    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2007, Book II)]
    [July 17, 2007]
    [Pages 979-980]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Message to the Congress Transmitting an Executive Order Blocking
    Property of Additional Persons in Connection With the National Emergency
    With Respect to Iraq
    July 17, 2007

     To the Congress of the United States:
        Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as
    amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), I hereby report that I have
    issued an Executive Order blocking property of persons determined 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. I issued this
    order to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency
    declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in
    Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional
    steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive
    Order 13364 of November 29, 2004. In these previous Executive Orders, I
    ordered various measures 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.
        My new order takes additional steps with respect to the national
    emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive
    Order 13315 by blocking the property and interests in property of
    persons determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
    with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, 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. The order further
    authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
    Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, to designate for
    blocking those persons determined to have materially assisted,
    sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical
    support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of
    violence or any person designated pursuant to this order, or 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 this order.
        I delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with
    the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, the authority to
    take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations,
    and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be
    necessary to carry out the purposes of my order. I am enclosing a copy
    of the Executive Order I have issued.

                                                              George W. Bush

     The White House,

     July 17, 2007.

    Note: The Executive order is listed in Appendix D at the end of this
    volume.

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