http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/10/islamic_movement_of.php
More: Tahir Abdouhalilovitch Yuldashev AKA Qari Farooq, 42, founded the Adolat (Justice) vigilante movement in Uzbekistan’s Ferghana Valley in the 1980's. He fought during Tajikistan’s civil war in the 1990s and later helped to found the IMU.
He in operational command at Tora Bora with Bin Laden. He later fled to S Waziristan and learned Pashtu. He has been running training camps and directing Uzbek and Chechen fighters throughout the region.
Yuldeshev was the highest value target in the AfPak theater. His 8-900 fighters are the most capable and toughest in the region and guard all the top leadership.
I would rather see him degraded than bin Laden or Zawahiri.
BTW, on Friday, Panetta met with the director-general of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. Gen. Shuja Pasha. Panetta gave him satellite pictures and records of telephone calls of the Quetta Shura, documenting the command and control of the Taliban and Al Qaeda from Quetta. We know bin Laden and Zawahiri and Omar are there in the suburbs and refugee camps, hiding among the Baloch tribesman. Finally, Kalimullah, one of Hakimullah's two brothers is dead. It has been a very good week.
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But until we deal with the money people who finance these jokers, the radical madrassahs will crank out an endless supply of replacements.
THREAD BUMP.
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A good-hunting BTT. You have to be so patient in that business...