Furkat Kasimovich Yusupov
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Furkat Kasimovich Yusupov (b. ) is a citizen of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

 who was arrested for, charged with, and tried for terrorism offenses in 2004.
Yusupov was described as being the leader of a group that executed a series of terrorist bombings on March 28, 2004.
Authorities claimed Yusupov was captured with ten homemade bombs.
Uzbekistan officials said that Yusupov was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Sunni. pan-Islamic political organisation but keeps it open for all including shias,some of its beliefs are against sunni school of thought, whose goal is for all Muslim countries to unify as an Islamic state or caliphate ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph...

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Yusupov was from Toitep a community 40 kilometers from Tashkent
Tashkent
Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...

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Accorind to United Press International
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the series of attacks Yusupov was convicted of playing a role in represented the first use of suicide bombers in Central Asia.
They reported Yusupov himself was wearing a suicide belt when he was captured.
Kamola, Yusupov's wife, also stood trial, and received a sentence of ten years of hard labor, for sewing 60 suicide belts.

Two of Yusupov's brothers died during the security officials attempts to apprehend the group.
Another of his brothers was apprehended and stood trial with him.
The Agonist
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reported that Yusupov stood trial with 14 other individuals on July 26, 2004.
Yusupov pled guilty. According to The Agonist his confession included:
  • "I have helped to send 14 people to be trained in Pakistan and Kazakhstan."
  • "We have been trained (on) how to disguise ourselves in big cities, carry out close and distance fighting with police, carry out suicide bombings and prepare explosives."
  • "I regret that I have done so much trouble for my family and my country. I am ready to face even the death penalty but I ask you to pardon me."


Yusupov's trial was disrupted by an additional suicide bombing on July 30, 2004.
A citizen of Kazakhstan named Avaz Shoyusupov blew himself up in the Prosecutor's office, killing five other individuals, and disrupting the trial.
Yusupov identified Shoyusupov as a member of his cell.

Guantanamo connection

The Summary of Evidence memo
Summary of Evidence (ARB)
Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...

 prepared for Yakub Abahanov's Administrative Review Board
Administrative Review Board
The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the suspects held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

 justified his continued detention on an allegation that he had a tie to Yusupov.:
Yakub Abahanov's Summary of Evidence also justified his continued detention
due to alleged ties to an individuals identified as "Yusupov Parkhat" and "Farhat Yusupov".

On August 7, 2002 Alisher Muradov and Farkhat Yusupov co-wrote an article
entitled: "The borders of problems and worries" published in the Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

 edition of Russia
Russia
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n newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets.
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