TERRORIST FINANCE: LET PRENOTIFICATION

S E C R E T DUBLIN 000388 SIPDIS EB/ESC/TFS (DNELSON) S/CT (TKUSHNER) IO/PSC (BFITZGERALD) EUR/UBI NSC (JKEMERSON) TREASURY (JZARATE) OFAC (RWERNER) E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/14/2014 TAGS: KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE: LET PRENOTIFICATION REF: STATE 49537 Classified By: ACTING POL/ECON CHIEF JOSEPH YOUNG, FOR REASONS 1.4 (B),(D) (S) On March 22, Emboff delivered reftel points and background papers to Eoin Duggan, Third Secretary, UN/International Terrorism and Illicit Drugs section at the Department of Foreign Affairs. Duggan said the GOI had no knowledge of Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LET) connections to Ireland, and he offered to forward reftel information to the Department of Finance, Central Bank and Department of Justice for reference. He added that since the EU Council Common Position had designated LET on May 2, 2002, it was likely that the proposed U.S.-Canadian submission to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee would be successful. (Per reftel, emboff coordinated with the Canadian Embassy, which deferred on conducting a joint demarche. BENTON