Friday, October 10, 2008

COUNTERRORISM BLOG: Treasury Reports on Assets in U.S. of Terrorist Countries and Designees

The U.S. Treasury has released its latest annual report on the assets in the U.S. of state sponsors of terror and the other international terrorism program designees (Acrobat file). This report, mandated under law since 1991, is the sixteenth released by the Treasury and covers calendar year 2007. As of December 31, 2007, the amount of assets of international terrorist organizations and individuals which were blocked totaled over $20.7 million. Of that, over $11.3 million constituted assets of Al Qaeda, and that level was an increase of almost 46 percent over the level blocked as of the end of 2006...(COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG).

Full Article: http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/10/treasury_reports_on_assets_in.php

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