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07BAGHDAD3059 | IRAQI REACTIONS TO AMB.CROCKER, GEN PETRAEUS [...] (C) Summary: Preliminary reactions to the Ambassador's September 10 testimony, and that of General Petraeus, to the House Armed Services and International Relations Committees have been quite positive across Iraq's major sectarian communities and in various parts of Baghdad. Most educated Ir [...] | 2007-09-11 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3060 | FOLLOWING GOI "CONCESSIONS," NATIONAL DIALOGUE [...] (C) Dr. Mustapha Al Hiti, a senior parliamentarian in the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue Bloc (or, Hewar party led by Sunni politician Salah al Mutlaq),confirmed to poloffs on September 10 that Hewar had ended its two-month boycott of the Council of Representatives (CoR) after the governme [...] | 2007-09-11 17:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON PINR KBIO IZ |
07BAGHDAD3061 | GOI RELUCTANTLY AGREEING TO POSTPONE EXECUTION OF [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings on September 10, Charge conveyed to the PM's Chief of Staff, Tariq Abdullah, and to President Talabani the need to delay action on executing Ali Hassan Al Majid ("Chemical Ali"),Sultan Hashim, and Hussain Rashid Muhammed -- all sentenced to death in the Anfal [...] | 2007-09-11 17:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3062 | CDA AND HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER DISCUSS SULTAN [...] (S) Human Rights Minister Wijdan Salim told CDA Butenis and PolCouns September 8 that there would be significant public outrage if Sultan Hashim, formerly Saddam Hussein's Minister of Defense, were executed -- especially without the approval of the Presidency Council. The Iraqi people, she no [...] | 2007-09-11 17:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PINS PREL PGOV KJUS KAWC IZ |
07BAGHDAD3063 | SEPTEMBER 9 MCNS MEETING -- MALIKI URGES COALITION [...] (S) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki strongly urged Coalition Forces (CF) and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to use restraint and proportional force when searching for rank-and-file militia members and insurgents. He deplored the death of innocent civilians killed during a recent CF operation and [...] | 2007-09-12 02:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3064 | EXPANDED NEIGHBORS PREPCON [...] C) SUMMARY. At the September 9 Expanded Neighbors preparatory conference in Baghdad, participants agreed to hold the next Neighbors Ministerial October 31-November 1 in Istanbul. Arab neighbors greeted the GOI proposal to establish a standing secretariat with skepticism, but with supportiv [...] | 2007-09-12 02:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3071 | HUNT OIL SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH KRG UNDER KRG OIL LAW [...] (SBU) The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) recently signed a production sharing contract (PSC) with Hunt Oil Company that covers oil exploration and production in "the Dohuk area." Comments by Hunt officials indicate that the block is actually in the Ninewa Governorate's northern administr [...] | 2007-09-12 06:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EINV ENRG IZ |
07BAGHDAD3074 | SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER--FOCUS ON IMMIGRATION--NO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, Immigration Minister Tobias Billstrom, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director Bjorn Lyrvall, and Swedish Ambassador to Iraq (stationed in Jordan) Niclas Trouve discussed a wide range of political issues with Ambassador Crocker and suggested Sw [...] | 2007-09-12 08:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SW |
07BAGHDAD3075 | FALLUJAH,S VERSION OF THE ANBAR MODEL [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Iraqi Citizens Watch (ICW) and the Provincial Security Forces (PSF) have become the Fallujah area,s most visible sign of tribal buy-in on security matters. Although not originally conceived as a tribal outreach tool, field commanders quickly recognized its potential and cr [...] | 2007-09-12 09:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3078 | INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At 2.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs),Iraq now ranks third in the world among countries with IDP populations, behind only Sudan and Colombia. Such large-scale displacement in Iraq is producing potentially permanent social and religious segregation. Coordination r [...] | 2007-09-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | UN EAID PREF PHUM PREL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3082 | PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE AT 2007 UNGA [...] As requested in reftel, Post is submitting input for the President's September 25 Human Rights Roundtable at 2007 UNGA. --------------- POST ACTIVITIES --------------- 2. Post supports human rights development in Iraq by maintaining dialogues with key Iraqi officials on human rights [...] | 2007-09-12 17:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3084 | FURTHER IRAQI REACTIONS TO AMB CROCKER, GEN [...] (C) Summary: The Embassy and PRTs have continued to gather reactions to the joint testimony of the Ambassador and General Petraeus. In general, Shi'a leaders remain pleased with the testimony, while some Kurds criticized the focus on Anbar. The Baghdad PRT collected reactions from a dozen Ir [...] | 2007-09-12 17:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3088 | INITIAL 2008 BUDGET OFFERING SEEKS TO MINIMIZE [...] (C) Summary: The 2008 central budget negotiating season has begun. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) started the process in July with an austere first offer. Based on a very pessimistic oil export revenue forecast, the MoF's budget straight-lines security ministries and sharply cuts elsewhere, inc [...] | 2007-09-13 07:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3094 | RRT ERBIL: KRG PM ON RECONCILIATION, DEMOCRACY AND [...] (C) Regional Coordinator Jess Baily made an introductory call on Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani August 28. The KRG PM encouraged a more visible US presence in the Kurdish region. Regarding cooperation among the various Iraqi factions, he expressed the op [...] | 2007-09-13 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3095 | DEPUTY OIL MINISTER HAS SECTARIAN WORRIES [...] (S) SUMMARY: A senior GOI official warned EMIN about Iranian influence within the Oil Ministry, and conveyed his fear that the Ministry is falling apart due to sectarian tension. If left unchecked, he warned that USG officials in 4-5 months would no longer find it safe to visit or even be we [...] | 2007-09-13 15:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EPET ENRG PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3096 | WHITHER IRAQI HYDROCARBONS FRAMEWORK? [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told Charge and EMIN September 13 that implication of that day's New York Times article on the hydrocarbon law ("Compromise on Oil Law Seems to be Collapsing") was wrong. In fact, he said, discussion the previous day of the hydrocarbon framework [...] | 2007-09-13 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET IZ PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD3097 | ASSASSINATION OF ANBARI SHEIKH SATTAR BEZIA [...] (S) Summary: Sheikh Abdul Sattar Bezia al-Rishawi was killed on September 13 by an IED which exploded by his vehicle close to his compound in Ramadi. Sattar's father and three brothers died at the hands of al-Qaeda and it is unclear who will now lead the Anbar Awakening movement or the al-Ris [...] | 2007-09-13 18:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD31 | 2007 GOI BUDGET: REVIEW PROCESS AT THE COUNCIL OF [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Iraq submitted the 2007 draft budget to the Council of Representatives for approval more than two months late on December 24, 2006, following unanimous approval by the Council of Ministers on December 21. The review process by the Council of Representatives ( [...] | 2007-01-04 15:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3104 | NINEWA: 2007 HAJJ FLIGHTS: PROGRESS TO DATE, [...] (SBU) PRT Ninewa organized a September 5 meeting of the Mosul Airport Hajj Operations Committee for Iraqi Prime Ministerial Advisor on Airports and Seaports Ahmed Al-Saadawi and Ninewa Governor Kashmoula. Both reported the Hajj Committee had approved Mosul as a point of embarkation for 2007 [...] | 2007-09-15 05:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD3115 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informati [...] | 2007-09-16 09:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3117 | OIL MINISTER COURTS ENAMORED OIL FIRMS WHILE KRG [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-17 00:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD3119 | SADRISTS ABANDON SHIA ALLIANCE, SEEK TO FORM [...] (C) Summary: Senior Sadrist CoR member Baha al-Araji told us September 16 that Moqtada al-Sadr (MAS) had ordered the 28-seat Sadrist legislative bloc to leave the Shia United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) and team with disaffected Shia and Sunni elements to form a new alliance to counter the Shia/Kurdi [...] | 2007-09-17 04:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD312 | IRAQI PM CHIEF OF STAFF ABDULLAH DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the DCM on January 24, the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Tariq Abdullah said he learned new processes for his office during his trip to Washington. He explained that decision making in the PM's office varied according to the issue, but outlined different ways [...] | 2007-01-30 11:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3121 | TUWAITHA UPDATE: MEETING WITH MOST MINISTER [...] (S),SUMMARY: Energy Attache and Embassy officer met with Ra'id Fahmi Jahid, Minister of Science and Technology regarding progress toward completing the corrected letter requesting USG assistance in the removal of approximately 550 tons of natural uranium (yellow cake) and four high-activity [...] | 2007-09-17 06:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | AORC ECON ENRG IAEA IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD3124 | PRT TIKRIT: MAJOR CRIMES COURT OPEN FOR BUSINESS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (U) Summary. On September 9, the Salah ad Din Province Major Crimes Court (MCC) was opened pursuant to an order signed by the Chief Justice of Iraq. The key question is whether local judges will effectively carry out their duties or if inti [...] | 2007-09-17 10:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRS KJUS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3125 | DAWA LEGISLATOR: JAM IS "THE NEW BA'ATH," MORE [...] (C) Summary: Senior Da'wa Party CoR member Haider al-Abadi told us September 13 that non-Sadrist Shi'a increasingly refer to Moqtada al-Sadr's followers as "The New Ba'athists" due to their use of violence and intimidation. Al-Abadi maintained that "moderate" Sadrists are afraid to speak out [...] | 2007-09-17 11:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3128 | FOLLOWING UP ON PM MALIKI'S VISIT TO TURKEY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-17 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD3129 | STATUS REPORT ON THE ENERGY FUSION CELL [...] SUMMARY: The Energy Fusion Cell has revised its original strategy on infrastructure integrity in Iraq, and is helping Iraq maximize its petroleum export revenue; meet domestic fuel needs; meet domestic power needs; transition to market-based energy policy decisions; and transition to self-capa [...] | 2007-09-17 14:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD313 | IRAQI PM CHIEF OF STAFF PROVIDES HIS THOUGHTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Tariq Abdullah provided his thoughts on changing the composition of the Cabinet to the Mission's PM Office Liaison on January 24. Abdullah said the Prime Minister is considering either forming a new government or replacing about half of his min [...] | 2007-01-30 11:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3130 | FOLLOWING UP ON PM MALIKI'S VISIT TO TURKEY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-17 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD3132 | NO CONFIDENCE VOTE FOR PM? VOTE COUNTING IN THE COR [...] (C) On September 16th Muqtada al-Sadr ordered the 28 members of the Sadr Trend bloc in Iraqi's Council of Representatives (COR) to withdraw from the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) and form a national alliance with Sunni or Shi'a members. According to Sadrist COR Member Baha al-Araji, Sadr hopes [...] | 2007-09-17 16:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD3133 | CODEL BAUCUS MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TALABANI [...] (C) Summary: In a September 15 meeting with Codel Baucus, President Talabani said that while Maliki is not the ideal Prime Minister for Iraq, the August 26 Leaders' Agreement and creation of the "three plus one mechanism" and an inner Cabinet are genuine steps forward. He acknowledged, howeve [...] | 2007-09-17 17:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3134 | SEPTEMBER 16 MCNS -- REINSTITUTING CENTRALIZED [...] (S) SUMMARY: The September 16 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) was dominated by discussions about partially reinstituting centralized governmental control over provincial security organizations and increasing governmental control over disparate security units like Facility Prot [...] | 2007-09-17 18:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3136 | BLACKWATER PERSONNEL SECURITY DETAIL INVOLVED IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-17 19:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC IZ PREL PTER |
07BAGHDAD3139 | UPDATE: OIL MINISTER ON HYDROCARBON FRAMEWORK LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 13:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON IZ KU ENRG PREL |
07BAGHDAD314 | CODEL PELOSI MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR, IRAQI PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with the Ambassador before a luncheon with Iraqi President Talabani, and at the luncheon, CODEL Pelosi members expressed concern that Iraqi PM Maliki had not proposed and did not support a U.S. troop surge. They also expressed doubts about the GOI's political will to ma [...] | 2007-01-30 11:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3142 | PRIME MINISTER AGREES TO JOINT COMMISSION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 19:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ AMGT ASEC PREL PTER |
07BAGHDAD3143 | PRIME MINISTER AGREES TO JOINT COMMISSION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 19:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC PREL PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3146 | RRT ERBIL: CODEL BAUCUS MEETING WITH KRG PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President of the Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani told a Congressional delegation that he supported a federal Iraq. He did not believe national reconciliation was possible if Sunni and Shiia Islamic extremists remained in control and favored the idea of a U.S. residual troop [...] | 2007-09-19 08:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER PGOV IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD3148 | RRT ERBIL: PUK-PJAK CONFRONTATION IN SULAIMANIYAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: With approval of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG),the Deputy Commander for Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Peshmerga said he recently deployed 200 PUK Peshmerga soldiers to take military action against members of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan Party (PJAK) in the [...] | 2007-09-19 09:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER PBTS PGOV IZ IR TU |
07BAGHDAD3150 | CODEL BAUCUS MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER MALIKI ON [...] (C) Summary: In a September 16 meeting with Prime Minister Maliki, the members of Codel Baucus delivered a tough message to PM Maliki, underscoring the frustration in Congress with the slow progress on political reconciliation and the need for Maliki personally to do more. The PM defended his [...] | 2007-09-19 12:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3152 | SHIA COR DEPUTIES: DE-BAATH LAW MOVING FORWARD, [...] (C) Summary: ISCI Deputy Humam Hamudi and Da'wa Deputy Ali al-Adib told us September 18 in separate meetings that the De-Baathification Law is on track for CoR presentation and approval. A CoR source later told us the draft law could reach the CoR Legal Committee as early as September 20, wit [...] | 2007-09-19 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3155 | IRAQIYA COR MEMBER DISCUSSES MINISTRY WITHDRAWALS, [...] (C) Summary: Iraqiya Party Secretary and Council of Representatives (CoR) member Maysoon al-Damluji told PolOff on September 13 the two ministers (Science and Technology, Human Rights) that refused go to along with Ayad Allawi's decision to pull his party from the Council of Ministers (CoM) a [...] | 2007-09-19 16:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3156 | EMBASSY CONTINUES OUTREACH ON PERSONAL SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-19 18:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC PREL PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3158 | PRT TIKRIT: NOTES FROM VILLAGE OF TUZ [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In a recent visit to ethnically-mixed Tuz, PRTOFF found a community increasingly distant both psychologically and politically from the Provincial Government in Salah ad Din. END SUMMARY. Where are the PC Members? ----------- [...] | 2007-09-20 05:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3159 | MEETING WITH MFA ON IRAQ-IRAN BORDER NEGOTIATIONS. [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: At a meeting with Deputy PolMil Counselor, Ambassador Taha Al-Abassi, head of the Neighboring Countries Department of the Iraqi MFA, made it clear that Iraq did not recognize the validity of the Algiers Accord with respect to the Iran-Iraq border, and that Iraq had refused to di [...] | 2007-09-20 06:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PBTS PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3160 | PROVINCIAL ASSESSMENT OF JAM CEASEFIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to PRT reporting Muqtada al-Sadr's August 30th declaration "freezing" Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) operations has had no real impact on JAM-associated violence in the south. This lack of impact highlights the fragmentary nature of JAM and raises questions about Sadr,s relevancy. [...] | 2007-09-20 08:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD3161 | CODEL BAUCUS DISCUSSES RECONCILIATION, SECURITY, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Codel Baucus on September 16, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi told the delegation that he does not think there will be true national reconciliation until the Shia and Kurds decide to compromise, particularly regarding power-sharing on security issues. He said he [...] | 2007-09-20 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3162 | VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI WELCOMES PRESIDENT BUSH'S [...] (C) During a September 19 meeting with Vice President Tariq Al Hashimi, Embassy Political Counselor and poloffs delivered reftel letter from President Bush, emphasizing the USG commitment to progress on benchmark legislation and to an enduring bilateral relationship with the government and pe [...] | 2007-09-20 11:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3163 | SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S MEETINGS WITH PM [...] (S/NF) Mr. President: Your meetings with Prime Minister (PM) Maliki and President Talabani on the margins of the UNGA present an opportunity to build upon the outcome of the Benchmarks Report, and to focus both Iraqi leaders on making maximum use of the surge between now and next spring. You [...] | 2007-09-20 16:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL UNGA IZ |
07BAGHDAD3164 | INITIAL DISCUSSION WITH IRAQI MOD, CO-CHAIR OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 16:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC PREL PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3175 | EPRT WASIT: WASIT GOVERNOR [...] (S/ REL to USA, ACGU) Summary. Wasit Governor Abd al Latif Hamad Turfa is a self-proclaimed political independent who meets regularly with ePRT. In a 16 September meeting in his office in Al Kut, the Governor, dressed as usual in a western business suit, discussed his views on Iraqi politics, [...] | 2007-09-21 13:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD318 | IRAQI PM MALIKI TELLS CODEL PELOSI 50,000 U.S. [...] (S) Summary: During a January 26 meeting with a Congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stated that 50,000-60,000 U.S. troops could withdraw in three to six months as Iraqi forces improved in capacity. He urged greater U.S. support for train [...] | 2007-01-30 11:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3180 | MALIKI CAUTIOUS ABOUT BASRAH AND MOSUL SECURITY; [...] (S) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told MNF-I Commanding General David Petraeus and Charge d,Affaires Patricia Butenis that he was cautious about the security conditions in Basrah and Mosul, but contended that Basrah could come under Iraqi Provincial Control (PIC) by December. He was [...] | 2007-09-22 07:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MOPS MCAP PGOV PTER PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD3182 | SURGE-RELATED DETENTIONS STRAIN IRAQI JUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary: The detainee population at the GOI's Rusafa Detention Facility (RDF) is growing at a steady pace due to security operations and detainee transfers from other facilities. With very few cases reaching the trial stage, the population is approaching maximum capacity. The conditions [...] | 2007-09-22 10:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3188 | MUTHANNA SECURITY OFFICIALS BELIEVE IRANIAN HAND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-22 12:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3189 | NSA RUBAIE DISCUSSES UNSCR RENEWAL AND WASHINGTON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 11. 2. (S) Summary and Action Request: In a September 18 meeting with Political-Military Minister Counselor Marcie Ries, Iraqi National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwafak al-Rubaie reiterated the Iraqi position on UN Security Council Resol [...] | 2007-09-23 01:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PINS PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3193 | CHARITABLE EVENT SETS THE STAGE FOR ENGAGEMENT [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The PRT's Ramadan distribution of wheelchairs to needy citizens of Muthanna successfully advertised how we hope to use Quick Response Funds to make a positive difference in people's lives. We also used the event to reach ou [...] | 2007-09-23 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI KISL IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD3195 | CHARITABLE EVENT SETS THE STAGE FOR ENGAGEMENT [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The PRT's Ramadan distribution of wheelchairs to needy citizens of Muthanna successfully advertised how we hope to use Quick Response Funds to make a positive difference in people's lives. We also used the event to reach [...] | 2007-09-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI KISL IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD3196 | DR. MEHDI HAFEDH PROMOTES HIMSELF AS ALTERNATIVE [...] (S/NF) Summary: During a Sept. 20 meeting, Council of Representatives (CoR) member Dr. Mehdi Hafedh (Shi'a/Independent) said it was time for the USG to "initiate" the replacement of PM Maliki. Poloffs pushed back, leaving no doubt that the USG supports Maliki as the head of Iraq's constitutio [...] | 2007-09-23 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3197 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE, SEPTEMBER 14 [...] (C) Summary. On 14 September, National Security Advisor Muwaffuk Rubaie chaired the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al Qanoon ) FAQ) Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) of the Government of Iraq (GoI). In response to the critical 6-month review of the I-ESC committees by the NSA I-ESC Secretar [...] | 2007-09-23 15:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3198 | PRT ANBAR: SATTAR'S BROTHER ASSUMES CONTROL OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) The new leader of the Anbar-based anti-insurgency movement Sahawa al-Iraq, or Awakening Council of Iraq (SAI),Ahmad Bezia Ftaykhan al-Rishawi, told poloff that his brother,s assassination would not slow efforts to [...] | 2007-09-23 16:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3199 | ADVANCED MISSILES USED AGAINST U.S. AIRCRAFT [...] (S) According to DIA and the U.S. Army Aircraft Shoot Down Assessment Team, insurgents recently targeted U.S. military helicopters in Iraq with advanced missiles that have some capability to defeat current U.S. countermeasures. The missiles are likely of Iranian origin. While military intelli [...] | 2007-09-24 01:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MOPS MCAP PGOV PTER PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD3201 | MINISTER OF PLANNING ALI BABAN RETURNS TO GOI, [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Planning Ali Baban told PolCouns and PolOffs on September 19 he is an "independent" and no longer part of the Tawafuq bloc because it "lacks vision." He believes the resignation of the Tawafuq ministers is paralyzing the GOI at a time when Iraq needs a strong central g [...] | 2007-09-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3209 | RECORD BREAKING ELECTRICTY PRODUCTION [...] SUMMARY: On September 16, 2007, the Ministry of Electricity (ME) set the latest in a series of record-breaking electricity production output levels. For the past five weeks the ME has sustained an upward trajectory of power production, which holds the promise of a new higher overall baseline po [...] | 2007-09-24 11:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAIR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3215 | SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES: EMPLOYEES RESURRECT ANBAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Just outside the Anbar town of Faris, the employees of a state-owned (SOE) steel plant stepped up after the 2003 Gulf War and, completely on their own, kept the shop running. Today, against the odds, they continue to produce an array of high-quality steel products and may so [...] | 2007-09-24 18:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3219 | DPM AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS PREPARATORY COMMITTEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh and the Ambassador discussed on September 23 ways to improve the political and security situation in Iraq in the wake of the Ambassador's testimony in Washington. The DPM said deputies to the leaders were continuing to make progress on foll [...] | 2007-09-25 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3221 | MUTHANNA SECURITY OFFICIALS BELIEVE IRANIAN HAND [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (S/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY. A survey of leading security officials in the southern Iraqi province of Muthanna indicates widespread belief that Iran was behind the August 20 assassination of Governor al-Hassani. Quick Response Funds to reinforce [...] | 2007-09-25 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3222 | VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI TOUR D'HORIZON WITH THE [...] (C) During a September 23 meeting, the Ambassador and Iraqi Vice President Tariq Al Hashimi discussed detainee issues, political developments, pending executions, recent violence in the Washash neighborhood of Baghdad, Hashimi's draft "Social Contract," and Mosul Province. Hashimi was please [...] | 2007-09-25 13:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3227 | VIEW ON SHIFTING ALLIANCES AND OTHER ISSUES FROM [...] (C) Summary: Council of Representatives (CoR) member Yonadam Kanna (Rafidayn) told PolOff on September 18 that former PM Allawi is the best candidate to succeed PM Maliki should a no confidence vote occur. He mentioned Dr. Mehdi Hafedh, an independent CoR member (once aligned with Iraqiyya),[...] | 2007-09-25 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD323 | FADHILA BLOC LEADER HIGHLIGHTS DIFFERENCES WITH [...] (C) Summary: Fadhila bloc leader Hassan al-Shammari told PolOffs on January 29 that the Shiite Fadhila party was not functionally a part of the Shi'a coalition. He claimed that Fadhila stood for a strong, unified Iraq, contrasting this position to that of the Kurds and SCIRI. The Kurds, he [...] | 2007-01-30 15:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3237 | JUVENILE JUSTICE IN BAGHDAD [...] (U) This is a Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Baghdad Rule of Law (ROL) Team meetings with Juvenile Police, Juvenile Judges and Investigators, Rehabilitation School personnel, the High Juridicial Council (HJC),and officials in the Mini [...] | 2007-09-26 13:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3248 | DE-BAATH LAW REPRESENTS COMPROMISES BUT NO RADICAL [...] (C REL USA GBR CAN AUS) Summary: On September 19, the Council of Ministers approved the Law of Accountability and Justice (the "de-Ba'ath Law") and passed it to the CoR where it is currently being reviewed by the Legal and de-Ba'athificaton Committees. It could be voted into law by the end of [...] | 2007-09-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3249 | AYAD ALLAWI RETURNS TO BAGHDAD, UNCERTAIN FOR HOW [...] (S/NF) Summary: Ayad Allawi, joined by CoR and Iraqiyya member Adnan Pachachi and his cousin Muhammad Tawif Allawi (the "resigned" Minister of Communications),told PolCouns and PolOffs on September 25 he is working to build a non-sectarian, moderate coalition among many parties, to include al [...] | 2007-09-27 19:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3252 | RRT ERBIL: MEETING WITH ALI BAPIR, LEADER OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Kurdistan Islamic Group (KIG) claims to be a moderate Islamic party operating throughout the Kurdistan region. It actively recruits youth and students and supports the rule of Sharia law. The KIG leader blames the secular mass media, regional government, and party structur [...] | 2007-09-28 09:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3253 | NINEWA: UNAMI SRSG VISITS QAHTANIYA BLAST SITES -- [...] (SBU) On September 17, United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi visited the blast sites in Qahtaniya and Al-Jazeera (reftels) to see the situation on the ground and assess the possibility of UNAMI coordination of futu [...] | 2007-09-28 13:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL USUN UN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3254 | NATURAL GAS FROM IRAQ [...] (SBU) Iraq has world class reserves of natural gas, although most of it is associated with oil deposits and will become available only with oil development over the coming decade. In the medium term, however, Iraq may be able to export 4-10 billion cubic meters per year (BCM/yr) of gas. Depe [...] | 2007-09-28 13:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EINV ENRG PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3255 | PRT KIRKUK: OPPOSITION TO JOINING THE KRG AMONG [...] (C) SUMMARY. Many independent and moderate Kurds in Kirkuk city, frustrated with what they see as poor governance and rampant corruption in Kirkuk since 2003 by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP),have come to oppose Kirkuk,s accession to the Kurdista [...] | 2007-09-28 13:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3256 | Electricity in Erbil: Operating on Private Generators. [...] (U) The city of Erbil established a system of government-subsidized private generators to provide electricity to meet the region's power shortages after Saddam cut power in 1998. While dangerous, noisy and crudely wired, these generators provide most consumers reliable power for an average of [...] | 2007-09-28 13:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EINV EFIN ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3257 | UPDATE ON JOINT COMMISSION ON PSD ISSUES AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-28 17:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC PREL PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3259 | CG MEETING WITH SADRIST COR MEMBER [...] (S) Summary: Sadrist Deputy Baha Al-Araji told CG Petraeus 9/23 that Sadrist leaders in Najaf have begun to advocate dialogue with coalition forces, though Muqtada himself has not made a decision. Al-Araji said JAM is collecting lists of "bad" JAM commanders, which they may eventually turn [...] | 2007-09-29 08:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV MOPS PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3260 | PRT KIRKUK: PUK CLEANS HOUSE IN KIRKUK FOLLOWING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following the recent "Strategic Agreement" between Iraq,s two dominant Kurdish parties, the PUK removed several prominent and troublesome members of its "Reform" faction, particularly those who favor "special status" for Kirkuk under Iraqi Constitution Article 140. In conjunctio [...] | 2007-09-29 09:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3261 | JAAFARI AND QASSIM COOKING UP NEW COALITION TO [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings, former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and senior Shia Independent CoR legislator Qassim Daoud told us of their ongoing efforts to form a non-sectarian coalition with the aim of unseating Prime Minister al-Maliki. They claimed they have received the blessi [...] | 2007-09-29 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3262 | AQI BEGINS ANTICIPATED RAMADAN ATTACK SURGE [...] (S) Summary: After a relatively quiet first ten days of Ramadan, Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) began its anticipated surge of high-profile attacks on September 23 with a four-fold increase in the rate of attacks. Analysis suggests that AQI is primarily targeting two groups: the ISF and Sunni tribal m [...] | 2007-09-29 16:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MOPS MCAP PGOV PTER PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD3264 | SEPTEMBER 25 MCNS FOCUSES ON BASRAH SECURITY, [...] (S) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih led focused discussions at the September 25 Ministerial Council for National Security (MCNS) on Basrah security issues, the cholera outbreak, national reconciliation, and a proposed intelligence exchange on al-Qaeda operations with Algeria and Mo [...] | 2007-09-30 02:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD327 | REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: ZEYAD TARIQ KADHEM [...] (SBU) Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following locally employed staff from the Regional Embassy Office (REO) in Al-Hillah to the US refugee admissions program (USRAP). Below is biographic information of the principal applicant and dependents, a description of the persecution claim an [...] | 2007-01-30 18:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3273 | IRAQ'S ISLAMIC PARTY NEGOTIATES WITH KURDS ON A [...] (S) Following up on a discussion with IIP Deputy Secretary General Dr. Ayad Al Samaraie (Ref A),poloff spoke SIPDIS with senior Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) member and Parliamentarian Dr. Alaa Mekki on September 27 about the IIP's ongoing negotiations with the KDP and PUK on a Memorandum of [...] | 2007-09-30 13:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3277 | PRT NINEWA: IIP READY TO WORK WITH THE KURDS - AT [...] (C) September 26, Dr. Mohammad Shakir, head of the Ninewa branch of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) and politburo member hosted PRT and 4-1 Brigade Combat Team members for an iftar at his party's provincial headquarters, during which the security situation of Ninewa, including a potential tribal [...] | 2007-10-01 03:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KDEM PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3281 | IRAQIS DENOUNCE SENSE OF CONGRESS RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-01 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3283 | IRAQIS DENOUNCE SENSE OF CONGRESS RESOLUTION ON [...] (U) Many Iraqi politicians have denounced the U.S. Senate's adoption on September 26 of a non-binding resolution calling for an Iraqi political settlement based on federalism. In comments to journalists two days later, Prime Minister Maliki termed the resolution a "catastrophe" and called for [...] | 2007-10-01 12:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3286 | VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI UNVEILS SOCIAL COMPACT [...] (C) During a Baghdad press conference on September 26, Vice President Tariq al Hashimi unveiled his draft "Iraqi National Compact" document, aimed at creating a new "vision" for Iraq. One day after its public circulation, Hashimi made a highly publicized trip to meet Grand Ayatollah Sistani i [...] | 2007-10-01 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3287 | AMBASSADOR AND AMAR AL-HAKIM DISCUSS SECURITY, [...] (C) Summary: Amar al-Hakim, heir apparent to the leadership position of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),told the Ambassador on September 29 that his recent visit to Kuwait and discussions with other Gulf state officials revealed a new and reasonable attitude toward Iraq from Kuwait [...] | 2007-10-01 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD329 | REGIONAL COORDINATOR MEETS WITH SULAIMANIYAH [...] (U) This is an Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In a January 7 meeting between Regional Coordinator and Sulaimaniyah provincial officials, Sulaimaniyah Deputy Governor Jutiar Noori Abdulla told us that the provincial government plans to end fuel [...] | 2007-01-31 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3293 | NINEWA: TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT MAY WORK IN LIMITED AREAS [...] (S/NF) Summary: In the wake of Anbar-based anti-insurgency leader Sattar al-Rishawi's assassination on September 13, Sattar's brother and successor Ahmad al-Rishawi has stressed his dedication to confronting Sunni extremists and foreign fighters both in Anbar Province and beyond, particularly i [...] | 2007-10-02 06:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3294 | EU AMBASSADORS QUERY THE AMBASSADOR ON TESTIMONY [...] (C) On September 26, 2007 the Ambassador provided an overview of his congressional testimony to a roundtable of European Union (EU) ambassadors. The Ambassador emphasized that in his testimony he not only attempted to assess the progress of developments, but to also fully apprise listeners to [...] | 2007-10-02 08:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3298 | KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT SIGNS NEW PRODUCTION SHARING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry for Natural Resources announced that the Regional Oil and Gas Council executed four new production sharing agreements (PSAs) and endorsed two new refinery projects in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. The combined initial exploration inve [...] | 2007-10-03 03:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD330 | DEPUTY SPEAKER ATTIYAH DISCUSSES UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary: Khalid al-Attiyah (Shi'a coalition, Independent),First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR),told Dep PolCouns on January 31 that he was pleased with the roll-out of the Baghdad security plan (BSP) to date, particularly the government's insistence that i [...] | 2007-01-31 15:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3307 | MOD SETS DATE FOR FIRST MEETING OF THE JOINT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 10:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC PREL APER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3308 | TAWAFUQ BOYCOTT POLICY COMES UNDER PRESSURE FROM [...] (C/NF) Deputy Prime Minister Salam Al Zoubai's recent meeting with Prime Minister Maliki set off alarm bells within the Tawafuq Coalition and highlighted internal wrangling among Sunni leaders over maintenance of its boycott of the Maliki government. Explanations for Zoubai's uncoordinated m [...] | 2007-10-04 10:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3310 | EPRT AL ASAD - STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES IN WESTERN AL ANBAR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) in Western Al Anbar Province are under considerable strain to achieve even modest production goals. The availability of raw materials, fuel, and stable electricity are primary factors in lagging production for products that have a substantial econ [...] | 2007-10-05 05:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EMIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3311 | PRT ANBAR: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ANBAR TRIBAL [...] (C) On October 1 the Ambassador met with Sheikh Ahmad Bezia Ftaykhan al-Rishawi, the new leader of the Anbar-based anti-insurgency movement Sahawa al-Iraq, or Awakening Council of Iraq (SAI). Ahmad urged a continued U.S. military presence in Anbar Province, saying that AQI could still make a [...] | 2007-10-05 11:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3312 | Jordan Gets Crude Oil from Iraq [...] (U) The Iraq Ministry of Oil confirms that it has resumed exporting crude oil to Jordan at a discounted price. Shipments are being arranged via truck from Kirkuk. 2. (SBU) Iraq had reached agreement with Jordan in August 2006 to export an initial 8,000 barrels/day of crude oil. Deputy Mi [...] | 2007-10-05 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON EINV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3314 | SEPTEMBER 30 MCNS CONSIDERS BASRAH COMMANDER [...] (S) SUMMARY: The September 30 Ministerial Council on National Security was dominated by discussion on the future of the Basrah military commander, General Mohan, who was appointed to a three-month term. Many Iraqi government ministers, the U.S. and UK Ambassadors, and MNF-I Commanding General [...] | 2007-10-05 13:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3316 | NEXT STEPS ON COUNTERING PKK [...] (C) Summary: The signed September 28 bilateral agreement on combating terrorism provides an opening for increased GOI-GOT cooperation and action against the PKK. Given the moribund trilateral U.S.-Turkey-Iraq process, we should encourage the Iraqi and Turkish governments to continue taking po [...] | 2007-10-05 13:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3317 | AMBASSADOR TO VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI: SERVICE [...] (S/NF) During an October 4 meeting with Vice President Tariq al Hashimi, the Ambassador emphasized the importance of GOI service delivery over the next six months in order to sustain progress achieved by the "surge" and local/provincial security arrangements. The absence of the Tawafuq bloc f [...] | 2007-10-05 15:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3320 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-10-06 09:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3321 | SURGE STAFFING I: PRT STAFFING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-06 15:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT APER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3322 | SURGE STAFFING II: MINISTERIAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-06 15:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT APER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3323 | THE AMBASSADOR'S OCTOBER 4 MEETING WITH COR DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador used his Oct. 4 meeting with Sheikh Khalid Attiya, Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR),to underscore the need for political progress and for the 3 1 mechanism to work. Sheikh Khalid agreed, and said the de-Baathification reform law might receive [...] | 2007-10-06 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3324 | BERLIN SEEKS PERMANENT PRESENCE IN IRBIL [...] (C) Summary: In an October 1 meeting with the Ambassador, German Ambassador Dr. Hanns-Heinrich Schumacher revealed a plan to establish a permanent presence in Irbil, and relayed Kurdish frustration with the detention of the latest Iranian. Schumacher also asked "what does the U.S. expect Germ [...] | 2007-10-06 16:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3325 | ANBAR PRT: ANBAR PROVINCE PUBLIC EXPENDITURES AND [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary. The transition between the FY 2007 and FY 2008 capital expenditure budgets presents the occasion to take stock on where Anbar Province stands on public expenditure issues, and on those areas where the PRT is engaged. The province i [...] | 2007-10-06 16:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON IZ PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
07BAGHDAD3330 | MUTHANNA: TRIBAL STRATEGY IN A PIC PROVINCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The province of Muthanna offers an example of a coherent tribal strategy the Coalition can pursue in Shiite southern Iraq to combat militias and promote stability. In Muthanna, there are four key partners who can help us ac [...] | 2007-10-07 08:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3341 | FIRST MEETING OF THE JOINT COMMISSION ON PSD ISSUES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-07 18:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC PREL APER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3342 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE, SEPTEMBER 28 [...] (C) Summary. On 28 September, Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki chaired the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al Qanoon ) FAQ) Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) of the Government of Iraq (GoI). Discussions included Maliki,s positive recent trip to the UN; GoI efforts to fight the ongoing cholera [...] | 2007-10-08 08:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3349 | NINEWA: FUEL DELIVERIES UP, BUT IMPORTS NEEDED TO [...] (C) Ninewa's fuel supplies have increased since the end of last winter but remain critically short of the province's needs. Despite improvements in kerosene, diesel and gasoline deliveries from the Baiji Oil Refinery, Northern Oil Distribution Company (NODC) General Director Mohammed al-Zib [...] | 2007-10-08 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENGR PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3353 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-10-08 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3354 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-10-08 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3366 | ANBAR SHEIKHS MEET WITH PM MALIKI [...] (U) This is a Anbar PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On October 1 a delegation of Anbari leaders from the anti-insurgency movement Sahawa al-Iraq, or Awakening Council of Iraq (SAI),met with Prime Minister Maliki in Baghdad to discuss security and other Anbar-related issues. During t [...] | 2007-10-08 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3367 | VP ABDEL MEHDI ON LONG-TERM STRATEGIC [...] (C) Summary: Just back from an extended visit to neighboring Arab states and Iran, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on October 6 that his soundings among Iraq's political leaders provide grounds for optimism that a bilateral long-term strategic relationship agreement can be [...] | 2007-10-08 14:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD3372 | MALIKI OPTIMISTIC ON SECURITY; DISCUSSES IRAQI [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a weekly security meeting with the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General David Petraeus, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki described himself as optimistic on security because of a decrease in sectarianism and increase in confidence by Iraqis in their own security forces. Thi [...] | 2007-10-08 19:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MOPS MCAP PGOV PTER PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD3375 | SADR AND BADR KISS AND MAKE-UP, BUT FOR HOW LONG? [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's two most powerful Shia political entities, the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (ISCI) and the Sadr Movement, have entered into a formal written agreement that seeks to avoid armed conflict between their respective militias, ISCI's Badr and Sadr's Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM). (Note: [...] | 2007-10-09 07:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3377 | CODEL BOYD'S OCT 7 MEETING WITH PM MALIKI [...] (C) Summary: In an Oct. 7 meeting with Codel Boyd, Prime Minister (PM) Maliki said that while the picture in Iraq was "not entirely rosey," discernible political and security progress has nevertheless been made. He credited his government with having pulled the country back from the edge of t [...] | 2007-10-09 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3383 | UK RELENTS ON BASRAH GOVERNOR; OUTLINES FUTURE [...] (S) UK Ambassador Prentice told Ambassador Crocker October 8 that the UK would stop boycotting Basrah Governor Wa,eli following the decision of the local administrative court that Wa,eli could not be removed from office by the Provincial Council. Prentice had informed PM Maliki, who was reporte [...] | 2007-10-09 18:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EINV MOPS PGOV PINR PTER UK IZ |
07BAGHDAD3391 | PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW: NOT QUITE THERE YET [...] (C) Summary and comment: More than a month after the August 26 leaders agreement on the provincial powers law, the Council of Representatives (CoR) last week sent the latest draft to the Shura Council for further revision. CoR members tell us disputed areas remain even in this version. The Pr [...] | 2007-10-10 09:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3395 | GOI STATEMENT ON OCTOBER 7 PKK ATTACKS [...] (U) On October 9 Iraqi Government spokesman Ali Dabbagh issued a statement on the PKK attacks that killed at least 13 Turkish soldiers in the Turkish Sirnak province near the border with Iraqi Kurdistan on October 7. 2. (U) Begin Text: Date: October 9, 2007 Al-Dabbagh: "Iraq Condem [...] | 2007-10-10 15:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3396 | MAYSANIS CONTINUE TO ENGAGE WITH PRT [...] (SBU) This is a PRT Maysan report. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: We have seen a dramatic turnaround in the willingness of Maysan officials to engage with the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT),beginning in late May. On September 13, we hosted a substantive meeting with the PRDC Chairm [...] | 2007-10-10 17:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3397 | RECLASSIFIED COPY (C REL UK): OIL MINISTER COURTS [...] (U) This reclassified cable replaces Baghdad 3117. The cable is otherwise unchanged. 2. (C REL UK) SUMMARY: Iraq Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani assured a Dubai conference hall of international oil company (IOC) executives that the Government of Iraq (GOI) would welcome IOC investment [...] | 2007-10-11 06:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD3414 | KEEPING THE MOMENTUM IN MAYSAN: KEY AREAS FOR [...] (U) This is PRT Maysan report. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: Despite four years and over USD 200 Million of consent-winning projects in rural and urban Maysan, the province remains solidly allergic to any Coalition military activity. That said, the recent burst of engagement opens the d [...] | 2007-10-12 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3415 | EPRT-WASIT: IP CHIEF KEY TO TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT IN [...] (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary. On 25 September ePRT met with recently-appointed IP Chief Major General (MG) Hannin Abd Al Haninn Hamud Faysal Al Amir, Third Georgian BDE (3GB) CDR Major Shavlago Tabatadze, and fourteen influential Wasit shayikhs (selected by MG Haninn). Executive Officer of [...] | 2007-10-12 14:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3416 | KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI ON NATIONAL RECONCILIATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Adviser to Ambassador pressed KDP Leader Barzani on need for cooperation on key national issues like hydrocarbons and national political accommodation. He also laid down a marker on Kurdish expansion in the Sinjar area south of Mosul. Barzani struck a pessimistic note abo [...] | 2007-10-12 18:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER PBTS PGOV IZ SY |
