Tripartite Commission (TPC) on Gulf War Missing. The session closed 28 cases (26 Kuwaitis, two Saudis, and one Iraqi), continued the mandate of the Technical Sub-Committee (TSC) for one year, and selected November 15, 2006 [...] |
2005-11-19 14:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR AORC ICRC KU IZ SA |
| 05KUWAIT5002 | PENINSULA LIONS VERDICT TO BE ANNOUNCED DECEMBER 27 [...] (C) After six weeks of deliberations, the all-Kuwaiti judicial panel of three judges presiding over the case of the Peninsula Lions, with 37 defendants, eleven of whom are fugitives, is expected to announce its verdict on December 27. The 37 defendants face charges including murder of Kuwai [...] |
2005-12-05 11:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
| 05KUWAIT512 | RAID NETS SAUDI, JORDANIAN MILITANTS; KUWAIT [...] Summary: In the latest round of raids on suspected militants since security crackdowns began January 10, police on February 5 reportedly captured five suspected militants, including two Saudi Arabian and three Jordanian citizens. Kuwaiti security forces have been authorized and are using all n [...] |
2005-02-06 13:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KPAO ASEC KU SA JO TERRORISM |
| 05KUWAIT5270 | PENINSULA LIONS VERDICT IN: 30 CONVICTIONS [...] (U) In a verdict announced December 27, 30 of the 37 Peninsula Lions defendants were convicted of murder, attempted assassinations and other terror related crimes. The decision was first read to the defense lawyers in a closed court session, followed by an announcement to court observers out [...] |
2005-12-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
| 05MANAMA1182 | BAHRAIN EXPECTS CONTINUED STRONG RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) In the widespread public and private expressions of condolences for the death of Saudi King Fahd, Bahrainis of all backgrounds have registered their appreciation for Fahd's support for Bahrain's development. Foreign Minister Shaikh Mohammed said that Bahrain strives always to have strong [...] |
2005-08-16 12:47:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EPET BA SA |
| 05MANAMA14 | BAHRAIN'S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL LEADERS CONDEMN [...] (C) Bahrainis disregarded London-based Saudi dissident Dr. Saad Al Faqih's call for protests against the Saudi Arabian government following Friday prayers December 31. While police stood by, worshippers departed the Al Fateh Grand Mosque compound in a normal fashion. Al Faqih's appeal provok [...] |
2005-01-03 10:56:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ASEC BA SA |
| 05MANAMA176 | CONTINUING SAUDI CONCERNS ABOUT BAHRAIN FTA [...] (C) Bahrain officials have indicated both publicly and privately to us that the crisis with Saudi Arabia over the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade agreement has ebbed, and that it is full speed ahead on ratification and implementation. Saudi Ambassador to Bahrain Abdulla Al-Kuwaiz, in a February 6 dis [...] |
2005-02-07 08:15:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL ECON BA SA |
| 05MANAMA88 | SAUDI COUNTERTERRORISM CONFERENCE -- BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-18 13:04:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL BA SA |
| 05MANILA1098 | MARAWI CITY: ISLAMIC PRIDE IN THE TROUBLED SOUTH [...] (U) Summary. Marawi, the capital of Lanao del Sur Province in Central Mindanao, is officially an "Islamic city" under municipal law, the only such city in the Philippines. The city of 125,000 is 96-percent Muslim. The main campus of Mindanao State University, located in Marawi, is a nonethe [...] |
2005-03-09 09:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KISL PINS KCRM SNAR SA RP |
| 05MANILA2016 | ENGAGING THE SAUDIS ON GWOT EFFORTS IN THE [...] (S/NF) In a meeting on May 2, Ambassador told Foreign Secretary Romulo of our concern about the role Saudi-based SIPDIS financiers appear to be playing in Mindanao by channeling money to terrorists linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). He noted that there has [...] |
2005-05-03 06:58:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER EFIN PREL SA RP XC XF |
| 05MANILA2042 | DEPORTATION OF SAUDI TERROR SUSPECT AT BEHEST OF [...] (S/NF) Summary. A new case of Saudi diplomatic interference, protection, and deportation of a suspected terrorist financier underscores the ambiguous role of official and unofficial Saudi nationals here in the Philippines. While the most recent case could serve as an opportunity for coopera [...] |
2005-05-04 08:54:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER EFIN PREL SA RP XC XF |
| 05MANILA2356 | ISLAMIC NGOS IN THE PHILIPPINES [...] (C) Summary. A variety of local and international charities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with Islamic connections operate in the Philippines but under increasing scrutiny. Police and immigration authorities have lamented the lack of resources and enforcement mechanisms to keep [...] |
2005-05-23 07:21:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KISL EAID PINS PREL EFIN KTFN LY SA PK TH RP |
| 05MANILA2749 | SAUDI FINANCE MINISTER TO VISIT MANILA; [...] (S/NF) Saudi Ambassador Wali has returned to Manila from what he characterized a "family" visit back to Riyadh (he said he escorted his mother and daughter here to Manila) and feigned surprise that our Embassy in Riyadh was engaged in a direct dialogue with his government about terrorist finan [...] |
2005-06-15 23:43:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER EFIN PREL KTFN RP SA |
| 05MUMBAI1682 | TERRORIST DAWOOD IBRAHIM HAUNTS INDIA FROM AFAR AS DAUGHTER WEDS IN AN AMERICAN-BRANDED HOTEL [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See paragraph 13. 2. (C) Like a bad dream, terrorist and underworld figure Dawood Ibrahim returned to the headlines of India's media in July when his daughter married the son of a famous Pakistani cricket player. An upscale wedding reception brazenly took place a [...] |
2005-08-08 09:38:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EFIN PGOV PREL KCRM SA PK AE IN |
| 05NEWDELHI2633 | TERRORIST FINANCE: HIYARI AND BUISIR [...] (C) On April 7, Poloff delivered talking points and supporting non-papers from Reftels to MEA Director (Americas) Renu Pall, who thanked us for sharing the information. Understanding that the prenotification of the Hiyari and Buisir designations should be held tightly until after the public a [...] |
2005-04-07 13:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KTFN IN JO EI SA |
| 05NEWDELHI6414 | MEA UNSURPRISED BUT ANXIOUS IN REACTION TO BANGLA [...] (C) Summary: The MEA told us that the few indicators so far available point to the Jamaat ul-Mujahidin Bangladesh as author of the August 17 bombing wave. The MEA further theorized that the terrorists' goal was to demonstrate organization and sophistication. Delhi views Bangladesh's terrori [...] |
2005-08-18 16:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV MOPS PBTS ECON IN BD PK SA |
| 05NEWDELHI6694 | MEA EAGER TO WORK WITH US ON BANGLADESH AND SRI [...] (C) Summary: In an August 31 meeting, new MEA Joint Secretary for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar Mohan Kumar SIPDIS agreed to the need for greater information sharing and policy coordination between GOI and USG on Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Stressing that Bangladesh is "India's most impo [...] |
2005-08-31 14:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV MOPS PBTS ECON IN BD PK SA |
| 05NEWDELHI9080 | GOI "CONSTRUCTIVELY ENGAGED" IN BURMA, UPBEAT ON [...] (C) Summary: MEA J/S (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar) Mohan Kumar was candid about India's need to continue engaging in Burma and optimistic that PM Singh had begun to "clear the air" during his bilateral meeting with President Zia in Bangladesh. Acknowledging Indian competition with the [...] |
2005-12-01 12:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER BG BM IN SA |
| 05OTTAWA2148 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC ON HIG [...] (S) Foreign Affairs Canada has received the information that was provided to the Canadian Embassy regarding the US position on designation of HIG (ref A). Our FAC counterpart tells us that they do not, at this point, have individual names that could be designated but welcome collaboration in [...] |
2005-07-15 14:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN CA SA AF |
| 05OTTAWA2642 | CANADA - TERRORISM FINANCE: YASIN AL-QADI - STATUS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-02 19:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER PGOV PREL SA CA UN |
| 05PARIS2660 | SAUDI CROWN PRINCE VISIT FOCUSES ON LEBANON, CLOSE [...] (C) Summary and comment: GoF contacts report that Lebanon and Syria were the main topics of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's recent meetings with President Chirac, with both sides agreeing on the need for full Syrian withdrawal, rapid formation of a Lebanese government and holding of free and fai [...] |
2005-04-19 17:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA SY LE ECON PARM FR |
| 05PARIS478 | FRENCH PARTICIPATION AT THE SAUDI COUNTERTERRORISM [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-26 17:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL SA FR |
| 05PRETORIA4817 | DEMARCHE REQUEST - METHYL BROMIDE EXEMPTION [...] Post has delivered the subject demarche to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Department of Agriculture (DAg), and Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT). DAg has not responded. The DFA advises that the knowledgeable people in DFA are currently in Montreal at the Meeti [...] |
2005-12-08 14:42:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV AORC EAGR ETRD PREL SA |
| 05RIYADH3517 | KING FAHD HEALTH CRISIS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: As of Saturday, May 28, King Fahd remains in King Faisal Specialist Hospital, undergoing unspecified "medical tests," according to statements released by the Saudi press agency and sourced to the Royal Court and "official sources." The mood in Riyadh is quiet and normal, although [...] |
2005-05-28 10:56:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
| 05RIYADH4932 | SAUDI ARABIA: WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN KING FAHD DIES [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-14 10:08:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL SA |
| 05RIYADH5352 | SAUDI KING FAHD DIES, ABDULLAH ASCENDS THE THRONE [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador James Oberwetter. Reason 1.4 (B and D). 2. (C) The Royal Diwan announced on August 1 that Saudi King Fahd bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud has died. The announcement was read on Saudi state television at 10:00 AM Riyadh time. According to our sources in the Royal Diwan [...] |
2005-08-01 08:24:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
| 05RIYADH5371 | THE LATE SAUDI KING FAHD: A MIXED LEGACY [...] (C) Summary: A chief architect of Saudi Arabia's transformation from feudal monarchy to modernizing nation state, the late King Fahd will be remembered above all as a modernizer -- a ruler who pushed his subjects to abandon their feudal insularity and join the modern world-- and an institution [...] |
2005-08-01 13:00:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
| 05RIYADH9116 | A PUBLIC DIPLOMACY STRATEGY FOR SAUDI ARABIA [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The events of 9/11 profoundly affected the U.S.-Saudi relationship, forcing a rethinking of diplomacy as well as public diplomacy on both sides. This rethinking found positive expression in the joint statements issued in Crawford following the April 2005 visit o [...] |
2005-12-12 14:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV PREL PINR ECON SA |
| 05RIYADH9142 | SHI'ITE COUNCIL MEMBER PREDICTS SACKING OF SAUDI [...] (C) Shi'a activist Jafar Al-Shayeb described efforts to oust Abdullah Al-Khunaizi, Qatif's Shi'a judge, saying that he was not effective as a representative of the community given "new social forces" gaining strength in Qatif. He said that the Shi'a were pleased with the signals from King Ab [...] |
2005-12-13 06:55:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KIRF SA |
| 05RIYADH9145 | SAUDI ROYAL ADVISOR'S IMPRESSIONS OF IRANIAN [...] (S) Royal Advisor Adel al-Jubeir contacted the Ambassador by telephone December 12 and relayed his impressions of Iranian President Ahmadinajad, whom he had briefly met at the recently concluded OIC Extraordinary Summit in Jeddah. Al-Jubeir said that Ahmadinajad had struck him "as a very, ver [...] |
2005-12-13 10:24:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL PINR SA |
| 05RIYADH9146 | SAUDI ROYAL ADVISOR'S IMPRESSIONS OF IRANIAN [...] (S) Royal Advisor Adel al-Jubeir contacted the Ambassador by telephone December 12 and relayed his impressions of Iranian President Ahmadinajad, whom he had briefly met at the recently concluded OIC Extraordinary Summit in Jeddah. Al-Jubeir said that Ahmadinajad had struck him "as a very, [...] |
2005-12-13 10:32:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL PINR SA |
| 05RIYADH9147 | DEPARTURE OF AMBASSADOR [...] Ambassador James Oberwetter departed post on Tuesday, December 13 at 01:15 local time. 2. A/DCM Michael Gfoeller will be CDA during the Ambassador's absence. [...] |
2005-12-13 11:38:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT SA |
| 05RIYADH9219 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JANUARY 20-23, 2006 [...] The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes the visit of Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) Director Ambassador John R. Miller, G/TIP's Senior Coordinator for Reports Mark Taylor, and G/TIP's Reports Officer for NEA Gayatri Patel, and grants to them country clearance fo [...] |
2005-12-14 07:31:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN OTRA PGOV PHUM PREL SA |
| 05RIYADH9246 | STREAMLINING PROCEDURES FOR THE STRATEGIC DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-14 13:57:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PGOV SA |
| 05RIYADH9248 | TIP UPDATE: AMBASSADOR AND FM SAUD AL-FAISAL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-14 13:57:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN OTRA PGOV PHUM PREL SA |
| 05RIYADH9250 | IRF UPDATE: AMBASSADOR AND FM SAUD AL-FAISAL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-14 13:57:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA |
| 05RIYADH9252 | KSA SUPPORT FOR IRAQI VICTIMS OF TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-14 13:57:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SA IZ |
| 05RIYADH9300 | SAUDI BUDGET: HIGHEST RECORDED BUDGET SURPLUS IN [...] (U) Summary: The strength of the oil market, and growing Saudi economy, drove Saudi Arabia's 2005 budget surplus to its highest recorded level - 57 billion USD, and provides the basis for an expansive new national budget. The largest portion of the budget surplus, 60 percent, is allocated to [...] |
2005-12-14 15:11:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV SA OIL |
| 05RIYADH9303 | MUNICIPAL COUNCILS UPDATE: REMAINING HALF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 15, the Saudi press announced that King Abdullah had completed the long delayed process of forming the country's 178 municipal councils. Half of the councils' members, totaling 592 officials in all, were chosen last spring in the Kingdom's first democratic, albeit [...] |
2005-12-15 14:53:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SA |
| 05RIYADH9341 | DELIVERY OF SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE TO GCC [...] (C) A/DCM conveyed ref message to the Director of the Office of the Foreign Minister. The Director provided no substantive response, but said the message would be forwarded to the Foreign Minister in advance of the GCC Summit. GFOELLER [...] |
2005-12-18 06:48:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREL SA |
| 05RIYADH9342 | CODEL HAGEL MEETINGS IN KSA FOCUS ON IRAQ, IRAN [...] (C) On November 30 and December 1, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) led a delegation including Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) and Representative Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) to the first Senate-level visit to Saudi Arabia in over two years. The delegation received a warm welcome in meetings with King Abdullah [...] |
2005-12-18 09:17:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PINR PREL PTER SA IZ IR |
| 05RIYADH9366 | EP BUSINESSWOMEN TAKE FIRST LOOK AT NEW [...] (U) Summary: Following the trend in Jeddah and Riyadh, the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce elections in early February will be open to women, both as voters and as candidates. As of December 17, out of a total of 44 candidates five are women. December 18th is the last day to register. T [...] |
2005-12-18 14:17:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SCUL KMPI SA |
| 05RIYADH9368 | TWO ARAMCONS SKEPTICAL ARAMCO CAN MEET 2009 [...] (S/NF) Two Aramco analysts told PolOff and PAO on December 14 that they doubted Aramco would meet its target of increasing sustainable production capacity to 12.5 million barrels per day by the end of 2009. "The projections show pretty much a flat level of output - 9.6, 9.6, 9.6, ..." said o [...] |
2005-12-19 09:31:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET EIND PREL PGOV SA OIL |
| 05RIYADH9396 | SAG REPLACES SHI'ITE JUDGE IN QATIF [...] (U) EP daily Al-Youm reported on December 18 that a new Shi'ite judge, Sheikh Ghalib Al-Hamad, has succeeded Sheikh Abdullah Al-Khunaizi as Shi'ite judge in Qatif. According to the report, Al-Hamad had been appointed by royal decree two weeks earlier to fill the position that Al-Khunaizi had [...] |
2005-12-20 07:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KIRF SA |
| 05RIYADH9401 | MAYOR PREVIEWS (LIMITED) SCOPE OF QATIF'S [...] (C) In a meeting with the CG, Khalid Al-Dossari, Mayor of Qatif, said that the primary problem facing his municipality was haphazard development. Qatif, an oasis once composed of close-knit villages and date palm groves, is changing rapidly as the population grows and date farmers sell their [...] |
2005-12-20 13:49:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM SA |
| 05RIYADH9402 | SAG OFFSETS SHI'A STRENGTH IN ITS APPOINTMENTS TO [...] (C) Summary: The SAG announced its appointments to municipal councils nationwide, including those of the Eastern Province (EP), on December 14. As expected by many observers, the government used the appointments to balance the Shi'a presence on the councils in Qatif and Al-Hasa: elected mem [...] |
2005-12-20 14:21:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SA |
| 05RIYADH9433 | HASSAN AL-SAFFAR CONTINUES TO DECLINE TO MEET USG [...] (C) Post has requested a meeting with Shi'ite cleric and leader Hassan Al-Saffar through several intermediaries, principally Salman and Nathir Al-Jishi. Al-Saffar is generally agreed by most of post's interlocutors to be the preeminent leader in the Saudi Shi'a community and the primarily, b [...] |
2005-12-21 08:51:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PREL PGOV SA |
| 05RIYADH9434 | EP TRIBAL FAMILY FLEXES ITS POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC [...] (C) Four brothers from the Al-Dossari family outlined to the CG and Consulate staff their family's business and political enterprises. Yousef, Khalifa, Khalid, and Mohammed Al-Dossari, together with two other brothers, run a company that has expanded from supplying auto parts to managing int [...] |
2005-12-21 09:24:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM SA |
| 05RIYADH9435 | SAUDI DISSIDENT TURKI AL-HAMAD SHARES PRIORITIES [...] (C) In a meeting with CG and PolOff December 19 over coffee at the Gulf Meridian Hotel in Khobar, Saudi dissident and writer Turki Al-Hamad discussed his three priorities for reform: "We need reform of the judicial system, public freedoms, and public rights." He argued that political reform [...] |
2005-12-21 12:13:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SA |
| 05RIYADH9441 | Saudi Women Push for Economic Opportunities at [...] (U) Summary: The Second Riyadh Economic Forum (REF), held earlier this month, included a lively discussion of a study critical of the job and investment opportunities available to Saudi women. The study acknowledges Saudi laws are on the books that are intended to create job opportunities for [...] |
2005-12-21 13:50:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON EFIN PHUM SA |
| 05RIYADH9469 | HEAD OF TOP SAUDI UNIVERSITY LEADS THE DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: CG John Kincannon and consulate staff met with Dr. Khaled S. Al Sultan, Rector and CEO of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) on December 17th 2005. Al Sultan discussed current challenges facing the university, the importance of educational exchange, and KFUPM' [...] |
