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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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08USUNNEWYORK303 | 1540: RUSSIANS SHOW NO FLEXIBILITY ON RESOLUTION [...] (C) Amb. Wolff raised U.S. objectives (consistent with ref A) for the resolution to renew the mandate of the Security Council Committee established by resolution 1540 (2004) with Russian Deputy PermRep Constantin Dolgov on April 3. Dolgov responded that he has firm instructions from "high l [...] | 2008-04-04 21:43:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
08USUNNEWYORK313 | UN/1267 SANCTIONS: ARAB AND PAKISTANI SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior officials representing the intelligence and security services of Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Yemen have complained to the UN that the Security Council has thus far failed to impose sanctions on alleged al-Qaida terrorists that these governments [...] | 2008-04-07 23:44:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK314 | 1540: RUSSIANS QUESTION U.S. PROPOSALS FOR [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: On the margins of the Security Council 1540 Committee's meeting on April 4, Russia's 1540 expert, Dmitry Feoktistov, advised USUN that Moscow has reviewed the UK, French, and U.S. amendments to Russia's draft resolution to renew the Committee's mandate for two years. Reit [...] | 2008-04-07 23:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
08USUNNEWYORK316 | LEBANON: UNIIIC COMMISSIONER BELLEMARE APPEALS [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: UNIIIC Commissioner and Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Prosecutor-Designate Daniel Bellemare told Amb. Khalilzad privately on April 4 that the UNIIIC mandate, which is scheduled to expire June 15 absent action by the Security Council, should be extended at least until [...] | 2008-04-08 17:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PARM PINR PREF MASS SY IS LE PGOV |
08USUNNEWYORK317 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: CANADA TO CONTRIBUTE 1 MILLION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-08 19:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK319 | LEBANON: FRENCH THREATEN TO CIRCULATE SHORT 1701 [...] (C) The French held expert-level consultations on April 7 on their draft UNSC Presidential Statement (PRST) on resolution 1701 (reftel). Libya, South Africa, China, and Panama objected to the draft statement but expressed a willingness to consider a shortened version that simply reiterates su [...] | 2008-04-09 00:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPKO UNSC SY LE IS |
08USUNNEWYORK322 | 1540: JOINT P-3 DEMARCHE TO RUSSIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-09 20:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
08USUNNEWYORK323 | 1540: INDONESIA EXPRESSES RESERVATIONS ABOUT U.S. [...] (SBU) Indonesia's representative to the Security Council's 1540 Committee told USUN on April 8 that Indonesia will support Russia's technical resolution to renew the 1540 Committee's mandate, arguing that the Council should not seek to expand the Committee's mandate or introduce "controversia [...] | 2008-04-09 20:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
08USUNNEWYORK326 | 1540: COMMITTEE AT LOGGERHEADS OVER REPORT [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: The 1540 Committee met again on April 4 to seek to complete negotiations on its draft report to the Security Council, which resolution 1673 requires the Committee to submit by no later than April 27. Despite multiple Committee meetings, extensive changes requested by Ru [...] | 2008-04-10 00:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
08USUNNEWYORK329 | LEBANON: MOST UNSC MEMBERS BACK UNIIIC EXTENSION [...] (SBU) Summary. During a public briefing and then closed consultations of the Security Council on April 8, UN International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) Commissioner and Prosecutor-designate of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Daniel Bellemare asked for a six-month exten [...] | 2008-04-10 00:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK340 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: USUN Legal Adviser Willson and USUN/MR participated in an April 9 meeting of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Management Committee to discuss how best to provide retirement, death and disability benefits to Tribunal employees, as required under Dutch law, including the poss [...] | 2008-04-11 22:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK345 | 1540: NAM SECURITY COUNCIL PERMREPS CONSOLIDATE [...] (C) USUN has learned that the PermReps of Non-Aligned Movement states on the Security Council (Indonesia, Panama, South Africa, Libya, Burkina Faso, and Vietnam) have agreed to support only a two-year renewal of the mandate of the Security Council Committee established by resolution 1540 (2004 [...] | 2008-04-12 00:21:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
08USUNNEWYORK347 | UN COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY - WORKING GROUP [...] (U) Summary. A call for more information on implementation of the General Assembly Counter-Terrorism Strategy dominated a meeting hosted by the Egyptian Mission at which UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Orr briefed on the activities of the Counter-Terrorism Task Force Working Groups. [...] | 2008-04-14 23:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER UN PREL |
08USUNNEWYORK381 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: DUTCH SHARE NEW IDEA FOR [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 10. 2. (S) BEGIN SUMMARY: The Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is considering when the judges should hold their first meeting to begin preparing the rules of procedure and evidence. Committee members acknowled [...] | 2008-04-29 15:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC LE |
08USUNNEWYORK384 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: BUILDING PROPOSAL APPROVED [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: On April 29, the Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) approved the proposal for building a courtroom and holding cells and otherwise refurbishing and equipping the AIVD Building, which the Dutch government is providing to house the STL. The Comm [...] | 2008-04-30 14:42:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK39 | TERRORIST FINANCE: CONSULTATION ON PROPOSED UN [...] (S) Per ref A instructions, USUN PolOff informed Russian and Iraqi counterparts separately that the USG will submit the names of Badran Turki Hishan Al Mazidih and four members of his network for sanctions in the 1267 (Taliban/Al-Qaeda) Committee. USUN PolOff also requested that Iraq co-sponso [...] | 2008-01-15 23:42:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK394 | MIDDLE EAST: USUN LEADS WALK-OUT AFTER LIBYA [...] (SBU) Summary. The UNSC held its monthly discussion on the Middle East on April 23. Following last month's rancorous debate (reftel),SC members agreed to a public briefing by the UN Secretariat, followed by closed consultations. DPA A/SYG Angela Kane briefed on recent attacks in Gaza and s [...] | 2008-05-02 20:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KPAL KWBG KPKO UNSC SY IS LE LY |
08USUNNEWYORK403 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: UN CALLS FOR RELOCATION PLAN FOR [...] (S) Summary. United Nations U/SYG for Safety and Security David Veness briefed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Management Committee members May 1 on risks facing STL judges. Noting recent al-Qaeda threats against the UN, the assassination of a Lebanese official working with UN Internation [...] | 2008-05-05 21:17:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE NL |
08USUNNEWYORK408 | CHAIRMEN OF 1267, COUNTER-TERRORISM, AND 1540 [...] The Chairmen of the UN Security Council's 1267 (Al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee, Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC),and 1540 Committee briefed the Security Council in a public meeting on May 6, 2008, in the ninth such meeting of its kind. The Chairmen, Ambassador Verbeke of Belgium (12 [...] | 2008-05-08 00:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC PTER KNNP EFIN KTFN |
08USUNNEWYORK412 | UN REQUESTS INFORMATION ON COUNTERING THE USE OF [...] Action Request: Please see para 2. 2. USUN has received the following (para 3) letter from the UN which requests information concerning terrorist use of the internet and measures being taken by the U.S. to combat this problem. Action Request. Response to UN requested by June 16. 2 [...] | 2008-05-08 21:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNSC PREL AA |
08USUNNEWYORK42 | TERRORIST FINANCE: LET OPERATIVES [...] (S) USUN PolOff met with counterparts from France, UK, Canada, and Pakistan to deliver reftel demarche and seek co-sponsorship on the upcoming USG designation for sanctions of four Lashkar e-Tayyiba senior operatives in the UN 1267 (Taliban/Al-Qaeda) Sanctions Committee. Both France and Canad [...] | 2008-01-17 00:04:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK421 | UN/1267 SANCTIONS: COMMITTEE DISCUSSES DELISTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Security Council representatives to the 1267 (al-Qaeda/Taliban) Sanctions Committee met May 5 with representatives of Denmark, Liechtenstein, Sweden and Switzerland, at their request, to discuss the Committee's procedures for lifting sanctions against individuals (or, delisting pr [...] | 2008-05-12 18:00:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK422 | UN/1267 SANCTIONS: UNODC BRIEFS COMMITTEE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Jean-Paul Laborde, Chief of the Terrorism Prevention Branch of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),briefed the 1267 (al-Qaeda/Taliban) Sanctions Committee in a formal session on April 21 on cooperation between the UNODC and the Committee. When visiting countries to provide [...] | 2008-05-12 18:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK423 | UN/1267 SANCTIONS: COUNCIL CONSIDERS NON-COMPLIANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgian PermRep and Chairman of the 1267 (al-Qaeda/Taliban) Sanctions Committee Johan Verbeke briefed the Council on April 24 on issues related to non-compliance with the 1267 sanctions regime. The Committee's discussions of specific instances of possible non-compliance were incon [...] | 2008-05-12 18:20:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK435 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: At its meeting on May 9, the Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) continued to make progress on issues relating to staffing and funding, as well as the management of construction needed to prepare the building that will house the STL. The UN [...] | 2008-05-14 23:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK451 | UN/1267 SANCTIONS: SEEKING GUIDANCE ON ALGERIAN [...] (C) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Algerian PolOff El Hadj Lamine informed USUN on May 14 of Algeria's intention to request the designation four individuals associated with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) for sanctions in the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Committ [...] | 2008-05-20 21:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC AG |
08USUNNEWYORK459 | LEBANON: SECURITY COUNCIL WELCOMES DOHA AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) The UN Security Council adopted a Presidential Statement (PRST) on May 22 welcoming the agreement between Lebanese leaders reached in Doha, Qatar one day earlier. The text of the PRST is contained in paragraph 2. Although USUN pushed hard for language calling for full implementation of [...] | 2008-05-23 16:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK460 | TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF UPCOMING [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, USUN notified Security Council members of the USG intention to request in the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee the designation for sanctions of three individuals. USUN also invited Council members to co-sponsor our request. USUN will report any subst [...] | 2008-05-23 19:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK461 | TERRORISM FINANCE: CO-SPONSORSHIP AND [...] (SBU) USUN has notified all UN Security Council members of the USG's intention to request reftel designation for sanctions pursuant to UNSCR 1267, and has invited Council members to cosponsor the request. USUN will report septel any substantive reactions to our request. Khalilzad [...] | 2008-05-23 20:01:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK467 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SCT AMB DAILEY AND [...] In response to Reftel, USUN welcomes the visit of Ambassador Dell Dailey, U.S. Coordinator for Counter-terrorism and Darcy Anderson, Acting Office Director, Office of Trans-Regional Affairs, Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism for discussion of U.S. counter-terrorism policy on May [...] | 2008-05-27 23:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV |
08USUNNEWYORK468 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: Robin Vincent, Registrar of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL),told members of the STL Management Committee on May 22 that he is finalizing the initial budget for the STL's first year and hopes the Committee can approve it by July 11. Vincent estimated the budget [...] | 2008-05-27 23:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK469 | UN COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY - WORKING GROUPS [...] (U) BEGIN SUMMARY: Calls for the UN Counter-Terrorism Task Force (CTITF) Working Groups to involve Member States in their activities and statements of support for the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (A/RES/60/288) dominated comments at a briefing on the CTITF's activities on May 21. Mem [...] | 2008-05-27 23:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER USUN PREL |
08USUNNEWYORK471 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: DUTCH PRESS FOR DECISION ON [...] (S) BEGIN SUMMARY: Dutch Mission Legal Adviser Brechje Schwachofer pressed members of the Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) on May 22 to make a decision as soon as possible on how the judges' long-term accommodations in The Hague should be selected since the Dut [...] | 2008-05-27 23:36:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK478 | MIDDLE EAST: UNSC MEMBERS WELCOME REGIONAL PEACE [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Security Council held its monthly Middle East meeting on May 28. UNSCO Robert Serry briefed in a public session, and Council members subsequently discussed the issue in closed consultations. Serry welcomed "fragile" progress on the Israeli-Syrian, Lebanese, and Israeli [...] | 2008-05-29 23:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KWBG KPAL SY LE IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK484 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE CONTINUES [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: At its tenth meeting on May 29, the Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) agreed to adopt a phased approach to approving the STL's first-year budget, briefly considered staffing for the STL, heard more about STL Registrar Robin Vincent's plan to [...] | 2008-06-02 23:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK485 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: COMMITTEE DISCUSSES JUDGES' [...] (S) BEGIN SUMMARY: At its tenth meeting on May 29, the Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) agreed in principle that a working group of the Committee would select apartments in The Hague for the Lebanese judges, based on preliminary recommendations that Dutch secur [...] | 2008-06-02 23:13:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK486 | UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: FRENCH REACTION TO [...] (C) USUN met with UK and French counterparts on June 1 to discuss their positions on reftel US proposal to seek sanctions in the Sudan Sanctions Committee on Khalil Ibrahim, Daoussa Deby Itno, Ahmad Muhammed Harun, and Awad Ibn Auf. According to UK PolOff David Whineray, London will support ou [...] | 2008-06-03 01:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU EFIN KTFN PTER |
08USUNNEWYORK489 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JARED COHEN TO MEET [...] In response to Reftel, USUN grants country clearance to Jared Cohen of the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff (S/P) to meet with UN ASG Bob Orr on May 30 to follow-up on collaboration to build networks of victims of terrorism. 2. POC for Mr. Cohen is James Donovan, USUN (212-415-4300). Kha [...] | 2008-06-03 19:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV AMGT UN |
08USUNNEWYORK511 | LEBANON: IDF GENERALS BRIEF UNSC MEMBERS ON [...] (SBU) IDF Generals Yossi Baidatz and Yossi Heymann briefed UNSC delegations June 5 on Israel's assessment of the situation in south Lebanon and the performance of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers. They said Hizballah had fully re-armed in south Lebanon since summe [...] | 2008-06-10 22:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KPKO UNSC SY LE IS |
08USUNNEWYORK519 | MIDDLE EAST: ARABS PUSHING UNSC RESOLUTION ON [...] (SBU) USUN has learned that the Arab Group at the UN met at the expert-level on June 11 to discuss a Saudi proposal to table a draft resolution in the UN Security Council criticizing recent Israeli settlement activity. According to friendly delegations in the Arab Group, the Palestinian Obser [...] | 2008-06-11 21:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KWBG KPAL IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK522 | GA COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY REVIEW - MEETING [...] (U) Summary. The "Facilitator" for the General Assembly Counter-terrorism Strategy Review told Amb. Wolff that he expects the September review will result in adoption of a resolution re-committing but not re-opening the Strategy. He summarized the views expressed during a series of consulta [...] | 2008-06-13 22:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER UN |
08USUNNEWYORK523 | PALESTINIAN NY REP URGES USG SUPPORT FOR UNSC [...] (C) Palestinian Amb Riyadh Mansour met at his request June 13 with Council President Amb Khalilzad to express Palestinian support for a Saudi draft of an UNSC resolution calling on Israel to freeze settlement activity. Mansour argued that there is an international consensus on the substance [...] | 2008-06-13 22:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KWBG KPAL IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK525 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: PROGRESS CONTINUES [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: Work to set up the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) continues to progress, with the Management Committee's adoption of financial regulations and rules for the STL and the conclusion of the lease agreement for the building in The Hague that will house the STL. With new [...] | 2008-06-16 14:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK531 | SETTLEMENTS: ARAB GROUP SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT OR [...] (C) Summary. An Arab Group delegation consisting of representatives from Mauritania, Iraq, the Palestinian Observer Mission, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Arab League requested a meeting with Amb Khalilzad on June 16 to formally present a draft resolution -- initiated by Saudi Arabia an [...] | 2008-06-16 23:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK532 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: COMMITTEE DISCUSSES [...] (S) BEGIN SUMMARY: At its eleventh meeting on May 29, the Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) briefly discussed, but did not decide upon, a proposal to pay the Lebanese judges a stipend during the period after they are relocated from Lebanon but before they begin w [...] | 2008-06-17 14:06:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK550 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] Summary. Informal consultations on the General Assembly's Counter-terrorism Strategy follow-up focused on plans for the September review. Delegations struck a positive tone and comments were generally constructive. The current trend is toward a resolution reaffirming the Strategy. Some de [...] | 2008-06-23 19:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UN |
08USUNNEWYORK551 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: BELLEMARE JUSTIFIES STAFFING [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: STL Prosecutor-Designate Daniel Bellemare, who heads the UN International Independent Investigative Commission (UNIIIC),briefed the Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) on June 19 on his request for 114 staff for the Office of the Prosecutor (OT [...] | 2008-06-24 16:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK559 | SYG BAN AND UNSC MEMBERS DISCUSS SOMALIA, SUDAN, [...] (SBU) Summary. As President of the UN Security Council for June, Amb Khalilzad hosted SYG Ban Ki-Moon for the monthly lunch with UNSC Ambassadors on June 23, for a discussion that focused mostly on Zimbabwe, Somalia, Sudan, and Burma. Based on his conversations with African leaders, Ban said [...] | 2008-06-24 23:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV PTER KPKO KHUM SU BM AF |
08USUNNEWYORK569 | UNSCR 1540: COMMITTEE NEARS AGREEMENT ON REPORT [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 ("1540 Committee") agreed ad referendum on June 25 on revisions to the Committee's draft report to the Security Council on States' compliance with resolution 1540 (2004). Per ref (C),USUN also proposed th [...] | 2008-06-27 17:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK573 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: LIBYA TABLES DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Security Council held its monthly Middle East meeting on June 27. Lisa Buttenheim, Director of the Asia and Pacific Division of the UN Department of Political Affairs, briefed the Council in a public session, and Council members subsequently discussed regional events i [...] | 2008-06-28 00:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC SY LE IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK581 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE CONTINUES [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: The Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) continued to discuss the draft staffing proposal for the STL at its fourteenth meeting on June 26. While agreeing that the Committee should approve the staffing proposal as soon as possible, many members s [...] | 2008-07-01 00:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK590 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: ARABS TO CONSIDER BROADENING [...] (SBU) Libya convened a second UNSC experts meeting on July 2 to discuss its draft resolution condemning Israeli settlement expansion. (Note: During the first experts meeting on June 30, several delegations expressed support for the draft text, but others including USUN and UKUN said they had [...] | 2008-07-02 23:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC PA IS |
08USUNNEWYORK592 | 1540 COMMITTEE: RUSSIANS SEEK TO REPLACE RUSSIAN [...] (C) Russian Deputy Permanent Representative Shcherbak approached USUN on June 25 to request U.S. support for a Russian candidate to replace the Russian national currently serving on the 1540 Committee's Group of Experts, Viktor Slipchenko. Shcherbak said the Russian Federation wants to handl [...] | 2008-07-03 18:17:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
08USUNNEWYORK595 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: ARABS PUT TEXT IN BLUE FOR VOTE [...] (SBU) Following the July 2 UNSC experts meeting on the Arab draft resolution condemning Israeli settlements (reftel),the Arab Group decided on July 3 to put their draft text in blue on July 7 and call for a vote latest on July 11. The Arabs also decided to keep the focus of the resolution on [...] | 2008-07-03 23:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER KWBG KPAL UNSC PA IS |
08USUNNEWYORK598 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: USUN PLANS TO INTRODUCE [...] (C) Amb Khalilzad met with the Arab Group on July 7 about the draft resolution on Israeli settlements. He urged the group to delay putting the text in blue for 48 hours so that the Arabs could consider U.S. elements for a comprehensive resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and UNSC e [...] | 2008-07-08 15:30:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK601 | 1540 COMMITTEE ADOPTS REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-08 22:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK605 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: USUN REQUESTS DEMARCHE TO PARIS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) The Arab Group decided on July 8 to put their revised draft resolution condemning Israeli settlements in blue, "so that it can be voted on soon," according to the press release they put out after their meeting. (Note: The text of the [...] | 2008-07-09 01:16:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK610 | RUSSIA THREATENS ZIMBABWE VETO, P-3 DISCUSS [...] (C) Amb Khalilzad discussed the Arab settlements UNSCR with British and French PermReps on July 9. After previously saying they would offer only weak amendments to the preambular Arab text, the French said they now had clearance from Paris to present additional operative paragraphs as well th [...] | 2008-07-09 17:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC ZI RS IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK614 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: ARABS NOW UNSURE IF THEY HAVE [...] (SBU) Libya convened a UNSC experts meeting on July 9 to solicit comments on its draft resolution condemning Israeli settlements. France spoke first, emphasizing that the Council has a unique opportunity to adopt a comprehensive resolution on the Middle East peace process, and that experts sh [...] | 2008-07-10 02:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KWBG KPAL UNSC IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK616 | UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON 1701 REPORT: MEMBER STATES [...] (SBU) Summary. During closed consultations on July 9, UN Under-Secretary-General (U/SYG) for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe and Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber, DPKO Asia and Middle East division director, briefed the Council on the June 27 SYG report on the implementation of UNSCR 1701. U/SYG Pasco [...] | 2008-07-11 00:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KPKO UNSC SY IS LE |
08USUNNEWYORK62 | REQUEST FOR MISSION CLEARANCE: UNSC EXPERT [...] Mission clearance is granted for Erin Crowe (IO/PSC),Steve Bondy (EEB/ESC/TFS),Roopa Rangaswamy (S/CT),Maegan Conklin (L/UNA),Paul Lurie (Treasury/OFAC),and Brian Wilson (Treasury/OFAC) to travel to New York on 1/23 to meet with USUN sanctions officers and working-level experts from the d [...] | 2008-01-22 23:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PREL KTFN PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK626 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: FRENCH MAY GO WOBBLY [...] (C) French PR Ripert called Amb Khalilzad on July 14 to discuss the way ahead on the Arab draft resolution condemning Israeli settlement expansion. Having successfully delayed action on the resolution until after the Euro-Med summit, which concluded on July 14, Ripert said he now had to give [...] | 2008-07-14 23:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK629 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE CONTINUES [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: As part of its work to finalize the first-year budget for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL),the STL Management Committee continued to discuss staffing levels for the STL on July 3 and 8. STL Registrar Robin Vincent has requested 315 staff, at an estimated cost of USD [...] | 2008-07-15 21:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK631 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: FRANCE AND UK TO PROPOSE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) P-3 Ambassadors met in the evening of July 15 to discuss a response to the Arab draft resolution condemning Israeli settlements. French Amb Ripert reported that earlier in the day Qatari Amb Nasser had agreed, on behalf of the Arab [...] | 2008-07-16 01:36:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV KPAL KWBG IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK64 | GAZA: SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS TO DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Security Council held a public debate January 22 on the situation in Gaza. Public statements were delivered by UN U/SYG Lynn Pascoe, all Security Council members, Israel, the Palestinians, neighboring states, the Arab League, OIC, and NAM. Amb Khalilad's intervention exp [...] | 2008-01-23 00:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS |
08USUNNEWYORK640 | UN/1267 SANCTIONS: COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION 1822 [...] (U) The Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1822 on June 30 (see full text in paragraph 5),setting out the Council's strategic vision for the sanctions regime concerning al-Qaida and the Taliban, established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999),and extending the mandate of the 1267 [...] | 2008-07-18 14:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK646 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: ARABS LIKELY TO CONCEDE DEFEAT [...] (C) Arab Group Ambassadors met on July 18 to discuss the revised comprehensive resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that USUN shared with them on July 16 (ref B). (Note: This revised draft contained more language on settlements than USUN's original elements but retained strong langua [...] | 2008-07-19 00:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK647 | LEBANON: UNIIIC COMMISSIONER BELLEMARE EXPRESSES [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: UNIIIC Commissioner and Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Prosecutor-Designate Daniel Bellemare asked Amb. Khalilzad in a July 16 private meeting for the United States to provide the UNIIIC with experienced analysts to assist in the investigation. Bellemare also called f [...] | 2008-07-21 16:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR PREF MASS SY IS LE |
08USUNNEWYORK648 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: PENSION FUND APPLICATION [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: USUN LegalOff represented the Management Committee of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in a videoteleconference with the Board of the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund on July 17. The Board was considering the Management Committee's application for the STL to join the F [...] | 2008-07-21 17:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK649 | UNIFIL: DPKO EMPHASIZES DIMINISHING LAF [...] (SBU) POL officers met with Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber, DPKO Asia and Middle East division director, on July 21 to discuss issues related to the implementation of UNSCR 1701. Weisbrod-Weber said he wanted to reiterate the "very strong statements" he made during the July 9 Security Council consu [...] | 2008-07-21 23:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KPKO UNSC LE |
08USUNNEWYORK656 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: SECURE HOUSING ARRANGED FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 18:17:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK657 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: DEPUTY PROSECUTOR SELECTED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 18:17:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK660 | ISRAEL AND ARABS EXCHANGE BARBS IN MONTHLY DEBATE [...] (SBU) Summary. U/SYG Lynn Pascoe briefed the Security Council during an open meeting on the Middle East on July 22. Pascoe outlined encouraging developments in the region, highlighting the formation of a national unity government in Lebanon, indirect talks between Israel and Syria, and the [...] | 2008-07-24 01:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC SY LE IS PA |
08USUNNEWYORK669 | SWISS COUNTER-TERRORISM "PROCESS" CHALLENGES U.S. [...] (U) Summary. In November 2007, Costa Rica, Japan, Slovakia, Switzerland and Turkey launched a series of meetings described as the "International Process on Global Counter-terrorism Co-operation (Process)" (reftel). On July 24, they circulated a final document which states that the purpose of [...] | 2008-07-25 22:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UN SZ |
08USUNNEWYORK684 | 1540 COMMITTEE - REPORT, LETTER TO G8 [...] (U) Per reftel A, USUN has advised the Costa Rican delegation that the U.S. would like to see the UN issue a press release and hold a press event in connection with the release of the 1540 Committee's report to the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1810 (2008). The Costa Ricans respond [...] | 2008-07-30 23:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
08USUNNEWYORK705 | VICTIMS OF TERRORISM MEETING SCHEDULED FOR [...] (U) Summary: The Secretary-General plans to convene a meeting of victims of terrorism at the UN on September 9. Among the featured speakers will be Colombian/French terrorist hostage Ingrid Betancourt, U.S. 9/11 victims leader Carrie Lemack and non-U.S. citizen survivors of the Kenya and Tan [...] | 2008-08-06 20:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER UNGA |
08USUNNEWYORK71 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: DIFFERENCES AMONG PRINCIPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) Under Secretary-General Michel convened major donors to the Special SIPDIS Tribunal for Lebanon (U.S., UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Lebanon) to discuss the steps that need to be taken in order to establish a Management Committee to ov [...] | 2008-01-23 15:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK724 | 1540 COMMITTEE: RUSSIANS INSIST ON ADDING NINTH [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: The Security Council's 1540 Committee remains divided over Russia's proposal to add a ninth member to its Group of Experts. Many members support Russia's initiative, the unstated goal of which is to guarantee that a new Russian expert (Antonin Litavrin) [...] | 2008-08-12 23:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
08USUNNEWYORK729 | 1540 COMMITTEE REMAINS BLOCKED OVER EXPERTS [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: At its August 12 meeting, the Security Council's Committee established by resolution 1540 (2004) remained deadlocked over Russia's proposal to add a ninth member to its Group of Experts (ref A),with the P-3 opposing the proposal. A representative of the UN Office of Di [...] | 2008-08-13 21:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
08USUNNEWYORK731 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY [...] Action request para 4. 2. Summary. Consultations on a resolution on the Counter-terrorism strategy review concluded August 11 with tentative agreement on the text. Member states met during early August under the Chairmanship of Guatemalan Permanent Representative Gert Rosenthal to prepa [...] | 2008-08-13 23:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNGA |
08USUNNEWYORK732 | UNIFIL: USUN RAISES EMBASSY BEIRUT SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 20:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ASEC KPKO UNSC LE |
08USUNNEWYORK735 | 2008 MEETING OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE [...] (U) BEGIN SUMMARY: The Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization ("Charter Committee"),a sub-Committee of the General Assembly Legal Committee, held its annual meeting at UN Headquarters from February 27-March 7, 2008. Th [...] | 2008-08-15 00:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PTER PREL UNGA |
08USUNNEWYORK737 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE BRIEFS [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: The UK Chair of the Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon briefed Member States August 13 on progress relating to the STL. The Chair discussed the Management Committee, its functions, and composition, as well as developments concerning the building t [...] | 2008-08-15 21:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
08USUNNEWYORK738 | UNIFIL: GENERAL GRAZIANO CONCERNED ABOUT RECENT [...] (C) Summary: UNIFIL Force Commander Major General Graziano told Ambassador Khalilzad August 14 that he prefers a simple, technical roll-over of UNIFIL's mandate since it will take a few months to assess how Lebanon's new political realities may impact UNIFIL's mandate. He expressed concern o [...] | 2008-08-15 22:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MCAP KPKO LE IS |
08USUNNEWYORK75 | GAZA: UNSC DEFERS PRST DISCUSSION UNTIL THURSDAY [...] (SBU) The UN Security Council met on January 23 to continue discussions on the draft Presidential Statement (PRST) on the situation in Gaza prepared by the Arab group in New York and tabled by Libya. Following a meeting of UNSC political coordinators the morning of January 23, in which USUN a [...] | 2008-01-23 22:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS |
08USUNNEWYORK764 | UNSC: MIDDLE EAST CONSULTATIONS TAME THIS MONTH, [...] (SBU) Summary: U/SYG Lynn Pascoe briefed the Security Council during an open meeting on the Middle East on August 20. He stressed that the benefits of the cease-fire have not translated into an improvement of everyday living conditions in Gaza. He welcomed the planned release of 200 Palesti [...] | 2008-08-22 22:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA LE |
08USUNNEWYORK777 | DPKO RESPONDS ON UNIFIL SALUTE OF HIZBALLAH [...] (SBU) PolOff and SMCOff met August 21 with UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Asia and Middle East Division Officer-in-Charge Mary Eliza Kimball and Middle East Team Leader Susan Allee to raise the points from ref A on the UNIFIL contingent's July 17 salute of Hizballah and Palest [...] | 2008-08-27 14:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ASEC KPKO UNSC LE SY IS |
08USUNNEWYORK779 | UNSC UNANIMOUSLY EXTENDS UNIFIL'S MANDATE [...] (SBU) The UN Security Council unanimously approved resolution 1832 on August 27 to extend the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) until August 31, 2009. (Note: The full text of the resolution is contained in reftel and can be found on the UN website. End note.) [...] | 2008-08-27 22:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPKO UNSC LE SY IS |
08USUNNEWYORK785 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR IO/PSC SANCTIONS [...] In response to reftel, Country Clearance is granted for IO/PSC Sanctions Chief Roger Moran to attend the UN General Assembly Counter Terrorism Strategy Review on September 4 and 5 and for IO/PSC Officer Christopher Fancher to attend the UN Victims of Terrorism Symposium on September 9. 2. [...] | 2008-08-29 19:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER AORC UNGA |
08USUNNEWYORK820 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY REVIEWS ITS GLOBAL [...] Summary. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) reviewed its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (UNGA Resolution 60/288) on September 4 and 5. The debate went smoothly and was without controversy. The Secretariat and many delegations mentioned that they support the reorganization and insti [...] | 2008-09-12 23:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNGA PREL |
08USUNNEWYORK85 | GAZA: SECURITY COUNCIL DROPS PRST AFTER LIBYA [...] (SBU) After four days of negotiation on a draft Presidential Statement (PRST) on the situation in Gaza, in which USUN was initially isolated 14-1 but eventually persuaded all other delegations except Libya to support the U.S. position, Security Council Ambassadors met on January 29 and decided [...] | 2008-01-29 22:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS |
08USUNNEWYORK851 | UNSC: MIDDLE EAST CONSULTATIONS FOCUS MORE ON UN [...] (SBU) In another low key set of consultations on the Middle East on September 18, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry's briefing was the main focus. He lauded the "gradual but systematic process of Palestinian self-empowerment" in the West Bank and later said t [...] | 2008-09-20 00:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA LE |
08USUNNEWYORK875 | UNSC MEETS AT SAUDI/ARAB LEAGUE REQUEST [...] (SBU) The UN Security Council met September 26 in response to the request by Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Arab League to discuss Israeli settlement activity. The Saudi FM spoke first and accused Israel of intransigence and a lack of good faith in dealing with the settlements issue. Arab Le [...] | 2008-09-29 17:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA LE SY IR |
08USUNNEWYORK900 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD MEETS WITH NEW UN SPECIAL [...] (C) Ambassador Khalilzad, in an October 2 meeting with new Special Coordinator of the Secretary-General for Lebanon Michael Williams, noted the USG's significant concerns with Lebanese border security and continuing arms smuggling and suggested that if the Lebanese security forces are over-st [...] | 2008-10-02 21:32:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC IS LE SY |
08USUNNEWYORK912 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR U.S. PARTICIPANTS TO [...] In response to reftel, country clearance request is granted for the individuals listed in para 2 below to attend a meeting on Wednesday, October 8 at the United Nations hosted by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the 1540 Panel of Experts regarding the upcoming 1540 trip t [...] | 2008-10-07 19:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PARM PGOV PREL PTER UNSC OTRA |
08USUNNEWYORK942 | UNGA/C-6: UNGA'S 6TH COMMITTEE DISCUSSES TERRORISM [...] Summary: The Sixth Committee held its debate on agenda item 99, "Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism," from October 8-9. The majority of speakers called for the conclusion of the draft Comprehensive Convention for Combating International Terrorism. Some called for it to include a [...] | 2008-10-16 12:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNGA |
08USUNNEWYORK95 | JANUARY MIDDLE EAST BRIEFING: RANCOROUS SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary. During the UN Security Council's monthly public debate on the Middle East on January 30, past optimism about the Annapolis process was overshadowed by rancor resulting from the UNSC's inability to adopt a Presidential Statement (PRST) on the situation in Gaza as well as acrimon [...] | 2008-02-01 22:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KPAL KWBG IS LE SY |
08USUNNEWYORK967 | UNSC: MULTIPLE DELEGATIONS, INCLUDING UK, CALL FOR [...] (SBU) In his monthly briefing to the Security Council on the Middle East, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs Pascoe reviewed October 22 the series of meetings held in late September on the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. In terms of the West Bank, he noted the start of the [...] | 2008-10-23 20:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LE SY |
08VALLETTA146 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S LEVEY APR 15-17 VISIT TO MALTA [...] (S) U/S Levey: Embassy Valletta looks forward to your upcoming visit to Malta. Composed of several tiny islands in the Mediterranean, Malta's small size and population (400,000) belies a relatively important strategic and geopolitical role. Malta joined the EU in 2004, adopting the Euro as its [...] | 2008-04-09 11:42:00 | Embassy Valletta | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN PTER IR EFIN PARM MT |
08VALLETTA168 | MALTA RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO U/S LEVEY'S MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with senior Maltese Government officials on April 16, 2008, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey urged Malta to protect its financial system from abuse by Iran, including through implementation of paragraph 10 of UNSCR 1803 (r [...] | 2008-04-25 05:14:00 | Embassy Valletta | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KTFN PTER IR EFIN PARM MT |
08VALLETTA190 | MALTA'S FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY INVESTIGATES [...] (C) Summary. As promised in a recent meeting with Treasury U/S Levey (Ref A),Malta Financial Services Authority Director General Andre Camilleri has met with FIM Bank officials to inquire about the nature of FIM Bank,s dealings with Iran. Camilleri told Poleconoff he was reassured by the pos [...] | 2008-05-09 05:13:00 | Embassy Valletta | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KTFN PTER EFIN PARM PGOV ETRD MT |
08VALLETTA211 | MALTESE FIRM REQUESTS GUIDANCE ON BUSINESS [...] (C) As reported reftels, Malta's Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has been quick to recognize the risks that financial transactions with Iranian banks pose to Malta's reputation. In that context, MFSA Director General Andre Camilleri contacted post regarding a Maltese businessman, Mark Ca [...] | 2008-05-21 05:27:00 | Embassy Valletta | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KTFN PTER EFIN PARM PGOV ETRD MT |
08VALLETTA244 | MALTA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DOMESTIC DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 14:11:00 | Embassy Valletta | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR MT |
08VALLETTA247 | MALTA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PRE-NOTIFICATION FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 14:29:00 | Embassy Valletta | SECRET | EFIN PTER PINR PREL MT |
08VALLETTA273 | MALTA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IRISL SHIPMENTS [...] (C) On July 2 Ambassador and DCM met with Minister of Finance Tonio Fenech and his chief of staff Alan Caruana to convey the IRISL-related points contained reftel. Ambassador emphasized that all UN member states had a responsibility under UNSCR 1803 to exercise vigilance over IRISL cargoes tr [...] | 2008-07-08 14:09:00 | Embassy Valletta | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN PTER ETTC UNSC MT PREL |
08VALLETTA304 | MALTESE FIRM REPORTS BUSINESS DEALINGS WITH IRAN [...] (C) As reported reftel, Mark Camilleri, a Maltese businessman who represents private business interests based in Iran, met with Embassy officials as part of his due diligence in concluding a deal with the Iranian entity "Iranian Investment Company" (IIC). Subsequent to this conversation, Cami [...] | 2008-07-21 13:19:00 | Embassy Valletta | CONFIDENTIAL | FIN KTFN PTER ETTC UNSC MT PREL |
08VALLETTA339 | MALTA SUPPORTS TURKEY'S EU MEMBERSHIP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-06 10:47:00 | Embassy Valletta | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV MT |
08VALLETTA95 | MALTA: SANCTIONS MONITORING BOARD ACTS ON US [...] (U) On March 7, 2008, PolOff communicated details of US Treasury Department domestic designations of four Syrian individuals per reftel to Charles Inguanez, MFA Director-General for Economic Affairs and Chairman of Malta's Sanctions Monitoring Board (SMB). 2. (C) Inguanez got back to us lat [...] | 2008-03-07 14:49:00 | Embassy Valletta | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC UNSC MT PREL |
08VANCOUVER198 | ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON INDEPENDENT SHIA CLERIC [...] (C) Summary: Gunmen rumored to be connected to a Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) Special Group attempted to assassinate independent Shia cleric Sayid Aqiel Fadil Abbass Jamal al-Deen on July 16. The attack is one of a series of recent assassination attempts that underscore the fragile nature of Basrah [...] | 2008-07-27 07:07:00 | Consulate Vancouver | SECRET | PGOV PINR PBTS PINS PREL PTER IR IZ |
08VATICAN58 | LEVINSON CASE UPDATE [...] (SBU) As reported in ref. A, Monsignor Franco Coppola, Director for the Middle East at the Holy See Secretariat of State, informed A/DCM on July 4 that the Holy See Nuncio in Teheran, Archbishop Jean Paul Gobel, has sent a diplomatic note to the Government of Iran requesting a meeting to discus [...] | 2008-07-30 14:38:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC KJUS PREL PHUM PTER KIRF IR VT |
08VATICAN72 | (SBU) IRANIANS CHASTISE HOLY SEE ON LEVINSON [...] (SBU) According to Monsignor Franco Coppola, Director for the Middle East at the Holy See Secretariat of State, the Government of Iran recently informed the Holy See Nuncio in Teheran that it does not have any information about the whereabouts of U.S. citizen Robert Levinson. The GOI informed [...] | 2008-10-02 15:20:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC KJUS PREL PHUM PTER KIRF IR VT |
08VIENNA1036 | DHS-EUROPEAN COMMISSION MEETING IN VIENNA ON [...] (C) DHS A/S for Policy Stewart Baker and European Commission (EC) Justice DG Jonathan Faull, meeting in Vienna July 17, agreed on various steps to advance further U.S.-EU (and U.S.-EU member state) negotiations on the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) MoU and related data exchange agreements. Faull be [...] | 2008-07-23 08:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS KCRM PTER EUN AU |
08VIENNA1037 | AUSTRIA: KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON THE FARC [...] (C) Econ/Pol Counselor delivered reftel message to Austrian MFA Americas Director Isabel Rauscher July 22. Rauscher reported that Austria's July 3 statement welcoming the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt and the other hostages had included the following call for the FARC to release all hostage [...] | 2008-07-23 08:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR AF AU |
08VIENNA1106 | AUSTRIAN INTERIOR MINISTER OPPOSES BILATERAL AGREEMENTS [...] Austrian Interior Minister Maria Fekter (OVP) has reiterated her skeptical views on agreements that would involve bilateral data sharing between the U.S. and Austria. In an interview with the provincial daily "Salzburger Nachrichten" published August 1, Fekter stressed that Austria would not ne [...] | 2008-08-01 13:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL PTER AU |
08VIENNA1359 | AUSTRIAN COURT ACTS TO UNFREEZE ABU NIDAL ASSETS [...] In late August, a Vienna court ruled that the GOA should unfreeze about USD 8 million from a bank account belonging to the Palestinian Abu Nidal terrorist group. The public prosecutor has appealed the verdict and the case is now pending at the Supreme Court for a final judgment. The case ill [...] | 2008-09-17 06:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PREL PTER AU |