07BAGHDAD3417 | OCTOBER 7 MCNS: MALIKI CALLS FOR RESTRAINED USE OF [...] (S) PM Maliki opened the Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) with a call for U.S. forces to exercise restraint when engaged in military operations; General Petraeus vigorously defended the actions of U.S. forces and said that GoI is being unduly influenced by militia and terrorist [...] | 2007-10-13 06:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3422 | IRAQIYYA COR MEMBERS DISCUSS MOI ACCUSATIONS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Iraqiyya Council of Representatives (CoR) members Husam Abd Karim al-Azzawi, Sheikh Khairallah al-Basri, and Alia Nasif Jasim al-Ubeidi told PolCouns and PolOff in a meeting October 9 the Ministry of Interior (MOI) has falsely accused Ayad Allawi of having links to Jund al-Sama [...] | 2007-10-14 10:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PINS IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3430 | FADHILA PARTY LEADER ON FEDERALISM, GOI INERTIA, [...] (C) Summary: Fadhila Party CoR bloc leader Hassan al-Shammari told the Ambassador on October 9 that his party supports the broad concept of federalism but opposes formation of sect-based regions as favored by the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI). Complaining at length about GOI "stagna [...] | 2007-10-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3432 | CONFESSIONS OF AN ANTI-MALIKI COR CONSPIRATOR [...] (C) Summary: Prominent independent Shia CoR legislator Qassim Daoud told us October 10 that he is working overtime to build a coalition to oust and replace Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Claiming he was acting with the full support of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani to save Iraq from "further tr [...] | 2007-10-15 17:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD3435 | COR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION COMMITTEE IN INFANCY [...] (S/NF) Summary. The Council of Representatives (CoR) National Reconciliation Committee, established by CoR order on July 30, 2007, is comprised of twelve members drawn from each of the sects (Sunni, Shia, Kurd, and Christian),and Chaired by Sheikh Wathab Shakir al-Dulaimi. It meets bi-weekl [...] | 2007-10-16 11:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3438 | DIYALA PRT: SUNNIS CALL FOR SHIITE POLICE CHIEF [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) On September 17, approximately 400 residents of Baqubah in the Diyala province gathered in front of the Government Center (GC) to peacefully demonstrate for the removal of Shiite Iraq Police (IP) Chief Staff Major Ghanem A [...] | 2007-10-16 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3441 | PRT TIKRIT: MCC HOLDS FIRST TRIALS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The key concern during the initial cases heard by the new ad Din Province Major Crimes Court was whether local judges would have the courage to carry out their duties or whether they would succumb t [...] | 2007-10-16 18:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRS KCRM KJUS SNAR KWMN OTRA ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3442 | ELECTIONS COMMISSION PART 1: ANTICIPATED 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: Although discussion has focused on the need for new provincial elections, in fact the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) is facing as many as five distinct electoral events in 2008: a voter registration exercise, an Article 140 referendum, a constitutional referendum, [...] | 2007-10-16 19:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3451 | ANBAR PRT: IRAQ AWAKENING LEADER SUPPORTS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) The Iraq Awakening Movement (SAI) will name Sunni candidates to fill the vacancies created by the August 1 walkout of the Cabinet by the Tawafuq Bloc if the latter cannot find common ground with the Maliki government, SAI leader Sheikh Ahmed [...] | 2007-10-17 10:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3459 | ELECTIONS COMMISSION PART 2: BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF [...] (C) Summary: During September and the first half of October 2007 there was a surge in complaints directed at the International High Electoral Commission (IHEC),accusing it of political bias. These complaints are best understood in the context of the political parties battling for control of [...] | 2007-10-17 16:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3465 | MALIKI WORRIED ABOUT KIRKUK AND MOSUL SECURITY; [...] (S) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki expressed continued concern over the security situation in northern Iraq particularly Kirkuk and Mosul, where he cited increasing ethnic tensions between Arabs and Kurds. Maliki agreed with the Ambassador about successes in turning around many Baghdad neighb [...] | 2007-10-18 09:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3472 | TURKISH AND U.S. AMBASSADORS URGE IRAQ'S [...] (C) Summary: One day after PM Maliki's October 16 emergency national security meeting on Turkey (septel),Iraqi envoy for countering the PKK Wa'ili hosted the Ambassador and Turkish Ambassador Kanbay to discuss re-activating the trilateral U.S.-Turkey-Iraq process to counter the PKK. Wa'ili ou [...] | 2007-10-18 18:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3478 | GOI SEEKS TO FORESTALL TURKISH INCURSION [...] (S) SUMMARY: At a hastily called meeting October 16, the Crisis Management Cell outlined steps to deal with the Turkish threat to attack PKK bases in Iraq. Noting that he would be speaking with PM Erdogan soon, PM Maliki emphasized the need to calm the GOT and to make sure the Kurdistan Regi [...] | 2007-10-20 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3480 | INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS READY FOR MORE ACTIVE ROLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a wide-ranging discussion with the Ambassador, senior representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq described plans for increasing in-country presence based on their assessment of improved security. The ICRC Head of Delegation to Iraq (HOD- [...] | 2007-10-21 03:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS PREF PREL SMIG IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3481 | IRAQ-IRAN RESUMING BORDER NEGOTIATIONS [...] (S) At the Deputy Ministerial Council for National Security (DMCNS) on October 8, Deputy FonMin Abbawi reported that Iraq would resume border negotiations with Iran in November. Abbawi said he hoped the outcome would be a clearly-defined demarcation of the border based on previously negotiated [...] | 2007-10-21 03:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PBTS PGOV PHUM PTER IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3482 | RRT ERBIL: KRG ACCUSES TURKEY OF RESTRICTING [...] (C) The top customs official at Iraq's second most important transnational crossing for consumer and commercial goods - the Ibrahim Khalil (IK) gate on the border with Turkey - recently told RRTOff that the Turkish military is severely restricting the flow of goods in both directions through I [...] | 2007-10-21 07:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3488 | PRT NINEWA: KURDISH ENCROACHMENT: TRYING TO CHANGE [...] (C/REL ACGU) Western Ninewa is one of the key disputed areas in the Article 140 debate. Recent Kurdish actions there, such as a KDP chief's order to remove 113 Arab families who have moved to the area since 2004, and the Ninewa Provincial Council's decision to move the Qahtaniya subdistrict [...] | 2007-10-21 10:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3498 | ZEBARI DOUBTS TURKISH MILITARY MOVE IMMINENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an October 18 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Zebari acknowledged the seriousness of border tensions with Turkey, but thought it unlikely that a Turkish cross-border operation (CBO) was imminent. Zebari confirmed that the GOI had authorized Iran to establish con [...] | 2007-10-22 05:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD35 | MALIKI'S GROWING WILLINGNESS TO TAKE ON JAM [...] (S) SUMMARY: PM Maliki is increasingly willing to allow targeted military action against elements of Moqtada al-Sadr's Jaish al-Mahdi militia and other Sadr organizations involved in illegal activities, even in his Sadr City stronghold. Evidence for this shift can be seen in the increased num [...] | 2007-01-05 21:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PREL PGOV |
07BAGHDAD350 | PM MEDIA ADVISOR TALKS ABOUT TV STATION SHUTDOWNS, [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting Janaury 29, the Prime Minister's advisor on Media Affairs Yasseen Majid told Emboffs that the Prime Minister's Office had not been involved in the decision to close down al Sharqiya TV station in Baghdad (ref),saying instead that the decision had been taken solely by [...] | 2007-02-02 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3504 | PSD INCIDENT UPDATE: EMBASSY APPROVES CONDOLENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-22 18:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC PREL APER IZ |
07BAGHDAD351 | DISPLACEMENTS IN THE RASHEED DISTRICT OF BAGHDAD [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Neighborhood leaders from two areas of the Rasheed district of Baghdad report that internally displaced persons (IDPs) are both departing and settling in their neighborhoods due to sectarian violence or threats of violence and that [...] | 2007-02-02 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PTER |
07BAGHDAD3521 | OCTOBER 21 MCNS: AMBASSADOR CALLS FOR GOI ACTION [...] (S) PM Maliki opened the Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) with a call for Coalition Forces to exercise restraint in military operations to avoid civilian casualties, noting that the Council of Representatives (COR) was questioning the sovereignty and purpose of the government. [...] | 2007-10-23 21:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3522 | PRT ANBAR: ANBARIS HOST YET ANOTHER SUNNI-SHI'A [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar/Karbala joint reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Anbar Governor Ma,amoun and Karbala Governor Aqeel al-Kahazali met at the Ramadi residence of Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, head of the Iraq Awakening Movement (SAI),on October 20 along with 80 tribal sheikhs from their respec [...] | 2007-10-24 05:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3524 | KRG MESSAGE ON ALLEGED TURKISH BORDER OPERATION [...] (S) The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) communicated to us October 14 information regarding alleged Turkish and PKK intentions as noted in reftel. The text of that communication is contained in para 2. In response to the KRG message, Ambassador Crocker and MNF-I Commander General Petraeu [...] | 2007-10-24 08:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3526 | BAGHDAD PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CONNECTS NATIONAL AND [...] (U) This is a PRT Baghdad reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Baghdad Provincial Council passed a major milestone October 10 when it completed a Provincial Development Strategy and presented it to the Ministry of Planning. Provincial officials describe the Provincial Development Stra [...] | 2007-10-24 09:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3528 | IRAQ 2008 OIL PRODUCTION LIKELY TO GROW MARGINALLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraq oil production and export levels (in volume) for the first half of this year were below forecast levels, but assuming no major interdictions, should grow marginally over the next year, from 1.6 million barrels per day (mmbd) in 2007 to around 1.8 mmbd in 2008, mainly thanks [...] | 2007-10-24 10:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3529 | CHALABI HEADS NEW SERVICES COMMITTEE [...] SUMMARY: In a follow-on meeting to the inaugural services committee meeting, Iraq Transition Assistance Office (ITAO) Director, Mark Tokola, met with Dr. Ahmed Chalabi on Monday, October 22. The recently named chairman to Mailiki's new services committee briefly discussed the committee's missi [...] | 2007-10-24 11:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3531 | BAGHDAD: SURGE IMPROVES SECURITY BUT CITY REMAINS [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT/Embassy POL reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The focused efforts of the surge Brigades and ePRTs to dampen violence in Baghdad and to build relationships with local leaders have improved the security situation in many Baghdad neighborhoods. Baghdad, however, rema [...] | 2007-10-25 03:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3532 | ABDUL AZIZ AL-HAKIM ON IRAN, SADR AGREEMENT, AND [...] (C) Summary: Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Chairman Abdul Aziz al-Hakim told the Ambassador on October 22 that an improved security climate has helped Iraqis and their regional neighbors accept "the reality of democracy in Iraq." Back temporarily from cancer treatment in Iran and lo [...] | 2007-10-25 03:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD3534 | PKK: FM BABACAN VISIT AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Ambassador Kanbay told Polmil Counselor that Turkish Foreign Minister Babacan sent a strong message during his October 23 visit that there was limited time for the GOI to act against the PKK. Babacan told the Iraqis that major, concrete action must be taken now to address [...] | 2007-10-25 03:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3535 | PKK: FM BABACAN VISIT AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Ambassador Kanbay told Polmil Counselor that Turkish Foreign Minister Babacan sent a strong message during his October 23 visit that there was limited time for the GOI to act against the PKK. Babacan told the Iraqis that major, concrete action must be taken now to address [...] | 2007-10-25 03:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3536 | PKK: FM BABACAN VISIT AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Ambassador Kanbay told Polmil Counselor that Turkish Foreign Minister Babacan sent a strong message during his October 23 visit that there was limited time for the GOI to act against the PKK. Babacan told the Iraqis that major, concrete action must be taken now to address [...] | 2007-10-25 03:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3538 | ANBAR PRT: IRAQ AWAKENING LEADER SAYS SUNNI TRIBAL [...] (U) This is an Anbar PRT reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The leader of the anti-insurgency Sunni tribal movement, Awakening Council of Iraq (SAI),Ahmed Abu Risha, told us October 24 that his organization will offer PM Maliki a list of SAI-backed candidates to fill the gap left [...] | 2007-10-25 08:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3539 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-10-25 10:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3540 | BAGHDAD: EXPLOITING SURGE SUCCESS THROUGH SERVICES [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT/Embassy POL reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Improvement in service provision by the Government of Iraq (GoI) can play a critical role in converting the security gains of the Baghdad Security Plan into progress toward political unity in Baghdad. A focus on servic [...] | 2007-10-25 11:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3543 | BAGHDAD: EPRT SEEKS LINK TO SADR THROUGH LOCAL [...] (S) On September 28, the EPRT and Brigade covering Baghdad's most populous district, Sadr City, met with local tribal leaders with close ties to representatives of Muqtadar Al-Sadr (MAS). Months of engagements designed to gain trust among less influential Sadr City leaders culminated in a se [...] | 2007-10-25 20:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3545 | BAGHDAD: BUILDING GOI CAPACITY TO DELIVER SERVICES [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT/Embassy POL reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: PRT Baghdad hosted a major inter-agency meeting September 26 to coordinate, at the working level, numerous initiatives launched to capitalize on the opportunities created by the troop and civilian surge in Baghdad. Thes [...] | 2007-10-26 09:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3546 | IRAQI PRESIDENT CALLS ACTION AGAINST PKK "FUTILE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told the Ambassador in a meeting October 22 that he thought fighting the PKK was futile and airstrikes against PKK camps would be ineffective, but thought strikes would cause little backlash in Baghdad. The Ambassador impressed on Talabani that the [...] | 2007-10-26 09:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD3547 | COR MEMBER MEHDI HAFEDH DISCUSSES POLITICAL AND [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives (CoR) member Dr. Mehdi Hafedh (Independent, former Iraqiyya) told the Ambassador on October 23 the political situation in Iraq is "alarming." He highlighted the endemic corruption, infighting within many political parties, and the lack of transparency [...] | 2007-10-26 09:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3550 | WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT IDPS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 10:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | UN EAID PREF PHUM PREL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3553 | IRAQI ARMY - WITH COALITION HELP - CONDUCTS [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna message. 2. (U) SUMMARY. The Iraqi Army - with Coalition help - on October 21 treated over 1,000 men, women, and children in its first-ever medical civic action program in the southern Iraqi province of Muthanna. The local brigade commander has publicly taken [...] | 2007-10-26 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP MOPS PINS SOCI AS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3555 | BAGHDAD-BASED FAYLI KURDS CALL FOR ASSISTANCE, [...] (C) Summary: Samia Aziz Muhammad, Fayli Kurd and PUK member of the Kurdish Alliance in the Council of Representatives, told Poloff October 11 that the Faylis have been struggling since 2003 to regain what was stolen from them under Saddam and to punish those that subjected Iraq,s Fayli Kurd [...] | 2007-10-26 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3557 | COR APPROVES SENSIBLE PENSION REFORM [...] (C) Begin Summary: The Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) on 3 October had the third and final reading of the First Amendment to the Unified Retirement Law (#27/2006) and arguably passed the first significant piece of legislation toward achieving national reconciliation. While some technic [...] | 2007-10-26 17:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3563 | MALIKI ON DIPLOMACY WITH TURKEY, STRATEGIC [...] (S) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki told the Ambassador and General Petraeus that the door remains open to dialogue with Turkey concerning the recent attacks by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) on Turkish Army units. He said it was important to include members of the Kurdish Regional Government ( [...] | 2007-10-27 09:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3565 | CHALABI'S SERVICES COMMITTEE SHOWS PROMISE [...] SUMMARY: Pending a formal executive order from Prime Minister, Nouri AL Maliki, the services committee holds regular meetings and shows early signs of cooperation and action. At an October 25 meeting, the Committee made several decisions. END SUMMARY. ------------------------------- Fuel an [...] | 2007-10-28 03:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3567 | COR LEGAL COMMITTEE DEPUTY DISCUSSES DE-BA'ATH, [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives (CoR) member Salim Jeboori (IIP/Tawafuq) and Deputy Chair of the Legal Committee told EmbOffs on October 24 the De-Ba'athification law is "stalled" in the De-Ba'athification Committee because the Chair disagrees with the privileges the legislation would [...] | 2007-10-28 06:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3572 | NINEWA: TERRORISM COURT AT A TIPPING POINT - [...] (C/REL ACGU) The Ninewa Major Crimes Court, which tries the most difficult terrorism and corruption cases, is failing due to Chief Justice (CJ) Medhat's September 13 decision to abruptly end the province's "traveling judges" program. While the overall justice system in Ninewa functions effect [...] | 2007-10-28 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KJUS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3573 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 26 [...] (C) Summary. On 26 October, in the absence of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki, National Security Advisor Dr. Muwfak Rubai chaired the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al Qanoon ) FAQ) Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) of the Government of Iraq (GoI). The Meeting featured a reading of the propo [...] | 2007-10-28 13:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3574 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 19 [...] (C) Summary. On 19 October, Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki chaired the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al Qanoon ) FAQ) Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) of the Government of Iraq (GoI). The Meeting featured the surprise announcement that Ahmed Chalabi would be the new head of the Services C [...] | 2007-10-28 13:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3578 | NINEWA: TURKISH-IRAQI BORDER CRISIS HAS LITTLE [...] (C) Our political interlocutors in Ninewa told PRT that the current crisis along the Turkish-Iraqi border has had little impact so far on this northern province. Leaders of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) told the P [...] | 2007-10-29 02:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3579 | NINEWA: NON-TRADITIONAL IDPS PULLED FROM MANY [...] (C) Management of internally displaced persons (IDPs) is a significant issue facing Ninewa, which contains the second largest IDP population in Iraq. There is one formal camp and a few concentrated settlements; however, the majority of IDPs are spread throughout the ethnic communities in this [...] | 2007-10-29 02:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PREL MARR EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD358 | TOP FIVE INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN IRAQ [...] In response to Department's request for a list of the top five influential women in Iraq, post submits the following names: Wijdan Mikael Salim Minister of Human Rights Tel: 914-822-5076 Maysoon Al-Damluji CoR Member, Iraqiyya List Secretary, Iraqiyya Party SIPDIS Publisher, Noon Mag [...] | 2007-02-03 13:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KWMN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3585 | RECRUITMENT OF IRAQI TEACHERS IN JORDAN FOR MNF-I [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Deputy Multi-national Force Iraq (MNF-I) Commanding General for Detainee Operations MG Douglas Stone told the Ambassador on October 11 that he plans to travel to Jordan in the near future to recruit Iraqi teachers for positions in [...] | 2007-10-29 07:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PINS PREF PREL SMIG IZ JO |
07BAGHDAD3590 | SAMARRA MOSQUE RECONSTRUCTION: PRIME MINISTER'S [...] (S) Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister on Reconstruction Issues, Engineer Haq al Hakim, told poloffs and UNAMI staff during an October 24 meeting that the assessment phase of the Samarra Mosque reconstruction project in Salah ad Din Province is set to commence soon, pending finalization of [...] | 2007-10-29 08:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ECON PHUM IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD3591 | HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION LAW DELAYED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Representatives (CoR) Human Rights Committee is seeking the Presidency Council's support for its draft of the High Commission for Human Rights (HCHR) law, which CoR Deputy Speaker Khalid al-Attiyah (Eitilaf) blocked from moving forward during its second reading (Oc [...] | 2007-10-29 09:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3597 | MALIKI CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE STEPS TO DEFUSE TURKISH [...] (S) At the October 28 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS),Prime Minister Maliki called for immediate and practical steps to defuse the border crisis with Turkey, asking his ministers to focus on steps leading to the return of Turkish military hostages captured by the Kurdish Worker [...] | 2007-10-30 02:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM PTER PREF TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3598 | PRT TIKRIT: SALAH AD DIN APPROVES 2008 PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY. With an enthusiasm and pride not normally seen at its meetings, the Salah ad din Provincial Council (PC) approved its 2008 budget and toasted this achievement as a group after its meeting. END SUMMARY. ------------------------ [...] | 2007-10-30 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV KCRS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3599 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S JEFFERY'S VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (C) Welcome to Iraq. The time is ripe for senior level economic engagement with Iraqis, as security improves in areas like Anbar and Baghdad. It is vital that security gains be cemented in place with jobs and investment. This will only happen if Government of Iraq (GOI) decision makers make the [...] | 2007-10-30 07:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD36 | AMBASSADOR'S JANUARY 5 MEETING WITH IRAQI PM [...] (S) Summary: In a January 5 meeting, Iraqi PM Maliki advisor (and Council of Representatives (CoR) member) Sami al-Askari, who is point on the team writing the speech, previewed PM Maliki's speech about the new Baghdad security plan, in which the PM would say he would need more coalition for [...] | 2007-01-05 21:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD360 | UK DEFENSE SECRETARY SAYS HMG WILL DRAWDOWN, AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: On January 29, UK Secretary of State for Defense, Des Browne told the Ambassador that HMG remains committed to the mission in Iraq, but would need to drawdown its force strength in the coming months. He promised that London would coordinate this downsizing with us. The Ambassador [...] | 2007-02-03 13:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PNAT PINR PREL MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3600 | IRAQ'S PROVINCIAL BUDGET EXECUTION: FORWARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: Provincial budget execution in 2007 remains one of Iraq's major accomplishments in good governance. At 60 percent, current commitment rates for 2007 remain impressive. USG programs in training and capacity building, administered nationally and through PRTs, have played an important [...] | 2007-10-30 07:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3601 | MALIKI CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE STEPS TO DEFUSE TURKISH [...] (S) At the October 28 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS),Prime Minister Maliki called for immediate and practical steps to defuse the border crisis with Turkey, asking his ministers to focus on steps leading to the return of Turkish military hostages captured by the Kurdish Worker [...] | 2007-10-30 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM PTER PREF TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3605 | GOI TO REACH OUT TO ARAB LEAGUE AND EU TO COUNTER [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a September 29 meeting with PolMil Minister Counselor Marcie Ries and A/Pol Ellen Germain, a harried Foreign Minister Zebari outlined the GOI's response to the threat of a Turkish cross border operation (CBO.) Emphasizing that the GOI considers the PKK and a CBO separate iss [...] | 2007-10-30 14:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3607 | DEPUTY COR SPEAKER BLOWS HOT AND COLD ON PENDING [...] (C) Summary: Council of Representatives (CoR) First Deputy Speaker Khalid al-Attiyah told us October 30 that he is guardedly optimistic that the CoR will approve a 2008 national budget and the De-Baathification Law before it adjourns for a two-month recess in late December. He stated that Ku [...] | 2007-10-30 16:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3608 | IRAQI DFM VIEWS ON TURKEY/PKK [...] (S) SUMMARY: At an October 30 meeting with Political-Military Minister-Counselor, Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi related his concerns regarding the current PKK crisis and addressed items including Syria, Iran, and the Neighbors Process. He suspected that the Turkish military intended [...] | 2007-10-31 02:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ SY |
07BAGHDAD361 | IRAQI FEMALE POLITICIANS SPEAK ABOUT ANBAR, GOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two Tawafuq Council of Representatives (CoR) members representing Anbar, Dr. Asma Adnan Muhammad al-Dulaymi and Nadira Ayef Habib al-Ani, told Poloffs on January 31 about their frustrations with Anbar and the GOI. The women expressed concerns about Anbar,s poor economic situation [...] | 2007-02-03 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3610 | NEW COR MEMBER FOCUSES ON ROLE OF SPORTS IN [...] (C) The newest member of the Council of Representatives (CoR),Ahmed Rathi (IIP/Tawafuq),was installed by the Tawafuq bloc after one of its own, Abdul Nasir al-Janabi (Sunni, National Dialogue Conference) bolted from the CoR, saying he was leaving to "join the insurgency." Rathi, a popular a [...] | 2007-10-31 05:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3611 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER DEFLECTS PRESSURE TO BACK [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told PolOff October 28 she has deflected multiple requests by Iranian-linked officials to guarantee the release of Ministry of Interior (MoI) Colonel (COL) Thamir Mohammad (Isma'il) Sinah Al-Husayni, in Coalition custody since his arrest on [...] | 2007-10-31 05:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KDEM PGOV PINS PINR IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD3615 | KURDS IN BAGHDAD ON THE CRISIS WITH TURKEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurdish view in Baghdad on the conflict with Turkey over the PKK has largely been unified and concentrated on several main themes. In multiple conversations with Poloff since the October 20-21 PKK attack on Turkish soldiers, the Kurdistan Democratic Party in particular has as [...] | 2007-10-31 18:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3616 | DIYALA PRT: POWER STRUGGLE BETWEEN PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Directly challenging Governor Ra'ad's authority, the Diyala Provincial Council (PC) voted unanimously October 23 to pass a resolution that calls for the dismissal of two assistant governors and demands Coalition Forces (C [...] | 2007-10-31 19:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3617 | KURDS: PKK IS PRETEXT FOR DEEPER TURKISH AIMS [...] (S) Conversations with senior Kurdish leaders indicate that they view Turkey's recent public statements and military action against the PKK as a pretext to forward Turkey's "true" strategic goals of undermining the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG),delaying a referendum vote on Article 140, [...] | 2007-10-31 20:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD362 | IRAQI PRESIDENT AGREES TO FACILITATE HYDROCARBON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on January 29, President Jalal Talabani agreed to go to Kurdistan with the Ambassador on February 3 to discuss the final details of the hydrocarbon law with KRG President Masud Barzani. The Ambassador said he would send Talabani a reasonable draft [...] | 2007-02-03 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR SY EG SA |
07BAGHDAD3622 | ANBAR PARLIAMENTARIANS OPPOSED TO ACCEPTANCE OF [...] (U) This is a joint Anbar PRT/POL reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Six of the nine Anbari members of the Council of Representatives (CoR),all members of parties in the (Sunni) Tawafuq bloc, told Poloffs during October 30 and 31 meetings that they do not believe Awakening Council [...] | 2007-11-01 07:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3623 | PM ADVISOR ON ISTANBUL MINISTERIAL, UNSCR RENEWAL, [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister,s Chief of Staff Dr. Tariq Abdullah took on board the necessity that the PM attend the Istanbul Neighbors, conference and said the PM had not decided whether to attend, at an October 30 meeting with Charge and POLMIL Minister-Counselor. Passed a draft letter on th [...] | 2007-11-01 08:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER PREL TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3626 | BILLETS, BULLETS AND BENZENE: THE BLACK MARKET IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna Reporting Cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Corruption has flourished in Muthanna since 1990, leading to bustling black markets in billets with the security services, guns and ammunition pilfered from official sources, and fuel. The Commission on Public Integrity (CPI [...] | 2007-11-01 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3628 | FM SUMMONS DIPLOMATIC CORPS TO DISCUSS PKK CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told Baghdad's Diplomatic Corps that if dialogue did not de-escalate current tensions, there would be a "serious crisis" between Iraq and Turkey. In a private sidebar with the Charge d'Affaires before the meeting, Zebari said that Prime Min [...] | 2007-11-01 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD363 | CODEL BROWNBACK DISCUSSES TROOP LEVELS WITH KRG [...] (U) This is an Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) Summary: At a lunch with CODEL Brownback on January 10, Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani said that he favored a reduction in Coalition Forces to as little as 50,000 and a reorientation of their mandate [...] | 2007-02-03 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3630 | BARZANI'S CHIEF OF STAFF: BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE [...] (C) In an October 30 meeting with RRT officers, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Barzani's Chief of Staff Fuad Hussein emphasized "dialogue, dialogue, dialogue" to solve the crisis over the PKK. He asserted that Turkey's refusal to negotiate with the Iraqi delegation in Ankara o [...] | 2007-11-01 20:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3631 | SNAPSHOTS OF IRAQI ARAB REACTION TO TENSIONS WITH [...] (C) Anecdotal soundings taken among Iraqi Arabs of various walks of life reveal Iraqi Arab suspicion of Kurdish nationalist intentions and a feeling that Kurdish arrogance and aggression toward Turkey have landed the Kurds -- and Iraq -- in the current predicament; with a Shia CoR member even [...] | 2007-11-01 22:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3633 | BAGHDAD'S SCENESETTER FOR THE ISTANBUL MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Secretary Rice: After Ambassador Crocker's September testimony, the widespread feeling within the GOI was that the Maliki government had shown just enough political progress to ensure 3-6 additional months of United States support. We are now close to the two-month anniversary of the h [...] | 2007-11-02 02:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3634 | VP ABDEL MEHDI ON SPD, TURKEY, ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Charge on November 1 that Prime Minister Maliki had yet to complete his review of a draft Strategic Partnership Declaration (SPD) and predicted that Maliki's proposed revisions would not differ significantly from the original text. On the [...] | 2007-11-02 02:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3638 | PM MALIKI MEETING WITH CDA AND GEN PETRAEUS [...] (S) SUMMARY: MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus and CDA held their weekly meeting with Prime Minister Maliki November  [...] | 2007-11-02 16:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER BA IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD364 | PUK PLENUM LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR PARTY CONGRESS, [...] (U) This is an Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) Summary: Iraqi President and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Secretary General Jalal Talabani told RRToffs on January 11 that he had convened a plenum of 808 members of his party on January 7 and 8, and that [...] | 2007-02-03 14:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3648 | ANBAR PRT: FROM HEMATOLOGIST TO POLITICIAN, ANBAR [...] (U) This is an Anbar PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) The past year has been a turbulent one for Anbar Provincial Council Chairman Abdulsalam Abdullah al-Ani. While he began the year presiding over an absentee Provincial Council (PC) that met in Baghdad due to insurgent threat [...] | 2007-11-03 14:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3649 | DEPUTY SHIA COALITION LEADER DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Chairman of the Shia United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) Ali al-Adib told us November 1 that the draft De-Baathification law faced only minor opposition and would likely be enacted before the Council of Representatives (CoR) adjourns in late December. After we urged Adib, who func [...] | 2007-11-03 16:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD365 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER COMPLAINS ABOUT IRAQI [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting January 29, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Mikha'il Salim told PolOff that she was disturbed by what she perceived to be a lack of action on the part of GOI to address overcrowding and detainee abuse issues, particularly in the face of a potential influx of detainees [...] | 2007-02-03 14:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3652 | STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP DECLARATION AND UNSCR RENEWAL [...] (S) Summary. In separate November 1 meetings with National Security Advisor Mowaffak al Rubaie and Prime Minister's Political Advisor Sadiq al Rikabi, Political-Military Minister-Counselor Marcie Ries discussed the draft Strategic Partnership Declaration (SPD) and United Nations Security Coun [...] | 2007-11-04 03:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3653 | NINEWA: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT NOW INTERESTED IN AN [...] (C/REL USA, ACGU) Khasro Goran, Ninewa's powerful Vice Governor, provincial head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP),and provincial chief of the Article 140 committee, told PRT Leader October 24 that the Ninewa Provincial Government planned to work with Sheik Fawaz al Jarba to conduct an [...] | 2007-11-04 03:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR KDEM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD366 | SULAIMANIYAH PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS DISCUSS FUEL [...] (U) This is an Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In a January 7 meeting between Regional Coordinator and Sulaimaniyah provincial officials, Sulaimaniyah Deputy Governor Jutiar Noori Abdulla said that the provincial government plans to end fuel-price [...] | 2007-02-04 03:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KMDR IZ TU IR |
07BAGHDAD3660 | EPRT: SUNNIS IN EAST BAGHDAD STRESS RECONCILIATION [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 BCT EPRT reporting cable. 2. (C) A series of six large iftar dinners hosted by Sunni mosques during October emphasized the theme of reconciliation. The dinners took place in the eastern Baghdad district of 9 Nissan. Almost 300 guests attended one of the dinners i [...] | 2007-11-04 18:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER SOCI SCUL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3663 | KRG RAMPS UP CHECK POINTS AROUND QANDIL; IMPACT [...] (C) Summary: On November 4, RRT Erbil DTL visited five Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) checkpoints leading toward known PKK areas in the Qandil Mountains. Local security officials have reinforced efforts to control the flow of goods and people to the PKK by adding new checkpoints and in [...] | 2007-11-05 09:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3665 | DRAFT 2008 BUDGET NEARING CABINET APPROVAL [...] (C) Begin Summary: Budget negotiations continue in the Council of Ministers (CoM). DPM Barham Salih told EMIN in a 3 November telcon that the Economic Committee recommended that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) raise the budget's oil price from 50 to 55 USD/barrel, translating into a 3.1 billion U [...] | 2007-11-05 14:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3667 | SADR REPRESENTATIVES MODERATE RHETORIC AND POLICY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Despite an immediate, angry response from Sadrists in the Council of Representatives to an October 21 raid in Sadr City by Coalition Forces, the raid did not trigger notable reactions anywhere in Baghdad, including Sadr City, according to post's local contacts, Baghdad PRT, and [...] | 2007-11-05 17:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3669 | KURDISH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATION ON TURKEY/PKK [...] (C) Adnan Mufti (PUK),Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA),led a hastily-assembled delegation to Baghdad October 31 ) November 4 to meet with the Council of Representatives (CoR) and the GOI leadership to discuss the Turkey/PKK crisis. At a dinner for the delegation on October [...] | 2007-11-05 18:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3671 | PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL BUDGET EXECUTION - SLOGGING [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Uneven management skill among provincial and local Directors General (DGs),lack of qualified contractors, and a complex bureaucracy are among the key factors inhibiting the province from spending its capital budget allocations [...] | 2007-11-06 03:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3672 | PRT NINEWA: LOCAL BUSINESS SAY WHAT IT WOULD TAKE [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Provincial Reconstruction Team Ninewa (PRT) regularly engages the Iraqi private sector in and around Mosul, a region known for its historically active traders, agricultural processors and constructio [...] | 2007-11-06 03:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL EAGR EAID PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3673 | NINEWA'S NOT-SO-FREE TRADE ZONE [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. Summary ------- 2. (C) The Ninewa Free Trade Zone (FTZ) is anything but a free market. Originally conceived under the Saddam regime as a truck park to exchange imported food for exported fuel, encourage a market for high-va [...] | 2007-11-06 03:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PREL PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3674 | PRT NINEWA: LOCAL FARMERS LAUNCH MULTISECTARIAN, [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) In a region of eastern Ninewa, northern Iraq, more often known for confrontation and competition over scarce land resources, six Al Hamdaniya District farmers - with strong PRT Ninewa support (see reftel) - established Oc [...] | 2007-11-06 03:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ECON IZ PGOV PHUM |
07BAGHDAD3675 | PRT NINEWA:LENDING MARKET IS DRY BUT SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 03:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID EINV IZ PGOV PTER |
07BAGHDAD3679 | ACTION REQUEST: U.S. WEAPONS RELEASE TO IRAQ - [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Country Team requests the immediate release of ANV-20/20 NVD Infinity Focus System (NSN: 6625-01-431-8615) to the Government of Iraq. The system will be used by the Iraqi Air Force, the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Command [...] | 2007-11-06 11:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
07BAGHDAD3680 | ACTION REQUEST: U.S. WEAPONS RELEASE TO IRAQ - [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Country Team requests the immediate release of AN/AVS-9 Night Vision Goggles (NVGs) to the Government of Iraq. The system will be used by the Iraqi Air Force, the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Command and Coalition Forces t [...] | 2007-11-06 11:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
07BAGHDAD3681 | IRAQ: TALK AROUND BAGHDAD ON THE KRG PM QUESTION, [...] (C) Summary: In meetings during October-November, Kurdish contacts in Baghdad provided useful insight into who might replace the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister, though none could provide a clear answer. Additionally, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's advisor Aram Yarweissi [...] | 2007-11-06 11:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3684 | DIYALA PRT: IDPS CONTINUE TO FACE [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Summary: Management challenges continue to constrain the Diyala provincial government's capacity to address issues confronting the estimated 52,000 internally displace persons (IDPs) currently living in Diyala. Housing, [...] | 2007-11-06 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3690 | Letter from President Talabani to POTUS [...] (U) Post received a letter from Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on November 5, addressed to President Bush. The following is the English text. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT: The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States of America The White House Washington DC. November 4, 2007 [...] | 2007-11-07 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3691 | ABDUCTORS RELEASE RADIO FREE LIBERTY-IRAQ [...] (SBU) Jumana Take was released by her captors on October 31, 2007 after 9 days in captivity. Ms. Take is an Iraqi citizen freelance journalist employed at times by Radio Free Liberty-Iraq (RFL-I). 2. (SBU) According to Bill Key, Director of Corporate Security for RFL, Ms. Take called the R [...] | 2007-11-07 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ KCRM PGOV PTER |
07BAGHDAD3692 | AMB. SATTERFIELD PRESSES COR LEADERS ON PENDING [...] (C) Summary: In November 6 meetings, CoR Deputy Speakers Khalid al-Attiyah and Arif Tayfur and influential CoR member Humam Hamoudi told Amb. Satterfield that progress on key pending legislation remained possible during the current CoR session. Attiyah and Hamoudi agreed that, among pending [...] | 2007-11-07 15:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3693 | KIRKUK REFERENDUM: PROBLEMS WITH KURDISH FOCUS ON [...] (C) One obstacle of many to holding a referendum on the status of Kirkuk, as required by Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution (the Article 140 Referendum),is the lack of a credible voter registry. The Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) is currently working to develop a national vo [...] | 2007-11-07 17:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3694 | MALIKI ADVISOR SAYS CHRISTIAN LEADERS ACCEPT PM'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to PM's advisor George Bakoos, Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly on October 27 accepted assistance to the Iraqi Christian community that Maliki had offered when they met three months earlier. Bakoos said the offer consisted of hiring Christian security personnel th [...] | 2007-11-08 06:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF IZ VT |
07BAGHDAD3697 | DFM ABBAWI DISCUSSES ISTANBUL, PKK, AND IRAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Pol-Mil M/C called on Deputy Foreign Minister Abbawi November 6 to discuss his impressions of the Istanbul Neighbors Ministerial, progress on dealing with the PKK, and setting up trilateral talks with Iran. Abbawi was pleased with Istanbul and praised Turkish cooperation at the m [...] | 2007-11-08 11:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ SA |
07BAGHDAD37 | IRAQI POLITICAL LEADERS EMPHASIZE IMPORTANCE OF [...] (S) Summary: At a dinner December 20, in honor of Secretary of Defense Gates, Iraqi political leaders SIPDIS underscored the fundamental importance of the new plan for Baghdad Security as well as steps to forge a new moderate political front to allow the government to marginalize and attac [...] | 2007-01-05 21:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3702 | SPECIAL IMMIGRANT VISAS: PROBLEM OF NARROW [...] (C) The majority of our locally-employed PRT staff were hired as third-party contractors. Congress passed Public Law 110-36 with the intent to provide up to 500 SIVs for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters working for the U.S. military and under Chief of Mission (COM) authority. [...] | 2007-11-09 17:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | APER CVIS PREF IZ |
07BAGHDAD3703 | NINE IRANIAN DETAINEES RELEASED NOVEMBER 9 [...] (SBU) BAGHDAD ) Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) released nine Iranian detainees at approximately 0900 (local) Friday, November 9 to the custody of the Government of Iraq (GOI). Two of the nine were part of the five suspected Qods force members detained January 11 by Coalition Forces in Erbi [...] | 2007-11-09 18:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER |
07BAGHDAD3708 | DR. CHALABI'S SERVICES COMMITTEE [...] SUMMARY: Only three weeks have passed since the surprise announcement naming Dr. Ahmed Chalabi as chair of a new Baghdad services committee. Since that time, the committee has met weekly, had open discussions and come to several conclusions. Implementation of the committee's recommendations is [...] | 2007-11-10 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3710 | BAGHDAD EPRT: OMAR AL-JABOORI ON SUNNI [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 BCT E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Omar Al-Jaboori, Human Rights Advisor to the Vice President, told E-PRT Team Leader September 11 that Shia assistance to Sunnis fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq forms the essence of reconciliation. As part of an on-going discussio [...] | 2007-11-12 06:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER SOCI SCUL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3711 | BAGHDAD EPRT: SUNNI VOLUNTEERS PROTECT [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 BCT E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Dr. Kheder Shukur, assistant to Sheikh Omar Al-Jaboori, Human Rights Advisor to Vice President Tariq Al-Hashimi, told E-PRT Team Leader September 25 that local Sunni security volunteers will play a "major role" in protectin [...] | 2007-11-12 06:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SOCI SCUL ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3712 | BAGHDAD EPRT: OMAR AL-JABOORI OUTLINES SUNNI [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 Brigade E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Sheikh Omar Al-Jaboori, Human Rights Advisor to Vice President Tariq Al-Hashimi, told the E-PRT October 9 that the priorities for Sunnis in Baghdad are to re-open mosques and activate the Iraqi Security Volunteer (ISV) p [...] | 2007-11-12 06:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER SOCI SCUL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3713 | LEGISLATIVE TOUR D'HORIZON WITH INFLUENTIAL COR [...] (C) Dawa Party Deputy Bloc leader Ali al-Adib told S/I Satterfield on November 10 that his party and Prime Minister al-Maliki favor submission of the Council of Ministers draft of the De-Baathification law for Council of Representatives (CoR) debate, with the possibility that amendments could [...] | 2007-11-12 07:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3716 | AL-HAKIM IDENTIFIES PROGRESS, OBSTACLES TO [...] (C) Summary: In a November 11 talk with Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk, ISCI defacto leader Ammar al-Hakim identified recent positive developments but cautioned that true reconciliation required more political progress. He express [...] | 2007-11-12 14:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3719 | IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR LETTER TO NATO [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU). The Office of the Iraqi National Security Advisor requests the assistance of Embassy Baghdad and USNATO in forwarding the letter in paragraph 3 to the NATO Secretary General. Embassy Baghdad POLMIL has already provided a facsi [...] | 2007-11-12 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PINS PNAT |
07BAGHDAD3721 | MALIKI ON CONCERNED LOCAL CITIZENS, STRATEGIC [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a weekly security meeting, Prime Minister Maliki emphasized the primacy of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and local police in maintaining law-and-order. He expressed concern about the sectarian composition of many Concerned Local Citizens (CLC) groups and urged future CLC expa [...] | 2007-11-13 02:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
