Keep Us Strong WikiLeaks logo

Currently released so far... 97115 / 251,287

Articles

Browse latest releases

Browse by creation date

Browse by origin

A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Browse by tag

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ETRD EAGR ETTC EAID ECON EFIN ECIN EINV ELAB EAIR ENRG EPET EWWT ECPS EIND EMIN ELTN EC ETMIN EUC EZ ET ELECTIONS ENVR EU EUN EG EINT ER ECONOMICS ES EMS ENIV EEB EN ECE ECOSOC EK ENVIRONMENT EFIS EI EWT ENGRD ECPSN EXIM EIAD ERIN ECPC EDEV ENGY ECTRD EPA ESTH ECCT EINVECON ENGR ERTD EUR EAP EWWC ELTD EL EXIMOPIC EXTERNAL ETRDEC ESCAP ECO EGAD ELNT ECONOMIC ENV ETRN EIAR EUMEM ENRGPARMOTRASENVKGHGPGOVECONTSPLEAID EREL ECOM ECONETRDEAGRJA ETCC ETRG ECONOMY EMED ETR ENERG EITC EFINOECD EURM EENG ERA EXPORT ENRD ECONEINVETRDEFINELABETRDKTDBPGOVOPIC EGEN EBRD EVIN ETRAD ECOWAS EFTA ECONETRDBESPAR EGOVSY EPIN EID ECONENRG EDRC ESENV ETT EB ENER ELTNSNAR ECHEVARRIA ETRC EPIT EDUC ESA EFI ENRGY ESCI EE EAIDXMXAXBXFFR EETC ECIP EIAID EIVN EBEXP ESTN EING EGOV ETRA EPETEIND ELAN ETRDGK EAIDRW ETRDEINVECINPGOVCS EPEC ENVI ELN EAG EPCS EPRT EPTED ETRB EUM EAIDS EFIC EFINECONEAIDUNGAGM EAIDAR ESF EIDN ELAM EDU EV EAIDAF ECN EDA EXBS EINTECPS ENRGTRGYETRDBEXPBTIOSZ EPREL EAC EINVEFIN ETA EAGER EINDIR ECA ECLAC ELAP EITI EUCOM ECONEFINETRDPGOVEAGRPTERKTFNKCRMEAID EARG ELDIN EINVKSCA ENNP EFINECONCS EFINTS ECCP ETC EAIRASECCASCID EINN ETRP EAIDNI EFQ ECOQKPKO EGPHUM EBUD ECONEINVEFINPGOVIZ ENERGY ELB EINDETRD EMI ECONEFIN EIB EURN ETRDEINVTINTCS EIN EFIM ETIO ELAINE EMN EATO EWTR EIPR EINVETC ETTD ETDR EIQ ECONCS EPPD ENRGIZ EISL ESPINOSA ELEC EAIG ESLCO EUREM ENTG ERD EINVECONSENVCSJA EEPET EUNCH ECINECONCS ETRO ETRDECONWTOCS ECUN EFND EPECO EAIRECONRP ERGR ETRDPGOV ECPN ENRGMO EPWR EET EAIS EAGRE EDUARDO EAGRRP EAIDPHUMPRELUG EICN ECONQH EVN EGHG ELBR EINF EAIDHO EENV ETEX ERNG ED
KMDR KPAO KPKO KJUS KCRM KGHG KFRD KWMN KDEM KTFN KHIV KGIC KIDE KSCA KNNP KHUM KIPR KSUM KISL KIRF KCOR KRCM KPAL KWBG KN KS KOMC KSEP KFLU KPWR KTIA KSEO KMPI KHLS KICC KSTH KMCA KVPR KPRM KE KU KZ KFLO KSAF KTIP KTEX KBCT KOCI KOLY KOR KAWC KACT KUNR KTDB KSTC KLIG KSKN KNN KCFE KCIP KGHA KHDP KPOW KUNC KDRL KV KPREL KCRS KPOL KRVC KRIM KGIT KWIR KT KIRC KOMO KRFD KUWAIT KG KFIN KSCI KTFIN KFTN KGOV KPRV KSAC KGIV KCRIM KPIR KSOC KBIO KW KGLB KMWN KPO KFSC KSEAO KSTCPL KSI KPRP KREC KFPC KUNH KCSA KMRS KNDP KR KICCPUR KPPAO KCSY KTBT KCIS KNEP KFRDCVISCMGTCASCKOCIASECPHUMSMIGEG KNNB KGCC KINR KPOP KMFO KENV KNAR KVIR KDRG KDMR KFCE KNAO KDEN KGCN KICA KIMMITT KMCC KLFU KMSG