The U.S. State Department on Thursday designated Yassin Chouka, his brother Monir Chouka and Mevlut Kar as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
Consequently, American citizens are prohibited from engaging in transactions with these individuals, and their property and interests in the United States or within the control of U.S. persons are frozen.
The United Nations had already blacklisted Chouka brothers and Kar for their links to al-Qaeda.
Yassin and Monir Chouka are fighters, recruiters, facilitators and propagandists for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. Mevlut Kar is a facilitator and recruiter for the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) which is, like the IMU, a designated FTO.
Monir Chouka, also known as Abu Adam, and Yassin Chouka, also known as Abu Ibrahim, carry out operations as members of the IMU along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The Chouka brothers are also senior members of Jundallah Media, the IMU's media production arm.
In October 2011, Monir Chouka claimed IMU responsibility for an attack that killed five Americans, a Canadian, eight ISAF civilian employees, three Afghan civilians, and a policeman. Monir also claimed IMU was responsible for the May 19, 2010 suicide assault in Bagram, Afghanistan, which resulted in the death of an American contractor and wounded nine NATO troops.
Mevlut Kar is currently wanted by the Lebanese government and an Interpol Red Notice has been issued for his arrest and extradition. He was sentenced in absentia to 15-years in prison for attempting to establish an al-Qaeda cell in Lebanon. He is implicated in the 2007 European bomb plot targeting U.S. military installations and American citizens in Germany. Kar has also provided more than 20 detonators to members of the IJU.
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