The Islamic Movement of Tajikistan is the branch of the Islamic Movement of Central Asia

Islamic Movement of Central Asia

The Islamic Movement of Central Asia is an Islamist organization affiliated with Al Qaeda, headed by Tohir Yo‘ldosh, that has operated in Central Asia since its formation on 16 September 2002...

, a militant Islamist organization, that operates in Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

. The IMCA, and by extension the IMT, is affiliated with Al Qaeda.

Intelligence analysts in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war in Afghanistan and later Iraq...

 say it is linked to terrorism.

The leader of the Islamic Movement of Tajikistan, Tohir Yo‘ldosh

Tohir Yo‘ldosh

Tohir Yo‘ldosh, born Tohir Abduhalilovich Yo‘ldoshev , cofounded the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan , an Islamist organization active in Central Asia, with Juma Namangani in December 1991...

, also leads Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a militant Islamist group formed in 1991 by the Islamic ideologue Tahir Yuldashev, and former Soviet paratrooper Juma Namangani—both ethnic Uzbeks from the Fergana Valley...

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1. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a designated foreign terrorist organization.

The Sapra India Foundation says the peace agreement that ended the civil war in Tajikistan "facilitated the integration of around 5,000 personnel of the Islamic Movement of Tajikistan into the Tajik forces."

Specific U.S. government allegations

Sahkhrukh Hamiduva

Sahkhrukh Hamiduva

-Habeas petition:Shakhrukh Hamiduva has had a habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf.There is no record that any Administrative Review Board hearings were held to review whether Shakrukh could be transferred....

, a teenager held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo, is detained based in part on an alleged association with the Islamic Movement of Tajikistan. Among the allegations he faced during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...

 were:

• The detainee spent one and a half years in an Islamic Movement of Tajikistan camp near Dushanbe
  Dushanbe
  -Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...
  
  , Tajikistan.
• The leader of the Islamic Movement of Tajikistan is also the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
  Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
  The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a militant Islamist group formed in 1991 by the Islamic ideologue Tahir Yuldashev, and former Soviet paratrooper Juma Namangani—both ethnic Uzbeks from the Fergana Valley...
  
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• The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a designated foreign terrorist organization.