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 06HILLAH96, NOT BETTER THAN CAVES AND RUINS: A SNAPSHOT OF EDUCATION IN

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. #06HILLAH96.
Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06HILLAH96 2006-06-01 13:45 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY REO Hillah
VZCZCXRO4674
PP RUEHBC RUEHDA RUEHDE RUEHKUK
DE RUEHIHL #0096/01 1521345
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 011345Z JUN 06
FM REO HILLAH
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0643
RUEHGB/AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD PRIORITY 0629
INFO RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE
RUEHIHL/REO HILLAH 0694
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HILLAH 000096 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
BAGHDAD FOR NCT 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV SCUL SOCI IZ
SUBJECT: NOT BETTER THAN CAVES AND RUINS: A SNAPSHOT OF EDUCATION IN 
BABIL PROVINCE, IRAQ 
 
 
HILLAH 00000096  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
1. (U) This is a Babil PRT Cable 
 
2. (SBU) SUMMARY.  During a May 25 meeting, the Education 
Director General (DG, a provincial representative from the 
national ministry) for Babil, Dr. Hummadi Al-Awadi, told 
Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) staff that the current 
state of education in the province is deplorable and that 
substantial U.S. assistance is urgently required.  The DG 
complained that while the United States continues to provide 
small gifts of school supplies and other "minor trinkets," 
Coalition Forces must engage in large scale construction 
projects in order to substantially improve the quality of 
education in the province.  PRT staff stressed to the DG that 
the team and the Regional Embassy Office (REO) have been 
actively involved in supporting educational endeavors throughout 
the province, and will continue to do so, but that such ornate 
projects, including the DG's suggestion to build two great 
halls, are impractical.  END SUMMARY. 
 
3. (SBU) PRT staff met with the DG of Education for the purpose 
of improving cooperation between Coalition Forces and local 
school districts and to coordinate U.S. military visits to 
individual schools.  The DG stated at the opening of the meeting 
that while he was highly appreciative of the U.S. military's 
willingness to provide basic school supplies, including pencils 
and notebooks, he expressed disappointment that the PRT and 
Coalition Forces have failed to engage in large scale projects 
including the construction of school buildings. (COMMENT: 
Coalition efforts have focused in the past on the reconstruction 
of damaged schools and not the construction of new schools. 
USAID has refurbished 165 schools in the province at a cost of 
$6.1 million.  School supplies provided by Coalition Forces in 
Babil have been at the initiative of USAID and individual 
military units and not organized by the PRT or other Coalition 
Forces.  END COMMENT). 
 
4. (SBU) The DG further explicated that Coalition partners 
previously implemented small scale donation campaigns, similar 
to current U.S. efforts, with little success.  One of the DG's 
aides who attended the meeting took a harsher tone and related 
that such previous projects were a considerable "waste of time 
and money".  The DG added a public diplomacy aspect to the 
conversation, contending that terrorists are exploiting the 
widely perceived notion that Coalition Forces only provide 
symbolic assistance.  Mimicking a terrorist, the DG mocked, 
"What?  Those Americans provide you with only paper and pencils 
[and not with substantial reconstruction programs]?"  These 
types of charges, he continued, "will convince the common 
person" that the United States is unenthusiastic about helping 
the people of Babil. 
 
5. (SBU) The DG further declared that all levels of education, 
including primary, secondary and tertiary, in Babil are facing 
an impending crisis due to a lack of space, supplies and faculty 
training.  One aide added that the educational facilities in 
Babil are "not better than caves and ruins" and that he hoped 
Coalition Forces would help to redress this problem, as 
"brothers in humanity."  At the conclusion of the meeting, a 
second aide stated that Babil requires 400 new schools (there 
are approximately 300 students per school), comprehensive 
teacher training and technical expertise to create new syllabi. 
The aide also requested that the PRT Deputy Leader ask the U.S. 
military to provide security for students and teachers during 
upcoming examinations in June. 
 
6. (SBU) REO and PRT staff had previously met with officials 
from Babil University.  The administrators of the university 
echoed a similar theme, arguing that the United States has a 
moral obligation to rebuild the educational infrastructure of 
the institute.  Without direct U.S. aid, these administrators 
declared, they would remain unable to develop their university. 
 
7. (SBU) COMMENT: Babil, in relationship to the rest of 
South-Central Iraq, possesses a well educated population, marked 
with higher than average literacy rates and a relatively 
dedicated educational staff.  While the state of education in 
Babil may not be in such dire straits as portrayed by the DG of 
Education, there is no doubt that there is much room for 
improvement.  Unfortunately, it is the experience of PRT staff 
that most public officials, including educators, make 
unrealistic demands that Coalition Forces are simply unable to 
meet.  Moreover, when officials resort to the tactic of casting 
a wide net to see what they can get, it makes it difficult for 
the PRT to accurately judge what the real needs are.  For 
example, the DG of Education failed to mention that the Ministry 
of Education is currently building 48 new schools this year at a 
cost of $7 million.  Nor did he mention that Coalition Forces 
have earmarked $22 million for Babil University from Iraqi 
 
HILLAH 00000096  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
development funds during the previous fiscal year.  END COMMENT. 
MEURS