UNSCR 1267-INSTRUCTIONS TO USUN TO SUBMIT ONE

C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 060813

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/03/2018
TAGS: EFIN KTFN PTER PREL UNSC
SUBJECT: UNSCR 1267-INSTRUCTIONS TO USUN TO SUBMIT ONE
ENTITY (REVIVAL OF THE ISLAMIC HERITAGE SOCIETY)

REF: A. STATE 48113

B. KUWAIT 559

C. JAKARTA 919

Classified By: IO Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary James B Warlick
for reasons 1.4 b and d.


1. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3,
4 and 5.

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BACKGROUND
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2. (C) The United States on May 6, 2008 prenotified (Ref A)
our intent to request the listing under UNSCR 1267 of the
Kuwait-based international Islamic charity Revival of Islamic
Heritage Society (RIHS) and all its branches. We further
expressed our intention to designate RIHS domestically under
E.O. 13224. Government of Kuwait officials have told us they
oppose this action (Ref B).

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ACTION REQUEST
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3. (U) USUN is instructed to submit on June 5 to the
al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions Committee the following names for
listing under UNSCR 1267:

IDENTIFIER INFORMATION

Name: Revival of Islamic Heritage Society
AKA: RIHS
AKA: RIHS Headquarters-Kuwait
AKA: Revival of Islamic Heritage Foundation
AKA: RIHF
AKA: Society for the Revival of Islamic Heritage
AKA: Islamic Heritage Revival Party
AKA: Islamic Heritage Restoration Society
AKA: IHRS
AKA: Kuwaiti Heritage
AKA: Ihya Turas Al-Islami
AKA: Ijha Turath Al-Islami
AKA: Jamia Ihya Ul Turath
AKA: Jamiat Ihia Al-Turath Al-Islamiya
AKA: Jam'iyat Ihya' Al-Turath Al-Islami
AKA: Jami'at Ihy'a Al-Tirath Al-Islamia
AKA: Jamiatul Ihya Ul Turath
AKA: Jamiyat Ikhya At-Turaz Al-Islami, Society of the Rebirth
of the Islamic People
AKA: Jamiatul-Yahya Ut Turaz
AKA: Jomiatul Ehya-Ut Turaj
AKA: Jomiyatu-Ehya-Ut Turas Al Islami
AKA: Jama'ah Ihya Al-Turaz Al-Islami
AKA: Jami'ah Al-Hiya Al-Turath Al Islamiyah
AKA: Lajnat Ihya Al-Turath Al-Islami
AKA: Lajnat Al-Ihya Al-Turath Al-Islami
AKA: RIHS Administration for the Building of Mosques and
Islamic Projects
AKA: RIHS Mosques Committee
AKA: Administration of the Revival of Islamic Heritage
Society Committee
AKA: RIHS Arab World Committee
AKA: RIHS Committee for the Arab World
AKA: RIHS Committee for West Asia
AKA: RIHS Central Asia Committee
AKA: Committee for Europe and the Americas
AKA: RIHS Europe and the Americas Committee
AKA: RIHS Two Americas and European Muslim Committee
AKA: RIHS Europe America Muslims Committee
AKA: RIHS Southeast Asia Committee
AKA: RIHS Committee for South East Asia
AKA: RIHS Indian Continent Committee
AKA: RIHS Indian Subcontinent Committee
AKA: RIHS Committee for India
AKA: RIHS African Continent Committee
AKA: RIHS Committee for Africa
AKA: Revival of Islamic Society Heritage on the African
Continent
AKA: RIHS Public Relations Committee
AKA: RIHS Cultural Committee
AKA: RIHS Principle Committee for the Center for Preservation
of the Holy Qu,aran
AKA: RIHS General Committee for Donations
AKA: RIHS Youth Center Committee
AKA: RIHS Scientific Committee-Branch of Sabah Al-Nasir
AKA: RIHS Fatwas Committee
AKA: RIHS Center for Manuscripts Committee
AKA: RIHS Educating Committees, Al-Jahra'
AKA: RIHS Audio Recordings Committee
AKA: RIHS Project of Assigning Preachers Committee
AKA: RIHS Office of Printing and Publishing
AKA: RIHS Committee for Women
AKA: RIHS Committee for Women, Administration for the
Building of Mosques AKA: RIHS Women's Branch for the Project
of Endowment
AKA: RIHS Administration for the Committees of Almsgiving
AKA: RIHS Committee for Almsgiving and Charities
AKA: RIHS Committee for the Call and Guidance
AKA: RIHS-Cambodia
AKA: RIHS Cambodia-Kuwait Orphanage Center
AKA: The Kuwaiti-Cambodian Orphanage Center
AKA: The Kuwait-Cambodia Islamic Cultural Training Center
AKA: RIHS Chaom Chau Center
AKA: Nara Welfare and Education Association
AKA: RIHS-Bosnia and Herzegovina
AKA: Kuwaiti Joint Relief Committee, Bosnia and Herzegovina
AKA: KJRC-Bosnia and Herzegovina
AKA: Plandiste School, Bosnia and Herzegovina
AKA: Organizacija Preporoda Islamske Tradicije Kuvajt
AKA: Kuwait General Committee for Aid
AKA: General Kuwait Committee
AKA: RIHS-Albania
AKA: Center of Call for Wisdom
AKA: CCFW
AKA: Thirrja Per Utesi
AKA: NGO Turath
AKA: RIHS-Kosovo
AKA: Dora E Miresise
AKA: Hand of Mercy
AKA: RIHS-Azerbaijan
AKA: RIHS-Russia
AKA: RIHS-Lebanon
AKA: RIHS-Bangladesh
AKA: RIHS-Somalia
AKA: RIHS-Ghana
AKA: RIHS-Tanzania
AKA: RIHS-Benin
AKA: RIHS-Cameroon
AKA: RIHS-Senegal
AKA: RIHS-Nigeria
AKA: RIHS-Liberia
AKA: RIHS-Ivory Coast

