More than $100 million worth of assets have been frozen in US and foreign banks in a crackdown on suspected terrorist finances since the September 11th attacks on US targets, the Washington Postsaid today.
The paper said none of the money came from accounts belonging directly to Saudi-born fugitive Osama bin Laden or his al-Qaeda network.
"The assets seizure formed part of the continuing campaign against the Taliban, bin Laden and his associates," a senior US treasury department official told the paper.
Some of the assets came from 27 individuals and organisations named by US President George W Bush on September 24th as having financial connections to al-Qaeda or similar groups.