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Quote: WikiLeaks Shows the Skills of U.S. Diplomats Buzz up!16 votes Share retweet EmailPrint.. Play Video ABC News – Wikileaks Fallout: Clinton Repairs Relations . Play Video Video:Clinton in damage-control mode CBC.ca . AP – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov seen … By FAREED ZAKARIA Fareed Zakaria – Thu Dec 2, 3:15 am ET A remarkably broad consensus has formed that WikiLeaks' latest data dump is a diplomatic disaster for the U.S. While there are debates over how the Obama Administration should respond, everyone agrees that the revelations have weakened America. But have they? I don't deny for a moment that many of the "wikicables" are intensely embarrassing, but the sum total of the output I have read is actually quite reassuring about the way Washington - or at least the State Department - works. First, there is little deception. These leaks have been compared to the Pentagon papers. Which they are not. The Pentagon papers revealed that the U.S. engaged in a systematic campaign to deceive the world and the American people and that its private actions were often the opposite of its stated public policy. The WikiLeaks documents, by contrast, show Washington pursuing privately pretty much the policies it has articulated publicly. Whether on Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan or North Korea, the cables confirm what we know to be U.S. foreign policy. And often this foreign policy is concerned with broader regional security, not narrow American interests. Ambassadors are not caught pushing other countries in order to make deals secretly to strengthen the U.S., but rather to solve festering problems. (See the top 10 leaks.) The cables also show an American diplomatic establishment that is pretty good at analysis. The British scholar Timothy Garton Ash concurs, writing in the Guardian, "My personal opinion of the State Department has gone up several notches. [W]hat we find here is often first-rate." It is also often well wrought. The account of a wedding in Dagestan filed by William Burns, now the No. 3 person at the State Department, is - as Garton Ash writes - straight out of Evelyn Waugh. When foreigners encounter U.S. diplomats and listen to their bland recitation of policy, they would do well to keep in mind that behind the facade lie some very clever minds. The most significant revelations in the trove are those relating to Arab views of Iran. We now have official confirmation of something many of us have been saying for years: Arab regimes share Israel's concerns about a nuclear-armed Iran. In fact, since they do not have the massive nuclear deterrent that Israel possesses, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are probably even more nervous about an Iranian bomb. It's one thing to have diplomats expressing these sentiments in private, quite another to have the direct and explicit words of the King of Saudi Arabia. (See TIME's exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.) I understand that these revelations embarrass the Arab regimes, which publicly speak only of the Palestinian cause but privately plot against Iran. But why is that bad for the U.S.? The WikiLeaks data powerfully confirms the central American argument against Iran's programs: that they are a threat to regional stability and order, not merely to Washington's narrow interests. (Israel's Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu quickly pointed this out.) In fact, the simplest confirmation of the fallout can be found in Tehran's reaction to WikiLeaks. Alone among world