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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department has announced sanctions on financial dealings with three men who are being held in Germany on charges of plotting bomb attacks on places frequented by Americans.The department barred Americans from conducting business with the three men, who were arrested in September 2007, or handling their financial affairs, it said in a statement on Thursday.German officials have said the men, two German nationals and a Turk, had scouted out sites frequented by Americans including discos, bars and airports and acquired bomb-making chemicals. They were members of a little-known militant Islamist group called the Islamic Jihad Union, officials said.The U.S. Treasury Department routinely issues financial sanctions against individuals and groups it says espouse terrorist tactics or target U.S. citizens. Often those targeted do not have resources within the Treasury's reach but the program is part of a global effort to disrupt terrorism financing.The Treasury Department statement named the three men, who were charged earlier this year, as Fritz Martin Gelowicz, Daniel Martin Schneider, and Adem Yilmaz."In concert with this important law enforcement action, United Nations global sanctions provide a tool of unparalleled scope to disrupt the support lines of this and other al Qaida-affiliated cells," said Adam Szubin, director of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, in a statement.(Reporting by Patrick Rucker; Editing by Frances Kerry)
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