UN lifts Osama from sanctions list

Bin Laden had been subjected to a travel ban and asset freeze since he was listed by the Security Council al-Qaida sanctions committee on Jan. 25, 2001. He was shot and killed on May 2, 2011 by U.S. forces that stormed his compound in Pakistan.

The U.N. committee said in a statement that bin Laden was officially removed from the sanctions list on Feb. 21, but that countries must submit requests to unfreeze any of his assets.

Those countries must also “provide assurances to the Committee that the assets will not be transferred, directly or indirectly, to a listed individual, group, undertaking or entity, or otherwise used for terrorist purposes.”

There are about 233 individuals and 63 entities or groups on the U.N. al-Qaida sanctions list. All individuals on the list are subject to asset freezes and an international travel ban.

Bin Laden's al-Qaida network was blamed for killing nearly 3,000 people when hijackers crashed commercial planes into New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon outside Washington and a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.

The members of bin Laden's family in Pakistan were repatriated to Saudi Arabia in April, 2012 on humanitarian grounds. The Saudi government did not say how many there were, but previous reports suggested that three widows, seven children and four grandchildren were deported.

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