Comments on: Tajik teenage terrorists

By: John Carey

John Carey — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:47:55 +0000

I agree with the comments of the concerned people; it is difficult to determine what is truth and what is not. However and notwithstanding that, one must agree that in nearly every conflict in the nations today the one common factor is radical Islamism, regardless of nationality, religion, language. we see the evidence of what is reported in this news event in Gaza etc where the children are openly taught terrorism. Disregarding the Zionist element the truth then is that this is eminently possible. Tajikistan does not need this “distraction” but rather needs to focus on preparing its people, and from an early age, to drag itself out of the problems that have held it down long enough.

By: Ataman Rakin

Ataman Rakin — Thu, 24 May 2007 07:12:58 +0000

Yes that’s what I wanted to say. Typically, things like this initially pop up in Russian sources quoting reprsentatives of CAsian security establishments.

It’s nothing new. In Kyrgyzstan, for example, fires and explosions at a bazaar in Bishkek in 2001 and an exchange booth in Osh in 2003 were immediately put on ‘IMU terrorists’ and ‘Uighur separatists’ and then later turned out to be merely mafia-related. Or that clumsy grenade attack against Akayev’s sec chief Misir Ashyrkulov in 2002 which was st. similar.

“to divert public attention from the issues that are so painfully familiar to all of the ordinary citizens in our poverty-stricken land.”

Yes. Much worse than ‘teenage terrorists’ are the children slaving on cotton plantations in Vakhsh and Ferghana and teenagers being prostituted for/by fat mafia hokims and certain expats.

Also, who and what is �terrorism�? That can be anything depending of how you look at it. �State terrorism�, as it is practiced by the Uzbek regime, for instance? Rebel groups who attack oppressive structures and their interests? What is it?

By: dancing dervish

dancing dervish — Thu, 24 May 2007 06:16:37 +0000

What a bunch of bullcrap.
Nonpon, make no mistake about it, this is yet another government ploy to divert public attention from the issues that are so painfully familiar to all of the ordinary citizens in our poverty-stricken land.

By: nonpon

nonpon — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:55:36 +0000

Hear hear, with a pinch of salt. Why should we believe anything that comes from a government probably interested in exagerrating a terrorist threat?

By: Ataman Rakin

Ataman Rakin — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:05:33 +0000

Well, it’s always possible of course. But I’ve grown sceptical about a certain kind of anti-Islamic horror stories or, rather, the political manipulation of it.

See eg. that bizarre and controversial baby suicide bomber picture that the Isra�li army came up with: http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/06/28/baby.photo/index.html
or the following Moskovskii Komsomolets story of 2004 which, as if by chance, pre-dated yet another anti-Muslim arrest campaign in Uzbekistan:
http://www.mk.ru/blogs/idmk/2004/07/19/mk-daily/35127/