U.S. Department of the Treasury has designated and froze assets of a Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) on Friday for financing al Qaida affiliates such as Lashkar e-Tayyiba, Jemaah Islamiyah, and Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya.

RIHS has offices, among other places, in Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina and Kosovo says U.S. Department of the Treasury.

"In some countries, including Albania and Kosovo in particular, RIHS senior officials have assisted RIHS branch offices with name changes, and then continued to provide financial support to the new organizations," says U.S. Department of the Treasury in its Federal Information & News Dispatch.

Designating and freezing the assets of RIHS was a difficult decision says Stuart Levey, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, because "the last thing we want to do is cut off needed humanitarian assistance".

"However, the reality is that RIHS has used charity and humanitarian assistance as cover to fund terrorist activity and harm innocent civilians, often in poor and impoverished regions. We have a responsibility to do all we can to shut down the funding channels of terrorism," says Stuart Levey.

Kosovo is a Serbian province violently overtaken by Islamic Albanian extremists that have declared independence in February that got recognized by Washington and several other countries.

Kosovo's Islamic separatists are actively courting Islamic countries seeking their recognition.

Although for the Western media Kosovo's Islamic separatists say that the constitution they are promulgating today is "a modern act that protects human rights and ethnic minorities’ rights” on Islamic media the ruling Kosovo Muslims present their "country" as an Islamic Sheikdom of Kosovo.

"We need Muslim assistance to join international organizations such as the United Nations," says Kosovo's Muslim Albanian separatist Abdullah Klinako.