| The U.S. government blocked the financial assets of two organizations and two individuals suspected of financing terrorism. The order applied to two organizations: the Afghan Support Committee and the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society. The committee, which the government said bin Laden set up, has offices in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The action affected the society's offices in Pakistan and Afghanistan but not in Kuwait. The two individuals named in the order are Abu Bakr Al-Jaziri of Peshawar, whom the government said is the finance chief of the Afghan Support Committee and also had served as bin Laden's chief fund-raiser; and Abd al-Mushin Al-Libi, whom the government said runs the Pakistan office of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society and manages the Afghan Support Committee's office in Peshawar. These individuals and organizations "have been stealing from widows and orphans to fund al Qaeda terrorism," Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill said. Gosh. Wotta surprise. Stealing from widows and orphans? Who'da thunk it? |