#Tajikistan: Rise of ISIS (ISKP) and the transnational threat. Bill Roggio, FDD. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute.
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🗓️ 18 June 2024
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/us/tajik-nationals-arrested-terror-ties-probe/index.html
1872 Tajikistan
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelors with my colleagues Sesena County and Bill Raggio. |
| 0:10.0 | A week passed, eight men from Tajikistan with potential ties to ISIS out of Central Asia were arrested |
| 0:16.2 | over the weekend. |
| 0:17.8 | This is seven days passed. |
| 0:19.6 | In New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, at least some of them are believed, according to the |
| 0:24.5 | FBI, to have crossed into the United States via the southern border. That is |
| 0:30.0 | one report several days passed and then we have this from Russia in these last hours. |
| 0:35.2 | Russian security forces kill hostage takers at detention center. |
| 0:39.3 | Two guards who had been taken captive were unharmed in the raid to free them. |
| 0:44.3 | It goes on to say that the men who are now dead, the hostage takers, |
| 0:49.4 | were associated with ISIS. |
| 0:51.2 | I mentioned one more detail. The shooters in Moscow in the springtime, late winter, early spring, causing hundreds of deaths were identified as Tajik's, |
| 1:02.6 | also as recruited by ISIS. |
| 1:05.7 | These are three ISIS instance, |
| 1:08.0 | two of them in Russia, one of them in the United States, |
| 1:11.0 | and then there's Tajikistan. |
| 1:12.4 | Bill, we have another dot that we can't connect. |
| 1:16.0 | The shootings in Russia where anti-terror is as vigilant as it is in the United States and in Europe. |
| 1:25.8 | What about Tajikistan, Bill? |
| 1:27.4 | Is that a recruiting zone for ISIS, not al-Qaeda? |
| 1:31.4 | Has it changed over these last years since the U.S. left the region? |
| 1:36.0 | John, Tajikistan, as well as a lot of the stands, the former Soviet republics, |
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