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Uzbek militant killed in Pakistan: security agents
Fri Oct 2, 2009 2:55am EDT
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked Uzbek militant leader was killed in Pakistan in a U.S. drone missile strike in August, Pakistani intelligence agency officials said on Friday.
Tahir Yuldashev, leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, was killed in a missile strike in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, where he had been based for some years, they said.
Yuldashev's death will be welcomed by governments in central Asia, where he wanted to set up an Islamic state.
His death is also likely to help the Pakistani army if, or when, it launches an offensive against Yuldashev's Pakistani Taliban allies in South Waziristan.
"The man is dead. He was killed in a drone attack in South Waziristan on August 27," said one Pakistani intelligence agency official in the city of Peshawar.
Another Pakistani security official said Yuldashev's colleagues had tried to keep his death secret.
Pakistan's military spokesman was not available for comment.
A close ally of both the Taliban and al Qaeda, Yuldashev was a leader in an Islamist militant underground opposed to the communist government in Uzbekistan before and after the break-up of the Soviet Union.
He later fled to the safety of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and fought on the Taliban side in Afghanistan's civil war.
He moved to Waziristan after U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban in late 2001.
Yuldashev shot to prominence in March 2004, when Pakistani forces surrounded his base in South Waziristan, but he escaped while his fighters mounted a fierce defense.
No one knows how many Uzbek militants are based in northwest Pakistan but there are believed to be up to 1,000.
The army said in June it had received unconfirmed reports Yuldashev had been wounded in a Pakistani military air strike in South Waziristan.
"STRONG LEADER"
Yuldashev's death came weeks after Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a similar attack by a missile-firing U.S. drone aircraft. Continued...
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