Hello.
These individuals were removed from the U.N. terror list because the
United States asked the U.N. to remove them. The Swedish government
had requested that the U.S. government take this action. The U.S. had
previously believed that these Somali-born Swedes had were part of a
terrorist financial network, but later determined that the indivduals
had been "unwitting participants."
See:
"All six entities were removed after taking 'remedial action to
disassociate themselves from the terrorist Al-Barakaat network," said
Treasury spokesman Rob Nichols. 'They appear, after extensive review,
to have been unwitting participants in the network, and their
disassociation furthers our goal of dismantling the network.'"
Source "Treasury Removes Names From Terror Financing List"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,61436,00.html
"Jimmy Gurule, undersecretary for enforcement at the U.S. Treasury
Department, said the names were taken off the list because they had no
knowledge of links to terrorist financing"
Yahoo News: "U.S. Strikes Six From 'Terrorism' List at U.N."
By Evelyn Leopold, cached boy Google
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:2BBv82ApopsC:ca.news.yahoo.com/020822/5/ohtu.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet
"Terror accusations fall through"
OneNews, Nzoom.com
http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,126212-1-9,00.html
"U.S. to request removal of 6 from sanctions list"
Newstribune.com
http://newstribune.com/stories/082202/wor_0822020066.asp
For more information about Sweden's request for the removal of these
individuals from the terror list, see:
"Swedes rally to terror suspects," hosted by cnn.com
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/02/22/sweden.list/
"UN terror blacklist tested in court," hosted by Timesonline.co.uk:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,565-215154,00.html
search strategy: Abdirisak, sweden, list
I hope this helps. |