2005-12-21 16:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI KMPI PINR SA |
| 05RIYADH9474 | THE SAUDI STOCK MARKET: VIGNETTES FROM THE EP [...] (SBU) Mohammed Al-Jassim, a prosperous Dammam businessman whose main commercial interest is as a wholesale trader in air-conditioning products, chooses stocks in the same way that many Saudis do: by buzz. "If someone calls me up and says, 'Hey, have you heard about this stock, it's definitel [...] |
2005-12-24 09:29:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV SA |
| 05RIYADH9488 | FORMER ARAMCO EXECUTIVE OFFERS HIS VIEWS ON OIL [...] (C) Over lunch at the CG's residence on December 21, 2005, Sadad Al-Husseini, who retired from Aramco in 2004 after serving twelve years as Executive President for Exploration & Producing, shared his views on global oil supply and demand with CG, EconOff, and PAO. Al-Husseini, who is now a c [...] |
2005-12-26 06:07:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ECON PREL SA OIL |
| 05RIYADH9490 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD [...] (S) Your visit to Saudi Arabia comes during an upswing in the U.S.-Saudi Arabia relationship that was highlighted on November 13, when Secretary Rice and Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal inaugurated the U.S.-Saudi Strategic Dialogue, a new diplomatic process designed to reinvigorate our bilater [...] |
2005-12-26 11:11:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PREL PGOV OVIP PTER IZ SA |
| 05RIYADH9531 | NEW PRIVATE UNIVERSITY IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE, [...] (U) Summary: A new private university in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province is scheduled to open to 600 men and women in the fall of 2006. Funded by donations from private investors, Prince Mohammed University's curriculum, faculty recruitment, and administrative system have been designed and will [...] |
2005-12-27 09:58:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI KMPI SA |
| 05RIYADH9535 | SAUDI BUSINESSWOMEN ENERGIZED BY LEADERSHIP [...] (U) Summary: Business and communication professors Kathy Long Holland and Kay Westerfield led four engaging workshops on leadership and entrepreneurship on December 19th and 20th. In cooperation with the Businesswomen's Center at the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce in Dammam, Holland and [...] |
2005-12-28 18:11:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL KPAO KMPI SA |
| 05RIYADH9568 | US EDUCATION SPECIALIST REACHES SAUDI TEACHERS AND [...] (U) Summary: A Specialist Program focused on 'best practices' training for special education teachers in the Eastern Province from Nov. 26th to Dec. 7th 2005. This program influenced the teaching of over 300 students. In cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Special Education Specialist [...] |
2005-12-28 14:01:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL KPAO KMPI SA |
| 05ROME2570 | RSVP: EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: NATIONAL [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT ATTACHE, ROME, INDICES CHECKS REVEALED SUBJECT, NATIONAL AIR SERVICE, AS AN ULTIMATE CONSIGNEE IN AN EXPORT VIOLATION OF AIRCRAFT AVIONIC COMPUTERS. THE S [...] |
2005-08-02 15:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ETRD ETTC SA KHLS HLSX |
| 05ROME4155 | WITH A WARY EYE ON RUSSIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, [...] (SBU) Summary. Italy's Productive Activities Minister says Italy and the EU are too dependent on Russian energy, and that truly developed countries should be self-sufficient in energy. Italy is actively pursuing alternative energy sources, such as biomass fuel, hydrogen energy, and solar p [...] |
2005-12-27 15:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL KDEM SA IR IS IT IQ RU |
| 05SANAA2051 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TERRORISM FINANCE: MOVEMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-27 13:43:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KTFN EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR UK SA YM DEMARCHE TERFIN COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA2997 | PROGRESS REPORT ON YEMEN'S COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (S) Summary. In July, Ambassador presented President Saleh with a white paper assessing the Republic of Yemen Government's (ROYG) level of counter-terrorism (CT) cooperation. The Ambassador shared USG concerns that Yemen's efforts to combat terrorism have been neither consistent nor aggressi [...] |
2005-10-17 12:17:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PREL PTER PARM SA IZ YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA564 | SALEH SAYS FROM NOW ON NO MORE WEAPONS DEALS USING [...] (U) This is an action request for NEA/ARPI. See para. 12. 2. (S) Summary. Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to President Saleh on March 10. In a classic Saleh move to put his interlocutors on the defensive, the Yemeni President opened with a theatrical tirade on the latest Human Rights [...] |
2005-03-12 07:26:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PREL ETTC PARM PHUM IZ SA SR YM DEMARCHE COUNTER TERRORISM |
| 05SANAA651 | MOI ALIMI: WE GOT THE SA/LW MESSAGE [...] (S) On March 16, Ambassador and DCM briefed Minister of Interior Rashad al-Alimi on the March 10 conversation with President Saleh concerning SA/LW (reftel A). Alimi replied that the ROYG shares U.S. concerns over this issue and confirmed that his Ministry received a copy of the President's l [...] |
2005-03-19 13:46:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PREL ETTC PARM PHUM IZ SA YM |
| 05SANTIAGO1645 | MEDIA REACTION - MIDEAST - SAUDI ARABIA [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-03 17:13:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OPRC CI IS SA |
| 05TEGUCIGALPA2572 | HONDURAS CURRENTLY NOT AN AUDIENCE FOR AL-MANAR [...] (S) According to contacts of the Public Affairs Section, five cable companies in Honduras carry Arabic language stations, the two main carriers in Tegucigalpa, one in San Pedro Sula, one in Tela, and one in Danli. None appear to carry with the Hezbollah station Al-Manar. The Arabic speaking [...] |
2005-12-22 20:36:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV ANET ASEC XF KU SA JO LE HO |
| 05TRIPOLI209 | LIBYANS PLEASED WITH SAUDI DECISION [...] (C) August 10 COM spoke at some length with Ambassador to the UK Mohammad al-Zway and his colleagues about the Saudi decision to pardon and expel three Libyans accused of an assassination plot again then-Crown Prince Abdullah (reftel). Zway had just returned from Sirte; he flew there August 8 [...] |
2005-08-15 07:30:00 | Embassy Tripoli | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER LY SA |
| 05WARSAW3300 | POLAND: PROBLEMS WITH SAUDI WTO ACCESSION [...] (SBU) Econoff spoke with Sara Riley from the U.K. Embassy regarding the WTO accession of Saudi Arabia. Riley noted concerns with regard to certain EU member states, including Poland, stemming from dual fuel pricing regimes (one for domestic, one for export). According to Riley, the Poles are [...] |
2005-09-07 13:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PL SA WTO |
| 06ABUDHABI191 | UAEG RE-DRAWS ITS BORDER WITH SAUDI ARABIA [...] (U) Ratcheting up its public stance on the border issue, the UAEG,s 2006 Yearbook includes a map of the UAE with re-drawn borders with Saudi Arabia. In a departure from earlier yearbooks, the map (both hard copy and internet version) shows the UAE's territory extending to Qatar. The book dev [...] |
2006-01-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EPET PGOV ETRD ECON SA AE |
| 06ABUDHABI2875 | UAE-QATAR DOLPHIN PROJECT UNDER FIRE FROM SAUDI [...] (C) Summary. The UAE-Saudi border dispute continues, albeit largely out of the public eye. Saudi Arabia claims that the Dolphin pipeline that will bring natural gas from Qatar to UAE crosses Saudi territory. As such, the SAG recently sent letters of complaint to the relevant governments, Do [...] |
2006-07-12 12:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET SA QA AE |
| 06ADDISABABA2352 | ETHIOPIA: TRADITIONAL ISLAM UNDER THREAT ACCORDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Charge Huddleston, prominent Ethiopian Muslim leader Sheikh Elias Redman expressed grave concern about the growing Wahhabist influence in Ethiopia, which he said threatens to undermine the moderate Muslim stance of peaceful coexistence with Christians. The Shei [...] |
2006-08-25 12:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL ET SA |
| 06AMMAN3565 | A/S HILLEN'S MEETING WITH JAF CHAIRMAN GENERAL [...] (C) Assistant Secretary for Political Military Affairs John Hillen, accompanied by the Ambassador, met May 2 with the General Khalid Sarayreh, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF). General Sarayreh discussed border security and expressed his appreciation fo [...] |
2006-05-21 08:53:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IR IS IZ SY SA JO |
| 06AMMAN5492 | INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR COMMENTS ON IRAN-SYRIA [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-21 11:33:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM ETTC IR SY SA IS LE JO |
| 06ANKARA4316 | TURKEY RECEIVES THREE SYRIAN AND IRANIAN IL-76 [...] (S/NF) We delivered ref a points to MFA Aviation Department Head Hamit Olcay on July 25. According to Olcay, Turkey does not have any pending cargo overflight requests. However, the GOT did receive three separate IL-76 overflight requests from Syria and Iran following our initial July 19 appr [...] |
2006-07-26 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM MARR ETTC TU IR SY SA JO IS LE |
| 06ANKARA4405 | TURKEY SYMPATHETIC BUT NEEDS EVIDENCE TO REQUIRE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 6. 2. (S) SUMMARY: MFA Aviation Department Head Olcay welcomed information on possible Syrian and Iranian use of passenger flights to transfer weapons. He raised the possible abuse of VIP flights from Syria and Iran, noting that one such flig [...] |
2006-08-01 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PARM MARR ETTC SA SY IR TU |
| 06ANKARA4407 | TURKEY SYMPATHETIC BUT NEEDS EVIDENCE TO REQUIRE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 6. 2. (S) SUMMARY: MFA Aviation Department Head Olcay welcomed information on possible Syrian and Iranian use of passenger flights to transfer weapons. He raised the possible abuse of VIP flights from Syria and Iran, noting that one such flig [...] |
2006-08-01 14:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PARM MARR ETTC SA SY IR TU |
| 06ANKARA4833 | SAUDI KING ABDULLAH'S VISIT TO TURKEY INCREASES [...] (C) Summary: Saudi King Abdullah visited Ankara and Istanbul from August 8-11 in the first visit of a Saudi King since 1966. Turkish MFA Middle East desk officer Barbaros Dicle characterized the visit August 18 as a "turning point" in bilateral relations. The two countries signed six agreeme [...] |
2006-08-18 14:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON SA TU |
| 06ANKARA5674 | IRAQ: MFA REPORTS ON NEIGHBORS INTERIOR MINISTERS [...] (C/REL USA, CAN, AUS, GBR) MFA Director General for Security Affairs (S/CT-equivalent) Hayati Guven told us Sept. 22 that Turkey was disappointed with the final protocol on security cooperation the interior ministers of Iraq's neighbors adopted at their Sept. 18 meeting in Jeddah. Turkey had h [...] |
2006-09-29 05:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KCRM KNNP TU IZ IR EG SA KU JO |
| 06ANKARA6764 | IRAQ/TURKEY: TURKEY MULLING IRAN DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary. Turkey is considering options for regional dialogue with the Iranians about Iraq, with the goal of establishing stability and reconciliation, GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Celikkol told the DCM on Dec. 27. Such a dialogue can take place without U.S. participation, he said, but the [...] |
2006-12-28 16:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ IR SA |
| 06BAGHDAD2401 | PRIME MINISTER MALIKI PLEASED WITH VISITS TO SAUDI [...] (S) During a July 8 meeting, Prime Minister Maliki told the Charge that he had been extremely well-received in his stops in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait and that overall he was very pleased with the results of these visits. He said that Kuwait had promised to establish relations at the amba [...] |
2006-07-09 17:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL IZ KU AE SA |
| 06BAGHDAD4054 | AMBASSADOR AND DCM MEET WITH IRAQI NATIONAL [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador and DCM held a wide-ranging discussion with Iraqi National Security Advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaie immediately following the Ambassador's October 27 meeting with PM Maliki: - Rubaie portrayed the PM as under pressure, worried about failure, and without adequate staff to ad [...] |
2006-10-29 18:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS JO SA AEMR IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD4239 | CHARGE MEETS WITH PM'S CHIEF OF STAFF NOVEMBER 14 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 14 meeting with Charge, PM Chief of Staff Dr. Tariq Abdullah said the PM would review the draft U.S. letter to the UNSC on UNSCR renewal later in the day. According to Dr. Tariq, the PM's cabinet reshuffle may not happen for a month; the PM is still in the process [...] |
2006-11-14 21:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EG IZ PGOV PREL SA UN |
| 06BAGHDAD4361 | TALABANI, BARZANI, HASHIMI MEET TO DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi, and Kurdistan Regional Government President Masud Barzani gave the Ambassador a readout of the November 24 PCNS meeting during a meeting on November 25 to develop plans for a broad moderate coalition. Hashimi said in [...] |
2006-11-26 17:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA IQ |
| 06BEIJING9501 | CHINA'S AMBITIOUS FREE TRADE AGREEMENT AGENDA FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Minister Bo Xilai announced in early 2006 an ambitious plan for nine free trade agreements (FTAs) covering twenty-seven countries, according to MOFCOM officials. These twenty- seven countries represent 18 percent of China's imports and 11 [...] |
2006-05-18 06:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON CH AS NZ SA |
| 06BEIRUT1072 | MGLE01: SAUDI AMBASSADOR SEES NASRALLAH (WHO [...] (S) In a 4/5 meeting with the Ambassador, Saudi Ambassador Abdulaziz Khoja reported on his two-hour meeting the previous evening with Hizballah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. Nasrallah, Khoja said, reported that Hizballah would back Michel Aoun for Lebanon's presidency and would oppose [...] |
2006-04-06 12:38:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY SA |
| 06BEIRUT1277 | MGLE01: HARIRI SAYS HE IS READY TO CONFRONT [...] (C) During an April 25 meeting with MP Saad Hariri, the Ambassador and econoff briefed him on Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's visit to Washington last week. Hariri agreed the visit was a success, and was also heartened by what he described as revitalized Saudi and Egyptian support for Lebano [...] |
2006-04-25 15:56:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EG IR KISL LE PGOV PREL PTER SA SY |
| 06BEIRUT1678 | MGLE01: CT COORDINATOR CRUMPTON AND ISF DIRECTOR [...] (S) In a May 23 meeting, Internal Security Forces (ISF) Director General Ashraf Rifi told Counterterrorism Coordinator Crumpton, the Ambassador, and emboffs that the ISF was rapidly expanding both its size and mission. From a personnel level of 13,000 last year, Rifi plans to increase the I [...] |
2006-05-30 11:54:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | ASEC JO LE MAS PTER SA SY |
| 06BEIRUT1771 | MGLE01: SAUDI AMBASSADOR WORRIED ABOUT SINIORA'S [...] (S) In a 5/5 meeting with the Ambassador, Saudi Ambassador Abdulaziz Khoja insisted that there is no current "Saudi initiative" to reduce Syrian-Lebanese tension. He expressed deep worry about Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's safety. He cited a recent article in al-Hayet by Syria's Ambassado [...] |
2006-06-05 14:01:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV LE SY SA |
| 06BEIRUT1915 | MGLE01: INFORMATION ON SA'AD HARIRI [...] (C/NF) Reftel requested information on Member of Parliament Sa'ad Hariri. Embassy Beirut's answers are keyed to the questions as set forth in reftel. HARIRI'S PERSONALITY -------------------- 2. (C/NF) Hariri is open, engaged, generally warm and friendly, and easily accessible (when [...] |
2006-06-13 14:47:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PGOV FR LE SA |
| 06BEIRUT2323 | MGLE01: JUMBLATT RECOUNTS SAUDI TRIP, MONEY [...] (S/NF) In a 7/7 meeting, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said he had recently asked Saudi King Abdullah for funding to help him and his "March 14" allies counter Iranian/Syrian influence in Lebanon. King Abdullah had been noncommittal, and Jumblatt was left waiting for his partner Sa'ad al-Harir [...] |
2006-07-11 05:48:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER KISL KDEM EAID LE SA SY |
| 06BEIRUT281 | MGLE01: WASHINGTON-BOUND JUMBLATT REACHING OUT TO [...] (S) In a 1/28 meeting, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt described his efforts to find a candidate for an upcoming parliamentary by-election on which both his "March 14" allies and Michel Aoun can agree. He reiterated his belief that Sa'ad Hariri needs to return to Lebanon, but not before soothing [...] |
2006-01-31 09:03:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PGOV PTER KISL LE SY SA |
| 06BEIRUT2912 | LEBANON: REQUEST FOR AMMUNITION FROM GCC COUNTRIES [...] (U) This cable includes an action request in Paragraph 7. 2. (S/NF) Through our discussions with contacts in the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and political leadership, it is clear there remains a critical need -- as expressed in reftel A -- to immediately equip the LAF to empower it to dep [...] |
2006-09-08 14:49:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET//NOFORN | MASS EAID PREL QA SA AE KU LE PARM |
| 06BEIRUT350 | LEBANON'S RESPONSE TO ICAO DEMARCHE FOR U.S. [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-07 15:18:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAIR ICAO AORC EG ET FR LE PK SA TS |
| 06BEIRUT563 | MGLE01: HARIRI AND JUMBLATT DISCUSS STRATEGY [...] (S) On February 23, while waiting for Secretary Rice to arrive for a meeting with MP Saad Hariri and MP Walid Jumblatt at his house in Beirut, econoff and FSN senior political specialist were invited to sit with these two leaders. The small talk with FSN senior political specialist eventual [...] |
2006-02-24 15:01:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | LE PGOV PREL SA SY |
| 06BEIRUT895 | MGLE01: SPEAKER BERRI ASKS FOR US, SAUDI, AND [...] (C) In a March 21 meeting with the Ambassador and econoff, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri was upbeat about the success of the national dialogue he has brokered. He was confident of a solution to Hizballah's arms when the national dialogue resumes on March 22. The difficult issue, accordi [...] |
2006-03-21 15:11:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS EG KISL LE PGOV SA SY |
| 06BEIRUT898 | MGLE01: SINIORA VIEWS SITUATION PRIOR TO [...] (C) In a March 21 meeting with the Ambassador and econoff, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora denied reports that he had asked Terje Roed-Larsen to help him, along with Saudia Arabia and Egypt, negotiate with Syria on Lebanon's behalf. Regarding the national dialogue, Siniora said that Egyptian an [...] |
2006-03-21 16:15:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EG KPAL LE PGOV PREL PTER SA |
| 06BERLIN2733 | GERMAN VIEWS ON UPCOMING MTCR PLENARY AND INDIA [...] (U) Please see the action request in paragraph five. 2. (C) Global Affairs officer discussed the October 2-6 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Plenary scheduled for Copenhagen in a meeting September 14 with German MFA MTCR Desk Officer Ina Schuett. Schuett inquired whether the U.S. [...] |
2006-09-15 13:51:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM ETTC GM SA |
| 06BUCHAREST618 | TURKISH AND SAUDI PRESSURE ON ROMANIAN MUFTI [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 11, Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Okcun met with the Ambassador to discuss "increased U.S. activity in the Dobrogea region directed at the Turkish minority," who he referred to as "his people." Okcun asserted that the activities centered at the American Corner in Constanta were u [...] |
