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sebab mengapa seandainya adanya pejuang dikatakan teroris yang=20
menyerang Uzbekistan adalah salah satu negara Islam.=20
Bisa mengalihkan perhatian umat umat ke arah tidak perlu atau=20
sebagai bebeapa alasan perlu diwaspadai.
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irak dll) yang ingin merusak citra tertentu, dan perlu digunakan=20
penyuplaian informasi kebenaran dan kesadaran yang benar pada umat=20
umat bangsa di sana.=20
Teror tersebut terjadi di Uzbekistan diharapkan tidak=20
mempersulitkan proses perdamaian di Irak, Palestina yang berlangsung.
semoga ada yang turut membantu menciptakan perdamaian, kebenaran dan=20
keadilan di sana.
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At Least 23 Killed in Uzbekistan Clashes=20=20=20=20
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Police and military clashed with suspected=20
terrorists, including three female suicide bombers, and 23 people=20
were killed in a third day of violence Tuesday that rattled the Uzbek=20
capital during a sweep to round up Islamic militants, witnesses and=20
authorities said.=20
Government forces besieged an apartment building near the=20
presidential residence in northern Tashkent for nearly five hours=20
after confronting the suicide bombers. Gunfire and explosions were=20
heard throughout the day.=20
Attacks on Sunday and Monday had killed another 19 people and wounded=20
26 in the worst unrest in this majority Muslim country since the=20
secular government became a staunch U.S. ally after the Sept. 11,=20
2001, attacks. Uzbekistan hosts hundreds of U.S. troops at a tightly=20
secured military base near the Afghan border.=20
Tuesday's violence was centered in the northern Yalangach=20
neighborhood, near the official home of President Islam Karimov. An=20
Associated Press reporter saw four separate sites of fighting in the=20
district.=20
The Interior Ministry said in a statement read on state-run TV that=20
20 terrorists and three police were killed in the confrontations that=20
began about 7:20 a.m. Another five police were wounded, the statement=20
said.=20
The statement did not say how long the operation lasted, but=20
witnesses indicated it ended after several hours.=20
The militants blew themselves up with homemade explosives while=20
police tried to arrest them, the ministry said, without elaborating.=20
It said the investigation was continuing.=20
Police stopped a small car and two alleged terrorists jumped out and=20
detonated explosive-laden belts, killing themselves and three police=20
officers and injuring five more policemen, said a National Security=20
Service officer at the scene who declined to give his name.=20
In a separate nearby bombing, neighborhood resident Farida=20
Raupkhajayeva said four women in a red car had driven up to a police=20
checkpoint. One of the women, dressed entirely in black, got out of=20
the car and approached a bus that was stopped there, Raupkhajayeva=20
said.=20
When she ignored a police request to stop, they shot her in the legs,=20
then she set off a bomb, said Raupkhajayeva, 50. The other three=20
women then ran into an apartment building, where police began the=20
nearly five-hour standoff with the suspects.=20
An Interior Ministry officer said 16 suspected terrorists =97 11 men=20
and five women =97 had been killed in the apartment building about 100=20
yards away from the suicide bombing site. Some had been shot by=20
police but others killed themselves with grenades, said the officer,=20
who refused to give his name.=20
An AP reporter saw five corpses on a sidewalk outside the building.=20
Police investigators and plainclothes security officers with=20
Kalashnikov assault rifles milled about as a white-coated medical=20
official put the bodies on stretchers.=20
Five men escaped, said a building resident who refused to give her=20
name. She said the women in the car were wearing hijab veils, only=20
revealing their eyes, which is rare in secular Uzbekistan. She said=20
they were speaking another Central Asian language she could not=20
understand.=20
A house several hundred yards away showed signs of heavy fighting,=20
its walls blackened by fire and pocked by dozens of bullet holes.=20
Neighbors who were cleaning up charred books and other debris said=20
four young men had been killed inside the house and that none of its=20
regular residents had been home at the time of the shootout.=20
It was unclear whether the four were among the 16 dead the Interior=20
Ministry officer said had been killed in the siege.=20
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ilkhom Zakirov said empty trucks and an=20
