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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03AMMAN7909 |
ISLAMIC PARTY THE KING-MAKER IN JORDAN'S SPEAKER [...] (C) Saad Hayel Srour, former Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament, told PolCouns and PolOff that he withdrew from the Speaker race after the Islamic Action Front made too many demands in exchange for backing his candidacy. He expects only limited progress in approving the backlog of provi [...] |
2003-12-04 17:15:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL JO KTER |
| 03AMMAN8225 |
JORDANIAN ISLAMIST LEADERS CALL FOR POLITICAL [...] (U) In recent press interviews, the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Action Front welcomed government dialogue efforts, but warned that they would judge the government by its actions, rather than its words. The Islamists called for political reform, a new electoral law, and [...] |
2003-12-16 18:16:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM KISL JO KTER |
| 04AMMAN2164 |
YASSIN ASSASSINATION SPARKS CONDEMNATION, RALLIES [...] (S) Both King Abdullah and Prime Minister al-Fayez publicly condemned the Israeli assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, warning that the killing would lead to an escalation of violence and instability in the region. A visibly upset Foreign Minister Muasher complained to the Amb [...] |
2004-03-22 18:18:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | ASEC PREL KPAL JO KTER |
| 04AMMAN2170 |
YASSIN ASSASSINATION SPARKS CONDEMNATION, RALLIES [...] (S) Both King Abdullah and Prime Minister al-Fayez publicly condemned the Israeli assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, warning that the killing would lead to an escalation of violence and instability in the region. A visibly upset Foreign Minister Muasher complained to the Amb [...] |
2004-03-23 08:34:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | ASEC PREL KPAL JO KTER |
| 04AMMAN409 |
JORDANIANS PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL AND U.S. IRAQ [...] (C) A non-violent demonstration held January 16 in Amman garnered several hundred Jordanians who protested against Israeli policies and the U.S. presence in Iraq. In contravention of parameters pre-arranged with the GOJ, several demonstrators held up pictures of Saddam Hussein and Iraqi flag [...] |
2004-01-19 18:32:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL KISL IS IZ JO KTER |
| 04AMMAN5085 |
LETTER OF CONDOLENCE FROM KING ABDULLAH TO THE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-06-22 12:43:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL JO KTER |
| 04AMMAN5094 |
KING ABDULLAH DISCUSSES POLICE/MILITARY TRAINING [...] (S/NF) King Abdullah told CODEL Daschle January 20 that he shared their concerns over whether current training programs for the Iraqi military and police would allow Iraqis to assume responsibility for their own security without a significant U.S. troop presence. The King pledged that Jordan [...] |
2004-06-23 05:48:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR MASS IZ JO KTER |
| 04AMMAN5418 |
LETTER FROM KING ABDULLAH II TO SECRETARY OF [...] No summary [...] |
2004-07-01 14:07:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MASS JO KTER |
| 04AMMAN688 |
JORDANIANS NOTE THAT STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH [...] (U) President Bush's state of the union address has received substantial coverage in all major dailies. While many of these reports were mostly factual in nature, several prominent articles highlighted the absence of references to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as the Democrats' c [...] |
2004-01-27 17:09:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS JO KTER |
| 04AMMAN695 |
JORDANIAN BUSINESSMAN RELATES DANGERS OF DOING [...] (C) A Jordanian businessman, Dureid Mahasneh (please protect), told PolOff January 26 of the dangers his transportation and shipping company has experienced while operating in Iraq. After paying protection money to keep his Baghdad warehouse free from attack, the facility was subsequently bu [...] |
2004-01-28 07:57:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD IZ JO ELTD KTER |
| 04AMMAN832 |
JORDANIAN FM DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS, RELATIONS [...] (C) Jordanian FM Marwan Muasher told visiting NEA DAS Satterfield on February 1 that he was pushing for an Arab League resolution to help bolster the peace process, including a provision that would specifically condemn suicide bombings. He said it remained unclear whether the Arab League sum [...] |
2004-02-03 17:23:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS IZ JO KTER |
| 05DARESSALAAM101 |
FY 2005 ESF Request for Electoral Assistance [...] Embassy Dar es Salaam requests $500,000 ESF to fund Tanzanian Electoral Observation NGOs during the campaign and vote in the General Elections of October 2005. Any funding in excess of the immediate requirement to establish an election observation project would be directed toward long- term [...] |
2005-01-19 08:48:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PHUM PGOV ECON AMGT TZ KTER |
| 06BUENOSAIRES2612 |
