WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States and Saudi Arabia are to announce this week additional rouses to tighten the financial chokehold forward a charity suspected of aiding al-Qaeda.

WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States and Saudi Arabia are to announce this week additional rouses to tighten the financial chokehold forward a charity suspected of aiding al-Qaeda, US officials said.

US and Saudi officials are to announce Wednesay that they will be congealed the assets of several affiliates and aliases of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation by means of placing the groups on a terrorism blacklist.

"This will congeal their assets in the United States and Saudi Arabia," undivided official said.

A secondary official said Washington and Riyadh would also be asking the United Nations to designate the Al-Haramain affiliates as terrorist arranges and require UN members to take similar action against them.

At least four, and possibly five, Al-Haramain affiliates are to be designated Wednesday, the officials said.

The officials said the announcement would be made at the Saudi embassy in Washington. The embassy said it would armed force a ...