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127 Martyred In Fierce Clashes Between Uzbek Mujahideen And Taliban In Waziristan Mar 23, 2007 By Muhammad Al Halimi | Jihad Unspun Waziristan Correspondent Wana (JUS): In a striking new development, the Waziristan area is in shock as heavily armed groups of Uzbek Mujahideen and local Taliban are engaged in the bloodiest clashes in the area yet. Scores of casualties on both sides have been reported besides civilian women and children. This sad day comes in the time when an uneasy peace agreement is supposed to be in effect between Pak collaborator forces and de-facto Islamic Emirates of Waziristan. In the latest reports, the death toll has reached 127 that include martyrs from Uzbek Mujahideen group, the local Taliban members and civilians. There are unconfirmed reports have suggested that Uzbek Mujahideen have been forced to surrender. According to the reports emerging, the clashes began in the Kalosha area in the suburbs of Wana in South Waziristan tribal agency on Tuesday when ex-Taliban local Commander Mullah Nazir who supports Musharraf's demand for foreign Mujahideen to leave the border region, ordered the members of Uzbek Mujahideen group to disarm. The group is under the command of Mujahid Qari Tahir Yaldeshev, also the head of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan based in Ferghana valley of Uzbekistan. Needless to say, the Uzbek Mujahideen refused to comply. Meanwhile a mortar shell hit a bus evacuating students of a local private school to flee the fighting zone, resulting in deaths of four students while 27 others were also wounded. Nine loyalists of Mullah Nazir lost their lives while 38 Uzbek Mujahideen were martyred and 22 were captured. Both sides have claimed taking prisoners in heavy numbers but these reports can not be verified. The wounded have been airlifted to hospitals in Peshawar, including women and children in critical condition. According to the local sources the local tribesmen had warned the Uzbek Mujahideen on Tuesday night to disarm or face death while loudspeakers of the local mosques were heard making announcements urging local tribesmen to prepare for fighting. Many tribesmen moved to block the road linking Wana to Angoradda in order to put more pressure on the Uzbek Mujahideen. Local authorities gave them 48 hour ultimatum to reopen the road otherwise army action would be taken however Pak collaborator forces showed no desire to intervene in the fighting. The local bazaars of Wana and Azam Warsak remained closed for the second day. According to reports from Daily Jasarat citing local sources a Peace Jirga comprising of 70 tribal elders was trying to prevent the eruption of hostilities but have not been successful so far. Another 300 member Jirga is expected to join the peace efforts that also includes Mujahid Commander Bait Ullah Mehsud. Mujaid Mullah Dadallah has also been reported to have arrived in the area to stop the fighting but this has not been confirmed. The Pak Collaborator forces and Collaborator authorities have appeared to be silent spectators in the whole episode possibly involved not directly but highly interested in the outcome of the battle. Some quarters of Collaborator authority are also trying to claim it as the product of Musharraf's plan for upgrading the influence of tribal elders over Taliban elements to quell the foreign Mujahideen from the area. In a recent interview to local television Musharraf said with his knowledge and experience of guerilla warfare that he was applying the Mao Tse Tung's formula of "fish cannot survive in dirty waters" in the tribal areas through the peace agreement. If the local population termed as "water" is turned against the Mujahideen referred as "fish", the Mujahideen would not survive. He also talked about the scheme for arming the local groups from both sides and trapping them in mutual fighting but this tactic has a high likelihood of backfiring. The reporting on the presence of Uzbek Mujahideen has been little and when mentioned, generally they are portrayed as linked to Al-Qaeda. On the contrary they have always been separate and independent and appear to have been caught in the crossfire. Their roots trace back to Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, led by Commander Qari Tahir Yaldeshev, who came in this area as refugees after the end of Afghan Jihad when Central Asian Muslim states broke off from the Soviet Union. The underground Islamic movements sprung up in the different areas of the region and initiated their local struggle to overthrow the puppet Communist dictators left over by the retreating Russian army. The first reports of Uzbek Mujahideen in Waziristan area emerged during Pak Collaborator offensive in 2004 Waziristan War, when highly speculative reports of a "high value target" being trapped in Pak forces cordon in South Waziristan emerged. Initially it was assumed to be Mujahid Dr. Ayman Az Zawahiri but later it came out to be Wari Tahir Yaldeshev who managed to break the cordon with the assistance of Mujahid Nek Muhammad in a bullet proof vehicle. Mujahid Yaldeshev assumed the command of the group after Mujahid Jumma Nauman Ghani was martyred in a US bombing in November, 2001. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was founded in 1990 in small town of Nauman Ganj in Ferghana Valley of Uzbekistan with Saudi funds and 5000 members. A mosque was built with a chalking on the walls reading "Long Live Islamic State" and the demand for Islamic state in Uzbekistan was raised with Uzbek dictator. The movement operated under the pseudonym of Adalat Party (Justice Party) and Qari Tahir Yaldeshev was also among the leading figures of the movement besides Nauman Ghani. Qari Tahir escaped to Tajikistan after the banning of the movement where he established contacts with other Islamic movements following which he, along with Mujahid Nauman Ghani, made several foreign visits to Muslim nations like Pakistan, Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia. During that period from 1995 to 1998, the movement had its headquarters in Peshawar where the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI, well known for its logistical