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| Kyrgyzstan says dead militant trained in Pakistan |
| 2009-06-30 |
| The leader of a group of militants killed last week by Kyrgyz security forces was trained in Pakistan, officials said on Monday. The ex-Soviet Central Asian state, home to a US military air base, reported two gunfights between security forces and militants last week. The State National Security Committee on Monday said it had identified the body of the leader of three fighters killed in the southern region of Osh on Saturday. "The leader of the killed terrorist group (was) Khasan Suleimanov, born in 1977 in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, trained at the international terrorist centres in Pakistan," it said. The committee said both Suleimanov's group and five militants killed days before in the nearby town of Jalalabad likely had links to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). Western security analysts say the IMU was largely wiped out during US-led operations in Afghanistan. Some have pointed to a possible rise in its activity in recent months alongside a parallel resurgence in Taliban operations. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 student-exchange program |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-06-30 19:00 |
| #1 dead militant trained in Pakistan and poorly, it seems. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-06-30 12:36 |