Isis: US-trained Tajikistan special forces chief Gulmurod Khalimov joins Islamic State

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The head of Tajikistan's special forces has given bay'ah (oath of allegiance) to Islamic State (Isis) in a video that depicts him while shooting a tomato.

In the footage, Gulmurod Khalimov, who went missing in early May, appears black-clad and holding a sniper rifle while pledging to bring jihad to Russia and the US. He says he joined IS to fight against Tajikistan's policy towards religion, which are perceived as anti-Islamic.

"Listen, you dogs, the president and ministers, if only you knew how many boys, our brothers are here, waiting and yearning to return to Tajikistan to re-establish sharia law there," he said in Russian, addressing Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.

"We are coming to you, God willing, we are coming to you with slaughter," he said.

The 40-year-old native of the capital Dushanbe said he was trained by elite Russian "spetsnaz" forces in Moscow and US special forces in America.

"Listen, you American pigs, I've been three times to America, and I saw how you train fighters to kill Muslims," he said, according to a translation by Reuters. "God willing, I will come with this weapon to your cities, your homes, and we will kill you."

Then he criticised Tajiks working in Russia saying they have become "the slaves of the infidels". The video ends with Khalimov showing off his sniper abilities by shooting a tomato from distance.

Tajikistan has been ruled by Rahmon since the fall of the Soviet Union. The strongman used Russian backing to crackdown on Islamist guerrillas in a 1992-97 civil war.

The International Crisis Group estimates around 4,000 Central Asian people joined IS. Sources in the security services said there are 200 to 500 Tajik citizens fighting for the extremist group.
Isis: US-trained Tajikistan special forces chief Gulmurod Khalimov joins Islamic State

 

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The head of Tajikistan's special forces has given bay'ah (oath of allegiance) to Islamic State (Isis) in a video that depicts him while shooting a tomato.

In the footage, Gulmurod Khalimov, who went missing in early May, appears black-clad and holding a sniper rifle while pledging to bring jihad to Russia and the US. He says he joined IS to fight against Tajikistan's policy towards religion, which are perceived as anti-Islamic.

"Listen, you dogs, the president and ministers, if only you knew how many boys, our brothers are here, waiting and yearning to return to Tajikistan to re-establish sharia law there," he said in Russian, addressing Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.

"We are coming to you, God willing, we are coming to you with slaughter," he said.

The 40-year-old native of the capital Dushanbe said he was trained by elite Russian "spetsnaz" forces in Moscow and US special forces in America.

"Listen, you American pigs, I've been three times to America, and I saw how you train fighters to kill Muslims," he said, according to a translation by Reuters. "God willing, I will come with this weapon to your cities, your homes, and we will kill you."

Then he criticised Tajiks working in Russia saying they have become "the slaves of the infidels". The video ends with Khalimov showing off his sniper abilities by shooting a tomato from distance.

Tajikistan has been ruled by Rahmon since the fall of the Soviet Union. The strongman used Russian backing to crackdown on Islamist guerrillas in a 1992-97 civil war.

The International Crisis Group estimates around 4,000 Central Asian people joined IS. Sources in the security services said there are 200 to 500 Tajik citizens fighting for the extremist group.
Isis: US-trained Tajikistan special forces chief Gulmurod Khalimov joins Islamic State

'Price of Crimea' .... a developing story ....

 

[flamer84]

The heart wants what it wants.

 

[vostok]

I bet this man just stole too much opium money from someone. And now he pretends that he is a great and important jihadist.

 

[Dubious]

Tajikistan police chief defects to Isis

US-trained Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, who disappeared in April, resurfaces in video denouncing ‘American pigs’

A fighter holding an Isis flag. Photograph: Gail Orenstein/NurPhoto/Rex

The US-trained commander of Tajikistan’s elite police force has appeared in a YouTube video announcing his defection to Islamic State.

Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, 40, who commanded the central Asian nation’s special-purpose police force known as Omon, disappeared in late April, prompting a search by Tajik police.

He reappeared on Wednesday, dressed in black, brandishing a sniper rifle and vowing to bring jihad to Russia and the Unites States, in a 10-minute video clip posted online.

“Listen, you dogs, the president and ministers, if only you knew how many boys, our brothers, are here, waiting and yearning to return to Tajikistan to re-establish sharia law there,” he said, addressing the Tajik president, Imomali Rakhmon. “We are coming for you, inshallah.”

Rakhmon has run Tajikistan, the poorest post-Soviet nation, since 1992. He used Russian support to crush Islamist guerrillas in a 1992-97 civil war and tolerates little dissent. His government has been criticised by rights groups for everything from forced beard shavings to numerous convictions of believers on religious extremism grounds.

In the video, Khalimov asked soldiers whether they were prepared to die for a government that cracks down on public expressions of Islam such as wearing a hijab and praying in the street.

He said he had been trained by elite Russian spetsnaz forces in Moscow and US special forces in America.

“Listen, you American pigs, I’ve been three times to America, and I saw how you train fighters to kill Muslims,” he said, patting his rifle. “God willing, I will come with this weapon to your cities, your homes, and we will kill you.”

He appealed to the more than one million Tajik nationals working in Russia to cease being “slaves” and join Isis.

Tajikistan’s interior ministry refused to comment on the video.

Both Russia and Nato, alarmed by the threat posed by radical Islam to predominantly Muslim central Asia, have stepped up military drills with the region’s post-Soviet nations. The International Crisis Group thinktank estimates that about 4,000 central Asians fight for Islamic State.

Alexander Knyazev, a Kazakhstan-based central Asia analyst, said Khalimov’s defection showed that some local security units could not be trusted.

“I think Islamist propaganda will now exploit Khalimov’s example in full,” he told Reuters, adding that volatile neighbouring Kyrgyzstan faced similar problems.

Tajikistan police chief defects to Isis | World news | The Guardian

Well if you oppress (used loosely to mean either force em to your ideas or showcase them shit happening to their nation- highlighted in blue...any small piece of injustice can make a man tick!) a nation too long it will blow in your faces!

 

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The head of Tajikistan's special forces has given bay'ah (oath of allegiance) to Islamic State (Isis) in a video that depicts him while shooting a tomato.

At least he didn't sell that tomato into sexual slavery.

 

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“Listen, you American pigs, I’ve been three times to America, and I saw how you train fighters to kill Muslims,” he said, patting his rifle. “God willing, I will come with this weapon to your cities, your homes, and we will kill you.”


Video: Missing Tajikistan police chief defects to the Islamic State - Telegraph

All sorts of Shias+Sunni fasadi groups are now rallying to Syria....

 

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and someone saying that it just "Syrian people rebellion"