Islamic Movement Uzbekistan

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The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ( IMU ; English Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan , IMU , Uzbek O'zbekiston islomiy harakati or Cyrillic Ўзбекистон Исломий Ҳаракати; Russian Исламское движение Узбекистана ) is a militant Islamist organization from Uzbekistan that the Afghan - Pakistani acts border area. In 2015 she declared allegiance to the terrorist Islamic State and declared herself a local offshoot. Their size is estimated at several hundred people. The Islamic Jihad Union is one of its splinter groups.

history

The IBU was founded in Afghanistan in 1998. It was tolerated by the Taliban and supported them in the fight against the Northern Alliance . In 2001, Mullah Omar appointed IBU co-founder and commander, Jumma Namangani , to lead the 3,000-strong and foreign-made Brigade 21 . Osama bin Laden tried to get this position, but it was not considered. Their most important bases at this time were in Kunduz and Takhar , where they relied on the Uzbeks and Tajiks who lived there . In autumn 2001, due to the war in Afghanistan , she lost these places and with it her base to operate in Uzbekistan . Juma Namangani is said to have died in these fights. At the end of 2001, the IBU withdrew to Pakistan with more than 1,000 fighters under the leadership of Tahir Yoldashev.

In the fall of 2010, the organization was exposed to strong military pressure from the USA . At the time, at least seven Germans are said to have belonged to the organization. The Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office brought proceedings against Bünyamin Erdoğan for preparing a serious act of violence that was dangerous to the state; the German-Turkish man had trained in armed combat in an IBU terror camp .

Single references

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  2. ↑ Guido Steinberg & Nils Wörmer: Escalation in the Kunduz area . Who are the insurgents in Northern Afghanistan. In: Science and Politics Foundation (ed.): SWP-Aktuell 84 . Berlin December 2010, p. 5 ( swp-berlin.org [PDF; 262 kB ; accessed on August 8, 2012]).
  3. ↑ Leah Farrall: How al Qaeda works . In: Council on Foreign Relations (Ed.): Foreign Affairs . Volume 90, March 2 / April. New York 2011, p. 130 (English).
  4. ↑ Guido Steinberg & Nils Wörmer: Escalation in the Kunduz area . Who are the insurgents in Northern Afghanistan. In: Science and Politics Foundation (ed.): SWP-Aktuell 84 . Berlin December 2010, p. 6 ( swp-berlin.org [PDF; 262 kB ; accessed on August 8, 2012]).
  5. ↑ Christian Denso: Bünyamin's death. Drone attack . In: The time . No. January 04 , 20, 2011 ( zeit.de ).