[Federal Register: September 5, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 171)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control

 
Additional Designation of an Entity 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 name of one newly-designated entity 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 designation by the Secretary of the Treasury of one entity 
identified in this notice pursuant to Executive

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Order 13224 is effective on August 29, 2006.

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 Pentagon. The 
Order imposes economic sanctions on persons who commit, threaten to 
commit, 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.
    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 
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, 
the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the Attorney 
General, 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 Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland 
Security and the Attorney General, 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, August 29, 2006, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Department of 
Homeland Security, the Attorney General, 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, one entity whose property 
and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 
13224.
    The additional designee is as follows:

Islamic Resistance Support Organization (a.k.a. Hayat Al-Dam Lil-
Muqawama Al-Islamiya; a.k.a. Islamic Resistance Support 
Association), Beirut, Lebanon

    Dated: August 29, 2006.
Adam J. Szubin,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
 [FR Doc. E6-14589 Filed 9-1-06; 8:45 am]

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