CFTC Requests Records Search by Futures-Related Entities Following Attacks On The World Trade Center And The Pentagon

On September 23, 2001, President Bush signed an executive order on terrorist financing entitled "Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism." This executive order freezes the U.S. assets of, and blocks U.S. transactions with, 27 individuals and organizations. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also has published a list of people who are under investigation in connection with the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Immediately upon issuance of the President's executive order, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) distributed notice of the individuals and organizations identified in that order and the FBI's list to the commodity futures industry through the National Futures Association, all futures exchanges and the Futures Industry Association.

The CFTC asks that all futures-related entities (whether or not registered with the CFTC) voluntarily check their records for any information concerning the individuals or organizations named in the executive order and the FBI's list, and send that information to the CFTC. Names on those lists are set forth below. The CFTC makes this request for assistance of all futures-related entities, including futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, commodity pool operators, and commodity trading advisors.

If you have any information, please provide that information to the CFTC via:

E-mail to enforcement@cftc.gov (please put on the subject line "Enf-CFTC Search Request"); or
U.S. mail to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 1155 21st Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20581, Attn: Enforcement, Executive Order Search.

The CFTC also asks futures-related entities to inform any foreign subsidiaries and affiliates of this request. If foreign subsidiaries or affiliates identify any responsive information, we ask the futures-related entities to notify the CFTC in the manner described above, so that we may take appropriate steps to obtain the information.

List of Individuals and Entities:

Al Qaida/Islamic Army (or Al Qaeda)
Abu Sayyaf Group
Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Asbat al-Ansar
Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI)
Islamic Army of Aden
Usama bin Laden (or Osama bin Laden)
Muhammad Atif (aka, Subhi Abu Sitta, Abu Hafs Al Masri)
Sayf al-Adi
Shaykh Sai'id (aka, Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad)
Abu Hafs the Mauritanian (aka, Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, Khalid Al-Shanqiti)
Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi
Abu Zubaydah (aka, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, Tariq)
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi (aka, Abu Abdallah)
Ayman al-Zawahri
Thirwat Salah Shihata
Tariq Anwar al-Sayyid Ahmad (aka, Fathi, Amr al-Fatih)
Muhammad Salah (aka, Nasr Fahmi Nasr Hasanayn)
Makhtab Al-Khidamat/Al Kifah
Wafa Humanitarian Organization
Al Rashid Trust
Mamoun Darkazanli Import-Export Company
Khalid Al-Midhar
Majed Moqed
Nawaq Alhamzi
Salem Alhamzi
Hani Hanjour
Satam Al Suqami
Waleed M. Alshehri
Wail Alshehri
Mohamed Atta
Abdulaziz Alomari
Marwan Al-Shehhi
Fayez Ahmed
Ahmed Alghamdi
Hamza Alghamdi
Mohald Alshehri
Saeed Alghamdi
Ahmed Alhaznawi
Ahmed Alnami
Ziad Jarrahi