Identifier
Created
Classification
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06GEORGETOWN183
2006-02-24 21:12:00
SECRET
Embassy Georgetown
Cable title:  

REQUEST FOR EVALUATION OF SECURITY INFORMATION

Tags:  CVIS PTER PINR ASEC 
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242112Z Feb 06
S E C R E T GEORGETOWN 000183 

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR CA/VO/L/C AND INR/TNA

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/23/2016
TAGS: CVIS PTER PINR ASEC
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR EVALUATION OF SECURITY INFORMATION

REF: A. A) 93 STATE 242729


B. B) 06 PARAMARIBO 00039

C. C) 06 GEORGETOWN 00112

Classified By: ADCM Sandra Ingram for reason 1.4(b) and (d)

S E C R E T GEORGETOWN 000183

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR CA/VO/L/C AND INR/TNA

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/23/2016
TAGS: CVIS PTER PINR ASEC
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR EVALUATION OF SECURITY INFORMATION

REF: A. A) 93 STATE 242729


B. B) 06 PARAMARIBO 00039

C. C) 06 GEORGETOWN 00112

Classified By: ADCM Sandra Ingram for reason 1.4(b) and (d)


1. Visas Viper


2. (U) Khan, Shaheed Roger; AKA Khan, Roger; Male; Marital
Status: Unknown; DOB:13 January 1972; POB: Guyana; Passport
Data: A028178; Physical Description: Race: Black Height: 64
Weight: 128 Eyes: Brown Hair: Black; Current Occupation:
Director of Classic Development Inc. and Dream Works
Developers, both construction concerns, also controls
Aurelius Inc.


3. (S) Khan is implicated in plans to assist Desi Bouterse in
overthrowing the democratically elected government of
Suriname per reftel B. Bouterse is a former President of
Suriname, a current Member of Parliament, drug dealer and
prime suspect in the &December 88 murders when fifteen
prominent Surinamese opposed to his military rule were
murdered, and he masterminded two coups in 1980 and 1990.
Credible evidence indicates that Bouterse may be planning to
stage a coup in Paramaribo and assassinate Attorney General
Subhas Punwasi, Minister of Justice Santokhi and also take
the President of Suriname hostage. Khan is a known associate
of Bourterse and Bouterse is believed to have enlisted Khan
to provide hit men to perform the assassinations. Both are
involved in arms for cocaine smuggling and are implicated in
murders and planned assassinations in their own countries.


4. (S) Khan has established connections with the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and has acted
as a middleman in cocaine for arms transactions. In such
instances, Khan has smuggled guns into Guyana and then
exchanged them with the FARC for cocaine. There are strong
indications that Khan was deeply involved in a December 2005
shipment of weapons to FARC in Columbia. FARC continues to be
listed as a designated foreign terrorist organization.


5. (S) Khan also threatened the lives of the Ambassador and
the then RSO when DEA developed a plan in 2004 to establish a
counternarcotics operation in Guyana. After an informant
leaked details about the plan Khan threatened to blow up the
site of the operation and made the death threats. These
threats forced the operation's abandonment.


6. (S) Sources: January 19, 2006 conversation between
Suriname AG Punwasi and US Ambassador Barnes, RNAS plus other
intel.


7. (S) Khan is involved in numerous terrorist activities as
clearly evidenced by his known association with a designated
terrorist organization and his access to funding and arms.
Kahn was previously listed in Class as he is wanted in
Vermont on a federal failure to appear charge and in Maryland
on a state probation charge. Post is bringing this case to
the Department,s attention to support Shaheed Roger Khan,s
inclusion in Class as a &008 Entry.
BULLEN