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| Identifier: | 03ABUDHABI3856 |
|---|---|
| Wikileaks: | View 03ABUDHABI3856 at Wikileaks.org |
| Origin: | Embassy Abu Dhabi |
| Created: | 2003-08-23 11:38:00 |
| Classification: | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN |
| Tags: | KPRP PINR PGOV PINS PNAT PREL IZ TC |
| Redacted: | This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks. |
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Diana T Fritz 03/21/2007 11:30:51 AM From DB/Inbox: Search Results
Cable
Text:
CONFIDENTIAL
SIPDIS
TELEGRAM August 23, 2003
To: No Action Addressee
Action: Unknown
From: AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI (ABU DHABI 3856 - PRIORITY)
TAGS: PINR, PGOV, PINS, PNAT, PREL, KPRP
Captions: None
Subject: UAEG DENIES BANKROLLING IRAQI SUNNI CLERIC AHMED
AL-KUBAYSI
Ref: None
_________________________________________________________________
C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 03856
SIPDIS
CXABU:
ACTION: POL
INFO: AMB RSO P/M ECON DCM
DISSEMINATION: POL
CHARGE: PROG
APPROVED: CDA:RAALBRIGHT
DRAFTED: POL:JFMAYBURY
CLEARED: POL/MIL:SYORK
VZCZCADI676
PP RUEHC RUEKJCS RUCNRAQ RHMFISS RHEHNSC RUEAIIA
RHEFDIA RUCJACC
DE RUEHAD #3856 2351138
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P 231138Z AUG 03
FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1386
INFO RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC//OSD/NESA// PRIORITY
RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RHMFISS/HQ COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTH BAGHDAD PRIORITY
RUCJACC/USCINCCENT MACDILL AFB FL//POLAD/CCJ2/CCJ5// PRIORITY
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHINGTON DC
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHINGTON DC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 003856 SIPDIS NOFORN STATE FOR INR/NESA, NEA/ARP AND NEA/NGA E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/23/03 TAGS: KPRP, PINR, PGOV, PINS, PNAT, PREL, IZ, TC SUBJECT: UAEG DENIES BANKROLLING IRAQI SUNNI CLERIC AHMED AL-KUBAYSI REF: ABU DHABI 2654 1. (U) Classified by Richard A. Albright, Charge d'Affaires, a.i., for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) UAE Information Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan denied that his government was financing Iraqi Sunni cleric Ahmed Al-Kubaysi. In an August 19 meeting with Charge and Polchief, Sheikh Abdullah said it was possible that some individuals in the UAE were giving money to Al- Kubaysi, but he doubted that those amounts totaled more than a "couple of hundreds of thousands of dollars." The discussion about Al-Kubaysi came a day after the English-language daily Gulf News reprinted a Washington Post article about Al- Kubaysi allegedly providing an anti-American Shiite cleric in Iraq, Moqtada Sadr, with $50 million. 3. (C) Aside from denying any UAEG financial involvement with Al-Kubaysi, Sheikh Abdullah said his government was prepared to speak with the Sunni cleric if his sermons are causing problems for Coalition efforts in Iraq. As reported in reftel, Emirati leaders promoted Al-Kubaysi early on, hopeful that he would help curb Iranian influence and, conversely, serve as a unifying force for Iraqi Sunni and Shi'a. Following his strident April 18 sermon at the Abu Hanifa Mosque in Baghdad, and our expressions of concern, the UAEG intervened to get Al-Kubaysi to moderate his message. 4. (C) Charge said we would welcome UAEG intervention with Kubaysi. In a separate conversation Polchief had August 20 on the same topic with Yousef Al-Otaiba, an assistant to UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (MbZ), Al-Otaiba said he checked his sources and came up with the same answer. "There is absolutely no UAEG institution supporting Al-Kubaysi." Al-Otaiba added that MbZ doubted that Sadr is as influential as portrayed in the Washington Post article (originally dated August 17). ALBRIGHT
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