KSEC KUM KCUL KMNP KSMT KCOM KOMCSG KSPR KPMI KRAD KIND KCRP KAUST KWAWC KTER KCHG KRDP KPAS KITA KTSC KPAOPREL KWGB KIRP KJUST KMIG KLAB KTFR KSEI KSTT KAPO KSTS KLSO KWNN KPOA KHSA KNPP KPAONZ KBTS KWWW KY KJRE KPAOKMDRKE KCRCM KSCS KWMNCI KESO KWUN KPLS KIIP KEDEM KPAOY KRIF KGICKS KREF KTRD KFRDSOCIRO KTAO KJU KWMNPHUMPRELKPAOZW KEN KO KNEI KEMR KKIV KEAI KWAC KRCIM KWCI KFIU KWIC KCORR KOMS KNNO KPAI KBWG KTTB KTBD KTIALG KILS KFEM KTDM KESS KNUC KPA KOMCCO KCEM KRCS KWBGSY KNPPIS KNNPMNUC KWN KERG KLTN KALM KCCP KSUMPHUM KREL KGH KLIP KTLA KAWK KWMM KVRP KVRC KAID KSLG KDEMK KX KIF KNPR KCFC KFTFN KTFM KPDD KCERS KMOC KDEMAF KMEPI KEMS KDRM KEPREL KBTR KEDU KNP KIRL KNNR KMPT KISLPINR KTPN KA KJUSTH KPIN KDEV KTDD KAKA KFRP KWNM KTSD KINL KJUSKUNR KWWMN KECF KWBC KPRO KVBL KOM KFRDKIRFCVISCMGTKOCIASECPHUMSMIGEG KEDM KFLD KLPM KRGY KNNF KICR KIFR KM KWMNCS KAWS KLAP KPAK KDDG KCGC KID KNSD KMPF KPFO KDP KCMR KRMS KNPT KNNNP KTIAPARM KDTB KNUP KPGOV KNAP KNNC KUK KSRE KREISLER KIVP KQ KTIAEUN KPALAOIS KRM KISLAO KWM KFLOA
PHUM PINR PTER PGOV PREL PREF PL PM PHSA PE PARM PINS PK PUNE PO PALESTINIAN PU PBTS PROP PTBS POL POLI PA PGOVZI POLMIL POLITICAL PARTIES POLM PD POLITICS POLICY PAS PMIL PINT PNAT PV PKO PPOL PERSONS PING PBIO PH PETR PARMS PRES PCON PETERS PRELBR PT PLAB PP PAK PDEM PKPA PSOCI PF PLO PTERM PJUS PSOE PELOSI PROPERTY PGOVPREL PARP PRL PNIR PHUMKPAL PG PREZ PGIC PBOV PAO PKK PROV PHSAK PHUMPREL PROTECTION PGOVBL PSI PRELPK PGOVENRG PUM PRELKPKO PATTY PSOC PRIVATIZATION PRELSP PGOVEAIDUKNOSWGMHUCANLLHFRSPITNZ PMIG PREC PAIGH PROG PSHA PARK PETER POG PHUS PPREL PS PTERPREL PRELPGOV POV PKPO PGOVECON POUS PGOVPRELPHUMPREFSMIGELABEAIDKCRMKWMN PWBG PMAR PREM PAR PNR PRELPGOVEAIDECONEINVBEXPSCULOIIPBTIO PARMIR PGOVGM PHUH PARTM PN PRE PTE PY POLUN PPEL PDOV PGOVSOCI PIRF PGOVPM PBST PRELEVU PGOR PBTSRU PRM PRELKPAOIZ PGVO PERL PGOC PAGR PMIN PHUMR PVIP PPD PGV PRAM PINL PKPAL PTERE PGOF PINO PHAS PODC PRHUM PHUMA PREO PPA PEPFAR PGO PRGOV PAC PRESL PORG PKFK PEPR PRELP PREFA PNG PGOVPHUMKPAO PRELECON PINOCHET PFOR PGOVLO PHUMBA PRELC PREK PHUME PHJM POLINT PGOVPZ PGOVKCRM PGOVE PHALANAGE PARTY PECON PEACE PROCESS PLN PRELSW PAHO PEDRO PRELA PASS PPAO PGPV PNUM PCUL PGGV PSA PGOVSMIGKCRMKWMNPHUMCVISKFRDCA PGIV PRFE POGOV PEL PBT PAMQ PINF PSEPC POSTS PHUMPGOV PVOV PHSAPREL PROLIFERATION PENA PRELTBIOBA PIN PRELL PGOVPTER PHAM PHYTRP PTEL PTERPGOV PHARM PROTESTS PRELAF PKBL PRELKPAO PKNP PARMP PHUML PFOV PERM PUOS PRELGOV PHUMPTER PARAGRAPH PERURENA PBTSEWWT PCI PETROL PINSO PINSCE PQL PEREZ PBS

