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Two killed in Uzbek market boom
Guess some of those guys made it home from Waziristan already...
Two people were killed and about 20 people injured in an explosion, described as a "terrorist act" by authorities, at the largest bazaar in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent on Monday, police said. "The terrorist act struck Chorsu bazaar in the Old City," a police official told Reuters. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ilham Zakirov said the explosion was one of several attempts to conduct terrorist acts. It took place outside a large children's store.
Must be Islamists, then...
"We have detained the culprits. They are currently being interrogated. Right now it is only clear that this is a pre-planned action and there is someone behind it... Who? We do not know at the moment," he said.
My first guess would be IMU. Second would be Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The Russian news agency Itar-Tass, reporting from Tashkent, said preliminary information suggested the explosion had been caused by a female suicide bomber, but this could not immediately be confirmed.
Posted by: Fred 2004-03-29
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