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	Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) is a movement to overthrow the government of Uzbekistan and replace it with a theocracy.
		This movement is now an arm of the Islamic Movement of Central Asia.
		Juma Khodjiev (aka Juma Namangani) headed the military wing until he was killed while fighting with the Taliban.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan (179 words)

	A peaceful jihad, but there will be war
		Central Asia is reaching boiling point as Islamic fundamentalists clash with corrupt, anti-Muslim regimes.
		The best way for the Central Asian regimes to destroy the influence of these groups would be to bring them out into the open; to allow Islamic practice in their countries and to institute reforms that would leave the movements with only their alien ideologies to sell.
		It is the particular circumstances of the crisis in Central Asia that have pushed the IMU and the HT to centre stage and provided young people with alien role models.
	iicas.org /english/enlibrary/libr_07_01_02_is.htm (1654 words)

	Islamic fundamentalism, Taliban and Central Asia
		Islamic fundamentalists are crossing swords with the nation-state in Central Asia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Algeria, Egypt and the Philippines.
		Islam in Central Asia was an ideology of power and empire-building in the 8th and 9th centuries.
		Central Asia is thus a fertile ground for Islamic fundamentalism.
	www.punjabilok.com /afghanistan/islamic_fundmentalism.htm (1264 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions About U.S. Policy In Central Asia
		All the Central Asian states quickly joined the coalition and offered "whatever you need." As we began to establish facilities to prosecute the war in Afghanistan, Russian President Putin affirmed his support for the increased U.S. presence in the region to combat terrorism, noting that it was in Russia's interest to do so.
		Although disrupted and degraded as a cohesive organization by coalition operations in Afghanistan, remnants of the IMU continue to pose a terrorist threat to friends and allies in Central Asia and coalition forces operating in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region.
		In Central Asia, HT members are generally ethnic Uzbeks, but recently the group has been active recruiting members in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, perhaps due to pressure on its members by the Government of Uzbekistan.
	www.state.gov /p/eur/rls/fs/15562.htm (3315 words)

	::: ISLAMIC STATE IN CENTRAL ASIA :::
		The Islamic state must be based clearly on the concept of justice and in the Islamic state any accomplishments should be based upon justice.
		The creation of IMU (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan) and its use of guerrilla warfare to combat the regime of Karimov were in the long run caused by the incompetence of Karimov to try to understand and tolerate the alternative opinion of the people in the town of Namangan.
		Today the presence of the United States of America and her allies in Central Asia is creating an urge for China, Russia, Iran and the national- patriotic forces with in newly independent Central Asian states to act and struggle for preservation of their historic interests and rights in the region.
	www.muslimuzbekistan.com /eng/ennews/2003/06/ennews02062003.html (4306 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A number of violent events in Central Asia in the last few month points to strong signs of a resurgence of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the possibility of renewed violent attacks against civilians in various parts of Central Asia.
		In late 2001, this organization renamed itself the Islamic Movement of Turkestan (IMT), thus openly proclaiming its purposes of controlling the entire Central Asian region, disregarding the five existing nation-states and their boundaries.
		IMT fighters have retained strong connections especially with traffickers of narcotics in Central Asia, and are reported to use the same smuggling routes used by traffickers for bringing fighters across the borders between Afghanistan and Central Asia, and between Central Asian states.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=1761 (1119 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
		The incursions from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan into the three Central Asian republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Islamic militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) are part of a wider strategic co-ordination with the Taliban and their offensive against the opposition Northern Alliance.
		Although the IMU has strategic aims to mobilize a Central Asian-Caucasus force of Islamic rebels and tactically to set up bases in the Ferghana Valley for a prolonged guerrilla war against President Islam Karimov, the IMU actions are also providing direct assistance to the Taliban offensive inside Afghanistan.
		The linkages between such warlord groups and the drug mafia are long established in Central Asia as opium provides a major source of financing for the Taliban, the IMU and the Bin Laden network.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=132 (1115 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		As Central Asian governments continue their crackdown on unsanctioned Islamic groups they say pose a threat to regional security, the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, which advocates a return to "pure" Islam and the creation of a region-wide Islamic state, is an elusive and mysterious target.
		For the governments of Central Asia -- deeply concerned over possible incursions by Islamic militant groups into the region -- the spread of Hizb ut-Tahrir propaganda is a worrying trend.
		It is an orthodox movement that believes the sanctity of Islam was shattered soon after the death of the Prophet Mohammed, and aims to return the religion to its original state of spiritual purity.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/05/30052002155920.asp (993 words)

