Dead man named on terror blacklist for a reason, says Clark

By KEVIN TAYLOR

Dead men can still tell tales - or let bombs off - according to the Prime Minister's office.

But Helen Clark's naming yesterday of a dead man in a list of 20 people with reported links to the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah was deliberate.

Alleged bombmaker Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozhi was shot dead by Filipino police on October 12.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister said the Government knew Al-Ghozhi was dead, but included him on the list because one function of notification was to allow any bank accounts or assets he had to be frozen.

However, none of the 20 named people had known links to New Zealand, Helen Clark said.

The blacklist, effective for three years, followed a United Nations Security Council decision to list the individuals. All were members and associates of Jemaah Islamiyah, the group behind the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 184, including three New Zealanders.

Obviously not realising Al-Ghozhi had been named intentionally, Green MP Keith Locke blasted the Government over his name being on the listand alleged New Zealand's anti-terrorist agencies were grossly incompetent for missing that he was dead.

On the blacklist: Mohamad Nasir Abas, Zulkifli Abdul Hir, Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozhi, Agus Dwikarna, Huda bin Abdul Haq, Azahari Husin, Salim Y Salamuddin Julkipli, Abdul Manaf Kasmuri, Amran Mansor, Zulkifli Marzuki, Aris Munandar, Abdul Hakim Murad, Imam Samudra, Parlindungan Siregar, Yazld Sufaat, Yassin Sywal, Nordin Mohd Top, Wan Min Wan Mat, Mukhlis Yunos, Zaini Zakaria.