07BAGHDAD3726 | DIYALA PRT: EDUCATION SYSTEM UPDATE [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (U) The education system in Diyala continues to face severe challenges. Pre-OIF infrastructure shortcomings combined with the effects of recent kinetic activity in the province and general neglect have left only a skeleton of a [...] | 2007-11-13 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3727 | DIYALA PRT: COMPENSATION PAYMENTS-STILL WAITING [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (U) In August 2007, as operation Arrowhead Ripper came to a close in Diyala, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salah visited the province. After surveying the damage he promised that USD 50 million would be made available to r [...] | 2007-11-13 08:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3728 | DIYALA PRT: BRING BACK THE BA'ATHISTS? IT COULD WORK [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Summary: Several senior provincial executives in Diyala Province, both Sunni and Shia, believe that controlled conditions allowing former Ba'ath party members to return to public life would accelerate the stalled reconcil [...] | 2007-11-13 08:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3729 | TALABANI ON THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP, DE-BAATH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Talabani told Ambassadors Crocker and Satterfield on November 7 that Maliki wanted to delay the strategic partnership and was negatively affecting the possibility of reconciliation by his dismissal of the Tawafuq ministers. The PM was willing to submit the leaders' [...] | 2007-11-13 08:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3731 | TALABANI REITERATES STANCE ON STRATEGIC [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told Ambassadors Crocker and Satterfield on November 9 that he would agree to whatever changes the Embassy wanted to Vice President Mahdi's draft of the strategic partnership paper. He said the Presidency would send the leaders' draft of the de-Baat [...] | 2007-11-13 09:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3732 | DPM BARHAM SALEH DISCUSSES LEGISLATION, TURKEY, [...] (S/NF) Summary: In a November 6 meeting, DPM Barham Saleh told the Ambassador, U/S Jeffery, and S/I Satterfield that passage of the de-Ba'athification law is possible, but he is not as confident on the oil law. He noted the Council of Ministers (CoM) signed on to the de-Ba'athification law and [...] | 2007-11-13 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PREL PGOV IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3733 | BARZANI ANNOUNCES KDP/PUK EFFORT TO RESOLVE LEGISLATIVE DEADLOCK, DISCUSSES KRG EFFORTS TO END PKK CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: KRG President Masoud Barzani told the Ambassador November 8 that he and President Talabani would meet to review and find a solution to end the current deadlock on pending GOI legislation. He proposed a national reconciliation conference in Kurdistan to move the political process [...] | 2007-11-13 11:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER ECON TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3734 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE, NOV 9 [...] (C) Summary: The return of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to Baghdad was the primary topic of conversation at the 9 November Iraq Executive Steering Committee (IESC) meeting. The Minister of Displacement and Migration spoke about the lack of capacity within his ministry to handle the r [...] | 2007-11-13 11:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3735 | SAMARRA RECONSTRUCTION: CONSTRUCTION ON GOLDEN [...] (U) This is a joint POL/Salah ad Din PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister on Reconstruction Issues Haq al-Hakim told Poloff and MNF-I representatives during a November 7 meeting he will soon sign a contract with the Turkish contractor to begi [...] | 2007-11-13 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3736 | MALIKI'S ADVISORS PRESSED ON DE-BA'ATH, EXPRESS [...] (C) Sadiq Rikabi and Gorges Bakous, both advisors to PM Maliki, met with Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq Ambassador David Satterfield, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk, and Political Counselor Matthew [...] | 2007-11-13 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD3737 | SADRISTS PLOT OUSTER OF KEY MUTHANNA COMMANDER [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (S/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: Sadrists and Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) leaders in Baghdad have nearly succeeded in pressuring Prime Minister Maliki and Interior Minister Bolani to fire Colonel Ali Najm [...] | 2007-11-14 02:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD3748 | ICRC REVERSES PLANS TO OPEN PERMANENT MISSION IN [...] (C) Summary: ICRC representatives from Amman and Geneva told Pol-Mil Minister Counselor (PMMC) Ries that ICRC had decided not to establish a permanent presence in Baghdad at this time. ICRC Near East and North Africa Director Beatrice Megevand-Roggo said that, after a security review, the Gen [...] | 2007-11-14 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF SOCI ICRC IZ |
07BAGHDAD3749 | PRESIDENCY COUNCIL VETOES PENSION REFORM [...] (C) Begin Summary: Vice President Tareq al-Hashimi's recent veto will delay implementation of sensible pension reform legislation that would potentially benefit all public sector employees, including members of the military, regardless of sect. Discussions between the Pension Reform Steering C [...] | 2007-11-14 16:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD375 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIR SHARES VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Political Counselor and Shiite Chairman of the Iraqi Council of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee (and SCIRI member) Humam Hammoudi discussed constitutional review, the Baghdad security plan, regional elections, and de-Ba'athification February 3, with Hammoudi [...] | 2007-02-04 15:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3750 | KURDISTAN REGION PRIME MINISTER ON PKK AND OIL [...] (S) Ambassador Crocker told Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani on November 8 in Erbil that violent acts by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) must now be permanently stopped, and that the KRG must take strong, visible and effective actions against the PKK throu [...] | 2007-11-14 18:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER EPET ENRG TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3752 | NORTHWEST BAGHDAD SUMMIT SHOWCASES SUCCESSFUL [...] (U) This is a Baghdad EPRT-5 reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary. A distinctive reconciliation movement has taken hold north of Baghdad's city center, spanning the qadas (counties) of Taji and Abu Ghraib. On November 8, 1/1 CAV Brigade Combat Team Commander and Embedded Provincial Reconst [...] | 2007-11-14 18:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER SOCI SCUL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3753 | DPM BARHAM SALEH OPTIMISITIC ABOUT THE BUDGET, [...] (S/NF) Summary: In a November 12 meeting, DPM Barham Saleh told the Ambassador and S/I Satterfield the budget is almost ready and will go to the "core" cabinet November 13 for approval. He is optimistic the Presidency Council will support sending the de-Ba'athification law (leadership version [...] | 2007-11-14 19:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN EPET PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3754 | MOI HUMAN RIGHTS DIRECTOR ON FOLLOW-UP TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Interior (MoI) Human Rights Director Mazen Kamel Al-Qoraishy on November 5 described measures he took to follow-up on a severely burned detainee and a juvenile that were found during a Coalition-supported, bilateral inspection of the MoI Criminal Investigations Direct [...] | 2007-11-15 02:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV KJUS KWMN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3758 | ANBAR TRIBAL MOVEMENT EYEING GREATER PROVINCIAL, [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (S) In the absence Anbar's top political leadership, currently in Amman after two weeks in the United States, the anti-insurgent tribal movement Sahawa al-Iraq has been considering ways to increase its political power in Anbar [...] | 2007-11-15 06:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3765 | PERSONAL FEUD DELAYS DE-BA'ATH IN COR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Ministers passed a copy of the "Leaders' Draft" de-Ba'athification law to the Council of Representatives on November 14th. A meeting the same day between COR Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and Deputy Speaker Shaykh Khalid al-Attiyah degenerated into a shouting match [...] | 2007-11-15 15:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3766 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI TO PUSH [...] (S) Reinforcing the USG message on importance of finalizing benchmark legislation and a joint statement on the Strategic Partnership Dialogue (SPD),the Ambassador and visiting Iraq Coordinator Ambassador Satterfield met with Vice President Tariq al Hashimi on the evening of November 12. Ha [...] | 2007-11-15 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3768 | ARTICLE 140: UNCERTAINTY FUELS ARAB-KURD TENSION [...] (C) Summary: Article 140 High Committee Chairman (and Minister of Science and Technology) Raid Fahmi gave Senior Advisor an overview on November 12 of committee developments since Fahmi took office at the end of July. Fahmi asserted that the committee's recent progress will help alleviate Kur [...] | 2007-11-15 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3769 | KRG WELCOMES COUNTER-TERRORISM ASSISTANCE AGAINST [...] (C) Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Interior Karim Sinjari welcomed upcoming visits by an Iraq Threat Finance Cell (ITFC) agent and the S/CT terrorist finance assessment team. Sinjari told RRT Erbil November 14 that he sees the visits as a means to identify specific deficienci [...] | 2007-11-15 15:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3770 | HYDROCARBON FRAMEWORK LAW REMAINS ELUSIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Maliki on November 7 promised Under Secretary Jeffery that GOI action on the hydrocarbon SIPDIS framework law would begin within two weeks, but discussions with a multitude of other officials in Baghdad revealed that bridging the remaining gaps between the political partie [...] | 2007-11-15 16:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3771 | EXPANDING TAILORED NATO-IRAQ COOPERATION [...] (S) Summary: USNATO forwarded an Italian non-paper (ref A) for Embassy Baghdad and Department consideration about the future role of the NATO Training Mission - Iraq (NTM-I) in a post-UNSCR environment. NTM-I fills a critical niche in the training and mentoring of mid-level leadership of the I [...] | 2007-11-16 03:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD3772 | MALIKI PLANS GENERAL AMNESTY; BASRA PIC [...] (S) SUMMARY: At the November 11 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) meeting, PM Maliki stated his intention to proclaim a general amnesty; Ambassador Crocker responded that this was a bold move that the U.S. supported and could work with the GoI on the details. Maliki also pushed [...] | 2007-11-16 04:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
07BAGHDAD3773 | ERBIL: KNA SPEAKER ON COR COOPERATION, PKK, AND [...] (C) Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) Speaker Adnan Mufti said the KNA's recent trip to Baghdad laid the groundwork for further communication and collaboration, in a November 11 meeting with RRT Offs. He repeated the oft-heard Kurd call for a peaceful resolution to the PKK crisis. The Speake [...] | 2007-11-16 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3776 | NSA RUBAIE RESISTS BASRA'S GOVERNOR SIGNING PIC MOU [...] (S REL UK AS) MNF-I Deputy CG LTG Rollo (UK) and Political-Military Minister-Counselor (PMMC) Ambassador Marcie Ries met November 14 with National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwaffaq Rubaie to discuss the modalities of Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) for Basra. Rubaie,s opening position was that th [...] | 2007-11-16 20:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ UK AS |
07BAGHDAD3779 | SULAIMANIYAH OFFICIALS ON COMBATTING PKK [...] (C) Summary: RRToff pressed officials to continue specific actions against the PKK, such as using enhanced checkpoints effectively to stop PKK logistical and fighter movements and stepping up airport security, in meetings held November 12 in Sulaimaniyah, a PUK-dominated province in the KRG tha [...] | 2007-11-17 13:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAIR TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3780 | VP ABDEL MEHDI ON STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: In a November 14 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi expressed pronounced reluctance to persuade Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to come to closure on the proposed bilateral Strategic Partnership Declaration (SPD). Claiming that such persuasion would be counter-productive, Adel [...] | 2007-11-17 18:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3782 | AMBASSADOR URGES PM TO PUSH FORWARD WITH SPD [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ambassador Crocker urged PM Maliki November 14 to meet the November 20 deadline for signature of the Strategic Partnership Declaration (SPD). Ambassador said conclusion of the SPD was an important effort that will set the stage for the UNSCR renewal and will define the bilateral [...] | 2007-11-18 05:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3787 | PARLIAMENTARIAN HACHIM HASSANI DISCUSSES FORMATION [...] (C/NF) Summary. Independent CoR member Hachim Hassani told PolOff on October 31 he is forming an independent, moderate bloc in the CoR, although these efforts are in the early stages. He dispelled rumors that he may be nominated by PM Maliki to become Minister of Communications, but did not [...] | 2007-11-18 15:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3788 | KURDISH PARTIES SAY THEIR DELEGATION TO ANKARA [...] (C) Summary: In a November 17 meeting with RRT Off, Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) Secretary General Salahaddin Bahaddin indicated that the Turkish government was considering a proposal for direct Turkish-KRG discussions put forward during the November 11 visit to Ankara by a Kurdish politica [...] | 2007-11-18 17:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3793 | Baghdad Services Committee [...] SUMMARY: Attendance at Dr. Ahmed Chalabi's meeting was down this week, lacking representation from the Ministries of Oil, Electricity and Education. The committee heard for the first time from the Ministry of Trade and Commerce as well as the Ministry of Transportation. The committee did review [...] | 2007-11-19 04:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3795 | KRG SNAPSHOTS CONFIRM ACTIONS AGAINST TURKEY/PKK [...] (C) Summary: RRT Erbil contacts in Erbil and Dohuk provinces report that increased checkpoints, stepped-up checkpoint manning, PKK-affiliated office closures and redeployment of Peshmerga forces are having an effect on the ability of the PKK to get supplies and move around. Kurdistan Regional [...] | 2007-11-19 13:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3798 | BLAMING VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI FOR LEGISLATIVE [...] (S) Many of our Shia contacts in the Iraqi government have complained to us and the media for the past two weeks, that Iraqi Islamic Party head and Sunni Vice President Tareq al Hashimi is deliberately delaying and interfering with passage of legislation. One Shia parliamentarian put the num [...] | 2007-11-19 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3799 | AMAR AL-HAKIM: SUPPORT FOR SPD, MOVING AHEAD ON [...] (C) Summary: In a November 16 meeting, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) heir apparent Amar al-Hakim told the Ambassador that ISCI strongly supports a Strategic Partnership Declaration (SPD) and that he would convey ISCI's support for a long-term bilateral partnership to Prime Minister Nu [...] | 2007-11-19 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD380 | PRT TIKRIT: TUZ PC BOYCOTT HIGHLIGHTS POSSIBLE [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din (SaD) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Discontentment among the Salah ad Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) members from the predominately Kurdish and Turcoman city of Tuz has led to political disarray in the council's operations, delaying important reconstructi [...] | 2007-02-05 13:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3800 | SUNNI TAWAFUQ BLOC NEGOTIATING A RETURN TO [...] (S) Our contacts among senior GOI and Tawafuq officials confirm that negotiations over a return to government by the Tawafuq Coalition of Sunni political parties recently commenced, with a (likely flexible) deadline set by PM Maliki of "two weeks" starting on November 9. Tawafuq leaders dele [...] | 2007-11-19 18:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3801 | SAI SUSPENDS ACTIVITY WITH ANBAR'S PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is an Anbar PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Sheikh Ahmad Abu Risha, leader of the "Iraq Awakening Movement," (SAI) called for the replacement of Anbar Provincial Council Chairman Abdulsalam Abdullah and the "suspension" of SAI membership on the Council. Ahmad's call [...] | 2007-11-19 18:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3802 | THE PKK, TURKEY, AND IRAQ: HOW IRAQ HAS RESPONDED [...] (S) Summary: Iraqi and Kurdish officials have responded with concrete steps to the pressure we and the Turks have applied following PKK/KGK attacks in Turkey resulting in large numbers of Turkish casualties, plus the terrorists' seizure of Turkish soldiers. The KRG has thus far reacted with [...] | 2007-11-20 02:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PREL PTER IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD3803 | BAGHDAD'S ECONOMIC TRANSITION [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Reforms to educational institutions, the banking system, the civil service, state-market relations, and inter-governmental coordination has the potential to contribute significantly to private sector development in Baghdad provinc [...] | 2007-11-20 07:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3805 | THE PKK, TURKEY, AND IRAQ: HOW IRAQ HAS RESPONDED [...] (S) Summary: Iraqi and Kurdish officials have responded with concrete steps to the pressure we and the Turks have applied following PKK/KGK attacks in Turkey resulting in large numbers of Turkish casualties, plus the terrorists' seizure of Turkish soldiers. The KRG has thus far reacted with [...] | 2007-11-20 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PREL PTER IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD3807 | TAWAFUQ FINANCE COMMITTEE MP OPTIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (C) Begin Summary: Ala'a Alsadon (IIP, Sunni) told us 20 November that she remains optimistic that the 2008 draft budget will be passed in a timely fashion. She confirmed that the Council of Representatives (CoR) completed a first reading of the draft budget on 19 November, having formally rec [...] | 2007-11-20 16:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3809 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE, NOV 16 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki proposed creation of a committee to handle issues related to internally displaced persons at the November 16 Iraq Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC),though he did not specify the committee's structure or purpose. He also noted that the improved [...] | 2007-11-20 17:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3817 | IRAQ-IRAN OIL TRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's oil trade with Iran at present is composed mainly of legitimate imports of refined fuels, and seems to represent Iraq's attempt to address consumer demand rather than Iran's attempt to exert economic power over Iraq. The proposed Iraq to Iran crude oil pipeline may, howeve [...] | 2007-11-21 15:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD3818 | MALIKI: SHOW MORE FLEXIBILITY ON SPD LANGUAGE [...] (C) Summary: In a November 18 meeting, the Ambassador and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki reviewed ongoing discussions over the text of a proposed Strategic Partnership Declaration (SPD). In reply to the Ambassador's observation that proposed GOI changes to our latest working draft affects the [...] | 2007-11-21 16:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3819 | ABDEL AZIZ AL-HAKIM: TIME TO TALK TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: In a November 20 meeting, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Chairman Abdel Aziz al-Hakim told the Ambassador that ISCI supports our efforts to bring to rapid closure a bilateral Strategic Partnership Declaration (SPD) that will serve the interests of both nations. Looking fa [...] | 2007-11-21 16:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3821 | KEY SADRIST LEGISLATOR: IN IRAQ, IRAN IS EVERYWHERE [...] (C) Summary: Sadrist Trend CoR legislator Baha al-Aaraji claimed during a November 19 meeting that while Iran may not like the U.S., it likes the Iraqi people even less and is infiltrating Iraq at every level. He conceded that Iran has tried to penetrate the Sadrist Trend through support to p [...] | 2007-11-21 16:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3823 | INDEPENDENT COR MEMBER SAYS LEGISLATION DELAYED BY [...] (C/NF) Summary. Independent CoR member Safia Souhail (Shia, former Iraqiyya) told Poloff unnecessary delays with de-ba'athification and other laws are occurring because of sectarianism and ineffective CoR leadership. She is doubtful the de-ba'athification law will receive the votes necessary [...] | 2007-11-22 07:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREF PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3826 | IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT ON IRAN AND NEXT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC IAEA KNNP MNUC PARM IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3827 | 2008 FUNDS FOR IRAQ - THE GROUND TRUTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Less than a year underway, the surge has produced major security, diplomatic and economic results; however, those gains will be in jeopardy should the current House and Senate versions of the fiscal year 2008 State, Foreign Operations and related appropriations bills pass in curr [...] | 2007-11-23 13:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PINS ECON PREL ASEC KDEM IZ EAID |
07BAGHDAD3828 | KIRKUK/ARTICLE 140: SENIOR SUNNI POLITICIAN'S [...] (S) During a November 20 introductory meeting, senior Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) official and Council of Representatives (CoR) member Ayad al-Samaraie provided Senior Adviser Pearce his views on Kirkuk and Article 140 implementation. Samaraie, expressing his personal thoughts, believed it bes [...] | 2007-11-23 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS IZ TU IR |
07BAGHDAD3833 | Baghdad Services Committee [...] SUMMARY: The Baghdad Services Committee chaired by Dr. Ahmed Chalabi pressed forward on November 20th with a high number of attendees, including representatives from the city administration and the Baghdad Operations Command (security). Given the number of participants representing various inte [...] | 2007-11-24 09:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3834 | PM AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS SPD, UNSCR, PKK, CLC, [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging, hour-long meeting November 22, Ambassador Crocker and PM Nouri al-Maliki discussed progress on the Security Partnership Declaration (SPD),foreseeing its signing on Monday, November 26; moving quickly on a United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) for 2 [...] | 2007-11-24 10:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3836 | Baghdad Services Committee [...] SUMMARY: The Baghdad Services Committee chaired by Dr. Ahmed Chalabi pressed forward on November 20th with a high number of attendees, including representatives from the city administration and the Baghdad Operations Command (security). Given the number of participants representing various inte [...] | 2007-11-25 02:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3837 | BUILDING CAPACITY AT THE MINISTRY OF OIL [...] Summary and Comment: Capacity building at the Ministry of Oil is a high mission priority. A modern, capable ministry would be better able to make the sound investment decisions that will affect the future economic and political viability of the Iraqi state. Alternatively, a dysfunctional cen [...] | 2007-11-25 02:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD3838 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-11-25 12:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3839 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-11-25 12:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD384 | HASHIMI ON SUNNI SUPPORT FOR BSP, CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador gave VP Al-Hashimi a read out of his KSA trip on February 1, observing that continuing sectarian violence, the way Saddam was executed, and perceptions of increased Iranian interference appeared to have cost PM Maliki credibility with Iraq's Arab neighbors. Hashimi [...] | 2007-02-05 16:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PREL PGOV |
07BAGHDAD3840 | BAGHDAD'S SUNNI SUBURBS TO SEE SOME SERVICES [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary. Representatives of the Baghdad provincial government held the first in a series of coordination meetings focused on improving services in the largely Sunni communities of suburban and rural Baghdad Province on November 20, facilita [...] | 2007-11-25 13:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3841 | IRAQI FINANCE MINISTER UPBEAT ON 2008 BUDGET, DEBT [...] (C) Begin Summary: During a 21 November working dinner, Finance Minister Bayan Jabr told EMIN and TreasAtt that he does not anticipate any problems getting the 2008 draft budget passed by the Council of Representatives (CoR). He highlighted four key concessions made by the Kurdistan Regional G [...] | 2007-11-25 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3842 | IRAQ-JORDAN OIL HITS TECHNICAL PROBLEMS [...] (C) We received a translation of an undated letter signed by Ghassan Farkuh, Director General of the Iraqi Jordanian Land Transport Company, addressed to the Ministry of Oil, concerning the reasons for the delay in tankers transporting crude oil from Kirkuk to Jordan. 2. (C) The first rea [...] | 2007-11-25 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3843 | THE DE-BAATH LAW GETS ITS FIRST READING WITH VOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 25 the Justice and Accountability law (i.e., the "de-Ba'ath law") received its first reading in the Iraqi Council of Representatives (COR). The reading was repeatedly disrupted by the Sadr Bloc and a handful of Kurdish and Shi'a MPs protesting that the law contradic [...] | 2007-11-25 15:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3848 | KIU SECRETARY GENERAL BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON TRIP TO [...] (C) Salah al-Din Bahaddin, Secretary General of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU),on November 20 briefed the Ambassador on the delegation of Kurdish political parties he led to Ankara to discuss the PKK crisis. Bahaddin said the visit had helped break a Turkish psychological barrier against [...] | 2007-11-26 10:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3849 | TALABANI BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON TOUR OF ARAB STATES [...] (C) Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on November 20 briefed the Ambassador on his recent trip to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, saying he received a warm welcome in each and made some progress towards improved diplomatic and economic relations. Turning to other issues du jour, Talabani pledge [...] | 2007-11-26 10:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3852 | OIL MINISTER ON HYDROCARBON LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Oil Minister Shahristani on November 26 agreed in principle to the idea of proceeding with a technical committee to clear up the few remaining brackets in the July draft of the hydrocarbon framework legislation, as long as the result is completely consistent with the principles [...] | 2007-11-26 16:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD3858 | NEW UNAMI SRSG OUTLINES STRATEGY FOR MANDATE, [...] (C) United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Staffan De Mistura stated in a November 25 meeting with S/I Satterfield and PolCouns that his top two priorities will be to resolve Article 140 and assist internally displaced persons [...] | 2007-11-27 11:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR EU UN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3859 | CODEL MCCAIN STRESSES NEED FOR POLITICAL PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary: In a brief meeting with Prime Minister Maliki on Nov. 23, the members of Codel McCain applauded the recent security progress in Iraq but stressed the need for political progress to cement the security gains. In particular, Senator McCain pressed Maliki on the need to make progres [...] | 2007-11-27 12:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD386 | CHALABI OUTLINES HIS POPULAR COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary: Ahmed Chalabi is moving forward on the political mobilization component of the new Baghdad Security Plan, although he suggested he is having some difficulty achieving full Sunni participation and has asked for Embassy assistance. His plan consists of creating tiered committees [...] | 2007-02-06 08:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3860 | ANBARIS MEET IN AMMAN TO DRAFT A PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is an Anbar PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (U) Some 115 Anbari notables, including government officials, civil servants, and tribal leaders, participated in an off-site conference November 14-18 sponsored by USAID contractor RTI in Amman to draft the Provincial Developm [...] | 2007-11-27 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3861 | CODEL MCCAIN TO ABDULMAHDI: NEED POLITICAL PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary. On November 23 Senators John McCain, Saxby Chambliss, Lindsey Graham, John Barasso and Governor Jon Huntsman met with Deputy President Adil Abdulmahdi, advisor Zuhair Humadi, and former oil minister Ibrahim Bahr Ulum. The American delegation repeatedly emphasized the need for po [...] | 2007-11-27 12:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3862 | ICI SECRETARIAT IMPLEMENTATION MOVING AHEAD...AGAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih is close to officially announcing an ICI Secretariat head, Iraqi Secretariat staff, and the formation of ICI thematic working SIPDIS groups (TWGs) in an early December ICI Executive Steering Committee meeting in Baghdad. Problems still [...] | 2007-11-27 13:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD3863 | DEPUTY OIL MINISTER ON HYDROCARBON LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Oil Minister Motasim on November 27 revealed that Oil Minister Shahristani had not been entirely convinced about the idea of proceeding with a technical committee to clear up the few remaining brackets in the July draft of the hydrocarbon framework legislation, as discussed [...] | 2007-11-27 15:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3868 | CODEL MURTHA PRESSES MALIKI FOR POLITICAL PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CODEL Murtha and Ambassador Crocker met with PM Maliki on November 23. Mr. Murtha acknowledged that he sees improvements in Iraq but repeatedly stated that the American people are impatient because necessary steps have not been taken and that they want to see dramatic action by [...] | 2007-11-27 18:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3869 | MOD GENERAL ABBADI'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BASRAH ISF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 08:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD3874 | MCNS NOVEMBER 25, 2007 ADDRESSES SPD, CLCS, AQI, [...] (C) Summary: The November 25 meeting of the Ministerial Council for National Security (MCNS) reviewed the situation of Concerned Local Citizen (CLC) groups' evolution and future, success to date against Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI),protection of Iraqi refugees returning to Baghdad, dealing with Fo [...] | 2007-11-28 15:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3876 | SIGNING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3877 | MUTED IRAQI REACTION TO SPD [...] (C) Summary: On November 25th the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) held a closed session to discuss the Strategic Partnership Declaration (SPD) between the U.S. and Iraq. Despite scattered complaints, the overall reaction among MPs to the SPD has been muted, reflecting CoR members' pre [...] | 2007-11-28 17:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3878 | ISCI COR LEADER HAMOUDI ON REGIONAL TRAVEL [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion 11/25, influential Council of Representatives (CoR) Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Humam Hamoudi (ISCI bloc leader, Shia) expressed optimism about bilateral relations with Kuwait and Egypt, while noting several obstacles to further improving ties [...] | 2007-11-28 17:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KU SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD3881 | BARHAM SALIH ON CORRUPTION, IRAQI UNITY [...] (C) Senators Inouye and Stevens met on 26 November with Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih to discuss GOI corruption and the future of the U.S. presence in Iraq. Salih acknowledged serious institutionalized corruption, but said the GOI was working to establish effective oversight mechanisms [...] | 2007-11-29 09:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GPGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3882 | MAYSAN'S GOVERNOR: JAM ASSOCIATE AND RISING SHI'A [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3885 | BAGHDAD: DISPLACED PERSONS RETURNING HOME [...] (U) This message contains an action request. See Para 19. 2. (C) SUMMARY and COMMENT: Families displaced from their homes in Baghdad have begun returning, according to Post and PRT contacts, officials at the Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MoDM),and local press reports. While re [...] | 2007-11-29 13:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF IZ |
07BAGHDAD3886 | PROVINCIAL OPERATIONS CENTERS CHANGING THE PREMISE [...] (C) On October 29, Karbala became the eighth province to transfer from Coalition to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) in a two-hour ceremony that was intended to symbolize Iraq's growing stability and progress. The transfer ceremony was slightly different this time, however; when MND-C Commander [...] | 2007-11-29 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD3887 | TRANSMITTAL OF LETTER FROM PM NOURI AL-MALIKI TO [...] (U) Post received a letter addressed to POTUS from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (PM) addressed on November 28, 2007. Scanned copies of the original document and the translation to English have been emailed to the NSC and NEA/I. The following is Post's translation of the Arabic tex [...] | 2007-11-29 14:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3893 | OIL MINISTER ANNULS KRG OIL CONTRACTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Oil Minister Shahristani has written to at least two international oil companies that entered into production sharing agreements (PSAs) with the Kurdish Regional Government to declare the annulment of their contracts, and intends to annul others. END SUMMARY. Oil Minister: Cont [...] | 2007-11-29 15:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD3894 | LEGISLATIVE HIGH JINKS MAY DELAY BUDGET [...] (C) Begin Summary: Council of Representatives (CoR) Finance Committee members Ala'a Alsadon (IIP, Sunni) and Muna Zelzela (ISCI, Shia) told Econoff 28 November that the 2008 budget legislation is currently in limbo. The CoR ostensibly had the first of three readings of the budget legislation 1 [...] | 2007-11-30 08:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3896 | KUDOS AND THANKS FOR STATE'S PSD MOA NEGOTIATING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-30 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC IZ |
07BAGHDAD3897 | COR ECON COMMITTEE CHAIR ELUCIDATES KURDISH BUDGET [...] (C) Begin Summary: During a 29 November meeting, Dr. Haider al-Abadi (Dawa, Shia),Chair of the Economic Committee in the Council of Representatives (CoR),clarified the changes the Kurds made to the Council of Ministers (CoM) approved draft budget for 2008. According to al-Abadi, the Kurds wa [...] | 2007-11-30 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3901 | NINEWA: VICE GOVERNOR HINTS AT KURDISH FLEXIBILITY [...] (C/REL ACGU) Ninewa's influential Vice Governor, who is also the provincial Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) head, told PRT Leader November 11 in the presence of a visiting reporter that he recognized the importance of being practical in making compromises in resolving disputed areas under Arti [...] | 2007-11-30 14:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3902 | NEW UNAMI SRSG TO FOCUS ON ARTICLE 140 IMPASSE [...] (C) United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Senior Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Staffan De Mistura emphasized in a November 25 meeting with Senior Political Advisor that resolving the Article 140 impasse is one of UNAMI's top priorities. "My strategy is to put all [...] | 2007-11-30 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IR UN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3904 | SHIA POLITICIANS NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT MOVING [...] (C) Summary: The first step toward resolving complicated Article 140 territorial issues, including Kirkuk, is for Iraq's political leadership to come to agreement on the way forward, according to Council of Representatives (CoR) Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Humam Hamoudi (ISCI bloc lea [...] | 2007-11-30 16:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3907 | BAGDHAD EPRT: OMAR AL-JABOORI HOSTS RECONCILIATION [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 Brigade E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Sheikh Omar Al-Jaboori, Human Rights Advisor to Vice President Tariq Al-Hashimi, hosted a November 13 meeting as part of a series of on-going discussions with the Brigade Combat Team (BCT) and E-PRT (reftels A - E). The [...] | 2007-12-02 02:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER SOCI SCUL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3908 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE, NOV. 23, 2007 [...] (C) SUMMARY. On 23 November, Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki, chaired the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al Qanoon ) FAQ) Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) of the Government of Iraq (GoI). The Meeting featured an extensive discussion of fraud and poor quality within the Public Distribution [...] | 2007-12-02 02:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3909 | KRG PRESIDENCY COUNCIL'S REP ON ARTICLE 140: WE [...] (C) In a November 26 meeting with RRTOffs, Kadir Aziz, KRG Presidency Council Representative for Article 140 and Toiler's Party Secretary General, and Sahd Emin, KRG Minister of Region for Parliament Affairs, expressed strong interest in the United Nations assuming a role in the Article 140 pr [...] | 2007-12-02 10:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3911 | CG AND CDA DISCUSS FOREIGN FIGHTERS AND SYRIA, [...] (S) Summary: In a wide-ranging hour-long meeting Thursday, November 29, MNF-I Commanding General David Petraeus and Charge Patricia Butenis reviewed efforts with Prime Minister Maliki to stem the flow of Foreign Terrorists (FTs) from Syria and elsewhere, possible limited Turkish military acti [...] | 2007-12-02 12:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3912 | REFCOORD VISIT TO SUDANESE REFUGEE CAMP [...] (U) Summary: There are currently 128 Darfurian refugees camped on a highway median in west Anbar who continue to request third country resettlement. The camp is provided humanitarian assistance by UNHCR and the occupants are recognized as refugees by UNHCR and have been designated as eligible [...] | 2007-12-02 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PREF PREL |
07BAGHDAD3913 | TALABANI BLASTS MALIKI BUT IS OPTIMISTIC ON [...] (C) Deputy Secretary Negroponte, S/I Satterfield, and CDA Butenis met November 30 with Iraqi President Talabani. Talabani endorsed Washington,s efforts to renew the UNSCR resolution authorizing the presence of U.S. and other Coalition forces and expressed serious impatience with Prime Ministe [...] | 2007-12-02 17:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3915 | KRG OFFICIALS DISCUSS WITH DEPUTY SECRETARY LACK [...] (C) In November 28-29 meetings with Deputy Secretary Negroponte, S/I Satterfield, Ambassador Charles Ries, and Senior Advisor David Pearce, KRG PM Barzani and VP Rasoul praised Iraq,s improved security while criticizing PM Maliki,s failing performance and cautioning that security gains could [...] | 2007-12-02 17:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EPET ENRG TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3916 | ABDULMAHDI DISCUSSES POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: On December 1 Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, Coordinator for Iraq David Satterfield, and Charge d'Affaires Patricia Butenis met with Iraqi Deputy President Adil Abdulmahdi, CoR Shi'a independent Qassam Daoud, and former oil minister Thamir Ghadban. Abdulmahdi emphasi [...] | 2007-12-02 17:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3922 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY GATES' VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (S) Dear Mr. Secretary: Your visit to Iraq comes at a critical time. Since the September testimony by the Ambassador and Gen. Petraeus, we have seen further progress on security: Anbar Province remains remarkably calm; the Sadr ceasefire continues -- in general -- to hold; the threat from Al- [...] | 2007-12-03 07:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR PTER ASEC OVIP IZ |
07BAGHDAD3924 | DPM BARHAM SALEH SAYS BLUEPRINT NEEDED FOR WAY [...] (C) Summary. DPM Saleh told the Senior Advisor to the Ambassador November 27 that the Article 140 issues on Kirkuk and disputed territories were the most difficult in Iraq. But, he said, the outlines of a deal are there and the time was opportune to push Iraqi leaders to agree to a process to [...] | 2007-12-03 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3927 | INDONESIAN DELEGATION LOOKING FOR EMBASSY SITE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 29/30, an Indonesian delegation toured prospective International Zone embassy sites and told USG officials they want to establish a mission in Baghdad "as soon as possible." To the surprise of their Iraqi hosts, the delegation sought to cap its trip by signing a Memor [...] | 2007-12-03 14:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AA IZ |
07BAGHDAD3931 | THE EVER-EVOLVING CHALABI SERVICE COMMITTEE [...] SUMMARY: Chalabi's service committee yet again changed format at it's November 27th meeting. Representatives from Baghdad's rural areas attended last week's meeting and detailed their service needs in what looked and felt like a town hall meeting. At the committee's previous meetings only offic [...] | 2007-12-04 02:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3933 | AMMAR HAKIM TO SATTERFIELD: CRISIS OF TRUST IN [...] (C) Summary: In a December 2 meeting with S/I David Satterfield and Polcouns, Ammar al-Hakim expressed support for a strategic U.S.-Iraq relationship, shared his concern over U.S. policy on tribal engagement and a crisis of trust in the Iraqi government, and outlined a non-sectarian vision of [...] | 2007-12-04 09:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3934 | COMBATTING PKK VIA STOPPING MONEY FLOWS [...] (S) An analyst from the Iraq Threat Finance Cell (ITFC) visited the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) last month to see if there were any immediate steps we could encourage the KRG to take against PKK/KGK financing in the wake of the Turkey-PKK/KGK crisis, assisted by RRT Erbil. An S/CT-led [...] | 2007-12-04 09:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER ECON PREL TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3940 | THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S DECEMBER 1 MEETING WITH [...] (S) Summary: In a Dec. 1 meeting with the Deputy Secretary that focused on the question of UNSCR renewal, Prime Minister (PM) Maliki agreed to not open up the operative paragraphs of the UNSCR to debate. We agreed that GOI concerns over roles and responsibilities in military operations could b [...] | 2007-12-04 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3946 | NINEWA: HAJJ FLIGHT INAUGURATES MOSUL'S FIRST [...] (U) In Mosul's first commercial passenger flight operation since 1993, Iraqi Airways Flight 020 departed Mosul Airport for Baghdad International Airport at 2230 December 2 with approximately 150 Hajj pilgrims. A second Iraqi Airways flight departed Mosul Airport December 3 with approximately [...] | 2007-12-05 08:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAIR EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD3947 | LEGISLATIVE UPDATE -- DE-BA'ATH, PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: As a consequence of our pressure upon the leaderships of Iraq's political blocs, the Law of Accountability and Justice received its second reading on December 1; a third reading has not been scheduled and may be delayed if the CoR is unable to muster a quorum due to the upcoming H [...] | 2007-12-05 10:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3949 | S/I SATTERFIELD URGES PROGRESS ON LEGISLATION WITH [...] (C) Summary. Key UIA operative and CoR Constitutional Committee Chair Sheikh Hummam Hammoudi told S/I Satterfield December 3 he believes a "compromise" draft of the provincial powers law, which rolls back PM Maliki's press for a strong central government, can be achieved early in the new year [...] | 2007-12-05 10:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD395 | MEETINGS IN ERBIL ADVANCE HYDROCARBON LAW, ENERGY [...] (S//NF) Summary: On February 3-4, meetings took place in the Kurdistan Region (KR) on the draft national hydrocarbon framework law to resolve the four outstanding areas of dispute between the central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). These issues included a) the mechanis [...] | 2007-02-06 13:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD3950 | DPM SALEH TALKS SECURITY AND ECONOMY, TURKEY, AND [...] (C) Summary. DPM Barham Saleh told CODEL Webb in a meeting November 30 that security is improving, highlighting improvements in Anbar province and several neighborhoods in Baghdad. On the economic side, he mentioned oil production is close to 2 million barrels a day, and referenced positive [...] | 2007-12-05 10:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3951 | SOUTH'S INDEPENDENT POLICE CHIEFS NEED U.S. SUPPORT [...] (U) This is a joint Baghdad POL, PRT Babil, PRT Karbala, and PRT Muthanna cable. 2. (C) Summary: Recent events in Babil, Karbala and Muthanna demonstrate the precarious position of police officials willing to prosecute militias in southern Iraq. The political independence that makes thes [...] | 2007-12-05 12:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3955 | SUNNI LEADER ADNAN DULAYMI'S SECURITY DETAIL UNDER [...] (S) Sunni Tawafuq bloc leader Adnan Dulaymi continues to protest his innocence following discovery of evidence linking his security staff to terrorist activities during a November 29 joint Iraqi-MNF/I raid on his Baghdad offices. As a result of that raid, approximately 35 members of his secur [...] | 2007-12-05 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3956 | VP ABDEL MAHDI: ARTICLE 140 NEEDS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Iraq Vice President Adel Abdel Mahdi (ISCI, Shia) told Senior Advisor December 4 that it was important to resolve the territorial issues involved in Article 140 of the Constitution, but a referendum focused on Kirkuk was not the way to go. Insisting on this route, he thought, coul [...] | 2007-12-05 18:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3957 | MCNS MEETING FOR DECEMBER 2 DISCUSSES ROLE OF [...] (C/REL UK AS) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chaired December 2 a two-hour session of the Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) devoted entirely to a review of the CLCs and their evolution within Iraq. After briefings by Baghdad Operations Commander (BOC) LTG Aboud, Iraqi G [...] | 2007-12-05 18:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3958 | MOVING FORWARD ON MEK [...] (S) SUMMARY: As reported in Ref B, the MEK presence in Iraq and MNF-I protection duties have become a major irritant in our relationship with the GOI. For most Iraqis, the group remains associated with some of the worst human rights abuses of the former regime. The GOI has repeatedly pressed [...] | 2007-12-05 18:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREF PREL PTER IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3959 | ANBAR PROVINCIAL LEADER INFORMS DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (U) This is an Anbar PRT reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Anbar Provincial Council Chairman Abdulsalam told Deputy Secretary Negroponte during a November 28 meeting in Ramadi that Anbar leaders had reversed their previous opposition to national hydrocarbon revenue-sharing legisla [...] | 2007-12-05 20:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3960 | DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETS WITH RAMADI MAYOR AMIDST [...] (U) This is a combined Anbar PRT/Ramadi ePRT reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. On November 28 Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with Ramadi Mayor Latif Obaid Ayadah at the city,s Municipal Center. Negroponte noted the improved security situation since his last visit in June. The Mayor descr [...] | 2007-12-05 20:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3961 | SADRISTS TELL CODEL POMEROY "WE ARE BROTHERS" [...] (C) Summary: In a December 3 session with Codel Pomeroy, a delegation of Sadrists led by Sheikh Shia al-Faraji solicited U.S. investment in the reconstruction of Sadr City, lambasted the GOI's dependence on Iran, and suggested that the U.S. use the good offices of Grand Ayatollah Sistani to lau [...] | 2007-12-06 09:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3962 | BAGHDAD 2 E-PRT: ASSYRIAN DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 Brigade E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: During a November 27 meeting, Assyrian Democratic Movement Public Relations Head Sargon Lazar Slewa told E-PRT Team Leader that the Christian community has minimal involvement in the Iraq central government. He charact [...] | 2007-12-06 10:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL SOCI IZ |
07BAGHDAD3963 | BAGHDAD 2 E-PRT: ASSYRIAN DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 Brigade E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: During a November 27 meeting, Assyrian Democratic Movement Public Relations Head Sargon Lazar Slewa told E-PRT Team Leader that the Christian community has minimal involvement in the Iraq central government. He charact [...] | 2007-12-06 10:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL SOCI IZ |
