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Viewing cable 08KUWAIT48, GOK PROVIDES NEW ASSURANCE ON GTMO ON EVE OF POTUS

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08KUWAIT48 2008-01-10 20:18 2011-08-30 01:44 SECRET Embassy Kuwait
VZCZCXRO9044
PP RUEHDE RUEHDIR
DE RUEHKU #0048/01 0102018
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
P 102018Z JAN 08
FM AMEMBASSY KUWAIT
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0571
INFO RUEHZM/GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHYN/AMEMBASSY SANAA PRIORITY 0577
RHEHAAA/WHITE HOUSE WASHDC PRIORITY
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC PRIORITY
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S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 KUWAIT 000048 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2017 
TAGS: PREL PGOV KDRG PTER KU
SUBJECT: GOK PROVIDES NEW ASSURANCE ON GTMO ON EVE OF POTUS 
VISIT 
 
REF: A. KUWAIT 0012 
     B. 2007 KUWAIT 1651 
 
Classified By: CDA Misenheimer for reasons 1.4 b and d 
 
Summary and Comment 
------------------- 
 
1. (S/NF) The Kuwaiti message in para 3, delivered to Embassy 
Kuwait after-hours on the evening before President Bush's 
January 11 arrival, is a last-second GOK attempt to define a 
positive basis for discussion of the GTMO detainee question. 
It constitutes both an official response to the U.S. demarche 
delivered 20 November 2007 (which expressed U.S. concern over 
GOK laxity, including international travel by at least one 
former detainee (ref b)), and also the "clarification" of GOK 
measures to monitor and control transferred GTMO detainees 
promised to CDA by MFA U/S Jarallah on 31 December (ref a). 
The President's impending visit galvanized GOK attention on 
this issue after a six-week delay; but we are also aware that 
recrimination and finger-pointing among security and 
intelligence authorities delayed final clearance of the text 
over the past week. 
 
2. (S/NF) While Kuwaiti leaders understand that POTUS will 
not (as an op-ed piece suggested this week without humor) be 
bringing the four remaining Kuwaitis from Guantanamo aboard 
Air Force One, it is certain that the Amir will ask POTUS to 
transfer them.  He may assert that the President "promised" 
this to him in a previous meeting (as several senior GOK 
officials have repeated to us this week), and will certainly 
assert that the GOK has in place measures satisfying the U.S. 
requirement that transferred detainees not be permitted to 
become a threat.  As a basis for that assertion, this Kuwaiti 
presentation falls short.  Notably, it (a) promised, but does 
not provide, the requested update on all eight previously 
transferred detainees; and (b) fails to express any 
commitment to develop a program to re-educate and 
re-integrate GTMO detainees into society--as the Saudis and 
others in the region have done--despite having taken some 
tentative, initial steps in this direction. 
 
3. (S/NF) Some Kuwaiti commentators are calling for 
success/failure of the January 11-12 POTUS visit to be judged 
the degree of 'progress' concerning GTMO detainees.  While 
this theme has limited resonance with the Kuwaiti public, 
many MPs sympathize with such a view.  Accordingly, post 
recommends that the U.S. side (a) welcome this GOK message as 
a positive acknowledgment that Kuwait's own performance will 
be a key factor in any future transfer decision regarding the 
four Kuwaitis at GTMO; (b) stress the importance of both 
tighter control and improved transparency and information 
sharing on the eight previously transferred detainees (nb: 
Kuwaiti intelligence authorities became aware of a former 
detainee's travel outside Kuwait weeks before admitting it to 
U.S. counterparts); (c) express expectation that the promised 
status report on previously transferred detainees will be 
shared soon, and will be followed by periodic updates; (d) 
urge the Kuwaitis to create an effective program to 
rehabilitate detainees and other terrorist sympathizers; and 
(e) encourage GOK public statements that emphasize 
U.S.-Kuwait CT cooperation, including on the GTMO issue, and 
that refrain from making GTMO a litmus test.  End Summary and 
Comment. 
 
 
4.  (S/NF) Below is the text of the MFA dipnote with 
"clarifications" of the GOK policy regarding former GTMO 
detainees. 
 
Begin text: 
 
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveys its highest regards 
to Embassy of the United States and Kuwait and refers to the 
meeting between the Under Secretary and the Embassy's Charge 
d'Affaires on 20 November 2007, in which a paper from the 
Department of State was presented containing information on 
the presence of one of the former Kuwaiti detainees in 
Guantanamo, in addition to other inquiries regarding this 
subject. 
 
The Ministry is pleased to append below a clarification on 
the afore-mentioned subject. 
 
Complimentary opening. 
 
