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Some member states withholding information on al Qaeda: UN
United Nations, July 30: United Nations has said that some member states were withholding detailed information on al Qaeda operatives and associates in their territory, considering such an admission would be stigma on their name.
United Nations, July 30: United Nations has said
that some member states were withholding detailed information
on al Qaeda operatives and associates in their territory,
considering such an admission would be stigma on their name.
In the report, a UN Security Council Committee which
monitors sanctions on al Qaeda and Taliban regretted that so
for only 64 states - less than one-third of the total
membership of 191 of the United Nations - have submitted
reports on measures taken by them to fight the scourge.
The information available with the committee shows
that al Qaeda operatives are active in some way in significant
number of states that had not yet submitted the report, it
said.
Warning member states against complacency, it asked
states to seek out operatives trained in making crude forms of
weapons of mass destruction and vet charitable foundations
used as conduit for money to terrorists and their
organisations.
Despite some successes against al-Qaeda, including the
arrest of its senior leaders, recent bombings in Saudi Arabia,
the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation, Morocco, Yemen
and Afghanistan show that the dangers persists, ambassador
Heraldo Mu1oz of Chile, Chairman of the Council's Committee
overseeing sanctions imposed against the Taliban, al-Qaeda and
their associates, told the council.
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