07BAGHDAD3964 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-12-06 11:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3965 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-12-06 11:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3966 | FM SHARPLY CRITICAL OF PM OFFICE UNSCR ROLE; [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a December 4 meeting with S/I Satterfield, Foreign Minister Zebari described the "heated" debate UNSCR renewal triggered in both the Iraqi Council of Representatives and the Council of Ministers. Both on the record and in private, Zebari blamed the small cadre of "Dawa Party [...] | 2007-12-06 14:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD397 | EMBASSY COMMENTS ON IMMDF PROPOSALS FOR RASUN [...] Embassy Baghdad does not have information indicating that it would be inadvisable to give loans to the Rasun Company or the Sarqala Company. Please note that IRMO/Private Sector did not suggest the project with the Rasun Company, as stated in ref B. 2. Evidence suggests that the northern [...] | 2007-02-06 17:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3970 | COR ADJOURNS UNTIL DECEMBER 30; GOI OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: On December 6, Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani abruptly adjourned Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR) until December 30. Mashadani's announcement was a bit of a surprise, as just one day earlier Deputy Speaker Khalid Attiya indicated to us that he was inclined to use parliamentary [...] | 2007-12-07 12:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3971 | SOUTH'S GOVERNORS AND PCS: SHIFTING ALLEGIANCES, [...] (U) This is a joint Baghdad POL - Southern PRT/REO/ePRT cable. 2. (C) Summary: The relationships between provincial governors and the Provincial Councils (PCs) shape the political landscape of southern Iraq. Those relations are marked by fluid political identities, uneven distributions o [...] | 2007-12-07 14:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3974 | DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETING WITH AYATOLLAH HUSSEIN [...] (C) Summary: On December 1 Ayatollah Hussein Ismail al-Sadr, Baghdad's senior Shi'ite cleric, hosted Deputy Secretary Negroponte at his residence attached to the SIPDIS Khadimiya mosque complex. Al-Sadr spoke with commitment about his vision of shared U.S.-Iraqi efforts to build a democra [...] | 2007-12-07 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3975 | KIRKUK OFFICIALS TELL DEPUTY SECRETARY ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte met with Kirkuk Governor Abdulrahman and Provincial Council Chairman Rizgar Ali November 29. The two senior provincial officials expressed their frustration with the Central Government in Baghdad and outlined their requests for funding o [...] | 2007-12-07 16:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3976 | DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETS WITH DIYALA PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Eight Executive and Provincial Council (PC) members from Diyala Province met on November 29 with Deputy Secretary Negroponte at Forward Operating Base Warhorse SIPDIS (Baqubah). They confirmed dramatic improvements in the secu [...] | 2007-12-07 18:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3977 | SOUTH CENTRAL LEADERS DISCUSS SECURITY AND U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Secretary Negroponte welcomed Iraqi leaders from the south central region to a meeting at the Regional Embassy Office in Al Hillah on November 27. Common themes from the discussion included strengthening the Iraq Security Forces and the Rule of Law, encouraging Iraq,s nei [...] | 2007-12-07 18:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD398 | IRAQI PARLIAMENT SPEAKER'S STATEMENTS CAUSE SOME [...] (C) According to a February 6 Baghdadiyah TV report, both Firyad Rawanduzi of the Kurdish Alliance (KAL) and Shia Independent Sami Al-Askari (Shiite, Da'awa) made statements on a 'consensus' reached by the Council of Representatives (CoR) blocs to replace Sunni Speaker Mashadani. Conversation [...] | 2007-02-06 19:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3985 | S/I SATTERFIELD, CG, AND CDA DISCUSS UNSCR, [...] (S) Summary: S/I Satterfield took the opportunity of the regular weekly meeting between PM Maliki and Multi-National Force-Iraq Commanding General Petraeus (CG) and Embassy COM (CDA Butenis) to press PM Maliki to sign his (Maliki's) letter to the UN Security Council (UNSC) requesting a UNSCR [...] | 2007-12-09 06:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3986 | PROVINCIAL COUNCILS TERMS OF OFFICE [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq,s provincial councils were seated in January 2005. It is commonly assumed that members of the provincial councils were, like members of the Council of Representatives, elected to four year terms and that new elections are therefore required by January 2009. However, this [...] | 2007-12-09 07:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3988 | A YEAR IN REVIEW: AYAD ALLAWI'S IRAQIYYA COALITION [...] (S/NF) Summary. Despite high expectations by many, Allawi's attempts to make a splash in Iraqi national politics fell flat in 2007. Instead of participating in a positive agenda to unify the government, he focused his efforts on overthrowing PM Maliki. This strategy appears to have back-fir [...] | 2007-12-09 08:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3990 | PM MALIKI EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE TO SECDEF GATES [...] (C) Summary. In a December 5 meeting, PM Maliki repeatedly noted to Defense Secretary Gates the positive impact of progress in the security situation. Improved security was facilitating positive developments in Iraq's internal political situation as well as Iraq's relationships with the Unit [...] | 2007-12-09 10:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS MARR MOPS ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3991 | DEPUTY SPEAKER ATTIYA OPTIMISTIC ON KEY [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a December 5 meeting with S/I David Satterfield, Deputy COR Speaker Khalid al-Attiya gave a rosy outlook for key legislation in the new year. He said the De-Ba'athification bill and budget were nearing completion, a provincial powers law would reach the COR in ea [...] | 2007-12-09 12:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4001 | IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS ON PERSONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 10:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC PREL PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD4003 | SOUTH'S INDEPENDENT POLICE CHIEFS NEED U.S. [...] (S/NF) Summary: Ref A detailed the threats facing independent police chiefs in the south and made the case for offering these chiefs increased USG support. On December 9 Babil Police Chief Qais al-Mumury was killed in an explosion targeting his convoy (ref B). His assassination came amid fo [...] | 2007-12-10 11:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4005 | U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH DPM BARHAM SALEH [...] (C) Summary: During his December 5 meeting with U/S Jeffery, DPM Saleh underscored the importance of achieving needed political reforms to consolidate economic gains. U/S Jeffrey said KRG/oil company contracts give the impression of a lack of progress on hydrocarbons legislation. Saleh said [...] | 2007-12-10 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4006 | CO-FINANCING HEADLINES IRFFI DONORS COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Ambassador De Martino chaired the first International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFF) Donors Committee meeting following Bari. Recently arrived UN SRSG Steffan De Mistura also gave opening remarks during a mostly unremarkable meeting. MoPDC senior advisor Dr. [...] | 2007-12-10 16:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN EINV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4007 | FM TO TRAVEL TO SYRIA, IRAQ REP AT PARIS DONOR [...] (C) In December 6 and 9 meetings with PolMil Minister Counselor Amb. Marcie Ries, Foreign Minister Zebari reviewed the SPD and UNSCR processes, and robustly criticized the Prime Minister's Office's (PMO) role in the matter. Citing improved relations and increased Syrian pressure on foreign [...] | 2007-12-11 01:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4008 | PRT KIRKUK: ARABS END PROVINCIAL COUNCIL BOYCOTT [...] (U) This is a Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary: The return of the Arab bloc members on December 4 to the Kirkuk Provincial Council peacefully resolved a year-long Sunni Arab boycott. Negotiations for the Arab bloc's return saw concessions by the ruling Ki [...] | 2007-12-11 06:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4014 | CHALABI SERVICE COMMITTEE REVIEWS PROGRESS [...] SUMMARY: Pausing to review previously adopted recommendations, the Services Committee dedicated nearly two hours of discussion at its December 4 meeting to that end. The Ministries of Trade, Oil, Defense, Health and Electricity presented, as did the Amanat and a council representative from Sabi [...] | 2007-12-11 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4024 | U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH PM ADVISOR ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: Thamir Ghadban, Advisor to the Prime Minister, on December 5 discussed the "way forward" for hydrocarbon law enactment with a delegation led by Under Secretary Jeffery. END SUMMARY. SIPDIS 2. (U) Participants: U/S Jeffery, Thamir Ghadban, Ron Jonkers, Tom Pierce, Abdulilah [...] | 2007-12-11 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4025 | MCNS DECEMBER 9: AQI, RUSAFA FACILITY, JUDICIARY, [...] (S/REL MNF) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki led the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) in discussion of funding of the Rusafa Rule of Law facility, relocation of prisoners closer to family, and final details of the Basrah Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) handover ceremony. MNF-I b [...] | 2007-12-11 18:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER PREL MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4027 | FM RECEIVES OBJECTIVE MASSEY BRIEF [...] (C) On December 10, and in advance of what will be Foreign Minister Zebari's first official trip to Syria, PolMil Minister Counselor Ambassador Marcie Ries and MNF-I intel personnel provided him a foreign terrorist and facilitators (FTF) briefing based on Objective Massey data. Zebari listen [...] | 2007-12-12 01:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD403 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. KRG President Condemns Bombings in Baghdad, Babil, and Kikuk --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) Newspapers reported on KRG President's condemnation of the recent terrorist attacks in Baghdad, Babil, and Kir [...] | 2007-02-07 06:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PKPA PGOV ECON IZ TU US |
07BAGHDAD4032 | PM MALIKI CHAIRS ICI BAGHDAD COORDINATION GROUP [...] (SBU) On December 10 Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki chaired a meeting of International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Baghdad Coordination Group (BCG) to provide the international donor community with an update on ICI implementation. Maliki opened the 45 minute session by noting the difficulties faci [...] | 2007-12-12 07:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4039 | CODEL POMEROY MEETING WITH AMAR AL-HAKIM [...] (C) Summary: In a December 3 meeting with Syed Amar al-Hakim, son of ISCI head Abdulaziz al-Hakim, Codel Pomeroy heard that there are signs of security, economic, and even political improvement in Iraq. Syed Amar said the Strategic Partnership Declaration (SPD) proved that a large portion of [...] | 2007-12-12 13:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD404 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. Sulaimaniyah to Give Fuel to Owners of 300 Private Generators --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) Kurdistani New reports that the Sulaimaniyah provincial government will supply 50% of the diesel fuel and ele [...] | 2007-02-07 06:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PKPA PGOV ECON IZ TU US |
07BAGHDAD4041 | USAID-SPONSORED WORKSHOP ON DISPLACED [...] SUMMARY: Representatives from Iraq's Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MoDM) were among the 75 participants discussing the considerable challenges in meeting the immediate and long-term needs of Iraq's Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as well as the new complexities of a burgeoning [...] | 2007-12-12 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF IZ |
07BAGHDAD4044 | KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI ON THE HYDROCARBON LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an 8 December meeting with Under Secretary Reuben Jeffrey, KRG President Masoud Barzani SIPDIS expressed concern with what he described as the centralization of power amongst a certain few in Baghdad. President Barzani said that the hydrocarbon law had become a politica [...] | 2007-12-12 15:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4045 | KRG PM BARZANI ON THE HYDROCARBON LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an 8 December meeting with U/S Jeffery, Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani requested U.S. support as an "honest broker" between the central government and the KRG on the national hydrocarbon law. PM Barzani also outlined his plans to travel to [...] | 2007-12-12 15:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD4046 | DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT,S DECEMBER 3 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani told Treasury D/S Kimmitt that Prime Minister Maliki and President Talibani have written a joint letter to KRG President Barzani stating that the KRG,s PSA arrangements with foreign companies are unconstitutional until they are reviewed by f [...] | 2007-12-13 06:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD4048 | JAM FREEZE CONTINUES UNTIL GOD AND SADR SAY [...] (S) Summary: Roughly three months after Muqtada al-Sadr ordered a six-month "freeze" of military activity by his Jaysh al-Mehdi (JAM) militia, the mercurial cleric issued a lengthy internet statement December 2 in which he ordered continuation of the freeze "until Almighty God wills otherwise; [...] | 2007-12-13 08:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD4049 | EPRT DIYALA SOUTH: HOW CONFLICTING LINES [...] (U) This is an ePRT Diyala South reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The emergence of effective local government in Diyala Province is stalling due to conflicting lines of authority, a lack of defined roles and responsibilities, and disconnects with ministerial representatives from the cen [...] | 2007-12-13 10:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4052 | GOI ASKS KRG TO STOP SIGNING NEW PSCS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki and President Talabani jointly sent a letter dated December 2 to Kurdish Regional Government President Barzani, asking that the KRG comply with the Constitution and existing federal oil laws and cease executing oil production contracts with private intern [...] | 2007-12-13 10:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG IZ |
07BAGHDAD4055 | REHABILITATING INDUSTRY IN DIYALA PROVINCE - PROGRESS AT [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. SUMMARY -------- 2. (U) In the wake of recent clearing operations by Coalition Forces in Baqubah, rehabilitation of the primary State-Owned industrial facility in Diyala province made good progress in September and October. The Director General [...] | 2007-12-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD4056 | Currency in the city - A Diyala Banking Update [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Despite various setbacks in September, October was a very successful month for banking in Diyala. Most significantly, Ministry of Finance contracted money trucks are now being used to transport funds from Baghdad to Baq [...] | 2007-12-13 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD4057 | JAAFARI'S VEIL DANCE OF IMPERFECTLY-CONCEALED PM [...] (C) Summary: In a December 12 meeting, former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari warned that the USG will be able to conclude a long-term bilateral security arrangement only with an Iraqi leader who has a solid base of popular support and is able to explain the upside of the agreement to a skep [...] | 2007-12-13 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4058 | DASH FOR DINARS AS DOLLAR DEMAND DROPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Demand for the dinar has risen this past week in response to the holiday period, a reported drop in imported good prices in Baghdad due to an appreciating dinar against the dollar and improved security, and speculation among money traders of a sudden appreciation of the dinar that [...] | 2007-12-13 18:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD4059 | WHAT IS DRIVING IRAQ'S DECLINING INFLATION RATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Inflation in Iraq is on a downward trend, reflecting improved security, supply and targeted monetary policy. A close examination of the country's inflationary trend revealed poor security compounded by increasing demand--especially for fuel--to be the major inflationary pressur [...] | 2007-12-13 18:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD4062 | GOI TESTING THE WATERS ON PDS REFORM [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: In recent weeks, GOI officials, including the Ministers of Trade and Finance, have spoken publicly about the need to institute changes in the public distribution system (PDS). World prices for wheat alone, one of the commodities provided in the PDS basket, have risen signi [...] | 2007-12-14 11:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4063 | Weekly Update: Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - [...] SUMMARY: The December 11 Baghdad Services Committee meeting reviewed previous recommendations, briefly mentioned an oil report to be discussed more thoroughly at an upcoming meeting and reviewed GoI contracting procedures. It was attended by representatives from the Ministries of Defense, Trade [...] | 2007-12-14 12:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ REL UK |
07BAGHDAD4065 | JOURNALISTS ON THE STATE OF PRESS FREEDOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Broadcast and print journalists in Baghdad reported that the government, political parties, and religious leaders were attempting to control the content of their reports during a series of meetings during October and November. Seven journalists who have worked for a variety of t [...] | 2007-12-14 14:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECPS KDEM KPAO IZ |
07BAGHDAD4066 | U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH PLANNING MINISTER BABAN [...] (SBU) Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Ali Baban's key message to the U/S Reuben Jeffery during a December 6 meeting was that the current government's lack of decisionmaking undercuts Iraq's political and economic development. He stressed that the Iraqi government need [...] | 2007-12-14 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ENRG IZ POL |
07BAGHDAD4067 | DPM SALEH: DECENTRALIZE AUTHORITY TO THE [...] (C) Summary. DPM Barham Saleh told GOVDEL (Don Carcieri, R-RI; Bill Ritter, D-CO; and Mike Rounds, R-SD) on December 11 the central GOI needs to devolve more authority to the provinces. Political fixes are needed, he said, and called for more compromises between the party blocs as well as po [...] | 2007-12-14 17:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4068 | UN SRSG POSSIBLY GAINS BREAKTHROUGH AGREEMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General Staffan de Mistura told Senior SIPDIS Adviser December 13 that he had "good news" on an Article 140 way forward. De Mistura said that President Talabani, Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Nechirvan Barz [...] | 2007-12-14 18:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4070 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: GOI AND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Salah ad Din Provincial government officials tell PRTOffs that on every issue that is important to them - from provincial powers, to De-Baathification and institutionalizing arrangements made on the tribal se [...] | 2007-12-15 13:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4078 | MALIKI ON USG-IRAQI BILATERAL AGREEMENTS, BASRAH [...] (S) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki told the USCENTCOM Commander, Admiral Fallon, that he was pleased with the recently signed Declaration of Principles and blamed negotiating delays on deliberations required by the Council of Representatives (CoR). Concerning the transition of Basrah to Provin [...] | 2007-12-16 12:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER |
07BAGHDAD408 | KURDS DELAY BUDGET OVER FUNDING FOR PESHMERGA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Baghdad coordinator Dilshad Miran (KDP) told Poloff February 1 that negotiations on the security and defense portion of the national budget were still ongoing but had stalled because of disagreement over GOI funding for the Kurdish Peshmerga sec [...] | 2007-02-07 09:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4084 | ELECTIONS COMMISSION STAFFING UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: The Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has appointed twelve of the twenty Governorate Electoral Officers; however, the CoR remains deadlocked over nominations for the remaining eight positions. While mid- and lower-ranked IHEC employees complain of patronage and nepoti [...] | 2007-12-16 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD4085 | FM PROVIDES SYRIA TRIP READOUT; NOTES "NEW TONE" [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 14 meeting with PolMil Minister Counselor Ambassador Marcie Ries and Pol Counselor Matthew Tueller, Foreign Minister Zebari said he detected a "new tone" from the SARG and an increased willingness to engage on a range of issues. The Foreign Minister reported that [...] | 2007-12-17 01:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4088 | PRESIDENT TALABANI HOSTS 750 BAGHDAD TRIBAL [...] (S) On December 13, President Jalal Talabani hosted at his Baghdad compound 750 Baghdad sheikhs (Sunni and Shia) along with Vice President Hashimi, Interior Minister Bolani, Parliament Defense Committee Member al-Samaraie, General Petraeus, the Charge, the UK Ambassador, and other distinguish [...] | 2007-12-17 05:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4090 | KRG WASHINGTON REP REPORTS ON PM MALIKI-KRG OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: KRG Washington representative (and son of Iraq President Jalal Talibani) Qubad Talibani called on EMIN December 15 to convey Kurdish impressions of the "serious" bilateral meeting earlier that day between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Prime M [...] | 2007-12-17 06:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD4094 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE, 14 DECEMBER 2007 [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the absence of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki, National Security Advisor Muwaffuk Rubaie chaired the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al Qanoon ) FAQ) Iraq Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) on December 14. Rubaie announced that the Government of Iraq (GoI) will launch their ne [...] | 2007-12-17 07:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD4095 | INVESTMENT COMMISSION CHAIR: POLITICS SHOULD NOT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD4096 | KRG ON ARTICLE 140: "TECHNICAL" DELAY ACCEPTABLE [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani and Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani told the Senior Advisor December 9 that only a "technical" delay for some months in implementing Article 140 would be acceptable, and must be announced by the GOI, not the KRG. While PM B [...] | 2007-12-17 08:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD4098 | NORTHWEST BAGHDAD RECONCILIATION: SUCCESSES AND [...] (U) This is a Baghdad embedded PRT 5 and Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Introduction: Reconciliation in Baghdad requires locally-tailored approaches. In the predominantly rural Abu Ghraib Qada (county) of Baghdad Province, sustaining reconciliation momentum demands a delicate balan [...] | 2007-12-17 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD4099 | IRAQI LEGISLATIVE CASE STUDY: JAPANESE ODA LOAN [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Approximately one year following initial agreement, a batch of Iraqi reconstruction assistance projects financed with Japanese soft-loans has nearly completed its journey through the Iraqi legislative process. Currently, ten projects (valued at some USD 2.1 billion) have b [...] | 2007-12-17 13:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4106 | VP HASHIMI SUPPORTS ARTICLE 140 IMPLEMENTATION AND [...] (C) Summary and comment: Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi told the press December 16 after meeting with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani that he supports the implementation of Article 140 and blamed delays in the implementation on the security situation. He [...] | 2007-12-17 15:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4107 | RRT ERBIL: UN SRSG DE MISTURA ADDRESSES KURDISH [...] (U) Summary: In a Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) session December 17, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General (UN SRSG) Staffan de Mistura presented UNAMI's proposal for a six-month technical delay of the Article 140 process and offered UN technical support to serve [...] | 2007-12-17 18:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD4108 | COR ISSUES UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) is scheduled to reconvene on December 30, following its three week hiatus for the Hajj and the Eid holiday. It has the Budget Law and Accountability and Justice (i.e., the de-Ba'ath law) to deal with during the January extension of its reg [...] | 2007-12-17 18:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4109 | IRAQI REACTION TO DECEMBER 16 TURKISH AIRSTRIKES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-18 02:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREL PTER IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD4110 | IRAQI REACTION TO DECEMBER 16 TURKISH AIRSTRIKES [...] (S) SUMMARY: While both PM Maliki and FM Zebari were measured in their remarks in reaction to the December 16 Turkish airstrikes against PKK targets in the northern Qandil mountains, they underscored that loss of civilian lives was "unacceptable." Implying U.S. involvement in the airstrikes, [...] | 2007-12-18 08:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PREL PTER IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD4111 | Chalabi's Provision of Services Committee - December 16 [...] SUMMARY: The Provision of Services Committee met December 16 in a special meeting to hear from representatives from Nahrawan and Mada'in. Council members detailed their service needs which included potable water, doctors and medical equipment, schools and security for electricity infrastructure [...] | 2007-12-18 09:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ REL UK |
07BAGHDAD4115 | NINEWA: KURDS AND ARABS A LONG WAY FROM DIALOGUE [...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary: In a series of meetings on Article 140 with many influential Ninewa political figures on December 10-11, Special Advisor David Pearce heard unanimous support for continued USG engagement on the issue but agreement on little else. While Kurds favored implementation of wha [...] | 2007-12-18 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4116 | TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE NGO COMMENTS ON DE-BA'ATH LAW [...] (C) Summary: The International Center for Transitional Justice, a U.S.-based NGO, has delivered an analysis of the Law of Accountability and Justice to the GOI and CoR leadership that criticizes the current draft. The analysis warns the CoR that the draft will not further national reconciliat [...] | 2007-12-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4117 | IRAQ'S NGO REGISTRATION WOES [...] (C REL USA GBR) Summary: In early October, the NGO Assistance Office proposed to the Council of Ministers that all NGOs formerly registered by the Ministry of Planning be forced to re-register. Although the request was denied by the Council of Ministers General Secretariat, significant number [...] | 2007-12-18 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4118 | MCNS ON DECEMBER 16 DISCUSSED TURKISH ATTACKS, [...] (S/REL UK AS) Summary: The Iraqi Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met December 16 to be briefed on Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq (MNSTC-I) contributions and support for the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and to clarify funding procedures for the Rusafa Rule of [...] | 2007-12-18 15:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MASS PTER PREL MOPS MARR PGOV IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD4123 | IMPROVING USG BUDGET EXECUTION IN IRAQ [...] SUMMARY: We are seeking ways to improve the delivery of programs inside Iraq with resultant increase of US budget execution. Dramatic improvements may be difficult to come by, but we have recommendations to offer that would not only promote funds disbursement, but also improve Iraqi involvement [...] | 2007-12-19 04:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4125 | MOI ON FOREIGN TERRORISTS AND BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a December 12 meeting, Pol-Mil M/C discussed foreign terrorists, border security, and the PKK with Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani. While Syria had taken some actions and there had been a reduction in the number of foreign terrorists entering Iraq, Syria was hampered in its [...] | 2007-12-19 10:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PINS PREL PTER IZ SA SY |
07BAGHDAD4126 | EMBASSY-GOI 12/16 MEETING ON URANIUM REMOVAL FROM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-19 11:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ENRG IZ KNNP PARM PREL |
07BAGHDAD4127 | SAMARRA MOSQUE RECONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN MID-JANUARY [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister on Reconstruction Haq al-Hakim told EmbOffs, MNF-I representatives, and UNAMI representative on December 12 that the GOI planned to start reconstruction of the Shia Golden Mosque in Samarra on January 15. According to al-Hakim, PM Maliki has [...] | 2007-12-19 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD4136 | KUWAITI NAVY IN DISPUTE WITH COALITION-CONTRACTED [...] (C) Summary. The Kuwaiti Navy forced two vessels contracted by the Multi-National Force in Iraq (MNF-I) for salvage operations to hastily depart from their anchored position in disputed waters in the Khawr Abd Allah waterway on December 18. This occurred despite multiple-channel appeals to th [...] | 2007-12-19 13:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT IZ MARR MCAP MOPS PBTS PGOV PINR PINS |
07BAGHDAD4137 | PRT MAYSAN: OFFICIAL BLAMES SHI'A, NOT AQI, FOR [...] (S/NF) Summary: On December 18, 2007, PRT staff met with Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi, Advisor to the Maysan Governor, and three senior provincial agricultural officers at Tallil Air Base to discuss project opportunities. During lunch, one official briefly strayed off-message and informed us that the [...] | 2007-12-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD414 | KIRKUK OFFICIALS ON SECURITY, SERVICES, AND TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Kirkuk Governor Abdulrahman Mustafa Fatah and Provincial Council Chair Rizgar Ali Hamajan on February 5. Other members of the governor's office and the provincial council also attended. The officials thanked the Ambassador for his support of Kirkuk, and [...] | 2007-02-07 17:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD4140 | CHALABI'S PROVISION OF SERVICES COMMITTEE - [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-19 16:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD4141 | STAFFDEL GARVEY MEETS WITH DEFMIN ABDUL QADR [...] Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staff Member Patrick Garvey met with Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul Qadr Muhammed Jasim December 7 to discuss the current state of Iraqi defense forces and development efforts in the MOD. While noting the significant progress that the Iraqi milita [...] | 2007-12-20 08:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PGOV NATO IZ |
07BAGHDAD4142 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: SHIFTING GOI PRIORITIES [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Draft legislation on provincial elections has stalled in the Prime Minister,s office, in part because Iraq,s dominant national political parties assess that new elections would work to their disadvantage. Moreover, Iraqi politicians now say they must finish the provincial [...] | 2007-12-20 13:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD4143 | BRITISH FS SAYS HMG AND USG THINKING ON IRAQ [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a December 17 meeting, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, (FS) accompanied by UK Ambassador SIPDIS to Iraq Christopher Prentice and MNF-I Deputy CG William Rollo, told Ambassador Crocker and MNF-I CG Petraeus that, post-Basrah PIC, Her Majesty's Government (HMG) wan [...] | 2007-12-20 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV UK IZ |
07BAGHDAD4144 | EPRT-WASIT: WASIT'S NEW CHINESE POWER PLANT [...] (SBU) On 17 December Wasit Governor Abd al-Latif Hamad Turfa told Team Leader ePRT and CDR 214th FB that he accompanied the Minister of Electricity to China to witness the signing of a power plant contract between the GOI and Shanghai Heavy Industry for the construction of a power plant that w [...] | 2007-12-20 19:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG ETRD IZ CH |
07BAGHDAD4146 | PRT-WASIT: 57 WASIT SHEIKHS TOUR IRAN AT MALIKI'S [...] (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary. According to an influential ePRT contact, 57 Wasit Sheikhs visited Iran from 21 November to 6 December at the invitation of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. While in Iran, the sheiks received lectures in "five-star hotels," met religious leaders and visited Shi'a [...] | 2007-12-21 11:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD415 | VIOLENCE IN BAGHDAD'S AMEL NEIGHBORHOOD: SUNNI AND [...] (C) Summary. Sunni residents of the Baghdad area of al Amel told EmbOffs that Sunnis in their neighborhood continued be tortured, killed and forcibly displaced by Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) militia members. They claimed that the operations had been so severe that the neighborhood had lost most of i [...] | 2007-02-07 17:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD4155 | ARTICLE 140: VIEWS FROM THE ERBIL STREET [...] (C) Summary: according to a variety of sources, eventual implementation of Article 140 is an important and emotional issue for the &Erbil Street,8 but the delay will not trigger strong public reaction, despite KRG leadership claims over the past months. RRT does not expect any significant p [...] | 2007-12-22 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD4156 | NINEWA: KDP VICE GOVERNOR VISITS PROMINENT SHAMMAR [...] (C/REL AUS, GBR, CAN) Ninewa Vice Governor and provincial Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) leader Khasro Goran fielded complaints December 17 from local tribal leaders in a rare visit to prominent Shammar sheikh Abdullah Al Yawr's house. The Shammar, a politically and economically powerful Arab [...] | 2007-12-22 17:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4158 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2007-12-23 07:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD416 | DIYALA PERSPECTIVE: SUNNI COR MEMBER DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives (CoR) member Salim al-Jeboori (Sunni, IIP from Diyala) described a grim situation in Diyala province during a February 6 meeting with poloffs. The ethnically-diverse province adjacent to Baghdad is plagued by terrorists, Sunni insurgents, Shia militias, [...] | 2007-02-07 18:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD4162 | TURKEY/PKK: STOPPING THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Turkish military airstrikes against PKK targets in the Qandil Mountains December 16 and the subsequent December 17/18 crossing of Turkish infantry in pursuit of KGK elements were successful in demonstrating that PKK terrorism will not be tolerated either by the Turks or the U.S. [...] | 2007-12-23 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL PTER IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD4163 | AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER CONFIRMS TROOP DRAWDOWN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Australian Prime Minister Rudd confirmed the drawdown of the Australian battle group and training elements at Tallil by August 2008. He noted that Australia was not leaving the coalition; some units would stay citing the P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft, the frigate in the Arabian G [...] | 2007-12-23 14:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD4173 | (CORRECTED COPY) HUMANITARIAN DEMINING IN IRAQ [...] (U) SUMMARY: Over three decades of conflicts have made Iraq one of the most severely mine/unexploded ordnance (UXO) afflicted nations in the world. With over 1600 communities out of the 12,000 communities surveyed reportedly impacted by landmines, Iraq needs an effective clearance capacity to [...] | 2007-12-23 17:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ KHDP |
07BAGHDAD4174 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2007-12-24 12:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD4175 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2007-12-24 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD4176 | BABIL PIC TO TAKE PLACE IN 2008 [...] (C/REL UK AS) In response to security concerns raised by Multi-National Division-Center (MND-C) commander MG Lynch, the Joint Committee to Transfer Security Responsibility (JCTSR) has recommended a postponement in establishing Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) of Babil Province from December 2007 [...] | 2007-12-25 05:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MOPS PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD4179 | IMF UNDERPLAYS IRAQ 2007 ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] (U) This is an action request for the Department, Embassy Amman and Treasury. Please see para 6. 2. (C) On December 19, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) unanimously voted to approve a new Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) for Iraq. In its attendant SBA report, the Fund [...] | 2007-12-26 07:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD4184 | TROUBLE AMONG MAYSAN'S SADRISTS [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Maysan,s Sadrists are challenged by a splintering within the Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) and mounting public discontent over poor governance, according to a US-based Maysani businessman. He said the criminal and former Baathist members [...] | 2007-12-27 11:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD4185 | PRT MUTHANNA: QRF PROGRAM EMPOWERS, EMBOLDENS [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MNF-I) Summary: In a December 16 meeting with the PRT, three leading representatives of the marja'iyya lauded the PRTs work and identified four additional local development projects for USG consideration. The clerics are vital pilla [...] | 2007-12-27 13:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL SOCI KISL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4189 | PRT MAYSAN: NO ANBAR AWAKENING IN MAYSAN [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary. PRT assesses that the unique demographics and historical legacy of Maysan make it infertile ground for a Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs) approach to tribal engagement. Incorporating tribal members into a community security forc [...] | 2007-12-27 13:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD419 | UN OUTLINES CONCERNS WITH IRAQ'S CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary General (D/SRSG) Michael Schulenburg and UNAMI SIPDIS Director for the Office of Constitutional Support Professor Nicholas Haysom updated the DCM on the Constitutional Review Committee's lack of urgency and unwillingness to tackle t [...] | 2007-02-08 09:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4192 | ANBAR POLITICAL LEADERS DISCUSS POWER-SHARING [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. Four leading political figures from Anbar Province met in Amman, Jordan, on December 18 to lay plans for a power-sharing formula for the province,s main political factions. The plan they developed includes the creation of a &Higher [...] | 2007-12-27 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4193 | THE KURDS FIRE A SHOT OVER PM MALIKI'S BOW [...] (C) Summary: In a lengthy open letter to Prime Minister Maliki dated December 21, the Kurdistan Alliance registered its concern over "lost opportunities, crippled wills, the confusion in taking decisions and obstructing the participation and reform process" and presented Maliki with a list of [...] | 2007-12-27 18:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4199 | KURDISH LEADERS AGREE TO GIVE MALIKI ONE LAST [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Crocker met on 26 December in Erbil with Iraq,s senior Kurdish leaders to discuss their support for Prime Minister Maliki, negotiations for a long-term security agreement between Washington and Baghdad, Article 140, and Turkish attacks on the PKK. Assembled Kurdish le [...] | 2007-12-29 13:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD42 | MOI BOLANI SLOW TO DEVELOP REFORM PLAN [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY. PM Maliki is frustrated by the lack of progress by Minister of Interior (MOI) Jawad al-Bolani and National Security Advisor Muwafak al-Rubaie to develop a plan for comprehensive MOI reform as was ordered by Maliki at the October 22 meeting of the Ministerial Committee [...] | 2007-01-07 05:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD420 | UNAMI SRSG QAZI REPORTS SYRIAN AND SAUDI VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: On February 5, UN Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi told DCM and the Ambassadors of France, UK, Russia and the Chinese Charge that, during his recent trip to Damascus, Syrian interlocutors had expressed support for the Baker report and characterize [...] | 2007-02-08 09:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PINR UN SY SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD4200 | NINEWA: "HEDBA GATHERING" BLOC OFFERS SUNNI ARABS [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2.. (C/REL AUS, GBR, CAN) Summary: Atheel al Najaifi, a top official in the secular nationalist Ninewa political bloc the Hedba Gathering, detailed the bloc,s strategy and agenda in several conversations with PRT. Al Najaifi, [...] | 2007-12-29 16:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4203 | TOPI PROMISES MORE ALBANIAN TROOPS; SURPLUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 23 meeting, Albanian President Bamir Topi told Ambassador Crocker, MNF-I CG David Petraeus and PolMil Minister Counselor Ambassador Marcie Ries that his country planned to increase the number of its troops in Iraq. Albanian Minister of Defense Fatmir Mediu, who a [...] | 2007-12-30 04:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4204 | PRT KIRKUK: 13-POINT AGREEMENT ENDS ARAB BOYCOTT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) and the Arab Bloc of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC) on 2 December agreed on a resolution ending the Arab bloc,s year long boycott. The thirteen-point agreement was the result of a PRT initiative to bring the blocs together during countless [...] | 2007-12-30 06:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4205 | CURRENT STATUS OF GOI FUNDING FOR CLCS [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Coalition efforts to secure counterpart GOI funding for the transition of Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs or Awakening Councils) have garnered positive responses from Finance Minister Bayan Jabr and Chair of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Economic Committee Dr. Haider [...] | 2007-12-30 09:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4219 | HUMMAM HAMMOUDI DISCUSSES LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FOR [...] (C) Hummam Hammoudi, ISCI's deputy bloc leader, confirmed on December 27 that ISCI would vote in favor of the de-Ba'athification law. "We wrote it, so how could we not support it?" Hammoudi chuckled. Hammoudi said there was no chance that either the Fadhila or Sadrist blocs would support the [...] | 2007-12-31 07:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4221 | VP HASHEMI ON ALLYING WITH KURDS AND STABILIZING [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on 30 December with Vice President and Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) head Tariq al-Hashemi. Hashemi said the purpose of the IIP-Kurdish agreement last week was to pressure the GOI to work harder for political progress and to cooperate against increasing violence i [...] | 2007-12-31 09:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD4222 | PRT KIRKUK: POPULATION MOVEMENTS IN KIRKUK [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-31 14:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4223 | PRT KIRKUK: ORDER TO HASTEN RETURN OF PROPERTY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Article 140 committee in October approved Order #6 to return land in parts of Kirkuk to its mostly Turcoman original owners. The decision potentially relieves the backlogged Commission for the Resolution of Real Property Disputes (CRRPD) of nearly a third of its caseload, [...] | 2007-12-31 14:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4224 | ANBAR LEADERS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT CREATING [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting Cable. 2. (C) Summary: Five Anbar political leaders agreed to establish the Anbar Higher Committee (AHC) at a meeting in Amman, Jordan on December 23. (Note: This meeting was a follow-up to the December 18 meeting (reftel),where the idea was originall [...] | 2007-12-31 14:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD4225 | PRT MUTHANNA: SECURITY FORCE LEADER SAYS IRANIAN [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable. 2. (S/REL MNF-I) Summary and Comment: Colonel Ali al-Khawam, the leader of Muthanna,s Criminal Intelligence Unit (CIU),sees Iranian influence and militia violence spreading from Basra as the greatest threats to stability in southern Iraq. Accor [...] | 2007-12-31 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV IR IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD4226 | THE AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 29 MEETINGS WITH COR [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met separately on December 29 with Council of Representatives (COR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani and First Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khaled Al-Attiya. Both said that the COR would reconvene as scheduled on December 30, although Sheikh Khaled questioned whether it was worth [...] | 2007-12-31 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINR PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD4227 | TUWAITHA NUCLEAR MATERIALS SITREP [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Ries met with Iraqi Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Raid Jahid (FAHMI) on the evening of 30 December to discuss next steps on Tuwaitha. Ries requested the Minister's assistance to accomplish four key steps necessary to complete the proposed work at Tuwaitha: 1 [...] | 2007-12-31 16:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON PARM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD426 | CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW: IDENTIFYING PRIORITIES, [...] (C) Summary. In the two and a half months since the Council of Representatives (CoR) named the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC),political parties have yet to engage substantively over possible constitutional amendments. Tawafuq, in collaboration with several smaller political parties, a [...] | 2007-02-08 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD429 | PM MALIKI FRUSTRATED WITH THE SLOW PACE OF THE BSP [...] (S/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: On February 5, Prime Minister Maliki told the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General Casey that he was frustrated with the slow pace of the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP). Maliki said that our actions have not yet lived up to our statements on the BSP, and noted that Iraq [...] | 2007-02-08 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PNAT PINR PREL MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD430 | AL-HAKIM AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BADR DETAINEES, [...] (S) Summary: Abdulaziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI),questioned the Ambassador on February 1 about several Badr members detained by the coalition. Badr leader Hadi al-Amri, also present, repeated his usual call for "evidence." The Ambassa [...] | 2007-02-08 14:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IR SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD431 | PRT KIRKUK: ARTICLE 140 - ARAB RELOCATION ISSUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Relocation of Arabization Arabs ("Wafidain") back to their original homes outside Kirkuk Province has suddenly emerged here as a volatile issue, after the GOI Article 140 Commission,s February 4th announcement of its proposed relocation program. Kirkuk's Arab Consultative Counc [...] | 2007-02-08 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD433 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. Continuing Reaction to Article 140 Committee Resolutions --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) Kurdish press was dominated today by continued reactions from across the region on two resolutions of the Higher Com [...] | 2007-02-08 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR PKPA PGOV ECON IZ US |
07BAGHDAD434 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. Ansar al-Islam Plot to Murder Sulaimaniyah Security Officials Thwarted --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) Hawlati independent newspaper published details of a plot by three members of Ansar al-Islam to murde [...] | 2007-02-08 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR PKPA PGOV ECON PINS IZ US |
07BAGHDAD436 | AL-HAKIM AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BADR DETAINEES, [...] (S) Summary: Abdulaziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI),questioned the Ambassador on February 1 about several Badr members detained by the coalition. Badr leader Hadi al-Amri, also present, repeated his usual call for "evidence." The Ambassa [...] | 2007-02-08 15:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IR SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD439 | DAILY LIFE IN MUTHANNA PROVINCE: ASSORTED [...] This is a PRT Muthanna cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. In many important ways, daily life in Muthanna Province differs little from that of life in 18th and 19th century Islamic society in Iraq. Religious dominance in daily life, rampant unemployment and persistent security concerns [...] | 2007-02-09 08:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SCUL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD440 | BARZANI REMAINS STATIC ON PKK ISSUE [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's February 3-5 visit to Erbil, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani called for a two-part strategy for solving the PKK issue that combines an amnesty with military action. He warned against a purely military action from the Turks and [...] | 2007-02-09 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD441 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES APPROVES 2007 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: The Council of Representatives approved the 2007 budget at 18:30 on February 8, just before going into recess. Negotiations between the Kurds and the central government were tentatively concluded late afternoon on February 8, with an agreement to 'reach an agreement between the [...] | 2007-02-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD447 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. U. S. Air Force Attacks Peshmerga in Mosul --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (U) PUK media outlets reported that late Thursday night the U. S. Air Force attacked a PUK office in al-Karama neighborhood in Mos [...] | 2007-02-11 06:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR PKPA PGOV ECON IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD451 | PM INSIDER AL-ASKARI ON DEBAATHIFICATION, SUNNI [...] (C) CoR member and Prime Minister insider Sami al-Askari told PolCouns on February 7 that the Shi'a coalition, with the possible exception of the Sadrists, was ready to make changes to deBaathification legislation. Noting that deBaathification reform was the single most important current leg [...] | 2007-02-11 11:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD452 | IRAQI POLITICIAN DISCUSSES EFFORTS TO FORM [...] (S) Council of Representatives (CoR) member Nadim al-Jabiri (Shi'a coalition - Fadhila),advisor to the Minister of State for Tourism and Antiquities Baha al-Mayah, and Judge Hussein al-Musawi of the Supreme Criminal Court outlined to PolCouns on February 8 their efforts to form a "national f [...] | 2007-02-11 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD453 | UMM QASR PORT NEED FOR CAPACITY BUILDING AND [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 1, a visit by the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office's (IRMO) Director of Operations for Electricity and Oil, its Trade Office, and Econ officers to the Government of Iraq's (GoI) port facilities at Umm Qasr (PUQ) provided a first-hand look at the chaotic, ineffi [...] | 2007-02-11 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EAID ETRD EWWT PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD455 | NINEWA: ANTI-KURD COALITION DEFEATS MOVE TO [...] (C) At the Ninewa Provincial Council's 4 February weekly meeting, the majority Kurdish Alliance (30 of 41 members) attempted to impose a complete reshuffle of Council committees, including abolition of some committees and addition of an Article 140 committee to oversee 'disputed territories' [...] | 2007-02-11 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD460 | SUNNI HEWAR BLOC REP HOLDS THE FORT, TAKES ON BLOC [...] (C) Summary: Kirkuk native and Sunni Hewar bloc CoR member Mohammed Tamimi has never missed a session of Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR). The rest of Hewar's attendance at the CoR is sparse at best; remaining bloc members shuttle back and forth between Amman and Baghdad. Bloc leader [...] | 2007-02-12 02:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD461 | PRT TIKRIT: TRIBAL SHEIKHS SEE USG AS OCCUPYING [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. To discuss President Bush's "New Way Forward in Iraq" and to promote tribal leaders' role in countering al Qaeda (AQIZ) in the wake of the kidnapping of leading tribal authority Sheikh Ahmad "Naji" Ajbarah al Jabouri (reftel),th [...] | 2007-02-12 02:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD462 | PRT TIKRIT: WHO REALLY RUNS THE REFINERY? [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. A shadowy group of influential sheiks and politicians appears to exert a significant measure of influence over operations at the Bayji oil refinery. The exact composition of the group - possibly including the Governor of Salah [...] | 2007-02-12 02:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD476 | IRAQI COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES BEGINS RECESS [...] (U) The first full legislative cycle of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR),which began with an inaugural session on March 16, 2006, ended with the somewhat delayed passage of the 2007 budget on February 8 (reftel). The CoR now begins a recess expected to last through early March. [...] | 2007-02-12 09:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD482 | AL-MALIKI SPEECH: EVERYBODY WAGERS ON THE IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Al-Maliki's February 6 speech to his military commanders transcended his normal pedestrian approach to public remarks and reflected what appears to be a signficant evolution in his assessment of the problems facing Iraq. He stressed to his commanders their professi [...] | 2007-02-12 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR XF IZ |
