US to place South Africans on Qaeda list-diplomats

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 25 (Reuters) The United States is expected this week to place two South African Muslims on its list of al Qaeda suspects and will freeze their assets, diplomats in South Africa said today.

The United States is also pushing to have Junaid Docrat and his cousin Farhad Docrat placed on a United Nations list of suspects tied al Qaeda and the Taliban.

''Their names will be listed with the Treasury Department soon,'' one of the diplomats said.

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