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Over 250 terror attacks were pre- empted in countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2005, Vyacheslav Kasymov, Executive Committee Director of the SCO\'s Regional Anti-Terror Agency, said. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Hizb-ut-Tahrir, besides al Qaeda, are listed as terror organizations in five of the SCO\'s countries, Kasymov told the press after a meeting of the Agency\'s Council in Tashkent on Wednesday. The SCO is comprised of Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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