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Tajik rebels join al Qaeda - The Long War Journal
If this is going to be a common occurrence, then our mission is in dire need of a new definition.
Members of a Tajik military unit that turned against the government a decade ago have have joined the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and al Qaeda.
An unknown number of fighters who were loyal to rebel leader Mahmud Khudoyberdiyev joined the regional and global terror groups and have been fighting the Tajik government, the deputy chief of the Tajik National Security Committee said at a regional forum held earlier this month.
If this is going to be a common occurrence, then our mission is in dire need of a new definition.