Islamic Jihad Union
Behind the name Islamic Jihad Union ( Islamic Jihad Union , IJU , also Islamic Jihad Group , IJG ) is a militant Islamic fundamentalist underground organization from Uzbekistan suspected, the scope is controversial.
In Germany, the IJU is assessed differently by the security authorities. Benno Köpfer from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg doubts the existence of the IJU. On the other hand, the IJU is said to be a splinter group of the Islamic Movement Uzbekistan (IBU), linked to the al-Qaida terror network .
The US State Department put the IJU on its list of foreign terrorist groups in 2007.
According to former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray , the group either does not exist or is a group of "useful idiots" controlled by the Uzbek secret service, with Murray as a source of controversy. After the British government withdrew him from his ambassadorial post for non-governmental behavior, Murray wrote a book entitled Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror .
Planned terrorist attacks in Germany
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior , the IJU announced on an unspecified website about planned attacks in Germany, which wanted to close the Termez air base in Uzbekistan . However, there is too little IJU material to clearly confirm the authenticity of the letter of confession .
Three suspected terrorists arrested in Oberschledorn on September 4, 2007 (“ Sauerland Group ”) were supposed to carry out these attacks. You were allegedly in 2006 in a terror camp in Pakistan and visitors to the Islamic Information Center (IIZ) in Ulm . Two of the three suspected terrorists are German converts to Islam , which means that in this case it is not “imported” but “home-made” terrorism .
Uzbek secret service as the founder
The Uzbek defector Ikrom Yakubov stated in the ARD magazine Monitor on September 25, 2008 that the Islamic Jihad Union was founded by the Uzbek secret service. The Islam Karimov government organized terrorist attacks in its own country in order to recommend itself to the West as an important partner in the anti-terror coalition.
In addition, on September 6, 2008, Der Spiegel reported on a possible intelligence background of the group:
“According to SPIEGEL information, the terrorist organization IJU was infiltrated early on by secret services and the police. So the delivery of 26 military detonators to the so-called Sauerland group around Fritz Gelowicz took place in August 2007 under the eyes of the CIA and a Turkish secret service. "
According to information from Stern on February 4, 2009, the BKA is investigating a contact from the Turkish secret service MIT and the American CIA, who is said to have played a key role in the procurement of the detonators.
In a media review, Walter van Rossum quotes ex-ambassador Craig Murray as follows:
“Personally, I believe that the Islamic Jihad Union was most likely created by the Uzbek intelligence services. Either by staging attacks like in Tashkent themselves or by having agents provocateurs seduced naive people into carrying out terrorist attacks. "
The Uzbek journalist Galima Bukharbaeva also confirms the establishment of the Islamic Jihad Union by the Uzbek secret service:
“The IJU is clearly an invention of the Uzbek secret service. […] I was on site during the attacks [in Tashkent 2004] and spoke to police investigators. They laughed at the IJU, everyone knew back then that it was an invention. […] I was in court, nobody testified, even the lawyers of the accused were paid by the government and never spoke to journalists. The whole thing is a big fake . It was only when the Sauerland terrorists appeared in Germany that the IJU was suddenly called in again. [...] Germany is losing out on Karimov's strategy. And it is a great shame that a state like Germany relies on statements by this criminal secret service. "
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- ↑ Christian Rath: "Doubts about the existence of the terror group". In: Interview with Benno Köpfer. taz.de, October 4, 2007, accessed on December 2, 2011 .
- ↑ The jungle of German jihadists. tagesschau.de, archived from the original on November 22, 2010 ; Retrieved December 2, 2011 .
- ↑ US Department of State: Country Reports on Terrorism , Chapter 6: Terrorist Organizations ( Memento of May 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); April 30, 2007.
- ↑ Peter Mühlbauer: Terror group or secret service invention. heise.de, October 10, 2007, accessed on December 2, 2011 .
- ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: IJU is committed to the foiled attacks in Germany ( Memento of January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); Press release from September 11, 2007.
- ^ Rüdiger Bässler: The Ulm connection. taz.de, September 6, 2007, accessed on December 2, 2011 .
- ^ Kai Biermann : Home-made terrorism ; in: The time of September 6, 2007.
- ^ Under suspicion of terrorism - Fritz G. called for more tolerance in Germany ; in: Stern , issue 38/2007.
- ↑ Former intelligence officer accuses Uzbek intelligence of having originally founded the Islamic Jihad Union. In: WDR press release. WDR, September 24, 2008, accessed on February 22, 2017 .
- ^ Secret services infiltrated the Sauerland group early on ; Issued September 6, 2008.
- ↑ stern.de: Sauerland cell / alleged CIA man was "the boss" ; News from February 4, 2009.
- ↑ A cage full of ducks. How politics and the media discovered al-Qaeda in the Sauerland (part 2) - NRhZ from July 22, 2009
- ↑ Remote controlled terrorists? Comments on the trial against the Sauerland cell ; in: Telepolis March 13, 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2010