08VIENNA1362 | AUSTRIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY RECOMMENDS DELAY IN [...] (C) Summary. The Austrian MoI believes for several reasons that U.S.-Austrian talks on the VWP MOU HSPD-6 and a Preum-like agreement should be postponed until after the formation of a new Austrian government -- unlikely before January 2009. U.S.-Austrian talks could be held in February, but [...] | 2008-09-17 08:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER CVIS PREL AU |
08VIENNA1407 | GOA SEES GROWING THREAT FROM ISLAMIST TERRORISM [...] (U) Austria's anti-terrorism experts see a rising threat of Islamic terrorism in the country. A report presented by Interior Minister Maria Fekter (OVP) September 18 noted "growing radicalization" among second and third generation Muslims in Austria and warns against "sleepers" trained in Arab [...] | 2008-09-24 06:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER AU |
08VIENNA1545 | AUSTRIA: PALESTINIAN GUANTANAMO DETAINEE DISCUSSED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 10:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1557 | Assaults against Turkish institutions [...] Summary. Over the past days, Turkish institutions in Austria have been the subject of several assaults which are suspected to have been committed by Kurds protesting alleged mistreatment of former PKK leader Abdullah Oecalan who is imprisoned in Turkey. End Summary. 2. In the city of Salz [...] | 2008-10-21 14:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV TU AU |
08VIENNA157 | TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION TO AUSTRIA OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-31 13:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AU |
08VIENNA1618 | AUSTRIA: 2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] (U) Austria is primarily a transit country for illicit drugs; it is not a drug producing country. Experts see no change in the usual strategies of illegal trade of narcotic substances in 2008, except for precursor substances, where since 2007 Austria has begun to serve as a depot country for in [...] | 2008-11-03 15:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER SNAR AU |
08VIENNA1620 | GOA UNWILLING TO ACCEPT PALESTINIAN GUANTANAMO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-03 16:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1623 | AUSTRIA: 2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] (U) Austria is primarily a transit country for illicit drugs; it is not a drug producing country. Experts see no change in the usual strategies of illegal trade of narcotic substances in 2008, except for precursor substances, where since 2007 Austria has begun to serve as a depot country for i [...] | 2008-11-04 14:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER SNAR AU |
08VIENNA1663 | GOA DENIES RANSOM PAID FOR HOSTAGE RELEASE [...] (U) Summary: Top GOA officials have denied media speculation that Austria had paid up to 5 million euros for the release of two hostages held by an al Qaeda affiliate in Mali since February 2008. According to some reports, a charity fund run by a son of Libyan leader Gaddafi paid the ransom. [...] | 2008-11-13 13:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AU |
08VIENNA1766 | Austria Suspends Investigations Against Palestinian [...] In late November, the Vienna public prosecutor suspended criminal investigations against representatives of the Palestinian Association in Austria, an organization on OFAC's SDN (Specially Designated Nationals) list. The public prosecutor was unable to establish proof of terrorism financing o [...] | 2008-12-02 13:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PREL PTER AU |
08VIENNA1788 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: JUSTICE MINISTER BANDION-ORTNER [...] (U) The following is a profile of Claudia Bandion-Ortner, who has been named Justice Minister in the new GOA cabinet. Experience ---------- 2. (U) Bandion-Ortner was born November 30, 1966 in Graz/Styria. She grew up in the town of Tamsweg in Salzburg Province, where she was an honors st [...] | 2008-12-04 10:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER AU |
08VIENNA1851 | AUSTRIAN SUPPORT FOR THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 08:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER LE SY UNSC EUN AU |
08VIENNA1866 | DOMESTIC SECURITY POLICY OUTLINE OF THE NEW [...] Following is a summary of the key elements from the November 23 coalition agreement between Austria's governing parties -- the Social Democrats and the conservative People's Party -- on domestic security and counterterrorism: Organized Crime --------------- 2. The agreement calls for an [...] | 2008-12-18 13:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC AU |
08VIENNA1875 | AUSTRIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Per reftel, Post is submitting the 2008 Country Report on Terrorism for Austria. Embassy POC for this report is Political Unit Chief Phil Kaplan, office phone: 43-1-31339-2114; email: kaplanpw@state.gov. General Assessment ------------------ 2. According to Austria's Bureau for the Prot [...] | 2008-12-22 13:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM KHLS EFIN KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1878 | AUSTRIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY ON NEGOTIATING [...] (C) Summary. Resolution of outstanding data protection issues -- whether with the EU or on a bilateral basis -- remains key to concluding U.S.-Austria VWP-related HSPD-6 and PCSC agreements, according to Austrian Interior Ministry Bilateral and Multilateral Affairs Director Kurt Hager (strict [...] | 2008-12-22 14:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS KJUS PGOV PTER AU |
08VIENNA21 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-04 16:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SHUM AU PK |
08VIENNA367 | Prison Sentences for Two Islamists [...] The Vienna criminal court on March 12 sentenced Egyptian-born Mohamed Mahmoud to four years in prison and his wife, Mona S., to 22 months on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and coercion of the government. The couple had produced an internet video threatening the Austrian and [...] | 2008-03-13 10:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER AU |
08VIENNA455 | AUSTRIAN INTEREST IN THE MANPADS THREAT REDUCTION [...] EconPoloff delivered reftel demarch March 26 to Alexander Marschik, MFA director for Disarmament, Arms Control, and non-Proliferation, regarding the MANPADS Threat Reduction Initiative. 2. Marschik thanked us for informing the MFA of the appointment of Ambassador Bloomfield as Special Env [...] | 2008-04-02 15:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PGOV PREL PTER MARR PARM AU |
08VIENNA493 | VIENNA COURT SEES NO TERRORISM PLOT AGAINST US EMBASSY [...] (U) Summary: A Vienna court on April 8 cleared a 42-year-old Bosnian defendant of charges of plotting a bomb attack against the U.S. Embassy in Vienna in October 2007. The court sentenced him to 15 months in jail for illegal possession of explosives, document forgery, and slander. Explaining [...] | 2008-04-09 13:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER AU |
08VIENNA506 | AUSTRIAN ALQAEDA HOSTAGES: GAO TURNS TO MUSLIM LEADERS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-11 15:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER AU |
08VIENNA640 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: TERRORISM FINANCE: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-08 15:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL AU |
08VIENNA667 | TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF UPCOMING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 15:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PTER PINR EFIN PREL AU |
08VIENNA67 | AUSTRIA-AFRICA COOPERATION: FOREIGN MINISTER SKETCHES [...] (SBU) Speaking to African Ambassadors in Vienna January 14, FM Plassnik introduced her country as "Africa's European Partner," signaling that Austria was strongly committed to the EU's effort to develop "close and fair cooperation with Africa." Building on the new EU-Africa strategy introduced [...] | 2008-01-16 12:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV AU |
08VIENNA73 | TERRORIST FINANCE: PRENOTIFICATION TO AUSTRIA OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 15:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC AU |
08VIENNA735 | AUSTRIAN HOSTAGE SITUATION [...] (C) Johann Sattler, Political Affairs Advisor to Austrian MFA Secretary General Kyrle, reported May 29 that the Ministry saw no certain early prospect for the release of the two Austrian citizens held by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) since February 2008. Sattler said ongoing negotiat [...] | 2008-05-29 14:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV AU |
08VIENNA76 | Bomb Incident at Embassy: Trial on February 21 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-17 11:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV AU |
08VIENNA763 | TERRORISM FINANCE: AUSTRIA PRE-NOTIFIED FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 15:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL AU |
08VIENNA798 | CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN INTERIOR MINISTERS [...] (U) Classified by: Dean Yap, Econ/Pol Counselor, Department of State. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This message contains an Embassy recommendation and action request in para 8. 3. (C) Summary. Interior Ministers of 14 central and southeastern European states will gather in Vienna Ju [...] | 2008-06-10 10:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV AU |
08VIENNA953 | AUSTRIAN INTERIOR AND FOREIGN MINISTRIES ON VISA [...] (C) Summary. Emboffs met June 26 and July 3 with Austrian Interior and Foreign Ministry officials to discuss the proposed U.S.-Austria VWP MoU and related agreements. The Interior Ministry welcomed the idea of a MoU as clarifying the extent of U.S.-Austria cooperation and facilitating their [...] | 2008-07-03 14:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PTER KCRM PREL EUN AU |
08VIENNA982 | VWP MOU AND RELATED AGREEMENTS: AUSTRIAN INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary. In a July 9 meeting with Emboffs, MoI Bi- and Multilateral Affairs Director Kurt Hager (protect) indicated he will seek Minister Fekter's approval for interagency consultations on negotiation of the HSPD-6 and Pruem-like agreements between the U.S. and Austria. However, the conc [...] | 2008-07-09 14:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PTER KCRM PREL EUN AU |
08VIENTIANE569 | RADIOACTIVE SMUGGLING INCIDENT AT VIENTIANE, LAOS [...] Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in nuclear and/or radiological materials. This report came to the Embassy's attention via a phone call from the Australian owner of a lo [...] | 2008-10-20 05:10:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM KCRM PTER PREL ASEC LA |
08VIENTIANE671 | LAOS: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] General Assessment Since 2002, the Government of Laos has consistently denounced international terrorism and expressed a willingness to cooperate with the international community on counterterrorism. While there are domestic opposition elements that have in the past employed terrorist tacti [...] | 2008-12-29 10:07:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC LA |
08VILNIUS262 | LITHUANIA WELCOMES BAHRAIN AS NEW MEMBER OF GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-21 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM PREL PTER BA LH |
08VILNIUS576 | LITHUANIA WILL RAISE FARC CONCERNS IN EU TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-22 04:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EUN VE LH |
08VILNIUS594 | LITHUANIA WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN NAM MEETINGS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-25 11:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PTER NATO LH |
08VILNIUS610 | LITHUANIA OK ON NEW GI MEMBERS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-29 13:08:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP LH |
08VILNIUS853 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE EPG: NO PROBLEM ON AGENDA BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 13:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP PARM PREL PINS PINR PTER KGIC LH |
08WARSAW1108 | A POTENTIAL ALLY ON CHINESE PROLIFERATION [...] (C) Econ and Political Officers discussed points and passed on non-paper to officials at the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Foreign Affairs respectively (REF A). Polish officials were supportive of the message and agreed with the importance of engaging the Chinese on weapons proliferation [...] | 2008-09-23 12:14:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER IR PL |
08WARSAW1205 | POLAND NON-COMMITTAL ON ACCEPTANCE OF PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 12:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO PL |
08WARSAW1259 | COMBATTING NUCLEAR TERRORISM: POLISH MFA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) indicated that it might host Exercise Planning Group (EPG) activities of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism in 2010, but could not do so in 2009 due to internal staffing concerns. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Poloff delive [...] | 2008-10-29 17:27:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER PL |
08WARSAW1280 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER WELCOMES OBAMA'S ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Grzegorz Schetyna told the Ambassador the November 4 elections in the U.S. recalled the excitement of Poland's own November 2007 general elections, and said Poles are counting on President-elect Obama to bring about a more open U.S. foreign policy. Schetyn [...] | 2008-11-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR PTER PL |
08WARSAW1418 | POLAND UNLIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE FINANCIALLY TO [...] (S) The GoP is leery about taking on additional financial commitments in the Middle East, including support for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). In addition to the possibility of cuts in the GoP's overall foreign affairs budget next year, Stanislaw Gulinski of the MFA's Africa and Mid [...] | 2008-12-15 14:39:00 | Embassy Warsaw | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC LE SY PL |
08WARSAW1435 | POLISH MFA ON MANPADS: RUSSIA CAPITALIZING ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Polish MFA attributed Russia's alleged October discovery of Polish-made GROM MANPADS in Chechnya (originally delivered to Tbilisi) to Georgia's unprofessional handling of the weapons. The Russians, in turn, capitalized on the discovery to "discredit Poland and Georgia." The M [...] | 2008-12-18 14:24:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC MCAP PREL PTER MASS GG RS PL |
08WARSAW1452 | INVITATION TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE PLENARY DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-24 10:30:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGIT PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER PL |
08WARSAW153 | POLAND: TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF [...] (C) On February 1, Econoff shared reftel points with the Polish government regarding USG plans to submit the names of four Syria-based terrorist facilitators to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee. Econoff met separately with Elzbieta Frankow-Jaskiewicz from the Polish Ministry of Finance's Depa [...] | 2008-02-05 09:32:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER PREL ETTC KTFN PL |
08WARSAW199 | POLAND REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR FATF MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) On February 11, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) called in the embassy to ask that the USG support Polish membership at the upcoming February 25-29 plenary meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The MFA indicated that achieving FATF membership is a top priority for [...] | 2008-02-12 14:35:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PL KTFN EFIN PREL PTER |
08WARSAW74 | POLAND READIES AIR MARSHALL AGREEMENT WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) William Gaches, Assistant Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),and Paul Rodgers, TSA Representative in Brussels, visited Warsaw December 6-7. While in Warsaw, Gaches and Rodgers met with officials from Poland's Civil Aviation Office to discuss a proposed [...] | 2008-01-17 15:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PL PTER |
08WARSAW937 | POLAND CONTINUES TO SUPPORT EU ACCESSION FOR TURKEY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-06 15:26:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV TU EUN PL |
08WARSAW95 | POLAND: LET OPERATIVES PRENOTIFICATION DELIVERED [...] (C) On January 18, Econoff shared reftel points with the Polish government regarding USG plans to submit the names of four LeT operatives to the UN 1267 sanctions committee. Econoff met seperately with representiatives from the Polish Ministry of Finance's Department of Financial Information, [...] | 2008-01-23 14:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER PREL ETTC KTFN PL |
08WELLINGTON392 | NEW ZEALAND - HOSTED PSI EXERCISE MARU [...] (U) Summary: In September 2008, the United States participated in the New Zealand-hosted Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) exercise, MARU, in the Hauraki Gulf and the port of Auckland, New Zealand. MARU was the thirty-sixth PSI exercise since the inception of the initiative in 2003. T [...] | 2008-11-19 04:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PTER NZ |
08WELLINGTON424 | NEW ZEALAND: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) New Zealand attaches importance to its compliance with international counterterrorism instruments. It has ratified 12 of the 16 international instruments and maintains up-to-date reporting to the United Nations (UN). New Zealand uses the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy as a key refe [...] | 2008-12-22 03:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PGOV PHUM KDEM NZ |
08YAOUNDE1228 | CAMEROON: APPROVAL OF FY09 1206 PROPOSAL FOR BASIC [...] (U) Embassy Yaounde concurs with U.S. Africa Command,s (USAFRICOM) proposal to use FY 09 1206 funds for Cameroon to participate in a Military Intelligence Basic Officer Course Africa(MIBOC-A)focused on the Gulf of Guinea. Post understands that this training will be offered to Cameroon as part [...] | 2008-12-18 16:29:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CM MARR MAS PINR PTER UV |
08YAOUNDE366 | CAMEROON'S ANIF DIRECTOR DISCUSSES TERRORIST [...] (S) Summary: In an April 11 meeting with Poloff, Hubert Nde Sambone, Director of Cameroon's National Agency for Financial Investigations (ANIF),welcomed Washington's response (ref a) to ANIF's request for more information regarding financial transfers from the Revival of Islamic Heritage S [...] | 2008-04-15 14:28:00 | Embassy Yaounde | SECRET | CM EFIN ETTC PGOV PREL PTER KTFN |
08YEREVAN1035 | ARMENIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There have been no major terrorism-related developments in Armenia in 2008. Armenia continued to be a constructive partner of the United States in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The Armenian Government (GOAM) made measured progress in implementing border security and an [...] | 2008-12-24 08:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR AM |
08YEREVAN167 | ARMENIA INCREASINGLY CONCERNED ABOUT "FALSE" PKK [...] (C) During a February 21 meeting with CDA, FM Oskanian expressed increasing GOAM concerns about reports alleging the expansion into Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh of militant cells from Turkey's Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). He asked that Washington help "put an end" to such reports, which he [...] | 2008-02-28 13:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC AJ TU AM |
08YEREVAN7 | ARMENIA - 2007 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There have been no major terrorism-related developments in Armenia in 2007. Per reftel instruction, the following is an update of Armenia,s 2006 Country Report on Terrorism. Due to technical difficulties in gaining edit privileges to its country,s terrorism page on Intelliped [...] | 2008-01-04 13:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR AM ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PTER |
08YEREVAN892 | ARMENIA SAYS NO TO PALESTINIAN GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (S) Poloff met with Dziunik Aghajanian October 17 to deliver reftel demarche and solicit Armenia's interest in resettling to Armenia the Palestinian Guantanamo detainee Asim M. Al-Aasmi. Aghajanian said Armenia is unable to resettle such cases. 2. (S) Aghajanian said Armenia's refusal in s [...] | 2008-11-10 14:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO AM |
08ZAGREB301 | UNSC - GOC SUPPORT FOR STRENGTHENED RENEWAL OF THE [...] POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on 08 April 2008 to Andrej Dogan, Department for the United Nations in the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Integration (MFA). The GOC had no issue with strengthening the mandate of the 1540 Committee as outlined. Dogan did not go so far as to say the [...] | 2008-04-11 11:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP HR |
08ZAGREB302 | UNSC - GOC SUPPORT FOR STRENGTHENED RENEWAL OF THE [...] POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on 08 April 2008 to Andrej Dogan, Department for the United Nations in the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Integration (MFA). The GOC had no issue with strengthening the mandate of the 1540 Committee as outlined. Dogan did not go so far as to say the [...] | 2008-04-11 11:21:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP HR |
08ZAGREB319 | CROATIA RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] The invitation to participate in the EPG was delivered to Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Head of the International Security Department at Croatia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 9, 2008. Bujas-Juraga reported that Croatia would like to participate in the EPG and would try to send appropriate rep [...] | 2008-04-18 07:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER FR |
08ZAGREB322 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON APPOINTMENT OF U.S. SPECIAL [...] PolMil Officer notified Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Head of International Security Department at Croatia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on April 9, 2008, of the appointment of Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. as Special Envoy for MANPADS Threat Reduction. Bujas-Juraga welcomed this appointment and offered t [...] | 2008-04-18 07:24:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PGOV PREL PTER MARR PARM |
08ZAGREB334 | PM/WRA VISIT REINFORCES CROATIAN COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: PolOff and PM/WRA Senior Advisor Mark Adams on April 15-16 visited key Croatian Army logistics facilities to discuss possible assistance for destruction of the military's excess Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS). During meetings and site visits at Velika Buna [...] | 2008-04-24 10:11:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MASS PREL PGOV PTER MARR PARM HR DEFENSE REFORM |
08ZAGREB36 | CROATIA TERRORISM FINANCE: PRENOTIFICATION OF LET-4 [...] (S) Econ Officer delivered reftel demarche on January 17 to Tihomir Lulic, 1267 coordinator at the Croatian MFA. Lulic expressed appreciation for the advance notice and said he was certain that Croatia would support this designation. 2. (S) Comment: Post believes that Croatia, as a new UNSC [...] | 2008-01-18 14:50:00 | Embassy Zagreb | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL ETTC HR |
08ZAGREB360 | CROATIA: CO-SPONSORSHIP AND PRE-NOTIFICATION FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-09 10:43:00 | Embassy Zagreb | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL HR |
08ZAGREB365 | CROATIA: CO-SPONSORSHIP AND PRE-NOTIFICATION FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 14:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | SECRET | KTFN PTER PINR EFIN PREL HR |
08ZAGREB504 | U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF VENEZUELA-BASED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-08 15:26:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC HR |
08ZAGREB505 | U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF KUWAIT-BASED CHARITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-08 15:26:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KU HR |
08ZAGREB507 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF NINE NAMES: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-08 15:27:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN ETTC PTER PREL CVIS KVPR HR |
08ZAGREB554 | CROATIA REQUESTS ASSISTANCE FOR MANPADS DESTRUCTION [...] (C) After an April visit to Croatian Army logistics facilities to discuss the destruction of the military's excess Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) (ref A),the Croatian Ministry of Defense (MOD) sent a formal letter on June 11 requesting USG assistance in destroying 929 of the app [...] | 2008-07-24 12:11:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL PGOV PTER MARR PARM HR DEFENSE REFORM |
08ZAGREB557 | CROATIAN PARTICIPATION IN NAM MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-25 10:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO PHUM PTER IR HR |
08ZAGREB573 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-01 08:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC HR |
08ZAGREB575 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-01 10:16:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP HR |
08ZAGREB576 | CROATIA SIGNS IMPLEMENTING ARRANGMENT FOR MANPADS [...] (U) On July 30 the Croatian Ministry of Defense (MOD) and post signed an Implementing Arrangement (IA) for the destruction of the military's excess Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) (refs B-E). In the IA the MOD agreed to destroy 929 of their approximately 2,900 SA 7 Strela missiles [...] | 2008-08-01 11:41:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL PGOV PTER MARR PARM HR DEFENSE REFORM |
08ZAGREB74 | CROATIA/TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 16:06:00 | Embassy Zagreb | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL HR |
08ZAGREB825 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-04 14:02:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC PINR PREL PTER UNSC HR |
08ZAGREB849 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TERRORISM FINANCE DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-12 12:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC HR |
08ZAGREB851 | CROATIA TO CONTRIBUTE TO SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-12 14:10:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER LE SY UNSC EUN HR |
08ZAGREB883 | CROATIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Croatia has no indigenous terrorist threat and there have been no recorded terrorist threats to the US Embassy or US personnel. Croatia has a small Muslim community that is very secular in their orientation and, in comparison with their overall numbers, are well represented within the professi [...] | 2008-12-22 14:35:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC PREL HR |
08ZAGREB893 | CROATIA WILL ATTEND INAUGURAL MEETING OF CONTACT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-31 10:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER HR |
09ABIDJAN267 | GICNT JOINT DEMARCHE ON PROPOSED AGENDA FOR 2009 [...] (U) PolEcon Chief delivered demarche in reftel jointly with Russian Embassy Political Counselor Alexander Kravchenko on April 22 to Konan Kouadio, Cote d'Ivoire's focal point for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Netherlands does not have a diplomatic mission in Cote d'Iv [...] | 2009-04-23 07:38:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KNNP PREL PTER MNUC KGIC RS NL IV |
09ABIDJAN758 | COTE D'IVOIRE: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Summary: There were few changes or emerging trends regarding counterterrorism in Cote d'Ivoire in 2009. The ongoing political crisis continues to weaken police and security forces and increase the risk that foreign terrorists can use Cote d'Ivoire as an operational or financial base. P [...] | 2009-12-21 13:00:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC IV |
09ABUDHABI1040 | IRAN REFINED PRODUCT SANCTIONS: THE VIEW FROM THE UAE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The UAE's ties to Iranian refined product markets are likely limited to Dubai's involvement as a logistical hub for the storage and transshipment of these products. However, the UAE diesel market provides some relevant insight into the impact of refined product sanctions on Iran. [...] | 2009-11-04 12:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | ENRG EPET PTER PGOV PREL IR AE |
09ABUDHABI1065 | GOLSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UAE [...] On November 4 we conveyed reftel Goldstone Report demarche points to UAE Assistant Minister for Political Affairs Tariq Haidan, and separately to Ambassador Abdul Hamid, Director of American Affairs. Both will review the points, but neither MFA official offered a substantive reaction. OLSON [...] | 2009-11-12 06:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNGA IS AE KPAL PHUM |
09ABUDHABI1069 | (S) UAE MINISTER GARGASH DISCUSSES SITUATION IN YEMEN [...] (C) Ambassador asked Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash for UAE and GCC views on the situation in Yemen on November 11. Gargash said that although the November 10 GCC foreign ministers meeting in Doha had not originally had Yemen on the agenda, ministers engaged in a discussi [...] | 2009-11-12 11:55:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER PINS KISL YM AE |
09ABUDHABI1109 | NEW CENTRAL BANK DIRECTIVE ON POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS [...] (C) Summary: On 2 August 2009, the UAE Central Bank (UAECB),issued a circular to local banks instructing them not to handle accounts belonging to Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). The circular was issued in response to a shortcoming identified in the UAE's Middle East-North Africa Financial [...] | 2009-11-24 12:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN PTER PREL ECON AE |
09ABUDHABI1110 | UAE READY FOR JOINT CASH COURIER OPERATIONS [...] (S/NF) Summary: In a significant advance for our CT agenda, the UAE has agreed to operationalize cash courier interdiction with a joint training program in Al Ain (inter alia, home to a significant Afghan population). The UAE also provided us with the first detailed description of how they exe [...] | 2009-11-24 13:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER PGOV PINR PK AF AE |
09ABUDHABI112 | ENGAGING ISLAM IN A NEW U.S. ADMINISTRATION -- NOTED CLERIC [...] (C) Summary: Moderate Islam -- carefully monitored by authorities -- is the accepted norm in the UAE. Clerics comfortable with the establishment's approach set the tone of Islamic discourse. In a private luncheon with one such active voice, Pol Chief was pressed to encourage a balanced USG a [...] | 2009-01-29 14:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL SCUL AE |
09ABUDHABI115 | UAE TO DISCUSS PA SUPPORT WITH MODERATE ARABS [...] (C) UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) told the Ambassador February 1, in the context of discussing reftel points on the urgent need for budget support to the Palestinian Authority (PA),that a group of Arab Foreign Ministers would meet in Abu Dhabi February 2 to discuss support for [...] | 2009-02-01 14:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG EFIN AE |
09ABUDHABI1159 | US-UAE Cash Courier Task Force December Meeting [...] (S/NF) On December 14, EmbOffs participated in the second meeting of the US-UAE Cash Courier Task Force, to further planning for a DHS/ICE-led Bulk Cash Smuggling (BCS) training and practical exercise in February 2010. UAE State Security Directorate (SSD) Director General GEN Matar Al Shamsi k [...] | 2009-12-22 09:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER PGOV PINR AE |
09ABUDHABI133 | UAE HOSTS ARAB DISCUSSION ON PA SUPPORT [...] (C) As previewed with the Ambassador (ref A),UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) hosted a gathering of nine Arab foreign ministers February 3 in Abu Dhabi to discuss coordination of Palestinian issues. Eight countries and the PA attended (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, [...] | 2009-02-04 14:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG EFIN AE |
09ABUDHABI142 | UAE FM TRAVELING THE REGION ON "UNITY" MISSION [...] (SBU) Subsequent to hosting a February 3 gathering of nine Arab foreign ministers (reftel),UAE FM Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) met with the visiting Kuwaiti FM over the weekend (February 6) and embarked on a regional tour characterized in official news reports as seeking Arab unity, presumably wi [...] | 2009-02-08 14:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG EFIN AE |
09ABUDHABI146 | UAE LEADERSHIP ON THE MEETINGS OF THE MODERATES [...] (C) Summary: UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah continues his coordination with Arab counterparts, while MinState Gargash recounted that February 3 discussions among the moderate camp addressed troublesome scenarios like a Palestinian split that gives a new Israeli government the excuse that it "h [...] | 2009-02-10 09:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL KWBG EAID EFIN AE |
09ABUDHABI162 | (C) UAE CAUTIONS QATAR ON IRANIAN AND HAMAS PARTICIPATION IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-17 05:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER KPAL KWBG EAID EFIN AE |
09ABUDHABI174 | SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT AND ATTENDANCE AT IDEX 2009 [...] (C) We look forward to your visit to the UAE and participation in the 9th International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX). ------------------------------ Punching Above Its Weight ------------------------------ 2. (C) Over the past five years the UAE has emerged as a regional pow [...] | 2009-02-19 11:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER MOPS MASS IR IZ AF PK AE |
09ABUDHABI193 | STRONG WORDS IN PRIVATE FROM MBZ AT IDEX -- BASHES IRAN, [...] (S/NF) Summary: On the margins of Abu Dhabi's largest defense exhibition (IDEX),Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) engaged visiting US dignitaries with strident remarks about Iran and Qatar's dangerous ties to extremist elements (including Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood). He s [...] | 2009-02-25 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS IR QA RU AE |
09ABUDHABI21 | UAE PRESSED ON NEED FOR PA BUDGET SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-07 13:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG EFIN AE |
09ABUDHABI225 | MUSLIM BUT MODERN -- THE UAE'S VERY CONTROLLED ISLAMIC [...] (C) Summary: The UAE's identity is deeply Islamic, but also fundamentally modern. In contrast to some Islamic societies, most Emiratis see no contradiction between Islamic rectitude and modern convenience. Nonetheless, the UAEG seeks to reign in Islamic discourse to prevent radical views fr [...] | 2009-03-05 13:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL SCUL AE |
09ABUDHABI268 | UAE ASKED AGAIN TO CONSIDER HOSTING GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (S/NF) Summary: Delivering the Secretary's letter (ref A) requesting that the UAEG consider accepting third-country detainees from Guantanamo, Ambassador-at-large Williamson stressed the U.S. Administration's sense of urgency in closing the facility. MinState Gargash sought context in terms [...] | 2009-03-18 09:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER AE |
09ABUDHABI277 | FLAGSHIP UAE CHARITIES FOCUSED ON AID, NOT IDEOLOGY [...] (C) Summary. On 25-26 February, U.S. Embassy and Treasury officials met with senior leadership from the Mohammed bin Rashid Establishment for Charitable and Humanitarian Works (MBRHC) and the UAE Red Crescent Society (UAERC). Both UAE-based NGOs affirmed their commitment to deliver aid to the [...] | 2009-03-19 11:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | AE ECON KTFN PTER |
09ABUDHABI29 | UAE PARTICIPATION IN CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-08 14:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PBTS PHSA MOPS EWWT KCRM AE |
09ABUDHABI296 | UAE CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (S/NF) In response to reftel request, post provides the following information on critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) in the United Arab Emirates whose destruction or disruption could immediately affect the economic security and national security of the United States: A) Strait [...] | 2009-03-23 12:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV ASEC MARR EFIN ENRG KCIP AE |
09ABUDHABI318 | NEW UAE NGO SEEKS TO CONFRONT ROOT CAUSES OF TERRORISM, [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy officers met March 12 with Saif Bin Helal Al Shehhi, Founder and CEO of a new international humanitarian NGO based in Dubai, "Peace Without Limits (PWL)." PWL is inspired by a desire to reduce terrorism and extremism by addressing the root causes of discontent in the re [...] | 2009-03-29 13:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KMPI KWMN PTER XF SU AF AE |
09ABUDHABI347 | ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE REITERATES IRAN CONCERNS FOR S/SRAP [...] (S/NF) Summary: During a March 24 meeting with Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) expressed his grave concerns about the Iranian threat to the region. MbZ said the Iranian response to the Nowruz message was pri [...] | 2009-04-05 12:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL PARM MOPS IR AF PK AE |
09ABUDHABI348 | UAE OFFERS S/SRAP HOLBROOKE MORE AFGHANISTAN DELIVERABLES [...] (S/NF) Summary: During a March 24 meeting with Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) and Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) offered additional UAEG support for Afghanistan. MbZ said the UAE was working to c [...] | 2009-04-05 12:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL PARM MOPS AF PK AE |
09ABUDHABI369 | UAE "UP TO DATE" ON BUDGET SUPPORT TO PA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 06:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EFIN KPAL KWBG PTER AE |
09ABUDHABI390 | UAE TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-16 12:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN ETTC PTER AE |
09ABUDHABI418 | GSD CHAIR FROM UAE CONFIRMS STRONG RELATIONS [...] (C) Welcoming Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (ISA Middle East) Colin Kahl to the UAE on April 27, Chief of the UAE Air Force and Air Defense Air Vice Marshall (MG) Mohammed Sowaidan al-Gemzy gave a strong endorsement of mutual cooperation in facing regional challenges. In a brief strat [...] | 2009-04-29 13:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS AE |
09ABUDHABI438 | UAE CANNOT HOLD SADDIQ FOR LONG [...] (S) As Charge made reftel points (on former Syrian intelligence officer Mohamed Zuhair Siddiq) to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar Gargash on May 5, Dr. Gargash said "I know all about the case." The UAE faces a "conundrum," he continued, as it is indeed holding Siddiq for "loca [...] | 2009-05-05 13:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER LE SY AE |
09ABUDHABI498 | UAE PLANS TO JOIN GICNT PLENARY [...] Unable to secure an appointment for a troika demarche earlier, Post previously passed reftel agenda to MFA in coordination with the Dutch and Russian embassies, and encouraged UAE participation in the June 16-17 GICNT plenary in The Hague. When a troika meeting was arranged on May 18, MFA Ass [...] | 2009-05-18 12:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KNNP PREL PTER MNUC KGIC RS NL AE |
09ABUDHABI499 | DUBAI REGULATOR STRUGGLES WITH BAD IRAN P.R. [...] (C) Summary. On 18 May 2009, Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) CEO Paul Koster met with Ambassador Olson to complain about U.S. Treasury Department public statements highlighting Iranian financial activity in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Koster asked that the USG ha [...] | 2009-05-18 12:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | AE ECON IR KTFN PREL PTER |
09ABUDHABI51 | UAE: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Following is the text of Post's submission for the 2008 UAE country report on terrorism. Begin text: United Arab Emirates The Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) repeatedly condemned terrorist acts in Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, and elsewhere in the region. In order to prevent ex [...] | 2009-01-13 13:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC EFIN DCRM KHLS AEMR AE |
09ABUDHABI555 | UAE PRIME MINISTER ON IRAN [...] (SBU) UAE Prime Minister, Vice President, and Ruler of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid (MbR) al-Maktoum used his newly-instituted web-based dialogue with the public to reply to a variety of questions on June 1. The official UAE news agency WAM released select replies, including a portion on Iran in [...] | 2009-06-02 14:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER ETRD KNNP IR AE |
09ABUDHABI574 | (C) UAE DONATING $30 MILLION FOR PAKISTANI REFUGEES TO UNHCR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-09 10:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID PTER PGOV PK AE |
09ABUDHABI575 | UAE SEEKS CLEAR MESSAGE ON IRAN SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-09 10:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | AE ECON IR KTFN PREL PTER |
09ABUDHABI578 | (S) UAE UPDATES S/SRAP HOLBROOKE ON PAKISTAN SUPPORT, AFGHAN [...] (S/NF) Summary: During a June 6 meeting with Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) pledged an additional USD 30 million for Pakistani displaced persons and commended Pakistan's decision to shift troops to the Afgha [...] | 2009-06-10 07:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL PARM EAID MOPS AF PK AE |
09ABUDHABI583 | (S) UAE DETAINS US MILITARY CARGO, PERSONNEL ON RUSSIAN [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see para 16. 2. (C/NF) Summary: On June 3, the UAE authorities detained two Russian IL-76 cargo planes operated by Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VDA),which were carrying US military cargo and two US service members from Kuwait to Afghanistan. Accor [...] | 2009-06-10 15:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | EAIR PTER PGOV PREL MOPS AF IZ KU AE |
09ABUDHABI607 | UPDATE ON UAE DETENTION OF MILITARY CARGO, PERSONNEL ON [...] (C) Summary: Following overnight indications that four U.S. military escorts (reftel) might be prosecuted along with the Russian crew and carrier, Ambassador met June 15 with UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Rumaithi and Minister of Interior Saif to seek their intervention in the releas [...] | 2009-06-15 14:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAIR PTER PGOV PREL MOPS AF IZ KUAE |
09ABUDHABI611 | UAE-SAUDI BORDER CONGESTION EASES [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Following a June 15 meeting between UAE and Saudi customs officials, more than a thousand trucks backed up on the UAE side of the border for days entered Saudi Arabia. UAE customs officials report the problem was technical, related to a new Saudi fingerprinting system [...] | 2009-06-16 13:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PTER KIPR ECON PREL PGOV SA AE |
09ABUDHABI618 | UAE PROPOSAL TO SEND DOCTORS TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) This cable contains an action request in para 4. 2. (C) Following up on Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed's (MbZ) June 6 discussion with Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke (reftel),Ambassador met with Abu Dhabi Health Authority (HAAD) [...] | 2009-06-17 10:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID MOPS PTER PGOV AF AE |
09ABUDHABI743 | UAE FEDERAL CUSTOMS AUTHORITY (FCA) ROLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Each UAE emirate has its own customs body and regulations. In 2003, the UAEG created the Federal Customs Authority (FCA) to unify UAE customs policies and regulations. Since its establishment, the FCA has improved coordination among local customs agencies, represented the UAE at [...] | 2009-07-22 07:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV PTER AE |
09ABUDHABI744 | UAE GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE (GSD) JULY 20 PLENARY SESSION AND [...] (S/NF) In a July 20 plenary session of the GSD with a large UAE delegation, accompanied by a smaller session with the UAE Chief of Staff, the immediate focus was largely on Iran. Participants reiterated the good defense cooperation that the U.S. and UAE enjoy, while noting the need to improve [...] | 2009-07-22 10:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL PARM EAID MOPS IR IS AF PK SY LE SA |
09ABUDHABI746 | (S) MBZ HOSTS GULF SECURITY DINNER WITH ISA ASD VERSHBOW AND PM A/S SHAPIRO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-22 12:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL PARM EAID MOPS IR IS AF PK SY LE SA |
09ABUDHABI747 | SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT [...] (U) We welcome your return to Abu Dhabi. This will be your first visit since the change in US Administration, the election in Iran, and falls on the heels of the Gulf Security Dialogue. 2. (C) In the past five years, the United Arab Emirates has emerged as one of the economic powerhouses [...] | 2009-07-22 13:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS KNNP IR IZ PK AE |
09ABUDHABI75 | UAE DECLINES TO RECEIVE THIRD COUNTRY GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-19 13:45:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER MOPS KDRG SY TU AE |
09ABUDHABI754 | (S) MbZ HOSTS GULF SECURITY DINNER WITH ISA ASD VERSHBOW AND [...] (S) Summary: Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ, also Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and de facto defense chief) hosted a July 19 executive session of the Gulf Security Dialogue in Abu Dhabi (July 20 plenary with UAE uniformed officers reported septel). The U.S. d [...] | 2009-07-23 09:40:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL PARM EAID MOPS IR IS AF PK SY LE SA |
09ABUDHABI772 | (S) COMCENTCOM PETRAEUS MEETING WITH UAE CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (S) CENTCOM Commander General Petraeus met with UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff (CoS) LTG Hamad Mohammed Thani al-Rumaithy on July 24. Echoing his points on Iran with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed the night before (septel),Petraeus told the CoS by that the USG does not fully share the UAEG a [...] | 2009-08-02 08:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL PARM EAID MOPS AF AE |
09ABUDHABI845 | CROWN PRINCE OFFERS DHS U/S BEERS COOPERATION, SUPPORT [...] (S/NF) Summary: During an August 7, 2009 meeting with visiting DHS Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) Rand Beers, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) discussed UAE efforts to combat illicit financial flows to Afghanistan and Pakistan [...] | 2009-08-24 12:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL EFIN AF PK YE AE |
09ABUDHABI846 | CRITICAL NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUTHORITY DISCUSSES [...] (S/NF) During an August 7, 2009 meeting with visiting DHS Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) Rand Beers, Chairman of the Critical National Infrastructure Authority (CNIA) Staff Brigadier Sheikh Ahmed bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan (AbT) discussed CNIA's interest in [...] | 2009-08-24 12:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV ENRG MNUC PREL AE |
09ABUDHABI877 | THE UAE AND TALIBAN FINANCING: Our Analysis and Action Plan [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Given the UAE's open financial system, sizeable sub-continent immigrant community and significant legitimate financial flows between the two countries, it comes as no surprise that Taliban financing originates in and transits the UAE to Afghanistan and third countries. Afghan drug p [...] | 2009-09-03 08:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER PGOV PINR PK AF AE |
09ABUDHABI890 | Disrupting Taliban Financing: First Meeting of US-UAE Cash [...] (S) SUMMARY. On 7 September 2009, Embassy officials from DHS/ICE, GRPO, Treasury, and State attended the first meeting with Emirati counterparts of the US-UAE Cash Courier Task Force (Ref A) to address the interdiction of cash couriers as one method of disrupting Taliban financing. In the mee [...] | 2009-09-08 10:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER PGOV PINR PK AF AE |
09ABUDHABI898 | UAE Creates a National Higher Committee for UAE Seaports and [...] (U) This is an action request, see para. 3. 2. (C) Summary: DHS/ICE Attach and United States Liaison Office Rep(USLO) met with Dan McClennan of Good Harbor Consulting a consultant firm for the UAE on August 26. Good Harbor representative(s) reported that the UAE Higher Committee for Seaports [...] | 2009-09-10 08:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL AE |
09ABUDHABI901 | UPDATE ON UAE RESPONSE TO USG INFORMATION REQUESTS; [...] (S) This is an action request; please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Summary: Pol Chief delivered ref A demarche on disposition of interdicted cargo to MFA counterproliferation (CP) lead, Deputy Legal Affairs Director Abdullah al-Naqbi, on September 9. In response to the USG requestto schedule th [...] | 2009-09-10 12:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KSTC IR |
09ABUDHABI917 | UAE SUPPORT FOR AL AZHAR PROGRAMMING OUTREACH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has researched comments on UAE support for Al Azhar University activities, made by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in his September 10 meeting with President Obama. Media sources confirm UAEG support for moderate Islamic broadcasts by Al Azhar University C [...] | 2009-09-17 13:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAO PTER KISL SCUL AF PK AE |
09ABUDHABI919 | AMCITS MISSING IN IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UAE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to UAE Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs Sultan al-Qortasi September 16. While evincing a sympathetic understanding of these humanitarian cases involving American citizen in Iran and noting the strong US-UAE bilateral relationship, Al-Qort [...] | 2009-09-17 13:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR PROP PTER CASC IR AE |
09ABUDHABI979 | UAE CHARGES 3 WITH TALIBAN FINANCING [...] (C/NF) Summary: On September 28, Abu Dhabi based English language daily The National reported that seven Emiratis and one Afghan national had been charged with funneling money to the Taliban and supporting terrorist activity. The defendants reportedly denied the charges and said confessions we [...] | 2009-10-15 13:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN PTER PGOV PINR PK AF AE |