Browse by classification

Community resources

courage is contagious

Viewing cable 06BUENOSAIRES1433, IRAQ; ALLEGED US ESPIONAGE; HUMAN RIGHTS; EVO MORALES;

If you are new to these pages, please read an introduction on the structure of a cable as well as how to discuss them with others. See also the FAQs

Understanding cables
Every cable message consists of three parts:
  • The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was.
  • The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject.
  • The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables (browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed by the main contents of the cable: a summary, a collection of specific topics and a comment section.
To understand the justification used for the classification of each cable, please use this WikiSource article as reference.

Discussing cables
If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. Linking to a specific paragraph in the body of a cable is also possible by copying the appropriate link (to be found at theparagraph symbol). Please mark messages for social networking services like Twitter with the hash tags #cablegate and a hash containing the reference ID e.g. #06BUENOSAIRES1433.
Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06BUENOSAIRES1433 2006-06-26 17:17 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Buenos Aires
VZCZCXYZ0000
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHBU #1433/01 1771717
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 261717Z JUN 06
FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5029
INFO RHMFISS/CDR USSOCOM MACDILL AFB FL//SCJ2//
RULGPUA/USCOMSOLANT
UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 001433 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/GWHA, WHA, WHA/PDA, WHA/BSC, 
WHA/EPSC 
CDR USSOCOM FOR J-2 IAD/LAMA 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
SUBJECT: IRAQ; ALLEGED US ESPIONAGE; HUMAN RIGHTS; EVO MORALES; 
VENEZUELA; DOHA ROUND; MUSLIM-WESTERN DISPUTES; ARGENTINE JUDICIAL 
SECURITY; KIRCHNER TO SPAIN US-SPANISH TIES 06/26/06 
 
 
1. SUMMARY STATEMENT 
 
Today's key international stories include the alleged preparation 
for US troop withdrawal from Iraq; former Iraqi dictator Saddam 
Hussein's statement that US President Bush will ask for his help in 
fighting the insurgency in Iraq; a new espionage scandal in the US; 
the relationship between respect for human rights and US national 
security strategies; ties between the US and Bolivia; Venezuela's 
candidacy for a UN chair; expectations for the upcoming Doha Round; 
the reason for Muslim-Western disputes; and Argentina's judicial 
security status. 
 
