Islamic movement of Uzbekistan proved involved in Tajik terror act

DUSHANBE, October 6 (Itar-Tass) - The Tajik security services proved
that the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is involved in a terrorist act
against officers of the district organized crime investigation department
in the Tajik city of Khudzhand. Three natives from northern Tajikistan
involved in masterminding the terrorist act were detained and accusations
were brought against them. Three policemen were killed and 28 more were
injured in an attack on the district organized crime investigation
department, a source in the Tajik National Security State Committee told
Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
A suicide bomb attacker from the Istaravshan district of the northern
Sogdi region, Akmal Karimov, a member of the Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan, set off the blast, the Tajik security services reported. In
the morning on September 3 he drove in a GAZ-24 car staffed with
explosives in the yard of the police station building and blasted the car
with himself. Karimov's brother Firdavs, in the garage of whom Akmal was
making up a bomb, was arrested. The names of other defendants are not made
public.
The masterminds and the perpetrator of the terrorist act are reported
to pass the training at special camps for training Mujahideens in
Pakistan. Four Tajik television channels have recently showed a television
footage on training centers in Waziristan (Pakistan), where more than 200
young people from Tajikistan are trained. Under the cover of learning the
basics of true Islam Shakhid suicide bombers are being trained there with
the financial and ideological support from the Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan and Al Qaeda. "The whole period of training young suicide
bombers up to a suicide bomb attack is video recorded and then showed to
financial donors, who support the activities of these camps," local and
Central Asian news agencies reported.
Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon has recently voiced serious concerns
over the intentions of parents to send their children to foreign religious
schools, including through the underground channels. The Tajik leader
noted that many of these training centers actually "seed extremism and
terrorism."