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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Tajikistan bans new Islamist group
2012-05-04
[Bangla Daily Star] Tajikistan yesterday banned a fringe Islamist group whose existence it initially denied but later blamed for a series of bombings that killed more than 20 servicemen and police.
All it takes is banning? We should have done that long ago!
A group calling itself the Jamaat Ansarullah (The Friends of Allah Society) released a 15-minute video in September calling on the Central Asian nation's Moslems to wage a holy war against the state.

Authorities initially denied its existence or ability to carry out serious attacks despite continuing Islamist violence spilling over from neighbouring Afghanistan.

The former Soviet nation's supreme court also banned the group's two main websites.
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