US embassy cable - 03ANKARA7727

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Identifier:	03ANKARA7727
Wikileaks:	View 03ANKARA7727 at Wikileaks.org
Origin:	Embassy Ankara
Created:	2003-12-17 11:45:00
Classification:	SECRET
Tags:	EFIN ETTC PREL PTER TU
Redacted:	This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.

S E C R E T ANKARA 007727 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR EB/ESC/TFS (GGLASS), S/CT (TNAVRATIL), 
EUR/SE, EUR/PPG (LREASOR), IO/PHO (APEREZ), NSC (GPETERS), 
TREASURY GENERAL COUNSEL (DAUFHAUSER), OFAC DIRECTOR 
(RNEWCOMB), TREASURY (JZARATE) 
 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/15/2013 
TAGS: EFIN, ETTC, PREL, PTER, TU 
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE: POST VETTING 
 
 
REF: STATE 341277 
 
 
(U) Classified by DCM Robert Deutsch. Reasons: 1.5(b) & (d). 
 
 
(S/NF) From the U.S. point of view, we have no difficulty 
designating IBDA-C, based on activities several years old 
with the leadership still in Turkish jails but with a loose 
group of supporters with questionable capabilities at large. 
If we proceed to designate IBDA-C, there may also be grounds 
to consider designating Turkish Hizbullah. However,we also 
note the following: First, Post does not have, and considers 
it unlikely that it can obtain, any documentary information 
establishing that IBDA-C was responsible for the Istanbul 
bombings of 20 November. Second, IBDA-C's claimed 
responsibility for the bombings is simply not credible at 
this point in the investigation. Third, the GOT may find a 
great deal of irony in the EU's designation of IBDA-C, given 
the EU's failure to designate KADEK and the various other 
aliases of PKK, which GOT (rightfully) considers a far more 
dangerous organization. 
EDELMAN