FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                        2001-103
     
     
     
      Request for Records Search by Securities-Related
      Entities, including Brokers, Dealers, Investment
          Advisers, Investment Companies, Municipal
           Securities Dealers and Transfer Agents
                              
                              
                              
          Washington, DC, September 26, 2001 -- On September
     23, 2001, President Bush signed an executive order
     freezing United States assets of and blocking
     transactions with 27 individuals and organizations.
     The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also published
     a list of people who are under investigation in
     connection with the World Trade Center and Pentagon
     attacks.  The Commission asks that all securities-
     related entities (whether or not registered with the
     SEC) voluntarily check their records for any
     relationships or transactions with the individuals and
     organizations named in the executive order or FBI's
     list.  Names on those lists are set forth below.
     
                 We are asking all securities-related
     entities, including brokers, dealers, investment
     advisers, investment companies, municipal securities
     dealers, and transfer agents, for your help.  If you
     know of any relationship (for example, an account), or
     a transaction (such as the purchase or sale of
     securities or a wire transfer), with any of the
     individuals or organizations on this list, please let
     us know.  You may send this information via:
          
     *    E-mail to Enf-Search@sec.gov (please put on the subject
       line "Enf-Search Request"); or (UPDATE: this e-mail address is no 
       longer active, new link is: 
       https://denebleo.sec.gov/TCRExternal/disclaimer.xhtml)
     
     *    U.S. mail to United States Securities and Exchange
       Commission, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549-
       0801, Attn:  Executive Order Records Search.
     
                 We also ask securities-related entities to
     advise any foreign subsidiaries and affiliates of this
     request.  If foreign subsidiaries or affiliates
     identify any responsive information, we ask the
     securities-related entities to notify the SEC in the
     manner described above, so that we may take appropriate
     steps to obtain the information.

     
              List of Individuals and Entities
     
     Al Qaida/Islamic Army (or Al Qaeda)
     
     Abu Sayyaf Group
     
     Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
     
     Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
     
     Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
     
     Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
     
     Asbat al-Ansar
     
     Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
     
     Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
     
     Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI)
     
     Islamic Army of Aden
     
     Usama bin Laden (or Osama bin Laden)
     
     Muhammad Atif (aka, Subhi Abu Sitta, Abu Hafs Al Masri)
     
     Sayf al-Adi
     
     Shaykh Sai'id (aka, Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad)
     
     Abu Hafs the Mauritanian (aka, Mahfouz Ould al-Walid,
        Khalid Al-Shanqiti)
     
     Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi
     
     Abu Zubaydah (aka, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn,
        Tariq)
     
     Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi (aka, Abu Abdallah)
     
     Ayman al-Zawahri
     
     Thirwat Salah Shihata
     
     Tariq Anwar al-Sayyid Ahmad (aka, Fathi, Amr al-Fatih)
     
     Muhammad Salah (aka, Nasr Fahmi Nasr Hasanayn)
     
     Makhtab Al-Khidamat/Al Kifah
     
     Wafa Humanitarian Organization
     
     Al Rashid Trust
     
     Mamoun Darkazanli Import-Export Company
     
     Khalid Al-Midhar
     
     Majed Moqed
     
     Nawaq Alhamzi
     
     Salem Alhamzi
     
     Hani Hanjour
     
     Satam Al Suqami
     
     Waleed M. Alshehri
     
     Wail Alshehri
     
     Mohamed Atta
     
     Abdulaziz Alomari
     
     Marwan Al-Shehhi
     
     Fayez Ahmed
     
     Ahmed Alghamdi
     
     Hamza Alghamdi
     
     Mohald Alshehri
     
     Saeed Alghamdi
     
     Ahmed Alhaznawi
     
     Ahmed Alnami
     
     Ziad Jarrahi
                              
                              
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