Treasury Targets Leader of Group Tied to Al Qaida

TREAS.GOV - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ^ | April 20, 2009 | n/a

[Cindy]

April 20, 2009 TG-92

"Treasury Targets Leader of Group Tied to Al Qaida"

SNIPPET: "Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today targeted al Qaida's support network by designating Abdul Haq, the overall leader and commander of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP), a terrorist organization designated under E.O. 13224 for its support to al Qaida. E.O. 13224 targets terrorists and those providing financial, technological, or material support to terrorists or acts of terrorism by freezing the assets of designated persons and prohibiting transactions with them. This Treasury action follows a decision by the United Nations Security Council's 1267 Committee to place Haq on its list of persons associated with Usama bin Laden, al Qaida, or the Taliban and subject to sanctions by UN member states.

"Abdul Haq commands a terror group that sought to sow violence and fracture international unity at the 2008 Olympic Games in China," said Stuart Levey, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. "Today, we stand together with the world in condemning this brutal terrorist and isolating him from the international financial system."

Abdul Haq, aka Maimaitiming Maimaiti, is the overall leader and commander of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP), a.k.a. the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). The UN 1267 Committee added ETIP to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities associated with al Qaida or the Taliban on September 11th, 2002.

As ETIP overall leader, Abdul Haq raised funds, recruited new members and further developed the terrorist organization. In early January 2008, Haq directed ETIP's military commander to attack various Chinese cities, particularly focusing on the cities holding the Olympic Games. Under Haq, trained terrorists planned to sabotage the Olympic Games by conducting terrorist attacks within China before the Olympics began.

Since late 2007, Abdul Haq sent terrorists to the Middle East to raise funds and buy explosive materials for terrorist attacks against Chinese targets outside China. Abdul Haq became the leader of ETIP following the death of the previous ETIP leader in October 2003. As of 2005, Haq was also a member of al Qaida's Shura Council.

Identifying Information:

Name: Abdul Haq AKA: Abdul Heq AKA: Abuduhake AKA: Abdulheq Jundullah AKA: Abd Al-Haq AKA: Maimaitiming Maimaiti AKA: Memetiming Memeti AKA: Memetiming Aximu AKA: Memetiming Qekeman AKA: Maimaiti Iman AKA: Maiumaitimin Maimaiti AKA: Abdul Saimaiti AKA: Muhammad Ahmed Khaliq AKA: Muhelisi AKA: Qerman AKA: Saifuding DOB: October 10, 1971 POB: Chele County, Khuttan Area, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China Nationality: Chinese"

[HiTech RedNeck]

Let’s tax him to death.

[Cindy]

A bit off topic, but interesting:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2191075/posts

“Al Qaeda’s China Affiliate Releases First Magazine”
THE JAWA REPORT ^ | February 21, 2009 | n/a
Posted on February 21, 2009 5:47:32 PM PST by Cindy

[Cindy]

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/04/the_uighurs_in_their.php

“The Uighurs, in their own words”
By THOMAS JOSCELYN
April 21, 2009 10:10 AM

PHOTO CAPTION: “A Uighur terrorist from a videotape released by the Turkistan Islamic Party last year.”

SNIPPET: “On Tuesday, April 20, the US Treasury Department added Abdul Haq, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party (“ETIP”), to its list of designated terrorists. The move follows a similar designation by the UN, which placed Haq on its list of persons associated with Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, or the Taliban on April 15.

Abdul Haq is not widely known in the West, as his terrorist activities have focused largely on China. But members of the ETIP, which was previously known as the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), have fought throughout Central and South Asia alongside Taliban and al Qaeda forces. And Haq’s organization gained some notoriety last year when it openly threatened the Olympic Games.

Currently, seventeen Uighur men who are suspected members or associates of the organization are detained at Guantánamo. Five other Uighurs who were detained at Gitmo were previously released to Albania in 2006. The men are all from China’s Xinjiang region and are alleged to have traveled to Afghanistan to join the ETIP/ETIM’s jihad.

The Obama administration has expressed its desire to relocate at least some of the current Uighur detainees to American soil.”