VISAS VIPER FOR NOVEMBER 2005 REPORTING PERIOD

UNCLAS CASABLANCA 001269 SIPDIS SENSITIVE VISAS VIPER SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR INR/TIPOFF AND CA/VO/L/C E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO SUBJECT: VISAS VIPER FOR NOVEMBER 2005 REPORTING PERIOD REF: A) STATE 162243 B) RABAT 2464(NOTAL) ¶1. (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met on December 9, ¶2005. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by representatives from CG, CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, and LEGATT, and DAO. ¶2. (SBU) The Committee submits the following names of individuals arrested in mid-November by Moroccan authorities for involvement in terrorist activity. Aalilech, Ahmed Male, DPOB: 27 April 1982, Morocco Aalouane, Hassan Male, DPOB: 21 December 1973, Morocco Aliouine, Yassine Male, DPOB: 01 September 1984, Morocco Azig, Khalid AKA: Khalid, Azig Male, DPOB: 19 August 1981, Morocco Benchakroun, Brahim Male, DPOB: 04 August 1979, Morocco Bouchta, Boujemaa Male, DPOB: 06 September 1981, Morocco Bouker, Ahmed AKA: Ahmed, Bouker Male, DPOB: 03 November 1981, Morocco Chelh, Abdelbir AKA: Chelh, Abdelkbir Male, DPOB: 1948, Morocco Daouyane, Hamid Male, DPOB: 13 September 1981, Morocco Ezzejli, Abderrahim Male, DPOB: 08 September 1984, Morocco Ezzejli, Omar Male, DPOB: 20 March 1968, Morocco Ibnouzahir, Mohamed Male, DPOB: 06 November 1976, Morocco Mazouz, Mohamed Male, DPOB: 31 December 1973, Morocco Moussaid, Farid Male, DPOB: 05 September 1978, Morocco Outmani, Yassir Male, DPOB: 23 July 1980, Morocco Rha, Mohamed Male, DPOB: 10 March 1987, Belgium Takhssaoui, Omar El Mehdi Male, DPOB: 28 April 1982, Morocco Zemmouri, Ahmed Male, DPOB: 04 November 1980, Morocco ¶3. (SBU) The Committee also submits the following name of a major in the Moroccan Gendarmerie who was recently reported as having expressed anti-American and anti- Coalition sentiment and hostile intent during an international training course: Ahmed, Driss Male, POB: Morocco ¶4. (SBU) The committee discussed LEGATT efforts to obtain information on convictions of additional terrorists, and agreed that those efforts should continue through LEGATT channels. The committee also discussed Visas Viper oversight of the TIP/PISCES system (Reftels). GREENE