A list provided by the White House named the following individuals who could be subject to the ban, but those who could be subject to the ban were not limited to this list:

• Assaf Shawkat, director of Syrian military intelligence. Syrian President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law.
  
  
• Hisham Ikhtiyar, adviser to Assad.
  
  
• Jama'a Jama'a, top Syrian military intelligence official.
  
  
• Rustum Ghazale, top Syrian military intelligence official. Ghazale was Syrian intelligence chief in Lebanon when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed and Syria was forced to withdraw its army from the neighboring country. In Syria, he was put in charge of the Damascus countryside, a region that includes the border with Lebanon. He was one of the security officials interviewed by U.N. investigators in the Hariri bombing.
  
  
• Abdulrahim Murad, former Lebanese minister of defense. Murad is a Sunni Arab nationalist politician who is a staunch supporter of Syria.
  
  
• Assad Hardan, former Lebanese minister of labor. Hardan is a sitting member of parliament, a pro-Syrian from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
  
  
• Assam Qanso, former Lebanese minister of labor. A Shiite, he is a former chief of the Lebanon chapter of Syria's Baath Party.
  
  
• Michel Samaha, former Lebanese minister of information. Samaha is a Christian pro-Syrian politician.
  
  
• Nasser Qandil, former Lebanese member of parliament. A Shiite, he was questioned by U.N. investigators for a possible link to the Hariri assassination.
  
  
• Wi'am Wahhab, former Lebanese minister of environment. A member of the Druse community, he leads a pro-Syrian opposition group that often engaged in troubles with opponents.