US embassy cable - 05DUBLIN1307

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TERRORIST FINANCIER APPEALS AN ORDER FREEZING HIS FINANCIAL ASSETS

Identifier: 05DUBLIN1307
Wikileaks: View 05DUBLIN1307 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Dublin
Created: 2005-10-24 13:54:00
Classification: SECRET
Tags: PTER KTFN ASEC KHLS PINR EI
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
VZCZCXYZ0003
PP RUEHWEB

DE RUEHDL #1307 2971354
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
P 241354Z OCT 05
FM AMEMBASSY DUBLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6030
INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES PRIORITY
RUEHVJ/AMEMBASSY SARAJEVO PRIORITY 0003
RUEHTU/AMEMBASSY TUNIS PRIORITY 0040
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITY
RUCNFB/FBI WASHDC PRIORITY
S E C R E T DUBLIN 001307 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/27/2014 
TAGS: PTER, KTFN, ASEC, KHLS, PINR, EI 
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCIER APPEALS AN ORDER FREEZING HIS 
FINANCIAL ASSETS 
 
Classified By: POL/ECON CHIEF MARY DALY, FOR REASONS 
1.4 (B), (D) 
 
1. (U)  On October 24, the Irish Times (newspaper of record) 
reported that Bin Muhammad Ayadi Chafiq will make an appeal 
on October 25 to the European Court of Justice for the 
release of his bank accounts.  According to the report, Ayadi 
Chafiq, a Bosnian national born in Tunis, is named on a 
European Commission list of Al-Qaeda financiers. His appeal 
charges EU authorities with acting illegally and infringing 
his human rights by freezing his financial assets. 
 
2. (U)  According to the report, Ayadi Chafiq is one of 17 
individuals who have had their assets frozen within the EU, 
and the only person on the list living in Ireland who is 
linked directly with Osama Bin Laden.  The article added that 
Ayadi Chafiq lost an earlier appeal in August 2002 at the 
European Court of First Instance. The current appeal charges 
that the EU regulation enforcing the freezing of bank 
accounts infringes on fundamental principles of EU law and 
that it should be up to individual member states to set the 
rules regarding assets freezing rather than the EU. 
 
3. (S) According to SIMO colleagues, Ayadi Chafiq is a known 
extremist operating in Ireland. 
KENNY 

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