JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR INTERNATIONAL

UNCLAS STATE 020890 SENSITIVE SIPDIS PASS TO POLMIL OFFICER RAJ WADHWANI E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EWWT PREL ASEC JO SUBJECT: JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR INTERNATIONAL BORDER INTERDICTION TRAINING REF: AMMAN 0572 ¶1. (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of information regarding incidents which could be deemed to be credible information of a gross violation of human rights by these individuals, the Embassy should so inform the Department. ¶2. (SBU) The following Jordanian officials listed in reftel are scheduled to participate in a U.S. Customs and Border Control International Border (land) Interdiction Training (IBIT) course in McAllen, Texas, scheduled to begin April 20, ¶2009. The names of the candidates follow in "title or rank, name, city of birth (in Jordan),year of birth" format: 1) Director of the Jordan Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Border Control Department, Samer Ghazi Faris Qur'an, Taibeh, 06/02/1974 2) Head of the Jordan Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Industrial and Research Inspection Section, Ra'ed Sulieman Talab Majali, Karak, 07/19/1978 3) Head of the Jordan Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Border Monitoring Section, Rashid Ahmad Rashid Safieh, Brazil, 09/01/1968 4) Head of the Jordan Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Licensing, Security Assessment and Radiation Safety Section, Moayyad Mazen Khamis Al Ssabbagh, Saudi Arabia, 11/04/1975 5) Colonel, Abdallah Shehadeh Hussein Abubreik, Mahis, 02/01/1963 6) Major, Ibrahim Husein Othman Alqatawneh, Al Mazar Al Janoubi, 07/20/1971 7) Colonel, Monther Abdel Qader Mazen Al Muaddi, Amman, 07/01/1958 8) Major, Samer Sameer Salem Kabbaha, Aqaba, 05/13/1973 9) Colonel, Fawzi Mahmoud Mohammad Shatnawi, Naimeh, 11/17/1956 10) Major, Mousa Mohmad Klefeh Al-Krarbeh, Ira, 01/17/1965 11) LTCOL, Ibrahim Suliman Ibrahim Al-Banna, Zarqa, 03/19/1967 12) Captain, Sameer Husni Mustafa Abualhayjaa, Irbid, 12/06/1962 13) Major, Awad Radi Fahid Al-Shrafat, Al Mkaifteh, 12/04/1974 ¶3. (U) Post is permitted to provide the following statement to authorized parties: Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individuals identified in paragraph 2 above, as of this date. Post may cite this cable in response. CLINTON