Bush freezes more terror assets

President Bush today widened his financial assault on terrorism, naming an additional 39 individuals and organizations to have their assets frozen.

The Treasury Department released a new list of entities suspected of conducting or financing terrorist activities.

The latest move to choke off terrorists’ funding is considered by President Bush to be a key part of the US government’s broader anti-terrorism campaign.

‘‘We are determined to deny terrorists the resources to carry out their acts of evil,’’ said Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill.

O’Neill said the new list includes businesses and charitable organisations that funnel money to the al-Qaida network. He also said that assets of all 22 of the FBI’s recently released ‘‘most wanted terrorists’’ list are included in the new list and thus subject to the blocking order.

The list includes two companies involved in producing and selling Yemeni honey.

CIA agents believe bin Laden has used a chain of honey shops to smuggle cash, drugs and arms to his al Quiada followers.

Afghanistan and Yemen, which is where bin Laden’s family originate, are famed for the quality of their honey, which is an important foodstuff in the region.

One of the honey companies named in the Treasury’s list is Al-Shifa Honey Press for Industry and Commerce, whose address is given as ‘‘By the shrine next to the gas station, Jamal Street, Ta iz, Yemen’’.

The company also has addresses at a PO box elsewhere in Yemen and in Qatar.

The second company is the Al-Nur Honey Press Shops, also known as Al-Nur Honey Centre, at Sana’a in Yemen.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad, run by bin Laden’s close associate Ayman al-Zawahiri, was already known to use the honey industry as a front for fundraising and distribution.

Another business highlighted in today’s document is the Al-Hamati Sweets Bakeries in the Hadhramawt area of Yemen.

Unlike previous lists of suspect organisations, today’s is not linked directly with the Taliban or Osama bin laden’s al Quiada network.

Instead they are said to be suspected of being involved with or financing unspecified ‘‘acts of terrorism’’.

Here is the full list issued by the Treasury:

Entities

AL-HAMATI SWEETS BAKERIES, Al-Mukallah, Hadhramawt Governorate, Yemen.

AL-NUR HONEY PRESS SHOPS (aka AL-NUR HONEY CENTER), Sana’a, Yemen.

AL-SHIFA HONEY PRESS FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE, PO Box 8089, Al-Hasabah, Sana’a, Yemen; By the shrine next to the gas station, Jamal Street, Ta iz, Yemen; Al-Arudh Square, Khur Maksar, Aden, Yemen; Al-Nasr Street, Doha, Qatar.

JAISH-I-MOHAMMED (aka ARMY OF MOHAMMED), Pakistan.

JAM YAH TA AWUN AL-ISLAMIA (aka SOCIETY OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION, JAM IYAT AL TA AWUN AL ISLAMIYYA, JIT), Kandahar City, Afghanistan.

RABITA TRUST, Room 9A, 2nd Floor, Wahdat Road, Education Town, Lahore, Pakistan; Wares Colony, Lahore, Pakistan.

Individuals

AGHA, Haji Abdul Manan (aka SAIYID, Abd Al-Man am); Pakistan.

AL-HAMATI, Muhammad (aka AL-AHDAL, Mohammad Hamdi Sadiq; AL-MAKKI, Abu Asim), Yemen.

*AL-HAQ, Amin (aka AMIN, Muhammad; AH HAQ, Dr Amin; UL-HAQ, Dr Amin); date of birth 1960; place of birth Nangahar Province, Afghanistan.

AL-QADI, Yasin (aka KADI, Shaykh Yassin Abdullah; KAHDI, Yasin), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

*AL-JADAWI, Saqar; date of birth 1965.

*AL-KADR, Ahmad Sa’id (aka AL-KANADI, Abu Abd Al-Rahman), date of birth March 1, 1948; place of birth Cairo, Egypt.

*AL-SHARIF, Sa’d; date of birth 1969; place of birth Saudi Arabia.

*BIN MARWAN, Bilal; date of birth 1947.

BIN MUHAMMAD, Ayadi Chafiq (aka AYADI SHAFIQ, Ben Muhammad; AYADI CHAFIK, Ben Muhammad; AIADI, Ben Muhammad; AIADY, Ben Muhammad), Helene Meyer Ring 10-1415-80809, Munich, Germany; 129 Park Road, London, NW8, London, England; 28 Chausse Di Lille, Moscron, Belgium; Darvingasse 1/2/58-60, Vienna, Austria; Tunisia; date of birth January 21 1963; place of birth Sfax, Tunisia.

DARKAZANLI, Mamoun, Uhlenhorster Weg 34, Hamburg, 22085, Germany; date of birth August 4 1958; place of birth Aleppo, Syria; passport number 1310636262 (Germany).

HUAZI, Riad (aka HUAZI, Raed M; AL-HAWEN, Abu-Ahmad; AL-MAGHRIBI, Rashid The Moroccan; AL-AMRIKI, Abu-Ahmad The American; AL-SHAHID, Abu-Ahmad), Jordan; date of birth 1968; place of birth California, USA; social security number 548-91-5411.

LADEHYANOY, Mufti Rashid Ahmad (aka LUDHIANVI, Mufti Rashid Ahmad; AHMAD, Mufti Rasheed; WADEHYANOY, Mufti Rashid Ahmad); Karachi, Pakistan.

UTHMAN, Omar Mahmoud (aka Othman, Omar Mahmoud; AL-FILISTINI, Abu Qatada; TAKFIRI, Abu Umr; ABU UMAR, Abu Omar; UTHMAN, Al-Samman; UMAR, Abu Umar; UTHMAN, Umar; ABU ISMAIL), London, England; date of birth December 30 1960 or December 22 1960 or December 13 1960. National Insurance Number PW581303D.

YULDASHEV, Tohir (aka YULDASHEV, Takhir), Uzbekistan.

ZIA, Mohammad (aka ZIA, Ahmad); c/o Ahmed Shah s/o Painda Mohammad al-Karim Set, Peshawar, Pakistan; c/o Alam General Store Shop 17, Awami Market, Peshawar, Pakistan; c/o Zahir Shah s/o Murad Khan Ander Sher, Peshawar, Pakistan.

YASIN, Abdul Rahman

MOHAMMED, Khalid Shaikh

AL MUGHASSIL, Ahmed

AL-HOURI, Ali

AL-YACOUB, Ibrahim

AL NASSER, Abdel Karim

MOHAMMED, Fazul Abdullah

FADHIL, Mustafa Mohamed

GHAILANI, Ahmed Khalfan

MSALAM, Fahid Mohammed Ally

SWEDAN, Sheikh Ahmed Salim

ABDULLAH, Abdullah Ahmed

ALI, Ahmed Mohammed Hamed

ATWAH, Mushin Musa Matwalli

MUGNIYAH, Imad

IZZ-AL-DIN, Hassan

ATWA, Ali

Names marked with an asterisk (*) were published in March this year in a United Nations list of individuals and groups suspected of having links with terrorism.