Cablegate: Terrorist Finance: Designation of Seven Iraqi

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DE RUEHAM #4094 2771358
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P 041358Z OCT 07
FM AMEMBASSY AMMAN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0512
INFO RUEHGB/AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD 5499
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0513

UNCLAS AMMAN 004094

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

STATE FOR EEB/ESC/TFS (JJALLORINA)
STATE ALSO FOR NEA/ELA (RANA AND ALLEN)
TREASURY FOR OFAC

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EFIN PTER KFTN PREL JO
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF SEVEN IRAQI
INDIVIDUALS

REF: STATE 138972

Sensitive but unclassified. Protect accordingly.

(SBU) Ambassador delivered on October 4 reftel demarche on
the designation of seven Iraqi nationals to Finance Minister
Hamed Kasasbeh. In parallel, EconCouns demarched Adnan
Lahaseh, Director of the Anti-Money Laundering Unit of the
Central Bank of Jordan, and Ayman al-Aamiry, Director of the
Foreign Ministry's International Organizations Department.
All appreciated the information received, and said they would
ensure that the names and biodata would be entered into the
relevant GOJ databases. Lahaseh added that he would conduct
a search to determine whether any of the individuals had
financial holdings in Jordan, and promised to report any
positive results to the Embassy

Visit Amman's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/amman/
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