leaders, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims that the documents were actually leaked by Washington. After all, they expose as an utter lie Ahmadinejad's constant claim that he has befriended all Arab states and that, if not for Washington, Iran would be beloved by all in the region. (How will WikiLeaks affect the U.S.' relationship with Germany?) If we're looking for bad government policies, perhaps the place to look is not in the cables but in the new data-sharing craze. The leaks are, in some ways, an unintended consequence of Washington's finally getting its information act together. For more than a decade, one often heard complaints that the U.S. government was a dinosaur in the information age. The 9/11 commission charged that various departments' computer systems could not share information. Well, the government solved that problem, allowing Defense Department computers to reach into the foreign service's cable traffic. (Comment on this story.) Turns out, that may not have been such a great idea, especially when this information-sharing ethos was taken one step further during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. "We should be providing soldiers with all the intelligence and information possible," the argument went (and no one can ever say no to the Pentagon in Washington). So we have ended up with a private at an Army base in Iraq able to download secret readouts of conversations between the Secretary of Defense and the French Foreign Minister. If Private Bradley Manning had not gone to WikiLeaks, he would have found some other outlet to disseminate the data. Our anger at WikiLeaks should not obscure the fact that it is Washington's absurd data-sharing policy that made this possible. That's the scandal here that needs fixing. See Pakistan's reaction to the WikiLeaks release. See the WikiLeaks lesson: deception par for the course in Mideast diplomacy. View this article on Time.com Most Popular on Time.com:

Quote: شبح اسمه ويكيليكس ,, ويكيليكس (Wikileaks، ومعناها "تسريبات الويكي") يعتبر موقع ويكيليكس -كما يقول القائمون عليه- موقعا للخدمة العامة مخصصا لحماية الأشخاص الذين يكشفون الفضائح والأسرار التي تنال من المؤسسات أو الحكومات الفاسدة، وتكشف كل الانتهاكات التي تمس حقوق الإنسان أينما وكيفما كانت. من أبرز القائمين على الموقع الناشط جوليان أسانغي. الاسم جاء من دمج كلمة "ويكي" والتي تعني الباص المتنقل مثل المكوك من وإلى مكان معين، وكلمة "ليكس" وتعني بالإنجليزية "التسريبات". تم تأسيس الموقع في يوليو 2007 وبدأ منذ ذلك الحين بالعمل على نشر المعلومات، وخوض الصراعات والمعارك القضائية والسياسية من أجل حماية المبادئ التي قام عليها، وأولها "صدقية وشفافية المعلومات والوثائق التاريخية وحق الناس في خلق تاريخ جديد". وانطلق الموقع بداية من خلال حوار بين مجموعة من الناشطين على الإنترنت من أنحاء متفرقة من العالم مدفوعين بحرصهم على احترام وحماية حقوق الإنسان ومعاناته، بدءا من قلة توفر الغذاء والرعاية الصحية والتعليم والقضايا الأساسية الأخرى. ومن هذا المنطلق، رأى القائمون علي الموقع أن أفضل طريقة لوقف هذه الانتهاكات هو كشفها وتسليط الضوء عليها. مؤسس الموقع جوليان أسانغي أهمية الموقع وتعود أهمية الموقع في كشف الأسرار بالعديد من القضايا ذات البعد الإنساني، منها على سبيل المثال -كما تقول الصفحة الرئيسية للموقع- الأعداد الحقيقية للمصابين بمرض الملاريا الذي يقتل في أفريقيا على سبيل المثال مائة شخص كل ساعة. الأسترالي جوليان أسانغ يعد أحد مؤسسي موقع ويكيليكس (الفرنسية) ويؤكد القائمون على الموقع أن أهمية ما يسربونه من معلومات تفيد في كشف سوء الإدارة والفساد بالدول التي تعاني من هذه الأزمات كالملاريا مثلا، لأن الدواء متوفر لمعالجة هذا المرض. ويعتمد الموقع في أغلبية مصادره على أشخاص يوفرون له المعلومات اللازمة من خلال الوثائق التي يكشفونها، ومن أجل حماية مصادر