[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 241 (Monday, December 17, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71484-71485]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-24342]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Designation of Six Individuals Pursuant to Executive 
Order 13315

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is publishing the names of six newly designated individuals 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, ``Blocking Property of the 
Former Iraqi Regime, Its Senior Officials and Their Family Members, and 
Taking Certain Other Actions.''

DATES: The designation by the Secretary of the Treasury of the six 
individuals identified in this notice pursuant to Executive Order 13315 
is effective on December 6, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance 
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: 202/622-2490.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are 
available from OFAC's Web site (http://www.treas.gov/ofac) or via 
facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on-demand service, tel.: 202/622-0077.

Background

    On August 28, 2003, the President issued Executive Order 13315 (the 
``Order'') pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 
50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq., the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1601 et 
seq., section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act, as amended, 22 
U.S.C. 287c, section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in view of 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483 of May 22, 2003. In the 
Order, the President expanded the scope of the national emergency 
declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, to address the 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States posed by obstacles to the orderly 
reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of peace and 
security in that country, and the development of political, 
administrative, and economic institutions in Iraq.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property of the former Iraqi regime or its 
state bodies, corporations, or agencies, or of the following persons, 
that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United 
States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control 
of United States persons: persons listed in the Annex to the Order, as 
well as persons who are determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State, (1) to be senior officials of 
the former Iraqi regime or their immediate family members; or (2) to be 
owned or controlled by, or acting or purporting to act for or on behalf 
of,

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directly or indirectly, any person whose property or interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to the Order.
    On December 6, 2007, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, designated, pursuant to one or more of the 
criteria set forth in the Order, six individuals whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13315.
    The list of additional designees is as follows:
    1. AL-AHMAD, Ahmad Muhammad Yunis (a.k.a. AL-BADANI, Ahmad Muhammad 
Mahmud `Abdallah; a.k.a. AL-BARRANI, Ahmad Muhammad Al-Abdullah), Al-
Mazzah Al-Jabal District, 6 Subdistrict, 3 area, Al-Iskan complex, 40/
2, Fifth Floor, Damascus, Syria; DOB 19 Sep 1978; POB Al-Anbar, Iraq; 
nationality Iraq; Passport H0347417 (Iraq) issued 20 Feb 2003 expires 
19 Feb 2011.
    2. AL-AHMAD, Sa'ad Muhammad Yunis, Damascus, Syria; DOB 1 Jan 1981; 
POB Baghdad, Iraq; nationality Iraq; Identification Number 159014.
    3. AL-AZAWI, Hatem Hamdan, Diyali, Al-Khalis Sector, Iraq; Deli 
Abbas, Iraq; DOB circa 1937.
    4. AL-DULAYMI, Hasan Hashim Khalaf (a.k.a. ``ABU WISSAM''), 30th 
Street, Al-Yarmuk Area, Jadat Al-Jaysh District, Damascus, Syria; House 
43, Lane 17, Subdivision 808, Al-Dawrah, 
Baghdad, Iraq; DOB 1942; POB Baghdad, Iraq; nationality Iraq
    5. AL-DURI, Thabet, Karkh District, Baghdad, Iraq; Rukan al-Din, 
Syria; DOB 1943; alt. DOB 1944; POB Dur, Iraq.
    6. AL-TIKRITI, Ahmed Watban Ibrahim Hasan (a.k.a. AL-TIKRITI, Ahmad 
Watban Ibrahim Hasan; a.k.a. MUHAWDAR, `Imad `Udi), Al-Hadda Hotel, 
Sana'a, Yemen; Al-Ra'is Building, Mina Street, Tartus , Tartus, Syria; 
Jirmanah Neighborhood, Damascus, Syria; DOB 1975; alt. DOB 1979; POB 
Baghdad, Iraq; nationality Iraq.

    Dated: December 6, 2007.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. E7-24342 Filed 12-14-07; 8:45 am]
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