AMBASSADOR'S NOVEMBER 20 MEETING WITH ARGENTINE [...] (C) Summary. On November 20, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Argentine Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne to discuss ways to strengthen U.S.-Argentine cooperation on law enforcement, judicial reform, and anti-corruption issues. Iribarne noted that money laundering and terrorism financ [...] |
2006-11-22 21:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTER AR |
| 06EFTOISLAMABAD17875 |
BALOCHISTAN CLOSED BUT QUIET IN FOLLOW-ON PROTEST; [...] (U) On September 6, Balochistan was again shut down by a general "wheel jam and shutter down" strike to protest the death and burial of Nawab Bugti at the hands of the government (reftels). As with the September 1 and 3 strikes, the province-wide shutdown was generally peaceful and extended i [...] |
2006-09-07 13:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PK PREL PGOV KTER |
| 06HANOI2239 |
NORTH KOREAN BANKING: MFA NERVOUS IN THE FACE OF [...] (S) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials contacted us August 31 to request clarification of Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey,s itinerary during his trip to the Asia Pacific region in July 2006. Econoff provided MFA officials with this information, which U/S Levey had already share [...] |
2006-09-01 06:21:00 | Embassy Hanoi | SECRET | EFIN KTER ECON IO PREL NK VM |
| 06ISLAMABAD14208 |
PAKISTANIS EXPEL 58 AFGHANS [...] (C) Summary. Pakistani authorities turned over 58 Afghan nationals to Afghanistan Sunday from among the more than 200 Afghans rounded up in and around Quetta early last week. It is not known whether any of the 58 have ties to the Taliban, but Embassy contacts say the 58 were among those arreste [...] |
2006-07-24 13:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PREL PGOV KTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD14349 |
A PRIMER ON BALOCHISTAN [...] (C) Summary: This cable--the first in a series of cables on the province--is intended to serve as a primer on Balochistan, Pakistan's largest, least developed, and most sparsely populated province. Other cables in this series will cover the tribal and ethnic political dynamics of the province, [...] |
2006-07-27 13:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PREL PGOV KTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD16944 |
DEATH OF NAWAB BUGTI, BALOCH TRIBAL INSURGENT [...] (C) Summary: The killing of Baloch tribal insurgent leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti by security forces on Saturday has dismayed politicians across the political spectrum, including members of the party that President Musharraf relies on to run the country, and triggered riots in a limited number [...] |
2006-08-28 12:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PK PREL PGOV KTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD16962 |
BALOCHISTAN (2): THE GRIEVANCES [...] (C) Summary. While the Government of Pakistan (GOP) undertakes projects to develop Balochistan, in part to turn the province into a transit point linking Pakistan to western Afghanistan and the Central Asian states, it faces a distrustful and resentful provincial population. This wariness and [...] |
2006-08-29 04:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PK PREL PGOV KTER PINR |
| 06ISLAMABAD17014 |
REACTION TO DEATH OF NAWAB BUGTI SHIFTS FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: From Sunday's ""we've got him"" triumphialism, the government's position on the death of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has evolved to a denial that the Baloch tribal leader was the victim of a targeted assassination. The back pedaling follows growing criticism of the security operation [...] |
2006-08-29 12:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PREL PGOV KTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD17255 |
DEATH OF NAWAB BUGTI CONTINUES TO ROIL THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Protests over the government's killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti continued into the third day, August 29. Demonstrations, road blockages, riots and even several bombings appear to have been in reaction to the Nawab's death. The apparent inability of the government t [...] |
2006-08-30 13:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PREL PGOV KTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD17594 |
BUGTI INTERRED, FAMILY IGNORED, BALOCHISTAN QUIET [...] (U) Protests over the August 26 death of Bugti tribal leader Nawab Bugti (refs A,B, and C) continued over the weekend. On August 31, the government announced that it had retrieved Bugti's remains from the cave in which he was killed. Its decision to bury the body rather than to return the rem [...] |
2006-09-05 12:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PK PREL PGOV KTER PINR |
| 06PARIS2313 |
FRENCH ON HAMAS/COE: GIVE US UNTIL THE 4/10 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 7, post further discussed possible Hamas participation in upcoming Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) meetings with MFA DAS-equivalent for Strategic Affairs Nicolas Niemtchinow (responsible for CoE political affairs) and shared ref A points with DAS-eq [...] |
2006-04-07 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS FR KHUM KTER COE EUN |
| 07BUENOSAIRES297 |
