Narrative Summaries of Reasons for Listing
NARRATIVE SUMMARIES OF REASONS FOR LISTING
ENTITIES AND OTHER GROUPS AND UNDERTAKINGS ASSOCIATED WITH AL-QAIDA
QE.A.1.01. ABU SAYYAF GROUP
Date on which the narrative summary became available onthe Committee’s website: 7 April 2011
The Abu Sayyaf Group was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).
Additional information
The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) was founded in the early 1990s by Abdurajak Janjalani. It was formed from the more militant elements of the Moro National Liberation Front, an established separatist movement in the southern Philippines. ASG is based in the southern Philippines, primarily the Sulu archipelago, Tawi Tawi, Basilan and Mindanao. Members also occasionally travel to Manila. ASG often resorts to criminal activity, including murders, bombings, extortion and kidnap for ransom both for financial profit and to promote its agenda.
Abdurajak Janjalani was killed in a clash with Philippine police in December 1998. His younger brother, Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani (QI.J.180.04), replaced him as the leader of the group. In September 2006, Janjalani was killed in a gun battle with the Armed Forces of the Philippines; Radulan Sahiron (QI.S.208.05) became the new ASG leader.
ASG has links to Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) (QE.J.92.02), and ASG members have been trained by both organizations in guerrilla warfare, military operations and bomb making. In 1991 Usama bin Laden’s (QI.B.8.01) brother-in-law, Mohammad Jammal Khalifa, established the International Islamic Relief Organization, Philippines, Branch Offices (QE.I.126.06), and used this organization to channel funds to ASG to pay for training and arms.
ASG has been involved in a number of terrorist attacks, including assassinations; bombing civilian and military establishments and domestic infrastructure, including airports and ferries;kidnapping local officials and foreign tourists; beheading local and foreign hostages; and extortion against local and foreign businesses. For example:
- in April 2000, an ASG group kidnapped 21 people from a Malaysian holiday resort;
- in May 2001, ASG members kidnapped three American citizens and 17 Filipinos from a resort in Palawan, Philippines. They later murdered several of the hostages;
- on 27 February 2004, ASG members bombed a ferry in Manila Bay, killing 116;
- on 14 February 2005, ASG members carried out simultaneous bombings in the cities of Manila, General Santos, and Davao, killing at least eight and injuring about 150;
- in 2006, ASG leader Janjalani’s group relocated to Sulu, where it joined forces with local ASG supporters who provided shelter to fugitive JI members from Indonesia;
- in July 2007, ASG and Moro Islamic Liberation Front members fought Philippine marines on Basilan Island, killing 14;
- in November 2007, a motorcycle bomb exploded outside the Philippine Congress, killing a Congressman and three staff members. While there was no definitive claim of responsibility, three suspected ASG members were arrested during a subsequent raid on a safe-house;
- in January 2009, ASG kidnapped three International Red Cross workers in Sulu province, holding one of the hostages for six months.
Related listed individuals and entities:
Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Jemaah Islamiyah (QE.J.92.02), listed on 25 October 2002
International Islamic Relief Organization, Philippines, Branch Offices (QE.I.126.06), listed on 4 August 2006
Rajah Solaiman Movement (QE.R.128.08), listed on 4 June 2008
Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001
Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani (QI.J.180.04), listed on 22 December 2004
Isnilon Totoni Hapilon (QI.H.204.05), listed on 6 December 2005
Radulan Sahiron (QI.S.208.05), listed on 6 December 2005
Jainal Antel Sali Jr. (QI.S.209.05), listed on 6 December 2005
Abd al Hamid Sulaiman Muhammed al-Mujil (QI.A.225.06), listed on 4 August 2006
Fahd Muhammad ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Khashiban (QI.A.233.07), listed on 9 October 2007
Abdul Rahim al-Talhi (QI.A.234.07), listed on 9 October 2007
Muhammad Abdallah Salih Sughayr (QI.S.235.07), listed on 9 October 2007
Umar Patek (QI.P.294.11), listed on 19 July 2011
QE.A.2.01. AL-ITIHAAD AL-ISLAMIYA / AIAI
Date on which the narrative summary became available onthe Committee’s website: 7 April 2011
Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya / AIAI was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).