09ABUDHABI980 | GROWING ATTENTION TO UAE DEPORTATIONS OF LEBANESE SHI'A [...] (C) Summary. In the past several months, rumors and press reports of Emirati expulsions of Lebanese Shia and Palestinians linked to Hamas have garnered local and regional attention. The UAE has explained these moves as "security related." The latest round began October 1, with the announceme [...] | 2009-10-15 14:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL LE AE |
09ABUJA1310 | NIGERIA: INFORMATION REQUESTED ON LIBERIAN ASSOCIATES OF [...] (SBU) As per request in reftel, on July 17, post delivered a diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting information on Martin George and Edwin Snowe, believed to be associates of indicated war criminal former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Post will report separately on [...] | 2009-07-22 05:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER XY UNSC NI |
09ABUJA1802 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE ON JUSTICE GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (SBU) PolCouns and PolOff met with Foreign Ministry (MFA) North and Central America Division Director Toyin Solaja September 28 to deliver the requested demarche on the Justice Goldstone report (Reftel). We arranged this meeting with Solaja in lieu of MFA colleagues responsible for UN issues, [...] | 2009-09-30 06:34:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KISL KPAL IS NI |
09ABUJA1855 | BIOSECURITY WORKSHOP INVITATION DELIVERED TO [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche, nonpaper and pre-invitation for the Africa Regional Workshop on Biosafety and Biosecurity to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director of the First UN Division Maria Laose October 6. Laose ( 234 8059006063) is the POC at the MFA in Abuja. She was not sure w [...] | 2009-10-09 12:55:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC NI |
09ABUJA1870 | NIGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MADUEKWE LAUDS AMNESTY [...] (C) Nigerian Foreign Minister Chief Ojo Maduekwe declared the recently concluded amnesty program to be an unqualified success and appealed for international support at an October 12 briefing for the diplomatic community in Abuja. He praised President Yar'Adua for taking more courageous and en [...] | 2009-10-13 17:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID PTER NI UNSC |
09ABUJA1877 | CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA SEEKS UPDATE ON UNITED NATIONS [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Action request: Post requests updated information for Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the consolidated list of individuals and organizations linked to Al-Qaida. The CBN earlier released a circular advising Nigerian financial i [...] | 2009-10-15 06:29:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KCOR EFIN NI |
09ABUJA1966 | NIGERIA: US/UK Roundtable Identifies Areas for Mutual Cooperat [...] (C) Political, economic, military, law enforcement and development r 2. (U) The British High Commissioner, opened the meeting by affirming t --------- The North --------- 3. (C) The US reaffirmed its commitment to expand public diplomacy effo 4. (C) The UK is trying to get high lev [...] | 2009-10-29 07:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS PTER KDEM NI |
09ABUJA1971 | NIGERIA: US/UK Roundtable Identifies Areas [...] (C) Political, economic, military, law enforcement and development representatives from the US Mission to Nigeria and the UK High Commission met on October 20, 2009, to continue to discuss and coordinate ways that the two embassies could work together to promote common foreign policy goals in [...] | 2009-10-29 13:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS PTER KDEM NI |
09ABUJA2014 | NIGERIA: BORNO STATE RESIDENTS NOT YET RECOVERED [...] (C) The Boko Haram attacks clearly left a deep impression on Maiduguri residents, who still appeared shocked by the magnitude of the violence which ultimately killed some 700 individuals. Most interlocutors asserted that the state and federal government responded appropriately and, apart from [...] | 2009-11-04 08:31:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM ELAB KISL KCRM NI |
09ABUJA2015 | NIGERIA: BINATIONAL COMMISSION ELECTIONS WORKING GROUP [...] (C) U.S. Mission Nigeria has met several times over the last eight months to review current, planned, and proposed initiatives for promoting electoral reform and credible national elections in 2011. The review assumed new urgency after President Yar'Adua's appeal to the Ambassador and the Briti [...] | 2009-11-04 10:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS PTER KDEM NI |
09ABUJA2016 | NIGERIA: BINATIONAL COMMISSION ELECTIONS WORKING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-04 11:06:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL PTER KDEM NI |
09ABUJA2046 | NIGERIA: BINATIONAL COMMISSION ENERGY AND INVESTMENT WORKING [...] (C) Mission Nigeria has met several times to review current and proposed initiatives to improve transparency, administration, and performance of the power generation and hydrocarbon sectors under the framework that could be part of the Binational Commission (BNC) Energy and Investment Working G [...] | 2009-11-12 17:02:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS PTER KDEM NI |
09ABUJA2052 | NIGERIA: BINATIONAL COMMISSION NIGER DELTA AND REGIONAL [...] Mission Nigeria has met several times to review current and proposed initiatives for consideration under the Niger Delta and Regional Security Cooperation Working Group (ND/RSC) of the proposed U.S.-Nigeria Binational Commission (BNC). The goal of this BNC Working Group would be to provide imm [...] | 2009-11-16 10:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS PTER KDEM NI |
09ABUJA2117 | NIGERIA: BINATIONAL COMMISSION: GTI FOCUSED GROUP ON [...] (SBU) Mission Nigeria has met several times over the last 12 months to review current and proposed initiatives to improve transparency, good governance, and fight corruption. Some of these measures could be captured under the proposed Binational Commission's Good Governance, Transparency and In [...] | 2009-11-24 13:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS PTER KDEM NI |
09ABUJA2141 | NIGERIA: BINATIONAL COMMISSION FOOD SECURITY AND [...] (SBU) Mission Nigeria has met several times since March 2009 to discuss initiatives to increase reliable access to food in Nigeria and the region through improvements in agriculture and trade policy. We understand that the goals of the Binational Commission's Food Security and Agriculture Work [...] | 2009-11-25 11:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS PTER KDEM NI |
09ABUJA2253 | NIGERIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) In 2009, the Government of Nigeria continued efforts to improve coordination, communication and cooperation between the executive and legislative branches on counterterrorism (CT) matters. However, progress on CT legislation in the National Assembly slowed due to reconciliation and consoli [...] | 2009-12-11 13:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC |
09ABUJA2254 | NIGERIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) In 2009, the Government of Nigeria continued efforts to improve coordination, communication and cooperation between the executive and legislative branches on counterterrorism (CT) matters. However, progress on CT legislation in the National Assembly slowed due to reconciliation and consoli [...] | 2009-12-11 14:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC |
09ABUJA2258 | NIGERIA'S ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF: MILITARY WILL [...] (C) Nigeria's Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau told Ambassador December 11 that "history has shown that the military has not served the country well in efforts to put it on the right democratic path." Therefore, according to him, the military should [...] | 2009-12-12 09:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MCAP PINR PTER NI GV |
09ABUJA2331 | NIGERIAN NUGGETS -- DECEMBER 23, 2009 [...] (U) Mission Nigeria provides the following compilation of recent political, economic, and social developments not previously reported. ----------------------------------- NEW NIGERIAN COUNTER-TERRORISM UNIT ----------------------------------- 2. (C) Nigerian Army School of Infantry (NASI) [...] | 2009-12-23 19:20:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MCAP NI |
09ABUJA2352 | NIGERIAN MUSLIMS CONDEMN ATTEMPTED TERRORIST [...] (SBU) In the days following Faruk Umaru Abdulmutallab's December 25 attempted attack on a Detroit-bound U.S. commercial airliner, Nigeria's Muslim community condemned Abdulmutallab's actions in unconditional and unequivocal terms. In addition, Nigerians praised Mutallab's father for coming fo [...] | 2009-12-30 15:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER KISL NI |
09ABUJA2353 | Text Message on Possible Associates of Nigerian Suspect [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-31 10:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV ASEC NI |
09ABUJA653 | UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] Post nominates Michael Makalou as Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Patrick Ryan as Deputy Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer, Deputy TFCO. 2. Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer Name: Michael Makalou Title: Transnational Crime Affairs Officer Phone Number: +234-9-46 [...] | 2009-04-20 09:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER NI IZ KTFN SNAR |
09ABUJA676 | TERRORISM FINANCE: COUNTERING TERRORIST ABUSE OF THE [...] Post, in response to reftel, submitted a Non- Paper document to the relevant offices within the host government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU),the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering (SCUML) and relevant National Assembly Senate and House of [...] | 2009-04-21 09:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KTFN EFIN ETTC PHUM EAID PTER NI IZ |
09ABUJA696 | NIGERIA TO HEAD THE FORUM OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY BODIES IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 10, ESTHOff met with the Director General of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA),Professor Shemsiden Elegba, who reported that he has been elected to chair the newly-formed Forum of Regulatory Bodies in Africa (FORBIA). The forum aims to harmonize and str [...] | 2009-04-23 08:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG ECON PARM TRGY PTER PGOV KRAD NI |
09ABUJA891 | NIGERIA UPDATE: GOVT. PRACTICES: INFO COLLECTION, [...] (C) The following are updates to Mission Nigeria's assessment of current host government practices with respect to information collection, screening and sharing per reftel A. Posts original November 2007 responses are contained in reftel B. Government of Nigeria (GON) capabilities remain [...] | 2009-05-22 11:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV CVIS ASEC KHLS NI |
09ACCRA1034 | GHANA: DEMARCHE ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (SBU) POL Chief delivered ref A points October 1 to the MFA's acting Chief Director Ambassador Kodjo Wadee, stressing the USG's desire to obtain a balanced resolution on the Goldstone Report and our opposition to a resolution that contains a blanket endorsement of the report, recommends that t [...] | 2009-10-01 16:51:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KISL KPAL IS GH |
09ACCRA1114 | COUNTERTERRORISM FINANCE: ACCRA NOMINATIONS FOR FDIC [...] Per REFTEL, post nominates the Government of Ghana officials listed below at 3. The point of contact at post for administrative matters in connection with this request is Kapil Gupta, Economic Officer: guptak@state.gov, office: [233] 21-741-716. 2. (SBU) The offered Federal Deposit Insura [...] | 2009-10-23 07:39:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ECON EFIN KCRM KTFN PREL |
09ACCRA1154 | GHANA RESPONSE TO GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) PolChief delivered reftel demarche November 4 to MFA Director for Multilateral Affairs Beatrice Brobbey, expressing the USG's serious concern regarding the Goldstone Report, and urging Ghana to support the U.S. position on the resolution likely to be proposed by the Arab Group and the OI [...] | 2009-11-04 15:49:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS GH |
09ACCRA1326 | GHANA 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Ghana is a peaceful, democratic country with some localized inter-ethnic conflicts in the northern area of the country. The conflicts are based on local chieftaincy disputes with political and ethnic overtones. U.S. citizens are not a target in the conflicts. 2. (U) Ghanaians are gener [...] | 2009-12-15 15:12:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR GH |
09ACCRA1331 | ACCRA SUBMISSION FOR 2009-1010 INCSR PART II (AML, [...] SUMMARY. Post submits Q&A replies below in response to reftel. Post also submitted same content by email. Post POC is Philip Cummings, Economic Section Chief, cummingspm@state.gov. END SUMMARY. 2. Q: Describe the anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) plans, programs [...] | 2009-12-16 16:02:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM EFIN KTFN PTER SNAR GH |
09ACCRA478 | DEMARCHE: URGENT NEED TO PROMOTE SOMALIA CEASEFIRE [...] (U) Per reftel, PolOff delivered the demarche to Dr. Kojo Assan, Director, International Organizations and Multilateral Bureau at the Ghana MFA. Assan said that he would raise the issue of a public statement calling for an immediate ceasefire in Mogadishu with the Deputy Foreign Minister but t [...] | 2009-05-21 16:25:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PREL PTER EAID ER SO GH |
09ADANA11 | TURKEY: KURDISH PROTESTS ERUPT TO MARK DATE OF OCALAN'S [...] (SBU) PKK supporters came out in the thousands to mark the 10th anniversary of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan's capture. Defying a ban on pro-Ocalan demonstrations, protesters gathered at the headquarters of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in several southeastern cities. In the ens [...] | 2009-02-17 12:45:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC IZ TU |
09ADANA20 | TURKEY: VIOLENT AFTERSHOCKS CONTINUE IN SANLIURFA AFTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Tensions continue in Kurdish-populated areas of Sanliurfa province after two protesters were fatally injured during clashes with police on April 4, the birthday of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Community leaders dispute official declarations that police did not use firea [...] | 2009-04-08 15:14:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER TU |
09ADANA51 | TURKEY: SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN NUMBER OF SOUTHEAST VIOLENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: When compared with previous years, the 2009 anniversary of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) saw significantly lower levels of violence in Turkey's southeast, with only two notable incidents. The night of August 15, one police officer died in clashes between PKK sympathizers [...] | 2009-08-18 11:35:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER TU |
09ADANA52 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: SEPTEMBER 04 - SEPTEMBER 10, [...] THE FOLLOWING SECURITY INCIDENTS FOR THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER 4-10, 2009, WERE COMPILED BY THE SECURITY ASSISTANT AT CONSULATE ADANA FROM RSO SOURCES, TO INCLUDE TURKISH SECURITY CONTACTS, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND MEDIA REPORTS. SIMILAR REPORTS HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN SHARED INFORMALLY BY E-MAIL. PO [...] | 2009-09-15 11:37:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC |
09ADANA54 | TURKEY: SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: SEPTEMBER 11 - [...] The following security incidents for the period September 11-18, 2009, were compiled by the security assistant at Consulate Adana from RSO sources, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media reports. Similar reports have previously been shared informally by e-mail. P [...] | 2009-09-18 14:05:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC |
09ADANA55 | TURKEY: ARREST OF DTP PARTY MEMBERS SPARKS PROTESTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Turkish police apprehended 19 members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) during September 11 anti-terror operations. The arrests sparked a week of protests in Kurdish-populated areas throughout the southeast. Kurdish contacts have divergent assessments of what [...] | 2009-09-18 14:11:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER TU |
09ADANA56 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: SEPTEMBER 18 - SEPTEMBER 22, [...] The following security incidents for the period September 18-22, 2009, were compiled by the Security Assistant at the Consulate Adana from RSO sources, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media reports. Similar reports have previously been shared informally by e [...] | 2009-09-23 11:30:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC TU |
09ADANA59 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: SEPTEMBER 22 - OCTOBER 4, [...] The following security incidents for the period of September 22 - October 4, 2009 were compiled from RSO sources by the Security Assistant at Consulate Adana, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media reports. Similar reports have previously been shared informally by [...] | 2009-10-09 12:52:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC |
09ADANA6 | TURKEY: ADANA REGION SEES SPIKE IN VIOLENCE IN LEAD-UP TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Increasing incidents of violence in Kurdish-populated areas of Adana's consular district may be related to the upcoming February 15 anniversary of the capture of PKK terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan. Local and regional anti-terrorism units are preparing for possible demonstra [...] | 2009-01-29 11:15:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PTER TU |
09ADANA62 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: OCTOBER 05 - OCTOBER 12, 2009 [...] The following security incidents for the period of October 05 - October 12, 2009 were compiled from RSO sources by the Security Assistant at Consulate Adana, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media reports. Similar reports have previously been shared informally by [...] | 2009-10-16 07:54:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC TU |
09ADANA63 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: OCTOBER 12 -18, 2009 [...] The following security incidents for the period of October 12-18, 2009 were compiled by the security assistant at Consulate Adana from RSO sources, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media. Similar reports have been previously shared informally by e-mail. Post is n [...] | 2009-10-21 11:23:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC TU |
09ADANA65 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: OCTOBER 12 - 18, 2009 [...] The following security incidents for the period of October 19-25, 2009, were compiled by the Security Assistant at Consulate Adana from RSO sources, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media. Similar reports have been previously shared informally by e-mail. Post is no [...] | 2009-11-02 07:54:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC TU |
09ADANA66 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 01, [...] The following security incidents for the period of October 26 - November 01, 2009, were compiled by the security assistant at Consulate Adana from RSO sources, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media. Similar reports have been previously shared informally by e-mail. [...] | 2009-11-03 11:53:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC TU |
09ADANA70 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: NOVEMBER 2-8, 2009 [...] The following security incidents for the period of November 2-8, 2009, were compiled by the security assistant at Consulate Adana from RSO sources, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media. RSO uses the information to determine the security situation and trends of v [...] | 2009-11-09 13:55:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC TU |
09ADANA73 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: NOVEMBER 9-15, 2009 [...] The following security incidents for the period of November 9-15, 2009, were compiled by the security assistant at Consulate Adana from RSO sources, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media. The RSO uses the information to determine the security situation and trends [...] | 2009-11-16 14:15:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC TU |
09ADANA74 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: NOVEMBER 16-22, 2009 [...] The following security incidents for the period of November 16-22 were compiled by the security assistant at Consulate Adana from RSO sources, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media. The RSO uses the information to determine the security situation and trends of vio [...] | 2009-11-24 11:33:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC TU |
09ADANA75 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: NOVEMBER 23-30, 2009 [...] The following security incidents for the period of November 23-30, 2009, were compiled by the security assistant at Consulate Adana from RSO sources, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media. The RSO uses the information to determine the security situation and trend [...] | 2009-12-02 07:25:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC TU |
09ADANA76 | ONE STUDENT DEAD IN DIYARBAKIR STREET PROTESTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Diyarbakir chapter of the Human Rights Association (HRA) said police fatally shot a 23-year-old student during December 6 demonstrations against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). According to local media, clashes erupted when demonstrators, who had gathered [...] | 2009-12-07 15:32:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PGOV TU PINR |
09ADANA80 | TURKEY: SOUTHEAST PERSPECTIVE: POLICE SWEEP NETS DOZENS OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Media report police have detained more than 30 incumbent and former mayors and active party members from the recently banned Democrat Society Party (DTP) in raids in 11 provinces that began the night of December 23. Consulate contacts confirm the Diyarbakir chief public prosec [...] | 2009-12-24 11:02:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PINR PGOV TU |
09ADANA81 | SE TURKEY SECURITY INCIDENTS: DECEMBER 21-27, 2009 [...] The following security incidents for the period of December 21-27, 2009, were compiled by the security assistant at Consulate Adana from RSO sources, to include Turkish security contacts, government officials and media. The RSO uses the information to determine the security situation and trends [...] | 2009-12-29 14:44:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PINR CASC TU |
09ADANA82 | TURKEY: UNREST CONTINUES IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Kurdish community in SE Turkey continues to manifest its outrage following December 24 arrests of more than 60 Kurdish leaders including seven incumbent mayors. Significant street protests continue in Hakkari, Sirnak, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, and other heavily Kurdish-populat [...] | 2009-12-31 11:33:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PINR PGOV TU |
09ADDISABABA1587 | ETHIOPIA'S PROPOSED ANTI-TERRORISM LAW [...] (SBU) On its final day in session, the Ethiopian parliament passed the government's Antiterrorism Law (ATL, reftel) on July 7. In a July 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Head of the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Affairs Minister Berhanu Adello -- one of the key drafters of the ATL and other [...] | 2009-07-07 13:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ET |
09ADDISABABA1914 | ADDIS ABABA ON SOMALIA SITUATION IN LIGHT OF [...] (C) On August 5, Charge d'Affaires and Deputy Political-Economic Counselor met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver Reftel points. The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) is pleased with USG support to Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG),including in-kind support and pledged [...] | 2009-08-07 07:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SO EAID KPKO |
09ADDISABABA2076 | ETHIOPIA - ENGAGING IGAD ON COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) The head of the IGAD Capacity Building Program Against Terrorism (ICPAT),Ambassador Hiruy suggested there is significant additional room for cooperation between Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) states. Amb. Hiruy noted that while member states do share intelligence on cou [...] | 2009-08-26 11:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ASEC PGOV |
09ADDISABABA2106 | U.S. EFFORTS IN SUDAN "LAST HOPE" TO AVOID [...] (C) During an August 22 meeting with U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Gration, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles said the United States, efforts in Sudan were "the last hope" for a country on a near-certain path to implosion. He underscored his support for the Obama Administration's approach to creati [...] | 2009-09-01 08:55:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC |
09ADDISABABA239 | UPDATE ON THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY ON [...] (SBU) Program Head (Ambassador) Hiruy Amanuel briefed PolOff on the Intergovernmental Authority on Development's (IGAD) Capacity Building Program Against Terrorism (ICPAT),which is wholly funded by foreign assistance (Denmark, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Norway and Italy participate). [...] | 2009-01-29 13:36:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV PINR ET |
09ADDISABABA2442 | DIPLOMATS IN ETHIOPIA OFFER PERSPECTIVES ON [...] (C) Summary: AF/E Senior Somalia Desk Officer visited Addis Ababa on October 1-2 for meetings with the U.S. Embassy, USAU mission and other diplomatic and AMISOM officials to get the Ethiopian perspective on Somalia and Somaliland. The British Deputy Head of Mission and Somaliland Ambassado [...] | 2009-10-14 09:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ASEC SO ET |
09ADDISABABA2638 | GOLDSTONE REPORT: ETHIOPIA NONCOMMITTAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 16:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL |
09ADDISABABA2935 | PM MELES URGES ACTION ON SUDAN, NON-COMMITTAL ON [...] (C) Prime Minister Meles told visiting DASD Ambassador Huddleston that there is a "complete coincidence of vital security interests" between the U.S. and Ethiopia. He agreed to discuss the issue of Leahy vetting with military commanders, but did not agree to any specific action. Meles descri [...] | 2009-12-15 09:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PTER YE SO SU ET |
09ADDISABABA2960 | ETHIOPIA 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Over the last three years, the East Africa extremist networks led by al-Shabaab have increased their capability, numbers and strength. The threat posed by these networks, particularly the increase of foreign fighters and jihadist recruits, is a growing concern. The Ethiopian government is co [...] | 2009-12-18 08:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC EFIN PREL ET |
09ADDISABABA381 | ETHNIC INSURGENCY AND POLITICAL OPPOSITION IN [...] (S/NF) This cable responds to reftel request for information on political opposition and ethnic insurgent movements in Ethiopia. A. (C) WHAT POLITICAL OPPOSITION GROUPS ARE ACTIVE IN ETHIOPIA? ARE ANY OF THEM LOOKING TO MERGE AND PRESENT A CHALLENGE TO THE GOVERNMENT IN 2010? -- Unity f [...] | 2009-02-11 18:47:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV PTER ET ER |
09ADDISABABA393 | ANECDOTES ON UNITED WESTERN SOMALI LIBERATION [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief has debriefed two Somali-speaking development workers who have recently traveled throughout Ethiopia's Somali region regarding reports about the United Western Somali Liberation Front (UWSLF). While we cannot independently verify the information provided, the consistencies [...] | 2009-02-13 10:38:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET | PTER ASEC PGOV MOPS ET |
09ADDISABABA495 | ADDIS ABABA RESPONSE-SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE [...] (SBU) POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND DEMONSTRATIONS ------------------------------------- A. ARE THERE ANY ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN COUNTRY CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT SIGNIFICANT ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS? -Yes, there is a sizable Muslim population throughout Ethiopia as wel [...] | 2009-02-27 09:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER |
09ADDISABABA505 | ETHIOPIA CIRCULATES DRAFT ANTI-TERRORISM [...] (C) The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has drafted a comprehensive anti-terrorist statute (the "Anti-Terrorism Proclamation" (ATP)) that, if enacted in its current form, would give the GoE authorities comparable to those of a police state in matters related to terrorism, as it eliminates most ci [...] | 2009-03-03 13:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ET |
09ADDISABABA662 | ADDIS ABABA EAC MEETS MARCH 18, 2009 TO REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 18, 2009 the Addis Ababa EAC convened to review Mission travel policy for travel to Ethiopia's Somali Region. EAC was chaired by COM and attended: DCM, CON, DAO, P/E, RSO, ORA and the United States Mission to the African Union. EAC agreed to continue to review closely prop [...] | 2009-03-18 13:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER |
09ADDISABABA723 | ARAB LEAGUE AMBASSADORS ON SOMALIA AND SUDAN [...] (S/NF) Summary. Ambassadors from Arab League countries raised with the U.S. Ambassador during their regular gatherings, questions about the new Administration in the context of U.S. policy towards Somalia. The Arab Ambassadors pressed the Ambassador on U.S. support for the new Transitional [...] | 2009-03-26 13:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER ET SO XF |
09ADDISABABA963 | POTENTIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL IN ADDIS ABABA [...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illegal nuclear and/or radiological material. This report came to post's attention via photographic material. Information concerning this report was r [...] | 2009-04-24 09:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | AF ASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PINR PREL PTER |
09ADDISABABA975 | ATTEMPTED COUP OR OPPOSITION ROUND-UP? [...] (C) The Ethiopian Government (GoE) announced on April 25 that it had arrested 35 individuals affiliated with the overseas-based opposition movement "Ginbot 7" who were planning a "terrorist attack" in Addis Ababa. The Government was quick to clarify that it disrupted a "terrorist attack" not [...] | 2009-04-27 13:58:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PTER ET |
09AITTAIPEI125 | TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DESIGNATION OF THE WAAD PROJECT [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on February 3, 2009, providing all banking institutions with information on the U.S. Department of the Treasury's designation of the Waad Project in Lebanon under Executive Order 13224. 2. (U) In the [...] | 2009-02-06 01:26:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR ECON LE TW |
09AITTAIPEI160 | TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DESIGNATION OF THE WAAD PROJECT [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the Waad Project in Lebanon and aliases designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury pursuant to US E.O.13224 on January 6, 2009. YOUNG [...] | 2009-02-13 08:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR ECON LE TW |
09AITTAIPEI19 | TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DESIGNATION OF UNION OF GOOD [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the Union of Good, a Saudi Arabia-based organization, designated on November 12 by the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a supporter of terrorism unde [...] | 2009-01-07 09:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL UNSC ECON |
09AITTAIPEI24 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UN DESIGNATION OF FOUR MEMBERS OF [...] Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on January 5, 2009, providing all banking institutions with information on four members of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba designated on December 10, 2008 by the UN Security Council's Al-Qaida and Tal [...] | 2009-01-08 05:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON PK TW |
09AITTAIPEI258 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF U.S.-BASED TAMIL [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on March 5, 2009, providing all banking institutions with information on the U.S. Department of the Treasury's designation of the U.S.-based Tamil Foundation under Executive Order 13224 for supporting te [...] | 2009-03-09 09:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID ECON SL TW |
09AITTAIPEI335 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF U.S.-BASED TAMIL [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the U.S.-based Tamil Foundation, which on March 5, 2009 was designated under Executive Order 13224 for supporting terrorism. YOUNG [...] | 2009-03-25 05:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID ECON SL TW |
09AITTAIPEI509 | Taiwan Enacts New Anti-Terrorism Finance Law [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 14, Taiwan's legislature passed a bill that authorizes financial regulators to take enhanced action against terrorist financing, including freezing bank accounts and financial transactions associated with designated terrorists, entities, and countries. In the past, onl [...] | 2009-04-29 09:59:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID ECON SL TW |
09AITTAIPEI57 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UN DESIGNATION OF FOUR MEMBERS OF [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the four members of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba designated on December 10, 2008, by the UN Security Council's Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions C [...] | 2009-01-14 09:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON PK TW |
09AITTAIPEI732 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UN DESIGNATION OF ABDUL HAQ, AKA [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to Abdul Haq designated on April 15, 2009, by the UN Security Council's Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee (1267 Committee) for targeted sanctions. [...] | 2009-06-18 08:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID UNSC ECON CH TW |
09ALGIERS1002 | ALGERIA PROVIDES ITS REASONS FOR SUPPORTING [...] (C) The Ambassador on November 8 reinforced ref A demarche on the Goldstone report with MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Bouzaher, urging Algerian support to help ensure the follow-up process does not further complicate efforts to move Palestinians and Israelis to negotiated peace. Bouzah [...] | 2009-11-09 12:18:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER KPAL IS IZ AG |
09ALGIERS1006 | SEPTEMBER SUMMARY OF TERRORIST INCIDENTS [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major security-related terrorist activities, terrorist threats, and incidents for Algeria during the month of September 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news reports, and RSO police contacts. Press-based information should [...] | 2009-11-12 08:51:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS ASEC AG |
09ALGIERS1007 | AUGUST 2009 SUMMARY OF TERRORIST AND [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major security-related activities, terrorist threats, and incidents for Algeria during the month of August 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news reports, and RSO police contacts. Press-based information should not be taken a [...] | 2009-11-12 09:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS ASEC AG |
09ALGIERS1008 | SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH ALGERIA [...] (U) In response to ref A, this message provides information on established security dialogues between the United States and Algeria. 2. (U) Joint Military Dialogue (JMD): The JMD was first held in October 2005 under an informal agreement between the U.S. and Algeria. The second JMD, in No [...] | 2009-11-12 14:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR AG |
09ALGIERS1009 | ALGERIA: JULY - SEPTEMBER SECURITY TRENDS SUMMARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable is the first of a series of quarterly summaries of security trends in Algeria related to terrorism, social unrest and criminal activity. This report refers to trends observed during the period July - September 2009. The information draws on reporting from local pres [...] | 2009-11-12 14:18:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PINR PINS ASEC AMGT AG |
09ALGIERS1041 | POLISARIO AMBASSADOR SAYS RECENT MOROCCAN RHETORIC [...] (C) Polisario Front "Ambassador" in Algiers on November 17 portrayed the Moroccan government's tougher position on Western Sahara and its mistreatment of Sahrawi rights activists as a provocation designed to undermine UN Special Envoy Christopher Ross' efforts to restart talks, and he stated [...] | 2009-11-22 17:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS1063 | POLISARIO ASKS U.S. TO RESPOND TO MOROCCAN [...] (C) Summary: DCM and Poloff travelled on November 21 to Tindouf, Algeria, to meet with senior Polisario Front leaders to discuss the future of UN-led mediation efforts on the Western Sahara conflict and to observe the conditions of life in the Sahrawi refugee camps. Polisario officials reitera [...] | 2009-12-01 08:36:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS1069 | AFRICOM COMMANDER MEETING WITH ALGERIAN [...] (C) Algerian Presidential Counselor for Terrorism Kamel Rezag Bara told AFRICOM Commander General Ward November 26 that Algeria was leading a regional effort with Mali, Mauritania, and Niger against AQIM but that heads of state had yet to set the date for a summit meeting of these countries in [...] | 2009-12-02 10:34:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PINR PGOV PREL AG NG ML MR |
09ALGIERS1070 | AFRICOM COMMANDER GENERAL WARD'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Foreign Minister Medelci registered AFRICOM General Ward's message that AFRICOM's mission was to reinforce African nations' own security efforts and not establish bases. The minister detailed Algeria's efforts within the African Union and regional partners to promote security and conflict [...] | 2009-12-02 10:49:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MARR MOPS AG NG ML MR |
09ALGIERS1072 | ALGERIA AND THE PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON [...] (SBU) Charge discussed reftel points with Algerian MFA Director General for the Americas, Sabri Boukhadoum on December 1. Charge said we wanted to preview the President's speech because Algeria is a close partner in security matters and in light of Foreign Minister Medelci's upcoming visit to [...] | 2009-12-02 16:18:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MARR MOPS AF PK AG |
09ALGIERS1077 | BOUTEFLIKA TO WARD: WE WANT A STRATEGIC [...] (C) U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Commander General William Ward met Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika November 25, during Ward's first visit to Algeria since assuming command of AFRICOM. Ward said AFRICOM's strategy was to assist African nations in providing for their own security needs [...] | 2009-12-06 07:57:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PBTS KPAL KWBG US IR IZ IS |
09ALGIERS1082 | NGOS IN TINDOUF ON HUMANITARIAN AND POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: DCM on November 21 met with several UN officials working with the Sahrawi refugees near Tindouf, Algeria, to discuss the status of assistance and development programs. The groups included the UN peacekeeping force MINURSO, the World Food Program, and the UN High Commission for [...] | 2009-12-07 12:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS1117 | POLISARIO RESTRICTS ACTIVITIES SEEN TO THREATEN [...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts with UNHCR and American NGOs working in the Polisario camps near Tindouf say that individual Sahrawis have been involved in smuggling activities, but the Polisario "government" severely punishes anyone caught trafficking persons or weapons that could aid terrorist [...] | 2009-12-16 09:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS113 | ALGERIAN MEDIA REACTION TO BREAKING SCANDAL - JANUARY 31, [...] SUMMARY: Press reports of the CIA station chief in Algiers accused of raping two Algerian women, which broke on ABC News on the evening of January 28, were splashed across the front pages of almost every Algerian newspaper on January 31. The extensive reporting was largely a translation of the [...] | 2009-02-01 06:43:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS PTER AG |
09ALGIERS1141 | ALGERIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) The security situation in Algeria was marked by a decrease in the number of high-profile terrorist attacks throughout the country, although ongoing low-level terrorist activities, comparable to guerilla insurgency operations, continued in non-urban areas. Previously, the Salafist Group fo [...] | 2009-12-23 07:47:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC AG |
09ALGIERS1157 | SUMMARY OF TERRORIST AND SIGNIFICANT SECURITY INCIDENTS IN [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major terrorist incidents and threats as well as significant security-related incidents (including criminal activities and civil disturbances) for Algeria during the month of October 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news repo [...] | 2009-12-29 14:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS ASEC AG |
09ALGIERS12 | GAZA: ALGERIAN DEMARCHE TO UNSC MEMBERS ON ARAB [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian MFA summoned us and other UN Security Council member missions separately on January 4 to deliver a demarche on the Arab League position developed at the December 31 Cairo ministerial, and to lay out the Algerian position on the situation in Gaza. The MFA informed us [...] | 2009-01-04 18:52:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL PTER PHUM MOPS KWBG IS AG |
09ALGIERS122 | PA BUDGET DEMARCHE: ALGERIA PLEDGES SUPPORT [...] (C) In response to reftel, MFA Acting Director of Arab League Affairs Mourad Merhoum told us that Algeria's support for the Palestinian people was a matter of principle, and that Algeria would continue its annual contributions of roughly USD 50 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA) throug [...] | 2009-02-04 14:57:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG AG |
09ALGIERS196 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (C) Post does not recommend any modification to the CI/KR list as it relates to Algeria at this time. We note, however, that Algeria and international joint venture partners are constructing two undersea natural gas pipelines to Europe, one of which may be operational in late 2009. Once opera [...] | 2009-02-25 17:18:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP AG |
09ALGIERS224 | ALGIERS: SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE [...] DEMONSTRATIONS A. ARE THERE ANY ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN COUNTRY CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT SIGNIFICANT ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS? (SBU) Algeria is a nominally secular state with a 99-percent Muslim population. There are no identifiable ethnic or religious communities that har [...] | 2009-03-03 18:18:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER AG |
09ALGIERS268 | ALGERIA CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR PA [...] (U) In response to ref A, MFA U.S. desk officer Ali Drouiche confirmed on March 14 that Algeria will provide approximately USD 200 million for reconstruction efforts in Palestinian territories, to be channeled through its membership in the Arab League. As reported in ref B, Algeria has alread [...] | 2009-03-18 15:14:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER EUN AG |
09ALGIERS307 | VIOLENCE ROCKS TIZI OUZOU ON THE EVE OF [...] (U) Tizi Ouzou was rocked by violence on the eve of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's March 26 campaign swing through the province, but thanks in part to a massive security presence his tour of two major Kabylie cities occurred without incident. Al'Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) launched [...] | 2009-03-31 09:20:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PREL PINS AG |
09ALGIERS308 | GUANTANAMO: FORMER DETAINEE ALLEGEDLY ENCOURAGED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A letter received by the Embassy on March 25 accuses the spouse of former Algerian Guantanamo detainee Sofiane Abar Houari of encouraging her husband to attack the U.S. Embassy in Algiers. The letter, written in mediocre French, purports to be from a concerned citizen presumably [...] | 2009-03-31 09:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL AG |
09ALGIERS309 | AQIM MEMBER ABOU RIHANA ARRESTED IN ALGIERS [...] (U) The Algerian government has reported the arrest of senior AQIM leader Abou Rihana aka Z. Kamel. Rihana was described as being responsible for preparing the December 2007 suicide vehicle attacks in the capital city of Algiers. He allegedly planned both the United Nations and the Algerian C [...] | 2009-03-31 09:30:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER KISL AG |
09ALGIERS31 | FIS WRITES TO AMBASSADOR AND RAISES STREET PROFILE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ali Benhadj, vice-president and spiritual leader of the disbanded and outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (FIS),wrote a letter to the Ambassador in which he advised the United States to revise its support of Israel in the wake of the current situation in Gaza, and in which he decri [...] | 2009-01-12 10:24:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL PTER KDEM AG |
09ALGIERS327 | ATTACK ON CONVOY CARRYING CHINESE WORKERS [...] On March 29 at approximately 20:00 a group of men presumed to be associated with Al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) attacked a convoy carrying Chinese workers employed by STIC CARC, a contracting company engaged in the construction of a highway linking the municipalities of El Ajiba and [...] | 2009-04-06 08:05:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PGOV AG |
09ALGIERS35 | BOUTEFLIKA'S ARMY: CIVILIAN CONTROL AT WHAT PRICE? [...] (S) SUMMARY: Since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika famously announced his intention to be "more than three-quarters of a president" following his election in 1999, he has struggled to assert greater control over Algeria's army to avoid becoming yet another leader designated and replaced at will [...] | 2009-01-13 07:53:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL PTER MARR KISL AG |
09ALGIERS381 | FOREIGN MINISTER ON GUANTANAMO, WESTERN SAHARA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In addition to the peace process (reftel),Foreign Minister Medelci raised cooperation on Guantanamo detainees, negotiations on Western Sahara and the ICC arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir during his April 7 meeting with the Ambassador at MFA. Medelci said Algeria woul [...] | 2009-04-18 11:47:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PHUM ICC SU MO AG |
09ALGIERS463 | GUNS IN THE DESERT: ROOTS OF SAHEL INSTABILITY [...] (S) SUMMARY: The stability of the vast Sahara region of southern Algeria, northern Mali and northern Niger has become a major source of concern to Algerian officials and local leaders we met during a March 23-30 trip to Tamanrasset and Djanet. They tell us a concerted development program and [...] | 2009-05-11 08:46:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PTER PGOV PINR PREL PINS ECON ASEC ML NG AG |
09ALGIERS469 | PROBLEM CHILD: ALGERIA'S GROWING IMPATIENCE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria has long considered Mali an ally in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel, but is losing patience with its southern neighbor. During the week of April 25, the two major independent French-language dailies in Algiers, Liberte and El Watan, accused Malian President Amado [...] | 2009-05-12 15:06:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PINR PREL ASEC ML AG |
09ALGIERS483 | ALGIERS EAC: DETAINEE PHOTOS AND THE SECURITY [...] (S) On May 17, 2009, the acting DCM convened a full EAC to assess the impact on mission and AMCIT security from media attention to unreleased detainee photographs (reftel) as well as to evaluate the security situation in and around the city of Constantine for upcoming Embassy travel and activit [...] | 2009-05-18 14:30:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | ASEC PTER CASC AG |
09ALGIERS492 | DESPERATELY LOOKING NORTH: THE MIGRANTS OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The cities of Tamanrasset and Djanet in the Algerian south have become extended transit hubs for thousands of illegal migrants from sub Saharan Africa who are looking north to seek opportunity. With 130,000 residents, Tamanrasset is the largest population center in southern Alger [...] | 2009-05-20 18:57:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER PINR PINS SOCI ML NG AG |
09ALGIERS514 | BOUTEFLIKA: SERIOUS WESTERN SAHARA AUTONOMY IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bouteflika told Codel Burr Algeria would consider modifying its position on Western Sahara, and engaging the Sahrawis, if Morocco seriously implemented UN resolutions on self-determination. While Algeria would respect whatever outcome the Saharans chose, including auto [...] | 2009-06-03 06:36:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OREP PGOV PINR PTER PINS KNNP AG |
09ALGIERS740 | ALGERIA LINKS RANSOM PAYMENTS TO TRANS-SAHARA [...] (S) SUMMARY. Algeria considers the payment of ransom to terrorist organizations a serious problem for security in the Sahel region and will propose an UNGA resolution condemning such payments based on a similar proposal recently acted upon by the African Union (AU). Algeria is not circulati [...] | 2009-08-09 07:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR PGOV AG ML MR NG PBTS |
