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### Viewing cable 08ALGIERS1327, ALGERIAN MFA WARY ON EVE OF ASAD VISIT

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08ALGIERS1327 | 2008-12-22 16:04 | 2011-01-13 05:05 | SECRET | Embassy Algiers

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    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 ALGIERS 001327

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/22/2018
    TAGS: PREL PTER SY AF IC LE AG
    SUBJECT: ALGERIAN MFA WARY ON EVE OF ASAD VISIT

    REF: SECSTATE 133148

    Classified By: Ambassador David D. Pearce; reasons 1.4 (b, d).

    ¶1. (S) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche December 21 to
    the MFA Director General for Arab Affairs on the eve of
    Syrian President Bashar al-Asad's expected visit.  On foreign
    fighters, DG Abdelhamid Bouzaher said that the flow into Iraq
    had declined in recent years from a 2003-05 peak.  He added
    that many young returning Algerian fighters had been
    "disillusioned" by their experience, not wanting to be used
    merely as suicide bombers.  Ambassador noted Syria was still
    the main route into Iraq and Damascus needed to do more.  On
    Iran, Bouzaher saw Syria's relationship with Iran as less one
    of "strategy and substance" than convenience and temporary
    interest.  Ambassador noted that, over the years, Syria had
    facilitated Iranian access to Lebanon but the Syrian
    government was likely to listen carefully to any concerns
    Algeria might voice.  Ambassador asked that Algeria lend its
    weight to pressing Syria to adopt a more positive approach to
    Lebanon, including the normalization of relations, which was
    important for the security and stability of the entire
    region.  He also raised the need for Arab countries to
    normalize relations with Iraq, rather than leave the
    diplomatic field in Baghdad to Iran.

    FOREIGN FIGHTERS "DISILLUSIONED"
    --------------------------------

    ¶2. (S)  In Bouzaher's view, the flow of foreign fighters into
    Iraq has declined markedly in recent years, from a 2003-2005
    peak.  The Ambassador responded that any decline was
    relative, and the transit of foreign fighters through Syria
    was still a problem and the Syrian government needed to do
    more.  Bouzaher stressed the positive Syrian step of opening
    its border to over a million Iraqi refugees, and said he
    believed Syria was today more serious about securing its
    frontier with Iraq.  Although Bouzaher admitted he "was not
    an expert" on the issue, he said that many young Algerian
    fighters returning from Iraq were "disillusioned" by their
    experience, as they did not want to be used merely as suicide
    bombers.  "This is not part of our culture," they felt,
    according to Bouzaher.

    ¶3. (S) Bouzaher said that Algeria's ties with Syria had
    deteriorated in recent years over the terrorism issue.  The
    Algerian government had engaged recently with the Syrians on
    economic and commercial issues, but had thus far failed to
    conclude a bilateral security accord.  Bouzaher said that
    Syria had shown signs lately of wanting to break out of its
    isolation and had evinced some good will regarding Iraq and
    Lebanon in particular.  Today, said Bouzaher, Syria has a
    "clear interest" in stable relations with Iraq.  Ambassador
    pressed Bouzaher for specifics, saying he hoped Bouzaher was
    right but Syria needed to demonstrate these intentions in a
    more concrete manner.

    INTO THE ARMS OF IRAN
    ---------------------

    ¶4. (S) Bouzaher saw the resolution of the Israel-Palestine
    conflict as the "key to the entire region," including all of
    the issues involving Syria.  In the case of Iran, he said,
    solving this problem would rob them of their vision of a
    "divine mission" to reclaim Jerusalem, and therefore, by
    implication, make it easier for Syria to stand against
    Iranian support for Hizballah in Lebanon.  Bouzaher saw
    Syria's relationship with Iran as less one of "strategy and
    substance" than of convenience and temporary interest.
    Ambassador noted that, over the years, Syria had facilitated
    Iranian access to Lebanon but the Syrian government was
    likely to listen carefully to any concerns Algeria might
    voice.  Bouzaher repeated that Syria had been a victim of its
    own isolation, and said that he did not believe it had any
    real substantive interest in close relations with Iran.
    Instead, he said al-Asad wanted to improve his relations with
    the U.S, a desire that "was complicated" by recent
    cross-border U.S. military actions inside Syria.

    SHI'A THREAT "FRIGHTENING"
    --------------------------

    ¶5. (S) Ambassador asked that Algeria lend its weight to

    ALGIERS 00001327  002 OF 002

    pressing Syria to adopt a more positive approach to Lebanon,
    including the normalization of relations, which was important
    for the security and stability of the entire region.
    Bouzaher stressed that Algeria had "an Arab nationalist duty"
    to support Lebanon and would continue to do so.  He said
    Algeria has consistently pushed for a full investigation into
    the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, but
    in the absence of specific proof, was not eager to blame
    Syria outright.  Bouzaher stressed that Algeria's
    relationship with Syria had suffered greatly in the 1990s
    over the terrorism issue, but was now improving.  Bouzaher
    believed that Syria "has intentions to normalize" relations
    with Lebanon, and added that Syria has to realize that the
    situation in Lebanon could be very damaging to Sunni
    interests.  As Sunni Arabs, he said, Algeria found the Shi'a
    in Lebanon "frightening;" it was a situation not at all
    favorable to "our way of seeing things."  Bouzaher said that
    the core issue in Lebanon was the arming of Hizballah, "as
    everyone knows."

    WARILY REENGAGING ON IRAQ
    -------------------------

    ¶6. (S) The Ambassador stressed that as an influential voice
    in the Arab world, it would help if Algeria was among those
    taking the lead on Arab re-engagement with Iraq.  To not do
    so, he said, was damaging to stability and left the field to
    Iran.  Iraq would endure and Iraqis would remember those who
    supported them in their darker days, much as Algeria
    remembered those who did or did not offer support during the
    1990s civil war.  To this, Bouzaher responded that Algeria
    was still very much scarred by the July 2005 assassination of
    two Algerian diplomats in Baghdad, and that no official
    investigation or condolences had ever come from the Iraqi
    government.  Ambassador said this was an important and
    legitimate concern, one shared by other countries whose
    diplomats had been killed, but it was also important for the
    stability of the region to re-engage Iraq.  Bouzaher
    acknowledged that it was time for Algeria "to clarify its
    relations with Iraq," particularly since Iraqis had supported
    Algeria during its war for independence.

    COMMENT
    -------

    ¶7. (S) Bouzaher was part of an Algerian business delegation
    led by Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia that visited Damascus in
    October, signing several economic and commercial agreements.
    He confided that in other areas such as security, there had
    been less progress.  He referred to a bilateral draft
    agreement between Algerian and Syrian intelligence and
    security services that had been pending for some time and was
    still not signed, as "our services still have much to clarify
    to make sure we understand" Syrian intentions.  We delivered
    the demarche and non-paper to Bouzaher at a propitious time -
    we left his office at 1545, and he was heading into a meeting
    with Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci at 1600, presumably to
    discuss the imminent visit of al-Asad, among other things.
    PEARCE

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