2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES 
 
- "Iraq - the US prepares its withdrawal in 2008" 
 
Daily-of-record "La Nacion" reports (06/26) "According to the US 
media, after more than three years of military occupation, the 
Pentagon has drafted a calendar for a drastic reduction of US troops 
in Iraq by the end of next year, and it has also planned a 
withdrawal of most of its troops by 2008. 
 
"According to The New York Times, which had access to classified 
documents, the plan proposed by the US commander in charge of the US 
coalition forces, General George Casey, which was submitted during a 
secret Pentagon meeting last week, the number of US fighting 
 
SIPDIS 
brigades in Iraq will be lowered from 14 to five or six in December 
2007 if security conditions in Iraq allow it. Some 7,000 soldiers 
will be withdrawn in September this year." 
 
- "Saddam says 'Bush will ask for my help against insurgents'" 
 
Conservative "La Prensa" reports (06/26) "On the same day Iraqi PM 
al Maliki launched a national reconciliation plan with several 
religious and tribal groups, former president Saddam Hussein said he 
is convinced that the US will ask for his 'help' to suffocate the 
insurgency and execute an orderly withdrawal of troops. 
 
"Through his main legal attorney, Khalil al-Dulaimi, the overthrown 
leader said 'those Iraqi puppets the US put in government cannot 
protect themselves, they can barely protect the people. This is why 
they will ask for my help and that of the Baath Party so that we can 
rescue them from their huge dilemma.'" 
 
- "New espionage scandal in the US" 
 
Hugo Alconada Mon, Washington-based correspondent for 
daily-of-record "La Nacion," writes (06/24) "According to The New 
York Times and The Los Angeles Times, during the last four years, 
the Bush administration has monitored and reviewed tens of thousands 
of banking operations and financial records of people with alleged 
terrorist ties, but without previous judicial authorization. 
 
"The secret program, which was authorized by Bush weeks a few weeks 
after the September 11 attacks, is aimed at detecting terrorists and 
cutting their finance networks. However, just like the wiretapping 
scandal, this has unleashed serious doubts about its legality, even 
among banking executives involved, and a controversy due to the 
USG's advances into private life." 
 
- "End for human rights enforcement?" 
 
Oscar Raul Cardoso, international analyst of leading "Clarin," 
opines (06/24) "... If the most powerful country in the world 
arrests people depriving them of any right to legal process and 
defense, if it tortures or hires others to torture in third 
countries, if it suspiciously kills in the name of freedom, why 
wouldn't other democracies do it with the same 'legitimacy'? Is 
this, as suggested some time ago by academician Harvard Michael 
Ignatieff, the end of the 'human rights era'? "Curiously enough, 
George W. Bush's main reason for these adventures is the defense of 
Americans' security. 
 
"... The key question is not who is hiding in the Afghan heights or 
the Iraqi sand but what the West is doing to generate this intense 
hatred. And, above all, what price the West is willing to pay in 
decency and human rights for its own security, which as we can see 
is weakly guaranteed today by the atrocities of occupying powers in 
Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a question that not only calls for the 
response of Americans but for that of the global community." 
 
- "Our patience with Evo is running out" 
 
Conservative "La Prensa" (06/26) reports "The US warned 'its 
patience is running out' in regards to Bolivian President Evo 
Morales because it fears that the call on a Constituting Assembly 
 
 
can be used to impose 'potentially anti-democratic reforms.' "The 
spokesperson of the USG's malaise was Adolfo Franco, head of the 
Latin American Department at the US Agency for International 
Development. 
 
"... The USG official suggested that, as a response to Morales' 
advance, Washington should support the opposition in an attempt to 
make up 'some counterweight to the control of only one political 
party in both judicial affairs and in the independence of the mass 
media, in addition to the training of leaders of a strong and 
educated civil society.'" 
 
- "Venezuela is heading for the UN" 
 
Conservative "La Prensa" carries an opinion piece by Emilio 
Cardenas, former Argentine Ambassador to the UN, who writes (06/25) 
"Our country has just announced that it will support Venezuela's 
candidacy as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council 
during the 2007/08 period. In this way, Argentina preferred 
Venezuela over another candidate from the region, Guatemala, a 
founding country of the UN. 
 