09ALGIERS764 | ALGERIA SEEKS SUPPORT FOR UN ACTION TO BAN RANSOM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Algerian Presidential Counter Terrorism Advisor, Kamel Rezag Bara, said August 12 that Algeria sought U.S. support at the UN for an African Union initiative to strengthen the international legal regime against abductions, including a specific ban on ransom payments to terrorist g [...] | 2009-08-20 12:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV PINR PBTS UNGA AG ML MR NG US |
09ALGIERS765 | ALGERIAN MINSTATE SAYS TRANS-SAHARA LEADERS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian Minister of State for Africa and the Maghreb Abdelkader Messahel told a visiting Capstone delegation August 14 that trans-Sahara heads of state will meet in Bamako in early October to discuss security cooperation and regional development. Messahel said that Algerian P [...] | 2009-08-23 06:43:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PTER PGOV AG |
09ALGIERS781 | POLISARIO VIEWS VIENNA AS POSITIVE STEP, BUT NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Polisario "Ambassador" Brahim Ghali praised the positive atmosphere of the Vienna talks and reiterated the Polisario's commitment to continue its cooperation with UNSYG Special Envoy Christopher Ross. Although the talks were a good opportunity for direct dialogue between the part [...] | 2009-08-27 17:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS825 | ALGERIA ON SAHEL SUMMIT PREP: "THE CHAIN IS NOW [...] (C) Algeria expects a regional heads of state meeting in Bamako on regional security cooperation before the end of the year. MFA Director General for African Affairs Magramane said he expects the summit to result in an action plan to address both joint security operations and development ini [...] | 2009-09-14 16:54:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR PGOV PBTS AG ML MR NG |
09ALGIERS839 | ALGERIA TO ENGAGE IRAN ON AMCIT DETAINEES [...] (C) The Algerian MFA says that Algeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs would engage with his Iranian colleague on the margins of UNGA to help obtain the humanitarian release of U.S. citizens detained in Iran. It would also instruct its Ambassador in Geneva to work with the U.S. and Egyptian del [...] | 2009-09-17 17:31:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | AG CASC IR KNNP MNUC PARM PHUM PTER |
09ALGIERS845 | ALGERIA: AFRICAN REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIOSAFETY [...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points September 24 to Hamza Khelif, in the Security and Disarmament Division of the General Directorate of Political Affairs and International Security. Khelif said he would refer this matter to his superiors, but was fairly certain Algeria would participat [...] | 2009-09-27 08:43:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE AG |
09ALGIERS948 | ALGERIA SAYS BAMAKO SUMMIT KEY TO REGIONAL [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Algerian Minister Delegate for Defense Guenaizia told visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Ambassador Vicki Huddleston October 19 that the Algerian, Mauritanian, Nigerien and Malian chiefs of staff had agreed to set up a regional command for joint counter terrorism [...] | 2009-10-25 09:28:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV MCAP MOPS SNAR AG ML MR NG |
09ALGIERS961 | ALGERIA: ELECTIONS NOT ENOUGH IN GUINEA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-27 14:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV AG GV |
09ALGIERS962 | ALGERIAN MINSTATE SAYS REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS CAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of State for African and Maghreb Affairs Abdelkader Messahel told Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Ambassador Vicki Huddleston on October 17 that governments in the Sahel region have the resources to combat terrorism and criminal networks and have agreed on the [...] | 2009-10-27 17:34:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV MCAP MOPS SNAR AG ML MR NG |
09ALGIERS973 | NEA A/S FELTMAN MEETING WITH ALGERIAN FOREIGN [...] (C) In an October 20 meeting with Algerian FM Medelci, visiting NEA A/S Feltman said we wished to deepen counterterrorism and regional security cooperation with Algeria. Medelci focused on the economy and the Middle East. Algeria was an open economy that needed foreign and U.S. investment, w [...] | 2009-11-02 07:06:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON ETRD KPAL KWBG IS AG |
09ALGIERS983 | CTAG MEMBERS DISCUSS REGIONAL CT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Participants at the Italian-hosted Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting of G-8 Embassies in Algiers on October 25 discussed the current status of regional CT cooperation, ongoing Algerian and bilateral CT efforts, and the activities of the African Union Center for the Study and Res [...] | 2009-11-04 10:06:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR PGOV AG ML MR NG |
09ALGIERS988 | ALGERIA RESPONSE TO U.S. POINTS ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (C) P/E chief delivered ref A points November 4 to Abdelkedar Hedjazi, Director of the MFA's Office of the Arab Magreb and Arab Maghreb Union, emphasizing in particular the need to avoid UNGA resolutions related to the Goldstone report that could complicate the resumption of Palestinian-Israe [...] | 2009-11-04 16:27:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KPAL AG IS UN |
09AMMAN1391 | JORDAN: DELEGATION FOR GINCT PLENARY AND RESPONSE [...] (C) POLOff delivered reftel demarches on June 16 to Samer Naber, Deputy Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 2. (C) Per reftel B, Ambassador Mousa Breisat, head of the International Organizations section at the MFA, led the Jordanian delegation to the 2009 Plenary Me [...] | 2009-06-21 13:20:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KGIC JO |
09AMMAN1589 | JORDAN: STATE SECURITY COURT ISSUES DEATH SENTENCE [...] (SBU) On July 14, the Jordanian press reported that Muammar Ahmad Yusuf Al-Jaghbir had been sentenced to death by hanging for his role in the 2002 murder of Laurence Foley, a USAID employee at Embassy Amman. This ruling represents the third legal decision that has been issued in this case. [...] | 2009-07-15 06:23:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM ASEC JO |
09AMMAN1619 | JORDAN'S GOVERNMENT ON TRANSIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-20 09:07:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG JO IS PTER |
09AMMAN165 | JOINT DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO JORDAN ON FIFTH GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-20 05:44:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PTER KGIC JO |
09AMMAN1659 | JORDAN: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SECRETARY OF [...] (S) Jordan is increasing its contributions in Afghanistan and to regional security efforts, reaching out to Syria to provide an alternative to Iranian influence, and maintaining its focus on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The King is able to carry out this ambitious [...] | 2009-07-23 17:00:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MCAP MOPS JO |
09AMMAN1664 | USG AML WORKSHOP FOR JUDGES IN AMMAN RAISES AWARENESS OF [...] (U) The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development and Training (OPDAT) and U.S. Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) recently delivered four, two-day workshops in Amman on "Adjudicating Money Laundering and Related Financial Crime Cases" to 86 Jordani [...] | 2009-07-26 11:37:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PTER SOCI JO |
09AMMAN1779 | SUCESSFUL JORDAN BIOMETRIC PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Jordan's Ministry of Interior and General Intelligence Directorate held a conference on the Regional Biometric Partnership Initiative on 4-5 August in Amman. The conference successfully brought together counter-terrorism and forensics experts from twelve countries in the region, inclu [...] | 2009-08-06 11:05:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PTER ASEC PREL KINR JO |
09AMMAN1943 | USG WORKSHOP FOR MILITARY JUDGES PROMOTES PROSECUTING AND [...] (U) The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development and Training (OPDAT) and U.S. Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) recently delivered two, two-day workshops in Amman on "Prosecuting and Adjudicating Terrorism Finance Cases" to 38 Jordanian State Sec [...] | 2009-08-27 11:35:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PTER SOCI JO |
09AMMAN198 | GEN. DAYTON TALKS JAF TRAINING FOR PALESTINIANS IN [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Security Coordinator Lieutenant General Keith Dayton met on January 19 with Special Advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces HRH Lieutenant General Prince Faisal bin Al-Hussein, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Khaled Sarayreh, and Commander of the Joint [...] | 2009-01-23 12:11:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG PTER MAS PREL IS JO |
09AMMAN2201 | JORDAN: CONSTRUCTIVE OUTCOME FROM THE GOLDSTONE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-30 05:18:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KISL KPAL IS JO |
09AMMAN2379 | UN 1267 SANCTIONS DEMARCHE ON USG REVIEW OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-28 11:04:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER PREL KTFN PGOV UNSC JO |
09AMMAN2413 | JORDAN: GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE PASSED [...] (C) On November 3, the Ambassador passed copies of reftel demarche points to both Nasser Lozi, Chief of the Royal Court, and Jaffar Hassan, Director of International Affairs for the Royal Court. Both officials acknowledged the receipt of the USG views on the upcoming General Assembly debate on [...] | 2009-11-04 07:19:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS JO |
09AMMAN2515 | JORDAN: Public Diplomacy Engagement Furthers Cairo Speech [...] This cable is the second of four cables following up on the October visit to Amman of NSC Senior Director for Global Engagement Pradeep Ramamurthy. It outlines aspects of Embassy Amman's efforts to advance goals emphasized in the President's June 4 speech in Cairo. 2. Summary: Public Diplo [...] | 2009-11-18 15:10:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PGOV KDEM KPAO OIIP SCUL JO |
09AMMAN2607 | JORDAN SUBMISSION FOR 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] Per ref B, following is the text for Part II, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes, of Embassy Amman's submission for the 2009-2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),also e-mailed as requested as a Microsoft Word document. Embassy point of contact is Resident Economic [...] | 2009-12-03 11:04:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PTER SNAR KCRM JO |
09AMMAN2761 | JORDAN: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-21 14:03:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PREL ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR JO |
09AMMAN2765 | JORDAN: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM (CORRECTED COPY) [...] (SBU) Through both its public statements and its actions, the Jordanian Government continues to demonstrate a solid commitment to combat terrorist groups and extremist ideologies. 2. (SBU) Despite the government's steadfast support, however, extremist messages still find a receptive audience [...] | 2009-12-22 07:52:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PREL ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR JO |
09AMMAN277 | IRAN'S LARIJANI PAYS A LOW-KEY VISIT TO AMMAN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Although it was little-known in Jordan, speaker of the Iranian parliament Ali Larijani paid a low-key visit to Amman on January 9, accompanied by the speakers of the Syrian and Indonesian parliaments. Despite several attempts by the Jordanian government to turn off the visit, [...] | 2009-01-29 09:26:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER IR IS SY JO |
09AMMAN299 | GOJ MOVES TO PUT MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD BACK IN THE BOX [...] (U) Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood (JMB) publicly denounced the government's denial of its request to hold a "Thanks and Victory" rally in Amman on January 30. In a January 31 statement, the group described the decision to prevent the rally as "an official siege" by the government after the Inte [...] | 2009-02-01 15:33:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KISL JO |
09AMMAN468 | JORDAN'S MFA SHARES USG GOALS FOR MARCH 2 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 13:55:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG JO |
09AMMAN47 | JORDAN DENIES INTERNET REPORT ON MISSING FIGHTERS, [...] (S/NF) According to an Open Source Center (OSC) report, the jihadist Ana Al-Muslim website posted a report on January 5 that "a Jordanian Foreign Ministry spokesman stated that three warplanes disappeared" on January 4 as well as "five pilots, who have been described as having Islamic leanings. [...] | 2009-01-06 14:54:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL PTER KISL JO |
09AMMAN470 | PROPOSALS FOR NADR-FUNDED PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT RSI [...] (U) This message is Embassy Amman's response to reftel's call for proposals to use Nonproliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining and Related Projects (NADR) funds for programs in support of Regional Strategic Initiative (RSI) goals. Post is pleased to submit four proposals, all of which leverage [...] | 2009-02-19 14:56:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC JO |
09AMMAN580 | JORDAN AND BRITAIN WORK AROUND THE LACK OF [...] (C) The British House of Lords February 18 ruling that Omer Mahmoud Mohammad Othamn, "Abu Qatada," could be deported to Jordan sparked preparations for his possible arrival. As Jordan does not have an extradition treaty with the United Kingdom, Abu Qatada's deportation would be governed by a [...] | 2009-03-04 03:38:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER JO |
09AMMAN676 | JORDANIAN TRAINING OF PALESTINIAN SECURITY FORCES [...] (U) Independent daily Al-Arab Al-Yawm criticized U.S.-sponsored training of Palestinian Security Forces in Jordan in a March 9 editorial, suggesting a pause in activity given Israeli settlement activity and its recent operations in Gaza. The article by managing editor Fahd Khitan charged Jord [...] | 2009-03-16 16:34:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KISL JO |
09AMMAN677 | ISLAMIST FIGURE SPARKS DEBATE OVER ENGAGING THE [...] (U) Public debate has arisen in Jordan over the late February visit to the United States of the deputy Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front (IAF),which is the political wing of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood. IAF figure Ruheil Gharaibeh traveled to Washington to take part in a February [...] | 2009-03-16 17:31:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KISL JO |
09AMMAN778 | JORDANIAN REACTION TO BIN LADIN STATEMENT LIMITED [...] (C) Reaction in Jordan to Usama bin Ladin's most recent statement, broadcast March 14 on Al-Jazeera, has been muted, despite bin Ladin's call to use Jordan as a front from which to "liberate Palestine." In the days immediately following the tape's broadcast, Jordan's media outlets--including [...] | 2009-03-26 13:41:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER JO |
09AMMAN86 | JORDAN OPEN TO HOSTING GICNT EXERCISE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-12 11:16:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PTER PREL KGIC JO |
09AMMAN895 | JORDAN RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO ARMS OVERFLIGHT [...] (S) Polchief met on April 15 with Nabil Masarweh, Office Director of the Foreign Minister, to convey appreciation for Jordan's timely response and cooperation following the March 17 and 18 demarche on the possible transfer of military equipment to Sudan (ref B). Polchief said that the U.S. m [...] | 2009-04-16 09:08:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PARM PINS PREL PTER MARR JO |
09AMMAN903 | DESIGNATION OF TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] Embassy Amman's primary Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is Joe Edward Parker. His contact information is as follows: Name: Joe Edward Parker Title: Resident Economic Crimes Advisor Phone number: 962-6-590-6544 Classified e-mail: ParkerJE@state.sgov.gov Unclassified e-mail: [...] | 2009-04-16 12:30:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN JO |
09AMMAN930 | JORDAN ASKS FOR NON-PAPER TO FACILITATE PLANNING [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) PolChief and Netherlands DCM Johan Verboom delivered on April 21 reftel demarche and a proposed agenda for the June plenary of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) to Nabil Masarweh, Office Director to [...] | 2009-04-22 10:44:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER MNUC KNNP KGIC JO |
09AMSTERDAM38 | MARCH VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post sends Visas Viper cables on behalf of AmEmbassy The Hague and ConGen Amsterdam. 3. (SBU) The March Visas Viper meeting was held on April 2, 2009. The meeting was chaired by A/DCM James Foster and was coordinated by Consul Michael Barkin. 4. (SBU) The fol [...] | 2009-04-09 12:51:00 | Consulate Amsterdam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC NL |
09AMSTERDAM45 | APRIL VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post sends Visas Viper cables on behalf of AmEmbassy The Hague and ConGen Amsterdam. 3. (SBU) The April Visas Viper meeting took place on May 7, 2009. Charge d'Affaires Michael Gallagher chaired the meeting; Global Issues Officer David Jaberg coordinated the [...] | 2009-05-08 15:34:00 | Consulate Amsterdam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC NL |
09AMSTERDAM49 | MAY VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post sends Visas Viper cables on behalf of Embassy The Hague and Consulate General Amsterdam. 3. (SBU) The May Visas Viper meeting took place on June 4, 2009. Charge d'Affaires Michael Gallagher chaired the meeting. Consul Michael Barkin coordinated the meeting. [...] | 2009-06-08 16:05:00 | Consulate Amsterdam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC NL |
09AMSTERDAM53 | JUNE VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post sends Visas Viper cables on behalf of Embassy The Hague and Consulate General Amsterdam. 3. (SBU) The June Visas Viper meeting took place on July 2, 2009. Charge d'Affaires Michael Gallagher chaired the meeting. Consul General Marjorie A. Ames coordinated [...] | 2009-07-09 09:02:00 | Consulate Amsterdam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC NL |
09AMSTERDAM62 | JULY VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post sends Visas Viper cables on behalf of Embassy The Hague and Consulate General Amsterdam. 3. (SBU) The July Visas Viper meeting took place on August 6, 2009. Charge d'Affaires Michael Gallagher chaired the meeting. Consul General Julie A. Ruterbories coord [...] | 2009-08-07 14:44:00 | Consulate Amsterdam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC NL |
09AMSTERDAM72 | AUGUST VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post sends Visas Viper cables on behalf of Embassy The Hague and Consulate General Amsterdam. 3. (SBU) The August Visas Viper meeting took place on September 3, 2009. DCM Michael Gallagher chaired the meeting. Consular Chief Stuart Wilson coordinated the meeting. [...] | 2009-09-09 12:49:00 | Consulate Amsterdam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC NL |
09AMSTERDAM77 | SEPTEMBER VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post sends Visas Viper cables on behalf of Embassy The Hague and Consulate General Amsterdam. 3. (SBU) The September Visas Viper meeting took place on October 1, 2009. DCM Michael Gallagher chaired the meeting. Consul General Julie Ruterbories coordinated the mee [...] | 2009-10-05 07:06:00 | Consulate Amsterdam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC NL |
09AMSTERDAM86 | OCTOBER VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post sends Visas Viper cables on behalf of Embassy The Hague and Consulate General Amsterdam. 3. (SBU) The October Visas Viper meeting took place on November 5, 2009. DCM Michael Gallagher chaired the meeting. Consular Section Chief Stuart Wilson coordinated the [...] | 2009-11-09 09:54:00 | Consulate Amsterdam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC NL |
09AMSTERDAM93 | NOVEMBER VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post sends Visas Viper cables on behalf of Embassy The Hague and Consulate General Amsterdam. 3. (SBU) The November Visas Viper meeting took place on December 3, 2009. DCM Michael Gallagher chaired the meeting. Consul Daniel King coordinated the meeting. 4. ( [...] | 2009-12-09 15:16:00 | Consulate Amsterdam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC NL |
09ANKARA1 | TURKEY TO CAUTION SYRIA ON SUPPORT FOR HIZBALLAH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-31 15:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER LE SY TU |
09ANKARA1024 | Update on PKK Violence (July 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 1-7, 2009, seven security officials were i [...] | 2009-07-16 15:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1043 | TURKEY HOPES TO ATTEND JORDAN BIOMETRICS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-21 13:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL KISL TU JO |
09ANKARA1049 | USG-UK COOPERATION CONTINUES ON TURKEY'S CT ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During July 6-8 meetings in London, Embassy Ankara's Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) and her British counterparts agreed that Turkey is unlikely to change its attitude toward its terrorism legislation without clear evidence of the law's inadequacy. Separately, the UK proposed work [...] | 2009-07-23 04:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1050 | Turkey's Terrorism Laws: Little Likelihood of Change [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite repeated prodding, Turkey continues to resist suggestions that it needs to amend its terrorism laws to broaden the definition of terrorism. Lacking releasable concrete examples of shortcomings in the current law, continued USG requests on this front are unlikely to mee [...] | 2009-07-23 04:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1084 | TURKEY-IRAN BORDER: A TALE OF TWO CUSTOMS POSTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-29 04:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON PINS PTER EAID IR TU |
09ANKARA1085 | Update on PKK Violence (July 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 16-23, 2009, one security official was kill [...] | 2009-07-29 08:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1101 | TURKEY: PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY HAS THE LEAD [...] (S) Ambassador summarized REF A points to MFA U/S Apakan, July 24. 2. (S) POLOFF reiterated demarche to MFA Israel/Palestine desk officer Rauf Alp Denktas, July 27. Denktas underscored GOT policy that the Palestinian Authority led by President Abbas is the legitimate authority for all Pa [...] | 2009-07-31 04:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER EAID TU WBG IS |
09ANKARA1127 | Update on PKK Violence (July 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 24-31, 2009, three security officials were [...] | 2009-08-04 09:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1146 | TURKEY: CHP ARGUES KURDS MUST BE TURKS FIRST [...] (C) Summary: In an August 5 meeting with Republican People's Party (CHP) President Deniz Baykal, the Ambassador stressed the important role CHP must play in finding an effective solution to the Kurdish issue. Baykal agreed in principle, but undercut the whole point by adding that any plan th [...] | 2009-08-07 12:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU |
09ANKARA1149 | US AND TURKEY REAFFIRM CT COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. Turkey is generally pleased with the U.S.-Turkey-Iraq Trilateral Process, but Iraq must take concrete measures against the PKK, Turkish officials told S/CT Amb. Benjamin during his July 30-31 visit. Turkey is developing a new broader "democratization" approach to the Kurdish issu [...] | 2009-08-07 15:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL EU IZ TU |
09ANKARA1155 | TURKEY: DTP UPBEAT ON PROSPECTS FOR KURDISH OPENING [...] (C) Summary. During an August 6 dinner hosted by Democracy and Society Party (DTP) Chairman Ahmet Turk, the Ambassador stressed the importance of the DTP continuing to cooperate closely with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to f [...] | 2009-08-10 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU |
09ANKARA1191 | Update on PKK Violence (August 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 1-7, 2009, one security official was kill [...] | 2009-08-14 07:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1216 | TURKEY: ENGAGEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey's experience as an ISAF participant and lead nation, its long-term leadership of Wardak PRT and its sponsorship of the "Ankara Process" confirm its commitment to security and democracy in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Though constrained by limited resources, Turkey is willi [...] | 2009-08-19 04:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PTER PINS EAID MASS |
09ANKARA1217 | TURKEY: ENGAGEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey's experience as an ISAF participant and lead nation, its long-term leadership of Wardak PRT and its sponsorship of the "Ankara Process" confirm its commitment to security and democracy in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Though constrained by limited resources, Turkey is willi [...] | 2009-08-19 04:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PTER PINS EAID MASS |
09ANKARA1222 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (AUGUST 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the week of August 8-15, 2009, one security officia [...] | 2009-08-19 13:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA124 | Update on PKK Violence (January 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 16-23, 2009, reporting period, no securi [...] | 2009-01-26 10:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1277 | Update on PKK Violence (August 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 16-23, 2009, two security officials were [...] | 2009-08-28 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1295 | TURKEY: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE KURDISH ISSUE FROM [...] (SBU) Adana Principal Officer Daria Darnell, accompanied by Embassy Poloff and a locally-employed political advisor, engaged local political and NGO leaders on the Democratic (Kurdish) Initiative during a trip to six provinces in southeastern Turkey from August 17-21. Turkish Kurds expressed [...] | 2009-09-02 12:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1304 | Update on PKK Violence (August 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 24-31, 2009, four security officials were [...] | 2009-09-04 15:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1333 | Update on PKK Violence (September 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During September 1-7, 2009, no security official was killed [...] | 2009-09-10 11:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1371 | (S) GOT WILL LOOK INTO POTENTIAL LME TRANSFER TO [...] (S) We delivered the information regarding the potential transfer of lethal military equipment from Bulgaria to Syria through a Turkish intermediary (reftel) with MFA Acting Department Head for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Affairs Mustafa Yurdakul on September 17. Yurdakul pledged to look [...] | 2009-09-18 07:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | ETTC MCAP MOPS PARM PINR PREL PTER MASS |
09ANKARA1375 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (SEPTEMBER 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the September 8-15, 2009, ten security officials wer [...] | 2009-09-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1411 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (SEPTEMBER 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the period September 16-23, one security official wa [...] | 2009-09-30 05:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA142 | SCENESETTER FOR MIDDLE EAST SPECIAL ENVOY GEORGE [...] (S) The Gaza crisis and IDF attacks on Palestinian civilians dominated the Turkish press for three weeks and will still be fresh in the minds of GOT officials as you arrive. PM Erdogan, incensed that Israel launched attacks on Gaza just days after PM Olmert had visited Ankara with no mention [...] | 2009-01-28 15:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER TU |
09ANKARA1434 | (S) TURKEY AGREES TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST TRUCK [...] (S/NF) We shared the non-paper regarding the transit of a truck convoy from Iran to the Levant carrying a shipment of high concern (reftel) with MFA Deputy DG for Nonproliferation Ahmet Gun on October 2, and asked the GoT to take immediate action to disrupt the shipment. Gun agreed to alert rel [...] | 2009-10-02 14:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC MARR MCAP MOPS PARM PINR PREL PTER |
09ANKARA1446 | TURKEY PUSHES FOR STRATEGIC COOPERATION WITH IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PM Erdogan's October 15 visit to Baghdad is the culmination of a recently revitalized GoT effort to establish a strategic partnership with Iraq. He hopes to lay the foundations for bilateral cooperation in areas ranging from counter-terrorism cooperation and hydrocarbons trans [...] | 2009-10-06 14:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1447 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (SEPTEMBER 24-30, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the September 24-30 period, no security personnel we [...] | 2009-10-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1472 | SCENESETTER: YOUR VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (S) Sandy, Glad you'll be able to visit Turkey at this key time. Your short visit will give you an opportunity to engage with key Turkish leaders on, first and foremost in their minds, missile defense. The Turks are keen to learn more about U.S. plans, in particular what role the U.S. wants/e [...] | 2009-10-13 08:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM PTER TU |
09ANKARA1475 | TURKEY'S DEMOCRATIC INITIATIVE: MORE THAN WORDS? [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Besir Atalay has announced that the as-yet unrevealed Democratic Initiative will exit its first "debate" phase and progress to the second "concrete step" phase after the Prime Minister returns from a visit to Iraq on October 15. Details of the project remain e [...] | 2009-10-13 15:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PTER TU |
09ANKARA1477 | PM ERDOGAN'S WISH LIST FOR OCTOBER 15 BAGHDAD VISIT [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Erdogan and his delegation of nine ministers hope to sign well over 40 protocols, memoranda of understanding and agreements with their Iraqi counterparts when they visit Baghdad October 15 (REFTEL),according to the MFA. The GOT hopes the documents will guide bilateral co [...] | 2009-10-14 04:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1482 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (OCTOBER 1 - 7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 1 - 7 period, two security officials, i [...] | 2009-10-14 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1507 | TURKEY: PKK COMING FROM IRAQ AS "PEACE DELEGATION" [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 19 a group of 26 refugees from the Makhmour camp in Northern Iraq and eight reported members of the PKK from Kandil Mountain began returning to Turkey via the Habur Border Gate. PM Erdogan described the returnees as "surrendering" to Turkish authorities while the PKK s [...] | 2009-10-20 04:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1508 | TURKEY: PKK COMING FROM IRAQ AS "PEACE DELEGATION" [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 19 a group of 26 refugees from the Makhmour camp in Northern Iraq and eight reported members of the PKK from Kandil Mountain began returning to Turkey via the Habur Border Gate. PM Erdogan described the returnees as "surrendering" to Turkish authorities while the PKK s [...] | 2009-10-20 04:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1513 | TURKEY: PKK RETURNEES HEAD FOR DIYARBAKIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish public continues to be riveted by the saga of PKK returnees who arrived at the Habur Gate border crossing on October 19. Five of the original 34 were detained but later released. Interior Minister Atalay projects that another 100-150 returnees will arrive soon, and [...] | 2009-10-20 16:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1514 | TURKEY: PKK RETURNEES HEAD FOR DIYARBAKIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish public continues to be riveted by the saga of PKK returnees who arrived at the Habur Gate border crossing on October 19. Five of the original 34 were detained but later released. Interior Minister Atalay projects that another 100-150 returnees will arrive soon, and [...] | 2009-10-21 04:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1515 | TURKEY: PKK RETURNEES HEAD FOR DIYARBAKIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish public continues to be riveted by the saga of PKK returnees who arrived at the Habur Gate border crossing on October 19. Five of the original 34 were detained but later released. Interior Minister Atalay projects that another 100-150 returnees will arrive soon, and [...] | 2009-10-21 04:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1522 | TURKEY TO PRESS FOR IRAQI SUPPORT OF KURDISH [...] (C) Turkey's Ambassador to Iraq, Murat Ozcelik, told us October 21 that upon his return to Baghdad later in the week he would attempt to engage the Iraqi government and KRG in the nascent Kurdish-Turk returnee process (REFTELS). Ozcelik said the early focus of his engagement effort would be fu [...] | 2009-10-21 15:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1533 | PM'S OCTOBER 15 BAGHDAD VISIT: LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER [...] (C) Summary: The GOT is pleased with the 48 MOUs, protocols and agreements PM Erdogan and his nine ministers signed with their Iraqi counterparts during Erdogan's October 15 visit to Baghdad. The MFA realizes that implementing the accords will be difficult. The MOU on natural gas exports es [...] | 2009-10-23 08:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1534 | PM'S OCTOBER 15 BAGHDAD VISIT: LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER [...] (C) Summary: The GOT is pleased with the 48 MOUs, protocols and agreements PM Erdogan and his nine ministers signed with their Iraqi counterparts during Erdogan's October 15 visit to Baghdad. The MFA realizes that implementing the accords will be difficult. The MOU on natural gas exports es [...] | 2009-10-23 08:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1538 | GOT REELING FROM RECEPTION GIVEN PKK RETURNEES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reactions to the return of 34 PKK sympathizers/members from northern Iraq to Turkey have been mixed with negative perceptions rapidly dominating the initial hopes of reconciliation. The exuberant reception by the crowds greeting the returnees had drawn sharp criticism from media [...] | 2009-10-23 17:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREF PHUM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1539 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (OCTOBER 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 8-15, 2009, four security officials were [...] | 2009-10-24 10:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1573 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (OCTOBER 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 16-23 period, no security official was [...] | 2009-11-02 09:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1585 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (OCTOBER 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 24-31 period, no security official was [...] | 2009-11-04 09:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1600 | IRAQ-TURKEY COUNTERTERRORISM AGREEMENT [...] (C) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs November 5 gave us an English-language copy of the Iraqi-Turkish counter-terrorism agreement signed by the two countries' Interior Ministers during Prime Minister Erdogan's October 15 visit to Baghdad (REFTEL). MFA contacts contend this agreement provides a [...] | 2009-11-06 16:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
09ANKARA1604 | TURKEY: MFA READY FOR BILATERAL CT DIALOGUE; [...] (C) Summary. Turkey is willing to explore inaugurating the official high-level counterterrorism (CT) dialogue as early as January 2010, MFA DDG for Security Affairs Ozyildiz told us November 5. An interagency task force is preparing changes to Turkey's legal definition of terrorism to satisfy [...] | 2009-11-09 06:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EFIN IZ DA TU |
09ANKARA1629 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (NOVEMBER 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the week of November 1-7, no security official was [...] | 2009-11-13 12:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1632 | TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER [...] (C) The GOT will warmly welcome your November 18 visit as a further sign that Washington views Turkey as an important strategic partner. It will be seen as yet another indication of U.S. respect for Turkey's international role and domestic progress. Despite turmoil and unrest in its neighborh [...] | 2009-11-13 15:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA1633 | TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER [...] (C) The GOT will warmly welcome your November 18 visit as a further sign that Washington views Turkey as an important strategic partner. It will be seen as yet another indication of U.S. respect for Turkey's international role and domestic progress. Despite turmoil and unrest in its neighborh [...] | 2009-11-13 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA1652 | AMBASSADOR RAISES DEFINITION OF TERRORISM AND TAX [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Jeffrey and Econ Counselor met November 12 with Minister of Finance Mehmet Simsek. Simsek established an interagency working group on the definition of terrorism that will make recommendations on legislative changes by mid-December, allowing him to present legislation [...] | 2009-11-17 16:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EFIN PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1656 | TURKEY: DTP PULLED IN OPPOSING DIRECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey is being torn between two trains of thought. On one hand, co-chairman Ahmet Turk and those aligned with him are attempting, at least in words, to distance themselves from the violent actions of the terrorist Kurdistan Worker's Party (P [...] | 2009-11-19 06:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1657 | TURKEY: OCALAN GETS SOME COMPANY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 17 the GOT transferred five inmates to the island prison of Imrali, where jailed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan has been the sole prisoner in solitary confinement since 1999. Three additional prisoners are expected to be transferred there soon. [...] | 2009-11-19 06:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1658 | TURKEY: DTP PULLED IN OPPOSING DIRECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey is being torn between two trains of thought. On one hand, co-chairman Ahmet Turk and those aligned with him are attempting, at least in words, to distance themselves from the violent actions of the terrorist Kurdistan Worker's Party (P [...] | 2009-11-19 06:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1659 | TURKEY: OCALAN GETS SOME COMPANY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 17 the GOT transferred five inmates to the island prison of Imrali, where jailed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan has been the sole prisoner in solitary confinement since 1999. Three additional prisoners are expected to be transferred there soon. [...] | 2009-11-19 06:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1663 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (NOVEMBER 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During November 8-15, no security official was killed or i [...] | 2009-11-19 11:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1664 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (NOVEMBER 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During November 8-15, no security official was killed or i [...] | 2009-11-19 11:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA169 | TURKEY TO CONTINUE ACTIVIST ROLE IN MIDDLE EAST; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT aims to continue to play an activist role in establishing peace and stability in its neighborhood as a foreign policy priority, in large measure because of a deep distrust and fear of Iran's exhibited malevolent influence throughout the region, according to senior MFA offi [...] | 2009-02-03 16:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ENRG KPAL TU IZ IR IS |
09ANKARA1722 | GULEN - TURKEY'S INVISIBLE MAN CASTS LONG SHADOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fethullah Gulen remains a political phenomenon in Turkey. Although "exiled" in Pennsylvania for the past decade, Gulen's impact continues to expand, aided by legions of loyalist supporters and a network of elite schools. The Gulen Movement's purported goals focus on interfaith d [...] | 2009-12-04 11:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1724 | TURKEY: MFA SEEKS NEW CURRENTS ON CAMP MAKHMOUR [...] SUMMARY. Iraqi authorities need to better isolate Makhmour Camp residents from PKK pressure to allow camp residents to express their feelings about returning to Turkey without coercion, newly appointed DG for Security Affairs Aydin Sezgin told us December 1. The DCM urged Turkey to involve t [...] | 2009-12-04 11:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL IZ TU |
09ANKARA1725 | TREASURY OFFICIAL ON FIGHT AGAINST TERRORIST [...] (C) Summary. During an October 19-20 visit to Ankara, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes David Cohen cautioned government and banking officials about doing business with Iranian banks. GOT officials insisted they will comply with all UNSC obligations, but are [...] | 2009-12-04 11:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | EFIN PTER TU IR IS GZ KPAL ECON |
09ANKARA1732 | TURKEY: Eastern Provinces Score Gains in Counternarotics, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Turkish officials are making steady inroads against drug smuggling in the southeast, local officials told Embassy officers during a recent visit. PKK terrorist activity has declined, but it remains active in drug smuggling. The inability of Turkish officials to share informati [...] | 2009-12-04 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER SNAR PREL EFIN IR IZ TU |
09ANKARA1733 | TURKEY'S F-TYPE PRISONS: MOVING AWAY FROM "MIDNIGHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A recent Embassy visit to one of Turkey's high-security "F-type" prisons found a clean, modern facility housing inmates who appeared to be well-fed, well-behaved, and well-treated. The prisoners, incarcerated for crimes related to terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking [...] | 2009-12-04 15:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PTER SNAR SOCI TU |
09ANKARA1743 | TURKEY: COURT MULLS CLOSURE OF KURDISH PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Constitutional Court today begins its deliberations over the closure of the Democratic Society Party (DTP). A ruling may not be issued for weeks but could come much sooner, and is likely to have a major impact on the government's National Unity Project (also formerly known as [...] | 2009-12-08 13:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER PINR TU |
09ANKARA1746 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (NOVEMBER 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During November 16-23, no security official was killed or [...] | 2009-12-08 16:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1748 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (NOVEMBER 24-30, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During November 24-30, no security official was killed or [...] | 2009-12-09 08:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1749 | TURKEY: SOUTHEAST PERSPECTIVE: KURDISH OPENING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On a December 1-4 trip to southeast Turkey, a range of Kurdish contacts representing the intelligentsia, political elite and civic activists gave surprisingly similar observations on the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) "democratic opening," citing selfishness and i [...] | 2009-12-09 13:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA1752 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (DECEMBER 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 1-7 period, eight security officials we [...] | 2009-12-09 15:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1755 | SECURITY AGENCIES: BARZANI KEY TO DEFEATING THE PKK [...] (C) During a recent discussion of his ministry's goals for the December 20-22 Trilateral Mechanism Ministerial in Baghdad and Erbil, Ministry of Interior (MoI) Secretary General Eyup Tepe said the Turkish General Staff, Turkish National Intelligence Organization, Ministry of Foreign Affairs an [...] | 2009-12-09 17:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR TU IZ |
09ANKARA1764 | TURKEY: COURT CLOSES DTP, BANS TWO MPS FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Constitutional Court ruled on December 11 to close the Democratic Society Party (DTP) because of their organic connection with the terrorist Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). In recent weeks, the DTP has been progressively showing their close links with the PKK. Prior to the [...] | 2009-12-11 19:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU |
09ANKARA1765 | TURKEY: DTP CLOSED, TWO MPS BANNED FROM POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Constitutional Court ruled on December 11 to close the Democratic Society Party (DTP) because of their organic connection with the terrorist Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). In recent weeks, the DTP has been progressively showing their close links with the PKK. Prior to the [...] | 2009-12-11 19:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1773 | FBI DIRECTOR'S VISIT: POLICE PRAISE "KINGPIN" [...] (C) SUMMARY. FBI Director Mueller urged Turkey to accept an information sharing arrangement on biometric data during a November 18 meeting with Turkish National Police Director General Koksal. The Director separately offered to post a second FBI officer in Ankara to strengthen CT teamwork. K [...] | 2009-12-14 15:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PTER PREL SNAR KCRM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1774 | FBI DIRECTOR'S VISIT: DPM CICEK WELCOMES CLOSER CT [...] (C) SUMMARY. FBI Director Mueller offered to share biometric data with Turkey, post a second FBI agent in Ankara and assist Turkey with strengthening its counterterrorism legislation, FBI Director Mueller told DPM Cicek during a November 18 meeting. Biometric sharing would require changes to [...] | 2009-12-14 15:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PTER PREL KCRM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1775 | FBI DIRECTOR'S VISIT: MINISTER OF JUSTICE READY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a November 18 meeting, FBI Director Mueller pressed Justice Minister Ergin to establish a new bilateral framework that would facilitate the more rapid exchange of information. He also urged Turkey to revise its terrorism laws to better address the challenges brought by gl [...] | 2009-12-14 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PTER PREL KCRM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1782 | TURKEY: DTP RESIGNS EN MASSE; CONTINUED VIOLENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Former Democratic Society Party (DTP) parliamentarians decided to submit their resignations en masse to the Turkish Grand National Assembly on December 15 following the Constitutional Court decision closing the party for ties to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Forme [...] | 2009-12-15 16:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1783 | TURKEY: CANDIDATE FOR OSCE COUNTERTERRORISM [...] Following consultations with relevant contacts in the Turkish National Police (TNP) and in the private sector, we are pleased to suggest the following candidate for the OSCE Counterterrorism Workshop to be held in Vienna February 11-12, 2010. TNP contacts may provide a TNP candidate, but were [...] | 2009-12-16 06:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KCIP OSCE TU |
09ANKARA179 | TURKEY: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF U.S. DESIGNATION OF [...] (C) We informed MFA Security Affairs Deputy Director General Inan Ozyildiz and Security Affairs Office Director Metin Ergin February 3 of the USG's intent to designate PJAK as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (reftel). Ozyildiz said the Government of Turkey supports this designation, which wi [...] | 2009-02-04 15:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN ECON PTER PINR TU IZ |
09ANKARA1792 | TURKISH COUNTER-PKK EFFORT FOCUSES ON MAKHMOUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Interior Minister Atalay's priority for the December 21 Trilateral Mechanism Ministerial Meetings in Baghdad and Irbil is to secure KRG support for the expedited return of Turkish citizens from Makhmour camp. Rather than pressing KRG President Massoud Barzani to restrict PKK fre [...] | 2009-12-16 16:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
09ANKARA1794 | EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTERTERRORISM TRAINING WORKSHOP, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. Embassy Ankara will host a three-day regional counterterrorism workshop for law enforcement officials and prosecutors from Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and Greece, February 10-12, 2010. Embassy Ankara requests assistance from addressee embassies to en [...] | 2009-12-17 10:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER SNAR AL BU GR MK TU |
09ANKARA1799 | TURKEY: NO APPLICATION RECEIVED FOR LME TRANSFER [...] (S) On December 16, we followed up our initial demarche (ref a) regarding the possible transfer of Bulgarian-origin lethal military equipment to Syria via Turkey (ref b) with MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul. Yurdakul told us that the MFA had consulted releva [...] | 2009-12-17 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC MCAP MOPS PARM PINR PREL PTER MASS |