07BAGHDAD490 | FM ON REGIONAL CONFERENCE, TURKEY, IRAN, AND [...] (S) Summary: During a February 6 meeting, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hoshyar al-Zebari and the Ambassador discussed an upcoming regional conference the MFA intends to host; current issues the GOI has with Turkey, Iran and Syria; and the FM's recent travels to Italy and Davos. The FM reiterat [...] | 2007-02-13 08:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD492 | IRAQ PARLIAMENT SPEAKER DISCUSSES "HISTORIC" [...] (S) Summary: During their February 9 meeting, Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mashhadani called the final CoR session of this legislative term historic. After intense negotiations, the CoR passed the 2007 budget. The CoR debate over Sunni MoD Abdul Qader's testimony at this session ( [...] | 2007-02-13 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IR SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD493 | VP HASHEMI ON MOD, SUNNI ROLE IN BSP, MODERATE [...] (S) Summary: VP Hashemi told the Ambassador February 8 that the Sunni Tawafuq bloc's nomination of Sunni MoD Abdul Qader during government formation was a "grave mistake." Hashemi reviewed examples of Abdul Qader's "weak" performance as Minister. The VP reported on progress with moderate fron [...] | 2007-02-13 08:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IR SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD494 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. KRG Prime Minister Meets with Undersecretary for Management --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) Major Kurdish media covered the meeting of Undersecretary of State for Management Henrietta Fore and U. S. Region [...] | 2007-02-13 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON IZ TU IR |
07BAGHDAD498 | IRAQI SUNNI ENDOWMENT HEAD PLANS NEW RELIGIOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarraie, head of the Sunni Endowment, told Poloffs on February 12 that he plans to start a new Sunni religious organization that will be a moderate alternative to the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS). He predicts that approximately ninety perce [...] | 2007-02-13 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ JO QA SA |
07BAGHDAD501 | IRAQ PARLIAMENT SPEAKER MASHHADANI'S MELTDOWN [...] (S//REL UK, AUS) SUMMARY: A February 10th working dinner, intended to facilitate intra-Sunni dialogue, devolved into a shouting match between Iraqi Minister of Defense Abdul Qader Mohammed al-Ubadyi and Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, with the Speaker storming ou [...] | 2007-02-13 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD504 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. Kurdistan Regional Government Strongly Condemns U. S. Air Strike in Mosul --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) The office of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani issued a statement [...] | 2007-02-14 05:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON IZ TU IR |
07BAGHDAD506 | PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL GOVT ENGAGES MORE FULLY ON SECURITY, RECOMMENDS USG ENGAGEMENT WITH INSURGENT GROUPS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY. In the wake of senior tribal leader Sheikh Ahmad "Naji" Ajbarah al Jabouri's kidnapping (reftel),Salah ad Din (SaD) provincial leaders and security officials seem emboldened to take on al Qaeda in Iraq (AQIZ) and to garner secur [...] | 2007-02-14 08:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER PGOV PINR IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD507 | PRT TIKRIT: ODIERNO, GRAND MUFTI, PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. It has been cleared by MNC-I Commanding General Odierno, MND-N Commanding General Mixon, and the 3/82 Brigade Combat Team. 2. (S) SUMMARY. In a February 8 meeting, MNC-I Commanding General Odierno, MND-N Commanding General Mixon, Grand Mufti Sh [...] | 2007-02-14 08:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD508 | IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIANS DISCUSS STATUS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a series of meetings on February 5, CoR members updated poloffs on the current status of draft proposals and party strategies for approaching de-Baathification reform. A CoR de-Baathification committee member confirmed that the committee was now meeting regularly to consider [...] | 2007-02-14 09:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KJUS PGOV |
07BAGHDAD512 | PM'S ESC DISCUSSES BORDER CLOSURES, BSP, PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary. The Executive Steering Committee (IESC),chaired by PM Maliki met in its third session on February 9. Topics discussed included the plan to close Iraq,s points of entry (POE,s) with Syria and Iran on February 14, efforts on coordinating services in conjunction with the Baghdad Sec [...] | 2007-02-14 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PREF |
07BAGHDAD518 | MINISTER OF FINANCE EMPHASIZES BUDGET EXECUTION [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr met with the Treasury Attache, Coordinator for the Economic Transition, and the NEA-I DAS on February 10. Senior MoF officials and the Central Bank Governor Shabibi were also in attendance. Minister Jabr emphasized the need to focus on budget execu [...] | 2007-02-14 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD527 | AL ANBAR: SHEIKS' COUNCIL CHALLENGES POLICE CHIEF [...] (C) Summary: A meeting of the Anbar Coordination Committee (ACC) was called February 12 to address the dispute between Al Anbar Salvation Council leader Sheikh Abdalsittar Abou Risha and the Anbar PC Chair and Governor over who had the authority to appoint the police chief of Anbar. While Go [...] | 2007-02-15 07:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD53 | KURDISTAN PRESIDENT BARZANI DISCUSSES PESHMERGA, [...] This message is from the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT). 2. (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani told Kurdistan Regional Coordinator on December 29 that peshmerga security forces, currently controlled respectively by the KDP and P [...] | 2007-01-07 10:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD536 | WORLD BANK MANAGING DIRECTOR STRESSES COMMITMENT [...] (C) Summary. World Bank Managing Director Dr. Juan Jose Daboub visited Baghdad Feb. 12 for a one-day visit that included a call on the Charge and his senior economic team. Daboub reaffirmed that Iraq,s development remains a top priority for the Bank, striking an unexpectedly positive note on [...] | 2007-02-15 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD538 | PRT KIRKUK: ARTICLE 140 COMMITTEE MEMBER MOHAMMED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC) and Article 140 Commission member, Mohammed Khalil, a Sunni Arab, says the Article 140 Commission,s approval of a proposed Arab relocation program came after a "strife-filled" debate over whether the program would be voluntary. The final wording w [...] | 2007-02-15 08:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD539 | PRT TIKRIT: BAYJI OIL PRODUCTION GRINDING TO A NEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. During interviews conducted on February 6-7, officials at the Bayji oil refinery discussed continuing production challenges which greatly hamper production and threaten to completely shut down the facility within several days. [...] | 2007-02-15 10:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD540 | SUBJECT: PRT TIKRIT: DEPUTY GOVERNOR PUTS FORTH [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) Salah ad Din Deputy Governor Abdullah Ajbarah has been engaged on reconciliation and is keen to see greater Sunni involvement in the political process. In that vein, he passed the following letter to a number of individuals, including [...] | 2007-02-15 11:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD545 | VICE PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC ADVISORS DISCUSS BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: Economic Minister-Counselor met with Farid Yaseen and Zuhair Humadi, economic advisors to Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi on February 11. The advisors appreciated the Baghdad Security Plan's focus on commercial zones and mixed neighborhoods. They also noted the lack of Iraqi g [...] | 2007-02-15 16:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD546 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN -- VIEWS FROM THE STREET [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad residents have expressed cautious optimism about the new Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) to poloffs, PRT Baghdad officers, and other embassy staff in recent days. Overall, their comments hit two major themes: (1) that residents are pinning their hopes on this plan, and (2) t [...] | 2007-02-15 19:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD547 | FIRST YEAR OF IRAQ'S COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES -- [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's one-year-old legislature is maturing slowly as an institution through its work on a diverse package of laws. We count 27 pieces of legislation passed, and many more debated, during 86 meetings held since March 2006. Legislative priorities for the upcoming term will furt [...] | 2007-02-15 20:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD550 | DRAFT NATIONAL HYDROCARBON LAW TO GO TO COUNCIL OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-16 15:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD551 | COUNCIL OF MINISTERS APPROVES BUDGET EXECUTION [...] (SBU) Late 15 February an animated Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation Ali Baban told Coordinator for Economic Transition Carney that the Council of Ministers meeting that day had approved two documents submitted by the MoPDC making proposals for reforming and improving Iraq's bu [...] | 2007-02-16 16:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD552 | PM MALIKI CLAIMS AL-SADR LETTER IS A FRAUD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-16 18:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD554 | PM'S OFFICE RELEASES STATEMENT DENYING [...] (U) The office of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki issued a written statement on February 4 denying the authenticity of a letter, dated January 14 and circulating on the internet, which summarized an alleged conversation he had with Moqtada Al-Sadr to send senior Al-Mahdi members to Iran to prote [...] | 2007-02-17 08:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD558 | NINEWA: TURKISH CONSULATE STANDS UP IN MOSUL [...] (C) Turkish Consul General for Mosul Huseyn Botsali arrived in Mosul 10 February to assume permanent residence at the new GOT Consulate in Mosul. He met PRT Team Leader Knight at PRT offices 11 Feb to review administrative and support matters arising from his new status as our permanent int [...] | 2007-02-17 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF EPET EAID MARR TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD559 | NINEWA: KURDS' HEADLONG RUSH TOWARDS KRG [...] (C) Kurds in Ninewa continue to press forward to incorporate significant areas of Ninewa Province into the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) through the 'disputed territories' process foreseen by Article 140 of the current Iraqi Constitution. In this headlong effort, Ninewa's Kurdish Allia [...] | 2007-02-17 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREF KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD56 | PRT TIKRIT: DOES THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT'S REACH [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The distance between the central GOI and the Salah ad Din (SaD) Provincial Government appears to be widening. Local politicians have little to no communication with the national level political parties, leaving many to become i [...] | 2007-01-07 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD561 | IRAQI PRESIDENCY STATEMENT ON KEY PRIORITIES [...] The following statement was posted on the Iraqi Presidency's website ( www.iraqipresidency.net ),dated February 15 (posted February 16),following a meeting between the three-member Presidency Council and Prime Minister Al-Maliki. The statement lists priority issues on which senior GoI offi [...] | 2007-02-17 19:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD562 | FORMER IRAQI DPM DISCUSSES MODERATE FRONT [...] (S) SUMMARY: Former Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways and the Ambassador discussed on February 10 the status of the moderate front. The Ambassador encouraged Shaways to play an active role in its formation. Shaways said he favored transferring de-Ba'athification to the judiciary and punis [...] | 2007-02-18 10:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD564 | CHALABI, SAD DEPUTY GOVERNOR DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on February 9, Salah ad-Din (SaD) Deputy Governor General Abdullah Al-Jebarah presented De-Baathification Commission Chairman Ahmed Chalabi lists of individuals from his province who had received exemptions from the HNDBC but had yet to be returned [...] | 2007-02-18 11:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD565 | TALABANI DISCUSSES LATEST ON MODERATE FRONT, PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani discussed the latest efforts on a moderate front in a February 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Minister of Water Latif Rashid. He gave the Ambassador a readout of his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-M [...] | 2007-02-18 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD566 | DA'WA COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBER URGES USG [...] (C) Summary: Shiite Dawa Party Council of Representatives (CoR) member and Deputy of the National Reconciliation Commission Falih al-Fiyadh discussed key issues before the CoR with poloffs February 15. Al-Fiyadh urged the USG to engage Prime Minister Maliki, former PM Jafaari, SCIRI leader a [...] | 2007-02-18 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD567 | FM STILL HOPING TO BRING MINISTERS TO BAGHDAD; HAD [...] (C) Summary. CDA Speckhard and PolCouns met with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari February 15 to discuss the FM's trip to Saudi Arabia and the upcoming neighbors' conference the Iraqis hope to host in Baghdad in mid-March. Zebari described his trip to Saudi Arabia to reopen the Iraqi Embassy a [...] | 2007-02-18 16:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD570 | NINEWA: KURD-ON-YEZIDI VIOLENCE IN AYN SIFNI [...] (C) An 'honor killing' of a presumably unfaithful Kurdish wife after her travel with Yezidi companions employed as local police led to anti-Yezidi violence by Kurds in Ayn Sifni, the major town of Ninewa's Shikhan District. Damage from the violence was narrowly targeted and relatively limit [...] | 2007-02-19 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PBTS IZ |
07BAGHDAD583 | MISSION PROPOSES SECOND HALF OF MARCH FOR ACSA [...] (C) We agree with Department,s reftel way forward on negotiating an Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) with the Government of Iraq. However, we request the USCENTCOM-led training and education session in Baghdad begin no earlier than the third week of March. CENTCOM and MNF-I su [...] | 2007-02-19 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PINS PNAT PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD584 | PRESIDENCY COUNCIL, PM AGREE TO CLOSER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice Presidents Adel Abdel Mehdi and Tariq al-Hashemi told the DCM on February 15 that the Presidency Council and Prime Minister have agreed to work together more closely by holding weekly meetings to discuss important issues. The group had not decided on a formal structure or a [...] | 2007-02-19 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD585 | BSP POPULAR COMMITTEE MOBILIZATION EFFORT'S ROCKY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The popular mobilization strand of the new Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) is off to a rocky start. In a February 14 meeting with provincial and local government leaders, tribal sheikhs, religious leaders, and Embassy staff, committee co-chairs Ahmed Chalabi and Naseer Al-Ani struggl [...] | 2007-02-19 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD591 | PRT TIKRIT: SALAH AD DIN TV'S STAR IS RISING, BID [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. This cable has been cleared by the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division (3/82 BCT) and the Tactical PSYOP Detachment 1630, who have Salah ad Din in their area of operation. 2. (C) SUMMARY. With its exclusive coverage of Saddam's burial an [...] | 2007-02-19 13:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OIIP KPRV ECON SCUL IZ |
07BAGHDAD592 | SPECIAL ENVOY RALSTON VISITS MAKHMOUR, TALKS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: KRG President Barzani told Special Envoy Ralston that settling the PKK problem requires a political solution from Turkey, but that the KDP and PUK are also anxious to see this source of conflict between Turkey and the KRG resolved. Ralston informed Barzani and other KRG officia [...] | 2007-02-19 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PTER TU IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD593 | PRT TIKRIT: SAMARRA'S LOCAL POLITICS, DFI AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-19 13:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD594 | IRAQI DEPUTY SPEAKER MESSAGE OF THANKS TO [...] (SBU) The office of Deputy Speaker Khalid al-Attiya of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (independent member of the Shia coalition) handed PolOffs a letter for President Bush on February 19 (text in para two),in which the Deputy Speaker thanks the U.S. for its continued support and looks [...] | 2007-02-19 14:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD599 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES BASRAH GOVERNOR FOR EFFECTIVE [...] (C) In a February 11 meeting, the Ambassador told Basrah governor Mohammed al-Waeli (Fadhila) that the Mission was very concerned about the rocket attacks targeting REO Basrah and the British Consulate (co-located in the Basrah Palace Compound) and urged him to take a more effective approach to [...] | 2007-02-19 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD609 | PRT TIKRIT: SAMARRA'S LOCAL POLITICS, DFI AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-20 10:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR ECON KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD612 | ALLAWI BACK IN IRAQ; SEEKS TO BUILD CENTRIST [...] (C) Summary: Back in Baghdad after a prolonged absence, Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told the Ambassador February 16 he intended to re-enter Iraqi politics and build a centrist, issues-based coalition. Allawi said that regional leaders are increasingly frustrated with the GOI and the fut [...] | 2007-02-20 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR IR SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD615 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CHECKPOINT INCIDENTS, [...] (S) Summary: At a February 18 luncheon at Ambassador Khalilzad's residence, he and Turkish Ambassador Derya Kanbay discussed recent checkpoint incidents involving Kanbay and other Turkish Embassy personnel. Kanbay expressed understanding for the difficult circumstances under which U.S. soldie [...] | 2007-02-20 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD616 | FEBRUARY 16 BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN EXECUTIVE [...] (C) Summary: At the February 16 Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) Executive Steering Committee (ESC) meeting, Iraqi General Abboud reported that BSP had begun successfully February 14. MNF-I Commanding General (CG) Petraeus cautioned that BSP is still in the early stages and that public expectation [...] | 2007-02-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD620 | MAYSAN GOVERNOR DISCUSSES SECURITY SITUATION, [...] (U//REL USA, MCFI) This is a PRT Maysan cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C//REL USA, MCFI) In a January 22 meeting with the new head of Multinational Forces Division (Southeast),Maysan Governor Adil Al-Maliki focused on his province's upcoming transition to Provincial Iraqi Control [...] | 2007-02-20 18:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD621 | MINISTRY OF DISPLACEMENT AND MIGRATION (MODM) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sheikh Abdullah Fadil, head of the MODM,s Kirkuk Office, says his primary responsibilities include care of returning and new internally displaced people (IDPS),and of stateless persons. He currently is focused on assisting arriving IDPs from central and southern Iraq. His o [...] | 2007-02-20 18:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD622 | POLITICAL AGREEMENT REACHED ON HYDROCARBON LAW ) [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-20 19:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD624 | UNIFICATION OF KRG JUSTICE MINISTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) authorities attended formal ceremonies to mark the long-awaited unification of the PUK and KDP Ministries of Justice 6 February 2007. The separate PUK and KDP ministries of Finance, Interior, and Peshmerga continue working on resolution of [...] | 2007-02-21 05:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD628 | FADHILA BLOC LEADER DISCUSSES DEBAATHIFICATION [...] (C) Hassan al-Shammari, Fadhila bloc leader in the Council of Representatives (CoR),told PolCouns on February 14 that Fadhila supported an approach to deBaathification reform that made reconciliation the driving priority. Fadhila, he said, wanted to see the "rehabilitation" of Baath party me [...] | 2007-02-21 13:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD629 | PM MALIKI REQUESTS UNSG BAN KI-MOON TO HOST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-21 15:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ OTRA PREL |
07BAGHDAD63 | IRAQ'S SUNNI VP DISCUSSES BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN, [...] (S) Summary: In a January 4 meeting with Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi (Iraqi Islamic Party ) IIP),the Ambassador briefed him on the new Baghdad security plan and solicited the VP's support. Al-Hashemi welcomed a new plan to curb Baghdad violence, requested Shia and Sunni balanc [...] | 2007-01-07 18:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD630 | REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: TAMADHUR KADHIM [...] (SBU) Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following Iraqi with substantial ties to the USG to the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Principal applicant (PA): NAME: Tamadhur Kadhim Hammad DOB: February 3, 1956 POB: Baghdad, Iraq Passport Number: G 1100832 Gender: Female Mari [...] | 2007-02-21 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD639 | FORMER IRAQI MILITARY OFFICER DISCUSSES ANBAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Khalaf, a well-connected former military officer from Ramadi, told Poloffs on February 19 that the Anbar Salvation Council capitalized on anti-Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) momentum in the province and the Council's police recruits are mostly loyal to Iraq, not t [...] | 2007-02-22 07:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD64 | COR FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR BEGINS 2007 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: In a January 3 meeting the Finance Committee Chair at the Council of Representatives Ayad Al Samarai (Sunni - Iraqi Islamic Party) asked Treasury Attache and Econoff for post's analysis of the 2007 budget. Al Samarai also described his reactions to the budget and budget law: too [...] | 2007-01-07 19:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD640 | POSSIBILITY OF A NEEDED SAFE HAVEN FOR PALESTINIANS [...] (C) Summary: Security and living conditions at the Baladiat housing complex for Palestinians in Baghdad remain poor. Residents of the 864-apartment compound report that Jaysh al-Mahdi militias continue to attack and assault them. The apartments are overcrowded, even if they are sparsely fur [...] | 2007-02-22 08:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD660 | IRAQ:BSP PROGRESSING, HYDROCARBON LAW COMPROMISES, [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a February 20 meeting with Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, and Minister of Oil Husayn Shahristani, all agreed that necessary compromises to the draft Hydrocarbon Law are almost complete and that it will be pres [...] | 2007-02-22 15:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD666 | ACTIVITIES OF TAQ TAQ OPERATING CO. LTD (TTPOCO) [...] (C) SUMMARY. The General Manager of the oil company, Mr. Leslie Blair, General Manager, told RRT Off that drilling commenced in the Taq Taq field but production would not occur for two and half years. Infrastructure needs and security risks require Taq Taq Operating Co. Limited (TTPOCO) to [...] | 2007-02-22 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EFIN IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD677 | PRT TIKRIT: A BALANCING ACT: THE OPF AND 4TH IA IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The Oil Protection Force at the Bayji oil refinery, normally overseen by the Ministry of Oil (MoO),is now nominally under the command of the 4th IA according to a January 29 directive by PM Maliki. In practice, however, the OP [...] | 2007-02-23 18:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD680 | POPULAR COMMITTEES MEETING PARTICIPANTS DISMAYED [...] (C) Summary: Ahmed Chalabi frustrated community and tribal leaders who attended a February 21 meeting to discuss the "popular committees" for the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) when he announced that he had named "liaison officers" to represent each of the ten security areas of Baghdad. Meeting [...] | 2007-02-24 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD681 | PRT TIKRIT: MINISTERS OF OIL, ELECTRICITY, AND 4TH [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. During a February 19 meeting at the refinery, Minister of Oil Al Shahristani, Minister of Electricity Al Hasan, and the deputy commander of the 4th IA, BG Nabeel, revealed their plan to improve oil infrastructure security and in [...] | 2007-02-24 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET KCOR EIND IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD682 | PRT TIKRIT: NEW BAYJI REFINERY CHIEF LAYS OUT PLAN [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. On February 14, the incoming director of the Bayji Oil Refinery Ali Obeydi discussed his plan to address the refinery,s numerous operational challenges with the Salah ad Din Governor Hamad Hamoud al Shakti al-Qaisi, [...] | 2007-02-24 16:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD683 | LOCAL BAGHDAD AUTHORITIES BLAST CHALABI'S POPULAR [...] (C) Summary: PRT officers spoke with Rusafa and Karada District Advisory Council (DAC) chairmen February 22 to discuss their views on Ahmad Chalabi,s popular committees initiative. Both said that the general consensus among DAC, Neighborhood Advisory Council (NAC) and Provincial Council (P [...] | 2007-02-24 20:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD688 | MINISTER OF INTERIOR TELLS CODEL MEEHAN SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 20 meeting with Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani, CODEL Meehan stressed that a speedy and permanent reduction in Baghdad violence is central to rebuilding U.S. domestic support for efforts in Iraq. Minister Bolani agreed, adding that he is confident that the re [...] | 2007-02-25 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD693 | FORMATION OF LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN IRAQI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Newscaster and political activist Farhad Sangawi told RRT Offs on February 10 that he is forming a liberal-democratic party in Sulaimaniyah Province in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Sangawi does not constitute at this stage a threat to the dominance of the Patriotic Union of Kurd [...] | 2007-02-25 14:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD694 | FEBRUARY CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT IN IRAQI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: RRT Offs attended the First Development Conference of Sulaimaniyah Province on February 5-6 under the theme: Decision-making, Responsibility, Transparency, and Honesty. Numerous committees were formed from members of the provincial government, the local population, and non-gov [...] | 2007-02-25 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CONEAZ IZ |
07BAGHDAD695 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DANA AHMED MAJEED, GOVERNOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The following is a brief biography of the Governor of Sulaimaniyah Province in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. The biography is based on information provided by the Office of Foreign and Public Relations, Sulaimaniyah Province, press reports and conversations between RRT Off and t [...] | 2007-02-25 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD696 | BACKGROUND ON CAREER OF TOP BUSINESS LEADER IN [...] (U) As reported in reftel, RRT Off met on February 10 with Faruk Mustafa Rassool, the most prominent businessman in Sulaimaniyah Province. This telegram reports on Rasool,s career background. MODEST BEGINNING THEN EXPANSION AND DIVERSIFICATION 2. (SBU) Faruk Mustafa Rassool began his c [...] | 2007-02-25 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD697 | BUSINESS LEADER OF IRAQI KURDISTAN ON OPENNESS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The most prominent businessman in Sulaimaniyah Province, Faruk Mustafa Rassool, told RRT Off on February 10 the two dominant political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan must put their rivalry aside and allow free-market practices to drive economic development. He told party leaders th [...] | 2007-02-25 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD699 | NEA DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUTLER [...] (SBU) During his first visit to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, NEA DAS Butler held separate meetings on February 16 with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Director of the Office of Foreign Relations Falah Mustafa Bakir and Minister of Planning and Development Othman Shwani. 2. (SBU) Both B [...] | 2007-02-25 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | POL ECON EAID AMGT IZ |
07BAGHDAD70 | KURDISTAN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES OIL REVENUE SHARING, [...] This message is from the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT). 2. (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani told the Regional Coordinator on December 29 that he had not reached an agreement on contracting details in his talks over oil-reven [...] | 2007-01-08 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD714 | CONFERENCE ON INTERNALLY DISPLACED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: RRT Offs participated in the Coordination Meeting for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Sulaimaniyah Province in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region to determine information that will help identify and assist IDPs. The IDP population includes Iraqi Arab Shia and Sunnis migrating to [...] | 2007-02-26 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD720 | HYDROCARBON LAW "COVER LETTER" AGREED, PATH [...] (C REL GBR) Summary. The Ambassador traveled to Lake Dokan on February 24 to get Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) endorsement of a compromise text of the cover letter to the hydrocarbon framework law, setting the stage for approval of the draft law by the Council of Ministers (CoM) at a meet [...] | 2007-02-26 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD722 | SHIA MEMBERS OF ARAB CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL DENOUNCE [...] SUMMARY: (C) In a recent meeting, four Shia Arab members of the Arab Consultative Council (ACC) presented hard-line, rejectionist views on Article 140 and its proposed relocation program. They said that there is no difference in the political views among Shia and Sunni ACC members noting sp [...] | 2007-02-26 18:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF IZ |
07BAGHDAD73 | KRG PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MEET IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on December 21 Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani expressed gratitude to Secretary of Defense Gates for U.S. assistance and said the Kurds look forward to continued cooperation. Accompanied by the Ambassador, General Pace, and Ambassador Satt [...] | 2007-01-08 17:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD733 | PM CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES HYDROCARBON LAW AND PR [...] (C) Summary: The hydrocarbon law would still be passed by the Council of Ministers this week, the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff (COS) Tariq Abdullah anticipated in a February 21 meeting with the DCM. Abdullah also requested embassy suggestions on how to improve media coordination for the new [...] | 2007-02-27 19:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD741 | CODEL DICKS PRESSES IRAQI LEADERS ON SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 23 Minister of Defense Abdul Qader Mohammad al-Ubaydi met CODEL Dicks, which expressed the importance of quickly improving Iraq's security situation. Minister Abdul Qader agreed, asserting that the revised Baghdad Security Plan has already succeeded in significantly re [...] | 2007-02-28 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINS PNAT MOPS DA IZ |
07BAGHDAD75 | JANUARY 7 MCNS: IRANIAN DIPLOMATS, BSP, AND PIC [...] (S) SUMMARY: On January 7, the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) discussed the recent detention and subsequent release of Iranian "diplomats" involved in anti-Coalition and anti-GOI activity, agreeing that steps needed to be taken to discourage Tehran from engaging in further [...] | 2007-01-08 18:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PREL PGOV |
07BAGHDAD753 | DCM METS WITH PM CHIEF OF STAFF ON NEIGHBORS [...] (S) On February 27, Deputy Chief of Mission Daniel Speckhard met with Tariq Abdullah, Chief of Staff to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss ideas for the upcoming Neighbor's Conference that Iraq will host in March. Abdullah said Maliki's government was pleased by the Council of Mi [...] | 2007-03-01 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL KNNP PARM PHUM PINS PNAT MOPS DA IZ |
07BAGHDAD754 | PRT KIRKUK: PC BOYCOTT: PARTIES AGREE TO FORMAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Calls for "joint administration" dominated a January 12 meeting called to find an end to the Arab-Turkoman boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council. Despite apparent agreement at that meeting, the Arab and Turokman blocs have failed to follow up and appear to be uninterested i [...] | 2007-03-01 11:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD758 | FORMER PM ALLAWI CALLS FOR SINGULAR FOCUS ON [...] (S) Summary: Following the February 26 approval of a draft hydrocarbons law by the Council of Ministers, the Ambassador discussed next steps on other key political priorities with Former PM Allawi February 27. Allawi contented that security should be the one and only priority and called USG [...] | 2007-03-01 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD767 | BAHA'I REPORT SUPPORT ON IDENTITY CARDS, PUSH-BACK [...] (C) Summary: President of the Baha'i National Spiritual Advisory Group in Iraq, Abdul Razaq Abaychi, updated PolOffs on February 25 on the status of a Saddam-era regulation that leaves the Baha'i without identification to register in schools, obtain passports, or even get married legally. Aba [...] | 2007-03-03 10:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD770 | IMPLEMENTING THE INVESTMENT LAW [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Iraq is moving forward in implementing the Investment Law passed by the Council of Representatives (CoR) in October 2006 and published in the official GOI Gazette on January 17, 2007. While still pending CoR approval, an Acting Chairman of the National Investm [...] | 2007-03-04 06:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD775 | NINEWA'S FUEL CRISIS -- STILL BAD AND GETTING WORSE [...] (C) Despite constant iteration of the ongoing fuel crisis across Ninewa on the part of Provincial authorities to GOI Ministries in Baghdad and equally insistent efforts by Coalition authorities, shortages of all consumer fuels -- gasoline (benzene),diesel, kerosene, and LPG -- remain critic [...] | 2007-03-04 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD777 | ANBAR SALVATION COUNCIL FORMS POLITICAL PARTY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-04 14:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD780 | NINEWA: DCM DISCUSSES FUEL SHORTAGE, JUSTICE, WITH [...] (C) Ninewa PRT hosted Embassy Baghdad Deputy Chief of Mission Daniel Speckhard to assess current conditions in Ninewa Province and Ninewa PRT operations. DCM Speckhard was accompanied by National Coordination Team Director Olson and Acting USAID Director Harvey. At DCM Speckhard's meeting [...] | 2007-03-04 17:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EPET PTER KJUS IZ |
07BAGHDAD781 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN: MORE VIEWS FROM THE STREET [...] (C) Summary. Baghdad local leaders and average citizens continue to tell post that security on the streets remains better than before implementation of the new Baghdad Security Plan (BSP). However, some report that confidence was shaken by a series of car bombs and the resurgence of some str [...] | 2007-03-04 18:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PTER PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD790 | IRAQI VP HASHIMI ON CABINET CHANGES, BSP, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on February 28, VP Tariq al-Hashimi said he had met with the Prime Minister on February 27. The VP professed his support to the PM and asked the PM to view him as a contributor to the GOI's policies. According to VP Hashimi, he and PM discussed [...] | 2007-03-05 11:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD792 | CG AND DCM MEET IRAQI PRIME MINISTER [...] (S) Summary. The Commanding General and Deputy Chief of Mission met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki March 3 to discuss progress on the Baghdad Security Plan, reconciliation efforts, and sovereignty issues. The CG and PM agreed that there was optimism on the streets of Baghdad, though [...] | 2007-03-05 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD795 | MARCH 2 BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN EXECUTIVE STEERING [...] (C) Summary: The March 2 meeting of the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) Executive Steering Committee (ESC) focused on: -- A security update by General Abboud (para's 2-4); -- A report on the political committee's meetings aimed at enhancing political parties' support for BSP (5-6); -- Disc [...] | 2007-03-05 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD798 | VP MAHDI DISCUSSES DE-BAATHIFICATION REFORM, [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 28 meeting with the Ambassador, Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi described the assassination attempt against him, calling it a "well organized inside job." He discussed the issue of de-Baathification reform and stressed the importance of addressing the needs [...] | 2007-03-05 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KJUS PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD8 | PRT TIKRIT: GOVERNOR, DEPUTY GOVERNOR MEET WITH VP [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The Governor and Deputy Governor of Salah ad Din (SaD) province met with Vice-President Al Hashemi and the Ministers of Oil and the Interior during a trip to Baghdad on December 27-28. As the second in a series of trips (the fi [...] | 2007-01-02 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD807 | CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES IRAQI PM ROLE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 5 meeting with DCM and PolCouns, PM Chief of Staff Tariq Abdullah said that the PM preferred a de-Baathification policy that targeted only those involved in criminal activities rather than entire classes of members, but cautioned that the matter was exclusively reserved [...] | 2007-03-06 17:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KJUS PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD81 | LOCAL BAGHDAD RECONCILIATION EFFORTS GO BACK TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local Baghdad contacts engaged in neighborhood-level reconciliation efforts suggest an approach based on tribal customs and religious leaders to resolve sectarian conflicts. The U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) coordinates an ongoing series of briefings with Baghdad residents for [...] | 2007-01-09 12:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD810 | COMMERCE U/S LAVIN VISIT TO ERBIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Department of Commerce Under Secretary Franklin Lavin met with GOI officials, Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) representatives and US and Iraqi business leaders in Erbil Feb 19-20 to engage on economic policy and inaugurate the US-Iraq Business Dialogue and launch the Commercial [...] | 2007-03-07 07:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EINV IZ |
07BAGHDAD817 | PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIR CRITICIZES BSP INITIATIVES [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Mueen Al-Kadhimi (SCIRI) complained in a March 4 press conference as well as to PRToffs March 6 that the national government has not consulted the PC on Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) initiatives. Al-Kadhimi said he resented the fact that in [...] | 2007-03-07 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD818 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES AL-HAKIM ON DEBAATHIFICATION [...] (S) Summary: In a March 6 meeting with SCIRI leader Abdulaziz al-Hakim, the Ambassador and General Petraeus urged al-Hakim to make rapid progress on deBaathification reform. Specifically, the Ambassador asked for al-Hakim's assistance in ensuring Shi'a coalition support for a draft law to be [...] | 2007-03-07 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD819 | DPM HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISOR COMPLAINS ABOUT PRISONS [...] (S) Summary. Shakir Farhan, Human Rights Advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Salaam Zowbaie, expressed concern to PolOff in February conversations about Jaysh al-Mahdi militia infiltration of the Ministry of Justice prison system. He said the Director General of Prisons Juma'a Hussein (ref) asso [...] | 2007-03-07 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KDEM PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD82 | EXECUTION OF THE FY 2006 BAGHDAD PROVINCIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Province of Baghdad was allocated $513 million for capital projects in Fiscal Year 2006 (which corresponds to the calendar year). The money was divided primarily between the Mayor, with $333 million, and the Governor, who received $100 million; with the remaining $80 million [...] | 2007-01-09 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN POL PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD820 | MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS TELLS POLCOUNS SHE LACKS [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told PolCouns March 3 that she was dissatisfied with the Ministry's lack of authority to address human rights abuses. Referring to a February 21 detention facility inspection, the Minister explained that her team had the ability to identify t [...] | 2007-03-07 16:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD821 | MINISTER OF TRADE SUPPORT FOR WORLD TRADE [...] (C) Summary: On March 4, Minister of Trade Abdul Falah Al Sudani told emboffs that Iraq's accession to the World Trade Organization has his full support and that he will attend the April 19 opening of the Working Group. Minister Al Sudani (Shi'a - Da'wa Tanzim) was appreciative of USAID-fun [...] | 2007-03-07 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD827 | SCIRI DEPUTY SEEKS CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE FROM ARAB [...] (C) In a March 7 meeting with PolCouns, SCIRI CoR member and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Humam Hamoudi expressed his optimism about the March 10 Neighbors Conference, saying that if approached in the right way it could be an important step in confirming the new role of Iraq in [...] | 2007-03-08 14:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD828 | IRAQIYYA LEADERS DISCUSS WITHDRAWAL FROM GOI [...] (S) Summary: During the Ambassador's March 1-4 trip to Kurdistan with Iraqiyya leaders, Ayad Allawi and Adnan Pachachi discussed options for pursuing their party's secular, nationalist agenda. Allawi professed his support for the Maliki government in establishing security and moving forward [...] | 2007-03-08 15:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER KDEM IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD829 | PRT TIKRIT: PROJECT SELECTION PROCESS IMPROVING, [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Provincial government in Salah ad Din today relies on a capital budget resolution procedure strongly influenced by a process instituted in 2005 designed to promote Iraqi participation and initiative in planning U.S.- [...] | 2007-03-08 17:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD83 | AMBASSADOR AND ABDEL MEHDI DISCUSS NEW STRATEGY, [...] (S) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi stated his support for the new strategy for securing Baghdad in a in a January 8 meeting with the Ambassador. His offered only one suggestion after hearing the Ambassador's brief preview, namely that additional forces and attention be paid to Diya [...] | 2007-01-09 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD830 | HASHIMI ON UPCOMING TRAVEL TO SYRIA, IRAN; [...] (S) Summary: VP Hashimi and the Ambassador met on the eve of the VP's March 5 trip to Syria and discussed the possibility of a bloc leaders' retreat to raise key political issues and reach agreement on a way forward. Hashimi noted that he would return from Syria at the end of the week and le [...] | 2007-03-08 21:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD831 | AMBASSADOR AND PM: NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE, SAUDI [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a March 6 meeting, the Ambassador and PM discussed the March 10 Neighbor's Conference, including expected outcomes and working groups focusing on border security, fuel and electricity imports, and Iraqi refugees. The Ambassador suggested reaching out to participating countries [...] | 2007-03-08 22:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD836 | REQUEST FOR EXPEDITED APPROVAL TO PROVIDE [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 9 and 10. This is a joint cable from Ambassador Khalilzad and General Petraeus. 2. (C) Summary: Government of Iraq ministries continue to face major obstacles to the prompt execution of their budgets, particularly major procurements of [...] | 2007-03-09 11:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON ENRG IZ |
07BAGHDAD838 | UPDATE ON BASRAH CHILDRENS HOSPITAL [...] (U) This is an action requested message, action requested in paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary: IRMO has worked closely with GRD over the past two months to assure that the donation of Spain through UNDP could be utilized as quickly as possible on the project. UN required UNDP to treat funds as [...] | 2007-03-09 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON ENRG IZ |
07BAGHDAD839 | ANBAR SALVATION COUNCIL FORMS NEW POLITICAL PARTY [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar cable. 2. SUMMARY. (C) The Anbar Salvation Council, formed to counter AQI in Ramadi, publicly announced the launching of its own political party: Iraqi Awakening Movement (IAM). This party was organized by Sheikh Sattar Abu Risha, who emphasized the IAM will have [...] | 2007-03-09 14:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD84 | PM COS ABDULLAH ACCUSES U.S. OF MURDER AND [...] (S) We have received a very strongly worded letter (e-mailed to NEA-I) from Tariq Abdullah, Chief of Staff to the PM, accusing U.S. forces of launching a raid and killing a target in Najaf without first gaining the consent of local or federal officials as required by the terms of our agreemen [...] | 2007-01-09 18:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MOPS PREL PGOV |
07BAGHDAD842 | FADHILA BLOC LEADER DISCUSSES WITHDRAWAL FROM [...] (C) Iraqi Shiite Fadhila bloc leader Hassan al-Shammari told PolOffs on March 8 that Fadhila's withdrawal from the Shi'a Coalition (UIC),announced March 7, is serious: "We will not return." Fadhila, he said, rejects the central political goal of the UIC, which he characterized as "federali [...] | 2007-03-10 07:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD843 | GOI HOLDS BUDGET EXECUTION CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Iraq hosted a day-long conference on 'Accelerating Budget Execution' on March 7, 2007. Led by Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, and Minister of Planning and Development Coordination Ali Baban, the conference was attended by [...] | 2007-03-10 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD859 | IRAQ KURDISTAN REGION MEDIA SUMMARY -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 300mW Electricity Generation Station to be Build for Sulaimaniyah ------------------------------------------- 2. (U) Major Newspapers reported that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the KRG and a German company [...] | 2007-03-11 13:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PINS IZ US |
07BAGHDAD860 | IRAQI KURDISTAN REGION MEDIA SUMMARY-- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. US Military Apologizes to Families of Fallen Peshmerga --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (U) The major Kurdish media covered a meeting between US Army representative Colonel Smith and Kurdish representatives Must [...] | 2007-03-11 13:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PINS IZ US |
