POST CONVENES EAC ON 04/27/2009

S E C R E T PESHAWAR 000086 NOFORN DEPT FOR: DS/IP/SCA; DS/EX; DS/TIA/ITA; DS/CT E.O. 12958: DECL: 4/28/2019 TAGS: ASEC PTER MOPS PK SUBJECT: POST CONVENES EAC ON 04/27/2009 REF: TDX-315/027845-09 CLASSIFIED BY: David J. Hazarian, Regional Security Officer, RSO, State. REASON: 1.4 (c),(d) ¶1. (S//NF) Post convened an Emergency Action Committee meeting at 1500 (local) on April 27, 2009 to review specific, credible threat information targeting the Consulate and Consulate personnel residing in University Town. PO, RSO, RAO, IMO MGTO, and Special Forces element attended the meeting. ¶2. (S//NF) The EAC assessed the threat reporting to be credible, and Post will maintain its current elevated security posture and reduced staffing following previous threat reporting and attacks and will continue this posture until further notice. The EAC also determined that two-days a week local staff will work from a newly developed unclassified intranet office space established in the Alternate Command Center (ACC) located within the residential housing cluster in University Town. ¶3. (S//NF) Having Consulate personnel work-from-home will lessen the volume of protective motorcades which must travel in-and-out of the residential housing cluster located in University Town. The EAC noted that the threat reporting mentions targeting residences within the Club area. However, this is also the most defensible Consulate residential area and where the most Consulate security resources can be brought quickly to bear. ¶4. (S//NF) Peshawar remains at a critical threat level, of which the potential for an attack at the Consulate, or an action against US-interests, or personnel is one of many concerns. RSO Peshawar remains concerned about the dispersed nature and lack of adequate safe haven facilities in the Consulate's residential area, coupled with its distance to the Consulate Compound, exacerbating the risk to Consulate facilities and personnel. ¶5. (S//NF) The EAC re-stressed that the security situation remains tenuous and that the ability for host nation (HN) security to provide adequate protection to US facilities and personnel remains questionable at best. Security resources, including deployed DS support and pre-existing Post assets, remain strained based on the security environment and operational demands. Further reductions in movements remain a priority of RSO and all available measures including combined shuttles, route and time variances, reduced work week and work-from-home options have been recommended and adopted whenever possible. ¶6. (U) Point of contact for this information is RSO Peshawar, David J. Hazarian. TRACYLM