US Treasury targets anti-India terror groups

WASHINGTON: As President Barack Obama prepares to visit India, the US Treasury Department is targeting the money men who it says helped finance and train terrorists for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.

The department is singling out three men who it says helped raise money for Pakistan-based terrorist organizations Lashkar-e Taiba and Jaish-e Mohammed). The action prohibits Americans from doing business with the men and freezes any of their assets under US jurisdiction.

Lashkar e-Taiba is blamed for the four-day shooting and bombing rampage through Mumbai that killed 166 people, including six Americans. The group is also blamed for train bombings there in 2006.

Obama will visit India on Saturday.