Pak-Afghan Border: Lifeline for extremists throttled

US deny financing or providing material support to alleged Islamic extremists.


Afp January 27, 2012

WASHINGTON: The United States moved on Thursday to deny any US financing or material support to alleged Islamic extremists operating in Afghanistan, Europe and Lebanon. The State Department targeted brothers Yassin and Mounir Chouka, who it said are recruiters, facilitators and propagandists for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and stage operations along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. It also targeted Mevlut Kar as a facilitator and recruiter for the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU). It said he is implicated in a 2007 bomb plot targeting US military facilities and US citizens in Germany.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 27th, 2012.

COMMENTS (1)

Zainab Ali | 12 years ago | Reply

More than anything else, the focus now should be on brining this angry fold into the mainstream. This will be the biggest contribution of any stakeholder in this war. There is also a dire need of devising a policy or law that could limit the sale and purchase of materials that are used in IEDs. This is most important as these IEDs have proved to be more destructive.

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