DHAKA VISA VIPER REPORT - JUNE 2005

C O N F I D E N T I A L DHAKA 003127

SIPDIS

NOFORN
SENSITIVE
VISAS VIPER

DEPT FOR INR/IC/TIPOFF AND CA/VO/L/C

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/03/2015
TAGS: ASEC CVIS PINR PTER
SUBJECT: DHAKA VISA VIPER REPORT - JUNE 2005

Classified By: A/DCM:DUNDAS MCCULLOUGH, Reason 1.4b


1. (C/NF) Post Visa Viper committee met on June 28, 2005.
The committee wishes to nominate one individual for inclusion
in the Visas Viper Program, as follows:

NAME: Hasanul Haq
DPOB: 01-JAN-1976
Affiliation: Haq claims to be an al-Qaeda member, and sent
e-mail messages threatening to blow up two embassies (Japan
and the Netherlands) and RAB Headquarters in Dhaka.
Newspaper accounts also suggested a threat to blow up the
American Center, but police are investigating whether this is
actually true. In any event, the American Center threat has
not/not been confirmed. His threats specified that the
embassies would be blown up if the countries represented "do
not stop interfering in the internal affairs of Bangladesh."
His e-mail messages were traced to a cyper cafe, which led to
his identification and his June 25 arrest. According to the
June 26 "Daily Star" article announcing the arrest, Haq
admitted that he had sent the e-mails. Haq's DOB was not
given in the article; the committee agreed that we submit him
using the above date, as he is reported to be 29 years old.
Haq was an assistant accounts manager of Japan Garden City,
with a masters degree from Jagannath University College.


2. (U) The Visas Viper Committee was chaired by A/DCM
Dundas McCullough, and coordinated by consular section chief
Elizabeth Gourlay.

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