NARRATIVE SUMMARIES OF REASONS FOR LISTING



NARRATIVE SUMMARIES OF REASONS FOR LISTING

ENTITIES AND OTHER GROUPS AND UNDERTAKINGS ASSOCIATED WITH AL-QAIDA

QE.A.1.01. ABU SAYYAF GROUP

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

The Abu Sayyaf Group was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).

Additional information

The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) was founded in the early 1990s by Abdurajak Janjalani. It was formed from the more militant elements of the Moro National Liberation Front, an established separatist movement in the southern Philippines. ASG is based in the southern Philippines, primarily the Sulu archipelago, Tawi Tawi, Basilan and Mindanao. Members also occasionally travel to Manila. ASG often resorts to criminal activity, including murders, bombings, extortion and kidnap for ransom both for financial profit and to promote its agenda.

Abdurajak Janjalani was killed in a clash with Philippine police in December 1998. His younger brother, Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani (QI.J.180.04), replaced him as the leader of the group. In September 2006, Janjalani was killed in a gun battle with the Armed Forces of the Philippines; Radulan Sahiron (QI.S.208.05) became the new ASG leader.

ASG has links to Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) (QE.J.92.02), and ASG members have been trained by both organizations in guerrilla warfare, military operations and bomb making. In 1991 Usama bin Laden’s (QI.B.8.01) brother-in-law, Mohammad Jammal Khalifa, established the International Islamic Relief Organization, Philippines, Branch Offices (QE.I.126.06), and used this organization to channel funds to ASG to pay for training and arms.

ASG has been involved in a number of terrorist attacks, including assassinations; bombing civilian and military establishments and domestic infrastructure, including airports and ferries; kidnapping local officials and foreign tourists; beheading local and foreign hostages; and extortion against local and foreign businesses. For example:

• in April 2000, an ASG group kidnapped 21 people from a Malaysian holiday resort;

• in May 2001, ASG members kidnapped three American citizens and 17 Filipinos from a resort in Palawan, Philippines. They later murdered several of the hostages;

• on 27 February 2004, ASG members bombed a ferry in Manila Bay, killing 116;

• on 14 February 2005, ASG members carried out simultaneous bombings in the cities of Manila, General Santos, and Davao, killing at least eight and injuring about 150;

• in 2006, ASG leader Janjalani’s group relocated to Sulu, where it joined forces with local ASG supporters who provided shelter to fugitive JI members from Indonesia;

• in July 2007, ASG and Moro Islamic Liberation Front members fought Philippine marines on Basilan Island, killing 14;

• in November 2007, a motorcycle bomb exploded outside the Philippine Congress, killing a Congressman and three staff members. While there was no definitive claim of responsibility, three suspected ASG members were arrested during a subsequent raid on a safe-house;

• in January 2009, ASG kidnapped three International Red Cross workers in Sulu province, holding one of the hostages for six months.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Jemaah Islamiyah (QE.J.92.02), listed on 25 October 2002

International Islamic Relief Organization, Philippines, Branch Offices (QE.I.126.06), listed on 4 August 2006

Rajah Solaiman Movement (QE.R.128.08), listed on 4 June 2008

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani (QI.J.180.04), listed on 22 December 2004

Isnilon Totoni Hapilon (QI.H.204.05), listed on 6 December 2005

Radulan Sahiron (QI.S.208.05), listed on 6 December 2005

Jainal Antel Sali Jr. (QI.S.209.05), listed on 6 December 2005

Abd al Hamid Sulaiman Muhammed al-Mujil (QI.A.225.06), listed on 4 August 2006

Fahd Muhammad ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Khashiban (QI.A.233.07), listed on 9 October 2007

Abdul Rahim al-Talhi (QI.A.234.07), listed on 9 October 2007

Muhammad Abdallah Salih Sughayr (QI.S.235.07), listed on 9 October 2007

Umar Patek (QI.P.294.11), listed on 19 July 2011

QE.A.2.01. AL-ITIHAAD AL-ISLAMIYA / AIAI

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya / AIAI was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information

Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya / AIAI was established between 1982 and 1984 and, along with other organizations, sought to overthrow the government in Somalia. AIAI’s leadership has included Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki (QI.A.172.04) and Hassan Dahir Aweys (QI.D.42.01). AIAI began its alliance with Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) in 1993 and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) devoted substantial funds towards the establishment of an AIAI-administered authority in Somalia, which supported the ultimate aim of setting up an Al-Qaida base of operations there. AIAI later supported Al-Qaida’s bombing of the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on 7 August 1998. AIAI also supported Al-Qaida’s bomb attack on the Paradise Hotel in Kikambala and the simultaneous attack against a civilian airliner in Mombasa, Kenya, in 2002.

AIAI has generated funds through criminal and business activities, both in Somalia and abroad. AIAI has received funds through Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (QE.A.72.02) in Somalia.

AIAI shares ideological, financial and training links with Al-Qaida and has fostered contacts with Al-Qaida-associated entities in North Africa and the Middle East, including Algeria's Armed Islamic Group (QE.A.6.01); Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QE.A.3.01); Le Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC), listed as the Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (QE.T.14.01); the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (QE.L.11.01.); the Islamic Army of Aden (QE.I.9.01); the International Islamic Relief Organization (some offices of which are listed on the Al-Qaida Sanctions List); and Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (QE.R.70.02).

