• wikileaks ico  Home
  • privacy policy Privacy

Search   through 251'286 wikileaks cables

browse by topics
| advanced search
Select office:
Select classification:
Tags: ALL or ANY
B   R   O   W   S   E
By embassy:
Abidjan Abu Dhabi Abuja Accra Adana Addis Ababa Alexandria Algiers American Institute Taiwan, Taipei Amman Amsterdam Ankara Antananarivo Apia Ashgabat Asmara Astana Asuncion Athens Auckland Baghdad Baku Bamako Bandar Seri Begawan Bangkok Bangui Banjul Barcelona Beijing Beirut Belfast Belgrade Belmopan Berlin Bern Bishkek Bogota Brasilia Bratislava Brazzaville Bridgetown Brussels Bucharest Budapest Buenos Aires Bujumbura Cairo Calgary Canberra Cape Town Caracas Casablanca Chengdu Chennai Chiang Mai Chisinau Ciudad Juarez Colombo Conakry Copenhagen Cotonou Curacao Dakar Damascus Dar Es Salaam Department of State Dhahran Dhaka Dili DIR FSINFATC Djibouti Doha Dubai Dublin Durban Dushanbe Dusseldorf Embasy Bonn Florence Frankfurt Freetown Fukuoka Gaborone Georgetown Grenada Guadalajara Guangzhou Guatemala Guayaquil Halifax Hamburg Hamilton Hanoi Harare Helsinki Hermosillo Ho Chi Minh City Hong Kong Hyderabad Iran RPO Dubai Islamabad Istanbul Izmir Jakarta Jeddah Jerusalem Johannesburg Kabul Kaduna Kampala Karachi Kathmandu Khartoum Kigali Kingston Kinshasa Kolkata Kolonia Koror Krakow Kuala Lumpur Kuwait Kyiv La Paz Lagos Lahore Leipzig Libreville Lilongwe Lima Lisbon Ljubljana Lome London Luanda Lusaka Luxembourg Madrid Majuro Malabo Managua Manama Manila Maputo Marseille Maseru Matamoros Mbabane Melbourne Merida Mexico Milan Minsk Mission Geneva Mission UNESCO Mission USNATO Mission USOSCE Mogadishu Monrovia Monterrey Montevideo Montreal Moscow Mumbai Munich Muscat Nagoya Naha Nairobi Naples Nassau Ndjamena New Delhi Niamey Nicosia Nogales Nouakchott Nuevo Laredo Osaka Kobe Oslo Ottawa Ouagadougou Panama Paramaribo Paris Perth Peshawar Phnom Penh Podgorica Ponta Delgada Port Au Prince Port Louis Port Moresby Port Of Spain Prague Praia Pretoria Pristina Quebec Quito Rabat Rangoon Recife REO Basrah REO Hillah REO Kirkuk REO Mosul Reykjavik Riga Rio De Janeiro Riyadh Rome San Jose San Salvador Sanaa Santiago Santo Domingo Sao Paulo Sapporo Sarajevo Secretary of State Seoul Shanghai Shenyang Singapore Skopje Sofia St Petersburg Stockholm Strasbourg Surabaya Suva Sydney Tallinn Tashkent Tbilisi Tegucigalpa Tehran Tel Aviv The Hague Thessaloniki Tijuana Tirana Tokyo Toronto Tripoli Tunis Ulaanbaatar UN Rome UNVIE US Delegation FEST TWO US Delegation, Secretary US Interests Section Havana US Mission CD Geneva US Mission Geneva US Office Almaty US OFFICE FSC CHARLESTON USEU Brussels USMISSION USTR GENEVA USUN New York Valletta Vancouver Vatican Vienna Vientiane Vilnius Vladivostok Warsaw Wellington Windhoek Yaounde Yekaterinburg Yerevan Zagreb
By classification:
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY


By year:
2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1979 1978 1975 1973 1972 1966

More on tag:
ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
[close]

More on tag:
AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
[close]

More on tag:
AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
[close]

More on tag:
AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
[close]

More on tag:
AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
[close]

Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
[close]

More on tag:
APER PERSONNEL
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
[close]

More on tag:
ASEC SECURITY
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
[close]

More on tag:
BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
[close]

More on tag:
BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
[close]

OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
[close]

More on tag:
CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
[close]

Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
[close]

More on tag:
CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
[close]

Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
[close]

More on tag:
CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
[close]

Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
[close]

More on tag:
CVIS VISAS
[close]

Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
[close]

More on tag:
EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
[close]

More on tag:
EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
[close]

More on tag:
EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
[close]

More on tag:
ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
[close]

More on tag:
ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
[close]

Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
[close]

More on tag:
EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
[close]

More on tag:
EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
[close]

More on tag:
EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
[close]

More on tag:
EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
[close]

Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
[close]

More on tag:
EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
[close]

More on tag:
ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
[close]

More on tag:
ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
[close]

More on tag:
EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

[close]

More on tag:
ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
[close]

More on tag:
EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
[close]

Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
[close]

More on tag:
ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
[close]

More on tag:
ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
[close]

Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
[close]

More on tag:
EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
[close]

More on tag:
KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
[close]

Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
[close]

More on tag:
KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
[close]

Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
[close]

More on tag:
KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
[close]

Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
[close]

More on tag:
KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
[close]

Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

[close]

More on tag:
KCOM: Chief of Mission
[close]

Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
[close]

More on tag:
KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
[close]

Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

[close]

More on tag:
KCRM: Criminal Activity
[close]

Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
[close]

More on tag:
KDEM: Democratization
[close]

Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
[close]

More on tag:
KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
[close]

Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
[close]

More on tag:
KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
[close]

Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
[close]

More on tag:
KGHG: Global Climate Change
[close]

Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
[close]

More on tag:
KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
[close]

Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
[close]

More on tag:
KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
[close]

Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
[close]

More on tag:
KHLS: Homeland Security
[close]

Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

[close]

More on tag:
KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
[close]

Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
[close]

More on tag:
KIRF: International Religious Freedom
[close]

Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
[close]

More on tag:
KISL: Islamic Issues
[close]

Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
[close]

More on tag:
KJUS: Administration of Justice
[close]

Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
[close]

More on tag:
KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
[close]

Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
[close]

More on tag:
KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
[close]

Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
[close]

More on tag:
KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
[close]

Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
[close]

More on tag:
KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
[close]

Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
[close]

More on tag:
KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
[close]

Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
[close]

More on tag:
KPAO: Public Affairs Office
[close]

Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
[close]

More on tag:
KPIN: Political Internationals
[close]

Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
[close]

More on tag:
KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
[close]

Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
[close]

More on tag:
KPWR: Power Support Program
[close]

Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
[close]

More on tag:
KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
[close]

Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

[close]

More on tag:
KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
[close]

Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
[close]

More on tag:
KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
[close]

Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
[close]

More on tag:
KSUM: Summit Meetings
[close]

Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
[close]

More on tag:
KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
[close]

Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
[close]

More on tag:
KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
[close]

Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
[close]

More on tag:
KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
[close]

Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
[close]

More on tag:
KUNR: UN Reform
[close]

Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
[close]

More on tag:
KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
[close]

Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
[close]

More on tag:
KWMN: Women Issues
[close]

Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
[close]

More on tag:
MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
[close]

More on tag:
MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
[close]

More on tag:
MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
[close]

Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
[close]

More on tag:
MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
[close]

More on tag:
MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
[close]

More on tag:
ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
[close]

Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
[close]

More on tag:
OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
[close]

EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
[close]

More on tag:
OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
[close]

Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
[close]

More on tag:
OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
[close]

Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
[close]

More on tag:
OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
[close]

Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
[close]

More on tag:
OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
[close]

Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
[close]

More on tag:
OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
[close]

More on tag:
OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
[close]

More on tag:
OTRA TRAVEL
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
[close]

More on tag:
OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
[close]

More on tag:
PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
[close]

More on tag:
PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
[close]

Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
[close]

More on tag:
PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
[close]

More on tag:
PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
[close]

More on tag:
PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
[close]

Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
[close]

More on tag:
PINR INTELLIGENCE
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
[close]

More on tag:
PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
[close]

More on tag:
PREF REFUGEES
[close]

Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
[close]

More on tag:
PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
[close]

Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
[close]

More on tag:
PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
[close]

More on tag:
PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
[close]

Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
[close]

More on tag:
SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
[close]

More on tag:
SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
[close]

More on tag:
SMIG MIGRATION
[close]

Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
[close]

More on tag:
SNAR NARCOTICS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
[close]

More on tag:
SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
[close]

More on tag:
TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
[close]

More on tag:
TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
[close]

More on tag:
TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
[close]

Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
[close]

More on tag:
TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
[close]
By tags:
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA


