TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: SPECIFICATION OF HIG

S E C R E T OTTAWA 001962 SIPDIS STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS (LLAMBERT),S/CT (TKUSHNER),IO/PHO (BFITZGERALD),AND WHA/CAN TREASURY (JZARATE),AND OFAC (RWERNER) NSC (KEMERSON) E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/30/2015 TAGS: EFIN ETTC PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: SPECIFICATION OF HIG NAMES IN DOMESTIC DESIGNATION REF: OTTAWA 1847 Classified By: Wendy Moore, Economics Counselor, Ottawa. Reason: 1.4( e). ¶1. (S) Reftel reported that the GOC is proceeding with plans to designate HIG domestically under Canada's criminal code. For the record, the listing will be as follows: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction, Hezb-e-Islami, the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) ¶2. (S) Any aliases would be related to alternate spellings of the name but have not yet been decided. At this point the GOC has no plans to list HIG-affiliated individuals. Visit Canada's Classified Web Site at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/ottawa DICKSON