Related listed individuals and entities:

Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QE.A.3.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Armed Islamic Group (QE.A.6.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Islamic Army of Aden (QE.I.9.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (QE.L.11.01), listed on 6 October 2001

The Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (QE.T.14.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (QE.R.70.02), listed on 11 January 2002

Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (Somalia) (QE.A.72.02), listed on 13 March 2002

Al-Haramayn Foundation (Kenya) (QE.A.105.04), listed on 26 January 2004

Al-Haramayn Foundation (Tanzania) (QE.A.106.04), listed on 26 January 2004

Al-Haramain: Ethiopia Branch (QE.A.113.04), listed on 6 July 2004

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (QI.M.33.01), listed on 17 October 2001

Hassan Dahir Aweys (QI.D.42.01), listed on 9 November 2001

Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki (QI.A.172.04), listed on 6 July 2004

QE.A.3.01. EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 September 2010

Egyptian Islamic Jihad was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information:

Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) emerged in Egypt in the early 1980s. In due course Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01) became its leader.

EIJ was responsible for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. It also claimed responsibility for the attempted assassinations in 1993 of Interior Minister Hassan Al-Alfi and Prime Minister Atef Sedky. The group was responsible for bombing the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad in 1995 and plotted a similar attack against the US Embassy in Albania in 1998.

In 2001, EIJ joined forces with Usama bin Laden’s (QI.B.8.01) Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) network at Al-Zawahiri’s insistence. Objections from Tharwat Salah Shihata (QI.A.17.01) and other members of the group led to a split in EIJ. Those who joined Al-Qaida included Al-Zawahiri, Nasr Fahmi Nasr Hassannein (deceased), Tariq Anwar el Sayed Ahmed (QI.A.14.01) and Sobhi Abdel Aziz Moahmed el Gohary Abu Sinna (deceased). Shihata led the dissident group.

EIJ has been active worldwide under the auspices of Al-Qaida. EIJ operatives played a key role in the attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 and 2001.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Sayf-al Adl (QI.S.1.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Tariq Anwar el Sayed Ahmed (QI.A.14.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Tharwat Salah Shihata (QI.A.17.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Omar Mahmoud Uthman (QI.M.31.01), listed on 17 October 2001

Hassan Dahir Aweys (QI.D.42.01), listed on 9 November 2001

Wa'el Hamza Abd al-Fatah Julaidan (QI.J.79.02), listed on 11 September 2002

Abd Allah Mohamed Ragab Abdel Rahman (QI.A.192.05), listed on 29 September 2005

Zaki Ezat Zaki Ahmed (QI.A.193.05), listed on 29 September 2005

Mohammed Ahmed Shawki al Islambolly (QI.A.194.05), listed on 29 September 2005

Al Sayyid Ahmed Fathi Hussein Eliwah (QI.H.195.05), listed on 29 September 2005

Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa Bakri (QI.M.196.05), listed on 29 September 2005

Madhat Mursi al-Sayyid Umar (QI.U.197.05), listed on 29 September 2005

Hani al-Sayyid al-Sebai Yusif (QI.A.198.05), listed on 29 September 2005

QE.A.4.01. Al-QAIDA

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 October 2011

Al-Qaida was listed on 6 October 2001 within the provisions of resolution 1267 (1999) and resolution 1333 (2000) for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) and the Taliban.

Additional information

Al-Qaida is an international terrorist network that grew out of Makhtab al-Khidamat (QE.M.12.01), created by Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden’s (QI.B.8.01) mentor, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, as an organization to fund fighters in Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, its affiliates, and those inspired by the group, have been involved in planning and executing attacks in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. 

Al-Qaida was founded by Bin Laden and Sobhi Abd al Aziz Mohamed el Gohary Abu Sinna (QI.E.7.01), also known as Mohamed Atef and Abu Hafs al Masri, together with Abu Ubaidah al Banshjri and others. From its creation until 1991, Al-Qaida was located in Afghanistan and in Peshawar, Pakistan. In 1991, the leadership of Al-Qaida, including its emir Bin Laden, relocated to the Sudan, while maintaining offices in various parts of the world. In 1996, Bin Laden and other members of Al-Qaida moved back to Afghanistan. From 1996 until late 2001, Al-Qaida was operated by Bin Laden and associates from Afghanistan under the protection of the Taliban.

Al-Qaida has functioned both on its own and through terrorist organizations in other countries. In 1998, Al-Qaida merged with Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QE.A.3.01), led by Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), who became the second most important leader in the organization after Bin Laden. It has acknowledged affiliates in Iraq (QE.J.115.04), North Africa (QE.T.14.01) and Yemen (QE.A.129.10).

Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for a number of large-scale terrorist attacks, including those on the United States Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1998; the attack on the U.S.S. Cole at the port of Aden and other attacks in Saudi Arabia and Yemen in 2000; the attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001, attacks in Turkey in 2003; in Saudi Arabia in 2004; in the United Kingdom in 2005, and others in Pakistan and Afghanistan since then. It has also inspired many other attacks, including in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QE.A.3.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Makhtab al-Khidamat (QE.M.12.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Sobhi Abd al Aziz Mohamed el Gohary Abu Sinna (QI.E.7.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

QE.A.5.01. AL RASHID TRUST

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 September 2010

Al Rashid Trust was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).

Additional information:

Al Rashid Trust was a financial facilitator of Al-Qaida-related (QE.A.4.01) terrorist groups with operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including Jaish-i-Mohammed (QE.J.19.01). The Trust also had links to militants in Kosovo.

The Aid Organization of the Ulema, also headquartered in Pakistan, was identified in 2002 as the successor organization of Al Rashid Trust. It had been raising funds for the Taliban since 1999, and officers of the organization were representatives and key leaders of Al-Qaida.

In 2003, a senior Al-Qaida member admitted that Al Rashid Trust and Al-Akhtar Trust International (QE.A.121.05) were the primary relief agencies that Al-Qaida used to move supplies into Kandahar, Afghanistan. While Al-Qaida was based in Kandahar, Afghanistan, these organizations provided support to Al-Qaida members. When Al-Qaida members fled from Kandahar in late 2001, these organizations provided the families of Al-Qaida members with financial assistance.

  Al Rashid Trust was founded by Mufti Rashid Ahmad Ladehyanoy (QI.L.30.01).