09ANKARA180 | TERRORISM FINANCE: COUNTERING TERRORIST ABUSE OF [...] On January 27, we delivered this demarche to MFA Security Affairs Director Metin Ergin. He said the Government of Turkey has seen significant problems with misuse of charitable donations and entities for terrorist purposes in Europe. The GOT is supportive of cracking down on abuses, but Erg [...] | 2009-02-04 15:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID TU |
09ANKARA1800 | TURKEY: PROTESTS CALM AND AKP PUSHES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In separate events on December 17, PM Erdogan and Interior Minister Atalay stressed the government's resolve to continue with its National Unity Project. Atalay cited two goals for the Project: eliminate terrorism and elevate democratic standards across the country. Protests [...] | 2009-12-17 16:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU IZ |
09ANKARA1801 | TURKEY: PROTESTS CALM AND AKP PUSHES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In separate events on December 17, PM Erdogan and Interior Minister Atalay stressed the government's resolve to continue with its National Unity Project. Atalay cited two goals for the Project: eliminate terrorism and elevate democratic standards across the country. Protests [...] | 2009-12-17 16:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU IZ |
09ANKARA1804 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (DECEMBER 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During December 8-15, no security official was killed but [...] | 2009-12-18 15:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1806 | DTP DEPUTIES JOIN BDP -- NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ahmet Turk, co-chairman of the former Democratic Society Party (DTP),announced on December 18 that the 19 remaining DTP MPs would not resign from the parliament as expected, but would instead join the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). While making the announcement, Turk invoked t [...] | 2009-12-18 16:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1826 | DEMARCHE ON URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE AMCIT CASES [...] (C) On December 22 we delivered REFTEL points to MFA Department Head for South Asia Korkut Gungen. Gungen listened sympathetically, noted that the GOT leadership has regular discussions with its Iranian counterparts, and promised to pass along our points for consideration to the MFA upper ti [...] | 2009-12-23 11:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER TU |
09ANKARA1832 | FORMER DTP MEMBERS HEAR PKK RHETORIC IN MAKHMOUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six officials who will soon join the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP),including three MPs from the former Democratic Society Party (DTP),traveled overland to Iraq on December 22 to visit the Makhmour refugee camp and hold meetings with officials from the Kurdistan Regional Gover [...] | 2009-12-23 16:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA184 | Update on PKK Violence (January 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 24-31, 2009, no security official was i [...] | 2009-02-05 08:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1841 | TURKEY DROPS VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR MORE COUNTRIES [...] SUMMARY: (C) MFA Head of Visa Section Kemal Demirciler recently gave us a consular perspective on the increasing number of Turkish bilateral visa waiver agreements. He said his department is not consulted before a visa waiver agreement is signed, and he expects no notification as to which c [...] | 2009-12-28 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS CMGT PGOV PTER SY LY TU |
09ANKARA1844 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (DECEMBER 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During December 16-23, no security official was killed or [...] | 2009-12-29 10:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1846 | (C) TURKISH GOALS FOR A JANUARY MNFI INTEL TEAM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Turkish ambassador to Iraq Murat Ozcelik contends MNF-I intelligence support is key to a new cooperative GoT-KRG effort to reduce and ultimately dispose of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. Turkish Minister of Interior Besir Atalay reportedly secured [...] | 2009-12-29 17:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR MARR TU IZ |
09ANKARA1848 | DELIVERY OF UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-30 15:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PTER TU KTFN PREL SA YM UN |
09ANKARA185 | TURKEY'S TERRORISM LAWS: MOJ AGREES TO REVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During January 2009 meeting in Washington, high-ranking officials of the Turkish Ministry of Justice (MOJ) agreed for the first time to conduct a comprehensive review of their legal framework for prosecuting terrorism activities. They also expressed keen interest in the USG de [...] | 2009-02-05 09:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV TU |
09ANKARA191 | TURKEY: INSIDER OUTLINES NEW CT MECHANISM [...] (C) Summary. A draft proposal establishing a new counterterrorism coordination mechanism already has informal clearance from Turkey's NSC and needs only final cabinet approval, according to Halil Sivgin, a political consultant with close ties to Deputy PM Cicek. Sivgin told us February 2 tha [...] | 2009-02-05 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV TU |
09ANKARA197 | TURKEY: MINISTER OF JUSTICE SUPPORTS HIGH-LEVEL CT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister of Justice Mehmet Ali Sahin told the Ambassador February 6 he supports in principle the high-level CT dialogue proposed by Ambassador Dell Dailey during his November visit to Ankara. Minister Sahin also agreed that MOJ should continue reviewing its counterterrorism la [...] | 2009-02-09 04:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM TU |
09ANKARA200 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM, [...] We provided MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Section Chief Mustafa Yurdakul February 5 with information regarding the April 20-22 Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Model Guidelines Document (MGD) Follow-on Workshop (reftel),and encouraged Turkey to send participants and [...] | 2009-02-09 12:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER |
09ANKARA232 | Update on PKK Violence (February 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 1-7, 2009, no security official was in [...] | 2009-02-13 05:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA233 | Update on PKK Violence (February 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 1-7, 2009, no security official was in [...] | 2009-02-13 05:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA239 | TURKISH PARLIAMENT APPROVES SENDING FRIGATE TO THE [...] The Turkish Parliament approved February 10 a motion authorizing the government to send naval forces to the Gulf of Aden to protect commercial vessels from pirates. The Turkish Naval Forces frigate Giresun (ex USS Flatley, an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate) will reportedly depart February [...] | 2009-02-13 05:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS KCRM PREL PGOV EWWT PBTS PHSA PTER TU |
09ANKARA267 | Update on PKK Violence (February 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 8-15, 2009, no security official was i [...] | 2009-02-20 09:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA269 | TURKEY: PROPOSAL FOR NADR-FUNDED COUNTER-NARCO-TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Summary. Drug trafficking is known to be a significant source of revenue for the Kongra-Gel/PKK terrorist organization. Disrupting this revenue source is a major USG goal. The following proposal is designed to facilitate closer interagency cooperation among Turkish law enforcement agenc [...] | 2009-02-20 11:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV IZ TU |
09ANKARA279 | SCENESETTER FOR MIDDLE EAST SPECIAL ENVOY GEORGE [...] (S) Turkish officials, including President Gul and FM Babacan, have worked assiduously to walk back remarks by PM Erdogan that were extremely critical of Israel during the Gaza crisis, repair the traditionally strong Turkish-Israeli relationship, and assuage fears in Washington and European ca [...] | 2009-02-20 17:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER TU |
09ANKARA336 | CODEL WEXLER TELLS ANKARA THAT GAZA RESPONSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Congressman Wexler's message to Turkey's leaders during his February 17-20 visit was blunt. He told President Gul, PM Erdogan, Chief of the Turkish General Staff (TGS) Basbug, PM Foreign Policy Advisor Davutoglu, MFA U/S Apakan, and other GOT, Parliamentary and opposition party [...] | 2009-03-04 16:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IS TU |
09ANKARA340 | Update on PKK Violence (February 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 16-23, 2009, no security official was [...] | 2009-03-05 11:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA342 | Update on PKK Violence (February 24-28, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 24-28, 2009, no security official was [...] | 2009-03-05 11:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA371 | Update on PKK Violence (March 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the March 1-7, 2009, no security official was injure [...] | 2009-03-12 13:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA374 | TURKEY: ROJ-TV STILL A THORN IN DENMARK'S SIDE [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's March 9 response to a long-standing Danish request for concrete, "actionable" information on the link between PKK and ROJ-TV was inadequate, Danish Ambassador Vahr complained to us March 11. Turkey has not yet responded to Denmark's December proposal of formal bilateral [...] | 2009-03-13 13:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER PREL DA TU |
09ANKARA401 | Update on PKK Violence (March 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the March 8-15, 2009, no security official was injur [...] | 2009-03-18 14:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA406 | TURKEY: CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE/KEY RESOURCES [...] (S) Ref B cites three items as critical infrastructure/key resource (CI/KR) elements in Turkey: -- Metal fabrication machines: small number of Turkish companies (Durma, Baykal, Ermaksan) -- Bosphorous Strait -- Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline 2. (C) Post recommends the first item, "Metal [...] | 2009-03-18 17:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP TU |
09ANKARA41 | Update on PKK Violence (January 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 1-7, 2009, reporting period, no security [...] | 2009-01-12 09:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA433 | CEVIKOZ DISCUSSES TURKEY-ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's concerns that Armenia will stiffen its negotiating position on Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) if Turkey opens the border with Armenia are legitimate, according to MFA Deputy U/S Cevikoz. Armenia needs to be persuaded that relations with Turkey cannot be enhanced genuinely w [...] | 2009-03-23 12:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG AJ AM TU PTER |
09ANKARA447 | IDEOLOGICAL FAULT LINES AMONG KURDS IN SOUTHEAST [...] (C) SUMMARY. The January 2009 launch of Turkey's first government television channel to broadcast in Kurdish, the warming of ties between the GOT and northern Iraq, continued probing of the Ergenekon case, and conferences hosted by intellectuals and media elements to discuss once taboo subjects, re [...] | 2009-03-25 05:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PHUM IZ TU |
09ANKARA46 | EU'S CT COORDINATOR GETS AN EARFUL IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary. The December 22-23 Ankara visit of EU Counterterrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove allowed the Turks to detail their frustrations regarding the EU's handling of terrorist organizations targeting Turkey and laid the foundation for closer Turkey-EU cooperation, according to MFA [...] | 2009-01-12 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EU TU |
09ANKARA460 | TURKEY AND IRAQ: PRESIDENT GUL GOES TO BAGHDAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish President Abdullah Gul conducted what GOT officials described as a very successful, if largely symbolic, visit to Baghdad March 24-25. The Turks had low expectations for concrete deliverables emerging from the visit. What was more important was the fact a Turkish head of [...] | 2009-03-26 10:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV ECON ENRG IZ TU |
09ANKARA467 | TURKEY/AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN: ANKARA TO HOST THIRD [...] (S) MFA South Asia Department Head Babur Girgin previewed for us March 26 Turkey's objectives for the trilateral Afghanistan-Pakistan-Turkey summit that it will host in Ankara on April 1. The summit is the third in the "Ankara Process," the last occurring in December 2008 in Istanbul. Girgin [...] | 2009-03-26 16:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PINS PTER PINR MARR AF PK TU |
09ANKARA478 | Update on PKK Violence (March 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the March 16-23, 2009, no security official was inj [...] | 2009-03-27 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA480 | TURKEY/IRAQ: POST-GUL VISIT STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOT officials were pleased with President Gul's March 23-24 visit to Baghdad, but KRG President Massoud Barzani's decision to stay away from Baghdad and pass on the opportunity to meet with Gul there tempered Turks' enthusiasm somewhat, according to Special Envoy for Iraq Murat Oz [...] | 2009-03-27 16:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ENRG IZ TU |
09ANKARA483 | TURKEY'S PROSECUTION OF TERRORISM CASES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings in Istanbul and Ankara, high ranking terrorism prosecutors described terrorism "specialty courts," procedures for prosecuting terrorism cases, evidence used in terrorism prosecutions, and the level of expertise of terrorism prosecutors. Although Turkey's criminal j [...] | 2009-03-30 08:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV TU |
09ANKARA5 | Update on PKK Violence (December 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 8-15, 2008 reporting period, no securit [...] | 2009-01-05 07:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA504 | TURKEY: UK PLEASED WITH COUNTERTERRORISM TALKS -- [...] (C) Summary. The first high-level UK-Turkey counterterrorism consultation continued the positive trend begun with the January visit of UK Home Secretary, according to UK Embassy sources. The two sides agreed to strengthen police and intelligence cooperation, including on Al-Qaeda and other [...] | 2009-04-03 11:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL UK TU |
09ANKARA514 | Update on PKK Violence (March 24-31, 2009) [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified - please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. [...] | 2009-04-07 05:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA551 | TURKEY: LARGE-SCALE COUNTER-TERROR OPERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Police reportedly arrested upwards of 70 people nationwide April 14 in a synchronized operation targeting the terrorist PKK and those that support it. The operation was launched against offices of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in 14 different provinces, as well [...] | 2009-04-14 17:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU |
09ANKARA552 | TURKEY: LARGE-SCALE COUNTER-TERROR OPERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Police reportedly arrested upwards of 70 people nationwide April 14 in a synchronized operation targeting the terrorist PKK and those that support it. The operation was launched against offices of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in 14 different provinces, as well [...] | 2009-04-15 04:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU |
09ANKARA573 | Update on PKK Violence (April 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 1-7, 2009, no security official was killed [...] | 2009-04-20 07:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA574 | Update on PKK Violence (April 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 8-15, 2009, three security officials were [...] | 2009-04-20 08:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA584 | TURKEY: FIFTH GICNT PLENARY MEETING DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on April 21 jointly with Dutch and Russian embassy representatives to MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul. Yurkdakul noted Turkey's support for the goals and principles of the Global Initiative and pointed to Turkey's role as h [...] | 2009-04-21 13:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL PTER MNUC |
09ANKARA6 | Update on PKK Violence (December 16-23, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 16-23, 2008 reporting period, no securi [...] | 2009-01-05 07:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA600 | TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR DIRECTOR MUELLER'S VISIT [...] (C) Coming in the wake of the hugely successful visits of President Obama and Secretary Clinton, the GOT will warmly welcome your visit as a further sign that Washington views Turkey as an important strategic partner. It will be seen as yet another indication of U.S. respect for Turkey's inte [...] | 2009-04-24 14:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA603 | Update on PKK Violence (April 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 16-23, 2009, no security official was kill [...] | 2009-04-27 07:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA667 | TURKISH GENERAL STAFF INTEREST IN REACHING OUT TO [...] (C) In a wide-ranging May 5 discussion with Ambassador and ODC Chief, General Hasan Igsiz, Deputy Chief of Turkey's General Staff said that Turkey's military was ready to explore new levels of engagement with the "local authorities of northern Iraq." (Note: while Igsiz would never utter the [...] | 2009-05-07 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA669 | Update on PKK Violence (April 24-30, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 24-30, 2009 reporting period, nine securit [...] | 2009-05-07 15:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA7 | Update on PKK Violence (December 24-31, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 24-31, 2008 reporting period, three se [...] | 2009-01-05 08:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA715 | Update on PKK Violence (May 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the May 1-7, 2009, one security official was killed [...] | 2009-05-18 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA716 | Update on PKK Violence (May 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the May 8-15, 2009, five security officials were ki [...] | 2009-05-18 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA74 | TURKEY: FIFTH GLOBAL INITIATIVE MEETING DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-15 13:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER |
09ANKARA745 | TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CASEY [...] (SBU) Coming in the wake of hugely successful trips of President Obama and Secretary Clinton, your visit will be seen as a further sign that Washington views Turkey as an important strategic partner. Your visit is an opportunity to reinforce the importance of strong U.S.-Turkey relations and [...] | 2009-05-26 13:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA749 | Update on PKK Violence (May 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the May 16-23, 2009, no security official was killed [...] | 2009-05-27 07:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA777 | TURKEY: UPDATED INFORMATION ON HOST GOVERNMENT [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Post's responses are keyed to Ref A questions. As instructed, only updates are provided. Unless otherwise stated, information provided Ref B remains valid. New information is provided in CAPITAL LETTERS. A. (SBU) Imm [...] | 2009-06-02 12:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC KVPR PREL PGOV CVIS KHLS TU |
09ANKARA780 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF TURKISH FM DAVUTOGLU [...] (S) Newly appointed Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu welcomes the opportunity to meet with you early in his tenure as Minister. Our continued willingness to engage the Turks at the highest levels reinforces the message that this administration considers Turkey a strategic partner. Turkish of [...] | 2009-06-03 08:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ENRG TU |
09ANKARA781 | TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN WARNS CODEL CASEY ON AGR [...] (C) Senators Robert Casey (D-PA),Ted Kaufman (D-DE),and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ),and Representative Timothy Walz (D-MN) and Charge met May 29 with PM Erdogan, TGS D/CHOD General Igsiz, and a senior MFA delegation led by U/S Apakan. On Armenia, PM Erdogan urged Congress to leave the events of [...] | 2009-06-03 09:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IS SY TU AM AZ |
09ANKARA783 | Update on PKK Violence (May 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the May 24-31, 2009, nine security officials were k [...] | 2009-06-03 12:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA829 | Update on PKK Violence (June 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the June 1-7, 2009, three security officials were k [...] | 2009-06-15 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA837 | DPM CICEK'S WASHINGTON TRIP: NEED FOR HIGH LEVEL [...] (SBU) This is an action request cable (See paragraph 4). 2. (C) Summary: During a June 12 meeting with Ambassador, MFA Deputy Undersecretary Ambassador Tezcan was emphatic that Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek's 20-25 July US visit for consultations on counterterrorism be substantive, with [...] | 2009-06-17 05:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA839 | SCENESETTER: YOUR VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Dave, thanks for taking the time to come to Turkey. Building on President Obama's and Secretary Clinton's landmark visits earlier this year, your trip will further underscore our recognition of Turkey as an essential partner in practically every mission we seek to accomplish in this regio [...] | 2009-06-17 08:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM PTER TU |
09ANKARA864 | TURKEY: UN COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 13:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA87 | UK HOME SECRETARY FINDS POSITIVE VIBES IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary. UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's January 5-7 Ankara visit was a success, both British and Turkish contacts agreed. Discussions focused heavily on counterterrorism (CT) and laid the groundwork for high-level counterterrorism consultations set to be held in London in the coming w [...] | 2009-01-20 05:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL UK TU |
09ANKARA896 | Update on PKK Violence (June 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the week of June 8-15, 2009, one security official w [...] | 2009-06-25 10:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA93 | Update on PKK Violence (January 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 8-15, 2009 reporting period, no security [...] | 2009-01-20 14:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA938 | Update on PKK Violence (June 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the June 16-23, 2009, two security officials were k [...] | 2009-07-02 06:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA951 | TURKEY: AMBASSADOR HEARS DISCORDANT VOICES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an all-day visit to Diyarbakir June 17, which featured meetings with a wide range of political and civic leaders, the Ambassador heard repeated appeals for the USG to engage on the Kurdish issue. He downplayed that prospect, noting that Turkey must solve this issue itself. [...] | 2009-07-02 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM TU |
09ANKARA977 | PRESIDENT GUL UPS THE ANTE ON CIV-MIL DEBATE [...] (C) Summary: President Abdullah Gul has upped the ante in the civilian-military debate by approving a law that would give civilian courts the authority to try military personnel. Though he argues that his decision was made with EU accession and the rule of law in mind, Gul's decision further [...] | 2009-07-09 13:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PTER TU |
09ANKARA979 | Update on PKK Violence (June 24-30, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the June 24-30, 2009, seven security officials were [...] | 2009-07-09 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANTANANARIVO138 | COMOROS WELCOMES IRANIAN PRESIDENT AHMEDINEJAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thousands of moderate Sunni Comorans saw no contradiction in turning out to enthusiastically welcome Shi'a Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, to the Comoros February 25. Comorans are pro-American, eagerly asking that we reopen our Embassy and Peace Corps program. After year [...] | 2009-02-26 14:32:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PREL PHUM EAID ECON CN IR PGOV PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO152 | SECURITY FORCES EMBOLDENED WITH NEW EQUIPMENT [...] (C/NF) Summary: President Ravalomanana's recent push to outfit his security forces with non-lethal weapons may run the risk of alienating the population's perception that the security forces remain neutral between the President and Andry "TGV" Rajoelina's opposition movement. End Summary. 2 [...] | 2009-03-04 10:17:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC MA PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO162 | EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS RAJOELINA'S ASYLUM, [...] (SBU) An Emergency Action Committee (EAC) Meeting, chaired by DCM Stromayer, was convened at the DCR, (the Alternate Command Center (ACC)),on Sunday, March 8. Initially, the Ambassador called a meeting to provide updates to POL, PA, DAO and RSO on the current political situation, but given ev [...] | 2009-03-09 09:56:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO167 | EAC CONVENED MARCH 9 TO DISCUSS TRIPWIRES, [...] (SBU) This information has previously been reported through alternate channels. An Emergency Action Committee (EAC),chaired by DCM Stromayer, was convened on March 9, 2009 at the DCR to review the trip wires in light of the recent events and discuss the possibility of authorized departure (AD [...] | 2009-03-12 10:55:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO186 | EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS INCREASING ANTI-AMERICAN [...] (SBU) An Emergency Action Committee (EAC),chaired by DCM Stromayer, was convened on March 17, 2009 to discuss the recent increase of anti-American press and the military take over of the Presidential Palace. Also discussed were the present status of the other Presidential Palace located in Ia [...] | 2009-03-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO221 | EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS UPCOMING RALLIES, SECURITY [...] (SBU) An Emergency Action Committee (EAC) chaired by DCM Stromayer was convened on March 27, 2009 to discuss the current state of affairs, the upcoming proposed weekend rallies, the status of security measures and the need for additional tripwires and reverse tripwires. 2. (C) The DCM convene [...] | 2009-03-30 05:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO354 | EAC CONVENED TO REVIEW ORDERED DEPARTURE STATUS [...] (SBU) Summary: An Emergency Action Committee (EAC) was convened on May 18, 2009. The main topic was a review of Post's ordered departure (OD) status. The committee unanimously recommended that OD be lifted. The EAC also reviewed the current security and political situation in Antananarivo and [...] | 2009-05-18 11:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO364 | MADAGASCAR: CURRENT SECURITY ENVIRONMENT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable provides further information on the security situation in Antananarivo and Madagascar in support of post's request (refs C and D) to lift ordered departure status, and in preparation for the Ambassador's meetings next week in Washington. Since a limited resurgence in [...] | 2009-05-22 09:30:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO430 | MADAGASCAR: PERIODIC SECURITY UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-15 11:14:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO450 | MADAGASCAR: PERIODIC SECURITY UPDATE JUNE 19 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Unfounded rumors and press reports of mercenaries hired by Ravalomanana (Ra8) arriving in country continue, as have inaccurate press reports of alleged U.S. support for the Legalists. However, the Department's June 17 press statement usefully correcteed the record and played in [...] | 2009-06-19 08:07:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO468 | MADAGASCAR: PERIODIC SECURITY UPDATE JUNE 23 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daily "Legalist" protests continue at Magro. An undetonated artisanal bomb was discovered and defused by security forces. Additional, but still sketchy information on the "Vigimada" security plan for June 26 National Day has been released. Otherwise, a general calm prevails in [...] | 2009-06-24 10:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO486 | MADAGASCAR: EAC CONVENED TO REVIEW SECURITY AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: On June 30, 2009, the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened to discuss the possibility of lifting the Ordered Departure (OD) status for post. The EAC discussed several recent events involving small explosive devices, arrests connected to those events, and the reported throwing [...] | 2009-07-01 14:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO492 | EAC CONVENED TO UPDATE REVERSE TREIPWIRES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Based on a suggestion/request from Washington, the mission's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met again today to propose revisions to our exisiting reverse tripwires. This cable updates our previous set of reverse tripwires (reftel),which post agrees were too rigid and no longer [...] | 2009-07-02 08:55:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO547 | EAC CONVENED TO REVIEW TRIPWIRES, DISCUSS RECENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on July 20, 2009 to review the current tripwires, specifically those for Civil Disorder/Armed Combat and the updated Health and Environment tripwires. This was especially timely in light of the weekend plot reported by local authoriti [...] | 2009-07-22 08:30:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO631 | MADAGASCAR: ISPS CODE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-04 10:07:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ETRD ECON KHLS PTER PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO72 | MADAGASCAR: WEEKEND MEETINGS OF THE EACS REVIEW [...] (SBU) At 1800 on Friday, January 30, 2009, following a Town Hall Meeting, the Emergency Action Committee (EAC),chaired by DCM Stromayer, met at the DCM's residence, to assess the security posture of the U.S. Embassy in Madagascar as the weekend begins. Another meeting of EAC was called to me [...] | 2009-02-02 10:03:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO840 | EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE SUSPENSION OF AGOA [...] (C) An Emergency Action Committee (EAC),chaired by the ambassador and DCM, was convened on December 8 to assess potential security consequences if Madagascar's AGOA eligibility is terminated later this month. There was a general consensus amongst the EAC members that although there might even [...] | 2009-12-08 09:51:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO9 | HARD LABOR PAYS DIVIDENDS FOR MALAGASY PRISONERS [...] (SBU) On January 4, 2009, 22 prisoners broke out of the high security prison located in Tsiafahy. The prison is located 17 kilometers south of Antananarivo and is considered Madagascar's most secure, housing the country's most violent criminals and a host of alleged political prisoners. 2. [...] | 2009-01-07 10:47:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC MA PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO92 | EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS MALAGASY SECURITY FORCES [...] (SBU) An Emergency Action Committee (EAC) Meeting, chaired by DCM Stromayer, was convened at the DCR, also the Alternate Command Center (ACC),on Sunday, February 8 to discuss the impact of Saturday's massacre at the Presidential Palace. In light of these events, the EAC met to review trip wire [...] | 2009-02-09 09:43:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ASHGABAT1015 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UNODC AS OFFICIAL GICNT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 11:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT1233 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON ENHANCED GICNT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-29 09:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT137 | TURKMENISTAN: INFORMATION ON COUNTERING TERRORIST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-28 10:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID TX |
09ASHGABAT1407 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL TX |
09ASHGABAT143 | TURKMENISTAN: PAKISTANI AMBASSADOR ON HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Charge, Pakistan's Ambassador to Turkmenistan spoke in frank terms of his country's difficulties. He said he hopes that the U.S. will now pay more attention to resolving the war in Afghanistan, where he served as a diplomat both during the rule of the Tali [...] | 2009-01-29 12:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR PREL AF PK TX |
09ASHGABAT1628 | TURKMENISTAN: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] The following paragraph is Embassy Ashgabat's submission for the 2009 country terrorism report (reftel). 2. Since the September 2008 violence in Ashgabat's Khitrovka neighborhood, the Turkmenistan Government has not reported any other violent incidents. The government maintains a military- [...] | 2009-12-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1674 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON GICNT AMENDED TERMS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-30 12:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT218 | TURKMENISTAN/IRAN: WEAPONS FOUND HIDDEN IN IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) A Turkmen customs official told an Embassy LES on February 13 that an Iranian Embassy diplomatic container with AK-47's, sniper rifles and ammunition hidden in it had been discovered one week earlier at the Serdar Uli (Gaudan) customs point in Ashgabat, where vehicles and containers ar [...] | 2009-02-13 12:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET//NOFORN | IR PGOV PREL PTER TX |
09ASHGABAT263 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 07:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID SL TX |
09ASHGABAT371 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON GICNT WORKSHOP IN SOUTH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-23 14:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT487 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST TO UPDATE TERRORISM FINANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-17 09:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER TX |
09ASHGABAT489 | TURKMENISTAN: GICNT PLENARY SESSION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-17 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KNNP PTER MNUC KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT533 | TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT DECLINES TO ATTEND GICNT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 10:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KNNP PTER MNUC KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT542 | UPDATE ON TURKMENISTAN'S INFORMATION COLLECTION, SCREENING [...] (U) Post presents the following updates to the survey on Turkmenistan's immigration control and watchlist systems for terrorist screening. Responses are keyed to lettered subheadings in ref B. 2. (SBU) A: Immigration Databases and Traveler Information Collection: No updates to report. [...] | 2009-04-29 09:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC KVPR KHLS TX |
09ASHGABAT619 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UN DESIGNATION OF ABDUL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-15 08:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID CH TX |
09ASHGABAT643 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATION OF ABDUL HAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-22 12:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC TX |
09ASHGABAT696 | TURKMENISTAN: ISRAEL TO OPEN EMBASSY "SOON" [...] (S) The Israeli Ambassador to Central Asia and the Caucasus (currently based in Jerusalem),Shemi Tzur, said in a meeting with Charge on June 4 that Israel was planning to open an embassy in Ashgabat "very soon" -- in July or perhaps even sooner -- in part due to Foreign Minister Avigdor Libe [...] | 2009-06-05 12:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL EINV PTER EPET ETRD SNAR TX IS AJ KZ |
09ASHGABAT751 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON 2009 GICNT PLENARY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-12 12:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT76 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATION OF THE WAAD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 10:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR LE TX |
09ASHGABAT764 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON GICNT UPDATED MODEL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 13:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASMARA103 | AWEYS ON THE MOVE [...] (C) AWEYS IN SUDAN - JUST VISITING? --------------------------------------- Hassan Dahir Aweys, a UN-listed terrorist and leader of the hard-line faction of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, recently traveled to Sudan, according to Embassy Asmara contacts. Embassy Khartoum report [...] | 2009-03-30 15:03:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ER SO SU |
09ASMARA128 | AWEYS DISCOURAGED AND ALONE IN ASMARA [...] (C) HOME AGAIN: Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys returned April 18 from his stay in Khartoum "completely discouraged" by Sudan's pressure on him to reconcile with the TFG on President Sharif's terms, according to Dr. Taisier Ali, the Sudanese director of the Peacebuilding Center for the Horn of Afri [...] | 2009-04-22 11:22:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ER SO SU EG |
09ASMARA157 | DEMARCHE: GSE ACKNOWLEDGES HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN [...] (S) Charge delivered the demarche as instructed per referenced conversations to Director General All Desks Fessahazion Petros at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (roughly the "P" equivalent). After delivering the first two objectives, the Charge then noted that in various exchanges in recent m [...] | 2009-05-15 08:22:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET | PREL MOPS PGOV PTER SO ER |
09ASMARA163 | DECREASING MILITARY PRESENCE IN ASMARA [...] (C) The military presence in Asmara has decreased in Asmara since the May 24th independence day celebrations, but is still above normal levels. Soldiers are manning static positions, but are no longer asking Eritreans for their identification cards and the mass arrests appear to have subsided [...] | 2009-05-27 12:15:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC MOPS PGOV PREL PTER ER PINR |
09ASMARA187 | ERITREA'S FLAT DENIAL AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT [...] (S/NF) Foreign Minister Osman Saleh adamantly and hotly denied Eritrean support for radical Somali Islamists June 17 as we delivered the President's letter addressed to Isaias (ref). This is the same line we've heard from numerous other Eritrean officials both in public and private. From a s [...] | 2009-06-18 14:39:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PROP PARM ER SO |
09ASMARA264 | BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF ERITREAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Biographical data is incuded for the following Eritrean government officials, as requested: 2. (SBU) Ali Abdu Ahmed. Male. DPOB: 15 May 1965, Asmara, Eritrea. Diplomatic passport number: D000512; issued 20 JUL 1999; expiration date: 13 JUL 2009. Note: Though the passport has expi [...] | 2009-08-11 12:59:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER EAID UNSC ER |
09ASMARA266 | ARS PATRIOTIC WING DOWN TO ONE MEMBER IN ERITREA [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff met with Mahad Yusuf, the self-proclaimed Inspector General of the ARS Patriotic Wing in Asmara. Mahad admitted that he was the last member of the wing in Asmara and that he would soon be leaving to seek the support of Somali diaspora business leaders in Dubai and Canada. [...] | 2009-08-11 14:33:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PTER SO KE ER |
09ASMARA350 | MINE WORKERS KILLED IN ATTACK IN ERITREA [...] (C/NF) Three Eritreans working for the Australian mining company Chalice Gold Mined Ltd were shot and killed at approximately 1200 hrs on 10/04/09 approximately 25 miles north of Keren. Reliable embassy sources stated that two cars left the Chalice Gold Ltd camp near Zara on the morning of 1 [...] | 2009-10-08 12:09:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC PTER PGOV PINS ER |
09ASMARA354 | THE MINING MURDER: AN INSIDER PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff recently met with a long-time ex-patriate from the mining community who offered his personal take on the October 4 murder of three Eritrean mining workers (reftel). He did not believe the culprits were an organized militia and emphasized that Eritreans living near mining s [...] | 2009-10-14 13:06:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN PTER ASEC PGOV ER |
09ASMARA413 | YEMEN DOUBTS ERITREA'S SUPPORT OF AL-HOUTHI REBELS [...] (C) Yemen is skeptical of reports that Eritrea is providing direct support to the Al-Houthi rebels, according to Mr. Abdella Al-Suqarti, deputy of the Yemen embassy in Asmara. While Mr. Al-Suqarti maintains that Iran is supplying arms to the rebels, he told poloff he is not convinced that Eri [...] | 2009-11-24 11:25:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PREL PGOV YM ER IR |
09ASMARA436 | ERITREA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] In 2009, Eritrea experienced no major act of international terrorism; however, the Eritrean government is widely regarded as being supportive of extremist activities in Somalia, particularly by providing financial and logistical support for Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam. The Assistant Secretary [...] | 2009-12-21 11:53:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC ER |
09ASMARA438 | ASMARA EAC REGARDING UNSC SANCTIONS ON ERITREA [...] (SBU) EAC met on 12/17/09 to discuss the ramifications of impending UNSC sanctions against Eritrea. Members in attendance were: Ambassador, DCM, MO, RSO, POL, PAO, and GSO. 2. (C) Ambassador briefed the EAC on the status of possible sanctions and stated the UNSC could vote as early as 1 [...] | 2009-12-22 07:12:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PGOV PREL PINS ER |
09ASMARA47 | AN ERITREAN OVERTURE TO THE UNITED STATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Eritrean officials in recent weeks have signaled their interest in re-engaging with the United States in areas of mutual interest. They have done so by loosening restrictions on Embassy Asmara (REF),by engaging in more diplomatic interaction with embassy personnel, by ending th [...] | 2009-02-09 14:53:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET | PREL PTER ECON ER |
09ASMARA66 | MEETINGS WITH SHEIKH AWEYS [...] (C) AWEYS MEETS WITH DIPLOMATS ------------------------------------ In recent weeks Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, leader of the hard-line faction of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia based in Asmara, has met with diplomats from a number of countries, including Canada, Egypt, Libya, [...] | 2009-02-23 13:47:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET | PREL PTER ASEC ER SO |
09ASMARA70 | ASMARA SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE [...] (SBU) On 02/25/2009, EAC met to discuss Post's response to the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire (SEPQ). the following responses are keyed to Reftel. --------------------------------------------- - POLITICAL VIOLENCE --------------------------------------------- - Â [...] | 2009-02-26 14:07:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER ER |
09ASMARA74 | BOMB ATTACK IN SOUTHWEST ERITREA [...] (SBU) The Eritrean government announced a bomb exploded in a restaurant in the village of Haikota on February 25, 2009, killing two persons and injuring eight others. Haikota is located approximately 125 miles west of Asmara and approximately 15 miles east of Tessenei. The wounded are being [...] | 2009-03-03 14:23:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PINS MOPS PREL ER |
09ASTANA106 | KAZAKHSTAN: MAZHILIS LEADERS DISCUSS BILATERAL AGENDA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During separate January 16 meetings with the Ambassador, Mazhilis Speaker Ural Mukhamedzhanov and Mazhilis International Relations, Defense, and Security Committee Chairman Nurbakh Rustemov expressed hope that the O [...] | 2009-01-20 10:38:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER ECON KDEM KNNP KZ |
09ASTANA146 | KAZAKHSTAN: MINISTER OF FINANCE PROMISES ANTI-MONEY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 23, the Ambassador met with Minister of Finance Bolat Zhamishev and Deputy Customs Committee Chairman Sofia Aisagalieva to discuss Kazakhstan's response to the global financial crisis, pending legislati [...] | 2009-01-26 10:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON EFIN KNNP KCRM KZ |
09ASTANA1945 | KAZAKHSTAN: NUCLEAR SUMMIT SHERPA AND SOUS-SHERPA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Per reftel, on October 28, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Post that Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kairat Umarov will represent Kazakhstan as Sherpa at the Nuclear Security Summit Sherpa meeting in Tokyo on De [...] | 2009-10-30 09:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER ENRG KNNP TRGY IAEA KZ |
09ASTANA1966 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) On November 3, PolOff met with Assel Utegenova, head of MFA's Cultural and Humanitarian Cooperation Division, to deliver reftel points on the upcoming General Assembly debate on the Report of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on th [...] | 2009-11-04 10:44:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS KZ |
09ASTANA2158 | KAZAKHSTAN: NEW KNB CHAIRMAN VOWS TO FOLLOW THE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Newly appointed KNB Chairman Adil Shayakhmetov told the Ambassador on December 12 that he will strive to increase U.S.-Kazakhstan counter-terrorism cooperation, and that the KNB under his chairmanship will work strictly within the law. When the Ambassador raised several cases o [...] | 2009-12-17 07:49:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR PTER PHUM KZ |
09ASTANA2163 | KAZAKHSTAN: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Kazakhstan continued to aggressively combat domestic terrorism and extremism, and took tangible steps to continue cooperation and information sharing with various countries and international organizations. Kazakh [...] | 2009-12-21 09:13:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR ASEC KZ |
09ASTANA314 | KAZAKHSTAN: WRITTEN ASSURANCES OF HUMANE TREATMENT AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent the Embassy a diplomatic note confirming in writing that the Kazakhstani government will treat returned GTMO detainee Dolkun Kerimbakiyev (alias Abdul Rahim, partial ISN 521) humanel [...] | 2009-02-23 09:23:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PINR KDRG KAWC KZ |
09ASTANA521 | KAZAKHSTAN: PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR SMUGGLING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The State Department's Preventing Nuclear Smuggling Program conducted a table-top nuclear smuggling exercise in Astana February 24-25. Almost 20 Kazakshtani officials from eight government agencies attended the event. Kazakhstan is currently finalizing a national nuclear smuggl [...] | 2009-03-20 08:41:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER MARR MNUC KNNP CH KZ |
09ASTANA711 | KAZAKHSTAN: U.S. AMBASSADOR'S FUND FOR COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. PROPOSED PROJECT: COUNTERING YOUTH EXTREMISM 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Astana requests $100,000 to counter youth extremism in Kazakhstan through English-language training and sustained exposure to the best of American [...] | 2009-04-24 10:18:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN PTER KCRM KPAO KHLS AEMR |
09ASTANA760 | KAZAKHSTAN TO PARTICIPATE IN GICNT PLENARY BUT UNCERTAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 10:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PTER MNUC KNNP KGIC KZ |
09ASTANA956 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ARMS SALE TO [...] (S) Ambassador delivered demarche in reftel on June 5 to Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Kairat Sarybai, including verbatim point. Ambassador stressed the importance of preventing the proliferation of weapons and military-related items and told Sarybai, "We do need to have a reply to this [...] | 2009-06-05 10:34:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR PARM PTER ETTC MARR MCAP MOPS |
09ASUNCION1 | PARAGUAYAN PEOPLE'S ARMY STARTS NEW YEAR WITH BANG [...] (S/NF) Armed individuals claiming to be members of the Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) attacked a small military outpost in San Pedro Department around midnight December 31, stealing weapons and burning it to the ground. The Paraguayan government responded January 1 with police roadblocks and [...] | 2009-01-02 19:42:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC PINS MOPS PA |
09ASUNCION108 | TOUCHING BASE WITH FM HAMED ON TRADE, COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Hamed Franco told Ambassador February 12 that "we will see a change" regarding Paraguay's position in the World Trade Organization opposing U.S. waivers for trade preference programs. On biofuels, Hamed said the GOP just held a meeting among ministries with biofu [...] | 2009-02-18 18:13:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PTER ETRD MASS MARR PA |