07BAGHDAD864 | BAGHDAD HOSTS FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SINCE [...] (C) Summary: Key U.S. and Iraqi objectives were fulfilled, albeit imperfectly, at the March 10 expanded neighbors' conference in Baghdad. All of Iraq's neighbors expressed their support for Iraq's security and stability and pledged cooperation; all attended at respectably senior levels; and [...] | 2007-03-11 18:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD866 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTRY COMPLAINS OF LOW DONOR [...] (C) Summary. Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) senior officials complained to PolOffs March 6 that they had yet to see substantive assistance from international donors, despite efforts by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to coordinate such assistance. At the heart of the ministry's e [...] | 2007-03-12 07:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD868 | THE SHI'A COALITION: FADHILA'S WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) Fadhila's March 7 withdrawal from the Shi'a coalition (UIC) underscores the lack of cohesiveness in the UIC. Encompassing a spectrum of Shi'a Islamist parties and individuals that banded together to contest the December 2005 national election, the UIC has shown signs of strain since the d [...] | 2007-03-12 10:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD869 | IRAQI POLICE SERVICE CAUSES DELAYS TO PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-12 11:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PNAT PINS MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD878 | CONTINUING A STRATEGIC DIALOGUE WITH SCIRI [...] (S/NF) The Charge and Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi chaired on March 11 a second round of strategic dialogue between the US and SCIRI. The Charge emphasized the U.S. commitment to developing its relationship with SCIRI despite recent events that had caused some tension in the relationship. [...] | 2007-03-12 19:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD879 | READ OUT FROM MARCH 11 MCNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki presided over the March 11 meeting of the Ministerial Committee for National Security, during which: -- Maliki requested his cabinet focus their efforts on securing Diyala, the 'most dangerous place in Iraq.' -- Minister of Industry Twazi Al-Hariri pleade [...] | 2007-03-12 19:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PINS PNAT PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD880 | DEMARCHE TO KRG ON PALESTINIAN REFUGEES [...] (SBU) At march 7 meeting with KRG Interior Minister Karim Sinjari, Regional Coordinator Yellin per reftel made the following points re Palestinian refugees: -- The Palestinian refugee population in Iraq has been singled out for persecution by armed, violent elements in Iraqi society. -- T [...] | 2007-03-13 05:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM KPAL IZ |
07BAGHDAD881 | MANDAEAN MINORITY INCREASINGLY TARGETED, SEEK AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of Iraq's Sabian Mandaean religious minority on March 7 reported an increase in violent attacks and discrimination against their community over the past year. They told post that top spiritual leader Shaykh Sattar Jabbar al-Helo had fled to Syria after surviving [...] | 2007-03-13 06:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD882 | PRT TIKRIT: BAYJI OIL REFINERY: WHERE ARE THE [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. A new breakdown in the distribution system of refined fuel from the Bayji oil refinery is exacerbating already dire shortages in many areas of north-central Iraq. This is occurring several weeks after the commencement of Operat [...] | 2007-03-13 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET KCOR EIND IZ |
07BAGHDAD884 | NINEWA GOVERNOR ON FUEL SHORTAGE, ARAB-KURD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ninewa Governor Duraid Kashmoula told the Ambassador on March 8 that Ninewa is in dire need of fuel and asked the Ambassador to urge Iraq's neighbors to increase fuel imports. He said the Kurds are not taking over Mosul and it is the Sunni Arabs in the area who are causing probl [...] | 2007-03-13 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD885 | MARCH 10 EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING: [...] (C) Summary: The March 10 Executive Steering Committee (ESC) of the Baghdad Security Plan had a strong focus on basics services, notably pharmaceuticals and electricity, as well as a more assessments-based security update. Other topics included returning internally displaced persons (IDPs) [...] | 2007-03-13 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD887 | MARCH 10 EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING: [...] (C) Summary: The March 10 Executive Steering Committee (ESC) of the Baghdad Security Plan had a strong focus on basics services, notably pharmaceuticals and electricity, as well as a more assessments-based security update. Other topics included returning internally displaced persons (IDPs) [...] | 2007-03-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD89 | KURDISTAN PRESIDENT BARZANI DISCUSSES PKK, KIRKUK [...] This is an Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) Summary: U.S. Regional Coordinator for the Iraqi Kurdistan Region asked Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani to close all Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) offices and refuse safe haven to it [...] | 2007-01-10 10:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD891 | FORMER PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN SAYS PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Provincial Council (PC) member Mazen Makiya (Shia, Independent) told PRToffs March 9 that party politics, poor leadership and lack of organization plague Baghdad's provincial government. Makiya, who was PC Chairman from March 2005 to December 2005, said current PC Chairman Mueen [...] | 2007-03-13 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ PINR |
07BAGHDAD894 | ALLAWI AND BARZANI DISCUSS POLITICAL ALLIANCE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Iraqiyya leaders Ayad Allawi and Adnan Pachachi visited Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani in Barzan from March 1-3. The leaders discussed a possible political alliance to push forward on key reforms critical to establishing security in [...] | 2007-03-13 20:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD896 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. KRG Publishes Draft Federal Oil and Gas Law in English and Arabic --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (U) The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) spokesman published an authorized English translation of the draft [...] | 2007-03-14 05:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PINS IZ IR TU US |
07BAGHDAD897 | Iraqi Kurdistan Region Media Summary -- March 10, 2007 [...] (U) This is a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. Adnan Al Mufti: Kurds Will Maintain Relations with Shi'a Coalition --------------------------------------------- --- 2. (U) PUKmedia.com covered a press statement by KNA Speaker Adnan Al Mufti saying that the Kurdish Bloc in th [...] | 2007-03-14 05:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PINS IZ IR TU US |
07BAGHDAD901 | ICRC CONTINUES TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, [...] (C) Summary: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) continues to operate in Iraq despite the violence. In partnership with the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, the ICRC provides thousands of internally displaced Iraqis with relief kits. The ICRC will continue to repatriate, as needed, [...] | 2007-03-14 08:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF IZ |
07BAGHDAD905 | SUNNI VP HASHIMI PLANNING FOR HIS FIRST OFFICIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi discussed with the Ambassador on March 9 his upcoming official visit to Tehran. In preparation for his departure on March 11, Hashimi asked for the Ambassador's input on what to raise with his Iranian interlocutors. The Ambassador and Hashi [...] | 2007-03-14 12:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD909 | IRAQ: SIGNIFICANT THREATS TO EDUCATIONAL AND [...] (C) Summary: The introduction of new passport requirements for Iraqis, coupled with continuing staffing problems within the Cultural Affairs Office, seriously threaten the viability of Embassy Baghdad's educational and professional exchanges. CAO Baghdad continues to pursue a variety of crea [...] | 2007-03-14 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL APER IZ |
07BAGHDAD910 | PM MALIKI VISIT TO ANBAR WELL RECEIVED BY LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: At the initiative of MNF-I Commanding General, PM Maliki visited Anbar March 13, accompanied by MoD Abdul Qader, MoI Bolani, and MinState for Foreign Affairs Rafaa Essawi. In separate meetings with the Anbar provincial council and the tribal sheikhs, he emphasized that all Iraqis [...] | 2007-03-14 18:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD927 | IRAQI PM CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES MINISTERIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 12 meeting with PM Chief of Staff Tariq Abdullah, the Charge urged the PM's office to continue to press for de-Baathification reform and movement on the hydrocarbons law. He congratulated the PM's office on the successful Neighbors Conference and stressed the importa [...] | 2007-03-16 08:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD937 | US REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROGRAM REFERRAL FOR LOCALLY [...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following locally employed staff to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) 2. (SBU) Principal applicant (PA): Name: Everest Albarazanchi (A.k.A. Everest Kareem Mohammad Amin) DOB: November 27, 1974 (Iraqi Passport states in error November 1 [...] | 2007-03-16 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ PHUM PREF |
07BAGHDAD94 | PM'S CHIEF OF STAFF SUPPORTS JOINT ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: The Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, Dr. Tariq Abdullah, said he was happy with the overall Joint Economic Transition Plan in a meeting with the Deputy Chief of Mission on January 10. While agreeing with the general framework and broad estimates, Dr. Tariq said that further disc [...] | 2007-01-10 19:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD941 | TALK OF NEW IRAQI POLITICAL PARTY COALITIONS [...] (C) Summary. Reports about negotiations among Iraqi political parties to break up the current sectarian blocs and form new alliances have intensified following secular nationalist Iraqiyya,s March 1 announcement that it would withdraw from the GOI and Shia Fadhila's March 7 withdrawal from t [...] | 2007-03-17 06:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD95 | SUNNI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAYS HE HAS MALIKI'S [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Chief of Mission discussed the new security and economic plan with Deputy Prime Minister Salam Al-Zubai (Sunni - Tawafuq) on January 10. Dr. Al-Zubai said that the new strategy was a step in the right direction, and that he had the full confidence of Prime Minister al [...] | 2007-01-10 20:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD96 | MINISTER OF FINANCE SUPPORTS JOINT ECONOMIC PLAN [...] (C) Summary: The Treasury Attache and the Economic Minister- Counselor met with the Minister of Finance, Bayan Jabr (Shi'a - SCIRI) on January 8 to discuss the Joint Economic Transition Plan. Senior staff at the Ministry of Finance also attended the meeting. Minister Jabr said he supported th [...] | 2007-01-10 20:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD966 | BADR-AFFILIATED MAYOR BEATEN BY SADRISTS [...] (C) Summary: Badr-affiliated Baghdad Governor al-Tahan told PRToffs that his proxy in Jusr, the qa,im makam (local &mayor8),was kidnapped, beaten and released on March 15 by members of the local Sadr Bureau office. The attack was apparently in retaliation for the qa,im makam,s enforcement o [...] | 2007-03-19 12:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD969 | PRT TIKRIT: SAMARRA'S LOCAL POLITICS, DFI AND [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Local political rivalries in Samarra threaten stability as tensions mount with the reconstruction of the Golden Dome Mosque (reftel). Samarra's city officials, who are holdovers from Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) days o [...] | 2007-03-19 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD970 | PRT TIKRIT: JUDICIAL CONFERENCE SUPPORTS MAJOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) On March 14 the PRT Rule of Law Team hosted the province's first judicial conference since the fall of the former regime. 25 of Salah ad Din's judges, prosecutors, and high ranking police officials gathered in Tikrit for a day-long dis [...] | 2007-03-19 14:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KCRM IZ |
07BAGHDAD973 | BAGHDAD DEPUTY MAYOR SAYS ATTACK ON MAYOR WAS [...] (S) 1.SUMMARY: 1. Summary: Baghdad Deputy Mayor Naeem Aboub al-Kaby said that the recent attack on the vehicle convoy of Mayor Saber al-Esawi was a well-planned professional strike against one of Baghdad,s important municipal leaders. End summary. 2. (S) Deputy Mayor for Municipalities N [...] | 2007-03-19 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PINS PGOV ASEC PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD975 | MSNSA WAELI PUSHES TO ESTABLISH MINISTRY OF [...] (C REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: Charge Speckhard met with Shirwan Waeli, Minister of State for National Security, to express our concerns over the draft Ministry of National Security Law (MNSL) currently stalled in the Council of Representatives. Waeli asserted that the law is critical to establishing [...] | 2007-03-20 09:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD978 | ASSYRIAN PATRIOTIC PARTY WANTS HOMELAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: IPAO recently met with three members of the Assyrian Patriotic Party (APP),to discuss the Party's program, especially their proposal for an Assyrian Homeland in Ninewa Province. One APP rep said the Party differs in "all subjects" from the larger Assyrian Democratic Movement ( [...] | 2007-03-20 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD980 | CHALABI AIDE SAYS INCOMPETENCE, LACK OF BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: Ahmad Chalabi aide Wameed Al-Mekhlibe told PRToffs March 17 that lack of coordination with security forces, incompetent ministries, and Prime Minister Maliki,s failure to provide a budget have hindered efforts to form effective popular committees. Al-Mekhlibe said there is littl [...] | 2007-03-20 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD981 | FM ON UPCOMING MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE: NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary. In a March 19 meeting with PolCouns, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari reported he has been in contact with his counterparts of those countries who attended the March 10 Neighbors Conference. Plans for the upcoming April Ministerial have stalled due to the Prime Minister's insisten [...] | 2007-03-20 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD985 | READ OUT FROM MARH 18 MCNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki presided over the March 18 meeting of the Ministerial Committee for National Security, during which: -- Minister of State for National Security Affairs Sirwan al-Waeli said the security crackdown in Baghdad was bringing calm to the capital. However, the si [...] | 2007-03-21 09:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PINS PNAT PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD988 | DIYALA PRT: DIYALA PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT TACKLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Largely due to the security situation, Diyala province has not received its Public Distribution System (PDS) food shipment from the Ministry of Trade (MoT) since September 2006. This has been a major contributor to the public perception that the provincial (and national) gover [...] | 2007-03-21 11:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD994 | MARCH 16 BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN EXECUTIVE STEERING [...] (C) The March 16 Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) Executive Steering Committee focused on: -- A report by General Abboud highlighting security improvements and calling for removal of barriers in Baghdad streets (paragraphs 3-6); -- A reminder from CG Petraeus about the need to balance securit [...] | 2007-03-21 20:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD995 | U.S. SOLDIERS AND IRAQI POLICE ON THE BEAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Discussions with both U.S. military and Iraqi police at a Baghdad police station indicate that Iraqi security forces, with coalition assistance, are progressing and growing in confidence despite inadequate facilities, poor logistical systems, and insufficient arms. Despite these [...] | 2007-03-22 06:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KJUS MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PTER |
07BAGHDAD996 | PRT TIKRIT: SALAH AD DIN BUSINESS LEADERS STEP [...] This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. Sensitive but unclassified, entire text. 3. SUMMARY. Leaders from Salah ad Din,s emerging private sector met on March 15 for an inaugural provincial business and investment conference. The talks, held in Tikrit, brought together 36 delegates [...] | 2007-03-22 06:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR IR IZ |
07BAKU107 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Ambassador briefed Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Mammadyarov January 18 on reftel A points about President Bush's policy announcement on Iraq. The Ambassador explained that the points were previously briefed to Deputy Foreign Minister Khalafov (reftel B). 2. (C) Mammadyarov responded [...] | 2007-01-24 07:42:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL AJ IZ |
07BAKU1143 | BAKU HOSTS IRAQI TURKOMEN CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) A delegation of Iraqi Turkomen came to Baku September 4-5 to raise awareness about the plight of Turkomen in Iraq. The delegation met with Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov, Presidential Foreign Policy Aide Novruz Mammadov, opposition party representatives, and other Azerbaijani [...] | 2007-09-14 08:57:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS AJ IZ |
07BAKU1337 | AZERBAIJANI PUBLIC AND GOVERNMENT STAND WITH [...] (C) Summary: In the run-up to Turkish President Abdullah Gul's November 6-8 visit to Azerbaijan, GOAJ officials, MPs, opposition party members, and civil society activists voiced support for Turkey in its struggle against the PKK. A November 5 conference in Baku, which included participants [...] | 2007-11-07 13:12:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ AJ |
07BAKU375 | INVITATION FOR CENTCOM CONFERENCE IN IRAQ [...] (U) POLOFF delivered REF invitation to CENTCOM conference on Iraq to Azerbaijani MFA Americas Desk on April 3. MFA officer queried if the conference was funded, and POLOFF noted that it was not. As such, the MFA officer advised that given the lack of funding, it was unlikely that the MFA wou [...] | 2007-04-05 03:29:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR IZ MOPS OTRA PREL |
07BAKU529 | AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-01 13:32:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ AJ |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN72 | BRUNEI VIEWS ON MIDEAST ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Brunei (GOB) appears to be viewing Mideast issues increasingly through the prism of a broader Sunni-Shia divide. Over the course of a long conversation with Dato Shofry, the Acting Head of the GOB external intelligence service, Shofry expressed concern about i [...] | 2007-02-27 03:41:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BX IR IZ |
07BANGKOK524 | FOREIGN MINISTER ON IRAQ, MARTIAL LAW, THAKSIN, [...] (C) The Ambassador provided Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram with background on the USG's new strategy in Iraq. In a one-hour January 25 call on Nitya at MFA, he urged the Foreign Minister to ensure the RTG lifts martial law as soon as possible; Nitya said the RTG intended to do so, but t [...] | 2007-01-25 10:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM KDEM ECON ETRD EINV IZ |
07BANJUL16 | THE GAMBIA: PRESIDENT'S POLICY ADDRESS ON IRAQ [...] (SBU) In meeting with Vice President Isatou Njie Saidy, Ambassador briefed on the President's new Iraq strategy and provided text of his remarks. The Ambassador urged the GOTG to consider expressing publicly its support for the President's strategy and for the Iraqi government's efforts on be [...] | 2007-01-12 11:41:00 | Embassy Banjul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ GA |
07BANJUL212 | THE GAMBIA: NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-25 10:52:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ GA |
07BASRAH10 | POLITICIAN EVADES ASSASSINATION AFTER REO MEETING [...] (S/REL MNF-I) Provincial Council First Deputy Chairman Nasay'eif Jasem (aka Nussaif Jasim Ali) reportedly was the target of an assassination attempt following our January 24 meeting. The attack occurred up the road from the Basrah Palace Compound (BPC) minutes after the meeting. Jasem was tra [...] | 2007-01-25 17:19:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PTER EAID IZ IR ECON EINV |
07BASRAH100 | GENERAL MOHAN'S SECURITY PLAN FOR BASRAH [...] (S) SUMMARY: Basrah's Security Chief, Lieutenant General Mohan Hafith Fahad, has laid out his security plan for Basrah, which relies heavily on the Iraqi Army (IA) rather than the Iraqi Police (IP),which remains compromised by militia infiltration. The ambitious plan calls for the central g [...] | 2007-10-26 18:33:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | MCAP MOPS PBTS PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER IR IZ |
07BASRAH101 | MAFIA-STYLE NETWORKS STIFLE RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Basrah's infrastructure remains decrepit four and a half years after Coalition forces liberated the province. Mafia-style networks comprised of public officials and their associated political parties, militias, and corrupt contractors exploit weak governmental institutions and unde [...] | 2007-10-30 17:42:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV KCOR IZ |
07BASRAH102 | ISF-JAM CLASHES PREVIEW BASRAH PIC [...] (C/REL MNF-I) Summary: On October 26, Police Chief Major General Jalil Khalaf Shueil provided Regional Embassy officers (REO) with an account of the recent clashes between Iraqi security forces (ISF) and Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters (JAM). (Ref. A) While the Iraqis were able to resolve the confli [...] | 2007-11-01 16:53:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS MARR IZ |
07BASRAH103 | PROMINENT SUNNI DEVELOPS NEW BLOC, WARNS OF VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: Sheikh Abdul Karim al-Dosari, a leading member of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),told Regional Embassy Officers on October 31 that tribal sheikhs and nationalists were forming a new political bloc to be called the National Tribal Confederation. The Confederation seeks to unite nat [...] | 2007-11-04 16:49:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR PINS PHUM IR KU SA TC BA IZ |
07BASRAH104 | IRANIAN FRONT GROUP COMES OUT OF THE SHADOWS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Leaders of Sayyid al-Shuhada (translated as `Lord of the Martyrs'),an Iraqi Shia party with close ties to Iranian intelligence, met with Regional Embassy Officers (REO) on November 3. They told us this was an introductory meeting to dispel rumors of their Iranian ties, nefario [...] | 2007-11-05 14:03:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER IR IZ |
07BASRAH106 | SECURITY FOR SUNNIS REMAINS TENUOUS IN BASRAH [...] (C) Sheikh Abd al-Karim al-Dosari, a leading member of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) in Basrah, called the Regional Embassy Office (REO) on the evening of November 5, to report a spate of violence against Sunnis that day: -Around 1230, the head of the Abu al-Khasib Municipal Council and thre [...] | 2007-11-13 07:14:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PHUM IZ |
07BASRAH107 | SOUTHERN TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT REQUIRES MORE COORDINATION AND [...] (S/NF) Summary & Comment: Southern Iraq's security situation remains fragile: Iranian lethal aid is pouring in, militias continue to act outside the law, and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) remain incapable of establishing law and order. Inspired by the successes of Anbar, southern tribal leaders [...] | 2007-11-15 18:55:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PBTS PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER IR IZ |
07BASRAH109 | IRAN AND OIL IN SOUTHERN IRAQ: TAKING NOT GIVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Basrah governor Wa'eli (Fadhila) told REO Basrah on November 19 that virtually no imports of oil or derivatives from Iran enter southern Iraq. Rather Iran needs derivative imports. Oil smuggling to Iran is rampant. Wa'eli claimed that PM Maliki was allowing Iran to unfairly ben [...] | 2007-11-19 16:38:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG ECON PGOV IR IZ |
07BASRAH110 | APPEAL OF GOVERNOR'S CASE IMPEDES RECONCILIATION [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 8. 2. (C/Rel MNCI) SUMMARY: Basrah's Badr leader, Hasan al-Rashid, expressed optimism that increased dialogue among local political parties was improving the political environment. He characterized the Sadrists' recent engagement with the [...] | 2007-11-19 18:22:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS IZ IR |
07BASRAH111 | EXTREMISTS TARGET WOMEN [...] Female, DOB 1977. The victim's body was discovered in her house in the Jameat district at 0100 on 10/22/2007. The victim's face and hair were burned. Case number 3839. 2. Female, DOB 1962, occupation housemaid. At 0200, 10/20/2007, three vehicles without license plates opened fire on the [...] | 2007-11-20 17:13:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PTER IZ |
07BASRAH112 | PRINCE OF THE MARSHES GIVES TOUR DE HORIZON [...] (S) SUMMARY: The famed Abu Hatem, (aka "Prince of the Marshes") visited the Regional Embassy Office on November 16. Having closely dealt with USG agencies in Iraq for several years, he observed the need to improve interagency coordination and expand our contacts in the rural areas. He opined [...] | 2007-11-20 17:23:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PREL PINR EAID IR IZ |
07BASRAH113 | BASRAH GOVERNOR REACHES OUT [...] (C) Provincial Council (PC) member Sayed Ghali visited the Regional Embassy Office on November 20 to discuss the appeal against Governor Mohammed Wa'eli. (Ref. A) Ghali is chairman of the Reconstruction Committee and is the Basrah leader of the Iraqi National Accord. 2. (S) Ghali confirme [...] | 2007-11-21 14:34:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PGOV MOPS IZ IR |
07BASRAH114 | S/I SATTERFIELD HELPS BASRAH GOVERNOR AND PRIME MINISTER [...] (S/Rel MCFI) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq (S/I),Ambassador David Satterfield, encouraged Basrah Governor Mohammed Wa'eli to contact and work through Iraqi National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwafaq al-Rubaie as an intermediary to improve the Governor's relatio [...] | 2007-12-03 18:36:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON PTER PGOV PREL MARR MOPS IR IZ |
07BASRAH115 | IRANIANS SEEK TO THWART TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS [...] (S) Regional Embassy Officers met December 11 with representatives of a new tribal gathering called the Independent National Iraqi Tribal Assembly (INITA) (ref. A). The goal of their assembly is to end sectarianism, emancipate the political parties from religion, and unify Iraq. Their assembl [...] | 2007-12-13 17:51:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PGOV ETRD IZ IR |
07BASRAH116 | SAYID AL-SHUHADA LEADER DENIES IRANIAN TETHERS [...] (C/REL AUS/CAN/UK) SUMMARY: Sayid al-Shuhada (SAS) Secretary General Sayid Dagher al-Musawi visited the Regional Embassy Office (REO) on December 13, 2007. SAS is believed to be an Iranian front organization, but Dagher denied he is controlled by Iranians. Rather, he claimed SAS is a legitim [...] | 2007-12-15 15:08:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ IR |
07BASRAH117 | BASRAH DEVELOPMENT FORUM HIGHLIGHTS POLITICAL CONSENSUS FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The "Third Basrah Development Forum" on December 12 was a resounding success. PM Maliki's presence on the dais next to Basrah Governor Wa'eli was a public announcement that the central and provincial governments are working together to solve Basrah Province's security and developm [...] | 2007-12-16 11:36:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PGOV IZ |
07BASRAH118 | BASRAH PROVINCE RETURNED TO IRAQI CONTROL [...] (U) Basrah province was officially returned to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) December 16 at a well run ceremony held at the Basrah Air Station. Basrah is the fourth and final province in MND(SE),and the ninth of Iraq's eighteen provinces, to undergo a security transfer. UK Foreign Minister [...] | 2007-12-16 16:22:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MOPS PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ |
07BASRAH12 | REO BASRAH EAC MEETING ON 01/24/2007 [...] (U) SUMMARY: REO Basrah's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on 01/23/07 to address the recent Indirect Fire (IDF) attacks, morale, and the general security environment in Basrah. The EAC agreed to limit time spent in residential trailers to one hour, continue the restriction on non-eme [...] | 2007-01-28 13:48:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC AMGT IZ |
07BASRAH120 | BASRAH'S SHEIKHS TO OFFER POLICE RECRUITS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Basrah's leading tribal sheikhs and Police Chief met December 17 with Regional Embassy Officers to discuss how the tribes could contribute to improving the province's security situation. The Police Chief, MG Jalil Khalaf Sh [...] | 2007-12-20 14:20:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | MCAP MOPS PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER IZ |
07BASRAH13 | IRANIAN INFLUENCE COMPLICATES IRAQ CONUNDRUM [...] (S/NF) Summary. Two close contacts of the Regional Embassy Office (REO) Basrah provided disturbing reports of increasing Iranian efforts to destabilize southern Iraq at a time that MND(SE) is preparing to reposture its military forces and turn Maysan and Basrah provinces over to Iraqi control [...] | 2007-02-04 18:49:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER KPAO IZ IR |
07BASRAH15 | MODERATES PREDICT MORE VIOLENCE [...] (S/NF) Summary and Introduction. Two tribal leaders and a lawyer, all with close ties to the Coalition, told REO Basrah that they expect violence to erupt in Basrah after Coalition Forces implement Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC). This ominous prediction was delivered by Sheikh Mansur al-Kana [...] | 2007-02-21 18:07:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ |
07BASRAH16 | EMPOWERING THE WOMEN OF SOUTHEAST IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-23 18:33:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN EAID PHUM PREL IZ |
07BASRAH17 | SECURITY - COALITION URGES TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary. U.S. and British diplomats and the commander of British forces in southern Iraq met on February 21 with 25 sheikhs from the Basrah Tribal Council to encourage them their role in the security process. The sheikhs and the Coalition exhorted each other to take the lead in fighting t [...] | 2007-02-28 08:57:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR UK KCOR |
07BASRAH18 | REO BRINGS BASRAH LEADERS TOGETHER [...] Summary and introduction: On February 28 REO Basrah's director hosted a farewell luncheon for the outgoing UK Consul General, Ros Marsden, with local prominent officials in attendance. The luncheon was also intended to kick-start a dialogue between Basrah's Governor; Basrah Provincial Council [...] | 2007-03-01 15:46:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EINV IZ |
07BASRAH23 | THE GLOVES COME OFF IN BASRAH [...] (S/REL MNF-I) Over the past month, British forces have conducted a series of counter-IDF raids, employing newly acquired rescources such as the C-RAM (counter rocket and mortar) system and UAVs (unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicles) to locate the attackers. The counter-IDF raids are part o [...] | 2007-04-09 10:34:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PGOV PTER MOPS IZ |
07BASRAH24 | ANOTHER IRAQI SLAIN FOR SERVING HIS COUNTRY [...] (S/NOFORN) On the evening of April 7, Assaf Alnahi, a Basrah Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) locally engaged contractor (LES) was assassinated in central Basrah. In addition to his duties with the PRT, Assaf worked with the MND/SE legal office and was the judicial assistant to the Basrah [...] | 2007-04-09 17:12:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER KCRM PHUM UK IZ |
07BASRAH25 | GOVERNOR'S OPPONENT PLANS STREET ACTION [...] (C) The head of Thar Allah in Basrah, Sayid Yusif al-Batat, met with the director of the Regional Embassy Office (REO) on April 9 and informed him that thousands of people are planning to take to the streets of Basrah on April 16 in a bid to oust Governor Mohammed al-Wa'eli from office. Sayid [...] | 2007-04-11 08:11:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BASRAH26 | REO BASRAH EAC MEETING ON 04/10/2007 [...] (S) The Regional Director chaired a meeting of the expanded Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on April 10, 2007 to discuss concerns raised in Baghdad over the amount of Indirect Fire (IDF) attacks against the Basrah Palace Compound (BPC). Attending the meeting were the Acting Regional Security O [...] | 2007-04-11 11:05:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | ASEC PTER AMGT IZ |
07BASRAH27 | ABU HATEM URGES U.S. TALK WITH IRAN, SYRIA [...] (C) Maysan's legendary resistance leader Abu Hatem (Abdul Kareem Mahod) met with the director of the Regional Embassy Office (REO) Basrah Louis Bono April 8 and urged the U.S. government to open talks with Iran and Syria. "There can be no stability in Iraq without dialogue with Iran and Syria [...] | 2007-04-12 19:04:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
07BASRAH28 | FADILLAH EMISSARIES SEEK CLOSER TIES WITH U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Two senior figures in Fadillah, Sheikh Abbas al-Zaydi from al-Kut Province, and Ismail al-Wa'eli, the younger brother of Basrah Governor Mohammed al-Wa'eli, met with the Basrah Regional Embassy Office (REO) director April 12. Sheikh Abbas said that Fadillah is interested in impr [...] | 2007-04-15 13:43:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
07BASRAH29 | REO BASRAH EAC MEETING ON 04/14/2007 [...] (S) Summary and Introduction: The Regional Director chaired a meeting of the expanded Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on April 14, 2007 to discuss the continuing incidents of indirect fire (IDF),including the attack of April 13, in which four housing trailers were damaged, and three personne [...] | 2007-04-16 09:01:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER AMGT IZ |
07BASRAH3 | AN AMERICAN KIDNAPPED IN BASRAH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-05 19:23:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | ASEC CASC PTER MOPS PGOV IZ |
07BASRAH30 | REO BASRAH EAC MEETING HELD ON 04/14/2007 [...] (S) Summary and Introduction: The Regional Director chaired a meeting of the expanded Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on April 14, 2007 to discuss the continuing incidents of indirect fire (IDF),including the attack of April 13, in which four housing trailers were damaged, and three personnel [...] | 2007-04-16 09:07:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER AMGT IZ |
07BASRAH35 | IRAQI ARMY OPENS TALKS ON FUTURE OF BASRAH PALACE [...] (C) Summary. The commander of the Iraqi Army's (IA) 10th division in charge of southern Iraq, Major General Habib Abbas al-Husseini, met with the Basrah Regional Embassy Office (REO) director on April 25. The two discussed efforts to stabilize the province and prospects for the IA taking con [...] | 2007-04-30 11:39:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MOPS IZ IR |
07BASRAH36 | TWO EXPLOSIONS, TWO STORIES [...] (S) Summary: On April 30, an F-16 bombed insurgents as they were preparing to fire rockets at a Coalition base in Basrah. The previous day, a vehicle transporting a munitions cache exploded in a Ja'ish al-Mehdi (JAM) neighborhood, killing several people. JAM blamed the incident on Sunni insurg [...] | 2007-05-01 18:00:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | MOPS PTER PROP IZ UK |
07BASRAH37 | BUSINESSMAN URGES PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN BASRAH [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: The head of the Basrah Business Center, Abdul Hafiz al-Ati, met with the Regional Embassy Office (REO) Basrah director April 26 and urged the United States to "take a small step" to attract foreign investment in Basrah's crippled economy. He said business develo [...] | 2007-05-06 10:05:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EIND EINV IR IZ |
07BASRAH38 | BASRAH GOVERNOR REMAINS IF OFFICE, FOR NOW [...] (C) The latest attempt to oust Basrah Governor Mohammed al-Wa'eli appears to be over, at least for now. The three leading opponents, provincial council members Hassan al-Rashid (Badr) and Sayid Yousuf (Thar Allah) and Defense Ministry advisor Majid al-Sari, visited the Regional Embassy Office [...] | 2007-05-08 07:14:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ IR |
07BASRAH39 | STUDENT TAKES RISK TO DISCUSS LIFE IN BASRAH [...] (C) A Basrah Student Union leader met the Regional Embassy Office (REO) director on May 7, to talk about Basrah University and life in general for the educated and moderate citizens of Basrah. The director noted the risk involved in visiting the REO and asked the student why he came in. The s [...] | 2007-05-13 11:07:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL ECON PHUM PREL IZ IR |
07BASRAH4 | REO BASRAH EAC MEETING ON 01/08/2007 [...] (U) SUMMARY: REO Basrah's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on 01/08/07 to address the recent volley of rocket attacks that injured 3 U.S. Chief of Mission personnel and 3 British personnel. In order to mitigate the security threat posed by frequent indirect fire (IDF),the EAC agreed [...] | 2007-01-09 08:55:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | ASEC PTER AMGT IZ |
07BASRAH41 | BASRAH CLERIC FEARS CIVIL WAR [...] (C) Summary. A respected Basrah cleric (name protected) visited the Regional Embassy Office (REO) Basrah May 19 and predicted that civil war could engulf Iraq's oil-rich southernmost province after Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) is implemented. He added that the political parties and securit [...] | 2007-05-21 06:36:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BASRAH44 | GOVERNOR, POLICE CHIEF REPORTED TO BE SACKED [...] (C) Rumors abound in Basrah May 24 that Basrah Governor Mohammed al-Wa'eli and Basrah Chief of Police Mohammed Hammadi al-Musawi are about to be sacked. According to former Basrah Governor Hasan al-Rashid and other sources, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has decided to remove the governor fr [...] | 2007-05-24 13:21:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PINS IZ |
07BASRAH45 | LOCAL POLITICIAN ON SECURITY, PIC [...] (C) Iraqi National Dialogue Front (IDNF) Southern Director Awad al-Abdany met with the Regional Embassy Office (REO) director on May 22 to discuss security and plans to handover provincial Iraqi control (PIC). Awad said the Basrah police are divided between factions. He said "the security forc [...] | 2007-05-25 13:44:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL IZ |
07BASRAH46 | JAM LEADER'S DEATH SPARKS VIOLENCE [...] (S) On Friday afternoon May 25 Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF),in coordination with MND-SE, attempted to arrest Basrah Ja'ish al-Mehdi (JAM) leader Wissam Al Wa'eli (aka Abu Qadir) as he was driving away from the Office of Martyr Sadr (OMS) headquarters. Wissam tried to escape, but was [...] | 2007-05-29 17:53:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | MOPS PTER IZ IR UK |
07BASRAH47 | CORRECTED COPY: JAM LEADER'S DEATH SPARKS VIOLENCE [...] (S) On Friday afternoon May 25 Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF),in coordination with MND-SE, attempted to arrest Basrah Ja'ish al-Mehdi (JAM) leader Wissam Al Wa'eli (aka Abu Qadir) as he was driving away from the Office of Martyr Sadr (OMS) headquarters. Wissam tried to escape, but was [...] | 2007-05-29 18:56:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | MOPS PTER IZ IR UK |
07BASRAH48 | JOURNALIST DESCRIBES MAYHEM IN BASRAH [...] Half the members of the Basrah Provincial Council 2. Sayid Yusuf, the head of the Thar Allah militia, an old enemy of the governor. 3. The Sayid Ashuhada organization which belongs to Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Sayid Dagher runs this organization in Basrah. 4. The Badr organization, headed b [...] | 2007-05-31 18:45:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PGOV IZ IR |
07BASRAH53 | TRYING TO RIGHT THE SHIP OF BASRAH [...] (S/NF) Over the past few months, there have been several indicators that raise concerns about the ability of Iraqi authorities to adequately govern Basrah. In March, there was a direct attack against the Governor's palace followed by a coordinated attempt within the Provincial Council to depos [...] | 2007-06-17 10:14:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINS PREL IZ IR |
07BASRAH54 | PRT BASRAH: LESSONS LEARNED: JUNE 2006 - JUNE 2007 [...] The Basrah Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) is a multinational PRT under British direction. This cable records the observations and lessons learned by the U.S. deputy team leader, James Donegan, during his deployment period, June 2006 to June 2007. It is being recorded in this informal, [...] | 2007-06-22 17:30:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV IZ UK |
07BASRAH55 | IRAN COMMANDEERS BASRAH JAM [...] (C/REL UK, AUS) The rising violence that has gripped Basrah results largely from Iran's success in commandeering and empowering Basrah cells of the Ja'ish al-Mahdi (JAM). This is the near unanimous view expressed by Iraqi and Coalition sources tracking the declining security situation in Iraq [...] | 2007-06-24 09:37:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PTER PREL IR IZ |
07BASRAH56 | BASRAH'S NEW POLICE CHIEF CHALLENGES U.S. [...] (C/NF) Summary. The newly appointed Basrah Chief of Police, Major General Jalil Khalaf Shueil, visited the director of the Basrah Regional Embassy Office June 24 and made an energetic appeal for U.S. troops to be sent in to replace British forces which are drawing down in preparation for Provi [...] | 2007-06-24 17:25:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS IR IZ |
07BASRAH57 | SADRIST LEADER REACHES OUT TO U.S. [...] (S/NF) Summary and Introduction: A senior cleric of the Office of Martyr Sadr (OMS) organization, Sheikh Mohammed Daoud-al-Basyri, held secret talks with the director of the Office of Provincial Affairs and the director of the Basrah Regional Embassy Office (REO) at the Basrah Air Station June [...] | 2007-06-28 05:23:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER OEXC SCUL EAID IR IZ |
07BASRAH58 | NEW POLICE CHIEF ADDRESSES JAM, PERSONAL RUMORS [...] (C) Basrah's new police chief Major General Jalil Khalaf Shueil met with the director of the Office of Provincial Affairs and the director of the Basrah Regional Embassy Office (REO) on July 27 to discuss his efforts to stabilize Basrah. Jalil said his primary objectives are to reform his poli [...] | 2007-06-28 06:04:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PINS PTER MOPS IZ IR |
07BASRAH59 | BASRAH BADR CHIEF SAYS JAM BEHIND THE VIOLENCE; ASKS FOR [...] (S) Summary: The leader of Badr Organization in Basrah, Hassan al-Rashid, told the acting REO director that JAM is the chief culprit for violence and should be strongly dealt with by the new Basrah security chiefs. If the security apparatus and Coalition Forces vigorously confront JAM, al-Ras [...] | 2007-07-02 16:11:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BASRAH6 | REO BASRAH CHALLENGES LOCAL MEDIA [...] Summary. The Regional Embassy Office (REO) in Basrah hosted a luncheon on January 3 for four journalists from Basrah and Maysan provinces. The journalists focused on the security situation and expressed a desire to maintain frequent contact. The REO director stated that he wants to build a l [...] | 2007-01-10 16:32:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO IZ PGOV MOPS EAID ENRG |
07BASRAH64 | FOREIGN FIGHTERS IN BASRAH? [...] (S - REL MNF-I) On June 28, three British soldiers were killed by an IED as they were escorting a convoy from the Basrah Palace to the Basrah Air Station. British forces subsequently recovered a video recording of the incident. British sources believe that the male voices overheard on the rec [...] | 2007-07-22 09:48:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PTER MOPS IZ IR LE SY |
07BASRAH66 | GOVERNOR ACKNOWLEDGES END IS NEAR [...] (C) Summary: On July 26, Basrah Governor Mohammad Wa'eli received an order from the Council of Ministers directing him to step down from office. Wa'eli insists the order is unconstitutional but says he will abide by the decision of the Iraqi High Tribunal Court, which has the matter before it. [...] | 2007-08-07 22:38:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ IR |
07BASRAH68 | BADR LEADER SUGGESTS TRUCE BETWEEN ISF AND MILITIAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Badr leader Hasan al-Rashid met with Regional Embassy Officials (REO) on July 28 and August 9. He said he would serve as governor if asked, and that as governor he would seek to improve security by reconciling the politicians, the Iraqi security forces (ISF),and the militias. He [...] | 2007-08-13 11:23:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS IZ IR |
07BASRAH69 | BANI MALIK TRIBE STRIKES MILITIAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bani Malik tribe demonstrated they were a force to be reckoned with August 10, following the murder of the tribal leader's son. The Bani Malik assumed Badr Corps was responsible and attacked a Badr office, killing one Badr member. The tribe also attacked the offices of severa [...] | 2007-08-13 12:20:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR IZ |
07BASRAH70 | CENTRAL BANK MANAGER ON BASRAH PROBLEMS: SECURITY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Zuhair Ali Akbair, General Manager for the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI),Basrah Branch met with Basrah Regional Embassy Office (REO) officials on August 11. Zuhair listed lack of electricity and security as the two main impediments to Basrah's development, but Zuhair showed no con [...] | 2007-08-18 15:50:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ENRG ECON EAGR PGOV PTER IZ |
07BASRAH71 | BASRAH GOVERNOR LIKELY TO REMAIN IN OFFICE [...] (C) Regional Embassy Office contacts predict Governor Mohammed Wa'eli (Fadhila) will remain in his position despite the Provincial Council's no confidence vote against him. The sudden shift towards Wa'eli stems from reports that the Iraqi High Tribunal Court will decide in favor of Wa'eli. Fa [...] | 2007-08-18 15:55:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
07BASRAH72 | SADRIST AGREES TO DIALOGUE WITH REO [...] (S) Summary: A senior Sadrist cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Daoud-al-Basyri, resumed secret talks with Regional Embassy Office (REO) officials on August 18. (Reftel) Mohammed agreed on the need to establish a dialogue with the United States and said he would assemble his colleagues for this purpose [...] | 2007-08-18 16:32:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PREL PTER IR IZ |
07BASRAH77 | BASRAH GOVERNOR BESET WITH PROBLEMS [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Governor Muhammed Wa'eli visited the Regional Embassy Office (REO) August 30 to give us a tour de force of current issues confronting him. He told us that the court's decision on his fate was delayed and is now expected in mid-September. He seemed confident, but not overwhelming [...] | 2007-09-04 18:28:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IR UK IZ |
07BASRAH8 | LOOKING AHEAD TO ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) The REO staff have been polling our Basrah contacts since September regarding the likelihood of provincial elections and possible outcomes. With few exceptions, REO contacts have overwhelmingly stated that election planning and candidate vetting is stalled until the new election law is p [...] | 2007-01-17 07:11:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BASRAH81 | (S//NF) UK FORCES CONTEMPLATE IRAQ DRAWDOWN TIMELINE [...] (S//NF) During a September 6 briefing, MND-SE commander MG Graham Binns asked his staff to contemplate what actions would be required to turn security for Basrah province to Iraqi control (PIC) in October. Binns suggested "exploiting" this period of calm to engage key leaders, by driving a wed [...] | 2007-09-07 14:29:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINS MARR UK IZ |
07BASRAH82 | ELECTRICITY ISSUES IN BASRAH [...] (SBU) Summary: REO Discussions with a wide range of contacts revealed an intermittent supply of 8 to 9 hours of grid electricity per day for Basrah, with ever rising demand. Single family or neighborhood for-profit generators are common, as is theft from grid lines. The lack of consumer billin [...] | 2007-09-08 14:51:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAID ECON PGOV IZ |
07BASRAH83 | FADHILA NOT TAKING CHANCES ON BASRAH GOVERNOR'S COURT CASE [...] (S/NF) Fadhila member Aqueel Talib provided the REO director on September 8, a letter from Council of Representatives Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani to Prime Minister Maliki. The letter supports Basrah Governor Muhammed Wa'eli (Fadhila) in his court case against the Provincial Council's (PC) no-con [...] | 2007-09-09 18:58:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PINS IR IZ |
07BASRAH84 | FADHILA NOT TAKING CHANCES ON BASRAH GOVERNOR'S COURT CASE [...] (S/NF) Fadhila member Aqueel Talib provided the REO director on September 8, a letter from Council of Representatives Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani to Prime Minister Maliki. The letter supports Basrah Governor Muhammed Wa'eli (Fadhila) in his court case against the Provincial Council's (PC) no-con [...] | 2007-09-11 10:16:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER IR IZ |
07BASRAH85 | BASRAH GOVERNOR'S FATE FURTHER DELAYED [...] (C/NF) Summary: Fadhila member Aqeel Talib told Regional Embassy Officers September 17 that the High Tribunal Court reviewing the Basrah Provincial Council's (PC) no-confidence vote against Governor Mohammed Wa'eli had closed the case and would issue a verdict around September 28. On Septembe [...] | 2007-09-21 08:37:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINS UK IZ |
07BASRAH86 | BASRAH POLICE CHIEF ON IRAN & SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Basrah Police Chief, Major General Jalil Khalaf Shueil, told Regional Embassy Officers September 18 that Iran is training a Hezbollah-like force in reaction to rumors of a U.S. deployment to Basrah following a British withdrawal. Jalil expressed concern that Iraqi Prime Minister [...] | 2007-09-23 05:19:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
07BASRAH88 | SECURITY IN BASRAH PROVINCE [...] (S) Summary: While attacks against Coalition Forces (CF) remain at a six-month low, security for Basrah's politicians and government security forces is bad. A series of assassinations, or attempts, of politicians and security officials has highlighted the failure of basic law enforcement. Un [...] | 2007-09-25 06:52:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PINS PGOV ASEC ECON IZ |
07BASRAH89 | BASRAH MOD ADVISOR SAYS IRAN TRAINING JAM FOR PROXY WAR [...] (S) Summary: MOD Advisor Majid al-Sari told REO September 23 that Iran was now hosting training for 3,000 Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) members on collecting intelligence, radio intercepts, and employing EFPs and snipers for operations in Basrah. According to al-Sari, Tehran was secretly behind a Septe [...] | 2007-09-26 16:07:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PINS PREL PROP PTER IR IZ |
07BASRAH9 | CAN GOVERNOR WA'ELI LEAD BASRAH AFTER PIC? [...] (C) Summary. On January 11, 2007, the director of the Regional Embassy Office (REO) Basrah and Basrah Provincial Governor Mohammad al-Wa'eli held a meeting that dealt with the need for strong leaders to take charge of security after Basrah goes to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC). The REO dire [...] | 2007-01-22 15:19:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
07BASRAH90 | AMIDEAST CONTINUES DESPITE BASRAH'S DANGERS [...] (SBU) The Basrah representative for the NGO AMIDEAST, Nezar Abbas (please protect),described the extremely difficult conditions of implementing Department-funded cultural exchange programs to REO IPAO on September 25. Nezar told us that AMIDEAST was currently promoting the Iraqi Young Leaders [...] | 2007-09-28 07:39:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KLSO SOCI SCUL PHUM IZ |
