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Tajikistan detains son of defector to ISIS
2017-05-11
[Ynet] Tajik security services have detained the eldest son of a former elite police force commander who defected to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
two years ago, suspecting that the young man was going to join his father, security sources said on Wednesday.

The United States last August offered up to $3 million for information about Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, whom it trained in counter-terrorism before he joined Islamic State.

Washington has described Khalimov as "a key leader" of Islamic State, which has seized parts of Syria and Iran and staged or inspired deadly holy warrior attacks around the world.
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