Executive Order 13315

Executive Order 13315, January 21, 2003: Wherein U.S. President George W. Bush declares his determination that "the United States is engaged in armed hostilities and that it is in the interest of the United States to confiscate certain additional property of the former Iraqi regime, certain senior officials of the former regime, immediate family members of those officials, and controlled entities. I intend that such property, after all right, title, and interest in it has vested in the Department of the Treasury, shall be transferred to the Development Fund for Iraq. Such property shall be used to meet the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people, for the economic reconstruction and repair of Iraq's infrastructure, for the continued disarmament of Iraq, for the costs of Iraqi civilian administration, and for other purposes benefiting the Iraqi people. I determine that such use would be in the interest of and for the benefit of the United States."

Official source of the EO available in .PDF format from the Federal Register (68 FR 3371, January 24, 2003). Also available in HTML/text version. See EO 12333, December 4, 1981.