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Still other nations, including several in the Middle East and Africa, helped with coordinated enforcement actions and by blocking assets of the organizations.

While praising the Bush administration for blocking assets of some charitable organizations since the Sept. 11 attacks, the report from the Council on Foreign Relations concluded that there was much work to be done in shutting down the financing of terror groups.

Until now, a president could block assets of foreign entities if a finding was made that they threatened the Middle East peace process.

Switzerland has blocked assets of former Tunisian and Egyptian leaders and their entourages as well as those of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and close associates.

An interim deal was agreed a year ago in Geneva, halting progress on the Iranian programme in return for the unfreezing of some of Iran's blocked assets in the west.

It will impose a cost on terror-sponsoring countries like Iran and Cuba by using their blocked assets as the ultimate source of compensation.

It has acted this year to block the assets of 185 of the 247 groups identified by the United States, involving millions of dollars, a Treasury official said.

The holding was frozen in March under UK government orders blocking the assets of Muammar Gaddafi and his family.

The bill would block visas and freeze assets of those implicated in human rights abuses.

But within a few weeks of the attacks, the administration blocked the assets of various charities and their supporters.

Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill announced that the administration had blocked the assets of 21 people with suspected links to the Basque separatist movement E.T.A., which Spanish authorities have accused of killing more than 800 people since it began a violent effort to create a Basque nation independent from Spain and France in the 1960's.