09ASUNCION109 | TOUCHING BASE WITH FM HAMED ON TRADE, COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Hamed Franco told Ambassador February 12 that "we will see a change" regarding Paraguay's position in the World Trade Organization opposing U.S. waivers for trade preference programs. On biofuels, Hamed said the GOP just held a meeting among ministries with biofu [...] | 2009-02-18 18:52:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PTER ETRD MASS MARR PA |
09ASUNCION13 | PRESIDENT LUGO DISCUSSES SECURITY AND DEFENSE [...] (S) President Lugo, joined by two close confidants, frankly and amicably discussed with Charge January 5 current security issues, principally the Paraguayan People's Army's New Year's Eve attack on an Army outpost and the separate subsequent capture by police of stolen plastic explosives by Army pe [...] | 2009-01-09 22:20:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM MASS PTER SNAR PA |
09ASUNCION14 | PRESIDENT LUGO DISCUSSES SECURITY AND DEFENSE [...] (S) President Lugo, joined by two close confidants, frankly and amicably discussed with Charge January 5 current security issues, principally the Paraguayan People's Army's New Year's Eve attack on an Army outpost and the separate subsequent capture by police of stolen plastic explosives by Army pe [...] | 2009-01-09 22:28:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET | MASS PTER SNAR PREL PARM PA |
09ASUNCION235 | ASUNCION: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS [...] (U) Post nominations for Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Deputy TFCO are as follows: TFCO Joan Perkins Shaker Political and Economic Chief 595-21-213-715 ext. 2205 595-971-302-409 ShakerJP@state.gov Deputy TFCO Luis Hernandez Economic and Commercial Officer 595-21-2 [...] | 2009-04-17 16:22:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN ETTF PTER PA |
09ASUNCION261 | BOMB EXPLODES AT SUPREME COURT BUILDING [...] (U) SUMMARY: At approximately 12:15 pm, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated at the Paraguayan Palace of Justice (Supreme Court). The explosion caused only minor property damage and no physical injuries. The building was quickly evacuated. RSO Asuncion assisted the Police with id [...] | 2009-04-29 22:48:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PA |
09ASUNCION284 | FAKE BOMB CAUSES DOWNTOWN CONFUSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At approximately 8:30 am on May 5, 2009, the Paraguayan police located what appeared to be an improvised explosive device (IED) in downtown Asuncion. After securing the area, the Government of Paraguay (GOP) requested U.S. Government assistance. RSO, FBI and SOCFWD elements re [...] | 2009-05-05 20:30:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PA |
09ASUNCION3 | PARAGUAY ARRESTS SOLDIERS FOR STOLEN (USG-ORIGIN?) [...] (C) Paraguayan police arrested two Paraguayan Army soldiers January 5 for possessing and attempting to sell apparently U.S.-sourced military ordinance -- including hundreds of packets of C4 plastic explosives -- possibly stolen from military stockpiles. The suspects -- apprehended while driv [...] | 2009-01-05 22:28:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MASS PTER PA |
09ASUNCION344 | THREATS AND FAKE BOMBS IN ASUNCION [...] (U) SUMMARY: There have been 58 bomb threats in greater Asuncion since April 29, with one device actually detonating and four mock explosive devices found. This is likely part of a harassment campaign against the Government of Paraguay. The presence of multiple devices specifically designed t [...] | 2009-05-26 21:38:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PGOV PREL PA |
09ASUNCION368 | PARAGUAY,S ANTI-TERRORISM FINANCE LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Director of Paraguay's Secretariat to Combat Money Laundering (SEPRELAD) Oscar Boidanich is leading the effort to strengthen existing anti-money laundering legislation (Law 1015). Boidanich is seeking modifications of Law 1015 to a) Make suspected incidents of terrorism financing a repo [...] | 2009-06-15 20:43:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER EIND ECON EINV ETRD PREL PA |
09ASUNCION512 | PARAGUAYAN PEOPLE'S ARMY CAMP DISCOVERED [...] (C) Police discovered a rudimentary forest encampment of the Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) on August 1. The site is located on the land of Alejandro Ramos, a former Free Homeland Party (PPL) member, in Concepcion Department. Police were unable to capture the occupants, who escaped into the f [...] | 2009-08-13 19:54:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ASEC PREL PA |
09ASUNCION613 | Kidnapping by Paraguayan People's Army or EPP Seizes [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) kidnapped well-known rancher Fidel Zavala on October 15. According to initial reports, the kidnappers demanded a ransom of US $5 million for Zavala's release. The Zavala family initially refused involvement of the Paraguayan National Police, b [...] | 2009-10-21 22:01:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR |
09ASUNCION644 | VISAS VIPER: SEPTEMBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 15:38:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL PA |
09ASUNCION734 | VISAS VIPER: OCTOBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-10 19:33:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL PA |
09ASUNCION852 | VISAS VIPER: NOVEMBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-10 22:08:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL PA |
09ATHENS11 | POLICE ATTACKED WITH WEAPON LINKED TO [...] (C) Greece abruptly shifted attention from Gaza back to domestic concerns when domestic terrorists fired upon a police patrol guarding the Ministry of Culture in the Exarchia region of Athens on January 5. One police officer was critically wounded. Police officials have announced that the pe [...] | 2009-01-05 14:43:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SOCI GR |
09ATHENS113 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NEW ALTERNATE MINISTER [...] (C) In a January 15 courtesy call with Christos Markoyiannakis, newly appointed to the key position of Altern!Q% A)"QQQ!Q" QQ Q)Lrder, the Ambassador streQQQ$QQQTQQQ!QQQQQQQbout terrorism and human tQQ"Q "!$ "!Q! QQQQQat both problems were Q!$ Q% Qreed to help work on several specific cases ra [...] | 2009-01-29 14:42:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KTIP KCRM SMIG EFIN TU GR |
09ATHENS114 | THE HELLENIC POLICE: FEW FRIENDS, BIG CHALLENGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the riots that swept across Greece after the death of a 15-year-old youth in an altercation with police, the public spotlight has been on the Hellenic Police (HP) -- both for its role in the shooting but also for its perceived ineffectiveness in protecting property owners a [...] | 2009-01-29 15:06:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KCRM PTER EAID SNAR GR |
09ATHENS1313 | GREECE: MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE (MLA) PROTOCOL AND [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points and texts July 24 to Greek MFA Legal Advisor Maria Telalian, proposing a ceremony in the near future to exchange Instruments of Ratification for the MLA Protocol and the Extradition Protocol. Telalian responded very positively, saying she would immediately begi [...] | 2009-07-24 14:28:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CJAN PTER PREL GR |
09ATHENS1349 | GREECE DEPORTS IRAQI INSURGENT COMMANDER WHO ENTERED AS [...] (S) Greek authorities deported Iraqi citizen Mu'ammar Latif Karim (a.k.a. Abu Sajjad),accused of being a Shia insurgent commander responsible for IED and other attacks in Iraq, on July 21. We understand he was arrested by Iraqi authorities on his arrival by plane in Irbil July 22. Greek aut [...] | 2009-07-29 13:25:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PTER PREL KCRM ASEC ABLD IZ GR |
09ATHENS1485 | PASOK Official Foreshadows Foreign Policy Priorities [...] (C) PolCouns and PolOff met with PASOK International Secretary Paulina Lampsa September 10 for a wide-ranging discussion on the October 4 elections and PASOK ambitions for Greek foreign and economic policy. With PASOK currently polling ahead of Prime Minister Karamanlis' ND party, Lampsa rev [...] | 2009-09-18 14:14:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU CY SENV GR RS PTER FMC SMIG IMO ECON |
09ATHENS1519 | GREECE ARRESTS SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF DOMESTIC TERRORIST GROUP [...] (SBU) In the most high-profile arrests of domestic terrorist suspects since 2003, Greek police raided two houses in the Athens districts of Halandri and Galatsi on September 23, and arrested four individuals who were subsequently charged September 25, in connection with three bombings carried o [...] | 2009-09-30 07:26:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PTER PREL ASEC ABLD GR |
09ATHENS154 | GREECE: NEW TERRORIST ATTACK ON POLICE [...] (U) At about 0400 local time on February 3, at least three unidentified people reportedly threw a hand grenade and fired more than nineteen rounds from a 9 mm sub-machine gun at the police station in Korydallos, a western suburb of Athens. The grenade -- reportedly manufactured in "an East Euro [...] | 2009-02-03 16:03:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC GR |
09ATHENS157 | 17 NOVEMBER APPEALS TRIAL POSTPONED TO OCTOBER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-04 15:26:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL KJUS GR |
09ATHENS1571 | GREECE/GICNT: UPDATE ON EFFORTS TO ENHANCE IMPLEMENTATION [...] (U) On October 20, Poloff and Russian Third Secretary Dmitriy V. Novikov delivered ref A demarche to Greek MFA D1 Political Counselor for International Security Issues, Dimitrios Papandreou. Delivery of the demarche was delayed because the Russian side did not receive its instructions from Mosc [...] | 2009-10-23 13:33:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC GR |
09ATHENS1591 | GREEK DOMESTIC TERRORISTS STRIKE POLICE STATION [...] (SBU) A group of six unidentified individuals carried out an attack with automatic weapons on the police station in the Athens suburb of Agia Paraskevi, eight kilometers north of the Embassy, on the evening of October 27, wounding six police officers, one of them seriously. In addition to firi [...] | 2009-10-30 15:35:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC ABLD GR |
09ATHENS1593 | CITIZENS' PROTECTION MINISTER CHRYSOCHOIDIS AND PM A/S [...] (C) PM A/S Andrew Shapiro stressed U.S. counter-piracy objectives in an October 23 meeting with new Greek Minister of Citizens' Protection Mihalis Chrysochoidis, urging Greece to build on its current counter-piracy actions by signing the New York Declaration on best practices for vessel self-pr [...] | 2009-11-04 12:45:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SMIG KCRM MARR GR |
09ATHENS1641 | FRONTEX PRESENCE GROWING TO CONFRONT GREECE'S MIGRATION WAVE [...] (SBU) In keeping with one of its main social (and now security) challenges - the growing tide of illegal migrants arriving by sea after transiting Turkey - Greece has sought greater support from the EU, and has found a partner in FRONTEX, the EU's border security agency. FRONTEX has become inc [...] | 2009-11-19 13:16:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIG KCRM PTER EUN GR |
09ATHENS1643 | Ambassador's Meeting with Minister of Citizens' Protection [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek Minister of Citizens' Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis provided Ambassador Speckhard with an outline on November 12 of his ambitious plan to reorganize and energize all of Greece's civilian security agencies, including the national police, the domestic intelligence servi [...] | 2009-11-19 13:54:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PGOV SOCI PTER KCRM KTIP SMIG GR |
09ATHENS165 | UNKNOWN GREEK TERROR GROUP CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY [...] A previously unknown group calling itself "Sect of Revolutionaries" has claimed responsibility for the February 3 shooting and hand grenade attack on the Korydallos police station in suburban Athens (reftel). An anonymous call to the Ta Nea newspaper led police to discover a CD containing the [...] | 2009-02-05 16:34:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV ASEC GR |
09ATHENS1679 | GREEK COURT OVERTURNS CONVICTIONS OF ELA TERRORIST GROUP [...] (SBU) On December 3, 2009, a Greek appeals court threw out the 2004 convictions of three members of the People's Revolutionary Struggle (ELA) terrorist organization, ruling there was insufficient evidence. A fourth defendant died in June 2009. The ELA members were cleared of all charges for w [...] | 2009-12-04 15:21:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV GR |
09ATHENS1685 | Greece: New Government Tackles Migration and Asylum Issues [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greece's new PASOK-led government has placed migration and asylum policy reform high on its agenda, announcing new measures to combat organized human smugglers, ease naturalization requirements for immigrants born in Greece, provide status to illegal economic migrants, and transfer Gre [...] | 2009-12-04 16:07:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PTER SMIG KCRM GR |
09ATHENS1707 | GREECE: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Embassy Athens submits the draft below for the Greece section of the 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism. Begin text: 2. Greece and the United States have a strong record of counterterrorism cooperation. Domestic terrorism and extremist violence increased significantly in 2009, fol [...] | 2009-12-16 09:48:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR GR |
09ATHENS1711 | NEW GREEK GOVERNMENT'S COUNTERTERRORISM STEPS [...] (U) Minister of Citizens' Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis recently announced that he had re-opened the investigation into the November 17 (N17) terrorist organization, seven years after the 2002 arrests of N17 members during Chrysochoidis's previous tenure as Minister of Public Order. Chryso [...] | 2009-12-18 07:59:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC ABLD GR |
09ATHENS207 | PASOK LEADER PAPANDREOU READY TO ASSIST ON GLOBAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 12 meeting with Ambassador, main Greek opposition PASOK President George Papandreou offered his assistance to the new U.S. Administration on Iran, the Middle East Peace Process, Pakistan/Afghanistan, and other critical global issues. Citing his special status as he [...] | 2009-02-18 05:03:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GR PTER MOPS SOCI IS IR NATO AFIN |
09ATHENS210 | GREECE: POINTS DELIVERED ON PROSECUTION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-18 12:33:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHSA PBTS EWWT KCRM PTER MOPS PREL GR |
09ATHENS215 | NEW DOMESTIC TERRORIST ATTACKS IN GREECE [...] (SBU) There have been several significant new attacks in Athens in recent days, including a shooting attack on a television station, a bomb placed outside offices of Citibank, and a series of bombings targeting prominent anti-terrorism figures. While no one was killed in these incidents, they [...] | 2009-02-19 09:49:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC ABLD PGOV PREL GR |
09ATHENS226 | TURKISH EMBASSY'S VIEWS ON MIGRANT READMISSIONS [...] (C) According to an official at the Turkish Embassy in Athens, there are two reasons why Turkey is unwilling to permit Greece to return third-country illegal migrants to Turkey at the port of Izmir, as called for in a 2001 bilateral protocol and which the Greeks believe would greatly reduce th [...] | 2009-02-20 12:52:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM PTER TU GR |
09ATHENS241 | GREEK RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON U.S. PLANS FOR MARCH [...] (SBU) Hellenic Aid has informed Post that the GoG has made no decisions on attendance and a pledge for the upcoming Donors, Conference for the Palestinian Authority (PA). EconOff delivered reftel points on February 19 to Dr. Nike-Catherine Koutrakou, Hellenic Aid, Director of Emergency Humani [...] | 2009-02-24 09:23:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAL KWBG EFIN PGOV EAID PTER PHUM GR GZ |
09ATHENS248 | "SECT OF REVOLUTIONARIES" CLAIMS TV STATION [...] (SBU) On February 21, the Greek newspaper Ta Nea published the text of a letter it reportedly received the day before from the "Sect of Revolutionaries" claiming responsibility for the February 17 attack against the Alter TV station. In that attack, four assailants fired at vehicles and threw [...] | 2009-02-26 09:32:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC ABLD GR |
09ATHENS249 | SENATOR DURBIN DISCUSSES CYPRUS, TURKEY, VISA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a cordial and very substantive discussion during his visit to Athens, Senator Richard Durbin told Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis about his impressions of the chances for a settlement of the Cyprus issue following his visit to Nicosia and underscored the new administration's [...] | 2009-02-26 11:04:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL CVIS ECON ENRG PTER PGOV TU CY GR |
09ATHENS282 | GREEK ANARCHISTS BURN ATHENS TRAIN [...] (SBU) At about 0100 local time March 3, a group of 15 to 20 young people ejected the driver and passengers from a train at the commuter station in the northern Athens suburb of Kifissia and then set fire to the train with Molotov cocktails. Eight train cars were completely destroyed. All of [...] | 2009-03-05 14:15:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC ABLD PGOV GR |
09ATHENS318 | GREECE TRIES TO COPE WITH HEIGHTENED DOMESTIC [...] (C) New terrorist attacks continue to rock Greece with a frequency not seen since 2000, unnerving the country's political and professional elite. A number of violent far-left groups -- some previously unknown -- have claimed responsibility for bombings, shootings, and arson incidents, and thi [...] | 2009-03-16 05:35:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC ABLD PGOV PREL GR |
09ATHENS341 | FURTHER INFORMATION ON GREECE'S 5 MILLION USD [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel points on March 6 to Dr. Nike-Catherine Koutrakou, Director of Emergency Humanitarian and Food Aid Programs, Hellenic Aid. On March 18, Koutrakou advised EconOff that the $5 million pledged by the GoG at the March 2 conference would be used for various reconstruct [...] | 2009-03-19 13:23:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAM KWBG EFIN PGOV PHUM PTER GR EAID |
09ATHENS349 | GREECE: BOMB ATTACK AT GOVERNMENT REAL ESTATE [...] (SBU) At approximately 2130 on March 19, a bomb went off near the entrance of the Hellenic Public Real Estate Corporation (KED),heavily damaging a nearby parked car. No injuries or deaths were reported. According to police contacts and media reporting, the bomb was placed in a plastic bag [...] | 2009-03-20 14:37:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC KCRM GR |
09ATHENS445 | GREECE FACES NEW ROUND OF BOMBINGS [...] (SBU) In a sign of the continuing escalation of activity by domestic terrorist and anarchist groups (reftels),a series of firebombings and other violent attacks occurred in Athens and Thessaloniki March 27-31. In the most coordinated attack, gas canister bombs exploded at ten banks and luxu [...] | 2009-04-01 14:16:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC ABLD PREL GR |
09ATHENS461 | RECALL 09 ATHENS 461 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 11:57:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS GR |
09ATHENS467 | GREEK FRIGATE COMPLETES EU ANTI-PIRACY MISSION [...] The Hellenic Navy frigate Psara is winding down a 4-month deployment in the Gulf of Aden as part of a European Union naval force battling piracy off Somalia. April 4 marks the end of Greek Commodore Andionios Papaioannou's four-month tenure as the first tactical commander of the EU's first nava [...] | 2009-04-03 13:41:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS GR |
09ATHENS551 | GREECE LOOKS TO SUPPORT CYPRUS JOINING CONTACT GROUP ON [...] The leading Greek MFA participant in the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP),Ambassador Tryphon Paraskevopoulos, has asked us to find a way to bring Cyprus into the CGSP in spite of Turkish objections. Paraskevopoulos argued that Cyprus met the criteria for membership, and that a rejection [...] | 2009-04-09 13:48:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PTER GR CY |
09ATHENS683 | GREEK LAW ENFORCEMENT FACES BIG HURDLES IN MEETING TERRORIST [...] (C) As domestic terrorist groups and violent anarchist gangs continue the heightened level of activity that they initiated following the December 2008 riots, Greek law enforcement is looking for help. At the request of the Greek Ministry of Interior, Scotland Yard recently conducted an assessm [...] | 2009-04-28 14:27:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC ABLD PREL KCRM GR |
09ATHENS695 | Ambassador, FM on Resetting Bilateral Relations, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with FM Bakoyiannis on April 30, Ambassador Speckhard outlined our strategy for re-focusing the U.S.-Greece bilateral relationship toward common strategic challenges, and away from the more narrow parochial interests that have defined our relationship in recent year [...] | 2009-04-30 16:04:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS TU AF GR |
09ATHENS707 | RECALL 09 ATHENS 707 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-05 14:02:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ABLD PTER PREL KCRM GR |
09ATHENS727 | GREEK PRIVACY RULES THWART INVESTIGATIONS [...] (SBU) According to a May 5 article in the newspaper Eleftheros Typos, Greek police utilizing video evidence have "positively" identified three hooded vandals who were among the forty who took part in a midday rampage in the upscale Kolonaki Square area of Athens on March 13. The attackers use [...] | 2009-05-06 14:03:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ABLD PREL PTER KCRM GR |
09ATHENS735 | GREEK VIEWS ON CONTACT GROUP ON PIRACY OFF THE COAST OF [...] (SBU) We delivered ref A points on U.S. goals for the urgent meting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) to the senior Greek participant in the CGPCS, Ambassador Tryphon Paraskevopoulos, MFA D1 (UN and International Organizations Affairs) Director, on May 6. As on pr [...] | 2009-05-07 14:41:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR ECON PREL PTER GR |
09ATHENS799 | GREEK TERRORISTS BLOW UP BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-14 12:43:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC ABLD PGOV GR |
09ATHENS80 | TERRORISM FINANCE: GREECE PRE-NOTIFIED OF UPCOMING [...] (C) On January 21, A/Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the Bank [...] | 2009-01-21 14:16:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | GR EFIN PTER PINR PREL |
09ATHENS81 | TERRORISM FINANCE: GREECE PRE-NOTIFIED OF [...] (C) On January 21, A/Deputy Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the [...] | 2009-01-21 14:21:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | GR EFIN ETTC PINR PREL PTER IR |
09ATHENS9 | GREEK FM CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE IN GAZA; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Greek FM Dora Bakoyannis -- who became Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on January 1 -- has also taken an activist role in the EU response to the Gaza crisis. On January 4, she issued a statement criticizing Israeli ground operations in Gaza, calling for an immediate ceasefire, an [...] | 2009-01-05 13:16:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SOCI GR IS |
09ATHENS901 | Greece: Muslim Migrants Protest in Athens, Radicalization [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Violent demonstrations and riots involving Muslim migrants rocked downtown Athens throughout the month of May, bringing relations between migrants and the Greek government to a new nadir and fueling fears of Islamic radicalization in Greece. Muslim community leaders and media re [...] | 2009-05-29 13:04:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PTER GR KIRF ASEC ABLD PREF SMIG |
09ATHENS933 | Terrorism Finance: Greek Response on UN Designation of Abdul [...] (SBU) On May 21, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Ioannis Papadakis, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the Bank of Greece. EconOff f [...] | 2009-06-02 10:32:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID CH GR |
09ATHENS997 | Anarchists and Universities in Athens: XXXXXXXXXXXX Telling [...] (C) Summary: University of Athens XXXXXXXXXXXX told PAO and CAO on June 9 that student discontent with the Greek educational system, the economy, and lack of jobs, has led to increased violence even among traditionally mainstream student groups. He complained about preferred police tactic [...] | 2009-06-16 08:32:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SCUL GR |
09BAGHDAD1029 | IRAQI NSC DEBATES DETAINEE RELEASE ISSUES [...] (C) The Iraqi National Security Council, chaired by Prime Minister Maliki, debated detainee issues at its April 5 meeting. During the loosely structured and free flowing 90 minute discussion, several senior GOI officials worried that technical flaws in the vetting process might cause the inad [...] | 2009-04-14 15:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1030 | MEK/CAMP ASHRAF: BRINGING DOWN THE TEMPERATURE [...] (S/NF) Summary: In recent weeks, the Government of Iraq (GOI) has steadily increased the pressure on the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK),prohibiting entry of additional categories of supplies and personnel. The GOI recently announced its intention to move the residents of Camp Ashraf from their curr [...] | 2009-04-14 17:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
09BAGHDAD1049 | IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES AIR FORCE MODERNIZATION, [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Rafi al-Issawi chaired the April 12 meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) in the absence of Prime Minister PM) al-Maliki and strictly adhered to a three-point agenda: Iraqi Air Force (IqAF) force generation; interagency recommendations on a p [...] | 2009-04-17 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR MASS PREL PTER SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD1103 | IRAN IN IRAQ: STRATEGY FOR PRESSURING IRGC-QF [...] (S/NF) Summary: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Quds Force (IRGC-QF) officers are active in Iraq, conducting traditional espionage and supporting violent extremists as well as supporting both legitimate and malign Iranian economic and cultural outreach. Iraqis and their government have dem [...] | 2009-04-24 16:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINR MOPS ECON ETRD IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1104 | IRANIAN PLANS FOR IRAQ AS U.S. FORCES DRAW DOWN [...] (S) SUMMARY: The Iranian response to the drawdown of U.S. military forces in Iraq, and Iraq's evolving relationship with Iran, will influence the climate for U.S. engagement with Iran on our range of interests. The Iranians may see the drawdown as an opportunity to strengthen their hand in Ira [...] | 2009-04-24 16:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINR PGOV MOPS ECON IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1106 | MEK/CAMP ASHRAF:MEK COOPERATIVE IN FACE OF NEW GOI [...] (S) SUMMARY: The Government of Iraq (GoI) continued its efforts to establish civil authority over the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) community at Camp Ashraf. The GoI has taken over responsibility for the hospital, and is in discussions to take over electric and water services. The GoI conducted a do [...] | 2009-04-24 17:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
09BAGHDAD113 | MEK UPDATE: DEFECTOR CLAIMS MEK HAS CONTINGENCY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A defector from Camp Ashraf, home to the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MeK) in Iraq, says the group's leadership at Camp Ashraf is prepared to order residents to kill themselves to protest any arrests of Ashraf residents. The defector (now under the care of the Ministry of Human Rights a [...] | 2009-01-15 16:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD1187 | IRAQI MFA CONDEMNS REPORTED IRANIAN ATTACKS [...] (S/NF) Summary: In response to reports of Iranian cross-border attacks in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Iraqi MFA summoned Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Kazemi-Qomi on May 4 to demand a halt to the attacks and threaten "severe negative consequences" if they continue. According to unconfirmed p [...] | 2009-05-05 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1246 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: ETHNIC POLITICS IN [...] (SBU) While obvious ethnic tensions remain in the district of Tuz -- a Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) area according to UNAMI -- Turkman, Kurdish, and Sunni Arab political leaders there remain committed to the democratic process. The Kurds have allied themselves with the Sunni Arab Iraq [...] | 2009-05-12 13:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1249 | IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSES CF [...] (C) Summary: During its May 10 meeting, the Iraqi National Security Council discussed preparations for the withdrawal of Coalition Forces from Iraqi cities by June 30. PM Maliki commented that General Odierno's recent remarks to the media, indicating a residual CF presence in Baghdad and Mosul [...] | 2009-05-12 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MARR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1294 | ARREST OF SUNNI LEADER HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES ON [...] (S) Summary: On May 12, the Iraqi Army arrested prominent Sunni Tribal leader Sheikh Mutlab Al-Massari, on suspicion of collaborating in efforts to reconstitute the Ba'th Party. The arrest of Mutlab, who is a close contact of the U.S. Embassy and Coalition Forces, highlights many of the challe [...] | 2009-05-18 15:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PTER MARR MOPS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1335 | PRT NAJAF: NEW GOVERNOR,S THOUGHTS ON RECENT ATTACK [...] (S) SUMMARY. The day following an Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) attack which targeted a U.S. convoy in Najaf, Governor Adnan al Zurfi visited the FOB to discuss the incident. He expressed concern and pointed fingers at the Iraqi Police (IP) and the Iranians. He stated unequivocally th [...] | 2009-05-21 13:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PINR MOPS ASEC IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1344 | IRAQI FM ZEBARI NOT REASSURED BY TRIP TO TEHRAN [...] (C) Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said he was pessimistic about Iran's intentions toward Iraq following a May 20-21 trip to Tehran in which he failed to narrow differences with the Iranian government over issues such as cross-border water flow, border security incidents including Iranian sh [...] | 2009-05-22 13:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER ECON IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1363 | PRT DIYALA: SUNNI ARAB PC MEMBER ARRESTED [...] C) Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) reputed to be from the Prime Minister's Counter Terrorism Bureau arrested Diyala Provincial Council (PC) member Abd Al Jabbar, a Sunni Arab, on May 18 following a stand-off at the PC Building in Ba'aqubah. The Diyala Governor and PC subsequently condemned the GO [...] | 2009-05-25 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KREL PTER PGOV PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD1365 | VP HASHIMI CLAIMS POLITICAL TARGETING BY PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first meeting with Ambassador Hill May 23, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi complained that Prime Minister Maliki is targeting Sunnis Arabs and the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP). Hashimi claimed that the Council of Representatives' (CoR) anti-corruption interrogation of the Min [...] | 2009-05-25 17:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1373 | IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES DETAINEES, RETIREMENTS, AND [...] (C) Summary: In its May 24 session, the Iraqi National Security Council (NSC) discussed creating a detainee database to speed releases for Iraqis without outstanding warrants. The NSC directed the Ministries of Justice, Finance, and Defense to study conditions for compulsory retirement of se [...] | 2009-05-26 11:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR IZ PTER |
09BAGHDAD1380 | DPM ESSAWI TELLS CODEL LEAHY PM MALIKI IS "A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is using the democratic process and liberal rhetoric to conceal a move to dictatorship Deputy Prime Minister Rafe Essawi told Senators Patrick Leahy (VT),Mark Warner (VA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI),and Ambassador Hill on May 23. Essawi outlined the [...] | 2009-05-26 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD1408 | AMBASSADOR, CG AND PM DISCUSS DIYALA, UK AND NATO [...] (S) Summary: In their weekly meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on May 28, the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General Odierno discussed the timing of the PM's proposed visit to the U.S. (late June or July),the PM's eagerness to involve U.S. firms in oil contracting, possible m [...] | 2009-05-30 13:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ UK NATO |
09BAGHDAD142 | PRT SALAH AD DIN ELECTIONS PREPARATIONS AND [...] (C//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: Provincial Elections in Salah Ad Din (SaD) look to be on track despite lingering concerns of possible election-related attacks and voter intimidation. The public is showing a receptive attitude towards the elections, and political campaigns have moved into high [...] | 2009-01-20 07:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1432 | MAYSAN'S GOVERNOR PLEDGES SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Meeting on May 27 with Colonel Newell, incoming Commander of the PRT's new partner Brigade Combat Team (BCT),Maysan Governor Mohammed Shi'a (Da'wa) expressed confidence in the Iraqi Security Forces' (ISF) ability to secur [...] | 2009-06-01 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1436 | IRAQ REQUESTS INFORMATION ON ALL IRAQI DETAINEES [...] (U) This is an action request (see para 5). 2. (S/NF) Pol-MilOff met with Mr. Hussain Al-Asady, Director General of the Prime Minister's National Operation Center (PMNOC) May 30 to discuss the transfer of a fifth Iraqi detainee from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba (GTMO). Four former GTMO [...] | 2009-06-01 16:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US |
09BAGHDAD1456 | IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS, CRIMINAL [...] (C) Summary: During the May 31 session of the weekly Iraqi National Security Council (NSC) the Minister of Human Rights aggressively confronted Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the assembled security officials over her concerns over the human rights situation in Iraq, directly refuting his c [...] | 2009-06-03 06:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MARR IZ PTER |
09BAGHDAD1457 | NEW IIP LEADERSHIP TAKES PARTY IN NEW DIRECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The largest Sunni Arab political party, the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),has changed its leadership in a move that might presage a reconciliation with the Prime Minister's Shia Islamist party. On May 24, 2009, the IIP selected both a new Political Bureau, and Osama al-Tikriti as it [...] | 2009-06-03 09:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD1477 | GOI RESPONSE ON U.S.-SYRIA-IRAQ TRILATERAL [...] (S) Summary: In response to The Ambassador's presentation of reftel demarche on trilateral talks among the U.S., Iraq and Syria, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki indicated that the concept had merit, but that he preferred that such engagement be broached bilaterally, first between the U.S. and Syria [...] | 2009-06-04 18:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER IZ SY PGOV |
09BAGHDAD1484 | MEK/CAMP ASHRAF - FORCED ENTRY INTO CITY LIKELY [...] (S/NF) Summary. After weeks of relative quiet, the Government of Iraq (GOI) has once again turned up the heat at Camp Ashraf. Following the forced retirement of former National Security Advisor Mowaffaq Al-Rubaie, Prime Minister (PM) Al-Maliki has reconstituted the GOI Ashraf Committee direc [...] | 2009-06-06 15:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
09BAGHDAD150 | TURKISH-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS: SLOW [...] (C) Summary: Little progress was made at the Iraqi-Turkish-U.S. trilateral security talks, held at the intermediate subcommittee level on January 15. Turkish MG Ozturk made a brief presentation on the PKK in Northern Iraq, but most of the time was spent discussing modalities. All parties [...] | 2009-01-20 15:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PTER PREL PINR PRES TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD1530 | SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER OF FIFTH GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (S/NF) After receiving information on the remaining Iraqi detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba (GTMO) (REF A),the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) authorized the transfer of a fifth Iraqi detainee from GTMO June 7. In a letter addressed to Commanding General Multi-National Force-Iraq, D [...] | 2009-06-11 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US |
09BAGHDAD1546 | A RARE AND VIGOROUS PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE OVER [...] (C) Summary: In another example of increasingly robust parliamentary assertions of oversight under the still new leadership of Speaker Ayad Samaraie, members of parliament slammed the Ministry of Interior for human rights abuses during the Council's June 11 session. Initiated by Sadrists, ot [...] | 2009-06-14 14:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PHUM PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD1555 | ASSASSINATION OF SUNNI MP STRONGLY CONDEMNED [...] (C) Summary: The June 12 assassination of prominent Sunni MP Harith al-Ubaydi rattled parliamentarians across the political spectrum. Prime Minister Maliki joined the mourners at a ceremony the following day. Ubaidy, an outspoken human rights advocate, was popular across the board and was [...] | 2009-06-15 16:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KISL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1556 | ASSASSINATION OF SUNNI MP STRONGLY CONDEMNED [...] (C) Summary: The June 12 assassination of prominent Sunni MP Harith al-Ubaydi rattled parliamentarians across the political spectrum. Prime Minister Maliki joined the mourners at a ceremony the following day. Ubaidy, an outspoken human rights advocate, was popular across the board and was a [...] | 2009-06-15 16:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KISL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1609 | CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ - MONEY LAUNDERING REPORTING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN KCRM PGOV SNAR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1632 | CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ - MONEY LAUNDERING REPORTING [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs recently met the Director and Legal Consultant of the Money Laundering Reporting Office (MLRO),the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Iraq, which is part of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI). MLRO leadership and emboffs discussed the recent Middle East and North Africa [...] | 2009-06-21 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN KCRM PGOV SNAR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1669 | MEK BLUSTER, IRANIAN ACCUSATIONS HINDER CHANCE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) leader Miriam Rajavi wrote to Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki on June 22 to assail the Iranian government and urge greater accommodation of the MEK's Camp Ashraf, even as Iranian media carried accusations that the MEK instigated deadly post-election rioting i [...] | 2009-06-23 15:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1705 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: LOCAL OFFICIALS RESENT GOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Salah ad Din (SAD) provincial government officials complain of Government of Iraq (GOI) interference in provincial affairs, such as the direct role the GOI has taken in Samarra's security, and its recent decision to expand its direct authority over the local police into two addit [...] | 2009-06-26 13:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
09BAGHDAD172 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: IRANIAN INFLUENCE IN TUZ [...] (S) Summary: Iranian influence in the Salah ad Din (SaD) district of Tuz Khormatu derives from the district's high proportion of Shi'a Turcoman residents, its relative proximity to Iran and its position as a north-south and east-west crossroads. Coalition Forces (CF) believe the district to [...] | 2009-01-23 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD173 | IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES SECURITY AGREEMENT, ELECTION [...] (S) Summary. At the January 11 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council (NSC),Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked the National Security Advisor (NSA) to assure that the Government of Iraq identified all of its representatives to the various committees and joint sub-committees (JSC) fo [...] | 2009-01-24 06:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PGOV PTER PREL SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD1745 | IRAQI LEADERS CALL FOR UNITY IN CONFRONTING [...] Summary: The Ambassador attended the sixth anniversary commemoration of the death of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, the founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) political movement. A Who's Who of the political class attended the ceremony, PM Maliki addressed the importance [...] | 2009-06-29 12:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI PGOV KISL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1775 | TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-01 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KTFN EFIN PINR PTER |
09BAGHDAD1798 | DEMINING DEADLOCK STARTING TO GIVE WAY? [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraqi ministries nudged closer July 1 to signing an interagency agreement (MOU) that would allow humanitarian demining to continue in Iraq. The Ministry of Defense (MOD) ordered the cessation of demining activities in December 2008 citing security concerns, but subsequent bur [...] | 2009-07-05 11:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KHDP PARM PGOV PREL PTER UNDP |
09BAGHDAD1811 | GOI PLANS ULTIMATUM TO CLOSE ASHRAF [...] (C) Summary. In a series of meetings between GOI and USG officials last week, the GOI committee responsible for the Mujahedin-e-Khalq's Camp Ashraf appeared increasingly intent on closing Camp Ashraf. GOI officials informed acting Pol-Mil Couns that plans are underway to enter the camp, est [...] | 2009-07-06 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PHUM PINR PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD1847 | MEK RELOCATION -- GOI APPEARS TO STEP AWAY FROM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-09 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1891 | SEVEN CHURCHES BOMBED IN BAGHDAD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD1910 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: GOI INVOLVEMENT IN SAMARRA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the terrorist bombing of the Al-Askari Shrine (Golden Mosque) in 2006 pushed the country to the edge of Sunni-Shi'a civil war, the Government of Iraq (GOI) has taken a direct role in Samarra's security. Since the bombing, the city has made remarkable progress in establishi [...] | 2009-07-14 13:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
09BAGHDAD1913 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: SADDAM'S UNIVERSITY AS A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Both the SAD PRT and its Coalition Forces (CF) partner have had increasing success in building positive connections with the University of Tikrit, a notable change from the University's previous unwillingness to work with Americans generally and open hostility toward CF. Over t [...] | 2009-07-14 19:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KPAO SCUL IZ |
09BAGHDAD1947 | MEK REJECTS GOI PROPOSAL FOR CAMP ASHRAF AND [...] (S) On July 16, 2009, CG TF- 134 (tasked with security oversight of Camp Ashraf) convened a VTC with MEK representatives, headed by Mojgan Parsaie, in Camp Ashraf (Diyala, Iraq) to convey, per reftel, the GOI's plans to: establish a police station in Camp Ashraf; appoint a new Iraqi commande [...] | 2009-07-18 13:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1950 | AMB, CG AND PM DISCUSS UPCOMING VISIT, SYRIA AND [...] (S/NF) Summary: In their regular weekly meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on July 16, the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General (CG) Odierno discussed the PM,s upcoming visit to Washington, the NATO agreement and foreign fighters crossing the border into Iraq from Syria. In [...] | 2009-07-19 10:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | IZ MARR MOPS PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD197 | RUBAIE CLAIMS HE CARRIED MESSAGE OF CONFIDENT IRAQ [...] (S) Summary: National Security Advisor Mowafaq al-Rubaie carried the message of a more confident Iraq to Tehran in meetings with senior Iranian officials January 19-22, according to a readout of the visit Rubaie gave to Ambassador Satterfield, PMIN and Pol-Mil Counselor after returning to Bagh [...] | 2009-01-26 16:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1971 | MEK: GOI AND ASHRAF LEADERS STILL NOT SEEKING [...] (C) Summary. Camp Ashraf residents continue to stubbornly refuse to consider GOI Ashraf proposals. When presented with the message (reftel) from the GOI in a face-to-face meeting on July 19, Madame Mojgan Parsaie, leader of Camp Ashraf, reiterated the non-negotiable nature of placement of a [...] | 2009-07-21 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD1982 | PROPOSED NATIONAL SECURITY LAW HARKS BACK TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) has begun consideration of a draft law on the Ministry of State for National Security Affairs (MSNSA) which would be charged with counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, fighting organized crimes, border protection, and monitoring groups [...] | 2009-07-22 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL |
09BAGHDAD1988 | CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISCUSS JULY 12 CHURCH BOMBINGS [...] (C) In the wake of the July 12 church bombings in Baghdad, we have met with representatives of the four largest churches in Iraq, including the heads of the Chaldean, Assyrian, and Syriac Catholic denominations as well as the Christian endowment and various Christian political leaders to expres [...] | 2009-07-23 11:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD199 | SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER OF GTMO DETAINEES TO IRAQ; [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. After providing humane treatment and security assurances to the USG, the Government of Iraq (GOI) successfully took custody and control of four former Guantanamo detainees from U.S. forces January 17. The four are currently being detained for investigation into crimes possibl [...] | 2009-01-26 18:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US |
09BAGHDAD2009 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: CONFRONTATION LOOMING? [...] (S/NF) Summary. In a direct exchange between the GOI Ashraf Committee and the residents of Camp Ashraf, Committee Chairman Ali Abdul Amir al-Yassery announced the imminent arrival of a new site commander, plans to locate an Iraqi police station (IP station) on Camp Ashraf, and future relocat [...] | 2009-07-27 15:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2027 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: INTRANSIGENCE LEADS TO VIOLENT [...] (C) Summary. Following a stalemate between the GOI and the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) (reftel),Iraqi police and army forces entered Camp Ashraf July 28 to establish an Iraqi police presence, encountering violent resistance from camp residents. According to GOI Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali A [...] | 2009-07-29 05:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2033 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: VIOLENT CLASHES LEAD TO DEATHS [...] (C) Summary. Violent clashes between GOI forces and residents of Camp Ashraf entered their second day. USG officials met with GOI Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali Abdul Amir al-Yassery to stress the importance of the GOI fulfilling its commitment to the USG to treat camp residents humanely and [...] | 2009-07-29 18:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD2039 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: U.S. PROVIDING MEDICAL AID [...] (C) Summary. The GOI has agreed to allow U.S. forces to provide medical assistance to the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) and a U.S. team is doing so. The GOI, however, is amassing forces on the perimeters of Ashraf. The GOI have relieved COL Sa'di Habib Hussein al-Dulaymi of command of the forces [...] | 2009-07-30 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD205 | RRT ERBIL: MEETING WITH KRG PRIME MINISTER BARZANI [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani expounded on a wide range of subjects in a January 25 meeting with Erbil PRT team leader. The initial impetus of the meeting was to provide PM Barzani with information on USG development assistance. In the cour [...] | 2009-01-27 07:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID ECON SOCI PTER TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD2059 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: USG OFFICIALS VISIT ASHRAF [...] (C) Summary. On July 31, USG officials visited Ashraf to assess the state of the current standoff. During this visit, USG officials expresed to both the GOI and the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) the need for dialogue and restraint. The GOI fully embraced this message, but the MEK showed no desire [...] | 2009-07-31 16:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD207 | DIYALA'S SUNNI ARABS ON ELECTORAL FRAUD: INSECURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In conversations with us January 19-21, Sunni Arab officials in Diyala insisted that Shi'a and Kurds in the province intend to steal the upcoming Provincial Council (PC) elections. Sunni Arabs fear their perceived demographic majority will be neutralized and they will not win [...] | 2009-01-27 09:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PTER PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2071 | THIRD TURKEY-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-02 14:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER TU |