07BASRAH91 | TENSIONS RISE AND ABATE BETWEEN BASRAH'S PC AND ISF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Members of Basrah's Provincial Council (PC),led by the Fadhila Party, attempted to "vote out" Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) commander LTG Mohan Hafith Fahad and Provincial Director of Police (PDOP) MG Jalil Khalaf Shueil at a September 22 "emergency session." Both officers left bef [...] | 2007-10-03 07:26:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
07BASRAH92 | BADR LEADER EXPRESSES SECURITY CONCERNS IN BASRAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Basrah Governor and Provincial Council (PC) member Hasan al-Rashid (Badr) told REO Director October 4 that Basrah's security has worsened. Unfortunately, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) have done little to respond, and he accused Security Chief Lieutenant General Mohan Hafith F [...] | 2007-10-08 15:40:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PINS PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BASRAH93 | GOVERNOR WINS CASE, OPPOSITION PROPOSES A TRUCE [...] (C) Summary: According to Basrah's Governor Mohammed Wa'eli (Fadhila),the Administrative Court has ruled that the Basrah Provincial Council's (PC) no-confidence vote was illegal, allowing Wa'eli to remain in office. The Court has yet to make an official announcement, but Prime Minister Nuri [...] | 2007-10-09 13:38:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS UK IZ |
07BASRAH94 | PRT/USACE WORKSHOP GETS PROVINCIAL COUNCIL AND GOVERNATE [...] (U) Summary: In an August 31 - September 5 conference at the Dubai School of Government, the Basrah PRT and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers introduced best practices by successful UAE and Jordanian municipal services providers to Basrah municipal service directorate (sewage, water and electricity) [...] | 2007-10-13 09:59:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PREL IZ |
07BASRAH95 | PROMOTING GRASS ROOTS EFFORTS TO STOP THE VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Over the past two months, militia attacks against Coalition personnel in Basrah have significantly subsided, but the absence of anti-Coalition violence has not resulted in tranquility for the citizens of Basrah. Shi'a militias and criminal gangs continue to terrorize Basrawis through a c [...] | 2007-10-13 13:03:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EAID KWMN IZ |
07BASRAH96 | GEN MOHAN ON IRAN, ISF, AND PIC [...] (S/REL AUS, CAN, UK) SUMMARY: In an October 7 meeting, Basrah Security Chief General Mohan listed Iran as Basrah's central problem, with unrestricted arms smuggling leaving militias too powerful for him to confront directly now. As UK troops leave, he described three areas in which the U.S. co [...] | 2007-10-14 12:08:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL MOPS IR IZ |
07BASRAH97 | GOVERNOR'S RIVAL DELIVERS IRANIAN COMPLAINT, ASSESSES BASRAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Basrah Provincial Council (PC) member Hasan al-Rashid (Badr) advised Regional Embassy Office (REO) officials on October 18 that the Iranian Consul General, Hamid Baghnan, visited him to protest the presence of British forces at the al-Shalamja crossing on the Iraq-Iran border. Bag [...] | 2007-10-21 12:19:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS IZ IR UK |
07BASRAH99 | IRAQI SECURITY FORCES AND JAM CLASH IN BASRAH [...] (C) Summary: The tentative truce between the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) in Basrah was broken October 23 when fighting broke out throughout the city. Following a shooting of an alleged Organization of the Martyr Sadr (OMS) member at a police checkpoint, JAM forces laun [...] | 2007-10-23 22:04:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINR IZ |
07BEIJING4010 | JUNE 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, [...] Key points at the June 14 MFA Press Conference were: -- China has taken note of reports indicating the imminent transfer of North Korean funds from Macau's Banco Delta Asia and hopes relevant parties take steps toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. -- Not responding directly to [...] | 2007-06-14 11:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM EFIN KJUS KS KN RS PO VM NU IZ |
07BEIJING4132 | JUNE 19 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, TIP [...] Key points at the June 19 MFA Press Conference were: -- The spokesman said the DPRK's invitation to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) affirms the DPRK's political will to implement the initial actions of the February 13 Joint Document. -- The Chinese Government places importanc [...] | 2007-06-19 10:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM EFIN ETTC KN JA IZ SU SP PM VT CH |
07BEIJING4190 | JUNE 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: A/S HILL AND FM YANG'S [...] Key points at the June 21 MFA Press Conference were: -- China hopes A/S Hill's visit to the DPRK will help to implement he Initial Actions Agreement and to improve Unied States-DPRK relations. -- FM Yang will visit the DPRK July 2-4. -- Population and developed nations' contributions to [...] | 2007-06-21 09:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV KS KN IZ MG JA SU ID NL CH |
07BEIJING4301 | JUNE 26 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, A/S [...] Key points at the June 26 MFA Press Conference were: -- The MFA thanked all parties for their efforts in solving the BDA issue, but gave reporters no information on when the Six-Party Talks would resume. -- IAEA DDG Heinonen will brief Beijing on his trip to the DPRK upon its completion an [...] | 2007-06-26 09:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EFIN UNSC KS KN JA IZ CI TU PK CH |
07BEIJING4357 | JUNE 28 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK MISSILE LAUNCHES, [...] Key points at the June 28 MFA Press Conference were: -- The MFA noticed reports of DPRK missile launches yesterday and the Chinese and Japanese Foreign Ministers discussed the Korean nuclear issue over the phone this morning. -- China is actively engaged in Iraq reconstruction and efforts [...] | 2007-06-28 09:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KS KN JA IZ VT SP CH |
07BEIJING4521 | EAP DAS TOM CHRISTENSEN WITH MFA NORTH AMERICA DG [...] (C) China will press Sudan to accept a peacekeeping force in Darfur under UN command and control and welcomes bilateral talks between the United States and North Korea, MFA North America and Oceania Affairs Department Director General Liu Jieyi told visiting EAP DAS Thomas Christensen on July 5 [...] | 2007-07-06 09:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PMUC PTER PHUM IZ IR KN TC |
07BEIJING4577 | JULY 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, U.S. [...] Key points at the July 10 MFA Press Conference were: -- China hopes for a Heads of Delegation meeting in "mid-July," but setting a date requires the consent of all parties. -- China calls for immediate corrective action in response to reports of an FBI advertisement in San Francisco local [...] | 2007-07-10 09:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KS KN BM PK NG IZ AF CH |
07BEIJING4801 | EAP A/S HILL WITH VFM ZHANG YESUI ON IRAN, DARFUR, [...] (C) Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui told EAP A/S Hill July 20 that the Iran nuclear issue should be solved through dialogue, but China does not oppose "a certain level of pressure" on Tehran. China believes the UN Security Council members should first assess progress in Iran-IAEA negotiatio [...] | 2007-07-20 11:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PHUM IR IZ SU CH |
07BEIJING4826 | AFM HE YAFEI SAYS CHINA WANTS NON-NUCLEAR IRAN, [...] (C) Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei told the Ambassador July 23 that China does not want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, but dialogue and negotiations, not sanctions, are the best way to solve the issue. Responding to the Ambassador's points, AFM He acknowledged that China continues to s [...] | 2007-07-23 23:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER IR IZ CH |
07BEIJING4827 | AFM HE YAFEI SAYS CHINA WANTS NON-NUCLEAR IRAN, [...] (C) Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei told the Ambassador July 23 that China does not want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, but dialogue and negotiations, not sanctions, are the best way to solve the issue. Responding to the Ambassador's points, AFM He acknowledged that China continues to s [...] | 2007-07-23 23:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV IR IZ CH |
07BEIJING4844 | AMBASSADOR'S JULY 23 MEETING WITH AFM HE YAFEI: [...] (C) The United States must make "firmer and clearer warnings" to Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian not to hold the "dangerous" UN referendum, and giving Chen a visa to transit the United States would counter U.S. statements against the referendum, Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei told the Amb [...] | 2007-07-24 09:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PHUM PNUC MARR IR IZ SU CH |
07BEIJING5323 | SENATOR LIEBERMAN ON FOOD SAFETY, DARFUR, IRAN, [...] (C) China has been unfairly vilified over recent product safety scandals in U.S. media, National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Jiang Enzhu told visiting Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) August 6. China is taking action to identify and shut down unlicensed, non-compliant [...] | 2007-08-14 09:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PMUC PTER PHUM IZ IR KN TC TW CH |
07BEIJING5361 | CHINESE PROVIDE CASE BRIEFINGS AND CRITICIZE U.S. [...] (S) Summary: In an afternoon session of bilateral nonproliferation talks August 13, MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Director General Zhang Yan touted China's actions on nonproliferation enforcement and criticized U.S. sanctions on Chinese firms and our "wide-scope" interpretation [...] | 2007-08-15 10:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PARM MNUC IZ IR IS LE KN CH |
07BEIJING6266 | CHINESE MFA ON UNGA [...] (C) Drawing on Department guidance (Ref A),Poloff discussed the 62nd UNGA session with Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun on September 24 (the first date the MFA was available). Yao's key po [...] | 2007-09-24 22:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA SENV IR SU IZ BM LE CH |
07BEIJING6267 | CHINESE MFA ON UNGA [...] (C) Drawing on Department guidance (Ref A),Poloff discussed the 62nd UNGA session with Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun on September 24 (the first date the MFA was available). Yao's key po [...] | 2007-09-24 22:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA SENV IR SU IZ BM LE CH |
07BEIJING6394 | DEMARCHE ON REDUCTION OF IRAQI DEBT DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-28 10:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN IZ CH |
07BEIJING6844 | OCTOBER 25 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: GAMBARI VISIT, J-10 [...] Key points at the October 25 MFA Press Briefing: -- UN Special Envoy Gambari met with Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi and State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan on October 24-25. -- China has taken note of the "untrue and groundless" reports in the Russian media th [...] | 2007-10-25 10:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH BM IR RS JA SU TU IZ PK |
07BEIJING6974 | A/S SILVERBERG MEETING WITH MFA IO DG WU HAILONG [...] (C) In an October 31 meeting, A/S Silverberg disagreed with her MFA counterpart's positive assessment of the situation in Burma; when MFA International Organizations Director General Wu Hailong called for the international community's patience, A/S Silverberg laid out specific steps the Burmes [...] | 2007-11-05 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF SY LE BM YI IR IZ KN |
07BEIJING7037 | COUNTERTERRORISM: PRC ADOPTING PRAGMATIC APPROACH [...] (C) PRC citizens have increasingly been victims of violence overseas in recent years, including murders and kidnappings in Africa and attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Despite evidence that some of these incidents specifically targeted Chinese and clear signs that the PRC is experimenting [...] | 2007-11-08 23:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL CASC PGOV CH PK XA IZ AF UN |
07BEIJING7229 | DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 03:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ CH |
07BEIJING7455 | CHINA TO SUPPORT DRAFT IRAQ UNSCR TEXT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 08:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC EFIN MARR IZ CH |
07BEIRUT1625 | LEBANON: SINIORA TO USDP EDELMAN: ARMY IS KEY TO [...] (C) In an October 16 meeting with visiting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USDP) Eric S. Edelman and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Mark T. Kimmitt, PM Siniora stressed the need to strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) as the best way to empower the Lebanese state and [...] | 2007-10-18 07:40:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS IR IZ LE |
07BEIRUT405 | JUMBLATT FRETS THAT SYRIA IS PAINTING HIM AS PKK [...] (S) Over a 3/16 lunch otherwise dominated by discussion of Lebanon's domestic developments, Druse leader Walid Jumblatt told the Ambassador that he was deeply worried that Syria was implicating him with PKK terrorism. Former Syrian VP Abdulhalim Khaddam, who met with Jumblatt earlier that w [...] | 2007-03-19 08:24:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PTER LE TU IZ |
07BEIRUT540 | LEBANON: MINISTERIAL DELEGATION TO ICI MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-18 13:34:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PREL PTER EAID EFIN UN GCC IZ LE |
07BELGRADE1630 | SERBIA TO WORK WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOR A STABLE IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 07:34:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MAR MOPS PGOV SR IZ |
07BELGRADE1635 | SERBIA TO WORK WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOR A STABLE IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 08:59:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MAR MOPS PGOV SR IZ |
07BERLIN1883 | GERMAN MFA RESPONSE TO GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Poloff and Econ Counselor met with German MFA and Economic Ministry officials respectively to discuss ref A. Deputy European Correspondent Thomas Schieb, who is responsible for overseeing the drafting of position papers for the MFA's use at the October 15-16 EU General Affairs and Exter [...] | 2007-10-12 15:45:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL RS LY IS IZ IR |
07BERLIN2080 | APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE NOVEMBER 19 [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Thomas Schieb, Deputy EU Correspondent at the MFA, and relayed the points to the Chancellery. 2. (C) Schieb provided substantive comments on the following topics: --Upcoming EU Summits with China, Africa, and India: The November 19 GAERC agenda [...] | 2007-11-16 16:36:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV BK BM CH IR IS IZ KV LE PK |
07BERLIN272 | TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY TALKS WITH GERMAN [...] (C) Summary -- Meeting with Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt February 8, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier discussed that day's EU Troika meeting with the Pakistani Foreign Minister, Iran and North Korea, Chancellor Merkel's transatlantic initiative, the Iraq Compact, and Germa [...] | 2007-02-11 16:42:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC PREL GM IZ PK AF |
07BERLIN457 | NSA HADLEY'S MEETING WITH GERMAN INTERIOR MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Interior Minister Schaeuble told National Security Advisor Hadley February 23 Germany and the U.S. need to share information to combat terrorism, but the European Parliament is concerned about civil liberties. Schaeuble sought U.S. agreement for a U.S.-EU-Russia trilateral meetin [...] | 2007-03-06 15:50:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KJUS AF LE IZ SR RS GM |
07BERLIN515 | IRAQ COMPACT UN MEETING: GERMAN RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary. Post delivered ref demarche to the Chancellery and MFA to urge senior German participation. The German government's initial plan was to have an ambassador-level official from its UN Mission represent Germany at the event. Embassy has reclamaed the German government at senior le [...] | 2007-03-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ GM |
07BERLIN547 | DEPUTY TREASURY SECRETARY MEETS WITH TOP [...] (C) Summary -- Meeting separately with Head of the Federal Chancellery/Minister without Portfolio Thomas de Maiziere and with Chancellery Director General for Economics Jens Weidmann March 19, Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt discussed Chancellor Merkel's transatlantic economic initiative, i [...] | 2007-03-20 11:11:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL ETTC GM IR IZ |
07BERLIN555 | TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MARCH 19 [...] (C) Summary: Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt and German MFA State Secretary Reinhard Silberberg discussed the need to maintain political unity within the international community on Iran and to work together to ensure effective implementation of multilateral agreements. They also discussed [...] | 2007-03-20 13:46:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC PREL SENV ENRG EAIR MARR GM IZ PK |
07BERLIN977 | Germany and Iraq Announce Resumption of Training for Iraqi [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Jassim al-Obeidi in Berlin May 9, DefMin Jung announced that Germany will train 350 Iraqi soldiers from a transportation battalion in the UAE this year. The Bundeswehr also plans to train an Iraqi medical unit in Germany. As part of th [...] | 2007-05-14 06:28:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER NATO IZ GM |
07BERN1104 | SWISS MFA REPORTEDLY STILL REVIEWING FUTURE OF [...] (C) Summary: Swiss MFA Desk Officer for Iraq Laila Sheikh told poloff November 28 that the MFA has not reached a final decision as to whether to close the Swiss Liaison Office in Baghdad (ref B). She explained that the matter is still under review, but that security and cost issues are making [...] | 2007-11-28 14:47:00 | Embassy Bern | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BRATISLAVA251 | MOD SPINS NTM-I RIGHT-SIZING AS WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) Slovak MoD Frantisek Kasicky is spinning the return of five Slovak soldiers from the NATO Training Mission in Iraq as a withdrawal in keeping with the manifesto of the Fico government. In fact, the soldiers (three officers and two NCOs) were sent home after SHAPE determined they were no lo [...] | 2007-04-26 11:58:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR NATO IZ LO |
07BRUSSELS1254 | BELGIANS PONDER LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION AT IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Belgium will be represented at the signing of the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) on May 3 in Sharm el-Sheikh, at a minimum by its ambassador to Egypt. (Note: The Belgian political scene, including the agendas of ministers, is currently dominated by pre [...] | 2007-04-13 16:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL BE IZ |
07BRUSSELS243 | DEPSEC KIMMITT VISIT: MEETING WITH FERRERO-WALDNER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-25 08:32:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID EFIN EUN ETRD PARM IR IZ |
07BRUSSELS3172 | TERROR FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF SEVEN IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-17 08:45:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER ETTC KFTN PREL IZ EUN |
07BRUSSELS318 | DEPSEC KIMMITT VISIT: MEETING WITH HIGH REP SOLANA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 15:41:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ECON EAID EFIN EUN ETRD PARM IR IZ NK |
07BRUSSELS3491 | BELGIUM SUPPORTS CONSENSUS ON RENEWED IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 15:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL UNSC IZ EFIN MARR BE |
07BRUSSELS387 | URGENT NEED FOR RESPONSE FROM DEPARTMENT ON IRAQ [...] (C) I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at the two reftels. Both concern a Belgian being held in Iraq who reportedly is awaiting sentencing, but who, again reportedly, remains under USG custody. The Belgians have been seeking our help in arranging his release. We have succ [...] | 2007-02-05 14:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL IZ BE |
07BUCHAREST103 | TWO ROMANIAN CONTRACTORS DETAINED IN IRAQ: [...] (C) SUMMARY. News that two Romanian contractors have been detained since last October by MNF-I forces for having taken unauthorized photographs of U.S. military facilities has burst into a full-scale media flap in Bucharest. President Basescu raised the issue with the Ambassador on February [...] | 2007-02-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PROP PHUM PGOV IZ RO |
07BUCHAREST104 | RFG: MUNAF'S CASE IN UNHCR; ROMANIA SEEKS US VIEWS [...] (SBU) This is a request for Action. Please see para. 7. 2. (C) MFA State Secretary Adrian Vierita asked to meet with DCM and Acting Polcouns on January 30 to discuss a complaint filed with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on behalf of dual Iraqi/US citizen Mohammad Munaf, who wa [...] | 2007-02-01 15:13:00 | Embassy Bucharest | SECRET | CASC KJUS MARR PGOV PREL UNHCR IZ RO |
07BUCHAREST1244 | ROMANIA: RESPONSE TO IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) Summary: For Romania, the more specific the international mandate for Iraq, the better the outcome in terms of continued engagement in Iraq. President Basescu is committed to maintaining Romania's military commitments overseas, but the imprecisions within Romania's overlapping constitutio [...] | 2007-11-02 13:52:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ RO |
07BUCHAREST1317 | ROMANIA: INTENSIFYING AND DIVERSIFYING RELATIONS [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A points on November 28, to MFA Director for Middle East and Africa Daniel Tanase. Tanase expressed appreciation for the demarche and said the GOR would look forward to the December 6 NSC Iraq Forum for further discussion. Tanase described the GOR policy towards Ira [...] | 2007-11-29 13:58:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ RO |
07BUCHAREST157 | COMMUNICATION FROM ROMANIAN MINISTRY OF JUSTICE ON [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST: Post received a note dated February 2, 2007 from the Romanian Ministry of Justice International Law and Treaty Department seeking assistance in AmCit Mohammad Munaf's case. It represents a follow-up to request for assistance in reftels A and C. Post seeks guidance from [...] | 2007-02-13 16:02:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PGOV PREL MARR KJUS IZ RO |
07BUCHAREST202 | PNL LAUNCHES PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE TO WITHDRAW [...] (C) Liberal Party (PNL) legislators, led by former Defense Minister Teodor Atanasiu and Senator Norica Nicolai opened a new front in the current political war by announcing at a press conference February 21 that they will launch a debate in Parliament on withdrawing Romanian troops from Iraq. [...] | 2007-02-22 13:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ RO |
07BUCHAREST349 | PRIME MINISTER CALLS FOR WITHDRAWAL OF ROMANIAN [...] (SBU) Claiming that Romania's military has fulfilled its mission in Iraq, Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu announced during a speech on March 26 that he would do his utmost -- within his constitutional authority -- to see that all Romanian military forces would come home from Iraq by Ch [...] | 2007-03-26 17:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR MCAP PREL PGOV IZ RO |
07BUCHAREST477 | ON ROMANIA,S PARTICIPATION IN THE IRAQ COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu is expected to push for a political decision by mid-May within the Supreme Council on National Defense (CSAT) to withdraw all Romanian troops from Iraq. The Prime Minister has asked Foreign Minister Cioroianu and Defense Minister Melescanu [...] | 2007-04-27 17:06:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ RO |
07BUCHAREST779 | ROMANIA: ON SEEKING REGIONAL SUPPORT TO STOP FLOW [...] (S) Post delivered reftel demarche on July 3 to MFA Director for Middle East and Africa Affairs, Daniel Tanase. Tanase was receptive and eager to work with U.S. and other allies to approach Damascus directly. Tanase would like Romania to send a small delegation from Bucharest to Damascus in [...] | 2007-07-05 15:26:00 | Embassy Bucharest | SECRET | PREL PTER SY IZ RO |
07BUCHAREST858 | JUSTICE MINISTRY'S NOTE REQUESTING ASSISTANCE ON [...] (SBU) Embassy received by fax on July 20, the below note regarding the case of Mohammad Munaf from the Romanian Justice Ministry (MOJ) sent to us upon the recommendation from the MFA. The MOJ note cites the 1999 bilateral agreement with the United States on judicial assistance in seeking U,S, [...] | 2007-07-25 15:22:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC IZ PGOV PREL KJUS RO |
07BUDAPEST45 | INITIAL GOH REACTION TO PRESIDENT'S POLICY ADDRESS [...] (SBU) Ambassador Foley reviewed the essential elements of the President's January 10 announcement on Iraq policy with MFA State Secretary Laszlo Varkonyi January 11 per reftel, emphasizing our support for the Iraqi government's actions to promote stability, bolster the economy, and achieve nat [...] | 2007-01-11 16:01:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ |
07CAIRO1125 | EGYPTIANS REVIEWING DEBT RELIEF FOR IRAQ [...] (C) Poloff and Treasury Attach made reftel demarche to Amal Mourad, Foreign Ministry Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs, on April 16. Mourad was well-briefed on the issue of Iraqi debt and knew Finance Minister Boutros-Ghali had discussed the issue with Iraqi authorities and Treasury [...] | 2007-04-17 13:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID EG IZ |
07CAIRO1188 | AMBASSADOR SATTERFIELD DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH [...] (C) Ambassador Satterfield discussed security and political developments in Iraq, as well as preparations for the International Compact on Iraq and expanded Neighbors conferences in separate April 19 meetings with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amre [...] | 2007-04-23 10:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL IZ IR EG |
07CAIRO1204 | EGYPT PLEASED WITH MALIKI VISIT, MUBARAK EXPRESSES [...] (C) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki is in Egypt April 22-24 to meet the Egyptian leadership and to begin the process of normalizing strained relations, overcoming mutual suspicions, discussing commercial opportunities, and preparing for upcoming international meetings on Iraq. Maliki has [...] | 2007-04-23 15:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS ECON EFIN EG IZ |
07CAIRO1258 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO SHARM EL [...] (C) PM Maliki,s April 22-24 visit to Cairo marked an important warming in Egyptian-Iraqi relations, despite deep and lingering mutual suspicions. Mubarak, PM Nazif, and other officials warmly received Maliki, reassured him of Egypt's support, and set a positive tone for the May 3-4 discussion [...] | 2007-04-29 16:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON IZ EG |
07CAIRO1542 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE [...] (SBU) Representative Price, we warmly welcome you and your delegation to Egypt. You are scheduled to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and Speaker of the People's Assembly Ahmed Fathy Sorour and other parliamentarians. You will also mee [...] | 2007-05-24 11:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID KPAL IAEA EG IZ SO SU |
07CAIRO171 | IRAQ: EGYPTIAN EMBASSY EMPLOYEE KIDNAPPED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM EG IZ |
07CAIRO1766 | SCENE SETTER FOR AFRICOM CONSULTATIONS [...] (S) Mr. Henry, we warmly welcome you and your delegation to Cairo for AFRICOM consultations with Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials. A series of difficult, but unrelated issues have brought the mil-to-mil relationship to a sensitive juncture, and your primary interlocutor, Assistant Ministe [...] | 2007-06-11 07:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS KPAL KMFO EAID EG IS IR SU IZ |
07CAIRO1822 | DAS GRAY DISCUSSES ARAB ISSUES WITH MFA ASSISTANT [...] (C) During a June 13 meeting on regional topics with MFA Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs Hany Khallaf, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray discussed Egypt-Iraq relations, Iran, Libya, and the situation in Gaza. Khallaf said that Baghdad recently requested agrement from the GOE on [...] | 2007-06-14 09:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL EG IZ IR LY |
07CAIRO1833 | DAS GRAY DISCUSSES QUARTET MEETING, REGIONAL [...] (C) During a June 14 meeting with Arab League Cabinet Chief of Staff Hesham Youssef, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray discussed Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Darfur, and Western Sahara. Youssef outlined League views on the upcoming Quartet meeting in Cairo, reiterating the League [...] | 2007-06-14 14:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL EG IS IZ SU |
07CAIRO1879 | REMOVING AL-ZAWRAA AND MANAR FROM ARABSAT [...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche to Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef on June 11, ahead of a ministerial meeting of Arab Information Ministers expected to convene in Cairo from June 20-24. Poloff focused on the Arab League's role as founder of the ArabSat organization. 2. (C) Yousse [...] | 2007-06-19 14:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KPAO PTER EG IZ LE |
07CAIRO1901 | IRAQI REFUGEE NUMBERS IN EGYPT SWELL, UNDER A [...] (SBU) Egyptian authorities are watching cautiously as Iraqi refugee numbers in Egypt approach the 100,000 mark, according to official estimates, amid signs of an increasingly restless Iraqi community. The GOE offers few social services to the Iraqis (similar to other large refugee communitie [...] | 2007-06-21 10:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM EG IZ |
07CAIRO2015 | AMBASSADOR URGES GOE TO PROVIDE DEBT RELIEF FOR [...] (C) Meeting June 28 with Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, Ambassador urged the GOE to restart negotiations to provide debt relief for Iraq and move toward fulfilling its commitment under the International Compact on Iraq (ref A). 2. (C) Nazif responded that the GOE is still considering the iss [...] | 2007-07-02 10:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL IZ EG |
07CAIRO2280 | SCENESETTER FOR THE JULY 31 VISIT OF SECRETARIES [...] (C) The Egyptians welcome the joint visit of the Secretaries of State and Defense as a clear signal of mutual SIPDIS recognition of shared strategic interests, despite recent highly publicized bilateral tensions. President Mubarak and ministers Aboul Gheit, Tantawi, and Soliman, expect the [...] | 2007-07-24 17:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | ECON EFIN KPAL MARR PGOV PREL SU EG IS IZ IR |
07CAIRO2654 | EGYPT'S MUFTI ON U.S. VISIT, IRAQ, REFORMING [...] (C) Summary: In a 90-minute meeting on August 26, the Ambassador and the Mufti of the Republic, Dr. Ali Goma'a, discussed the Mufti's possible travel to the U.S. and Canada in December, and a mid-August meeting in Cairo of Iraqi Sunni and Shi'a leaders with Egyptian Muslim leaders, orchestrated [...] | 2007-08-28 14:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PTER KIRF IZ EG |
07CAIRO2730 | ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERS: MIDDLE EAST PEACE MUST BE [...] (U) During its September 5 annual ministerial meeting, Arab League (AL) foreign ministers confirmed their support for President Bush's proposed meeting for Middle East peace, but stressed a comprehensive approach producing tangible results. AL Secretary General Amre Moussa said in a press con [...] | 2007-09-06 14:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL EG IS IZ XP |
07CAIRO2733 | GRAND SHAYKH OF AL AZHAR ON EXTREMISM AND IRAQ [...] (SBU) In a September 5 meeting, the Shaykh of Al Azhar, Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, stressed to the Ambassador his focus on the need for tolerance, cooperation, and understanding between religions. Asserting that "all humans are brothers," the Shaykh decried violence in the name of religion, and h [...] | 2007-09-06 14:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KISL PTER IZ EG |
07CAIRO2769 | ARAB LEAGUE BRIEFING FOLLOWING SEPTEMBER 5 [...] Summary. In a briefing for foreign diplomats on the Arab League's (AL) annual September 5 ministerial, AL Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef said that the ministers confirmed their support for President Bush's proposed international meeting for Middle East peace and noted their strong desire to rea [...] | 2007-09-12 14:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL PREF EG SO IS IZ SU XP |
07CAIRO2805 | IRAQIS IN EGYPT FACE CHALLENGES OBTAINING [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraqis in Egypt are finding it difficult to obtain education, health services and job opportunities. More established Iraqi residents are depleting their savings, and newer arrivals are less wealthy than their predecessors. Although the GOE is publicly committed to providing ed [...] | 2007-09-17 09:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM PREF EG IZ |
07CAIRO3198 | AMRE MOUSSA ON IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker met with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa October 26th in Cairo. Moussa said that Arabs share USG interests for a secure, stable Iraq, and that Iraqi reconciliation is critical. He agreed that Arab leaders should do more to support the [...] | 2007-11-05 10:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG IZ |
07CAIRO3209 | EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ABOU GHEIT ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 09:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL IZ LE |
07CAIRO3260 | MUBARAK MEETS ABBAS, TALABANI; EGYPTIANS CONTINUE [...] (SBU) President Mubarak hosted several Arab leaders visiting Cairo for the Arab Olympics November 11-13. Mubarak met Palestinian Authority President Abbas, Saudi King Abdullah, Jordanian King Abdullah II, and hosted a lunch with Iraqi President Talabani, Sudanese President Bashir, and Yemeni P [...] | 2007-11-14 16:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG IZ XF IS |
07CAIRO3329 | FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUL GHEIT DISCUSSES IRAQ, [...] (C) U.S. Central Command Commander, Admiral William J. Fallon discussed Iraqi security and the upcoming Annapolis conference with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on November 18. Aboul Gheit asked whether it would be possible to widen the participation in PM Maliki's government and express [...] | 2007-11-26 11:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL MOPS EG IS IZ IR |
07CAIRO3330 | IRAQI CHARGE ON PROPSECTS OF AMBASSADORIAL EXCHANGE [...] (C) We met November 25 with Iraqi Charge d'Affaires Saad Ali. He gave a positive readout of Iraqi President Talabani's recent visit to Cairo (reftel). Ali assessed that the Egyptians were slowly moving out of a "wait and see" strategy with respect to Iraq, and that the Talabani visit, as we [...] | 2007-11-26 11:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG IZ |
07CAIRO3342 | DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 15:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ EG |
07CAIRO3348 | FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR MEETS WITH HEAD OF STATE [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging November 4 meeting, State Security Investigative Service (SSIS) head Hassan Abdul Rahman and visiting FBI Deputy Director John Pistole discussed increased fingerprint sharing, the GOE's views on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian concerns about terrorist returnees from [...] | 2007-11-28 09:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL PTER KJUS ECPS IZ EG |
07CAIRO3391 | ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA ON ANNAPOLIS FOLLOW-UP, [...] (C) Summary: Freshly returned from Annapolis, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa spoke with us December 1. The SIPDIS conversation focused on next steps in the Israeli-Arab engagement, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran. He conceded that fear is the real reason the Arab League has not returne [...] | 2007-12-03 15:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ LE SY IS EG |
07CAIRO3483 | RULING PARTY HEAD ON IRI AND POLITICAL PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: In a December 11 meeting, Safwat El Sherif (secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party and speaker of the Shura Council, Egypt's upper parliamentary house) qualified his previous public criticism (reftel) of the International Republican Institute's (IRI) activities i [...] | 2007-12-13 16:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ EG |
07CAIRO559 | EGYPTIAN PLANS FOR MARCH 3-4 ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs Hani Khallaf says that Egypt will take a cautious approach towards the Palestinian National Unity Government at the upcoming Arab League Foreign Ministers meeting and withhold final judgment until after the NUG is formed. Egypt will [...] | 2007-03-01 14:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PINR EG IZ SU IR LE XF IS |
07CAIRO572 | IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER ZEBARI ON REGIONAL [...] (C) Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari told the Ambassador on March 3 that he was working with the Egyptian government and UNHCR to ease residency requirements for the growing number of Iraqis in Egypt. On Egypt-Iraq relations, Zebari said he had selected a candidate for Ambassador to Cairo, but [...] | 2007-03-05 06:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF ARABL EG IZ |
07CAIRO582 | ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS IRAQ, [...] (SBU) In anticipation of an upcoming annual Arab Summit, scheduled for late March in Saudi Arabia, foreign ministers of the Arab League (AL) met in Cairo on March 3-4 to prepare the summit agenda and discuss a variety of pressing regional issues. Among those issues were the Arab-Israeli confl [...] | 2007-03-05 11:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ARABL KPAL EG IS IZ |
07CAIRO865 | A/S WELCH'S MARCH 20 MEETING WITH ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) In a March 20 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary Welch, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa discussed the upcoming Arab summit and Arab-Israeli peace issues. Welch pressed Moussa for ideas on how to help Israel and the Palestinians get back to the negotiating table. Welch urged Mo [...] | 2007-03-26 14:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ARABL KPAL MEPN IZ GZ LE EG |
07CAIRO90 | EGYPTIAN REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S JANUARY 10 [...] (C) Reaction to President Bush's January 10 Iraq speech has so far been muted from both official and private sources, yet the general tenor of opinion among contacts and media sources is one of pessimism that an additional twenty thousand U.S. troops will end the violence in Iraq. During a J [...] | 2007-01-11 17:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS EG IZ |
07CAIRO934 | REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: Zainab Mohamed Ibrahim Adham [...] (SBU) Embassy Cairo would like to refer the following Iraqi to the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP): Principal Applicant (PA): Name: Zainab Mohamed Ibrahim Adham (a.k.a. Zainab Mohammed Adham) DOB: Dec. 06, 1967 POB: Baghdad, Iraq Gender: Female Religion: Moslem/Sunni Marital Sta [...] | 2007-04-02 09:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM EG IZ |
07CAIRO935 | REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: Ehab Refat Ahmed Al Kuttub [...] (SBU) Embassy Cairo would like to refer the following Iraqi with strong ties to the USG to the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP): Principal Applicant (PA): Name: Ehab Refat Ahmed Al Kuttub (a.k.a. Ehab Refat Mohamed Ahmed Al Kuttab) DOB: Aug. 02, 1975 POB: Karkok, Iraq Gender: Mal [...] | 2007-04-02 09:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM EG IZ |
07CANBERRA1738 | MEETING THE PRIME MINISTER [...] (C/NF) Summary: At a December 8 meeting with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the Ambassador offered his congratulations and noted the positive tone set by the recent meetings of Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns with the Foreign and Defense Ministers and the Deputy Prime Minister. The Amb [...] | 2007-12-10 04:50:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF AS CH IR IZ NZ PREL |
07CANBERRA1745 | U/S BURNS' 12/5 MEETINGS WITH AUSTRALIAN DPM [...] (C/NF) Summary: During wide-ranging conversations December 5 with newly appointed Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, and Agriculture Minister Tony Burke, Under Secretary Nicholas Burns emphasized the importance Washington placed on a continued cl [...] | 2007-12-12 00:27:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AS CH ID IN IR IZ JA MNUC PREL PTER |
07CANBERRA266 | AUSTRALIA TO DEPLOY ADDITIONAL MILITARY TRAINERS [...] (SBU) The Government of Australia, in a National Security Committee of Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, February 14, approved a recommendation to deploy an additional 70 Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel to assist in training Iraqi Army forces. 2. (C) Robert Garran, Assistant Secretary [...] | 2007-02-20 07:08:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL AS IZ XF ZP |
07CANBERRA571 | RUDD'S POLICY ADVISER ON IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND ASIA [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Ahead of Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd's April 19-21 trip to Washington and New York, his foreign policy adviser, Peter Khalil, told poloffs that Rudd was committed to a close relationship with the United States. While he would withdraw Australian combat troops from Iraq if he b [...] | 2007-04-13 08:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR PARM AF IZ AS |
07CARACAS655 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEMANDS U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly passed a March 20 resolution calling for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. and coalition troops from Iraq. This latest resolution comes on the heels of a February 22 resolution condemning U.S. "war preparations" against Iran (reftel). Having conceded to Chav [...] | 2007-03-28 21:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE IZ |
07CHISINAU1331 | IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS: MOLDOVA [...] (C) Summary: Because of its constitutional neutrality, Moldova sends its officers and soldiers abroad only to conduct peacekeeping and humanitarian operations under a specific mandate, such as UN or OSCE, and for a specific purpose. For Iraq, the Moldovan soldiers officially deploy at the r [...] | 2007-11-02 14:06:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ MD |
07COPENHAGEN167 | DANISH PM ANNOUNCES IRAQ WITHDRAWAL, INCREASE IN [...] (SBU) Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced February 21 that Denmark will radically scale down its presence in Iraq in August 2007 and will then deploy additional forces -- perhaps as many as the net 400 soldiers to be pulled from Iraq -- to join the Danish battalion in Afghani [...] | 2007-02-21 15:11:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS MARR PGOV NATO IZ DA |
07COPENHAGEN63 | DANES IN IRAQ: EDGING TOWARD THE EXIT? [...] (C) Summary: Recognizing growing domestic opposition, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has signaled that Denmark hopes to join the British in scaling down its Iraq deployment by mid-2007, provided that Iraq forces can take over security responsibilities there. At the same time, the [...] | 2007-01-18 08:45:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV IZ DA |
07DAKAR962 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ: MAINTAINING PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 13:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ SG |
07DAKAR963 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ: MAINTAINING PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 14:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ SG |
07DAMASCUS1012 | RAMADAN SHAMMY: LATE NIGHT GOSSIP ON THE ECONOMY, [...] (C) Summary: While attending to our day jobs, Embassy staff tried (in vain) to keep up with a rigorous late night Syrian Ramadan social calendar. Despite SARG efforts to scare Syrians away from our events and to deter others from inviting us to theirs, we held three successful Embassy Ramad [...] | 2007-10-11 10:12:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS110 | DEMOGRAPHICS OF IRAQIS IN SYRIA [...] (SBU) Summary: There is little reliable data about the demographic makeup of Iraqis in Syria. There is growing evidence (and intensified SARG efforts to gather it),however, indicating the numbers may be significantly higher than previously estimated 800,000 Iraqis (perhaps more than 1 mill [...] | 2007-02-01 15:21:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREF PGOV SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS1157 | REPATRIATION OF IRAQI REFUGEES - NO MASS RETURN [...] (C) Summary: Since early October, Embassy sources have confirmed press and other reports of increasing numbers of Iraqi refugees leaving Syria for Iraq. On November 27, PolOff observed hundreds of Iraqis, carrying personal belongings of every shape, size and kind, loaded onto rented buses bo [...] | 2007-12-06 16:52:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS1178 | UNHCR DONOR MISSION TO DAMASCUS: DONORS AIR [...] (C) Summary: On December 2-3, UNHCR hosted 18 donor country representatives and attempted to give an updated assessment on the Iraqi refugee situation. UNHCR filled two days with meetings, site visits and official meetings. While the donors appeared sympathetic to the needs of the Iraqi refug [...] | 2007-12-13 16:13:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS1181 | SARG-IRAQI CONSULTATIONS REFLECT SOME PROGRESS ON [...] (C) Summary: On the margins of a delegation headed by Iraqi Finance Minister Bayan Jabr al Zabaida, Iraqi border security officials met with their Syrian counterparts in Damascus November 28-29 to discuss enhanced cooperation. According to the Iraqi embassy here, al Zabaida handed over 15 mi [...] | 2007-12-14 11:46:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS119 | NEW UNANNOUNCED SYRIAN POLICY ON IRAQIS [...] (C) Summary: Following weeks of unconfirmed reports that the SARG has tightened its entry policy for Iraqis, UNHCR contacts and the issuance of an internal SARG immigration circular confirms the new and stricter measures. Syrian officials, however, continue to dismiss reports of the new pol [...] | 2007-02-05 15:12:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS128 | "SHIA-IZATION" IN SYRIA, REGIME'S ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Samir al-Taqi, an advisor to the Syrian MFA, described for A/DCM February 7 growing unease in Syria about what he termed Iranian efforts at Shia-ization in the country. Most of this effort is concentrated in the northeast, with some of it linked to Iranian efforts to use i [...] | 2007-02-08 15:32:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS132 | IRAQI REFUGEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO THE SARG [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-11 15:03:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF ASEC SY IZ JO |
07DAMASCUS17 | TURKEY: THE SARG'S NEW BEST FRIEND [...] (C) SUMMARY: OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, WITH A SERIES OF HIGH-LEVEL TURKISH DIPLOMATIC VISITS AND TURKEY'S MUCH-DELAYED RATIFICATION OF THE SYRIAN-TURKISH FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (FTA),THE SARG HAS PUBLICLY HAILED THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA OF COOPERATION BETWEEN SYRIA AND TURKEY. THE SARG BELIE [...] | 2007-01-08 13:42:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR IZ SY TU |
07DAMASCUS193 | SYRIAN FOREIGN POLICY ANALYST ASSESSES SARG [...] (C) Summary: Pro-regime foreign policy analyst Imad Shueibi told A/DCM February 24 that the SARG did not view a dialogue with the U.S. restricted to the issue of Iraqi refugees without the return of an Ambassador as sufficiently broad-based or high-level to persuade the regime to re-engage. [...] | 2007-02-28 15:45:00 | Embassy Damascus | SECRET | PREL PGOV SY IZ IR LE |
07DAMASCUS196 | SYRIAN CONFIDENCE WAVERING? [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of a visit to Tehran clouded by growing differences over Iraq and Lebanon, Bashar al-Asad's self-confidence stemming from foreign policy positions he believed were paying dividends may now be eroding. Disappointments over the frictions with Iran, the apparent w [...] | 2007-03-01 13:06:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY IR IZ LE |
07DAMASCUS2 | CODEL SPECTER MEETS WITH SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bashar Al-Asad said he was optimistic about restarting peace negotiations with Israel, claimed (erroneously it appears) the seven opposition activists recently jailed had been released, expressed pessimism on reaching a political resolution in Lebanon given what he desc [...] | 2007-12-31 13:35:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KDEM PGOV PHUM SY IS IZ LEB |
07DAMASCUS22 | ADVISOR TO MFA SAYS SYRIANS REMAIN NERVOUS ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE SYRIAN REGIME CONTINUES TO FEAR THE FORMATION OF A SPECIAL LEBANON TRIBUNAL, WORRYING THAT IT COULD FIND ITSELF UNDER SUSTAINED INTERNATIONAL OPPROBRIUM AND ISOLATION, EVEN IF SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE REGIME ARE NOT ACCUSED OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE ASSASSINATION OF LEBANESE PM RA [...] | 2007-01-09 09:54:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM SY IR IS LE IZ |
07DAMASCUS229 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S SAUERBREY'S VISIT TO SYRIA [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Damascus warmly welcomes you to Syria. Your visit comes amidst heightened SARG sensitivity to the presence of up to 1.3 million Iraqi refugees here, especially given public grumbling about price hikes and increased crime and social woes. Additionally, the SARG has real [...] | 2007-03-08 14:09:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SY |
07DAMASCUS230 | IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] (C) On March 8, Charge delivered appropriate Syria points from reftel demarche and ref B points to Dr. Amir Smadi, SARG MFA Chief of Protocol (the embassy MFA-designated interlocutor). He gave no substantive reply to the demarche, but promised to communicate the points to his superiors in the [...] | 2007-03-08 14:27:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC ARABLEAGUE UN IZ SY |
07DAMASCUS250 | SARG USES BAGHDAD CONFERENCE TO CLAIM IT SUPPORTS [...] (SBU) Syrian Assistant FM Ahmad Arnous said after the Baghdad Conference on March 10 that the Iraqi government and the international community should shoulder their responsibility in alleviating the suffering of the displaced Iraqis, according to the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). A [...] | 2007-03-12 16:00:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PGOV IZ SY |
07DAMASCUS258 | VISITING A/S SAUERBREY MEETS WITH SYRIA'S DEPUTY FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: VISITING ASSISTANT SECRETARY SAUERBREY MET FOR AN HOUR MARCH 12 WITH SYRIAN DEPUTY FM FAISAL MIKDAD IN DAMASCUS, FOLLOWED BY A LUNCH HOSTED BY MIKDAD. DURING THE MEETING, THE DFM NOTED SYRIAN SATISFACTION WITH THE VISIT AND DISCUSSED HOW THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT WAS ADDRESSING THE [...] | 2007-03-13 16:34:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV IZ SY |
07DAMASCUS285 | VISITING A/S SAUERBREY MEETS WITH UN, NGOS IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: During her March 11-13 visit to Damascus, visiting Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey attended a UNHCR briefing on Iraqi refugees, a UNHCR-sponsored roundtable with its four implementing NGO partners in Syria, a briefing hosted by Charge for resident Ambassadors and visiting UNH [...] | 2007-03-22 07:03:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PGOV IZ SY |
07DAMASCUS4 | CODEL SPECTER MEETS WITH SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem pleaded for the United States not to hold Syria "hostage" to events in Lebanon or to resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while insisting to Senator Arlen Specter and Representative Patrick Kennedy that Syria itself was ready for p [...] | 2007-12-31 15:03:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAL KDEM PHUM SY IS IZ LEB |
07DAMASCUS46 | SYRIAN OPPOSITION ELDER STATESMAN ASSESSES CURRENT [...] (C) Summary: Senior opposition figure Riad Turk told A/DCM January 10 that the internal opposition has been weakened over the past year by regime repression, although he did not believe the condition was permanent. In his view the SARG is isolated and in a state of crisis because of its int [...] | 2007-01-15 14:39:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SY IZ LE |
