![]() ![]() It is not clear that the attack in and of itself will lead to refocused U.S. The country has also been the recipient of U.S. ![]() interests in Uzbekistan currently chiefly are linked to Afghanistan, with which Uzbekistan shares a heavily guarded 137km long border. administration’s policy of preventing citizens from certain countries travelling to the U.S.Īre there any implications in terms of U.S. In particular, Crisis Group in the past has called into question the U.S. Yet to restrict immigration in arbitrary fashion would be to misdiagnose the problem, turning foreigners into scapegoats. is unlikely to be persuasive in pushing back against this trend. That he appears to have been radicalised in the U.S. who support restricting immigration in general already are seizing on the fact that Saipov came into the country on a so-called “diversity visa” in order to reinforce their campaign to limit both legal and illegal immigration. government chose a more effective and more legitimate forum. With respect to criminal process inside the U.S., in deciding to try Saipov through civilian rather than military courts, the U.S. ![]() ![]() Although the new Uzbek president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, appears committed to reform, Uzbek security services are notorious for their use of torture. This likely will involve rounding up family and acquaintances still in Uzbekistan for questioning. and that they are investigating Saipov’s history. The Uzbek authorities say they will cooperate with the U.S. What is likely to happen next in the Saipov case, and what could be done to prevent a recurrence? Addressing the accessibility of such materials in a manner that respects the right to free expression has been and will remain a significant challenge for Western governments. This suggests that any well-tailored policy response should focus on a variety of factors that led to this outcome, among them in all likelihood the wide availability of ISIS-inspired materials on the internet. Saipov, like the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013 (who were ethnic Chechens originally from Kyrgyzstan), appears to have been radicalised in the U.S. Radicalisation, however, does not always happen in the country of origin. In the case of Akilov, the Uzbek government says they warned European security services about him. was found guilty of supporting ISIS in October 2017. Turkish authorities also say citizens of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan were among those responsible for the attack on Istanbul airport in June 2016, and an ethnic Uzbek originally from Kyrgyzstan carried out an attack on the St. Abdulgadir Masharipov carried out the New Year’s Eve attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul and Rakhat Akilov was responsible for the truck attack in Stockholm in April 2017. Saipov joins two other Uzbek citizens who are known to be responsible for ISIS-linked terror attacks. Uzbek citizens form the largest contingent of Central Asians in Iraq and Syria (though Uzbekistan also has the largest population in the region). ISIS has had some success in attracting Uzbek citizens and ethnic Uzbeks from neighbouring Kyrgyzstan. It has attracted a broad range of people from Central Asia from teenage girls following their boyfriends who were recruited in Russia to one high-ranking U.S. ISIS – unlike, for example, al-Qaeda – has been able to create compelling recruitment material and propaganda for the post-Soviet space in not only Russian but local languages. In 2015, Crisis Group estimated that there are between 2,000 and 4,000 Central Asians fighting in Syria and Iraq. What is the background to ISIS recruitment among Central Asians? ![]()
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