Long before the New York attack, the FBI was interested in immigrants from Uzbekistan

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A few years before 29, a year-old immigrant from Uzbekistan Saifullo Saipov crushed a man with a 8 truck and injured 11, заявив, что на атаку его вдохновила террористическая организация ИГИЛ («Исламское государство»), ФБР начало интересоваться узбекскими иммигрантами в США, наблюдая за их деятельностью в интернете и используя для этого информаторов, сообщает издание The Intercept.

These investigations were a response to intelligence reports that many Uzbek militants were fighting in the ranks of the “Islamic State” in Syria, so the US security officials suggested that there could be a small community of Uzbeks in the US who sympathized with ISIL and were involved in Islamic extremism.

Despite the fact that in response to the attack in New York, President Donald Trump decided to introduce additional immigration restrictions, the history of the terrorist attacks in the United States shows that these attacks have no connection with national or ethnicity.

The FBI acknowledged that Saipov, who made his living by trucking and became an extremist after arriving in the US in 2010, was known to federal agents because of his contacts with another Uzbek who was suspected of having links to terrorists.

ФБР часто проводит так называемые оценки угроз — ограниченные расследования, чтобы определить, может ли кто-то стать угрозой для национальной безопасности, это происходит, если человек оказывается связанным с людьми, уличенными в террористической деятельности.

Узбеки — относительно новая группа подозреваемых в терроризме в США. По состоянию на ноябрь 2017 года, Департамент юстиции привлек к уголовной ответственности по обвинениям, связанным с терроризмом, девять узбеков. Первым был житель Алабамы, который в 2011 году хотел убить бывшего президента США Барака Обаму. Он связался с информатором ФБР, чтобы получить оружие и был арестован после покупки штурмовой винтовки у тайного агента ФБР в гостиничном номере.

The most significant investigation by the FBI against Uzbeks in the United States led to the disclosure of a group of five Uzbeks and a citizen of Kazakhstan who lived in Brooklyn and tried to go to Syria to join ISIS.

The investigation then led the FBI to an 30-year-old entrepreneur named Abror Habibov, owner of mobile phone repair kiosks in shopping centers in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Virginia. One of the Uzbeks hired by Habibov, Abdurasul Khasanovich Dzhuraboev visited the Uzbek-language online forum in August 2014 of the year and asked how he and his friends could join ISIL outside Syria and Iraq.

«Мы тоже хотели бы заявить о своей преданности и взять на себя обязательства. Я сейчас в США, но у нас нет оружия. Но, возможно, мы могли бы стать мучениками в священной борьбе. К примеру, убить Обаму, а потом застрелиться самим. Это поселит страх в сердцах неверных», — писал Джурабоев.

The FBI identified Juraboev by his IP-address; during the interrogation, the man did not hide his views and desire to join ISIS. He admitted that he wrote this post in the Uzbek forum and said that he would try to kill Obama if ISIS orders him to do so. Juraboev also told the agents that his friend from Kazakhstan, Ahror Saydakhmetov, would also like to join this terrorist organization.

Then the FBI began to follow Dzhuraboev and Saidakhmetov, and found that they were making concerted efforts to contact people who could help them move from Turkey to Syria.

In September, 2014, one month after the meeting with Juraboev with the FBI, federal agents sent in an agent who approached Juraboev in the Brooklyn mosque. He suggested that Juraboev and Saidakhmetov go to Syria. Habibov agreed to pay for this trip, for his money were purchased tickets to Istanbul for potential terrorists.

The arrests of Juraboev, Saidakhmetov and Khabibov led to the detention of two more Uzbeks, who also provided money for a trip to Syria. Thus was discovered a small network in Brooklyn, sympathetic to ISIS.

In addition, the FBI also investigated two Uzbeks, whose lifestyle was similar to Saipov’s: they both earned their living by freight and inclined to extremism after moving to the United States.

Fazliddin Kurbanov came to the United States as a refugee from Uzebestan in 2009, and settled in Boise, Idaho. When Kurbanov was a child, his parents converted to Christianity, because of which they were persecuted in Uzbekistan, but in the United States Kurbanov again became a Muslim. He was charged after he discussed with the FBI agent a fundraiser for the terrorists of the “Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan”, and also said that he plans to organize an explosion. During his arrest, FBI agents found material for making bombs in his house.

Jamshid Mukhtorov, who lives in the state of Colorado, according to the investigation, swore allegiance to the “Islamic Jihad Union” (a group that had broken away from the “Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan”) and was arrested while trying to board the plane heading to Turkey.

Bakhtier Dzhumaev, an Uzbek friend of Mukhtorov, who lived in Philadelphia, was arrested for trying to join the Union of Islamic Jihad.

None of these investigations resulted in a tightening of immigration policy towards Uzbekistan, which Trump introduced after the attack in New York.

In fact, a small number of recent terrorist investigations against Uzbeks prove that the country of origin has little effect on the level of terrorist threat. Based solely on data from previous prosecutions related to terrorism, Uzbeks should not be considered as a significant threat, but an attack in New York has shown that individual immigrants could threaten US national security.

Recall, October 31 the driver drove into a crowd of passersby in New Yorkby killing a 8 man and injuring 11.

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