[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 29 (Monday, July 23, 2007)]
[Page 974]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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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.