09BAGHDAD2072 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: NO GAME PLAN IN SIGHT FOR GOI [...] (C) Summary. On August 2, USG officials met with GOI Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali Abdul Amir al-Yassery to discuss the GOI's near-future plans regarding the standoff with the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) in Ashraf. (Note: The GOI has changed the name of Ashraf to Camp New Iraq. End Note.) Al-Y [...] | 2009-08-02 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2093 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: DETAINEES MOVED; RUMORS OF [...] (C) Summary. According to TF-134 local military officials, on August 2, the GOI relocated 36 Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) detainees to a facility in Khalis, making it more difficult for USG officials to ensure that the GOI are abiding by the assurances to treat the MEK in accordance with Iraqi l [...] | 2009-08-03 16:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2103 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: MEK ON HUNGER STRIKE, REFUSING [...] (C) Summary. On August 4, Iraqi humanitarian situation commander in Ashraf COL Sa'di Habib Hussein al-Dulaymi informed USG officials that he had visited the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) detainees at the detention facility in Khalis on August 3, stating that the MEK detainees have refused food and [...] | 2009-08-04 15:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2108 | FM ZEBARI URGES MORE SUPPORTIVE USG STANCE ON [...] (C) Summary: FM Hoshyar Zebari, during an August 4 introductory call by Pol M/C, called for greater USG effort to help Iraq get out of Chapter VII, as it had committed to do. He criticized the initiative of recently departed SRSG de Mistura and blamed him for the current complications with [...] | 2009-08-05 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC PTER KU IR IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2120 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: DISPELLING MEK CLAIMS OF [...] (C) Summary. U.S. military medical personnel will enter Ashraf, Diyala Province, in the next 24 hours to determine the extent of the hunger strike (reftel). While the residents of Ashraf have refused food shipments from the GOI, the residents' claims of GOI blockage of food shipments to Ash [...] | 2009-08-06 13:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2121 | PRT DIYALA: BOMBING TARGETS PARTY HQ IN BAQUBAH [...] (C) Summary: On July 30, a bomb exploded inside the party headquarters of the National Movement for Reform and Development (NMRD) in Baqubah, killing seven and wounding approximately ten party members. NMRD did not win seats in Diyala during the 2009 Provincial Council (PC) elections, but d [...] | 2009-08-06 13:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2124 | AMB AND PM DISCUSS SYRIA, KUWAIT AND KRG ELECTIONS [...] (S) Summary. In their regular weekly meeting on August 6 (and the first since the PM,s return from Washington),the Ambassador and PM discussed Iraqi participation in the proposed Syrian-Iraq-U.S. trilateral border initiative. Maliki stated that he currently has an ongoing dialogue with Syri [...] | 2009-08-06 17:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | CASC EWWT IZ PGOV PREF PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD213 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: TUZ ELECTIONS OVERVIEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Tuz Khormatu district in Salah ad Din (SaD) province has an ethnically mixed population made up of Kurds, Turcomans (both Sunni and Shi'a) and Sunni Arabs. While the district is unavoidably linked to the controversy over neig [...] | 2009-01-27 16:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2163 | ASSESSING RECENT VIOLENCE IN ANBAR [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary. Six car bombing and suicide bomber attacks in Anbar Province since mid-July appear to have been conducted by remnants of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) or by nationalist insurgent groups to create an atmosphere of instability and to degrad [...] | 2009-08-11 17:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD2186 | MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF:MEK DETAINEES VISITED; STILL NO [...] (C) Summary. A U.S. military medical team, with the consent and coordination of the GOI, visited Khalis detention facility in Diyala Province August 11 to perform a welfare check on the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) detainees currently in GOI custody. TF-134 reported that the MEK detainees appear [...] | 2009-08-13 10:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2230 | CODEL MCCAIN MEETING WITH IRAQI PRESIDENT TALABANI [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Talabani predicted to CODEL McCain that, with U.S. help, the Kurds and Arabs would be able to avoid conflict and resolve critical issues like the status of Kirkuk. He said Barhem Salih was on track to become the next KRG prime minister. FM Zebari emphasized that the Jan [...] | 2009-08-17 16:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM SY IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2251 | MEK/ASHRAF UPDATE: GOI PLANNING TO RELOCATE MEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 18 meeting with the Commander of Task Force 134 and Poloff, Ali al-Yassery, the chairman of the GOI's Ashraf Committee stated: (1) the GOI regrets the loss of life and will continue to abide by Iraq's laws and constitution in its dealing with the Mujahideen-e-Kh [...] | 2009-08-19 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER PREL IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2270 | FM ZEBARI PROVIDES MESSAGE OF REASSURANCE, INSISTS [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari met with foreign Ambassadors August 21 to provide an official reaction to the August 19 bombing of the MFA (and other GOI buildings) and to provide assurances that the MFA would soon be back up and functioning, using auxiliary buildings on the MFA compound [...] | 2009-08-21 14:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2271 | PM MALIKI ON TRILATERAL SECURITY EFFORT, AUGUST 19 [...] (S) Summary: In an August 20 meeting, Iraqi PM Maliki expressed appreciation for the Ambassador's offer of condolences on the previous day's bombings, as well as for the technical assistance U.S. experts were providing in the field. Maliki requested the USG delay any further release of detai [...] | 2009-08-21 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2272 | FM ZEBARI ACCEPTS AMBASSADOR'S CONDOLENCES; SAYS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador visited the heavily damaged MFA building August 22 to offer his condolences on the bombings in Baghdad. Meeting in a room that had been largely cleared of damage for a makeshift receiving room, but surrounded by rooms and hallways filled with shattered glass, deb [...] | 2009-08-22 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2294 | MANAGING IRAQI POLITICAL RESPONSE TO BAGHDAD [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Responding to reports that PM Maliki is considering firing senior officials, including Interior Minister and PM-hopeful Jawad al-Bolani, in reaction to the recent Baghdad bombings, the Ambassador and Emboffs engaged with members of the Presidency Council, parliament, and Malik [...] | 2009-08-25 16:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2303 | SADR CITY SHI'A IMAMS NOT SANGUINE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shi'a imams and community activists told Emboffs that: Sunni-Shi'a reconciliation would be impossible in the near- to mid-term; Iraqis would continue to vote on sectarian lines in upcoming elections; no existing political party enjoys genuine credibility; a major effort on voter [...] | 2009-08-26 16:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KIRF KCOR PTER PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2304 | FM ZEBARI ON TRILATERAL PARTICIPATION, POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 26 meeting at the MFA with Pol M/C, FM Zebari said that in light of Syria's involvement with Baathists suspected in the August 19 bombings, the GOI would have to defer participation in the upcoming U.S.-Syria trilateral border assessment that had been planned to begi [...] | 2009-08-27 12:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER UNSC IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2319 | "BLAMESTORMING" OVER BAGHDAD BOMBINGS SHARPENS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 19 bombings in Baghdad prompted a flurry of finger-pointing, with government officials and politicians blaming various Sunni groups, especially Ba,athists in Iraq and Syria, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF)and rival Shi,a groups. The Saudis and Syrians, too, have come und [...] | 2009-08-28 15:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINR PTER SA SY POL |
09BAGHDAD2350 | PM MALIKI DECIDES THAT IT IS TOO DANGEROUS TO OPEN [...] (S) Summary. At the August 30 meeting of the International Zone (IZ) Security Joint Sub-Committee (JSC),the Government of Iraq (GOI) declared its intention to delay opening of the north-south highway bisecting the IZ until after national elections are complete. The GOI also stated that it w [...] | 2009-08-31 15:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ASEC IR IZ KCRS MARR PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD2357 | NINEWA,S KING-MAKER ARTICULATES NATIONAL AMBITIONS [...] (C) Summary: During an August 26 meeting with PRT Leader, Multi-national Division-North (MDN-N)Deputy Commanding General (DCG),and 3/1 Cavalry Brigade Commander, Sheikh Abdullah al Humaidi, head of the influential Arab Shammari tribe and the major force behind Ninewa,s governing Al Hadba coal [...] | 2009-09-01 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PTER |
09BAGHDAD2363 | FM ZEBARI ON GOI PURSUIT OF UN CRIMINAL INQUIRY, [...] (C) Summary: In a September 1 meeting, FM Zebari told Pol M/C the GOI has sent a letter formally requesting the UNSC to support formation of a UN-led fact-finding commission into the August 19 bombings, including Syrian complicity vis a vis Iraqis operating from Syria, and the broader scope o [...] | 2009-09-02 11:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2367 | PRT DIYALA: ONGOING CHALLENGES TO PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-02 16:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KDEM PGOV PINR PTER |
09BAGHDAD2388 | IRAQI MINISTER OF INTERIOR INVESTIGATES ATTACKS, [...] (S//NF) Summary: Minister of Interior Jawad Bolani told EmbOffs on August 31 that his primary focus now is security leading up to the national election, without which Iraq cannot have an effective democratic process. An important aspect of this to Bolani is the Iraqi government's response to [...] | 2009-09-04 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PTER PGOV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2390 | MALIKI ADVISOR SAYS PM UNLIKELY TO JOIN SHI'A [...] (C) In a meeting with the DCM on September 2, PM Maliki's Chief of Staff, Tariq Abdullah, said it was "doubtful" that the PM would join the recently-formed Iraqi National Alliance (INA). (Note: As reported ref A, Iraq's main Shi'a parties, with the notable exception of Maliki's Da'wa Party, lau [...] | 2009-09-05 07:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2395 | IRAQ POLICE STRENGTHENING ALONG SYRIAN BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Post is closely following Iraqi and international media reports of Iraqi police and security force deployments to its border with Syria, particularly along the common border with the Iraqi Anbar province. Reports and contacts involving Iraqi MoI and MoD sources so far indicate [...] | 2009-09-05 17:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL MOPS PINR PTER SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2396 | IRAQ POLICE AT SYRIAN BORDER: NO NEW MOVEMENT [...] (C) As of 0700 EST, there are no confirmed reports of an increase in security personnel along the Syrian border, despite numerous media accounts of thousands of Iraqi police heading west. According to Interior Minister Senior Advisor Dr. Norman Ricklefs, at this time this is more about the P [...] | 2009-09-06 11:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS PINR PTER SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2397 | ZEBARI SAYS IRAN WANTS TO TRADE FOR THE THREE [...] (C) Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari informed Pol M/C September 1 that Iranian FM Mottaki told him during his August 29 visit that Iran wants to trade the three Amcits detained since July 30 in exchange for seven Iranians held in Europe and the U.S. (NOTE: Zebari did not have information on which sev [...] | 2009-09-06 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CASC IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2398 | MEK/ASHRAF UPDATE: GOI WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 2 meeting with MNFI and Emboffs, Ali Yassery, Chairman of the GOI's "MEK/Ashraf" Committee stated: (1) the GOI will meet with the MEK after Ramadan to solicit their cooperation for the relocation; (2) the 36 MEK detainees in Iraqi police custody face secondary c [...] | 2009-09-06 14:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2399 | IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIALS DISCUSS REQUEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior MFA officials told Pol M/C September 4 that the GOI is determined to pursue a investigation of the role of neighboring countries, in particular Syria, in the bombings of August 19, as well as, the broader issue of intervention and external support for terrorism in Iraq. The [...] | 2009-09-06 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2417 | CODEL LEVIN PROBES SECURITY AND STABILITY IN IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of their September 3-4 visit to Iraq, Senators Levin, Reed, and Kaufman engaged Interior Minister Jawad Bolani and Defense Minister Abd al-Qadr al-Mufriji on Iraq's current security environment, conveying Washington's interest in Iraq's stability. In separate meetings, the [...] | 2009-09-08 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PTER MCAP PGOV INRPAZ EPET |
09BAGHDAD2419 | PRT DIYALA: POLITICAL INFIGHTING UNDERMINES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2420 | PRT DIYALA: POLITICAL INFIGHTING UNDERMINES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2441 | PM MALIKI, CODEL LEVIN DISCUSS FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Maliki told CODEL Levin Iraq faces interference from neighboring countries intent on fomenting sectarian discord, and Syria-based Iraqi Ba'athists and al-Qaeda in Iraq elements conspired to perpetrate the August 19 bombings. He expressed confidence in Iraqi Security Forces' (I [...] | 2009-09-10 06:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR UN KIRF IR IZ SY |
09BAGHDAD2455 | PM MALIKI ADVISOR ON SYRIA, ARAB-KURD TALKS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sadiq al-Rikabi, PM Maliki's political advisor, told Pol M/C September 9 that Maliki was intent on hitting every pressure point available, including through the UN, to get Syria to stop harboring anti-GOI Ba'thists and allowing insurgents to cross the border. Turning to Iran, Ri [...] | 2009-09-11 15:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD247 | ANBARI CANDIDTATES' FRET ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Anbari Provincial Council (PC) elections candidates and the Governorate Elections Officer (GEO) recently detailed concerns to poloffs about potential campaign irregularities and/or electoral intimidation, especially by Iraqi Police (IP). Two candidates protested that Al Anbar t [...] | 2009-01-30 14:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PTER KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2473 | MOI TO HIRE 500 CHRISTIANS AND MANDEANS TO GUARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to requests from the non-Muslim Endowment and the bombings of six churches in Baghdad on July 12, the GOI has authorized the Ministry of Interior (MOI) to hire, train and pay 500 guards drawn from Iraq's Christians and Sabean-Mandean communities to serve as guards at ch [...] | 2009-09-14 05:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PTER SOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD248 | PRT DIYALA ELECTIONS PREPARATION AND SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala and ePRT South Diyala reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Provincial Leaders in Diyala express confidence that preparations are on track for the January 31 Provincial Council (PC) elections. The Governorate Election Office (GEO) reports necessary resources are in pl [...] | 2009-01-30 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM ASEC IZ |
09BAGHDAD2494 | IRAN-RELATED DEMARCHES ON RELEASE OF AMCITS AND [...] (S) Pol M/C raised with Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari September 14 points in ref A, regarding the six Americans in Tehran and the points in ref B, regarding key messages for host governments to deliver to Iran. Zebari was amenable to the points raised. He committed to raising the fate of the six [...] | 2009-09-15 13:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PHUM CASC PINR PTER PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2495 | FM ZEBARI ON THE MEK [...] (C) In a September 14 meeting with Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari, Pol M/C urged caution as the GOI tackled the issue of moving the Mujahideen el-Khalq (MEK) out of Ashraf. While recognizing that the GOI had a sovereign right to act, he pressed for it to delay taking action for a couple of months a [...] | 2009-09-15 15:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD252 | DIYALA IDPS: SHIA AND KURDS' COLD CALCULATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala and ePRT South Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Controversial statements by Shi'a and Kurdish political leaders about internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Diyala aim to underdermine the credibility and legitimacy of the provincial elections in the province [...] | 2009-01-30 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2521 | MEK DEFECTORS ON LIFE IN ASHRAF AND RESETTLEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 17 meeting with Emboffs, several recent defectors from the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) organization residing in a Baghdad hotel under GOI auspices expressed frustration and disappointment at the absence of resettlement options and the alleged indifference of Wester [...] | 2009-09-18 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2586 | PM MALIKI CHARGES IRAN, SYRIA WITH SHIPPING WEAPONS [...] (S) Iran and Syria have both been providing weapons -- including "Strela" (SA-7B) shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles -- to insurgent groups within Iraq, Prime Minister Maliki claimed to Ambassador Hill September 22. Five members of the Sadrist- affiliated Promise Day Brigade (also linked to the [...] | 2009-09-27 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER IZ IR SY |
09BAGHDAD2678 | 36 MEK DETAINEES TRANSFERRED TO MUTHANNA AIRFIELD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI tells us that the 36 Mujahideen al-Khalq (MEK) detainees arrested at Camp Ashraf on July 28 have been moved to a detention facility at Muthanna Airfield in Baghdad pursuant to a deportation order issued on October 1 declaring them illegally present in the country. An earli [...] | 2009-10-05 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2698 | UNAMI EXPLORING BIGGER ROLE ON MEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNAMI is exploring the possibility of establishing an observation presence at Camp Ashraf and assuming a more direct role in mediating between the GOI and the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) after two weeks in which the Embassy has worked with senior GOI officials, UN and ICRC representat [...] | 2009-10-07 06:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2702 | GOI SAYS MEK RELOCATION WILL HAPPEN BY END OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on October 6, the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Tariq Abdullah and Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali al-Yassery told Pol M/C and SRSG Melkert that the GOI plans to initiate its plan to relocate the Muhajideen-e Khalq (MEK) from Camp Ashraf by the end of October. Yasser [...] | 2009-10-07 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2703 | 36 MEK DETAINEES RETURNING TO ASHRAF AFTER DEAL [...] (C) The 36 detainees from the Muhajideen-e Khalq are set to return to Camp Ashraf on October 7 after agreeing to a deal with the GOI. In a meeting on October 6, the Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Selim and Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali al-Yassery told the Embassy, UNAMI, and ICRC that the GOI [...] | 2009-10-07 12:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PREL PINR PHUM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2709 | AUGUST 19 BOMBINGS DEMONSTRATE NEED FOR INCREASED [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the past year, Embassy Baghdad has seen a dramatic increase in the utilization of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Attach office with regard to explosives and post- blast investigation in support of the Government of Iraq (GOI) and in accordanc [...] | 2009-10-07 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS IZ KCRM PTER |
09BAGHDAD2717 | PROPOSED COURSE OF ACTION ON THE MEK [...] (C) In this cable, the Embassy offers our recommended course of action and associated talking points for addressing the issue of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK). In the last six to eight weeks, the Embassy has made significant strides in addressing this issue, the most important of which has bee [...] | 2009-10-08 18:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2718 | EPRT ANBAR 1: FALLUJAH SHEIKS FEAR SECURITY RISKS [...] (U)This is an ePRT Anbar 1 (Fallujah) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On September 24, Fallujah's city council sheikhs complained that reduced U.S. aid and GoI budget austerity are spurring unemployment and creating fertile ground for Al Qaida recruitment. They lobbied for increased U.S. aid proje [...] | 2009-10-10 07:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID EAGR ENRG PTER PHUM ASEC KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2731 | DPM ISSAWI ADVANCES NINEWA'S ARAB-KURD DIALOGUE [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Rafi al-Issawi visited Mosul and Erbil on October 1 to further efforts to resolve the (Kurdish) Ninewa Fraternal League's (NFL) boycott of the Ninewa Provincial Council (PC) and its r [...] | 2009-10-10 19:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2736 | POST PROPOSES SHOULDER-FIRED MISSILE ABATEMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY: Embassy seeks to develop with the Government of Iraq (GOI) a Man-Portable Air Defense Systems Reduction Program (MANPADS Program). The program would follow a "host-country model", used in Yemen and Pakistan, through [...] | 2009-10-11 14:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | AF IR IZ PARM PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER XD XF |
09BAGHDAD2741 | PM MALIKI ON THE ELECTION LAW, INVESTMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM PGOV KREF EPET PTER IZ IR SY |
09BAGHDAD2751 | PM MALIKI ON THE ELECTION LAW, INVESTMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an October 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked the Ambassador to help stave off efforts in the COR to remove the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Chairman for fear it could dissolve the entire organization and possibly lead to a dela [...] | 2009-10-13 09:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM PGOV KREF EPET PTER IR SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2753 | VISAS VIPER: SEPTEMBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post: Baghdad MEETING DATE: 04 Oct 2009 CHAIR: Consul General David Schwartz COORDINATOR: CONOFF David Brownstein ATTENDEES: POL, ECON, ORA, CONS, MNFI (CJ9),OHA, POLM, FBI, DHS 3. (U) THE COMMITTEE IS SUBMITTING INFORMATION ON [...] | 2009-10-13 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINR PTER ASEC CMGT CVIS KPRV IZ |
09BAGHDAD278 | VISAS VIPER MANDATORY STATUS REPORT AND WATCHLIST [...] (U) VISAS VIPER 2. (U) POST: BAGHDAD MEETING DATE: 01FEB2009 CHAIR: CONS JEFF LODINSKY COORDINATOR: CONOFF MCHESSEN ATTENDEES: RSO, POL/MIL, EXEC, DOJ, ECON, DHS, FBI, POL, CONS, MNF-I (CJ9) 3. (U) THE COMMITTEE HAD NO NEW SUBMISSIONS FOR JANUARY CROCKER [...] | 2009-02-03 08:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL IZ |
09BAGHDAD2784 | PRT ANBAR: SUNNI ENDOWMENT TO SUPPORT ELECTIONS FROM THE [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar (Ramadi) cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Sheikh Riyad Ziad al-Zobayee, a religious sheikh and deputy head of the Sunni Endowment in Anbar, briefed PRT on the Endowment's current and future activities in support of the electoral process. Among several efforts by the Endowment, [...] | 2009-10-15 14:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2793 | PM MALIKI ON ELECTIONS LAW, INVESTMENT CONFERENCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 17 meeting, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed his concern to the Ambassador about the elections law and the timing for its passage due to political party manuevering and to continued wrangling within the COR over Kirkuk and open vs. closed lists. The PM expre [...] | 2009-10-17 17:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM KREF PTER EPET SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2810 | BARZANI ON NINEWA: KRG PRESIDENT LOOKS WEST [...] (C) Summary: During a joint MND-N DCG and Ninewa PRT Team Leader engagement on October 7, KRG President Barzani observed that security differences between the GOI and the KRG in disputed areas would not be solved without the presence of U.S. forces (USF). He expressed appreciation for joint [...] | 2009-10-19 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2824 | INITIAL AGREEMENT ON NORTHERN SECURITY INITIATIVE [...] (S/NF) Summary & Comment: GOI, KRG and U.S. senior officials agreed on the text of a Northern Security Initiative that would create a joint security architecture for the disputed internal boundary (DIBs) areas in the northern provinces of Ninewa, Kirkuk and Diyala. The plan would bring select [...] | 2009-10-20 19:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER MARR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2844 | KURD LEADERS IN DIYALA: INCREASED ARAB [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT Message. 2. (C) Summary: Kurdish leaders in Khanaqin (Diyala Province) claimed increasing tensions between Arabs and Kurds in nearby Jalula and Saadiya are a result of intimidation from Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and a Ba,athist resurgence in the area. The Kurdis [...] | 2009-10-23 12:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD2870 | KURDISH PM CRITICIZES CELEBRATIONS FOR PKK [...] (U) Speaking with reporters in Erbil on October 25, outgoing KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani criticized Kurds in southeastern Turkey for throwing celebrations and giving a hero's welcome to PKK rebels who returned to Turkey on October 19 (reftel) as reported in international press. Barzani opined th [...] | 2009-10-26 15:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PHUM PREF PTER TU |
09BAGHDAD2877 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (C) Summary: Post has established an interagency working group to coordinate assistance to the GOI following the October 25 car bombings at several GOI buildings, including the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),Ministry of Interior (MOI),Higher Judicial Council (HJC),Ministry of Municipalities and [...] | 2009-10-27 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2883 | BATTERED AND BRUISED BUT CARRYING ON: BAGHDAD IN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two car bombs detonated in close succession in Baghdad on October 25, heavily damaging the Ministry of Justice and the Baghdad Provincial Council building. As of October 27, the Ministry of Interior told MNF-I that 93 Iraqis were killed and 641 injured in the xplosion [...] | 2009-10-27 18:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KJUS ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD2884 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: INVESTIGATION CONTINUES AS MOJ, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the October 25 car bombings at several key GOI buildings, Embassy law enforcement personnel have visited both sites and are working with MOI investigators. Despite heavy damage, the MOJ and Higher Judicial Council (HJC) have resumed partial operations both at the h [...] | 2009-10-28 09:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PINS PREL PTER PNAT KCRM KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD2886 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior GOI and judicial officials tell us that trafficking in women and young boys for the purposes of prostitution remains a widespread problem in Iraq, with victims either sold to traffickers by their families or kidnapped by criminal gangs. Iraqi trafficking victims often fi [...] | 2009-10-28 10:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP KWMN KLPM PHUM PREL PTER ELAB SMIG SY IZ |
09BAGHDAD2889 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Post's USG Assistance Coordination Working Group has identified areas of immediate need following the October 25 bombings in response to GOI requests. We are providing vehicles, office equipment, and generators to the affected government offices, and continuing to support forens [...] | 2009-10-28 16:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD289 | IRAQ-IRAN DIPLOMACY A SIGN OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE OR [...] (S) Summary: Recent Iraqi-Iranian visits (most notably PM Maliki and National Security Advisor al-Rubaie's visits to Tehran) indicate that Iraq is being increasingly assertive toward its ambitious neighbor, and that Iran is showing Iraq overdue respect, although the relationship might be char [...] | 2009-02-04 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINR ECON EAIR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2900 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Baghdad's Assistance Coordination Working Group continues to meet daily to assess the damage and respond to needs following the October 25 bombings. INL has delivered 12 vehicles and several work stations to the Higher Judicial Council (HJC) and is expediting delivery of additi [...] | 2009-10-29 16:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2904 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Post's Assistance Coordination Working Group continues to monitor and organize assistance to the GOI following the October 25 bombings. Delivery of laptops and other equipment to the Higher Judicial Council (HJC) will allow it to become functional by November 1. The Ministry o [...] | 2009-10-30 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2934 | BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Iraq continues to recover from the October 25 bombing. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is preparing to move into its new quarters on November 8 and will receive some equipment from INL. The Minister of Justice has appointed the DG for Administration and Finance [...] | 2009-11-03 16:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEX PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2937 | SUNNIS CONVINCED OF POLITICALLY MOTIVATED ARREST [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala message. 2. (C) Summary: On October 24th, Iraqi press reported the issuance of arrest warrants for Diyala Provincial Council (PC) member Hisham al-Hiyali and his wife, Council of Representatives (COR) member, Tayseer al-Mashandani. These arrest warrants are the lat [...] | 2009-11-04 07:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2942 | MUTHANA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL REJECTS GOI PLAN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI's plan to relocate Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) residents from Ashraf to Muthana on December 15 appears to have fallen apart, as the Muthana Provincial Council (PC),with the backing of the governor and local Iraqi security forces (ISF) commanders, rejected the plan on grou [...] | 2009-11-04 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD295 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: ELECTIONS GO SMOOTHLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRT observers visited polling centers in four of Salah ad Din's (SaD) eight districts. The sites were consistently well organized and secured, though screening procedures and equipment were inconsistent. Turnout was lower in rural areas where heads of household expected to vot [...] | 2009-02-04 16:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD2968 | VISAS VIPER: NOVEMBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post: Baghdad MEETING DATE: 04 November 2009 CHAIR: Consul General David Schwartz COORDINATOR: CONOFF David Brownstein ATTENDEES: RSO, ECON, POL/MIL, FBI, PAS, CONS 3. (U) THE COMMITTEE IS SUBMITTING INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWI [...] | 2009-11-09 15:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PTER ASEC CMGT CVIS KPRV IZ |
09BAGHDAD2992 | IRAN'S EFFORTS IN IRAQI ELECTORAL POLITICS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Iran is a dominant player in Iraq's electoral politics, and is using its close ties to Shia, Kurdish, and select Sunni figures to shape the political landscape in favor of a united Shia victory in the January election. A pro-Iran, Shia-dominated, and preferably Islamist governme [...] | 2009-11-13 12:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER TU IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD2998 | PM MALIKI AND PRESIDENT TALABANI DISCUSS ELECTIONS [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY. On October 25, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki hosted General David Petraeus at his residence, shortly after returning from visiting the blast sites at the Ministry of Justice and Baghdad Provincial Council. The PM stressed that there continued to be successful operations aga [...] | 2009-11-15 06:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL MARR MOPS PARM IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD3 | SECURITY TRANSITION FOR CAMP ASHRAF - ALL QUIET ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY. After receiving what Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) leaders at Camp Ashraf described as "three blows" in the last week - a visit by Iraqi National Security Advisor (NSA) Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie, an Iraqi NSA press release on the vi [...] | 2009-01-03 07:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD3056 | IN BAGHDAD, TURKEY AND U.S. DISCUSS [...] (S) SUMMARY: On November 18, Major General (MG) Erdal Ozturk and delegation flew to Baghdad for a meeting with MG Steven Hummer and other U.S. officials to discuss the progress of the Turkey-Iraq-U.S. Trilateral Security Dialogue. During a one-on-one meeting between MG Ozturk and MG Hummer, [...] | 2009-11-20 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV PINR PREF PTER TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD3092 | GOI HAS AGREED TO CO-SPONSOR UNSCR 1267 LISTING AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PINR PTER ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD3116 | PRT NINEWA: TURKMAN POLITICAL FIGURE ASSASSINATED [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. The November 22 assassination in Mosul of Yauz Ahmad Efendi, head of Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) party operations in Ninewa, shocked the province's large Turkmen community, but sparked little public backlash. Ni [...] | 2009-11-30 17:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL ASEC KDEM IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD3124 | IRAQ'S ACTING NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER ON THE MEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 25 meeting with Post's Iran Watchers (IW),Dr. Safa Al-Shaykh (Da'wa party),the GOI's Acting National Security Adviser (A/NSA),said the GOI's policy on the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) is dictated largely by domestic and regional (vice international) political cons [...] | 2009-12-02 07:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3133 | TRILATERAL COUNTER-PKK COOPERATION REMAINS ON TRACK [...] (SECRET/NOFORN) Summary: MNF-I MGEN Stephen Hummer led a MNF-I/EMB Baghdad group, accompanied by MSNSA Staff MGEN Fukaiki, to the Trilateral Intelligence Sharing Office (TISO) on November 25. Bilateral U.S.-GoI (with KRG host) discussions on the margins with hosting KRG Zerevani (paramilita [...] | 2009-12-02 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER MARR PINR SNAR TU IZ |
09BAGHDAD3141 | SUSTAINED CORRECTIONS ADVISEMENT CRITICAL FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. military will transition several thousand mid-to-high threat coalition security detainees to the Government of Iraq (GOI) in 2010. Task Force 134, which is charged with detainee operations, stresses the need to maintain a sufficient number of corrections advisors in s [...] | 2009-12-04 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3142 | U.S. FORCES DETAINEE OPERATIONS ROUND-UP [...] (C) Summary. U.S. military forces continue to meet detainee release/transfer benchmarks and remain on track to either transfer to the GOI or release all legacy detainees currently in U.S. custody no later than September 2010. Multi-National Force Iraq (MNF-I) originally planned to release/tr [...] | 2009-12-04 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PHUM PINS PTER CASC IZ XF |
09BAGHDAD3143 | MEK/ASHRAF: GOI PLANNING "SOFT MOVE" OF ASHRAF [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: According to senior GOI officials, the GOI will send buses and trucks to Ashraf on December 15 in order to encourage voluntary defection and departure of Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) residents from Ashraf. The GOI still ultimately plans to relocate residents to Camp Sama [...] | 2009-12-05 07:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3144 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE DECEMBER 4, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: A major anti-corruption case is breaking over the Baghdad Amana (mayor's office),with early indications that the Commission on Integrity (COI) is planning enforcement actions on a possible theft of over USD 20 million in employee salaries. Iraq's Board of Supreme Audit (BSA) [...] | 2009-12-05 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3174 | EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE COORDINATION TEAM CONVENES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 9, Coordinator for Assistance Transition Patricia Haslach convened Post's interagency Emergency Assistance Coordination Team (EACT) in response to the December 8 bombings in Baghdad. The blasts damaged the Karkh courthouse, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOL [...] | 2009-12-09 17:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3179 | EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE COORDINATION TEAM: DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary: Post's Emergency Assistance Coordination Team continues to monitor recovery efforts from the December 8 bombings to coordinate USG assistance. At the GOI's request, PRT Baghdad sent four teams of cadaver dogs to search two blast sites. The Higher Judicial Council (HJC) reported [...] | 2009-12-10 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3184 | DECEMBER 8 BOMBINGS TAKE THEIR TOLL, BUT IMPACT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The four car bomb blasts that hit Baghdad December 8 bore the hallmarks of a coordinated terrorist attack. The intended targets of two of the bombs, which may have detonated prematurely, remain unclear. Contrary to press reports, the Ministry of Labor was not directly target [...] | 2009-12-10 17:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3188 | MEK/ASHRAF: UNAMI RECONVENES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a follow-up meeting with members of the international community, UNAMI reiterated its call for (largely) EU cooperation on resettlement of Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) refugees and those with ties to Europe. He voiced concern about the possibility of MEK-provoked violence on [...] | 2009-12-12 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3206 | MEK/ASHRAF: GOI EXPECT "QUIET DAY" FOR DECEMBER 15 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 17:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD3232 | VISAS VIPER: DECEMBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] (U) Visas Viper 2. (U) Post: Baghdad MEETING DATE: December 6, 2009 CHAIR: DCM Robert Ford COORDINATOR: CONOFF David Brownstein ATTENDEES: POL, ECON, CONS, MNFI (CJ9),OHA, POLM, FBI, DHS, PAS, RSO, MNF-I 3. (U) THE COMMITTEE IS SUBMITTING INFORMATION [...] | 2009-12-15 14:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINR PTER ASEC CMGT CVIS KPRV IZ |
09BAGHDAD3235 | EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE COORDINATION TEAM: DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary: Post's Emergency Assistance Coordination Team (EACT) continues to monitor damage assessments and requests for USG assistance following the December 8 bombings. While we have received small requests for assistance, GOI ministries and entities have addressed immediE56>jBGRQ=IQQQQc [...] | 2009-12-15 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3236 | MEK/ASHRAF: NO VIOLENCE, NO MEK DEPARTURES ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 16:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD3256 | U.S. FORCES DETAINEE UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the Joint Subcommittee on Detainee Affairs (JSC-DA) meeting held Saturday, December 12, TF-134 commander BG Dave Quantock stated there are 6,358 detainees currently in U.S. custody. Since January 2009, the U.S. has released 7,570 detainees and transferred 1,481 detainees to [...] | 2009-12-17 08:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PINS PTER CASC IZ XF |
09BAGHDAD3321 | FOURTH TURKEY-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL MINISTERIAL [...] (U) This cable has an action request, please see paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: The fourth ministerial meeting of the Turkey-Iraq-U.S. trilateral security dialogue was held in Baghdad on December 20. The Turkish delegation also had a meeting with MNF-I CG immediately following the meetin [...] | 2009-12-23 14:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ MARR PGOV PINR PREF PTER |
09BAGHDAD3325 | GOI RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE [...] (S) Acting DCM delivered demarche points contained reftel to FM Zebari on December 23 (other topics covered septel). Zebari said he had discussed the issue of the Amcits being held by Iran in some detail with Iranian FM Mottaki on the margins of the Manama dialogue earlier in December. Zebari [...] | 2009-12-23 16:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL CASC PHUM PINR PTER IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD3344 | IRAQ: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Iraq remained a committed partner in counterterrorism efforts. As a result of the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement, Iraqi security forces assumed primary responsibility for the security and stability of Iraq, with support from Multi-National Forces-Iraq (MNF-I, which became U.S. Forces-Iraq (USF- [...] | 2009-12-27 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC IZ |
09BAGHDAD3355 | PRT NINEWA: PERCEPTIONS OF SECURITY IN NINEWA [...] (U) This is Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. The PRT queried a number of contacts throughout Ninewa Province to gauge perceptions of security, safety, and service delivery. These contacts came from a variety of economic, political, ethnic, tribal, and [...] | 2009-12-29 13:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KCOR IZ |
09BAGHDAD3358 | MEK/ASHRAF: GOI SAYS IT WILL NOT MOVE MEK UNTIL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-29 16:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAGHDAD3364 | KRG SEEKS TO BALANCE RELATIONS WITH TURKEY AND PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In recent meetings in Erbil, KRG interlocutors told the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq (SANI) that the Turkish constitutional court's recent decision to outlaw the Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey, together with the insistence by leaders of the Kurdi [...] | 2009-12-30 11:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR PREF IZ TU |
09BAGHDAD3365 | UPCOMING TRANSFER OF AAH LEADER QAYS AL-KHAZALI TO [...] (S) Summary: Asa,ib Ahl Al Haq (AAH) leader Qays al-Khazali will be transferred (not released) with a warrant to Government of Iraq. The transfer, which is expected December 30, is being done in accordance with the Security Agreement, the Rule of Law, and at the express request of Prime Min [...] | 2009-12-30 11:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER |
09BAGHDAD3368 | SENIOR ADVISOR'S MEETING WITH KRG INTELLIGENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on December 21 with the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq (SANI),the KRG's Director for National Security (intelligence),Masrour Barzani, said the election law compromise agreement was unfair to the Kurds, who had been disproportionately pressured to make [...] | 2009-12-30 13:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD3371 | PRT NINEWA: MOSULIYYA IN A MUDDLE: PRESSURE ON [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: With a December 20 announcement to open a new satellite television station, Ninewa Provincial Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi publicized his festering battle with U.S.-supported station, al-Mosuliyya. Pointed in [...] | 2009-12-30 15:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM KPAO IZ |
09BAGHDAD3373 | PRT DIYALA: CENTER OF GRAVITY FOR IRAQ'S PROBLEMS [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala message. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT With its long border with Iran, Diyala remains a strategically vital focal point for some of Iraq's most pressing problems, yet its Provincial Government remains ill-equipped to confront the challenges facing it. Although Diyala [...] | 2009-12-30 16:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KTER PTER KDEM PINR PINS PHUM PREF |
09BAGHDAD3375 | VIEW FROM NAJAF: GOVERNOR ZURFI PROVIDES UPDATE ON [...] (C/NF) Summary. On December 10, provincial governor Adnan Zurfi welcomed Multi-National Division-South (MND-S) Major General Nash to Najaf. Governor Zurfi announced the arrests of suspects related to recent attacks on a PRT mission and IED detonations near Forward Operating Base (FOB) Endeav [...] | 2009-12-31 07:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EINV PTER PGOV ECON IZ |
09BAGHDAD3377 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: GOI INTERFERENCE IN PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah Ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Following a two month standoff with the GOI central Government, the Salah Ad Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) is poised to forcibly remove the former Provincial Governor (PGOV) of SAD--which it voted from office on October 27 [...] | 2009-12-31 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD3378 | FOLLOW ON REPORT FOR RAMADI PGC ATTACKS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-31 16:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER |
09BAGHDAD342 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: IRANIAN LOSS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Despite pre-election concerns about Iranian-sponsored violence and fraud in the January 31 provincial elections, observers found no indication of significant Iranian interference on election day. The first-place showing of PM Maliki's State of Law list in most of southern Iraq [...] | 2009-02-10 09:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD343 | IRAN-IRAQ BORDER CROSSING VULNERABLE TO SMUGGLING, [...] (S/NF) Iraqi border inspectors at the Shalamsha port-of-entry (POE) are ill-equipped to prevent smuggling of weapons, drugs, and other contraband from southern Iran, border officials told Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq Gordon Gray during a visit February 2. MNF-I forces and U.S. contractors [...] | 2009-02-10 11:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ETRD PTER KTFN KCOR PREL KNNP IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD366 | IRANIAN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN BASRA [...] (S) Contacts during a visit to Basra by Senior Advisor Gordon Gray February 1-3 noted that Iranian soft power influence on the economy of the province takes several forms: trade, investment, financing of medical care for prominent Iraqi clerics, subsidies for Iranian goods, lending to benefit [...] | 2009-02-12 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ETRD ECON PTER PREL KTFN IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD37 | IRAQ PROVIDES WRITTEN ASSURANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE OF [...] (S) The Government of Iraq (GOI) provided written security and humane treatment assurances for the transfer of four Iraqi detainees from Guantanamo, Cuba (GTMO) January 7. Mr. Hussain Al-Asady, Director of the Prime Minister's National Operation Center (PMNOC),signed the assurances with auth [...] | 2009-01-08 07:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US |
09BAGHDAD383 | IRAQI SHI'A PARLIAMENTARIAN PAINTS DIRE PICTURE OF [...] (S) Summary: Ayad Jamaleddin, a Council of Representatives member from the secular Iraqiyya list, painted an extreme view of Iranian religious influence in Iraq during a meeting with Emboffs on February 11. Claiming that Iran is paying clerics across Iraq to deliver Friday sermons sympathetic [...] | 2009-02-13 12:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR ECON IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD385 | KARBALA PILGRIM ATTACK WORSE THAN REPORTED [...] (C) Summary: According to Karbala's police chief, the blast near the Imam Husayn shrine on February 12 that killed multiple people on Arba'ayniyah pilgrimage was caused by an explosive device (IED),not a suicide bomber as reported in the media. However, witnesses have told the PRT that the at [...] | 2009-02-13 13:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR ASEC IZ |
