List of individuals and organizations to which President Bush’s executive order
Monday on terrorism applies:
Osama bin Laden - prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks involving four hijacked
planes that destroyed the World Trade Center towers and damaged the Pentagon.
Al Qaeda/Islamic Army - the worldwide network of bin Laden supporters. Al-Qaeda
seeks to overthrow nearly all Muslim governments, which bin Laden views as corrupt, and to
drive Western influence from those countries and expel all non-Muslims. The group issued a
statement in February 1998, saying it was the duty of all Muslims to kill U.S.
citizens--civilian or military--and their allies everywhere.
Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad) - The group, which effectively merged with bin
Laden's al Qaeda in 1998, seeks to replace the Egyptian government with an Islamic state
and to attack U.S. and Israeli interests. The group is linked to the bombing of U.S.
embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. The Egyptian government claims that both Iran and
Bin Laden support the Jihad.
On September 7, Canadian officials discovered a Web site out of Toronto that included
an invitation to the group. The site sought recruits for training camps in Afghanistan and
listed several comments from terrorists who had taken credit for attacks against citizens
in Israel.
Ayman al-Zawahri -
A physician and former leader of al Jihad, now Bin Laden's top lieutenant. He is
believed to be in Afghanistan. In April 2000, he and eight other members of al-Jihad were
sentenced to death, in absentia, by the the supreme military court of Egypt.
Muhammad Atif (aka Subhi Abu Sitta, Abu Hafs al Masri) - President Clinton
identifed Abu Hafs Al Masri as a bin Laden associate in the aftermath of the August 1998
embassy bombings in east Africa and ordered his U.S.
assets frozen. The U.S. government's indictment of the embassy bombers identified al
Masri as co-founder of the "mekhtab al khidemat," or "Services
Office," which assisted the Afghan resistance to the Soviet occupation during the
1980s and was the precursor to the al-Qaeda network. Bin Laden's son is married to al
Masri's daughter.
Abu Zubaydah (also known as Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, Tariq) - former head
of Egypt-based Islamic Jihad and now a senior bin Laden official responsible for contacts
with Islamic militant groups around the world as well as assigning candidates screened at
his Peshawar, Pakistan, guest house to the dozen or so Afghan camps financed and run by
bin Laden.
Sayf al-Adl - Thought to be an Egyptian national, al-Adl is responsible for bin
Laden's security, according to the United Nations.
Abu Hafs, the Mauritanian (aka Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, Khalid Al-Shanqiti) - He
is believed to be an associate of Mohambedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian who was arrested
and questioned at length by Mauritanian officials in January 2000 about possible
involvement in the Aug. 1998 East African embassy bombings. Slahi was released after he
repeatedly denied any connection with the plot.
Harkat ul-Mujaheddin - previously known as Harkat al Ansar, a militant Muslim
group fighting on Pakistan's side in disputed Kashmir. U.S. officials believe the group
has ties to Pakistan's intelligence service and was behind the hijacking of an Indian
Airlines jetliner in December 1999.
The group's former leader, Fazlur Rehman Khalil, was a co-signer of Bin Laden's Feb.
1998 fatwa calling for attacks on the U.S. The group operates terrorist training camps in
Afghanistan and suffered casualties in the U.S. missile strikes on bin Laden-associated
training camps in August 1998. Following the strikes, Fazlur Rehman Khalil vowed revenge
on the United States.
Several thousand armed supporters are centered in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, and India's
southern Kashmir and Doda regions. Supporters are mostly Pakistanis and Kashmiris and also
include Afghans and Arab veterans of the Afghan war.
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) - The group, which numbers about 2,000
fighers, seeks to overthrow President Islam Karimov and create an Islamic state in the
Ferghana Valley, which includes parts of land from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
According to the U.S.
State Department, IMU leader Tohir Yuldashev has declared a "jihad" or
"holy war" against the Government of Uzbekistan." Since the mid-1990's, IMU
fighters have trained in camps in Afghanistan, some controlled by Usama Bin Laden. The
group has a record of terrorist activity including car bombings in Tashkent, which killed
16 people, and the seizure of numerous hostages, including four American mountain climbers
in August 2000. The Americans were able to escape after being held hostage for six days.
