News from afar...

The Tribe's Revolt

There has been conflict all over the world for a long time. Foolish sentence to say... The dynamics of those conflicts can sometimes be quite interesting. Here we see the infighting. Maybe there is a bit of unraveling. There must be a reason to kill a person of significance.

But the current "tribal uprising" is not against all foreigners. It appears to be confined to the IMU. Other aliens -- Arabs, Chechens, Central Asians and Chinese -- have been left untouched or been the targets of the Uzbeks. For example, it was the killing by the IMU of Sheik Asadullah on 13 March that tipped skirmishes with the tribesmen into war. Asadullah was a Saudi and said to be the main financier for the Araba Al-Qaeda allied groups in the tribal areas. He was also a lucrative source of trade and patronage for the tribes.