June 23, 2009

Yes The Taliban Are A Specially Designated Terrorist Group

Via NY Daily News:

But here's news that may surprise most Americans and surviving Taliban victims: The State Department's top diplomat, Hillary Clinton, and her predecessors haven't designated it a foreign terrorist organization. What's it going to take?
Except that the Taliban were declared specially designated terrorist entity by President Bush under executive order 13224, see here via Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control.

The Executive order recognizes the designation of the Taliban as terrorists by the UN resolution 1267 and directs the Dept of Treasury and State to treat them as such.

You can find more security council resolutions about the Taliban here on that mysterious thingy called Google.

You can also do an awesome jawa search here and find out that the designation of the Taliban as terrorists has been the argument we've used to own oh, about 100 websites. But that was back when Booosh was in office and the liberal morons did not give a rats ass about helping defeat the taliban, all they cared about was that we were "oppressing" people who wanted to chop of our heads.

Via Jawa Report: Providing business services, even free ones, to the Taliban violates the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in the US. Each IEEPA violation of carries a fine of up to $250,000.

Providing business services to the Taliban also violates the Charter of the United Nations (Anti-terrorism — Persons and Entities) List, under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 of which Canada & the US have recognized as a legally binding resolution.

It also violates UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1267, of which Canada & the US recognize as binding law. "Asset holders are under an obligation to freeze the assets or economic resources of persons involved in terrorism as listed in the Consolidated List", of which the Taliban are listed.

And you thought we were just Islamophobic?

Sorry to rain on your parade there Fred but you're just wrong. The Obama administration has so far chosen not to reverse any of the Bush Administration's sanctions on the Taliban, so the designation still stands. But thanks for caring.

By Howie at 08:34 AM | |