JI put on UN's al-Qaeda blacklist

JI put on UN's al-Qaeda blacklist

The United Nations has added Jamaah Islamiyah, suspected of a role in the Bali bombing that killed at least 190 people, to its al-Qaeda blacklist.

The UN's website said the group had been put on its list of organizations subject to sanctions against al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives.

As a result of the listing, UN member nations are required to act against JI members and entities by freezing their assets, preventing their movement and blocking any attempts to sell or transfer arms.

The United States and Britain have already named JI as a "foreign terrorist organization" following the Oct. 12 bombings in Indonesia's Bali island.

Australia and Indonesia had requested the UN blacklist JI.

The sanctions were originally adopted, and later tightened, in response to the indictment of Osama bin Laden for the 1998 terrorist bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam --AFP.