Uzbekistan: A New Terror Central from Jihad Watch

Peter Brookes of the Heritage Foundation says in the New York Post (thanks to Mrs. Obelix) that the recent events in Uzbekistan are by no means isolated incidents: that Central Asian nation is becoming the new Terror Central.

"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."- Winston Churchill
UZBEKISTAN is best known to Americans for . . . well, nothing. But events there last week mean it's time to start paying attention.

The week's round of violence - the first suicide bombings in Central Asia - killed at least 44 people, including several female suicide bombers. And there's no doubt al Qaeda's Central Asian branch, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), was behind the mayhem.


Central Asia, home to 50 million Muslims, will likely become a new battleground for Islamic militancy. And Uzbekistan is the region's center of strategic gravity.

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