Kyrgyzstan seeks to stem recruitment for Syrian war

Central Asia Online, Kyrgyzstan seeks to stem recruitment for Syrian war "While the Kyrgyz government attempts to curtail the exodus of young men joining the war in Syria have yielded some effect, social network users are still vulnerable to external influence online."

'Al-Qaeda ideologist asks Kyrgyzstan for political asylum'

eng.24.kg, Al-Qaeda ideologist asks Kyrgyzstan for political asylum, 11 May 2011: "“Delo №.” reported, referring to the information released in Internet, that Ali Osman Zor used to issue “Al-Qaeda” magazine, “which could be freely bought in Turkey”. He also was a member of “Great East Islamic Raiders Front” extremist group. According to the newspaper, Ali Osman Zor served a term for attempt to overthrow Turkey’s secular system and later was released under an amnesty."

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Robert Mackey, The Lede, NYT, Video of Kyrgyz Unrest on YouTube, 14 June 2010 "Video showing the aftermath of deadly clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek citizens in and around Osh has been posted on YouTube and collected on the video-sharing service’s CitizenTube blog. Some of the images of dead or badly wounded people posted on the blog are very hard to watch."

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Evgeny Morozov, Net Effect, Kyrgyzstan's "Analog Revolution", 8 Apr 2010

"For all the hype about "digital revolutions", "analog revolutions" are still the norm, not the exception."

Belatedly picked up this interesting post by Evgeny Morozov.

Moscow metro bombings

Reuters, Russia's "silent war" spills into Moscow, 30 Mar 2010 "Russia says the bombings, which killed 39 people, were carried out by a group with links to the North Caucasus, giving credibility to statements by Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov that he would attack Russian cities and energy pipelines."

Guardian, Suicide bombers kill nine more in Russia, 31 Mar 2010

CBC, Black Widows: The brides of Allah, 30 Mar 2010 "The Black Widows is what Russian journalists call female Islamist suicide bombers who have participated in more than 30 attacks that have killed about 900 people in Russia since July 2001, when Khava Barayeva and Luisa Magomadova rammed their explosives packed truck into a Russian military headquarters building in the Chechen village of Alkhan Yurt."

Paul Quinn-Judge, Foreign Policy, Russia's Terror Goes Viral, 29 Mar 2010

"The metro bombings in Moscow make clear that terrorism is far from exorcized from Russia. So where has it been hiding these last few, quiet years? The Web..."

"... Now that he is gone, Buryatsky is quickly becoming an online legend, reinforced by his letters, now being selectively released by guerrilla websites. They depict his hatred for "dying Russia" and the "pigs" who serve it, and his own growing obsession -- a "wild hunger" as he called it in one letter -- to become a shahid, or martyr. It would not be surprising if his last message -- the one filmed on his phone and later confiscated by the FSB -- surfaces on some guerrilla website, leaked by sympathizers inside the local police. "

uzbekistan.neweurasia.net, Kyrgyz authorities accuse Islamic extremists in the death of the journalist, 31 Oct 07 "After the death of Alisher Saipov, a famous journalist from Osh, Kyrgyzstan, almost all internet sites of Central Asia, especially the ones about Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, had been hotly discussing the assassination."