المعلومات يتبع موقع ويكيليكس إجراءات معينة منها وسائل متطورة في التشفير تمنع أي طرف من الحصول على معلومات تكشف المصدر الذي وفر تلك التسريبات. ويتم تلقي المعلومات إما شخصيا أو عبر البريد، كما يحظى ويكيليكس بشبكة من المحامين وناشطين آخرين للدفاع عن المواد المنشورة ومصادرها التي لا يمكن -متى نشرت على صفحة الموقع- مراقبتها أو منعها. وسبق لويكيليكس أن حصل على حكم قضائي من المحكمة العليا بالولايات المتحدة التي برأته من أي مخالفة، عندما نشر ما بات يعرف باسم أوراق البنتاغون التي كشفت العديد من الأسرار حول حرب فيتنام. القضاء بيد أن الموقع وفي الوقت ذاته لا يطرح على قرائه آمالا مبالغا فيها، إذ يعترف بأن ما يقوم من نشر لمعلومات هامة ودقيقة قد لا تؤدي في عدة مناسبات إلى تحويل المسؤولين إلى القضاء ومحاسبتهم على ما ارتكبوه من أخطاء، فضلا عن أن تقدير ذلك يعود نهاية المطاف للقضاء وليس الإعلام. لكن هذا لا يمنع -كما يقول القائمون على ويكيليكس -الصحفيين والناشطين والمعنيين من استخدام معلومات ينشرها الموقع للبحث والتقصي للوصول إلى حقيقة الأمر، وبالتالي يمكن لاحقا تحويل المسألة إلى قضية ينظر فيها القضاء. وقد خلق هذا الواقع إشكاليات كبيرة بالنسبة لويكيليكس لجهة حجبه بالعديد من الدول وعلى رأسها الصين، لكنه نجح في وضع عناوين بديلة يمكن من خلالها الوصول إلى صفحته وقراءة محتوياتها بفضل إمكانيات التشفير التي يوظفها خبراء لصالح منع حجب الموقع. تدقيق الوثائق يتم التدقيق في الوثائق والمستندات باستخدام طرق علمية متطورة للتأكد من صحتها وعدم تزويرها، لكن القائمين على الموقع يقرون بأن هذا لا يعني أن التزوير قد لا يجد طريقه إلى بعض الوثائق. وانطلاقا من هذه المقولة، يرى أصحاب ويكيليكس أن أفضل طريقة للتمييز بين المزور والحقيقي لا يتمثل بالخبراء فقط بل بعرض المعلومات على الناس وتحديدا المعنيين مباشرة بالأمر. وتتم عملية النشر بطريقة بسيطة حيث لا يحتاج الشخص سوى تحميل الوثيقة التي يريد عرضها وتحديد اللغة والبلد ومنشأ الوثيقة قبل أن تذهب هذه المعلومات لتقويم من قبل خبراء متخصصين، وتتوفر فيها شروط النشر المطلوبة. وعند حصولها على الضوء الأخضر، يتم توزيع الوثيقة على مزودات خدمة احتياطية داعمة.المصدر : الجزيرة. وفي فبراير 2008 قام مصرف سويسري برفع دعوى على ويكيليكس في أميركا بعد أن نشر ويكيليكس مزاعم عن أنشطة غير مشروعة للمصرف في جزر كيمان. وقد نتج عن هذه القضية حظر استخدام اسم النطاق wikileaks.org، لكن الموقع تحايل على هذا باستخدام أسماء نطاقات أخرى مثلhttp://wikileaks.be. هذا مع الإشارة إلى صعوبة منع الموقع من الصدور على الإنترنت نظرا لتوزعه في مناطق متفرقة. الاخبار الجديدة عن ويكيليس -- تعرض موقع "ويكيليكس", الشهير بنشره وثائق سرية, مساء الثلاثاء إلى عملية قرصنة إلكترونية جديدة هي الثانية في غضون يومين عقب نشره نحو ربع مليون برقية دبلوماسية أميركية. وتتعلق التسريبات بـ 251 ألفا و287 وثيقة أرسلها دبلوماسيون أميركيون إلى واشنطن و8 ألاف مذكرة أرسلتها الحكومة الأميركية إلى السفارات، تعود للفترة ما بين عام 2004 ونهاية شباط 2010. -- -- اعلنت الشرطة الدولية (الانتربول) الثلاثاء انها اصدرت مذكرة توقيف دولية (مذكرة حمراء) بحق جوليان اسانج مؤسس موقع ويكيليكس المطلوب في السويد في إطار تحقيق بتهمة "الاغتصاب والاعتداء الجنسي". واتهم بعض مؤيدي اسانج جهات لم يسموها بافتعال قضية الاغتصاب لوقف نشاطه في مجال كشف وثائق سرية. غير ان محامي اسانج لم يتبعوا هذا الخط بل اعتبروا انه لا يجدر بالنائب العام السويدي طلب توقيفه لمجرد استجوابه اذ انه اقترح مرارا تحديد موعد لذلك. -- -- نشر موقع «ويكيليكس» أن المرشد الأعلى للجمهورية الإسلامية في إيران، آية الله علي خامنئي، يعاني من مرض سرطان الدم في مراحله النهائية، وقد يؤدي إلى «وفاته خلال أشهر». وأن الرئيس الإيراني الأسبق علي أكبر هاشمي رفسنجاني يخطط لأن يحل محله. كما أورد الموقع وثيقة كشفت عن أن الاستخبارات الكندية أجرت اتصالات عام 2008 بوزارة الاستخبارات والأمن الإيرانية بناء على طلب الأخيرة التي عرضت تقديم مساعدة في أفغانستان. وجاء ذلك بينما جددت الجمهورية الإسلامية تأكيداتها بأن علاقاتها مع دول الجوار لن تتأثر بالوثائق السرية، ودعت إيران دول المنطقة إلى «عدم الوقوع في الفخ» بتصديقها.

