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6/30/09
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Kyrgyz police officers shot dead another armed man in Osh Province, bringing to nine the number of alleged Islamic militants killed since June 23.
Acting on a tip, law enforcement personnel were searching farmland in the Uzgen District when a hand grenade was thrown at them. A gun battle ensued and the militant was killed, according to an Interior Ministry statement distributed on June 30.
Three other militants were killed in the village of Besh-Dube in the early hours of June 28 during a firefight with members of the Alfa squad from the State Committee for National Security. Those militants are suspected of having ties to five alleged militants who died in a shootout in Jalalabad on June 23.
Authorities say the dead militants were members of the Isamic Jihad Union, believed to be a splinter group of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The group claimed responsibility for the May 26 terrorism incidents in neighboring Uzbekistan. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].
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