Additional information
Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya / AIAI was established between 1982 and 1984 and, along with other organizations, sought to overthrow the government in Somalia. AIAI’s leadership has included Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki (QI.A.172.04) and Hassan Dahir Aweys (QI.D.42.01). AIAI began its alliance with Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) in 1993 and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) devoted substantial funds towards the establishment of an AIAI-administered authority in Somalia, which supported the ultimate aim of setting up an Al-Qaida base of operations there. AIAI later supported Al-Qaida’s bombing of the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on 7 August 1998. AIAI also supported Al-Qaida’s bomb attack on the Paradise Hotel in Kikambala and the simultaneous attack against a civilian airliner in Mombasa, Kenya, in 2002.
AIAI has generated funds through criminal and business activities, both in Somalia and abroad. AIAI has received funds through Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (QE.A.72.02) in Somalia.
AIAI shares ideological, financial and training links with Al-Qaida and has fostered contacts with Al-Qaida-associated entities in North Africa and the Middle East, including Algeria's Armed Islamic Group (QE.A.6.01); Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QE.A.3.01); Le Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC), listed as the Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (QE.T.14.01); the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (QE.L.11.01.); the Islamic Army of Aden (QE.I.9.01); the International Islamic Relief Organization (some offices of which are listed on the Al-Qaida Sanctions List); and Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (QE.R.70.02).
Related listed individuals and entities:
Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QE.A.3.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Armed Islamic Group (QE.A.6.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Islamic Army of Aden (QE.I.9.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (QE.L.11.01), listed on 6 October 2001
The Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (QE.T.14.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (QE.R.70.02), listed on 11 January 2002
Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (Somalia) (QE.A.72.02), listed on 13 March 2002
Al-Haramayn Foundation (Kenya) (QE.A.105.04), listed on 26 January 2004
Al-Haramayn Foundation (Tanzania) (QE.A.106.04), listed on 26 January 2004
Al-Haramain: Ethiopia Branch (QE.A.113.04), listed on 6 July 2004
Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (QI.M.33.01), listed on 17 October 2001
Hassan Dahir Aweys (QI.D.42.01), listed on 9 November 2001
Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki (QI.A.172.04), listed on 6 July 2004
QE.A.3.01. EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD
Date on which the narrative summary became available onthe Committee’s website: 7 September 2010
Egyptian Islamic Jihad was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8(c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01).
Additional information:
Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) emerged in Egypt in the early 1980s. In due course Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01) became its leader.
EIJ was responsible for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. It also claimed responsibility for the attempted assassinations in 1993 of Interior Minister Hassan Al-Alfi and Prime Minister Atef Sedky. The group was responsible for bombing the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad in 1995 and plotted a similar attack against the US Embassy in Albania in 1998.
In 2001, EIJ joined forces with Usama bin Laden’s (QI.B.8.01) Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) network at Al-Zawahiri’s insistence. Objections from Tharwat Salah Shihata (QI.A.17.01) and other members of the group led to a split in EIJ. Those who joined Al-Qaida included Al-Zawahiri, Nasr Fahmi Nasr Hassannein (deceased), Tariq Anwar el Sayed Ahmed (QI.A.14.01) and Sobhi Abdel Aziz Moahmed el Gohary Abu Sinna (deceased). Shihata led the dissident group.
EIJ has been active worldwide under the auspices of Al-Qaida. EIJ operatives played a key role in the attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 and 2001.
Related listed individuals and entities:
Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Sayf-al Adl (QI.S.1.01), listed on 25 January 2001
Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), listed on 25 January 2001
Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001
Tariq Anwar el Sayed Ahmed (QI.A.14.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Tharwat Salah Shihata (QI.A.17.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Omar Mahmoud Uthman (QI.M.31.01), listed on 17 October 2001
Hassan Dahir Aweys (QI.D.42.01), listed on 9 November 2001
Wa'el Hamza Abd al-Fatah Julaidan (QI.J.79.02), listed on 11 September 2002
Abd Allah Mohamed Ragab Abdel Rahman (QI.A.192.05), listed on 29 September 2005
Zaki Ezat Zaki Ahmed (QI.A.193.05), listed on 29 September 2005
Mohammed Ahmed Shawki al Islambolly (QI.A.194.05), listed on 29 September 2005
Al Sayyid Ahmed Fathi Hussein Eliwah (QI.H.195.05), listed on 29 September 2005
Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa Bakri (QI.M.196.05), listed on 29 September 2005
Madhat Mursi al-Sayyid Umar (QI.U.197.05), listed on 29 September 2005
Hani al-Sayyid al-Sebai Yusif (QI.A.198.05), listed on 29 September 2005
QE.A.4.01. Al-QAIDA
Date on which the narrative summary became available onthe Committee’s website: 7 October 2011
Al-Qaida was listed on 6 October 2001 within the provisions of resolution 1267 (1999) and resolution 1333 (2000) for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01) and the Taliban.