Quote: LONDON – A British judge sent Julian Assange to jail on Tuesday, denying bail to the WikiLeaks founder after Assange vowed to fight efforts to be extradited to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation. Despite Assange's legal troubles, a WikiLeaks spokesman insisted the flow of secret U.S. diplomatic cables would not be affected. He also downplayed efforts to constrict the group's finances after both Visa and MasterCard cut off key funding methods Tuesday. "This will not change our operation," spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson told The Associated Press. As if to underline the point, WikiLeaks released a dozen new diplomatic cables, its first publication in more than 24 hours, including the details of a NATO defense plan for Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that prompted an indignant response from the Russian envoy to the alliance. Assange turned himself in to Scotland Yard on Tuesday morning, and was sent to the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in the early afternoon. He showed no reaction as Judge Howard Riddle denied him bail and sent him to jail until his next extradition hearing on Dec. 14. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, visiting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. troops in Afghanistan, was pleased to hear that Assange had been arrested. "That sounds like good news to me," he said Tuesday. Riddle asked the 39-year-old Australian whether he understood that he could agree to be extradited to Sweden. Assange, dressed in a navy blue suit, cleared his throat and said: "I understand that and I do not consent." The judge said he had grounds to believe that the former computer hacker — a self-described homeless refugee — might not show up to his next hearing if he were granted bail. Arguments during the hour-long hearing detailed the sex accusations against Assange, all of which he has denied. Attorney Gemma Lindfield, acting on behalf of the Swedish authorities, outlined one allegation of rape, two allegations of molestation and one of unlawful coercion stemming from Assange's separate sexual encounters in August with two women in Sweden. Lindfield said one woman accused Assange of pinning her down and refusing to use a condom on the night of Aug. 14 in Stockholm. That woman also accused of Assange of molesting her in a way "designed to violate her sexual integrity" several days later. A second woman accused Assange of having sex with her without a condom while she was asleep at her Stockholm home. Assange's lawyers have claimed the accusations stem from a "dispute over consensual but unprotected sex" and say the women only made the claims after finding out about each other's relationships with Assange. WikiLeaks lawyer Mark Stephens says the case has taken on political overtones — a claim Swedish officials have rejected. Legally, there is a good chance Assange will be heading to Sweden. Experts say European arrest warrants like the one issued by Sweden can be tough to beat, barring mental or physical incapacity. Even if the warrant were defeated on a technicality, Sweden could simply issue a new one. Assange's Swedish lawyer Bjorn Hurtig said it was difficult to say how long the extradition process in Britain would take, but it could be anywhere from a week to two months. It was not publicly known where Assange was being held, since British police never reveal that for privacy and security reasons. Some prisoners occasionally get Internet access, although only under close monitoring. Meanwhile, Stephens said he would reapply for bail, noting that several prominent Britons — including socialite Jemima Khan and filmmaker Ken Loach — had each offered to pay 20,000 pounds ($31,500) as surety so Assange could go free. WikiLeaks, meanwhile, came under increasing financial pressure Tuesday. Collecting individual donations — the mainstay of its operations — became more difficult after credit card companies said they would refuse to process donations to the site. Visa Inc. said it would "suspend Visa payment acceptance on WikiLeaks' website pending further investigation into the nature of its business and whether it contravenes Visa operating rules." MasterCard said it would suspend payments "until the situation is resolved." PayPal Inc., a popular online payment service, has already cut its links to the website, while Swiss authorities closed Assange's new Swiss bank account on Monday, freezing tens of thousands of euros, according to his lawyers. WikiLeaks is still soliciting donations through bank transfers to affiliates in Iceland and Germany, as well as by mail to an address at University of Melbourne in Australia. As WikiLeaks has come under legal, financial and technological attack, an online army of supporters has come to its aid, sending donations, fighting off computer attacks and setting up over 500 mirror sites around the world to make sure that the secret documents are published regardless of what happens to the organization. Hrafnsson, the WikiLeaks spokesman, said the group had no plans yet to carry through on its threat to release the key to a heavily encrypted version of some of the most sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables — an "insurance" file that has been distributed to supporters and news media in case of an emergency. Beginning in July, WikiLeaks angered the U.S. government by releasing tens of thousands of secret U.S. military documents on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, it began a rolling release of what WikiLeaks says are a quarter-million cables from U.S. diplomatic posts around the world. The group provided those documents to five major newspapers, which have been working with WikiLeaks to edit the cables for publication, and has been sharing subsets of the cache with other publications in recent days. The U.S. government has launched a criminal investigation, saying the group has jeopardized U.S. national security and diplomatic efforts around the world. __ Associated Press Writer Gillian Smith contributed to this report.

