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U.N. Sanctions Islamic Jihad Group
 The United Nations has imposed sanctions on the Islamic Jihad Group, an organization active in Central Asia that the U.S. government has blamed for bombings last year against the U.S. and Israeli embassies. The U.N. Security Council committee in charge of anti-terrorism sanctions against al-Qaida and remnants of Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers added the group to its sanctions list on June 1, saying it was linked to the al-Qaida terror network, according to an announcement late Friday.State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the group coordinated bombing attacks against the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and the office of the Uzbek prosecutor general that killed at least two people and wounded nine last July. Sanctions require all 191 U.N. member states to impose a travel ban and arms embargo and to freeze the financial assets of all those on the list. With the latest change, the list now includes 325 individuals and 117 groups or "entities." According to Central Asian terrorism experts, the Islamic Jihad Group is believed to have 350 to 400 members, about a quarter of whom have undergone militant training. Posted by: Fred 2005-06-07 |
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