The US Treasury Department put two people that it alleged have ties to myrmidon Islamist groups active in Afghanistan on a blacklist on Thursday and banned American citizens from any dealings with them.Â
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said Bakht Gul was a communications official for the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, accused by the United States of involvement in attacks in Afghanistan, and that Abdul Baqi Bari was a money launderer for the Taliban.