LEAHY VETTING FOR SOUTH ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL APPROACHES TO

UNCLAS DHAKA 000686 SIPDIS DEPT FOR SCA/RA ATTN: JOSEPH BRENNIG E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG SUBJECT: LEAHY VETTING FOR SOUTH ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL APPROACHES TO COMBATTING TERRORISM COURSE, AUG 04-AUG 08, 2008 ¶1. This is an action request. See para three. ¶2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the South Asia Pacific Regional Approaches to Combatting Terrorism Course to be held in in August 2008. Post vetting was completed on June 24, 2008. Post requests that vetting be completed by July 8, 2008, to provide sufficient time for processing. Post requests the department conduct Leahy vetting for the following candidate: Name: Md Masroor Hossain Rank/Unit: Major, Counter-terrorism Intelligence Bureau, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence DPOB: 1 June 1972, Noakhali Name: Md Saiful Islam Rank/Unit: Lieutenant Colonel, Bangladesh Rifles HQ DPOB: 19 October 1960, Serajgonj Name: Mustafizur Rahman Rank/Unit: Lieutenant Colonel, Unit: 25 East Bengal DPOB: 4 March 1968, Dhaka Name: Md Sajedur Rahman Rank/Unit: Major, Military Operations Directorate, Army HQ DPOB: 1 January 1973, Kurigram Name: Mohammad Ashrafuddin Rank/Unit: Commander, Personnel Directorate, Coast Guard HQ DPOB: 7 July 1969, Barisal ¶3. Post requests that the Department of State authorize post to make the following statement to the relevant DOD units: "Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the above named individual or unit." ¶4. Post Human Rights Officer is David Arulanantham, unclass e-mail:arulananthamdp@state.gov. ¶5. COMMENT: Embassy has no information to indicate this individual or any unit he has served in has been involved in gross violations of human rights. Moriarty