Get the how-to to understand how to read a cable


Pages 1 2
1'000 rows / 1'097 results
IdentifierSubjectDateOfficeClassificationTags
02AMMAN2251PROPOSED MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE GREETED WITH
[...] (C) A survey of political contacts suggests a general lack of enthusiasm over the recent Quartet proposal to stage a Middle East conference in the next few weeks. The GOJ has endorsed the proposal with some caveats. While several contacts condemned outright the idea of a conference, a few ma [...]
2002-05-07 14:48:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL IS JO
02AMMAN2334EAST BANK-WEST BANK DIVIDE GROWS AS INTIFADA
[...] (C) Over the past few weeks the Israeli offensive in the West Bank has highlighted a trend we have seen growing as the Intifada has intensified--the cleavage between Palestinian Jordanians (West Bankers) and Transjordanians (East Bankers). Residual mistrust left over from the 1970 PLO attem [...]
2002-05-12 14:10:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL PGOV IS JO
02AMMAN3408JORDANIAN PALESTINIANS NOTCH UP CRITICISM OF ARAFAT
[...] (C) While Jordanian Palestinians have long grumbled about Arafat, two prominent Jordanian Palestinian leaders recently expressed to us a new level of criticism of the PA President. Some Palestinian Jordanians are even calling into question Arafat's true nationality in another round of anti-Ara [...]
2002-06-24 13:17:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL IS JO
02AMMAN3441LUKE-WARM TO HOSTILE REACTION TO PRESIDENT'S
[...] (C) A survey of Embassy contacts suggests that President Bush's June 24 speech received mixed reviews here. More hard-line Palestinian Jordanians charged that the U.S. was in "cahoots" with the Israelis to destroy the Palestinian resistance, and expressed resentment about "U.S. interference" [...]
2002-06-25 14:24:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL IS JO
02AMMAN5595JORDANIANS CRITICAL OF U.S. AND ARAB POSITIONS ON
[...] (C) When Poloff recently queried a number of Jordanian contacts about the Muqatta siege, most had surprisingly little sympathy for Arafat, but quite a bit of antipathy for U.S. "acquiescence" in the Israeli actions and Arab leaders' lethargic response to the situation. End Summary. ------- [...]
2002-09-30 05:51:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKPAL PREL PGOV IS JO
02AMMAN6692DESPITE APATHY AND MILD APPREHENSION, JORDANIANS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Jordanian reaction to the recently launched "Jordan First" initiative (reftel) has been characterized primarily by apathy and mild apprehension. Some welcome the campaign, while others are skeptical for various reasons, including the fear that "Jordan First" could exacerbate dom [...]
2002-11-13 18:22:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM JO
02COLOMBO1452SRI LANKA: FIRST HALF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
[...] Summary: After a year of declining indicators in 2001, growth in the Sri Lankan economy turned positive in the first half of 2002. Central Bank figures show that GDP expanded by 0.1 percent in the first quarter, far off the government's target of 3.7 percent growth for 2002. Available data [...]
2002-08-08 05:46:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV ETRD PGOV CE ECONOMICS
02COLOMBO1610Telecommunication reforms and opportunities in Sri
[...] Summary: Sri Lanka plans extensive reforms in the telecommunications sector with the aim of developing a technology-neutral, open and convergent telecommunications market. One of the most significant developments will be the opening of international voice services. Other planned reforms inc [...]
2002-09-03 09:54:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BEXP ECPS ECON EINV ETRD CE ECONOMICS
02KUWAIT5261(C) TALABANI PLEASED WITH KUWAITI RECEPTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Jalal Talabani, leader of the Iraqi Kurdish PUK, told Ambassador December 3 he had been well received by the GOK, which promised to engage with other Iraqi opposition groups as well, and to facilitate contacts with other Gulf states. Kuwait's National Assembly had proposed to ho [...]
2002-12-04 15:26:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM IZ KU
03ABUDHABI2170 ADNAN PACHACHI IS BAGHDAD BOUND
[...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) Former Iraqi foreign minister Adnan Pachachi contacted the Ambassador over the local weekend with the news that he will be flying into Baghdad on Tuesday, May 6 aboard a UAE Air Force C-130 with a small grou [...]
2003-05-05 07:23:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2599 PACHACHI PRAISES U.S. ROLE IN IRAQ;
[...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid, in a 5/31 meeting with the Ambassador (other topics covered septel),provided a brief readout on an earlier meeting between former Iraqi Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi and UAE [...]
2003-06-02 10:27:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER IR IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3208ABU DHABI'S NEXUS OF ECONOMIC POWER, PART II: THE
[...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (C) This is the second cable in a series that focuses on the informal, and less visible, power structure of Abu Dhabi emirate and -- through the power of the purse st [...]
2003-07-09 13:32:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN EINV EPET PINS PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3496 UAE QUIETLY SUPPORTS THE IRAQ GOVERNING COUNCIL
[...] (U) Classified by A/DCM Katherine Van De Vate for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) The Ambassador met with both Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Minister Of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan to urge that the UAEG support the Iraq Governing Council. B [...]
2003-07-28 12:55:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC KPAO IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3828ZAYED CENTER WEB SITE CLOSED
[...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires, a.i., Richard Albright, for Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) The Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up (ZCCF) Web site has been closed, the first tangible, public action by the UAEG against the Center. "This Site has been Stopped," reads the messag [...]
2003-08-20 11:28:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3994 BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD FACE: AL ARABIYA CHANGES ITS
[...] (C) Summary: During an August 9th broadcast, Arabic Satellite News Channel al Arabiya aired videos of militant organizations urging Iraqis and Arabs to target "Occupation" forces. Again on August 28th, the station broadcast footage of similarly hooded men threatening to kill Iraqi Governing Co [...]
2003-09-02 12:37:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL KMDR ECON PGOV ZP
03ABUDHABI5132 UAEG, Iraqi expats, welcome visiting Iraq
[...] (U) The UAE leadership once again put out the welcome mat for members of the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) during their visit to Abu Dhabi last week. President Shaykh Zayed told the delegation November 26 that the UAE would always support the Iraqi people and called on Iraqis to work together [...]
2003-12-01 12:23:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALKPAO PGOV PREL IZ TC
03ADANA122 SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY,
[...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for April 26-27, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. Hurriyet: As a r [...]
2003-04-29 08:47:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA221 SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY,
[...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for August 21, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. Bolge / An unknown [...]
2003-08-21 16:37:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA25 THE VIEW FROM SIRNAK PROVINCE:
[...] (SBU) Summary: In southeastern Turkey's Sirnak province, one of two bordering Iraq, the preoccupation of government officials, NGOs, and businessmen is less about war than about war's aftermath. The populace is desperate to revive border trade and commerce. Kurdish interlocutors worry that [...]
2003-01-28 17:36:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV TU SY IZ ADANA
03AMMAN1720PALESTINIANS AND PALESTINIAN-JORDANIANS PRAISE
[...] (C) During a series of discussions in the days before the start of war in Iraq, prominent Palestinian-Jordanians and Palestinians resident in Jordan told A/DCM that the appointment of Abu Mazen as Palestinian Prime Minister should provide a big boost to good government in the PNA. However, [...]
2003-03-22 15:52:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL PGOV IS IZ JO
03AMMAN1845VISAS ADVISORY OPINIONS: SPECIAL IMMIGRANT VISA FOR
[...] I SUBMIT FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION A NOMINATION FOR A SPECIAL IMMIGRANT VISA (SIV) FOR SENIOR CULTURAL SPECIALIST NADIA AL ALAMI AND HER FAMILY. I CONCUR WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH THE UNANIMOUS RECOMMENDATION FROM EMBASSY AMMAN'S SIV PRE- SCREENING PANEL THAT NADIA AL ALAMI DESERVES THIS STATUS IN TH [...]
2003-03-27 08:36:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS JO
03AMMAN3512JORDAN'S ENERGY MINISTER CONFIRMS CONTINUATION OF
[...] (sbu) Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Mohammed Batayneh confirmed on June 12 press reports that the GOJ had reached agreement with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE on a 3-month extension to the deal reached prior to the war to supply Jordan with concessional oil. Batayneh said the [...]
2003-06-15 06:33:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ETRD PREL KU SA JO TC
03AMMAN5497JORDAN TO WORK WITH, BUT NOT "RECOGNIZE," IRAQI
[...] (C) Speaking to a visiting delegation of Iraqi Governing Council members August 25, PM Abul Ragheb and FonMin Muasher pledged to work with the GC, but said formal recognition would be premature. Both urged the GC to work to expand ties with Iraq's neighbors, and said they hoped the GC was th [...]
2003-08-28 15:08:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL EAID IZ JO
03AMMAN5698BAGHDAD BASED IRAQIS SHARE THEIR PERSONAL
[...] (C) PolOff discussed with two Baghdad based Iraqis what their lives in Iraq are like post-Saddam, Iraqi expectations vs. current realities, the lack of security and basic services, and observations on how the U.S. can ensure stability, democracy and prosperity in Iraq. Among their chief concer [...]
2003-09-07 16:06:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI JO
03AMMAN6820American Corners In The Middle East
[...] Post requests 4 (four) American Corners collections and supporting equipment to be hosted at the institutions listed individually below. Post estimates the cost of each Corner at approximately USD 102,000 based on module costs provided by IRO and current procurement costs of equipment and su [...]
2003-10-26 12:10:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDKIRC KPAO OIIP
03AMMAN7178JORDAN: TRANSFER OF IRAQI ASSETS TO DFI
[...] (C) In follow-up to his October 29 conversation with King Abdullah (ref),the Ambassador raised the urgent need for Jordan to transfer frozen Iraqi assets to the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) by telephone with Prime Minister Fayez on November 2 and in November 3 meetings with Deputy Prime [...]
2003-11-03 15:14:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC PTER JO IZ
03AMMAN7594AQABA CROSSING SHOOTING, RIYADH AND ISTANBUL
[...] (C) In the aftermath of the shooting of foreign tourists at the southern Jordanian-Israeli border and bombings in Riyadh and Istanbul, Jordan is in a state of heightened alert as the country prepares for the week-long holiday marking the end of Ramadan. Security authorities believe the Jorda [...]
2003-11-22 17:47:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC PTER JO
03AMMAN7804JORDANIAN ELITE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT NEW GOVERNMENT,
[...] (SBU) A recent opinion poll showed that, despite falling confidence in government on the part of "ordinary" citizens, "opinion leaders" have higher hopes for the success of the new government's reform agenda. Embassy sources split along similar lines, with members of the well-educated elite m [...]
2003-12-02 09:43:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI KDEM JO
03AMMAN8122JORDANIAN OPPOSITION TO GENEVA ACCORD GEARS UP IN
[...] (C) Breaking weeks of relative silence on the issue, Jordanian officials, led by King Abdullah, are lauding the unofficial Geneva Accord as a means to enhance dialogue and complement efforts to end the current peace process stalemate -- while reiterating their support for the roadmap. The o [...]
2003-12-11 18:26:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL KISL IS JO
03AMMAN8405SUNNI ROYALIST IRAQI DISCUSSES SUNNI SENTIMENT
[...] (C) An Iraqi Sunni contact from the al-Darraji tribe in Samarra and advisor to the Royal Democratic Coalition party discussed with PolOff his views on Iraq and the Samarra region. Echoing a common theme, he claimed that most Iraqi Sunnis believe that the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) [...]
2003-12-22 19:07:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ JO
03ANKARA1072NORTHERN IRAQ: TURKS, KDP, PUK AND ITF HOLD
[...] (S/NF) TGS and Turkish MFA reps discussed in general terms with KDP, PUK and ITF reps Turkish plans and intentions to coordinate deployment in northern Iraq with the Iraqi Kurdish and Turcoman parties at a meeting in Silopi, on the Turkish-Iraqi border Feb. 17. The Iraqi Kurds told the Turks [...]
2003-02-18 13:45:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR MOPS PREF PHUM TU IZ UNSC
03ANKARA5546TURKISH DELEGATION FROM IRAQ 9/04: ASSISTANCE
[...] (U) Baghdad minimize considered. 2. (C) This is an action request. See para 4. 3. (C) Embassy received the following dip note regarding the GOT delegation planning to return from Iraq September 4. Begin Text: OAGY-II/273 dated September 2, 2003. The Ministry of Foreign Affa [...]
2003-09-03 13:25:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS TU IZ PTER ASEC
03KUWAIT3139KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION JULY 14: APPOINTMENT OF
[...] News Stories: All newspapers lead with news of the appointment of former Acting Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad as the new Prime Minister of Kuwait. All newspapers report that Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad sent a letter to the Crown Prince and former Prime Minister, Sheikh Saad, "commending hi [...]
2003-07-14 14:55:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDKU KDMR
03KUWAIT3536(C) POLITICAL ISLAM WORKING GROUP: KUWAIT SNAPSHOT
[...] (C) This cable responds to reftel request for "brief thumbnail descriptions" of Kuwait's "most influential or prominent Islamist political parties, NGO's, individuals or university campus activist groups." Formal political parties are not permitted in Kuwait, but de facto parties exist, and [...]
2003-08-04 10:23:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PHUM PGOV KU
03KUWAIT3774KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, AUGUST 14-17: KUWAITI FORCES
[...] SUMMARY: One newspaper reports official denials that Kuwait will send peacekeeping forces to Iraq, contradicting a local press report of August 16 that Kuwait, Qatar and UAE would contribute forces to the coalition effort. One commentator believes that Arab unity is dead as a result of the w [...]
2003-08-19 03:53:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDKU KDMR
03KUWAIT4078(U) IRANIAN FM VISITS KUWAIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi met with PM Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah and FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah, during a one-day visit to Kuwait on September 1. According to MFA, the visit was previously planned and not prompted by Kuwaiti PM Shaykh Saba [...]
2003-09-04 18:35:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL EPET KU IR IZ KNPT IAEA
03KUWAIT4141BIO DATA ON DR. ADNAN SHIHAB-ELDIN, OPEC
[...] (U) Bio Data on Dr. Adnan Shihab-ElDin in reference to Kuwait 04078 para. 4. 2. (U) Name: Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin Director, Research Division, OPEC Secretariat, Vienna, Austria Present Position: 8/2001 - present Date of Birth: 1 November 1943 Citizenship: Kuwaiti Marital Status [...]
2003-09-07 12:51:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEPET IR IZ KU PREL IAEA KNPT
03KUWAIT486KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, 30 JANUARY-5 FEBRUARY:
[...] Summary: For the second time this week, Kuwaiti Islamic activist Mohamed al-Mulaifi has offered a carefully worded apologia for al-Qaeda's terrorist operations based on his exegesis of Quranic texts. Asserting that the Prophet Mohammed abided by a truce with the city of Mecca while continuing [...]
2003-02-06 04:57:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDKU KDMR
03KUWAIT5381KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, NOVEMBER 20-23: ISTANBUL
[...] SUMMARY: All media report condemnation by Kuwait's Council of Ministers of the November 20 bombings in Istanbul, although editorial commentary has not yet caught up with the event during this late-Ramadan period in Kuwait. In regard to the November 15 attack against a synagogue in Turkey, one [...]
2003-11-24 13:59:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KU KDMR
03KUWAIT858(C) OIL FOR JORDAN: GOK AWAITS SPECIFIC REQUEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Shaykh Sabah told the Ambassador March 10 that Kuwait still awaits a specific request for support from Jordan (whose FM Muasher was due here later in the day). He spoke ambiguously about whether Kuwait's $100 million deposit in the Jordanian Central Bank is jus [...]
2003-03-11 13:01:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS EAID JO IZ KU
03SANAA1150YEMEN'S NEW GOVERNMENT: NEW BLOOD, MODEST REFORM,
[...] (C): Begin Summary: ROYG Prime Minister Ba Jammal's new Cabinet (complete list para 12) introduces several fresh faces, but incumbents retain the major ministries and all Ministers are members of the General People's Congress (GPC). At a glance: - By relative population, the South (10 Ministe [...]
2003-05-21 04:21:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR YE DOMESTIC POLITICS
03SANAA1236YEMEN: FOLLOW UP ON PRESIDENT'S PROPOSED MIDDLE
[...] Embassy Sanaa warmly endorses the proposed Middle East Regional Justice Forum. While the ROYG has conducted a judicial reform project since 1997 with donor support from several countries, the results have been mixed and more work needs to be done. Yemeni reform-minded judges and justice off [...]
2003-06-03 13:09:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDKJUS PHUM PREL YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
03SANAA1349PROPOSED YEMENI PARTICIPANTS FOR PRESIDENT'S
[...] (U) Per ref A, following are Embassy Sanaa's revised suggestions of both government and private sector participants for the MidEast Regional Justice Forum: Dr. Adnan Omar al-Jafri Minister of Justice Newly-appointed to the cabinet (May 2003),professor of international law at Aden Univers [...]
2003-06-11 14:32:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDKJUS PHUM PREL DEMOCRATIC REFORM
03SANAA2134YEMENI JUSTICE MINISTER PLANS FOR REFORM
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Charge, accompanied by pol/econoff, called on newly-appointed Minister of Justice Dr. Adnan Omar al-Jafri on August 24 to discuss judicial reform efforts in Yemen. The Minister described his methodology for approaching the reform he admits is sorely needed, highlig [...]
2003-08-25 05:57:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALKJUS PHUM PGOV PINR YM
03SANAA2681 ROYG JUSTICE MINISTER ON BAHRAIN CONFERENCE;
[...] (U) Ambassador accompanied by Pol/Econ Deputy (notetaker) called on Minister of Justice Adnan al-Jafri to discuss the September Arab Judicial Forum conference and progress in reforming the Yemeni justice system on November 5. After detailing serious problems with the rule of law in Yemen, t [...]
2003-11-09 14:21:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KJUS PGOV YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04ABUDHABI1344UAE OFFICIALS QUERY DEPUTY SECRETARY ARMITAGE ON
[...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary: During his visit to Abu Dhabi April 20-21, Deputy Secretary Armitage held wide-ranging discussions in separate meetings with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Deputy Crown Prince [...]
2004-04-28 05:39:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALOVIP PGOV PREL ECON TC
04ABUDHABI1781 UAE - Reactions to POTUS War College Speech,
[...] (C) Summary: The President's War College speech has elicited no public reaction from the UAE leadership, and only a tepid response from lower-level government interlocutors. For Iraqi expatriates, however, it is a different story. They are still dissecting the War College speech a week after [...]
2004-05-31 12:55:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ TC
04ABUDHABI1825 UAE - Supporting the Interim Iraqi Government
[...] (U) The UAE warmly welcomed the announcement of the Interim Iraqi Government and sent congratulatory cables to Iraq's new president Shaykh Ghazi Al-Yawar and to UN Representative to Iraq Lakhdar Brahimi on June 1. According to the UAE's official press agency, President Shaykh Zayed's wished Al [...]
2004-06-02 12:36:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ TC
04ABUDHABI277Reassuring Gulf governments of U.S.
[...] (S) On January 26 the Ambassador delivered ref A talking points to Deputy Prime Minister and de facto Foreign Minister Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan (HbZ) who said the UAEG was comfortable with the U.S. approach for a sovereign and unified Iraq. HbZ also underscored the very important rol [...]
2004-01-27 13:16:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL IZ TC
04ABUDHABI2864UAE ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Iraqi Vice President Dr. Ebrahim Al Jaafari discussed developments in Iraq and UAE assistance with Abu Dhabi Deputy Crown Prince and UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Shaykh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) on August 20 in Abu Dhabi. On August 21, Al Jaafari visited the headquart [...]
2004-08-23 13:43:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MARR TC
04ABUDHABI3983U.S. delegation pays condolences to UAE rulers
[...] (U) On November 5, an official USG delegation led by Deputy Secretary Armitage paid condolences to UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the death of his father Sheikh Zayed. Most of Sheikh Zayed's other 18 sons, including Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Sultan, Abu Dhabi Crown Pri [...]
2004-11-08 07:10:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PINR OVIP TC
04ABUDHABI905CENTCOM COMMANDER DISCUSSES IRAQ, SYRIA,
[...] (S/NF) Summary: CENTCOM Commander General John Abizaid on March 17 discussed Iraq's transfer of sovereignty and potential future leadership, Pakistan's military operations against Al Qaida along the Afghan border, terrorism financing, U.S. approaches to Syria, with Abu Dhabi Deputy Crown Pri [...]
2004-03-29 12:45:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER AF SY IZ PK TC
04ADANA169SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 21, 2004
[...] VAKIT / BOLGE / EKSPRES / TURKIYE: AKP Provincial Chairpersons and AKP Chairpersons of Administrative Districts paid a visit to Fevzi Kilic, General Director of CUKOBIRLIK (Cooperative Organization for Agricultural Product Sales in Cukurova),to get information about the activities of CU [...]
2004-12-22 14:59:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
04AMMAN10122Jordan Inactive on LMO's
[...] Ministry of Agriculture Assistant Secretary General for Plant Health Mr. Adnan Abdul Noor told ESTH Foreign Service National on December 20 that Jordan has not yet taken a position or enacted regulations on Living Modified Organisms (LMO's) and are "observers" on LMO policy. Jordan is a part [...]
2004-12-22 15:04:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD EAGR TBIO JO
04AMMAN203JORDAN TRANSFERS $100 MILLION TO DFI
[...] (SBU) Minister of Finance Muhammad Abu Hammour confirmed to the Ambassador January 8 that he had that day transferred $100 million from Iraqi accounts frozen in Jordan to the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This brings the total transferred t [...]
2004-01-08 18:39:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC IZ JO
04AMMAN3348JORDANIAN PARLIAMENT ASKS KING TO CALL SPECIAL
[...] (U) The Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament delivered a petition April 27 to the Prime Minister requesting an extraordinary session to debate 88 of the remaining provisional laws approved by the GOJ during Parliament's almost two-year absence. The petition was signed by 71 of the 110 me [...]
2004-05-03 13:19:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL JO
04AMMAN3406IRAQ PRISON ABUSE CHARGES SHAKE JORDANIAN VIEW OF
[...] (C) Shocked and consumed by heavy media coverage of the Iraqi prison abuse scandal, Jordanians tell us that the resulting damage to America's image in the region may be "irreversible." The bombardment of images of naked Iraqi men forced into humiliating sexual positions, as American personn [...]
2004-05-04 17:00:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL ASEC PTER KISL IZ JO
04AMMAN3822JORDAN MFA REQUESTS INFORMATION ON 19 JORDANIANS
[...] (U) This is an action request for CPA, CENTCOM, and CJTF-7. See para 5 below. ----------------------------- JORDANIANS IN CUSTODY IN IRAQ ----------------------------- 2. (C) There have been persistent reports of the detention of Jordanian citizens in Iraq. Members of the Jordanian Pa [...]
2004-05-17 06:10:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS IZ US JO
04AMMAN4485DEMARCHE TO JORDAN ON SUPPORTING THE IIG AND
[...] (C) PolCouns and PolOff covered ref A and B points on the revised draft text of the new UNSCR on Iraq and supporting the Iraq Interim Government (IIG) June 2 with Ali Al-Ayed, Director of the Foreign Minister's Private Office. Al-Ayed said that the GOJ was pleased with the selection of Ghazi A [...]
2004-06-03 09:08:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ JO
04AMMAN5109JORDANIAN-PALESTINIANS ON EDGE AS CONFLICT ROILS
[...] (C) The festering Palestinian-Israeli conflict has rekindled sensitivity among some Jordanians of Palestinian origin about their position in Jordanian society, highlighting their strained relationship with the dominant (but minority) East Bank Jordanian community. It also has given rise rec [...]
2004-06-23 10:53:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL KPAL IS JO
04AMMAN6736PALESTINIAN-JORDANIAN LEADERS CRITIQUE THE KING
[...] (C) Summary. Prominent Palestinian critics of the regime -- malcontents who nonetheless voice views held more widely -- recently shared with us their analysis of King Abdullah,s standing. They attacked his political reforms as lacking in substance, and therefore uninspiring to the public an [...]
2004-08-10 15:02:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKPAL PGOV JO
04AMMAN7404GOJ REFORMERS TOUT PROGRESS DURING MEETINGS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Key GOJ reformers presented a positive picture to S/P Director Mitchell Reiss of Jordan's pioneering progress to implement key economic, political and social reforms, but acknowledged that significant obstacles remain. Several activists, including a former Prime Minister, are no [...]
2004-09-07 14:37:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL IZ JO
04AMMAN8793THE JORDAN-ISRAEL PEACE TREATY: TEN YEARS LATER
[...] (C) At the ten year mark, the Jordan-Israel peace treaty remains a cornerstone for Jordan's security and economic strategy. Despite a rocky political relationship, intelligence and military relations between Jordan and Israel are solid. Furthermore, the treaty provided the breakthrough whic [...]
2004-10-25 19:18:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL IS JO
04AMMAN9672PM ALLAWI'S AMMAN MEETINGS WITH IRAQI
[...] (S) On December 1 and 2 Iraqi PM Allawi and DPM Barham Saleh held meetings in Amman with Iraqi Sunni figures, most from Al-Anbar province, ranging from IIG-allied brothers Amer and Sheikh Majid ali Suleimein Dulaim, to prominent Sunni Arab rejectionists. The latter category included the norm [...]
2004-12-06 14:43:00Embassy AmmanSECRETIZ JO PINR PREL
04ANKARA5141GOT'S NON-MUSLIM PROPERTY REFORMS FALL SHORT
[...] (C) Summary: EU observers and representatives of Turkey's non-Muslim communities criticize as inadequate GOT reforms designed to allow non-Muslim foundations to acquire property. While the GOT has approved more than 700 applications to acquire legal ownership of properties already under the d [...]
2004-09-13 14:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA5183ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-14 15:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04COLOMBO809 Peace process, economic issues highlighted
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs Christina B. Rocca visited Sri Lanka, May 13-16. Highlights of the visit included meetings with President Kumaratunga, Prime Minister Rajapakse, Opposition Leader (and former PM) Wickremesinghe, business leaders, and Tamil politicians. [...]
2004-05-18 10:22:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CE NO LTTE ECONOMICS
04ISTANBUL1279GREEK, ARMENIAN PROPERTY WOES PROMPT COMPARISON
[...] (sbu) Summary: Turkey's Istanbul-based minority religious communities report that while recent legislation has enabled them to "legalize" ownership of numerous properties already under their control, the new law is inadequate in that it does not permit the community foundations (mostly Greek O [...]
2004-08-16 09:22:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV TU
04ISTANBUL298ISTANBUL COURT HANDS DOWN INDICTMENTS IN BOMBING
[...] (U) Summary: Prosecutors at Istanbul's State Security Court on February 25 formally indicted 69 alleged conspirators in November's 4 terrorist attacks. Approximately 50 of the accused are now in custody. However, a number of key figures, including the alleged leader of the Turkish al-Qaida c [...]
2004-02-26 13:39:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC TU
04ISTANBUL868RELIGIOUS MINORITIES STILL FACE DIFFICULTIES IN
[...] (U) Summary: Prime Ministry human rights Director Vahit Bicak offered an upbeat assessment of Turkey's progress in addressing religious minority foundations' legal issues at a May 15 NGO-organized symposium. Nonetheless, religious minority foundations stressed that they still face serious [...]
2004-06-03 08:59:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV TU PHUM
04JAKARTA5072POLITICAL INTRIGUE IMPERILS BAPETEN'S CHAIRMAN JOB
[...] (C) Summary: Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Control Board (BAPETEN) Dr. Djaloeis (please protect) confided to us 25 July that political intrigue involving one of his deputies and the State Minister of Research and Technology Hatta Rajasa, and a previously unknown radical Islamic group called T [...]
2004-05-28 12:09:00Embassy JakartaSECRETTRGY AORC KNNP KTIA IAEA ENRG PREL
04KUWAIT3148MEDIA REACTION KUWAIT SEPTEMBER 10-13: 9/11,
[...] SUMMARY: The anniversary of 9/11, arriving just after an extended crackdown here on Islamists allegedly planning terror operations in Kuwait and Iraq, has apparently forced many commentators to take an uncharacteristic look within. Many decry the lack of progress the Arab World has made as th [...]
2004-09-14 11:48:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KU KDMR
04KUWAIT3320FAILAKA FOUR FREE ON BAIL
[...] (U) News dailies reported September 21 that four of the suspects allegedly involved in the October 8, 2002 Failaka Island attack, Adnan Asad Al-Kandari, Abdullah Mohammed Al-Kandari, Yousef Ahmed Al-Kandari, and Ghazi Faisal Al-Tarrah, were released on KD 200 bail (approximately USD 670) but r [...]
2004-09-22 13:35:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KISL KU
04KUWAIT791KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION MAR 6-8: STATE DEPARTMENT
[...] SUMMARY: Several Kuwaiti editorialists blame Mossad for "masterminding" the recent explosions in Karbala and Baghdad, while a Shiite professor at the University of Kuwait says the attacks are the fruit of US policies of "pure evil" foisted on the Arab world by America--"truly the Great Satan. [...]
2004-03-09 06:26:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KU KDMR
04MADRID4708 VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION
[...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS "EL PAIS" OF DEC. 10, 2004 REPORTED THAT THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS WERE ARRESTED BY THE SPANISH POLICE ON DEC. 8, 2004, IN THE SPANISH- [...]
2004-12-14 16:41:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL WAKI
04MADRID4748VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION
[...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. BETWEEN 18 AND 19 NOVEMBER 2004, THE SPANISH POLICE RE-DETAINED AL-JAZIRAH JOURNALIST TAYSIR ALOUNI KATE AND NINE OF HIS ASSOCIATES IN SPAIN AS SUSPECTED I [...]
2004-12-17 16:41:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04TEGUCIGALPA1467HONDURAN SECURITY MINISTER ALLEGES SENIOR AL-QAIDA
[...] (S) Summary: On June 29, Honduran Minister of Public Security (MOPS) Oscar Alvarez told the Honduran press senior Saudi Al-Qaida operative, Adnan Gulshair El-Shukrijumah, had been spotted in Honduras but has since left the country. MOPS Alvarez alleged that El-Shukrijumah was seen in an intern [...]
2004-07-01 00:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPTER ASEC KVPR PINR KJUS KCRM PGOV CVIS HO
04TELAVIV1336ISRAEL'S ECONOMIC POLICIES GET HIGH MARKS AT THE
[...] (C) Summary. The U.S. delegation to the 2004 U.S.-Israel Joint Economic Development Group meeting in Jerusalem (JEDG),led by Under Secretary Larson and Treasury Under Secretary Taylor, expressed satisfaction with the steps the Government of Israel has taken to implement the government's ec [...]
2004-03-04 09:11:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON ETRD BEXP IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAEL RELATIONS
04TELAVIV1362WERTHEIMER APPARENTLY GIVING UP ON "MARSHALL PLAN"
[...] (SBU) Israeli industrialist Stef Wertheimer told visiting NSC Director Adnan Kifayat and Embassy Econoff on Feb. 24 that he will no longer seek USG financial assistance for his "New Marshall Plan" for the Middle East. Using the phrase "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't force him to [...]
2004-03-04 14:43:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ETRD PREL KWBG TU JO IS GOI EXTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAEL RELATIONS
04TELAVIV2040THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND APRIL 2, 2004 -- (1400
[...] (SBU) Summary: One Palestinian was killed April 2 in a heavy exchange of fire that erupted between IDF soldiers and Palestinian militants during an IDF incursion into the al-Salaam area of the Rafah refugee camp. On April 1, UNRWA said in a press release that it was suspending delivery into [...]
2004-04-02 14:00:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER ASEC PHUM CASC KPAL IS GZ
05ABUDHABI2497POST VIEWS ON OUTREACH TO IRAQIS IN UAE
[...] (C) Summary: The Embassy has considered ways to accelerate engagement with Iraq's Sunni Arab community (ref A),and believes that there could be a role for the UAEG in using its good offices to bring together U.S. and ITG officials with influential Sunni leaders. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Moh [...]
2005-06-06 04:43:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM IZ TC
05ABUDHABI4200MINSTATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS MEETS AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad visited Abu Dhabi October 4 to urge Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) and the UAE to support the Iraqi political process. HbZ agreed that the UAEG would encourage Dubai-based Iraqi Su [...]
2005-10-04 11:13:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR IZ QA TC
05ABUDHABI4261MINSTATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOSTING PROMINENT IRAQIS
[...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) is making good on his October 2 promise to U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad to urge prominent Iraqi Sunni Arabs to engage positively on the draft constitution. The former leader of the Sunni Waqf (E [...]
2005-10-10 13:06:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IZ TC
05ABUDHABI4284 MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI CONSTITUTION/ARAB LEAGUE
[...] SUMMARY: UAE'S SEMI-OFFICIAL DAILY "AL-ITTIHAD" REPORTED THAT IRAQI SUNNIS ARE OPPOSED TO THE NEWLY-DRAFTED CONSTITUTION AND INTEND TO VOTE NO TO THE REFERENDUM ON OCTOBER 15. EDITORIALS WELCOME THE ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION'S UPCOMING VISIT TO BAGHDAD, DESCRIBING IT AS AN OVERDUE VISIT THAT REP [...]
2005-10-11 14:12:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
05ABUDHABI4305IRAQ'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM -- VIEWS FROM UAE
[...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) confirmed to Charge October 11 that he had positive meetings with Iraqi parliament speaker Hajim al-Hassani, Sunni Waqf (Endowment) leader Ahmed al-Ghaffour al-Samarrai, and former Sunni Waqf lead [...]
2005-10-12 14:31:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ TC
05ABUDHABI4308MBZ MEETING WITH SENIOR ADVISOR ON IRAQ JEFFREY
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) October 8, Senior Adviser on Iraq Ambassador Jeffrey and an interagency team received a pledge of further UAEG assistance in reaching out to Sunni Arab Iraqis and other moderates to encourage them to play a p [...]
2005-10-15 07:34:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER EFIN IZ IR SY SA TC
05ABUDHABI4815AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD VISITS ABU DHABI
[...] (C) Summary: On November 23, Ambassador Khalilzad met with Deputy Prime Minister/MinState for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ). They discussed the role Dubai-based Iraqi cleric Ahmed Al Kubaysi might play in encouraging greater Sunni Arab participation in Iraq's political process [...]
2005-11-27 09:07:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL PINR PTER IR IZ SA AE
05ABUDHABI767GENERAL ABIZAID VISITS ABU DHABI
[...] (S) Summary: CENTCOM Commander Gen. Abizaid met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) February 14 to discuss Iraq,s security situation in the wake of the January 30 elections. They also discussed othe [...]
2005-02-20 02:24:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL PTER MCAP IZ IR SA SY LE AF TC
05ADANA96SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 03, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-05 13:57:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05AMMAN1357IRAQI POLITICAL FIGURES SEEK COMMON GROUND ON
[...] (C) A two-day, U.S. NGO-sponsored "Iraq Constitution Roundtable" was held at an Amman-area hotel on February 14-15. Twenty-one Iraqis representing most strands of Iraqi political opinion attended the conference, which focused almost entirely on discussion of modalities for drafting Iraq's ne [...]
2005-02-17 18:07:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID PINR IZ JO
05AMMAN1358IRAQI POLITICAL FIGURES SEEK COMMON GROUND ON
[...] (C) A two-day, U.S. NGO-sponsored "Iraq Constitution Roundtable" was held at an Amman-area hotel on February 14-15. Approximately twenty Iraqis including prominent behind-the scenes political figures and representing most strands of Iraqi political opinion attended the conference, which focu [...]
2005-02-18 11:02:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID IZ
05AMMAN2819NEW PRIME MINISTER NAMED
[...] (C) The government of Prime Minister Faisal al-Fayez tendered its resignation April 5, and King Abdullah named Dr. Adnan Badran as the new PM to lead a reshuffled cabinet. This development is in line with the King's earlier discussion with Charge on a government change (ref B) and comes on th [...]
2005-04-05 14:05:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV JO PBIO
05AMMAN2826DETAILS ON JORDAN'S NEW REFORMIST GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary. Jordan's King has selected a committed reformist and respected figure, but a bit of a dark horse, as the next prime minister. Marwan al-Muasher gave the cabinet details to Charge. These include his taking the highly influential post of Royal Court Minister, the removal of the [...]
2005-04-05 15:26:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV JO
05AMMAN2851KING CHARGES NEW PM WITH ACCELERATING REFORMS
[...] (C) King Abdullah has publicly instructed new PM Adnan Badran to form a government that will focus on speeding up the pace of reform, while cultivating good relations with Arab states. Initial reaction on Badran's appointment from contacts has varied, although all recognized his integrity an [...]
2005-04-06 16:10:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KMPI ECON JO
05AMMAN2890KING ABDULLAH SWEARS IN NEW CABINET
[...] (U) King Abdullah swore in a new cabinet under recently-appointed Prime Minister Adnan Badran on April 7 (refs). Of the 26 ministers (counting Badran),only 11 are hold-overs from the previous cabinet, and four of those have shifted to new ministries. New Deputy Prime Minister Hisham al-Te [...]
2005-04-07 15:20:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR KDEM PHUM PREL ECON JO PBIO
05AMMAN2968JORDANIANS PROTEST REPORTS OF ISRAELI EXTREMIST
[...] (SBU) Reports that Israeli extremists intended to enter the Haram al-Sharif over the weekend prompted public warnings from King Abdullah that such a move would spark wider unrest in the region. GOJ officials say they are in close contact with Israeli counterparts to avoid re-kindling yet ano [...]
2005-04-12 12:36:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC PGOV PTER PHUM KPAL IS JO
05AMMAN2969LIBERALS, TRADITIONALISTS BOTH EXPRESS THEIR
[...] (C) Both liberal activists and their traditionalist opponents here voice reservations about the new Jordanian cabinet. Liberals have hailed the strong rhetorical emphasis on reform, but doubt the new government will be able to match its words with action. At the same time, traditionalist Eas [...]
2005-04-12 13:34:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KMPI JO
05AMMAN2970NEW FINANCE MINISTER REVIEWS PARLOUS STATE OF GOJ
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Newly appointed Jordanian Minister of Finance (and former Minister of Planning) Bassem Awadallah told Charge on April 12 that Jordan will likely face a $282-352 million shortfall as a result of higher-than-expected crude oil prices and lower-than-expected grant income. The Minist [...]
2005-04-12 14:16:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN PREL EPET KPRV JO
05AMMAN2974JORDAN: BIOS FOR BADRAN CABINET MEMBERS
[...] (U) Reflecting a trend (and the 11 ministers) carried over from the previous cabinet, Western-educated Muslim East Bankers dominate the newly-appointed 26-member cabinet of Prime Minister Adnan Badran (ref a). We count eight Jordanians of Palestinian origin (West Bankers),compared to only [...]
2005-04-12 15:03:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM ECON JO PBIO
05AMMAN3145 INTERNATIONAL VISITOR ALUMNUS HEADS JORDAN'S NEW
[...] NEW JORDANIAN PRIME MINISTER DR. ADNAN BADRAN, ALONG WITH A NEW CABINET, WAS SWORN IN ON APRIL 7, 2005. DR. BADRAN IS AN ALUMNUS OF THE INTERNATIONAL VISITOR PROGRAM ON "HIGHER EDUCATION" IN 1977. DR. BADRAN HAS SERVED ON THE BOARD OF THE FULBRIGHT COMMISSION SINCE AUGUST 15, 2000 AND SERVED [...]
2005-04-19 09:49:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL JO
05AMMAN3252TRADITIONALISTS CONTINUE THEIR OPPOSITION TO NEW
[...] (C) Despite overtures by the King and PM Badran, traditionalists in parliament have not withdrawn their opposition to the new cabinet. The GOJ is considering the addition to two new ministers from the south to address complaints of geographic inequity, but Finance Minister Bassem Awadallah [...]
2005-04-25 14:48:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL JO
05AMMAN3399JORDAN'S STIFLED (BUT EXPANDING) MEDIA SECTOR
[...] (C) Jordan,s media sector has seen rapid expansion recently, driven by government measures to open the broadcast sector to private ownership and a booming advertising market. Private radio has begun broadcasting in Jordan for the first time, while plans are underway for Jordan,s first private [...]
2005-04-28 14:31:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKPAO PHUM ECON ECPS KMPI JO
05AMMAN3503JORDAN'S PM BADRAN VISITS SYRIA
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Adnan Badran, accompanied by his foreign and interior ministers, conducted a two-day official visit to Syria on May 2-3. Charge registered USG displeasure over the visit with King Abdullah and Royal Court Minister Muasher in light of the effort to isolate Syria [...]
2005-05-04 13:52:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LE SY JO
05AMMAN3649JORDAN HAS A PROMISING NEW ECONOMIC TEAM, BUT CAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Jordan's new economic team only took office as part of the new cabinet on April 7 but has already shown its eagerness to move ahead with economic reform. It has quickly moved to resolve several long-standing economic and investment problems. In an initial series of calls with [...]
2005-05-10 03:33:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EFIN PGOV JO
05AMMAN3921SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION'S VISIT
[...] (U) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes you to Jordan. Your participation in the G-8/BMENA Education Ministerial Meeting on Education, as well as bilateral discussions with Queen Rania and other high-level Jordanian, G-8, and BMENA officials will provide an excellent opportunity to highlight Americ [...]
2005-05-18 11:24:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP JO
05AMMAN4125DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR 2005-2006: JORDAN
[...] Post has identified four desired outcomes in our effort to support Jordan's reform plans and to advance democracy: 1) enhancement of political participation and representational government through passage of new election and political parties laws; 2) greater government accountability resultin [...]
2005-05-25 15:37:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KMPI JO
05AMMAN4368IS THE GOVERNMENT TURNING THE CORNER IN GAINING
[...] (C) Jordan's eight-week old reform-oriented cabinet continues to encounter stiff resistance from members of parliament (now in recess) and their allies in the press. This opposition stems from fear of genuine reforms, antagonism toward the leading reformist personalities, hostility toward the [...]
2005-06-02 13:07:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EFIN JO
05AMMAN4726Prime Minister Tells A/S Turner that Red-Dead is
[...] Summary: Prime Minister Badran told visiting OES Assistant Secretary John Turner on May 31 that Jordan needs the proposed "Red-Dead" water project to cope with its status as one of the world's most water-short countries. Jordan continues its drive to utilize every possible water source but th [...]
2005-06-14 07:51:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID OPRC KGLB IS JO
05AMMAN5311IMF ADVANCE REPORT PRESENTS STARK FISCAL PICTURE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to advance reports, a quarterly IMF review of Jordan,s economic situation shows a dramatic deterioration in the fiscal position of the GOJ, broadly in line with figures that we have seen from the Ministry of Finance, that stems from the rise of world crude prices and the [...]
2005-07-03 11:30:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN PREL KPRV JO
05AMMAN5314JORDAN: CABINET RESHUFFLE ANNOUNCED
[...] As widely anticipated, Prime Minister Badran reshuffled his cabinet on July 3, nearly three months after its initial appointment (refs). The reshuffle resulted in the addition of three new cabinet positions, bringing the total to 29, including Badran. Complete bios of the new ministers and [...]
2005-07-03 13:32:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PBIO KDEM PHUM PREL ECON JO
05AMMAN5473 INTERNATIONAL VISITOR ALUMNUS HEADS JORDAN'S
[...] PRIME MINISTER DR. ADNAN BADRAN RESHUFFLED HIS TWO-MONTH- OLD GOVERNMENT ON SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2005 WITH EIGHT NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN BEFORE HIS MAJESTY KING ABDULLAH. PRIME MINISTER DR. BADRAN IS AN ALUMNUS OF THE INTERNATIONAL VISITOR PROGRAM ON "HIGHER EDUCATION" IN 1977. DR. BADRAN HAS SERV [...]
2005-07-10 09:11:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OEXC SCUL JO
05AMMAN5623KING ABDULLAH CREATES ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION
[...] (U) King Abdullah, in a letter dated June 26 and released publicly, instructed Prime Minister Adnan Badran to form an independent commission to fight corruption. This commission, according to the letter, was charged with drafting an anti-corruption law designed to ensure transparency, justice [...]
2005-07-14 13:30:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM ECON JO
05AMMAN5626AML LAW SNAFU MAKES ITS SWIFT PASSAGE MORE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The failure of the GOJ to place a draft anti-money laundering law on the agenda for the extraordinary session of Parliament beginning July 14 may mean that the bill,s consideration will be delayed until the start of the next regular session of Parliament. Whenever it is considere [...]
2005-07-14 14:17:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON KTFN ETTC JO
05AMMAN571INTERIOR MINISTER'S FACE-OFF WITH PROFESSIONAL
[...] (C) Interior Minister Habashneh has locked horns yet again with Jordan's Islamist-heavy professional associations, demanding that they cease all political activity. The associations' leaders, among the most vocal critics of the GOJ's pro-U.S. policies and ties to Israel, are openly defying [...]
2005-01-23 14:23:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KMPI KISL IS JO
05AMMAN5922JORDAN: BIOS FOR NEW BADRAN CABINET MEMBERS
[...] (U) Prime Minister Badran's reshuffled cabinet received its vote of confidence from parliament on July 21 (ref A),nearly three weeks after King Abdullah swore in ten new ministers (although three only shifted portfolios) and accepted the resignation of five (ref B). Hisham al-Tel loses the [...]
2005-07-26 12:58:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM PHUM ECON JO PBIO
05AMMAN5988ASSISTANT SECRETARY WAYNE'S CONVERSATIONS WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of the Donors Committee meeting of the July 18-19 International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI),EB Assistant Secretary Wayne had conversations with Jordanian Prime Minister Adnan Badran and with Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Suhai [...]
2005-07-28 10:39:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN IZ JO
05AMMAN5995JORDAN FORWARDS NAMES FOR POSSIBLE CONSIDERATION
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (C) Foreign Ministry interlocutors July 27 handed to Legatt a list of 16 Jordanian nationals which they said at the time was for the UN 1267 Committee. In a follow-up conversation July 28, FM Legal Department Director Bishir Al-Khasawneh s [...]
2005-07-28 14:08:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPTER KTFN ASEC KVPR PREL EFIN ETTC CVIS JO
05AMMAN721560TH UNGA HIGH LEVEL ATTENDANCE: JORDAN UPDATE
[...] Head of State: King Abdullah II, accompanied by his wife Queen Rania, is currently scheduled to arrive in Washington, D.C. on September 12. They will travel to New York City for the High-Level Event the following day (September 13),departing New York on September 16. All travel will be via [...]
2005-09-08 13:32:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OTRA OVIP JO UNGA
05AMMAN7273READOUT ON JORDANIAN MINISTERS' SEPT. 10 VISIT TO
[...] (U) In the first visit of a senior Arab state official to Iraq since the fall of Saddam, Jordanian PM Adnan Badran, accompanied by four other cabinet members, met in Baghdad September 10 with Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi and Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari. 2. (C) Jordanian Foreig [...]
2005-09-12 05:31:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN IZ JO
05AMMAN7602AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD PROMOTES ELECTION FOCUS IN
[...] (C) Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad outlined recent compromises in the Constitution drafting process and promoted the need to focus on the December elections during a three-hour meeting in Amman with Iraqi Sunni Arab tribal leaders. The meeting included several major Sunni Arab tribal figures, [...]
2005-09-25 03:11:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL JO IZ
05AMMAN7621AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S DINNER WITH EX-PM ALLAWI
[...] (C) During an informal dinner with Ambassador Khalilzad on September 21 in Amman, National Assembly member Adnan al-Janabi, and Emboff, former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi proposed that Sunni Arab officers from the former army should be actively recruited to act as "advisors" to the MOD a [...]
2005-09-25 05:00:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ JO
05AMMAN7728 FY-2006 SCP: "BORDER AND HOMELAND SECURITY
[...] THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS SECTION IN BAGHDAD NOMINATES EIGHT PARTICIIPANTS, MR.ABBAS AL-GEBORY; MR.ADNAN MANHAL; MR.AHMED KAREEM; MR. SAAD ALWAN; MR. RATHA AINAD; MR. HADI TAHA HASOON; MR. AMJAD SAKER TAEIAH; MR. HASSAN HUSHIA ADNAH FOR SUBJECT PROGRAM. 2. ALL EIGHT HAVE RECEIVED COUNTRY TEAM AP [...]
2005-09-28 12:22:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL JO
05AMMAN7777SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT AMBASSADOR JEFFREY AND
[...] (S) King Abdullah views the success of the Coalition effort in Iraq as essential to Jordanian national security interests. The GOJ provides important political and logistical support for U.S. activities in Jordan that contribute to the Iraq effort, most notably training for police, for milit [...]
2005-09-29 15:23:00Embassy AmmanSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV JO IZ
05AMMAN8027IRAQ SUNNI OUTREACH: AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S
[...] (C) Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad outlined the most recent revisions to the draft Constitution, including probable changes addressing Arab concerns over federalism, Iraq's Arab identity, and qualifications for citizenship, during an October 3 meeting in Amman with Jordan-based Iraqi bu [...]
2005-10-10 05:18:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET ENRG PINR IZ JO
05AMMAN9052NEW COMPANY TO BOOST IRAQI INVESTMENT IN JORDAN
[...] (U) After eight months of discussion and bureaucratic delay, the Rafidain Development Company, a new high-profile Iraqi investment company in Jordan was officially established in Amman on September 25. The company was organized following a February 2005 meeting between Jordan's King Abdullah [...]
2005-11-22 14:01:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EAID EINV IZ JO
05AMMAN9054MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC)
[...] Following is the text of a November 17 letter from Jordanian Prime Minister Adnan Badran to MCC CEO Ambassador Danilovich. Post will pouch original to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) with a copy to NEA/ELA. 2. Begin Text: Dear Mr. Danilovich, In reference to your letter o [...]
2005-11-22 14:01:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL JO
05AMMAN9055JORDAN: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HAGEL
[...] (U) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes CODEL Hagel to Jordan. The Government of Jordan (GOJ) is not only one of our closest allies, but it is fully engaged in supporting our most important priorities in the region, including creating a free Iraq, fulfilling the President's vision of a two-state so [...]
2005-11-22 14:17:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER EAID ECON OREP JO
05AMMAN9145NEW JORDANIAN CABINET FORMED
[...] King Abdullah issued a royal decree November 27 approving the formation of a new government under Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit, who was named by the King to replace outgoing PM Adnan Badran on November 24. The new government, counting Bakhit, is made up of 24 ministers. Nine of these are [...]
2005-11-27 14:40:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL JO
05AMMAN9201NEW PRIME MINISTER MAKING GOOD USE OF HIS
[...] (C) King Abdullah has publicly charged newly appointed PM Marouf Bakhit with implementing political reforms, combating terrorism, and reducing poverty and unemployment. A well-respected figured untainted by rumors of corruption, Bakhit has already met with leading politicians and pledged to [...]
2005-11-28 16:48:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER KDEM ECON JO
05AMMAN9387JORDAN'S NEW CABINET MINISTERS--CORRECTED VERSION
[...] (C) On November 23, the King announced that Marouf al-Bakhit would succeed Adnan Badran as Prime Minister. Bakhit's cabinet was announced November 27 (ref A). The new cabinet consists of 18 East Bankers and 6 West Bankers; the former government included 22 East Bankers and 6 West Bankers. B [...]
2005-12-05 13:51:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR JO
05AMMAN9476KING CHARGES PARLIAMENT WITH SECURITY AND REFORM
[...] (C) In his annual speech opening parliament, King Abdullah called for continued reform and improved living conditions while strengthening Jordan's security and stability. Following the speech, East Banker strongman Abdul Hadi Majali succeeded in being re-elected Speaker of the Chamber of Dep [...]
2005-12-08 10:17:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER KDEM KMPI JO
05AMMAN9513IRAQ ELECTION: IRAQI PARTIES CAMPAIGN FOR VOTES IN
[...] (C) While 23,000 Iraqis in Jordan voted in the January 2005 elections, Iraqi turnout in Jordan for next week's elections should be significantly higher due to a more proactive campaign effort in Jordan by several Iraqi political parties, greater Sunni Arab participation, efforts by theIndepen [...]
2005-12-08 15:07:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKDEM PREL IZ JO
05AMMAN9516IRAQ SUNNI OUTREACH: AMMAN MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Prominent Salah ad-Din Sunni figure Adnan al-Jabouri told Emboff on November 30 that he is supporting the "Arab Iraqi List," a regional party possibly affilited with Hassib al-Obeidi's Arab List. The meeting occurred at the request of his cousin, former Minister of Trade Mohammed al-Jabou [...]
2005-12-09 12:41:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM IZ JO
05AMMAN9553IRAQ SUNNI OUTREACH: AMMAN MEETING WITH MUTLAK
[...] (C) "Sons of United Iraq Movement" Secretary General Ali Sajri told emboff December 1 he is confident that he and others from his party list in Salal ad-Din will be elected in this week's election in Iraq. Sajri, who heads Saleh Mutlak,s National Assembly candidate list in the Salah ad-Din G [...]
2005-12-11 16:04:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM IZ JO
05AMMAN9559IRAQ SUNNI OUTREACH: AMMAN MEETING WITH IRAQ
[...] (C) In a December 3 meeting with Emboff, "Arab List" candidate Dr. Hassib al-Obeidi predicted that his party would win between 3-5 seats in this week's Iraqi election. Obeidi is running as number one on the party's list in Kirkuk, followed by Sheikh Wasfi al-Asi al-Obeidi, a prominent leader [...]
2005-12-11 16:05:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM IZ JO
05AMMAN9963IRAQ: AMMAN COALITION TALKS AMONG SUNNIS AND
