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Viewing cable 08MANAMA449, BAHRAIN NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO BAGHDAD

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08MANAMA449 2008-07-08 14:04 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Manama 
VZCZCXRO1922
OO RUEHBC RUEHDA RUEHDE RUEHIHL RUEHKUK
DE RUEHMK #0449 1901404
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 081404Z JUL 08
FM AMEMBASSY MANAMA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7977
INFO RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0115
RHBVAKS/COMUSNAVCENT  PRIORITY
RHMFIUU/HQ USCENTCOM MACDILL AFB FL PRIORITY
 
UNCLAS MANAMA 000449 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
BAGHDAD FOR TUELLER AND ERELI 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PINR IZ BA
SUBJECT: BAHRAIN NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO BAGHDAD 
 
 1.  (SBU)  Ambassador Saeed Al-Faihani, an advisor to 
Bahrain's Foreign Minister, confirmed to Charge an al Jazeera 
report that Bahrain had nominated an ambassador to Iraq. 
Faihani said the GOB requested Iraq's agrement July 7 for 
Salah Ali Al-Maliki.  Faihani said al-Maliki works in the 
ministry's international organizations department, and 
recently returned from a two-year tour in New York. 
 
2.  (SBU) A former MFA colleague of Maliki's described him to 
poloff as a Sunni, in his mid-thirties, and married to a 
Qatari woman who lives in Qatar with their two children. 
 
3.  (SBU)  In recent weeks, the MFA has offered the job to at 
least three others, who declined.  One was Saeed Al-Majed, 
foreign affairs director for the opposition (Shi'a) Wifaq 
party.  Bahrain's last chief of mission in Baghdad, CDA 
Hassan Malallah Al-Ansari, was withdrawn after being injured 
in a July, 2005 attack. 
 
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Visit Embassy Manama's Classified Website: 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/manama/ 
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HENZEL