Cablegate: Visas Viper for April 2008 Reporting Period (Follow-Up)

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SIPDIS
VISAS VIPER

DEPARTMENT FOR INR/TIPOFF AND CA/VO/L/C

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
SUBJECT: VISAS VIPER FOR APRIL 2008 REPORTING PERIOD (FOLLOW-UP)

REF: Casablanca 00092

1. Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca
joint Visas Viper Committee met May 5, 2008. The meeting was
chaired by the DCM and was attended by CG, CONS, RAO, LEGATT, DHS,
DAO, RSO, POL, ECON and PD.

2. Discussion centered on two persons arrested who had been
harboring a terrorist who had escaped Kenitra prison and who was
recaptured. Per reftel, Legatt was asked to confer with Moroccan
law enforcement counterparts and obtain name and date of birth
information.

3. Legatt has identified the two individuals as:

GUEMOURI, Khalid, Moroccan male, born January 7, 1975, in Fez.

ESSOUSY, Mohamed Sais, Moroccan male, born 7 May 7, 1979, in
Tetouan.

4. The Mission's Visas Viper Coordinator is Consular Chief Miguel
Ordonez.

GREENE

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