Quote: ¶3. (C) In response to Senator Kerry's query about the situation in Sudan, Mubarak said the issue was not discussed publicly at the AU summit. He also said "this issue could have been worked out" if it were not debated so publicly because "two tribes always work things out." Mubarak noted Egypt's attempts to "try and help the (Sudanese) people" through the Egyptian hospital in Sudan and the efforts of EGIS Director Omar Suleiman to advise on North-South negotiations.

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin 09KHARTOUM881 2009-07-29 14:02 2010-12-09 21:09 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Khartoum VZCZCXRO9313PP RUEHBC RUEHBZ RUEHDE RUEHDH RUEHDU RUEHKUK RUEHMR RUEHPA RUEHRNRUEHROV RUEHTRODE RUEHKH #0881/01 2101442ZNY CCCCC ZZHP 291442Z JUL 09FM AMEMBASSY KHARTOUMTO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4161INFO RUEHZO/AFRICAN UNION COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEHEE/ARAB LEAGUE COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUCNFUR/DARFUR COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUCNIAD/IGAD COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEHGG/UN SECURITY COUNCIL COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEHKI/AMEMBASSY KINSHASA PRIORITY 0100RHMFISS/CJTF HOA PRIORITYRUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC PRIORITY 0291<<218634>>7/29/2009 14:4209KHARTOUM881Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIAL09KHARTOUM378VZCZCXRO9313PP RUEHBC RUEHBZ RUEHDE RUEHDH RUEHDU RUEHKUK RUEHMR RUEHPA RUEHRNRUEHROV RUEHTRODE RUEHKH #0881/01 2101442ZNY CCCCC ZZHP 291442Z JUL 09FM AMEMBASSY KHARTOUMTO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4161INFO RUEHZO/AFRICAN UNION COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEHEE/ARAB LEAGUE COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUCNFUR/DARFUR COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUCNIAD/IGAD COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEHGG/UN SECURITY COUNCIL COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEHKI/AMEMBASSY KINSHASA PRIORITY 0100RHMFISS/CJTF HOA PRIORITYRUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC PRIORITY 0291TAGS: ASEC PINS PREL PINR EFIN KE MARR SU UNSC UGSUBJECT: GOK/GOSS AGREE ON TI####BLE FOR SECOND TANK REF: KHARTOUM 00378C o n f i d e n t i a l section 01 of 02 khartoum 000881SipdisDept for se gration, s/usses, af a/s carson, af/ensc for mgavindept pls pass usaid for afr/sudanaddis ababa also for auE.o. 12958: decl: 07/28/2019Tags: asec, pins, prel, pinr, efin, ke, marr, su, unsc, ug,cfSubject: gok/goss agree on ti####ble for second tankshipmentRef: khartoum 00378Classified By: CDA Robert Whitehead for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d)¶1. (C) GOSS xxxxxxxxxxxx has admitted that, onthe margins of the Washington "Forum for CPA Partners," hepressed Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula on the needto expedite delivery to South Sudan of tanks off-loaded fromthe MV Faina. Three months had passed since Nairobiinitially agreed -- albeit in a staggered fashion and onlyunder cover of darkness -- to ship the SPLA its second orderof tanks (REFTEL Khartoum 00378). According to xxxxxxxxxxxx uponxxxxxxxxxxxx instruction he told the Kenyan ForMin that if thetanks did not start moving by Juli's end, the GOSS would beforced to "reevaluate its relationship with Nairobi. Despitesuch threats, xxxxxxxxxxxx maintained that the meeting was largelypositive. "The Kenyans are relieved that we will be routingthem through Uganda -- keeping them out of the spotlight."