ADDITIONAL DETAINEE INFORMATION PASSED TO FOREIGN

C O N F I D E N T I A L AMMAN 001027 SIPDIS SIPDIS FOR NEA AND S/WCI E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/17/2017 TAGS: PGOV PREL JO SUBJECT: ADDITIONAL DETAINEE INFORMATION PASSED TO FOREIGN MINISTRY REF: A. MUBANGU-RANA MARCH 1ST E-MAIL ¶B. AMMAN 648 ¶C. AMMAN 447 ¶D. AMMAN 319 ¶E. 06 AMMAN 8947 ¶F. 06 STATE 196628 Classified By: CDA Daniel Rubinstein for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) (C) Polcouns met with Mahmoud al-Hmoud, head of the Foreign Ministry's legal office, on March 6 to seek updates on the proposed detainee transfer framework agreement (ref F),GOJ consideration of our request that Jordan accept three Guantanamo detainees (ref B),and to provide Hmoud with photographs (ref A) of the six Jordanian detainees held in Guantanamo. Hmoud thanked Polcouns for the photos, and said that GOJ decision-making regarding the U.S. request for a transfer framework agreement will move forward once GOJ policy-makers - especially the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) - complete their review of all six Jordanians held in Guantanamo. He noted that his office would also have "minor" legal points for us on the text of the draft, but he would not be authorized to begin that conversation with us until after the larger policy decisions had been made. In response to polcouns' query, Hmoud said that for Jordanian policy makers, our request for a proposed framework agreement was "inextricably" bound up with our request that Jordan accept three Guantanamo detainees. Hmoud did not know how long it would take for the GID to complete its review. RUBINSTEIN