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Jaish-i-Mohammed (QE.J.19.01), listed on 17 October 2001

Al-Akhtar Trust International (QE.A.121.05), listed on 17 August 2005

Mufti Rashid Ahmad Ladehyanoy (QI.L.30.01), listed on 17 October 2001

QE.A.6.01. ARMED ISLAMIC GROUP

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

The Armed Islamic Group was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf, or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).

Additional information

The Armed Islamic Group or GIA (from the French « Groupe Islamique Armé ») is based in Algeria and was founded in the early 1990s by veterans of the war in Afghanistan following the Algerian Government’s ban on the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in December 1991.

In 1993, GIA began a high-profile campaign of terrorist acts and quickly became one of Algeria’s most radical and violent extremist groups. It distinguished itself from other groups operating in Algeria by its indiscriminate targeting of intellectuals and other civilians.

Prominent Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) figures, such as United Kingdom-based Omar Mahmoud Uthman (QI.M.31.01), a.k.a. Abu Qatada, and Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, aka Abu Musab al-Suri, served as editors for the GIA newsletter, Al-Ansar, during the mid-1990s. This pamphlet was the most significant extremist publication at that time. In 1997, Mostafa Kamel Mostafa Ibrahim (QI.I.67.02), a.k.a. Abu Hamza, became editor-in-chief of Al-Ansar. Abu Hamza also served as the group's unofficial spokesman during the 1998 ‘Ramadan massacres’ in Algeria.

The Algerian diaspora in Europe, particularly in France, has been a source of GIA financial support and recruitment. France has also been a target of GIA attacks.

GIA has been involved in a number of terrorist acts, including hijacking, bombing civilian sites, attacking civilians and ambushing Algerian security forces. Between 1992 and 2002, GIA reportedly killed more than 100 foreigners, mostly Europeans, in Algeria.

GIA’s terrorist activities include:

• hijacking an Air France flight in Algiers in December 1994 with the intention of crashing it over Paris; one passenger was executed by the GIA;

• a series of bombings in France in 1995 which killed 10 people and injured more than 200 on subways in Paris, at outdoor markets, at a Jewish school, and against a high-speed train. Several GIA members were convicted in France for these crimes in late 1999;

• kidnapping and assassinating 7 monks from the monastery of Tibehirine, Algeria, in 1996;

• assassinating the Catholic Bishop of Oran, Algeria, a proponent of inter-faith dialogue, in 1996;

• bombing a market place in Larbaa, Algeria, on 5 July 2002 (Algerian Independence Day) in which 35 people died;

• massacres of entire villages and families between 1995 and the late 1990s, killing several hundred people.

In 1998, GIA split over the issue of attacking civilians. One of its commanders, Hassan Hattab, broke away to found the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), listed as the Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (QE.T.14.01). Many GIA members defected to this new group.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

The Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (QE.T.14.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Djamat Houmat Daawa Salafia (DHDS) (QE.D.102.03), listed on 11 November 2003

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Omar Mahmoud Uthman (QI.M.31.01), listed on 17 October 2001

Mostafa Kamel Mostafa Ibrahim (QI.I.67.02), listed on 24 April 2002

Tarek ben Habib ben al-Toumi al-Maaroufi (QI.A.74.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Youssef ben Abdul Baki ben Youcef Abdaoui (QI.A.90.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Mohamed Amine Akli (QI.A.91.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Mehrez ben Mahmoud ben Sassi al-Amdouni (QI.A.92.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Chiheb ben Mohamed ben Mokhtar al-Ayari (QI.A.93.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Lionel Dumont (QI.D.95.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Moussa ben Omar ben Ali Essaadi (QI.E.96.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Ibrahim ben Hedhili ben Mohamed al-Hamami (QI.A.98.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Khalil ben Ahmed ben Mohamed Jarraya (QI.J.99.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Faouzi ben Mohamed ben Ahmed al-Jendoubi (QI.A.101.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Ahmed Hosni Rarrbo (QI.R.103.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Najib ben Mohamed ben Salem al-Waz (QI.A.104.03), listed on 25 June 2003

Djamel Lounici (QI.L.155.04), listed on 16 January 2004

Abd al Wahab Abd al Hafiz (QI.A.157.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Abderrahmane Kifane (QI.K.158.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Fethi ben Hassen ben Salem al-Haddad (QI.A.160.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Farid Aider (QI.A.161.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Abdelhadi ben Debka (QI.B.162.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Moustafa Abbes (QI.A.163.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Othman Deramchi (QI.D.164.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Yacine Ahmed Nacer (QI.N.165.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Youcef Abbes (QI.A.166.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Mohamed Belkalem (QI.B.279.10), listed on 22 April 2010

QE.A.7.01. ASBAT AL-ANSAR

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

Asbat al-Ansar was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).

Additional information

Asbat al-Ansar is a group based in Lebanon composed primarily of Palestinians with links to Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01). The group has engaged in violence to achieve political ends.

Asbat al-Ansar has secretly pledged allegiance to Al-Qaida and maintained close ties with the Al-Qaida network, including the provision of fighters and financial assistance. Asbat al-Ansar has its base of operations in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon, with more than 290 armed members. Lebanese authorities detained a cell of Al-Qaida in Iraq (QE.J.115.04) extremists in June 2007 in the Bekaa Valley that had been training with Asbat al-Ansar and was possibly planning terrorist attacks throughout Lebanon against the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) or other targets.

Asbat al-Ansar first emerged in the early 1990s. In the mid-1990s the group assassinated Lebanese religious leaders and bombed nightclubs, theaters and liquor stores. It was involved in clashes in northern Lebanon in December 1999 and carried out a rocket-propelled grenade attack on the Russian Embassy in Beirut in January 2000. In September 2004, operatives with links to the group were involved in planning terrorist operations against the Italian Embassy, the Ukrainian Consulate General and Lebanese government offices. In October 2004, Mahir al-Sa’di, a member of Asbat al-Ansar, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for plotting to assassinate the then Ambassador of the United States to Lebanon, in 2000.

