[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 141 (Friday, July 23, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43233-43234]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-18102]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Designation of ANWAR AL-AULAQI Pursuant to Executive Order 13224
and the Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR Part 594
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 individual
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,'' and the Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations,
31 CFR part 594.
DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the one individual
identified in this notice was publicly announced on July 12, 2010.
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). Certain
general information pertaining to OFAC's sanctions programs also is
available 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 authorities including 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 and
Pennsylvania and at the 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
Secretary of the Treasury, 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 Secretary of the Treasury, 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.
The Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 594,
implement the Order and delegate to the Director of OFAC the Secretary
of the Treasury's authorities pursuant thereto. 31 CFR 594.802. On July
12, 2010 the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the Departments of
State, Homeland Security, Justice and other relevant agencies,
designated ANWAR AL-AULAQI as an individual whose property and
interests in property are
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blocked pursuant to the Order and the GTSR for, inter alia, acting for
or on behalf of al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) pursuant to
subsection 1(c) of the Order and for providing financial, material or
technological support for, or other services to or in support of, acts
of terrorism pursuant to subsection 1(d)(i) of the Order.
ANWAR AL-AULAQI, a dual U.S.-Yemeni citizen, is a leader of al-
Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a Yemen-based terrorist group
that has claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist acts against
Saudi, Korean, Yemeni, and U.S. targets since its inception in January
2009. ANWAR AL-AULAQI has pledged an oath of loyalty to AQAP emir,
Nasir al-Wahishi, and is playing a key role in setting the strategic
direction for AQAP. ANWAR AL-AULAQI has also recruited individuals to
join AQAP, facilitated training at camps in Yemen in support of acts of
terrorism, and helped focus AQAP's attention on planning attacks on
U.S. interests.
Since late 2009, ANWAR AL-AULAQI has taken on an increasingly
operational role in the group, including preparing Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, who attempted to detonate an explosive device aboard a
Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day
2009, for his operation. In November 2009, while in Yemen,
Abdulmutallab swore allegiance to the emir of AQAP and shortly
thereafter received instructions from ANWAR AL-AULAQI to detonate an
explosive device aboard a U.S. airplane over U.S. airspace. After
receiving this direction from ANWAR AL-AULAQI, Abdulmutallab obtained
the explosive device he used in the attempted Christmas Day attack.
ANWAR AL-AULAQI was imprisoned in Yemen in 2006 on charges of
kidnapping for ransom and being involved in an al-Qa'ida plot to kidnap
a U.S. official, but was released from jail in December 2007 and
subsequently went into hiding in Yemen.
As a result of this designation, all property and interests in
property of ANWAR AL-AULAQI that are or hereafter come within the
United States or within the possession or control of U.S. persons,
including their overseas branches, are blocked. Blocked property may
not be transferred, sold or otherwise dealt in without authorization.
Any transaction or dealing by a U.S. person, or within the United
States, in any property or interests in property of ANWAR AL-AULAQI is
prohibited unless authorized, as is any transaction or dealing that
evades or avoids this prohibition. It is also unlawful for any person
to conspire to violate, or cause a violation of, this prohibition.
Certain transactions that are otherwise prohibited by the Order and
the GTSR are authorized by pursuant to general licenses set forth in
subpart E of the GTSR. In other cases, OFAC has discretion to issue
licenses authorizing specific transactions that are otherwise
prohibited by the Order and the GTSR. All requests for specific
licenses should be made in writing to the Assistant Director for
Licensing, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets
Control, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20220. Licensing
procedures are set forth in sections 501.801-802 of the Reporting,
Procedures and Penalties Regulations (``RPPR''), 31 CFR Part 501. The
RPPR also provide procedures for submitting requests for unblocking
funds and reconsideration of a designation. 31 CFR 501.806-807.
The designated individual is as follows:
1. AL-AULAQI, Anwar (a.k.a. AL-AWLAKI, Anwar; a.k.a. AL-AWLAQI,
Anwar; a.k.a. AULAQI, Anwar Nasser; a.k.a. AULAQI, Anwar Nasser
Abdulla; a.k.a. AULAQI, Anwar Nasswer); DOB 21 Apr 1971; alt. DOB 22
Apr 1971; POB Las Cruces, New Mexico; citizen United States; alt.
citizen Yemen (individual) [SDGT]
Dated: July 16, 2010.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2010-18102 Filed 7-22-10; 8:45 am]
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