5.1 The role of secret services in the Islamic Jihad Union
There are also other view points concerning to the emergence of the Islamic Jihad Union. A former agent of the Uzbek secret Service (SNB) Ikrom Yakubov who is currently seeking the asylum in the United Kingdom claimed that, the Islamic Jihad Union was established with the support of the Uzbek secret Service.189 According to him the President Kerimov’s regime in Uzbekistan organized the terror actions in the territories of Uzbekistan in order to join and gain the attention of the world-wide anti terror coalition and justify their crude treatment of the population, and next Ikrom Yakubov asserted that the terror actions that were held in Uzbekistan in spring 2004 were actually the work of Uzbek secret Services (SNB) rather that Islamic Jihad Union even if the group took the responsibility.190
According to the Uzbekistan media sources which relied to the German souce SPIEGEL, the United States Central Intelligence agency and Turkish secret service agents were involved directly into the Islamic Jihad Union when they planned to commit the terror attacks in the territory of Germany, choosing as their targets the international airports and United States military objects.191 According to them the person who was supplied the Islamic Jihad Union with explosive devices from Turkey and brought them to Germany was the special agent of US and Turkey, and the German secret service had one agent living in the same house where the member of Sauerland Cell Daniel Martin Schneider lived.192
One more interesting fact is that the Uzbekistan government faces the difficulties to introduce the necessary information concerning the Islamic Jihad Union, which is very interesting for the public. The former British ambassador in Uzbekistan Craiq Murray mentioned that the Islamic Jihad Union is the creation of the Uzbekistan Secret Services which use the group for its own purposes.193
The Islamic Jihad Union designated as a Terrorist Organization by the United States and Germany. On June 17, 2005 the Islamic Jihad Union was estimated as a Sunni extremist organization that opposes the secular rule in Uzbekistan and entered into the US Department of States Terror Organizations list.194 The Islamic Jihad Union also was designated as a terrorist organization by the Germany.195
6.1 Assessment of Islamic Jihad Union
Established in 2002 after the splitting off from Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the Islamic Jihad Union has been very seriously trying to enlarge its public image in the concept of international terrorism. Islamic Jihad Union differ from its mother organization which is the largest and strongest military organization in Central Asia and is supporting an idea of internationalization and globalization of jihad or ‘Holy War’ and closely cooperates with the international terrorist organizations as al-Qaeda and Taliban on the global level. Even the Islamic Jihad Union is a small organization it successfully managed with the help of al-Qaeda to attract the recruits and volunteers from the Europe, Pakistan and Central Asia. Islamic Jihad Union training the fighters in North Waziristan (Mir Ali) region of Pakistan. The leader of Islamic Jihad Union Najmaddin Jalalov (also known as Ebu Yahya Muhammed Fatih) in his interview in Arabic language in 2007, while describing the goal of the group mentioned that the group’s aims include helping ‘other Muslim brothers all around the world’ and that Islamic Jihad Union comprised ‘believers from all over the world and multi national emigrants’.196 Islamic Jihad Union also opposes the secular rule in Uzbekistan, provides and supports the anti-Western ideology, and shows its will to replace the current Karimov regime in Uzbekistan and establish the government based on Islamic Law. Islamic Jihad Union attracted mostly the Westerners especially from Germany; however it managed to include thirty German’s at 2009.197
The Islamic Jihad Union gained its first international image after the several bombing attacks in the several cities in Uzbekistan, including Tashkent in spring March 28-31 2004, where they chose as their targets the famous bazaar and police roadway posts in which they killed approximately 47 peoples, including 33 terrorists, several of whom were suicide bombers.198 Islamic Jihad Union sent an e-mail in 3 April 2004 to the www.stopdictatorkarimov.com and took the responsibility and mentioned that ‘attacks and the bombings aimed against in the government of Uzbekistan and its servants, who administered the policy of violence against the people of Uzbekistan and considers that all these actions are proof of compliance guidance of Allah…and added that Our goal of these actions is to give the words of Allah a higher meaning and retaliate against the enemies of Islam in response to their cruel punishment on the people and for the arrests and torture of our brothers and sisters.’199 The Islamic Jihad Union in the further statement in June 2004 promised to commit the next attacks against the current President Karimov regime in Uzbekistan.200 With those attacks the Islamic Jihad Union wrote its name to the history of Central Asia as the first organization that used the suicide bombers and committed terrorist attacks. The government of Uzbekistan blamed for those attacks the Islamic Jihad Union, but the Islamic Movement kept silence concerning the responsibility of those attacks committed in Uzbekistan. The lack of information concerning those attacks put under doubts the credibility of the Islamic Jihad Union’s asserted relationship with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The