Asbat al-Ansar operatives have been involved in fighting against the Multi-National Forces in Iraq since at least 2005 and several members of the group have been killed there. In 2007, Asbat al-Ansar remained focused on supporting fighting in Iraq and planning attacks against, among others, UNIFIL and the Lebanese security forces.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Al-Qaida in Iraq (QE.J.115.04), listed on 18 October 2004

Sulayman Khalid Darwish (QI.D.183.05),  listed on 28 January 2005

QE.H.8.01. HARAKAT UL-MUJAHIDIN / HUM

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 October 2011

Harakat Ul-Mujahidin / HUM was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information

Harakat Ul-Mujahidin / HUM is based in Muzaffarabad, Rawalpindi, and several other towns in Pakistan. Its members conduct insurgent and terrorist acts primarily in Kashmir. HUM trains its militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In mid-February 2000, long-time leader Fazlur Rehman Khalil stepped down as HUM emir, handing over the leadership to the second-in-command, Farooq Kashmiri. Khalil has been linked to Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) and signed a decreein February 1998 calling for attacks on Untied States and other Western interests. HUM operated terrorist training camps in eastern Afghanistan until they were destroyed in 2001.

HUM has conducted a number of operations against Indian troops and civilian targets in Kashmir. The group is linked to the Kashmiri militant group Al-Faran which kidnapped five tourists in Kashmir in July 1995; one was killed in August 1995 and the other four were reportedly killed in December of the same year. HUM was responsible for the hijacking of an Indian airliner on 24 December 1999, which resulted in the release of Masood Azhar, an important leader in the former Harakat ul-Ansar, an a.k.a. of HUM, who had been imprisoned by the Indian authorities in 1994. Ahmad Omar Sheikh, who was later arrested for the abduction/murder in January-February 2002 of American journalist Daniel Pearl, was also released at the same time.

In addition, HUM has been involved in a number of terrorist activities, including hijacking, bombings, abductions, and training. Terrorist activities for which responsibility has been claimed by or reliably attributed to HUM over the past ten years include:

• November 2000: 30 Indian soldiers killed at two army posts in Kashmir;

• January 2002: The abduction and subsequent murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Four people, including HUM member Ahmed Omar Sheikh, were convicted for Pearl’s murder;

• June 2002: A suicide car-bomb attack outside the United States Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, which killed 11 persons;

• June 2005: The arrest, in Afghanistan, of several HUM trained individuals preparing to carry out acts of terrorism;

• June 2005: The arrest of two American citizens for suspected participation in an Al-Qaida plot to attack the United States. Both claimed to have attended a terrorist training camp run by HUM leader Fazlur Rehman Khalil;

• November 2006: The shooting of a former Special Police Officer in Kashmir accused by HUM of collaborating with a police operations group;

• February 2007: The kidnapping and subsequent beheading of a Hindu businessman in Pakistan’s Sindh Province.

HUM has several thousand armed supporters located in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, and India's southern Kashmir and Doda regions. Its members are mostly Pakistanis and Kashmiris, but also include Afghans and Arab veterans of the Afghan war. They use light and heavy machine guns, assault rifles, mortars, explosives and rockets. HUM has lost a significant number of its members in defections to Jaish-i-Mohammed (QE.J.19.01).

HUM has collected donations from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf and Islamic states as well as from Pakistan and India. HUM's financial collection methods include soliciting donations through magazines and pamphlets. The sources and amounts of HUM’s military funding are unknown. In anticipation of asset seizures by the Pakistani Government, HUM withdrew funds from bank accounts and invested in legal businesses, such as commodity trading, real estate and production of consumer goods. Its fundraising in Pakistan has been constrained since the government clampdown on extremist groups and freezing of terrorist assets.

HUM has cooperated with other listed militant groups operating in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Pakistan such as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (QE.L.118.05) and Jaish-i-Mohammed. On 16 December 2006, leaders of HUM and Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ) (QE.L.96.03) called for a joint strategy and pledged to cooperate with Afghan insurgents to target the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Jaish-i-Mohammed (QE.J.19.01), listed on 17 October 2001

Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ) (QE.L.96.03), listed on 3 February 2003

Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (QE.L.118.05), listed on 2 May 2005

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

QE.I.9.01. ISLAMIC ARMY OF ADEN

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 September 2010

The Islamic Army of Aden was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information:

The Islamic Army of Aden (IAA), also known as the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan, is based in Yemen. It was founded in the early 1990s by Abu Al-Hassan and other Yemenis upon their return from fighting in Afghanistan.

IAA has received financial and material support from Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) leader Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) in exchange for its support for Al-Qaida’s agenda. For example, IAA publicly declared its support for the 1998 attacks by Al-Qaida against the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. It later extended its support for Bin Laden after the United States’ retaliatory strikes on Al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan.

IAA has claimed responsibility for bomb attacks on American and British interests in Yemen, and has threatened Western doctors and tourists in the country. On 28 December 1998, IAA gunmen kidnapped 16 western tourists in Yemen and demanded the release of several of its militants who had been arrested a week earlier. Yemeni security forces stormed the IAA hideout where the hostages were being held. Four hostages died in the raid. Al-Hassan was executed in 1999 for his role in the kidnapping. IAA also played a role in the 12 October 2000 bombing of the American warship USS Cole in Aden Harbor, Yemen, which killed 17 American sailors and injured 39 others. The attack was sponsored and conducted in coordination with Al-Qaida.

