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 06BAGHDAD4786, ISG Report criticized by Speaker of Iraqi Kurdish

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. #06BAGHDAD4786.
Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06BAGHDAD4786 2006-12-31 05:48 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Baghdad
VZCZCXRO7202
RR RUEHBC RUEHDA RUEHDE RUEHIHL RUEHKUK
DE RUEHGB #4786/01 3650548
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 310548Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 8865
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC
INFO RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BAGHDAD 004786 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM PTER IZ
SUBJECT: ISG Report criticized by Speaker of Iraqi Kurdish 
Parliament Adnan Mufti in letter to Bush, Congress 
 
1. (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, and Senate Majority Leader 
William Frist criticizing the Iraq Study Group report.  Proposed by 
an emergency session of the KNA December 17, the letter condemns 
what it considers the ISG's Baghdad focus and misunderstanding of 
Kurdish issues, and opposes certain recommendations of the report, 
including those on oil, Kirkuk, centralization, and neighboring 
countries. 
 
2. (SBU)  Although the KNA remains largely a rubber-stamp for 
legislation proposed by the KRG executive branch headed by KRG 
President Massoud Barzani, Mufti is a long-time PUK Politburo member 
and is from an influential family in Erbil.  Official, educational, 
and civil society institutions in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region have 
organized many protests and publications against the ISG report; 
however, this is the first from the legislative branch of 
government.  END SUMMARY AND COMMENT. 
 
2. (SBU) Begin Text: 
 
"21 December 2006 
President of the United States of America, George W. Bush 
 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Congressman Dennis Hastert 
 
President of the Senate, Richard Cheney 
 
Majority Leader of the Senate, Senator Bill Frist 
 
We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 
 
I would first like to extend our appreciation to the Government of 
the United States of America for liberating the people of the 
Kurdistan Region from the former tyrannical regime, and safeguarding 
us since 1991 under the Security Council Resolution No. 688. 
 
It was encouraging for all the people of Iraq to see the role of 
American and Coalition Forces in rebuilding Iraq, making advances in 
the political process, conducting elections, and ratifying the 
permanent constitution for Iraq on the basis of federalism, 
democracy, and respect for human rights. 
 
The complicated situation in Iraq and the increase of violence, 
especially in the middle of Iraq, has worried you as Americans, we 
the people of Iraq, and people throughout the world, and we all look 
for a solution for this crisis. This is how the Iraq Study Group was 
established, under James Baker and Lee Hamilton. 
 
Our people expected that this would be an objective investigation to 
reach the truth, and based on that, to reach recommendations for the 
future of Iraq. With due respect for the members of the committee, 
the report contained a number of suggestions that caused severe 
concern to the people of the Kurdistan Region. The Kurdistan 
National Assembly held a special session on 17th December 2006 in 
order to evaluate the report. 
 
In an indirect manner, the report wanted to put suspicion on the 
leaders of the Kurdistan Region regarding their commitment to a 
federal region within a democratic Iraq. This was done, for example, 
by highlighting the fact that the Iraqi flag is not flown in the 
Kurdistan Region. The Iraqi constitution states that a new flag 
shall be established to represent all of Iraq, and is not 
reminiscent of the Baathist regime which inflicted severe atrocities 
upon our people. 
 
I would like to bring to your attention a number of observations 
from the ISG report which we oppose: 
 
-- Firstly, none of the committee members of the Iraq Study Group 
visited the Kurdistan Region in order to assess the situation on the 
ground and consider the viewpoint of our people. We believe that the 
report neglects our people's bitter history in the hands of the 
former Baathist regime, and sidelines our efforts in helping to 
create a federal, democratic Iraq. 
 
-- Secondly, the ISG Report does not respect the sovereignty of Iraq 
and its constitutional government, which was an outcome of free and 
democratic elections monitored by the United Nations and United 
States of America. 
 
-- Thirdly, it is suggested that all of Iraq's oil revenues should 
be centralized and shared on the basis of population. However, 
Article 112 of the Iraqi Constitution states that oil revenues 
should be distributed both on the size of the population and the 
degree of devastation inflicted by the former regime. Our position 
on this is to abide by the constitutional articles, rather than to 
 
BAGHDAD 00004786  002 OF 002 
 
 
the ISG report 
 
-- Fourthly, the ISG Report suggests delaying the implantation of 
Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution, which handles the problems 
arising from the Arabization policy of the former regime. Thus the 
future and fate of Kirkuk, and other disputed areas, will remain 
without clarification. This not only contradicts with the Iraqi 
Constitution, but will also result in further complicating the 
matter. 
 
-- Also, the suggestion of expanding the powers of the central 
government, at the expense of regional powers, is in itself a 
contradiction of the constitution, which calls for a federal system. 
The people of Kurdistan Region have voted for a federal system and 
the institutions in the Kurdistan Region have been established on 
this basis. Any retreat from this will be a violation of the just 
rights of our people. 
 
-- Finally, the sovereignty of the new Iraqi state should not be 
jeopardized by inviting neighboring countries to meddle in our 
affairs. Nowhere in the report is there a reference to a federal and 
democratic Iraq, which we believe is an example for the Middle East 
and a sign of our victory in the war on terror. 
 
We urge you not to consider the suggestions in the ISG report, as 
they not match the interest of the people of Kurdistan, and they are 
a violation of the permanent constitution of Iraq. 
 
We would like to reiterate that the people of the Kurdistan Region 
are your strategic friends and allies, and we are looking forward to 
the continuation of your support. We share the same vision and 
objective, which is the establishment of democracy, human rights, 
justice, stability and the common interests of the people of the 
Region. 
 
Sincerely, 
Adnan Mufti 
Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly 
 
END TEXT 
 
SCOBEY