- Tohir Yo‘ldosh
Tohir Yo‘ldosh, born Tohir Abduhalilovich Yo‘ldoshev (in Russian: Тахир Абдухалилович Юлдашев "Takhir Abdukhalilovich Yuldashev", born
1967 ) cofounded theIslamic Movement of Uzbekistan , anIslamist organization active inCentral Asia , withJuma Namangani inDecember 1991 . TheUnited Nations considers the IMU an Islamic terrorist organization.cite news
url=http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/imu.cfm
title=In the spotlight: The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)]
publisher=Center for Defense Information
date=March 25 ,2002
accessdate=2007-08-28]When anti-
Taliban forces killedJuma Namangani , the IMU's military leader and cofounder, inAfghanistan in2001 , Yo‘ldosh took over the IMU's day-to-day operations as well.cite web
url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Terrorist.html#IMU
title=Terrorist Organizations
publisher=World Statesmen
accessdate=2007-08-28]A video message from Tohir Yo‘ldosh was reportedly distributed throughout the Uzbek areas of Central Asia in early 2007.cite news
url=http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav082807.shtml
date=August 28 2007
title=Ferghana valley: Return of the Jihad
author=Igor Rotar
publisher=Eurasianet
accessdate=2007-08-28] In the video Tohir was reported to have said: cquote|Today, our primary goal is to emancipate Iraq and Afghanistan from the American occupation.ee also
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Nek Muhammad Wazir External links
* [http://www.dia.mil/site6_images/cards/af/af010x.jpgAn American wanted poster] on Yo‘ldosh, from the
Defense Intelligence Agency References
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