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...terrorism. Other European and Asian countries have consented to freeze the assets of terrorist groups and humanitarian aid groups suspected of helping terrorists. Charity organizations thought to be aiding terrorists—whether knowingly or unknowingly—have had their assets frozen as part of an American-led crackdown on terrorism...
Cooperation is not limited to the big democracies: Pakistan's central bank has ordered private banks to freeze accounts held by Harakat ul-Mujahedin, a group fighting Indian rule in Kashmir that is on the U.S. list. And the financial crackdown has received cooperation from a wide list of nations that includes China, Colombia, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic...
...Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian Muslim, bin Laden associate and network coordinator. That sweep came a day after British police apprehended three men, including Kamel Daoudi, 23, a Frenchman who escaped the Sept. 21 capture of seven co-members of the Beghal group in suburban Paris. The joint European crackdown began on Sept. 13, when Belgian and Dutch authorities apprehended six extremists said to be part of a plan to attack U.S. targets in France - including the American embassy in Paris. "This effort prevented what could have been more very deadly attacks," says a French antiterrorist official...
...Despite the crackdown, many Iranians reached out to the U.S. in the aftermath of the tragedy. President Mohammed Khatami insisted on penning Iran's solemn condolence message to the American people. Tehran Mayor Morteza Alviri sent a message to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani: "Undoubtedly, this act is not just against New Yorkers, but all humanity...
...Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, Mao whipped up an antiforeign hysteria that prompted the Red Guards to attack all things imported. In 1967, they burned down the British chancery in Beijing. Protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989 echoed calls for adopting the liberal political approach of the West; the crackdown set China back yet again. "Throughout history, the Chinese have been very cautious about expansion and about allowing in Western influence," says Jonathan Spence, a historian at Yale University who writes frequently about China...