AG GONZALES MEETS WITH PROSECUTOR GENERAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales met with Argentine Prosecutor General Esteban Righi on February 7 and discussed the challenges that the GOA faces with its transition to an accusatorial justice system. The AG offered U.S. assistance to help with the transition, as well as trai [...] |
2007-02-15 17:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL OVIP KTER AR |
| 07CHENNAI530 |
HYDERABAD BOMBING UPDATE AND EAC MEETING REPORT [...] (SBU) On August 27, 2007 the RSO convened an EAC meeting to discuss and update members on new information surrounding the bombings in Hyderabad on Saturday, August 25. The meeting was attended by Pol/Econ, PAS, FCS, and FCS. The meeting was chaired by the Acting Consul General from PAS. The EAC [...] |
2007-08-27 12:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC ASEC PGOV PREL KTER IN |
| 08ATHENS81 |
INTERIOR MINISTER PLEDGES COUNTERTERORRIST [...] (S) On 16 January 2008, Ambassador Speckhard, accompanied by Regional Affairs (RAS) Counselor Chadason, paid a courtesy call on Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Deputy Interior Minister for Public Order Panayiotis Chinofotis. In his first official meeting with them, the Ambassador s [...] |
2008-01-18 16:09:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PGOV KTER KCRM ASEC KHLS EAGR SENV TU GR |
| 08LAPAZ2671 |
BOLIVIA CONDEMNS "ISRAELI CRIMINAL AGGRESSION" [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) In response to the violence in the Gaza strip, on December 29 Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca condemned Israel for its "criminal aggression." "We completely disapprove," Choquehuanca told press and announced that Bolivia had demanded that the United Nations (UN) int [...] |
2008-12-31 17:30:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | IS ASEC PGOV PINR PREL KTER BL |
| 08OSLO154 |
NORWAY: GROWING AWARENESS OF TERRORISM THREAT [...] (C) Summary: In a significant shift we have long advocated, the GON has strengthened its counter terrorism awareness, capabilities and planning. This includes a revised law on terrorism, an increased threat perception, arrests of terrorist financiers and new physical and electronic secur [...] |
2008-03-14 14:43:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KTER PGOV PREL ABLD NO |
| 08STATE105626 |
TSA REVIEW TEAMS VISITS [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Summary and action request: In response to the recent general increase in terrorist activity in the broader Middle East and South Asia, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to temporarily increase its monitorin [...] |
2008-10-02 20:15:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EAIR KTER UA KU QA |
| 08TASHKENT879 |
DAS KROL MEETS UZBEK FOREIGN MINISTER NOROV IN [...] (C) Summary: On July 25 Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia George Krol met with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov in Tashkent. The atmosphere was warm and cordial, and Norov framed his remarks in the context of President Karimov's positive July 22 meeting with the A [...] |
2008-07-30 03:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM KCOR PINR KTER ENRG UZ |
| 08TASHKENT985 |
UZBEKISTAN: TWELVE CONVICTED OF ALLEGED HIZB [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met on August 22 with Akhmadjon Madmarov, a Margilan-based human rights activist whose two sons and two nephews are incarcerated for alleged membership in extremist organizations. He reported that his son Habibullah was convicted on August 15 along with 11 fellow inmates [...] |
2008-08-26 06:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KTER UZ |
| 09BAGHDAD3065 |
PRT DIYALA: PROSECUTOR CLAIMS CONFESSION LED TO [...] This is a PRT Diyala cable. 2. (C) Summary: Multiple sources claim that the recent Anti-Terrorism Law-based warrants for Diyala Provincial Council member Hisham al-Hiyali and his wife, Council of Representatives (COR) member Tayseer Mashandani, originate with the un-coerced confession of [...] |
2009-11-22 08:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD3156 |
PRT SALAH AD DIN: BOMBS AT TIKRIT UNIVERSITY [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY The normally quiet University of Tikrit experienced two bomb incidents on November 22 and 23. In the past, this would have sent students and professors scurrying away from any American contact. Yet, ju [...] |
2009-12-07 13:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD3180 |
SALAH AD DIN'S PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR DISPUTE HEATING [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. Political maneuvering both in Baghdad and in the Salah Ad Din Provincial Government (PG) have led to an increasingly tense impasse in the province. Since the Iraqi Supreme Court upheld the Salah ad Di [...] |
2009-12-10 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD3181 |
SALAH AD DIN'S PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR DISPUTE HEATING [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. Political maneuvering both in Baghdad and in the Salah Ad Din Provincial Government (PG) have led to an increasingly tense impasse in the province. Since the Iraqi Supreme Court upheld the Salah ad Di [...] |