"... Hugo Chavez's lack of respect for the principle of 
non-intervention in the domestic affairs of other countries is open 
and noteworthy... The cases of Venezuelan intervention in Bolivia, 
Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru are well-known. But there are 
some other cases, which are still 'subterranean' although real. 
 
"I am one of those who believe that, based on caution and a basic 
respect for ourselves..., we should not support Venezuela's 
candidacy for a UN chair based on the concerning features of 
Chavez's personality and also on Venezuela's closeness to (Iran), a 
country which is the main exporter of terrorism to the world." 
 
- "Update on family quarrel" 
 
Gwynne Dyer, contributor to liberal, English-language "Buenos Aires 
Herald," writes (06/26) "The past year has been one of the worst in 
recent history for relations between Muslims and 'the West'... 
According to the Pew Global Attitude Project for 2006, an opinion 
survey conducted in thirteen mainly Christian or Muslim countries by 
the Pew Research Center in Washington, the majorities who saw 
relations between the West and Islam as 'generally bad' ranged from 
53 percent in Russia and Indonesia to highs of 70 percent in Germany 
and 84 percent in Turkey. 
 
"There were purely local causes for some of the extreme reactions, 
like resentment among Turks at being seen as problem candidates for 
EU membership simply because they are Muslims. 
 
"... Muslim-Western disputes are so emotional precisely because they 
are between family members; neither of the estranged twin cultures 
brings the same amount of reproach and resentment to its occasional 
disputes with peoples who belong to entirely different traditions. 
But the fact that they do share so much history and so many values 
means that the possibility of reconciliation is also ever present." 
 
- "(Kirchner's) criterion about investment and judicial security" 
 
Fernando Laborda, political columnist of daily-of-record "La 
Nacion," writes (06/25) "... The Argentine Government's thesis is 
that 'the country's judicial security is that of a country whose 
growth has not stopped during the last 44 months.'  However, 
according to business sources, this view, which is based on the fact 
that capital flows to where there are business opportunities 
regardless of the risk that rules can change overnight, has 
notorious limitations. 
 
"In recent months, not a few businessmen have complained about the 
president's particular view of state intervention, which is not 
related to old-fashioned statism but to the government's direct or 
indirect pressure to remove heads of strategic economic divisions 
that can't easily satisfy governmental requests. This same pressure 
has led foreign economic groups to abandon control of privatized 
companies and who were compelled to sell their shares to groups that 
are more compatible with the Government. 
 
"Behind this interventionist view there is a veiled purpose to 
politically control any potential factor of power, whether it be 
economic, social, military, religious or press-related." 
 
- "Kirchner returned from Spain with a new reputation of 'moderate' 
and ready for the 2007 project" 
 
Centrist newspaper "Perfil" carries an opinion piece by Rosendo 
Fraga, prestigious political analyst, who writes (06/25) "President 
 
 
Kirchner's key in regional policy during the first three years of 
his government has been to maintain an intermediate point between 
Lula and Chavez... Kirchner combines populism and pragmatism in an 
alternating way. 
 
"In this framework, his visit to Spain is one more demonstration of 
this kind of policy. It is true that in his address to Spanish 
businessmen, he showed more moderation that in previous 
opportunities, but it is also true that in political terms he ended 
his visit with harsh criticism of the US and a defense of Chavez and 
Morales. 
 
"Perhaps, he did not bear in mind that US Secretary of State 
Condoleezza Rice visited Madrid two days before him, and that she 
reached some agreement with her Spanish counterpart, Miguel Angel 
Moratinos, regarding the possibility of coordinating more actions of 
the two countries in Latin America. Washington is obviously the 
regional hegemonic power in the region, and Spain is the EU country 
having the largest influence there. The visit meant one more step 
toward a better relationship between the two countries." 
 
To see more Buenos Aires reporting, visit our classified website 
at: 
http://www.state.sqov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 
 
GUTIERREZ