Posted on 10/02/2009 11:29:54 PM PDT by Cindy
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader thought killed in August strike in South Waziristan
Unconfirmed reports from Pakistan indicate that the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was killed during a US airstrike in South Waziristan in late August.
Tahir Yuldashev, emir of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, is said to have been killed in a strike by an unmanned US aircraft in the town of Kanigoram on Aug. 27, 2009. The strike took place in a known stronghold of the Taliban forces under the command of Mullah Nazir.
Eight Taliban fighters and Uzbek fighters were reported killed in the attack, but no senior leader was initially reported killed.
The first report of Yuldashev's death emerged on Sept. 28, when a man called Radio Ozodlik, the Uzbek service for Radio Liberty, identified himself as a bodyguard for Yuldashev, and said the leader had died from wounds one day after the strike. According to the caller, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was trying to hide Yuldashev's death.
The caller also claimed that Yuldashev had been replaced by "an ethnic Tatar by name of Abdurakhman." An Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader known as Zubair ibn Abdurakhman is said to serve as the group’s spokesman as well as a leader of a faction of the group.
Anonymous Pakistani officials are now saying that Yuldashev did indeed die in the Aug. 27 strike. "The man has kicked the bucket," a senior Pakistani government official told Dawn. "He is dead beyond doubt," another Pakistani official said.
US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal would not confirm that Yuldashev was killed. "We are aware of the reports and investigating, but do not have evidence he was killed at this time," one senior military intelligence official said.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/10/islamic_movement_of.php
(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...
"Unconfirmed reports from Pakistan..."
Previously...
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/08/us_strikes_taliban_c_2.php
“US strikes Taliban compound in South Waziristan, 8 killed”
By BILL ROGGIO
August 27, 2009 8:05 AM
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/08/us_strikes_taliban_c_2.php#ixzz0Sqt2Fv3j
Who knew the obama was conducting an undeclared war on Uzbekistan?
I was deployed to Uzbekistan. The people seemed OK, were secular in their lifestyle, and abhorred Afghanistan for its extreme version of Islam.
An Uzbek girl said to me, “We’re Muslims, but we’re not jerks about it!” She told me about IMU and Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
Later that month IMU terrorists struck in Tashkent, but managed to get nobody but themselves killed.
Kicked him in his south wazoo!
Mark
Thank you for your service there in Uzbekistan.
Re Tashkent:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2328370/posts
Thank you for your Son’s service, ohioWfan.
save a few of them HeLLFiRes for Islamic militia leaders in Somalia.. ;-)
Ditto that.
Interesting link. The head chaplain and several of us twice drove from our base near Karshi to Samarqand, 100 miles away. A few scattered villages and marketplaces along a two lane road through terrain like Idaho, but we felt completely safe. Base camp got got boring, sometimes, but not a bad tour otherwise.
Our State Department’s stupidities got us kicked out later in 2005; the Karshi-Khanabad base was razed to nothing but dirt soaked with old Soviet jet fuel. Too bad.
We're PROUD. :)
You have a right to be.
:>)
Bush’s fault!
I am just thankful that he managed to lead his team "without casualties"........including HIM. Thank You, Lord!
Thank You, Lord!
Amen.
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