Additional information
Al-Qaida is an international terrorist network that grew out of Makhtab al-Khidamat (QE.M.12.01), created by Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden’s (QI.B.8.01) mentor, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, as an organization to fund fighters in Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, its affiliates, and those inspired by the group, have been involved in planning and executing attacks in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
Al-Qaida was founded by Bin Laden and Sobhi Abd al Aziz Mohamed el Gohary Abu Sinna (QI.E.7.01), also known as Mohamed Atef and Abu Hafs al Masri, together with Abu Ubaidah al Banshjri and others. From its creation until 1991, Al-Qaida was located in Afghanistan and in Peshawar, Pakistan. In 1991, the leadership of Al-Qaida, including its emir Bin Laden, relocated to the Sudan, while maintaining offices in various parts of the world. In 1996, Bin Laden and other members of Al-Qaida moved back to Afghanistan. From 1996 until late 2001, Al-Qaida was operated by Bin Laden and associates from Afghanistan under the protection of the Taliban.
Al-Qaida has functioned both on its own and through terrorist organizations in other countries. In 1998, Al-Qaida merged with Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QE.A.3.01), led by Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), who became the second most important leader in the organization after Bin Laden. It has acknowledged affiliates in Iraq (QE.J.115.04), North Africa (QE.T.14.01) and Yemen (QE.A.129.10).
Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for a number of large-scale terrorist attacks, including those on the United States Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1998; the attack on the U.S.S. Cole at the port of Aden and other attacks in Saudi Arabia and Yemen in 2000; the attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001, attacks in Turkey in 2003; in Saudi Arabia in 2004; in the United Kingdom in 2005, and others in Pakistan and Afghanistan since then. It has also inspired many other attacks, including in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia.
Related listed individuals and entities:
Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QE.A.3.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Makhtab al-Khidamat (QE.M.12.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), listed on 25 January 2001
Sobhi Abd al Aziz Mohamed el Gohary Abu Sinna (QI.E.7.01), listed on 25 January 2001
Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001
QE.A.5.01. AL RASHID TRUST
Date on which the narrative summary became available onthe Committee’s website: 7 September 2010
Al Rashid Trust was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).
Additional information:
Al Rashid Trust was a financial facilitator of Al-Qaida-related (QE.A.4.01) terrorist groups with operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including Jaish-i-Mohammed (QE.J.19.01). The Trust also had links to militants in Kosovo.
The Aid Organization of the Ulema, also headquartered in Pakistan, was identified in 2002 as the successor organization of Al Rashid Trust. It had been raising funds for the Taliban since 1999, and officers of the organization were representatives and key leaders of Al-Qaida.
In 2003, a senior Al-Qaida member admitted that Al Rashid Trust and Al-Akhtar Trust International (QE.A.121.05) were the primary relief agencies that Al-Qaida used to move supplies into Kandahar, Afghanistan. While Al-Qaida was based in Kandahar, Afghanistan, these organizations provided support to Al-Qaida members. When Al-Qaida members fled from Kandahar in late 2001, these organizations provided the families of Al-Qaida members with financial assistance.
Al Rashid Trust was founded by Mufti Rashid Ahmad Ladehyanoy (QI.L.30.01).
Related listed individuals and entities:
Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Jaish-i-Mohammed (QE.J.19.01), listed on 17 October 2001
Al-Akhtar Trust International (QE.A.121.05), listed on 17 August 2005
Mufti Rashid Ahmad Ladehyanoy (QI.L.30.01), listed on 17 October 2001
QE.A.6.01. ARMED ISLAMIC GROUP
Date on which the narrative summary became available onthe Committee’s website: 7 April 2011
The Armed Islamic Group was listed on 6 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf, or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).
Additional information
The Armed Islamic Group or GIA (from the French «Groupe Islamique Armé») is based in Algeria and was founded in the early 1990s by veterans of the war in Afghanistan following the Algerian Government’s ban on the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in December 1991.