Related listed individuals and entities

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya / AIAI (QE.A.2.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Hassan Dahir Aweys (QI.D.42.01), listed on 9 November 2001

Mostafa Kamel Mostafa Ibrahim (QI.I.67.02), listed on 24 April 2002

QE.I.10.01. ISLAMIC MOVEMENT OF UZBEKISTAN

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01)  and the Taliban.

Additional information

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) is a group of militants from Uzbekistan, other Central Asian states and Europe, and comprises approximately 500 members. Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) leaders encouraged the formation of IMU and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) supplied most of the funding to set up the organization. IMU, under the leadership of Tohir Abdulkhalilovich Yuldashev (deceased), has embraced Usama bin Laden's ideology. IMU has close ties with Al-Qaida and the Taliban; senior IMU leaders have held positions in the Al-Qaida hierarchy.

Before October 2001, IMU primarily targeted Uzbekistan interests and was responsible for several explosions in Tashkent in February 1999. In August 1999, IMU militants took hostage four Japanese geologists and eight Kyrgyz soldiers; and in August 2000, they took hostage four American mountain climbers. Since October 2001, IMU has focused its attacks on International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops in Afghanistan, alongside the Taliban and Al-Qaida. 

IMU has also been active in terrorist operations in Central Asia. IMU was responsible for explosions in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in December 2002, and Osh, Kyrgyzstan, in May 2003 that killed eight people. In May 2003, Kyrgyz security forces disrupted an IMU cell that was seeking to bomb the United States Embassy and a nearby hotel in Bishkek. In November 2004, IMU was blamed for an explosion in Osh that killed one police officer and one terrorist. Government authorities in Tajikistan arrested several IMU members in 2005.

A group of IMU fighters broke away from the organization to form the Islamic Jihad Group (QE.I.119.05). The defection of IMU fighters to the Islamic Jihad Group has not diminished its capability and intent to conduct terrorist attacks.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Islamic Jihad Group (QE.I.119.05), listed on 1 June 2005

Emarat Kavkaz (QE.E.131.11), listed on 29 July 2011

Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) (QE.T.132.11), listed on 29 July 2011

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Mahdhat Mursi al-Sayyid Umar (QI.U.197.05), listed on 29 September 2005

Suhayl Fatilloevich Buranov (QI.B.239.08), listed on 21 April 2008

Najmiddin Kamolitdinovich Jalolov (QI.J.240.08), listed on 21 April 2008

Doku Khamatovich Umarov (QI.U.290.11), listed on 10 March 2011

Monir Chouka (QI.C.300.12), listed on 25 January 2012

Yassin Chouka (QI.C.301.12), listed on 25 January 2012

Fazal Rahim (QI.R.303.12), listed on 6 March 2012

QE.L.11.01. LIBYAN ISLAMIC FIGHTING GROUP

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 23 August 2010

The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) and the Taliban.

Additional information:

The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) is an Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) affiliate. It was created in 1995 by Libyans who had fought in Afghanistan and had plotted against the Government of Libya. LIFG participated with the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (QE.M.89.02) in planning the May 2003 bombings in Casablanca, Morocco, that killed over 40 people and injured more than 100. LIFG has also been linked to the 2004 attacks in Madrid, Spain.

In 2002, Al-Qaida leader Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Hussein (QI.H.10.01), also known as Abu Zubaydah, was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistan, accompanied by at least three LIFG operatives and a fourth individual, the former head of the Sanabel Relief Agency Limited (QE.S.124.06) in Kabul, Afghanistan, who was also known to have ties to LIFG. LIFG commanders, including Abu Yahya al-Liby and the now-deceased Abu al-Laith al-Liby, have occupied prominent positions within Al-Qaida’s senior leadership.

On 3 November 2007, LIFG formally merged with Al-Qaida. The merger was announced via two video clips produced by Al-Qaida’s propaganda arm, Al-Sahab. The first clip featured Usama bin Laden’s (QI.B.8.01) deputy, Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), and the second featured Abu Laith al-Liby, who then served as a senior member of LIFG and a senior leader and trainer for Al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

LIFG is believed to have several hundred members or supporters, mostly in the Middle East and Europe. Since the late 1990s, many LIFG members have fled from Libya to various Asian, Arabian Gulf, African, and European countries, particularly the United Kingdom. It is likely that LIFG has maintained a presence in eastern Libya and has facilitated the transfer of foreign fighters to Iraq.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya / AIAI (QE.A.2.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (QE.M.89.02), listed on 10 October 2002

The Tunisian Combatant Group (QE.T.90.02), listed on 10 October 2002

Lajnat al Daawa al Islamiya (LDI) (QE.L.97.03), listed on 20 February 2003

The Sanabel Relief Agency Limited (QE.S.124.06), listed on 7 February 2006

Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Hussein (QI.H.10.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Hassan Dahir Aweys (QI.D.42.01), listed on 9 November 2001

Ibrahim Ali Abu Bakr Tantoush (QI.T.57.02), listed on 11 January 2002

Merai Zoghbai (QI.Z.223.06), listed on 2 August 2006

Aly Soliman Massoud Abdul Sayed (QI.A.229.07), listed on 8 June 2007

Said Youssef Ali Abu Aziza (QI.A.230.07), listed on 8 June 2007

Salem Nor Eldin Amohamed al-Dabski (QI.A.231.07), listed on 8 June 2007

Adil Muhammad Mahmud Abd Al-Khaliq (QI.A.255.08), listed on 10 October 2008

QE.M.12.01. MAKHTAB AL-KHIDAMAT

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 September 2010

Makhtab al-Khidamat was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information:

Makhtab al-Khidamat, also known as the Afghan Service Bureau, is the pre-cursor organization to Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and provided the basis for its infrastructure. It was created in the 1980s by Abdullah Azzam and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) to establish guest houses near the Afghan border and paramilitary camps to prepare militants for the Afghan conflict.

Makhtab al-Khidamat helped channel fighters and money to Afghanistan, and established offices worldwide under the alias Al Kifah.

