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http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936
,5366700%255E401,00.html
27 October 2002
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United Nations blacklists JI
26oct02
THE radical Islamic group suspected of orchestrating the Bali
bombings was today blacklisted by the United Nations.
The listing of Jemaah Islamiah (JI) as an al-Qaeda related entity
followed an Australian application to the UN, which was co-
sponsored by Indonesia.
The move was supported by ASEAN and EU countries, seven other
Pacific Island nations, the United States, Canada, Korea, Mauritius,
Turkey and others.
JI is suspected of the October 12 Bali bombings in which at least
191 people were killed, many of whom were Australians.
The listing means JI will face international sanctions.
All UN member states were now obliged to freeze the funds and
financial assets or economic resources of the group, Foreign
Minister Alexander Downer said.
UN member states must also prevent the entry or transit through
their territories of listed individuals and must not sell them arms.
Domestic measures are being drafted, with Mr Downer saying it was
the first time Australia requested such a listing.
"We are taking concurrent steps to proscribe JI in domestic asset-
freezing regulations," Mr Downer said.
The move will help block any attempt by JI to bolster operations in
South-East Asia.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade last week updated its
consular advice to Australians in Indonesia, urging them to be
especially cautious from today, when the listing came into effect.
"Every UN member nation in the world is now expected to take
action against Jemaah Islamiah," a spokesman for Mr Downer said.
"Australia is very pleased the listing has been formalised and is
pleased with the degree of international support it got."
Opposition Leader Simon Crean today said he welcomed the listing,
but questioned why it took so long to happen.
"I welcome it, and I continue to ask the question why it took the
government so long to get it listed when the defence minister last
week indicated that they had known for months that the possibility of
JI presence in Australia," Mr Crean said outside the Tasmanian ALP
conference in Launceston.
"Now that it has been listed by the United Nations, the federal
government should move immediately to list it in Australia.
"It has the legislative power to do that.
"Labor has supported that.
"Now let's hope it doesn't take as long to list it here in Australia as it
did take the government to list al-Qaeda."
Intelligence agencies say JI is led by Indonesian cleric Riduan
Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, who has reportedly built the
organisation in al-Qaeda's image.
A US-Australian report names him as a "key figure" linking the two
groups.
According to the report, Hambali was a close associate of Ramzi
Yousef, who is imprisoned in the US for his involvement in the 1993
attack on the World Trade Centre.
They reportedly collaborated in an unsuccessful plot two years later
to blow up 12 airliners flying from Asia to the US.
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