2009-12-10 15:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD3268 |
SALAH AD DIN: TIKRIT UNIVERSITY CONTINUES TO [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Tikrit University's president Ali Salah Al Jebouri continues to defy insurgents by leading staff and students to forge even closer ties with Salah Ad Din PRT members and U.S. soldiers, despite Al Qaida' [...] |
2009-12-19 13:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC KTER IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD3373 |
PRT DIYALA: CENTER OF GRAVITY FOR IRAQ'S PROBLEMS [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala message. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT With its long border with Iran, Diyala remains a strategically vital focal point for some of Iraq's most pressing problems, yet its Provincial Government remains ill-equipped to confront the challenges facing it. Although Diyala [...] |
2009-12-30 16:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KTER PTER KDEM PINR PINS PHUM PREF |
| 09CAIRO1467 |
RAMPING UP PRESSURE ON THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN [...] Key Points: -- (C) High profile arrests of members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) have continued to pick up speed since May. Most recently, three MB-affiliated bloggers critical of government tactics against the MB, including the wave of arrests, have been detained themselves. -- (C) MB attempts [...] |
2009-07-30 14:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM KTER KJUS EG |
| 09CASABLANCA47 |
MOROCCO/IRAN: THE PHANTOM SHIA MENACE [...] (C) Summary: One of Morocco's top experts on Islam discounted the government of Morocco's (GOM) explanation that the Iranian Shia menace was a proximate cause of the breakdown in relations between the two countries. Whatever Iran's alleged proselytizing activities may have borne, the penetra [...] |
2009-03-23 19:46:00 | Consulate Casablanca | SECRET | PREL PGOV KISL KTER MO AG IR |
| 09MANILA1922 |
PHILIPPINE SEAWEED SECTOR PACES CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary. For four decades, U.S Government-backed seaweed farming programs have promoted peace, security and economic development in some of the Philippines' poorest and least stable provinces. In conflict-affected Mindanao, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) [...] |
2009-09-11 10:00:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON KTER EISL EAID RP |
| 09SANAA1452 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ELICITING YEMENI COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] |
2009-08-09 13:19:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PREL KTER YM |
| 09STATE111689 |
GICNT: RESPONSE REQUESTING UNITED KINGDOM,S [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Department is concerned that the United Kingdom might not send a representative to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) January 2010 Exercise Planning Group (EPG) Meeting in Budapest. Af [...] |
2009-10-29 15:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KTER |
| 09STATE80991 |
(S) ELICITING YEMENI COOPERATION EXTRADITION OF [...] (U) This cable is an action request. Please see paragraphs five and six. 2. (S/NF) Background: Yemeni nationals Sufyan al-Yemeni, aka Saddiq al-Abbadi, and Issa al-Yemeni, aka Ali Alvi, were detained on February 27, 2009 by Pakistan,s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI). Sufya [...] |
2009-08-04 16:18:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PREL KTER YM |
| 10AMMAN302 |
JORDAN: IAF ISSUES STRONG FATWA AGAINST EGYPTIAN WALL IN GAZA [...] (S/NF) On January 9, 2010, the Islamic Shari'a Scholars Committee of the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, issued a fatwa (religious ruling) condemning Egyptian construction of a steel wall near Rafah. The significance of the fatwa lies not in [...] |
2010-02-02 12:00:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | EG JO KTER PGOV PREL |
| 10BAGHDAD365 |
PRT KARBALA: ATTACKS DURING ARBA'IN LEAVE 56 DEAD [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Fears of violence in Karbala during Arba'in (reftel A) were realized after four deadly attacks left 56 dead and more than two hundred wounded among the several million visitors to the event, culmina [...] |
2010-02-11 15:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KTER IZ |
| 10BAGHDAD515 |
RRT ERBIL: PUK-GORAN VIOLENCE CONTINUES [...] (U) This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) Summary: A series of violent incidents beginning February 16 involving shootings and stabbings between supporters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Goran (Kurdish for "change") political movement has ra [...] |
2010-02-27 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTER KDEM IZ |
| 10BAGHDAD516 |
RRT ERBIL: EFFORTS TO CONTROL CLASHES IN [...] (U) This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) Summary: Sulaimaniyah's election security committee broadcast the decision February 19 to ban all outdoor campaign activities in Sulaimaniyah province between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. through the end of the [...] |
2010-02-27 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL ASEC KTER IZ |