2006-04-14 15:26:00 | Embassy Bucharest | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER SOCI TU SA RO |
| 06CAIRO4608 | Egypt Media trends for July 27, 2006 [...] Summary. The past week internal disagreement over Hezbollah as right or wrong has been replaced by unified calls for an immediate ceasefire. The US has been characterized as frustrating any opportunity to end the days of bloodshed splashed on front pages and captured on Egyptian and regio [...] |
2006-07-27 13:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER KPAO KMDR OPRC UK AL AG IS SA IR EG |
| 06CAIRO6677 | EGYPT TO REVIEW DECISION ON UN COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche November 2 to MFA Cabinet Staff Member responsible for counter-terrorism issues, Mohamed al Shinnawy, requesting Egypt to consider a visit in the coming year by UN Counterterrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) staff. Shinnawy was unaware of the [...] |
2006-11-02 15:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV UNGA PTER UNSC EG SA QA |
| 06DAKAR2255 | PUSHING BUSH-DEBY MEETING, GOUDIABY SAYS THAT CHAD [...] (C) On September 15, Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, Counselor to Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and prominent architect, came to see the Ambassador and DCM. Goudiaby, who used to work for Mobutu Sese Seko, now has several construction projects in Chad and says that he has become a friend and un [...] |
2006-09-18 16:11:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS EPET ENRG PINR CD CH SA SG |
| 06DAMASCUS1361 | SYRIAN VP VISITS EGYPT, SAUDI, AND IRAN [...] (U) Syrian VP Farouk al-Shara'a met with Egypt's President Mubarak March 23 in Sharm El Sheikh, Saudi King Abdullah March 24 in Jeddah, and Iranian President Ahmadinejad March 25 in Tehran. In his first regional trip since becoming VP, Shara'a delivered to each leader a letter from Syrian Pr [...] |
2006-03-27 16:56:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY LE EG IR SA |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY82 | VIETNAM'S ISLAMIC COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Southern and central Vietnam's 30,000- to 50,000-member Sunni Muslim community does not appear to face significant restrictions in its ability to worship. Unlike Vietnam's five other recognized religious organizations, the Muslim community does not have a national leadership to [...] |
2006-01-24 03:24:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KISL KIRF PGOV SOCI PREL SA CB LY EG VM ETMIN RELFREE |
| 06ISLAMABAD7770 | PRINCE SULTAN'S VISIT TO PAKISTAN: MOSTLY OPTICS; [...] (C) Summary. In the week following Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud's April visit to Pakistan, PolCouns sought assessments in separate meetings with the MFA Director General for the Gulf region Sajjad Haider, Saudi Embassy DCM Abdullah Al-Omari and a respected local journalist, Far [...] |
2006-05-02 11:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PK SA |
| 06JAKARTA10880 | ACEH'S SHARIA POLICE TARGETING AID WORKERS, WOMEN, [...] (SBU) Summary. After a year of peace in Aceh, negative fall-out from the imposition of Islamic law (sharia) under Aceh's special autonomy arrangement is apparent. While the Acehnese themselves have borne the brunt of the consequences, on August 17 sharia police raided the World Food Program' [...] |
2006-09-01 01:09:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC CASC PREL KISL SA ID |
| 06JAKARTA11475 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): INDONESIA [...] (U) The Fourth Regional Meeting of CWC States Parties in Asia met in Jakarta, Indonesia from September 5-7, 2006. The meeting was attended by 24 States Parties from the Asian Group: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, N [...] |
2006-09-15 10:47:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PTER PHUM AMGT ASEC CWC SA AF MV |
| 06JEDDAH101 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA: DENMARK BASHING [...] (U) For the second straight week, cartoons run in Danish and Norwegian newspapers allegedly "vilifying" the Prophet Muhammad took center stage at Friday sermons in Saudi Arabia. On January 28, the Jeddah-based "Arab News" reported that "imams of mosques across the Kingdom yesterday denounced [...] |
2006-02-01 14:48:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PTER PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH102 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 4: PRESERVING THE ARAB FAMILY [...] (U) On January 23 at the French Consulate General, local consultant and business adviser to the elite, Mr. Zaher S. Al Munajjed, gave a lecture titled "Saudi Family Companies, challenges of the future," describing a theoretical model for the long term stability of a family business. Al Munajj [...] |
2006-02-04 08:55:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL SA |
| 06JEDDAH103 | WTO WILL BRING CHANGES. IS SAUDI ARABIA READY? [...] SUMMARY. Lead Saudi WTO negotiator Fawaz Al-Alamy's warmly received speech to a group of American and Saudi businessmen exemplified the burgeoning interest in WTO in Saudi Arabia. Contacts with foreign concerns have also exhibited rising interest in the effects WTO will have on business in [...] |
2006-02-04 09:00:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH128 | SAUDI YOUTH: LESSONS FROM JEDDAH'S "SHABBAB" [...] (C) SUMMARY. After more than one year of spending time with Jeddah's "shabbab" (roughly, guys or young men), Poloff has noted some consistent themes common to many of the city's youth. Over the course of numerous road trips to places like Mecca, Medina, Taif, and al-Hada, visits to college cl [...] |
2006-02-08 14:52:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL CVIS PTER SCUL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH134 | KUWAITI CONSUL GENERAL SAYS KUWAIT HAS BEEN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 18, Consul General Gfoeller and Jeddah Pol/Econ Chief paid a condolence call on Kuwaiti Consul General Ali I. Al-Nikhailan to express condolences at the recent death of the Emir Sheikh Jaber. In an accompanying conversation, Al-Nikhailan commented positively on the i [...] |
2006-02-11 11:16:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KU PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH136 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 5: INDIAN INTEREST IN ARABIA, [...] (U) Local media have reported extensively on the Saudi interest in strengthening ties with India. The recent India National Day celebration in Jeddah provided evidence that the Indian Mission reciprocates that interest. At the entrance to the celebration, guests were offered samples of India [...] |
2006-02-11 12:41:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IN KISL KWMN PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH149 | ACHIEVING DIALOGUE WITH ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 7, Consul General Gfoeller and Jeddah Pol/Econ Chief met with President of Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Al-Madani and senior staff members. CG delivered points in ref B. Al-Madani and his associates were cordial and forthcoming. In a wide ranging conversation Al- [...] |
2006-02-15 10:04:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IZ KISL KPAL PK PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH171 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 6. SAUDI INVESTORS MOB BANKS, 11% [...] (C) On the evening of February 19, several late-arriving members of the Executive Committee of the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ) blamed their tardiness on unexpected traffic jams in central Jeddah. Executive Council member and banker Anees Moumina announced that crowds were surroundin [...] |
2006-02-26 05:04:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KISL KWMN PGOV PREL SA SCUL EINV |
| 06JEDDAH172 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA: FEBRUARY 17 - [...] (U) On Friday February 17, the sermon from the Holy Mosques in Mecca and Media dealt with Islamic identity and the importance of ethics in Islam. From Mecca, Shaykh Sa'd Bin-Ibrahim al-Shuraym delivered a sermon regretting the current state of affairs in the Islamic world saying "Those obser [...] |
2006-02-26 05:10:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PTER SA |
| 06JEDDAH180 | MOSQUE SERMONS FORM SAUDI ARABIA: FEBRUARY 24 - [...] (U) On Friday February 24, in a sermon from the Holy Mosque in Mecca, Imam Shaykh Salih Bin-Muhammad al Talib delivered a sermon calling for Muslims to listen to their hearts. "The heart is the spring of feelings, source of emotions, motivator of manners, and guardian of actions. When the he [...] |
2006-03-01 14:04:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PTER SA |
| 06JEDDAH195 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 7: NEW SAUDI AMBASSADOR TO CANADA, [...] (C) Rumors have been swirling around the Jeddah Consular Community for some weeks that Dr. Abdulaziz Al Suwaigh, presently Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), will be appointed the new Saudi Ambassador to Canada. A contact at MFA repeated the rumor to a Consulate employe [...] |
2006-03-07 12:32:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON KISL KPRV PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH197 | JEDDAH ECONOMIC FORUM CONCLUDES WITH OPTIMISM [...] SUMMARY: On February 13, the Jeddah Economic Forum (JEF) concluded its three-day run after a variety of speeches promoting the Saudi economy as an economy no longer based solely on oil. A recurrent subtext of the talks was the fact that Saudi Arabia was becoming integrated into a global eco [...] |
2006-03-08 09:44:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH198 | "LA DOLCE VITA:" JEDDAWI ELITE NOSTALGIC FOR LOST [...] (C) SUMMARY In conversations with the Consul General over the last eight months, Saudi Consulate contacts of the "baby-boomer" generation frequently reminisce about a lost heyday of openness and frivolity in Jeddah during the 1970s. These elites attribute the change to a conservative backlash [...] |
2006-03-08 10:08:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SA SCUL SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH199 | SAUDI FOOD GIANT PIONEERS ISLAMIC BUSINESS ETHICS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Savola Group, Saudi Arabia's leading foods supplier and the country's second largest industrial enterprise, has developed a code of professional ethics and values that blend Western business standards with indigenous Islamic traditions. In a time when the country's work force i [...] |
2006-03-08 11:02:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB SA SCUL SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH219 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 8: SAUDI SOCIETY MAGAZINE, NEW [...] Recently launched society magazine "Layalina" has been causing quite a stir in Jeddah over the last few weeks. Owned by a Kuwaiti publisher, managed by a French editor, and printed in Riyadh, the magazine's glossy photos of women without abayas and head scarves is groundbreaking for the Kingd [...] |
2006-03-15 11:46:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB KISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH220 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 10 AND 3: [...] (C) On March 10 from the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar, Imam Shaikh al-Qahtani spoke to an audience of approximately 500. During the first part of his sermon, the imam talked at length about tolerance and why and how Muslims must practice it. He illustrated his homily with examples [...] |
2006-03-15 13:20:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL KWMN PGOV PREL PTER SA |
| 06JEDDAH221 | PREPARATIONS FOR TOURISM IN WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 26, Consulate staff met with the new General Manager of the Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT) in Jeddah. The General Manager offered an ambitious vision for developing tourism in Jeddah and attracting business, religious, and recreational visitors. The SCT plan [...] |
2006-03-15 13:29:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | BTIO ECON KICR KISL KWMN PREL SA SENV |
| 06JEDDAH224 | SAUDI ARABIA: CORPORATE DONOR TAKES PROGRESSIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the second in a series of cables profiling community service activities funded within the Kingdom by Saudi corporations. These programs are both indicative of the country's emerging civil society and illustrative of the challenges facing Saudi Arabia, including unemploym [...] |
2006-03-18 11:44:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV SA SOCI KMPI |
| 06JEDDAH227 | CG'S DISCUSSION WITH ALIREZA BUSINESSMEN [...] (C) On March 13, Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief met at Xenel Industries with Executive Director Sheikh Khaled Alireza, his son and Managing Director, Aamer and General Manager and American citizen David Joury. Khaled Alireza told CG that Xenel is producing a television public service ann [...] |
2006-03-21 08:20:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KWMN PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH232 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 17: AN [...] (C) At the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar on March 17, Shaikh al-Qahtani delivered an aggressively anti-American sermon to an audience of approximately 500 worshipers. The sermon was the strongest condemnation of the Untied States yet delivered by this imam. He began by recounting h [...] |
2006-03-22 06:43:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH234 | JEDDAH BOASTS FIRST MUSEUM SPECIFICALLY BUILT TO [...] (U) SUMMARY. CG and ConOff visited the Jeddah Darah museum, home to the permanent exhibition of local artist Safeya Binzagr's artwork and her collection of Saudi cultural antiquities. From oil paintings that depict early twentieth century Saudi marriage ceremonies to lithographs that depict B [...] |
2006-03-22 13:35:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | OEXC SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH236 | OIC DISMISSES RECENT BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL MEETING AS [...] (C) SUMMARY; The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) insisted in a March 25 meeting with Consulate staff that the recent session of the Israel Boycott Office was a routine annual event, sponsored solely by the OIC and that no significant recommendations resulted. No list of repres [...] |
2006-03-26 11:26:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC IS KBCT KISL KPAL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH237 | SAUDI ARABIA: GULF BUSINESSMAN SECRETLY MINISTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A prominent businessman working for a major Gulf corporation recently confided to the Consul General that he is an ordained minister, who secretly counsels fellow Christians within Saudi Arabia. During a dinner at another Western Consul General's residence, the gentleman detailed [...] |
2006-03-26 12:41:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI SA |
| 06JEDDAH244 | SAUDIA TECHNICAL INSPECTION AND PROSPECTS FOR [...] SUMMARY. This is one in a series of cables reporting on the civil aviation sector in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) technical repair facility in Jeddah was subject to an FAA re-certification inspection in mid-March. The inspectors found no serious deficiencies. Corrective ac [...] |
2006-03-29 06:57:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH250 | SAUDI NON-PROFIT BRIDGES PUBLIC/PRIVATE SECTOR TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the third in a series of cables profiling community service activities funded within the Kingdom by Saudi corporations. These programs are both indicative of the country's emerging civil society and illustrative of the challenges facing Saudi Arabia, including unemployme [...] |
2006-03-29 14:31:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV SA SOCI KMPI |
| 06JEDDAH257 | WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION LACKLUSTER IN JEDDAH CHAMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the wake of the historic November 2005 election for the board of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI), in which two female candidates were victorious, participation by women in JCCI affairs has been limited, and, in an April 1, 2006 election, only one woman ran [...] |
2006-04-02 14:22:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KDEM KWMN PGOV SA |
| 06JEDDAH263 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 9: MEDINA IMAM SUSPENDED, FASHION [...] (C) Over the weekend rumors were circulating in Jeddah that the Imam of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the second largest in Saudi Arabia after the Haram in Mecca, was suspended on Friday by an official decree. The rumored reason for this suspension is that in his Friday sermon, he spoke d [...] |
2006-04-05 09:04:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL KWMN PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH264 | MOSQUE SERMON FROM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 31: IMAMS [...] (C) In his March 31 sermon to an audience of more than 500 at Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar, Imam Shaikh al-Qahtani returned to a subject on which he frequently speaks: the historical confrontation between Muslims and the West. He criticized Western nations for their poor treatment [...] |
2006-04-05 11:06:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH265 | CONVERSATION WITH FINNISH AMBASSADOR TO SAUDI [...] (C) On March 29, CG received a courtesy visit from Finnish Ambassador Martti Isoaro. Also present was Jeddah Pol/Econ Chief. The Ambassador expressed the hope that the U.S. and Finnish missions could cooperate in the Western Province and described the two major objectives of his embassy in [...] |
2006-04-05 11:14:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON FI KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH267 | Avian Flu: Jeddah Slow on Outreach, Otherwise [...] Summary: Jeddah Municipality has an interagency committee on avian flu, a hotline, an emergency plan, and has taken action to control backyard poultry and shop front slaughtering of live birds. They admit that their public outreach strategy is late but otherwise Jeddah appears to be taking t [...] |
2006-04-05 13:21:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU SA |
| 06JEDDAH268 | PERSGA Coordinating Protection of Red Sea [...] Summary: PERSGA is a Jeddah-based intergovernmental organization that builds capacity and organizes research for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden ecosystem. They are assessing land-based activities that affect the Red Sea and working with member governments on coastal zone management plans. End [...] |
2006-04-05 13:37:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV XF SA |
| 06JEDDAH269 | Jeddah's "Perfume" Lake of Sewage [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-05 13:37:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SA |
| 06JEDDAH270 | PERSGA Coordinating Protection of Red Sea [...] Summary: PERSGA is a Jeddah-based intergovernmental organization that builds capacity and organizes research for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden ecosystem. They are assessing land-based activities that affect the Red Sea and working with member governments on coastal zone management plans. End [...] |
2006-04-05 13:39:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV XF SA |
| 06JEDDAH271 | IRANIAN DIPLOMAT CONFRONTS CONOFF AT JEDDAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a recent gathering at the home of a prominent Saudi businessman, the Iranian ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Mohammed Kazem Khawansari, confronted Conoff after he was seated near him by the host. Khawansari discussed the recent publication of an [...] |
2006-04-07 14:52:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA IR IS KPAL KWBG |
| 06JEDDAH274 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 10 - FEMALE MORAL POLICE, OIC-OSCE [...] (C) The Saudi Arabian Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Note: The employees of this department are the mutawaa'in, the moral police who patrol the Kingdom's cities and towns enforcing their idea of proper Islamic behavior on the population. End Note.) has announc [...] |
2006-04-09 07:17:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KISL KWMN PHUM PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH277 | REEF CHIEF ENVIRONMENTAL NGO ANNOUNCES FARASAN [...] SUMMARY: On April 4, Pol/Econ Chief attended a meeting of the environmental NGO "Reef Chief" sponsored by a local business leader, Tarek Taher. Taher described his organization's structure and links to organizations and individuals and announced an expedition, conducted in cooperation with [...] |