Disagreements between Azzam and Bin Laden in the late 1980s resulted in the creation of Al-Qaida by Bin Laden. After Azzam was killed in 1989, Bin Laden continued to utilize Makhtab al-Khidamat and the Al Kifah branches before absorbing them into Al-Qaida.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

The Rabita Trust (QE.R.21.01) listed on 17 October 2001

The Global Relief Foundation (GRF) (QE.G.91.02), listed on 12 October 2002

Al-Haramain Foundation (Pakistan) (QE.A.104.04), listed on 26 January 2004

Al-Haramain: Afghanistan Branch (QE.A.110.04), listed on 6 July 2004

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Yasin Abdullah Ezzedine Qadi (QI.Q.22.01), listed on 17 October 2001

Wa'el Hamza Abd al-Fatah Julaidan (QI.J.79.02), listed on 11 September 2002

QE.T.14.01. THE ORGANIZATION OF AL-QAIDA IN THE ISLAMIC MAGHREB

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 28 March 2011

The Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb was originally listed under the name of the Salafist Group for Call and Combat on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).

Additional information:

The Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was created in Algeria in 1998 by Hassan Hattab as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC). GSPC was a splinter entity of the Armed Islamic Group (QE.A.6.01), which was the largest and most extreme terrorist group in Algeria at the time. GSPC was renamed AQIM in January 2007 following the group’s union with Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), which was announced by Al-Qaida leader Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01) on 11 September 2006.

AQIM has conducted numerous attacks against Algerian security and law enforcement bodies and facilities in connection with its stated objective of overthrowing the Algerian Government and establishing an Islamic caliphate. Following its formal alliance with Al-Qaida, AQIM expanded its aims and declared its intention to attack Western targets. In late 2006 and early 2007, it conducted several attacks against convoys of foreign nationals in Algeria. In December 2007, AQIM attacked the United Nations office in Algiers, killing 17, at the same time as it attacked the Algerian Constitutional Council.

GSPC, and then as AQIM, has abducted numerous foreigners for ransom, starting in February 2003 with 32 tourists in the south of Algeria, then others in Tunisia, Niger, Mali and Mauritania.

AQIM’s leader is Abdelmalek Droukdel (QI.D.232.07). The group operates primarily in the northern coastal areas of Algeria and in parts of the desert regions of southern Algeria, northern Mali, eastern Mauritania and western Niger. Its sources of funding include financial support from cells in Europe, extortion and kidnapping.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Armed Islamic Group (QE.A.6.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Armed Islamic Group (QE.A.6.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (QE.M.89.02), listed on 10 October 2002

The Tunisian Combatant Group (QE.T.90.02), listed on 10 October 2002

Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Omar Mahmoud Uthman (QI.M.31.01), listed on 17 October 2001

Mohamed ben Belgacem ben Abdallah al-Aouadi (QI.A.60.02), listed on 24 April 2002

Mohamed Aouani (QI.B.62.02), listed on April 24 2002

Al-Mokhtar ben Mohamed ben al-Mokhtar Bouchoucha (QI.B.63.02), listed on April 24 2002

Sami ben Khamis ben Saleh Elsseid (QI.E.64.02), listed on 24 April 2002

Abd el Kader Mahmoud Mohamed el Sayed (QI.E.65.02), listed on 24 April 2002

Adel ben al-Azhar ben Youssef ben Soltane (QI.B.68.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Nabil ben Mohamed ben Ali ben Attia (QI.B.69.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Yassine Chekkouri (QI.C.70.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Riadh ben Belkassem ben Mohamed al-Jelassi (QI.A.71.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Mehdi ben Mohamed ben Mohamed Kammoun (QI.K.72.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Samir Abd el Latif el Sayed Kishk (QI.K.73.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Tarek ben Habib ben al-Toumi al-Maaroufi (QI.A.74.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Abdelhalim Hafed Abdelfattah Remadna (QI.R.75.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Isam Ali Mohamed Alouche (QI.T.76.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Al-Azhar ben Mohammed ben el-Abed al-Tlili (QI.A.77.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Habib ben Ali ben Said al-Wadhani (QI.A.78.02), listed on 3 September 2002

Mokhtar Belmokhtar (QI.B.136.03), listed on 11 November 2003

Saifi Ammari (QI.A.152.03), listed on 4 December 2003

Djamel Lounici (QI.L.155.04), listed on 16 January 2004

Abd al Wahab Abd al Hafiz (QI.A.157.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Abderrahmane Kifane (QI.K.158.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Fethi ben Hassen ben Salem al-Haddad (QI.A.160.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Farid Aider (QI.A.161.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Abdelhadi ben Debka (QI.B.162.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Moustafa Abbes (QI.A.163.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Othman Deramchi (QI.D.164.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Yacine Ahmed Nacer (QI.N.165.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Youcef Abbes (QI.A.166.04), listed on 17 March 2004

Kamel Djermane (QI.D.167.04), listed on 3 May 2004

Ahmad Zerfaoui (QI.Z.168.04), listed on 3 May 2004

Dhou el-Aich (QI.E.169.04), listed on 3 May 2004

Hacene Allane (QI.A.170.04), listed on 3 May 2004

Mohamed ben Mohamed ben Khalifa Abdelhedi (QI.A.173.04), listed on 23 June 2004

Imad ben Bechir ben Hamda al-Jammali (QI.A.176.04), listed on 23 June 2004

Habib ben Ahmed al-Loubiri (QI.A.177.04), listed on 23 June 2004

Abdelmalek Droukdel (QI.D.232.07), listed on 27 August 2007

Yahia Djouadi (QI.D.249.08), listed on 3 July 2008

Amor Mohamed Ghedeir (QI.H.250.08), listed on 3 July 2008

Salah Gasmi (QI.G.251.08), listed on 3 July 2008

Ahmed Deghdegh (QI.D.252.08), listed on 3 July 2008

QE.W.15.01. WAFA HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

The Wafa Humanitarian Organization was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information

The Wafa Humanitarian Organization has supported the Taliban and financed Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01). Documents found in Wafa’s offices in Afghanistan revealed that the organization was intimately involved in assassination plots against American citizens, as well as the distribution of “how to” manuals on chemical and biological warfare. Wafa is a component of Al-Qaida.

