Naumkin, Vitaly V. - Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian … - 2003
This paper examines the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), one of the three key Islamic groups active in Central … Asia. The IMU is a militant and extremist Islamic organization, one that has been listed by the US State Department as a … such places as Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In describing the rise of the IMU, the paper presents the IMU's early …