Additional Designation of an Entity Pursuant to Executive Order 13224

Federal Register: July 1, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 127)

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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.

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ACTION: Notice.

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 Director of OFAC of the one entity identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 13224, is effective on June 19, 2008.

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 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

Director of OFAC, 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 Director of OFAC, 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.

On June 19, 2008, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the

Departments of State, Homeland Security, Justice 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 designee is as follows: AL-HARAMAIN ISLAMIC FOUNDATION, P.O.

Box 69606, Riyadh 11557, Saudi Arabia; West Al-M'ather Street, Riyadh,

Saudi Arabia; all offices worldwide [SDGT].

Dated: June 19, 2008.

Adam J. Szubin,

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.

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