Wafa has raised money for equipment and weapons. Basic military training with AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades was conducted inside the Wafa offices in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wafa continued to provide financial support to Al-Qaida after the 2001 fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Wafa Humanitarian Organization had its headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

Al-Hamati Sweets Bakeries was listed on 17 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information

Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) has used food stores to smuggle cash, drugs and arms to Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), including Al-Hamati Sweets Bakeries, based in Yemen. Al-Hamati Sweets Bakeries is owned by Mohammad Hamdi Mohammad Sadiq al-Ahdal (QI.A.20.01), a.k.a. Muhammad al-Hamati. Al-Ahdal played a role in the October 2000 attack on the American warship U.S.S. Cole and the October 2002 attack on the French oil tanker Limburg, as well as several incidents of sabotage in Yemen.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Mohammad Hamdi Mohammad Sadiq al-Ahdal (QI.A.20.01), listed on 17 October 2001

QE.A.16.01. AL-HAMATI SWEETS BAKERIES

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

Al-Hamati Sweets Bakeries was listed on 17 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information

Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) has used food stores to smuggle cash, drugs and arms to Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), including Al-Hamati Sweets Bakeries, based in Yemen. Al-Hamati Sweets Bakeries is owned by Mohammad Hamdi Mohammad Sadiq al-Ahdal (QI.A.20.01), a.k.a. Muhammad al-Hamati. Al-Ahdal played a role in the October 2000 attack on the American warship U.S.S. Cole and the October 2002 attack on the French oil tanker Limburg, as well as several incidents of sabotage in Yemen.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Mohammad Hamdi Mohammad Sadiq al-Ahdal (QI.A.20.01), listed on 17 October 2001

QE.J.19.01. JAISH-I-MOHAMMED

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 October 2011

Jaish-i-Mohammed was listed on 17 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01)  and the Taliban.

Additional information

Jaish-i-Mohammed (JiM) is an extremist group based in Pakistan founded by Masood Azhar upon his release from prison in India in 1999 in exchange for 155 hostages held on an Indian Airlines flight that had been hijacked to Kandahar, Afghanistan. The 1994 Harakat ul-Mujahidin / HUM (QE.H.8.01) kidnappings of American and British nationals in New Delhi and the July 1995  kidnappings of tourists in Kashmir were two of several previous efforts to free Azhar.

Azhar formed JiM with support from Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), the Taliban, and several other extremist organizations.

On 1 October 2001, JiM claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly building in Srinagar, Kashmir, that killed at least 31 persons; it later denied the claim. JiM and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (QE.L.118.05) were implicated in the 13 December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament that killed nine and injured 18.

JiM has several hundred armed supporters located in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, and in India’s southern Kashmir and Doda regions. Supporters are mostly from Pakistan and Kashmir, but also include Afghans and Arab veterans of the Afghan war. Most of JiM's cadre and material resources are drawn from the militant groups Harakat-ul Jihad Islami  (HUJI) (QE.H.130.10) and HUM.

JiM is based in Peshawar and Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, but members conduct terrorist activities primarily in Kashmir. They also co-operate with the Taliban in attacks against Afghan government and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) targets in Afghanistan. JiM maintained training camps in Afghanistan until the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

JiM has had close ties with both Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), and the Taliban. Usama bin Laden is believed to have provided funds to JiM. In anticipation of asset seizures by the Pakistani Government, JiM has withdrawn funds from bank accounts and invested in businesses such as commodity trading, real estate and the production of consumer goods. JiM members have also set up two organizations registered in Pakistan as humanitarian aid agencies: Al-Akhtar Trust International (QE.A.121.05) and Alkhair Trust. JiM hoped to give the impression that the two new organizations were separate entities and sought to use them as a way to deliver arms and ammunition to its members under the guise of providing humanitarian aid to refugees and other needy groups.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Harakat ul-Mujahidin / HUM (QE.H.8.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (QE.L.118.05), listed on 2 May 2005

Al-Akhtar Trust International (QE.A.121.05), listed on 17 August 2005

Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (QE.H.130.10), listed on 6 August 2010

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

QE.J.20.01. JAM’YAH TA’AWUN AL-ISLAMIA

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

Jam’yah Ta’awun al-Islamia was listed on 17 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information

Jam’yah Ta’awun al-Islamia, also known as the Society of Islamic Cooperation, was founded by Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) in 2001. It was located in Afghanistan and led by Abu Talha, a senior Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) leader and an explosives specialist who played a major part in arranging financing for Al-Qaida operations in East Africa.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

QE.R.21.01. RABITA TRUST

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

The Rabita Trust was listed on 17 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information

The Rabita Trust is a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Pakistan which has provided logistical and financial support to Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).

The Rabita Trust has also had close ties to Al-Qaida leaders. In February 2000, Wa’el Hamza Abd al-Fatah Julaidan (QI.J.79.02) was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Rabita Trust and served as its Director General. Julaidan is a Saudi Arabian citizen and a close associate of Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), having fought with him in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Bin Laden himself acknowledged his close ties to Julaidan during a 1999 interview with Al-Jazeera Television.

Julaidan has held high-level posts within Saudi Arabian NGOs, including the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), of which two branch offices – International Islamic Relief Organization, Indonesia, Branch Office (QE.I.127.06) and International Islamic Relief Organization, Philippines, Branch Offices (QE.I.126.06) – are listed.