2006-04-10 06:31:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | KICR KISL PREL SA SENV |
| 06JEDDAH284 | BUSINESS COMMUNITY TABLE-TALK [...] C) SUMMARY At a reception hosted by the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ) held at the CGR on March 29, guests commented on a variety of topics relating to local business and economic conditions. In the wake of the recent public announcement that Saudi Arabian Airline's (Saudia) privatiza [...] |
2006-04-10 14:24:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON KISL SA |
| 06JEDDAH285 | THE CG IN SOUTHERN SAUDI ARABIA, PART 1 - THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On a visit to the Nejran region, Consul General, Congenoff and A/RSO met with the provincial Governor, Prince Mishael bin Saud bin Abdulaziz, for a private formal meeting in his office on March 27. Interestingly, no other representatives from the Governor,s office, including secur [...] |
2006-04-11 09:24:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | BTIO ECON KISL PGOV PHUM PREL SA SOCI YM |
| 06JEDDAH289 | CORRECTION - BUSINESS COMMUNITY TABLE-TALK [...] This is a corrected copy of reftel A. 2. C) SUMMARY At a reception hosted by the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ) held at the Consul General's Residence (CGR) on March 29, guests commented on a variety of topics relating to local business and economic conditions. In the wake of the r [...] |
2006-04-11 11:07:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON KISL SA |
| 06JEDDAH293 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - APRIL 7: [...] (C) On April 7, Imam Shaikh al-Qahtani devoted most of his sermon at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque to the usual religious matters. As an adherent to the rigid Hanbali School of Islam, the imam criticized the practice of celebrating the birthday of the Prophet. However, after the normal r [...] |
2006-04-12 13:17:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH300 | JEDDAH: BRINGING HOPE TO EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS CHILDREN [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief visited the Hope Center for Exceptional Needs in Jeddah on April 12. The Center is Saudi Arabia's first multilingual school for rehabilitating disabled children whose plight is often ignored by the larger society. After a tour of the faciliti [...] |
2006-04-17 13:16:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SCUL SOCI SA |
| 06JEDDAH302 | FAREWELL KSA: WEALTHY WESTERN WIVES' UNREALIZED [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Over the course of her tenure here in Jeddah, the Consul General has had the opportunity to speak with a number of Western expatriate women who are married to wealthy Saudi businessmen. Their story is always the same: they dream of leaving Saudi Arabia behind to settl [...] |
2006-04-17 14:04:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI SA |
| 06JEDDAH303 | OVERVIEW OF CG'S MARCH VISIT TO NEJRAN PROVINCE [...] (C) The Consul General, ConGenOff, and A/RSO visited Nejran Province from March 26-28. Situated in the southwest of Saudi Arabia along the Yemeni border, the province is one of the least developed in the Kingdom. Yemen's cultural influence is stronger in Nejran than anywhere else in the coun [...] |
2006-04-17 14:04:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BEXP CVIS SCUL KISL SA |
| 06JEDDAH304 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - APRIL 14: [...] (C) On April 14, Imam Shaykh al-Qahtani devoted most of his sermon at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar to addressing the problem of Muslims working against their own faith. He began the sermon with a condemnation of some of the comments made by the Libyan leader, Muammar al-Qadhafi, [...] |
2006-04-18 08:28:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH305 | SAUDI ARABIA: SOP FOR QUESTIONING FEMALE CRIMINALS [...] (C) A contact of AmConGen Jeddah reported that Saudi authorities utilize a unique and explicit set of procedures when questioning women who are suspected or accused of a crime in the Kingdom. According to the source, a woman must be accompanied by a "Mahram", or male guardian, throughout the [...] |
2006-04-18 11:45:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL SOCI CASC SA |
| 06JEDDAH308 | CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN JEDDAH: FROM CONGREGATION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Consul General and ConGenOffs are conducting a long-term inquiry into Christian worship in Jeddah. So far, the investigation has revealed that the Christian population in the city is large and engages in regular, private, group worship. Despite the Kingdom's strict laws pro [...] |
2006-04-19 13:00:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KIRF SA |
| 06JEDDAH320 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - APRIL 21, 2006 [...] (C) On Friday, April 21, at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar, Imam Shaykh al-Qahtani reprised one of his greatest hits, a brazen political sermon delivered a few years ago which, while conceding that the United States and the West are enemies of Islam, stressed the greater danger [...] |
2006-04-26 13:46:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH328 | RECENT POLICE ROUND-UPS HEIGHTEN ANXIETY AMONG [...] (U) SUMMARY. Anxiety is growing in Jeddah's large Filipino population following the round-up, arrest, and interrogation this month of hundreds of Filipinos in Jeddah in connection with a serious of high-profile crimes, including the discovery of human remains in a dumpster in Jeddah and th [...] |
2006-04-30 11:27:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KCRM PHUM SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH329 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 11: JEDDAH BUSINESSMAN HONORS [...] (U) Saudi Islamist Salman al-Ouda was the guest of honor at the April 24 "Ithnayniyya" (Monday lecture series) of Jeddah construction magnate Abdelmaksoud Khoja. The Ithnayniyya was attended by a number of mutawwa'in (members of the religious police, conspicuous with their long beards, short t [...] |
2006-04-30 14:37:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KISL KWMN PREL PTER SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH333 | FACING DECLINE, ONCE LARGE GREEK ORTHODOX [...] (C) As part of the Consulate's ongoing efforts to conduct a long-term inquiry into Christian worship in Jeddah, the Consul General attended a Greek Orthodox Easter liturgy (the Orthodox mass) on April 23 held at the Greek Community Compound in Jeddah (see reftels). Hosted by the Greek Consul [...] |
2006-05-01 10:53:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH336 | GENETIC ILLNESSES ON THE RISE IN SAUDI ARABIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Anecdotal evidence from Consulate General Jeddah's contacts indicates that the rate of genetic illness among Saudi children is on the rise, primarily due to the persistence of consanguineous marriages in the country. This persistence may be attributed to Saudi parents' efforts to [...] |
2006-05-01 14:12:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL SOCI SA |
| 06JEDDAH339 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - APRIL 28: [...] (C) Imam Sheikh Al-Qahtani was absent from this weeks' prayers, reportedly because of his father's death. Prior to the commencement of the sermon, however, many in the congregation attributed Sheikh Al Qahtani's absence not to the death of his father but to his possible arrest by the Mabahit [...] |
2006-05-03 12:48:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH341 | SETBACKS FOR SAUDI WOMEN CALL PERCEIVED REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two recent setbacks to the empowerment of women demonstrate that while this policy has received official support from the highest levels of the Saudi government, such changes face significant opposition within society at large. Last week, the Pan-Arab daily "Asharq Al Awsat" repo [...] |
2006-05-08 05:02:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KWMN PGOV SA SCUL SOCI KMPI |
| 06JEDDAH346 | PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN JEDDAH [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 6, as part of the Consulate's ongoing efforts to conduct a long-term inquiry into Christian worship in Jeddah, ConGenOff met with a Pakistani preacher who heads an all-Pakistani Evangelical church based in Jeddah. Their group has the support of the Consul General of Pakista [...] |
2006-05-10 06:53:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH352 | PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT ARROYO'S VISIT TO KINGDOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Saudi government marked the state visit of Philippine President Arroyo by pardoning more than 500 Filipinos; many more than had been specifically requested by Arroyo. ConGen contacted a source in the Jeddawi Filipino community to determine if religious detainees had been i [...] |
2006-05-14 07:53:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM RP SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH356 | ARABIC LANGUAGE WEB-SITE AL SAHAT PRESENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Within hours of the May 12 drive-by shooting at ConGen Jeddah, the Arabic language web-site Al Sahat carried a brief biography of the suspect and described him as a psychopath. By May 14, this web-page had been amended with additional information on the suspect, including a ref [...] |
2006-05-15 05:48:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PTER SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH357 | MOSQUE SERMONS FORM SAUDI ARABIA - MAY 5: [...] (C) On May 5, after a week's absence due to the death of his father, Imam Mohammad al-Qahtani returned to Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar with a fiery sermon against immorality and in support of Palestinians. His sermon began with a condemnation of the decadence evident in the Musli [...] |
2006-05-15 11:21:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH368 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA MAY 12: [...] (C) For the second consecutive week, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani lectured the congregation at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar about the dangers associated with technology and the unpardonable suffering of the Palestinians. His sermon began by denouncing rumors, but then disting [...] |
2006-05-20 07:35:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL KPAL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH372 | INTERNAL SAG RIVALRIES ON CLOSING PALESTINE STREET [...] (S) SUMMARY: As part of his research for a SAG-commissioned report on improving the issuance of US visas to Saudi nationals, Nawaf Al Obeid, an advisor to Saudi Ambassador to the US Turki bin Feisal Al Saud, met with the Consul General and Conoff on May 17. The CG emphasized that though mino [...] |
2006-05-20 13:51:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | CMGT CVIS PGOV PREL SA PTER ASEC ABLD AMGT |
| 06JEDDAH374 | AL-SAHAT: AFTER BRIEF SHUTDOWN, ACCUSATIONS THAT [...] SUMMARY. Al-Sahat, a popular Arabic-language website frequently denounced as extremist, mysteriously went offline from April 18 to 22, sparking rumors the Saudi government had caused the site to be shut down. ConGen Jeddah and its officers are regular subjects of commentary, criticism, and [...] |
2006-05-21 08:28:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL KWMN PGOV PREL PTER SA SCUL SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH378 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 12: BINLADEN GROUP ARRANGES HASTY [...] (C) The Saudi construction giant the Binladen Group recently dispatched three Dutch engineers, two Christians and an atheist, to Cairo for expeditious conversion to Islam. According to a Consulate contact who works for the Group, the engineers were urgently needed to work on the Jabal Omar [...] |
2006-05-22 13:16:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KISL KJUS KWMN PGOV PHUM SA SMIG SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH379 | CONVERSATION WITH TABUK GOVERNOR: "ROAD MAP," [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 16, the Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief met Prince Fahad, Governor of Tabuk. In a wide-ranging discussion of Middle Eastern and domestic conditions, Prince Fahad singled out the Palestinian problem as the most critical issue and a fundamental cause of extremism in the [...] |
2006-05-22 13:51:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL KPAL KWMN PREL PTER SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH380 | COLLEGE CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS RIFTS ON WOMEN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Consul General's May 6 speech and participation in an Arabic-language roundtable at one of Jeddah's most prominent women's colleges highlighted both the increased public attention paid to promoting women's employment and the lingering controversy over such moves. Though gene [...] |
2006-05-22 14:09:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KWMN PGOV PHUM SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH381 | JEDDAH BUSINESSMAN: IRAN ESTABLISHING GRASSROOTS [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a recent meeting with ConGenoff, a Jeddah businessman and former International Visitors Program participant claimed that he had been approached by representatives of the Iranian government to participate in a new strategic media initiative to foment anti-US sentiment in th [...] |
2006-05-23 01:37:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL PROP PTER SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH382 | RESOLUTION OF JEDDAH REFUGE CASE HIGHLIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: Following the visit of A/S Harty to Saudi Arabia on May 13 and 14, high-level SAG attention to the refuge case of Rema Al Said, which had been languishing for over three months, resulted in a sudden flurry of negotiations between the Mission and representatives from the Interministeri [...] |
2006-05-23 10:06:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PHUM SA |
| 06JEDDAH384 | TABUK SAUDI ARABIA: NORTHERN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE [...] SUMMARY: On May 16, the CG and Pol/Econ Chief met with the Board of Directors of the Tabuk Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Manager of the Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT). The Board enthusiastically promoted the agricultural and industrial developments in the region and express [...] |
2006-05-23 12:55:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | BTIO EAGR ECON EIND KISL PREL SA SCUL SENV |
| 06JEDDAH385 | OBSERVATIONS ON THE NORTHERN ARABIAN CITY OF TABUK [...] SUMMARY: During a visit to Tabuk on May 16, the CG and Pol/Econ Chief were able to meet with the Governor and leading members of the Tabuk Chamber of Commerce and Industry (reftels). The trip included a tour of the city of Tabuk which provided a chance to form some general impressions. Tabu [...] |
2006-05-23 14:43:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH387 | OIC OFFICIAL: LIBYANS AND SYRIANS BEHIND FEEBLE [...] (C) In a May 23 discussion with ConGenOff at a reception sponsored by Post, Bilal K. Sasso, head of protocol and public relations at the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), attributed the recent but feeble attempt to rejuvenate the Israel Boycott Office to pressure from the Libyan a [...] |
2006-05-24 13:01:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IS KISL KPAL PGOV PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH389 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA, MAY 19: EASTERN [...] (C) On May 19, Sahikh Mohammad al-Qahtani spoke at the Imam Ahmad bin Habal Mosque in al-Khobar to a congregation of more than 500 worshippers. NOTE: In the opinion of our source, this was one of the strongest sermons the imam has delivered. It was Saudi-specific, and the imam explicitly [...] |
2006-05-24 13:38:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH396 | SAUDIA PRIVATIZATION ACCELERATED TO QUIET JUMPY [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is one of a series of cables addressing developments in the civil aviation sector in Saudi Arabia. In private conversations, the director of the medical staff of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) announced that the company had just received an order from the King to prepare [...] |
2006-05-30 14:29:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON KISL KPRV SA |
| 06JEDDAH399 | MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA, MAY 26: EASTERN [...] (C) Speaking at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Al-Khobar on May 26, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani devoted both his sermons solely to an indictment of Shi'a for what he perceives is their unmitigated hostility toward all things Sunni and making common cause with the West in its war against S [...] |
2006-05-31 13:17:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH401 | SAG PUNISHES POPULAR CONSERVATIVE CLERIC FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Jeddah sheikh Abdullah Fadaaq continues to hold a weekly Sufi majlis, despite SAG efforts last year to shut it down. In late April, the popular conservative Saudi cleric Salman al-Odah attended the majlis, after which the Ministry of Islamic Affairs barred him from participatin [...] |
2006-06-03 08:10:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PHUM SA |
| 06JEDDAH407 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 13: NEW DIRECTOR FOR SAUDIA; [...] (U) On the morning of June 7, Saudi media carried a report that by Royal Decree Khaled Abdullah Al-Mulhim, who was Chief Executive Officer of Saudi Telecom Company until February, has been named the new Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia). Mulhim has an engineering degree fro [...] |
2006-06-07 12:54:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON KISL KWMN PREL SA SENV SOCI TBIO |
| 06JEDDAH408 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JUNE 2: EASTERN [...] (C) At the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani kept his promise of last week (reftel) and gave a second sermon condemning Shi'as as unworthy to be called Muslims and prejudiced against Sunnis. However, in the opinion of the source, the mood of this speech was [...] |
2006-06-07 12:55:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH412 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JUNE 9: AL-KHOBAR [...] (C) This week, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani devoted his sermon at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar to a wide-ranging attack on the United States and its Western cohorts for their efforts to destroy Islam. The sermon began with a resum of the Danish Cartoon controversy and his char [...] |
2006-06-12 10:19:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH425 | ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMENTS AT MAY BUSINESS [...] SUMMARY. Business leaders attending a monthly speech sponsored by the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ) maintain their optimism for the Saudi economy. They are, however, cautious when commenting on the local stock exchange. Their concern is that the market is still grossly overvalued. [...] |
2006-06-17 14:08:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH427 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 14: COMMOTION IN JCCI BOARDROOM; [...] (C) Contacts have informed the Consulate and recent news reports have confirmed that a substantial majority of the Board of Directors of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry have expressed opposition to Chairman, Engineer Abdullah Yehya Al Moallemi. Over the past few weeks, press repo [...] |
2006-06-20 06:01:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KWMN PREL PTER SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH430 | CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN SAUDI ARABIA: ETHIOPIAN & [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Consul General and ConGenOffs are conducting a long-term inquiry into Christian worship in Jeddah (reftel). Recently, AmConGen Jeddah learned that four Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians were arrested and detained on June 9 when they were worshipping at "Faith Rhema Church", a [...] |
2006-06-20 13:18:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KIRF SA |
