Washington, Oct 25: The United States has added three foreign individuals and an organisation believed to be linked to a leading Islamic extremist group in Algeria to its list of suspected terrorist financiers. The US treasury department listed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, Mustapha Nasir Aitel Hadi and Djamel Lounici "in response to the recent submission by another country of these names to be listed as terrorists by the United Nations." GSPC, previously designated as a terrorist organization, "continues to conduct operations aimed at government and military targets in Algeria and has ties to al-Qaeda," the department said. The al-Bakoun ala al-Ahd organization is also named for providing support to GSPC. "Today's action is taken under obligations to freeze the assets of individuals and organizations listed by the UN and is consistent with the financial action task force's special recommendation III on terrorist financing," the department said.

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