Julaidan is connected with a number of other listed individuals and entities, including Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Hussein (QI.H.10.01), Sobhi Abdel Aziz Mohamed el Gohary Abu Sinna (deceased), Makhtab al-Khidamat (QE.M.12.01) and the Armed Islamic Group (QE.A.6.01).

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Armed Islamic Group (QE.A.6.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Makhtab al-Khidamat (QE.M.12.01), listed on 6 October 2001

International Islamic Relief Organization, Philippines, Branch Offices, (QE.I.126.06) listed on 4 August 2006

International Islamic Relief Organization, Indonesia, Branch Office (QE.I.127.06) listed on 9 November 2006

Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Hussein (QI.H.10.01), listed on 25 January 2001

Wa’el Hamza Abd al-Fatah Julaidan (QI.J.79.02), listed on 11 September 2002

QE.H.57.01. HEYATUL ULYA

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 7 April 2011

Heyatul Ulya was listed on 9 November 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).

Additional information

Heyatul Ulya is related to the Barakaat group of companies (“Barakaat”), a network of companies that in 2001 operated in 40 countries around the world with business ventures in telecommunications, construction, wire transfer services and currency exchange. Its operations were centered in the United Arab Emirates and Somalia. Barakaat was founded in 1989 by Ali Ahmed Nur Jim’ale. Jim’ale was closely linked with Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01). Bin Laden provided Jim’ale with one million United States dollars in “venture capital” in 1992, and has acted as a “silent partner” in Barakaat.

Bin Laden had long found Barakaat an efficient and discreet way to transfer money and invested in Barakaat’s telecommunications network. Barakaat acted as a source of funding and money transfers for Bin Laden, with its owner channeling several million United States dollars to and from Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01). In addition, Barakaat has managed, invested and distributed funds for Al-Qaida.

Most of Bin Laden’s transactions were between Mogadishu, Somalia, and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Mombassa, Kenya, and Nairobi, Kenya. These funds generally were intermingled with transfers made on behalf of non-governmental organizations such as Al-Haramain (various offices are listed on the Al-Qaida Sanctions List) and some branch offices of the International Islamic Relief Organization (some offices are listed on the Consolidated List).

Barakaat arranged for the shipment of weapons to terrorist supporters and provided employment within its “security” division for almost 1,000 fighters. Bin Laden paid for their accommodation and food and called upon their services when needed. Bin Laden’s associates arrived regularly at Mogadishu’s Bale Dogle Airport on chartered aircraft originating in Yemen, Pakistan and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Barakaat security personnel met these operatives at the airport and escorted them to the compounds of certain non-governmental organizations or to properties owned by a local businessman.

Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya/AIAI (QE.A.2.01) also used Barakaat to finance the destabilization policy of the then so-called Transitional National Government against other peaceful parts of Somalia.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya/AIAI (QE.A.2.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Red Sea Barakat Company Limited (QE.R.60.01), listed on 9 November 2001

Somali Internet Company (QE.S.62.01), listed on 9 November 2001

Usama Muhammad Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

QE.R.60.01. RED SEA BARAKAT COMPANY LIMITED

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 23 February 2010

Red Sea Barakat Company Limited was listed on 9 November 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf, or in support of”, “supplying, selling, or transferring arms and related material to”, “recruiting for” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).

Additional information:

Red Sea Barakat Company Limited belongs to the Barakaat group of companies (“Barakaat”), a network of companies that in 2001 operated in 40 countries around the world with business ventures in telecommunications, construction, wire transfer services and currency exchange. Its operations were centered in the United Arab Emirates and Somalia.

Barakaat was founded in 1989 by Ali Ahmed Nur Jim’ale. Jim’ale was closely linked with Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01). Bin Laden provided Jim’ale with one million United States dollars in venture capital in 1992, and has acted as a silent partner in Barakaat.

Bin Laden had long found Barakaat an efficient and discreet way to transfer money and invested in Barakaat’s telecommunications network. Barakaat acted as a source of funding and money transfers for Bin Laden, with its owner channeling several million United States dollars to and from Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01). In addition, Barakaat has managed, invested and distributed funds for Al-Qaida. Barakaat has also arranged for the shipment of weapons to terrorist supporters.

Most of Bin Laden’s transactions were between Mogadishu, Somalia, and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Mombassa, Kenya, and Nairobi, Kenya. These funds generally were intermingled with transfers made on behalf of non-governmental organizations such as Al-Haramain (various offices are listed on the Al-Qaida Sanctions List) and some branch offices of the International Islamic Relief Organization (some offices are listed on the Consolidated List).

Barakaat arranged for the shipment of weapons to terrorist supporters and provided employment within its “security” division for almost 1,000 fighters, while Bin Laden paid for their accommodation and food and called upon their services when needed. Bin Laden’s associates arrived regularly at Mogadishu’s Bale Dogle Airport on chartered aircraft originating in Yemen, Pakistan and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Barakaat security personnel met these operatives at the airport and escorted them to the compounds of certain non-governmental organizations or to properties owned by a local businessman.

Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya/AIAI (QE.A.2.01) also made use of Barakaat in Somalia.

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya/AIAI (QE.A.2.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Al-Haramain Foundation offices (QE.A.71.02, QE.A.72.02, QE.A.103.04, QE.A.104.04, QE.A.105.04, QE.A.106.04, QE.A.109.04, QE.A.110.04, QE.A.111.04, QE.A.112.04, QE.A.113.04, QE.A.114.04, QE.A.116.04, QE.A.117.04), listed between 13 March 2002 and 28 September 2004

International Islamic Relief Organization, Indonesia, Branch Office (QE.I.127.06), listed on 9 November 2006

International Islamic Relief Organization, Philippines, Branch Offices (QE.I.126.06), listed on 4 August 2006

Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001

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