Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09DHAKA1021
2009-11-05 10:10:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dhaka
Cable title:  

LEAHY VETTING FOR BANGLADESH OUTREACH PROGRAM "APCSS CIVIL

Tags:  PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG 
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UNCLAS DHAKA 001021 

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR SCA/RA ATTN: JOSEPH BRENNIG

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
SUBJECT: LEAHY VETTING FOR BANGLADESH OUTREACH PROGRAM "APCSS CIVIL
MILITRAY RELATIONS WORKSHOP" 16 - 19 NOVEMBER, 2009

REF: DHAKA 1018

UNCLAS DHAKA 001021

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR SCA/RA ATTN: JOSEPH BRENNIG

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
SUBJECT: LEAHY VETTING FOR BANGLADESH OUTREACH PROGRAM "APCSS CIVIL
MILITRAY RELATIONS WORKSHOP" 16 - 19 NOVEMBER, 2009

REF: DHAKA 1018


1. This is an action request. See para three.


2. This is an addendum to Dhaka 1018. Please delete candidate number
4, a typographical error, from the aforementioned cable. The
following additional three candidates have been selected for
participation in BANGLADESH OUTREACH PROGRAM" APCSS CIVIL MILITRAY
RELATIONS WORKSHOP" in Bangladesh, which will begin on November 16,

2009. Post vetting was completed on November 05, 2009. Post
requests that vetting be completed by November 15 to provide
sufficient time for processing. Post requests the department conduct
Leahy vetting for the following candidates:


1. Name: Md. Latifur Haider
Rank: Brig Gen
Unit: Army HQ
Unit Location: Dhaka
Personal Number: 2219
Date of Birth: 23 Dec 1961
Place of Birth: Bangladesh



2. Name: Ishfaq Ilahi Chowdhury
Rank: Air Cdre (Rtd)
Unit: Currently Working as Register, University of Asia Pacific
Unit Location: Dhaka
Personal Number: NIL
Date of Birth: 13 Nov 1948
Place of Birth: Sylhet,Bangladesh


3. Name: Jahangir Kabir
Rank: Brig Gen (Retd)
Unit:
Unit Location:
Personal Number:
Date of Birth: 1 Jan 1959
Place of Birth: Bangladesh



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 these
individuals or any units they have served in have been involved in
gross violations of human rights.

Moriarty