A Poet and Bin-Laden by Hamid Ismailov

Author:Hamid Ismailov [Ismailov, Hamid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Muslim world., Ferghana Valley, Afghanistan, Sheikh bin Laden, terrorism, Talibani Afghanistan, Central Asia, siege ofKunduz, Sufism, Shebergan prison, Islamic mysticism, Islamic militants, 9/11, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic radicalism, Taliban, September 9th, terrorist attack, Writer in Residence, al-Qaeda
ISBN: 9781909156371
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Published: 2012-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Three

I fell down and crawled at a run,

the poplar was p itiless, the lake a wasteland, t he shadow a palm’s width,

sho uld I hide in the grav e, my soul like a lump in the throat?

The earth quaked behin d my back, the sky fell.

What race s are these ulak, kupkari, payvak?

There is no chink fo r you, no hollow, no hol e,

the reinforced concrete walls are rotten, the curtain s dishevelled,

the neighi ng of the horses, the rolling thunder guffawed.

Was this v oice a loudspeaker?

If you soar into the sky one of the h orses is a falcon,

if yo u drown in the water the ot her horse is a diver!

Ah, water a nd blue sky, they say it’s a tornado.

I was tired of be ing afraid, I turned back

and said to one of th e horses as to a human:

‘Do w hat you want, trample, fuck me!’

At t hat moment both horses fel l silent. (a fragment)

- Belgi

During that period, some time around August 25, 1999, Zubair Abdurahim-ogly phoned the BBC. After introducing himself as the press secretary of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and simultaneously the Chairman of its Political Department, he said that he wished to clarify matters concerning the events in Batken and at the same time to read a statement from the Amir of the IMU, Muhammad Tahir Farrouk. The basic content of the statement was that the Islamists had no arguments with Kyrgyzstan. And as for the Kyrgyz citizens and the Japanese who had been seized, they were not hostages (he said they did not take hostages), but prisoners in a “holy war”.

The goal of the jihad that had been declared, Zubair stated, was the establishment in Uzbekistan of an Islamic state. Moreover, their arms were directed “only against the dictator Karimov and his entourage”. The military action on the territory of Kyrgyzstan, he declared “is only taking place because of the stubbornness and political shortsightedness of the authorities in Bishkek”. He claimed that the Uzbek mujahadin wanted only one thing – not to be prevented from returning to their own homeland. But the Kyrgyz authorities had “blocked their way with troops, which had led to armed clashes”.

Bishkek, he claimed, had behaved incorrectly towards the mujahadin even earlier by “transgressing all the norms of human rights and blithely flouting the laws of human hospitality” when it handed over “refugees” to the Uzbek authorities. And Bishkek had once again “treacherously broken its oaths” only very recently – that was when they had given the guerrillas fifty thousand dollars for the first hostages and then tried to wipe them out. The present “prisoners”, Zubair ibn-Abdurrahim declared, would only be released “when about fifty thousand Muslims thrown behind bars in Uzbekistan are set free”.

The statement also set out the guerrillas’ demands for the Bishkek regime: “Leave the mujahadin alone, so that the warriors fighting

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