Addresses:
Address: Part 5, Qurtaba, P.O. Box 5585, Safat, Kuwait
Address: House #40, Lake Drive Road, Sector #7, Uttara,
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Address: Number 28 Mula Mustafe Baseskije Street,
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Address: Number 2 Plandiste Street, Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Address: M.M. Baseskije Street, No.28p, Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Address: Number 6 Donji Hotonj Street, Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Address: RIHS Office, Ilidza, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Address: RIHS Alija House, Ilidza, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Address: RIHS Office, Tirana, Albania
Address: RIHS Office, Pristina, Kosovo
Address: Tripoli, Lebanon
Address: City of Sidon, Lebanon
Address: Dangkor District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Address: Kismayo, Somalia
Address: Kaneshi Quarter of Accra, Ghana
Address: Al-Andalus, Kuwait
Address: Al-Jahra,, Kuwait
Address: Al-Qurayn, Kuwait
Address: Sabah Al-Nasir, Kuwait
Address: Qurtubah, Kuwait
Address: Hadiyah, Kuwait
Address: Al-Qadisiyah, Kuwait
Address: Al-Fayha,, Kuwait
Address: Al-Riqah, Kuwait
Address: Al-Firdaws, Kuwait
Address: Khitan, Kuwait
Address: Al-Sabahiyah, Kuwait
Address: Jalib Al-Shiyukh, Kuwait
Address: Bayan Wa Mashrif, Kuwait
Address: Sabah Al-Salim, Kuwait
Address: Al-Rumaythiyah, Kuwait
Address: Al-Salimiyah, Kuwait
Address: Al-Aridiyah, Kuwait
Address: Al-Khalidiya, Kuwait
Address: Al-Dhahr, Kuwait
Address: Al-Rawdah, Kuwait
Address: Al-Shamiyah Wa Al-Shuwaykh, Kuwait
Address: Al-Amiriyah, Kuwait
Address: Al-Nuzhah, Kuwait
Address: Kifan, Kuwait

Website: www.alturath.org


4. (U) USUN is further instructed to share the attached
Statement of Case (SOC) with 1267 Members and to request
their support for this listing.

Statement of Case

Begin Text:

The Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS)
has provided support to a number
of U.N. 1267 Committee listed terrorist organizations,
including al-Qaida and al-Qaida affiliates
Lashkar e-Tayyiba and Jemaah Islamiyah. RIHS has also
provided financial support for acts of
terrorism. In January 2002, the RIHS offices in Afghanistan
(RIHS-Afghanistan) and Pakistan
(RIHS-Pakistan) were designated by the U.S. Government and
the U.N. 1267 Committee based
on evidence of their support for al-Qaida. A U.S. Department
of the Treasury fact sheet
announcing these designations stated that there was no
evidence at that time that the Kuwait-based
RIHS headquarters (RIHS-HQ) knew that RIHS-Afghanistan and
RIHS-Pakistan were financing al-Qaida.