commission investigating the March attacks reached into conclusion and according to the result of their investigation: ‘Najmaddin Jalolov (also known as Ebu Yahya Muhammed Fatih) the leader of the Islamic Jihad Union directed the groups outside Uzbekistan and he was in charge of the contact among the international terrorist organizations and groups, and coordinated financing of military training of organization members in special training camps. It has been proved that the atrocities committed by the defendants were directed from a single criminal centre and the majority of the members of the group underwent military training abroad. It was added that in their confession terrorist acts that took place in the capital in other cities of Uzbekistan were encouraged by international terrorist organizations and networks and the group possessed a large amount of weapons including different types of hand-made explosive devices, ammunition, religious books, instruction manuals and etc.201
Paying close attention to the video messages released by the Islamic Jihad Union, it is possible to see that the organization is not a myth, but an umbrella group of small independent element of different strength and influence. There are no trustworthy numbers on the numerical power of the organization, however the pictures introduced by the group show combat personnel of five to dozen of fighters, which is according to the investigators is the fundamental organizational unit of the Islamic Jihad Union. Despite the Uzbek and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan background of its patrons, the Turkish factor in Islamic Jihad Union plays an important role in its recruitment network and international help. For example: There were no Uzbek fighters or Uzbek origin fighters arrested in Europe which had the relationships with the Islamic Jihad Union. In this case we can say that the Islamic Jihad Union seems to be more global and international than that Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Involving the converts into Islam from Western countries as it recently happened, the anti-imperialist measures also received the attention of the international recruits and volunteers, who pay attention to the policy provided by the Western world regarding to obtain the control over the natural resources of the whole Islamic world, and they would like to oppose to that policy. As cases in point is viewed the existence of Anglo-American military contingent in Afghanistan and the secular Karimov regime in Uzbekistan.
6.2 Is Islamic Jihad Union danger to the Europe?
In spite of the fact that the Islamic Jihad Union and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan have common enemy, genealogical relations and the same Salafi ideology, it is possible to say that they are quite two different organizations. The present relationship among Islamic Jihad Union and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan are based on the individual relationship and ad hoc mutual effort than one of the structural and organizational relationship. Both Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Islamic Jihad Union have not a fundamental large help in Uzbekistan or in other target state. And both of them are not so influential and experienced like Hamas in Gaza region or like other Islamist movements and their influence goes far from their actual numerical and military power.202 Using the modern technology and mass media sources the Islamic Jihad Union was successful to gain the international attention of the media and public attention and managed to introduce itself as strong, large and universally operating organization that it actually is.
Using the classic guerilla methods against the international contingent and government in Afghanistan, the Islamic Jihad Union strongly depends on the strong and influential Islamic movements like Al-Qaeda and Taliban for support. These kinds of relationships among them opens new opportunities for the Islamic Jihad Union and increases its ability to struggle against the enemies outside of the Central Asia, and helps them to launch different attacks to the Uzbekistan diplomatic corpuses and targets representing the European Union, Israel and United States of America. Against the Western facilities the Islamic Jihad Union attacked the Israeli and American diplomatic corpuses in the capital of Uzbekistan in Tashkent on the 30 July 2004.203 To chaise the United States of America and Israeli diplomatic consulates and embassies in 2004, and United States military camps and airports in Germany increases the seriousness of the Islamic Jihad Union involving into the international terrorism and proves its globally jihad oriented ideology. These kinds of activities by the Islamic Jihad Union opens new outlook for the European Union concerning its security management and in generally its policy to the regimes that has Uzbekistan. Western World’s geostrategic and economic interests in the Central Asian region are as important as it was in the Gulf countries and African continent during the 1970 and 1980-ies. However the possibility of the Islamic Jihad Union to attack and destabilize the targets in European Union countries still remains high. One of the main works regarding in combating against the risk of terrorism in Europe is not just only to concentrate only in that issue, but also to support the population of Uzbekistan with the long term plan and whoever attained the good outcome regarding supporting to the current regime in Uzbekistan will hold friendly views of the European Union and Western societies in general.
