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Wednesday, 29 March 2006
RUSSIA EXTRADITES SUSPECTED ISLAMISTS TO UZBEKISTAN – FSB
By empty (3/29/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia has arrested on its territory and extradited to Uzbekistan 19 people suspected of links with the international Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir since the start of 2006, Sergei Smirnov, first deputy director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), said on Wednesday. \"Hizb ut-Tahrir poses the greatest danger on the territory of Central Asian states\" and is \"carrying out propaganda of terrorism not only in Uzbekistan but also in Russia,\" Smirnov told reporters after a meeting of the governing body of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. (Interfax).
Russia has arrested on its territory and extradited to Uzbekistan 19 people suspected of links with the international Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir since the start of 2006, Sergei Smirnov, first deputy director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), said on Wednesday. \"Hizb ut-Tahrir poses the greatest danger on the territory of Central Asian states\" and is \"carrying out propaganda of terrorism not only in Uzbekistan but also in Russia,\" Smirnov told reporters after a meeting of the governing body of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. (Interfax)