TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: DISCREPANCY IN LET

S E C R E T OTTAWA 000891

SIPDIS

STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS (DNELSON),S/CT (TKUSHNER),IO/PHO
(JSCHWEITZER),AND WHA/CAN
TREASURY (JZARATE),AND OFAC (RWERNER)
NSC (MRUPPERT)

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/30/2015
TAGS: EFIN PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA FAC CSIS
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: DISCREPANCY IN LET
PRENOTIFICATION

REF: STATE 49537

Classified By: Classified by Wendy Moore, Economics Counselor, Ottawa.
Reason: 1.4(e).


1. (U) This is an action message.


2. (S) Two of the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba aliases in para 7 of
reftel (Passban-e-Kashmir and Paasban-I-Ahle-Hadith)
apparently entered the joint prenotification message at some
point between the original draft that we shared with the GOC
and the final version sent to posts. Canada's Department of
Foreign Affairs (FAC) noticed the discrepancy today (March
24) and the Canadian intelligence service (CSIS) has been
trying to reconcile the connection all day. Those aliases
are not included in Canada's domestic listing under the
Criminal Code or the UN Suppression of Terrorism Regulations
(the equivalent of our OFAC listings).


3. (SBU) Canadian government offices shut at COB today
until OOB on Tuesday March 29 for the long Easter weekend.


4. (S) FAC proposes that if intelligence experts have not
been able to link the names by COB today (March 24),those
aliases be dropped from the submission to the UN 1267
Committee planned for Monday, March 28. The process is
complicated by the fact that Canadian intelligence links
those two aliases to another entity that they have not listed
as financing terrorism. If the USG does not feel it is
possible to drop the two aliases, the GOC requests that the
notification to the 1267 Committee be delayed until they can
confirm the link to LET.


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