Off Topic, just interesting.
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Wednesday November 28, 2:47 PM
U.N. orders assets freeze of 152 Taliban officials
By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations has ordered its 189 members to freeze assets of 152 Taliban officials, virtually everyone who held a government post on behalf of the former rulers of Afghanistan.
The 11-page list, posted on Tuesday by a U.N. Security Council sanctions committee, adds another 127 names of individuals, groups or businesses associated with the Taliban or Saudi-born Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, accused of masterminding September 11 attacks against World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Taliban's spiritual leader and founder, heads the list along with Mullah Mohammad Rabbani, chairman of the council of ministers. The entire Taliban representation in Pakistan is included as well as its former consulate officials in various cities in that country.
The list incorporates many of the names and groups cited by the United States since September 11 in an effort to choke off funds in bin Laden's network.
But the U.N. document is longer and has a wider global reach in making the freeze mandatory for all its members.
Trade and charity groups, some with their addresses, are named in capitals in each continent. The list includes the whole al-Barakaat financial network, a Somali-based operation, with branches in Europe and North America, the United States says was used by al-Qaeda. |
