US embassy cable - 04MADRID3833

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NEW IRAQ EXECUTIVE ORDER

Identifier: 04MADRID3833
Wikileaks: View 04MADRID3833 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Madrid
Created: 2004-10-04 11:51:00
Classification: SECRET
Tags: PREL PTER KTFN SP Counterterrorism
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.


 
S E C R E T MADRID 003833 
 
SIPDIS 
 
PLEASE PASS TO EB/ESC, EUR/ERA, EUR/WE 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/01/2014 
TAGS: PREL, PTER, KTFN, SP, Counterterrorism 
SUBJECT: NEW IRAQ EXECUTIVE ORDER 
 
REF: (A) MADRID 03533 (B) STATE 194466 
 
Classified By: Whitney Baird, REASON 1.4 (B) and (D) 
 
(S) EconOff spoke on 10/1/04 with MFA SubDirector for the 
Near East, Alberto Moreno, re: the new Iraq Executive Order. 
Moreno said that the Order was "good".  However, the GOS does 
not plan at the moment to change and/or introduce legislation 
along the lines of the U.S. Iraq Executive Order.  Morenos 
said the GOS would welcome information from the U.S. on 
specific cases of Spain-related Iraq insurgency financing. 
He noted, however, that even with the "best will in the 
world", there was no "mechanism" in Spain to block financing 
for "insurgents", unless one could also show that said 
"insurgents" also supported and/or were terrorists.  He 
mentioned the example of Moqtada al Sadr, clearly an 
insurgent, but somebody the Iraqui government might want to 
include in a political settlement.  Morenos said his comments 
were the GOS position on the Iraq Executive Order. 
ARGYROS 

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