armored personnel carrier were used to block the route to Karimov's=20
residence.=20
Security was increased across the city, with soldiers on patrol and=20
hotels deploying metal detectors and not allowing vehicles to=20
approach. Soldiers with dogs patrolled the airport, but flights=20
continued.=20
Several security operations were under way in Tashkent and the=20
surrounding area Tuesday, said Svetlana Atikova, spokeswoman for the=20
prosecutor-general's office, without elaborating.=20
Authorities turned off water, gas and electricity in the district=20
where Tuesday's attacks occurred, and residents were forced to cook=20
their evening meals over wood fires in the streets.=20
The lack of official information led to fear and confusion.=20
"I don't understand who is killing whom. We learn about things only=20
from rumors and we panic," said Faya Vaganova, a 47-year-old=20
resident.=20
The violence has left at least 40 dead since Sunday evening in a=20
series of clashes between militants and police, as well as an=20
explosion at a bomb-making hideaway.=20
The violence began Sunday night with a blast that killed 10 people at=20
a house used by alleged terrorists in the central region of Bukhara,=20
Prosecutor-General Rashid Kadyrov said.=20
Police found materials for bombs and instructions on assembling them,=20
a Kalashnikov rifle, two pistols, ammunition and extremist Islamic=20
literature, he said.=20
The two assaults on police took place at a factory Sunday night and a=20
traffic checkpoint early Monday. Three officers were killed.=20
The suicide bombings, carried out 30 minutes apart Monday at a bus=20
stop and the Children's World store in Tashkent's Old City, killed=20
three police and a young child, in addition to the two female=20
attackers, Kadyrov said.=20
They were the first suicide bombings ever reported in the five=20
Central Asian nations once ruled by the Soviet Union, which also=20
include Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.=20
Karimov has blamed the violence on Islamic extremists, and said=20
several arrests had been made.=20
Karimov said Monday that backing for the attacks might have come from=20
a banned radical group that has never before been linked to terrorist=20
acts =97 Hizb ut-Tahrir, or the Party of Liberation. The group denied=20
involvement.=20
Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) offered=20
condolences to Karimov in a telephone conversation Tuesday, and the=20
two discussed cooperating "in fighting terrorism."=20
All the attacks appeared targeted at authorities, including the=20
suicide bombings =97 the first of which was timed for when police=20
normally gather outside the children's store for their daily morning=20
briefing.=20
Karimov alleged the attacks were planned six to eight months ago, and=20
said the organization and funding required to carry out such attacks=20
also indicated they had outside support.=20
Raupkhajayeva said Tuesday's violence belied Karimov's statements a=20
day earlier that the situation was stable.=20
"Yesterday, Karimov said everything was fine in Uzbekistan and today=20
it is happening again," Raupkhajayeva said. "We are afraid. We are=20
afraid there will still be more."=20
The violence was the most serious in Tashkent since a bombings in=20
February 1999 that killed 16 allegedly targeting the president.=20
Uzbek authorities claim Hizb ut-Tahrir is a breeding ground for=20
terrorists and have sought so far unsuccessfully to have Washington=20
label it a terrorist group.=20
Imram Waheed, a Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman in London, said his=20
group "has wide support throughout Uzbekistan and Central Asia and=20
the government ... is trying to dent that support and malign the=20
organization by linking it with these terrorist acts.=20
"There is a history of the government orchestrating such (terrorist)=20
activities in the past," he said, saying evidence suggested a=20
government link to the 1999 Tashkent bombing. "We feel the government=20
would have no qualms in undertaking such actions, killing civilians."=20
Uzbekistan's tiny opposition, banned by Karimov's authoritarian=20
regime from working openly, fears the attacks will deepen a=20
widespread crackdown against dissent and independent Islamic mosques.=20
Thousands have been jailed, drawing international condemnation.=20
New York-based Human Rights Watch released a new report March 24=20
documenting the government's campaign of religious persecution,=20
including torture and arrests of people engaged in legitimate=20
religious activity.=20
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