[...] (C) Senior Iraqi Sunni and secular politicians including Iyad Allawi and Adnan Dulaime met in Amman on December 25 and 26, and agreed to form an &Iraqi National Alliance8 coalition to compete with the Shi,ite Islamist "555" coalition in forming a new government. The immediate goal of the new [...]
2005-12-29 16:38:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ JO
05ANKARA6424 TRACKER 24124 - REPORT ON U.S. SPEAKER SALLY
[...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: U.S. Speaker Sally Gardner Reed, President of Friends of the Library USA, spent a week in Turkey interacting with library professionals in Istanbul and Ankara September 18-24, 2005. In Istanbul, Ms. Reed delivered the keynote address at a conference that took pla [...]
2005-10-25 13:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OIIP SCUL
05ANKARA7027(S) TURKS OFFER DEC 3 MEETING WITH IRAQI SUNNIS
[...] (S) Turkish MFA Middle East Director General Celikkol called in PolCouns November 30 to convey an invitation to U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad, Ambassador Jeffrey or another appropriate USG official to meet privately this Saturday afternoon, December 3, in Istanbul with a group of Iraqi Su [...]
2005-11-30 14:00:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV TU IZ US
05ANKARA7394TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, December 1-
[...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by the Turkish Daily News on Thursd [...]
2005-12-16 14:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA861ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-15 10:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05BAGHDAD2364CODELS BIDEN AND WELDON DISCUSS CONSTITUTION PROGRESS WITH IRAQI CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Transitional National Assembly (TNA) Constitutional Committee chairman Shaykh Humam al-Hammudi apprised CODELS Biden and Weldon of the status of the constitutional process May 30. Al- Hammudi said the committee expected to make a decision on how to include Sunnis at its June [...]
2005-06-02 06:25:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD2375BADR CORPS AND MUC CONDUCT MUQTADA
[...] (C) Summary. Muqtada al-Sadr representatives facilitated discussions between Badr Corps and Muslim Ulema Council (MUC) officials on Hareth al-Dhari's May 18 comments accusing the Badr Corps of assassinating Sunni clerics. The group met May 28 in the residence of Transitional National Assemb [...]
2005-06-02 13:41:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV KISL IZ KINR
05BAGHDAD2376ASSESSMENT OF IRAQ'S MINISTER OF INTERIOR AFTER
[...] (S/REL UK AND AUS) SUMMARY: In the month since Minister of Interior Baqir Jabor took office, he appears to be delivering on his initial commitments (ref A). Jabor retained qualified personnel regardless of their ethnic background or political affiliation, while also developing a plan to remo [...]
2005-06-02 16:26:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV MOPS MCAP PREL PTER PINS PINR MARR IZ
05BAGHDAD2398MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ RESISTANCE GOVERNMENT
[...] SUMMARY: The major themes in the daily newspapers on June 5 were the developments of the security and political situations. END SUMMARY. ----------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------------- A. "Resistance by animals and water melon" (Asharq Al- Awsat, 6/5) B. "Citizens and the politi [...]
2005-06-05 11:20:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO IZ BAGHDAD
05BAGHDAD2413JANABI PREDICTS IMMINENT PROGRESS ON SUNNI ARAB
[...] (C) Summary: Adnan Janabi, deputy chairman of the Constitution Committee and the leader of its effort to bring in Sunni Arabs, told Charge on June 6 that he expects to complete his assignment by the end of this week. He is expanding the group of Sunni participants and has requested that it pr [...]
2005-06-07 06:21:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL KISL IZ
05BAGHDAD2424RIVAL SUNNI POLITICOS MANUEVERING FOR PLACE IN
[...] (C) Summary. Rival Sunni politicos made clear in June 7 conversations that there is continuing progress in enlarging the Constitutional Drafting Committee by adding Sunni representatives. Some contacts suggested that one Sunni faction, the National Dialogue Council, enjoys the favor of the [...]
2005-06-07 15:55:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD2452MFA ZEBARI DISCUSSES SYRIA, IRAQ CONFERENCE, AND
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE. SEE PARAGRAPH 10. -------------------------------- SYRIAN DEMARCHE POINTS DELIVERED -------------------------------- 2. (C) On June 8, DCM conveyed REFTEL A demarche points regarding Syrian participation at EU - U.S. Brussels Conference to Minister of Foreign [...]
2005-06-09 16:30:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID PINS SY LE EU IZ UN
05BAGHDAD2454THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MAY 19 MEETING WITH IRAQI
[...] (U) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. ---- DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK CHARGE D'AFFAIRES JAMES JEFFREY DCM DAVID SATTERFIELD AMBASSADOR JONES CHRISTINE DAVIES ROBERT WALLER ADAM ERELI SCOTT CARPENTER IRAQ ---- DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AHMED CHALABI 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a May 19 meeting with the D [...]
2005-06-09 17:53:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINS ECON EPET EAGR KDEM KISL IZ
05BAGHDAD2456SUNNI ARAB CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE OUTREACH HITS A
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite promising signs earlier this week, negotiations over expanding the Constitution Drafting Committee deadlocked on June 9 over the number of Sunni Arabs who should be added. Some Sunni Arabs are demanding 25 additional representatives of their community on the 55-member com [...]
2005-06-09 18:28:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KISL IZ
05BAGHDAD2466CHARGE URGES SCIRI'S AL-HAKIM TO CLOSE DEAL ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Charge on June 10 made a firm presentation to SCIRI leader 'Abd al Aziz al-Hakim to end the drift and close a deal on adding Sunnis to the constitutional committee. Charge noted that his presentation reflected the concern of the highest level of the USG. Charge and DCM went [...]
2005-06-10 17:54:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV KDEM KISL IZ UN
05BAGHDAD2479UPDATE ON OUTREACH TO IRAQIS ON CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Some Sunnis are digging in to get 25 additional Sunni representatives on the Constitution Committee, although when pressed senior leaders will drop to 20 fairly quickly, including Talabani and Committee Deputy Chair Janabi. Shi'a contacts universally support 15 as a maximum; Ba [...]
2005-06-13 06:49:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD2505MODIFICATIONS BUT NO BREAKTHROUGH ON SUNNI ARAB
[...] (C) SUMMARY: June 13 was another day of negotiations on Sunni Arab inclusion on the Constitution Committee. Negotiators modified their positions, but did not resolve their disagreements. Deputy Constitution Committee Chairman Adnan al-Janabi told the Charge that he felt "plus 15" (i.e., total [...]
2005-06-14 11:28:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KISL IZ
05BAGHDAD2536SUNNI LEADERS ON CONSTITUTION DRAFTING
[...] (C) Summary: Sunni Arab leaders will meet members of the TNA constitution committee on June 16 but appear unprepared to settle the dispute over their inclusion. Both UNAMI SRSG Ashraf Qazi and embassy pushed for 15 additional representatives in separate meetings with Sunni Arab leaders June 1 [...]
2005-06-16 07:02:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PTER IZ
05BAGHDAD2548KEY IRAQI LEADERS PROMISE SUPPORT FOR SUNNI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of the June 14 swearing-in of Massoud Barzani as Kurdistan Regional President in Irbil, DCM engaged leaders from all Iraqi political groups to urge them to support the inclusion of 15 credible Sunnis in the constitutional committee. All interlocutors were supportive [...]
2005-06-16 14:06:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KISL IZ
05BAGHDAD2552KRG KURDS DEMAND ACTION ON KIRKUK, ALMOST SEAL
[...] (U) This is a REO Kirkuk cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Kurdish leaders told DCM and MNF-I DCS for Political Military and Economic Relations June 13-15 that Kirkuk's provincial council will elect new leaders this week, but the two parties -- who are now directly dictating solutions in the city -- h [...]
2005-06-16 15:48:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD2587KURDS WANT MAXIMUM DECENTRALIZATION WITHOUT
[...] (U) This is a REO Kirkuk cable. 2. (C) . (C) SUMMARY. Key Kurdish leaders told DCM and MNF-I Political Military and Economic Affairs Chief on June 13-15 that they cannot accept "provincial" or "administrative" federalism and will focus instead on pursuing "historic geographic" federali [...]
2005-06-17 15:34:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS PTER IZ SY TU IR KDP
05BAGHDAD2825SCIRI LEADER HAKIM OFFERS CHARGE ASSURANCES OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The leader of the strongest Shia Islamist party, SCIRI's Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, promised rapid progress on Sunni inclusion and offered a moderate vision on an array of constitutional issues in a July 3 meeting with the Charge. Hakim and Constitution Committee Chairman Humam al-Hamu [...]
2005-07-05 06:26:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KISL IZ IR
05BAGHDAD2830SUNNI ARABS OFFICIALY WELCOMED INTO TNA
[...] (U) Deputy Speaker Husayn Shahristani announced the expansion of the constitution drafting committee at the July 4 session of the Transitional National Assembly (TNA). The announcement amounted to an induction for the 15 Sunni Arabs and one Sabean nominated from outside the Assembly to join t [...]
2005-07-05 10:29:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD2849TWO SUNNI LEADERS SHARE SUNNI INITIATIVES AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Abid Mutlak al- Jaburi and Deputy Constitution Committee Chairman Adnan al-Janabi, both Sunni Arabs, offered Senator Carl Levin a wide range of initiatives to reach out to their community in a July 5 dinner meeting. Both Jaburi and Janabi supported holding [...]
2005-07-07 12:15:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD2878CHALABI DISCUSSED SUNNI INCLUSION, THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. According to Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi, who met with Codel Levin and Charge July 7, attacks on Baghdad's infrastructure have increased. Chalabi attributes these attacks to better protection of the Kirkuk-Fadha oil pipeline, making it less vulnerable to attack. Chalab [...]
2005-07-09 07:06:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PINS KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD2906GARDEN CHATS WITH PAPA JA'FARI AND CREW
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Ja'fari unexpectedly sat in on an informal meeting between departing PolOff and one of Ja'fari's aides on July 7. Revealing insights into his own worldview, Ja'fari provided lengthy "love-life" counseling and advice while also sharing details about his own fami [...]
2005-07-11 08:34:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR IZ
05BAGHDAD2972PRIME MINISTER PREVIEWS IRAN TRIP, PLEDGES
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Prime Minister Jafari told us July 15 that his main message in Iran would be to urge that they tighten controls over the common border while he also warned them away from interference in Iraqi internal affairs. He said he would also raise bilateral agreements on supply of es [...]
2005-07-17 12:19:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PINS ETRD IZ
05BAGHDAD3012NOT A DONE DEAL: SUNNI WITHDRAWAL FROM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the July 19 assassinations of Sunni representatives to the Constitution Drafting bodies, the media has reported that the entire Sunni contingent had withdrawn from the constitution drafting process. While there is some confusion even amongst our Iraqi interlocutors as t [...]
2005-07-20 13:55:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KISL IZ
05BAGHDAD3017FOUR IECI EMPLOYEES KILLED IN A TARGETED ATTACK;
[...] (C) Summary. The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) has confirmed that four employees were killed on July 17 as a result of a car-bomb attack on the East Baghdad Governorate office. Although IECI has made little progress in signing a logistics contract and launching a media/publi [...]
2005-07-20 16:42:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPINS PTER PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3021NEW CASES OF APPARENT ABUSES RAISE MORE SUNNI ARAB
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Sunni community is alleging that the Ministry of Interior's (MoI) Commando Unit is responsible for the deaths of 20 Sunnis in two recent incidents in Baghdad. On July 10, Commandos reportedly took 11 Sunni men from their homes. Their bodies, which showed signs of torture, [...]
2005-07-21 07:15:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINR IZ
05BAGHDAD3042FALLUJAH: CITY IMAMS ISSUE FATWA ON POLITICAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 19 Fallujah city council session, Sheikh Kamal Shakir Mahmood -- a leading imam and council member -- announced that city clerics had issued a Fatwa (religious edict) calling upon all Fallujah residents to participate in the upcoming referendum and election. City i [...]
2005-07-22 10:34:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM IZ XL
05BAGHDAD3044KURDISH LEADER BARZANI WANTS WEAK CENTRAL
[...] (C) Summary: Kurdish Regional Government President Masood Barzani and his advisors want a constitution that purposely leaves the central government weak as a means of ensuring that Kurds do not again suffer from Arab tyranny. Barzani emphasized that he does not agree to references to Islamic [...]
2005-07-22 12:27:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3080VICE PRESIDENT GHAZI URGES STRONG AMERICAN ROLE IN
[...] (C) Summary. Vice President Ghazi al Yawar advocated that the newly arrived Ambassador establish a strong presence at this critical time in Iraq's history. Yawar pledged to address economic development initiatives, promote public outreach on the constitutional referendum and noted the need [...]
2005-07-25 15:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3090CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE DEPUTY CHAIRMEN TELL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Constitution Committee Deputy Chairmen Fouad Ma'asum and Adnan al-Janabi told the Ambassador at a July 25 luncheon that they were committed to the August 15 deadline. Janabi confirmed that Sunni Arab representatives will rejoin the meetings. Both men said negotiations at the mo [...]
2005-07-26 11:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3391CONSTITUTION UPDATE AUGUST 16: NEGOTIATORS PAUSE
[...] (C) National Assembly Constitution Committee Chairman Shaykh Humam Hamudi told PolCouns April 16 afternoon that he thought the time deadline to finish the constitution by August 22 will be achievable but tight. There are many disagreements among the negotiators, including whose text was def [...]
2005-08-16 22:01:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ PGOV PHUM
05BAGHDAD3436SUNNI NEGOTIATORS STICK TO CALL FOR LEADERS
[...] (C/NF) Summary: At an August 20 meeting with PolCouns, two members of the Sunni constitution negotiating team argued for a delay in a decision on Federalism until a National Assembly can be elected under the new constitution. Stressing that Sunnis want to participate in upcoming elections, th [...]
2005-08-22 15:06:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3442SUNNI NEGOTIATORS STICK TO CALL FOR DELAY ON
[...] (C/NF) Summary: At an August 20 meeting with PolCouns, two members of the Sunni constitution negotiating team argued for a delay in a decision on Federalism until a National Assembly can be elected under the new constitution. Stressing that Sunnis want to participate in upcoming elections, th [...]
2005-08-22 17:40:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3470SUNNI RELIGIOUS LEADER WANTS FEDERALISM AMENDED
[...] (C) Summary: At an August 24 meeting with PolOff, the influential former Sunni Waqf (Endowment) leader, Adnan Dulaimi, urged the U.S. to ensure either the removal or the watering down of references to federalism in the draft constitution. Otherwise, he said, Sunnis would not support the text. [...]
2005-08-25 11:06:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3477IECI MEETS WITH ADNAN DULAIMI AND OTHER SUNNI
[...] (C) Summary. At an Embassy-facilitated, August 23 meeting with the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI),Sunni Conference Chairman Adnan Dulaimi pressed for more voter registration centers in Al-Anbar and an extension of the voter registration period. Sunni Constitution Committee [...]
2005-08-25 14:04:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3549PLANS FOR IRAQ PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of British, Canadian, United Nations, and US missions met on August 27 to discuss efforts to raise the profile of public sector reform. Participants shared the perception that the Government of Iraq (GOI) has yet to take any initiative to ensure the emerging publ [...]
2005-08-30 16:43:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID ELAB IZ KCRS
05BAGHDAD3552SECTARIAN VIOLENCE HAMPERS SUNNI PARTICIPATION IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The August 25 discovery of the bodies of 36 Iraqis, apparently all Sunni Arabs allegedly taken from their Baghdad homes early on August 24 by men in Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) uniforms, has shaken the Sunni Arab community. Sunni Waqf head Ahmed Abdul Gafur al Samarai told PolCoun [...]
2005-08-30 22:15:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER IZ
05BAGHDAD3566SUNNI ARAB OFFICIALS ON HOW TO HELP THE
[...] (C) Summary: Fatwa Association (Salafist) Dr. Mahmud al Mashadani told the Ambassador August 30 that changes to the draft constitution in four areas -- Arab identity, Iraqi unity, placement of statement on Islam and human rights, and clarification of ownership of future oil and natural gas dis [...]
2005-08-31 21:16:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV QA IZ
05BAGHDAD3567SUNNI LEADER REJECTS CONSTITUTION, ALLEGES POLICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Adnan al-Dulaimi told Ambassador on August 30 that Minister of Interior Baqr Jabr should be removed due to allegations of arbitrary arrest, abuse, and murder of Sunnis by Iraqi Police (IP). Dulaimi worried that federalism would divide the country and urged that the referendum be [...]
2005-08-31 21:27:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV QA IZ
05BAGHDAD3643IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY LEADER WEIGHS SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) In an effort to expand the base of Sunni support for the new constitution, the Ambassador and Embassy staff have engaged those Sunni politicians who -- to varying degrees -- have indicated a readiness to publicly support the current draft in exchange for certain adjustments. Iraqi partici [...]
2005-09-06 06:45:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3644REP WOLF DISCUSSES FUTURE OF COALITION FORCE
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: On 28 August 2005, U.S. Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) met with several members of the Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG),including President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Ibrahim Al-Jafari. Noting wavering U.S. public opinion over the continued military presence in Ir [...]
2005-09-06 07:58:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPINS PREL MCAP MOPS PGOV IZ IR
05BAGHDAD3647IRAQI GOVERNMENT NAMES INTERLOCUTORS ON TALL,AFAR;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings this week, the Prime Minister's special advisor Adnan Ali al-Kadhami and TNA member Hassan Seneid pledged to work closely with U.S. government representatives to ensure the welfare of citizens in Tall'Afar. On August 30, Senior SCIRI official Muhammad Taqi al [...]
2005-09-06 10:14:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV MOPS PHUM PREF PREL IZ MARS
05BAGHDAD3690AMBASSADOR AND COMMANDING GENERAL DISCUSS TAL AFAR
[...] (S/REL GBR AUS IRAQ) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Ministerial Committee for National Security, chaired by Prime Minister Jaafari, met September 5 to discuss the evolving situation in Tal Afar and to plan a future course of action. Fears were expressed that engaging in decisive military operations to f [...]
2005-09-08 10:36:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PINS PTER PGOV MOPS IZ
05BAGHDAD3718SUNNIS PESSIMISTIC ON PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Abid Mutlak al-Jaburi predicted to Charge September 10 that without changes to the draft text, especially on the issue of Iraq's Arab identity, no Sunni political figure would publicly support the constitution. Another Sunni Arab negotiator, Shaykh Anwar al [...]
2005-09-10 18:05:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3732DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - September 11, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-11 18:55:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO IZ
05BAGHDAD3733MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, TAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-11 18:58:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO IZ
05BAGHDAD3751JORDANIAN PM VISITS BAGHDAD
[...] (U) Jordanian Prime Minister Adnan Badran, accompanied by Foreign Minister Farouk Kasrawi and Ministers of Interior, Energy and Planning, visited Baghdad the afternoon of September 10. The delegation held separate meetings with Iraqi PM Ibrahim al-Ja'afari and Deputy President Adil Abd al-Ma [...]
2005-09-12 11:23:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL JO IZ
05BAGHDAD3752A SHIFT OF POWER IN THE PM'S OFFICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There have been more shake-ups at the Prime Ministry. Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister Adnan Ali Al-Khadimi has unofficially usurped the role of the PM's Chief of Staff. Khadimi's consolidation of power has led to resentment among key PM staffers. His failure to prioritize [...]
2005-09-12 11:35:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
05BAGHDAD3753SUNNI-KURD MEETING IN IRBIL: FEW DECISIONS,
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-12 12:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3759MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, TAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-13 02:25:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO IZ
05BAGHDAD3782MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, TAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-13 17:11:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO IZ
05BAGHDAD3783DRAFT CONSTITUTION SIGNED, PASSED TO UNAMI
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Iraqi draft Constitution was signed and delivered to UNAMI for printing the afternoon of September 13. Deputy Speaker Shahristani plans to announce the final text at a press conference September 14. SRSG Qazi has expressed concern that the amended text was never formally a [...]
2005-09-13 18:18:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS PTER IZ
05BAGHDAD3790KURDISH PARTIES FIRE BLAST AT THEIR COALITION
[...] (C) Summary: Recent letters from President Talabani and Kurdish President Barzani show the extent of unhappiness inside the ruling coalition of Kurdish and Shia Islamist parties. The Kurds in their latest letter hinted at withdrawing from the coalition, although the author of the letter, D [...]
2005-09-14 09:25:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS IZ
05BAGHDAD3804DRAFT CONSTITUTION GOES FORWARD
[...] (C) Iraqi National Assembly Deputy Speaker Shahristani told Charge September 14 evening that he had given the UN earlier that day the official version of the Iraqi draft constitution for public dissemination. Shahristani and Kurdish negotiator Fuad Masum announced this to the press earlier [...]
2005-09-14 17:49:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM IZ
05BAGHDAD3806MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, TAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-14 19:05:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO IZ
05BAGHDAD3807DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - September 14, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-14 19:07:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO IZ
05BAGHDAD3819RESPONSES TO ZARQAWI'S CALL FOR JIHAD AGAINST THE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-15 13:17:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV IZ
05BAGHDAD3905MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION,
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-21 18:48:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO IZ
05BAGHDAD3996SUNNI DIALOGUE COUNCIL'S MASHADANI SEEKS
[...] (C) Summary: At a September 24 meeting, the Ambassador discussed Sunni Arab reaction to the draft constitution with Mahmoud Mashadani, Constitution Committee and Iraqi Council for National Dialogue (ICND) member. The Ambassador agreed to advocate for Sunni Arab-proposed changes to the constit [...]
2005-09-27 07:46:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4018ALLAWI POSTPONES CONFERENCE FOR CENTRIST
[...] (C) Summary: Several TNA members have acknowledged that ongoing political differences, not security concerns, were the real reason former Prime Minister Allawi recently postponed a conference to launch a centrist political coalition. Some have refused to participate in the coalition talks al [...]
2005-09-28 12:17:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM PNAT IZ
05BAGHDAD4110IECI REACHES OUT TO KIRKUK
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Sunni Arab leaders in Kirkuk told an Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) delegation September 28 that the large increase in Kurdish voter registration was fraudulent and demanded an investigation. IECI commissioners Hamdia Muhammad and Adil Allami assured these Sunni [...]
2005-10-05 06:42:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PINS IZ
05BAGHDAD4125IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY OFFERS CONDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Sunni Arab Iraqi Islamic Party conditionally agreed to support the constitution on the basis of a package of amendments proposed by the Ambassador in an October 5 meeting. The amendments include a provision that would have the next National Assembly create a "Constitutional R [...]
2005-10-05 20:04:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4214MAJOR SUNNI PARTY PARTICIPATES IN GATHERING IN
[...] (C) Summary. The Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) reiterated support for the amended draft constitution at a big tent gathering of Iraqi political leaders October 12 in the Transitional National Assembly. A number of important amendments, negotiated in the last week, paved the way for the statemen [...]
2005-10-13 12:09:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT PHUM PTER IZ
05BAGHDAD4228MIXED REACTION BY SUNNI ARABS TO CONSTITUTION
[...] (C) An official from the Sunni Arab-dominated Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),Nasir Al-Ani, told PolOff October 13 the IIP remains resolutely in support of the constitution despite insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades on the IIP office in Fallujah October 13. Al-Ani said there were no casua [...]
2005-10-14 15:39:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PNAT IZ
05BAGHDAD4270ALLAWI ALLY ON FORMER PM'S EFFORT TO BUILD A
[...] (C) Summary. With the Conference of Centrists and Moderation underway, Allawi supporter and former Planning Minister Medhi Hafedh has gathered a myriad of Sunni, Shia and Kurds that may possibly form alliances with Ayad Allawi for the December elections. Hafedh reported that Allawi's politica [...]
2005-10-17 18:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4323ALLAWI COALITION BUILDING EFFORTS NEARING
[...] (C) Summary. Former PM Ayad Allawi is reportedly putting the final touches on a wide secular coalition for the December elections. Iraqi Communist Party Secretary General Hamid Majid Mussa told us October 19 SIPDIS that Allawi has completed his coalition negotiations and was completing n [...]
2005-10-20 06:55:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4324POLITICAL REACTIONS TO THE SADDAM TRIAL
[...] (C) Summary. For many Iraqis, the Saddam trial provides a sense of relief, revenge, justice and healing. However, some Sunni Arabs claimed that it is a political tool to divert attention away from referendum anomalies and the upcoming elections. Press editorials warn that Saddam's grandstand [...]
2005-10-20 07:18:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM IZ
05BAGHDAD4332UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE EDELMAN MEETS WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman and LTG Victor Renuart, Director of Strategic Plans and Policy, called on Iraqi Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr at his office on October 18, 2005. Jabr was accompanied by GEN Babiker Shwakt, commander of the Iraqi Joint Forces [...]
2005-10-20 13:17:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS PTER IZ
05BAGHDAD4339MIXED LOCAL REACTIONS TO AMRE MUSA VISIT
[...] (C) Summary. On October 20, Arab League Secretary General Amre Musa discussed with GOI officials the possibility of hosting a national dialogue conference in Baghdad, prior to the national elections. Jafari staff reaction to the visit, and that of other Shia contacts, has been measured. Sunn [...]
2005-10-21 03:40:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL EG IZ
05BAGHDAD4376ALLAWI AIMING FOR SIZE OVER SUBSTANCE IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: With coalition negotiations entering their final four days, former Prime Minister Allawi appears to have opted for size over substance in forming his slate. He has pulled together a moderate -- but not clearly liberal -- coalition including Ghazi al-Yawar's party, the [...]
2005-10-24 12:23:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4426SUNNI ARABS HEAD INTO ELECTIONS DIVIDED AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: With only two days left before the registration deadline, there is no united Sunni Arab coalition in the offing for the December elections. Sunni Arab leaders, fractured since Saddam's fall, appear just as divided heading into the coming vote. There is no preeminent [...]
2005-10-27 15:02:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4438CANDIDATE LISTS ANOTHER VICTORY FOR IDENTITY
[...] (C) Summary: As the October 28 deadline closes for political parties to register electoral alliances and candidate lists, the shape of the December 15 national election is clear. A broad Shia Islamist unity list, a Kurdish unity list and a Sunni Arab unity list will head the political grou [...]
2005-10-28 18:32:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS IZ
05BAGHDAD4514SUNNI ARAB PARTIES RUNNING COMPETING SLATES FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The recently-released IECI list of coalitions and political entities set to run in the December elections reveals a fractured field of Sunni Arab politicians who have chosen to compete with one another rather than run together. Power struggles rather than policy diffe [...]
2005-11-04 18:35:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4778ALLAWI'S CAMPAIGN TEAM REPORTS INTIMIDATION
[...] (C) Summary: Allawi's National Iraqi List coalition has been subject to intimidation and harassment in Sadr city and the south, including the deaths of six Iraqis in clashes and attacks, according to TNA member and Allawi campaign manager Adnan al-Janabi. In a meeting with Polcouns November 2 [...]
2005-11-29 17:12:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4836PM JA'AFARI PLANS MAJOR SHAKEUP OF IRAQI MILITARY
[...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: Iraqi Prime Minister Ja'afari is preparing to sign decrees which will lead to a major reorganization of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and the Iraqi Joint and Army Land Forces Headquarters. The new leadership personnel he plans to bring in are all Shia. MNF-I Command [...]
2005-12-04 12:47:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV MOPS IZ
05BAGHDAD4853ADNAN DULAIMI ON WAYS TO END THE INSURGENCY
[...] (C/REL UK) SUMMARY. Adnan Dulaimi, in a meeting with UK Ambassador Patey and Poloff, proposed three measures to decrease insurgency violence against the Coalition. He called for an immediate halt to Coalition military operations in Anbar, a large-scale release of prisoners before the electio [...]
2005-12-05 15:51:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT PTER PHUM IZ
05BAGHDAD4891SCIRI LEADER WARNS OF ELECTION FRAUD, BENDS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Over dinner with the Ambassador on November 29, SCIRI leader Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim and Interior Minister Bayan Jabr alleged the U.S. excludes Iraqi security forces from operations against insurgents and also warned of election fraud. Hakim's aides noted that the constitutional req [...]
2005-12-08 08:02:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS KISL KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4908PM DISCUSSES PRISON INSPECTIONS, VISIT TO SAUDI
[...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: On the evening of December 3, Prime Minister Ibrahim Ja'afari hosted a meeting at his residence attended by Charge, MNF-I Commanding General and Deputy Commanding General, UK Ambassador Patey, and DepPolMilCouns. Present with the PM were Chief of Staff Dr. Abdul Azi [...]
2005-12-08 19:00:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EFIN ETRD IZ
05BAGHDAD4911REVIEW OF ELECTION CAMPAIGN STATUS WITH U.S. NGO'S
[...] (C) Summary: POL and USAID met December 6 with IFES, NDI, and IRI to assess the state of the electoral campaign. There was general agreement that the mechanics of the process are well underway (the exception, for security reasons, being Anbar province; see septel). An exciting development is [...]
2005-12-08 20:53:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4928VP GHAZI AL-YAWAR PREDICTS ALLAWI WILL BE PM
[...] (C) Vice President Shaykh Ghazi al-Yawar told Ambassador on December 8 that only one of two groups will dominate after the December 15 election: the Allawi group (in which Shaykh Ghazi is running) or the "pro-Iranian group" (the Shia Alliance). Many Shia, Ghazi explained, particularly the sec [...]
2005-12-10 15:32:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT PREL PTER PHUM IZ
05BAGHDAD4976AHAD AL-IRAQ SHOWS PROMISE IN BUILDING
[...] (U) Summary. 'Ahad al-Iraq (Iraq's Promise) held a press conference in Baghdad on December 12 to announce that a cross-sectarian, cross-ethnic group of more than 270 politicians, political parties and NGO's had signed their pledge to support five specific legislative reforms to advance human [...]
2005-12-13 17:49:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4981THE ANBAR SECURITY COUNCIL: RECENT NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) Summary. This is a SET Ramadi cable. A recently created council of influential Anbaris in Ramadi known alternatively as the Ramadi or Anbar Security Council has brought together local officials (from the professional or technocratic class),ex-military officers, imams and tribal sheikhs. [...]
2005-12-13 18:24:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4982ADIL 'ABD AL-MAHDI ADVISOR SEES UIA GETTING
[...] (C) Summary. Vice President 'Adil 'Abd al-Mahdi's adviser Fareed Yasseen said that the UIA would get 110-120 seats in the December 15 election. He hoped 'Abd al-Mahdi would emerge as the UIA nominee for Prime Minister, but acknowledged PM Ja'fari's stubbornness, and could not describe a sce [...]
2005-12-13 18:35:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD4996'ABD AL-MAHDI ADVISOR SEES UIA GETTING 110-120
[...] (S) Summary. Vice President 'Adil 'Abd al-Mahdi adviser Fareed Yasseen opined that the UIA would get 110-120 seats in the December 15 election. He hoped 'Abd al-Mahdi would emerge as the UIA nominee for Prime Minister, but acknowledged PM Ja'fari's stubbornness, and could not describe a sce [...]
2005-12-14 12:11:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD5000IRAQI MCNS MEETS DEC. 9: ELECTION SECURITY, PRIME
[...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met the afternoon of December 9, 2005 at Prime Minister Ja'afari's residence. Ja'afari expressed extreme consternation about the fact that his flight back to Baghdad from Japan was denied permission to lan [...]
2005-12-14 15:26:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALMOPS PHUM IZ
05BAGHDAD5004ON EVE OF ELECTION BAGHDAD LEADERS ANTICIPATE
[...] (C) PolOff spoke with selected leaders throughout Baghdad to gauge the mood of the public on the eve of the December 15 elections. In NE Baghdad Sunni Arab Dr. Riyadh Hassir Al Adhadh, District Advisory Council (DAC) and City Councilman reports the largely Sunni district of Al Adhamiyah is [...]
2005-12-14 17:02:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD5030ALLAWI BUILDS HIS POST-ELECTION COALITION
[...] (S) Summary. Head of the National Iraqi National List (731),former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, told the Ambassador he believes Iraq needs a national unity government to deal with the challenges ahead. He has begun talks to put together a cross-ethnic, cross- sectarian coalition that would [...]
2005-12-17 19:22:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PINS IZ
05BAGHDAD5038COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM VISITS IRAQ,
[...] (S) SUMMARY: On December 5-8, 2005, Ambassador Henry A. Crumpton, the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT),visited Iraq to meet with Embassy, military, and Iraqi officials. During his visit Ambassador Crumpton met with Ministry of Interior (MOI) officials responsible for counterterrorism [...]
2005-12-18 13:55:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPTER PGOV PREL MOPS IZ
05BAGHDAD5045AN INSIDER'S LOOK AT THE PM'S OFFICE
[...] (C) Summary. An American contractor working at the PM's office indicates that Adnan Ali al-Khadimi is the only policy and decision-maker on Jaafari's team. Considered the second and third most important people on the team are senior PM advisors Said Hakki and Emad Dhia. But even though they [...]
2005-12-19 13:29:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PINS IZ
05BAGHDAD5047IRAQI POLITICOS PONDER NEW GOVERNMENT: SHIA
[...] (C) Summary: With even the preliminary announcement of most election results still days away, Iraqi political operatives are trying to consolidate alliances. Prime Minister Jafari and Adil Abdel Mehdi, Jafari's rival within the Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555),each are trying to line up [...]
2005-12-19 13:41:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETIZ PGOV
05BAGHDAD5081IECI SCRUTINIZES COMPLAINT PROCESS AMIDST
[...] (U) See paragraph 12 for recommended press guidance. 2. (C) Summary: On December 21 there were more denunciations of election fraud while the election commission investigated specific charges and complete the vote count. UN election team leader Jenness told us December 21 that the numb [...]
2005-12-21 14:19:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD5092IRAQ'S ROLLERCOASTER RIDE TO DECEMBER 23 IMF
[...] (C) Summary: Popular protests against December 18 fuel prices have died down. Some southern provinces might be resisting price hikes, but the Central Government took a tough stance against recalcitrant governors December 21. In reaction to surprising news concerning last minute debt assurance [...]
2005-12-22 18:32:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL IZ IMF
05BAGHDAD5103AMBASSADOR AND GENERAL CASEY CONVENE A SUNNI ARAB
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A group of politically connected Sunni Arab figures urged the Ambassador and MNF-I CG Casey to expedite detainee releases and to facilitate stand-up of credible, non-sectarian Iraqi security forces. In a December 13 meeting prior to the national elections, they agreed to meet re [...]
2005-12-24 15:13:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD5131ELECTION UPDATE: OCV DOES NOT CHANGE RESULTS,
[...] (C) Summary: Preliminary counts from the over 300,000 out- of-country and 200,000 special voting ballots show the largest number of votes going to the Shia Coalition (36.6%) followed by the Kurdish Coalition(30%) and National Iraqi List (11%). When added into the preliminary totals, these v [...]
2005-12-27 12:06:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD5133MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-28 03:08:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO IZ
05BAGHDAD5135SUNNI ARAB PARTY SECGEN AL-HASHIMI COMPLAINS OF
[...] (C) Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) General Secretary Tariq al-Hashimi told PolCouns December 26, the Tawafuq, a Sunni Arab coalition, has evidence of corruption within the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI). Al-Hashimi maintained IECI officials, including staff investigating election i [...]
2005-12-28 05:06:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PNAT IZ
05BAGHDAD5144MCNS MEETING 21 DECEMBER 2005: OFF-RAMP
[...] (S) SUMMARY. During a December 21 MCNS meeting, participants discussed four issues. The Iraqis agreed to the scenario of announcing the off-ramp decision on Friday, December 23. We would prepare the text of a statement to be read publicly to the press at the end of a meeting with the PM. W [...]
2005-12-28 13:59:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETMOPS PHUM IZ
05BAGHDAD5145SUNNI ARAB LEADERS AGREE TO ALLIANCE WITH KURDS,
[...] (C) In a telephone conversation on December 26, List 731 leaders Ayad Allawi and Adnan Pachachi informed the Ambassador of their meeting on December 25 with the representatives from Saleh Mutlak's National Dialog Front, Khalaf al-Ayyan and Adnan Dulaymi of the Tawaffuq, and others. Allawi and [...]
2005-12-28 14:30:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
05BAGHDAD5160DECEMBER 22 MEETING WITH IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTER
[...] (C) On December 22 Iraqi Minister of Interior Baqir Jabr told us that: -- he supported the decision by the police chief of Babil Province to refuse to hire 800 recently nominated police recruits who were Badr Corps militiamen; -- another 650 recruits had been appropriately vetted and sen [...]
2005-12-30 08:01:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS PINR IZ
05BANGKOK3129PACOM MEETING WITH PM THAKSIN: IRAQ, F-16, CHINA,
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 4 meeting with visiting PACOM Commander ADM William Fallon, PM Thaksin Shinawatra did not directly address a U.S. request for Thailand to send staff officers to the multinational headquarters in Iraq, but did suggest that Thailand might be able to provide additional su [...]
2005-05-11 05:10:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALOVIP PGOV MASS MARR TH IRAQ POL MIL BURMA
05BASRAH155REO BASRAH SUPPORT FOR PRIVATE MEDIA IN THE RUN-UP TO THE
[...] Summary. REO Basrah programmed $145,000 in public diplomacy grant funds to media organizations for coverage of key election issues in the run-up to the December 15 national election. Al-Samawah, Al-Manarah, Shatt Al-Arab, Al-Haqeeqa and Basrah Politics newspapers and Radio Shinasheel each rec [...]
2005-12-24 16:08:00REO BasrahUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KDEM PGOV IZ
05BEIRUT541OPPOSITION A ROLL: FORCE CABINET TO QUIT, GET
[...] (C) Chattering away at a 2/21 dinner hosted by Boutros Harb, leading members of the Christian opposition and Walid Jumblatt's bloc were visibly buoyed by what they saw as three victories earlier that day: the largest anti-Syrian demonstration in Lebanon's history, Parliament Speaker Nabih B [...]
2005-02-22 15:47:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPREL PGOV LE SY
05BEIRUT654 Lebanon Biographies of Potential Prime Ministers
[...] Followig are biographies of potential candidates to repace Prime Minister Omar Karami who resigned on Febuary 28, 2005. According to the 1943 National Pat and the 1989 Taif Accord, Lebanon's Prime Miniter must be a Sunni Muslim. Several names of poential candidates are being discussed i [...]
2005-03-03 11:37:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR ECON LE
05BEIRUT767MGLE01: PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER BERRI SEES SYRIANS
[...] (C) Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and leader of the Shia Amal Movement, assured the Ambassador that Syrian forces would redeploy to the Biqa' Valley in short order and complete their withdrawal to Syria within months. Looking on the bright side, Berri claimed that Syria's de [...]
2005-03-09 16:43:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PTER SY LE
05CAIRO2930 IRAQI JOURNALISTS VENT THEIR FRUSTRATIONS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a backyard reception for a group of visiting Iraqi journalists, Embassy staff witnessed a spirited discussion among the Iraqis and invited Egyptian journalists over the shortcomings of Egyptian media reporting on Iraq. The lively interaction between the two groups of jour [...]
2005-04-18 07:39:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPRC PREL KPAO IZ EG
05CAIRO4877SENIOR EGYPTIAN CLERICS' REPORTED UNHELPFUL
[...] (C) Summary: Egyptian media reports this week quote Egypt's two most prominent Islamic figures, the Mufti and the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, each appointed by the GOE, as making unhelpful public remarks that imply religious justification for the terrorist insurgency in Iraq. Embassy requests for cl [...]
2005-06-27 15:48:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALKISL PTER PGOV EG IZ
05CAIRO7963ARAB LEAGUE'S MOUSSA TO BAGHDAD; SEEKING USG
[...] (U) This message contains an action request. See paragraph five. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) During an October 15 meeting with the Ambassador to discuss Iraq's constitution referendum, Arab League Secretary General Moussa outlined plans for a visit to Iraq, October 20-21 (protect [...]
2005-10-17 09:19:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MOPS ASEC EG IZ
05CAIRO8618EGYPT-DEMARCHE ON PREPARATIONS FOR ARAB LEAGUE
[...] (C) In a meeting with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa and his Chief of Cabinet Hesham Youssef on November 15, the Ambassador delivered the points in reftel and received a brief on the status of preparations for the proposed November 19 Iraq conference. Moussa said: 50-60 Iraqis r [...]
2005-11-15 19:01:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ AL EG
05DAMASCUS6072Damascus Media Reaction: Iraq, Syria/US, Lebanon,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers led with reports on Iraq, featuring a statement by the Commander of US airborne troops in the Central Command in Iraq that the US does not possess any evidence against Syria on the issue of infiltrations through the Syrian border, and a statement by President Bush ruling [...]
2005-11-21 15:29:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
05ISTANBUL2059IRAQI SUNNI ARAB TEAM PRESENTS OLD GRIEVANCES TO
[...] (C) Summary: At a December 4 meeting in Istanbul organized by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, a delegation of Iraqi Sunni Arab political figures told Ambassador Khalilzad that the "insurgents" want the political process in Iraq to succeed, but seek more credibility in the process. They demand [...]
2005-12-06 16:11:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS IZ
05ISTANBUL526CORRUPTION: TURKEY'S 800-POUND GORILLA?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Public attention has returned to the subject of corruption in Turkey in recent weeks with publication of a country survey by the "Economist" magazine blaming the problem for Turkey's failure to attract more foreign investment. The survey coincided with the publication of Trans [...]
2005-04-08 05:51:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCOR ECON EFIN TU
05KUWAIT1295U.S.-KUWAIT "MINI-TIFA" TALKS
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. On March 16-17, USTR's John Fennerty met with members of Kuwait's Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) team (participant list in para 31) in a series of "mini-TIFA" meetings, to assess Kuwait's progress since the May 2004 inaugural TIFA Council meeting in [...]
2005-03-30 07:52:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALETRD PREL ECON EINV KU
05KUWAIT1349NEW INFORMATION MINISTER HAILED BY LIBERALS,
[...] (C) Summary: Moving to fill cabinet vacancies in the run-up to an expected Parliamentary vote on women's rights, the GOK announced March 31 it had chosen Dr. Anas Mohammed Al-Rasheed, sworn in on April 4, as its new Information Minister. A professor and former editorial adviser to local Arabi [...]
2005-04-04 14:13:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR KWMN KDEM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1517AMBASSADOR ENCOURAGES GOK TO ENFORCE UNDERAGE
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador urged the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Faisal Hajji Boukhadour to enforce a ban on the employment of underage camel jockeys and extend labor law coverage to domestic help. The Minister explained that the GOK was taking steps to ameliorate these problems but a [...]
2005-04-16 13:39:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV PTER ELAB KU
05KUWAIT1730CHARITIES IN KUWAIT: TREASURY DAS DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 16, 2005, Treasury DAS Glaser met with a Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor official to discuss how charitable contributions in Kuwait can be made, collected and transferred, and the methods the GOK uses to track and prevent the abuse of charitable contributions for te [...]
2005-04-27 14:57:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER KTFN KU
05KUWAIT1834KUWAITI SHIITE POLITICAL BLOCS BUOYED BY WAVE OF
[...] (C) Summary: The often mistrusted Shi'a population has slowly increased the intensity of its calls for reform since the liberation of Iraq, winning some concessions from the GOK, but losing ground in the face of active Salafi opposition. Although most Kuwaiti Shiites claim to identify themse [...]
2005-05-03 12:33:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPREL PINR KISL KU SOLI
05KUWAIT2169SUMMARY OF OPEC-IEA WORKSHOP - THE OUTLOOK FOR
[...] (U) Summary and Comment: The 3rd Joint OPEC-IEA Workshop, held in Kuwait on May 15, 2005, focused on the future of oil and gas supplies from MENA OPEC member countries and the anticipated worldwide demand for hydrocarbon products. Hosted by Kuwait's Ministry of Energy, the conference gave MENA [...]
2005-05-22 13:30:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET KU
05KUWAIT2197KUWAIT'S PRIVATE INVESTMENT COMPANIES ADVANCING ON
[...] (U) Summary and Key Findings: During May 2005, Ambassador met with the leading figures in the Kuwaiti private investment sector. The Ambassador encouraged continued investment in the U.S. and new investments in Iraq and in other countries of U.S. interest. The Ambassador encouraged the inve [...]
2005-05-23 13:01:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV KU KGCC
05KUWAIT2265KUWAIT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP: SOME
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Post's Counterterrorism Working Group (CWG) met May 2 to asses the GOK's progress in developing its counterterrorism (CT) capacity. The group concluded that the GOK remained serious about confronting terrorism, investing heavily in tools and equipment, but is still in need of [...]
2005-05-25 13:57:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PGOV EFIN ASEC MARR CVIS KU TERRORISM
05KUWAIT2863COORDINATED GOK ANTI-TIP EFFORT UNDERWAY
[...] (C) During a June 26 meeting with Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL) Acting Undersecretary Mohammed Al-Kandari, the DCM presented the ref B action strategy and reiterated the 60-day grace period for Tier 3 countries like Kuwait. In reference to the strategy's first point, Al-Kandari [...]
2005-06-27 09:37:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KU
05KUWAIT2927POST INPUT FOR GULF STRATEGY PAPER TO COMBAT
[...] (S/NF) Post read with interest the Kuwait portion of the "Strategy for the Gulf Region to Combat Terrorist Financing And Strengthen Overall AML/CTF Efforts" paper (Ref A). While we endorse the action points for Kuwait as well-targeted and appropriate, we are concerned that the background por [...]
2005-06-29 16:17:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPTER EFIN ETTC PGOV KU
05KUWAIT3219 TIP UPDATE: RECENT GOK ACTIONS TO PROTECT FOREIGN
[...] The GOK continues to address foreign labor exploitation problems following the release of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. An inter-ministerial committee, referred to as the "Four-Member Committee," established mid- June to oversee expatriate worker affairs (ref B) met July 19 t [...]
2005-07-20 13:36:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV ELAB KCRM KU
05KUWAIT3224ACTIVISTS LAUD WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACCOMPLISHMENTS;
[...] (U) Summary: The Charge hosted on July 19 a tea for the three delegations of Kuwaiti women who traveled in early July to the U.S., the UK, and France to talk about women's rights (ref b). Other attendees included political activists, Members of Parliament, journalists, and members of the d [...]
2005-07-20 14:53:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KWMN KMPI KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT3246 Engaging Kuwaitis On Terrorism and Islam
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The July 7 terror attacks in London, followed closely by increasingly horrific and deadly suicide attacks in Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt, have deeply affected Kuwaiti leaders and opinion makers. Some contacts have said that the London attacks, in particular, hit them harder than the 9 [...]
2005-07-24 04:41:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KPAO KISL PREL PHUM KU TERRORISM
05KUWAIT3288DAILY NEWSPAPER DETERMINED TO CONFRONT ISLAMISTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In a July 24 meeting with IO following the Sharm El-Sheikh bombings earlier that morning, the local editor of Al-Qabas newspaper reiterated his determination to confront Islamists on the issue of terrorism. He said that it was now the paper's "mission" to highlight Kuw [...]
2005-07-25 14:00:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPTER KPAO KISL PREL KU TERRORISM
05KUWAIT3393CHARITY OVERSIGHT DIRECTOR DESCRIBES HIS WORK;
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 6. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Econ Officer met July 27 with Ministry of Social Affairs Charitable Organizations Oversight Department Director Nasser Al-Ammer and Undersecretary Adnan Al-Omar to learn more about the day-to-day operations of th [...]
2005-07-31 13:18:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER KTFN PINR KU
05KUWAIT3412TIP UPDATE: GOK BRIEFS VISITORS ON ACTIONS TO
[...] (U) Summary: G/TIP Ambassador John Miller and Reports Officer Feleke Assefa visited Kuwait July 26-27 to assess GOK progress to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) since the June 3 release of the 2005 TIP Report, which ranked Kuwait at Tier 3. The 60-day grace period for Kuwait to demonstrate [...]
2005-08-02 08:30:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KU
05KUWAIT3677REVIVED AL-SABAH DEBATE OVER SUCCESSION;
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Sources indicate a major change in leadership may take place in Kuwait, possibly before the end of August. Although Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is considered the primary candidate for Amir, his succession is not a foregone conclusion. According to [...]
2005-08-16 12:05:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR KU PDEM
05KUWAIT3743NO PROOF OF KUWAITI LINK TO AQABA ATTACK GETAWAY
[...] (S/NF) For the past two days, the local press has reported on the front pages that Jordanian authorities were searching for Syrian, Egyptian, and Iraqi terrorists who reportedly fled the scene of the August 19 Aqaba attack in a Kuwaiti-licensed car. We have been advised by DATT and SIMO that [...]
2005-08-21 13:37:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PGOV JO KU
05KUWAIT5184TIFA UPDATE: GOK PLANS TO SEND TECHNICAL EXPERTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY On December 18, Econoff met with Ministry of Commerce official Khalid Al-Azemi to discuss the ongoing Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) discussions, and urged that technical experts be included in Kuwait's delegation scheduled to arrive for talks in February 2006 in [...]
2005-12-19 03:55:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD KU
05MADRID3260SPAIN: AN ACTIVE FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR
[...] (C) Summary. Spain is both a significant target of Islamic terrorist groups and a major logistical hub for Islamic extremist groups operating across the globe. The March 11, 2004 train bombings made Madrid the site of the worst terrorist attack in the history of the EU and triggered the second majo [...]
2005-09-15 10:18:00Embassy MadridSECRETPTER PGOV SP
05MANAMA14BAHRAIN'S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL LEADERS CONDEMN
[...] (C) Bahrainis disregarded London-based Saudi dissident Dr. Saad Al Faqih's call for protests against the Saudi Arabian government following Friday prayers December 31. While police stood by, worshippers departed the Al Fateh Grand Mosque compound in a normal fashion. Al Faqih's appeal provok [...]
2005-01-03 10:56:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ASEC BA SA
05MANAMA143 BAHRAIN: WTO NON-AGRICULTURAL MARKET
[...] Per reftel request post recommends the following Bahraini private sector contacts to be included in a discussion about a sectoral approach to tariff liberalization: Abdul Ghaffar Abdul Hussein Chairman, Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions Tel. (+973) 1772-7333 Fax. (+973) 1772-9599 E-mail [...]
2005-02-01 11:43:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD BA WTO
05NEWDELHI5522INDIAN POLICE DETAIL L-E-T ROLE IN AYODHYA ATTACKS
[...] (C) Summary: Indian police and press sources have broadly outlined the role of Lashkar-e-Taiba (L-e-T) in the July 5 attack on the disputed Ayodhya temple site in Uttar Pradesh. Several suspected accomplices have been detained, the alleged "mastermind" is reported to have returned to Pakistan, [...]
2005-07-18 10:20:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL IN PK
05RABAT1072MOROCCO POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (C) Norwegian Ambassador Returns: Emboffs were pleased to greet the freshly groomed and chastened Norwegian ambassador, Arne Aasheim, at Norway's National Day reception on May 17. Aasheim returned to Morocco on May 15 after being recalled to Oslo on May 4 to clarify public remarks on the We [...]
2005-05-20 12:18:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV KMPI PREL PHUM MO MOROCCO POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS
05SANAA1244YEMEN GRAPPLES WITH POSSIBLE EXECUTION OF A MINOR
[...] (U) Summary. On May 2, President Saleh suspended the death sentence of murder defendant Amina Ali Abdallah al-Tuhaif. The suspension was a direct result of international and local pressure to revisit the case due to questions on whether or not Al-Tuhaif committed murder when she was a minor. [...]