	Central Asia: More than Islamic Extremists -- Svante E. Cornell and Regine A. Spector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Central Asian elites are not opposed to Islam per se, but rather to radical, politicized Islam, which is often a basis for political opposition to the governments.
		Among Islamic groups in Central Asia, most attention has been drawn to the IMU.[5] Vowing to establish an Islamic state in the mountainous Ferghana Valley (mainly populated by Uzbeks), which straddles the territories of Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, the IMU launched military actions in 1999 and 2000 that plunged the region into a frenzy.
		Central Asia, defined geographically, is commonly understood as the region encompassing the five former Soviet "'stans," which are now states celebrating the tenth anniversaries of their independence this year: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
	www.brook.edu /views/Articles/fellows/20011205spector.htm (5033 words)

	Focus on security threat from radical Islamic groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hizb-ut Tahrir's ideology envisages a strict Islamic state and the re-establishment of the medieval Arab caliphate in the region.
		David Lewis, the head of the Central Asia Project of the International Crisis Group (ICG), a Brussels-based conflict-resolution group, told IRIN from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh that there had been some regrouping of the IMU.
		The ICG said in a recent report on radical Islamic groups in Central Asia, that reports of IMU members returning to central Tajikistan or the southern regions of Uzbekistan were frequent but very difficult to substantiate.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=38916 (1377 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies
		And even when those who have lost central power do not suffer direct economic deprivation, there may well be an issue of the perception of being relatively worse off, and of a lack of control over basic decisions affecting their status and importance.
		A second method, which is particularly effective where the central state may be strong but corrupt, and the economic situation in the country (or among certain groups) is deteriorating, is for the opposition group to rally others around the theme of economic redistribution or the provision of services.
		Central Asia’s uniqueness may lie in the legacy of its explicitly atheist Soviet past, although the strict secularism espoused by leaders as diverse as Turkey’s Atatürk and socialist Egypt’s Nasser reflect that this may be more a question of degree.
	www.ca-c.org /dataeng/03.martin.shtml (6924 words)

	Asia Society: Speeches
		Rubin focuses on local issues and local alliances to explain a perceived resurfacing of Islamic fervor, using political movements with Islamic overtones in the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as his main examples.
		In Uzbekistan, an intense Islamic revival took place in the highly populated and industrialized Ferghana Valley, a center of resistance to Soviet rule in the 1920s and 1930s.
		Central Asia on the Brink: An Interview with Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid is the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and has covered the region extensively for the last twenty years.
	www.asiasociety.org /speeches/centralradicalislam.html (879 words)

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		Under the guidance of the IMU, he said, the new group's aim is to create an Islamic caliphate that will begin in Uzbekistan before expanding to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and moving on to the rest of Central Asia and northwest China.
		Ahmed Rashid, author of "Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia" and other books on Islamic fundamentalism in the region, said the unification of various radical Islamic groups of Central Asia in one regional organization is not likely under current circumstances.
		Karkash said the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (formerly the Eastern Turkistan Liberation Movement) - a Uighur separatist group recently added to the US State Department's list of international terrorist organizations - is not seeking to build an Islamic state in Central Asia but to liberate Uighurs from Chinese control.
	greatgame.no.sapo.pt /noticias.htm (1006 words)

	CHAPTER XI
		The turbulence of Central Asia can be attributed to both the problems in their own development and the influence of the outside world.
		At present, among all the contradictions and conflicts in Central Asia, the armed conflicts between the extremist forces who attempt to set up Islamic regimes combining religion with politics and the secular states which advocate separation of religion from politics are the most threatening.
		Central Asia has become an ideal region for their development due to its backward economy, weak security forces, chaotic ethnic situation and Islamic tradition.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series03/III-20/chapter_xi.htm (3146 words)

	Central Asia Islam - JRL 7-15-03
		The report, titled "Central Asia: Islam and the State," takes a broader view of the historical role of Islam in Central Asia and the varying forms the Islamic revival has taken in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan since the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
		The second ICG report, "Radical Islam in Central Asia: Responding to Hizb ut-Tahrir," focuses more narrowly on the Islamic party, which it estimates has recruited thousands of supporters across Central Asia since the mid-1990s.
		The report concludes that wider policies of repression by governments in Central Asia, particularly in Uzbekistan, may have contributed to the growth and radicalization of Hizb ut-Tahrir.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/7249-17.cfm (1076 words)

	Asia Times
		MOSCOW - Although armed Islamic militants have not been active in mountainous Central Asia for two years, government officials in the region voice concern over threats of Muslim militancy, and Moscow has dispatched a high-ranking security envoy to the volatile region to assure its Central Asian allies.
		According to Imankulov, the IMCA is headed by the interim chief of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Tahir Yuldashev, and includes Kyrgyz, Tajik, Uzbek, Chechen and Xinjiang separatists.
		Muslim extremists in Central Asia are reportedly dominated by the IMU, once led by Juma (aka Jumaboi) Namangani, a former Soviet paratrooper and Afghan war veteran.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/DI19Ag01.html (919 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA
		Observers say that the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) led by Uzbek warlord Djuma Namangani is behind the offensive, which has already left dozens of government troops and rebels dead.
		CENTRAL ASIA: Reports from Uzbekistan say three government soldiers and eight rebels were killed in an operation to wipe out Islamic militants in an area near the capital, Tashkent.
		The fighters are thought to be from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who aim to establish an Islamic state in the Fergana Valley which straddles the borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
	www.emergency.com /2000/stans-prob.htm (2856 words)