One of the most know attempt to carry the suicide terror attack of the Islamic Jihad Union outside the Central Asia is known as the Sauerland Cell or Sauerland Network204. The Islamic Jihad Union is largely considered to be one of the most significant dangers to the German society in general and to the national security.205 The Islamic Jihad Union is well known for the German audience and authorities because of its video threats frequently releasing on its Turkish language internet web-site and on television and in the video released in 31 January 2009, the Islamic Jihad Union threatened the Germany with the attacks and introduced for the German viewers the Islamic Jihad Union’s goal about the spreading of Islam in the world.206
German converted into Islam the Eric Breininger is the bright example of the dangerous radicalized German converts into the Islam, the person who received the military training in the training camps of the Islamic Jihad Union.207 One more example can be shown about two other German citizens (Fritz Martin Gelowicz and Daniel Martin Schneider) that were converted to Islam by the Islamic Jihad Union and attempted to commit the terror attacks in the Frankfurt International Airport, Ramstein Air Base and in other United States military objects in 2007.208 These examples are quite enough in order to understand how the Islamic Jihad Union is dangerous for the Germany. Using this kinds of German citizens as its targets and radicalizing and converting them into the Islam, the Islamic Jihad Union tries to build up its new strong network corpus in Germany and use them for its own sake. The growing dangers from the Islamic Jihad Union should not be approaching not so seriously. Einar Wigen in his researches and analysis introduce the Islamic Jihad Union as the ‘Turkish al-Qaeda’ and considers the Islamic Jihad Union as the globally oriented jihadist group.209 But even the group is inspired with the globally jihad, it is possible to see that its daily operations are based on the classical jihadist format, using the simple guerilla attacks in the Afghanistan like other foreign and local guerilla groups. Recruiting the Turks into radical Islam is among the Islamic Jihad Union’s strategy; even several times the importance of Turks in the Islamic Jihad Union was estimated not so high. One more reason in this case should be understood the geopolitical location of Turkey. The Turkey is shares the borders with European countries and Turks have big Diasporas in Germany which is also necessary to integrate the ideology of the Islamic Jihad Union into Europe. Islamic Jihad Union has published the pictures of the young kids that are holding the real guns and are receiving the military trainings. (Pictures 12, 13, 14)210
Picture 12 Picture 13 Picture 14
The first picture shows the three boys which considered being 5 or 6 years old, second picture shows the girl dressed in a full Muslim dress which is considered being 2 years old and in the third picture six children who considered being 2 years old were sitting in front of the weapons and Islamic Jihad Union’s flag.211 The Islamic Jihad Union mentioned that some of those children lost their parent in the US and UK invasion and thanked the people for supporting them.212
6.3 Islamic Jihad Union is in the United States of America?
On 1 May 2010 United States of America faced new terror attack threat again.213 Two street vendors Dwayne Jackson and Lance Horton at 6:30 pm noticed a suspicious Nissan Pathfinder near the 7th and 8th avenue and alerted the New York Police Department officer Wayne Ratigon on 1 May 2010.214 The people were evacuated and the terror attack threat was removed by New York police. Two days later on 3 May 2010 the Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) arrested the United States citizen of Pakistani origin who also had the Pakistani citizenship at the JFK international airport of New York, who was suspected by the United States officials in the planning of the car bomb attack in the Times Square of New York on 1 May 2010.215 The name of that person is Faisal Shahzad.216 While the Federal Bureau of Investigation was trying to achieve the conclusion concerning the responsibility of that terror attack in New York Times Square 1 May 2010, the Pakistani tribal sources suspected that the terror attack was mutual operation provided by Islamic Jihad Union also known as Islamic Jihad Group and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).217Both Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and Islamic Jihad Union were angry against the Drone Strikes implemented by the United States in the both parts of Waziristan; however the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan was angry because of the death Baitullah Mehsud, its then Amir, following a Drone strike in August last and the subsequent injury to Hkimullah in another strike in January 2010, and the Islamic Jihad Union was angry because of the death of its leader Najmiddin Jalalov (aka Ebu Yahya Muhammed Fatih) in a Drone strike provided by the United States.218
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Conclusion
After the 11 September 2001 terror attacks, the United States of America and European countries increased their efforts in combating against the global terrorism in the whole world, especially in the Central Asia where the number of terrorists’ networks are operating and active till today. Central Asian region meets several dangerous transnational threats, mainly the international terrorism and religious extremism. Islamic activism in the Central Asian countries is growing every day and many local or foreign groups are encouraging with the Islamic activism. The Islamic activism is the activism where Islam shapes the ideological core of the group. Many ideologies and groups are using the Islam in order to legitimize their violence against the infidels.
This work makes it easy to understand the structure, the methods, the ideology and the role of the Islamic Jihad Union in international terrorism and in general to define what kind of organization the Islamic Jihad Union is.
