The Islamic threat to eastern Central Asia

Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 375-397

  Bowers, Stephen R ^a,b   Musayev, Bakhodir ^c   Samson, Steven Alan ^b  

^a Center for Security and Science   (United States)

^b LIBERTY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adolat; Hizb ut Tahrir; Hizb i Islami Turkestan; Islam Lashkarlari; Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU); Juma or Jumma Namangani; Tahir Yuldashev; Tovba or Tauba

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847404383     PISSN: 0278839X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (32)

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2. At the popular level, the organization is also known as Jamaot.
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5. This undermines the common assertion by leftist intellectuals who insist that peaceful groups have been transformed into terrorists as a rational response to oppression.
6. Cali Ruchala, Sobaka Dossier, 22 July 2002
7. Interviews in Tashkent and Dushanbe, July, 2004
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10. Public opinion polls conducted by co-author Bakhodir Musayev, 2002
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19. Quotations are taken from the pamphlets.
20. This assumption is based on conversations with numerous scholars, journalists, and researchers in Tashkent and other Central Asian capitals.
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29. In August, 1999, a band of guerillas operating out of Tajikistan and led by an associate of Juma Namangani invaded Kyrgyzstan's Batkent district and took hostages.
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31. ibid
32. ibid