	Religious terrorism - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		[[Armed Islamic Group ]](Groupe Islamique Armée) (GIA): The aim of the GIA is the violent overthrow of the Algerian government and the creation an Islamic state in Algeria..
		Islamic Army of Aden (IAA): The IAA's aims are the violent overthrow of the Yemeni government and the establishment of an Islamic State following Sharia Law.
		Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU): The primary aim of IMU is to establish an Islamic state in the model of the Taleban in Uzbekistan and over the entire Turkestan area.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Religious_terrorism (712 words)

	Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy in Central Asia: Frequently Asked Questions
		As we began to establish facilities to prosecute the war in Afghanistan, President Putin affirmed his support for the increased U.S. presence in the region to combat terrorism, noting that it was in Russia's interest to do so.
		A: HT is a secretive, cell-based, transnational extremist organization with support among some Muslims in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and with an organizational base in London.
		A: The regional human rights picture in Central Asia is, without doubt a mixed one, with limited but real progress in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan; stasis in Turkmenistan; and some specific backsliding in Kazakhstan.
	www.payvand.com /news/02/nov/1075.html (3413 words)

	Hizb ut-Tahrir: An Emerging Threat to U.S. Interests in Central Asia
		U.S. objectives are thus jeopardized not only by the authoritarian parties of radical Islamic revolution such as Hizb, but also by the authoritarian nature of these Central Asian regimes themselves, with their rampant corruption, declining living standards, poor delivery of public goods and services, and stagnant or declining economies.
		Hizb is growing in Central Asia due to the "revolution of diminishing expectations," increasing despair, and the lack of secular political space and economic opportunity in the region.
		The scarcity of secular and moderate Islamic democratic politics and credible non-governmental organization (NGO) activities and the lack of freedom of expression may be driving thousands of young recruits to join Hizb in Central Asia, especially in Uzbekistan.
	www.heritage.org /Research/RussiaandEurasia/BG1656.cfm (5038 words)

	Jihad Watch: Jihad in Central Asia
		A report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on jihadist activity in Central Asia.
		The problem with the idea that Central Asian governments must tolerate Hizb-ut-Tahrir or else it will become violent is that group's stated intentions.
		Some kind of resistance is called for, if only open challenges in the marketplace of ideas (which, of course, scarcely exists in those countries in the first place).
	www.jihadwatch.org /archives/000642.php (1450 words)

	Central-Asia-Harvard-List Archive - 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Forum for Central Asian Studies is a small program supporting research and training on Central Asia at Harvard University.
		Sun is the Deputy Director of the Central Asian Department, Institute of East European, Russian and Central Asia Studies, at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
		John S. Schoeberlein (Lecturer on Central Asian Studies) The course explores the diversity and continuity in contemporary Central Asian culture and society and their historical roots.
	centasia.fas.harvard.edu /cahl_arch2000.html (8058 words)

	Pravda.RU Islamic Movement Of Uzbekistan Controls Drug Traffic To Central Asia, Special Services Say (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to Kirghiz secret services, channels for trafficking drugs from Afghanistan to Central Asian countries are currently controlled by gunmen of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).
		In 1999 and 2000, the Kirghiz army conducted lengthy military operations against the gunmen of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan as they had invaded southern Kirghizia from Tajikistan.
		The Moscow court of arbitration upheld a lawsuit of the tax inspectorate of the city's central administrative district on liquidating the join-stock company Media-Most, e.g.
	english.pravda.ru /society/2001/05/30/6301.html (1848 words)

	Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) is a group of Islamic militants from Uzbekistan and other Central Asian states.
		IMU militants are scattered throughout South Asia, Tajikistan, and Iran.
		The IMU receives support from other Islamic extremist groups and patrons in the Middle East and Central and South Asia.
	library.nps.navy.mil /home/tgp/imu.htm (285 words)

	CNS - Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) Profile
		When changing its name to the Islamic Party of Turkestan in June 2001, the group expanded its original goal of establishing an Islamic state in Uzbekistan to the creation of an Islamic state in all of Central Asia, which would include all of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and China's Xinxiang province.[1,2,3,4]
		Incidents: In addition to the IMU's military attacks, the Kyrgyz secret service believes the group is controlling drug trafficking between Afghanistan and Central Asia.[12] The Kyrgyz secret service has reported that Juma Namangani is leading IMU gunmen in efforts to manage the northern section of drug trafficking from Afghanistan to help finance the group's operations.
		[2] "Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan," U.S. Department of State Patterns of Global Terrorism, http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2000/index, accessed on 21 September 2000.
	cns.miis.edu /research/wtc01/imu.htm (878 words)

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