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P 261332Z MAR 08
FM AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0042
INFO RUCNIAD/IGAD COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
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UNCLAS ADDIS ABABA 000821
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR S/CT TARA DROZDENKO AND AF/E NOLE GAREY
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PTER ASEC PGOV KCRM SO BG
SUBJECT: ETHIOPIA: DESIGNATION OF AL-SHABAAB AS AN FTO
DELIVERED
REF: SECSTATE 27258
1. (SBU) Per reftel, Post informed host government MFA
Assistant Chief of the Minister's Cabinet Abdetta Dribssa of
the USG decision to designate al-Shabaab as a Foreign
Terrorist Organization and as a Specially Designated Global
Terrorist group on March 18. Abdetta responded that his
government welcomed this action and was greatly pleased by it.
MALAC