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### Viewing cable 06KABUL5855, PRT CHAGHCHARAN: PLAN AFOOT TO WITHDRAW ICELANDIC

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    DE RUEHBUL #5855/01 3490717
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    R 150717Z DEC 06
    FM AMEMBASSY KABUL
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4901
    INFO RHEHAAA/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC
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    RHEFDIA/DIA WASHINGTON DC
    RUEKJCS/OSD WASHINGTON DC
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    UNCLAS KABUL 005855

    SIPDIS

    SENSITIVE
    SIPDIS

    STATE FOR SCA/FO (DAS GASTRIGHT), SCA/A
    STATEPASS TO USAID FOR AID/ANE, AID/CDHA/DG
    NSC FOR HARRIMAN
    OSD FOR KIMMITT
    CENTCOM FOR CG CFC-A, CG CJTF-76, POLAD

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PREL MARR AF IC PGOV
    SUBJECT: PRT CHAGHCHARAN: PLAN AFOOT TO WITHDRAW ICELANDIC
    MOBILE LIAISON OBSERVATION TEAM FROM CHAGHCHARAN PRT?

    ¶1.  (U) This cable contains and action request -- see para 7.

    ¶2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Reports are circulating at PRT Chaghcharan
    that the Icelandic government may be preparing to withdraw
    the Icelandic Mobile Patrol Team (Mobile Liaison Observation
    Team/MLOT) from Afghanistan at the end of April.  Because of
    its makeup, special equipment, and experience driving in the
    kind of harsh terrain found in Ghor province, the Icelandic
    team has been especially effective in conducting patrols.
    Moreover, through its reliability, efforts to pass on skills
    to other patrol units, and unique rescue capability, the
    Icelanders have made the PRT as a whole much more effective.
    Because of the potentially serious consequences for PRT
    Chaghcharan, Post suggests Department intervene with
    Icelandic authorities to underscore the value we attach to
    the work of the Icelandic MLOT team and request its mission
    be extended.  END SUMMARY.

    ¶3. (SBU) U.S. PolRep in Chaghcharan recently learned from the
    PRT,s Icelandic development officer that her government may
    withdraw the Icelandic Mobile Liaison Observation Team (MLOT)
    at the end of April 2007, when the current MOU with the
    Lithuanian government runs out.  When questioned about this,
    the head of the Icelandic MLOT confirmed the report.  His
    team will rotate out in February, and its successor is
    scheduled to remain only two months, instead of the usual
    four.  Speculation at PRT Chaghcharan is that the new
    Icelandic foreign minister may be looking to remove the issue
    of Iceland's &military8 mission in Afghanistan in advance
    of upcoming national elections and so may be considering
    replacing the MLOT with police trainers to give the mission a
    more civilian face or redefining the MLOT,s mission as
    solely to support development activities.

    ¶4. (SBU) The prospect of Iceland withdrawing or redefining
    its MLOT raises serious concerns for us.  The Lithuanian PRT
    commander shares our concerns and is anxious for the
    Icelandic team to continue in its present form.  Certainly
    the Lithuanians, Croats, and Danes all conduct valuable
    patrols in their assigned districts, but the Icelandic team
    is unique in the resources and skills it brings to its
    designated patrols.  The Icelanders, and only the Icelanders,
    have truly all-weather vehicles (Nissan Patrols) capable of
    operating throughout mountainous and often snow-bound Ghor.
    They alone have the 388 (summer) and 448 (winter) tires
    that allow the vehicles to handle the province's extremely
    rough terrain (there are no paved roads anywhere in Ghor).
    The Icelanders are particularly adept at using their GPS and
    onboard laptops to chart their course, allowing them to
    travel without difficulty even at night.  The makeup of their
    team, consisting of &civilian specialists,8 also gives them
    special advantages.  The current team, for example, includes
    two counter-terrorism policemen, a search and rescue worker,
    skilled drivers, a paramedic, and a mechanic (who
    participates in the patrols).  The result to date has been
    remarkable reliability for the team's missions, and
    particularly valuable and insightful reporting.

    ¶5. (SBU) Beyond the value they add through their patrols,
    however, the Icelanders contribute in unique ways to the PRT
    as a whole )- something that causes us to be especially
    concerned at the prospect of their departure.  A major
    problem for all the other patrols is a lack of experience at
    driving under the harsh mountain conditions of Ghor.  The
    Icelanders suggest the terrain in Ghor resembles in many
    respects the conditions they face at home.  Unlike the other
    elements, the Icelandic team is used to off-road driving up
    steep inclines and fording rivers.  Importantly, they make
    every effort to pass on to the other elements their special
    driving skills.  (The Icelanders in Chaghcharan argue that
    turning over their vehicles to other PRT elements at the end
    of April, as some in Reykjavik appear to be suggesting, would
    result in a waste of the major investment Iceland has made in
    bringing the vehicles to Afghanistan because, without the
    corresponding special driving skills and ride-along mechanic,
    they predict the vehicles would soon become as vulnerable to

    problems as the rest of the PRT's vehicle fleet.)  Moreover,
    with winter just now settling in, the Icelanders have already
    had occasion to rescue other units, stranded vehicles, and
    as conditions worsen, they have been paired up increasingly
    with other units as a safeguard )- a bit to the frustration
    of the Icelanders themselves.

    ¶6. (SBU) Both the PRT,s Icelandic development officer and
    MLOT chief express frustration that the message of the MLOT's
    true mission does not appear to be getting back to the public
    at home (a major Icelandic newspaper reportedly declined to
    publish an account of the MLOT's work written by a former
    team chief).  To characterize the Icelandic MLOT as a
    &military8 mission is largely a misnomer, they insist.  The
    team's rules of engagement do not allow it to participate in
    combat except in self-defense, its members are not part of
    the PRT,s quick response force, and they do not perform
    guard duty.  The Icelandic MLOT chief characterizes his
    unit's real mission as to give the people of its assigned
    districts a greater sense of security by its presence, to
    find out their needs, concerns, and ideas, and to feed these
    back into the reconstruction effort.  He acknowledges that
    Iceland has the resources to contribute to the PRT's effort
    in Ghor in many ways, be it with its police trainers, health
    care workers, or engineers; but, he argues, the core mission
    of the PRT is performing patrols and his team does them
    uniquely well and makes an all but irreplaceable contribution
    to enabling the other elements to perform theirs effectively
    too.  Whatever else Iceland might decide to contribute, he is
    distraught at the potential discarding of what he sees as a
    mission genuinely helpful to Afghanistan and its ultimate
    development.  Both we and the PRT commander share his
    concern.

    ¶7. (SBU) Action Request: Given the particularly valuable
    contribution to PRT Chaghcharan provided by the Icelandic
    Mobile Liaison Observation Team and the serious downside )
    including added burden on others -- its withdrawal from
    patrol work would present, Post requests Department consider
    asking Embassy Reykjavik to contact appropriate Icelandic
    officials to underscore our appreciation for the special work
    being done by the Icelandic MLOT in Ghor and to request that
    Reykjavik seriously consider extending its mission.
    NEUMANN

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