Since that time, however, evidence has mounted implicating
RIHS-HQ in terrorism support
activity. The U.S. government has learned that RIHS senior
leadership, who have actively
managed all aspects of the organization's day-to-day
operations, have been aware of both
legitimate and illegitimate uses of RIHS funds. Its Chairman
appears to have hiring authority for
all RIHS managers, including those in charge of foreign
branch offices. As detailed below,
RIHS-HQ has funded terrorist activity worldwide. Suspected of
providing support to terrorism,
RIHS offices have been closed or raided by the governments of
Albania, Azerbaijan,
Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, and Russia.

RIHS Headquarters Directing Activities of Overseas Branches

In countries where RIHS activities are banned or scrutinized
by local governments, RIHS HQ
has developed multiple methods to continue its operations.
After the Government of Bangladesh
closed RIHS offices, RIHS-HQ funneled money into Bangladesh
through another organization to
continue RIHS activities and to help shield it from scrutiny
there. RIHS-HQ has used RIHS
officials and other individuals to courier funds out of the
country in order to evade the scrutiny of
the international financial system. In some countries,
including Albania and Kosovo in
particular, RIHS senior officials have assisted RIHS branch
offices with name changes, and then
continued to provide financial support to the new
organization. In another case, RIHS senior
officials traveled to Bangladesh and unsuccessfully lobbied
the Bangladeshi government for the
release of frozen RIHS funds.

RIHS Support for Terrorism in South Asia

RIHS-HQ provides significant financial and logistical support
to the U.N.-designated terrorist
group Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT). As of 2007, RIHS provided
office space to an LeT leader who
visited Kuwait to raise funds for LeT operations. RIHS
officials accompanied the LeT leader
while he raised funds throughout Kuwait. As of late 2007,
RIHS sent money to LeT elements on
a monthly basis, and regularly transferred funds to LeT
representatives' bank accounts in
Pakistan. In some cases, LeT has received the funds at
charitable entities associated with RIHS.

RIHS also reportedly provided a key source of funding for
terrorist attacks carried out by an
extremist group in Bangladesh in 2005. Despite a February
2005 Bangladeshi government ban of
the terrorist group Jamaaat Mujahidin Bangladesh (JMB),on
August 17, 2005, JMB launched a
series of near-simultaneous bomb attacks across Bangladesh,
killing two and injuring 64 persons.
Following the bombings, RIHS was identified by a Bangladeshi
official as one of the key sources
of funding needed for staging these attacks. After the
August 2005 bombings, RIHS was accused of funding JMB's
military activities with overt and
covert funds. These funds were channeled through a senior
leader of a Bangladeshi Islamic
organization. As of early 2005, RIHS in Bangladesh had
contributed millions of dollars to this
organization.

RIHS Support for Terrorism in Southeast Asia and the Horn of
Africa

RIHS has provided financial and logistical support to the
Southeast Asia based terrorist group
Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). An RIHS employee provided logistical
support to JI,s fugitive leader
Nurjaman Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. "Hambali") prior to his
capture in 2003. Due to the high
security conditions during the 2002 Asian Summit, the RIHS
employee escorted Hambali from
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to an alternate location, where he then
provided him with
accommodations. The employee was later captured and sentenced
to life imprisonment on
terrorism charges. An RIHS representative in Indonesia
provided funding to a JI member
collecting money for JI activities. The JI member funneled
the funds he received from RIHS and
other sources to JI associates for the procurement of weapons
to support their operations.

RIHS has also funded al-Qaida affiliates in Somalia. As of
2002, al-Qaida supporters in Somalia
reportedly received most of their funding through RIHS.

End Text


5. In response to information recently provided to USUN from
the Indonesian UN Mission indicating the GOI has no evidence
to indicate RIHS maintains operations in Indonesia, USUN
should inform the Indonesians that the USG has information
from 2006 indicating that RIHS did maintain operations in
Indonesia. However, in light of the information recently
provided by the Indonesian UN Mission, we have removed
references from our SOC to any RIHS presence in Indonesia.
Please convey our appreciation to the Indonesian Mission for
having shared this information.

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POINT OF CONTACT
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6. (U) Questions may be directed to IO/PSC (Erin Crowe,
202-736-7847).


7. (U) Tripoli minimize considered.
RICE