US puts Uzbek Islamic group on its terrorist watch-list

Yahoo & AFP ^ | 2005 May 26

[Wiz]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government said it has placed the Islamic Jihad Group on its list of international terrorist organizations, saying the group had carried out several bombings in the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan.

This is a group you might not be familiar with, but it's active in Central Asia. It broke away from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and it is responsible for coordinated bombing attacks," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters.

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) is a "specially designated global terrorist organization" listed by the United Nations.

Boucher said the Islamic Jihad Group (IJG)) was behind the bombings of the US and Israeli embassies in Tashkent as well as the office of the Uzbek prosecutor general that killed at least two people and wounded nine in July 2004.

The IJG "claimed responsibility for these attacks and indicated that future attacks are planned," Boucher said later in a statement. The group "continues to target Americans and US facilities overseas and is a dangerous threat to US interests," he added.

[nuconvert]

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[CBart95]

Great! Think they can watch these guys as well as they watch our open borders?

[Boundless]

> Great! Think they can watch these guys as well as
> they watch our open borders?

We'll know they're serious when they put the DNC
on the watch list.

[R.W.Ratikal]

I have placed all Islamic groups on my watch list. I realize that the bulk of muzlims never participate in the terrorist war, but that's mostly because they don't participate in anything.

There is no doubt that the activist muzlims are small in number but the mass of the Islamic world cheers them on and hopes for -- what?

The Islamic hatred of the West is based on envy. People who perceive themselves as inferior always envy those they perceive as superior. Muzlims want what all have-nots want, the House on the hill; a shiny Buick; a large income with no work connected. In short, they want free what they see on CNN.

Unfortunately for the mass of people who follow Islam, the ancient fundamentalism taught to them will keep them suppressed and behind the times until they wake up and become willing to enter the modern world.

I frankly don't see much hope for this happening within the next century or two.