Washington freezes assets of the opposition Saudi movement for reforms
Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 7/15/2005

The USA has decided to freeze the assets of the opposition Saudi Arabian group "the Islamic Movement For Reforms", which takes London as headquarters, almost 7 months after freezing the assets of its chief Saad al-Faqih.

American under secretary of treasury in charge of issues of terrorism and financing terrorism movements, Stewart Levy, said that al-Faqih was ensuring support for al-Qaida organization.

Levy considered that placing the Islamic movement for reforms on the list of terrorism sponsor organizations "will help to dry the springs of their supplies, and show the world its support given to al-Qaida."

The US treasury department also accuses the group of broadcasting via its electronic site messages for Osama Bin Laden and leader of al-Jihad organization in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Message the US department said constitute "an ideological support for cells linked to al-Qaida organization and likely recruited persons.

According to the American decision, all bank assets for the Islamic Movement For Reforms will be frozen, and that the Americans will be banned from providing financial support or any other support to the group.

Thereby the US would have followed Britain which had decided to freeze the assets of the movement by the end of 2004, just one day after the UN Security Council listed al-Faqih name within the list of what is called terrorism.

However, al-Faqih had earlier denied accusations of supporting terrorism, saying that he is an activist for democracy in his country Saudi Arabia, and is not involved in any action of violence neither with al-Qaida nor with any other group.

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