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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Terror threat
While exact figures for the numbers of Uzbeks fighting in Syria are not known, there is plenty of evidence that Uzbeks are fighting in Syria. Uzbeks are fighting with the IS group and other factions, notably the Imam Bukhori Jamaat, which has pledged allegiance to the Afghan Taliban.
The Islamic State (IS) group is planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan in the spring, an officer with Uzbekistan's domestic intelligence agency, the National Security Service (SNB), has been reported as saying.
In comments to the CentralAsiaOnline.com websiteon February 2, SNB officer Alisher Khamdanov said that IS militants had "planned a series of terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan for the spring of 2015."
"There is a strong likelihood that that activities of Islamic State members detained in Uzbekistan [last year] are not limited to recruitment," Khamdanov said.

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