$200,000 for Uzbek warlord’s head
Recently, US military publicized the new list of most wanted terrorists in Afghanistan. The list does not include Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who, according to US, are undoubtedly first rated terrorists. One of five listed with the top reward of $200,000 was a leader of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), an ethnic Uzbek, who is now a prominent Al-Qaeda operational commander, warlord Tahir Yuldash (Tahir Yuldashev).
In Uzbekistan, Tahir Yuldash has a very bad reputation. He is known as a real “bad guy” always with a Kalashnikov machine-gun in his hands and with bunch of his followers with green bands on their heads with Arabic writings, who want to create a chaos in the country. This is all due to the information that mass media of Uzbekistan dispersed about IMU leaders, namely Juma Namangani and Tahir Yuldash, after the February bombings in Tashkent in 1999, when abovementioned IMU leaders allegedly made attempts to assassinate president Islam Karimov and then build a caliphate in Uzbekistan. Even though there were not clear evidences proving connection of IMU to the terrorist acts, Tahir Yuldash and Juma Namangani were portrayed in mass media as bad guys in Hollywood films, who were allegedly the reasons to all bad things happening in the country.
With the support of media, the government of Uzbekistan tried all possible ways to fight IMU, which to that time was already considered by UN as a terrorist organization. As a result the IMU leaders had to flee the country and base in the territory of Afghanistan, where they joined different local military groups, who had been fighting with each other for a long time. It is said that after the death of Juma Nanamgani, Tahir Yuldash took over commanding of IMU troops in Afghanistan, who later were involved in serious terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
According to SWA Travel blog, ‘sixteen militants fighting under a wanted Uzbek warlord [Tahir Yuldash] with a $200,000 bounty on his head were killed in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan’. It says that one militant was captured during the fighting. The captured told that ‘the militants from Uzbekistan and Chechnya were fighting under Yuldash’.
So, if you know where Tahir Yuldash is, I advise you either immediately contact US officials, get your money and ask for asylum somewhere in the west or just keep silence, as gangsters like to say in the movies - “you know too much…”
on October 9th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Libertad, some Russian news agencies have reported that he was killed on the 8th of October, past Sunday that is. He was identified to be one of those 15 killed in the US air-strike.
http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2007/10/09_a_2227669.shtml
Now I am a wee confused.
on October 9th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Yes Jamiat. It’s not the first time that Russian sources — and Gazeta.Ru in particular– say that Tahir Yuldash (or Qari Tahirjan, as he calls himself now) is killed or captured. See e.g. this from early 2007:
http://enews.ferghana.ru/article.php?id=1864&PHPSESSID=4d3bec5b7008ed821aecf7452049cd39
Either case, Juldash hardly had any agenda for/base in Uzbekistan any longer and his endeavours can not hide what and who the REAL problem in Uzbekistan is…
on October 9th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
ВНИМАНИЕ, РОЗЫСК!
WANTED
Karimov, Islam Abduganievich (born 30 January 1938)
Karimova, Gulnora Islamovna (born 8 July 1972)
These “people” are wanted for state terrorism and crimes against the Republic of Uzbekistan and the people of Uzbekistan as well as other Central Asian countries.
*Systematic impoverishment and oppression of millions of subjects
*Mass murder in Andijan
*Arbitary arrests and torture, disappearances, locking up innocents after framing and show trials
*Looting of state assets, cleptocracy, economic dislocation
*Igniting/escalating of the civil war in Tajikistan in ‘91/’92 through proxies (death toll: 80,000 to 100,000)
*Any other business (please complete):
Reward:
Even though everybody knows where they are and many Uzbeks would be glad to hang them free of charge once caught, you may be rewarded for information that leads to the capture of these criminals.
Up to 200,000 Sum.
on October 10th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Ataman Rakin said,
You are fanny
on October 11th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Nu, starayemsya!
lol