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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Treasury Department ordered U.S. banks on Thursday to block any financial assets found in this country belonging to three Indonesians believed to be connected to Jemaah Islamiyah, a terrorist group in Southeast Asia.
Added to the department's blocking list are Abu Rusdan, Joko Pitono and a person going by the name of Zulkarnaen.
The government said it believes that Rusdan replaced Abu Bakar Bashir as the leader of the terrorist group, which has ties to al-Qaida, after Bashir's arrest. The government also says it has information that Pitono is a top bomb maker for the group and that Zulkarnaen is a member of the group's central command and head of its military section.
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