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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday named the Philippine and Indonesian branches of the International Islamic Relief Organization as fund-raisers for al Qaeda and other terror groups. It also designated one of the Saudi-based organization's high-ranking officials, Abd Al Hamid Sulaiman Al-Mujil, as a fund-raiser for al Qaeda. The action means that no American can have any dealings with the two branches of the organization or with Al-Mujil and that any assets they have in the United States will be frozen. "Al-Mujil has a long record of supporting Islamic militant groups, and he has maintained a cell...

MOGADISHU: Militiamen allegedly hired by a Somali businessman stormed a radio and TV station in Mogadishu on Friday night and shut it down after it reported the trader had been mentioned in a book on a group linked to terrorism, station officials said on Saturday. The privately-owned Hornafrik Radio and Television station quoted a book by an Ethiopian author in which it is alleged that Mohamed Daylaf, a wealthy Mogadishu trader, has business relations with a militant Somali Islamic group known as Al-Ittihad al-Islamia. The United States has charged the group has links to al-Qaeda, blamed for the attacks in...