2005-05-10 12:08:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPHUM YM
05SANAA144RECENT JUDICIAL RESHUFFLE: REFORM OR VANDETTA
[...] (U) Summary. Most legal experts view a recent reshuffle of the Yemeni judiciary by the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) more as a vendetta against supporters of rebel cleric Hussein al-Houthi (reftel) than as a serious effort to reform Yemen's weak judiciary. What is required, they note, is a po [...]
2005-01-25 11:36:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KMPI KMCA KCOR YM KHUM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA2317EXBS ADVISOR VISIT AND PROGRAM STRATEGY JULY, 2005
[...] (U) SUMMARY. During the period July 9-19, 2005, Export Controls and Related Border Security (EXBS) Advisor met with Yemeni officials and principal Embassy staff to discuss the current state of EXBS in Yemen. Advisor met with senior representatives of the Ministry of Interior, the Yemen and A [...]
2005-08-14 07:59:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP YM MARITIME SECURITY
05SANAA9MCC VISITS SANAA: YEMEN ON THE THRESHOLD
[...] (SBU) Summary. USAID Millennium Challenge Account Secretariat Representatives Bryan Kurtz and Steve Feldstein SIPDIS and MCC Threshold Country Managing Director Kevin Saba briefed senior level ROYG officials at the Ministries of Planning, Justice, and Human Rights December 16-19 on requirem [...]
2005-01-02 15:05:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA KCOR PGOV YM KMEPI ECON COM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
05TELAVIV839ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) vowed to take action against any future Palestinian cease-fire violation after Palestinians fired more than 4 [...]
2005-02-11 11:51:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06ADANA130SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 01, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-02 05:02:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA142TURKEY: IRAQI INTERNATIONAL FAIR IN GAZIANTEP
[...] (U) Summary: The first Iraqi International Fair was held in Gaziantep on June 7-11, with the goal of increasing economic and trade relations between Turkey and Iraq, as well as among other countries in the region. With high-level business and government participation from Turkey, Iraq and othe [...]
2006-06-15 11:09:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PREL PHUM CASC TU SY IZ
06ADANA96SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 28, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-28 13:40:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06AMMAN1261SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN OF LIEUTENANT
[...] (C) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT ON 22-24 FEBRUARY 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAI [...]
2006-02-21 12:25:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL MARR JO
06AMMAN1511AMBASSADOR CRUMPTON'S VISIT TO JORDAN'S 71ST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Henry Crumpton, U.S. Coordinator for Counterterrorism (CT),discussed Jordanian CT capabilities - and CT training for foreign special operations forces - with the commander of the 71st Jordanian Counterterrorism Battalion during a February 28 visit to Jordan. END SUMMA [...]
2006-03-02 10:38:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL PTER MARR MCAP IZ JO
06AMMAN1657SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN OF LIEUTENANT
[...] (S) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT ON 8-9 MARCH 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAINTAIN [...]
2006-03-07 05:29:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREL
06AMMAN2234SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN OF GENERAL
[...] (S) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT ON 28-29 MARCH 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAINTA [...]
2006-03-28 12:05:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREF
06AMMAN234SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN OF LIEUTENANT
[...] (C) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT 16-17 JANUARY 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAINTAI [...]
2006-01-12 18:09:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREL
06AMMAN2711JORDAN DEMOCRATIC REFORM STATUS REPORT: FIRST
[...] (C) Prime Minister Marouf Al Bakhit continues working to build consensus within Jordan's political system for several of the recommendations contained in the report of the Commission for the National Agenda, a blue-ribbon panel which produced a ten-year plan for reform toward the end of the te [...]
2006-04-17 04:58:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KMPI JO
06AMMAN3180SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN OF LIEUTENANT
[...] (S) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT ON 6-7 MAY 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAINTAIN RE [...]
2006-05-04 14:34:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREL
06AMMAN4124SCENESETTER FOR THE CONUS VISIT OF GENERAL KHALID
[...] (S) GENERAL KHALID JAMIL SARAYREH WILL VISIT THE UNITED STATES AT THE INVITATION OF GENERAL PETER PACE, CJCS, 15-24 JUN 2006 UNDER THE COUNTERPARTS' VISIT PROGRAM. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. THIS VISIT WILL ALLOW US TO FURTHER ENHANC [...]
2006-06-08 09:19:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREL
06AMMAN5352MEDIA REACTION ON MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-17 11:50:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR JO
06AMMAN5363MEDIA REACTION ON MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-17 12:12:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR JO
06AMMAN7727New Environment Law Creates Incentive Fund, Ranger Force
[...] Summary: The Ministry of Environment has a new basic law, a new enforcement corps of environmental rangers, a new "Environmental Fund" to provide economic incentives for environmental protection, and has been fundamentally reorganized. QIZs are a priority area for enforcement. End summary. [...]
2006-10-10 12:33:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD EAID PGOV JO
06AMMAN8269PROSECUTOR DISMISSES COMPLAINT AGAINST ADNAN ABU
[...] (SBU) Summary: The prosecutor for Jordan's State Security Court announced November 5 that he had determined there were no grounds to take action on a complaint that several private citizens had lodged against Palestinian-Jordanian elder statesman and author Adnan Abu Odeh. End summary. [...]
2006-11-05 15:14:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPGOV PINR KPAL KDEM JO
06AMMAN863SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN LIEUTENANT
[...] (C) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT ON 8 FEBURARY 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAINTAI [...]
2006-02-06 15:23:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREL
06ANKARA1511ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-22 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1528DISARRAY OVER CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR SYMPTOMATIC OF
[...] (C) Summary: The process of selecting a new Central Bank Governor moved from comedy to farce as President Sezer and Prime Minister Erdogan traded confusing statements about the state of play. The disarray over selection of a new Central Bank Governor reflects Erdogan,s pro-Islam ruling Jus [...]
2006-03-23 12:41:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV TU
06ANKARA1629IMF CRITICISM OF TURKEY COINCIDES WITH PRESIDENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-27 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PBIO TU
06ANKARA1943KIRSEHIR: A CITY CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kirsehir, two hours southeast of Ankara, is an Anatolian city of 88,000 plagued by a lack of business investment. Blessed with geothermal resources and included in the government investment incentive scheme for low-income provinces, Kirsehir hopes to generate a tourism market [...]
2006-04-10 12:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINS ECON EFIN EAGR TU
06ANKARA2041TURKEY'S FINANCE MINISTER REITERATES COMMITMENT TO
[...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging April 11 conversation, Finance Minister Unakitan told Ambassador that Turkey's government remains committed to fiscal discipline, sound economic policies, and structural reforms, welcoming the fact that Ambassador had come to him rather than rely on distorted [...]
2006-04-14 11:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN TU
06ANKARA3099ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-26 14:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA40WILL THE ALAN GREENSPAN OF TURKEY BE REPLACED?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Many observers have worried that the AKP Government may replace Central Bank Governor Sureyya Serdengecti when his term expires in March. Our view -- supported by Serdengecti himself -- is that even if PM Erdogan decides not to reappoint the founding father of Turkey's indepe [...]
2006-01-04 11:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PBIO TU
06ANKARA4933REGIONAL DYNAMISM SPURRING HOPE IN TURKEY'S KURDS
[...] (U) This is an AmCon Adana message. 2. (C) Summary: Turkey's Kurdish political and business leaders believe that progress in Northern Iraq could produce positive ripple effects in Turkey's troubled southeast: economic benefits have already affected local businesses and they hope the shared [...]
2006-08-25 12:14:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PHUM TU
06ANKARA6501BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON
[...] SUMMARY: Per reftel request, we met with officials from Yasar Demirel-Yasar Ticaret (YDYT) to discuss application 05-1006551, an export license request for armored vehicle parts. According YDYT, there is no impending $1 million USD contract with U.S. firm Relli Technology Inc. or any other U [...]
2006-11-24 13:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC TU
06ANKARA6589TURKEY: CENTER-RIGHT LEADER AGAR: POLITICIANS TO
[...] (C) Summary: In Ambassador's November 24 meeting Mehmet Agar, leader of the center-right True Path Party (DYP),Agar focused mainly on DYP's domestic strategy to answer society's demands for change that he believes the current Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has not met. For DYP [...]
2006-12-05 16:01:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU AM
06ANKARA6729GOT'S IRAQ ENVOY CONTINUES OUTREACH TO SUNNIS AND
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey is continuing its efforts to bring Sunni Arabs into the Iraqi political process, GOT Special Envoy Celikkol told us Dec. 19. Celikkol insisted Turkey was powerless to prevent rejectionist Sunnis from meeting in Istanbul last week. Officials in Jordan and the UAE are worri [...]
2006-12-22 12:17:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PTER PGOV TU IZ IR SY
06BAGHDAD1054SUNNI PARTIES SQUABBLE OVER POSITIONS
[...] (C) Hassan al-Bazzaz, an advisor to Tawaffuq leader Adnan al-Dulaymi, told Poloff on April 1 that government formation talks are suffering from internal squabbling among the three Tawaffuq leaders. Bazzaz said that Tareq al-Hashimi is trying to exclude Adnan al-Dulaymi from a senior position [...]
2006-04-01 13:51:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT IZ
06BAGHDAD1155COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER COMPLAINS ABOUT JAFARI
[...] (C) SUMMARY. CoR and Iraqiyya list member (and head of the Iraqi Communist Party) Hamid Majeed Mousa told PolOff and PolFSN April 4 that a delegation of Jafari supporters from Dawa and Dawa Tanzim had met with an Iraqiyya List delegation April 3. The Jafari supporters reportedly said the Shia [...]
2006-04-08 19:23:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD1352POLITICAL BLOCS MOVING TO NEGOTIATE CABINET
[...] (C) Summary. Three days after the Parliament elected its Presidency Council and House Speakers, the four major political blocs have switched focus to the next step in the government formation process, the naming of a cabinet. They are forming committees to negotiate ministerial names with e [...]
2006-04-25 18:55:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT IZ
06BAGHDAD1355PROVINCIAL REACTION TO PM SELECTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Initial reactions from provincial contacts to Nuri Kamal (Jawad al-Maliki)'s selection as Iraq's next PM have been positive. Shia Islamists tended to view the new PM as equally capable as Jafari at promoting the UIC agenda. Sunnis and Kurds tended to question his independence, [...]
2006-04-25 20:48:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT IZ
06BAGHDAD1360SUNNI ARAB POLITICIANS ALREADY SPLIT ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunni Arab politicians in Tawafuq remain internally divided about the new Iraqi government formation. A well-connected Sunni Arab politician told us April 23 that there is great resentment that the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) is dominating the process at the expense of the other tw [...]
2006-04-26 09:26:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD1395CABINET FORMATION UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary. Cabinet discussions between the Shia Coalition and the Kurds are well underway (See reftel). Internal Iraqiyya meetings have yet to produce results, as members await Ayad Allawi's decision whether or not Iraqiyya will participate. Iraqiyya may opt to go into opposition unless th [...]
2006-04-28 13:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT IZ
06BAGHDAD1441CABINET FORMATION AND PM OFFICE UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary. In an April 30 meeting with PolOffs, Shia Coalition independent Sami al-Askari reported that PM-designate Nuri Kamil al-Maliki has named Ahmad al-Saadawi as his private office director. Al-Maliki's inner circle is moving forward with re-organization and expansion plans for the PM [...]
2006-05-01 22:02:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT PINR IZ
06BAGHDAD1469COR UPDATE: BYLAWS COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At their May 3 session, Council of Representatives (CoR) members appeared to take in stride security concerns, building maintenance problems, and occasional outbursts from the floor to appoint a committee to draw up a list of internal bylaws. Speaker Mahmud al-Mashadani gave a t [...]
2006-05-03 21:55:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD1540DISCUSSIONS CONTINUE ON GOVERNMENT POSITIONS
[...] (C) Summary. The day before PM-designate al-Maliki's May 9 target date for announcement of the new government, debate among and within political blocs continued over key positions. Tawafuq appears to have settled on Agriculture specialist (and Adnan al-Dulaimi ally) Salam Zakam al-Zuba'i as [...]
2006-05-08 15:02:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT ECON KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD1559CABINET FORMATION UPDATE: PROGRESS BUT STILL A
[...] (C) Summary: At the close of May 10, we see progress in the cabinet formation negotiations, with some ministries, such as the Foreign Ministry, Electricity and Oil, nearly finalized while debates about several ministries crystallized. Prime Minister-designate al- Maliki and Shia Coalition I [...]
2006-05-10 19:12:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD1562JA'AFARI'S FAREWELL: PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At a lavish farewell lunch hosted by President Talabani for outgoing Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Ja'afari on May 8, the entire Iraqi political world showed up to pay their respects. In the end, however, Ja'afari's farewell mirrored his tenure as Prime Minister as all those present [...]
2006-05-11 06:34:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IR IZ
06BAGHDAD1566GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: MUCH SWIRLING,
[...] (C) Summary: We still see no closure on the key Interior, Defense and Finance ministry portfolios. Tawafuq negotiator Ali Baban told Poloff on May 10 that Tawafuq wanted the Planning, Education and Health Ministries but has not yet received confirmation that they will get them. He also said [...]
2006-05-11 17:46:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT IZ
06BAGHDAD1572UNIFIED KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT FORMED,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Iraqi and foreign government officials gathered on May 7 in Erbil to celebrate the naming of the unified Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Iraqi government officials present included Deputy President Adil Abd al-Mahdi, Speaker Mahmud al-Mashadani, Tawafuq leader Adnan [...]
2006-05-12 18:12:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IR IZ
06BAGHDAD1573DPM CANDIDATE ZAWBI'E SAYS VIOLENCE GROWING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Tawafuq nominee for Deputy Prime Minister Salam Zakum Ali Fadhi Al-Zawbi'e told Ambassador Khalilzad on May 8 that bloodshed and terrorism in Iraq are growing in a noticeable way. According to Zawbi'e however, the security situation is not terminal, and, if he is given the aut [...]
2006-05-12 18:18:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PNAT IZ
06BAGHDAD1664MALIKI WINS BROAD CONFIDENCE IN A NATIONAL UNITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki won a wide vote of confidence in a national unity cabinet in a special parliament session on May 20, but not before several Sunni Arab parliamentarians walked out of the session protesting their exclusion and a continued deadlock over the security por [...]
2006-05-20 19:34:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD1690IMPLICATIONS OF SUNNI COALITION SPLIT
[...] (C) Summary. The simmering conflict within the Sunni Tawafuq bloc exploded on May 20 when Adb Nasir al-Janabi lead a walkout by about a dozen of the 59 Sunni Arab CoR members during Prime Minister Maliki's presentation of the cabinet (reftel A). The walkout was a manifestation of a long sta [...]
2006-05-22 16:36:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PNAT PTER IZ
06BAGHDAD1825PARLIAMENT SEEKS IECI GUIDANCE ON HOW MEMBERS ARE
[...] (C) Deputy Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Arif Taifour told PolOff and PolFSN May 24 that Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani had sent a letter to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) requesting their guidance on how members who have resigned to become ministers or members of th [...]
2006-05-31 03:41:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD1894PARLIAMENT SESSION POSTPONED; NO VOTE ON MOD OR
[...] (U) Three hours after the scheduled session start time, Deputy Speaker Khalid Attiyah announced to the media June 4 the postponement of the Council of Representatives (CoR) session "until further notice" to "give the PM a greater chance to hold further consultations" on the candidates for the [...]
2006-06-05 14:27:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD1911CODEL BLUNT DISCUSSES PKK AND TURKEY WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings in the Kurdistan Region on May 31, CODEL Blunt met with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masud Barzani, Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) Adnan Mufti and Kamal Kirkuki [...]
2006-06-07 04:54:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU IR IZ
06BAGHDAD1940IRAQI GOVERNMENT COMPLETE - FINAL VOTES ON
[...] (C) Prime Minister Nuri Maliki presented to the CoR the final three ministerial candidates to complete his government. After some debate, Jawad Bolani was approved as Minister of Interior by a vote of 182 to 16, and Abdel Qader Jassim al-Mufraji was approved for Minister of Defense by a vote [...]
2006-06-08 10:50:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD1960SEVERE ABUSE AT MINISTRY OF INTERIOR SITE 4
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May, a joint U.S.-Iraqi inspection of the "Site 4" Iraqi National Police (INP) detention complex discovered more than 1,400 detainees in squalid, cramped conditions. Forty-one detainees interviewed had bruising and lash-marks consistent with violent physical abuse. Thirty-seve [...]
2006-06-10 04:21:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MARR MOPS DOJ CRIM OPDAT KJUS IZ
06BAGHDAD1985JUNE 8 PARLIAMENT SESSION DEADLOCKS OVER SPEAKER'S
[...] (C) Summary. The June 8 Council of Representatives (CoR) session deadlocked in a dispute over the powers of the Speaker over CoR personnel matters. The Shia Coalition supported an amendment that would limit the authority of the Speaker, thus allowing the two Deputies to overrule the Speaker [...]
2006-06-12 11:53:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD2026IRAQ NATIONAL ACCORD CONFERENCE DELAYED TO AUGUST
[...] (C) Summary: Pol/C delivered on June 12 reftel points to Arab League Assistant Secretary General Ahmed Bin Hili and Ambassador to Iraq Mokhtar Lamani. Bin Hili said that the Iraqi National Accord Conference scheduled for June 20-22 was pushed back to the first week of August due to a date con [...]
2006-06-15 11:11:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD203AMBASSADOR AND INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSS JILL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-24 18:05:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PINS MARR IZ
06BAGHDAD2044FOOD SUBSIDY REFORM AND WTO ACCESSION GAIN MOMENTUM
[...] (C) Summary: Adnan J. Shareefi, Ministry of Trade Chief of Staff, told us June 14 that Trade Minister Al-Sudani would like to reform Iraq's Public Distribution System (PDS) by distributing only the most critical food ration items and gradually monetizing the PDS, hopefully starting later this [...]
2006-06-16 13:44:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PINR IZ
06BAGHDAD2136MEETING WITH NEW MINISTER OF INTERIOR, JAWAD
[...] (C) On June 18, EmbOffs met with the new Minister of Interior, Jawad al-Bolani, to congratulate him on his appointment and to pledge ongoing U.S. support for the ministry's efforts to combat terrorism and criminality. EmbOffs emphasized the importance of enhancing public confidence in the mini [...]
2006-06-22 02:48:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM KJUS PINS PGOV IZ
06BAGHDAD22INTERNATIONAL MISSION FOR IRAQI ELECTIONS (IMIE)
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 3, IMIE representatives Fred Schaffer and Reem Ersheid told Poloffs that IMIE is sensitive to the media and political pressures associated with their efforts, and would therefore make a preliminary announcement before IECI's final certification of results. The IECI pl [...]
2006-01-03 12:31:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD2203PM PRESENTS NATIONAL RECONCILIATION PLAN TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. PM Maliki delivered his national reconciliation statement to the Council of Representatives (CoR) June 25. Leaders of political blocs responded in turn, with broadly supportive speeches. Points of contention included de-Baathification and the distinction between terrorists an [...]
2006-06-25 19:48:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
06BAGHDAD2281PM MALIKI UPBEAT ON REACTION TO RECONCILIATION PLAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a June 28 meeting, Prime Minister Maliki said that he is optimistic about his upcoming trip to the Gulf and pleased with Ambassador's readout of his own consultations in Jeddah, in which Ambassador reported that the Saudis are ready to help Maliki with reconciliation and the In [...]
2006-06-29 10:40:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETIZ PGOV PREL
06BAGHDAD2346TAWAFUQ WALKS OUT OF COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY Reactions to the July 1 Sadr City car bombing and kidnapping of a female Tawafuq parliamentarian dominated the July 2 Council of Representatives (CoR) session. A leading Sadrist demanded that the CoR vote to choose a date for MNF-I withdrawal and to activate "popular committees" t [...]
2006-07-03 17:50:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD2363VP HASHIMI DISCUSSES MALIKI VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA
[...] (C) On June 29, Vice President Tarik al-Hashimi and the Ambassador discussed PM Maliki's upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia. The Ambassador pointed to the trip as a prelude to improved Iraqi-Saudi and Iraqi-Arab relations. The Ambassador also highlighted the KSA's preoccupation with Iranian infl [...]
2006-07-05 12:25:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS PTER IZ
06BAGHDAD2380TRADE MINISTER FIGHTING FOOD SUBSIDY CORRUPTION
[...] (C) Summary: Trade Minister Al-Sudani told us on July 3 that he is ready to install electronic tracking systems in the Ministry of Trade's (MoT) trucks and warehouses to fight corruption in the Public Distribution System (PDS). He said he would like Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih's Econo [...]
2006-07-07 12:24:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON ETRD KCOR PINR IZ
06BAGHDAD258ALLAWI ALLY SAYS AYAD OPEN TO OVERSEEING SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary. Safia Suhail told Poloffs January 30 that former PM Allawi would be open to a government appointment overseeing the security ministries. She added that SCIRI's Abd' al-Aziz al-Hakim is trying to establish a political marja'iya in order to remain in power over ever-increasing popul [...]
2006-01-30 13:11:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT KDEM KWMN IZ
06BAGHDAD2690PM MALIKI WEIGHS IN ON DE-BATH RULING
[...] (C) Five party leaders from the Iraqiyya list met with Ambassador Khalilzad on July 22 to ask for assistance in reversing De-Ba'thification rulings that prevented three of them from taking their CoR seats. Adnan al-Janabi, Rasim al-Awadi, Saad al-Janabi, (the three who were de-Bathed) joined [...]
2006-07-28 07:30:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD3005PDS ISSUES TO WATCH CLOSELY, TARIFF AND WTO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-18 13:06:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL IZ
06BAGHDAD3045REPLACEMENT COR MEMBERS UPDATE: 15 OF 18 MEMBERS
[...] (C) Using the flexibility granted by the Replacement Members Law, the political blocs have almost completed naming new Council of Representatives (CoR) members. Of the 18 members (all male) who resigned, 15 replacement members have been named and 14 sworn in. Of these fifteen, 6 are female, [...]
2006-08-21 17:18:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD3534REGIONS LAW ACTION NOW SET FOR SEPTEMBER 24
[...] (C) CoR Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashadani announced to the CoR September 20 that the parliamentary bloc leaders had agreed to delay action on the region formation law until September 24. The agreement states that "we agreed on how to deal with these issues, among them the draft law on region form [...]
2006-09-21 05:20:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
06BAGHDAD357GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: SHAHRISTANI SAYS GAP
[...] (C) Shia Independent PM candidate Shahristani told visiting DAS Godec February 6 that the gap has narrowed considerably in UIA 555 discussion on PM candidates. Both Shahristani and Shia Independent Sami al-Askari told us February 6 that the Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555) would put the mat [...]
2006-02-06 20:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ PGOV PNAT
06BAGHDAD3574SISTANI STAYS SILENT BUT REMAINS INFLUENTIAL ON
[...] (SBU) As debate over federalism dominates political conversations throughout Iraq, Shia politicians frequently claim that Ayatollah Sistani supports their point of view, even though Sistani has not issued a public statement on the issue. Moqtada al Sadr reportedly has made his support for a la [...]
2006-09-25 14:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
06BAGHDAD3609IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT AL-HASHEMI REVIEWS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice President Tariq Al-Hashemi discussed federalism and constitutional review with the Ambassador on September 25, agreeing on the need for a broad consensus on these and related issues. He was optimistic about efforts being made to improve security in Anbar and Diyala but cau [...]
2006-09-27 09:11:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS IZ
06BAGHDAD3688OCTOBER 1 MCNS MEETING: INTERNATIONAL ZONE
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The October 1 meeting of the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) focused on potential security threats to Baghdad's International Zone (IZ),resulting in a decision to search all people entering the IZ with potentially compromised blue security badges. MNF-I Comm [...]
2006-10-03 12:27:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PINS PGOV MOPS IZ
06BAGHDAD3691IRAQI VP HASHIMI HAILS CROSS-SECTARIAN MEETINGS;
[...] (C) Summary: During an October 2 meeting with CODEL Warner, Iraqi Sunni Vice President Hashimi gave a read-out of the previous evening,s cross-sectarian meeting organized by PM Maliki to deal with Iraq,s militia problem. For the first time, Hashimi said, Shiite Itilaf interlocutors spoke &fr [...]
2006-10-03 15:39:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
06BAGHDAD3693POLITICAL LEADERSHIP WELCOMES MALIKI PEACE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The four-point agreement signed October 2 by representatives of all the main Sunni and Shia political groups pledging to end militia violence was met with optimism by most national-level GOI contacts poloffs spoke to. Some Sunni political leaders noted that while the [...]
2006-10-03 19:21:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
06BAGHDAD382SUNNI LEADERS TELL DAS GODEC VIOLENCE MUST STOP
[...] (C) NEA DAS Robert Godec met on February 6 with key leaders from the Sunni Tawaffuq coalition at the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) headquarters. Dr. Adnan Dulaymi, Tarik al-Hashimi, Sheykh Khalaf Al-Ayan and Professor Hassan Bazzaz told DAS Godec that the security situation is their main concern. [...]
2006-02-08 08:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT PTER PHUM IZ
06BAGHDAD383NEW SCIRI PARLIAMENTARIANS TALK ABOUT MOI,
[...] (C) Summary. In a February 6 introductory meeting, two newly-elected SCIRI parliamentarians rejected Sunni complaints about MOI abuses and stated that Minister of Interior (SCIRI) Bayan Jabr is doing an excellent job. They added that the Shia Coalition will insist on retaining the MOI in g [...]
2006-02-08 08:17:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PINR PINS PHUM IZ
06BAGHDAD3861IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIAN ON IRAQIYYA PARTY PROBLEMS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 13 meeting, parliamentarian and secular cross-sectarian Iraqiyya party member Maysoon Al-Damluji told the Ambassador that Hameed Mousa, acting as the head of Iraqiyya, had defied Ayad Allawi's instructions to boycott the key October 11 region formation law vote. The [...]
2006-10-16 11:43:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ KWMN PGOV PHUM
06BAGHDAD3971IRAQI MP GIVES SHI'A NARRATIVE OF DIYALA'S
[...] (C) Summary: According to Diyala native and Council of Representatives (CoR) member Taha Der'a al-Saadi (Shi'a coalition independent),nascent cross-sectarian security cooperation in Iraq's Diyala governorate has ended and Sunnis, with the help of local offcials, are actively seeking to expe [...]
2006-10-23 07:51:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ PGOV PINS PREL
06BAGHDAD4056KURDISTAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ADNAN MUFTI ON
[...] (U) This is a PRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Adnan Mufti , Speaker of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA),discussed the new investment law and relations with Iran and Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) during a meeting with Erbil IPAO at t [...]
2006-10-30 06:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IR IZ
06BAGHDAD4098IRAQI MINISTER DEFENDS EFFORTS ON SECURITY AND
[...] (C) In an October 17 meeting with National Security Advisor to the Vice President John Hannah, and the Charge, Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr, defended his record at MoI, where he served as Minister from April 2005 to May 2006. Asked by Hannah whether his tenure at MoI had resulted in the mini [...]
2006-11-01 20:26:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS ECON IZ
06BAGHDAD4104AYATOLLAH HUSSEIN AL-SADR COMMENTS ON IRAQ'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ayatollah Hussein Al-Sadr shared his views on the need for the emergence of new, moderate political figures to pull Iraq out of its current political crises and on regional relations at an Iftar with Ambassador Khalilzad on October 22. He discussed three possible options to reorg [...]
2006-11-02 13:46:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
06BAGHDAD4125DEPUTY PRESIDENT MADHI AND VICE PRESIDENT ADVISOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy President Adil abd al-Mahdi informed John Hannah, National Security Advisor to the Vice President, October 19 that Iraq is ready to take more risks in exchange for additional responsibilities in maintaining security and suggested adding amendments to UNSCR 1546 that would [...]
2006-11-05 08:17:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS IZ
06BAGHDAD4217PM RAISES SUNNI LEADERSHIP, UNSCR AND
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In a November 4 meeting, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki discussed continuing concerns over the sincerity of Sunni cooperation within the GOI, specifically referring to their efforts towards reconciliation. The Ambassador raised UNSCR renewal, highlighting potential contradiction [...]
2006-11-13 07:08:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV PINS IZ
06BAGHDAD4275PRT DIYALA - PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT WEAKENED BY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Diyala's reconstruction efforts and the provincial government?s ability to manage its affairs have been increasingly hindered as the province's security situation has worsened over recent months. Key Iraqi government personnel in various departments have been killed, kidnappe [...]
2006-11-19 14:01:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL SOCI IZ
06BAGHDAD4277IRAQ'S INTERIOR MINISTRY ISSUES WARRANT FOR
[...] (S/NF) Summary. On November 16 and 17, multiple Iraqi media sources reported that Iraq's Ministry of Interior (MOI) had issued a warrant for hard-line Sunni cleric Harith al-Dhari, currently in Jordan, on unspecified charges. MOI later announced that this was not an arrest warrant, but an "in [...]
2006-11-19 18:27:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL PINS PNAT MOPS IZ
06BAGHDAD4297IRAQI PRESIDENT GIVES READOUT ON TRIP TO FRANCE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 18, President Talabani gave Charge a readout of his state visit to Paris earlier this month. Talabani stated that he was received by President Jacques Chirac, who had listened attentively as Talabani requested more French aid in police training and economic and trade [...]
2006-11-20 13:17:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR SY IZ
06BAGHDAD4318BAGHDAD INDEPENDENT LOCAL POLITICIANS DISCUSS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Independent members from eight of Baghdad's nine District Advisory Councils (DACs) told Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) members they are considering establishing a new liberal political party during a roundtable discussion hosted by PRT Baghdad on November 16. The P [...]
2006-11-22 09:39:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM PINR KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD432INITIAL REACTION TO JAFARI NOMINATION: MUTED
[...] (C) Summary: The Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555) February 12 voted 64-63 to renominate incumbent Ibrahim Jafari as Prime Minister. Jafari was supported by his Dawa Party, Dawa Tanzim, the Sadrists, and some independents in the Coalition. Jafari's challenger, Deputy President Adil Abd al- [...]
2006-02-13 03:37:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD4384PRT DIYALA: IRAQI ARMY GENERAL TARGETING DIYALA,S
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Credible evidence collected by Coalition forces (CF) working with Iraqi Army (IA) battalions and reported by senior Diyala government officials indicates that Diyala's IA Fifth Division Commander, Major General Hulail Husayn Shakir (Shi'a),is targeting Sunnis and abusing detain [...]
2006-11-28 15:13:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PINS PREL PHUM IZ
06BAGHDAD444GOVERNMENT FORMATION UPDATE: KURDISH MINISTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY On February 13, the day after the Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555) decision on PM nomination, Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation Barham Salih cautioned poloffs against assuming that Jafari now has a lock on the premiership. Salih said he would push for Thamir Ghadb [...]
2006-02-13 20:04:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT IZ
06BAGHDAD4451ADNAN DULAYMI'S GUARDS IN POLICE CUSTODY
[...] (C) Summary: Emboffs have received numerous reports from the mixed Sunni-Shia Al-Adil neighborhood, where Sunni Tawafuq bloc leader Adnan Dulaymi is based, of anti-Shia harassment and violent acts attributed to Dulaymi's security detail. In a controversial twist, nine of Dulaymi's bodyguard [...]
2006-12-05 09:02:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM PTER IZ
06BAGHDAD4464BAGHDAD LOCAL LEADERS SAY NOVEMBER VIOLENCE
[...] (C) Summary. Several District Advisory Council (DAC) Members in Baghdad and a number of average citizens expressed concern recently about what they see as a further decline in public faith in the central government following a spike in violence in November. The turning point, some said, was t [...]
2006-12-06 08:16:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALKDEM PHUM PGOV SOCI PINS IZ
06BAGHDAD454GROUPS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE SHIA COALITION PONDER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurdish leadership, Ayad Allawi, and Tawafuq leaders met the morning of February 13 to consider their reaction to Ibrahim al-Jafari's nomination to the premiership. Their discussions included two options: (a) forging a contract with Jafari on the basis of a clear government [...]
2006-02-14 15:43:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD4574AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MODERATE FRONT, SYRIA, VISIT
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Council of Representative (CoR) member Sayyed Ayad Jamal al-Din (Iraqiyya) December 15 to discuss Iraqiyya's involvement in the new Moderate Front (reftel). Jamal al-Din requested the Ambassador's support to facilitate a trip to the US for a three-person I [...]
2006-12-15 16:59:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS IZ
06BAGHDAD4613POLITICAL PARTIES CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON KEY THEMES
[...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of State for Reconciliation and National Dialogue hosted the much anticipated political parties conference December 16-17 in Baghdad. The GOI intends for this conference to be one in a series of political party conferences although future dates have not been announced. [...]
2006-12-18 19:54:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS KDEM PHUM IZ
06BAGHDAD4682ISG Report criticized by Speaker of Iraqi Kurdish
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Adnan Mufti, Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil, Iraq, sent the Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) identical copies of a letter to President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, a [...]
2006-12-24 07:18:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM PTER IZ
06BAGHDAD4768THE KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ: THE ISSUES, THE
[...] (C) Summary: The Kurdistan Region of Iraq is flourishing compared to the rest of Iraq, and is actively recruiting foreign investment and even international tourism. The Kurdish region is generally much more secure than the rest of the country, although illicit trafficking in arms, fighters [...]
2006-12-30 01:35:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD4771MUTHANNA: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, POSSIBLE STEPS
[...] (S) Summary: Muthanna is beset by militia intimidation -- notably by the Jash al Mahdi (JAM) -- power shortages, and poor economic performance. That said, the province is currently stable, relatively secure, and has a reasonably effective provincial government. MNF-I efforts could be effec [...]
2006-12-30 01:35:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD4775NAJAF PROVINCE: THE ISSUES, THE LEADERS, POSSIBLE
[...] (S) Summary: Najaf is dominated by the SCIRI party, which controls half the seats on the PC. As one of the holiest locations in Shi'a Islam, it is also home to the country's top religious leaders. The economy in Najaf continues to flourish as a result of tourism. Security has been relativ [...]
2006-12-30 01:35:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD4776IRAQI KURDISTAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ADNAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Regional Coordinator and RRT Poloff, the Speaker of the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly Adnan Mufti criticized the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, alleged that the State Department does not take into account Kurdish needs, and said the Kurds have to r [...]
2006-12-30 01:35:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON PINR IZ
06BAGHDAD4777IRAQI KURDISTAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ADNAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Regional Coordinator and RRT Poloff, the Speaker of the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly Adnan Mufti criticized the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, alleged that the State Department does not take into account Kurdish needs, and said the Kurds have to r [...]
2006-12-30 01:36:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON PINR IZ
06BAGHDAD4786ISG Report criticized by Speaker of Iraqi Kurdish
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Adnan Mufti, Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil, Iraq, sent the Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) identical copies of a letter to President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, a [...]
2006-12-31 05:48:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM PTER IZ
06BAGHDAD481SCHEMING IN BAGHDAD: SUNNI ARAB DESCRIBES PLAN TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Allawi allies told us February 15 that the USG should urge Talabani to join with Sunni Arabs and Allawi to form a larger parliamentary bloc than that of the Shia Islamist List 555. Separately, Sunni Arab Tawafuq Front official Mahmoud al-Mashadani speculated that Sunni and Kurdi [...]
2006-02-16 09:29:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT KDEM
06BAGHDAD497(U) KURDISH POLITICIAN MAHMUD OTHMAN: KIRKUK IS
[...] (C) Summary: Kurdish government formation negotiating team member Dr. Mahmud Othman told PolOffs on February 15 that he stood by his comments in Al Dustour newspaper calling on Prime Minister- elect Ja'afari to commit publicly to resolving the Kirkuk issue. On Ja'afari nomination, Othman su [...]
2006-02-16 20:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT IZ
06BAGHDAD498ZEBARI SAYS JAFARI DOES NOT HAVE LOCK ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY FM Zebari told PolCouns February 16 that Jafari does not have a lock on the premiership, although Zebari doubted SCIRI and Fadhila would leave the Shia Coalition as that would be contrary to the wishes of Grand Ayatollah Sistani. SCIRI Chief of Staff Haitham al-Husseini, told Pol [...]
2006-02-16 21:19:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT KDEM
06BAGHDAD508PM SENIOR ADVISOR PREDICTS GOVERNMENT FORMATION
[...] (C) Summary. In a February 15 meeting, Jafari senior advisor Hassan Hamid Hassan Al-Seneid told PolOffs that the Shia Coalition has placed conditions on Jafari assuming the premiership, as well as on any other Shia Coalition holder of positions in the new government. He estimated that govern [...]
2006-02-17 18:24:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD574(CORRECTED COPY) QUIET MORNING FOLLOWS SIGNIFICANT VIOLENCE;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Although it appears there were more incidents on Wednesday after the Samarra mosque bombing than we reported (ref),there appear so far to be fewer incidents of sectarian violence on Thursday. Baghdad Deputy Mayor al-Bahrani told Poloff February 23 that approximately 30 Sunni mo [...]
2006-02-23 13:25:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PTER PNAT PREL IZ
06BAGHDAD591SUNNI ARAB LEADERS' REACTION TO SAMARA BOMBING
[...] (C) Summary: On February 23, Sunni Arab Tawafuq leaders refused to join President Talabani at a gathering of top Iraqi government officials in response to sectarian violence that followed the February 22 bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samara. At an afternoon press conference, Tawafuq leader [...]
2006-02-24 10:24:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD593OLDEST MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES
[...] (C) Summary. PolOff and PolFSN met February 22 with new Council of Representative (CoR) member Dr. Abd al-Lateef Abd al-Wahab Hassan al-Bedri. Dr. al-Bedri was the first candidate on the National Iraqi List (Allawi) slate in Salahadin. When PolOff informed him that he appeared to be the olde [...]
2006-02-24 15:28:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD594QUIET CONTINUES; ASSOCIATION OF MOSLEM SCHOLARS
[...] (C) SUMMARY Iraq was relatively calm on February 24. There was a curfew in effect most of the day in Baghdad and three surrounding provinces. There were no or reduced prayers at many Baghdad mosques. The Mahdi militia was out in force in some cities. Political and religious leaders, both S [...]
2006-02-24 15:40:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPINS PTER PHUM IZ
06BAGHDAD595GATHERING OF IRAQI LEADERS PRODUCES FRAIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi leaders arrived at a frail consensus for calm after a day of meetings and mutual recriminations on February 23. President Talabani issued a statement (after reading it aloud to unanimous approval at a meeting he hosted for Iraq's leadership) calling for peaceful demonstratio [...]
2006-02-24 15:52:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD601SITUATION UPDATE SATURDAY: VIOLENCE DIMINISHING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: By most accounts, Baghdad saw fewer acts of sectarian violence on 25 February than it had over the previous several days, largely due to the extended curfew still in effect. A variety of contacts told us that anti-Sunni violence had occurred overnight February 24-25, especially a [...]
2006-02-25 16:16:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD602AMBASSADOR RALLIES KEY PLAYERS AROUND PM'S CRISIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After a day of prodding, Sunni Arab leaders agreed over February 24-25 to join a government advisory committee that will unite key leaders and convene the evening of February 25 to plan the next steps following the Samarra tragedy. Prime Minister Jafari issued a plan February 24 [...]
2006-02-25 17:05:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD609JAFARI DRAWS SUNNI LEADERSHIP INTO CRISIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Prime Minister Jafari drew leaders from across the political spectrum into his crisis management process by convening a new advisory group late on February 25. For the first time since the Samarra tragedy, the Sunni Arab leadership directly engaged the top tier of the [...]
2006-02-26 16:43:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD630BORDER SECURITY OFFICERS PRAISE U.S. VISIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a recent gathering at the Embassy, eight Iraqis who visited the U.S. under the International Visitors Program from November 7 to 26, 2005, had overwhelmingly positive comments about their trip. END SUMMARY. --------- ITINERARY --------- 2. (SBU) The itinerary for the [...]
2006-02-28 07:09:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALSCUL PHUM PREL PINS IZ
06BAGHDAD649BIO OF NEW IRAQI MINISTRY OF INTERIOR INSPECTOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 2, 2006, Aqil Said was appointed as the new Inspector General (IG) for the Ministry of Interior (MOI). He told us that he had lived in Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Denmark . Members of the IG staff claim that Said is likely to be a puppet of the Minister of Interior, b [...]
2006-03-01 08:52:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPINR PHUM PGOV IZ
06BAGHDAD65ALLAWI/SUNNI ARAB GROUPS WILL ACCEPT ELECTION
[...] (C) Ibrahim al-Janabi, Chief of Staff to Dr. Ayad Allawi, told PolOffs January 8 that the political parties working with Allawi and the Sunni Arabs (MARAM) are beginning to concede the reality of the election results. He anticipated that they ultimately will negotiate for entry a national uni [...]
2006-01-09 08:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD659MARCH 2 SECURITY MEETING PRODUCES LITTLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Because of the latest spat with the Kurds, PM Jafari canceled a morning meeting of top political leaders that had been scheduled to discuss the security situation in Iraq. After much pushing from post, the meeting was held the evening of March 2. However, all the participants co [...]
2006-03-02 20:33:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PNAT KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD682SCIRI SIGNALS READINESS TO BE FLEXIBLE ABOUT PM;
[...] (S) SUMMARY: SCIRI Chief of Staff Haitham al-Husseini advised us March 4 of a party statement expressing commitment to the UIC 555 nomination of Jafari as PM, but indicating openness to discussions about who would be the best Prime Minister. PUK's Barham Salih welcomed the SCIRI statement and [...]
2006-03-04 20:20:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV PNAT IZ
06BAGHDAD749JAFARI PM NOMINATION STILL UNCERTAIN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There is no consensus yet on the fate of Ibrahim Jafari's PM nomination, with the Shia Coalition offering incentives for votes and Kurdish leaders threatening to withdraw from the government if a new nomination is not put forward. As of COB on Wednesday, we had conflicting repor [...]
2006-03-08 18:53:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PNAT KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD813SUNNI AND ALLAWI BLOCS READY FOR MORE GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of the March 14 meeting of the major political blocs' leaders to work on resolving the government formation dilemma, Tawafuq official Mahmud al- Mashadani told us that Sunni Arab and Shia Coalition negotiators were working toward formation of an Arab political bloc. H [...]
2006-03-13 20:46:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT IZ
06BAGHDAD822SHIA HARDLINER HINTS THE SHIA COALITION MAY YET
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-14 19:32:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV IZ
06BAGHDAD866RESOLVE AND RECRIMINATIONS BOTH IN THE AIR AS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Like so many carefully scripted events in Iraqi politics, the inauguration of the Council of Representatives on March 16 began poetically, had its moments of bickering over rules and procedures, and then spilled out into the hallway and onto the airwaves. After week [...]
2006-03-17 13:50:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM IZ
06BAGHDAD929 MOST IRAQI POLITICAL LEADERS CRITICIZE
[...] (C) Summary: The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani, responding to a request by SCIRI head Abdul Aziz Hakim, said Iran is ready to hold talks with the US on Iraq. Most - but not all - SCIRI leaders from the Shia Islamist Coalition were supportive of the talks [...]
2006-03-21 10:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IR IZ
06BAGHDAD95SHIA ISLAMISTS SIGNAL THEIR DISCONTENT WITH US
[...] (C) Summary: During the past week many of the Shia political and religious figures in Baghdad have sharpened their tone against Sunni Arab political figures. Their public and private signals of unhappiness with American policy are also stronger now than at any time since the transfer of so [...]
2006-01-11 10:59:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
06BAGHDAD989THE DISILLUSIONED MINDEF DULIME
[...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY. In a March 19 meeting with Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) Lieutenant General Dempsey and Acting PolMilCouns, Iraqi Minister of Defense Sadoun Al-Dulime, accompanied by Iraqi Commanding General Babakir Zibari, discussed his disillusionment w [...]
2006-03-25 18:29:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PINS MARR IZ
06BASRAH100BASRAH LEADERS DECLARE A "STATE OF PEACE" FOR THE WORLD CUP
[...] Summary. On June 8, the Regional Embassy Office (REO) organized an event at the Basrah Business Center (BBC) for the political, religious and tribal leaders of Basrah to publicly sign a declaration of peace for the period of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, June 9 - July 9. The event also [...]
2006-06-09 06:39:00REO BasrahUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PGOV IZ
06BASRAH113SUNNI TRIBAL LEADER CONCERNED ABOUT CONTINUED VIOLENCE
[...] (C) On July 2, the Regional Coordinator (RC) met with Sheikh Adnan Majeed al-Ghanim, the head of the al-Ghanim tribe. The RC opened the meeting by expressing his wishes for the rapid recovery of the sheikh's son, who was wounded in an assassination attempt on June 12 in Basrah. The RC also i [...]
2006-07-04 07:54:00REO BasrahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF IZ
06BASRAH140SUNNIS RETURNING TO BASRAH?
[...] (C) Summary: The Regional Coordinator (RC) and poloff held separate meetings with three prominent Sunni leaders - Sheik Khalid al-Mullah, Sheik Yusif al-Hamdani and Sheik Adnan al-Ghanim - to determine if there has been any improvement in the security environment for Sunnis in Basrah All th [...]
2006-08-28 09:32:00REO BasrahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF IZ
06BASRAH78SUNNI LEADERS EXPRESS THEIR ANGER OVER KILLINGS
[...] (C) Summary: On May 14 2006, the Regional Coordinator (RC),Deputy RC and Poloff attended a meeting with six prominent Sunni leaders at the diwan at the Al Abayachi mosque of Sheik Khalid al-Mulla, a moderate Sunni imam and a close contact of the Regional Embassy Office (see Ref. A). The Sunn [...]
2006-05-16 10:51:00REO BasrahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER SOCI KISL IZ
06BEIJING8803ARF INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING ON COUNTER TERRORISM
[...] (SBU) Summary: The March 26-28 ASEAN Regional Forum Inter-sessional Meeting on Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime focused on discussing "root causes" of terrorism but also gave participants an opportunity to exchange views on recent developments and national experiences in combating t [...]
2006-05-11 11:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER ARR ARF CH
06BEIRUT2841MURR: HIZBALLAH AND AOUN ARE PLOTTING SINIORA'S
[...] (S/NF) During an August 31 meeting with Ambassador Feltman and poloff, Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said that Hizballah, Michel Aoun, and their allies are planning to launch a potentially violent civil disobedience campaign in November aimed at toppling the Siniora government and putti [...]
2006-09-01 10:06:00Embassy BeirutSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER MOPS LE SY IS
06BEIRUT3517RIZK BEWILDERED BY LAHOUD'S ATTACK ON TRIBUNAL,
[...] (S) Over lunch with the Ambassador on 11/1, Minister of Justice Charles Rizk expressed bewilderment over the blistering attack his childhood friend (and Lebanese President) Emile Lahoud launched against him and the special Hariri tribunal on 10/30 and 10/31 (reftel). Rizk, who felt until La [...]
2006-11-01 16:19:00Embassy BeirutSECRETKCRM PREL PGOV PTER LE SY
06BELGRADE1626MONTENEGRO'S PM EXITS THE CENTER STAGE
[...] (U) Summary: President Vujanovic announced October 3 that Milo Djukanovic has declined to accept a mandate to continue as Prime Minister. The announcement ends Djukanovic's 16 years at the center of the Montenegrin stage, as either Prime Minister or President. Djukanovic will remain as the h [...]
2006-10-04 10:19:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR MW
06BERLIN889SHUTTING DOWN THE PKK IN FRANCE AND GERMANY:
[...] (S) Upon receipt of Ref A, DCM chaired a meeting of relevant members of the country team and post raised the issue of PKK support in Germany with the Turkish DCM and senior members of the German government. German officials state an awareness of the threats posed by the PKK and a readiness to [...]
2006-03-31 14:56:00Embassy BerlinSECRETPTER EFIN KCRM PINR PREL FR GM
06DAMASCUS1108MARCH MADNESS, SYRIAN STYLE, AS ARBITRARY ARRESTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In addition to the recent detentions of Riad Seif and others during civil society-organized demonstrations, arbitrary arrests and detentions have continued in recent weeks. Targets have included a prominent civil society activist, the brother of a key post contact, and a journa [...]
2006-03-13 15:27:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS1509Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/US, Iraq, Palestinian
[...] Summary: Syrian papers reported the meeting of Dr. Buthaina Shabaan, Minister of Expatriates, with a US delegation from the Churches Panel for Peace in the Middle East. The meeting tackled practical and constructive means to deepen dialogue and communication and to bolster common grounds to ac [...]
2006-04-04 13:15:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS1540Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/US, Iraq, Palestinian
[...] Summary: Syrian papers reported the meeting of Dr. Buthaina Shabaan, Minister of Expatriates, with a US delegation from the Churches Panel for Peace in the Middle East. The meeting tackled practical and constructive means to deepen dialogue and communication and to bolster common grounds to ac [...]
2006-04-06 14:24:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS1920HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: REPORT OF DEATH IN CUSTODY;
[...] DEATH OF POLITICAL DETAINEE REPORTED: According to news reports, the body of 26-year old Mohammed Shaher Haysa was turned over to his family earlier this week. News reports in offshore media stated that Haysa had died as a result of torture. Human rights activist Anwar al-Bunni told Poloff [...]
2006-04-27 13:15:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS2211Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Palestinians,
[...] Summary: Papers reported that the Palestinian government thanked President Asad for the Syrian fund-raising campaign for the Palestinian people and for receiving 244 Palestinian refugees coming from Iraq. That came in a phone call President Asad received from Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail H [...]
2006-05-11 13:14:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS2406Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Lebanon, Syria/Spain,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers commemorated the anniversary of the liberation of south Lebanon and featured a statement by former Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss criticizing the Lebanese government's cancellation of the formal holiday, which had been approved earlier for celebrating the liberati [...]
