[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 186 (Monday, September 26, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59488-59489]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-24680]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of Three Individuals Pursuant to Executive Order 
13224

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 three newly-designated 
individuals whose property and interests in property are blocked 
pursuant to Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001, ``Blocking 
Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten 
To Commit, or Support Terrorism.''

DATES: The designations by the Director of OFAC of the three 
individuals identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 
13224, are effective on September 7, 2011.

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 September 23, 2001, the President issued Executive Order 13224 
(the ``Order'') pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers 
Act, 50 U.S.C. 1701-1706, and the United Nations Participation Act of 
1945, 22 U.S.C. 287c. In the Order, the President declared a national 
emergency to address grave acts of terrorism and threats of terrorism 
committed by foreign terrorists, including the September 11, 2001 
terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and at the

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Pentagon. The Order imposes economic sanctions on persons who have 
committed, pose a significant risk of committing, or support acts of 
terrorism. The President identified in the Annex to the Order, as 
amended by Executive Order 13268 of July 2, 2002, 13 individuals and 16 
entities as subject to the economic sanctions. The Order was further 
amended by Executive Order 13284 of January 23, 2003, to reflect the 
creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in or hereafter come within 
the United States or the possession or control of United States 
persons, of: (1) Foreign persons listed in the Annex to the Order; (2) 
foreign persons determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation 
with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Department of 
Homeland Security and the Attorney General, to have committed, or to 
pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten 
the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign 
policy, or economy of the United States; (3) persons determined by the 
Director of OFAC, in consultation with the Departments of State, 
Homeland Security and Justice, to be owned or controlled by, or to act 
for or on behalf of those persons listed in the Annex to the Order or 
those persons determined to be subject to subsection 1(b), 1(c), or 
1(d)(i) of the Order; and (4) except as provided in section 5 of the 
Order and after such consultation, if any, with foreign authorities as 
the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
Treasury, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the 
Attorney General, deems appropriate in the exercise of his discretion, 
persons determined by the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the 
Departments of State, Homeland Security and Justice, to assist in, 
sponsor, or provide financial, material, or technological support for, 
or financial or other services to or in support of, such acts of 
terrorism or those persons listed in the Annex to the Order or 
determined to be subject to the Order or to be otherwise associated 
with those persons listed in the Annex to the Order or those persons 
determined to be subject to subsection 1(b), 1(c), or 1(d)(i) of the 
Order.
    On September 7, 2011, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with 
the Departments of State, Homeland Security, Justice and other relevant 
agencies, designated, pursuant to one or more of the criteria set forth 
in subsections 1(b), 1(c) or 1(d) of the Order, three individuals whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive 
Order 13224.
    The designees are as follows:
1. AL-LIBI, Abu Yahya (a.k.a. ABU BAKAR, Mohammad Hassan; a.k.a. AL 
SAHRAWI, Abu Yahya Yunis; a.k.a. AL-LIBI, Muhammad Hasan; a.k.a. QA'ID, 
Hasan; a.k.a. QA'ID, Hasan Muhammad Abu Bakr; a.k.a. QAYED, Muhammad 
Hassan; a.k.a. RASHID, Abu Yunus; a.k.a. SHEIKH YAHYA, Abu Yahya); DOB 
1963; POB Libya; nationality Libya (individual) [SDGT] .
2. KHAN, Mustafa Hajji Muhammad (a.k.a. AL-MADANI, Abu Gharib; a.k.a. 
GHUL, Hassan; a.k.a. GUL, Hasan; a.k.a. GUL, Hassan; a.k.a. MAHMUD, 
Khalid; a.k.a. MUHAMMAD, Mustafa; a.k.a. SHAHJI, Ahmad; a.k.a. ``ABU-
SHAIMA''; a.k.a. ``ABU-SHAYMA''); DOB Aug 1977; alt. DOB Sep 1977; alt. 
DOB 1976; POB Madinah, Saudi Arabia; alt. POB Sangrar, Sindh Province, 
Pakistan; nationality Pakistan; alt. nationality Saudi Arabia 
(individual) [SDGT] .
3. SALIM, 'Abd al-Rahman Ould Muhammad al-Husayn Ould Muhammad (a.k.a. 
GHADER, El Hadj Ould Abdel; a.k.a. JELIL, Youssef Ould Abdel; a.k.a. 
KHADER, Abdel; a.k.a. SALEM, Abdarrahmane ould Mohamed el Houcein ould 
Mohamed; a.k.a. SALEM, Mohamed; a.k.a. SOULEIMANE, Abou; a.k.a. ``AL-
MAURITANI, Sheikh Yunis''; a.k.a. ``AL-MAURITANI, Younis''; a.k.a. 
``AL-MAURITANI, Yunis''; a.k.a. ``CHINGHEITY''; a.k.a. ``THE 
MAURITANIAN, Salih''; a.k.a. ``THE MAURITANIAN, Shaykh Yunis''); DOB 
1981; POB Saudi Arabia; nationality Mauritania (individual) [SDGT] .

    Dated: September 7, 2011.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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