SECURITY COUNCIL Al-Qaida sANCTIONS COMMITTEE Adds

 

two entries TO ITS SANCTIONS LIST

On 18 October 2013, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entries specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2083 (2012) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

A.   Individuals associated with Al-Qaida

QI.A.318.13 Name: 1: MUHAMMAD 2: JAMAL 3: ABD-AL RAHIM AHMAD 4: AL-KASHIF
Name (original script):محمد جمال عبدالرحيم أحمد الكاشف
Title: na Designation: na DOB: a) 1 Jan. 1964   b) 1 Feb. 1964  POB: Cairo, Egypt  Good quality a.k.a.: a) Muhammad Jamal Abdo Al-Kashif b) Muhammad Jamal Abdo Al Kashef c) Muhammad Jamal Abd-Al Rahim Ahmad Al-Kashif d) Muhammad Jamal Abd-Al Rahim Al-Kashif e) Muhammad Jamal Abdu f) Muhammad Jamal  Low quality a.k.a.: a) Muhammad Jamal Abu Ahmad (nom de guerre) b) Abu Ahmad (nom de guerre) c) Abu Jamal (nom de guerre) d) Muhammad Gamal Abu Ahmed e) Mohammad Jamal Abdo Ahmed (nom de guerre) f) Muhammad Jamal Abduh (nom de guerre) g) Muhammad Jamal Ahmad Abdu (nom de guerre) h) Riyadh (nom de guerre)  Nationality: Egyptian  Passport no.: a) Egyptian passport number 6487, issued 30 Jan. 1986, under name Muhammad Jamal Abdu  b) Egyptian passport issued in 1993, under name Muhammad Jamal Abd-Al Rahim Ahmad Al-Kashif  c) Yemeni passport number 388181, under name Muhammad Jamal Abd-Al Rahim Al-Kashif  National identification no.: na  Address: Egypt  Listed on: 21 Oct. 2013   Other information: Trained in Afghanistan in the late 1980s with Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) to make bombs. Former top military commander of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QE.A.3.01). Since 2011, established Muhammad Jamal Network (MJN) (QE.M.136.13) and terrorist training camps in Egypt and Libya. Conducted MJN’s terrorist activities with support from Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) (QE.A.129.10). Reported to be involved in the attack on the United States Mission in Benghazi, Libya, on 11 Sep. 2012. Headed Nasr City terrorist cell in Egypt in 2012. Linked to Aiman al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01) and the leadership of AQAP and the Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) (QE.T.14.01). Arrested and imprisoned multiple times by Egyptian authorities since ca. 2000. Released in 2011 but re-arrested by Egyptian authorities in Nov. 2012. Imprisoned in Egypt pending trial as of Sep. 2013. Wife’s name is Samah ‘Ali Al-Dahabani (Yemeni national).

B.   Entities and other groups and undertakings associated with Al-Qaida

QE.M.136.13 Name: MUHAMMAD JAMAL NETWORK (MJN)
Name (original script): شبكة محمد جمال
A.k.a.: a) Muhammad Jamal Group b) Jamal Network c) Abu Ahmed Group d) Al-Qaida in Egypt (AQE)  F.k.a.: na  Address: Operates in Egypt, Libya and Mali  Listed on: 21 Oct. 2013   Other information: Terrorist and paramilitary group established by Muhammad Jamal al Kashif (QI.A.318.13) in 2011 and linked to Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), Aiman al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), and the leadership of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) (QE.A.129.10) and the Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) (QE.T.14.01). Funded and supported by AQAP. Multiple terrorist training camps in Egypt and Libya. Reportedly acquiring weapons, conducting training and establishing terrorist groups in the Sinai, Egypt. Training suicide bombers, foreign fighters and planning terrorist attacks in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere as of Sep. 2013. MJN members were reported to be involved in the attack on the United States Mission in Benghazi, Libya, on 11 Sep. 2012.

In accordance with paragraph 17 of resolution 2083 (2012), the Committee has made accessible on its website the narrative summaries of reasons for listing of the above names, at the following URLs:  http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/NSQI31813E.shtml, http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/NSQE13613E.shtml.

The Committee’s Al-Qaida Sanctions List is updated regularly on the basis of relevant information provided by Member States and international and regional organizations.  This is the twenty-eighth update of the List in 2013.  An updated List is accessible on the Committee’s website at the following URL:  http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/aq_sanctions_list.shtml.

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