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Article: SOUTH AFRICA: SOUTH AFRICAN MUSLIMS FEAR U.N. TERROR LIST.
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- Interpress Service
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- January 24, 2007
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by Moyiga Nduru
JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 23, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Two South Africans are fighting a U.S. plan to put their names on the United Nations Security Council list of suspected terrorists alleged to have ties to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
The United States accuses Junaid Dockrat and Farhad Dockrat of being "financers, recruiters and facilitators of al-Qaeda and the deposed Taliban in Afghanistan."
Washington made the request to the Security Council on Jan. 18.
Like all those on the U.N. list, the Dockrats are Muslims, which make up 2 percent of South Africa's population, according to official statistics.
"Many of them have ...