| 06JEDDAH432 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JUNE 16: [...] (C) In contrast to the past few sermons in which he has delivered strident lectures tinged with political and sectarian meaning, on June 16, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani delivered a sermon from his pulpit at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar, applauded by our source, censuring Musli [...] |
2006-06-21 10:44:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH436 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JUNE 23: EASTERN [...] (C) On June 23, speaking at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal mosque in al-Khobar, Imam Mohammad al-Qahtani fulminated against a "Fifth Column within Islam." This is a subject he has preached on before. In his sermon, al-Qahtani attacked "secularists and hypocrites" who either wittingly or unwittin [...] |
2006-07-01 07:30:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH437 | JEDDAH MAYOR PRESENTS DEVELOPMENT PLANS; CONSUL [...] SUMMARY: On June 19, the Consul General, Pol/Econ Chief, Commercial Officer , PolOff and EconOff attended the June General Meeting of the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ). The keynote speaker was Mayor of Jeddah, Adel Fakeih who described the city's ambitious new redevelopment plan to tr [...] |
2006-07-01 07:30:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH446 | A GRAND VISION FOR JCCI WOMEN'S CENTER [...] (C) Summary. During a meeting with Mrs. Oberwetter and Consulate General officers, the new director of the JCCI's women's center outlined her plan to expand the center's services and role in the development of Saudi women. Moving training and placement to other facilities, the women's center [...] |
2006-07-03 11:06:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB KWMN PINR SA |
| 06JEDDAH449 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD DISCUSSES IRAN, DETAINEES AND [...] (U) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. ---- Ambassador Khalilzad Ambassador Oberwetter Consul General Gfoeller Special Assistant Hutchings PolOff Dale (notetaker) Saudi Arabia ------------ Prince Saud Al Faisal, Foreign Minister 2. (S) Summary: During their June 27 meeting, Ambassador to Iraq Z [...] |
2006-07-05 04:04:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA |
| 06JEDDAH450 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD MEETS WITH SAUDI CROWN PRINCE [...] (U) PARTICIPANTS: Meeting with King Abdullah U.S. ---- Ambassador Khalilzad Ambassador Oberwetter Consul General Gfoeller Special Assistant Hutchings PolOff Dale (notetaker) Saudi Arabia ------------ King Abdullah Prince Saud Al Faisal, Foreign Miister Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Sec [...] |
2006-07-05 04:04:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA |
| 06JEDDAH451 | MORSELS FROM THE BUSINESS BREAKFAST TABLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In conversations at the June meeting of the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ), one American businessman admitted that he had lost confidence in the bearish Saudi stock market. An American financial consultant noted that improved adherence to principles of corporate governanc [...] |
2006-07-05 07:35:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL PGOV PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH452 | NEW SAUDIA DIRECTOR GENERAL EXPOUNDS ON FUTURE OF [...] This is one of a series of cables relating to the civil aviation sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 2. SUMMARY: On June 25, Pol/Econ Chief and Jeddah Commercial Officer met the newly appointed Director General of Saudi Arabia Airlines (Saudia), Khalid Almolhem. He had earlier presid [...] |
2006-07-05 07:43:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON KISL PGOV PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH453 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 15: JCCI TURMOIL ENDS; CONVICTION [...] (U) Ending several months of controversy (reftel), the Consulate learned from a contact on July 1, that embattled Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) Chairman, Engineer Abdullah Yehia Al-Moallemi, had resigned, formally citing a disagreement over management style with the Board as [...] |
2006-07-05 07:48:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON KISL KWMN PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH454 | A WOMAN'S VIEW ON BEING A LAWYER IN SAUDI ARABIA [...] SUMMARY: Recent press reports that the Saudi Ministry of Justice is considering allowing women to become fully licensed lawyers and judges have raised the hopes of women who are already working as legal consultants in the Kingdom. One female legal consultant in Jeddah told PolOff that she [...] |
2006-07-05 09:07:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH455 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JUNE 30: EASTERN [...] (C) In a remarkable change from his critical sermons of preceding weeks, Imam Mohammad al-Qahtani used his sermon t the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque at al-Khobar o praise the Saudi government for providing securty, political stbility and promoting the welfar of the people. The lesson began w [...] |
2006-07-08 11:50:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PTER SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH458 | SCT SETTING THE STAGE FOR SAUDI'S TOURISM FUTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Jeddah's new Director General of the SCT outlined his plan for tourism development in Jeddah and Kingdom-wide with Consulate General officers. The Director General is setting up the tourism sector's infrastructure by centering on critical topics such as IT development and adaptin [...] |
2006-07-08 12:24:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | BTIO ECON PINR SA |
| 06JEDDAH459 | WAMY OFFICIAL UPSET ABOUT FUNDING AND CRITICAL OF [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-08 14:19:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH460 | SAUDI LAWYER CASTS DIM HOPE FOR REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConGenOffs met with a prominent Saudi lawyer who cast a very dim light on social reforms underway in the Kingdom. He explained that multi-level resistance to reform, including opposition from within the King's inner circle, insufficient public infrastructure, and general attitude [...] |
2006-07-08 14:26:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH466 | GUARDED OPINION OF CAPABILITIES OF OIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: An AmCit employee of the Islamic Development Bank dismissed the Organization of the Islamic Conference as an organization that has no credibility with its members or the rest of the international community. He described the OIC as little more than a forum for Arab outrage. He [...] |
2006-07-10 13:11:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH467 | WESTERN DIPLOMAT IN ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE ISLAMIC [...] SUMMARY: During a visit to a small town in the Jeddah Consular District, a female ConGenOff decided to experience first hand what it was like to wear the most conservative type of Muslim women's clothing. The five-piece ensemble proved difficult to put on and extremely uncomfortable to wear. [...] |
2006-07-10 13:25:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KWMN PGOV PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH469 | CG MEETS NEW JAPANESE CONSUL GENERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 8, the Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief met the new Japanese Consul General in Jeddah. His primary objective is to promote Japanese business activities in western Saudi Arabia. As part of his duties, he will monitor and facilitate a major Saudi-Japanese petrochemical [...] |
2006-07-11 10:31:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON JA KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH470 | JEDDAH'S FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS [...] (U) Summary. Jeddah's AIDS program coordinator described the HIV/AIDS problem and her efforts to improve the situation with awareness campaigns and treatment facilities for the infected. While Saudi Arabia's confirmed infection rate is relatively low, she is focused on getting more people tes [...] |
2006-07-11 10:31:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KHIV KWMN PINR SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH471 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JULY 7: EASTERN [...] (C) Imam Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani returned to provocative matters for his sermons at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar on July 7. In the first part of his lesson, al-Qahtani talked about jihad, explaining that the "Grand Jihad" is the highest form of struggle "and it's not nece [...] |
2006-07-12 07:22:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH472 | LAYALINA: SHOWING THE SOCIAL SIDE OF SAUDI ARABIA [...] (U) Since the December 2005 debut of Layalina magazine in Saudi Arabia, the publication has stretched the limits of Saudi culture (reftel). The magazine regularly features Saudis and foreigners in the social scene at restaurants and events and a large section on the men's side of weddings. Ov [...] |
2006-07-12 07:30:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR SA SCUL SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH474 | POSITIVE FIRST MEETING WITH NEW OIC DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Director General of Political Affairs held a positive introductory meeting with ConGenOffs. He outlined the OIC's 10-year action plan that emerged from the organization's extraordinary summit held in Mecca in December 2005, and no [...] |
2006-07-12 12:11:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI TSPL |
| 06JEDDAH475 | FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES TEHRAN MEETING OF IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JULY 11, THE AMBASSADOR MET WITH SAUDI FOREIGN MINISTER SAUD A-FAISAL AND DISCUSSED THE RECENT TEHRAN MEETING OF THE IRAQ NEIGHBORS GROUP AND THE IMPENDING INTERNATIONAL COMPACT FOR IRAQ CONFERENCE. IN TEHRAN, THE "FRANK" MULTILATERAL DISCUSSIONS ADDRESSED A VARIETY OF PRACT [...] |
2006-07-12 13:14:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KPAL PTER SA |
| 06JEDDAH476 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 16: INTERNET POSTINGS; MUTAWAA; [...] (U) On July 12, an anonymous source posted a message on the fundamentalist Al Saha website that called for a "Holocaust" type event that would "burn" Minister of Culture and Information Iyad Madani, Minister of Labor Ghazi al-Qusaybi, and prominent writer Turki Al Hamad. Using easily recogni [...] |
2006-07-12 14:25:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH477 | CORRECTED COPY--FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES TEHRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 11, the Ambassador met with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud a-Faisal and discussed the recent Tehran meeting of the Iraq Neighbor's Group and the impending International Compact for Iraq Conference. In Tehran, the "frank" multilateral discussions addressed a variety of prac [...] |
2006-07-13 02:27:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAL PREL PTER SA |
| 06JEDDAH478 | INTERNET SHOWING GRASSROOTS DISSENTION ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Public opinion is divided regarding the July 14 Saudi Press Agency statement on the situation in Lebanon. While local newspapers have reported the government line, websites show a wide variety of opinions that both support and attack the position. Those who support the statement genera [...] |
2006-07-15 14:35:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH484 | UMM AL-QURA DEAN PUSHING FOR EDUCATIONAL REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting in Jeddah with the dean of the College of Education at Umm Al-Qura University (UAQU) located in Mecca, ConGenOffs discussed factors affecting the higher education of young men and women, including the increased demand for university spots, accreditation, and studen [...] |
2006-07-18 14:36:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PINR PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH486 | MINISTER OF LABOR TELLS RELIGIOUS POLICE ONLY MOL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The religious police, or Mutawwa denied that it was responsible for the recent firing of 69 saleswomen at cosmetic and lingerie department stores in Jeddah. The Mutawwa ordered the stores closed after accusing the saleswomen of mingling with men, and criticized them for not coveri [...] |
2006-07-19 14:35:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SA KISL |
| 06JEDDAH487 | JULY 14 FRIDAY SERMONS AVERT STRONG WORDS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mecca sermons focused on the need for brotherhood amongst all Muslims and its importance in combating the enemies of religion. The Medina sermons addressed the importance of optimism in times of crisis and made mention of the tyranny of the Jews over Palestine, but made no mentio [...] |
2006-07-20 09:38:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL SA PREL PGOV |
| 06JEDDAH493 | ISLAMIC SCHOLAR CALLS FOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff held a productive discussion about Islam and the need for greater dialogue with Dr. Hamid Al-Rifaie, an internationally recognized religious scholar who lives in Jeddah. He said that he is focused on opening stable channels of communication that allow Muslims to talk am [...] |
2006-07-24 11:29:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH494 | A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF BUSINESS REGISTRATION IN JEDDAH [...] (U) On July 10 Pol/EconOffs and FCSOffs met Mr. Muhammad Atiq Al Harby, Director General of the Ministry of Commerce in Jeddah. During the brief meeting Al Harby gave an outline of the procedures for women to register their businesses in Jeddah. The Ministry's female section is only one year [...] |
2006-07-25 05:22:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KWMN PINR SA PGOV |
| 06JEDDAH495 | YOUNG SAUDI WOMEN SPEAK: THEIR VIEW OF THE FUTURE [...] (C) Summary. In a discussion with Saudi college-aged women, EconOff learned about some of the issues confronting young females in Jeddah, what concerns they have for the future, and their thoughts about their portrayal in the West. As Saudi society undergoes numerous changes, young Saudi wome [...] |
2006-07-25 05:22:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL KWMN PINR SA SCUL SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH496 | A GLIMPSE INTO JEDDAH'S FOREIGN WORKER POPULATIONS [...] (C) Summary. In a series of meetings with the labor offices of Saudi Arabia's major labor source Consulates, EconOff discussed the issues facing foreign worker populations and what the representative Consulates General do to help their citizens. The labor officers all say salary payment and [...] |
2006-07-25 05:23:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB PHUM PINR SA |
| 06JEDDAH498 | ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK ON AID TO IRAQ AND GAZA [...] On July 22, Econ Counselor met with two senior Islamic Development Bank officials in Jeddah. They are Amadou Boubacar Cisse (VP for Operations) and Rami Ahmad (Deputy Director of Operations in charge of Middle East projects). Cisse briefed on Iraq, Gaza and more generally on how the IDB make [...] |
2006-07-25 10:57:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON IZ KPAL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH499 | NEW DEVELOPMENTS ON LEADERSHIP CHANGE AT JEDDAH [...] (U) Summary: During a meeting with the Jeddah Economic Forum (JEF) Project Manager, CG and Commercial Attach learned of new developments at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI), most importantly, additional factors contributing to the removal of the Chairman. The recent moves [...] |
2006-07-25 10:58:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH505 | HEJAZI SCHOLARS SHARE VIEWS ON RELIGION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Consul General and ConGenOffs reached out to religious scholars, including the liberal religious scholar Dr. Sami M. Angawi, in Jeddah to hear their views on the status of Islam in the Kingdom and how it is practiced in the nation's traditionally diverse Hejaz region. The scholars focu [...] |
2006-07-29 04:05:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH511 | SAUD AL-FAISAL ASKS THE US TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE [...] (C) FM Saud al-Faisal summoned the Ambassador from Riyadh to Jeddah for a one-on-one late in the evening of July 30 to urge the Secretary to call for a ceasefire in Lebanon. In a soft-mannered but insistent and blunt approach, Prince Saud made the following points: -- "We understand the concern wi [...] |
2006-07-30 21:46:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | IS IZ LE PINS PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH513 | CHANGES AFOOT AT THE JEDDAH ECONOMIC FORUM [...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 23 Consul General (CG) and Commercial Attache (CA) met the new Chairman and the Project Manager of the Jeddah Economic Forum (JEF). The CG learned of the ongoing changes at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI), the Kingdom's plans to increase tourism and th [...] |
2006-07-31 04:38:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH514 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JULY 28: EASTERN [...] (C) At the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar on July 28, Imam Shaikh Mohammed al-Qahtani offered a sermon that left our source confused and uncertain as to the imam's intent. The imam, who is notorious for attacking followers of all but the Hanbali school of Islamic thought as counte [...] |
2006-08-02 08:37:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH520 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 17: ISLAMIC FORUM MEETING CANCELED [...] (C) On August 1, the Consulate General received a fax from the International Islamic Forum for Dialogue informing us that our request for a meeting could not be honored at this time, because all of their staff and resources were needed to cope with the crisis in Lebanon. INVESTORS LOBBY GOV [...] |
2006-08-07 07:21:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH531 | LABOR MINISTER DISCUSSES TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, [...] (C) Summary: On August 7, Labor Minister Dr. Ghazi al-Qusaibi described the SAG's efforts against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) to the Ambassador. Minister al-Qusaibi agreed that this was a serious issue for the SAG, and he outlined the steps that it is taking, adding that Saudi Arabia must m [...] |
2006-08-09 11:14:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM SMIG ELAB ECON PGOV SA |
| 06JEDDAH532 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA AUGUST 4: OUTRAGE [...] Lebanon and the "West's war against Muslims" dominated the angry sermon of Imam Sheikh Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Sudays at the Grand Mosque in Mecca. The imam called for a cease-fire in Lebanon and pleaded for support for the women, children and old people who have been harmed by the war. In a lit [...] |
2006-08-09 12:18:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH535 | CONSUL GENERAL AND NEW FOREIGN MINISTRY DIRECTOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 9, the CG and Pol/Econ Chief made a courtesy call on Ambassador Mohammed Tayyeb, the newly appointed Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for the Mecca Region. The Director General offered the Ministry's support in developing a New Consulate Comp [...] |
2006-08-12 09:50:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ABLD AMGT KISL OFDP PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH540 | AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH NEW CHAIRMAN OF [...] SUMMARY: On August 8, the Ambassador and staff met the new Chairman and Board members of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI). The Chairman gave an optimistic assessment of the Saudi economy. He enumerated a number of development projects in Jeddah and around the Kingdom, inc [...] |
2006-08-14 12:58:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | BTIO ECON EPET KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH541 | AMBASSADOR SPEAKS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF AMERICAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 9, the Ambassador breakfasted with three members of the American business community. All three reported that Lebanon was creating wide-spread hostility towards the United States among the Saudi population, both Sunnis and Shi'as. A Raytheon official reported a promis [...] |
