Specially Designated Global Terrorist
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Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) is a designation authorized under U.S. Executive Order 13224 http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Documents/13224.pdf, among other executive orders, and Title 31, Parts 595, 596, and 597 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, among other U.S. laws and regulations. SDGT designations are administered and enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury Department.
SDGTs are entities and individuals who OFAC finds have committed or pose a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism, or who OFAC finds provide support, services, or assistance to, or otherwise associate with, terrorists and terrorist organizations designated under OFAC Counter Terrorism Sanctions programs, as well as such persons' subsidiaries, front organizations, agents, or associates. They are designated under OFAC's Counter Terrorism Sanction programs.
The designation SDGT is one of several types of designations of persons to whom one or more OFAC-administered sanctions apply; these include country-specific and counter narcotics trafficking, non-proliferation, and transnational criminal organization-related sanctions, as well as--potentially--diamond trading-related sanctions, although no persons had been sanctioned with respect to illicit trading in rough diamonds as of early November 2011. See OFAC Sanctions Programs and Country Information.
OFAC publishes an integrated list of persons designated under its various sanctions programs that is known as the Specially Designated Nationals List, under which SDGT listings are included. Individuals and companies designated as "Specially Designated Nationals" are known as "SDNs." Most SDGT SDNs are foreign persons, but in at least one case--that of the late Anwar al-Awlaki (also known by various aliases)--a U.S. person was designated as an SDGT; see Specially Designated Nationals List.
The main regulatory framework underlying the SDGT designation was established two weeks after the September 11 attacks in 2001, through Executive Order 13224
, by President George W. Bush
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SDGTs are entities and individuals who OFAC finds have committed or pose a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism, or who OFAC finds provide support, services, or assistance to, or otherwise associate with, terrorists and terrorist organizations designated under OFAC Counter Terrorism Sanctions programs, as well as such persons' subsidiaries, front organizations, agents, or associates. They are designated under OFAC's Counter Terrorism Sanction programs.
The designation SDGT is one of several types of designations of persons to whom one or more OFAC-administered sanctions apply; these include country-specific and counter narcotics trafficking, non-proliferation, and transnational criminal organization-related sanctions, as well as--potentially--diamond trading-related sanctions, although no persons had been sanctioned with respect to illicit trading in rough diamonds as of early November 2011. See OFAC Sanctions Programs and Country Information.
OFAC publishes an integrated list of persons designated under its various sanctions programs that is known as the Specially Designated Nationals List, under which SDGT listings are included. Individuals and companies designated as "Specially Designated Nationals" are known as "SDNs." Most SDGT SDNs are foreign persons, but in at least one case--that of the late Anwar al-Awlaki (also known by various aliases)--a U.S. person was designated as an SDGT; see Specially Designated Nationals List.
The main regulatory framework underlying the SDGT designation was established two weeks after the September 11 attacks in 2001, through Executive Order 13224
Executive Order 13224
Executive Order 13224 is an executive order signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on September 23, 2001 as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks....
, by President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
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External links
- FBI Most Wanted Terrorist list
- US State Department Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
- http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2001State Department date=November 2010}}
- State Department TEL–Terrorist Exclusion List
- State Department is offering up to $25 million for information about key terrorists
- Treasury Department offering up to $5 million for information on terrorist financing
- Executive Order on Terrorist Financing: Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism, White House, September 24, 2001
- US Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control
- List of sanctions programs including nations