Funding: Assets of 39 More Individuals And Organisations Are Frozen

Funding: Assets of 39 More Individuals And Organisations Are Frozen

Addresses in London appear on new list

by Audrey Gillan
The Guardian
October 13, 2001

The Bush administration and the British government yesterday widened their financial assault on terrorism, naming an additional 39 individuals and organisations that will have their assets frozen.

The new list of groups and agencies conducting or financing terrorist activities includes businesses and charitable organisations that funnel money to the al-Qaida network. The list includes 12 individuals, including Osama bin Laden, 11 organisations, including al-Qaida, three charities and one business.

Among those named are Sa'd Al-Sharif, who officials described as a senior Bin Laden associate thought to head his financial network, and Amin Al-Haq, who is also known as Muhammad Amin, and is described as Bin Laden's security coordinator. The assets of the 22 men who appeared on the FBI's new "most wanted terrorists" lists will also be frozen as part of the new financial onslaught.

The latest move to choke off terrorists' funding is considered by Tony Blair and President Bush to be a key part of the allies' broader anti-terrorism campaign.

The chancellor, Gordon Brown said: "Today's list is a result of intelligence sharing and coordination between the UK and the US."

The US treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, said: "We are determined to deny terrorists the resources to carry out their acts of evil. This list will continue to grow as we share information between nations and develop an increasingly clear understanding of the complex network of terrorist financing."

On Thursday, the Bush administration announced that roughly Dollars 24m (pounds 17m) in assets, including some belonging to Bin Laden, had been frozen by the US and other countries since the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on September 11.

Of that, nearly Dollars 4m (pounds 2.7m) was blocked by the US and the rest was frozen by other countries. All the frozen assets were connected to Bin Laden, his al-Qaida network or the Taliban in Afghanistan. Besides the Dollars 4m frozen in the US, "several million in additional assets are under review", a US treasury official said.

It emerged yesterday that months before the September 11 attacks, the UN and the EU directed their members to freeze the assets of five lieutenants of Bin Laden, including his brother-in-law and financial handler, but this was not done by the US.

Members of Congress want to know why treasury officials charged with disrupting the finances of terrorists did not follow their lead.

One of the individuals named in yesterday's document has an address in central London. Ayadi Chafiq bin Muhammad, who is 38, and has at least four aliases, is listed as living in Park Road, Marylebone, close to Regent's Park, but also as having connections with Munich, Vienna, Belgium and Tunisia.

Another on the list was born in Britain, and his UK national insurance number is given in the document. Omar Mahmoud Uthman was born in London in December 1960 and is listed as having eight aliases.

The list also includes two companies involved in producing and selling Yemeni honey. CIA agents believe Bin Laden has used a chain of honey shops to smuggle cash, drugs and arms to al-Qaida. One of the companies named is Al-Shifa Honey Press for Industry and Commerce, whose address is given as "By the shrine next to the gas station, Jamal Street, Taiz, Yemen".

The second company is the Al-Nur Honey Press Shops, also known as Al-Nur Honey Centre, at Sana'a in Yemen.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad, run by Bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, was already known to use the honey industry as a front for fundraising and distribution.

List of suspect people and groups

Organisations

Al-Hamati Sweets Bakeries, Al-Mukallah, Hadhramawt Governorate, Yemen.

Al-Nur Honey Press Shops (aka Al-Nur Honey Centre), Sana'a, Yemen.

Al-Shifa Honey Press for Industry and Commerce, PO Box 8089, Al-Hasabah, Sana'a, Yemen; by the shrine next to the gas station, Jamal Street, Ta iz, Yemen; Al-Arudh Square, Khur Maksar, Aden, Yemen; Al-Nasr Street, Doha, Qatar.

Jaish-i-Mohammed (aka Army of Mohammed), Pakistan.

Jam Yah Ta Awun Al-Islamia (aka Society of Islamic Cooperation, Jam Iyat Al Ta Awun Al Islamiyya, JIT), Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Rabita Trust, Room 9A, 2nd Floor, Wahdat Road, Education Town, Lahore, Pakistan; Wares Colony, Lahore, Pakistan.

Individuals

Haji Abdul Manan Agha (aka Saiyid, Abd Al-Man am); Pakistan.

Muhammad al-Hamati (aka Al-Ahdal, Mohammad Hamdi Sadiq; Al-Makki, Abu Asim), Yemen.

*Amin al-Haq (aka Amin, Muhammad; Ah Haq, Dr Amin; Ul-Haq, Dr Amin)

Yasin al-Qadi (aka Kadi, Shaykh Yassin Abdullah; Kahdi, Yasin), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

*Saqar al-Jadawi

*Ahmad Sa'id al-Kadr (aka Al-Kanadi, Abu Abd Al-Rahman), place of birth Cairo.

*Sa'd al-Sharif; date of birth 1969; place of birth Saudi Arabia.

*Bilal bin Marwan

Ayadi Chafiq bin Muhammad (aka Ayadi Shafiq, Ben Muhammad; Ayadi Chafik, Ben Muhammad; Aiadi, Ben Muhammad; Aiady, Ben Muhammad), addresses include Park Road, London, NW8, place of birth Tunisia.

Mamoun Darkazanli, Hamburg, Germany; place of birth Syria.

Riad Huazi (aka Huazi, Raed M; Al-Hawen, Abu-Ahmad; Al-Maghribi, Rashid The Moroccan; AL-Amriki, Abu-Ahmad The American; Al-Shahid, Abu-Ahmad), Jordan; date of birth 1968; place of birth California.

Mufti Rashid Ahmad Ladehyanoy (aka Ludhianvi, Mufti Rashid Ahmad; Ahmad, Mufti Rasheed; Wadehyanoy, Mufti Rashid Ahmad); Karachi, Pakistan.

Omar Mahmoud Uthman (aka Othman, Omar Mahmoud; Al-Filistini, Abu Qatada; Takfiri, Abu Umr; Abu Umar, Abu Omar; Uthman, Al-Samman; Umar, Abu Umar; Uthman, Umar; Abu Ismail), London, England.

Tohir Yuldashev (aka Yuldashev, Takhir), Uzbekistan.

Mohammad Zia (aka Zia, Ahmad); Peshawar, Pakistan.

Abdul Rahman Yasin

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

Ahmed al Mughassil

Ali al-Houri

Ibrahim al-Yacoub

Abdel Karim al Nasser

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani

Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam

Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah

Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali

Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah

Imad Mugniyah

Hassan Izz-al-Din

Ali Atwa

Names marked with an asterisk (*) were published in March this year in a United Nations list of individuals and groups suspected of having links with terrorism

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