 
KUWAIT 00000048  002 OF 003 
 
 
Response of the Kuwaiti side 
to the paper presented by the American Embassy on 
20 November 2007 
 
With reference to the paper presented on behalf of the U.S. 
State Department containing a request for information on the 
measures adopted by the Kuwaiti side toward the eight 
citizens released from Camp Guantanamo and subsequent 
measures adopted by the Kuwaiti government regarding them 
based upon the pledges made to the U.S. Government's 
delegation that visited Kuwait in March 2007, and the several 
queries contained in the aforementioned paper which 
characterized the measures taken toward those who were 
transferred as "regrettable" and insufficient.  In the 
interest of furthering cooperation in this matter, the 
Ministry would point out the following explanations: 
 
One.  Regarding Saad Madhi Al-Azmi, who was reported by the 
Department of State as having left Kuwait and settled in 
Yemen: 
 
Follow-up on the aforementioned subject was conveyed by the 
security authorities in a meeting with an American Liaison 
Officer, who was provided with private information on the 
subject as follows: 
 
--In April 2007, an acquittal order was issued in the name of 
the aforementioned person in the case involving Guantanamo 
detainees (training and membership in terrorist groups 
abroad); and pursuant to the final judgment issued regarding 
him, the orders banning his travel were lifted.  As a 
security procedure on the part of the Kuwaiti side, the 
above-person's name and information were added to the 
surveillance and monitoring list. 
--More than one authority can take the decision to lift a 
travel ban (Ministry of Justice, Criminal Investigations 
Department, Kuwait State Security (KSS), the Department for 
the Implementation for Judicial Rulings).  It is the right of 
each authority, according to its jurisdiction, to enter or 
remove any person's name from the travel ban list according 
to the laws pertaining to each (authority). 
--In mid-July 2007, information came to light that the 
afore-mentioned person was in Yemen to visit his Yemeni wife. 
 It became known that he departed to the State of Qatar on 9 
July, 2007 and he left from there to Yemen. 
--In August 2007, KSS discussed that issue, and why he was 
there, with the U.S. Liaison Officer. 
--No information was available to the Kuwaiti side indicating 
that Saad Madhi Al-Azmi wanted to meet terrorists inside or 
outside of the country. A follow-up of his local activities 
remains underway. 
--The afore-mentioned subject came back to Kuwait from Yemen 
on 19 September 2007.  Based upon a previous agreement, the 
afore-mentioned subject and the other individuals transferred 
from Guantanamo were entered into the daily surveillance 
list. 
 
Two.   Regarding the U.S. Government's concern about the 
heightened security threat that transferring the others could 
pose, and the Government of Kuwait's commitment to take the 
necessary security measures: 
 
--We would like to state that the Government of Kuwait is 
committed to taking the necessary security measures to ensure 
security of the country for citizens and residents. 
According to previous meetings with U.S. Government 
representatives, the Government is committed to carrying out 
its commitment with regard to implementing security measures 
pertaining to those persons and maintaining security 
oversight over them. 
 
Three.  The U.S. Government's request to provide current 
whereabouts of the eight former detainees, including Saad 
Madhi Al-Azmi: 
 
--We would like to state that the former detainees are 
presently in the country and we will provide you with a 
report on their status at a later time, noting that one of 
the former detainees, Nasser Najr Balod Al-Mutairi, died of 
pulmonary disease subsequent to his transfer. 
 
Four.  The U.S. Government's request for a description of the 
additional measures that Kuwait will take to mitigate: 
1.  The security threat the former eight detainees pose. 
2.  The additional threat posed when the other four detainees 
are transferred. 
 
KUWAIT 00000048  003 OF 003 
 
 
 
--The concerned Kuwaiti authorities will provide the U.S. 
security authorities through their representative at the U.S. 
Embassy with any information on the eight citizens. 
--KSS will follow up on the activity of the four detainees 
who will be transferred to Kuwait.  The intentions of those 
detainees can be assessed after their return to the country 
and follow up with them to ascertain any desire on their part 
to return to any suspicious activity in the future. 
--Immediately upon receiving the four detainees who are now 
at Guantanamo Detention Camp, the investigative procedures 
and referral to the public prosecutor will begin, and they 
will be in custody for the duration of the trial.  They will 
be entered into the travel ban list for the duration of the 
trial and the pronouncement of final legal judgments with 
regard to them. 
--In case they are released, they will be subject to constant 
surveillance, the type and nature of which will vary as per 
the analysis and assessment of the officials in charge. 
 
End Text. 
 
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For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s 
 
Visit Kuwait's Classified Website: 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/ 
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MISENHEIMER