2006-05-25 14:31:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS2516Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/UK, Syria/China, Lebanon,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers continued to report on Foreign Minister Walid al-Mouallem's visit to China, featuring his meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Earlier, President Hu Jintao opened the second ministerial meeting of the Arab-Chinese Cooperation Forum in the presence of Foreign Ministe [...]
2006-06-01 13:27:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS2733Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Bahrain, Syria/UAE,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers reported the visit to Syria by King Hamad Bin-Isa Al Khalifah of Bahrain and his talks with President Asad. Both leaders stressed their support for the Palestinian people's legitimate rights and the establishment of their independent state, with Jerusalem as its capita [...]
2006-06-11 13:22:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS3305Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Saudi Arabia, Palestinian
[...] Summary: Syrian papers reported that President Asad received a phone call from Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz which focused on the situation in the Middle East and bilateral relations. Papers also reported that Arab and Islamic groups at the UN in Geneva approved a draft resolution proposed [...]
2006-07-06 12:24:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS3573Damascus Media Reaction: Israeli Operation in Lebanon,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers continued to focus on the Israeli military action in Lebanon. Headlines featured President Asad's phone call with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan, which dealt with "the continuing Israeli aggression against Lebanon and Palestine." Papers also reported that t [...]
2006-07-20 12:52:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS4071Damascus Media Reaction: Lebanon/Israel, Syria/Norway,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers reported Israel's violation of the cease-fire in Lebanon through its landing attempt in Boudai village in the Bekaa Valley, and the ongoing dispute concerning France's participation in the international force. Papers also reported a meeting on Saturday between Foreign Mi [...]
2006-08-20 12:59:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS4184 Damascus Media Reaction: Asad Interview,
[...] Summary: President Asad's interview with Dubai TV was the major topic in papers today. President Asad said he would view deployment of international troops along the Lebanon-Syria border as a hostile move toward his country. "It robs Lebanon of its sovereignty. No single state in the entir [...]
2006-08-24 11:28:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS4271Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Venezuela, Syria/Italy,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers today led with the visit to Syria by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Banner headlines reported the warm welcome prepared for President Chavez and featured the press statements made by President Asad and President Chavez at Damascus airport during which Chavez noted t [...]
2006-08-30 11:40:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5095Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Iran, Syria/Spain, Peace
[...] Summary: Syrian papers reported that President Asad received a letter from Iranian President Ahmadinejad conveyed by visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki. The letter focused on regional developments, mainly in Iraq and the Palestinian territories. President Asad and Minister [...]
2006-10-29 15:50:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5277 Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Jordan, Syria/Libya, Arab
[...] Summary: Syrian papers reported that President Asad received a letter on Saturday (11/4) from King Abdullah II, focusing on regional developments and ties between Syria and Jordan. The letter was conveyed by Abdul Hadi Majali, Speaker of the Jordanian Parliament and Chairman of the Interim A [...]
2006-11-07 11:06:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5358Damascus Media Reaction: Peace Process, Lebanon, Iraq,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers on Dec. 3 featured a Dec. 2 press statement by Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi in Rome stressing the importance of dialogue and cooperation with Syria to solve the region's issues and establish stability. Mr. Prodi warned against the partitioning of Iraq, saying th [...]
2006-12-04 10:04:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5368Damascus Media Reaction: Golan Prisoners, Palestinian
[...] Summary: Syrian papers on Dec. 6 reported that on Dec. 5 the Syrian Foreign Ministry addressed formal messages to UN SecGen Kofi Annan, the Chairman of the Security Council, the High Commission for Human Rights, and the Human Rights Council, informing them about the poor health of Sitan Nmr A [...]
2006-12-06 13:51:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DUBLIN778IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIANS MAKE THEIR CASE IN IRELAND
[...] (U) In a June 18-24 trip sponsored by the International Republican Institute (IRI) and organized with embassy assistance, a group of Iraqi parliamentarians visited Ireland to learn from the Irish experience of reconciliation and to plead for more Irish assistance. During this visit the group [...]
2006-06-30 15:49:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM IZ EI
06HILLAH10NAJAF'S ZURFI PLEADS FOR US AID
[...] (U) This is a SET Najaf Cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. On January 21, SET Najaf met with former Najaf Governor and head of the Loyalty to An Najaf party, Adnan Al Zurfi. The meeting covered a wide range of subjects. Zurfi expressed his view that the recent December 15 national election, while n [...]
2006-01-25 19:07:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM IZ
06HILLAH29PROTESTS, SPORADIC VIOLENCE CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL;
[...] (SBU) Summary: Protests continued across Wasit and Babil Provinces in South Central Iraq for a second and third day after the bombing of Al-Askariyah mosque in Samarra. In Wasit, Shi'a Islamists of all affiliations joined a massive demonstration February 23. The next day, Sadrist mosque preache [...]
2006-02-24 18:20:00REO HillahUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KISL PINR IZ
06HILLAH54FORMER NAJAF GOVERNOR ON AL-SADR, IRANIAN INFLUENCE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Former Najaf Governor and head of the Loyalty to An Najaf party Adnan Al Zurfi believes Muqtada Al-Sadr wishes to avoid armed confrontation with coalition forces, but is finding it difficult to keep Madhi Army militia under his direct control. Sadr, Zurfi commented, is listening to [...]
2006-04-05 10:05:00REO HillahSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM IZ
06HILLAH72SOUTH CENTRAL SHI'A VIEWS ON SELECTION OF JAWAD AL-MALIKI AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After the April 22 selection of Jawad Al-Maliki as the Prime Minister-designate, REO Hillah canvassed leaders in the heavily Shi'a South Central region of Iraq for their views on this development. Not surprisingly, reaction to Maliki's selection broke down mostly along Shi'a Isl [...]
2006-04-27 17:19:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM IZ
06JAKARTA13303Central and East Java: Increasing
[...] (C) Summary/Introduction: Over the past several months, what began as a debate of the controversial draft pornography law has revealed deeper fissures with the leadership of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU),showing a quiet shift to the right of NU clerics and the [...]
2006-11-27 10:09:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KISL ID
06JAKARTA2915INDONESIA - MARCH 2 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Jakarta city government carried out 24-26 February a series of actions to control Avian Influenza (AI) in birds, including door-to-door inspections, limited culling and vaccinations. Human and animal health officials in West Kalimantan told us that they are doing what they [...]
2006-03-06 11:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA3898MEETINGS WITH EAST KALIMANTAN SECURITY OFFICIALS
[...] (C) Summary. Our March 1-5 visit to East Kalimantan province found security officials aware of the terrorist transit threat along the Sabah border, but meager resources prevented officials from implementing effective security measures. Lack of GOI investment in securing this area -- despite [...]
2006-03-24 15:46:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC ID
06JAKARTA9160GOI EFFORTS STOKE OPTIMISM FOR POSO PEACE
[...] (C) Summary. GOI initiatives spearheaded by the Indonesian National Police (INP) are moving conflict-ridden Central Sulawesi toward peace, according to top INP investigators focused on the area. The arrest of the terrorists behind many of the violent attacks since the 2001 Malino peace agreem [...]
2006-07-21 10:00:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO KVPR CVIS ID
06JEDDAH643IIRO SECRETARY-GENERAL TALKS OF SAUDI PROGRAMS AND
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a meeting at the headquarters of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) on September 18, Secretary-General Dr. Adnan Khalil Basha told PolOffs that IIRO headquarters in Jeddah has administrative and budgetary control of all 28 country branches and receives no [...]
2006-10-09 07:52:00Consulate JeddahSECRETPGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06JERUSALEM1287PALESTINIAN REACTIONS TO ISRAELI ELECTIONS
[...] (C) President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) welcomed acting PM Olmert's comments after the election supporting negotiations, and a number of Fatah interlocutors stressed Abu Mazen's genuine willingness to negotiate. Fatah members all stressed that any progress in negotiations depended upon Israel [...]
2006-03-29 15:30:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM3357ISRAELI POLICE PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE CLASHES IN
[...] (C) Israeli police in Jerusalem are preparing for possible confrontations with Jewish and Muslim protesters on August 3 in the wake of the August 2 Israeli High Court decision to allow members of the Temple Mount Faithful (TMF) to enter the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount (reftel). Visitation [...]
2006-08-02 14:54:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM3932MGGZ01- JERUSALEM AUGUST 30 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nine Palestinians were killed in separate incidents throughout Gaza August 28-29. Palestinian militants fired several antitank shells against the IDF in Gaza, injuring one IDF soldier. One Qassam rocket landed near Sderot on August 29, causing no injuries. Israeli forces k [...]
2006-08-30 14:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM4757PROPOSED FIFTH MINARET RENEWS DEBATE OVER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A JORDANIAN PROPOSAL TO BUILD A FIFTH MINARET FOR THE AL AQSA MOSQUE ON OF THE HARAM A-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT HAS RENEWED CALLS BY RIGHT-WING ISRAELIS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SYNAGOGUE IN THE SAME AREA. JORDANIAN KING ABDULLAH ANNOUNCED A CONTEST FOR THE DESIGN OF THE MINARET IN OCT [...]
2006-11-08 15:04:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06KIRKUK113KRG SWEARS IN UNIFIED CABINET
[...] (SBU) The Kurdistan Regional Government swore in its new unified cabinet May 7, the major step in its path towards full unification. Until now, the KRG had rival cabinets in Erbil (dominated by the Kurdistan Democratic Party) and in Sulaymaniyah (dominated by the Patriotic Union of Kurdista [...]
2006-05-14 14:47:00REO KirkukUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR KDEM EPET KWMN IZ
06KIRKUK123(U) NEW KIRKUK KURDISH POLITICAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSES ARTICLE
[...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: IPAO on June 26 met with leaders representing local Kurdish parties who recently set aside differences to push implementation of Article 140. Kurdish representatives universally agreed that Baghdad must implement Article 140 immediately or risk discredit amo [...]
2006-07-15 14:22:00REO KirkukCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PNAT PREF PREL KDEM ECON EINV IZ
06KIRKUK126(C) KDP-PUK UNITED FRONT AFTER DOKAN MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary. KRG Prime Minister Nechirwan Barzani and PUK party leader Noshirwan Mustafa informed IPAO in separate meetings on July 2 and 1 respectively that the KDP and PUK politburos had agreed to end direct party interference in government affairs; delay appointment of deputy ministers; [...]
2006-07-15 14:38:00REO KirkukCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PINS PNAT PREF PREL KDEM IZ
06KIRKUK24KRG UNIFICATION: AWAITING A DEPUTY PM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 2, KNA Speaker Mufti, Deputy Speaker Kirkuki and Kirkhi Alti Barmakh, the leader of the KNA's Turcoman bloc, all expected the PUK to nominate KRG-Sulaymaniyah PM Omar Fattah, PUK Erbil office director Arsalan Baiz or KRG-S Deputy PM Emad Ahmed to be Deputy PM for a u [...]
2006-02-04 08:54:00REO KirkukCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ TU
06KIRKUK26KRG CONSTITUTION: KURDS HOPE TO ENTICE MINORITIES
[...] (C) The KNA's Constitutional Committee continues to work on a KRG Constitution. Members expect further changes. In the next few weeks, the committee is supposed to send the draft to party leaders. Once they have blessed it, the committee will issue it for public comment. KNA Deputy Speake [...]
2006-02-04 17:19:00REO KirkukCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PNAT PHUM KDEM KISL IZ TU
06KIRKUK27(S) KURDISH IA UNIT SPLITS OVER DEPLOYING OUT OF KIRKUK
[...] (S) The 101st tells REO that the MOD ordered the 4th BN, 2nd BDE, 4th Iraqi Army DIV to deploy from Kirkuk outside of Kirkuk province to Bayji. We understand this IA unit is composed of Kurds, but was not a former Peshmerga unit. After the order was given, about half (50%) of the unit deser [...]
2006-02-05 06:40:00REO KirkukSECRETMOPS PGOV KDEM PINS IZ
06KIRKUK4(U) KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS TO UNITE
[...] (U) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) announced January 7 that they had reached agreement on uniting the two Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) administrations in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. The announcement was made by KRG [...]
2006-01-09 14:56:00REO KirkukCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ KDP
06KIRKUK62(U) DIYALA REPRESENTATIVES' BIOS
[...] (U) This is a SET Ba'qubah cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: SET has collected background information on nine of the ten representatives elected from Diyala province in the December 2005 elections. These representatives-elect share virtually no common characteristics, but their backgrounds reveal a l [...]
2006-03-15 11:58:00REO KirkukCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV KDEM IZ
06KIRKUK67TURCOMAN FRUSTRATION MOUNTS IN KIRKUK
[...] (C) Summary. The Turcoman are frustrated with the Kurds' domination of Kirkuk politics. An Iraqi Turcoman Front (ITF) leader warned that the Turcoman and Arabs might unite against Kurdish injustices. The Turcoman reject the national Normalization Committee on Kirkuk and believe that the IP [...]
2006-03-20 18:49:00REO KirkukCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV KDEM IZ
06KIRKUK8(U) KURDISH PARLIAMENT APPROVES KRG UNIFICATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Ambassador Khalilzad attended the January 21 special session of the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA),which unanimously approved reftel agreement on unification of the two Kurdistan Regional Governments (KRGs). Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (leader of the Patri [...]
2006-01-23 12:24:00REO KirkukUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM IZ KDP
06KUWAIT143PA PRESIDENT ABBAS AND OTHER FOREIGN DIGNITARIES
[...] On the last official day for condolences, foreign dignitaries continued to arrive in Kuwait to pay their respects to the family of the late Amir Shaykh Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Heads of state and government waited patiently with thousands of Kuwaitis for an opportunity to express th [...]
2006-01-17 14:47:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KU
06KUWAIT1514FREEDOM AGENDA: USPTO IPR WORKSHOP SPURS LIVELY
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. From April 29 - May 1, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) IPR experts, accompanied by U.S. federal judges, delivered a MEPI "Workshop on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights." The three-day workshop drew participants responsible for IPR enforcement [...]
2006-05-02 13:35:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV PGOV PREL KIPR KMPI KU
06KUWAIT2066NEA A/S WELCH'S JUNE 3 MEETINGS WITH KUWAITI
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In June 3 meetings with NEA A/S Welch, the Kuwaiti leadership affirmed support for the U.S. position on talks with the Iranian government and offered advice that the USG keep its public statements low-key, exercise maximum patience in sticking with talks, and continue to exer [...]
2006-06-03 20:39:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL IR IZ KPAL KU
06KUWAIT2150FREEDOM AGENDA: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM BLOSSOMS IN
[...] (C/NF) Summary and comment: Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Kuwait's recent "orange revolution" is the role played by the ad hoc coalition of pro-reform youth organizations known as the "orange movement." These youth organizations, which include both liberals and Islamists and were not [...]
2006-06-07 17:47:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PINR KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA
06KUWAIT2271THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND: SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C/NF) Summary: An emerging consensus between ideologically opposite political blocs on the need for political reform in Kuwait has led to the formation of a number of unprecedented alliances in advance of the June 29 parliamentary elections. Some Islamist groups, like the Islamic Constituti [...]
2006-06-13 15:40:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PINR KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA
06KUWAIT260FAILAKA ATTACK SENTENCES INCREASED ON APPEAL:
[...] (U) On January 24 Kuwait's Court of Appeals overturned most of the original sentences of the twelve defendants charged in the October 8, 2002 Failaka Island shooting which resulted in the death of USMC Lance Cpl. Antonio Sledd and the injury of USMC Lance Cpl. George Simpson. The court sente [...]
2006-01-25 13:53:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PHUM PGOV PINR KU TERRORISM
06KUWAIT2855TFLE01: 200 PROTEST OUTSIDE OF EMBASSY IN SUPPORT
[...] (U) The General Union of Students and Trainees of the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training organized a July 15 demonstration in front of the embassy to protest the U.S. veto of the Qatar-proposed UNSC resolution condemning Israeli military actions in Gaza. Billed as a peacefu [...]
2006-07-16 13:03:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ASEC PHUM KU
06KUWAIT3099TFLE01: A PRESS WAR OF WORDS ON NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The Kuwaiti press printed August 1 virulent and anti-U.S. comments made by MPs. One Arabic daily headlined its front page with a paraphrase of one statement: "Americans and Israelis are SOBs and Bastards." While previously relatively balanced in its news covera [...]
2006-08-02 14:21:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNOPRC PREL PGOC KMDR KPAO KU MEDIA REACTION
06KUWAIT3269KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - HEZBOLLAH
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-13 09:40:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
06KUWAIT3618ON IRAN, KUWAIT PREPARING CONTINGENCY PLANS AND
[...] (S/NF) Summary: During a September 5 meeting, National Security Bureau (NSB) Iran analyst Ghanim Al-Otaibi told PolOff that the Kuwaiti government's (GOK) strategy for dealing with Iran covered three main areas: political, military, and internal security. According to Al-Otaibi, all governme [...]
2006-09-09 12:14:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
06KUWAIT3826AFFILIATIONS OF THE 2006-2010 PARLIAMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Campaigning on a pro-reform, anti-corruption platform, opposition candidates won a two-seat majority in the June 2006 parliamentary elections. Parliamentarians (MPs) have since organized themselves into blocs, which serve as a means for coordinating on a common legislative agen [...]
2006-09-24 12:14:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
06KUWAIT4498INFLUENTIAL AL-SABAH EXPRESSES FRUSTRATION WITH
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In a November 17 meeting with Poloff, Shaykh Mohammed Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, an influential ruling family member with close ties to the Amir, expressed frustration with the Prime Minister's "weakness" and his inability to control an increasingly assertive Parliament. He complai [...]
2006-11-21 14:24:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA
06KUWAIT4583MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADER WARNS OF IMPACT OF IRAQ
[...] (C/NF) Summary: The Secretary General of the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM),Dr. Bader Al-Nashi, told Poloff December 6 that sectarian violence in Iraq was contributing to rising Shi'a-Sunni tensions in Kuwait. While he did not believe violence between the two communities was likely, [...]
2006-12-06 14:38:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL KISL IR IZ KU ISLAMISTS SHI
06KUWAIT631NEW COMMERCE MINISTER CALLS FOR GOK ACTION ON
[...] (C) Begin Summary: During a February 22 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, new GOK Commerce and Industry Minister Dr. Youssef Al-Zalzalah (one of two Shia cabinet members),appearing energized, underscored his commitment to implementing pending economic reforms on taxation, IPR, teleco [...]
2006-02-22 15:28:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD KU KIPR
06KUWAIT661KUWAITI SHI'A AND SUNNIS CONDEMN IRAQ SHRINE
[...] (C) Summary and comment: During a February 24 rally at the Shi'a Imam Hussein mosque, Kuwaitis from across the religious and political spectrum condemned the bombing of the Al-Askariya shrine in Iraq. While most speakers blamed the attack on Sunni extremists and stressed the need for Muslim [...]
2006-02-27 14:28:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS SHI
06KUWAIT807FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES IRAN, IRAQI SUNNIS,
[...] (C) Summary: During a March 8 meeting with Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Salem Al-Sabah repeated a request he made to the Secretary soliciting U.S. support for a nuclear-free zone in the Gulf in addition to a proposed anti-bigotry resolution at the UNGA. Shaykh Dr. Mohamm [...]
2006-03-09 09:24:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV ECON IR IZ KU
06MANAMA1908U/S HUGHES, ISLAMIC AFFAIRS MINISTRY DISCUSS
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 10. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) In a discussion with senior Ministry of Islamic Affairs officials November 1, U/S Hughes sought to elicit ideas for continued cooperation to broaden the reach of the message of religious tolerance and to [...]
2006-11-09 05:59:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL OEXC OIIP PTER KISL BA OFFICIALS
06MINSK427EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - April 18, 2006
[...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. -------------- Post Elections -------------- 2. Milinkevich in Germany Former 10+ Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich on an April 7 trip to Berlin met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Deputy [...]
2006-04-19 13:19:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ECON BO
06PRAGUE306CZECHS TEACH IRAQIS IMMIGRATION CONTROL
[...] (U) Summary. The Czechs are helping the Iraqi government learn how to manage Iraq's borders. In February, the Czechs brought ten senior Iraqi government officials to Prague to learn best practices in asylum and migration policy. The visit -- sponsored by a partnership between the Czech governm [...]
2006-03-23 14:25:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KDEM IZ EZ
06RIYADH5780US LOBBYING FIRM SEEKS GREATER VOICE FOR TAWAFUQ,
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph five. 2. (C) Summary: Mark Alsalih, an Iraqi American from the Washington lobbying firm MITA, requested Embassy's assistance on July 17 to make an introduction to Director of the Saudi General Intelligence Presidency Prince [...]
2006-07-19 15:14:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER IZ SA
06RIYADH8003WAMY SECRETARY-GENERAL PREACHES NEED FOR INCREASED
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) Secretary-General Dr. Saleh al-Wohaibi told PolOffs in an SIPDIS August 27 meeting that, despite negative publicity surrounding Islamic charities, WAMY has nothing to hide. Al-Wohaibi talked about WAMY's international programs, but focu [...]
2006-10-11 16:03:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETPGOV PINR PREL PTER EFIN KTFN ETTC KISL SA
06RIYADH8840DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES MEETING WITH SAUDI MFA, MOJ,
[...] (C) Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Erica Barks-Ruggles met on September 12-13 with the Majlis Al-Shoura (MAS) and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Justice (MoJ). These meetings were follow-up to the July 25 - 27, 2006, meeting of [...]
2006-11-14 05:34:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KDEM OTRA PINR SA
06SANAA521AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW MINSTER OF LEGAL AFFAIRS
[...] Ambassador met with newly appointed Minister of Legal Affairs, Adnan Omar al-Jefri, on February 26. Ambassador congratulated al-Jefri, who was previously Minister of Justice, on his posting. Al-Jefri discussed the challenges in balancing rights and responsibilities when drafting and enforci [...]
2006-03-04 09:02:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
06SARAJEVO1093BOSNIA: THREATS AGAINST LABOR UNION PRESIDENT
[...] The President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SSSBiH),Mr. Edhem Biber, recently received an anonymous threatening note along with a bullet at his house. The note warned Mr. Biber to stop his calls for a review of previous privatizations in the Fed [...]
2006-05-17 15:20:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON AFL CIO BK
06SARAJEVO1194BOSNIA: MUTED REACTION TO MONTENEGRO REFERENDUM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Initial reactions by BiH politicians to the results of the Montenegrin independence referendum, announced May 23, have been largely positive and calm in both entities. As Montenegro was one of the six quasi-autonomous constituent republics of the former Yugoslavia, virtually al [...]
2006-05-26 15:27:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BK
06SARAJEVO1230BOSNIA: PM CAVES ON INVESTIGATING FATE OF SERBS IN
[...] (C) Summary: On May 25, the BiH Council of Ministers decided to form a state commission to investigate "the truth about the suffering of all citizens of Sarajevo" from 1992-1995. Although Bosnian Serb leaders had long pushed for a commission to investigate the deaths and disappearances of Sara [...]
2006-06-01 11:40:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI BK
06SARAJEVO1762BOSNIA: RS POLITICIANS SHARPLY REJECT SANADER
[...] (U) In the media August 2 and 3, Serb member of the BiH Tri-Presidency Borislav Paravac and Republika Srpska (RS) President Dragan Cavic sharply and publicly rejected Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's proposal that Croatia host an international conference on the future of BiH. Paravac im [...]
2006-08-04 15:09:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV HR BK
06SARAJEVO2752BOSNIA: PIC POLITICAL DIRECTORS PUSH FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Steering Board pushed for constitutional and police reform during the October 19-20 meeting. The Board discussed the OHR June 2007 closure and subsequent role of an expanded European Union Special Representative ( [...]
2006-11-06 14:09:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALBK PGOV PREL
06SARAJEVO3058BOSNIA: PFP DECISION HAILED AS A HISTORIC MILESTONE
[...] (SBU) Bosnian leaders and the general public hailed the decision to offer Bosnia an invitation into the Partnership for Peace (PfP) at NATO's Riga Summit as an historic event, noting Bosnia's clear progress in integrating into Euro-Atlantic structures. The decision could serve as an impetus t [...]
2006-11-30 15:47:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR BK
06SARAJEVO3188BOSNIA: PIC POLITICAL DIRECTORS STRESS POLICE AND
[...] (C) Summary: During its December 6-7 meeting in Brussels, the Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Steering Board emphasized the need for Bosnian leaders to achieve concrete progress on a wide reform agenda including constitutional, and police reform. EUR DAS Rosemary [...]
2006-12-18 14:08:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BK
06SARAJEVO3209BOSNIA - GBIH OPTS FOR UNILATERAL ACTION ON
[...] (C/NF) Summary: After several years of lobbying the United Nations to revise its stance on police officers decertified by the United Nations International Police Task Force (UNIPTF),the Bosnian Government has opted for unilateral action. Rather than accept a UN proposed compromise to allow t [...]
2006-12-20 17:05:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR KJUS EUN BK
06SARAJEVO3271BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM DIRECTORATE REPORT COMPLETE
[...] (C) Summary: The Police Reform Directorate (PRD) issued its final report on December 22, but the process of political approval and implementation remains at an impasse despite US and EU warnings that without agreement Bosnia cannot sign a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) until poli [...]
2006-12-29 13:45:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KCRM KJUS EUN BK
06SKOPJE779MACEDONIA: YOUNG TECHNOCRATS DOMINATE NEW
[...] (SBU/NF) Prime Minister-designate Gruevski's proposed cabinet lineup, which the parliament is likely to approve on August 25, is comprised of mostly young technocrats without extensive bureaucratic experience. That bodes well for a fresh start, with Gruevski likely to exercise greater control [...]
2006-08-17 14:39:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL MK
06TELAVIV2493ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] MIDEAST 2. ISRAEL-ICRC RELATIONS ------------------------- KEY STORIES IN THE MEDIA: ------------------------- ALL MEDIA REPORTED THAT PM EHUD OLMERT AND PA CHAIRMAN [PRESIDENT] MAHMOUD ABBAS AGREED IN PETRA, JORDAN, ON THURSDAY TO MEET FORMALLY IN A FEW WEEKS. (A YEDIOT HEADLINE [...]
2006-06-23 11:21:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06THEHAGUE257DUTCH REACTIONS TO CARTOON CONTROVERSY
[...] (SBU) Summary: As of 6 February, there has been no violence in the Netherlands in response to the controversial cartoons, though daily newspaper "De Volkskrant" received a bomb threat for having reprinted the Danish cartoons. The Prime Minister emphasized the primacy of law in resolving dispu [...]
2006-02-07 06:27:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO NL
06THEHAGUE269DUTCH REACTIONS TO CARTOON CONTROVERSY
[...] (SBU) Summary: As of 6 February, there has been no violence in the Netherlands in response to the controversial cartoons, though daily newspaper "De Volkskrant" received a bomb threat for having reprinted the Danish cartoons. The Prime Minister emphasized the primacy of law in resolving dispu [...]
2006-02-07 15:24:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO NL
06TOKYO6298JAPAN NEGOTIATING FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH GULF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan has entered into Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations with the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and is hopeful an agreement can be inked as soon as possible, according to MOFA and METI sources. A major motivating factor for the Japanese is the fact that C [...]
2006-10-31 07:20:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALETRD PREL ZP JA
06USUNNEWYORK2168HIGH REPRESENTATIVE SCHWARTZ-SCHILLING SPEAKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 8 Security Council meeting on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH),High Representative Christian Schwartz-Schilling told members that the state of affairs regarding progress on reform in the country had become a "complex reality." The High Representative stated that we [...]
2006-11-17 16:29:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL BK
06USUNNEWYORK396UN REFORM/SYG HIGH LEVEL PANEL ON DEVELOPMENT -
[...] (U) Summary. At an off-site event hosted by the UN Missions of Egypt and France on February 24-25, senior UN officials laid out expectations for the Secretary-General's High Level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence in the Areas of Humanitarian Assistance, the Environment and Development. Proje [...]
2006-03-01 20:39:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN KUNR SENV
06USUNNEWYORK530UN HIGH LEVEL PANEL ON SYSTEM-WIDE COHERENCE: U/S
[...] Summary: In New York consultations March 13, Under Secretary Shiner surveyed the upcoming work of the UN SIPDIS Secretary General's High-Level Panel on UN System-wide SIPDIS Coherence in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance, and Environment. The thirteen-member Panel -- man [...]
2006-03-17 16:40:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN ETRD KUNR AORC SENV UN
06ZAGREB950CROATIAN PM SANADER'S CALL FOR A CONFERENCE ON
[...] (C) Croatian PM Sanader's call for a conference on Bosnia and Herzegovina is primarily an effort to keep the attention of the international community on the needs of BiH in light of other high-profile concerns such as Kosovo and Lebanon, MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic told Charge August [...]
2006-08-10 11:34:00Embassy ZagrebCONFIDENTIALPREL HR BK
07ABUDHABI51 MEDIA REACTION: NEW STRATEGY FOR IRAQ; RICE'S TRIP TO
[...] Summary: "Al-Khaleej" believes that the U.S. will continue its "colonial onslaught", in spite of the disasters that it has caused, as the price is only at the expense of Arabs. A columnist in "Al-Khaleej" views American foreign policy as very dangerous against the unity of Arab countries, wh [...]
2007-01-15 12:29:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
07ADANA51TURKEY-IRAQ TRADE SUFFERING FROM INSTABILITY AND A CONGESTED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's trade with Iraq has suffered in recent months due to increased instability in Iraq, continuing problems at Habur Gate and inadequate banking services. The situation at Habur dismays many businessmen since, even though the facilities there have been upgraded, it still t [...]
2007-04-06 06:27:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON TU
07AMMAN1801STATE SECURITY COURT UPDATE
[...] SUMMARY: Jordan's State Security Court (SSC) sentenced Ziad al-Karbouli and three others to death and handed down prison sentences in three other terrorism-related cases, while Jordan's Court of Cassation upheld the SSC's death penalty verdict for would-be suicide bomber Sajida Rishawi. Meanw [...]
2007-04-26 14:21:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PHUM ASEC IZ SY JO
07AMMAN1821JORDAN AND THE NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ
[...] (S) The Government of Jordan and its most senior leadership continue to view U.S. success in Iraq as essential to its own security. Since the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom it has agreed to a series of U.S. requests for important political and logistical assistance. The GOJ has supported [...]
2007-04-30 12:52:00Embassy AmmanSECRETMARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ JO
07AMMAN3582IRAQIS IN JORDAN TELL CODEL LEVIN - DUMP MALIKI,
[...] (C) In multiple meetings with prominent Iraqis living or transiting Jordan, CODEL Levin was told that the U.S. should stop supporting the Maliki government and should support a parliamentary move by moderate, non-sectarian forces in the Iraqi parliament to bring about a new government, likely t [...]
2007-08-26 14:55:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER JO IZ
07AMMAN3583IRAQIS IN JORDAN TELL CODEL LEVIN - DUMP MALIKI,
[...] (C) In multiple meetings with prominent Iraqis living or transiting Jordan, CODEL Levin was told that the U.S. should stop supporting the Maliki government and should support a parliamentary move by moderate, non-sectarian forces in the Iraqi parliament to bring about a new government, likely t [...]
2007-08-26 15:23:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER JO IZ
07AMMAN4094TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF SEVEN IRAQI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-04 13:58:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER KFTN PREL JO
07AMMAN4578CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) MEETING WITH
[...] (SBU) From 2005 through 2007, the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has held a series of meetings with Iraqi officials to assist them in preparing for accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) (Ref A). The Technical Secretariat (TS) hosted the fourth and final me [...]
2007-11-15 12:13:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW BWC IZ JO
07AMMAN4584JORDAN ELECTIONS: PALESTINIANS AND THEIR
[...] (C) Summary. Jordanians of Palestinian origin face difficult choices in the November 20 elections for Jordan's lower house of parliament. Candidates of Palestinian origin talk about unfairness in Jordan's electoral system and within Jordanian society, both of which lead to under-representati [...]
2007-11-15 13:43:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALJO PGOV PREL
07AMMAN4885CAN NATIONALISM FILL JORDAN'S POLITICAL VOID?
[...] (C) Summary: Throughout the recently concluded election season, Post was exposed to an undercurrent of discontent with the structure of Jordan's political system. Urban elites and tribal notables alike recognized that the current fractured, incoherent political discourse prevents progress o [...]
2007-12-12 06:43:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL KPAL JO
07AMMAN4971WHO'S YOUR DAHABI?
[...] (C) Summary. There are now two Dahabis at the center of Jordanian political life. Nader Dahabi is the Prime Minister, and his brother Mohammed is entering his third year as director of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID). While there is little public conversation on the subject, it i [...]
2007-12-18 07:44:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM JO
07AMMAN4993Jordan's Garment Association Cites Shortage of Labor as
[...] (U) This contains an action request for USTR. See para 16. 2. (SBU) Summary: Jordanian garment exports to the U.S. fell 6.4% during the first nine months of 2007. During a December 13 lunch, the newly elected Board for the Jordan Garments, Accessories, Textiles Exporters' Association (J [...]
2007-12-18 11:59:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB ETRD EAID KTEX JO
07AMMAN873APHSCT TOWNSEND'S VISIT TO JORDAN, FEBRUARY 3-5
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR HOMELAND SECURITY AND COUNTERTERRORISM (APHSCT) FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND AND HER DELEGATION MET SEPARATELY WITH PRIME MINISTER BAKHIT, PRINCE FAISAL, GENERAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR DAHABI, MAJOR GENERAL JAMAL SHAWABKAH (COMMANDER OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS [...]
2007-02-26 12:51:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER IR JO IS KPAL
07ANKARA1381TURKEY'S CENTER-RIGHT: A HOUSE DIVIDED
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The eagerly anticipated merger of two center-right parties fizzled out over the weekend of June 2, running aground over mismanagement, mistrust, and massive egos. By bungling the merger, the two parties squandered the advantage they had to offer a viable alternative [...]
2007-06-04 15:52:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA147ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-25 14:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1581TURKEY: PRE-ELECTION TENSIONS HIGH IN THE SOUTHEAST
[...] (C) Summary: Kurds in southeastern Turkey feel increasingly squeezed by a lethal combination of political, economic and geopolitical factors. In addition to pre-election political pressure, an increase in PKK violence and continued economic stagnation, community leaders believe Kurds in the [...]
2007-06-21 08:27:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER TU
07ANKARA1771TURKEY: OPPOSITION LEADER BAYKAL CALLS FOR
[...] (C) Summary and comment: In separate meetings with Ambassador and Staffdel Makovsky, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) chairman Deniz Baykal and CHP vice chair Onur Oymen outlined the party's election platform and plans. In both meetings, Baykal was focused and responsive. He re [...]
2007-07-11 14:26:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PTER PREL TU US
07ANKARA1895ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-25 14:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1902TURKEY: CHP LEADERSHIP IN DENIAL, AGITATION FROM
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is in deep denial and disarray after a lacklustre showing in the July 22 general election. CHP leadership is pointing the finger everywhere but at itself, going so far as to hint that the ruling Justice and Dev [...]
2007-07-26 08:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU
07ANKARA2733TURKEY'S KURDS RELIEVED BY OUTCOME OF PM ERDOGAN'S
[...] (C) Summary: Our contacts in southeast Turkey have all reacted positively to PM Erdogan's Oval Office meeting, noting that the chance of a cross-border land attack by Turkish forces has diminished significantly, though many still expect air strikes against PKK targets in the Qandil mountains [...]
2007-11-07 15:27:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA2885CODEL SHAYS GOES TO SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY
[...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Representative Christopher Shays obtained first-hand insight into the Kurdish issue and efforts to counter the PKK during a November 27-28 visit to southeastern Turkey. He also toured the Habur border gate and was briefed on Turkish-Iraq [...]
2007-12-04 08:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA3006TURKEY: REACTION TO MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Senior GOT and military officials continue to praise the strikes against PKK targets in northern Iraq and deny that civilian targets there were hit. However, inadequacies in interagency coordination and the sidelining of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs plague GOT efforts to addre [...]
2007-12-18 15:55:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MOPS PGOV PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA666ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-23 13:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA845PRESS REPORTS OF TURKISH ATTACKS ON NORTHERN IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-11 14:29:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR MOPS PTER PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA974 Turkey: FY 2008 IVLP Nomination Slate
[...] M. Gunden Cinar, Turk Telecom Privatization Coordinator, Privatization Administration European Regional Project, NEW Election Year Politics for Journalists (2 weeks) (March 3 - March 14, 2008) 2. Nagehan Alci, Reporter and Columnist, Aksam daily European Regional Project, Trade and Ec [...]
2007-04-26 12:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC KPAO SCUL TU
07ANKARA995ANKARA-BASED KURDISH RADIO STATION FACES RISING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-27 12:26:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07BAGHDAD1095DCM ENGAGES SCIRI'S AL HAKIM ON DETENTIONS
[...] (S) Summary: On March 22, DCM and MNF-I Deputy Commanding General (DCG) told SCIRI leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim that Coalition Forces (CF) had detained Qais Khazali, a JAM member close to Moqtada al-Sadr, and had evidence Qais was involved in the January attack on the Karbala JPCC that killed [...]
2007-03-28 18:18:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV PINS EPET IZ
07BAGHDAD1183WASAN MEDIA AND CHALDEAN DETAINEES POSSIBLY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an April 5 human rights inspection at a Ministry of Interior (MoI) detention facility, PolOff located and identified eleven journalists from the Wasan Media Company, whose arrest has been the subject of intense scrutiny by international media organizations, and four Chal [...]
2007-04-05 18:26:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM OPRC PGOV KDEM KPAS ECPS IZ JO
07BAGHDAD1185AMBASSADOR MEETS VP HASHIMI, TAWAFUQ LEADERS,
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Crocker paid an introductory call on VP Hashimi April 1; Tawafuq bloc leader Adnan Dulaimi, Tawafuq ministers, and CoR members were in attendance. The VP said he was eager to work together on the challenges facing Iraq, and cited reform of security institutions as the [...]
2007-04-06 05:31:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD1329IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE CALLS FOR RAPID
[...] (C) Summary: At the April 13 session of the Iraq Executive Steering Committee, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Barham Salih called the April 12 bombing of the Council of Representatives (CoR) troubling from a security standpoint, but a unifying event for the CoR. Sarafiya bridge, a [...]
2007-04-18 11:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG KCRS KPAO MOPS PGOV PREF PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD1364SUNNI TAWAFUQ VOICES FRUSTRATION WITH GOI, CALLS
[...] (C) Summary: Statements by the Sunni Tawafuq bloc in recent weeks have indicated it is considering withdrawing from Iraq's national unity government due to its perception Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is not responding in a meaningful way to Sunni concerns. These concerns include their stro [...]
2007-04-22 04:55:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PINS IZ
07BAGHDAD145VP MEETS VP ABDEL MEHDI ON THE POLITICAL COMMITTEE
[...] (S) Summary: PM Maliki and VP Abdel Mehdi met with the Ambassador January 12 to discuss the new Baghdad Security Plan, and the importance of GOI political support to ensuring the plan's success. Maliki asserted that ISF's heightened security operations would target anyone, Sunni or Shia, who [...]
2007-01-15 08:08:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETIZ PGOV PREL
07BAGHDAD1526CHALABI AIDE DISCUSSES DETAINEES, VIEWS ON GOI
[...] (C) Summary: An aide to Ahmad Chalabi, chairman of popular mobilization for the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP),told PRToff May 7 that Chalabi has received permission from the Ministry of Defense (MOD) to place four lawyers each in three MOD detention facilities in the greater Baghdad area. He al [...]
2007-05-08 07:58:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PINR IZ
07BAGHDAD1571PRT TIKRIT: SAMARRA'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
[...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. It has been cleared by the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division (3/82) Brigade Combat Team (BCT),which is the Coalition Forces (CF) task force with responsibility for the province of Salah ad Din (SaD). 2. (C) SUMMARY. Amidst a deteriora [...]
2007-05-13 17:46:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PTER KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD1572MG FASTABEND'S MAY 8 MEETING WITH IRAQI VP HASHEMI
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 8 meeting with Iraq's Sunni VP Tariq Hashemi, MNF-I Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Operations MG Fastabend underscored MNF-I support for Anbar province volunteers to the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Coalition efforts to look into problems with recruits' pay; explai [...]
2007-05-13 18:42:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL PTER MOPS IZ
07BAGHDAD1588BAGHDAD MODERATES WANT CHANGES IN PROVINCIAL
[...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. This cable is the second of a series describing political moderates in Baghdad and efforts to encourage moderate politicians and empower moderate movements. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Baghdad moderates are frustrated with Baghdad's governing elite and the p [...]
2007-05-15 05:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALASEC KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ
07BAGHDAD1593MALIKI RESHAPES THE NATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's efforts to reshape the Iraqi national security architecture seem to be producing increasing centralization of power in the hands of an inner circle of Shia Islamists at the expense of the formal chain of command. Defense Minister Abd al-Qadir, a S [...]
2007-05-15 18:27:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV MOPS MCAP PTER MARR PINS PNAT IZ
07BAGHDAD1625REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) 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 trainin [...]
2007-05-20 05:43:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD1630REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Departments 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 [...]
2007-05-20 08:38:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD1666MALIKI SAYS NEIGHBORS AND JAM ARE SERIOUS THREATS
[...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told General Petraeus and the Ambassador May 17 that he was frustrated with his neighbors' continued treachery against him and Iraq. Maliki also expressed distress over Jaysh al-Mahdi and said he intended to act more aggressively against t [...]
2007-05-22 01:35:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS MCAP PTER MARR PINS PNAT IZ
07BAGHDAD1759IRAQIYYA MP PACHACHI DISCUSSES WITHDRAWAL FROM GOI
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Former Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) President and cross-sectarian secular Iraqiyya party member Adnan Pachachi met with Ambassador May 22 to discuss Iraqiyya's plans to form a cross-sectarian opposition bloc. Ambassador welcomed Pachachi back to Iraq after long and fr [...]
2007-05-27 14:31:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD1781A SUNNI PERSPECTIVE: ADNAN AL-DULAIMI SHARES HIS
[...] (C) Summary. In a May 25 meeting with the Ambassador, Council of Representatives member and Sunni Tawafuq bloc leader Adnan al-Dulaimi (Iraqi People's Conference) discussed the greatest threats Iraq faces - terrorism and sectarianism - and his ideas for solutions. Al-Dulaimi pledged to cooper [...]
2007-05-28 16:32:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD1942AYAD ALLAWI RUMORED TO RETURN, MANY IN IRAQIYYA
[...] (S) Summary. Ayad Allawi, former Prime Minister and chief of the Iraqiyya bloc, is expected to return to Baghdad in the next week following several months traveling in European and Arab Capitals to drum up international support for a secular, cross-sectarian front as an alternative to the Mali [...]
2007-06-12 13:19:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETIZ PGOV PREL
07BAGHDAD1956POTENTIAL NEW COR SPEAKERS
[...] (C) Summary: Since the June 11 vote in parliament to send Speaker Mashadani on indefinite leave, his political bloc has been trying to coordinate his graceful departure and a nominee to replace him. Uncertainty may continue until a new speaker gains the vote of an absolute majority of 138 Co [...]
2007-06-14 01:14:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD1964AMBASSADOR, CG MEET WITH PM FOLLOWING SAMARRA
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Commanding General (CG) met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki June 13 within hours of the attack on the al-Askari mosque in Samarra to discuss immediate next steps. The PM imposed a curfew beginning at 1500 local time in Baghdad and called for extra security [...]
2007-06-14 11:39:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ PGOV PTER
07BAGHDAD2012SUNNI POLITICIANS SEEK COR INSPECTIONS OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The cross-sectarian Human Rights Committee of the Council of Representatives (CoR) has repeatedly voiced, especially through its Sunni representatives, a desire to conduct independent detention center inspections. Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim confirmed to PolOff June 13 [...]
2007-06-18 17:12:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PGOV PINR IZ
07BAGHDAD202FORMER PRIME MINISTER JAFARI OFFERS HIS ADVICE ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a dinner with the Ambassador on January 15, former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari evaluated Iraq's development since 2003 and shared his opinions on future policies the Government of Iraq (GOI) should make. He criticized the Sunni Arabs in government and characterized ma [...]
2007-01-18 17:13:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD2025PM SPEAKS TO AMBASSADOR AND COMMANDING GENERAL IN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: During Prime Minister Maliki's June 14 meeting with Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus, he said that the latest Golden Dome bombing showed Al Qaeda continues to attack holy sites to foment sectarian discord, making it critical to ensure that key shrines will be adequately pro [...]
2007-06-19 17:56:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPTER MOPS PREL PGOV MARR IZ
07BAGHDAD203RUBAIE ON STATE OF EMERGENCY, PORTS OF ENTRY, AND
[...] (S/REL MNFI) SUMMARY: During a January 16 meeting, National Security Advisor Rubaie said that he needed ideas for the political and economic parts of the Baghdad Security Plan, noting that the Japanese Ambassador had expressed an interest in helping with vocational training centers. He said [...]
2007-01-18 17:18:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETIZ MOPS PREL PGOV
07BAGHDAD2047TALABANI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT HYDROCARBON LAW,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a June 12 lunch with Deputy Secretary Negroponte, President Talabani said he would engage SIPDIS the Turkish Government in an attempt to reduce tensions along Iraq's northern borders but dismissed the idea of GOI military action against PKK elements in Iraq. President [...]
2007-06-21 08:12:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS IZ TU
07BAGHDAD2055READ OUT FROM JUNE 17 MCNS
[...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki presided over the June 17 meeting of the Ministerial Committee for National Security, during which: --Maliki conveyed his outrage over a public conference held by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) earlier in the week and stressed that the GOI should tak [...]
2007-06-22 15:42:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR PINS PNAT PINR IZ
07BAGHDAD210JANUARY 14 MCNS: HAIFA STREET, BSP, MAYSAN PIC
[...] (S/REL UK) SUMMARY: During the January 14 meeting of the Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS),participants discussed the ongoing operation in the area around Baghdad's Haifa Street, noting the need to have situational awareness of the humanitarian situation in the area. PM Mal [...]
2007-01-19 17:54:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETIZ MOPS PREL PGOV PTER
07BAGHDAD2156PRT TIKRIT: SUNNI SAMARRA SECURITY CZAR REPLACED
[...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) In the wake of the June 13 bombing of the Golden Dome Mosque (AKA Ali al Hadi Shrine, al Askariya Shrine),Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki fired Samarra security czar General Adnan Thabit, a Sunni native of the Sunni city of Samarra, at a [...]
2007-06-30 12:29:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD2181TAWAFUQ ON GOVERNMENT BOYCOTT, COR SPEAKER
[...] (C) Summary. Sunni Tawafuq leader Ayad al-Samarrai termed the Tawafuq boycott of Council of Ministers meetings a proper response to the political provocation by PM Maliki of attempting to arrest the Sunni Minister of Culture. According to al-Samarrai an objective investigative committee shoul [...]
2007-07-02 07:47:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD2190PM CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES THE ARREST WARRANT FOR
[...] (C) Summary: On June 27, DCM Dan Speckhard met with Iraqi Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Dr. Tariq Abdullah, at the latter's request to deliver a message from the Prime Minister. Dr. Tariq relayed that the PM is concerned that the U.S. might assist Minister of Culture Asad Al-Hashimi evade [...]
2007-07-02 19:02:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ PGOV PREL
07BAGHDAD2228REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Departments 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 [...]
2007-07-05 10:46:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD2239READ OUT FROM JULY 01 MCNS
[...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki presided over the June 16 meeting of the Ministerial Committee for National Security, during which: -- Maliki directed Acting Minister of Justice Dr. Safi al-Safi to convene a July 2 meeting to deal with all unresolved issues regarding the GOI-pla [...]
2007-07-06 02:13:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ MARR MOPS PINR PINS PNAT PREL
07BAGHDAD2298MAJORITY GOVERNMENT NEEDED, PM MALIKI TELLS CODEL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An obdurate Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told Senators McCain and Graham on July 3 that the national unity government was to blame for delays in passing much needed reform legislation and called for a majority government instead. He complained that his government partners were [...]
2007-07-11 12:30:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ KCRM KDEM PGOV PHUM
07BAGHDAD2361SUNNI INDEPENDENT MP CLAIMS IRAN BEHIND ALL EVLI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Independent Sunni Arab parliamentarian Mithal Alusi told Poloff on July 14 that in his view, Iran was funding all sides in the Iraq conflict, saying a premature U.S. withdrawal will mean the U.S. will have to fight Iran in Bahrain. He alleged that Saudi Arabia and Iran were behin [...]
2007-07-16 08:07:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM IZ
07BAGHDAD2400BADR HEAD ACCUSES COALITION OF TARGETING ISCI
[...] (C/REL-MNF-I) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The continued detention of persons affiliated with the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq (ISCI) dominated discussion in joint ISCI-US Security Committee meetings (ref). In an effort to bolster our relationship with ISCI, at the 9 July Committee meeting, Genera [...]
2007-07-18 15:13:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER
07BAGHDAD2411COR SPEAKER MASHADANI IS BACK -- BUT FOR HOW LONG?
