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20 suicidery terrorists undermined themselves in the suburbs of Tashkent
On Tuesday, the capital of Uzbekistan was overwhelmed by a new wave of terrorist attacks. However, there is still no clarity regarding the events that took place on Tuesday in Tashkent. According to official figures, in the suburbs of Tashkent, at the time of detention, 20 suicide bombers undermined themselves. Three police officers died. Five were injured.
"On March 30, 2004, at 7 o’clock 20 minutes in the morning farm" Umid "of the Kibriysky district of the Tashkent region in the Mahalla" Boyzhigit "(Karamurt Street, house 1 A, sq. 20), a group of armed militants was discovered by law enforcement agencies.
In the process of detention, terrorists in the amount of 20 people undermined themselves through homemade explosive devices, ”the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in an official statement by the National Information Agency of Uzbekistan Uza .
Local residents claim that during the battle the terrorists killed one civilian resident. Two more terrorists - a man and a woman - surrendered to riot police. According to eyewitnesses, during the battle the suicide bomber was injured. She was taken away by ambulance.
The publication of Ferghana.ru notes that the difference in data on the number of media reported terrorist attacks may also be explained by the fact that correspondents could mistakenly take the sounds of the battle for the explosions of the terrorists, which took place in the Yalangach area.
Special operation in the village of Yalangach
On March’s thirtieth, at 8 o’clock in the morning, at the entrance to Tashkent from the village of Yalangach, the Kibrai district, the Daewoo Tico, filled with explosives, exploded at the entrance to Tashkent. Following this, the wounded woman tried to get into the N101 flight bus, but did not have time, the bus left. Then she blew herself up.
From these events in Tashkent, a second wave of terrorist attacks and shootings began, reports IA Ferghana.ru .
As it turned out later, special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were deployed in the village of Yalangach, which adjoins the residential array of the Tashkent Tractor Plant (TTZ) operation to eliminate a large group of terrorists.
Entering the village of terrorists tried to hide in residential buildings. Four terrorists barricaded in the house of N14 on Akhunbabaev Street and for about five hours fired from the commandos surrounded by them.
"I left the house, I looked - four guys flee in my direction. One of them had an assault rifle from which he fired at my friend Shukhat for no reason. The deceased left. Seeing a soldier at the end of the street, they turned back and ran into the house. They began to shoot from there. They had two trunks and a gun. They blew up his body below the belt was torn, ” says an eyewitness to the events.
The main actions unfolded in two hundred meters deep into the village, around the five-story building 1-A along Karamulskaya Street, where, according to residents, terrorists rented a three-room apartment on the second floor for a month.
The battle between the terrorists and the Uzbek military lasted several hours.
"When I heard the explosion and went out into the street to throw out the garbage, I saw a soldier with machine guns. They shouted to everyone:" You’ve entered the house, I wanted to return home, but we were no longer allowed. And the terrorists ran through the entire village. Then the riot police arrived, and one woman undermined the walls now. взорвала возле подъезда. Террористы разбежались по всему поселку, забежали в частные дома - к одному корейцу в дом забежали. Хозяина, правда, в доме не было. Их убили, кроме одного, который себя взорвал. И вот здесь они валялись. Здесь вот один лежал, здесь второй, одного террориста снайперы на балконе застрелили, они стреляли с крыш ближних гаражей. Одна The woman died in front of the house, and one was lying there, his guts fell out of his stomach, ” said Yalangach , a resident of the village of Yalangach.
Local residents claim that the faces of women's suicide bombers were closed by the Hijab.
“All women were closed by a hijab. They are believers. They were from Bukhara, they had documents with them,” says a resident of the village.
A criminal case has been instituted on this fact under the article "Terrorism" and investigative-operational measures are carried out, the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted.
Emergency patrol mode has been introduced in Uzbekistan
Behind the terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan is the movement "Hizb Ut-Tahrir"
The terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan may be involved in al-Qaida
The inhabitants of Tashkent did not know anything about the passing special operation. All day citizens "fed panic rumors", according to which a series of explosions took place almost everywhere, everywhere - on the massif of Sergei, the Water Massive, in the area of the Gorky metro and in the center of the Lunacharsky highway. People watched military equipment moving through the streets of the city (BMP), ambulance vehicles and heard explosions.