07DAMASCUS472 | IRAQI REFUGEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO THE SARG [...] (C) Summary. Demonstrating continued MFA gestures on the specific issue of Iraqi refugees, Deputy FM Mikdad's office director Hussam A'ala met Charge May 17 to receive Reftel demarche. A'ala asked that the USG intervene with the GOI to speed along assistance for the Iraqi population in Syria [...] | 2007-05-17 14:36:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL SY IZ JO |
07DAMASCUS535 | INITIAL SARG RESPONSE TO OUR DIRECT ACCESS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) On June 3, the Syrian MFA summoned the Charge to respond to our demarche delivered on May 17 (ref A) requesting a SARG response to the USG Iraq non-paper. Hussam A'ala, Deputy FM Faisal Mikdad's Office Director, told Charge t [...] | 2007-06-04 14:37:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL SY IZ JO |
07DAMASCUS652 | SYRIA PROVIDES ORAL "NO" TO REFUGEE DIRECT ACCESS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 27 meeting with the Syrian DFM's office director Hussam al-Din A'ala, seeking a response to the PRM refugee non-paper proposal to allow direct action on Iraqi refugee cases with links to the coalition, the SARG confirmed what it had already officially informed the Inte [...] | 2007-06-28 14:17:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS683 | SYRIA UPDATE ON IRAQI REFUGEES [...] (U) Summary: PRM/ANE Office Director Richard Albright visited Damascus from June 12-15 and June 20-21, meeting about the Iraqi refugee crisis with interlocutors from a range of organizations, including: the Iraqi Embassy, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC),the Internation [...] | 2007-07-05 12:26:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS726 | SYRIAN DETAINEES RELEASED, SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (C) The Iraqi Charge d'Affaires in Damascus told Emboff at a reception on July 15 that Iraqi authorities had released two Syrian detainees on July 12 or 13 (mentioned in reftel),potentially paving the way for a Syrian-hosted border security working group meeting in Damascus as early as August [...] | 2007-07-16 12:51:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS750 | SARG WILL ATTEND AMMAN REFUGEE WORKING GROUP; [...] (C) Summary: In a July 22 meeting, Charge delivered reftel demarche on the neighbor's working group on refugees to the Syrian DFM's office director, Hussam al-Din A'ala. A'ala noted SARG intentions to attend the meeting and to use the gathering to discuss modalities for delivering Iraqi govern [...] | 2007-07-24 04:50:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL IZ JO SY |
07DAMASCUS756 | MOVEMENT ON SYRIA-IRAQ RELATIONS? [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-25 14:50:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SY |
07DAMASCUS765 | MATCHING FOOTPRINTS: FIRST TIME ADULT AMCIT APPLICANTS FROM IRAQ AND IRAN, IN SYRIA [...] A growing number of men in their early-to-mid 20s who claim to have been born in the United States are now applying for their first U.S. passports. Of the six individuals in the last two weeks, five came to Syria from Iraq (including two brothers) and one from Iran. One of the Iraqis was prev [...] | 2007-07-26 13:31:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | CPAS KFRD KWMN ASEC SY IZ IR |
07DAMASCUS77 | UNHCR SYRIA RAMPING UP FOR MORE ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR Damascus is planning a dramatic increase in services to the at least 800,000 Iraqis in Syria this year, with an appeal for a more than 20-fold budget increase and a scheduled visit to Damascus next month of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, according to the UNHCR Repr [...] | 2007-01-22 14:42:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS793 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FIVE USG PERSONNEL [...] Embassy Damascus welcomes and grants Country Clearance for the proposed visit of Ms. Karen H. Sasahara, Mr. Stephen Mangino, Colonel Cheryl Smart, Mr. Daniel F. Landers, Mr. Brian Gilligan and Mr. Thomas Meek. Travelers will be met and assisted at the airport by an Embassy driver, expediter, [...] | 2007-08-06 10:01:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT EAGR IZ JO OTRA PREL PTER SY |
07DAMASCUS796 | CONSULAR OPERATIONS IN A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM - [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 06:46:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CVIS CPAS KFRD KCRM SY IZ IR |
07DAMASCUS797 | CONSULAR OPERATIONS IN A STATE SPONSOR OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Consular Operations at Embassy Damascus are impacted by the fact that the Syrian Arab Republic is a State Sponsor of Terrorism, as well as by our growing Iraqi workload. This cable focuses on the salient features of conducting consular work in this special environment. End Sum [...] | 2007-08-07 08:55:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CVIS CPAS KFRD KCRM SY IZ IR |
07DAMASCUS862 | FIRST IRAQI REFUGEE TRAVELS FROM SYRIA FOR RESETTLEMENT IN [...] (SBU) The first Iraqi refugee to get resettlement in the U.S. from this year's processing in Syria traveled on August 21. An adult male, he will be settled in San Jose, California. A total of 146 Iraqi individuals from Iraq will move to the U.S. in August, and 200 more are expected to travel [...] | 2007-08-23 13:12:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREF SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS866 | MALIKI VISIT POSITIVE, BUT INCREMENTAL APPROACH [...] (S) Summary: No one here is saying "modus vivendi," but PM Maliki's August 19-22 visit was notable for top-level SARG and Iraqi commitments on security, energy, and political cooperation. Behind the scenes, the Iraqis strongly suspect that the August 14 attacks on Qahtaniya and Al Jazeera [...] | 2007-08-25 09:04:00 | Embassy Damascus | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS905 | SARG SIGNALS NEW VISA REQUIREMENT FOR IRAQIS [...] (C) Summary: Confirming what Deputy Foreign Minister Miqdad told UK and other Embassies at a private briefing last week, Syrian dailies reported September 3 that, effective September 10, Iraqis traveling to Syria will need a visa. According to Miqdad, Iraqi PM Maliki proposed this action. A [...] | 2007-09-05 12:14:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS932 | CONSULAR SECTION ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the SARG's continuing efforts to restrict Embassy contact with large segments of Syrian society, the Consular Section continues to run an active outreach program. Below is a list of events in August and September. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Student Visa Talks -- Our NI [...] | 2007-09-13 12:19:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CVIS CPAS KFRD KCRM SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS933 | SYRIAN VISA REQUIREMENT ON IRAQIS: POSTPONED FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-13 15:40:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL SY IZ |
07DAMASCUS956 | CLARIFICATION OF SARG STANCE ON REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary. A Syrian MFA official notified the Charge that the SARG was unwilling on political grounds to allow processing of refugee referrals at the U.S. Embassy in Syria. He said there was no bilateral political basis for such agreement and cited a litany of "facts" to further support t [...] | 2007-09-19 15:38:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL SY IZ JO |
07DOHA1042 | PRIME MINISTER OFFERS "SINCERE ADVICE" ON IRAQ [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Crocker briefed Qatar's Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ) October 31 on the progress in Iraq and asked his assessment of building on this progress with the help of Arab states. HBJ said Qatar was a friend of the U.S. and wanted us to succe [...] | 2007-11-05 10:03:00 | Embassy Doha | SECRET | PREL PGOV MASS IZ QA |
07DOHA1054 | DEMARCHE ON QATAR'S HOLD ON UNSCR 1267 TERRORIST [...] (C) Econoff and British Political Secretary James Lynch delivered Ref A demarche November 8 to Adel Al-Khal, Director of International Organizations, Conferences and Treaties at the MFA. Al-Khal explained that at the time of the UN 1267 Committee meeting, the Qatari mission at the United Nati [...] | 2007-11-08 14:44:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ETTC KTFN UNSC QA IZ |
07DOHA1136 | QATAR LIKELY TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST GCC STATES TO [...] (C) P/E Chief delivered Ref A demarche December 5 to MFA Director of GCC Affairs Yousef Al-Jaber. Al-Jaber said the GCC heads of state discussed how to proceed on stabilizing Iraq in their December 3-4 Doha summit. According to Al-Jaber, the GCC states believed that the security situation i [...] | 2007-12-05 11:59:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR TU QA |
07DOHA1187 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SHARING DRAFT IRAQ UNSCR [...] (SBU) Poloff approached the MFA International Organizations, Conferences and Treaties Department December 11 regarding Government of Qatar (GOQ) support for extending the mandates for the Multinational Force - Iraq (MNF-I),Development Fund for Iraq (DFI),and International Advisory, and Moni [...] | 2007-12-16 11:00:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL UNSC EFIN MARR QA IZ |
07DOHA137 | C-NE6-02072 SHIA IN QATAR QUIET ON POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Shia amount to 5% of Qatari citizenry. They are well-represented in the business sector and also hold some important government positions, though not the most senior. Their mosques are un-regulated, and Sunni and Shia frequently pray together. Shia would like more official oversig [...] | 2007-02-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL IZ IR QA |
07DOHA339 | RARE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION IN QATAR: SOLIDARITY [...] (U) The Qatari Central Municipal Council organized a "rally" the afternoon of March 28 to show solidarity with Iraq. It lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes. The event took place at a central location along the city's corniche. Participants numbered a maximum of 400 and mostly included high-school and [...] | 2007-03-29 14:50:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC PREL IZ QA |
07DOHA511 | SCENESETTER FOR MAY 24 GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE IN [...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome the Gulf Security Dialogue delegation to Qatar. This second GSD meeting and the first in Doha will mean a lot to the Qatari leadership. It will strengthen our mil-to-mil relationship and help in our efforts to moderate the Qataris' more objectionable fore [...] | 2007-05-18 12:52:00 | Embassy Doha | SECRET | PREL MARR PARM IR IZ QA |
07DOHA575 | QATARI-U.S. GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE MAY 24 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-31 14:32:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KNNP EPET IR ASEC IZ SU LE QA |
07DOHA581 | QATARI-U.S. GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE MAY 24 [...] (C) Summary. State/DOD Gulf Security Dialogue delegation met with Qatari MFA, MOD, and MOI officials May 24 in Doha. The Qataris acknowledged the importance of maintaining ambiguity on whether there might be a military attack in response to Iranian plans to develop a nuclear weapon. Noting per [...] | 2007-06-03 08:25:00 | Embassy Doha | SECRET | PREL MARR KNNP EPET IR ASEC IZ SU LE QA |
07DOHA710 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASSISTANT TO THE [...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you to Qatar. This is your third visit here, and the most senior USG visit since Secretary Gates met the Amir in January 2007. Your meetings SIPDIS can help define the tone of bilateral engagement on a range of issues over the coming 18 months, help s [...] | 2007-07-05 16:25:00 | Embassy Doha | SECRET | PREL PINR IZ LE QA |
07DOHA863 | SUBJECT: QTEL CHAIRMAN DISCUSSES PLANS FOR IRAQ, [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA and Econoff met August 29 with Sheikh Abdulla bin Mohamad Al Thani, Chairman of government-controlled QTel, and Dr. Nasser M. Marafih, QTel CEO, to discuss QTel investments in Iraq and elsewhere in the region, as well as ArabSat broadcasts of Al-Zawraa. QTel continues a rap [...] | 2007-08-30 11:04:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS EINV KPAL KPAO PGOV EG IS IZ KU QA |
07DOHA897 | DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE'S MEETING WITH QATARI [...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary John Negroponte met the evening of September 9 at the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Al-Mahmoud, the number two official in the Qatari MFA. Joining Al-Mahmoud were Assistant Minister Mohamad Al-Rumaihi, Director of Eu [...] | 2007-09-12 10:50:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA IR IS IZ KWBG PREL QA |
07DOHA978 | TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-08 13:37:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL IZ QA |
07DUBAI355 | DUBAI RULER DISCUSSES IRAN AND IRAQ WITH SENATOR LIEBERMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-03 11:14:00 | Consulate Dubai | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS KNNP IR IZ AE |
07DUBAI363 | MOHAMMAD GERGAWI DISCUSSES IRAN, IRAQ AND ISRAEL WITH [...] (S) SUMMARY. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I, CN) met with Mohammad Gergawi, UAE Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, on May 29. Gergawi, also a close advisor to UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Dubai ruler Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR),described education as a primary weapon again [...] | 2007-06-07 13:23:00 | Consulate Dubai | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS KNNP IR IS IZ SY AE |
07DUBLIN30 | IRELAND FOLLOWS IRAQ POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT WITH AID [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-12 16:52:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ EI |
07EFTOBAGHDAD1098 | REFERRAL OF INTERPRETER ANSAM SHIHAB AHMED [...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer Ansam Shihab Ahmed to the US Refugee Admissions Program. 2. (SBU) Biographical information: NAME: Ansam Shihab Ahmed DOB: 27 November 1972 POB: Iraq Passport Number: S 285869 Gender: Female Marital Status: Single (divorce) Dependents: N/A 3. [...] | 2007-03-29 07:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ |
07EFTOBAGHDAD1116 | REFERRAL OF INTERPRETER ESSAM HAMMOUDI AHMED [...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer Essam Hammoudi Ahmed to the US Refugee Admissions Program. 2. (SBU) Biographical information: Principal applicant NAME: Essam Hammoudi Ahmed DOB: July 1, 1980 POB: Iraq Passport Number: S 1647887 Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Dependents [...] | 2007-03-31 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ |
07EFTOBAGHDAD867 | US REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROGRAM REFERRAL OF LOCALLY [...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following locally-employed staff to the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) 2. (SBU) Principal applicant (PA): NAME: Nabil Al-Bassam (a.k.a. Nabil Sh. Ibrahem) DOB: July 22, 1970 POB: Diyala Passport Number: S 487540 Gender: Male Marita [...] | 2007-03-12 08:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM IZ |
07FRANKFURT445 | Stuttgart Ansar al-Islam Trial Continues [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ongoing trial in Stuttgart of three suspected members of Ansar al-Islam is now expected to last at least until April - and perhaps even until the fall. The Federal Prosecutor has charged the three with plotting to assassinate then-Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi during a visit t [...] | 2007-01-31 10:27:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC KISL IZ GM |
07GEORGETOWN407 | GUYANA NOT CAPABLE OF ASSISTING IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-25 20:57:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ GY |
07HELSINKI127 | FINNISH RESPONSE - FURTHER EXTENSION OF INTERNATIONAL POLICE TRAINERS (IPTS) AT THE JORDAN INTERNATIONAL POLICE TRAINING CENTER (JIPTC) [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-26 09:25:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | JO KCRM FI SNAR IZ SNAR |
07HELSINKI195 | FINLAND FORMALIZES CONTRIBUTION TO UN PROTECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 09:45:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN IZ FI |
07HELSINKI626 | END OF IRAQI TRAINING MISSION AT JIPTC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-15 07:09:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR FI JO IZ |
07HELSINKI675 | RESPECTED FINNISH NGO HOLDS IRAQ PEACE CONFERENCE [...] (U) The Crisis Management Initiative (CMI),a respected NGO headed by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, hosted a seminar at an undisclosed location in Finland Sept. 1-4 aimed at reducing the violence in Iraq. Participants included leading Iraqi Sunni and Shiite civil society leaders, [...] | 2007-09-05 12:00:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ FI PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PINR |
07HELSINKI801 | FINLAND: COMBATING PKK TERRORISM IN EUROPE [...] (C) PolChief delivered subject demarche to Finnish MFA Counterterrorism Coordinator Pekka Oinonen Oct. 29. Oinonen welcomed our views as a follow-up to recent PKK-related demarches and said that Finland )- as a longtime friend of Turkey )- was following developments with great concern. He we [...] | 2007-10-30 09:41:00 | Embassy Helsinki | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN EUN TU IZ FI |
07HELSINKI97 | UN MIDDLE RING SECURITY IN IRAQ - FINLAND WILL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-14 12:21:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN IZ FI |
07HILLAH10 | "MAYORS' REVOLT" IS HIGHLIGHT OF ATYPICAL RECONSTRUCTION [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (C) Summary: The continuation of an unfinished meeting of the Babil Provincial Reconstruction and Development Committee (PRDC) did not check off every agenda item but did yield several unexpected positive developments. Complaints from two mayors about a ke [...] | 2007-01-19 16:07:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM IZ |
07HILLAH100 | KARBALA: SERMON FOCUSED ON GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVENESS [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala cable. 2. (U) Again this week Sayed Ahmed al-Safi, Head of the Al Abbas shrine office, conducted the Friday sermon at Karbala's al-Husain shrine. There is no official word about the absence of Sheikh Abdul Mehdi al-Karbalae at this time. This sermon focused on th [...] | 2007-07-07 15:17:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV IZ PTER |
07HILLAH101 | BABIL GOVERNOR DISCUSSES RECONSTRUCTION, SADR MEETING, [...] (C) Summary: On July 5, Babil Governor Salem Saleh Mahdi Al-Muslimawi discussed his security and reconstruction with Third Infantry Division Deputy Commanding General (DCG),MNF-I Strategic Effects Deputy Commander Brigadier General and PRT representatives at the Regional Embassy Office in Bab [...] | 2007-07-10 13:44:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PTER ECON IZ IR |
07HILLAH106 | SADRIST UNIVERSITY OPENS IN HILLAH [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (U) In yet another sign of their burgeoning strength in Babil, the local branch of the Office of the Martyr Sadr (OMS) recently opened the "Sadr Religious University" in Hillah. The institution advertises itself as a religious center for higher learning of [...] | 2007-07-15 13:39:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV SOCI KISL SCUL IZ IR |
07HILLAH108 | DISJOINTED POWER "SYSTEM" PLAGUES BABIL PROVINCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (C/REL MNF-I) Summary: Babil residents suffer from an acute shortage of electricity from the national grid, averaging between four and six hours of electricity per day. Demand for power from neighborhood and (for those who can afford it) personal generato [...] | 2007-07-18 14:26:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EIND EPET PGOV SOCI IZ IR |
07HILLAH109 | KARBALA AND ANBAR SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala and PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The governors of Anbar and Karbala provinces met at the Regional Embassy Office (REO) in al-Hillah on July 17 to talk about security concerns along their provinces' shared border. By the conclusion both governorates s [...] | 2007-07-19 07:56:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV IZ SA |
07HILLAH114 | BABIL PC REGULATES FUEL SUPPLIES AND LEVIES TAXES FOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (C) PRT Babil recently met with Basem al-Janabi (ISCI),chairman of the Babil Provincial Council (PC) energy committee to discuss the provincial government's efforts to regulate the distribution of fuel supplies in the province. Formed in 2006 with the con [...] | 2007-07-28 06:38:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI IZ |
07HILLAH117 | PROVINCES BYPASS NATIONAL ELECTRICITY GRID, THREATENING [...] (U) This is a combined PRT Babil-Najaf-Diwaniya message. 2. (U) Responding to continuing electricity shortages from the national grid, South-Central provinces have begun to take the drastic step of circumventing central government control of the delivery of power to their provinces. Last mon [...] | 2007-08-02 16:53:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV ECON IZ |
07HILLAH118 | PROVINCES BYPASS NATIONAL ELECTRICITY GRID, THREATENING [...] (U) This is a combined PRT Babil-Najaf-Diwaniya message. 2. (U) Responding to continuing electricity shortages from the national grid, South-Central provinces have begun to take the drastic step of circumventing central government control of the delivery of power to their provinces. Last mon [...] | 2007-08-02 17:04:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV ECON IZ |
07HILLAH12 | EYES ON THE SECURITY PRIZE, BABIL GOVERNOR PUTS HIS BEST [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (S) Summary and comment: In a meeting with Babil PRT that proved more of a two-way exchange than previous ones, the Babil governor requested stronger U.S. support for reconstruction projects, spoke somewhat favorably of cooperation with the Coalition in m [...] | 2007-01-20 15:12:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM IR IZ |
07HILLAH128 | BABIL PROVINCIAL GOV'T HOLDS FRUITFUL DISCUSSION WITH NAT'L [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (C) On September 20, representatives from Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Saleh's office travelled to Al-Hillah to meet with Babil Governor Salem Saleh Mahdi Al-Muslimawi, members of the Babil Provincial Council (PC) and provincial directors general (DGs [...] | 2007-09-22 07:15:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EFIN PREL IZ |
07HILLAH13 | WORRISOME WARRANTS AND OTHER TALES FROM BABIL [...] (U) This is a Babil PRT cable. 2. (C) Summary: Two cases involving a total of fifteen warrants issued in Karbala for Sunni citizens of Babil have the provincial police chief and chief justice worried that extradition may serve as cover for nefarious sectarian or anti-Ba'athist ends. One of [...] | 2007-01-22 09:44:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI PTER KDEM IZ |
07HILLAH130 | NAJAF GOVERNOR: MARJA'IYYA CONTRIBUTING TO PEACE [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a September 22 meeting with PRT and CF, the Governor of Najaf noted that the reports AMB Crocker and General Petraeus recently submitted to Congress failed to acknowledge the contribution of the marja'iyya to the peace and stability of I [...] | 2007-09-27 07:29:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
07HILLAH131 | NAJAF GOVERNOR: MARJA'IYYA CONTRIBUTING TO PEACE [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. This is a retransmission of HILLAH 130. 2. (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: During a September 22 meeting with PRT and CF, the Governor of Najaf noted that the reports AMB Crocker and General Petraeus recently submitted to Congress failed to acknowledge the contribution [...] | 2007-09-29 11:08:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
07HILLAH133 | GOVERNOR DISCUSSES KARBALA APPROACHING PIC AND ANBAR TALKS; [...] (C) Summary: PRTOffs traveled to Karbala on October 1 to meet with Governor Aqeel, Karbala Provincial Council (PC) Chair Al'al-Yasiry, and the PC Reconstruction Committee. Governor Aqeel noted that the Prime Minister has now confirmed that Karbala will become a Province under Iraqi control (P [...] | 2007-10-06 07:18:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV IZ MARR EAID |
07HILLAH137 | ASSASSINATIONS HALT IN NAJAF [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During the three month period from June 13 - September 14, 2007, Najafis witnessed a sharp increase in the number of targeted assassinations, largely attributed to jaysh al-mahdi (JAM). These killings, predominantly in the form of drive-by sho [...] | 2007-10-12 12:59:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ |
07HILLAH140 | NAJAF GOVERNOR SKEPTICAL OF SADRIST COMPLIANCE WITH ISCI [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During an October 16 meeting with 3ID Deputy Division Commander and PRT Najaf Team Leader, the Najaf Governor expressed skepticism that the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr would comply with the October 5, 2007 accord between al-Sadr and Islamic Su [...] | 2007-10-17 14:53:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
07HILLAH142 | KARBALA GEARING UP FOR PIC; CONTINUING SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: BG Cardon (3ID D-CGS),Karbala PRT Leader, PRTOffs and the local MiTT Team met with Karbala Governor Aqeel October 16 in the 8th IA Division compound in Husseiniya to discuss planning for the upcoming PIC (Provincial Iraqi Control) [...] | 2007-10-20 13:31:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ |
07HILLAH143 | BABIL GOVERNOR FIGHTS TO SAVE HIS OFFICE [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable 2. (C) Summary: Babil's governor continues to face difficulties in maintaining key political support against efforts to remove him. Crucial ISCI backing within the provincial council appears to be waning. In response, the governor has embarked upon a campa [...] | 2007-10-28 14:20:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR |
07HILLAH144 | NAJAF TOURISM COMMITTEE PLANS JANUARY CONFERENCE [...] (C) On October 23, PRTOffs met with the Najaf Provincial Council (PC) Tourism Conference preparatory committee. The Committee is a sophisticated group under the leader of PC and hawza member Sheik Fayid Kudhum al Shmerti. The Committee members noted that the tourism industry of Najaf is made up [...] | 2007-10-29 12:08:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAIR ECON IR IZ |
07HILLAH145 | KARBALA PROVINCE GOES PIC [...] (U) This is a PRT Karbala Cable 2. (SBU) Summary: On October 29, Karbala Province became a Province under Iraqi control (PIC). The arrival of PIC status was celebrated in a three-hour ceremony hosted by Karbala Province and attended by the Prime Minister and Karbala notables, 3ID MG [...] | 2007-11-03 06:43:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MARR IZ |
07HILLAH146 | NAJAF DEPUTY GOVERNOR PRAISES USG COLLABORATION, SEEKS [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During an October 31, 2007 meeting in Najaf with PRT Najaf Team Leader, PRT Engineer, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region South (GRS) Engineers, the Najaf Deputy Governor praised the supportive role the USG is playing in Najaf, while c [...] | 2007-11-03 11:50:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ |
07HILLAH147 | IRAQI GENERAL OFFERS UPBEAT ASSESSMENT OF IMPROVED SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi general offers reasonably upbeat assessment on the improving security climate, despite recent violence in the wake of a concentrated sweep through a JAM-controlled area of Diwaniyah City. Local population appears to support increased efforts to rid the area of Jaish al-M [...] | 2007-11-04 12:39:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ |
07HILLAH150 | BABIL: 2007 BUDGET EXECUTION: A WORRISOME UPDATE [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (C) Former Babil Provincial Reconstruction Development Committee (PRDC) Coordinator Qassem Hamed Abid told PRT that Babil's much-touted budget execution success for 2007 is a fraud (refs A and B). In a one-on-one conversation with the PRT on November 12 [...] | 2007-11-12 15:41:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN EPET PINR IZ |
07HILLAH151 | NAJAF LEADERS ASKED USG TO HELP FUND IDP CAMP PROJECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Members of the Najaf Provincial Council (PC) requested USG assistance to fund some Najaf projects, especially at the internally displaced persons (IDP) camp, during a November 8 Najaf PRT visit to the IDP camp in Manathera and a subsequent meeting at the PC offices. Ali Al Faya [...] | 2007-11-12 16:40:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL PGOV SOCI IZ |
07HILLAH152 | NAJAF LEADERS ASKED USG TO HELP FUND IDP CAMP PROJECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Members of the Najaf Provincial Council (PC) requested USG assistance to fund some Najaf projects, especially at the internally displaced persons (IDP) camp, during a November 8 Najaf PRT visit to the IDP camp in Manathera and a subsequent meeting at the PC offices. Ali Al Fay [...] | 2007-11-12 16:40:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL PGOV SOCI IZ |
07HILLAH153 | BABIL: HILLAH MARKETS ABOUND WITH AFFORDABLE IMPORTS [...] This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. Summary. Hillah markets and shops abound in imported consumer goods, most of which are affordable to average citizens. Open air produce markets typically stock an abundance of mainly Syrian and Iranian fruits and vegetables. Consumers face no shortage of app [...] | 2007-11-13 03:32:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD IZ IR |
07HILLAH154 | INFLUENTIAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT HUSSEIN ALI AL-SHALAN'S [...] (C) Summary: Influential sheik and COR member Al-Shalan sees South Central as crucial to Iraq's future. Security situation improving. He fears a weakened Sadr militia will increase influence of Badrists, who "have an agenda beyond Iraq's borders." He believes that Islamists are incapable [...] | 2007-11-13 13:54:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR IZ |
07HILLAH155 | BABIL: PRT HOSTS SHEIKHS' ROUNDTABLE [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: On November 13, PRT Babil hosted a gathering of Sunni and Shi'a tribal sheikhs from throughout the province. The sheikhs criticized the current political leadership of the province while blaming the US for allowing foreign influences to pe [...] | 2007-11-15 08:26:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KISL IZ IR |
07HILLAH157 | KARBALA ENGINEERS MEETING; IP CHIEF GRUMBLES ABOUT MOI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. PRT Karbala met with Karbala PC Chair and key PC members to continue discussion of cooperation between USACE (Corps of Engineers) and Karbala Provincial Engineers on Projects. PRT urged Karbala PRDC to work expeditiously to complete ESF project packages. IP Chief BG Ra'ad expr [...] | 2007-11-16 12:22:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ EAID |
07HILLAH158 | DUSD BRINKLEY VISITS KARBALA [...] Sensitive but unclassified. This is a PRT Karbala cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: DUSD Brinkley and his delegation, GOI spokesman Ali al Dubbagh, and PRT Leader were warmly received by Governor Aqeel for a five hour visit that was covered extensively by local media, and included lunch and a visit [...] | 2007-11-18 05:01:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07HILLAH161 | NAJAF'S KUFA UNIVERSITY: DOORS WIDE OPEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President of Najaf's Kufa University (Kufa) warmly welcomed the PRT delegation, including Team Leader and PD officer, during a November 21 campus visit. President Razak Al-Essa, who attained his PhD in the U.K., openly discussed his Western-oriented education model with PRT L [...] | 2007-11-25 09:29:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OEXC SCUL SOCI IZ |
07HILLAH162 | NAJAF, GOI OFFICIALS AGREE TO CLOSER COORDINATION ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In a November 28 meeting at the Najaf Aiport with the U.S. Transportation Attachi, EmbOffs, PRT Najaf Team Leader, 3ID Deputy Division Commander, and the Director General (DG) of the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA),the Najaf Governor and [...] | 2007-12-01 09:32:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAIR ECON IZ |
07HILLAH163 | NAJAF AND KUFA DISTRICTS LOCAL COUNCILS REQUESTED PRT [...] SUMMARY: During a November meeting with the PRT, members of the local councils (LC) from Najaf and Kufa districts requested USG assistance to help build capacity - including the funding of an office and training of staff, particularly in the U.S. Najaf LC members, Adnan Hussein Mohammed and Ja [...] | 2007-12-01 13:47:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IZ |
07HILLAH167 | IMPROVED SECURITY IN QADISIYAH BODES WELL FOR POSSIBLE PRT [...] (U) This is a joint DS-PRT Diwaniyah cable. 2. (C) Summary: Iraqi general offers upbeat assessment on the improved security climate in Diwaniyah. MND CS Commander concurs but is concerned that Diwaniyah's Governor remains an obstacle to progress. MND CS Commander and 8th IAD General [...] | 2007-12-08 11:33:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR IZ |
07HILLAH175 | DEPUTY GOVERNOR DESCRIBES SOUTH KOREA TRIP, AIRPORT FOLLOW [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf cable. 2. (C) Deputy Governor Abtan met with PRT Leader and PRToffs at the proposed new location for PRT Najaf at former Camp Endeavor next to the airport on December 18. Abtan described his travel to the Republic of Korea (ROK) earlier this month. He noted that t [...] | 2007-12-28 11:30:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR IZ PREL |
07HILLAH29 | BABIL PROVINCIAL COUNCIL MEMBER AIRS SOME DIRTY LAUNDRY [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (C) Summary and comment: Although the intended topic was the Babil governor's attempt to remove the mayor of Al-Hillah, a recent conversation with a Communist member of the Babil Provincial Council (PC) revealed much more, including allegations of bribes to [...] | 2007-02-21 14:50:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR KDEM IZ |
07HILLAH36 | GEO WARNS OF ELECTORAL WEAKNESS [...] (U) This is a PRT Diwaniyah cable. 2. (C) Summary. In a 24 February meeting, Saad Madhloum Abdullah, the General Electoral Officer (GEO) for Diwaniyah Province under the (soon-to-be-abolished) Independent Electoral Commission in Iraq (IECI) warned that the Independent Higher Electoral Commi [...] | 2007-03-01 12:20:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
07HILLAH45 | BABIL ELECTION OFFICIAL VOTES FOR SWEEPING CHANGE AT THE [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (C) Summary. The Babil representative to the Independent Electoral Commission for Iraq (IECI),Assad Abd al-Rudah, recently shared his views with Babil IPAO about methods to reduce electoral fraud and manipulation, including adopting a "one-candidate, one- [...] | 2007-03-24 12:17:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM IZ |
07HILLAH47 | BABIL REFORMERS CREATE PROTO-INVESTMENT COMMISSION [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: In the wake of the CoR's passage of the investment law, Babil business and political reformers recently formed a "preparatory" provincial investment commission awaiting the creation of the National Commission for Investment. Despite its uno [...] | 2007-03-28 17:43:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV IZ |
07HILLAH48 | BABIL'S FAINT-HEARTED GOVERNOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (S) Summary and comment: The governor of Babil, reeling under the triple impact of a revolt in the provincial council (and the loss of his closest ally there),a public whispering campaign against him and an increasingly assertive Jaysh Al-Mahdi (JAM),sudd [...] | 2007-03-28 17:53:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PINS PINR PTER IZ |
07HILLAH55 | NAJAF AND DIWANIYAH PROVINICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf/Diwaniyah cable. Mark G. Davison, Leader. SUMMARY 2. (S) Local sources have provided some details regarding an April 11 raid on the main office of the Sadrist movement in Diwaniyah during the ongoing security operation. Local journalists are reportedly compl [...] | 2007-04-13 09:26:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR IZ |
07HILLAH6 | BABIL PROVINCIAL ELECTION SHAPSHOT: CHASING A SHADOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Corruption, stagnation and not wanting to repeat the mistakes of two years ago figure among the reasons Babil citizens would like to see elections take place sooner rather than later. An extended delay in scheduling them could plunge more potential voters into cynical abstention [...] | 2007-01-10 09:04:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV SOCI KDEM IZ |
07HILLAH68 | MOSQUES ADDRESS PROVINCIAL IRAQI CONTROL (PIC) [...] (U) This is a Najaf PRT cable. Mark G. Davison, Leader. 2. (C) In our continuing efforts to monitor Friday prayer sermons through our sources on the ground in Najaf Province (see reftel),this past week's efforts provided contrasting views regarding, among other things, the process of P [...] | 2007-04-26 14:32:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR SOCI IZ |
07HILLAH69 | CLEVER TACTICS, FLAWED ETHICS IN HILLAH MAYOR ELECTION [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: As anticipated in ref A, the Hillah District Council (DC) met on April 21 to choose a new mayor. The surprise winner by one vote - his own - was DC member Sabah Al-Fatlawi, after a campaign allegedly marred by bribery and other improprieties. [...] | 2007-05-02 14:09:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL IZ IR |
07HILLAH70 | HILLAH MAYOR KABUKI CONTINUES [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (C) PRT officers met on May 2 with the full membership of the Hillah District Council (DC) for a discussion of the chain of events described in reftel. Both Aqeel Al-Silawi, who introduced himself as the acting mayor until the Provincial Council (PC) confi [...] | 2007-05-04 07:07:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IZ |
07HILLAH71 | POLICE CHALLENGE VBID, EXPLOSION ENSUES [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf/Diwaniyah Cable. VBID EXPLODES IN KUFA 2. (C) Our locally engaged staff in Najaf report that, on May 8, 2007 at approximately 1015, a device identified by Iraqi Security Forces as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBID) detonated near the Sherhistani [...] | 2007-05-08 13:06:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SOCI MARR IZ |
07HILLAH77 | GOVERNOR OF NAJAF CALLS ON MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf/Diwaniyah Cable. SUMMARY 2. (C) The Governor of Najaf traveled to Baghdad on 14 May accompanied by Coalition officers and PRT leader. During his call the Governor gave the Minister a detailed list of weapons and ammunition, as well as a proposed budget, for an [...] | 2007-05-20 15:18:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PTER IZ |
07HILLAH78 | PART 1 OF A SERIES: FINGER POINTING AND CONCERNS OVER [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable and is the first in a series on the status of budget execution within Babil. 2. (C) Summary: With the Government of Iraq's announcement that reconstruction funding may be rescinded from provinces that do not spend a certain percentage by the end of June, numerou [...] | 2007-05-23 11:32:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PINS PGOV SOCI KDEM IZ |
07HILLAH81 | INSIDE THE SAUSAGE FACTORY - A VISIT TO THE BABIL PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Babil Provincial Council (PC) meeting on May 29 provided an object lesson on the status of representative governance in the province. While a handful of voices spoke out about things on citizens' minds, such as power shortages and long lines at gas stations, substa [...] | 2007-05-29 15:00:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI IZ |
07HILLAH82 | GOVERNOR FEELS THE HEAT, AS DOES INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST [...] (C) Summary: After a local newspaper printed a story claiming that virtually all Babil residents want Governor Salem Saleh Mehdi Al-Muslimawi to step down, the governor pushed back on the airwaves and the pages of his own paper to attempt to discredit his accusers. A few days thereafter he tra [...] | 2007-06-01 13:55:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR SOCI KDEM IZ IR |
07HILLAH86 | IRANIAN-SUPPORTED GROUP SAID TARGETING SISTANI AIDES, WOULD [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (S) Summary: A civil society activist with strong religious credentials recently warned PRT leader that an Iranian-controlled group called Asa'ib Al-Haq, based in Diwaniya, is serving as a tool in Iran's efforts to take control of the hawza, the Shi'a relig [...] | 2007-06-07 04:37:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER KISL IZ IR |
07HILLAH95 | KARBALA: GOVERNOR PUTS HIS HEART INTO THE TRANSFER OF THE [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala classified cable. 2. (U) On June 27, Karbala Governor Aqeel Mahmood al-Khazali met with 3ID Deputy Commanding General (DCG) and PRT representatives at the Regional Embassy Office (REO) in al-Hillah. This was the first meeting betwe [...] | 2007-06-30 08:42:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
07HILLAH96 | CORRECTED COPY: KARBALA: GOVERNOR PUTS HIS HEART INTO THE [...] (U) This is a corrected copy of Hillah 00000095 (wrong classification) a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala classified cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On June 27, Karbala Governor Aqeel Mahmood al-Khazali met with 3ID Deputy Commanding General (DCG) and PRT representatives at the Regional [...] | 2007-06-30 08:50:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
07IRANRPODUBAI12 | IRGC, BASIJ, ANSAR-E HIZBALLAH: INSIDERS' VIEWS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-22 10:52:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IR IZ MOPS |
07IRANRPODUBAI16 | IRAN'S EXTERNAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 14:01:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IR IS IZ PTER AE |
07IRANRPODUBAI21 | IRANIAN REACTIONS TO BRITISH DETENTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-09 12:12:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IR MOPS UK IZ |
07IRANRPODUBAI3 | FORMER POLICE GENERAL SAYS RAFSANJANI UP, AHMADINEJAD DOWN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-04 16:01:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IR IZ LE PTER |
07IRANRPODUBAI38 | SUPPORT DEEP IN IRAN FOR US TALKS, IN ONE VIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-24 15:41:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IR IZ PHUM |
07IRANRPODUBAI55 | EX-IRGC GENERAL CLAIMS IRGC IMPLEMENTS ORDERS, DOESN'T MAKE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-23 15:41:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IR IZ MCAP |
07IRANRPODUBAI56 | PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD ATTEMPTS TO TONE DOWN TENSIONS BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-28 18:50:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IR PREL PGOV KNNP IZ |
07ISLAMABAD1583 | MUSHARRAF TELLS MCCAIN: DON’T PULL OUT OF IRAQ [...] (U) On April 3, President Musharraf met with Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Representative Richard Renzi (R-AZ),Musharraf's third U.S. Congressional delegation of the day (reftel). The group,s discussion focused on Iraq, the broader Middle East, and the Pak-Afghan border region. ----------------- [...] | 2007-04-10 12:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS PK AF IZ IR ID MY SA LE |
07ISLAMABAD1943 | PAKISTAN UNLIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE TO IRAQ MISSION [...] (C) Post assesses that Pakistan would not be willing to contribute troops or other support to the current Iraq Coalition, nor would it be productive to raise the matter with the Government of Pakistan at this time. 2. (C) Pakistani officials have intimated privately in the past that they w [...] | 2007-05-02 04:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER PK IZ |
07ISTANBUL1014 | Energy Secretary Bodman Meets with Turkish Energy Minister [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 15, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman met Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler in Istanbul. They reaffirmed the U.S.-Turkey strategic energy vision for the development of Caspian resources and delivery systems to bring them to market, including the Trans-Caspian p [...] | 2007-11-26 14:18:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET AJ IR IZ KZ RS TU |
07ISTANBUL1029 | Energy Secretary Bodman Meets with Turkish Prime Minister [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 18, Energy Secretary Bodman met with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan on the margins of the Turkish Greek Interconnector (TGI) Ceremony. Also present was Turkish Energy Minister Guler, as well as representation from the Turkish MFA. The Secretary and the Prime Minist [...] | 2007-12-03 12:13:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AJ ENRG EPET IR IZ KZ RS TU |
07ISTANBUL1046 | CODEL SHAYS CONFRONTS SKEPTICAL BUSINESSMEN IN [...] (C) Summary. Codel Shays' November 29 meetings in Istanbul underlined contrasts in Turkish thinking on Iraq, the PKK and the U.S. image in Turkey. President of Karadeniz Holding Orhan Karadeniz told Congressman Shays Iraq remains a mess, despite military accomplishments. Turkey is very sen [...] | 2007-12-11 08:50:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ETRD TU IZ |
07ISTANBUL116 | AMCONSULATE ISTANBUL RECEIVES PURPORTED OCALAN [...] (C/NF) Consulate has received a letter purporting to be from jailed PKK leader Abullah Ocalan. The envelope was postmarked January 11, 2007, from Beyoglu, Istanbul and addressed to ConGen Istanbul's former Beyoglu office building. The Asrin Law Firm, responsible for Abdullah Ocalan's lega [...] | 2007-02-15 11:45:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ |
07ISTANBUL187 | S/P KRASNER DISCUSSES IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, [...] (C) Summary. Following policy/planning consultations with the Turkish Foreign Ministry in Ankara, S/P Director Stephen Krasner met with the secular, nationalist-leaning Marmara group as well as academics in Istanbul on February 23-24. Lecturer and writer Soli Ozel questioned how a revolutio [...] | 2007-03-08 08:40:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IZ IR |
07ISTANBUL346 | FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR DAVUTOGLU'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. Senior Advisor and Iraq Coordinator David Satterfield met with Prime Minister Erdogan,s senior foreign policy advisor Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday, April 21, 2007, to discuss U.S. and Turkish policy toward Iraq and related issues. Ambassador Oguz Celikkol, special representative [...] | 2007-04-24 15:54:00 | Consulate Istanbul | SECRET | PGOV PREL TU IZ XF |
07ISTANBUL692 | TURKEY'S SPECIAL ENVOY FOR IRAQ BRIEFS STAFFDEL [...] (C) GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Ambassador Oguz Celikkol told staffers that Sunnis in Iraq tell Turkey they feel excluded from decision-making; absent consensus-based decisions in Iraq, the community or communities feeling left out will forcefully resist. He reported great Saudi discomfort wi [...] | 2007-07-31 12:21:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF TU IZ JO SY |
07ISTANBUL70 | SAKARYA PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR: KIRKUK REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary. We met Sakarya Governor Nuri Okutan on a visit to the province's major city, Adapazari, on January 18. What we had anticipated as a 30-minute courtesy call turned into a one-and-a-half hour lecture on Iran's historical influence in Anatolia, Turkish-Iranian relations and current [...] | 2007-01-31 07:24:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IZ IR |
07ISTANBUL791 | CODEL COSTELLO: GOT URGES HOUSE NOT TO PASS AGR [...] (SBU) Summary. Turkish MFA Undersecretary (D Equivalent) Apakan and a group of parliamentarians, separately, urged Codel Costello to prevent passage of an Armenian Genocide Resolution, noting it would cause serious damage to US-Turkish relations. Turkish officials also pressed the delegatio [...] | 2007-09-05 07:06:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TU AM IZ |
07ISTANBUL868 | ISTANBUL OFFICE CALLS UNDERLINE IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) Summary and comment. EUR/SE desk officer Danielle Garbe met recently with TESEV President Can Paker, former Special Envoy General Edip Baser and academician Kemal Kirisci to hear views on Turkey's domestic politics, its foreign relations and the bureaucracy's view of the fight against t [...] | 2007-09-25 14:24:00 | Consulate Istanbul | SECRET | PGOV PREL TU IR IZ |
07ISTANBUL896 | TESEV TO U/S BURNS: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IS THE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Leaders of Turkey's most progressive civil society think tank, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, stressed to U/S Burns that while reform of Article 301 was important, the government must c [...] | 2007-10-02 13:27:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL TU IZ |
07ISTANBUL981 | MEETING WITH A TURKISH COMPANY THAT PLANS TO [...] (SBU) Istanbul Pol/Econ officers met November 5 with executives from the Kartet company and its holding company, Karadeniz, to discuss a deal by Kartet to import electricity from Iran. (Our discussion on Kartet,s electricity exports to Iraq is reported septel.) Kartet director Nuray Atacik [...] | 2007-11-09 09:44:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL IR IZ TU |
07ISTANBUL987 | A PROFESSOR OF GENERALS SPEAKS OF THE OBLIGATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-14 08:41:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ |
07JAKARTA1074 | ALWI SHIHAB DISCUSSES IRAQ, UNSC ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. In an April 13 meeting with the Charge, Indonesian Special Envoy to the Mideast Alwi Shihab outlined the GOI's efforts to promote reconciliation among Iraqi Sunnis and Shia. Following the Bogor reconciliation conference earlier this month (reftel A),Shihab said that GOI figures [...] | 2007-04-16 09:46:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC YI IZ IR ID |
07JAKARTA12 | MUTED INDONESIAN REACTION TO SADDAM'S EXECUTION [...] Reaction to Saddam Hussein's execution has been muted in Indonesia, largely overshadowed by media coverage of domestic air and maritime transport tragedies that claimed the lives of more than 500 people this holiday weekend. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) released a short statement o [...] | 2007-01-03 09:04:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KISL KJUS IZ ID |
07JAKARTA2063 | D-FM WIRAJUDA BILAT IN MANILA [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Mission provides the following suggested background for inclusion in the briefing materials for Deputy Secretary Negroponte. They are for reference for his planned bilateral meeting with Indonesian Foreign [...] | 2007-07-31 08:30:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV TBIO MARR ID XF IZ |
07JAKARTA2504 | STATUS OF INDONESIAN WORKERS REPORTEDLY IN IRAQ [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary. Laboff met with the Department of Foreign Affairs' Director of Overseas Indonesian Workers Protection September 7, who gave us the names of 72 Indonesians reportedly working in Iraq, asking for consular access and t [...] | 2007-09-10 10:43:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ID IZ |
07JAKARTA2539 | IRAQI OFFICIAL GETS CORDIAL WELCOME, BUT NO SOLID [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a just concluded visit to Jakarta, Iraqi DFM Labeed Abbawi made the rounds of high-level GOI officials as he sought Indonesian assistance in law enforcement and counter-terrorism. Abbawi also urged that Indonesia reopen its Embassy in Baghdad. The GOI gave Abbawi a cordial w [...] | 2007-09-12 08:48:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ID IZ |
07JAKARTA2827 | IRAQ -- GOI REQUESTS MORE HELP REGARDING WORKERS [...] (U) This is an Action Request -- Please see Para 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) has asked Labatt for USG assistance in helping 13 Indonesian maids depart Iraqi Kurdistan. DEPLU also thanked Embassy Baghdad for its assistance in gaining consular access to 72 [...] | 2007-10-05 06:00:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIG ELAB IZ ID |