Armed Islamic Group - an armed Islamic group in Algeria that aims to overthrow
the secular goverment there and replace it with an Islamic state. Ahmed Ressam, a member
of the group or a splinter of it, was caught in December 1999 at the Canadian border with
a trunk full of explosives and said he was heading to Los Angeles International Airport.
Some of the individuals arrested and wanted for questioning in connection with the New
Year's plot are believed to have been trained in bin Laden camps.
Algerian expatriates and members abroad, many of whom reside in Western Europe, provide
financial and logistical support. The Algerian government also has accused Iran and Sudan
of supporting Algerian extremists.
Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) - Another Algerian Islamic rebel
group, the GSPC was founded in mid-1998, according to a report on the British government's
Web site. The GSPC
finances its operations by "racketeering, cross border smuggling in western Algeria,
real estate investments (money laundering activities) and Algerian support networks,
particularly those outside Algeria," according to the site. The United Kingdom banned
the group in March 2001 because of it terrorist activities.
Asbat al-Ansar - The State Department describes Asbat al-Ansar as a
Lebanese-based, Sunni extremist organization, that was responsibile for a grenade attack
on the Russian embassy in Beirut in January 2000. Asbat al-Ansar is Arabic for
"League of Partisans."
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group - The Fighting Islamic Group (FIG) is a Libyan
opposition group that regards the governing regime of Muamar Qadaffi as oppressive,
corrupt and apostate. In a May
1999 interview, a spokesman for the group, Omar Rashed said " the entry of the
United States of America into a direct confrontation arena against the Islamic
movements" was the most significant challenge facing his organization.
"The American missile attacks against Sudan and Afghanistan [in August 1998] gives
you an indication of the size and nature of any future confrontations," Rashed was
quoted as saying. "The United States no longer relies on its agents to constrict the
Islamic tide; it has taken this role upon itself."
Islamic Army of Aden- Based in Yemen, the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan became
active in 1998, according the Federation
of American Scientists Web Site. The group reportedly praised the attacks on US
embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in August 1998 as a "heroic operation carried out by
heroes of the jihad." It also announced its support for bin Laden following the
Americans' reprisal raid on his camp in Afghanistan and called on the Yemeni people to
kill Americans and destroy their property.
In December 1998 the Islamic Army of Aden kidnapped 16 Western tourists in Yemen and
held them hostage. Yemeni police stormed the place where they were being held. Four
hostages and two kidnappers were killed. The group's leader, Zein al-Abideen al-Mehdar
(also known as abu-Hassan) was captured and sentenced to death for participating
kidnapping, reportedly carried out in revenge for the British -US air strikes on Iraq. Abu
Hassan was executed by Yemeni government in October 1999.
Abu Sayyaf Group - Muslim extremist group (the name means "Sword of
God") that seeks to create an independent Muslim state in the southern Philippines.
In recent years the group has held over 50 hostages for ransom, including European and
American tourists. They claim to have beheaded one of their American hostages. Ransom
payments by Libya freed some hostages, and provided a large cash influx that allowed the
group to arm themselves heavily. Philippine officials believe the Abu Sayyaf has received
funding and training support from bin Laden.
Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) - a Somali-based Islamic group.
Wafa Humanitarian Organization - a Saudi group with operations include food
distribution and construction of a clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Al Rashid Trust - based in Pakistan, is a charitable group espousing the same
brand of Islam enforced by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The organization operates scores of
bakeries, supplying subsidized food to the poor, and has built several mosques in
Afghanistan.
Shaykh Saiid (aka Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad)
Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi (aka, Abu Abdallah)
Thirwat Salah Shihata
Tariq Anwar Al-Sayyid Ahmad (aka Fathi, Amr al-Fatih)
Muhammad Salah (aka Nasr Fahmi Nasr Hasanayn)
Makhtab Al-Khidamat/Al Kifah
Mamoun Darkazanli Import-Export Co.
Source: Staff and Wire Reports