[...] (C) Summary: The cloud hanging over Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani since his June 10 dust-up with a Shi'a MP was temporarily lifted on July 19 when Mashadani again chaired a session of the CoR. His return was accompanied by the return of the Sunni Tawafuq bloc, wh [...]
2007-07-20 10:31:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR IZ
07BAGHDAD2418 Practical Federalism Seminar Brings Together Kurdistan
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A July 10-13 "Practical Federalism in Iraq" seminar held in Erbil was the first such event attended by members of both the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) and the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR). Discussion was focused on the Oil Law, Article 140, and regional formatio [...]
2007-07-20 12:41:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD2434AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S JULY 21 MEETING WITH PM MALIKI
[...] (S) Summary: The Ambassasdor pressed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on the need to demonstrate meaningful political progress. Maliki agreed, but pointed at the Sunni Tawaffaq bloc as the key obstacle. Maliki said he thought a leadership meeting between himself, Jalal Talabani, Massoud Barzani [...]
2007-07-22 16:25:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETIZ PGOV
07BAGHDAD2457AQI, IRAN ENEMIES OF IRAQ SAYS SUNNI HARDLINER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunni Hewar Leader Khalaf Allyan told Poloff that fighting Al-Qaeda was the first priority in Iraq and promised to support the Coalition. Fighting Iran and promoting a national unity government was the second priority. The Ministries of Defense and Interior must be cleansed of s [...]
2007-07-25 12:01:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINR IZ
07BAGHDAD2497DCM MEETINGS WITH KURDISTAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
[...] Summary: (SBU) Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Butenis held separate meetings in Erbil on July 22 with Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) Chairman Adnan Mufti and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Interior (MOI) Karim Sinjari. DCM stressed the need for concrete progress on reconcili [...]
2007-07-28 16:37:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ KPAL PGOV PREF
07BAGHDAD2516TALABANI DISCUSSES IRAN TALKS, TAWAFUQ WITHDRAWAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told the Ambassador July 25 that Iran was very positive about the talks held the previous day with the Ambassador. Talabani had little to say on the prospect of Tawafuq withdrawing from the government, but he thought that they should handle their c [...]
2007-07-30 07:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIR IZ PGOV PREL
07BAGHDAD2545IMPLICATIONS OF A SUNNI WALKOUT
[...] (C) Summary: The Sunni Tawafuq party announced on July 25 that its six ministers would resign in seven days if their demands were not met (reftel B). The resignation of Vice President Tarik al-Hashimi might soon follow. Although the Sunnis insist they are not abandoning the political process [...]
2007-07-31 17:50:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV KDEM PHUM IZ
07BAGHDAD2579SUNNI HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE DEPUTY VISITS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Council of Representatives (CoR) Human Rights Committee Deputy Dr. Harith Al-Ubaidy (Tawafuq) told PolOff on July 31 he noted better conditions during his July 26 visit to the Khadimiya 2nd National Police (NP) Division detention center at Forward Operating Base JUSTICE (also kno [...]
2007-08-03 12:19:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PGOV PINR IZ
07BAGHDAD2613SUNNIS ARE AMERICA'S FRIENDS, SAYS HARD-LINER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunni hard-liners Khalaf Allyan and Adan Dulaymi told Ambassador Crocker that it was up to the U.S. to fix Iraq's problems by forcing the Shi'a and Kurds to accept their reconciliation demands, some of which were based on an unsubstantiated view of Iraqi reality (e.g., Sunnis outnu [...]
2007-08-07 02:20:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ KDEM PGOV PHUM
07BAGHDAD264IRAQI PM URGES PARLIAMENT TO SUPPORT SECURITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Prime Minister addressed over 200 Council of Representative members on January 25 to garner support for the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) and stress upon the CoR members the importance of the legislative and executive branches undertaking the "exceptional efforts" needed to [...]
2007-01-25 18:42:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD2657TALABANI DISCUSSES LEADERSHIP MEETING, IRAN TALKS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Talabani told the Ambassador August 6 that he, Prime Minister Maliki, and Vice President Mehdi had a frank discussion on the current political crisis. He also spoke separately with Vice President Hashimi. Talabani said he had spoken to the Iranians who were still very positive [...]
2007-08-09 14:42:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IR IZ
07BAGHDAD3156EMBASSY CONTINUES OUTREACH ON PERSONAL SECURITY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-19 18:54:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALAMGT ASEC PREL PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD3249AYAD 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 19:06:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3308TAWAFUQ 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 10:22:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR IZ
07BAGHDAD3451ANBAR 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 10:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINS PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD3538ANBAR 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 08:18:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS IZ
07BAGHDAD361IRAQI 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 13:57:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD3622ANBAR 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 07:24:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD3648ANBAR 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 14:47:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD3669KURDISH 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 18:14:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD3681IRAQ: 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 11:15:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
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 12:12:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3737SADRISTS 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 02:33:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPINS PGOV IZ PREL
07BAGHDAD3754MOI 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 02:39:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PGOV KJUS KWMN IZ
07BAGHDAD3773ERBIL: 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 12:12:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3780VP 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 18:26:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3800SUNNI 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 18:34:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD384HASHIMI 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 16:15:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETIZ PREL PGOV
07BAGHDAD3877MUTED 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 17:46:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IR IZ
07BAGHDAD3955SUNNI 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 16:38:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PHUM IZ
07BAGHDAD4048JAM 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 08:59:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL MOPS IZ
07BAGHDAD4088PRESIDENT 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 05:45:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD4096KRG 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 08:57:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD4098NORTHWEST 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 12:34:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PINS PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD4107RRT 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 18:03:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD4108COR 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 18:28:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD430AL-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 14:54:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV PINS IR SA 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 15:17:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMDR PKPA PGOV ECON IZ US
07BAGHDAD436AL-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 15:41:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV PINS IR SA IZ
07BAGHDAD451PM 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 11:51:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD452IRAQI 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 11:54:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL PINS IR IZ
07BAGHDAD492IRAQ 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 08:48:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV PINS IR SA 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 05:45:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON IZ TU IR
07BAGHDAD508IRAQI 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 09:22:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ KDEM KJUS PGOV
07BAGHDAD559NINEWA: 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 13:53:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS PREF KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD609PRT TIKRIT: SAMARRA'S LOCAL POLITICS, DFI AND
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-20 10:36:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PINR ECON KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD612ALLAWI 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 13:22:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV PINR IR SA IZ
07BAGHDAD792CG 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 13:37:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV MOPS IZ
07BAGHDAD795MARCH 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 14:05:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON IZ
07BAGHDAD828IRAQIYYA 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 15:49:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV PINS PINR PTER KDEM IR IZ
07BAGHDAD894ALLAWI 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 20:51:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PTER IR IZ
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 05:52:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PINS IZ IR TU US
07BAGHDAD941TALK 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 06:40:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD969PRT 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 14:12:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM IZ
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN258BRUNEI - DEMARCHE ON ENSURING ROBUST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) is still working on the implementation reports to the UNSC Sanctions Committee called for in UNSCR's 1737 and 1747. Its discussions with other agencies of Brunei's government have so far turned up no prohibited activities, but the MF [...]
2007-08-27 00:12:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP IR BX
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN335BRUNEI WILL SUPPORT ANTI-RAPE RESOLUTION IF
[...] (SBU) Charge delivered Ref A points on November 14 to Adnan Jaafar, Acting Director for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Adnan is recently returned to Brunei, having served as Brunei's Deputy PermRep in New York. Updating Brunei's position from ref B, [...]
2007-11-14 07:30:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KWMN SOCI UNGA BX
07BASRAH88SECURITY 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 06:52:00REO BasrahSECRETPINS PGOV ASEC ECON IZ
07BEIRUT1005LEBANON: RIZK ON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL "HOMEWORK,"
[...] (S) Minister of Justice Charles Rizk told the Ambassador in a 7/5 meeting that he and PM Siniora had agreed that, at the beginning of next week, Siniora will send to the UN the candidates for judges and deputy prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Rizk would like us to whisper qui [...]
2007-07-06 13:20:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPREL PTER KCRM LE SY
07BEIRUT1943LEBANON: DELEGATION FOR PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-11 15:30:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IS KPAL AMGT KWBG LE
07CAIRO2280SCENESETTER 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 17:01:00Embassy CairoSECRETECON EFIN KPAL MARR PGOV PREL SU EG IS IZ IR
07CAIRO559EGYPTIAN 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 14:00:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PINR EG IZ SU IR LE XF IS
07COLOMBO1166MALDIVES: NEW FOREIGN, JUSTICE MINISTERS NAMED;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Gayoom on August 23 appointed two new cabinet ministers, Abdullah Shahid as Foreign Minister and Mohamed Muiz Adnan as Justice Minister. Shahid and Muiz were previously both senior officials in their respective ministries. In addition to the new ministers, Gayoom has [...]
2007-08-24 09:20:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MV
07DAKAR777TSCTP/RSI CONFERENCE: LESS COUNTERTERRORISM, MORE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: To succeed in the medium- and long-term against terrorism in the Trans-Sahara region, the USG must help countries address fundamental social, economic, and political problems that undermine their stability, concluded Ambassadors at the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership ( [...]
2007-04-10 11:51:00Embassy DakarSECRETPTER EAID MASS PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI SG
07DAMASCUS126Asad, Syria/Tajikistan, Syria/Vatican, Palestinian
[...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 8 reported President Asad's Feb. 7 address at the start of a two-day conference of the Ba'ath Party Central Committee, in which he called for maintaining Syrian national unity, pointing out the complementary nature of Islamic thought and pan-Arabism. He called [...]
2007-02-08 12:49:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS188 Syria/Spain, OIC, Israeli Nukes, Palestinian Territories,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 25 reported that on Feb. 22 in Madrid King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain inaugurated Arab House and the Spanish Political Conference with the participation of Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem and the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Tunisia, Yemen, [...]
2007-02-27 12:42:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS299Syria/PLO, Arab Summit, Peace Process, Iraq, Lebanon
[...] Summary: Papers on Mar. 26 reported the visit to Damascus by Rouhi Fattouh, Special Envoy of Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, and his meeting with VP Shara on Mar. 25 conveying a message from President Abbas to President Asad on the latest Palestinian development [...]
2007-03-26 12:44:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS317SYRIAN ELECTIONS: JOCKEYING AND BACKSTABBING START
[...] (C) SUMMARY: THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN IN DAMASCUS HAS GOTTEN MORE HEATED AND UGLY THAN EXPECTED THIS SPRING, WITH THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA BEING USED TO PUBLISH SCURRILOUS ATTACKS TO WEAKEN THE CANDIDACIES OF A KEY INDEPENDENTS LIST. ON MARCH 29, THE PRESSURE AGAINST THE LIST TOOK O [...]
2007-03-29 15:12:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY
07DAMASCUS32 Specter Codel, Syria/US, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian
[...] Summary: Syrian press and TV on Dec. 27 expressed great joy about the press conference which Senator Arlen Specter gave at Damascus Airport, after meeting President Asad on December 27, 2006. The meeting with the President and the press conference were the lead story in all the radio and TV [...]
2007-01-10 12:40:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS347 Syria/Macedonia, Syria/US, Terrorism, Iraq, Palestinian
[...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 11 reported President Asad's and VP Shara's meetings on Apr. 10 with Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki. Talks dealt with bilateral relations and the latest developments in the Balkans and the Middle East. Papers also featured a statement by Tom La [...]
2007-04-11 13:49:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS3592007 SYRIAN ELECTIONS (C-NE7-00184)
[...] (S/NF) This cable is a response to INR tasker (C-NE7-00184) on Syrian elections. Our answers are keyed to ref A,s numbering: 2. (C) A/B. The Damascus Declaration (DD) group decided in the past two months to boycott the Syrian parliamentary elections. The group,s leader Riad Seif commented [...]
2007-04-12 15:44:00Embassy DamascusSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PINR SY
07DAMASCUS363Syria/Israel, Syria/Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Iraq,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 15 featured a statement by the Syrian Foreign Ministry on Apr. 14 that statements by US national of Syrian origin, Ibrahim Suleiman, who visited Israel and met with the Israeli Knesset Foreign and Security Committee, do not reflect the Syrian viewpoint, adding [...]
2007-04-16 09:41:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS370SYRIAN REGIME BRINGS OUT DANCING ELECTION BEARS
[...] (C) Summary: After six weeks of campaigning, voting in Syrian parliamentary elections will be held April 22-23. Although the People's Assembly is a powerless body, there is intense campaigning and heavy spending for many of the 83 seats set aside for independents, especially for the 13 inde [...]
2007-04-18 13:54:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SY
07DAMASCUS413SYRIAN REGIME EMERGES STRONGER FROM PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) Summary: Winners in the April 22-23 elections for Syria's Peoples Assembly included all 170 members of the ruling National Progressive Front (NPF) coalition, which the Ba'ath Party leads, in addition to 80 "independents." In the NPF, the Ba'ath Party increased its seats by two to 134 se [...]
2007-04-30 14:34:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SY
07DAMASCUS568 Syria/Spain, Syria/Israel, Syria/Lebanon, Malaysia, Iraq,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 8-9 reported the visit to Spain on June 7 by FM Mouallem, who conveyed an oral message from President Asad to King Juan Carlos of Spain on bilateral relations and current regional developments, particularly in Iraq, the occupied Palestinian territories and Leban [...]
2007-06-11 11:00:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07HELSINKI675RESPECTED 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 12:00:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALIZ FI PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PINR
07HILLAH163NAJAF 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 13:47:00REO HillahUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL IZ
07ISTANBUL1035TURKEY'S ISLAMIC BANKING SECTOR
[...] Islamic banking in Turkey began in 1985 when the Ozal government authorized the creation of "special financial institutions" and Albaraka Turk, an offshoot of Al-Baraka Banking Group of Bahrain, opened as the first interest-free banking institution in Turkey. Interest-free banks in Turkey es [...]
2007-12-04 11:28:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN TU
07ISTANBUL63U/S LEVEY DISCUSSES IRAN WITH TURKISH BANKS
[...] (C) Summary: In meetings on December 4 and 5, Treasury U/S Stuart Levey briefed leading Turkish bankers on the risks posed by deceptive Iranian banking practices. U/S Levey noted that Iranian interest in Turkey would likely increase as European banks pull back from their Iran business and ur [...]
2007-01-29 06:59:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER EINV TU IR
07JAKARTA1059PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL UP AND RUNNING
[...] (C) On April 11 President Yudhoyono formally swore in the nine members of the new Presidential Advisory Council, created in accordance with last year's Presidential Advisory Council Bill (Ref A). The Council consists of luminaries from the legal, political, military, academic and educational [...]
2007-04-15 23:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ECON EFIN KCOR PINR ID
07JAKARTA1566INDONESIA AND SINGAPORE SIGN BILATERAL AGREEMENTS
[...] (U) Summary: The bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) and Extradition Treaty (ET) signed by Indonesia and Singapore on April 27 achieve long-sought objectives and potentially will sustain that cooperation over the next 25 years. Strategically paired from the beginning to balance res [...]
2007-06-06 10:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KJUS ID
07JAKARTA1585CENTRAL SULAWESI ON THE ROAD TO NORMALCY
[...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE HANDLE ACCORDINGLY. THIS CABLE IS A JOINT REPORT FROM EMBASSY JAKARTA AND CONSULATE GENERAL SURABAYA. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a recent visit to Central Sulawesi's former conflict areas, Mission officers clearly saw the beginning of a return to normalcy. [...]
2007-06-08 06:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PTER ECON PHUM PINR ID
07JAKARTA248GOI GAINING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR POSO ACTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. Over the past several days the GOI has done better in publicly justifying its January 22 actions against armed militants in Poso and in gaining the support of some national Muslim leaders in bringing calm to the situation. In particular, Vice President Jusuf Kalla met with Musl [...]
2007-01-30 09:04:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PINS PGOV PNAT PHUM KJUS KISL ASEC ID
07JAKARTA312Indonesian Police Capture Key Militants
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesian National Police (INP) units in Poso, Central Sulawesi nabbed three key militants on February 1 in on-going operations there. Shortly afterward, two other militants sought by the INP surrendered to authorities. The lead suspect, Basri, one of the most violent figures [...]
2007-02-06 09:07:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PINS PGOV PNAT KJUS KISL ASEC ID
07JAKARTA3358DEFENSE COOPERATION -- DASD CLAD'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DASD Clad discussed U.S.-Indonesia mil-mil cooperation and East Asian regional security with MinDef Sudarsono on December 5. Sudarsono said Indonesia wanted an effective but low-visibility security relationship with the United States. He said the GOI was focusing its air capaci [...]
2007-12-10 09:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV ID IN CH XE
07JAKARTA822Indonesia: Central Java NU Leader Views on
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Consulate General Surabaya met with Muhammad Adnan, Chairman of Central Java Nadhlatul Ulama (CJNU),Central Java's largest Muslim organization, and his deputies on March 2, 2007. Adnan commented that CJNU is less involved in local politics than its East Java counterpart and East [...]
2007-03-22 06:14:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL SCUL SOCI PTER ID
07JERUSALEM1590OLD GUARD TAKES CONTROL OF FATAH "REFORM"
[...] (C) Summary. On July 25, Fatah Central Committee member Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala'a) convened Fatah's Office for Mobilization to begin the process of forming a new Fatah High Council to replace the West Bank and Gaza Field Committees. The formation of the High Council was approved by the Fatah R [...]
2007-07-31 13:07:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM1720GRAND MUFTI CONDEMNS REP. TANCREDO COMMENTS, SAYS
[...] (C) Summary. At an August 14 meeting with PolOffs in Jerusalem, Grand Mufti Muhammad Hussayn (with Supreme Islamic Council member Adnan Hussayni) said Rep. Tom Tancredo's remarks (rebroadcast on al-Arabiya television) about possible retaliation against Mecca and Medina were hurtful to Muslims [...]
2007-08-17 08:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL KIRF PGOV KWBG IS
07JERUSALEM1999FAISAL HUSSEINI FOUNDATION IFTAR DISRUPTED
[...] (C) Summary: Officials from the Faisal Husseini Foundation told PolOff September 21 that Israeli police attempted to cancel the Foundation's annual Ramadan fundraising Iftar on September 20, but eventually allowed the dinner to proceed without fundraising activities. One official said he fe [...]
2007-09-24 13:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS KDEM
07JERUSALEM2377PALESTINIAN INTERLOCUTORS SEE DISCONNECT BETWEEN
[...] (C) Summary. Palestinian interlocutors told ConGen officers that success at the Annapolis meeting depends on tangible improvements to Palestinian life. Advisor to President Abbas Adnan Husseini said GoI home demolitions and land confiscations undermine the prospects for progress at Annapoli [...]
2007-11-15 15:15:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM2457LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR PALESTINIAN SECURITY
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Amendment requirements, Post requests clearance to send the following members of the National Security Forces (NSF) to USG-funded training in Jordan. This is the first of 3 cables containing batches of approximately 250 tra [...]
2007-11-29 17:39:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
07JERUSALEM2476JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY DEMOLISHES THREE HOMES
[...] (SBU) According to Jerusalem Municipality advisor Elad HaLevy and members of the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolition (ICAHD),the Municipality demolished a multi-story house under construction in Bayt Hanina (belonging to the Hajluni family) and a house foundation in Abu Tor for lack of [...]
2007-12-04 13:47:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV KWBG PBTS IS PHUM
07JERUSALEM2501LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: NSF 700-MAN BATTALION
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Amendment requirements, post requests clearance to send the following members of the National Security Forces (NSF) to USG-funded training in Jordan: First name, Last name Mohammad Fathi Hussein Rahal POB: Kufur Dan [...]
2007-12-05 15:38:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KWBG IS ASEC
07JERUSALEM252MUGHRABI GATE RAMP EXCAVATIONS AT HARAM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: EXCAVATIONS IN PREPARATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW RAMP TO THE MUGHRABI GATE TO THE HARAM AL-SHARIF HAVE INFLAMED TENSIONS IN JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY. THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE WAQF SAID ISRAELI POLICE HAVE RESTRICTED ACCESS TO THE HARAM AL-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT FOR THE PAST TWO D [...]
2007-02-07 15:54:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM2528LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: NSF 700 MAN BATTALION (3 OF
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Amendment requirements, post requests clearance to send the following members of the National Security Forces (NSF) to USG-funded training in Jordan: First name, last name Mahmoud Jalal Mahmoud Khaleel POB: Nablus D [...]
2007-12-11 09:50:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
07JERUSALEM266WAQF ADMINISTRATOR: EXCAVATIONS AT HARAM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: THE CONSUL GENERAL MET WITH WAQF ADMINISTRATOR ADNAN HUSSEINI, GRAND MUFTI MOHAMMED HUSSEIN AND SHEIKH ABDEL AZIZ SALHAB FEBRUARY 8 TO DISCUSS THE MUGHRABI GATE RAMP TO THE HARAM AL-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT. HUSSEINI SAID THE GOI HAD NOT COORDINATED WITH THE WAQF ON THIS PROJECT. HUSS [...]
2007-02-09 07:55:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PBTS KHUM KWBG KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM274VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT THE HARAM A-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT
[...] (C) WORSHIPPERS AT AL AQSA MOSQUE AND ISRAELI POLICE CLASHED FOR SEVERAL HOURS ON THE HARAM A-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT FEBRUARY 9. THE VIOLENCE BEGAN SHORTLY AFTER FRIDAY PRAYERS WHEN 200 ISRAELI POLICE ENTERED THE AREA AROUND AL AQSA MOSQUE. ISRAELI ACCOUNTS INDICATE THAT THE POLICE ACTION CAME IN [...]
2007-02-09 16:49:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PBTS KHUM KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM275VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT THE HARAM A-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT
[...] (C) WORSHIPPERS AT AL AQSA MOSQUE AND ISRAELI POLICE CLASHED FOR SEVERAL HOURS ON THE HARAM A-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT FEBRUARY 9. THE VIOLENCE BEGAN SHORTLY AFTER FRIDAY PRAYERS WHEN 200 ISRAELI POLICE ENTERED THE AREA AROUND AL AQSA MOSQUE. ISRAELI ACCOUNTS INDICATE THAT THE POLICE ACTION CAME IN [...]
2007-02-09 17:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KWBG PBTS KHUM KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM291JERUSALEM MAYOR DELAYS CONSTRUCTION; EXCAVATIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following several days of clashes in the Old City, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski announced February 11 that construction of a new ramp to the Mughrabi Gate would be postponed to allow for discussion of the plans by the Municipalities Planning and Construction committees. Howev [...]
2007-02-12 16:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KWBG PBTS KHUM KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM339MUGHRABI GATE: JERUSALEM MAYOR OPEN TO TALKING,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: JERUSALEM MAYOR URI LUPOLIANSKI TOLD CONSUL GENERAL FEBRUARY 16 HE IS WILLING TO MEET WITH MUSLIM LEADERS TO TRY TO DISPEL THEIR CONCERNS THE MUGHRABI GATE RAMP. HE NOTED THAT EXCAVATIONS HAVE CONTINUED DESPITE HIS FEBRUARY 12 DECISION TO POSTPONE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW RAMP AT THE [...]
2007-02-16 14:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KWBG PBTS KHUM KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM367UPDATE ON MUGHRABI GATE
[...] (C) Tourists and visitors were allowed access to the Temple Mount/Haram a-Sharif via the Mughrabi Gate February 21 for the first time in more than two weeks. Access had been restricted by Israeli officials following protests and occasional violence surrounding the excavations at the Mughrabi G [...]
2007-02-22 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KWBG PBTS KHUM KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM443WAQF DIRECTOR REPLACED WHILE OUT OF THE COUNTRY
[...] (C) Adnan Husseini was replaced March 2 as director of the Waqf by the Jordanian government while he was out of the country trying to gather support in Turkey and Qatar for protests against excavations by the Israeli Antiquities Authority at the Mughrabi Gate ramp. Husseini is being replaced b [...]
2007-03-05 14:40:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PBTS KHUM KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM489NEW WAQF DIRECTOR, BUT NO POLICY CHANGE OVER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: THE NEW DIRECTOR OF THE WAQF SAID MARCH 13 THAT ISLAMIC AUTHORITY WILL CONTINUE TO OPPOSE EXCAVATIONS AT THE MUGHRABI GATE RAMP AND THE EVENTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW RAMP THERE. HE SAID THAT LIKE HIS PREDECESSOR, NEITHER HE NOR ANY WAQF OFFICIAL WILL MEET WITH JERUSALEM'S MAYOR OR [...]
2007-03-13 14:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PBTS KHUM KPAL IS
07JERUSALEM869JENIN AND JORDAN VALLEY FARMERS FACE LOSSES DUE TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FARMERS FROM JENIN AND THE NORTHERN JORDAN VALLEY COMPLAIN THAT CHECKPOINT DELAYS, MISHANDLING OF PRODUCE, LIMITED CROSSING HOURS, AND LACK OF TRAVEL PRIVILEGES TO ISRAEL ADVERSELY AFFECT LOCAL AGRICULTURAL TRADE. JENIN FARMERS ALSO COMPLAIN THAT ISRAELI AUTHORITIES ARBITRARI [...]
2007-05-11 12:25:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD PREL KWBG IS
07KABUL201COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO APHSCT TOWNSEND
[...] (C) U.S. Embassy welcomes the visit of Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Frances Fragos Townsend and grants country clearance for her visit February 8-9, 2007. Country Clearance is also granted to members of the APHSCT Townsend delegation: Michele [...]
2007-01-22 06:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALAMGT ECON POL INTEL AF
07KUALALUMPUR1207MALAYSIA AND ARF PROPOSAL FOR ISM ON
[...] (U) We conveyed copies of third version of the draft proposal for the ARF ISM on nonproliferation to Malaysian Foreign Ministry officials responsible for ARF issues, Rosmeyuddin bin Baharudin and Zulkifli Adnan, but these officials were not available for discussion before they departed for th [...]
2007-07-26 08:25:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM ARF XB MY
07KUALALUMPUR1446VIDEO OF JUDGE FIXING ROCKS MALAYSIA'S JUDICIARY
[...] (C) Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim rocked Malaysia's legal establishment on September 19 when he held a press conference to release an eight minute videotaped conversation purportedly showing a phone conversation between a famously corrupt Malaysian attorney and the current Chief J [...]
2007-09-21 09:15:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR6High-Tech toilets for tourism; rising Ringgit. Economic Update Dec 2006
[...] (U) Summary: The Government of Malaysia is ready to launch its drive to attract more tourists this year in honor of its 50th anniversary. Initiatives include a multi-million dollar Ferris wheel, sorely needed lessons in customer service, and 23 self-sanitizing toilets at a cost of USD 113,000 [...]
2007-01-03 09:09:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV MY
07KUALALUMPUR899REVISED U.S. ARF INITIATIVES CONVEYED TO MALAYSIA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-21 09:36:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM EAID MARR ARF XB MY
07KUWAIT217KUWAITIS WELCOME MECCA AGREEMENT, CONDEMN AL-AQSA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kuwaitis welcomed news of the agreement between Fatah and Hamas in Mecca and praised Saudi Arabia for hosting the reconciliation meeting. In a February 11 statement, the Council of Ministers hailed the agreement as "a step in the right direction" and praised Saudi King Abdulla [...]
2007-02-14 12:42:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPAL IS KU
07KUWAIT257UPDATE ON SHI'A-SUNNI RELATIONS IN KUWAIT: STABLE,
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Despite a recent surge in sectarian rhetoric, the majority of our contacts insist there is no near-term threat to Shi'a-Sunni relations in Kuwait. Most Kuwaitis describe the overall relations between the two communities as "very good," and say leaders on both sides and the Go [...]
2007-02-20 13:42:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV KISL SOCI IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS
07KUWAIT318FIVE MPS SUBMIT LEGISLATION TO BAN ALL CONTACTS
[...] (SBU) Five parliamentarians - two Shi'a Islamists, two Sunni Islamists, and one populist - submitted draft legislation March 3 calling for a complete ban on all Kuwaiti interaction, both official and unofficial, with "the Zionist entity" (i.e. Israel). The bill "seeks to prohibit government [...]
2007-03-04 13:43:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KPAL IS KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT365 KUWAIT HOSTS WORLD ISLAMIC FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
[...] (U) Summary: On March 4-5, ADEEM Investment Co., Investment Dar, and a number of leading Islamic investment and finance companies from throughout the Gulf hosted "The First Annual World Islamic Finance & Investment Conference" in Kuwait City. The two-day event included panels on two key areas [...]
2007-03-12 09:45:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PREL KU
07KUWAIT487PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 3, Parliament ratified 20 international agreements, including a security cooperation agreement with Iran in the field of drug trafficking and law enforcement. However, parliamentarians objected strongly to an Article 98 agreement with the U.S. and referred it to the M [...]
2007-04-04 13:47:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
07NICOSIA365T/C LABOR UNIONS DISAPPOINTED WITH "GOVERNMENT"
[...] Summary: Turkish Cypriot (T/C) labor union leaders are voicing growing disappointment with the performance of the current "TRNC government." The Republican Turkish Party (CTP) came to power in 2005 with overwhelming labor support, union representatives told us in a series of recent meetings; [...]
2007-04-26 13:31:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ELAB PHUM CY
07PARTO7(U) SECRETARY RICE'S FEBRUARY 17 MEETING WITH
[...] (U) Classified by: Arnold Chacon, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) SIPDIS 2. (U) February 17, 2007; 12:30; Baghdad, Iraq. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad S/I David Satterfield Shayna Steinger (Embassy [...]
2007-02-21 23:53:00US Delegation, SecretarySECRETOVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PGOV PINS PTER
07PODGORICA50MONTENEGRO: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-02 09:54:00Embassy PodgoricaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB MW
07RABAT1229APHSCT TOWNSEND'S VISIT TO MOROCCO
[...] (S/NF) Summary: During her July 6-8 visit to Morocco, Frances Fragos Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, met with the chiefs of Morocco's intelligence service, the internal security service, the chief of the national police, the Minister of Interior [...]
2007-07-31 15:36:00Embassy RabatSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL KISL MO IZ XF XA
07RIYADH1894TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE SAUDIS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: On September 5, Post's Terrorism Finance Coordinator delivered reftel A points to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressing USG's interest in submitting a request to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee on or about September 12. Embassy Riyadh fully supports the objectives o [...]
2007-09-11 08:24:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER SA
07RIYADH305TERRORIST FINANCE: REQUEST FOR POST ASSISTANCE IN
[...] (S/NF) Embassy Riyadh appreciates the opportunity to comment on the effectiveness of tranche I designations under the Terrorist Facilitators and Inciters Initiative. While the Mission of Saudi Arabia fully supports the objective of this initiative - to sanction individuals that both financially [...]
2007-02-13 16:00:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER SA
07ROME289TERRORIST FINANCE: ASSESSMENT OF TERRORIST
[...] (S) Econoff discussed reftel points with contacts at the Ministry of Finance (MOF) Office of Financial Crimes and the MFA Office of Counterterrorism Policy February 8. Our contacts reported that their offices referred the UN 1267 designations to the GOI Financial Security Committee (FSC) to [...]
2007-02-12 14:26:00Embassy RomeSECRETEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC IT
07SANAA1989TOWNSEND-SALEH MEETING PROVIDES OPENING FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-30 06:37:00Embassy SanaaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER YM
07SARAJEVO1529VISA INELIGIBILITY ON FOREIGN POLICY GROUNDS -
[...] (U) Action request: see paragraph 4. 2. (U) On July 10, the High Representative Miroslav Lajcak dismissed Mr. Dragomir Andan from office for activities deemed to obstruct implementation of the Dayton Agreement. Andan is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the former Director of th [...]
2007-07-13 05:48:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALCIVS KAWC ICTY PREL BK
07SARAJEVO1577BOSNIA - IT IS TIME TO PUT BRCKO BACK ON THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the Peace Implementation Council's December 2007 decision not to close OHR, our central concern regarding Brcko has been the District's disput%&QJkQQ! of Brcko's relationship with the State (Ref A). With the ITA dispute behind us, it is time to refocus our energies on put [...]
2007-07-23 08:33:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO162BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC RAISES ALGERIAN 6 GUANTANAMO
[...] (S) SUMMARY: At a January 18 meeting, Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency raised the Algerian 6 with the Ambassador. Silajdzic said that his impression was that the U.S. planned to release the six men and posed several questions about how their citizenship might impact that decision. We foll [...]
2007-01-23 15:22:00Embassy SarajevoSECRETPTER PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO62DECERTIFIED POLICE: SOLUTION REMAINS ELUSIVE
[...] (U) This is an Action Request for the Department. Please see Para 8. 2. (C) Summary: After a December 21-22 visit to Sarajevo, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg assessed that the International Police Task Force (IPTF) police decertification process had flaws [...]
2007-01-11 17:17:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALBK KJUS PGOV PINR PREL EUN UNSC
07SARAJEVO87PM SPIRIC PRESENTS PLAN FOR GOVERNING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prior to the vote on his confirmation January 11 to become Bosnia's new Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister),Nikola Spiric of the Serb Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) presented a detailed work plan for the new government. In a 40-minute speech [...]
2007-01-12 17:12:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR ECON KCRM KJUS EUN BK
07STATE154555DEMARCHE: EU HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE WITH IRAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The EU has recently expressed interest in resuming its human rights dialogue with Iran. This cable provides guidance on supporting that dialogue providing certain conditions are met, and requests that post demarche the EU to issue statements on two Iranian political activists. [...]
2007-11-09 12:21:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM IR PREL EUN PGOV KDEM
07TELAVIV2642ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Turkey ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that three Palestinian children from one family were killed in a strike against rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip. The media quoted the IDF [...]
2007-08-31 03:39:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2918ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-09 13:08:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07THEHAGUE253AMNESTY INTN'L: DUTCH-IRANIAN CITIZEN RISKS
[...] (C) Summary: Faleh al-Mansouri, a Dutch-Iranian citizen arrested during a May 2006 visit to Syria and extradited to Iran, remains in Iranian custody without Dutch consular access. The Dutch chapter of Amnesty International (AI) fears he may be executed in the near future. The GONL continues [...]
2007-02-09 14:49:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPHUM IR NL
08ABUDHABI1301EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: EMIRATES INSTITUTE OF
[...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check at the Emirates Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST),Dubai, UAE for export license application D406987: Juniper encryption hardware, software and related products worth nearly 44 million USD. These items are controlled unde [...]
2008-11-12 13:31:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC AE
08ABUDHABI581S/I SATTERFIELD BRIEF TO BAHRAIN ON IRAQI
[...] (S) Special Advisor David Satterfield and four accompanying experts on Iraq and Iran briefed a Bahraini delegation in Abu Dhabi on May 7. Satterfield emphasized that the time is ripe for a substantive Arab diplomatic presence in Baghdad; Secretary General of the Bahraini National Defense Cou [...]
2008-05-11 13:36:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL PTER MASS IR IZ AE
08ADANA27TURKEY: PRIVATE KURDISH TV STATION FACING FINES, CLOSURE
[...] (SBU) Turkey's sole Kurdish-language television station, Gun-TV, is facing prohibitive fines from regulators for airing reports of the activities of the pro-Kurdish DTP politicians on the grounds that such broadcasts "encourage violence or provoke hatred." Gun officials claim they were report [...]
2008-08-13 11:36:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PTER IZ TU
08AMMAN1067JORDAN PROMOTES IPR FOR NEW PLANT VARIETIES
[...] SUMMARY: Jordan is pursuing several initiatives to protect agriculture-related intellectual property rights (IPR). Most recently, the Jordanian private and public sectors hosted a regional conference to promote protection of new plant varieties. The Government of Jordan (GOJ) and local agric [...]
2008-04-13 11:43:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD KIPR JO
08AMMAN1466CITIZENSHIP OF MANY JORDANIAN-PALESTINIANS STILL
[...] (C) Summary: Twenty years after Jordan severed its legal and administrative ties to the West Bank, the repercussions are still being felt, and not merely in the central peace process assumption that the West Bank will become the core of a Palestinian state. Through vague regulations and opaqu [...]
2008-05-14 06:33:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAL PREF KDEM KWBG IS JO
08AMMAN1753PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN, PART 4:
[...] (SBU) Note: This is the fourth cable of a four-part series examining the world of Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps. Part one focused on the different categories of refugees, and the basic structure of the camp system as it exists in Jordan. Part two examined the isolation of the camps - h [...]
2008-06-12 06:43:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KPAL KISL KREF JO
08AMMAN2231RESIGNATION OF NATIONAL CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ahmed Obeidat, head of the quasi-governmental National Center for Human Rights, was recently asked to resign for signing a widely disseminated letter to the GOJ criticizing its economic reform and privatization program. Former Prime Minister Adnan Badran has been appointed as O [...]
2008-07-24 13:37:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM JO
08AMMAN3122 JORDANIAN-QATARI RELATIONS START TO THAW IN BUSINESS AND
[...] (C) Prime Minister Nader Dahabi led a high-level November 8-9 delegation to Qatar which included the Ministers of Labor, Industry and Trade, and Media Affairs. According to press reports, Jordan and Qatar agreed to establish a joint investment fund, with up to $1 billion from Qatar, and to se [...]
2008-11-17 07:09:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEINV PREL PGOV KISL KWBG JO QA
08AMMAN391THE RIGHT OF RETURN: WHAT IT MEANS IN JORDAN
[...] (C) Summary: The right of return for Palestinians is one of the issues at the heart of the debate over what it means to be Jordanian. Though our GOJ interlocutors insist that the theoretical option of return remains, they are now more engaged with the issue of compensation, both for individua [...]
2008-02-06 14:43:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF KPAL JO
08ANKARA1337ERGENEKON INDICTMENT STILL MURKY BUT PROCESS ALONE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Istanbul's Heavy Penal Court decided July 25 to accept the indictment filed in the Ergenekon case and proceed to prosecution (ref A). The 2,500 page indictment has clarified little about the case. Some Turks see the indictment as a courageous step toward bringing Turkey's stat [...]
2008-07-25 13:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL TU
08ANKARA1700ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-24 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1760ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 14:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1809ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-17 11:39:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1916TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY PARTY
[...] (C) Summary and comment: The symbolism of victory in the March 2009 local elections is helping fuel the rapidly rising tension and violence in Turkey's Southeast (reftel). PM Erdogan's repeated visits to the region in recent weeks are part of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) [...]
2008-11-05 09:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2006DP PARTY CONGRESS: FANFARE FOR A COMMON MAN
[...] (C) Summary: The center-right Democrat Party (DP),a former electoral powerhouse with a checkered history, held its national party congress on 15 November. The convention hall was packed, the participants energetic, and the incumbent chairman, Suleyman Soylu, was reelected easily with a mess [...]
2008-11-19 16:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALOSCE PGOV TU
08ANKARA277TURKEY: BANK MELLI ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE A TURKISH
[...] (S) A January 28 visit by Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey gave us the opportunity to share Ref A points widely with appropriate parties in the Turkish Government, including Treasury Minister Mehmet Simsek, Finance Minister Kemal Unakitan, MASAK President Adnan Erturk, and Ministry of Fo [...]
2008-02-14 05:44:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKNNP MNUM IR TU EFIN
08ANKARA298TURKEY: MORE FROM BRSA ON IRANIAN BANKING INTEREST
[...] (S) Summary. In a follow-up meeting on Ref B issues, Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) Chairman Tevfik Bilgin (please protect) told us that the proposed Bank Melli purchase of Adabank is not possible at this time. Adabank is under the supervision of Turkey's Securities Deposit [...]
2008-02-19 05:42:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKNNP MNUM IR TU EFIN
08ANKARA366TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 5: GROUND OPERATIONS CONTINUE,
[...] (C) Turkish ground forces continue to engage PKK terrorists in the Zap Metina region of northern Iraq, supported by air and artillery strikes. Deteriorating weather conditions in the objective area will likely hamper operations over the next 24 hours. Normal logistics and customs operations [...]
2008-02-26 12:10:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA379TURKEY: U/S LEVEY ON DANGERS OF DOING BUSINESS
[...] (C) Summary: In his January 28th meetings with the Turkish Foreign, Finance, and Treasury Ministries and Halkbank, Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey discussed the dangers of doing business with Iran and warned of the need for constant vigilance and extraordinary scrutiny in financial relat [...]
2008-02-27 12:37:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETEFIN KTFN KNNP EINV TU IR
08ANKARA394S/CT PDAS URBANCIC'S ANKARA VISIT: PROGRESS ON
[...] (C) Summary. Ankara-based diplomats expressed frustration in dealing with Turkish prosecutors and described successes in tackling the PKK during a February 12 meeting with S/CT PDAS Urbancic. The Belgian police liaison reported establishment of a new federal prosecutor dedicated to PKK crime [...]
2008-02-29 08:32:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV EU TU
08ANKARA487TURKEY: MORE ATTENTION TO AL-QA,IDA, GLOBAL
[...] (S) Summary. S/CT PDAS Urbancic, during February 12 meetings in Ankara, briefed a Turkish interagency group on Al-Qa'ida and its wider network (AQN) and the findings from the AQ documents obtained through Objective Massey, urging Turkey to strengthen its fight against Al-Qa'ida and other terr [...]
2008-03-12 14:50:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER PREL TU
08BAGHDAD105REACTION TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE LAW AND
[...] (S) Summary: Sunni reaction to the January 12 passage of the Accountability and Justice Law, an early indicator of the ultimate political impact, has been somewhat tepid. The Sunni Tawafuq Front issued a statement January 13 calling the law "mediocre" but acknowledging it contains some positiv [...]
2008-01-14 16:44:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1072MINFIN HAS MONEY FOR BASRA, BUT IS WAITING ON
[...] (C) Summary: At an April 6 meeting, Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr said that the 100 million USD for humanitarian assistance and development in Basra could be funded by taking money from the Basra Provincial Government's capital budget. A line item in the upcoming 2008 supplemental budget could [...]
2008-04-07 14:18:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1207VP ADEL: JAM AND SADRISTS DOWN BUT NOT OUT, IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 16 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador that Sadrist insiders have confirmed his analysis that Muqtada al-Sadr (who is in Iran, not Iraq) is mainly a symbolic leader of a fragmented and failing movement comprised of diverse bands of thugs, sheik [...]
2008-04-17 19:15:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1257ALLAWI: IRAQIYYA PARTICIPATING POLITICALLY WITHOUT
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk met on April 17 with Iraqiyya leader Ayad Allawi and MP Adnan Pachachi. Allawi gave little indication of near-term plans to re-enter the cabinet, but remains involved in the political process by participating in [...]
2008-04-23 09:19:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1337COR SPEAKER MAHMOUD MASHADANI: NO IRAQI SHOULD BE
[...] (C) Summary: On April 26, Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mashadani told the Ambassador that diplomatic representation from Saudi Arabia is needed to bolster Arab relations with Iraq and counteract Iran's growing influence. Regarding the Sadrists, Mashadani shared with the Ambassador [...]
2008-04-30 08:35:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1365FORMER PM AYAD ALLAWI EYEING VP ADIL ABDUL MAHDI'S
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-02 16:24:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV IR IZ
08BAGHDAD1403RIKABI STUMPED BY TAWAFUQ SPLIT?
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In a May 5 meeting, Sadiq Rikabi professed to be unsure of how PM Maliki should play the splintering of the Tawafuq Front, but finally indicated that Maliki would likely press Vice President Hashimi to submit a new list of ministerial nominees representing the entire Front and n [...]
2008-05-05 15:47:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1407THE TAWAFUQ COALITION: A PORTRQT OF SUNNI
[...] (S) The largest bloc of Sunni political parties, the "Tawafuq Front," is likely to fracture over internal feuding between its three senior leaders, tensions created by the prolonged negotiations to return Tawafuq to government, and positioning in the run-up to provincial elections. Relations [...]
2008-05-06 09:30:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1426THE AMBASSADOR'S MAY 6 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT
[...] (S) Summary: President Talabani, accompanied by DPM Barham Saleh, told the Ambassador that he had advised PM Maliki to wait and see whether Iran implemented its promises to not support Shi'a militants before deciding whether to visit Tehran. Talabani said he warned Iranian Ambassador Qomi ear [...]
2008-05-07 18:46:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1455PRT WASIT: SADRIST PC MEMBER PREDICTS CHANGE
[...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S//REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: In a May 5 meeting Sadrist Trend Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Hasan Ebrah told the PRT that it is a "dangerous time" for the Sadrist movement and predicted that Muqtada al-Sadr's inner circle advisors would [...]
2008-05-10 14:03:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1483MALIKI DEMANDS HALT TO IRANIAN AND SYRIAN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: During his weekly security meeting on May 7 with the Ambassador and MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus, Prime Minister Maliki cited increasing evidence of Iran's direct interference in Iraqi affairs and the backlash it has engendered among Iraqis at all levels of society. He said he [...]
2008-05-12 16:59:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETMARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD14842008 KRG BUDGET: $6.4 BILLION AND SMALL GAINS IN
[...] (C) Summary: The Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA, regional parliament) passed a 7.6 trillion Iraqi dinar ($6.4 billion) budget to fund the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for 2008. Approval came on April 30, nearly three months earlier than in 2007. The 2008 budget includes 4.7 trill [...]
2008-05-12 18:09:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1496VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI ON SADR CITY AGREEMENT, IRAN,
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 12 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi hailed the May 12 UIA-Sadrist Trend ceasefire agreement as an important step forward in affirming GOI authority by allowing the Iraqi army to enter and conduct operations in Sadr City. The Ambassador urged Adel to join Deputy P [...]
2008-05-14 07:55:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAGR ETRD IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1497MASHADANI BRAVES THE POLITICAL STORM OVER THE
[...] (C) Summary: The Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani discussed with the Ambassador on May 11 the second reading of the elections law earlier that day, accusing the Kurds and ISCI of slow-rolling the legislation. He affirmed, nonetheless, the law would pass when the CoR [...]
2008-05-14 08:01:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1509IRAQ'S SWIRLING SUNNI STREET: UPCOMING ELECTIONS
[...] (S) In a particularly encouraging development, the Sunni Arab community appears increasingly reconciled to competing in the formal political process, despite its many misgivings related to that process. Preparations for provincial elections later this year have set in motion a dizzying scram [...]
2008-05-14 16:31:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM PTER PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD1601IRANIAN-BACKED PARTIES PREPARED TO DOMINATE
[...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: The failure of the Shiite religious parties since 2005 to improve the daily lives of average Iraqis has left many Shia disillusioned. In Muthanna, nationalist, tribal, technocratic, and secular groups are coalescing to offer a [...]
2008-05-25 14:20:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PINS PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1616PM MALIKI ON SISTANI MEETING, ELECTIONS, SFA, AND
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 23 meeting, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the Ambassador that Grand Ayatollah Sistani is generally supportive of a long-term security agreement with the USG and is keenly interested in upcoming provincial elections. Sistani told the PM he will issue a public stateme [...]
2008-05-27 08:56:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ IR
08BAGHDAD1804NINEWA: WHAT A DIFFERENCE FIVE MONTHS MAKE - MOSUL
[...] (C) Summary: The January 2008 massive explosion in the Zinjali neighborhood (ref a) appears in retrospect to have been the turning point in the Iraqi central government's determination to make a serious effort at Mosul reconstruction after years of conflict, neglect and terrorist intimidation. [...]
