Bahrain updates terror list

Manama : It’s official now! The entities and individuals identified as funders of terrorism by the Anti-terror quartet had found they way onto the official terror ‘blacklist’ of Bahrain. 

The names of nine entities and nine individuals are now in the Official Gazette of the Kingdom. 

The quartet, which includes Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, added the new names to the GCC terror list on July 25 accusing them of having “direct and indirect ties with the Qatari authorities in funding terrorist activities”. 

While announcing the list, the quartet also issued a warning to the Qatari authorities stating that they will be monitoring Qatar’s commitments in this regard, which includes not harbouring terrorists, supporting and financing terrorism as well as ending hate speech. 

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt severed all ties with Qatar, accusing the Gulf state of supporting terrorism and backing Iran. They also added 59 people to their terrorist blacklists, including 18 Qataris.

The quartet earlier said they had placed three Qataris and a Kuwaiti citizen on the list for holding fund-raising campaigns in Syria for the Al-Nusra Front, while three Yemenis and Yemen-based organisations were blacklisted for their support to Al-Qaeda with the help of Qatari charities. Two Libyan individuals and six Libyan entities were also blacklisted for spreading chaos and devastation in Libya. 

The quartet at that time also warned Qatar that the “recently signed memorandum of understanding with the United States” and the move to “amend terror-combating laws” were not sufficient. 

They required “Qatari authorities to take legal and practical actions to prosecute terrorist and extremist individuals and entities, especially those on this current list and the previous one.” 

The quartet had also confirmed that sanctions against Qatar would continue. 

The terror list originally compiled by the quartet in June includes entities and individuals from Bahrain, Qatar and other Arabian countries.

Entities:

1)Al- Balagh Charitable Foundation - Yemen

2)Al-Ihsan Charitable Society - Yemen

3)Rahma Charitable Organization - Yemen

4)Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council- Libya

5)Al-Saraya Media Center- Libya

6)Boshra News Agency - Libya

7)Rafallah Sahati Brigade - Libya

8)Nabaa TV - Libya

9)Tanasuh Foundation for Dawa, Culture and Media - Libya

Individuals:

1)Khalid Saeed Al Bouaynain (Qatari Citizen)

2)Shaqer Jummah Al Shahwani (Qatari Citizen)

3)Saleh bin Ahmed Al Ghanim (Qatari Citizen)

4)Hamid Hamad Hamid Al Ali (Kuwaiti Citizen)

5)Abdullah Mohammed Al Yazidi (Yemeni Citizen)

6)Ahmed Ali Ahmed Baraoud (Yemeni Citizen)

7)Mohammed Bakr Al Dabaa (Yemeni Citizen)

8)Al-Saadi Abdullah Ibrahim Bukhazem (Libyan Citizen)

9)Ahmed Abd Al Jaleel Al Hasnawi (Libyan Citizen)