¶2. (C) Asked whether he was any more confident of actualdelivery, given how earlier promises from the Kenyans hadvaporized, xxxxxxxxxxxx responded in the affirmative. xxxxxxxxxxxx andnewly-appointed xxxxxxxxxxxx had met inNairobi as xxxxxxxxxxxx returned from Washington to again discuss thetransfer with Kenyan Department of Defense counterparts. "Weare certain that this time they will move." xxxxxxxxxxxx furtherconfirmed that weapons, armaments, and the spare parts andsupport packages for the T-72 tanks had already been movedout of Nairobi into Sudan's South, although he would notdivulge their location. xxxxxxxxxxxx¶3. (C) xxxxxxxxxxxx optimism appears to be merited. xxxxxxxxxxxxtravelled to Kampala xxxxxxxxxxxx in order to meet with Ugandan counterparts on unspecifiedbusiness. xxxxxxxxxxxx remains anintegral member of the SPLA's tank procurement team, despitethe SPLA's May reshuffle which pushed him into the xxxxxxxxxxxx. SPLA Affairs Minister Nhial Deng Nhialadmitted to A/CG xxxxxxxxxxxx had been grantedextraordinary authorities to handle the totality of theSPLA's outstanding contracts in order to ensure the circle ofthose involved in the tank procurement remained small "forobvious security reasons." xxxxxxxxxxxx Thedecision to extend such authorities xxxxxxxxxxxxwould appear to indicate the entire "adminstrative chain" ofthe SPLA has been shielded from the decision. END COMMENT).At a July 23 farewell dinner, xxxxxxxxxxxx confirmed the Kenyans hadbegun trans-shipment of tanks to Uganda, but could not speakto when they would arrive in the South.¶4. (C) Per reftel, the SPLA is dependent on Nairobiconcurrence to authorize the third and final shipment ofJuba's 2006 tanks purchase. xxxxxxxxxxxx maintained in mid-July thatNairobi, facing increasing pressure from Khartoum, continuedto resist green-lighting the shipment. Notwithstandingxxxxxxxxxxxx contention that the Juba/Nairobi bilateralrelationship was weathering the tank-shipment "stand-off,"there is growing vidence to the contrary.¶5. (C) xxxxxxxxxxxx that she had access todocuments pertaining to a pending bank transfer linked to anunspecified SPLA procurement initiative worth $34 million.According to the contractor, past SPLA contracts consistentlyincluded routing information for banks to Kenya. Thiscontract did not -- a first in this individual's tenure withthe Finance Ministry. (NOTE: The contractor further advisedthat the contract would drive SPLA finances into the red;unless the SPLA saw a budget increase next fiscal year, theSPLA would be without financing until April 2010 if thiscontract moved forward. END NOTE.) As of July 24, thecontractor did not believe this SPLA contract had goneforward in the Finance Ministry's internal approval process.Khartoum 00000881 002 of 002(COMMENT: We are not sure that the contractor would be privyto information regarding this contract's approval, however,and think it possible that, given Finance Minister David DengAthorbei's failed attempts to purchase attack helicopters forthe SPLA out of Ministry of Roads and Transport monies inNovember 2008, he might be sympathetic to other SPLAprocurement requests despite current GOSS budgeting woes. ENDcomment).¶6. (C) Comment. Despite extensive coverage of the tankpurchases and delivery in local and internationl media, theSPLM continues to treat the matter as a secret matter,perhaps as a concession to Kenyan sensitivities. Theexistence of the tanks, however, is one of the least secretsecrets in Khartoum.Whitehead...

