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Central Asia
Two killed in Uzbek market boom
2004-03-29
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.
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Posted by: Smith TROLL TROLL   2004-03-29 7:37:50 AM  

#7  Finally got it! LOL. I in vry DipSh*T. LOL!
Posted by: Shipman   2004-03-29 5:09:51 PM  

#6  Definition - unintentional suicide bomber = dipshit.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-03-29 12:50:14 PM  

#5  Deep thinking

Does a tree falling in the forest make a sound if there is no one there to hear it?

Is a suicide bomber still a suicide bomber if the bomb goes off before it is intended to?
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-03-29 12:48:45 PM  

#4  Pretty easy call on that one...
Posted by: Fred   2004-03-29 11:04:48 AM  

#3  Two boomers and a "work accident":
Two suicide bombings, attacks on police and an explosion at an alleged terrorist bomb-making factory in Uzbekistan killed 19 people and injured 26, the Central Asian country's prosecutor general said Monday. Prosecutor General Rashid Kadyrov said the events began Sunday night with an explosion that killed 10 people at a house being used by an extremist in the central province of Bukhara.

Wonder how many of those in the house were "innocent by-standers" just gathered for a "religious meeting"?

There were also two attacks on police Sunday night and early Monday, killing three policemen, and two attempted suicide bombings near the Chorsu bazaar in Tashkent's Old City, killing three policemen and a young child, he said. The suicide bombings were the first reported in Uzbekistan. Kadyrov said the attacks were carried out by Islamic extremists - singling out the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir group and followers of the strict Wahhabi sect of Islam.
"A preliminary investigation shows all the events are interconnected and aimed at the destabilization of the country," Kadyrov said. He said the tactic of suicide bombings was previously unknown in Uzbekistan and indicated foreign involvement in the attacks. "The character and method of this act is not common to our people. It was probably exported from abroad," he said.
Posted by: Steve   2004-03-29 10:43:07 AM  

#2  new reports indicate over 2 dozen killed

two (not one) suicide bombers
Posted by: mhw   2004-03-29 10:33:04 AM  

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