[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 12, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7171-7172]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-3479]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Designations of Terrorism-Related Blocked Persons

AGENCIES: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is 
publishing the names of one additional entity whose property and 
interests in

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property have been blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13224 of 
September 23, 2001, pertaining to persons who commit, threaten to 
commit, or support terrorism.

DATES: This designation by the Secretary of the Treasury of this one 
additional entity identified in this notice whose property and 
interests in property have been blocked pursuant to Executive Order 
13224 is effective on November 21, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of Foreign Assets Control, 
Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: 202/622-2520.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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and additional information concerning the programs of the Office of 
Foreign Assets Control are available for downloading from the Office's 
Internet Home Page: http://www.treas.gov/ofac, or in fax form through 
the Office's 24-hour fax-on-demand service: call 202/622-0077 using a 
fax machine, fax modem, or (within the United States) a touch-tone 
telephone.

Background

    On September 23, 2001, President Bush issued Executive Order 13224 
(the ``Order'') imposing economic sanctions on persons who commit, 
threaten to commit, or support certain acts of terrorism. In an annex 
to the Order, President Bush identified 12 individuals and 15 entities 
whose assets are blocked pursuant to the Order (66 FR 49079, September 
25, 2001). Additional persons have been blocked pursuant to authorities 
set forth in the Order since that date and notices of these additional 
blockings have been published in the Federal Register.
    Additional Designations. On November 21, 2002, the Secretary of the 
Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney 
General, acting pursuant to authorities set forth in the Order 
designated one additional entity whose property and interests in 
property are blocked. The name of this additional entity is set forth 
in the list below. Persons, and their known aliases, will be added to 
appendix A to 31 CFR chapter V, through a separate Federal Register 
document, as ``specially designated global terrorists'' identified by 
the initials ``[SDGT]''. Appendix A lists the names of persons with 
respect to whom transactions are subject to the various economic 
sanctions programs administered by the Office of Foreign Assets 
Control.
    The designation by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to 
Executive Order 13224 of the additional entity listed below is 
effective on November 21, 2002. All property and interests in property 
of any designated person, including but not limited to all accounts, 
that are or come within the United States or that are or come within 
the possession or control of United States persons, including their 
overseas branches, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, 
exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in, and all transactions or 
dealings by U.S. persons or within the United States in property or 
interests in property of any designated person are prohibited, unless 
licensed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control or exempted by 
statute.
    In Section 10 of the Order, the President determined that because 
of the ability to transfer funds or assets instantaneously, prior 
notice to persons listed in the Annex to, or determined to be subject 
to, the Order who might have a constitutional presence in the United 
States, would render ineffectual the blocking and other measures 
authorized in the Order. The President further determined that no prior 
notification of a determination need be provided to any person who 
might have a constitutional presence in the United States. In 
furtherance of the objectives of the Order, the Secretary of the 
Treasury has determined that no prior notice should be afforded to the 
subject of the determination reflected in this notice because to do so 
would give the subject the opportunity to evade the measures described 
in the Order and, consequently, render those measures ineffectual 
toward addressing the national emergency declared in the Order.
    The additional designation follows: MOROCCAN ISLAMIC COMBATANT 
GROUP (a.k.a. GICM; a.k.a. GROUPE ISLAMIQUE COMBATTANT MAROCAIN)

    Dated: December 23, 2002.
R. Richard Newcomb,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
    Approved: January 27, 2003.
Kenneth Lawson,
Assistant Secretary (Enforcement), Department of the Treasury.
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