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WASHINGTON,
October 25 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - U.S. Secretary of
State Colin Powell on Wednesday October 23 designated the (Indonesian)
Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
under Executive Order 13224.
In
a statement posted by the State Department on its website, Powell said
"the United States will join Australia, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea,
Thailand, Timor Leste, and other partners around the world to ask the
relevant United Nations sanctions committee to include JI on its
consolidated list of individuals and entities the assets of which member
states are required to freeze in accordance with U.N. Security Council
Resolutions 1267 and 1390.
"In
making this joint referral, the United States does not wish to imply
that we have come to a conclusion about responsibility for the
devastating Bali bombings on October 12. Investigation into those
bombings continues in Indonesia.
"Today's
designation of this group by the United States and the referral to the
United Nations are the result of a process that has been underway since
well before the Bali bombings.
"Today’s
actions mark the first time the United States has simultaneously
designated a terrorist group as an FTO, designated it under Executive
Order 13224, and requested the relevant U.N. sanctions committee to
include it on the list of those against which sanctions should be
applied," Powell said.
The
FTO designation allows the United States to block the organization's
assets in U.S. financial institutions; criminalizes the knowing
provision of material support or resources to the organization; and
allows members of the organization to be excluded from the United
States.
Designation
under EO 13224 also blocks the property and interests in property of the
organization in the U.S. or held by U.S. persons, and authorizes the
U.S. to subsequently designate and block the assets of individuals and
entities that are owned or controlled by, act for or on behalf of,
provide support or services to, or are otherwise associated with the
organization.
The
U.N. Security Council Resolutions require all Member States to take
certain actions against the organization, including freezing the
organization’s assets and denying it access to funds and other
financial assets or economic resources, preventing the supply or sale of
weapons to the organization, and preventing members of the organization
from entering or traveling through their territories.
With
the designation of Jemaah Islamiya, the number of foreign terrorist
organizations is now 35.
Executive
Order 13224, signed by President Bush on September 23, 2001, blocks the
assets of organizations and individuals linked to terrorism.
There
are now 220 such groups, entities, and individuals covered by the
Executive Order.
The
latest designation was of the Tunisian Combat Group on October 10, 2002.
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