Suspected terrorist accounts frozen in 21 countries

Some £4m has been blocked and 50 bank accounts frozen as countries worldwide join the US effort to stop the flow of money to terrorist networks, US President George Bush has said.

The frozen accounts include 30 in this country and 20 overseas, Bush said yesterday in a speech one week after he announced a move to freeze the assets of Islamic militant Osama bin Laden and 26 other people and organisations.