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Having received notice of the application and thereby having become aware of Mr Abdulrahim’s address, the Commission sent to him the grounds for his being named on the list at issue by letter dated 3 July 2009. The annex to that letter, headed ‘Grounds for listing’ (‘the summary of reasons’), is worded as follows: ‘Abdulbasit Abdulrahim … was listed [on the Sanctions Committee list] on 21 October 2008 pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 of [United Nations Security Council] resolution 1822 (2008) as being associated with the [LIFG] … for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support” of this entity. Additional information The [LIFG] is an Islamist extremist group formed in 1990. The LIFG’s original aim was to replace Colonel Gaddafi’s regime with a hard-line Islamic State. In the 1990s, the LIFG mounted several operations inside Libya, including the 1996 attempt to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi. Following Libyan government action, which led to a number of LIFG members being killed or arrested, many LIFG members left Libya. On 3 November 2007, the LIFG formally merged with Al-Qaida. The merger was announced through a Jihadist website affiliated with Al-Qaida (the Al-Saheb media group). The merger was announced by two video clips; the first by Al‑Qaida second in command Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the second by Abu Laith Al Libi, then a senior member of the LIFG, and a senior mujahidin leader and trainer for Al-Qaida in Afghanistan killed in a US missile strike in January 2008. The LIFG is part of the Al-Qaida movement that continues to threaten global peace and security. Accordingly, on 6 October 2001, the United Nations added LIFG to its consolidated list of entities associated with Al-Qaida. The LIFG was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 with effect from 14 October 2005. Through his conscious involvement with an entity that has associated with Al-Qaida and its terrorist activities, [Mr Abdulrahim] meets the criteria for designation by [the Sanctions Committee]. According to information available to the UK government, Abdulbasit Abdulrahim is judged to be an Islamist extremist involved in terrorist-related activity. He has previously held senior positions within the [LIFG] and remains a close associate of senior UK members of LIFG. He is judged to have been involved in fundraising activities on behalf of the LIFG. He is a close associate of the Directors of the Sanabel relief charity — a Libyan charitable organisation which has been designated by the UN as a fundraising arm of the LIFG. … He is also a close associate of Ghuma Abd’rabbah, Tahir Nasuf and Abdulbaqi Mohammed Khaled, all of whom are the subject of existing UN designations. … Mr Abdulrahim’s close associates include Ismail Kamoka, a leader of the LIFG in the UK. On 11 June 2007, Mr Kamoka pleaded guilty in the UK to the charge of “entering into or being concerned with an agreement to make property available to another contrary to Section 17 of the Terrorism Act 2000”. The details of the offence were that Mr Kamoka, together with two other individuals, “on or before 3 October 2005, entered into or became concerned in an arrangement as a result of which property was made available and was to be made available to others, knowing or having reasonable grounds to suspect that it would or might be used for the purposes of terrorism”. Mr Kamoka was sentenced to a period of imprisonment of three years and nine months. …’