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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 STATE 052473 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
SUBJECT: INSTRUCTIONS TO SUBMIT LISTING PROPOSAL FOR 4 
LASHKAR E-TAYIBBA (LET-4) TERRORISTS UNDER UNSCR 1267 
 
REF: A. STATE 004359 
     ¶B. ISLAMABAD 1678 
     ¶C. STATE 36712 
     ¶D. ISLAMABAD 1739 
 
¶1. (U) This is an action request.  See paragraphs 4 and 5. 
 
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BACKGROUND 
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¶2. (U) Per ref A, the USG prenotified Security Council 
members, G-20, and Pakistan of our intention to request the 
UN 1267 Sanctions Committee to add the names of four 
operatives of Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT) to the Committee's list 
of individuals and entities associated with Usama bin Laden 
or members of the Taliban or al-Qaida, which are subject to 
UN Security Council mandated sanctions, including asset 
freezing, travel ban and arms embargo.  We prenotified our 
intent to submit this listing request on January 30, but held 
off for several months in an effort to secure Pakistani 
support for this submission. 
 
¶3. (SBU) Despite several months of working with the 
Government of Pakistan (GOP) to gain support for this listing 
request, we anticipate the GOP will ask a Member of the 1267 
Committee, likely China, to place a hold on the request. 
However, we will submit this request regardless and will ask 
China (septel) not to support a GOP hold request.  China 
placed a hold, at Pakistan's behest, on a January 2008 German 
listing request (for 3 Islamic Jihad Union terrorists) that 
the GOP did not support.  However, the Chinese mission to the 
UN, upon learning of our planned LeT-4 listing request, 
expressed some discomfort over the possibility that the GOP 
would again ask China to place a hold on another 
well-substantiated submission.  The Chinese Mission to the UN 
has confirmed that Beijing does not have a substantive 
objection to this submission.  We will use this opportunity 
to try to prevail upon the Chinese to stop entertaining 
Pakistani requests to prevent 1267 listing requests to 
sanction individuals/entities operating in or linked to 
Pakistan. 
 
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ACTION REQUEST 
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¶4. (U) USUN is instructed to submit on May 16 the following 
names for listing under UNSCR 1267: 
 
Names of proposed individuals: 
 
Muhammad Saeed 
AKA: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed 
AKA: Hafiz Saeed 
AKA: Hafiz Sahib 
AKA: Hafiz Mohammad Saeed 
AKA: Hafez Mohammad Sayeed 
AKA: Hafiz Mohammad Sayid 
AKA: Hafiz Mohammad Syeed 
AKA: Tata Ji 
AKA: Hafiz Mohammad Sayed 
Address:    House No. 116E, Mohalla Johar, 
Town: Lahore, Tehsil: Lahore City, 
Lahore District, Pakistan 
DOB: 5 June 1950 
POB: Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan 
Father's Name: Kamal-ud-Din 
National ID#:  3520025509842-7 
 
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi 
AKA: Zakir Rehman Lakvi 
AKA: Zaki Ur-Rehman Lakvi 
AKA: Zaki Ur-Rehman 
AKA: Zakir Rehman 
AKA: Abu Waheed Irshad Ahmad Arshad 
AKA: Chachajee 
Address 1: 
Barahkoh, P.O. DO, Tehsil and District Islamabad, Pakistan 
Address 2: 
Chak No. 18/IL, Rinala Khurd, Tehsil Rinala Khurd, District 
Okara, Pakistan 
DOB: 30 December 1960 
POB: Okara, Pakistan 
 
STATE 00052473  002 OF 002 
 
 
Father's Name: Hafiz Aziz-ur-Rehman 
National ID#:     61101-9618232-1 
 
Haji Muhammad Ashraf 
AKA: Haji M. Ashraf 
DOB: 1 March 1965 
PPN: A-374184, Pakistani 
 
Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq 
AKA: Mahmoud Bahaziq 
AKA: Abu  Abd al- Aziz 
AKA: Abu Abdul Aziz 
AKA: Shaykh Sahib 
DOB: 17 August 1943 
Alt DOB:    1943 
Alt DOB:    1944 
POB: India 
Nationality: Saudi Arabian 
Saudi Registration Number: 4-6032-0048-1. 
 
¶5. (U) USUN is further instructed to share the attached 
Statement of Case (SOC) with 1267 Members and request their 
support for this listing.  Specific instructions on an 
approach to the Chinese Mission to the UN will be provided in 
septel. 
 
 
Statement of Case 
 
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) is a terrorist group listed under 
UNSCR 1267 for its links to Usama bin Ladin and the al Qaida 
network. Despite being banned by the Government of Pakistan 
in January 2002, LeT continues to operate and engage in or 
support terrorist activities abroad.  LeT was designated 
under UNSCR 1267 on May 2, 2005. 
 
Muhammad Saeed is LeT's overall leader and chief. As overall 
leader, Saeed plays a key role in LeT's operational and 
fundraising activities. In 2006, Saeed oversaw the management 
of a terrorist training camp, including funding of the camp. 
In 2005, Saeed determined where graduates of an LeT camp in 
Pakistan should be sent to fight, and personally organized 
the infiltration of LeT militants into Iraq during a trip to 
Saudi Arabia.  Saeed also arranged for an LeT operative to be 
sent to Europe as LeT's European fundraising coordinator. 
 
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi is LeT's chief of operations. In this 
capacity, Lakhvi has directed LeT operations, including in 
Chechnya, Bosnia, Iraq, and Southeast Asia. In 2006, Lakhvi 
instructed LeT associates to train operatives for suicide 
bombings and in 2003, Lakhvi instructed LeT operatives to 
conduct attacks in well-populated areas. In 2004, Lakhvi sent 
operatives and funds to attack U.S. forces in Iraq, having 
directed an LeT operative to travel to Iraq in 2003 to assess 
the situation there.  In past years, Lakhvi has also played 
an important role in LeT fundraising activities, reportedly 
receiving al Qaida-affiliated donations on behalf of LeT. 
 
Haji Muhammad Ashraf is LeT's chief of finance, a position he 
has held since at least 2003. In 2003 and 2004, Ashraf 
traveled to the Middle East, where he personally collected 
donations on behalf of LeT. In 2003, Ashraf assisted Saudi 
Arabia-based LeT leadership with expanding its organization 
and increasing its fundraising activities. 
 
Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq is an LeT financier.  He is 
credited with being the main financier behind the 
establishment of the LeT and its activities in the 1980s and 
1990s. He has also served as the leader of LeT in Saudi 
Arabia. In 2003, Bahaziq coordinated LeT's fundraising 
activities with Saudi nongovernmental organizations and Saudi 
businessmen, and encouraged LeT operatives to continue and 
accelerate fundraising and organizing activities. As of 
mid-2005, Bahaziq played a key role in LeT's propaganda and 
media operations. 
 
End Statement of Case 
 
¶5. (U) Coversheets will be e-mailed separately. 
 
¶6. (U) Tripoli minimize considered. 
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