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International Counter-Terrorism
Timeline
Pre-September
11
1993 - 2001,
G-7/G-8 nations held counter-terrorism
ministerials
to advance measures to defeat
terrorism,
including
by
preventing terrorist
fundraising.
1993,
U.S. Senate ratified
the
Convention
on the
Marking
of
Plastic Explosives
for the
Purpose
ofDetection.
January
23,
1995:
President Clinton signed Executive Order 12947, blocking the assets in the
United
States
of
terrorists
and
terrorist groups
who
threatened
to use
force
to
disrupt
the
Middle
East
peace process
and
prohibiting
financial
transactions with these groups.
The
Executive Order
was
renewed annually.
June
21,1995:
PDD-39 issued,
codifying
U.S. counter-terrorism policy.
(No
mention
of
financingin DOS
description.)
April
1996:
President Clinton signed
the
Antiterrorism
and
Effective Death Penalty Act. This
comprehensive
law, initiated
by the
administration, banned fundraising
in the
United States
on
behalf of foreign terrorist organizations (as designated by the Secretary of
State),
and improved
means
for
excluding
and
deporting terrorists
from
the
United States.
The
Secretary designated
theinitial
group
of 30
foreign terrorist organizations
in
October
1997.
By the end of the
Clinton
administration the
number
of
groups currently designated
was 29.
August 1996:
President
Clinton signed
the
Iran
and
Libya
Sanctions
Act, which
imposed
sanctions
on
foreign companies that invested
in the
development
of
Iran's
or
Libya's petroleumresources.
The
purpose
was to
help deny revenues that could
be
used
to
finance
international
terrorism.
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January
12,1998,
U.S. signed
the
1997 Convention
for the
Suppression
of
Terrorist Bombings.
May
22,1998:
PDD-62
and
PDD-63 issued
on
combating terrorism
and
protecting critical
infrastructures.
August
20,1998:
In the
wake
of the
bombings
of the US
embassies
in
Kenya
and
Tanzania,President Clinton amended Executive Order
12947
to addUsamabin
Ladin
and his key
associates
to the
list
of
terrorists.
Fall 1998:
FEST
(Foreign Emergency Support Team) deployed to Nairobi and
Dar
Es Salaam.
1999,
U.N. General Assembly adopted
the
International Convention
for the
Suppression
of the
Financing
of
Terrorism.
July
1999:
President Clinton signed
an
Executive Order banning transactions
with
the
Talibanbecause
of its
policy
of
offering safe
haven
to
Usama
bin
Ladin
and his
Al-Qaida organization.
September
8,1999:
The
1997 Convention
for the
Suppression
of
Terrorist Bombings, signed
by
the
United States
on
January
12,
1998,
was
submitted
to the
Senate
for
advice
and
consent
to
ratification.
 
January
10,2000:
The
1999 Convention
for the
Suppression
of the
Financing
of
Terrorism
was
signedby theUnited States.
October 2000:
FEST deployed
to
Yemen
after
attack
on
U.S.S. Cole.
October
12,2000:
The
1999
Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism,
signed
by the
United States
on
January
10,
2000,
was
submitted
to the
Senate
for
advice
andconsent.
 
International Counter-Terrorist-Financing Timeline
Post-September
11
September
11,2001:
Twohijacked airliners crashed intotheWorld Trade Center Towersin New
York
City. Thousands were feared dead when
the
towers collapsed more than
an
hour
after
theimpacts.A
third hijacked airliner crashed into
the
Pentagon.
A
fourth, possibly bound
for
anothertarget
in
Washington, D.C.,
crashed
in
Somerset County, Pennsylvania, apparently afterpassengers attempted to overpower the hijackers.
September
12,2001:
The U.N. Security Council issues Resolution 1368 condemning theSeptember
11
attacks and calls for increased international cooperation to prevent and suppressterrorist acts including
by
full
implementation
of
Resolution 1269
of
October
9,
1999.
September
17,2001:
The Treasury Department announced that it would form an interagencyForeign Terrorist Asset Tracking Center to
identify
foreign terrorist groups and their sources of
finance.
September
23,2001:
President Bush signed Executive Order 13224 freezingtheassetsof 27organizationsandpersons knownto belinkedto
al-Qaeda
andsuspectedof
funding
terrorism.Hecalled on foreign banks to follow his example or have their U.S.
assets
frozen. Eight of suchorganizations
are
also designated
as
Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
September
26,2001:
DuringameetingofNATO Defense MinistersinBrussels, DeputySecretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz said that no military actions against terrorists were likely
until
more information had been collected. At present, NATO allies could be most
helpful
bysharing
intelligence
information
and
helping
to
trace
the
financial
assets
of
terrorist
groups.
September
27,2001:
The United States sought support for a U.N. Security Council
draft
resolution calling
for
freezing
the
assets
of
terrorist groups,
and for
closer internationalcooperation against terrorism.
September
28,2001:
The UN
Security Council unanimously adopted
a
U.S.-sponsored
resolution (Resolution 1373) calling on member states to end financial, political, and military
connections
with terrorist groups, and to freeze their assets. Member states would report every 90
days
to a 15-member compliance council, the Counter-Terrorism Committee.
September
30,2001:
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that GreatBritain had
frozen
$88 million worth of Taliban assets in a London-based bank.
October
1,2001:
In an address to FEMA employees, President Bush said that 19 countries hadagreed to
freeze
terrorist assets and $6 million in assets had been frozen in 50 bank accounts
(including 20
foreign accounts).
October
6,2001:
G-7
finance
ministers
and
central bank presidents
met in
Washington
to
promote economic recovery
and to
devise means
for
tracking terrorist assets. They
scheduled
a
meeting
of the Financial Action Task Force for October
29-30.
October
10,2001:
State Department Spokesman Richard A. Boucher said that steps had been
taken
against terrorist financial assets in 112 countries.
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