US embassy cable - 05OTTAWA891

S E C R E T OTTAWA 000891 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS (DNELSON), S/CT (TKUSHNER), IO/PHO 
(JSCHWEITZER), AND WHA/CAN 
TREASURY (JZARATE), AND OFAC (RWERNER) 
NSC (MRUPPERT) 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/30/2015 
TAGS: EFIN, PREL, PTER, CVIS, KVPR, KTFN, CA, FAC, CSIS 
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: DISCREPANCY IN LET 
PRENOTIFICATION 
 
REF: STATE 49537 
 
Classified By: Classified by Wendy Moore, Economics Counselor, Ottawa. 
 Reason:  1.4(e). 
 
1.  (U) This is an action message. 
 
2.  (S) Two of the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba aliases in para 7 of 
reftel (Passban-e-Kashmir and Paasban-I-Ahle-Hadith) 
apparently entered the joint prenotification message at some 
point between the original draft that we shared with the GOC 
and the final version sent to posts.  Canada's Department of 
Foreign Affairs (FAC) noticed the discrepancy today (March 
24) and the Canadian intelligence service (CSIS) has been 
trying to reconcile the connection all day.  Those aliases 
are not included in Canada's domestic listing under the 
Criminal Code or the UN Suppression of Terrorism Regulations 
(the equivalent of our OFAC listings). 
 
3.  (SBU)  Canadian government offices shut at COB today 
until OOB on Tuesday March 29 for the long Easter weekend. 
 
4.  (S)  FAC proposes that if intelligence experts have not 
been able to link the names by COB today (March 24), those 
aliases be dropped from the submission to the UN 1267 
Committee planned for Monday, March 28. The process is 
complicated by the fact that Canadian intelligence links 
those two aliases to another entity that they have not listed 
as financing terrorism.  If the USG does not feel it is 
possible to drop the two aliases, the GOC requests that the 
notification to the 1267 Committee be delayed until they can 
confirm the link to LET. 
 
 
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DICKSON