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EXECUTIVE ORDER ON TRANSACTIONS WITH TERRORISTS
WHO THREATEN TO DISRUPT THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS
The Executive Order issued under Presidential authority contained in
the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, blocks property within
the jurisdiction of the United States of designated foreign persons or
organizations that threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process.
The Order also prohibits and transfers by U.S. persons to the
designated persons or organizations, including charitable contributions
of funds, goods, or services.
Twelve foreign organizations are named in the Executive Order. In
addition, the Treasury Department has designated 18 foreign persons and
has provided a number of pseudonyms used by the organizations and
individuals designated. All of these specially designated terrorists
are subject to the freeze and transfer prohibitions. Included in the
list are 35 variants of the names of these organizations and foreign
persons. Additional organizations or variant names may be added in the
future.
This action is undertaken in response to recurrent acts of
international terrorism which threaten the Middle East peace process,
such as the bomb attack in Beit Lid over the weekend, recent bus
bombings in Israel, as well as earlier threats against and attacks on
Palestinian and Egyptian authorities, and bombings in Buenos Aires and
London.
As an element in our Counterterrorism efforts, these new measures
will add to the arsenal of weapons available to U.S. law enforcement
agencies to combat potential funding of these organizations from U.S.
sources.
These measures are intended to deny terrorist groups that threaten
the peace process access to the U.S. financial system by freezing any
of their funds within U.S. jurisdiction.
These measures are also intended to preclude diversion of charitable
contributions to fund terrorism activities by prohibiting the transfer
of funds by U.S. persons to these groups.
Although we recognize that these groups receive most of their
financial support from sources outside the United States, we hope these
measures will discourage all donors from contribution to groups that
use violence to oppose the peace process. We hope our actions will
serve to encourage similar action by other nations.
The President will soon send to Congress comprehensive anti-terrorism
legislation which would strengthen our ability to prevent terrorist
acts, identify those who perpetrate such violent acts, and bring them
to justice.