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US adds aliases to specially designated global terrorist group
 The State Department on Friday announced the addition of the aliases Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) and Idara Khidmat-e-Khalq (IKK) to the specially designated global terrorist (SDGT) group Lashkhar-e-Tayyiba (LET). The action "blocks all property, and interests in property, of JUD and IKK that are in the United States, or come within the United States, or come under the control of U.S. persons," the department announced. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took the action in consultation with the U.S. Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Department of Homeland Security.LET is one of the three largest and best trained groups fighting in Kashmir against India, the department said. After the Secretary of State's designation of LET as a terrorist organization in 2001 and the Pakistani government's banning the group, LET renamed itself JUD in order to evade sanctions, the department said. JUD established IKK as a public welfare organization that it utilizes to collect funds and undertake other activities, the department said. LET has been sanctioned by the United Nations for its association with al-Qaeda. Posted by: Seafarious 2006-04-29 |
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