[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 21 (Monday, June 2, 2008)]
[Page 765]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting Designations Under the 
Kingpin Act

May 30, 2008

Dear _____ :

    This report to the Congress, under section 804(b) of the Foreign 
Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, 21 U.S.C. 1901-1908 (the ``Kingpin 
Act''), transmits my designations of the following four foreign persons 
and three foreign entities as appropriate for sanctions under the 
Kingpin Act and reports my direction of sanctions against them under 
that Act:
    Haji Asad Khan Zarkari Mohammadhasni
    Hermagoras Gonzalez Polanco
    Cumhur Yakut
    Marcos Arturo Beltran Leyva
    Beltran Leyva Organization
    PKK (KGK, Kongra-Gel, formerly

      Kurdistan Workers' Party)
    'Ndrangheta Organization
     Sincerely,
                                                George W. Bush

Note: Identical letters were sent to John D. Rockefeller IV, chairman, 
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Patrick J. Leahy, chairman, 
Senate Committee on the Judiciary; Joseph R. Biden, Jr., chairman, 
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Carl Levin, chairman, Senate 
Committee on Armed Services; Max S. Baucus, chairman, Senate Committee 
on Finance; Silvestre Reyes, chairman, House Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence; John Conyers, Jr., chairman, House Committee on the 
Judiciary; Howard L. Berman, chairman, House Committee on Foreign 
Affairs; Ike Skelton, chairman, House Committee on Armed Services; and 
Charles B. Rangel, chairman, House Committee on Ways and Means.