US PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SLAMS PRESIDENT BUHARI WITH A VERY BAD GLOBAL REPORT…Sanctions Nigeria Under APC’s Watch
The United States, US, Treasury Department, under the leadership
of President Donald Trump, has added one organisation in Nigeria, and other six
organisations in Africa and Asia to its sanctions list for global terrorism,
Punch reports.
Two individuals, including Abu
Musab Al-Barnawi of Nigeria, and Mahad Moalim of Somalia, were also added to
the list for their connection to the Islamic States, the US Treasury, said on
Tuesday.
The
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, said on its website that at the
group level, Bangladesh, Egypt, the Philippines, Somalia, Nigeri, and Tunisia,
were on the list.
“The additions include:
ISIS-Bangladesh, ISIS-Egypt, ISIS-Philippines, ISIS-Somalia, ISIS-West Africa,
Jund al-Khilafah-Tunisia, also known as ISIS-Tunisia, and the Philippines-based
Maute Group, also known as Islamic State of Lanao”, Reuters quoted the OFAC to
have said.
The US State Department said in a
separate statement, that including the latest additions, it had designated 40
Islamic State Leaders and Operatives, dating back to 2011 under an order aimed
at denying them access to the US financial system.
“These designations are part of a
larger comprehensive plan to defeat ISIS, that in coordination with the
75-member Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, has made significant progress toward
that goal”, the statement said, using a common abbreviation for Islamic State.
This effort: “is destroying ISIS
in its safe havens, denying its ability to recruit foreign terrorist fighters,
stifling its financial resources, negating the false propaganda it disseminates
over the internet and social media, and helping to stabilize liberated areas in
Iraq and Syria, so the displaced can return to their homes and begin to rebuild
their lives”, the statement added.
Islamic
State fighters were driven last year from all the population centers they
occupied in both Syria and Iraq, but Washington still considers them a threat,
capable of carrying out an insurgency and plotting attacks elsewhere.
On February 9 this year, the OFAC
took action targeting ISIS’ global facilitation network by designating three
individuals and three entities as Specially Designated Global Terrorists
pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, which targets terrorists and those
providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism.
These actions are part of a
continued whole-of-government effort to identify and expose individuals and
entities that provide support to ISIS and advance the violent terrorist group’s
operational activity. As a result of today’s designations, all property and
interests in property of these persons subject to the US jurisdiction are
blocked, and US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions
with them.
“The administration is committed
to defeating ISIS wherever it operates, denigrating its illicit revenue
streams, and pursuing all financial conduits,” said Treasury Under Secretary
for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Sigal Mandelker .
“Each individual and entity
targeted has contributed to the spread of ISIS’ terror reach in their
respective corner of the world. Treasury will continue to relentlessly target
ISIS support networks, and ensure that the US and international financial
systems are not being exploited by terror operatives”, Mandelker.
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