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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (37565)	10/2/2009 11:05:31 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	of 71588

Uzbek Islamist killed by US missile in Pak: report (AFP) – 6 hours ago google.com PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The chief of an Uzbek Islamist group with ties to Al-Qaeda was reportedly killed in a US missile strike in northwest Pakistan in August, security officials said Friday. Tahir Yuldashev, who led the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) in his Central Asian homeland, had a five-million-dollar US bounty on his head. "According to reports we received from the area, Yuldashev was seriously injured in a US drone attack in the last week of August in Sararogha area of South Waziristan," a senior Pakistani security official told AFP. "He died a few days later," the official quoted informers as saying, adding that the reports were difficult to verify. "True, our reports say that he is dead," an intelligence official assigned to the tribal areas said when contacted by telephone. "We are working to confirm it. We have sent the agents in the area," another senior security official based in South Waziristan told AFP. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was created in 1991 and is often cited as a top security concern by governments in ex-Soviet Central Asia. In August 2000, the US branded IMU a terrorist organisation. The group had opposed the government of President Islam Karimov from their main bases in northern Afghanistan under the Taliban regime before being thrown out by the US-led invasion in late 2001. Since then Yuldashev, along with hundreds of his fighters, was believed to be hiding in Pakistani tribal area. Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved. More »

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