INSTRUCTIONS TO SUBMIT LISTING PROPOSAL FOR 4

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 STATE 052473 SENSITIVE SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC SUBJECT: INSTRUCTIONS TO SUBMIT LISTING PROPOSAL FOR 4 LASHKAR E-TAYIBBA (LET-4) TERRORISTS UNDER UNSCR 1267 REF: A. STATE 004359 ¶B. ISLAMABAD 1678 ¶C. STATE 36712 ¶D. ISLAMABAD 1739 ¶1. (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 4 and 5. -------------- BACKGROUND -------------- ¶2. (U) Per ref A, the USG prenotified Security Council members, G-20, and Pakistan of our intention to request the UN 1267 SANCTIONS Committee to add the names of four operatives of Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT) to the Committee's list of individuals and entities associated with Usama bin Laden or members of the Taliban or al-Qaida, which are subject to UN Security Council mandated sanctions, including asset freezing, travel ban and arms embargo. We prenotified our intent to submit this listing request on January 30, but held off for several months in an effort to secure Pakistani support for this submission. ¶3. (SBU) Despite several months of working with the Government of Pakistan (GOP) to gain support for this listing request, we anticipate the GOP will ask a Member of the 1267 Committee, likely China, to place a hold on the request. However, we will submit this request regardless and will ask China (septel) not to support a GOP hold request. China placed a hold, at Pakistan's behest, on a January 2008 German listing request (for 3 Islamic Jihad Union terrorists) that the GOP did not support. However, the Chinese mission to the UN, upon learning of our planned LeT-4 listing request, expressed some discomfort over the possibility that the GOP would again ask China to place a hold on another well-substantiated submission. The Chinese Mission to the UN has confirmed that Beijing does not have a substantive objection to this submission. We will use this opportunity to try to prevail upon the Chinese to stop entertaining Pakistani requests to prevent 1267 listing requests to sanction individuals/entities operating in or linked to Pakistan. -------------- ACTION REQUEST -------------- ¶4. (U) USUN is instructed to submit on May 16 the following names for listing under UNSCR 1267: Names of proposed individuals: Muhammad Saeed AKA: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed AKA: Hafiz Saeed AKA: Hafiz Sahib AKA: Hafiz Mohammad Saeed AKA: Hafez Mohammad Sayeed AKA: Hafiz Mohammad Sayid AKA: Hafiz Mohammad Syeed �A;AKA: Tata Ji AKA: Hafiz Mohammad Sayed Address: House No. 116E, Mohalla Johar, Town: Lahore, Tehsil: Lahore City, Lahore District, Pakistan DOB: 5 June 1950 POB: Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan Father's Name: Kamal-ud-Din National ID#: 3520025509842-7 Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi AKA: Zakir Rehman Lakvi AKA: Zaki Ur-Rehman Lakvi AKA: Zaki Ur-Rehman AKA: Zakir Rehman AKA: Abu Waheed Irshad Ahmad Arshad AKA: Chachajee Address 1: Barahkoh, P.O. DO, Tehsil and District Islamabad, Pakistan Address 2: Chak No. 18/IL, Rinala Khurd, Tehsil Rinala Khurd, District Okara, Pakistan DOB: 30 December 1960 POB: Okara, Pakistan STATE 00052473 002 OF 002 Father's Name: Hafiz Aziz-ur-Rehman National ID#: 61101-9618232-1 Haji Muhammad Ashraf AKA: Haji M. Ashraf DOB: 1 March 1965 PPN: A-374184, Pakistani Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq AKA: Mahmoud Bahaziq AKA: Abu Abd al- Aziz AKA: Abu Abdul Aziz AKA: Shaykh Sahib DOB: 17 August 1943 Alt DOB: 1943 Alt DOB: 1944 POB: India Nationality: Saudi Arabian Saudi Registration Number: 4-6032-0048-1. ¶5. (U) USUN is further instructed to share the attached Statement of Case (SOC) with 1267 Members and request their support for this listing. Specific instructions on an approach to the Chinese Mission to the UN will be provided in septel. Statement of Case Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) is a terrorist group listed under UNSCR 1267 for its links to Usama bin Ladin and the al Qaida network. Despite being banned by the Government of Pakistan in January 2002, LeT continues to operate and engage in or support terrorist activities abroad. LeT was designated under UNSCR 1267 on May 2, 2005. Muhammad Saeed is LeT's overall leader and chief. As overall leader, Saeed plays a key role in LeT's operational and fundraising activities. In 2006, Saeed oversaw the management of a terrorist training camp, including funding of the camp. In 2005, Saeed determined where graduates of an LeT camp in Pakistan should be sent to fight, and personally organized the infiltration of LeT militants into Iraq during a trip to Saudi Arabia. Saeed also arranged for an LeT operative to be sent to Europe as LeT's European fundraising coordinator. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi is LeT's chief of operations. In this capacity, Lakhvi has directed LeT operations, including in Chechnya, Bosnia, Iraq, and Southeast Asia. In 2006, Lakhvi instructed LeT associates to train operatives for suicide bombings and in 2003, Lakhvi instructed LeT operatives to conduct attacks in well-populated areas. In 2004, Lakhvi sent operatives and funds to attack U.S. forces in Iraq, having directed an LeT operative to travel to Iraq in 2003 to assess the situation there. In past years, Lakhvi has also played an important role in LeT fundraising activities, reportedly receiving al Qaida-affiliated donations on behalf of LeT. Haji Muhammad Ashraf is LeT's chief of finance, a position he has held since at least 2003. In 2003 and 2004, Ashraf traveled to the Middle East, where he personally collected donations on behalf of LeT. In 2003, Ashraf assisted Saudi Arabia-based LeT leadership with expanding its organization and increasing its fundraising activities. Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq is an LeT financier. He is credited with being the main financier behind the establishment of the LeT and its activities in the 1980s and 1990s. He has also served as the leader of LeT in Saudi Arabia. In 2003, Bahaziq coordinated LeT's fundraising activities with Saudi nongovernmental organizations and Saudi businessmen, and encouraged LeT operatives to continue and accelerate fundraising and organizing activities. As of mid-2005, Bahaziq played a key role in LeT's propaganda and media operations. End Statement of Case ¶5. (U) Coversheets will be e-mailed separately. ¶6. (U) Tripoli minimize considered. RICE