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On March 27, 2002, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) amended its listing of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons by adding the following entity as a Specially Designated Terrorist, a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). Its assets must be blocked immediately.

• Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (a.k.a. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Battallion)

• Asbat Al-Ansar
• Salafist Group For Call and Combat (a.k.a. GSPC; a.k.a. Le Groupe Salafiste Pour La Predication Et Le Combat; a.k.a. Salafist Group For Preaching and Combat; a.k.a. GSPC)

Please distribute this information to the appropriate personnel in your institution. For further information about Executive Orders, the list of blocked accounts or the procedures to block accounts, please call OFAC's Compliance Programs Division at 1-800-540-6322.

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