The death of the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Juma Namangani and the transition of the power to Tahir Yuldashev can be considered to be the beginning phase of the Islamic Jihad Union. The Islamic Jihad Union is the split organization of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The group is encouraged with the global jihad ideologies and is fighting against the secular regime in Uzbekistan. The Islamic Jihad Union is closely cooperates with the well known international terrorist groups as al-Qaeda and Taliban. The organization is operates in Afghanistan, Pakistan and are trying to establish strong cells in European countries in which the Germany and Turkey can be the bright examples. The group is also successfully continuing to recruit the Turkish origin people in Europe, which is estimated very high by al-Qaeda terror link. The Islamic Jihad Union because of its ideology joining to the global jihad and fighting against the Western coalition in Afghanistan is very attractive to the al-Qaeda rather than Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The attracting of Turks into the group that links to the al-Qaeda can be estimated as the ability and willingness of the transformation of al-Qaeda in which dominates the Arabs, into the international organization that successfully recruit the Kurds, Pakistanis and the European Muslims. There are 4 types of the recruitment and radicalization: ‘1) individual and socio psychological-focuses on the identity characteristics and transformations of the activists who turn into radical Islam 2) organization and network-focuses on the collective and relational aspects of recruitment and radicalization; 3) structural and environment-shifts the focus from the individual organizational levels to a structural or political environment level; 4) media and communication-adopts a media and communication approach o the issue of recruitment and radicalization.219 These methods can be found among the Islamic Jihad Union’s recruitment strategy.
Because of the low control by the Pakistani government the FATA region of Pakistan plays an important role for the Islamic Union’s military trainings. The Islamic Jihad Union is a small organization which includes several hundreds of recruits varying between 100 and 200. Islamic Jihad Union uses the classical guerilla attack methods in order to defeat its enemies. The leaders of the Islamic Jihad Union Najmiddin Jalolov and Suhayl Buranov founded the organization in 2002. The group first was known as the Islamic Jihad Group, and in 2005 it changed its name and became the Islamic Jihad Union. The fundamental core of the organization was formed from the fighters of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who left the organization because of the differences in ideology and joined the Islamic Jihad Union. The organization gained the first international attention in 2004 when it conducted several attacks in the cities of Uzbekistan and is entered as the first organization that used the suicide bombers in the Central Asia. Choosing the Israeli and United States embassies in Uzbekistan at 2004 as their targets the Islamic Jihad Union shows the seriousness of his globally oriented ideology. The group is using the internet website (Sehadet Zamani) which is in Turkish language. This is also the evidence that the organization is seeking to recruit the Turkish jihadists. The group is also known as the ‘Turkish al-Qaeda’. The recruitment through internet also have a social aspects, however the Internet and modern communication technologies opens new opportunities for the potential recruits to radicalize into Islamic activism and to communicate with different persons and groups that have their own experience.
The Islamic Jihad Union is also made an attempt to commit the terror attacks in the Pakistan near the palace of the President of Pakistan in 2006. That attemps were detained by the Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence agents. Islamic Jihad Union tried to act the bloodiest terror actions in Germany with the help of German and Turkish radicalized into Islam recruits in 2007 which was detained by the US and German secret services. Two Turks and two German recruits that were suspected in those attacks were jailed by the Germany court in 2010. Using the mosque in Zahedan in the eastern part of Iran Islam Republic the members of the Islamic Jihad Union recruited the recruits from Europe and that mosque was very important center for the Islamic Jihad Union’s logistics. The radical mosque supports useful social environments for the recruitment process into Islam and for the radicalization.
Libyan Abu Laith al-Libi was the important person for the Islamic Jihad Union and considered to be their ‘sheikh’. He was also one of the masterminds behind the Sauerland Cell. Abu Laith al-Libi considered to be the contact person between al-Qaeda and Islamic Jihad Union and the commissar of the al-Qaeda in the Central Asia. He died in American attack in Waziristan in 2008 January.
The mutual conducted operations with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in the provinces of Afghanistan against the NATO, Afghan National Army, and US military forces, show that Islamic Jihad Union became the globally oriented organization and is not thinking to be only the home player in the region. It is important to mention that even the group seeks the ways to join the global jihad it is seriously depends on the al-Qaeda and Taliban’s supports. The Islamic Jihad Union is considered by the Western countries and United States as the terrorist organization connected to al-Qaeda.
The future of the Islamic Jihad Union is unclear. However the group should increase its attempts to conduct the successful operations in order to recruit more international fighters, to establish the stabile finance channel and to reduce its dependence of al-Qaeda and Taliban and act as independent organization
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