On Monday, there was a series of explosions in Tashkent and the Bukhara region . 19 people died and 26 - injured. As a result of the anti -terrorist operation, it was possible to confiscate almost a ton - 920 kg - explosives. 11 people were detained who are suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks.
Emergency patrol mode has been introduced in Uzbekistan
During the special operation in Tashkent, difficulties with access to foreign Internet sites were observed, as well as serious interruptions in the work of urban telephone communications.
In connection with a series of terrorist attacks in the Republic of Uzbekistan, an emergency patrol regime has been introduced, children's preschool institutions do not work, trips from the Uzbek capital are blocked, Interfax reports.
Currently, all entrances and exits from Tashkent are blocked. All markets are closed, the police carefully inspects all suspicious cars and passers -by.
There is no panic among the population, but the crowded streets are noticeably empty, people do not come out of the house. Between the cities of the metropolitan region, the message of buses and electric trains was interrupted.
In particular, control is strengthened on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border, through which criminals may try to get through.
The President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov announced the determination of the authorities of the republic "firmly withstand the sorties of reactionary forces."
Behind the terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan is the movement "Hizb Ut-Tahrir"
According to the Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan Rashid Kadyrov, the terrorist attacks were committed by Islamic extremists associated with Wahhabis and the prohibited Islamic group "Hizb Ut-Taurir".
The Secretary of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan, Misir Ashirkulov, made a similar statement.
He stated that the religious and extremist party "Hizb-Ata Tahrir" or the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan may be involved in terrorist acts in Tashkent and the Bukhara region. According to him, "the Kyrgyz special services are now working in close contact with the Uzbek colleagues, trying to establish the individuals of the organizers and performers of terrorist acts."
Meanwhile, the Hizb Ut-Tahrir announced complete non-involvement in the latest events in Uzbekistan. The representative of the organization in Britain Imran Wahid said that Hizb Ut-Tahrir is a party that does not undertake violence, is not involved in terrorism or armed struggle. "
According to him, the responsibility for explosions in Tashkent and other regions of the country should be assigned to the "tyrant Uzbek regime, which in the past adjusted such events in order to suppress the legal Islamic political opposition."
The Hizb Ut-Tahrir group has repeatedly stated the intention to “wage an non-violent struggle for the creation of an Islamic state,” but the Uzbek authorities have repeatedly accused her of involvement in terrorism. These accusations at one time became the basis for the ban on the Hizb Ut-Tahrir.
The terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan may be involved in al-Qaida
Special services have long claimed that there is a close connection between Uzbek Islamists and the movement of Ben Laden. Some analysts believe that in the attacks of the Hizb U-Tahrir attacks, Al-Qaeda could help. This opinion is held by the Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences Anatoly Egorin.
"The attacks in Uzbek cities as two drops of water are similar to similar acts of other al-kayd structures. This is the use of female suicideos, the implementation of explosions in the most crowded places in order to cause the maximum possible number of victims among the civilians, the use of metal damaging elements in explosive devices. It is clear that their performers were studied in the same teachers, according to the same and the same Textbooks, ”the expert said.
He connected the actions of terrorists with the spring opening of the passes, "and primarily in the Tajik direction."
According to one version, the attacks in Uzbekistan are associated with a recent operation of Pakistan Security Services, during which Uzbek militants were captured. This was stated on the live air of "Echo of Moscow" Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with compatriots Andrei Kokoshin.
According to him, "the operation was supported by the forces of the anti -terrorist coalition, primarily American, operating from the north in the northern regions of Pakistan." At the same time, the captured Uzbek militants "showed fierce resistance."
“There is a version that the requirement to issue them to the Uzbek authorities was accompanied by such acts that we see,” Kokoshin said.
He believes that the situation in Uzbekistan was probably influenced by the incompleteness of US operation in Afghanistan, since Uzbekinstean is "an interconnected region that stands at the crossing of all the roads."
"The Uzbek authorities in the late 90s had such serious situations, terrorist attacks, but they coped with them," Kokoshin said.