http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=18194 Meanwhile, the Somalis yesterday welcomed the removal by the United States of money transfer company Barakaat from a list of organizations alleged to be financing international terror groups. "It is not fair that Barakaat's name was on the list of terror-funding financial organizations, but our name is already badly dented by the inclusion in the list after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States," Mogadishu's Barakaat Bank manager Abbas Abdi Ali told AFP yesterday. Ali was reacting to a decision on Tuesday by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to take Barakaat off its list of individuals and companies whose financial assets were frozen because of suspected links to terrorist organizations. He did not say if Barakaat would seek legal compensation as a result of having been included on the list of terrorism sponsors. The delisted institutions were named as Barakaat Enterprise USA, Aaran Money Wire Service Inc. and Global Service International US, all based in the United States. Individuals who were delisted include two Swedish nationals of Somali origin, Abdi Abdulaziz Ali and Abdirisak Aden, who were employees of the Swedish branch of the Somali Bank of Barakaat. US citizen Garad Jama was also removed from the list, which was endorsed by the UN Security Council. Gambling on the collapse of Govts? http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16843
