GOK DIPNOTE DETAILING TRAVEL PLANS TO GTMO

S E C R E T KUWAIT 000286 SIPDIS SIPDIS NEA/ARP E.O. 12958: DECL: 2018 TAGS: PREL PGOV PTER KDRG KU SUBJECT: GOK DIPNOTE DETAILING TRAVEL PLANS TO GTMO Classified By: CDA Misenheimer for reasons 1.4 b and d ¶1. (S) On March 9, post received diplomatic note 20080342 from MFA's Follow-Up and Coordination office detailing the travel plans on March 13 of four Kuwait Security Service (KSS) officials to Washington and Guantanamo Detention Facility. The GOK previously informed Post of the names of the four KSS officials: --BGEN Abdullah Al-Rashed, head of delegation and General Director, Public Information Department. --COL Mahdi Al-Rashidi, Director of the Department for Combating Extremism. --LTC Abdulla Al-Kandari, Director, Anti-Terrorism Affairs. --LTC Khaled Al-Majed, Director of Americas Desk. ¶2. (S) Diplomatic note text follows: Informal embassy translation Complimentary Greetings Referring to previous correspondences concerning the subject of Kuwaiti detainees in Guantanamo and an undertaking of a security delegation to visit Washington to meet officials who manage the Guantanamo detainees file in the American Defense Department. We wish to report that the security delegation will arrive at Dulles Airport in the United States on Thursday March 13, 2008 at 2105, Washington, D.C. local time, on British Airways flight number 293 coming from London's Heathrow. Two members of the above-mentioned delegation will be selected to visit the detention center. The departure of the delegation will be on Friday March 21, 2008 at 1945 from Dulles airport on British Airways flight number 216 headed for Heathrow Airport in London. Complimentary closing. ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s Visit Kuwait's Classified Website: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/ ********************************************* * Misenheimer