JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR ATA TECHNICAL

UNCLAS STATE 006942

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: JO KCRM MASS PHUM PREL
SUBJECT: JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR ATA TECHNICAL
VISIT

REF: AMMAN 00163


1. (SBU) In response to referenced 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 attend a US-sponsored ATA technical visit
for the Jordan Call Center Project, to begin February 2, 2009
in Dunn Loring, VA. The names of the candidates follow in
"rank, name, city of birth (in Jordan),year of birth"
format:

1) BRG GEN, MOHAMMAD ABDALLAH EID AL RAQQAD, AL-ABDELIAH,
1/1/1954
2) COL, ZIED AHMAD MUSTAFA AL-ZOBI, ZARQA, 12/26/1964
3) LTCOL, GHASSAN SHAWKAT QASEM, AMMAN, 10/23/1970
4) LTCOL, MUSA KHALAF FALAH SWILMIEN, AMMAN, 6/1/1962


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