support to the Taliban Islamic movement after Afghan Jihad, remained in contact with the movement. It was here when Qari Tahir and Nauman Ghani happened to meet the Arab-Afghan Mujahideen who had come to join Afghan Jihad under Mujahid Osama Bin Laden and then settled there. Through these Arab Mujahideen, Osama Bin Laden and other Afghan Mujahideen groups were introduced to Uzbek Mujahideen. In 1996 Islamic schools stretching from Peshawar to Karachi were the preferred choice of students from Central Asia. In the eyes of Saudi regime, the Uzbek dictator was a committed Communist therefore the activist of the movement had deep links with the Saudi Intelligence right up to Price Faisal and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan used to receive substantial financial aid. In 1993 the Uzbek Mujahideen launched a major offensive in Abu Ibad pass on Uzbekistan-Tajikistan border that impressed the Arab Mujahideen in Afghanistan who viewed it as a beginning of a grand Jihad movement in Central Asia that would lay the foundation of an Islamic revolution in the center of former Soviet territories. The members of this movement were known for their strict discipline and extreme loyalty to their commanders. Meanwhile in 1997 the civil war in Tajikistan came to an end. Mujahid Nauman Jumma and other Uzbek commanders strongly opposed the cease fire and the following peace agreement however he disbanded most of the troops under his command and moved to Ghaiz border area along with a small group and some Mujahideen guerillas and temporarily settled in a roadside farmhouse with his family and 40 other Uzbek and Arab families. Not much time had passed when Mujahid Nauman Ghani's farmhouse turned into another center of Islamic revolutionaries and a sanctuary for Uzbek, Tajik and Arab Mujahideen. In 1999 when Mujahid Nauman Ghani along with his associates left for Afghanistan, the farmhouse remained a safe house for some 200 people, mostly women and children. In the meantime the conditions in Uzbekistan grew worse. The Communist regime and its forces were strictly perusing the policy of crushing the Islamic movements in the country. In August, 1995 an Imam of local mosque in Andi Jan border town was arrested along with his accomplices and murdered in cold blood. Then in March, 1998 Takht Bhai went missing along with his family and living conditions were made miserable for anyone having beards. The Communist Dictator Karimov while addressing the parliament on 2nd May, 1998 suggested that these people be shot in head and if given chance he would do it himself. The Mujahideen hideouts also became the target of Communist crackdown and the mother of movement's leader Qari Tahir Yaldeshev was forced to appear on government controlled television and seek apologies from the dictator and the nation for the "crimes" of its sons. Nauman Ghani's brother and sister were also sentenced to life in prison. In August 1999, Nauman Ghani's mother was brought before a public gathering and collectively was condemned and dishonored by the family members of the Communist army men killed by the Uzbek Mujahideen and the crowd chanted doom to Mujahid Nauman Ghani and his mother. Facing the crowd of thousands gathered at the city center, she helplessly sought apologies while crying. Pressure for retaliation grew stronger on Mujahid Nauman Ghani, Wari Tahir and his Mujahideen comrades but they needed a proper sanctuary, which they found in Afghanistan. Both of them moved to Afghanistan then under the rule of the Taliban Islamic Movement. There Osama Bin Laden and Taliban Mujahideen decided to provide full support to these new Uzbek emigrants who became their first link inside Central Asia. In the summer of 1998, Mujahid Nauman Ghani and Qari Tahir Yaldeshev declared the establishment of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and in an interview declared Jihad against ruthless rulers of their nation. The world changed after the 911 Expedition and important US-led geo-strategic changes were also observed in Central Asia. United States needed bases in Uzbekistan to invade the Islamic Emirates under the Taliban. Uzbek Communist dictator moved ahead to offer airbases and use of land to US war efforts while Russia, Iran and Turkey also provided supplies and weapons to Northern Alliance. On 9th October, 2001, Mujahid Yaldeshev in a radio interview announced that his movement would resist US invasion with full strength along with the Taliban Mujahideen. The western Human Rights organizations strongly protested the US dealing with non-democratic and repressive regimes in Central Asia but to no avail. The Uzbek Islamic Movement, from then onwards became an easy prey to be labeled with AlQaeda. Uzbek Mujahideen and their families in Waziristan have been mercilessly targeted by the US collaborator Pak forces ever since. In 2005, Pak collaborator forces martyred Uzbek girls and babies in cold blood in Waziristan after they tried to break the cordon laid by the collaborator forces. They body parts were taken to Peshawar hospital and were buried in a nearby graveyard. The incident invited wide condemnation from different circles of Pakistani society but Musharraf shamelessly defended the murder claiming that army retaliated in response to grenade attack by the girls in the fleeing vehicle. No independent investigation has ever taken place and the accounts released by collaborator forces remain highly unreliable. The Uzbek Mujahideen taking refuge in the Waziristan have gained prominence for their physical endurance, bravery and the military strength especially of their women who are also well trained in contrast from the Mujahideen of other nationalities who tend to keep women out of conflict zone. These Uzbek refugees have become the worst casualty of the war - a war they never planned and would never have expected, and worse yet, against forces they never would have imagined. The results of the mediation efforts of the Afghan Taliban Mujahideen to ease the tension still remains to be seen and hopes for settlement remain bleak as the fighting drags on. (JUS) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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