Quote: Viewing cable 09KHARTOUM249, SUDAN COMPLAINS OF “PROBABLY AMERICAN” BOMBING 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. #09KHARTOUM249. Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin 09KHARTOUM249 2009-02-24 10:10 2010-12-06 21:09 SECRET//NOFORN Embassy Khartoum O 241054Z FEB 09FM AMEMBASSY KHARTOUMTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3064S E C R E T KHARTOUM 000249 NOFORN DEPARTMENT FOR AF A A/S CARTER, AF/SPG, NEA/IPA, ISN/CATR, NSC FOR MGAVIN AND CHUDSON EO 12958 DECL: 02/24/2019 TAGS ETTC, MASS, PARM, PGOV, PREL, SU SUBJECT: SUDAN COMPLAINS OF “PROBABLY AMERICAN” BOMBING ATTACKS IN EASTERN SUDANREF: A. KHARTOUM 120 B. KHARTOUM 107 C. KHARTOUM 82 D. KHARTOUM 59Classified By: CDA Alberto M. Fernandez for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).¶1. (S) CDA Fernandez was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on the morning of February 24 by Americas Department head Ambassador Nasreddin Wali. Wali said that he had sensitive and worrisome information to relate to the Charge. Reading from hand-written notes in Arabic and referring to a large dog-eared map brought in for the occasion, Wali said that there had been two air attacks on Eastern Sudan in January and February. In the January attack, 43 people were killed and 17 vehicles destroyed. This occurred near Magd, in the Gebeit region of Red Sea state, “the Northern part of an area known as Oku” (phonetic). It is roughly at the latitude of 17 degrees and longitude of 33.5, according to Wali.¶2. (S) The second attack occurred on February 20 at Bir al-Mansurab (latitude of 17 degrees and longitude of 34, according to Wali). The second attack was 15 kilometers from the site of the January attack. In the February attack, 45 Sudanese were kalled and 14 vehicles destroyed. Both attacks occurred 150 kilometers deep inside Sudan, not near any international border.¶3. (S) Wali said that “we assume that the planes that attacked us are your planes.” He said that Sudan has had “tight cooperation” with the United States on security matters and any concerns that the USG has about security related issues can be raised within the context of bilateral diplomatic and intelligence relations between the two countries. He added that “Sudan would like to have clarification about this matter. We protest this act and we condemn it. Sudan reserves the right to respond appropriately, at the right time, in a legal manner consistent with protecting its sovereignty.”¶4. (S) Comment: This complaint by Sudan comes on the heels of the Embassy being tasked by Washington to demarche Khartoum on weapons smuggling issues possibly involving Iran and Hamas (reftels a-c). So it is easy for the regime to assume that the demarches and these kinetic incidents are somehow connected. The initial attack is already the object of gossip by elements of Sudan’s political elite, even outside the tight confines of the regime’s inner circle (reftel d). CDA had already scheduled an Emergency Action Committee meeting on February 24 to discuss the Embassy’s security posture in the runup to the March 4 ICC announcement and this latest news is an additional concern in a very volatile political environment. Embassy requests Washington guidance on what - if any - formal response should be given to the Sudanese. And should this potentially explosive story somehow leak to the sensationalistic Sudanese press, it could very well turn our security situation here from bad to worse. End comment.FERNANDEZ

Quote: 15. (S/NF) Egypt views the stability and unity of Sudan as essential to its national security because of concern over its access to Nile waters and the potential for increased Sudanese refugee flows. The GOE is using development assistance in South Sudan to encourage unity. Here too, the Egyptians are jealous and sensitive to the Qatari foray into resolving Darfur, a crisis squarely in Egypt’s backyard. Mubarak may ask about the potential for cooperation with the U.S. on Sudan and will probably want to hear how the Administration will approach the issue. If he agrees, Mubarak can use his stature and credibility with Bashir to make progress on Darfur and human rights issues.

Quote: Sudan: He will highlight Egypt’s role as provider of humanitarian and military assistance, and stress the need to maintain stability.