US Treasury Sanctions Two for Ties to Al Qaeda
These kinds of sanctions are largely symbolic since it is unlikely that these two men have any assets in the USA.
The Treasury Department put two people that it alleged have ties to militant Islamist groupsĀ on a blacklist on Thursday and banned American citizens from any dealings with them.
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.
Treasury said Bari funneled funds to support al Qaeda and that Osama Bin LadenĀ had given Bari and an associate $500,000 to buy a factory in 2002.
Besides forbidding Americans from doing business with the two, Treasury said that any assets that they were found to be holding in the United States will be blocked.
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