AUG. 27 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kyrgyz security forces said they had arrested members of a unit of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir Islamist group in the south of the country, media reported. Hizb-ut-Tahrir aims to create an Islamic hegemony through peaceful means although many countries have labelled it an extremist organisation and banned it.
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(News report from Issue No. 103, published on Aug. 31 2012)
AUG. 17 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Police near Almaty killed nine suspected Islamic militants during a dawn raid, the prosecutor- general said. Last month President Nursultan Nazarbayev called on the security forces to do more to hunt down alleged militants after several died when a bomb they were preparing accidentally exploded.
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(News report from Issue No. 102, published on Aug. 24 2012)
JULY 12 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – The deputy head of Azerbaijan’s banned Islamist Party, Vagif Abdullayev, has died in prison from a heart attack, his colleagues said. In January 2011 police arrested Mr Abdullayev and six other members of the Islamist Party for possessing weapons and plotting revolution. In October, a court sentenced him to 11 years in jail.
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(News report from Issue No. 097, published on July 20 2012)
MAY 4 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Tajikistan’s Supreme Court banned a Muslim extremist group called Jamaat Ansarullah, media reported. Jamaat Ansarullah claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Khujand, north Tajikistan, in 2010 that killed 3 policemen. It has also been linked to al Qaeda.
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(News report from Issue No. 087, published on May 11 2012)
FEB. 20 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili flew to Afghanistan and, dressed in a military uniform, addressed Georgia’s 900 soldiers attached to NATO forces fighting the Taliban. Two days later Georgia’s defence ministry said a bomb had killed three soldiers. Fifteen Georgian soldiers have now died in the war.
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(News report from Issue No. 78, published on Feb. 23 2012)
FEB. 10 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kyrgyz security forces said they had captured a member of a radical Islamic group linked to attacks in Bishkek in 2010 and a shootout with police in Jan. 2011. Media reported that when security officers arrested the man on the outskirts of Bishkek they also found a rifle and explosives.
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(News report from Issue No. 77, published on Feb. 16 2012)
DEC. 3 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – Elite Kazakh police battled suspected Islamic militants in a village outside Almaty. In the gun battle two police and five militants died. The battle was the latest violence linked to Islamic militants this year in Kazakhstan and in Almaty police have started to detain and interrogate men with links to Islam.
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(News report from Issue No. 68, published on Dec. 8 2011)
NOV. 30 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – Police in Kazakhstan said they had arrested six accomplices of a gunman who killed seven people in the southern city of Taraz in November, local media reported. The attack was the latest in a worsening series of violence linked to Muslim extremists.
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(News report from Issue No. 67, published on Dec. 1 2011)
NOV. 20 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – Uzbek media reported an explosion on a railway in Uzbekistan which is used for carrying supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan. Uzbek authorities said Islamic militants may have attacked the railway. Uzbekistan is considered vital to the US supply line running across Central Asia into Afghanistan.
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(News report from Issue No. 66, published on Nov. 23 2011)
NOV. 12 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – A gunman, described by the authorities as a jihadist, killed seven people in Taraz, south Kazakhstan, and then blew himself up. This is the latest in a series of attacks linked to Islamic militants this year. Importantly, it shifted the attacks from the west of the country towards Almaty.
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(News report from Issue No. 65, published on Nov. 16 2011)