[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 5, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-31313]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of One Entity Pursuant to Executive Order 13438

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 name of one newly designated entity whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive 
Order 13438 of July 17, 2007, ``Blocking Property of Certain Persons 
Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq.''

DATES: The designation by the Secretary of the Treasury of the entity 
and individual identified in this notice pursuant to Executive Order 
13438 is effective on December 22, 2009.

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 July 17, 2007, the President issued Executive Order 13438 (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., and section 301 of title 3, United States Code. In the Order, the 
President declared a national emergency to address the threat to the 
national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts 
of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining 
efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq 
and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property 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, including 
any overseas branch, of the following persons: Persons who are 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, (1) to have committed, 
or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence 
that have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or stability 
of Iraq or the Government of Iraq, or undermining efforts to promote 
economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide 
humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people; (2) to have materially 
assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technical 
support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of 
violence or any person whose property and interests in property are 
blocked pursuant to the Order; or (3) to be owned or controlled by, or 
to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or 
indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are 
blocked pursuant to the Order.
    On December 22, 2009, the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, 
designated, pursuant to one or more of the criteria set forth in the 
Order, one entity whose property and interests in property are blocked 
pursuant to Executive Order 13438.
    The designee is as follows:

JAYSH RIJAL AL-TARIQ AL-NAQSHABANDI (a.k.a. ARMED MEN OF THE 
NAQSHABANDI ORDER; a.k.a. NAQSHABANDI ARMY; a.k.a. ``AMNO''; a.k.a. 
``JRN''; a.k.a. ``JRTN''), Iraq; Web site: www.alnakshabandia-army.org; 
www.alnakshabndia-army.com [IRAQ3]

    Dated: December 22, 2009.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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