The Raja Suleiman Movement (RSM), a Philippine-based group with
links to Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah, al-Qaeda affiliates both,
has just been blacklisted by the Treasury Department. Today's
measure also marks the RSM's leader, Ahmad Santos, as a Specially
Designated Global Terrorist under U.S. federal law. The official
press release is here. It cites Adam Szubin, the director of Treasury's
Office of Foreign Assets Control, as charging the RSM with
"reprehensible acts that include killing citizens and tourists in
the Philippines to advance their terrorist agenda."
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