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Article: Saudi Arabia and United States Make Joint Designation on Terror Financing.
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- December 23, 2003
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Saudi Arabia and the United States have taken steps to designate two organizations as financiers of terrorism under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999). These organizations are the Bosnia-based Vazir and the Liechtenstein-based Hochburg AG.
Mr. Safet Durguti, a representative of the Vazir organization, has also been designated under the relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions as a terrorist financier. The Vazir organization came under scrutiny after Saudi Arabia, working with the U.S. Treasury Department, designated the Bosnia branch of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation as financiers of ...