In 1993, GIA began a high-profile campaign of terrorist acts and quickly became one of Algeria’s most radical and violent extremist groups. It distinguished itself from other groups operating in Algeria by its indiscriminate targeting of intellectuals and other civilians.
Prominent Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) figures, such as United Kingdom-based Omar Mahmoud Uthman (QI.M.31.01), a.k.a. Abu Qatada, and Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, aka Abu Musab al-Suri, served as editors for the GIA newsletter, Al-Ansar, during the mid-1990s. This pamphlet was the most significant extremist publication at that time. In 1997, Mostafa Kamel Mostafa Ibrahim (QI.I.67.02), a.k.a. Abu Hamza, became editor-in-chief of Al-Ansar. Abu Hamza also served as the group's unofficial spokesman during the 1998 ‘Ramadan massacres’ in Algeria.
The Algerian diaspora in Europe, particularly in France, has been a source of GIA financial support and recruitment. France has also been a target of GIA attacks.
GIA has been involved in a number of terrorist acts, including hijacking, bombing civilian sites, attacking civilians and ambushing Algerian security forces. Between 1992 and 2002, GIA reportedly killed more than 100 foreigners, mostly Europeans, in Algeria.
GIA’s terrorist activities include:
- hijacking an Air France flight in Algiers in December 1994 with the intention of crashing it over Paris; one passenger was executed by the GIA;
- a series of bombings in France in 1995 which killed 10 people and injured more than 200 on subways in Paris, at outdoor markets, at a Jewish school, and against a high-speed train. Several GIA members were convicted in France for these crimes in late 1999;
- kidnapping and assassinating 7 monks from the monastery of Tibehirine, Algeria, in 1996;
- assassinating the Catholic Bishop of Oran, Algeria, a proponent of inter-faith dialogue, in 1996;
- bombing a market place in Larbaa, Algeria, on 5 July 2002 (Algerian Independence Day) in which 35 people died;
- massacres of entire villages and families between 1995 and the late 1990s, killing several hundred people.
In 1998, GIA split over the issue of attacking civilians. One of its commanders, Hassan Hattab, broke away to found the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), listed as the Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (QE.T.14.01). Many GIA members defected to this new group.
Related listed individuals and entities:
Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001
The Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (QE.T.14.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Djamat Houmat Daawa Salafia (DHDS) (QE.D.102.03), listed on 11 November 2003
Usama Muhammed Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001
Omar Mahmoud Uthman (QI.M.31.01), listed on 17 October 2001
Mostafa Kamel Mostafa Ibrahim (QI.I.67.02), listed on 24 April 2002
Tarek ben Habib ben al-Toumi al-Maaroufi (QI.A.74.02), listed on 3 September 2002
Youssef ben Abdul Baki ben Youcef Abdaoui (QI.A.90.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Mohamed Amine Akli (QI.A.91.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Mehrez ben Mahmoud ben Sassi al-Amdouni (QI.A.92.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Chiheb ben Mohamed ben Mokhtar al-Ayari (QI.A.93.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Lionel Dumont (QI.D.95.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Moussa ben Omar ben Ali Essaadi (QI.E.96.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Ibrahim ben Hedhili ben Mohamed al-Hamami (QI.A.98.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Khalil ben Ahmed ben Mohamed Jarraya (QI.J.99.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Faouzi ben Mohamed ben Ahmed al-Jendoubi (QI.A.101.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Ahmed Hosni Rarrbo (QI.R.103.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Najib ben Mohamed ben Salem al-Waz (QI.A.104.03), listed on 25 June 2003
Djamel Lounici (QI.L.155.04), listed on 16 January 2004
Abd al Wahab Abd al Hafiz (QI.A.157.04), listed on 17 March 2004
Abderrahmane Kifane (QI.K.158.04), listed on 17 March 2004
Fethi ben Hassen ben Salem al-Haddad (QI.A.160.04), listed on 17 March 2004
Farid Aider (QI.A.161.04), listed on 17 March 2004
Abdelhadi ben Debka (QI.B.162.04), listed on 17 March 2004
Moustafa Abbes (QI.A.163.04), listed on 17 March 2004
Othman Deramchi (QI.D.164.04), listed on 17 March 2004
Yacine Ahmed Nacer (QI.N.165.04), listed on 17 March 2004
Youcef Abbes (QI.A.166.04), listed on 17 March 2004
Mohamed Belkalem (QI.B.279.10), listed on 22 April 2010