2008-06-15 13:38:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL EAID MARR PINR ECON EAIR IZ
08BAGHDAD1805HUMAN 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. [...]
2008-06-15 15:21:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD185SUNNI PARTY LEADER ON NEW ANTI-KURDISH POLITICAL
[...] (S) Khallaf Allyan, leader of the National Dialogue Council party and senior figure in the Tawafuq Coalition, vented to Poloff on January 23 over perceived treachery by Kurdish political leaders and Vice President Hashimi's Iraqi Islamic Party. Recent steps by these groups prompted his decis [...]
2008-01-24 10:44:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD1922AYAD ALLAWI DISCUSSES RECENT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Former Prime Minister and Iraqiyya Bloc Leader Ayad Allawi played down rumors of a formal alliance with the Sadrists, Fadila, Iraqi National Dialogue Front (INDF),and Ibrahim Jafari's party in a June 22 meeting with PolCouns, but admitted that Iraqiyya coordinates on some com [...]
2008-06-24 07:03:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD193ERBIL: KURDISTAN REGIONAL PRESIDENT MASOUD BARZANI
[...] (C) Summary. In response to extensive criticism by NGOs (both local and international) and local journalists, Kurdistan Regional President Masoud Barzani rejected the Press Law bill passed by the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) on December 11. He returned the bill on January 15 to the KNA [...]
2008-01-24 16:09:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KPAO IZ
08BAGHDAD202TALABANI ON EARLY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL BUSINESS,
[...] (C) Iraqi President Jalal Talabani discussed the Executive Council (formerly known as the "3 1") and other topics in an informal dinner on January 20 with the Ambassador. He said the Council plans to shrink the Council of Ministers by nearly half, but also to reincorporate most of the blocs [...]
2008-01-25 12:58:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD2032MAIN SUNNI BLOC INCHES CLOSER TO DEAL TO RETURN
[...] (C) Government spokesman Ali Dabbagh on June 30 announced that PM Maliki and VP Hashimi worked out a compromise deal to return the Tawafuq Front - the main Sunni Arab bloc in Parliament - to its cabinet seats. A list of cabinet nominees was reportedly agreed to by the two leaders, including [...]
2008-07-01 15:14:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2034ICRC REGRETS DYSFUNCTION AND POSSIBLE CORRUPTION
[...] (C) Senior Refugee Coordinator met with ICRC Iraq Head of Delegation Juan Pedro Schaerer and Delegate Bryan Tisdall in Amman June 17 to discuss ICRC,s difficult relations with the Iraq Red Crescent Organization. Schaerer noted that he had met with IRCO President Dr. Said al Hakki on June 11 i [...]
2008-07-02 12:01:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM ICRC IZ
08BAGHDAD2084FADILAH LEADER SUGGESTS SADR REPLACEMENTS
[...] (S/REL MCFI) Summary: In a wide-ranging June 29 conversation with Poloff and Wasit PRToffs, Fadilah spiritual leader Abbas al-Zaydi explained that Iran supported both ISCI and JAM, but for different functions; "JAM is tactical; ISCI is strategic." He complained that the GOI was "acting as a [...]
2008-07-06 12:09:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPINS PGOV IR IZ PINR
08BAGHDAD2153TALABANI ON SOFA, IRAQI FOREIGN RELATIONS, KEY
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on July 7 with President Jalal Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih. Talabani called for a specific USG-GOI plan for countering Iranian opposition to the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),but praised recent st [...]
2008-07-11 02:38:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD224VP ADEL ON BUDGET, NEW CABINET, SECURITY, REGIONS,
[...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador January 24 that Prime Minister Maliki continues to obstruct passage of the 2008 GOI budget, but it is unlikely that the budget would need to be submitted for an additional, time-consuming cabinet vote prior to final parliamentary [...]
2008-01-26 10:37:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2241NINEWA: KRG-AFFILIATED ASSYRIAN LEADERS, SHABAK
[...] (C) As part of an ongoing outreach effort to minority communities in Ninewah Province, PRT leader met separately with two prominent Assyrian Christians and four Shabak political activists. All were concerned about threats to their communities and sought continued USG engagement on the way fo [...]
2008-07-19 10:45:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF ECON EPET ENRG PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD239"THE STREET IS STRONGER THAN PARLIAMENT:" SADRIST
[...] (C) Summary: As a harbinger of Sadrist Trend hostility to a prospective USG-GOI long-term strategic relationship (LTSR) agreement, Sadrist Deputy Governor of Karbala Jawad al-Hasnawi told us January 24 that if Trend efforts to quash parliamentary approval of the agreement were to fail (a highl [...]
2008-01-27 18:10:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD2505SURVEY OF SOUTHERN POLITICAL ENTITIES
[...] (U) This is a joint Baghdad - PRT - REO reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: 229 political entities (individual candidates and parties) registered in the southern provinces for the upcoming provincial elections. The number and composition of the entities is another manifestation of widesprea [...]
2008-08-10 12:02:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IR
08BAGHDAD2769IRAQ MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SEEKING
[...] (C) Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Ra'id Fahmi Jahid told EMBOFFs on 25 August that one of the Government of Iraq's biggest problems is that the Ministries have no effective mechanism to coordinate their strategies. Fahmi said he thus requested the UNCTAD science, technology, and i [...]
2008-08-28 13:32:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALTPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA
08BAGHDAD2791SADR EXTENDS JAM FREEZE INDEFINITELY
[...] (SBU) "The freeze on the activities of the al-Mahdi army...shall continue to be in effect for an indefinite period of time," said Muqtada al-Sadr in a hand-written statement released on August 26. In the statement Sadr emphasized the importance of obeying the program of "Al-Muhmahidoon," the [...]
2008-08-31 09:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2815ERBIL AND KIRKUK: MURDER AND INTIMIDATION
[...] (C) Summary: Credible death threats from the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Iranian intelligence service may force one of the Kurdistan Region's boldest independent media outlets, Lvin magazine, to move its operations to Europe, according to Lvin's Editor-in-Chief Ahmad Mira. Mira [...]
2008-09-02 12:10:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD2902IRAQI OIL MINISTER'S FAILED RAID ON SOUTH OIL
[...] (SBU) In a September 4 decision, Oil Minister Shahristani appointed Jabbar al-Luaibi to a new position within the Ministry of Oil that will oversee the new Maysan Oil Company, the South Gas Company, and the South Oil Company, rather than simply reinstating him to his old position as director g [...]
2008-09-08 16:20:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG EINV PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD2987SEPTEMBER 13TH CAR BOMB IN AD-DUJAYL: A SETBACK
[...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) A car bomb exploded in the predominantly Shi'a Ad-Dujayl district of Salah Ad Din (SaD) province on September 13, 2008, shattering a period of relative calm and economic improvement over the past year. According to [...]
2008-09-16 12:49:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV PINS IZ
08BAGHDAD3139ERBIL: KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (KDP) POLITBURO
[...] (C) Summary: In a September 23 courtesy call, KDP Politburo head Fadhil Merani expressed the view that a political solution could be found to resolve the Article 140 impasse, and stated that in the absence of agreement, a delay was better than resorting to violence. He made a number of obse [...]
2008-09-28 12:02:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3210RRT ERBIL: JOURNALISTS GIVE NEW KRG MEDIA LAW A TENTATIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Key independent media editors in the Kurdistan Region have cautiously welcomed passage September 22 of a new KRG Press Law, with one veteran editor characterizing it as "80 percent good." Our interlocutors were pleased with revisions in the law that cap defamation fines, prohib [...]
2008-10-05 02:48:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KDEM SOCI IZ
08BAGHDAD3263SAHWA LEADER ABU AZZAM AN AMBITIOUS POLITICAL
[...] (C) Sahwa leader Thamir Al Tamimi, aka Abu Azzam, said that the Sahwa issues are not yet over for the government of Iraq (GOI),despite his own claims in the press that the process is going smoothly. This is not the only time Abu Azzam has issued contradictory statements weeks. He has also [...]
2008-10-09 12:19:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3412MAYSAN: SUB-PROVINCIAL LEADERS ENGAGE WITH PRT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-26 10:41:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIR IZ PGOV PINR
08BAGHDAD3455 ECA A/S GOLI AMERI'S MEETING WITH IRAQI HIGHER EDUCATION
[...] (U) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salih hosted A/S Goli Ameri and Iraq's most important higher education officials for a roundtable discussion in his home on October 20. The participants from both countries stressed their commitment to revitalize higher education in Iraq and their [...]
2008-10-29 14:27:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OEXC SCUL IZ
08BAGHDAD3479UNHCR DOUBLES PROGRAMMING AND SUPPORTS RETURNS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant UN High Commissioner for Refugees for Operations Judy Cheng-Hopkins briefed the Ambassador October 28 on UNHCR,s new strategy to sharply increase engagement inside Iraq to support returns. Ambassador Crocker encouraged UNHCR to continue direct engagement with the Iraq [...]
2008-11-02 11:00:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ PHUM PREF PREL
08BAGHDAD3512BIOMETRIC DATA FOR IRAQI GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
[...] (S) Biometric data (photos and fingerprints) for four Iraqi Guantanamo (GTMO) detainees approved for transfer to Iraq was received at Post October 30 (REF A). Taking advantage of the visit to Baghdad of the Deputy Director (DepDir) of the Secretary's Office of War Crimes Issues (S/WCI),Milbe [...]
2008-11-06 14:18:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR IZ US
08BAGHDAD3562NAJAF: ISCI LOOKS STRONG BUT FACES WELL-ORGANIZED
[...] (C) Summary. Days before the release of the open list candidates for January provincial elections, the relative surface calm of Najaf,s ISCI domination of the provincial government is beginning to reveal turbulent anti-ISCI undercurrents. ISCI officials, led by Deputy Governor Abtan, continu [...]
2008-11-11 13:20:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM IZ
08BAGHDAD3599EUJUST LEX TO EXPAND HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINING IN 2009
[...] (C) Summary: An EU Integrated Rule of Law Mission for Iraq (EUJUST LEX) team spent ten days in Baghdad examining how best to restructure its current training programs for the extension of its mandate in mid-2009. For the next mandate, the EUJUST LEX program for Iraq wants to offer more sub [...]
2008-11-13 14:15:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM KJUS PREL EU IZ
08BAGHDAD363QASSIM DAOUD ON POSSIBLE ALLIANCE TO END ALL
[...] (C) Summary: Shia Independent CoR member Qassim Daoud told us February 5 that he has had several meetings in recent days with senior ISCI leaders about the formation of a "National Front" CoR grouping that would alter Iraq's current political landscape and end the government of Prime Minister a [...]
2008-02-07 14:14:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD3699SOFA: VIEWS FROM OUTSIDE THE GREEN ZONE -- IRAQIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Three longstanding Iraqi contacts, representing a cross-section of Iraqi society (director-general, police chief, and tribal sheikh) based outside the Green Zone, said Iraqi people wanted, and deserved, more details on the SOFA under discussion in the Iraqi parliament. The grou [...]
2008-11-23 16:37:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD3704HUMAN 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 candidate from the Iraqi Air Force who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. 3. [...]
2008-11-24 17:55:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08BAGHDAD3928TRIBES AND TECHNOCRATS MARK PRE-ELECTION
[...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Several months ago, outsiders looking at the electoral line-up in Anbar Province saw what appeared to be a head-on match up between the governing Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) and its nemesis, the Iraq Awakening Conference (MSI). Today th [...]
2008-12-16 06:38:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER IZ
08BAGHDAD3932KEY BABIL SHEIKH ON SUNNI PERSPECTIVES, BABIL
[...] Summary (C) In a two-hour meeting on December 10 with PRT Leader and DCG-S, Sunni Sheikh Adnan Janabi painted a largely positive picture of the Sunni community's outlook in Babil. His candidate slate of largely Sunni tribal sheikhs has engaged in discussions with a wide variety of other parti [...]
2008-12-16 13:41:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON IZ
08BAGHDAD4018"THE AX IS ALREADY IN THE HEAD": RURAL BAGHDAD
[...] (U) This is an ePRT Baghdad-5 reporting cable. It is Sensitive but Unclassified; handle accordingly. Not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings over the past month with political, tribal and governmental leaders throughout three of Baghdad's rural qadas (distri [...]
2008-12-23 13:08:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ PGOV PREL
08BAGHDAD666JAM FREEZE ENTERS "PHASE OF DOCTRINAL AND
[...] (S) Summary: After a flurry of mixed public signals regarding the future of his "freeze" on the Jaysh al-Mehdi (JAM) militia, Muqtada al-Sadr announced a ceasefire extension through August 16 via Sadrist prayer leaders on February 22. At the same time, Sadrist officials appear to have embark [...]
2008-03-06 15:36:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD70TROUBLES ABOUND FOR TAWAFUQ LEADER ADNAN DULEIMI
[...] (S/NF) In a January 7 meeting with the Ambassador, a grieving and somewhat incoherent Adnan Duleimi ranted about his troubles. Earlier in the day, Duleimi had lost his son-in-law, Thia al-Hadithi (the husband of Duleimi's daughter, CoR member Asma Duleimi) in an attack on the Sunni Endowment [...]
2008-01-10 10:59:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR IZ
08BAGHDAD735(C) SUNNI POLITICAL BLOC (TAWAFUQ) SEEKS EMBASSY
[...] (S) On March 8, a senior member of the Iraqi Islamic Party and Tawafuq Bloc, Parliament Member Dr. Alaa al-Mekki, presented poloff with a letter clarifying the bloc's demands in ongoing but stalled negotiations with the Prime Minister's office. In the letter's cover note, Mekki requests Embass [...]
2008-03-12 11:54:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREF IZ
08BAGHDAD749AWAKENING LEADER ABU AZZAM ON GOI COOPERATION
[...] (S) Summary: Abu Ghraib Awakening movement leader Abu Azzam told FSEC that the Awakening movement continues to progress, though some GOI and ISF elements remain opposed to them. In Abu Ghraib, Iraqi Army units target Awakening members for harassment, even after the GOI hired 1500 local men [...]
2008-03-13 15:28:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD996SURREAL END TO KIDNAPPING OF GOI SPOKESMAN
[...] (C) Poloffs, the director of the Embassy Office of Hostage Affairs (OHA),and MNF-I Colonel Timothy Clapp of the Energy Fusion Cell greeted a gleeful Dr. Tahseen Sheikhly as he arrived at Assassins Gate on March 31 at 2100, minutes after his kidnappers released him. Sheikhly, Government of I [...]
2008-04-01 08:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM IR IZ
08BAKU358PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF RAMIZ MEHDIYEV LAYS
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev, echoing President Aliyev (ref a),laid down a tough new line on democracy assistance. He said that the National Democratic Institute must conduct joint training for pro-government and oppositi [...]
2008-04-11 16:20:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID AJ
08BASRAH28PM MALIKI'S TRIBAL INITIATIVE IN BASRAH
[...] (S/REL MCFI) SUMMARY: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has reversed his previous opposition to a tribal initiative in Iraq's Shia south. Shunning Coalition involvement, Maliki affirmed the nascent scheme will be GOI-led and appears to be under the direction of Acting Minister of Justice Sa [...]
2008-04-11 18:44:00REO BasrahSECRETMOPS MCAP PGOV PREL PINS PINR PARM PTER IR UK
08BASRAH77SUNNI CONCERNS IN BASRAH
[...] (C) Summary: While anti-Sunni violence has all but stopped, many Sunni Basrawis continue to feel victimized by the Shi'a majority. The high unemployment rate in Basrah and the relatively low number of development projects in Sunni areas fuels Sunni perceptions of discrimination, although the [...]
2008-09-18 10:45:00REO BasrahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PHUM IZ
08BEIRUT1371LEBANON: MINISTER LAHOUD: WINNING ELECTIONS IS
[...] (C) March 14 Minister of State Nassib Lahoud assured the Ambassador in a September 17 meeting that the March 14 alliance is aware that it must win the spring 2009 parliamentary elections "to preserve status quo," noting that a loss would worsen the situation in Lebanon. He spoke of potential [...]
2008-09-18 09:06:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR EINV ZP LE
08BEIRUT1376LEBANON: LEAHY VETTING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN INL'S LEBANON
[...] (U) The following names and biographic information is provided regarding participants in the INL funded Lebanon Police Basic Cadet Training course, scheduled to begin September 22, 2008. Leahy Amendment vetting was conducted at post with no derogatory results. (The list of 200 proposed traine [...]
2008-09-19 06:16:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
08BEIRUT1402LEBANON: LEAHY VETTING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN INL'S LEBANON
[...] (U) The following names and biographic information is provided regarding participants in the INL funded Lebanon Police Sergeants and Corporals Training course, scheduled to begin October 6, 2008. Leahy Amendment vetting was conducted at post with no derogatory results. (The list of 120 propo [...]
2008-09-25 07:37:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
08BEIRUT356 LEBANON: SWAP OF MATURING EUROBONDS AND FRENCH SOFT LOAN
[...] (SBU) The Ministry of Finance (MOF) on March 6 contracted with international financial institution Credit Suisse and local Audi Bank as lead managers in a new five-year Eurobond to refinance March 12 maturities amounting to $869 million, a senior MOF source told us. The coupon is estimated to [...]
2008-03-10 05:25:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL PGOV LE
08BEIRUT502PARTICIPANTS IN INL'S LEBANON POLICE BASIC CADET TRAINING
[...] (U) The following names and biographic information is provided regarding participants in the INL funded Lebanon Police Basic Cadet Training course, scheduled to begin April 21, 2008. Leahy Amendment vetting was conducted at post with no derogatory results. (The list of 200 proposed trainees i [...]
2008-04-11 10:33:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
08BEIRUT935Lebanon: Leahy Vetting For Participants in INL's Lebanon
[...] (U) The following names and biographic information is provided regarding participants in the INL funded Lebanon Police Basic Cadet Training course, scheduled to begin July 7, 2008. Leahy Amendment vetting was conducted at post with no derogatory results. (The list of 201 proposed trainees inc [...]
2008-06-26 14:12:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
08BELGRADE167 TRIAL of ALLEGED MUSLIM EXTREMISTS IN SERBIA
[...] (SBU) The trial of 14 Muslims from Serbia's Sandzak region on charges of terrorism and related charges began on January 14. According to the indictment, the group was planning attacks on the U.S. Embassy and other sites in Belgrade and Novi Pazar, as well as the murder of an Islamic religious l [...]
2008-02-13 06:22:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KIRF ASEC PTER SR US
08BOGOTA3747UNDERSECRETARY GLASSMAN'S OCTOBER 1 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT URIBE
[...] (C) President Alvaro Uribe told Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James Glassman on October 1 that he appreciated President Bush's efforts to obtain congressional passage of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) but voiced concerns over the impact of the [...]
2008-10-14 13:20:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CO ECON PREL PTER EC BL VE ETRD
08CASABLANCA207MOROCCO AND ALGERIA'S QUIET ECONOMIC RAPPROCHEMENT
[...] (C) Despite their closed land border, the Moroccan and Algerian economies have become increasingly interconnected in sectors ranging from energy to banking. Revenues for General Electric (GE) Morocco total 250 million USD per year in Algeria; the CEO of the National Office of Phosphates (OCP) [...]
2008-11-04 07:28:00Consulate CasablancaCONFIDENTIALAG ECIN ECON ENRG MO PGOV PREL
08DOHA827NUCLEAR POWER: MODELS AND ANTI-MODELS ABOUND AT
[...] (U) On November 10-11, Ambassador Wolcott participated in the MENA Nuclear Energy Forum in Doha, Qatar, during which she delivered a special address. Additional speakers included representatives of regional governments (the UAE, Egypt, Qatar, Oman, and Yemen); multilateral organizations (Gulf [...]
2008-11-25 07:27:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP PARM PREL QA EG MU KU AE FR BE CA
08HILLAH61JANABI TRIBE SHEIK JOINS FORCES WITH FORMER BABIL GOVERNOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-02 15:50:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR IZ
08HILLAH63MEA SHEIKHS: FEED THE MOUTH, OWN THE MIND
[...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Three of the key Mid-Euphrates Awakening (MEA) sheikhs stressed that they have been loyal friends of the U.S. and the Coalition and said the time had come for recognition and compensation of their role in a June 10 meeting with the PRT. For [...]
2008-06-15 14:11:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALIZ IR PGOV PINR PREL
08HILLAH96BABIL'S INDUSTRY: PRIVATE SECTOR GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC, SOE
[...] (U) Summary: Babil's private sector manufacturers struggle with access to reliable power and credit, but say their sector is improving, especially for companies making construction materials. SOEs employ over 30,000 workers in the province, but most only show up to collect paychecks. SOEs ha [...]
2008-12-07 13:26:00REO HillahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND ELAB IZ
08ISLAMABAD2314Stabilization Measures for Pakistan's Falling Stock Market
[...] (SBU) After consulting with the Karachi Stock Exchange Board (KSE),the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) announced measures to stabilize the stock market. These measures include: a ban on short selling to stop speculation; use of bank guarantees as security deposits; change [...]
2008-07-07 13:01:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3375AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FINANCE ADVISOR TAREEN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador met with newly appointed de facto Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen on October 23 to discuss economic affairs. Tareen noted that he supports the IMF program and thinks the final plan will be concluded soon. He also noted that the Government of Pakistan (GOP) will be rea [...]
2008-10-27 05:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3388TAREEN ANNOUNCES HIS ECONOMIC PLAN AND KSE RETAINS FLOOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. Pakistan's Advisor on Finance Shaukat Tareen discussed his nine point economic plan with the business community on October 25th, which according to him will bring the economy back on track. He asserted that he will raise the tax-revenue to GDP ratio to 15 percent from the curren [...]
2008-10-27 12:46:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3888KARACHI STOCK EXCHANGE DROPPING WITHOUT FLOOR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Beginning Monday, December 15 the Government of Pakistan (GOP) required the country's three exchanges to remove a restriction ("floor") on trading below closing prices of August 27, 2008. The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) dropped approximately 4 percent during each of the first [...]
2008-12-19 11:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAID EFIN ENGY EINV PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD440KARACHI STOCK EXCHANGE PREPARING IPO; DIRECTORS INSIGHT ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) is preparing an initial public offering (IPO) for later this year, provided the GOP implementing legislation is signed by President Musharraf. Following the IPO, only 20 percent of the shares will be owned by members, with 40 percent owned by st [...]
2008-01-30 10:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON PREL EINV EFIN PK
08ISTANBUL562STIFLING DIALOGUE - WEB SITE BLOCKS REACH 1,187
[...] Summary and Comment: Since November 2007, the Government of Turkey (GOT) has blocked 1,187 Web sites and received 14,503 public complaints. Lawyers and technology reporters argue that the contentious 2007 law regulating Internet content establishes an outdated and unwieldy regulatory framework [...]
2008-11-07 07:11:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM AA OSCE TU
08JAKARTA1105KEY MUSLIM LEADER DENOUNCES EXTREMIST VIOLENCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 2, Charge met Din Syamsuddin, Chair of Muhammadiyah, the country's second largest Muslim organization. They discussed repercussions of the recent attack by extremist groups on a pro-pluralism demonstration. Syamsuddin denounced the violence. They also discussed the cl [...]
2008-06-06 01:30:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KIRF KISL ID
08JAKARTA1134GOVERNMENT ISSUES DECREE AGAINST MINORITY SECT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 9, the GOI issued a Joint Ministerial Decree prohibiting the Muslim sect Ahmadiyah from proselytizing and conducting religious activities. Issued weeks after it was first announced (ref B),the decree balances several GOI interests and represents a compromise between ra [...]
2008-06-10 10:40:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF PINS ID
08JAKARTA1377PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO'S RE-ELECTION CHANCES DIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) possesses many of the attributes which Indonesians respect in a leader--intelligence, integrity, and honesty. However, he faces widespread criticism for being indecisive. Lacking a united Cabinet and strong political base, SBY's cautious [...]
2008-07-17 06:40:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL PREL ID
08JAKARTA1421INDONESIA: IMPLEMENTING LANDMARK WASTE MANAGEMENT LAW A
[...] (U) Summary. Prior to hosting the Ninth Conference of Parties (COP9) of the Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes in June 2008, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) passed a landmark Waste Management Law (WML). Previously, a plethora of disparate local government regulations (PERDA) regulated wa [...]
2008-07-24 03:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG ETRD KGHG SENV PGOV ID
08JAKARTA1509CONSTITUTIONAL COURT: NEW JUSTICE SELECTION PROCESS
[...] SUMMARY: (U) The first 5-year term of the nine Constitutional Court justices ends August 15 and three Constitutional Court justices are retiring. Each of the three branches of government is involved in selecting replacements for the Constitutional Court, which is an important player in region [...]
2008-08-08 06:33:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KJUS KCOR PREL ID
08JAKARTA1664SOUTH SUMATRA -- LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROHIBITS
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The South Sumatra Governor's office announced a prohibition on Ahmadiyah activities on September  [...]
2008-09-03 09:14:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF KISL ID
08JAKARTA1701AHMADIYAH SECT: PRESIDENT SUMMONS SOUTH SUMATRA
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono has summoned South Sumatra acting Governor Mahyudin to Jakarta in order to discuss the governor's recent decision to ban the Islamic sect Ahmadiyah. The meeting has not yet taken place, but its app [...]
2008-09-09 07:16:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF KISL ID
08JAKARTA2213PRESIDENT SIGNS CONTROVERSIAL ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono has signed into law the controversial anti-pornography bill. Opponents--who see the law as a potential threat to civil liberties--plan to challenge the legislation in the courts. By si [...]
2008-12-09 09:19:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL SOCI ID
08JAKARTA739HIGH-PROFILE ARRESTS IN LATEST CORRUPTION SCANDALS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Anti-corruption investigators have arrested two sitting members of the national legislature (DPR). One M.P. was caught red-handed after receiving what investigators say was a bribe related to a land zoning deal. The arrest followed the apprehension in March of another M.P. on [...]
2008-04-11 07:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
08JAKARTA789INDONESIAN ISLAMIC SECT THREATENED
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Following a recommendation by a government monitoring body to outlaw the minority Muslim sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah as "heretical," the GOI is preparing a joint decree to ban the organization. However, the Attorney General's Office and some Muslim leaders are reportedly calling for the [...]
2008-04-21 07:00:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF SOCI PINS ID
08JERUSALEM102PALESTINIAN REACTION TO EL-AD ACQUISITION OF EAST
[...] (C) Summary. According to local press and Jerusalem contacts, the Israeli organization El-Ad purchased 11 apartments in 4 buildings in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan in mid-January. President Abbas's Advisor on Jerusalem Affairs said El-Ad's purchases are part of an effort to red [...]
2008-01-18 14:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1077INTERNAL DISCORD PREVENTS FILLING VACANT PLO
[...] (C) Summary. According to senior Fatah and PLO officials, President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen),in his capacity as Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee (ExComm),retreated from his proposal to hold a PLO Central Council (PLO CC) meeting to fill ExComm vacancies in the face of opposition fro [...]
2008-06-24 14:21:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG IS PTER
08JERUSALEM1279PA CLAIMS SUCCESSES IN PUBLIC ORDER/ANTI-HAMAS
[...] (SBU) Summary. National Security Forces (NSF),police and General Intelligence (GI) contacts told PolOff and POL FSN July 16-17 that the PA has arrested 17 Hamas activists and criminals in an intensification of ongoing security efforts in Qalqiliya and villages near Tulkarm and Salfit. Secur [...]
2008-07-18 13:03:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PTER PGOV IS
08JERUSALEM1325EAST JERUSALEM FAMILY FIGHTS EVICTION ORDER WITH
[...] (SBU) Muhammad and Fawziya al-Kurd told PolOff on his July 21 visit to their Shaykh Jarrah home that they will continue to resist an Israeli eviction order despite legal setbacks (reftel). Fawziya said the family has been resisting Israeli efforts to remove them for two decades and will not [...]
2008-07-22 11:18:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PREL PHUM IS PBTS
08JERUSALEM1355JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/28): "Bush...seeks to achieve
[...] Al-Quds runs an editorial by Faysal Abu Khadra entitled, "Obama...and the Miracle of Israel" (7/28): "It is sad to hear and read that the African-American Senator whose father is a Muslim and whose mother is a white American Christian has a tendency towards [miraculously supporting Israel] rath [...]
2008-07-28 10:35:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1410DISAGREEMENTS STALLING FATAH SIXTH GENERAL
[...] (C) Summary. Fatah members told PolSpec in July that PA President Mahmud Abbas and some in the Central Committee are determined to hold Fatah's Sixth General Congress by November, but three principal issues are delaying the Congress. First, Fatah members are divided on whether to hold the C [...]
2008-08-01 14:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1688LEAVY VETTING FOR USG-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Amendment requirements, Post requests clearance to send the following members of the National Security Forces (NSF) and Presidential Guard (PG) to USG-funded training in the West Bank and Jordan: Name [...]
2008-09-10 14:01:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1747CANDIDATE LISTS SHAPING UP FOR JERUSALEM'S MAYORAL
[...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem's Haredi (ultra-orthodox) community is still considering three contenders for the November 11 mayoral elections, but expects to settle on a single candidate in advance of the campaign. Many see MK Porush, anointed as the United Torah Judaism Party (UTJ) candidate in a [...]
2008-09-19 13:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1850ATERET COHANIM TAKES OVER TWO NEW PROPERTIES IN
[...] (C) Summary. Ateret Cohanim (AC) acquired a Palestinian apartment in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and plans to open a synagogue this month near the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount. The PA's Jerusalem Governor said the PA is looking into the possibility of legal irregularities in [...]
2008-10-07 14:47:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM2096LEAHY VETTING FOR PALESTINIAN SECURITY SENIOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Vetting requirements, post requests clearance to send the following to a USG-funded senior leader course to be held in the West Bank: Name POB DOB ID 1 Ali Atta al-Sayed Mughrab [...]
2008-11-21 15:51:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM2097LEAHY VETTING FOR ADDITIONAL NSF TRAINEES
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Vetting requirements, Post requests clearance to send the following members of the PA National Security Forces (NSF) to USG-funded training courses in Jordan and the West Bank: Name POB [...]
2008-11-21 16:02:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM2111FATAH SIXTH CONGRESS: PREPARATORY COMMITTEE STILL
[...] (C) Summary. In November 15-17 Fatah Sixth Congress Preparatory Committee sessions in Amman, senior Fatah leaders say they discussed venue, timing, and representation, but adjourned without agreement. Committee members told PolFSN that prospects for holding the Sixth Congress before the end [...]
2008-11-24 13:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PGOV KDEM IS PTER
08JERUSALEM2266JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/19): THE TRUCE ENDS, WHAT
[...] Al Quds, in its main editorial entitled: "Iran ... a reconsideration of several stands is required" remarks that "It is time for the Arabs and Palestinians, with all their factions and movements, to realize that Iran has its own interests, including a special interest in avoiding an attack on i [...]
2008-12-19 07:54:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM789JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/12): LEBANON - IRANIAN EFFORTS
[...] Al-Quds independent carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Faisal Abu-Khadra entitled, "Sixty years after the catastrophe... Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are at a stand-still" (5/12): "Almost fifteen years have passed since the Palestinian-Israeli agreement [Oslo] and Israel is still the on [...]
2008-05-12 09:43:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM90RAS AL AMUD: ISRAELI CONSTRUCTION COMMENCES IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff confirmed January 16 that construction has begun on 60 new housing units in the "Maale Zeitim" enclave in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al Amud. An advisor to the Jerusalem Mayor said construction permits were issued "months ago", but thought the timing of the [...]
2008-01-17 10:08:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS
08JERUSALEM941FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL CRITICIZES
[...] Summary. The Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC) met in Ramallah May 24-26 and addressed four key issues: permanent status negotiations, Fatah-Hamas dialogue, the Fatah Sixth Party Congress and PA performance. FRC members criticized the ongoing negotiations and said if there is no permanent s [...]
2008-06-04 14:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM IS
08KARACHI512KARACHI - MARKET MAY DROP, GOP REFORMS HELPING BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At an August 30 dinner, Karachi businessman and Honorary Consul for Yemen Ikhtiar Baig, a confidant of GOP Finance Minister Naveed Qamar, spoke to the Consul General (CG) about the proposed USD 6 billion Saudi Arabia credit for deferred oil payments. A leading stock broker and [...]
2008-09-05 08:57:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALSOCI ECON EFIN PK
08KARACHI636KARACHI - STOCK EXCHANGE DIRECTOR FEARS MASSIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 11, the Managing Director of the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) forecast a massive decline in stock values once the KSE price floor is removed, which he said could be as soon as December 15. According to him, Morgan Stanley has notified KSE that it will remove Pakis [...]
2008-12-11 11:43:00Consulate KarachiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV SOCI PK
08KARACHI653PROCTOR AND GAMBLE GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY;
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Patterson traveled to PakistanQs largest city, Karachi, to attend the groundbreaking of a new Proctor and Gamble (P&G) factory in Port Qasim with Karachi Consul General on December 18. P&G will hire 700 new employees to work in the plant and estimates it may help [...]
2008-12-24 08:01:00Consulate KarachiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV SOCI PK
08KUALALUMPUR192MALAYSIA'S NEW CABINET - STATUS QUO WITH ONLY
[...] (C) Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi announced his new cabinet on March 18, retaining roughly half (17) of his ministers from the previous cabinet, but bringing in only a few politicians identifiable for their reform credentials. Abdullah remained Finance Minister I, but gave up his his positio [...]
2008-03-18 12:46:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR193MALAYSIA'S NEW CABINET -- MINISTERIAL PORTFOLIOS
[...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi on March 18 announced Malaysia's new cabinet. This message provides a brief summary of each cabinet-level appointment, focusing particularly on changes and newcomers. Septel provides Post's initial overall impressions of the new cabinet. End Summ [...]
2008-03-18 12:50:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR195MORE UMNO CHALLENGES TO ABDULLAH'S AUTHORITY
[...] (C) More challenges to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's authority within his United Malays National Organization (UMNO) party emerged in the wake of Abdullah's March 18 cabinet announcement. The powerful Youth wing, led by an ally of Deputy Prime Minister Najib, contradicted Abdullah's instr [...]
2008-03-19 12:21:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR313EXBS: SE ASIA REGIONAL ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING
[...] On February 04 the Advisor, along with POLOFF, met Mark Napier of the Australian High Commission, Noboru Sekiguchi of the Japanese Embassy, and Yean Yoke Heng, Deputy Director General of the Southeast Asian Center for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT),to discuss a proposed tri-lateral bio-terrorism [...]
2008-04-23 09:10:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP MY
08KUALALUMPUR377OPPOSITION SIGNALS IMMINENT EAST MALAYSIA
[...] (C) De facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and his lieutenants, both publicly and privately, are raising expectations of possible imminent defections by National Front (BN) MPs, particularly from East Malaysia. Senior Vice President of Anwar's PKR party Azmin Ali told us to expect a public [...]
2008-05-13 11:50:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR512UMNO YOUTH OFFICIAL ON HEATED PARTY CONTESTS AND
[...] (C) Many UMNO party branches and divisions could nominate a Najib/Muhyiddin ticket despite Prime Minister Abdullah's confirmation that he will stand for reelection in the December party contest, UMNO party youth official Suffian Awang told us on June 17. Eleven candidates would vie seriously [...]
2008-06-17 10:13:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR516DEFECTIONS FROM BN ABOUT TO BEGIN?
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-18 10:52:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV MY
08KUALALUMPUR562NO GOM ACTION AFTER LINGAM PROBE IMPLICATES
[...] (C) The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam video scandal concluded that former Prime Minister Mahathir and five other prominent individuals should be investigated for manipulating judicial appointments and promotions. The Commission, established by the Government of Malaysia (GOM) t [...]
2008-07-02 09:13:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KJUS KDEM MY
08KUALALUMPUR615Malaysia Scenesetter for DOE DAS Secretary Ed McGinnis and
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Kuala Lumpur looks forward to your July 21-23 visit as an opportunity to advance important and continuing discussions with the government of Malaysia (GOM) on nuclear energy and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). The visit will allow you to explore Malaysia's [...]
2008-07-14 09:20:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAGR MY
08KUALALUMPUR712BLUE LATERN RESPONSE ON PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK
[...] Pursuant to reftel, Econoff and local staff successfully contacted Arrixon Synergy Sdn Bhd and DRB-HICOM Defense Technologies Sdn Bhd, both of which are 100 percent Malaysian-owned companies. This contact was regarding Arrixon and DRB-HICOM Defense Tech wishing to purchase 20 fan drives and 1 [...]
2008-08-11 08:55:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC MY
08KUWAIT205KUWAITI CABINET CONDEMNS SHI'A RALLY FOR MUGNIYAH
[...] (C) Summary: On February 17, hundreds of Kuwaiti Shi'a reportedly attended a rally to mourn the death of Hezbollah terrorist leader Imad Mugniyah. Kuwait's media are having a field day denouncing the event, and two (Shi'a) MPs who attended are targets of a massive outpouring of public hostili [...]
2008-02-20 16:14:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KU
08KUWAIT313MUGNIYAH AFTERMATH: GOK TO PROSECUTE MEMBERS OF
[...] (C) Summary: On February 27, Kuwait's public prosecutor questioned three individuals and issued arrest warrants for five others who were involved in the now-infamous Imad Mugniyah "eulogy" of February 16. By March 13, the GOK had released all of the detained individuals on bail, pending possi [...]
2008-03-18 13:38:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPTER PINR PGOV SOCI KU IR
08KUWAIT411POLITICAL OVERVIEW OF KUWAIT IN RUN-UP TO ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: With candidate registration commencing on April 14, Kuwait's electoral field is beginning to take shape. The GOK is hoping that the new five-district electoral system will deliver more nationally focused candidates as well as a more cooperative Parliament. Islamist candidates sta [...]
2008-04-15 07:32:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI ECON KU
08KUWAIT471AMONG KUWAITI SHI'A, NATIONAL LOYALTIES RUN DEEP
[...] (C) Summary: Kuwait has always had a significant percentage of Shi'a citizens, and Sunni/Shi'a relations are traditionally good. According to most estimates, Shi'a currently constitute 30 percent of all Kuwaiti nationals, numbering some 350,000 individuals. There are also between 150,000 and [...]
2008-05-01 08:13:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPGOV PINR PTER KISL SOCI ECON KU IZ IR
08KUWAIT561PROPOSED VISIT BY SPECIAL ENVOY WOLCOTT AND
[...] (SBU) Post welcomes the proposed visit by Special Envoy Wolcott and her delegation and is working to confirm availability of appropriate interlocutors on June 10. We do not foresee any problems in arranging meetings on that date, but confirming Kuwaiti participation at this point is difficult [...]
2008-05-18 15:52:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALKNNP ENRG PREL PARM KU
08KUWAIT565KUWAIT ELECTION RESULTS: NO WOMEN, GAINS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As widely predicted, both Shi'as and Salafis gained parliamentary seats in the Kuwaiti May 17 elections. No female candidates won, although one came tantalizingly close. Per GOK protocol, the full Cabinet resigned; the Amir is expected to appoint a new one within 14 days. Apart fr [...]
2008-05-19 15:37:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KWMN
08KUWAIT574BIO DATA ON NEW KUWAITI PARLIAMENT
[...] The following is a list of MPs in Kuwait's new Parliament elected on May 17, 2008 (reftel). Information on each MP includes: political affiliation, constituency, number of votes received, previous parliament participation, date of birth, education and tribal affiliation as applicable. ---- [...]
2008-05-21 05:21:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR KDEM KU
08KUWAIT698TRIPARTITE COMMISSION TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE 57TH
[...] Kuwait hosted the 57th session of the Tripartite Commission's Technical Subcommittee (TSC) on May 27, 2008, with representatives from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC). Per Kuwaiti request, USG delegatio [...]
2008-06-18 14:02:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PHUM PREL KUWAIT IRAQ KU
08KUWAIT768U.S. SPEAKER DR. JEFFREY ADDICOTT'S PROGRAM IN KUWAIT;
[...] Dr. Jeffrey Addicott, Professor and Chairman of the Center for Terrorism Law, St. Mary's University, St. Antonio, Texas, visited Kuwait as a U.S. Speaker, June 22-24, 2008 and spoke to audiences comprised of youth, faculty members, lawyers and legislators about the new field of terrorism law in [...]
2008-07-08 06:49:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL KPAO KIRC OIIP XF KU
08RIYADH1151STEEL MARKET ILLUSTRATES CHALLENGES IN REALIZING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With Gulf countries eager to translate windfall oil profits into global commercial leadership, the GCC project market has boomed, recently surpassing two trillion USD - more than double the combined GDP of the GCC economies. With massive industrial, utility, and real estate proje [...]
2008-07-27 05:11:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD SA
08RIYADH1176SAUDI ATTENDANCE AT 63RD UNITED NATIONS GENERAL
[...] (SBU) Per reftel A, Post obtained the official Saudi Arabian Government (SAG) delgation list for the 63rd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). No specific dates for arrival or departure are available, nor has SAG provided Post with information regarding the travel of spouses. Post will se [...]
2008-07-30 14:32:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSEP OTRA OVIP PREL USUN
08SANAA1461DIESEL PROBLEM MORE CRISIS OF SUPPLY THAN PRICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Persistent diesel shortages attributed to high demand, low refinery capacity and corruption have plagued Yemen since May 2008. As a result, the ROYG has decided to take a number of measures to increase diesel supply. The high international price of oil has forced the ROYG to p [...]
2008-09-02 10:40:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON ENRG EPET PGOV DJ SA SO SU YM
08SANAA1890PORT OF ADEN'S DEVELOPMENT SQUEEZED BY SECURITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The port of Aden struggles to regain its stature as an essential regional hub in the midst of new management and ongoing security threats. Although the strike against new Aden Container Terminal manager Dubai Ports World appears to have been resolved, endemic corruption still a [...]
2008-11-24 14:18:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALETRD EWWT PBTS YM
08SARAJEVO100BOSNIA: TIHIC AND THE SDA POWER STRUGGLE
[...] (C) The Party for Democratic Action (SDA) is in the midst of an internal power struggle between Sulejman Tihic, the party president, and a faction led by Bakir Izetbegovic, the son of the party's late founder. Recently diagnosed with colon cancer, Tihic hopes to retain his position as party [...]
2008-01-17 12:28:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR BK
08SARAJEVO654BOSNIA - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM: THE
[...] (C) Public administration reform, an initiative intended to remedy the systemic dysfunction crippling Bosnia's state institutions, and one of four requirements for signing a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU, has stalled. Although the EU has determined that SAA condi [...]
2008-04-10 12:54:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BK
08SINGAPORE104SINGAPORE DETAINS TWO MORE TERRORIST SUSPECTS,
[...] (C) Summary: Singapore detained two terrorist suspects and issued a Restriction Order against a third under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in December 2007, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced January 24. MHA said the three men were involved in "activities that posed a potential terrorist [...]
2008-01-25 09:52:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALKGIT PREL PINS PTER PGOV SN
08SKOPJE619MACEDONIA: DUI'S AHMETI STILL WORRIED ON HAGUE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Macedonian government is forming a task force to determine if the 2002 amnesty law should apply to the four cases returned to Macedonia by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),ethnic Albanian DUI Party leader Ali Ahmeti told Ambassador Reeker [...]
2008-10-09 14:12:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNATO PGOV PHUM PREL KV AL MK
08STATE100500LEBANON: LEAHY VETTING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN INL'S
[...] (U) In response to referenced Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Lebanese law enforcement personnel listed below. Please note that if at any time the [...]
2008-09-19 18:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
08STATE104161LEBANON: LEAHY VETTING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN INL'S
[...] (U) In response to referenced Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Lebanese law enforcement personnel listed below. Please note that if at any time the [...]
2008-09-30 14:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
08STATE104315RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of September 29, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. 1 Fares Attif Yusif Khalil Yabad 6/2/1989 850072760 2 Ayad Hammed Ahmad Rushd [...]
2008-09-30 17:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08STATE108601LEAHY VETTING FOR LAF AND ISF CANDIDATES FOR
[...] (U) In response to referenced Leahy vetting requests, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces and Lebanese Armed Forces personnel listed below. [...]
2008-10-09 20:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAPER ASEC NAS LE
08STATE132208RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 8, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. 1 Ali Atta al-Sayed Mughrabi Gaza 07/14/1965 914988076 2 Mamun Shafi,a K [...]
2008-12-17 20:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08STATE132210RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 9, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. Name POB DOB ID 1 Yasir Ali Muhammad Hamayal [...]
2008-12-17 20:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KPAL PHUM IS
08STATE14398BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON
[...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. (U) The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a pre-license check for the export of plastic bonded explosives to Malaysia. Post is requested to complete this Blue L [...]
2008-02-12 15:10:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNETTC KOMC MY
08STATE3611RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 4, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Palestinian National Security Forces listed below. Ashraf Musa Mahmoud Jamal POB: Hebron (al-Khalil) DOB: [...]
2008-01-11 20:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE65834DEMARCHE REQUEST: CONTINUE ENGAGING GOI ON DRAFT
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 3 and 6. 2. (C) Per Ref A, on May 15, Embassy Baghdad shared with the GOI the draft text of a UNSC resolution (Ref B),which imposes targeted sanctions on individuals or entities that engage in or provide support for acts of violence that thr [...]
2008-06-18 23:12:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALETTC EFIN PREL PTER IZ RU UK
08STATE674RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 3, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the Palestinian National Security Forces (NSF) officers listed below. First name, last name Mahmoud Jalal Mahmoud Khaleel POB: [...]
2008-01-03 20:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC IS KPAL MARR MASS PGOV PHUM WE
08STATE71576HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-07-03 12:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE80632RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING OF NATIONAL
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of July 23, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. 1 Ahmad Mustafa Ahmad Tazaz'a Jenin 14/12/1989 850739590 2 Ala'a Nabil Fathi a [...]
2008-07-25 21:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08TIRANA255 GOA URGES PRESHEVO VALLEY ALBANIANS TO PARTICIPATE IN
[...] (U) Local Albanian leaders from Serbia's Preshevo Valley visited Tirana March 31 to discuss upcoming elections and general concerns about the rights of ethnic Albanian residents. Representatives of the four major Albanian political parties, including Riza Halimi, Chairman of the Party for Dem [...]
2008-04-02 05:40:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL YI AL
08TUNIS1238STORM CLOUDS GATHER: GAFSA TRIAL EMBODIES
[...] (C) Thirty-eight protestors, arrested in coQunction with the January to June unemployment protests in the southwestern mining towns of Redeyef and Gafsa, were given sentences ranging from six to ten years on December 11. According to one defense attorney, the verdict was not unanimous. The [...]
2008-12-22 11:43:00Embassy TunisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINS KDEM KPAO TS
08TUNIS376TRANS SAHARA RSI CONFERENCE: THINK GLOBALLY, ACT
[...] (S/NF) During the April 1 Regional Strategic Initiative (RSI) - Trans Sahara conference, Ambassadors and other officials from missions in Trans Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) countries, as well as representatives of the interagency community, discussed the rising terrorist threat [...]
2008-04-17 11:17:00Embassy TunisSECRET//NOFORNPTER PGOV PREL PINR TS
08TUNIS712MFA SAYS FSI WRITTEN AGREEMENT WOULD CODIFY THE
[...] (C) Summary: On June 28, three senior MFA officials assured the DCM and FSI school director that the GOT wishes to simply put in writing the existing arrangements for the presence of the FSI Arabic Language Field School in Tunisia. They said the prospective move onto the Embassy compound gave [...]
2008-06-30 12:50:00Embassy TunisCONFIDENTIALABLD AMGT PGOV AFSI TS
08TUNIS761TUNIS: MAKING POLITICAL HAY FROM UNREST IN REDEYEF
[...] (C) A month after the latest demonstrations in the phosphate mining town of Redeyef in Gafsa province near the Algerian border, the government continues to maintain a high police and security presence in the area. The police have been rounding up suspected agitators and several people have be [...]
2008-07-10 12:44:00Embassy TunisSECRETPGOV ELAB PHUM PINS TS
09ADANA7Habur Gate Operations
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Local contacts in the Southeast say sustained pressure from the business community and high-level interest in Ankara has led to increased capacity and efficiency of operations at the Turkey-Iraq border crossing at Habur Gate. From October 2008 to January 2009, Habur Gate's dai [...]
2009-02-06 09:44:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PREL PGOV TU IZ
09ADANA8TURKEY: LOCAL CONTACTS IN SOUTHEAST REPORT BUSINESS IS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Local contacts in the Southeast say sustained pressure from the business community and high-level interest in Ankara has led to increased capacity and efficiency of operations at the Turkey-Iraq border crossing at Habur Gate. From October 2008 to January 2009, Habur Gate's dai [...]
2009-02-06 09:55:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PREL PGOV TU IZ
09AMMAN1177 Jordan's QIZ Garment Factories Continue to Close or
[...] (U) Summary: Jordan's apparel sector has been hard hit by the recession in the U.S., where most of its exports are destined, and competition with Egypt (ref A). The Ministry of Industry and Trade has reported that Jordanian garment exports produced in the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs) pe [...]
2009-05-21 11:37:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KTEX EAID JO
09AMMAN1337DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN JORDAN ON UNSC 1718
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-14 11:36:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PREL PARM KNNP KN JO
09AMMAN2548JORDAN: LOCAL GROUPS ATTACK RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
[...] Summary: After an initial positive response (ref A) to the 2009 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report, three local organizations have publicly criticized the report. The National Center for Human Rights (NCHR),the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR),and the Jordanian Inter-fait [...]
2009-11-23 12:51:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF PREL JO
09AMMAN392QIZ GARMENT FACTORIES: JORDANIAN-ISRAELI BUSINESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Two garment factories in Jordan's Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs) have continued to show strong business links to Israel, despite public calls in Jordan during events in Gaza to boycott American and Israeli goods (ref B). The Al-Methaliah factory plans to begin in March sat [...]
2009-02-11 12:40:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD ELAB PREL KTEX IS JO
09AMMAN74"DAY OF RAGE" PROTESTS OVER GAZA AIMED AT UPPING
[...] (S) Summary: The Government of Jordan (GOJ) is coming under increased public pressure to react to events in Gaza and may not be able to hold out much longer, according to Royal Court Chief Nasser Al-Lozi in a January 7 conversation with Ambassador. Only days after Prime Minister Nader Dahabi [...]
2009-01-08 16:33:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL PHUM KPAL JO
09ANKARA10TURKEY: STATE TV LAUNCHES KURDISH CHANNEL
[...] (C) Summary: This is a joint cable Embassy Ankara, Consulate Istanbul, and Consulate Adana. On January 1 the government-run broadcasting service Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) began official 24-hour Kurdish broadcasting on the new TRT 6. While some representatives from Kurdish and human [...]
