and Head of the Defence and Overseas Secretariat
Dear Cordi
IRAQ
As I promised on the telephone earlier today, I enclose a note which seeks
to define our objectives and specify ongoing and future actions in the areas
discussed by President Bush and the Prime Minister last week, ie :
security;
intelligence;
infrastructure;
media; and
personnel.
I look forward to discussing this with you on Friday. You mentioned a
US briefing paper, which I would certainly be interested to see.
Bear wither
Young
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NIGEL SHEINWATI
C'ondoleseza Rice
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UK Action
More Troops
• Sending two additional infantry battalions now to join the existing
10,000 in Iraq. Full deployment by 16 September. One will allow
MND (SE) more troops to take the offensive against hostile elements.
The second will be used to train Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC)
units and improve intelligence gathering and surveillance capability.
Planning to enable deployment of an additional brigade HQ, infantry
battalion and engineers. This has yet to be announced to Parliament.
This force would be tasked primarily to support the CPA South
reconstruction project (see below). In total, these reinforcements
would amount to some 3,000 personnel or a 30 per cent increase on the
current UK strength in Irag.
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More Iraqi Civil Defence Corps and Police
• The UK-led Multinational Division (South East) are training 160
ICDC, expanding to 630 by 22 September and 1,700 by 3 November.
These troops should begin operating by 13 October.
• Plan to train a further 2,000 ICDC after Ramadan, with four ICDC
battalions, one for each province, fully operational by year end
• Examining the possibility of establishing a police school in Jordan and
have approached the Jordanians. With the necessary strategie cudine
from CPA and Jordanian co-operation, we should be able to estab! s
school by the end of October in which we could supply 100 police
trainers
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More Local Involvement in Security
• Exploiting contacts with tribal leaders in southern Iraq to build
security in their areas of influence.
• Examining how we can empower/legitimise worthy neighbourhood
security committees (without encouraging local gangsters) with the
Governing Council taking the lead.
More Border Security
• Pressing Iraq's neighbours to improve border security.
• Examining the deployment of additional military border surveillance
helicopters.
More Iraqi Army Training
• Deploying additional UK NCO trainers to central Iraq.
Intelligence
Objective: Increased intelligence and better intelligence analysis in order to
take the offensive against terrorists and Ba'athist remnants.
UK Action
• Deployment of more intelligence officers to step up the collection
effort against Ba'athists and Sunni extremists in collaboration with US
agencies
• Establishing a new specialised unit in London to develop analysis of
the situation, while also putting staff in the new. US led CT fusion ce
In Baghdad
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UK Action
• Started a $127m, six-month project in CPA South to improve basic
services for 5m people in the Basra region. Implementation has begun.
Providing $30m for the first phase, with the balance to come from the
CPA.
Media
Objective: A step change on media to counter the distorted reporting of Al-
Jazeera and other satellite channels. Better presentation for the CPA and
Governing Council.
UK Action
• David Richmond working with Gary Thatcher on proposals to improve
the quality of the Iragi Media Network (IMN) output, provide better
IMN newsgathering and transmission, and to improve the CPA's
communications effort. Examining Thatcher's $40m menu of
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recommendations to see where we can best help. Support for additional
channel under consideration.
• Sending more media experts to join the existing UK staff in the CPA
Information Directorate.
• Simon Haselock continues with his work to provide a firm, longer-
term structure for indigenous Iraqi media. Separate plan to build up
media capacity in southern Iraq using the BBC World Service Trust.
awaiting approval by the CPA
Personnel
Objective: More specialist support for Bremer in Baghdad and the CP.A
te provinces
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(South), Al-Wasit (Centre) and Kirkuk (North) selected. One deployed
to Iraq. 30-40 personnel to staff these 4 GTs will be deployed by 30
September, as well as additional personnel to the US-led GTs in Al
Muthanna and Maysan provinces.
• Supplement our existing 60 CPA secondees in Baghdad with additional
information and security sector reform specialists.
10 Downing Street
10 September
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