2006-08-14 14:03:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH545 | AMBASSADOR URGES SAG TO SUPPORT GUATEMALA'S UNSC [...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter renewed USG concerns with Venezuela's candidacy for Latin America's open UNSC seat during an August 15 meeting with FM Saud al-Faisal. The Ambassador raised Ref A points, adding that President Chavez had vowed to support Iran "at any time and under any conditions" d [...] |
2006-08-16 06:56:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | PREL UNSC GT VE SA |
| 06JEDDAH547 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA AUGUST 11: [...] (C) The war between Islam and the West once again inspired the sermon from the Grand Mosque in Mecca. However, this week, Imam Sheikh Dr. Saleh bin Mohammed al Talib's complaints extended far beyond Lebanon and suggest a growing hostility to Muslim involvement in the "Western-dominated" inte [...] |
2006-08-19 04:55:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH548 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 8, Ambassador Oberwetter led a group to met Islamic Development Bank (IDB) President Al-Madani. The Ambassador apprised Al-Madani of the forthcoming visit of Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmit to discuss U.S. and potential IDB involvement in the reconstruction of Lebano [...] |
2006-08-19 06:24:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN IZ KISL LE PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH557 | NEW "KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY" ON THE RED SEA: [...] (C) Summary: Among the Saudi Government's many new megaprojects, the planned $26.7 billion "King Abdullah Economic City" has attracted the most media and investor attention. Its organizer, Saudi General Investment Chairman Amr Dabbagh, is pushing ahead. In a recent meeting, CG and EconCoun [...] |
2006-08-23 13:09:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH558 | STUDENT VISAS: AMB ASKS FOR LIST OF SCHOLARSHIP [...] (C) Ambassador Oberwetter informed Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on August 22 that the Ministry of Higher Education (MHE) had not yet provided the Embassy with lists of all Saudi students who receive scholarships to study in the U.S. The Ambassador raised our concerns with counterfeit schola [...] |
2006-08-23 14:00:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR PINS KCSY SA |
| 06JEDDAH559 | FM'S VIEWS ON THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter delivered Reftel points on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on August 21. The Ambassador emphasized tha the HRC has not taken a balanced approach to theIsrael-Hizballah conflict and he questioned why he Council spoke out so strongly agai [...] |
2006-08-23 14:29:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | PHUM PREL SA XF |
| 06JEDDAH567 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA AUGUST 18: MECCA [...] (U) Once again the sermon from the Grand Mosque in Mecca advocated that the Ummah unite to confront a nebulous enemy, which inevitably comes to mean the non-Muslim world. In a strident sermon, Imam Sheikh Dr. Saud Bin Ibrahim al-Sheraim, warned his listeners, "this age of materialistic civil [...] |
2006-08-26 07:44:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH576 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA AUGUST 25: MECCA [...] (U) At the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Imam Sheikh Salah bin Mohammed Aal Talib lectured the worshipers on preparations for Doomsday. Fortunately, in contrast to recent sermons, today's sermon related to the theological Day of Judgment rather than to Islam's conflicts with the "other." The imam [...] |
2006-08-30 11:50:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH578 | LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THE [...] The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) conveyed the following letter via fax to Consulate General Jeddah for transmission to Secretary Rice: 2. Begin text: [Page 1] Organization of the Islamic Conference The Secretary General OIC/SG-1/2006 Jeddah 15, August 2006 Exce [...] |
2006-09-03 13:12:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH582 | LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE FROM ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC [...] The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) conveyed the following letter and declarations via fax to Consulate General Jeddah for transmission To Secretary Rice. 2. The letter to Secretary Rice presents the Declaration on the Situation in Lebanon and the Declaration on the Situation [...] |
2006-09-04 04:40:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH583 | LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THE [...] The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) conveyed the following letter via fax to Consulate General Jeddah for transmission to Secretary Rice: 2. Begin text: [Page 1] Organization of the Islamic Conference The Secretary General OIC/SG-1/2006 04045 Jeddah 03, September 200 [...] |
2006-09-04 13:42:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH586 | CG GFOELLER RECEIVES PETITION FROM SAUDI WOMEN TO [...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 18th, CG Gfoeller received an e-mailed draft petition from prominent Saudi women calling for a cessation of Israeli attacks in both Lebanon and Palestine. The petition stated that Israeli interference in Lebanon and Palestine has created regional instability and has dep [...] |
2006-09-05 08:20:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KISL KPAO KWMN LE OPRC PHUM PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH596 | JEDDAH JOURNAL 18: OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN; [...] The English-language Saudi Gazette reported today on another clash between historic Saudi custom and the demands of a modern economy. Saudi women are complaining that a law in force since 1965 prohibits them from obtaining licenses to operate beauty shops, but recent efforts to promote busine [...] |
2006-09-09 09:18:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR KISL KWMN PREL SA SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH597 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA SEPTEMBER 1: [...] The sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 1 was delivered by Dr. Salih bin-Abdallah bin-Humayd, the Chairman of the Shura Council, which advises the King. The main idea in the sermon was that of a "new dawn" for the Arab and Islamic nation. He remarked that the results of the recen [...] |
2006-09-09 10:29:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL PREL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH598 | SAUDI ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION: ENVIRONMENTAL [...] SUMMARY: Pol/Econ Chief met with the director of the newly registered Saudi Environmental Association. The organization will promote environmental issues in planing and decision-making at all levels of Saudi government. Within its mandate, the organization will accept and investigate envir [...] |
2006-09-09 14:49:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KISL PGOV PREL SA SENV SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH606 | SEX IN SAUDI ARABIA - CLOAK AND DAGGER DATING [...] (U) Recently, Pol-Econoff spoke with a number of young men and women in Saudi Arabia. In one encounter, with a 29 year old man named Abdul, Pol-Econoff learned about the Saudi social scene. As both are roughly the same age, they began to speak about what guys that age tend to speak about, nam [...] |
2006-09-11 16:37:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH614 | AMBASSADOR BRIEFED ON SAUDIA FUTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 10, the Ambassador and Consulate General Jeddah, and FCS staff met the New Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) and his senior staff. The Director General offered an optimistic assessment of the airline's future. Privatization is planned over the nex [...] |
2006-09-18 04:30:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BTIO EAIR ECON KISL KPRV SA |
| 06JEDDAH623 | SEX IN SAUDI ARABIA - CLOAK AND DAGGER DATING [...] (S) Recently, Pol-Econoff spoke with a number of young men and women in Saudi Arabia. In one encounter, with a 29 year old man named Abdul, Pol-Econoff learned about the Saudi social scene. As both are roughly the same age, they began to speak about what guys that age tend to speak about, nam [...] |
2006-09-24 15:07:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | KISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL SOCI |
| 06JEDDAH625 | YOUNG PRESIDENTS SPEAK THEIR MINDS TO AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with several members of the Saudi chapter of the Young President's Organization (YPO) on August 20. The group said Israel,s actions in Lebanon were disproportionate, and claimed there is growing anti-US sentiment in the Kingdom and increasing fears of Iran. [...] |
2006-09-25 12:40:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SA ECON KISL |
| 06JEDDAH636 | AMBASSADOR MET WITH GENERAL AUTHORITY OF CIVIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Oberwetter met with the President Eng. Abdullah M. Nour Rehaimi and several Vice Presidents of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) in Jeddah on August 18 to discuss GACA's plans for deregulation and expansion in Saudi Arabia. Both sides expressed an interest [...] |
2006-10-04 12:09:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BTIO EAIR ECON KISL KPRV SA |
| 06JEDDAH643 | IIRO SECRETARY-GENERAL TALKS OF SAUDI PROGRAMS AND [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a meeting at the headquarters of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) on September 18, Secretary-General Dr. Adnan Khalil Basha told PolOffs that IIRO headquarters in Jeddah has administrative and budgetary control of all 28 country branches and receives no [...] |
2006-10-09 07:52:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA |
| 06JEDDAH645 | LETTER FROM OIC SECGEN REGARDING "DESECRATION OF [...] (U) The following letter, dated October 5, 2006, was delivered to AMCON Jeddah. It is from the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to the Secretary of State, and condemns the alleged destruction of SIPDIS the cemetery of Mamella, an ancient Muslim cemetery, [...] |
2006-10-10 12:12:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL OPDC PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH646 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA SEPTEMBER 15: [...] (C) Shaykh Saud Ibn-Ibrahim al-Shuraym delivered the sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 15. The sermon focused on the idea that Muslims should give sincere advice. The imam said, "One meets three types of people; a type that praises him, a type that criticizes him, and a type t [...] |
2006-10-10 13:01:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH658 | VISITING DESK OFFICER MET WITH OIC DG OF POLITICAL [...] (C) Poloff and visiting NEA/ARP Desk Officer met with Director General of Political Affairs for the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Mahdy Fathallah, on October 10. Fathallah laid out the reasons why the U.S. would benefit from closer relations with the OIC. He pointed to the pot [...] |
2006-10-16 11:58:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PINR PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH659 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, SEPTEMBER 22: [...] (C) Shaykh Usamah bin-Abdallah Khayyat delivered the sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 22. The imam condemned statements made against Islam without mentioning Pope Benedict XVI by name. The sermon opposed the view that Islam has been spread through violence. The imam said, " [...] |
2006-10-16 12:03:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH664 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, SEPTEMBER 29: [...] (C) Shaykh Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays delivered the sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 29. The sermon largely dealt with the significance of Ramadan for piety and purification of the soul. The imam added that Ramadan has come "while our nation is unaware of the plotting and challe [...] |
2006-10-18 04:07:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH665 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, OCTOBER 6: MECCA, [...] (C) Shaykh Saud Ibn-Ibrahim al-Shuraym delivered the sermon in the at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on October 6. The sermon focused on the stories in the Koran, especially the Surah of Hud, which speaks of ancient communities. The imam said, "The Islamic nation is in dire need to ponder the Ko [...] |
2006-10-18 04:07:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH673 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, OCTOBER 13: [...] (C) Sheikh Salih bin-Abdallah bin-Humayd delivered the sermon in Mecca on October 13. He emphasized the holiness of the last ten nights of Ramadan, especially the Night of Power. The imam urged Muslims to make the best of Ramadan by praying, reading the Koran, and giving charity. In the sec [...] |
2006-10-28 07:03:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH694 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, OCTOBER 27: [...] (C) Sheikh Dr. Usamah Abdallah al-Khayyat delivered the sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on October 27. He said that all people seek a happy life, and that "everyone knows that a heart free of grudges is the means to achieve happiness and success. If hostility, which stems from grudges, [...] |
2006-11-06 12:34:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH765 | MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, DECEMBER 15: [...] (C) Sheikh Salih bin-Abdallah bin-Humayd delivered the sermon in Mecca on December 15. He began by encouraging Muslims to follow Allah and participate in the Hajj. The imam continued, "Muslims are feeling that their religion is being exposed to fierce onslaught. They talk about this onslau [...] |
2006-12-19 14:05:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL |
| 06JEDDAH769 | IRF OFFICER MEETS WITH CHRISTIAN LEADERS [...] (S) Summary. In a visit to Jeddah and Dhahran, DRL/IRF officer Kate Lurie met with various leaders of the Christian communities. In Jeddah, Lurie and Poloff held several meetings with leaders of Christian congregations. In Dhahran, Lurie met with three Americans, two Protestants and one Ca [...] |
2006-12-19 15:56:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | KIRF SOCI SA |
| 06JEDDAH770 | GACA'S NEED FOR FAA ASSISTANCE IN ITS NEW AGE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (U) Summary. EconOff from Riyadh and Jeddah Pol-Econ Chief met with the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) to follow up on a June 2006 meeting with the Ambassador regarding GACA's need for regulatory training, update [...] |
2006-12-20 06:11:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV SA |
| 06JEDDAH86 | NEW SOUTH AFRICAN CONSUL GENERAL SPEAKS OF TRADE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an introductory meeting on January 29, new South African Consul General Mahdi Basadien described his mission to promote South African trade, particularly in mining and defense. His post also supports some 27,000 South Africans who travel to Saudi Arabia each year on pilgrimag [...] |
2006-01-30 09:11:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD IR KISL KNNP PARM PREL SA SF |
| 06JEDDAH98 | YOUNGEST MEMBER OF CHINA DELEGATION PROVIDES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff met on January 29 the youngest member of the delegation of Saudi private citizens that accompanied King Abdullah on his much-heralded recent visit to China. Sultan al-Attar, who turned 25 on the trip, was effusive in his praise for King Abdullah, highlighting the King's abi [...] |
2006-02-01 14:26:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PTER PREL SA |
| 06JEDDAH99 | "REAL PEOPLE TOUR": STUDENTS PROVIDE TOUR OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. As Post previously reported, Poloff visited on January 22 the central campus of Um al-Qura University, known as a center of Islamic learning in the Kingdom, in the heart of the Islamic holy city of Mecca and met with University Rector Dr. Nasir A. al-Saleh and several administrat [...] |
2006-02-01 14:34:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL CVIS PTER SCUL PREL SA |
| 06KHARTOUM1589 | Sudan: 2005 Import-Export Trade Report [...] SUMMARY: 2005 trade statistics from the Central Bank of Sudan (CBOS) shows a trade balance roughly six times higher than the 2004 level, growing from a negative USD 297 million in 2004 to negative USD 1,932 million. Crude oil exports make up 82 percent of the total during 2005, up from 78 pe [...] |
2006-07-08 11:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EPET PGOV CH SA US SU |
| 06KHARTOUM2411 | SAUDI ARABIA EXTRADITES PROMINENT SLM LEADER TO [...] (C) Summary: Prominent Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) leader and ethnic Fur Abu Alghasim Ahmed was arrested in Saudi Arabia and returned to Sudan this past week. This comes shortly after his brother, Zakaria Ahmed Abu Alghasim, was arrested in connection with the recent beheading of Suda [...] |
2006-10-01 15:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KCRM SA SU |
| 06KHARTOUM248 | SOUTH AFRICAN ASSISTANCE TO SUDAN [...] (U) In a meeting January 30, Counselor of South African Embassy Ebrahim Edries provided Pol/Econ officer with an overview of South African assistance programs in Sudan. The main focus of the programs is on capacity building, especially on Southern Sudan. Edries said within the next few weeks [...] |
2006-02-01 13:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL AU SU SA |
| 06KHARTOUM257 | JUBA OPENS ITS FIRST COMMERCIAL BANK [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a three-hour ceremony on February 1, a large gathering of influential southern Sudanese, supported by a large crowd, celebrated the official opening of the Nile Commercial Bank (NCB), the first institution of its kind in Juba. NCB was reportedly the brainchild of John Garang, [...] |
2006-02-02 12:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV SU SA UG KE |
| 06KINSHASA1439 | THREE DAYS IN KINSHASA: HIGH-LEVEL MEETINGS AND A [...] (C) Summary. Two days of high-level visitors to Kinshasa September 11 and 12 were followed September 13 by the long-awaited face-to-face meeting between President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, the two protagonists in the Congolese presidential elections and August 20-22 [...] |
2006-09-14 14:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG EUN UK SA |
| 06KINSHASA1686 | SOUTH AFRICAN OBSERVER MISSIONS CALLS DRC [...] (U) The South African Observer Mission (SAOM) characterized the DRC's October 29 presidential and provincial elections as "democratic, peaceful, credible, and transparent." The 108-member observer mission was deployed in all eleven provinces, with an average of three teams in each. It was le [...] |
2006-11-01 09:43:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SA CG ELECTIONS |
| 06KIRKUK18 | (SBU) SALAH AD DIN GOVERNOR WINS KRG LARGESSE [...] (U) This is a SET Tikrit cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The Governor of Salah Ad Din, a predominantly Sunni Arab province, is making inroads with Kurdish Regional Government President Barzani. Governor Hamad met with Barzani in January; he came away with a commitment for the KRG to fund medical s [...] |
2006-01-29 19:15:00 | REO Kirkuk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ TU JO SA |
| 06KUWAIT1594 | APPEAL OF PENINSULA LIONS VERDICT: JUDGE REFERS [...] (SBU) Summary: The trial of the remaining 36 Peninsula Lions defendants took a new turn on May 3 when the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals referred the original 37 cases to the Constitutional Court for a decision on the constitutionality of the charges relating to collaboration to commit [...] |
2006-05-06 11:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
| 06KUWAIT1675 | REGIONAL CT STRATEGY FOR IRAQ AND ITS NEIGHBORS: [...] (S REL AUS UK) Summary: Chiefs of Mission from Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria conferred via video conference on April 26 to follow up on Regional Strategy Initiative (RSI) proposals first formulated at a March 7-8 counterterrorism (CT) strategy session in Kuwait (Ref A) to counter foreign [...] |
2006-05-11 03:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV IZ KU SY JO TU SA |
