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News Releases
10/16/2003 USA PATRIOT Act Monitor News Release: Terrorist
Support Organization Designated
On October 14, the U.S. Treasury Department designated the Al Akhtar Trust as
a terrorist support organization under Executive Order 13224 (66 Fed. Reg. 49079,
September 25, 2001), freezing assets of the Trust in the U.S. and prohibiting
transactions with U.S. nationals. The organization has been added to the SDN
list as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist [SDGT] (see Treasury release
at http://www.treas.gov/offices/eotffc/ofac/actions/20031014.html). Treasury
disseminated this addition to the SDN list in a number of announcements, noting
the organization's connection with parties involved in the murder of Daniel
Pearl:
Al Akhtar Trust is a Pakistani based charity known to have provided support
to al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan. Al Akhtar is carrying on the activities
of the previously designated Al Rashid Trust. The organization is also suspected
of raising money for jihad in Iraq and is connected to an individual with ties
to the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal Reporter Daniel Pearl.
The SDN list, updated as of October 14, 2003, provides the following information
on the Trust:
AL-AKHTAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL (a.k.a. AKHTARABAD MEDICAL CAMP; a.k.a.
AL-AKHTAR MEDICAL CENTRE), ST-1/A, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Block 2, Karachi 75300,
Pakistan; Bahawalpur, Pakistan; Bawalnagar, Pakistan; Gilgit, Pakistan; Gulistan-e-Jauhar,
Block 12, Karachi, Pakistan; Islamabad, Pakistan; Mirpur Khas, Pakistan; Spin
Boldak,
Afghanistan; Tando-Jan-Muhammad, Pakistan; and all other offices worldwide [SDGT]
See MLT 1.2-1[2] for further discussion of the responsibilities of financial
institutions with regard to parties on the SDN list.