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Cablegate: Leahy Vetting for Security Forces Officer Course, Aug

Published: Wed 25 Jun 2008 12:13 AM
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TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6978
INFO RUHEHMS/COMMARFORPAC PRIORITY
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DEPT FOR SCA/RA ATTN: JOSEPH BRENNIG
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
SUBJECT: LEAHY VETTING FOR SECURITY FORCES OFFICER COURSE, AUG
25-DEC 19, 2008
1. This is an action request. See para three.
2. The following candidate has been selected for
participation in the Security Forces Officer Course to be held in
August 2008. Post vetting was completed on June 23, 2008. Post
requests that vetting be completed by July 2, 2008, to provide
sufficient time for processing. Post requests the department conduct
Leahy vetting for the following candidate:
Name: Md Saiful Islam
Rank/Unit: Flight Lieutenant, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) -5,
Rajshahi
DPOB: 3 Oct 1981, Munshigonj
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 this
individual or any unit he has served in has been involved in gross
violations of human rights.
Moriarty
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