| 06KUWAIT3640 | TRIPARTITE COMMISSION TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE 51ST [...] Summary: Kuwait hosted the 51st session of the Tripartitite Commission's Technical Subcommittee (TSC) on September 5, 2006 with representatives from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, France, Britain, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), and Embassy Kuwait in attendance. The session [...] |
2006-09-10 14:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR IZ SA KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
| 06KUWAIT3877 | MINISTER OF ISLAMIC AFFAIRS ON FOSTERING MODERATION [...] (C/NF) Summary: The Ambassador called on Dr. Abdullah Al-Maatouq, who serves as both Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs (MAIA), on September 27. They discussed the MAIA's upcoming Moderation conference in Washington, which the Minister said had been in some jeopardy of c [...] |
2006-09-28 06:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KIRF SA KU |
| 06KUWAIT4147 | REFINERY DISPUTE WITH SAUDI ARABIAN TEXACO [...] (C/NF) Post concurs with Embassy Riyadh's points in ref. A, but would add that further delay of Kuwaiti plans to build a new 615,000 bpd refinery could adversely affect U.S. companies considering participation in the project including Fluor, Parsons, GE, and Bechtel. In addition, the start o [...] |
2006-10-17 12:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EINV PREL KU SA OIL SECTOR |
| 06KUWAIT4153 | IRAQ AND NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE REGIONAL CT [...] (U) This message, cleared by embassies Kuwait, Riyadh, Amman, Damascus, Baghdad, and Ankara, provides recommendations for regional activities to advance the counterterrorism strategy developed in March in Kuwait. While not exhaustive, the initiatives described below are in posts' opinion relatively [...] |
2006-10-17 21:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL KISL OEXC KU IZ SY JO TU SA |
| 06KUWAIT4377 | SECTARIAN TENSION IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OVER BOOK [...] (U) Abdul Hadi Al-Salih, the Minister for National Assembly Affairs and one of two Shi'a ministers in the Kuwaiti government, sparked a rare public Sunni-Shi'a row when he distributed to MPs over Ramadan a book of prayers, called Al-Sahifa Al-Sajjadiyya (available in English at http://www.sh [...] |
2006-11-05 10:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KIRF SA BA IR KU |
| 06KUWAIT4536 | 29TH MEETING OF THE TRIPARTITE COMMISSION AND THE [...] Summary. The 29th Meeting of the Tripartite Commission on Gulf War Missing met in Geneva on November 15, 2006. The Commission announced the closure of 12 cases. The Commission agreed on a plan of action to address the inability of the Commission's Technical Subcommittee to conduct any field [...] |
2006-11-29 13:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM AORC MARR IZ SA KU |
| 06KUWAIT881 | TRIPARTITE COMMISSION'S TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE'S [...] Summary: Kuwait hosted the 50th session of the Tripartitite Commission's Technical Subcommittee (TSC) on March 14, 2006 with representatives from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, France, Britain, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), and Embassies Kuwait and Baghdad in attendance. [...] |
2006-03-15 10:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR IZ SA KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
| 06KUWAIT913 | REGIONAL CT STRATEGY FOR IRAQ AND ITS NEIGHBORS: [...] (S REL AUS UK) Summary: U.S. Chiefs of Mission and Embassy representatives from Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey met in Kuwait, March 7-8, as a first step to develop a regional counterterrorism strategy. Ambassador for Counterterrorism Henry Crumpton and U.S. interagency repres [...] |
2006-03-18 04:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PTER PREL IZ KU SY JO TU SA |
| 06MANILA1982 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 5 MEETING WITH FOREIGN SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary. In a May 5 meeting, the Ambassador thanked Secretary of Foreign Affairs Romulo for the Philippine SIPDIS government's support for efforts to keep Iran off the UNHRC. She urged the GRP to pursue concerns about terrorist financing when President Arroyo visits Saudi Arabia on May [...] |
2006-05-09 07:56:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM PTER RP BM IR SA |
| 06MANILA2136 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 18 MEETING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (S) The Ambassador, accompanied by the DCM and Regional Affairs Chief, visited National Security Advisor Norberto "Bert" Gonzales on May 18. Gonzales said he had useful side meetings with his Saudi counterpart during President Arroyo's May 7-10 visit to Saudi Arabia. He asked Saudi National [...] |
2006-05-19 08:56:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PGOV PTER PHUM PREL SA RP |
| 06MUSCAT148 | OMAN CALLS FOR IMPROVED INTERNATIONAL POLIO [...] According to local media, four cases of polio were reported in Oman in 2004 and 2005. Two Yemeni brothers, aged 9 and 10, were treated for symptoms of poliomyelitis, while visiting the Sultanate during the summer of 2005. The Omani Ministry Of Health also reported two cases of polio were "i [...] |
2006-02-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PREL SA MU ESTH |
| 06MUSCAT1728 | SAUDI KING ABDULLAH'S VISIT TO MUSCAT [...] (C) During a December 24 meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi to discuss a range of regional issues (septels), Ambassador inquired about the visit of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud to Oman. Bin Alawi stated that King Abdullah, who arrived to a red [...] |
2006-12-26 12:12:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA MU |
| 06NDJAMENA1368 | CHADIAN FM ACCUSES SAUDIS OF AIDING REBELS [...] (U) Chadian Foreign Minister Allam-Mi called in the Ambassador this morning, 11/27, to discuss the current rebel attacks in Chad and the GOC's public allegation that Saudi Arabia is supporting the rebellion. The FM was meeting with each Chief of Mission individually. 2. (C) The FM stat [...] |
2006-11-27 16:04:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PREF CD SU SA LY |
| 06NEWDELHI802 | SEEKING GUIDANCE ON ENGAGING INDIA ON CCIT [...] (U) This is an Action Request for IO and S/CT -- see Para 3. 2. (C) Background: MEA Joint Secretary (UN/Political) Sanjiv Arora told us on February 2 that, following MEA's discussion with Ambassador Tahir-Kheli (Ref A), New Delhi approached the Saudi delegation on the Convention on Terro [...] |
2006-02-03 12:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KTIA IN SA |
| 06NEWDELHI803 | UNPRECEDENTED INDIA VISIT BY SAUDI KING BOOSTS [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary Sanjay Singh told PolCouns and Poloff on February 2 that Saudi King Abdullah's January 25-28 New Delhi visit - the first in 50 years by a Saudi monarch - was a great success, and far broader in scope than was reported in the media. The visit highlighted energy [...] |
2006-02-03 14:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ETTC PTER UNGA IN SA PK IR IS |
| 06OSLO1141 | NORWAY: SAUDI-TRAINED IMAM CLAIMS 9/11 A US ACTION [...] (U) Imam Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni, leader of a group called 'Norway's United Ulamas,' commented during a net chat on the newspaper Aftenposten's website 12 September that he doubts that Al Qaeda exists, and that 'a good deal of evidence' points to the attacks of 9/11 as being planned by Presi [...] |
2006-09-13 10:27:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL ASEC KPAO SA NO |
| 06PARIS128 | PRESIDENCY MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR ON SYRIA/LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Middle East/Americas advisor Dominique Boche previewed the upcoming visit of Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Gourdault-Montagne to Washington, stressing the need to reassess U.S.-GoF efforts to pressure Damascus, without suggesting that such pressure be eased. Boche d [...] |
2006-01-09 17:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE EG SA FR |
| 06PARIS1428 | PARIS-BASED HARIRI ADVISOR ON LEBANON INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary: During a recent discussion, Basile Yared, a leading Paris-based advisor to Sa'ad Hariri, praised the Secretary for delivering the right message in Beirut on the SIPDIS need for a peaceful, constitutional presidential transition in Lebanon. Yared speculated that it would take t [...] |
2006-03-07 10:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY LE EG SA FR |
| 06PARIS1588 | MARCH 4-6 CHIRAC VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA: FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: Syria/Lebanon were the primary topics of President Chirac's March 4 and 5 meetings with Saudi King Abdullah, with Iran, Hamas/PA, and Iraq discussed to a lesser degree. Elysee contacts described the Saudi monarch as bitter over rejection of the Saudi initiative on Syria-Lebanon [...] |
2006-03-13 14:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA LE SY IR IZ ECON FR |
| 06PARIS40 | MFA ON JANUARY 4 CHIRAC-MUBARAK DISCUSSIONS ON [...] (C) Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herve Besancenot previewed the January 4 Mubarak-Chirac working lunch, expected to focus on Syria/Lebanon. Mubarak will brief Chirac on his January 3 discussions in Riyadh, during which the Egyptian president was expected to press King Abdallah [...] |
2006-01-04 16:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE EG SA FR |
| 06RIYADH1 | PARDONED SAUDI DISSIDENT OUTLINES GRADUALIST [...] (C) Ali Al-Dumaini, one of the three reformers pardoned by King Abdullah in August, described himself and his colleagues as "reformers, not revolutionaries." Although in Al-Dumaini's view the Al Saud do not have a vision for reform, reformers are not seeking a new form of government but rath [...] |
2006-01-02 05:51:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SA |
| 06RIYADH123 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 4 [...] (C) One of post's Shi'a contacts, Mohammad Alltaleb, who doesn't mince words and, if his stories are true, is equally brazen in his actions, says he recently applied to the local branch of the Ministry of Social Affairs to start a self-help organization, with the goal of seeking MEPI funding. [...] |
2006-01-08 13:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ENRG SCUL KWMN SA |
| 06RIYADH1375 | NO WOMEN AMONG SAG APPOINTEES TO EP CHAMBER OF [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced on March 1 its six appointees to the board of the Eastern Province (EP) Chamber of Commerce & Industry (EPCCI): Nasr Al-Hajry; Ghasan Al-Nimr (a Shi'a; also a member of the Ta'awun slate); Halal Al-Twerki (a cousin of Minister Naimi's chi [...] |
2006-03-06 05:53:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWMN KMPI SA |
| 06RIYADH1377 | SHI'A "INDEPENDENTS" DISCUSS NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR [...] (C) A group of Shi'a independents again stressed to ConOffs their community's national identity, desire for reform in the Kingdom, and lack of political ties to Iran. They noted that the SAG is allowing the Shi'a community to build an active but small-scale and unofficial civil society, cente [...] |
2006-03-06 06:45:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH1380 | FEMALE SHI'A ACTIVIST: PRESSURE FOR REFORM MUST [...] (C) Summary: Aliya Al-Fareed (protect), longtime Shi'a political activist, discussed the state of reform in Saudi Arabia with PAO and PolOff in her home in Al-Safwa near Qatif. Al-Fareed was recently appointed to the National Society for Human Rights; she is the only woman among the five memb [...] |
2006-03-06 11:24:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KIRF KWMN SA |
| 06RIYADH1461 | SHI'A ACTIVIST SAYS SHIRAZIS ARE MODERATING [...] (C) Shi'ite political activist Mohammed Al-Shoyoukh told PolOff that Saudi Hezbollah countenances only "peaceful" means to achieve its social and political goals. He said that the "Shirazis," who include the most politically active Shi'a such as Hassan Al-Saffar and Jafar Al-Shayeb, have been [...] |
2006-03-08 08:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR SA |
| 06RIYADH1542 | POST-ABQAIQ MINISTER OF INTERIOR FORMALLY REQUESTS [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (S) Summary and Action Request: Post requests Department's prompt review and guidance in responding to the Saudi government's formal request for helicopter support and security consultations, for the security of oil facilities in the Kingdom. Foreign Mini [...] |
2006-03-12 15:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PTER MASS MARR ASEC PREL EPET ETRD SA |
| 06RIYADH1706 | SHI'A CIVIL SOCIETY, LOOKING TO THE STARS [...] (C) Summary: A meeting with the Qatif Astronomy Society on March 13th 2006 provided a snapshot of how civil society can operate in the Shi'a areas of Saudi Arabia. The Qatif Astronomy Society was begun locally with 12 founding members in February 2003, and has no license or official authoriza [...] |
2006-03-15 13:40:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KMPI KPAO KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH1741 | SHI'A LEADER TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ALL OPPORTUNITIES [...] (C) Jafar Al-Shayeb, President and elected member of Qatif's municipal council and one of five people appointed to the Dammam branch of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), shared with CG and PolOff on March 15 his philosophy that "every positive initiative should be utilized." He d [...] |
2006-03-18 11:12:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH175 | CULTURAL AND SPORTS PROGRAMMING IN SAUDI ARABIA [...] (U) Summary: Cultural and sports programming in Saudi Arabia can effectively support MPP objectives and USG interests. Cultural programming has been especially useful in providing access to the 'hard to reach' groups of women and youth, and in challenging negative stereotypes of the United Sta [...] |
2006-01-16 10:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL SA |
| 06RIYADH186 | FEMALE CONSULATE STAFF PARTICIPATE IN EID CALLS [...] (C) For the first time in Consulate history, two female Mission staff members participated in most of the Consulate's calls over the recent Eid Al-Adha. Consulate staff traditionally call on the Emir of the Eastern Province (EP), the EP head of the Saudi Arabia National Guard (SANG), and a n [...] |
2006-01-18 10:04:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL KWMN SA |
| 06RIYADH1920 | 'CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY' IS OFF-LIMITS FOR A [...] (C) Nawal Al Yousif (protect), a Shi'a journalist and founder of www.saudiyat.net, noted in a meeting with the PAO on March 17, 2006 that mentioning a constitutional democracy in her writing crossed a red line with the Saudi Ministry of Interior. "The Mubahith (Investigative Police) came to s [...] |
2006-03-21 09:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KMPI KIRF KPAO SA |
| 06RIYADH1982 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 5 [...] (SBU) During a recent lunch with PolOff, an appointed member of the Al-Ahsa municipal council who is also an American-educated professor of plant physiology fielded two phone calls from students. The first was from a female graduate student who needed help on some laboratory research she was [...] |
2006-03-22 10:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH2146 | SAUDI LEADERS UPBEAT ON U.S.-SAUDI MILITARY [...] (S) Summary and Comment: During separate meetings on March 22 with visiting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace, Saudi leaders spoke favorably of the U.S.-Saudi military relationship. King Abdullah, although deeply unhappy about Iraq and the issue of helicopter support fo [...] |
2006-03-29 14:32:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL PTER SA |
| 06RIYADH2542 | Avian Flu: Saudi Arabia Closing Small Poultry [...] (U) Summary: Meetings with the WHO representative, Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), and Ministry of Health (MOH) revealed that the SAG has established necessary preparations for avian flu, including action plans, an emergency "hotline" number, monitoring and testing sites for migratory birds, a [...] |
2006-04-09 13:43:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAGR SA |
| 06RIYADH2544 | Cultural Norms and Non-Transparency Hamstring [...] (SBU) Summary: Meetings with public health officials during the visit of regional ESTH officer to Saudi Arabia provided a snapshot of Saudi health issues: a population increasingly afflicted with costly illnesses of the wealthy - obesity, diabetes, and heart disease - and a health system tha [...] |
2006-04-10 04:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KHIV SA |
| 06RIYADH2560 | Saudi Science Research - Gathering Strength [...] Summary: Academic and scientific researchers in Saudi Arabia are hungry for more contact with American counterparts and believe that the Saudi research system is increasingly operating up to international standards. Improved education and upcoming research opportunities fQ women, including the [...] |
2006-04-10 12:27:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL TBIO SENV KHIV CVIS SA |
| 06RIYADH2563 | Environmentalism Slowly Comes to Saudi Arabia [...] Summary: Saudi environmental and natural resource institutions were late in getting established and remain small in size and influence. Meetings with the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) and the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development highlighted that pub [...] |
2006-04-10 13:43:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KFLU SA |
| 06RIYADH2682 | EP CORPORATE BANKER UPBEAT ABOUT IMPACT OF WTO [...] (SBU) Zaki Al-Yahya, Eastern Province-based Assistant General Manager in Samba's Corporate & Investment Banking Group, painted an upbeat picture about recent developments in the banking sector in a conversation with EconOff April 10. As a lender to many of the major EP businesses who serve as [...] |
2006-04-12 08:25:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SA |
| 06RIYADH2683 | VISITING PRIEST DETAINED BY SAG IN DAMMAM, [...] (C) According to two sources in the Eastern Province's (EP's) expatriate Indian Roman Catholic community, a Catholic priest was detained by the SAG on April 5 while presiding over an evening service at a large compound or farm in Dammam. The priest, an Indian national from Kerala who was vis [...] |
2006-04-12 12:46:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH275 | ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON THE SHI'A "SHIRAZIS" [...] (C) Kamal Al-Khattee, son of a former Shi'a judge in Qaif, discussed with PolOff the evolution of the Shi'a faction known as the "Shirazis," who include Hassan Al-Saffar, Jafar Al-Shayeb, Tawfiq Al-Sayf, and others. According to Al-Khattee, they moved from Iran to Syria and elsewhere in the 1 [...] |
2006-01-23 07:38:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH2793 | POTENTIAL NEW REVENUE-SHARING AGREEMENT BETWEEN [...] (C) In a conversation on April 13, two expatriate analysts at Saudi Aramco told PAO and EconOff that Aramco and the SAG were in the process of making a significant change to their revenue-sharing practices. In the past, they explained, Aramco had reserved from its revenue stream the amount n [...] |
2006-04-17 13:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EFIN PGOV SA |
| 06RIYADH2840 | SAUDI SHI'A EXPRESS ANGER AT PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S [...] (U) In the week since President Mubarak remarked in an interview with Al-Arabiyya that Shi'a were "mostly loyal to Iran and not the countries they are living in," PolOff and PAO have asked many of post's Saudi Shi'a contacts about the Shi'a community's reaction. To a person, our contacts said [...] |
2006-04-18 12:13:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH2893 | GULF WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: CIVIL SOCIETY, SAUDI [...] (SBU) Summary: Jameyat Fatat al Khaleej is one of the oldest women's charitable societies in Saudi Arabia, and provides an example of a civil society organization welcomed by the government. Founded and run by women from the Eastern Province's most prominent business families, and with close [...] |
2006-04-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KPAO KMPI SA |
| 06RIYADH3147 | ARAMCO VP THINKS KARAN GAS DISCOVERY WILL PROVE "A [...] (C) Summary: Yousef Rafie, Saudi Aramco's Senior VP for Gas Operations, expanded on press reports of Aramco's recent discovery of gas in the Karan field, saying that the exploratory well was drilled into the first layer of the deep Khuff formation and was producing dry gas. He estimated res [...] |