2009-01-06 08:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE EU
09ANKARA1576TURKEY: DEMOCRAT PARTY BACK FROM THE GRAVE?
[...] (C) Summary: The center right Democrat Party (DP) and Motherland Party (ANAP) held a joint party congress October 31 to implement their merger under the Democrat Party name. Although the two parties together regularly poll no more than five percent in public opinion surveys, the merger ends tw [...]
2009-11-02 17:20:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR TU
09ANKARA1604TURKEY: MFA READY FOR BILATERAL CT DIALOGUE;
[...] (C) Summary. Turkey is willing to explore inaugurating the official high-level counterterrorism (CT) dialogue as early as January 2010, MFA DDG for Security Affairs Ozyildiz told us November 5. An interagency task force is preparing changes to Turkey's legal definition of terrorism to satisfy [...]
2009-11-09 06:04:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL EFIN IZ DA TU
09ANKARA1696DEMOCRAT PARTY TRYING TO CARVE NICHE IN THE CENTER
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey's Democrat Party (DP),led by Husamettin Cindoruk, is trying to create a place for itself in the center of Turkey's starkly polarized political spectrum. Carrying on the traditions of both the Justice Party of Adnan Menderes and Suleyman Demirel, and the Motherland Party [...]
2009-11-25 10:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR TU
09ANKARA23ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-07 15:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
09ANKARA373TURKISH GOVERNMENT CRITICIZES DECISION TO CENSOR
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Fierce reaction to the recent decision of the Turkish Scientific and Technological Studies Institution (TUBITAK) to pull a planned cover story about Charles Darwin has led GOT officials to speak out against the decision. Following a protest organized by the Universi [...]
2009-03-12 13:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ANKARA377DP AND ANAP: THE SAD FATE OF TURKEY'S CENTER RIGHT
[...] (C) Summary: The Democrat Party (DP) and Motherland Party (ANAP) were once the dominant powers in the Turkish center right, but have fallen on hard times with the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002. AKP now holds sway over their conservative voter base. Neither DP nor AN [...]
2009-03-13 15:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALOSCE PGOV TU
09ANKARA725TURKISH MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-21 10:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO
09BAGHDAD1012SRSG BRIEFS PM MALIKI ON DIBS REPORTS
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 12 meeting, a UNAMI official described PM Maliki's positive reaction to a briefing by SRSG de Mistura on the impending release of the UN's DIBs reports. Maliki reportedly welcomed news that the reports would disappoint the Kurds and offered no evidence that he is pr [...]
2009-04-13 11:00:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD1094NAJAF STILL AWAITS ELECTION OF NEXT PROVINCIAL
[...] (C) Summary. We continue to await the selection of a new Governor, his two Deputies, and a host of security and provincial government appointees. Despite initial optimism that negotiations had concluded, local personality conflicts, provincial - central party squabbles and the inclusion of [...]
2009-04-23 11:48:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD1167NAJAF MACHINATIONS BEFORE SELECTION OF NEW GOVERNOR
[...] (C) Amid uncertainty over the election of the next governor, Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray and Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) leader Fred Fonteneau on April 27-28 met the newly elected chairman of the Najaf Provincial Council Shaykh Fayad al-Shimmeri (State of Law) and [...]
2009-05-04 07:26:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD1184AMBASSADOR HILL'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH MASOUD
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 2 meeting with KRG President Barzani in Erbil, Ambassador urged Barzani to reach out to PM Maliki on issues that divide them. He assured Barzani the U.S. is committed to supporting Iraqi leaders in what may be a long and sometimes difficult political process. Barzani a [...]
2009-05-05 14:52:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IR TU IZ
09BAGHDAD1213HUMAN 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 from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...]
2009-05-09 07:35:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
09BAGHDAD124ASSESSING THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF TRIBAL
[...] (C) Summary: At the direction of Prime Minister Maliki, Support Councils (SC) (Arabic: majilis al-isnad) were first established in Maysan and Basra in conjunction with ISF security operations in March and May 2008. The first Support Council, established in Basra, didn't develop much due to [...]
2009-01-16 16:35:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD1283MALIKI'S CHOSEN GOVERNORS IMPRESS EARLY
[...] (C) Through careful managing of the post-provincial election coalition-building process, eight of the ten Shi'a-majority provinces have new governors approved by Prime Minister Maliki; six of those represent the Da'wa Central wing of his State of Law coalition. Early May meetings between Senio [...]
2009-05-15 14:37:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD1311KHANAQIN, DIYALA KURDS INFLEXIBLE ON DIBS DEMANDS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdish interlocutors in the Khanaqin district of Diyala province strongly believe that Khanaqin and surrounding areas must be part of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). They assert that Khanaqin's population has historically been overwhelmingly Kurdish (despite Saddam's [...]
2009-05-20 09:40:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PINS IZ
09BAGHDAD1335PRT NAJAF: NEW GOVERNOR,S THOUGHTS ON RECENT ATTACK
[...] (S) SUMMARY. The day following an Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) attack which targeted a U.S. convoy in Najaf, Governor Adnan al Zurfi visited the FOB to discuss the incident. He expressed concern and pointed fingers at the Iraqi Police (IP) and the Iranians. He stated unequivocally th [...]
2009-05-21 13:29:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PINR MOPS ASEC IR IZ
09BAGHDAD1369BARHAM SALIH TO RESIGN DPM POST IN ORDER TO RUN IN
[...] (C) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih is likely to resign in the next week in order to place his name on the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) plenum candidate list for Prime Minister in the upcoming Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) elections. Salih's staff informed PolOff that S [...]
2009-05-26 06:00:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD1493IRAQI POLITICIANS PRAISE PRESIDENT'S CAIRO SPEECH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Iraq's political classes almost uniformly praised President Obama's June 4 speech from Cairo as "a good start." However, most contacts told us that the U.S. must follow up with specific actions to consolidate Iraq's fragile democracy and to establish an independent [...]
2009-06-07 15:04:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD1506NEW NAJAF GOVERNOR ADNAN AL ZURFI POSTURES AS
[...] (C) Summary: In a June 2 meeting with PRT officers, new Governor Adnan al-Zurfi presented himself as the consensus candidate to move Najaf past the era of political infighting. He cited as evidence his decisions to keep most ISCI-affiliated civil servants in positions appointed by the previo [...]
2009-06-09 13:42:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD1579IRAQI WOMEN STRUGGLE OVER HOW BEST TO ENSURE THEIR
[...] (C) Sunni and Kurdish women Parliamentary leaders are pushing Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) to amend Article 41 of the Iraqi Constitution to strike language stipulating that the personal status of Iraqis is determined by their religion and sect. These MPs fear that if it [...]
2009-06-17 15:38:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ KDEM KIRF KWMN PGOV SOCI
09BAGHDAD1654PRT NAJAF: THE NAJAF RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT IN
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The Shi'a religious establishment plays an important and influential role in Iraqi politics and society. Najaf is the seat of the four Shi'a grand ayatollahs, referred to as the marja'iyah ("sources of emulation" to the faithful),location of the most important Iraq [...]
2009-06-23 09:11:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SOCI PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD170NAJAF PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE: SKEPTICISM AND
[...] (C) Summary. In the final stretch before provincial elections, Najaf is stable and visibly ready for a competitive election. Despite cautious optimism from all spheres, contacts indicate concern over the complication of ballot procedures and limited voter education. Incumbent candidates fro [...]
2009-01-23 12:22:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD1702KRG PARLIAMENT PASSES CONSTITUTION CERTAIN TO
[...] (C) Summary. The Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament (IKP) has unexpectedly passed a constitution for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG),and approved its going to a referendum on July 25. The draft contains a number of provisions that may conflict with the Iraqi constitution. Politically, the [...]
2009-06-26 12:44:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EPET PHUM IZ
09BAGHDAD1745IRAQI LEADERS CALL FOR UNITY IN CONFRONTING
[...] Summary: The Ambassador attended the sixth anniversary commemoration of the death of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, the founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) political movement. A Who's Who of the political class attended the ceremony, PM Maliki addressed the importance [...]
2009-06-29 12:55:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SOCI PGOV KISL PTER IR IZ
09BAGHDAD1799KURDS DISMISS USG CONCERNS ABOUT KURDISH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Embassy and RRT Erbil have met with Kurdish COR members and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials to express serious concern about politically inflammatory provisions in the recently passed Kurdish Constitution and the KRG's apparent rush to submit it to a public ref [...]
2009-07-05 15:48:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ
09BAGHDAD206THE SPEAKER'S RACE 3-RING CIRCUS: PARLIAMENT,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The race for Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR) is wide open again as Acting Speaker Khalid al Attiya announced a special vote for February 4 to select the speaker. Any bloc may submit a candidate, although the lead candidates remain nominally Ayad al Samarraie, lead [...]
2009-01-27 09:23:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2101NAJAF GOVERNOR MEETS MULTI-NATIONAL DIVISION SOUTH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-04 12:13:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD2142BAGHDAD FAILY KURDS - NOT SO KURD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Baghdad's Faily Kurds, a Muslim Kurd minority, continue to grapple with issues of identity that were exacerbated by Saddam Hussein's repressive policies. They appear to have little affinity for Iraqi Kurdistan and its leaders. Rather, they say they support PM Maliki's efforts [...]
2009-08-10 06:37:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALSOCI SCUL SMIG KERF IZ
09BAGHDAD224IRAQ NATIONAL LIST MEMBERS WEIGH IN ON PROVINCIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-28 15:47:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2261KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI, CODEL MCCAIN DISCUSS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani reaffirmed to CODEL McCain August 15 that the Kurds will forever be an ally of the United States. Barzani claimed the KRG was ready to resolve the host of Arab-Kurd issues -- including disputed internal boundaries (DIBs) [...]
2009-08-21 09:46:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EPET IZ IR SY
09BAGHDAD2282RRT ERBIL: KRG CONVENES NEW PARLIAMENT BUT
[...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: At a ceremony in Erbil August 20, the newly-elected Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) parliament was sworn in and President Barzani inaugurated. Barzani and President Talabani strongly condemned the Baghdad bombings and called for Iraqi un [...]
2009-08-23 16:52:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ PGOV
09BAGHDAD2385ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE
[...] (C) The Higher Judicial Council's spokesperson reported that Iraq's judiciary had received 445 corruption cases so far this year and already adjudicated over half of them, issuing many guilty verdicts. He asserted that some cases involved senior GOI officials. A Deputy Interior Minister ack [...]
2009-09-04 09:01:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2454ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: A number of cases involving senior judicial and anti-corruption officials continue to bubble up in the media in Iraq, likely a manifestation of both intense political jockeying and real efforts to crack down on corruption, which polls show is an issue of increasing [...]
2009-09-11 14:45:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KDEM EAID IZ
09BAGHDAD2459CONVERSATION WITH KDP REPRESENTATIVE ROWSCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 7, former Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways arrived in Baghdad to represent the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) at UNAMI's September 8 High Level Task Force (HLTF) meeting. Shaways has not been a regular fixture in Baghdad politics for over 9 months. As KR [...]
2009-09-12 09:37:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2474HUMAN 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 from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...]
2009-09-14 05:49:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
09BAGHDAD2496IMPORTANT SIGNS FROM MARJIYAH AND IRAN ON
[...] (C) Summary: On September 4, 2009, Najaf Governor Adnan Zurfi met Multi-National Corps-Iraq Commanding General (MNC-I CG) Jacoby to discuss upcoming elections and security conditions. Governor Zurfi discussed his concerns related to the upcoming campaign and elections, especially interference [...]
2009-09-15 15:54:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2536 NAJAF AIRPORT TERMINAL EXPANSION; DISSATISFACTION WITH
[...] This is a PRT Najaf reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Najaf airport opened its passenger terminal expansion on September 8, 2009. The provincial government is very dissatisfied with performance of investment partner Al Aqeeq (AA),which has only spent US$7 million of the US$50 million th [...]
2009-09-22 07:28:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2709AUGUST 19 BOMBINGS DEMONSTRATE NEED FOR INCREASED
[...] (U) SUMMARY: During the past year, Embassy Baghdad has seen a dramatic increase in the utilization of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Attach office with regard to explosives and post- blast investigation in support of the Government of Iraq (GOI) and in accordanc [...]
2009-10-07 15:56:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS IZ KCRM PTER
09BAGHDAD2797IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 18, 2009
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 18, the Council Of Representatives (COR) postponed by a day consideration of a draft election law. On the margins of a pro-forma plenary session, committee chairs and bloc leaders continued the frenzy of informal meetings that may result in a draft law in time for a [...]
2009-10-18 17:05:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2844KURD LEADERS IN DIYALA: INCREASED ARAB
[...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT Message. 2. (C) Summary: Kurdish leaders in Khanaqin (Diyala Province) claimed increasing tensions between Arabs and Kurds in nearby Jalula and Saadiya are a result of intimidation from Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and a Ba,athist resurgence in the area. The Kurdis [...]
2009-10-23 12:23:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2880ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE OCTOBER 26, 2009
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) has resumed its questioning of senior officials on corruption allegations. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has singled out "political corruption" for condemnation at a recent Defense Ministry-sponsored conference. ACCO contacts tell us th [...]
2009-10-27 16:04:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2931IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE, NOVEMBER 2, 2009
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Unable to overcome Kurdish intransigence on the UNAMI proposal on Kirkuk in the national election, the Council of Representatives (COR) ended session November 2 without a vote but agreed to return for an additional session the next day. Embassy and UNAMI discussions with Kurdish [...]
2009-11-02 17:16:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD30NEXT SPEAKER OF THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT - A HERD OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There is currently no clear Sunni Arab candidate emerging to succeed the erratic Mahmoud Mashhadani, who flamed out late last month (reftel) as speaker the Council of Representatives (CoR),Iraq's parliament. There is much jockeying for position, however, among the (Sunni Arab) Na [...]
2009-01-07 08:45:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD3066IRAQI MPS OFFER DEAL TO VP HASHIMI FOR WITHDRAWAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Shia and Sunni bloc leaders have submitted a letter to Vice President Hashimi requesting that he withdraw his veto of the amended election law in exchange for a promise that the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) will treat out-of-country voters as they do those in-countr [...]
2009-11-22 18:44:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD308MUTHANNA'S TOP CRIME FIGHTER MAY BE REPLACED
[...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Criminal Investigative Unit (CIU) Chief, Brigadier General Ali, generally regarded as Muthanna's top crime fighter, was recently scheduled for reassignment by the Ministry of Interior (MoI). Provincial Council (PC) contacts state [...]
2009-02-06 12:52:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPOL PGOV EFIN IZ
09BAGHDAD3094HUMAN 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 candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to attend a Logistics Seminars in the United States. If possible, please [...]
2009-11-25 14:48:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
09BAGHDAD3184DECEMBER 8 BOMBINGS TAKE THEIR TOLL, BUT IMPACT
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The four car bomb blasts that hit Baghdad December 8 bore the hallmarks of a coordinated terrorist attack. The intended targets of two of the bombs, which may have detonated prematurely, remain unclear. Contrary to press reports, the Ministry of Labor was not directly target [...]
2009-12-10 17:34:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD3216HUMAN 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 candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in training in the United States. 3. The name of the p [...]
2009-12-15 07:42:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
09BAGHDAD3219HUMAN 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 candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in site visits to be conducted in the United States. 3. [...]
2009-12-15 07:45:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
09BAGHDAD3360SENIOR IRAQI OFFICIALS CONVICTED OF CORRUPTION
[...] (SBU) While prosecution of senior GOI figures for corruption has been rare in recent years, of late the courts have convicted four upper-echelon officials for abuses. On December 21, the Commission of Integrity (COI) announced the Baghdad-based Central Criminal Court of Iraq's (CCC-I) convict [...]
2009-12-30 07:12:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3375VIEW FROM NAJAF: GOVERNOR ZURFI PROVIDES UPDATE ON
[...] (C/NF) Summary. On December 10, provincial governor Adnan Zurfi welcomed Multi-National Division-South (MND-S) Major General Nash to Najaf. Governor Zurfi announced the arrests of suspects related to recent attacks on a PRT mission and IED detonations near Forward Operating Base (FOB) Endeav [...]
2009-12-31 07:37:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEINV PTER PGOV ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD387SOUTHERN POST-ELECTION ALLIANCES
[...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa-led State of Law coalition list, which won a plurality of votes in nine of ten Shi'a-majority provinces, holds a commanding position as it negotiates with rival parties to develop coalitions and assign top provincial government positions. Da'wa and the Sadri [...]
2009-02-13 14:23:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD419IRAQ MAKING ENCOURAGING PROGRESS ON NUCLEAR CLEAN-UP
[...] (SBU) The Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) took EconOffs, MNFI, and two visiting Texas Tech University (TTU) Professors on a walking tour of the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility (TNRF) February 9 to assess the progress of MoST's nuclear facility dismantlement and disposal project. T [...]
2009-02-18 07:40:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALTPHY SEVN TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA ENRG
09BAGHDAD548BAATHISTS IN NORTHWEST BAGHDAD: 500 PARTIES, WHY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Tarmiyah, Taji and Abu Ghraib "qadas" (rural counties) of northwest Baghdad Province are home to many former members of the Baath Party, Iraqi Army, and other security institutions of the former regime. Most were low-ranking members, but many remain unemployed and suspicious [...]
2009-03-03 12:21:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD556HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR IP
[...] 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 US Government provided training in Iraq. Post has no derogatory info [...]
2009-03-04 11:25:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
09BAGHDAD590HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR VIP
[...] 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 US Government provided training in Iraq. Post has no derogatory info [...]
2009-03-08 05:32:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
09BAGHDAD642RRT ERBIL: KRG ELECTIONS PREVIEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Key issues for the Kurdistan regional parliamentary elections remain undecided, and the President has yet to sign an important amendment to the election law. Nonetheless, the KDP and PUK have already announced the details of post-elections power-sharing, including swapping the po [...]
2009-03-11 14:30:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD658MOI OFFICIALS SEEK CONTINUED, EVOLVING U.S.
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy and U.S. military officials met between February 21 and March 7 with senior Government of Iraq (GOI) officials to discuss Iraq's priorities for the future development of its civilian security forces. Mi6dqOS8QA](KQAffairs (DOIA) met with several senior Government of Ira [...]
2009-03-13 11:08:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ MARR MOPS PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD709MALIKI COURTS THE SADRISTS: STRATEGY, FEAR AND
[...] (C) The Sadrists' journey in the Iraqi political wilderness may be coming to an end. A Sadrist return to government, while not without risks, offers hope for a durable peace in Shi'a-majority parts of Iraq. It will also offer big challenges for us. Less than a year after his military opera [...]
2009-03-17 06:30:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL PINR IZ IR
09BAGHDAD808NAJAF: ISCI BOXED OUT AS COALITION-BUILDING
[...] (C) Summary: The provincial election results mark the end of one-party Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) domination in Najaf and will usher in a power-sharing coalition in one of southern Iraq's most religiously and politically important provinces. ISCI's Shahid al-Mihrab list and Prim [...]
2009-03-24 13:12:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD873RRT ERBIL: KURDISTAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES ELECTIONS LAW A
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 25, the Kurdistan Regional Parliament ratified the Kurdistan election law for the second time. The bill is expected to be signed into law shortly with no challenges. IHEC will continue to be the election supervision authority, and irregularities will be decided by a co [...]
2009-03-30 15:26:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD958ABU MAZEN COMES TO BAGHDAD - FINALLY
[...] (U) After repeated delays caused by conflicting schedules, the Gaza crisis, and most recently a press leak, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) visited Baghdad April 5 -- his first as President of the Palestinian Authority and the first by a Palestinian leader since the 2003 fall of Saddam. During the [...]
2009-04-08 07:45:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ KPAL
09BAKU256AZERBAIJAN: YOUTH ASK U.S. HELP IN EDUCATION,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 31 the Ambassador held a discussion with leaders of Azerbaijani youth groups. While these young people agree that their compatriots are largely apathetic towards politics and the referendum reflected a clear turn away from democratic reform, they have many ideas on ways [...]
2009-04-02 11:27:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
09BAKU557YOUTH ACTIVISTS BEATEN IN SUSPICIOUS ALTERCATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a suspicious episode, two young, well-known Azerbaijani political activists were beaten up in public and later detained by police. Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade were accosted in a downtown Baku cafe by two burly men who provoked a physical confrontation. Milli, Hajizade an [...]
2009-07-09 12:43:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM AJ
09BAKU567LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO DETAINMENT OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the arrest and jailing of Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, two well-known Azerbaijani youth activists, the NGO community has united in effort to gain their release as well as to protect others from a similar fate. Like the recent controversy over the NGO law and the gover [...]
2009-07-14 13:45:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM AJ
09BAKU580AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT SAYS ARREST OF TWO YOUTH
[...] (C) Summary: On July 20 a Baku appeals court upheld the pre-trial detention for two months of bloggers and youth activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade (Reftels). The case has been distinguished by unusual levels of intervention by the European Union and national governments, although the E [...]
2009-07-22 12:49:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM AJ
09BAKU594AZERBAIJAN: CONTINUED EFFORTS TO ADVOCATE FOR THE
[...] (C) Summary: International and local efforts continue in Azerbaijan to encourage the GOAJ to release detained youth activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade. Deputy Foreign Minister (and uncle of the First Lady) Hafiz Pashayev told the Charge that has already once tried to get the President t [...]
2009-07-29 13:02:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU597AZERBAIJAN: HASANOV SAYS MAYBE TO BBC, VOA FM
[...] 1. (C) Summary: Eight months after Radio Liberty, Voice of America and BBC broadcasts were removed from the FM airwaves, Presidential Administration Political Chief Ali Hasanov has openly indicated that the GOAJ would consider allowing BBC and VOA to broadcast their "alternative" views if a [...]
2009-07-30 06:20:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALAJ KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL
09BAKU598OSCE HUAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE
[...] (C) On July 30 the Charge delivered the demarche on the upcoming OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (reftel A) to Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadguliyev. Mammadguliyev thanked the Embassy for sharing these points early in the process, and stated that he would study them, inform [...]
2009-07-30 11:42:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALKDEM PREL PHUM OSCE AJ
09BAKU614AZERBAIJAN: TOUGH TALK ON U.S. DEMOCRACY POLICY
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 31 meeting with poloff, opposition leader Isa Gambar explained that democratic forces in Azerbaijan have diminishing confidence in the United States and its ability to or interest in promoting democracy and human rights in Azerbaijan. Gambar outlined a number of specif [...]
2009-08-04 11:56:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU637AZERBAIJAN: ARRESTS SUCCEED IN SUPPRESSING SOME
[...] (C) Summary: Youth activist Agasif Shakiroglu was released from detention on August 7, and immediately conscripted into the army, despite the normal August break in conscriptions. Detained bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade remain in detention, however, and their lawyers indicate that th [...]
2009-08-13 12:35:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU644AZERBAIJAN: DAS BRYZA ENGAGES PRESIDENT ALIYEV ON
[...] (C) Summary: During his August 12 visit to Azerbaijan, outgoing EUR DAS Matthew Bryza discussed the case of arrested youth group leaders Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade (reftel A) with President Aliyev. The President took a more positive tone in this discussion than he had previously with Europ [...]
2009-08-17 04:36:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU674AZERBAIJAN: HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES ROUNDUP, AUGUST
[...] (U) This cable is the first of a regular series that will summarize major ongoing human rights issues in Azerbaijan. This series aims to pull together many different sources of information into one readable biweekly summary of human rights cases, with the aim of giving a fuller picture of Azer [...]
2009-08-26 11:01:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KTIP AJ
09BAKU722GOAJ: THE NEXT GENERATION
[...] (C) Summary: Ireli Public Union, formerly the Ireli Youth Movement, is a pro-government NGO focused on "developing Azerbaijani youth." In a September 2 meeting, Ireli's leadership explained the various projects the group is conducting, including summer camps, IT training, and a small grants [...]
2009-09-10 06:18:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL PINR AJ
09BAKU724VIOLATIONS WITNESSED IN FIRST HEARING FOR JAILED
[...] (C) Summary: A pre-trial procedural hearing was held on September 4 in the case of jailed youth activists and bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade (reftels). Embassy officials were able to observe the hearing, unlike earlier hearings in this case, but many people, including officials from [...]
2009-09-10 12:43:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU731HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES ROUNDUP, AUGUST 25-SEPTEMBER 11
[...] (U) This cable is part of a regular series that will summarize major ongoing human rights issues in Azerbaijan. This series aims to pull together many different sources of information into one readable biweekly summary of human rights cases, with the aim of giving a fuller picture of Azerbaija [...]
2009-09-11 12:42:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KIRF AJ
09BAKU742AZERBAIJAN: TRIAL CONTINUES FOR JAILED BLOGGERS
[...] (C) Summary: The first hearing on evidence in the trial of youth activists and bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade was held on September 16. Before the hearing began, six well-known youth activists were arrested for wearing t-shirts saying "I am also a hooligan." All were released after t [...]
2009-09-17 13:07:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU743AZERBAIJAN'S DIASPORA SMALL, NOT POLITCALLY ACTIVE
[...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan's diaspora of permanent migrs is small, although there are possibly 2 million labor migrants in Russia and Turkey. The diaspora has not been active in affairs in Azerbaijan or in the United States, but two new groups have recently formed: one pro-government and one pro [...]
2009-09-18 06:05:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SMIG AJ
09BAKU749PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV - MICHAEL (CORLEONE) ON THE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev utilizes distinctly different approaches to foreign and domestic policies. He typically devises the former with pragmatism, restraint and a helpful bias toward integration with the West, yet at home his policies have become increasingly authorit [...]
2009-09-18 11:17:00Embassy BakuSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL AJ RU TU AM
09BAKU784AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT OPENS FALL SESSION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 30 parliament opened its fall session. Pro-government MPs congratulated themselves on opening a large new office building. Opposition MPs complained about the arrest of youth activist bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade (reftel),and the opposition,s lack of inf [...]
2009-10-01 10:05:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV AJ
09BAKU7903 MONTHS AND COUNTING: JAILED BLOGGER CASE DRAGS ON
[...] (C) Summary: On September 18, 29 and October 1 three more hearings were held in the trial of jailed youth activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade (reftel). The defense lawyers continued to question prosecution witness intensely, while state prosecutor Jeyhun Kazimov continued to object forcef [...]
2009-10-05 11:56:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU820BAKU SCENESETTER FOR DAS KAIDANOW'S OCT 22-24 VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Baku on the heels of the signing of the historic Turkey-Armenia protocols. Given tensions in the region, it will be an important opportunity to build upon the reassurances offered by Deputy Secretary of State Steinberg and Energy Deputy Secretary Poneman. Azerbaijan [...]
2009-10-15 12:06:00Embassy BakuSECRETPGOV PREL AM TU RU AJ
09BAKU850AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT DISCUSSES TURKEY-ARMENIA,
[...] (C) Summary: In a notably cordial meeting with DAS Tina Kaidanow, President Aliyev emphasized a long record of cooperation ) energy, security, counter-terrorism, regional development ) and said that Azerbaijan fully expects Turkey to hold to its promise not to ratify the rapprochement protoco [...]
2009-10-28 09:44:00Embassy BakuSECRETPGOV PREL PTER AM TU RU AJ
09BAKU868DAS KAIDANOW DISCUSSES POLITICAL REFORM WITH CIVIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow met with six leaders of Azerbaijan's civil society on October 23. All six agreed that Azerbaijan is headed in the wrong direction on democracy and human rights, and that USG support was needed on this issue. They highlighted support of youth as critical, in [...]
2009-11-04 06:01:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU898REACTIONS TO BLOGGER GUILTY VERDICT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe, in addition to the Norwegian and German governments, have issued statements of concern regarding the November 11 guilty verdict and sentencing of youth activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade. EU Special Envoy Peter Semneby raised it [...]
2009-11-17 12:46:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU904AZERBAIJAN: EUSR VISIT DISCUSSION OF BLOGGERS,
[...] (C) Summary: On November 18, the political advisor to Peter Semneby, EU Special Representative (EUSR) for the South Caucasus, briefed poloff on Semneby's recent trip to Baku and Yerevan that concluded November 16 and included meetings with both Presidents, the Azerbaijani FM and Russian Ambass [...]
2009-11-19 12:45:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG RU TX AM TU AJ
09BAKU940AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR ON
[...] (C) Summary: Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Novruz Mammadov, meeting December 3 with EUR/CARC Office Director Ethan Goldrich, had kind words of support for President Obama's December 1 speech and the Afghanistan mission. Azerbaijan, based on Turkey's assurances, sees a link between Turke [...]
2009-12-08 11:30:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ENRG IR AF AM AJ
09BEIRUT1214NEW LEBANESE CABINET ANNOUNCED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After nearly five months of negotiations, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri formed a cabinet on November 9. The cabinet held its initial meeting on November 10 and selected the committee that will negotiate the ministerial statement, which must be approved by parliament within [...]
2009-11-10 17:06:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR UNSC LE
09BEIRUT1318HARIRI'S DAMASCUS TRIP COMPLICATED BY SYRIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Lebanese Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar confirmed on December 10 that the GOL had received "warrants" for 23 former and current Lebanese officials and journalists to appear before the Syrian judiciary. The warrants were issued in connection with a case brought in a Syrian court b [...]
2009-12-14 16:36:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KJUS LE SY
09BEIRUT1334SYRIAN ALLIES SEEK "CANCELLATION" OF UNSCR 1559
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Syria's allies in Lebanon have launched a campaign for the "cancellation" of UN Security Council resolution 1559. Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri claimed to the Ambassador that following the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon and the election of Michel Sleiman as president, there i [...]
2009-12-21 16:29:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER UNSC PBTS KPAL LE IS SY
09BEIRUT21LEBANON: LEAHY VETTING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN INL'S LEBANON
[...] (U) The following names and biographic information is provided regarding participants in the INL funded Lebanon Police Basic Cadet Training courses 6 and 7, scheduled to begin January 2009. Leahy Amendment vetting was conducted at post with no derogatory results. (The list of 314 proposed tra [...]
2009-01-07 09:14:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
09BEIRUT403LEBANON: LEAHY VETTING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN INL'S LEBANON
[...] (U) The following names and biographic information is provided regarding participants in the INL funded Lebanon Police Basic Cadet Training course, scheduled to begin in April. Leahy Amendment vetting was conducted at post with no derogatory results. (The list of 100 proposed trainees includes [...]
2009-04-07 07:27:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
09BEIRUT404LEBANON: LEAHY VETTING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN INL'S LEBANON
[...] (U) The following names and biographic information is provided regarding participants in the INL funded Lebanon Police Basic Cadet Training course, scheduled to begin April 6, 2009. Leahy Amendment vetting was conducted at post with no derogatory results. (The list of 184 proposed trainees incl [...]
2009-04-07 07:27:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
09BEIRUT479LEBANON: NO PROGRESS ON ISSUE OF LEBANESE
[...] (C) In August 2008, we reported on the situation of the reported 600-plus Lebanese detainees in Syria and noted the possibility that there might be progress on this issue with the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Lebanon and Syria, among other factors (Ref B). However, eight m [...]
2009-04-27 13:47:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM LE SY
09BEIRUT548LEBANON: PSP LEADER WALID JUMBLATT CONFIRMS HIS
[...] (C) At a dinner hosted in honor of visiting NEA DAS Hale, March 14 Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said there were still some problems with March 14 candidate lists, notably in Beirut I and Keserwan Jumblatt reaffirmed his commitment to March 14 and disclosed that a meeting for the coalition would [...]
2009-05-15 07:14:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR IS SY LE
09BEIRUT814LEBANON: LEAHY VETTING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN INL'S LEBANON
[...] (U) The following names and biographic information is provided regarding participants in the INL funded Lebanon Police Basic Cadet Training course, scheduled to begin July 2009. Leahy Amendment vetting was conducted at post with no derogatory results. (The list of 200 proposed trainees includes [...]
2009-07-20 07:56:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
09BEIRUT815LEBANON: LEAHY VETTING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN INL'S LEBANON
[...] (U) The following names and biographic information is provided regarding participants in the INL funded Lebanon Police Basic Cadet Training course, scheduled to begin July 2009. Leahy Amendment vetting was conducted at post with no derogatory results. (The list of 109 proposed trainees includes [...]
2009-07-20 07:57:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ASEC NAS LE
09BEIRUT850COMPROMISE REACHED ON SHIA REPRESENTATION IN NEW
[...] (C) Advisor to Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, Nader Hariri, confirmed that an agreement has been reached over Shia representation in the presidential bloc in the next cabinet. Hariri emphasized that the consensus candidate would not be a "king minister," but rather a member of the Pre [...]
2009-07-28 14:56:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR LE
09BEIRUT868PRESIDENT'S CABINET BLOC NEARLY SETTLED, BUT OTHER
[...] (C) The President's ministerial bloc will contain five ministers and is nearly decided upon, according to presidential advisor Naji Abi Assi. Negotiation over portfolio distribution continues, but the issue of the blocking third is moot because it has been agreed that no "controversial" deci [...]
2009-07-30 13:57:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR LE
09BEIRUT988HARIRI WILL PRESENT CABINET PROPOSAL WITHOUT
[...] (C) Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri told the Ambassador September 3 that he intends to present a national unity government cabinet proposal to President Sleiman within the next ten days. He confirmed that that negotiations with opposition Christian leader Michel Aoun and his Free Patriot [...]
2009-09-03 15:21:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR LE
09BELGRADE507SERBIA: PRESEVO VALLEY ISLAMIC COMMUNITY RETAINS KOSOVO
[...] (SBU) Despite strained relations between Belgrade and Pristina following Kosovo's February 2008 declaration of independence, the Islamic community in the South Serbian region of the Presevo Valley has been able to maintain its historically strong ties with the Kosovo Islamic Community. Accord [...]
2009-06-12 14:57:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF KV SR
09BERLIN235STEINMEIER'S VISIT "TIMELY" AND "A SUCCESS."
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: German Foreign Minister Steinmeier's February 17-18 visit to Iraq -- the first by a German FM in 22 years -- focused strictly on bilateral relations and particularly on economic and cultural ties. He was joined by three Bundestag (Parliament) members, seven business leaders, th [...]
2009-02-25 15:39:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALGM MARR MOPS NATO PREL IZ EUN ECON ETRD
09BRASILIA1324USAID/BRAZIL ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM MEETING.
[...] SUMMARY: On October 27-30, 2009, USAID/Brazil Environment Program held its annual meeting in Belm, State of Par. The objective of the event was to promote cooperation and better integration among Program partners, as well as to discuss current themes of sustainable development in the Amazon reg [...]
2009-11-17 16:04:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV BR
09COLOMBO180Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 16
[...] (SBU) Summary: UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes began his visit to Sri Lanka, which will likely bring renewed international attention to the Sri Lankan conflict. Ambassador stressed to Holmes and Foreign Minister Bogollagama that Sri Lankan forces would likely con [...]
2009-02-19 13:53:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO384Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 45
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Sri Lankan Army reports it has surrounded hundreds of LTTE cadres in the eastern sections of PTK. The military reports the LTTE is moving portions of the civilian population to the southern section of the safe zone. 1,030MT of food aid and non-food items have arrived off th [...]
2009-04-02 11:15:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO65SRI LANKA: VANNI'S CIVILIANS SQUEEZED AS ARMY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Concerns for the civilians trapped by fighting in northern Sri Lanka are rising. Small but significant numbers of IDPs from the Vanni have moved to government-controlled territory as the continued advances of the Sri Lankan Army have squeezed the 300,000 population into a smalle [...]
2009-01-20 12:10:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF MOPS CE
09COLOMBO95SRI LANKA: DECLARED SAFE ZONE INOPERATIVE; ICRC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate briefings, UN and ICRC representatives reported that repeated violations of the "safe zone" had compelled their staffs to return to Puthukkudiyiruppu (PTK). Recent intense fighting reportedly has killed 300 civilians. The ICRC reports "tens" injured on a daily basis [...]
2009-01-27 12:39:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PHUM CE
09DAMASCUS309PRESIDENT ASAD'S CABINET RESHUFFLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After months of rumors that President Bashar al-Asad would reshuffle his cabinet, he finally did so on April 23, appointing six new officials to Prime Minister Utri's cabinet. Asad tapped Judge Ahmad Hamud Yunis to be Minister of Justice; Tamer Fu,ad al-Hija as Minister of Local [...]
2009-04-29 11:25:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY
09DAMASCUS550AGGRESSIVE AND UNUSUAL SARG SURVEILLANCE OF EMBOFF
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On 08/04/09, an Embassy Political Officer and a visiting State Department officer from NEA/PI experienced aggressive static and mobile surveillance during and after their meeting with a new human rights contact at a cafe. Both officers returned to the Embassy to report the [...]
2009-08-06 07:10:00Embassy DamascusSECRETASEC
09DAMASCUS551AGGRESSIVE AND UNUSUAL SARG SURVEILLANCE
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On 08/04/09, an Embassy Political Officer and a visiting State Department officer from NEA/PI experienced aggressive static and mobile surveillance during and after their meeting with a new human rights contact at a cafe. Both officers returned to the Embassy to report the [...]
2009-08-06 08:36:00Embassy DamascusSECRETASEC
09HILLAH19BABIL: GOVERNOR SIDELINED; POSSIBLE CHANGES IN ISF
[...] (C) Other than one or two public appearances, Governor Salim Saleh Mahdi Al-Muslimawi has largely disappeared from the public stage since the election. According to various political party leaders, Gov Muslimawi has also not played a role in inter-party discussions about filling provincial lea [...]
2009-02-24 14:06:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPROB PINR IZ
09HILLAH22BABIL BUSINESS CONFERENCE: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR "NEW
[...] (U) Summary: Babil PRT held a Business Environment Conference February 26 to develop an Iraqi-led process to help guide and inform the work of both the PRT and those entities involved in the province's business environment. It was the largest conference ever held at the PRT and included over [...]
2009-03-09 13:08:00REO HillahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV IZ
09HILLAH48SUNNI IMAM'S FORAY INTO NON-SECTARIAN POLITICS
[...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. Summary and Comment ------------------- 2. (C) Summary and Comment: On August 19, PRT Babil met with Sheikh Fadel al-Janaby to follow up on Embassy's request to find out more about the reported announcement of a new political entity in Babil o [...]
2009-08-19 14:32:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09ISLAMABAD1088 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 19, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-19 10:59:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1574 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 14, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-14 10:34:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2225BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 09 SEPTEMBER 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-15 05:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2900 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 03, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-03 09:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD902DONORS PLEDGE OVER $5 BILLION IN NEW MONEY AT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: International pledges totaled more than $5 billion at the Pakistan Donors' Conference in Tokyo on April 17. The Donors' Conference was intended to support the implementation of Pakistan's International Monetary Fund (IMF) Stand-By Arrangement agreed to in November 2008. Specia [...]
2009-04-28 13:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID
09JAKARTA1318INTENSIVE POLICE OPERATIONS STRIKE BLOW AGAINST
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Indonesian police operations against suspected terrorist safe houses in Central Java and on the outskirts of Jakarta, August 7-8, mark an important success in efforts to eliminate the terrorist threat posed by the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) splinter group led by Noordin M. Top. Despi [...]
2009-08-10 10:19:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPTER PGOV PREL PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1845TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS RESIGN AMID SCANDAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a dramatic reversal, the two Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Commissioners arrested by the police on October 29 have been released, and the Indonesian National Police,s (INP) Chief of the Criminal Investigation Division and the Vice Attorney General implicat [...]
2009-11-06 11:28:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA196ACEH PRE-ELECTION VIOLENCE ESCALATES
[...] (SBU) Summary. Two shootings in as many days have killed two members of the Aceh Transition Committee (KPA - the successor organization to the GAM separatist movement) and injured a third on the night of February 3 and the afternoon of February 4. The shootings follow in the wake of an attempt [...]
2009-02-05 10:52:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC SOCI ID
09JAKARTA805IN SENSATIONAL CASE, POLICE ARREST INDONESIA'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a case netting sensational headlines in Indonesia, the suspended chair of Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK),Antasari Azhar, has been officially declared a suspect in the murder of an Indonesian businessman. Azhar is currently under detention. Contacts at [...]
2009-05-07 10:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JEDDAH195INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC RELIEF ORGANIZATION SAUDI
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The April 23 Arab News quotes International Islamic Relief Organization of Saudi Arabia (IIROSA) Secretary General Adnan Khalil Basha denying any link to terrorist activities and appealing to the US Administration to consider the lack of evidence against the organization. Citing h [...]
2009-06-01 10:34:00Consulate JeddahSECRETKISL PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI PREL PINR SA
09JEDDAH84INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC RELIEF ORGANIZATION --
[...] (S/NF) Summary. Consulate General Jeddah received a letter through the post dated February 15 directed to President Obama from the Secretary General of the International Islamic Relief Organization(IIRO) in Saudi Arabia. IIRO Philippine and Indonesian branches, along with IIRO Saudi Arabia E [...]
2009-03-02 11:17:00Consulate JeddahSECRET//NOFORNKISL PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI PREL PINR SA
09JERUSALEM1087ABU MAZEN BUILDS SUPPORT FOR A FATAH SIXTH PARTY
[...] (C) Summary. President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) successfully used a June 23-24 Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC) meeting to garner support for holding Fatah's Sixth General Congress on August 4, 2009, in Bethlehem. FRC members backed Abu Mazen's plan on the condition that Fatah delegates fr [...]
2009-06-26 13:56:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALIS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM1311E-1 DEVELOPMENT CONFLICTS WITH PALESTINIAN PLANS
[...] (C) Summary. PA officials say that development of E-1 and the Ma'ale Adumim "bubble" threatens the contiguity of a future Palestinian state and Palestinians' access to Jerusalem. Palestinians from five Palestinian towns and one East Jerusalem neighborhood bordering E-1 said the GoI has thwa [...]
2009-07-31 10:35:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1344PALESTINIANS, INTERNATIONALS PROTEST EVICTIONS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The GoI evicted two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem's Shaykh Jarrah neighborhood on August 2, after Israeli courts awarded ownership of the properties to two Israeli organizations, Nakhalat Shimon International (NSI) and the Sephardic Community Committe [...]
2009-08-04 14:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PTER IS KPAL KWBG
09JERUSALEM1766RENEWED UNREST ON HARAM AL-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT
[...] (C) Summary: On October 4, Israeli police clashed briefly with Arab Israeli protesters attempting to enter the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount platform in order to "protect" the al-Aqsa mosque from hard-line Jewish groups whom protesters believed to be organizing a visit. Arab Islamic Movement [...]
2009-10-05 12:07:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPINS PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KWBG IS KIRF
09JERUSALEM2044VISAS VIPER: OCTOBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT
[...] Visas Viper 2. The following information is provided for watch-listing purposes as the Department and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) deem appropriate. 3. The source for all Visas Viper submissions includes Jerusalem RSO sources, to include both Israeli and Palestinian securi [...]
2009-11-13 18:18:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS PTER ASEC PINR PREL KVPR KWBG
09JERUSALEM2175RECORD NUMBER OF JERUSALEM RESIDENCY STATUS
[...] (C) An Israeli Ministry of Interior probe into the legal status of thousands of Arab residents of East Jerusalem led to the revocation of 4,577 Jerusalem residency permits in 2008 -- a figure equivalent to 53 percent of all revocations since 1967. NGO and Palestinian sources described the tr [...]
2009-12-03 15:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM251PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FAILS TO RESOLVE OUTSTANDING
[...] (C) Summary. Fatah sources told ConGen that the Preparatory Committee for the Fatah Sixth General Congress made no significant progress during February 3-4 meetings in Amman. Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC) member Muhammad al-Madani said the meetings did not resolve any of the three key q [...]
2009-02-06 08:34:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALIS KDEM KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM318UNRESOLVED ISSUES REMAIN AFTER FATAH COUNCIL
[...] (C) Summary. The Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC) announced on February 19 its recommendation that the sixth party Congress be held April 15 in Jordan or Egypt. In February 18-19 conversations with PolSpecialist, grassroots activists doubted that the Congress would be held as soon as April [...]
2009-02-24 13:39:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM444JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY ISSUES 58 ADDITIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. Palestinian sources informed Post about an additional 56 demolition and two evacuation orders issued by the Jerusalem municipality between March 5 and March 9. Palestinian officials told the Consul General that Israel has adopted a policy of "escalation" in East Jerusalem that co [...]
2009-03-10 08:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM490IDF ARRESTS HAMAS POLITICAL FIGURES IN THE WEST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The IDF arrested 20 senior Hamas officials in the West Bank overnight on March 18-19. The IDF also re-arrested a separate set of lower-profile Hamas during the week of March 9. Both Hamas and the PA President's office put out statements criticizing the arrests. END SUMMARY. [...]
2009-03-19 15:34:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM628EAST JERUSALEM EVICTION ORDER UPHELD IN ISRAELI
[...] (C) Summary. Israel's High Court of Justice (HCJ) on April 5 rejected a petition lodged by two East Jerusalem families against eviction orders regarding their homes in Shaykh Jarrah. The decision exhausts possible judicial remedy and effectively reinstates eviction orders, which could now b [...]
2009-04-07 13:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALIS KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL
09JERUSALEM674FATAH MEMBERS JOSTLE FOR INFLUENCE AHEAD OF SIXTH
[...] (C) Summary: As preparations for the Sixth Party Congress proceed, Fatah members have begun to jostle for influence over future membership in the Fatah Central Committee (FCC),which will be decided by the Congress. With delegate lists nearly finalized, aspiring Fatah leaders are competing [...]
2009-04-16 13:15:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PTER IS KPAL KWBG
09JERUSALEM697PALESTINIANS EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT RISING TENSION
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinian contacts explained a recent increase in violent incidents in Jerusalem and the West Bank as resulting from increased tension brought on by Palestinians' growing sense of insecurity. In conversations with PolOff, Palestinian contacts pointed to the new Israeli govern [...]
2009-04-24 10:54:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS ASEC KWBG
09JERUSALEM729PALESTINIANS DESCRIBE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Reftel described the GOI's closure of a gap in the separation barrier north of Jerusalem. The now-sealed barrier runs between the West Bank town of al-Ram and East Jerusalem. The barrier generally follows the route of the Jerusalem municipal boundary, except where it cuts throu [...]
2009-05-01 11:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON PREL ETRD KWBG IS PINR
Pages 1 2
1'000 rows / 1'097 results

This work is licensed under a creative common licence creative commons image creative commons another image