51. Nor could he return to Saudi Arabia, which also had frozen his assets. 52. President Bush on Thursday moved to freeze the assets of a Pakistani-based terrorist group that he blamed for the attack on the Indian parliament last week. 53. President Bush on Tuesday shut down the offices and froze the assets of a U.S.-based charity he accused of aiding the militant Palestinian group Hamas. 54. President Bush placed the movement last month on a list of terrorist organizations whose assets would be frozen. 55. President Bush significantly broadened his counterattack on terrorist groups Tuesday, freezing the assets of the largest Muslim charity in the United States. 56. Republicans asked a federal judge to freeze the assets of the Democratic National Committee until the Democrats file a pre-election report detailing campaign donations and spending. 57. Privately, Treasury Department officials are urging other governments to freeze assets in the countries that are linked to bin Laden. 58. Recently, the Bush administration accused two Somali financial service networks of funneling funds to Al Qaeda, and ordered their assets frozen. 59. Saudi temporizing on matters like freezing the assets of terrorist groups and their supporters must end immediately. 60. So far, the Treasury Department has not moved formally to freeze the assets of those groups, pending further investigation. |