During a briefing held today Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jindayi Frazer announced that the United States is preparing to designate Eritrea as a “state sponsor of terrorism.” Such a designation would be made under the provisions of…
An excellent news story in the Miami Herald by Douglas Hanks on the Travelocity fine, which we first blogged about here, raises some interesting questions. (Full disclosure: Hanks interviewed me for the article). First, Hanks (being a real reporter and…
USA*Engage recently released a report on foreign countermeasures that have been applied to the extraterritorial application of unilateral U.S. sanctions. Most of the incidents covered in the report have been discussed here — such as the eviction of a Cuban…
The new OFAC penalty disclosure for August came out on Saturday with some embarrassing news about Travelocity’s Roaming Gnome. Seems that for for six years, between 1998 and 2004, the Travelocity site booked 1,458 reservations for travel to Cuba. The…
Fouad Al Zayat, a Syrian businessman and high-stakes gambler better known by London casino staff as “The Fat Man,” just lost an appeal he filed to have the U.K. to release property that the U.K. had blocked at Iran’s request.…