09BAGHDAD39 | ACTION REQUEST: U.S. WEAPONS RELEASE TO IRAQ - [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Country Team requests the immediate release of U.S. military specification night vision devices (NVDs) to the Government of Iraq (GOI). Specifically, this request is for AN/PVS-7D and AN/PVS-14 NVDs. These U.S military s [...] | 2009-01-08 13:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
09BAGHDAD40 | ACTION REQUEST: U.S. WEAPONS RELEASE TO IRAQ - [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Country Team requests the immediate release of U.S. military specification night vision devices (NVDs) to the Government of Iraq (GOI). Specifically, this request is for AN/PVS-5, AN/PVS-7 and AN/PVS-7D NVDs. These U.S m [...] | 2009-01-08 13:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
09BAGHDAD413 | NEGOTIATING WITH IRANIANS: THE MEK IN IRAQ AS A [...] (S) Summary: In a case study of significant face-to-face dealing with Iranians, the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MeK) at Camp Ashraf in Iraq have been exasperating negotiators during six months of talks with Embassy and Multi-National Force ) Iraq (MNF-I) interlocutors on their future in Iraq. We believe [...] | 2009-02-17 11:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD420 | MEK/CAMP ASHRAF UPDATE: MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (S/NF) Summary: As the Iraqi National Security Staff and some of the internal security forces agitate for rapid movement against the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) at Camp Ashraf, Minister of Human Rights Widjan Salim has moved to a more prominent position on the GOI Ashraf Committee. She visited C [...] | 2009-02-18 10:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD429 | RRT ERBIL: THE SILENT IMAMS, DEALING WITH EXTEMIST [...] (C) Summary: A number of Muslim leaders in the Kurdistan region took to the pulpit in December/January to denounce Israeli actions in the Gaza strip and call for the destruction of the Israeli state and death to Jews. In response, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) banned these Imams fr [...] | 2009-02-18 23:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PRL PHUM PTER SOCI PINR IZ |
09BAGHDAD432 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: IRAQI POLICE RECRUITMENT ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Police (IP) force in Salah ad Din (SaD) continues to meet its targets for recruitment and training, but faces several challenges that could limit its effectiveness. With the number of recruits scheduled to graduate [...] | 2009-02-19 10:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD436 | POSSIBLE FTO DESIGNATION FOR ASA'IB AHL AL HAQ [...] (U) In response to reftel, post provides the following response. 2. (S/NF) Regarding Kata,ib Hizballah (KH),post considers this group an irreconcilable Iranian proxy and supports its designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Post believes the summary provided is accurate and [...] | 2009-02-19 13:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC PGOV PREL KCRM KJUS IZ |
09BAGHDAD44 | ASHURA CROWDS, SADRIST STATEMENT ON GAZA SPARK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Muqtada al Sadr's January 7 declaration to his followers to "carry out revenge operations" against Israel's "great accomplice" for Israel's military assault on Gaza caused concern to PRT local staff and contacts due to the enhanced crowds and religious fervor in the province dur [...] | 2009-01-08 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD442 | CDA, CG AND PM DISCUSS CONTRACTS, RECONCILIATION, [...] (S/NF) Summary: In their regular weekly meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on February 19, Charge d' Affairs Butenis and Commanding General MNF-I Odierno pressed al-Maliki to get GOI action on critical, long-delayed civil aviation contracts, emphasized that Iraq should be aware of [...] | 2009-02-20 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD469 | ROMANIAN FORCES IN IRAQ SET TO RESUME FULL [...] (C) Summary: Romanian forces are engaged in operational support of Coalition and Iraqi forces but are not conducting off base activities in Tallil pending the establishment of a Joint Committee for the implementation of their January 26 MoU. This is on track to be completed in conjunction wit [...] | 2009-02-23 13:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD515 | CDA, CG AND PM DISCUSS DRAWDOWN OF U.S. FORCES IN [...] (S) Summary: In a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on February 26, Commanding General MNF-I Odierno briefed the details of the new Administration's plan for the responsible drawdown of U.S. Forces in Iraq. U.S. Forces will cease all combat operations, except for counterterrori [...] | 2009-02-27 17:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD533 | PARLIAMENT LIFTS MEMBER'S IMMUNITY AS SUNNI ARABS [...] (C) Summary: On February 25, the Council of Representatives (CoR) voted to remove parliamentary immunity from Mohamed al-Daeni, from the Sunni Arab Hewar party, the second time in six months that it has voted to lift immunity from a member. In the other case, in September, Parliament voted to [...] | 2009-03-02 10:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM IZ |
09BAGHDAD543 | MOHR ON NEW MINISTERS, MASS GRAVES, MP AL-DAINI [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told us on February 24 that she expects the newly appointed Judge Dara will be an effective Minister of Justice, once he negotiates his learning curve. By contrast, she expressed concern about the new Acting Minister of State for Women's A [...] | 2009-03-02 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS KWMN PTER KU IZ |
09BAGHDAD553 | MEK/CAMP ASHRAF - THE WAY AHEAD [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) faces a difficult position in Iraq as the GOI has made clear it considers the group a terrorist organization and seeks the closure of the Camp Ashraf facility and the departure of all the residents from Iraq. It plans to prosecute some members of t [...] | 2009-03-04 05:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
09BAGHDAD565 | IRAQ'S NEGLECTED MONEY LAUNDERING REPORTING OFFICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's two year-old Money Laundering Reporting Office (MLRO) is under-budgeted and under-staffed; lacks capacity; works out of woeful office conditions; and its work is hindered further by loophole-ridden anti-money laundering legislation that is self-contradictory and unenforceab [...] | 2009-03-05 08:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KCRM PGOV SNAR IZ |
09BAGHDAD599 | CDA, CG AND PM DISCUSS INITIAL DRAWDOWN OF US [...] (S) Summary: In their regular weekly meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on March 5, Charge d' Affaires (CDA) Butenis and Commanding General (CG) MNF-I Odierno discussed the initial drawdown of U.S. forces, foreign fighters, airport development, and former Iranian President Rafsa [...] | 2009-03-08 11:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD62 | ACTION REQUEST: U.S. WEAPONS RELEASE TO IRAQ - [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Country Team requests the approval for the sale of thirty-six (36) F-16 block 50/52 aircraft and associated equipment and munitions to the Government of Iraq (GOI). This sale will continue to build the Iraqi Air Force ( [...] | 2009-01-11 10:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
09BAGHDAD622 | PRT NINEWA: AL-HADBA ALLIANCE ON SHEIKHY GROUND [...] (C) Summary. Riding high in the wake of the Sunni Arabs' Al-Hadba list dominance in the provincial elections, Iraqi Justice and Reform Movement Party Founder Sheikh Abdullah Hemdi Ajil al-Yawar is now distancing himself from Al-Hadba leader Athiel al-Najaifi and presenting himself as the real [...] | 2009-03-10 09:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD628 | PRT DIYALA: SUNNI ARABS CLAIM GOI REINSTITUTING [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Members of the Tawafuq/IIP party in Diyala fear that the Government of Iraq (GOI) is using the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to prevent Sunni Arab leaders from forming a new provincial government in Diyala (reftels). They claim that after a p [...] | 2009-03-10 13:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD629 | PRT DIYALA: DIYALA TAWAFUQ/IIP AIMS TO SHARE PC [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Diyala recently discussed formation of the new Provincial Council (PC) with members of the United Accord and Reform Front (Tawafuq) list, the leading vote getter in Diyala's PC elections. Tawafuq members asked for PRT technic [...] | 2009-03-10 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PSOCI IZ |
09BAGHDAD64 | GOI ARRESTS STOKE DIYALA SUNNIS' SENSE OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) operations in Diyala province have exhibited a consistent pattern of sectarian bias. The Government of Iraq (GOI) has launched a number of security operations in Diyala ostensibly to combat Al-Qa'ida in [...] | 2009-01-11 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD677 | IRAQI ARMY CONFRONTS MEK AT CAMP ASHRAF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-15 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
09BAGHDAD681 | IRAQI ARMY CONFRONTS MEK AT CAMP ASHRAF [...] (SBU) Summary: Although tensions have escalated at the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) Camp Ashraf in Iraq, press reports may exaggerate the situation on the ground. After failure to resolve a three-week long discussion, Iraqi Army (IA) elements at Camp Ashraf moved to seize control of a building on [...] | 2009-03-15 18:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
09BAGHDAD692 | RRT ERBIL: BORDER ISSUES WITH IRAN AS SEEN FROM [...] (S) Summary. Local security officials in Sulaimaniyah admit that the province,s long and porous border with Iran is under-patrolled and claim that Baghdad does not give them the resources they need to guard it effectively. They consider the main threat to be the Iran-based &Kurdistan Battal [...] | 2009-03-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER PINR PBTS SNAR IZ TU IR |
09BAGHDAD730 | MEK/CAMP ASHRAF - GOI MISHANDLING UNDERLINES NEED [...] (U) This is an action request (see para 11). 2. (S/NF) Summary: The GOI is expressing increasing frustration with the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) residents of Camp Ashraf. In response to GOI assertions that the MEK are "breaking the rules," more stringent controls have been placed on personne [...] | 2009-03-18 10:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PHUM PINR PREF PREL IZ IR US |
09BAGHDAD759 | SALAH AD DIN: YUNIS BA'ATH FACTION SEEKS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Men purporting to represent the Muhammad Yunis Ahmed (MYA) faction of the Ba'ath Party (BP) told Coalition Forces (CF) and the PRT on March 14 that the faction wants to reconcile now, and can bring some of Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri's IAD faction along. MYA is ready to meet with a seni [...] | 2009-03-19 13:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD762 | IRANIANS RECEIVE WARY WELCOME IN IRAQ [...] (S) Summary: Plane-loads of Iranian officials have arrived in Iraq recently to tout economic relations, take pilgrimages to religious shrines and confer with their Iraqi counterparts, some of whom welcome the diplomatic overtures while others are less than enthusiastic about associating with [...] | 2009-03-19 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR PGOV IR IZ |
09BAGHDAD768 | IRANIAN VISITORS AND DEVELOPERS WORRY BASRAWIS [...] (S/NF) One year after militias supported by Iran were routed in the Charge of the Knights operation, Basra residents continue to be worried about Iranian influence over national politics and local security. In separate meetings with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, held March 17-18, tribal and Ira [...] | 2009-03-20 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PBTS IZ IR |
09BAGHDAD77 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: GEO PREPARES FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Salah Ad Din (SaD) and local Coalition Forces (CF) met recently with the SaD Governorate Elections Officer (GEO) to discuss preparations for upcoming provincial elections. The GEO detailed the procedure for holding electi [...] | 2009-01-12 13:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD773 | RSO MEETING WITH KRG MINISTER OF INTERIOR [...] (S/NF) Summary: On 03/17/2009, the RSO met with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Interior to extend courtesies, apprise him on the status of Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) training, and discuss possible recruitment/probes by the Asayesh (Kurdish Security Service) on Peshmerga c [...] | 2009-03-21 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | AMGT ASEC IZ PTER |
09BAGHDAD791 | CDA, CG AND PM DISCUSS EVOLVING SECURITY CONCERNS, [...] (S) Summary: In a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on March 19, Charge d' Affaires (CDA) Butenis and Commanding General MNC-I Lieutenant General (LTG) Austin discussed evolving security concerns, politics surrounding the budget, efforts to capture former Sons of Iraq (SOI) leader Ad [...] | 2009-03-23 09:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ EPET EFIN |
09BAGHDAD793 | RSO MEETING WITH KRG ZEREVANI COMMANDER [...] (SBU) Summary: On 03/19/2009, the RSO met with the Commanding General of the Zerevani (Peshmerga),Major General Aziz Wayse, to extend courtesies and discuss further specifics regarding Antiterrorism Assistance Training and the integration of Zerevani forces into RSO's protective security oper [...] | 2009-03-23 09:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER IZ |
09BAGHDAD847 | CG, CDA AND PM DISCUSS FOREIGN VISITS, SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-29 10:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ EPET EFIN |
09BAGHDAD85 | IRAQ PROVIDES ADDITIONAL ASSURANCE TO ALLOW ACCESS [...] (S) The Government of Iraq (GOI) provided written security and humane treatment assurances for the transfer of four Iraqi detainees from Guantanamo, Cuba January 7 (REF A). Mr. Hussain Al-Asady, Director of the Prime Minister's National Operation Center, who had signed the assurances with aut [...] | 2009-01-13 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR KDRG IZ US |
09BAGHDAD898 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: TUZ KHURMATO: THREE VERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 26, Poloffs and PRT and CF staff met with representatives from each of the three main ethnic groups in the Tuz Khurmato district of Salah ad Din (SaD): Turkmen, Sunni Arabs, and Kurds. The United Nations (UN) views Tuz as one of the areas with Disputed Internal Boundari [...] | 2009-04-01 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ |
09BAGHDAD952 | PM DISCUSSES SECURITY, SONS OF IRAQ, ANBAR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-07 11:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ EPET EFIN |
09BAGHDAD981 | POLICE DISRUPT DIYALA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL INAUGURAL [...] SUMMARY (C) Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP)/Tawafuq leaders in Diyala report that the GOI attempted to arrest three of its newly elected Provincial Council (PC) members on April 6, at a meeting to elect the new Diyala governor. There are unconfirmed reports of a fourth warrant. The operation was c [...] | 2009-04-09 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
09BAGHDAD996 | VISAS VIPER MANDATORY STATUS REPORT AND WATCHLIST [...] (U) VISAS VIPER 2. (U) POST: BAGHDAD MEETING DATE: 05APR2009 CHAIR: CHARG PATRICIA BUTENIS COORDINATOR: CONOFF ANUUTINEN ATTENDEES: RSO, POL/MIL, EXEC, ECON, PAO, DHS, FBI, CONS, MNF-I (CJ9) 3. (SBU) THE COMMITTEE IS SUBMITTING INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS UNDER THE VISAS [...] | 2009-04-12 03:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL IZ |
09BAKU147 | AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT ALIYEV SIGNS NEW ANTI-MONEY [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 24 February 2009, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed the latest draft of the new Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) Law. Although USG is still awaiting comments from the Council of Europe,s MONEYVAL on the law, the Embassy applauded Azerbaija [...] | 2009-02-25 10:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV PTER PREL AJ |
09BAKU20 | AZERBAIJAN'S DISCREET SYMBIOSIS WITH ISRAEL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-13 12:43:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PRL PTER AJ IS IR |
09BAKU305 | AZERBAIJAN: UPDATE ON ANTI-MONEY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Council of Europe,s MONEYVAL issued a statement March 20 welcoming the progress that Azerbaijan had made in adopting an anti-money laundering/countering terrorism financing (AML/CTF) law, signed by President Aliyev February 24, and the steps that were being taken to complete [...] | 2009-04-15 11:08:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PTER SNAR AJ |
09BAKU315 | AZERBAIJAN: SPOT REPORT - U/I HIGH SPEED BOATS [...] (C) At 22:50 local time on 14 April 2009, the head of the Off-Shore Production Unit Center for British Petroleum (BP) called the DATT to report that two fast boats came within one mile of their offshore platforms, tracking at speeds in excess of 45 knots. The incident allegedly took place 13 [...] | 2009-04-20 03:59:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TX PTER SNAR |
09BAKU316 | UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE [...] In reply to Reftel, Embassy Baku designates below named officers as Terrorism Finance Coordination Officers: Primary: Pol/Econ Officer Diana P. Dragon, tel: 994 12 498 0335, email dragondp@state.(sgov).gov Alternate: Pol/Econ Officer Shannon E. Runyon, telephone as above, email runyonse@s [...] | 2009-04-20 04:00:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER |
09BAKU356 | AZERBAIJAN - BAKU EAC MEETING 04/30/2009 [...] (SBU) On April 30, 2009 at 1200 hours local, Baku EAC met to review security measures and procedures in response to an attack on the State Oil Academy which occurred on the morning of April 30 and left at least 15 dead and an unknown number wounded. The attack was carried out by one, possibly, [...] | 2009-04-30 11:56:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AJ ASEC CASC PTER |
09BAKU437 | IRAN/AZERBAIJAN: GOAJ INCENSED BY IRANIAN PRESSURE [...] (C) The GOAJ, as well as a large number of political figures and organizations from across the political spectrum, has expressed deep resentment over recent heavy-handed Iranian government efforts to force the GOAJ to rescind its recently extended official invitation to Israeli President Pere [...] | 2009-06-01 08:20:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET | PREL PTER IS IR AJ |
09BAKU439 | IRAN/AZERBAIJAN: GOAJ INCENSED BY IRANIAN PRESSURE [...] (S) The GOAJ, as well as a large number of political figures and organizations from across the political spectrum, has expressed deep resentment over recent heavy-handed Iranian government efforts to force the GOAJ to rescind its recently extended official invitation to Israeli President Pere [...] | 2009-06-01 09:17:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET | PREL PTER IS IR AJ |
09BAKU478 | IRAN VIEW FROM BAKU: VIOLENCE IN BALUCHISTAN [...] (C) "Iran view from Baku" is the first in an occasional series from Embassy Baku Iran Watcher that will report on short and/or partially documented items of interest to Iran information consumers, but not necessarily warranting separate cables. This cable includes information on reported increasing [...] | 2009-06-12 12:11:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET | PREL PTER SNAR ENRG ELTN AJ PK TU TX IR |
09BAKU482 | AZERBAIJAN: DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Although the Anti-Money Laundering/ Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF) law was signed in late February 2009, as of June 2009 progress seemed to be halted. Despite previous desire to accept technical assistance from the United States, the Government of Azerbaijan (GOAJ) was r [...] | 2009-06-16 05:58:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PTER EFIN SNAR AJ |
09BAKU808 | AZERBAIJAN: GOAJ REQUEST FOR MORE TIME; UPDATE ON [...] (C) Summary: On 12-16 October 2009, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plans to review Azerbaijan,s status with regards to the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG). On 06 October, the Government of Azerbaijan (GOAJ) raised their concerns with the Embassy that this review would be base [...] | 2009-10-08 13:37:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ ECON EFIN PREL PTER EINV |
09BAKU818 | TEHRAN-BAKU TENSIONS HEAT UP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-15 07:08:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET | PREL PTER SNAR ECON AJ IR |
09BAKU848 | AZERBAIJAN: FOREIGN MINISTER EXPLAINS RATIONALE [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Ambassador Tina Kaidanow had a wide-ranging discussion in an introductory meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov in Baku October 23. Mammadyarov said the negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh are "so close" to a breakthrough, but lamented Armenian &delay [...] | 2009-10-28 05:52:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER TU AM AJ |
09BAKU849 | AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT DISCUSSES TURKEY-ARMENIA, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-28 08:46:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AM TU RU AJ |
09BAKU850 | AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT DISCUSSES TURKEY-ARMENIA, [...] (C) Summary: In a notably cordial meeting with DAS Tina Kaidanow, President Aliyev emphasized a long record of cooperation ) energy, security, counter-terrorism, regional development ) and said that Azerbaijan fully expects Turkey to hold to its promise not to ratify the rapprochement protoco [...] | 2009-10-28 09:44:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER AM TU RU AJ |
09BAKU905 | AZERBAIJAN: TREASURY A/S COHEN DISCUSSES AML/CTF [...] (U) SUMMARY: During his first visit to Baku, October 21-22, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, David S. Cohen, met with relevant Government and Embassy officials as well as private sector bankers and business representatives. A dinner meeting with representatives from Azerbaijan's Pasha B [...] | 2009-11-19 13:23:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN SNAR EIND PGOV PTER AJ |
09BAKU931 | AZERBAIJAN: 2009-2010 INCSR PART 2, MONEY LAUNDERING AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-01 12:41:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM PTER SNAR AJ |
09BAKU938 | AZERBAIJAN: REQUEST FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE; [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 06 2009, the leadership of the Government of Azerbaijan,s (GOAJ) Financial Investigative Unit (FIU) organized a meeting with EmbOffs to provide an update on the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorism Financing Law (AML/CTF),as well as to request technical assistan [...] | 2009-12-04 08:04:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET | AJ ECON EFIN PREL PTER |
09BAKU965 | AZERBAIJAN: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 13:14:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL AJ IR |
09BAKU982 | AZERBAIJAN: OSCE COUNTERTERRORISM WORKSHOP NOMINEES [...] With respect to the reftel, Post nominates for invitation to the February OSCE Counterterrorism Workshop in Vienna: --government invitation: Major General Ilham Mehdiyev, Commander of the Coast Guard, Government of Azerbaijan. Embassy Baku will follow up shortly via email with details reg [...] | 2009-12-22 13:58:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PTER AJ |
09BAMAKO106 | A FAMILIAR NAME SURFACES IN SEARCH FOR CANADIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-23 15:20:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | PTER PINR PINS PREL ASEC ML |
09BAMAKO107 | THIS WEEK IN NORTHERN MALI: REBEL DISARMAMENT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-23 15:23:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ASEC PTER PREL ML |
09BAMAKO135 | (S) TUAREGS LOOKING TO ARREST KIDNAPPING SUSPECTS; [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-05 10:53:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | PTER PINS PINR ML |
09BAMAKO141 | AQIM TACTICS FORCE RED CROSS TO RECONSIDER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-06 11:20:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PINS PINR ASEC ML |
09BAMAKO145 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (C) Post is not aware of any critical infrastructure or key resources in Mali that meet the criteria laid out in reftel. MILOVANOVIC [...] | 2009-03-10 16:23:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ML |
09BAMAKO155 | MAYOR OF ANDERAMBOUKANE DISCUSSES AQIM KIDNAPPINGS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-16 09:18:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PINS PREL ASEC ML |
09BAMAKO163 | PROMINENT TUAREG'S VIEW OF ARAB MILITIAS, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 15:33:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PINR PREL ASEC ML |
09BAMAKO167 | MALI'S REALITY: WHAT MOTIVATES ATT? [...] (S/NF) Summary: This is the first of two messages addressing the role of the Government of Mali with regard to the ongoing hostage crisis in the north and the more general presence of Al Qaeda linked terrorists in parts of northern Mali. This cable, intended as a guide to interpreting and f [...] | 2009-03-19 12:39:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PREL PTER ML |
09BAMAKO170 | MALIAN PRESS COVERAGE OF DEATH OF ALLEGED AQIM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 16:41:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PINR PGOV ASEC ML |
09BAMAKO171 | MALIANS REPORTEDLY ARREST KIDNAPPING SUSPECTS NEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 17:04:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | PTER PINS PINR PREL ML |
09BAMAKO182 | MALI NABS TWO KIDNAPPING SUSPECTS BUT MISSES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-24 10:56:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PINS PINR PREL ML |
09BAMAKO186 | TUAREGS CAPTURE THIRD KIDNAPPING SUSPECT IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-25 09:03:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PINS PINR PREL ML |
09BAMAKO211 | TUAREG LEADER: FORGET THE ACCORDS, JUST GIVE US [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-06 13:39:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS PINR PREL ASEC PTER ML |
09BAMAKO221 | TUAREG BOUNTY HUNTERS LOOKING FOR SECURITY AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-10 10:56:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PINS PINR PREL ML |
09BAMAKO235 | MALI: UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE [...] Per reftel, Embassy nominates as Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO): Manoela G. Borges Economics/Commercial Officer Office Phone: 223 2070 2436 Unclass email: borgesmg@state.gov Class email: borgesmg@state.sgov.gov Embassy nominates as Deputy TFCO: Frederick Noyes P [...] | 2009-04-17 10:38:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ML PINR PINS PREL PTER |
09BAMAKO245 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER RENEWS PLEDGE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-20 16:55:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL ASEC PTER ML |
09BAMAKO257 | TUAREG CLAIMS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AS ICRC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 09:27:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PREL PTER PGOV ML |
09BAMAKO268 | MORE TUAREG PESSIMISM OVER ACCORDS AND AQIM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-30 14:53:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PINR ASEC PGOV PREL ML |
09BAMAKO280 | ELECTORAL TENSIONS IN TARKINT: WHERE AQIM, ARAB [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-08 11:05:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINS PINR ASEC PTER ML |
09BAMAKO281 | DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE: NO ONGOING MILITARY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-11 16:08:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PINR PINS ASEC ML |
09BAMAKO288 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ATT: MALI'S SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) on May 8 to inquire about Mali's plans for addressing northern security in a theoretical post-hostage situation future and his views of how the U.S. might best assist these efforts. ATT spoke of the dynamics surroundi [...] | 2009-05-12 14:58:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ML |
09BAMAKO355 | NORTHERN MALI'S REACTION TO EXECUTION OF BRITISH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-05 11:10:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PINS PGOV ML |
09BAMAKO383 | ARMED ASSAILANTS ASSASSINATE COL. LAMANA OULD BOU [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 15:41:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PINS PHUM PGOV ASEC ML |
09BAMAKO387 | PRESIDENT TOURE READY TO TARGET AQIM, WITH HELP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-12 11:16:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PINS PINR ASEC ML |
09BAMAKO401 | ATT: "WE'RE ACTING ON AQIM - NOW WE NEED YOUR HELP" [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-18 17:10:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | PREL PTER ML |
09BAMAKO402 | ATT'S ANNIVERSARY PRESS CONFERENCE: "NO KIDDING, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 09:54:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PTER PINR KDEM ML |
09BAMAKO415 | RUNNING ON FUMES: MALI'S SOLDIERS EXPOSED IN THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 15:18:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL PTER ML |
09BAMAKO435 | DASD HUDDLESTON MEETS ATT: THE WAY FORWARD AGAINST [...] (S/NF) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Africa Ambassador Vicki Huddleston and Ambassador Milovanovic called on President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) June 29 to discuss the state of Mali,s recent efforts against AQIM and avenues of U.S.-Malian cooperation in support o [...] | 2009-07-01 15:37:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER ML |
09BAMAKO445 | AMBUSH: AQIM INFLICTS HEAVY LOSSES IN BATTLE WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-06 16:09:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL PTER ML |
09BAMAKO460 | LICKING ITS WOUNDS: MALI REGROUPS, HOSTAGE RELEASED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-14 07:19:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL PTER ML |
09BAMAKO47 | MALI ARMY BATTLES TUAREGS NORTH OF KIDAL AS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-23 12:04:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | PINR PINS PTER ASEC PREL ML |
09BAMAKO504 | MALI FINDS NEW ALLIES AGAINST AQIM [...] (U) Embassies Algiers and Tripoli have cleared on this message. 2. (C) Summary: During a pause in Mali's offensive against Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM),Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) has been active in lining up new allies for that fight. On the margins of a confere [...] | 2009-07-29 14:19:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREL PTER ML |
09BAMAKO52 | (S) EFFORTS TO LOCATE NEW EUROPEAN HOSTAGES IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-26 20:00:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PINS PINR ASEC PREL ML |
09BAMAKO538 | MALI USING SPECIALIZED UNITS IN FIGHT AGAINST AQIM [...] (U) This report is a joint effort of the Pol/Econ section and the Office of the Defense Attache. 2. (S) Summary: Faced with mobile enemies on harsh terrain, the Malian Army has created a number of specialized units known as Echelons Tactiques Inter Armes, or ETIAs. The ETIAs are small, mob [...] | 2009-08-12 18:26:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | PGOV PINS PINR PREL PTER ML |
09BAMAKO567 | KIDAL TUAREGS DISCUSS THEIR ROLE IN CHANGING [...] (C) Summary: On August 4, EmbOffs met with Kidal Iforas Tuareg leaders Ahmada ag Bibi, Deputy of Abeibara and head of the Tuareg alliance, Democratic Alliance for Change (ADC); Alghabass ag Intallah, Deputy of Kidal; and Presidential Advisor Acherif Ag Mohamed. The three presented themselves [...] | 2009-08-26 14:19:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS ML |
09BAMAKO598 | NORTHERN MALIAN ETHNIC COMMUNITIES MEET IN AGOUNI, [...] (C) Summary: On August 1-2, the Berabiche Arab community of Timbuktu organized and hosted a rare meeting of representatives of all Northern Malian ethnic communities, (the first such meeting in 10 years),to discuss the threat posed by Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). G [...] | 2009-09-14 16:16:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS ML |
09BAMAKO619 | PRESIDENT TOURE READY TO TARGET AQIM, WITH HELP [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Milovanovic met with President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) on September 17 to reinforce the need for Malian cooperation with the extensive program of training and equipping the Malian Army to confront Al Q,Aeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the North of [...] | 2009-09-24 11:19:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PINS PINR ASEC ML |
09BAMAKO623 | RFI REPORTED MALIAN ARMY SEIZURE OF ARMS AND DRUGS [...] (C) Summary: Radio France International (RFI) reported on September 17 that the Malian Army seized arms and drugs from a three vehicle caravan heading across the Malian desert to Mauritania. The report was reprinted in a few Malian newspapers, however, not the official government newspaper, [...] | 2009-09-25 12:59:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER ML |
09BAMAKO63 | (S) OBSERVATIONS ON UNFOLDING HOSTAGE CRISIS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-29 17:13:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | PTER PREL PINS PINR ML GM SZ UK CA |
09BAMAKO640 | MALI: DEMARCHE ON AFRICA REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON [...] On October 1, Embassy delivered reftel demarche to the Chief of the Europe and America Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hamadou Albachir Toure, and to Colonel Amadou S. Gueye, Counselor in charge of Military Cooperation at the Ministry of Defense. Both Toure and Gueye indicated enthus [...] | 2009-10-05 22:07:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC KE ML |
09BAMAKO669 | AFRICOM DEPUTY COMMANDER MUELLER MEETS WITH [...] (S) On October 14, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) met with the Ambassador to discuss U.S. security assistance to the government of Mali. 2. (S) Admiral Moeller noted that, after CENTCOM, counterterrorism priorities currently make AF [...] | 2009-10-19 07:32:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | MARR ML PGOV PREL PTER |
09BAMAKO71 | (S) ANOTHER NORTHERN LEADER CLAIMS CONTACT WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-05 10:28:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | PTER PREL PINR PINS ML |
09BAMAKO754 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MALIAN PRESIDENT AMADOU [...] (S) On November 21 the Ambassador met with Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) to discuss security in Northern Mali in the context of U.S. Africa Command General William E. ("Kip") Ward's planned November 27 visit, follow-up to the November 19 hard landing 65 miles from Bamako of a [...] | 2009-11-23 17:00:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | ASEC PINR PREL PTER |
09BAMAKO776 | AMBASSADOR AND GENERAL WARD MEET WITH MALIAN [...] (S) On November 27 the Ambassador and Commander of the U.S. Africa Command, General William E. ("Kip") Ward, met with Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) to discuss security in Northern Mali. ATT reiterated his commitment to take action against Al Q'Aida in the Lands of the Islamic Mag [...] | 2009-12-01 16:39:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | ASEC ML PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
09BAMAKO813 | AMBASSADOR ATTENDS CLOSING CEREMONY OF JCET [...] (S) On December 10 the Ambassador participated in the closing ceremony of a Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) exercise of Malian Army Echelon Tactique Interarme (ETIA) 6, in Segou. ETIA 6 is based in Tessalit, a town in the Kidal Region of Northern Mali. Captain Jason van Camp and Maste [...] | 2009-12-16 16:29:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | MARR ML PINR PREL PTER |
09BAMAKO815 | CLOSING CEREMONY OF JCET TRAINING OF MALIAN ARMY [...] (S) On December 11 the DCM and DATT participated in the graduation ceremony of a Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) exercise of the Malian Army Echelon Tactique Interarme (ETIA) 4, in Gao. ETIA 4 is based in Timbuktu. The 10th Army Special Forces Group out of Fort Carson, Colorado, and le [...] | 2009-12-17 15:36:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | MARR ML PREL PTER |
09BAMAKO820 | MALIAN MILITARY COULD MAKE GOOD USE OF CESSNA [...] (C) I understand questions have arisen regarding funding of two Cessna Caravan surveillance/transport aircraft to Mali. This is the second year Embassy Bamako has requested support for this program. It remains, we believe, a vital step toward Malian efforts to regain control of the vast, und [...] | 2009-12-21 06:42:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR ML PINR PTER |
09BAMAKO821 | AMBASSADOR SEEKS AUTHORIZATION FROM MALIAN [...] (S) The Ambassador met with Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) on December 15 to request that the Government of Mali allow Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents to interview Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) detainees in Mali. ATT agreed to the interviews but re [...] | 2009-12-21 06:44:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET | ML PTER |
09BAMAKO822 | DAWA MEETING IN KIDAL NOT MUCH TO TALK ABOUT [...] (S/NF) Summary: In early November the Dawa movement - also known as Jama,at al-Tabligh - hosted an international meeting in Kidal, Mali. Dawa arrived in Mali in the early-1990s and has not been able to attract a significant number of adherents. While a fundamentalist ideology, Dawa in Mali [...] | 2009-12-21 06:45:00 | Embassy Bamako | SECRET//NOFORN | KISL PINS PTER PGOV ML |
09BAMAKO85 | IS THE REBELLION OVER? MALI BEATS BACK BAHANGA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-12 12:28:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PINR PREL PGOV ASEC ML |
09BAMAKO98 | OFF AGAIN ON AGAIN REGIONAL HEAD OF STATE SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 16:57:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINS PGOV ML |
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN15 | BRUNEI: RELUCTANT TO LEAD IMT, AND CRITICAL OF [...] (SBU) Poloff on 15 January met with Haji Mulok Haji Jamat, the Deputy Director for East Asia and the Pacific Affairs in the Political I section of the Brunei Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Mulok told Poloff that Brunei plans to only supply monitors to the International Monitor [...] | 2009-01-27 07:26:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER BX |
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN22 | BRUNEI: TERRITORIAL DISPUTES WITH MALAYSIA REMAIN [...] (U) Poloff and Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) on 21 January met with Pg Datin Shazainah Pd Sharifuuden, the acting director of Policy Planning in the Brunei Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Garry Ramlee, a research officer in Policy Planning, for an update on territorial disputes bet [...] | 2009-02-05 05:46:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON PGOV PREL PTER BX |
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN262 | BRUNEI'S STILL REVIEWING POSITION ON GLADSTONE REPORT [...] (SBU) DCM delivered reftel demarche to Florence Chong, Director, International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). Ms. Chong noted Brunei is still developing its position on the Gladstone Report. Ms. Chong provided Brunei's UN delegation with U.S. positions, as noted i [...] | 2009-11-04 07:58:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS BX |
09BANGKOK1061 | TARGETED KILLINGS FEED CLIMATE OF FEAR AND [...] (C) Summary: Targeted killings of religious leaders, former detainees, alleged informants and collaborators, and human rights activists, with both security forces and insurgents to blame for cases that usually go unsolved, are exacerbating an environment of distrust and fear in Thailand's deep [...] | 2009-04-29 10:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK1167 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: LOCAL OFFICIALS' VIEWS OF THE [...] (C) Summary: A range of provincial government and security officials gave us differing views about the security situation in the deep south, the state of the Malay Muslim insurgency, and possible government countermeasures during a mid-March trip to southern Thailand. A Narathiwat vice govern [...] | 2009-05-14 02:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK1197 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: FAMILIES OF DETAINEES VOICE [...] (SBU) Summary: The plight of families in the deep south that have had members detained as the result of counterinsurgency operations was the focus of a seminar at Prince of Songkhla University in Pattani that we attended in early May. The seminar organizer, the Cross Cultural Foundation (CCF [...] | 2009-05-15 09:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK125 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: NEW PM ABHISIT'S PLAN FOR [...] (C) In a press conference for the Foreign Correspondents, Club of Thailand on January 14, Prime Minister Abhisit said resolution of the conflict in southern Thailand was among his government's top policy priorities. He said his government would restore the rule of law in all of Thailand, incl [...] | 2009-01-16 10:57:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK1276 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: ACADEMICS AND NGOS REFUTE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-27 10:33:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK1291 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: COORDINATED ARSON ATTACKS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Suspected insurgents conducted a series of coordinated bomb and arson attacks on commercial targets close to Yala city center, in Yala province early May 27. All though there were no casualties, press sources as well as independent analysts believe this was the largest coordinate [...] | 2009-05-28 09:30:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK1320 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: TAK BAI DEATHS - NO ONE [...] (C) The Songkhla Provincial Court on May 29 ruled that security forces were not responsible for the deaths of 78 Malay Muslim Thais who died after security forces put down a demonstration at the Tak Bai police headquarters in 2004. The court decided that officers were merely performing their d [...] | 2009-06-02 10:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK1388 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: TWELVE KILLED IN MOSQUE ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: In one of the most lethal recent acts of violence, gunmen on June 8 entered a mosque during evening prayers in Cho Airong District of Narathiwat province (bordering Malaysia) and killed 12 people. The killings follow a surge in violence that appears to have resulted from the May [...] | 2009-06-09 10:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK1401 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: FOREIGN VIEWS OF THAI [...] (C) The brutal June 8 attack by unknown perpetrators on a mosque in Narathiwat province (reftel) may set back efforts to ameliorate the conflict in southern Thailand. Over the past weeks, various foreign observers privately expressed divergent views about the likelihood and possible modalities [...] | 2009-06-10 09:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER PINS TH MY |
09BANGKOK1508 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE JUNE 8 [...] (S) Summary: The cycle of violence and reprisals in southern Thailand continues to spike in the aftermath of the May 29 Tak Bai post mortem inquest ruling which determined that security forces were merely performing their duties according to their responsibilities when 78 Malay Muslims died in [...] | 2009-06-24 10:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK1822 | THAILAND: EAP A/S CAMPBELL'S MEETING WITH DPM [...] (C) Summary. During a July 21 meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban told EAP Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell and the Ambassador that the Abhisit Vejjajiva government was committed to resolving the political conflict via the rule of law and democracy. The government would not be [...] | 2009-07-29 10:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM PTER TH CB |
09BANGKOK1841 | THAILAND: EAP A/S CAMPBELL'S MEETING WITH PHEU [...] (C) Summary. During a July 21 meeting with the opposition Pheu Thai party leaders and supporters, East Asian and Pacific Affairs Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell urged more open dialogue among political actors and peaceful reconciliation to Thailand's political conflict. Chaturon Chaiseng, [...] | 2009-07-30 09:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK1998 | NEXT STEPS ON THE VIKTOR BOUT EXTRADITION CASE IN [...] (C) Summary and comment. The disappointing August 11 Thai Lower Court ruling against the extradition of Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, and its dubious legal reasoning, requires a multi-pronged effort to seek a successful reversal during the appeals process. The lead judge's foray into foreign [...] | 2009-08-13 09:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PTER KCRM TH RS CO |
09BANGKOK2002 | AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FOREIGN MINISTER KASIT AGAIN ON [...] (C) During an August 13 telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, currently in Malaysia, the Ambassador stressed that the USG was disappointed and mystified by the August 11 Thai Lower Court ruling against the extradition of Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout. The Ambassado [...] | 2009-08-13 10:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KCRM TH RS CO |
09BANGKOK2045 | SENATOR WEBB FOCUSES ON BURMA WITH PM AND FM; [...] (C) Summary. During the course of August 17 meetings with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Foreign Minister Kasit Pirmoya, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) shared the details of his recent visit to Burma and outlined his thoughts on breaking the impasse with the regime. Both Kasit and Vejjajiva not [...] | 2009-08-18 08:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER TH BM RS |
09BANGKOK2096 | SOUTHERN THAILAND: THE HDC DIALOGUE RESUMES [...] (S) In a late July meeting, HD Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HDC) representative Michael Vatikiotis briefed us on RTG efforts to revive the HDC brokered dialogue between the Thai government and insurgents in southern Thailand. In subsequent meetings with CG in Chang Mai, Mark Tamthai, Dir [...] | 2009-08-21 04:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK213 | U.S.-THAI RELATIONS: SUSTAINING OUR IMPORTANT [...] (C) Summary. As one of five U.S. treaty allies in Asia and straddling a major force projection air/sea corridor, Thailand remains crucial to U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Underpinning our strong bilateral relations is the U.S.-Thai security relationship, which is base [...] | 2009-01-28 07:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER MARR MOPS PINS PHUM TH |
09BANGKOK2149 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: MIDDAY BOMB ATTACK IN [...] (S) Summary: A car bomb exploded August 25 in front of a restaurant in the deep southern province of Narathiwat, injuring over 40 people; no one was killed, however. The incident bears many of the hallmarks of an insurgent style attack, though mid-day bombings are still rare for an insurgency [...] | 2009-08-26 10:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK2195 | COUP RUMORS REAPPEAR BUT EVEN REDS DOUBT THEM [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Despite renewed rumors of potential military intervention in the political conflict, spread as far as we can tell by anti-government red-shirt sources, Royal Thai Army (RTA) Commander in Chief General Anupong Paochinda appears resolute in his stance in keeping the Army [...] | 2009-08-31 09:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM TH |
09BANGKOK2226 | SOUTHERN THAILAND: CONFLICT, CONFLICTING GOALS [...] (SBU) Summary: Issues of identity, language, violence against teachers, and quality of instruction are some of the key challenges facing the educational environment and its impact on life in southern Thailand, according to academic, government, and NGO interlocutors we engaged in southern Thai [...] | 2009-09-02 10:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK2307 | SOUTHERN THAILAND: NOT ALL VIOLENCE INSURGENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The violence in Thailand's Deep South cannot exclusively be attributed to the insurgency, according to a range of academic, government, and NGO contacts we engaged on an August 16-19 trip to Thailand's southern three provinces. Other key factors behind incidents of violence/mur [...] | 2009-09-10 08:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK2540 | WHERE ARE THEY NOW? TWO THAI MUSLIMS CONVICTED IN [...] (C) Summary: Two ethnic Malay Muslim Thai nationals sentenced to life in prison in Cambodian court in 2003 after being convicted of providing material support to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) returned quietly to Thailand in July following negotiations between Bangkok and Phnom Penh. Both men are livi [...] | 2009-10-05 09:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH |
09BANGKOK2555 | AMBASSADOR MEETS DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER; VIKTOR [...] (C) Summary: On October 6, the Ambassador met with Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban to discuss the latest political developments in Thailand, including Secretary General Niphon Promphan's recent resignation. Suthep characterized the resignation decision as hard to explain and expressed [...] | 2009-10-06 10:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER TH BM RS |