2006-04-27 10:48:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH3301 | CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE EP: THE ICE IS SLOWLY [...] (C) Government influence and oversight pervade the Eastern Province's (EP's) older civil society organizations. The SAG provides part of their funding, appoints or approves board members, and regulates their by-laws. Yet the ice is slowly breaking. The government is beginning to relinquish [...] |
2006-05-02 08:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KMPI KDEM SA |
| 06RIYADH3306 | HASAWI SHI'A DETAIL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VIOLATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In separate conversations with PolOff in Al-Ahsa on April 25, two groups of Shi'a leaders and activists discussed discrimination and restrictions on their religious freedom, as well as steps they had taken to address some of these problems. Abdulaziz Al-Bahrany, the patient and [...] |
2006-05-02 13:05:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH3312 | THE SAUDI SHI'A: WHERE DO THEIR LOYALTIES LIE? [...] (S) Some Sunni Arab leaders, including Egypt's President Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah, have recently publicly questioned the loyalties of Arab Shi'a populations in the Middle East. Privately, senior Saudi officials raise similar concerns. Given the ongoing sectarian conflict in Iraq, [...] |
2006-05-02 14:55:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS SA |
| 06RIYADH3315 | HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE: LIMITED [...] (C) Summary: Higher education in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia offers limited opportunities for students, particularly women and Shi'a. What is available is of questionable quality, suffering from centralized and religious control, poor student preparation, and difficulty in recruitin [...] |
2006-05-02 15:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV KMPI KPAO KIRF KWMN SA |
| 06RIYADH3346 | BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY, ONE DISCUSSION AT A TIME [...] (C) Summary: In the past year, Consulate officers have observed increasing numbers of small civil society groups forming in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Also notable is that many of the groups have started to cooperate and interact with each other in pursuit of larger goals. As an [...] |
2006-05-02 16:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV KPAO KMPI SA |
| 06RIYADH3491 | SAUDI-U.K. RELATIONS IMPROVING [...] (C) Summary. During a May 1 dinner, a British Polof who coordinated U.K. Embassy Riyadh,s recent high-level visits commented on the significant improvement in Saudi-U.K. relations over the past two years. He said that Saudi Arabia,s imprisonment and torture of five Britons from December 2 [...] |
2006-05-07 15:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SA |
| 06RIYADH3589 | SHI'A CLERIC DISCUSSES SLOW BUT SIGNIFICANT [...] (C) In a meeting with PolOff on April 28, Shi'a cleric Faisal Al-Awami gave a broadly positive account of changes in Saudi Arabia over the past 10 to 15 years. Al-Awami, who, like many of his politically and religiously active Shi'a colleagues, studied in Iran and Syria starting in the early [...] |
2006-05-10 08:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH3673 | QATIF MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBER CONTINUES TO [...] (C) In a conversation with the CG on April 29, Isa Al-Muzel, an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, described his work at the council as "going well, but frustrating." He said that the biggest problem council members faced at the moment was rooting out institutionalized corruption i [...] |
2006-05-14 12:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH3720 | SAG DETAINS HARD-LINE SHI'A CLERIC RETURNING FROM [...] (C) Post contacts and the Saudi Shi'a-run Rasid News Network (www.rasid.org) report that the Saudi Mubahith detained Shi'a cleric Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr on the evening of May 11 as he was entering Saudi Arabia from Bahrain over the King Fahd Causeway. Al-Nimr is from Awamiya, a small oasis town [...] |
2006-05-15 12:35:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH3766 | ARAMCO CONSULTANT DOUBTS ARAMCO CAN MOVE PAST 12.5 [...] (C) An American expatriate who is a senior consultant to Saudi Aramco on oil drilling operations told the CG recently that he doubted Aramco would be able to develop a maximum sustainable oil production capacity (MSC) "much beyond" 12.5 million barrels per day after 2009. (Note: Aramco's cur [...] |
2006-05-16 06:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON SA |
| 06RIYADH3852 | ARAMCO CEO: THE OIL ERA IS NOT OVER [...] (C) At a dinner on May 14 hosted by businessman Badr Al-Suwaidan, President and CEO of Al-Bilad, and attended by the CG and FCS Off, Abdullah Jumah, CEO of Saudi Aramco, commented in response to a query that U.S. energy policy is "confusing" and "has no logic." He claimed that the U.S. was s [...] |
2006-05-20 08:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL PINR SA |
| 06RIYADH3889 | DETAINED SHI'A CLERIC RELEASED; A SECOND [...] (C) The SAG released detained Shi'a cleric Nimr Al-Nimr in the evening of May 15, according to his brother Mohammed Al-Nimr. Al-Nimr had been in SAG custody since May 11 (ref A). A small delegation of family and others had met with the Eastern Province's vice governor, Prince Jiluwi, earlier [...] |
2006-05-20 14:22:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SA |
| 06RIYADH390 | REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY [...] (C) Ambassador met with SAG U/S for Political Affairs Prince Turki Saud al-Kabir on January 28 to deliver reftel points and paper. (Note: FM Prince Saud al-Faisal was accompanying King Abdullah on four-country Asian travel and is not expected back in the Kingdom until 2/5.) Ambassador stress [...] |
2006-01-29 10:48:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL AORC SA IR |
| 06RIYADH3974 | BETWEEN OIL WELLS AND THE SEA: A POLITICIAN SHOWS [...] (SBU) "Over there you can see one of Aramco's wells," Nabih Al-Ibrahim, a Saudi Aramco engineer and an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, told PolOff and PAO, gesturing to his left as the group drove down the main access road into his home town of Awamiya off the Dhahran-Jubail high [...] |
2006-05-22 10:09:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PINR SA |
| 06RIYADH3977 | CHRISTIAN EXPATRIATE DOCTOR TOLD TO LEAVE KINGDOM [...] (C) Mission and DRL contact Roy Markara told PolOff on May 18 that Dr. Florence Isaac, a Christian doctor of Indian origin who has been working in the Kingdom for a number of years, had her medical license suspended and was told by the SAG that she had to leave the Kingdom before June 16. Acc [...] |
2006-05-22 12:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH3978 | SAUDI REFORMER DISCUSSES THE CREDIBILITY OF [...] (C) Summary: Long-time reformer Ahmed Al Mulla discussed the current state of Saudi reform with the Consul General on March 28th 2006. Linking the loss of credibility of Saudi sheikhs with their cooperation with the government, he noted a new sheikh whose message is clear-- the Middle East suf [...] |
2006-05-22 12:39:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH4180 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 6 [...] (C/NF) In the course of a day trip to Jubail on May 28, the CG learned that Bechtel, which has the management contract for Jubail, has decided to allow families of its expatriate workers to return. As a result, there will be forty new American children joining school in Jubail in the fall. [...] |
2006-05-29 13:25:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON EINV PHUM SA |
| 06RIYADH42 | AL-HASA SHI'A WELCOME U.S. INTERVENTION IN IRAQ, [...] (C) Members of the Shi'a community in Al-Hasa welcomed U.S. intervention in Iraq, saying an almost unqualified "thank you" during lunch with Acting CG and PolOff. Although noting some progress in the SAG's campaign against home-grown terrorism, they said that the government's campaign for to [...] |
2006-01-03 11:16:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KISL SA KIFR |
| 06RIYADH4224 | SAG RELEASES ARRESTED FILIPINO CHRISTIAN [...] (C) Mrs. Minerva Cabel (strictly protect), wife of arrested Filipino Christian pastor Francisco Cabel (strictly protect), informed Poloff May 29 that her husband was released May 25 (reftels). She stated that the SAG had given her husband one month before they will deport the entire family. [...] |
2006-05-30 13:46:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH4231 | SAG DECREE ON RELIGIOUS POLICE GAUGES PUBLIC [...] (U) Recent media and Web site reports carried news of a decree issued by the Ministry of Interior May 24, which some interpret as an effort to curtail the seemingly unlimited and undefined authority of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also known as the religi [...] |
2006-05-30 15:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM SA |
| 06RIYADH4539 | EP SANG COMMANDER DISCUSSES IRAN, IRAQ [...] (C) Prince Mishari bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) in the Eastern Province (EP), told the CG on June 5 that he did not think the "problem between the world and Iran," as he described it, would come to war. The Iranians are "merchants," he [...] |
2006-06-07 12:09:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PINS SA |
| 06RIYADH4543 | A POSSIBLE RETREAT ON SAUDIZATION? [...] (C) At a lunch hosted by senior EP businessman Yusuf Al-Dossary and his brothers, Al-Dossary told the CG that he expected an imminent but quietly implemented retreat on Saudization employment policies. Al-Dossary, a member of the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce & Industry (EPCCI) board, [...] |
2006-06-07 13:05:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON EINV SA |
| 06RIYADH4627 | COORDINATED MOVES: FOUR BROTHERS PLAY LOCAL EP [...] (C) Summary: At a lunch with Consulate staff on June 6, Yousef, Khalifa, Khalid, and Mohammed Al-Dossary, brothers with a variety of business interests and political activities (ref A), described several aspects of the Eastern Province (EP) political situation. Yousef said that EP Emir Princ [...] |
2006-06-11 06:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SA |
| 06RIYADH4638 | DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DELIVERED TO SAG [...] (C) ADCM raised reftel points during 6/12 meeting with MFA Undersecretary for Political Affairs Prince Turki al-Kabir Al Saud. APolCouns attended as notetaker. U/S Turki expressed concern over reftel point referring to deferring Israel/Palestine discussion at inaugural HRC meeting, particula [...] |
2006-06-12 12:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH4719 | LEAHY VETTING FOR LIEUTENANT COLONEL MOHAMED MUTLK [...] Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Mutlk G. Al Dhafari, who has been identified to participate in DOD training. The course in which Lt Col Al Dhafari will participate is the National [...] |
2006-06-13 05:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM PINR PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH4723 | SHI'A CLERIC ASKS U.S. TO EXERT MORE INFLUENCE [...] (C) Sheikh Mohammed Hassan, introduced by a post contact as a leading Saudi follower of Karbala-based Ayatollah Mohammed Taqi Al-Mudarassi, told PolOff in a June 11 meeting that the U.S. should play a more active role in calling for reform in Saudi Arabia. "All reform in the Kingdom is taking [...] |
2006-06-13 08:37:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SA |
| 06RIYADH4724 | A LOVE FEST: THE "KING OF HEARTS" VISITS THE EP [...] (U) King Abdullah visited the Eastern Province (EP) June 10-12, provoking great public displays of adoration and allegiance and some private questioning about his commitment to reform. The King's agenda included a ceremonial opening of planned industrial city Jubail-II, launching of numerous [...] |
2006-06-13 09:35:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SA |
| 06RIYADH4775 | SAG RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: JUNE OIC BAKU [...] (C) A/PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Abdulrahman Al-Rassi, MFA Office Director for International Organizations. Al-Rassi will be the SAG representative at the OIC conference and was keenly interested in the US position reflected in the reftel demarche. In particular, he appreciated t [...] |
2006-06-14 14:58:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH4776 | SAG RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON YEMENI GCC ASSISTANCE [...] (C) A/PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Abdulrahman Al-Rassi, MFA Office Director for International Orgnizations. Al-Rassi confirmed that SAG agreed that providing financial assistance to Yemen through the GCC is important in ensuring regional stability. When asked whether they plan on pr [...] |
2006-06-14 14:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PTER SA |
| 06RIYADH4818 | SAG DEMARCHE RESPONSE: SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA IN [...] (C) A/PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Abdulrahman Al-Rassi, Office Director for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 14. Al-Rassi noted the US position, and was interested to know the number of times that each country had served on the UN Security Counc [...] |
2006-06-17 14:08:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV SA |
| 06RIYADH4854 | TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE -- SAUDI ARABIA [...] (U) PolOff, in coordination with the New Zealand and Australian Embassies, delivered reftel demarche May 31 to Abdulrahman Al-Rassj, First Secretary, International Organizations Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al-Rassj responded that the SAG had not yet formed a position on the [...] |
2006-06-18 13:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH4914 | SAUDI HEZBOLLAH FIGURE OFFERS A SLIGHTLY TOUGHER [...] (C) In a May 28 meeting with PolOff and PolFSN, Ahmed Al-Nimr (Ahmed), brother and office manager of Shi'a cleric Sheikh Hassan Al-Nimr (Hassan), explained that Hassan would not meet with American diplomats because "he would lose the respect of people on the street, who would ask why he met w [...] |
2006-06-19 12:46:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SA |
| 06RIYADH4919 | REMAINS RETURNED, FAMILIES OF GTMO DETAINEES CALL [...] (U) Following the deaths of the three GTMO detainees, Abdulaziz Suleiman al-Rubaish, whose brother is currently detained at GTMO, contacted the Embassy and asked to meet with the Ambassador. PolMilOff met al-Rubaish at the Embassy front gate and accepted a letter addressed to President Bush f [...] |
2006-06-19 14:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAO PGOV PREL MOPS PTER KAWC SA XF |
| 06RIYADH4960 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL--ANTICIPATED OIC ASSAULT [...] (SBU) Post attempted to contact FM Saud Al-Faisal on June 19 to deliver ref a demarche. He is currently on vacation in an intentionally remote location. We delivered demarche by diplomatic note directly to the FM's Chief of Staff, who agreed to forward to the FM. Please note that Post del [...] |
2006-06-20 10:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SA |
| 06RIYADH4966 | NOTICE OF SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Post notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on April 23 of the upcoming Administrative Review Board on the status of the Saudi detainees named in Reftel. We will notify the Department of any response from the SAG. OBERWETTER [...] |
2006-06-20 12:42:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH4967 | SAG NOTIFIED OF SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Post notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on April 23 of the upcoming Administrative Review Board on the status of the Saudi detainees named in Reftel. We will notify the Department of any response from the SAG. OBERWETTER [...] |
2006-06-20 12:43:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH4997 | HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ACCEPTS FORMAL ROLE ON HUMAN [...] (C) Ibrahim Al-Mugaiteeb, President of the unregistered Human Rights First Society, told the CG on June 17 that he had accepted a formal role with the government-affiliated Human Rights Commission (HRC) run by Dr. Turki Al-Sudairy. Al-Mugaiteeb said that Al-Sudairy had offered him a position [...] |
2006-06-21 04:41:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR PREL SA |
| 06RIYADH5036 | QATIF MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBER ADVOCATES PATIENTLY [...] (C) In a June 29 meeting with PolOff, Dr. Riyadh Al-Mustafa, an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, detailed his and the council's efforts to improve Qatif's services and infrastructure. Al-Mustafa, whose constituency is the town of Qatif itself, said that the council's first priori [...] |
2006-06-23 08:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
| 06RIYADH5042 | USD EDELMAN'S MEETINGS WITH THE KING AND CROWN [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed the U.S.-Saudi defense relationship, regional security, helicopters, Iran, Iraq, and visas during separate meetings with King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan on June 6. Both the King and Crown Prince were supportive of [...] |
2006-06-24 14:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | MARR MASS MCAP SA PTER PREL PARM PINR |
| 06RIYADH5079 | USD EDELMAN'S MEETING WITH ASSISTANT MOI PRINCE [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed detainees, helicopters, infrastructure security, Iraq, and border security during a June 6 meeting with Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs Prince Muhammad bin Naif. Prince Muhammad confirmed that the SA [...] |
2006-06-25 04:36:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | SA MARR PBTS PGOV PINR PINS PTER ENRG |
| 06RIYADH5083 | INTERNET JOURNALISM CHANGING PERSPECTIVES AMONG EP [...] (C) Hussein Al-Alak, a Qatif-based journalist for online Rasid News Network (www.rasid.org; the premier Internet forum for Saudi Shi'a), discussed with PolOff and PAO on June 20 the growing influence of Internet journalism among the Shi'a. Because the government has permitted much greater fre [...] |
2006-06-25 08:36:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL SA |
| 06RIYADH5105 | SAUDIS NAME NEW IRAQ BORDER LIAISON OFFICER [...] (S) General Saleh bin Ali al-Muhayya, Chief of General Staff of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense and Aviation (MODA) sent a letter (classified "secret/urgent") to CHUSMTM May 30 on the appointment of a new Saudi-Iraq border liaison officer. The new officer is LTC Khalid bin Mohamed al-S [...] |
2006-06-25 15:57:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PBTS PGOV PREL PINR SA IZ MARR MOPS |
| 06RIYADH5106 | SCENESETTER FOR THE JUNE 27 VISIT OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia warmly welcomes your visit to Jeddah June 27. Ambassador Oberwetter and Consul General Tatiana Gfoeller look forward to meeting you and will accompany you on a number of your calls on Saudi leaders. Per your request, appointments are being requested in Jedd [...] |
2006-06-25 16:02:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PREL PGOV OVIP PTER IZ SA |
| 06RIYADH5111 | TRIBAL LEADER PLAYS POLITICS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE [...] (C) In a June 21 meeting with Consulate Dhahran and Embassy Manama PolOffs, Essa Al-Dossary, self-styled deputy sheikh of the Al-Dossary tribe in the Eastern Province (EP) and the Kingdom of Bahrain, described to PolOffs the nature of his influence on both sides of the causeway. Al-Dossary e [...] |
2006-06-26 12:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA BA |
| 06RIYADH5114 | KING LAUNCHES ECONOMIC AND EDUCATION INITIATIVES [...] (C) Summary: King Abdullah recently completed his first national tour since becoming King. Traveling with his Cabinet, the King visited the Ha'il, Al Qassim, Medina and Eastern provinces promoting government support for economic, industrial, health and educational development of the regions [...] |
2006-06-26 14:21:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SA |
| 06RIYADH5135 | THE TRANSLATED TEXT OF THE WARNING AND STATEMENT [...] (U) What follows is post's Arabic translation of the "Warning and Statement" published by 61 Saudi conservative religious scholars as discussed in septel. 2. (U) BEGIN TRANSLATED TEXT: Statement addressed to the Rulers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The statement was posted on: http://ww [...] |
2006-06-27 14:20:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED |