Tragic events in 2004 in Tashkent and Bukhara region undoubtedly showed that independent Uzbekistan became one of the main objects of development and spread of radical Islamic ideology. Explosions in Uzbekistan is not the next link of the tragic chain of terrorist acts, committed throughout the world, but in many cases have determinant meaning for creating a new strategy in the war against international terrorism.

First of all, in terrorist acts which took place in Uzbekistan the female suicide-bombers were used for the first time, which shows the strengthening of influence in the region of radical Islam with the Middle East roots. But this also gives the impression to assume about the widening geography of using of women committing terrorist attacks, which seriously decreasing the insurance of any state of the world from this threat.

Secondly, according to the facts, attacks were not directed to the citizens of western countries or infidels, targets for the attack were their own compatriots and coreligionists. This fact clearly indicates that in achieving their goals terrorists now are ready to kill even people, not standing religion, culture 2 nation.

Thirdly, many testimonies of arrested terrorists and their links, results of conducted searches and seizure of explosives components, fire arms and a lot of religious literature, leaflets, audio and video tapes, and also direct statement of participants of terrorist acts gives more than convincing proof to assume that “Hizb Ut Tahrir” has connection to the explosions.

In spite of the aspiration of some Hizb ut-Tahrir leaders to give up from the actions in Uzbekistan, as well as statements of several political experts, sympathizing to this radicals because of their “guiltlessness”, only one fact, that exactly the house of the member of Hizb ut-Tahrir N.Razzakov in Romitan district of Bukhara region was the place for storing fire arms and explosives, totally undermine the declared image of this network as non terrorist organization.

From the other side, the main aim of Hizb ut-Tahrir on overthrowing the secular governments of Central Asian countries and their replacement by the single “Khalifate” doesn’t need additional comments to be assured that in recent years the real transformation of methods of its actions occurred.

Therefore the issue whether Hizb ut-Tahrir is using violence for achieving its goals is of crucial importance in the context of global war against terrorism.

Hizb ut-Tahrir has been established in 1952 in Jordan by Palestinian judge Taki Ud-din Nabahani. He graduated from University Al-Azhar in Egypt, the leading Islamic educational establishment, which had been under negative influence of radical teaching of “vahhabits” during the decade.

Nabahani was the member of extremists organization “Muslim brothers” and after the set up of state of Israel in 1948 he became refugee in Eastern Jerusalem governed by Jordanians. There he founded HUT and attracted the Palestinian youth in its ranks and began to propagandize the anti-Semitic ideas. In particular the idea of HUT on creation of worldwide “Khalifate”, which would unite all the Muslims without borders became the most popular among Palestinians. After failed attempts of riots in Jordan and Egypt HUT was prohibited practically in all Middle East countries. It is an evidence that HUT from the moment of its creation practiced the methods of overthrowing the existing state authorities in the native Muslim states. Although at that time also HUT was claiming that it was not accepting the violent way of taking power.

Therefore HUT moved to Western Europe where began to gain profits from liberal societies, allowing freedom of speech and actions, including those which create hostility and hatred among people.

After collapse of the USSR, Hizb ut-Tahrir began to enlarge actively the influence on the countries of Central Asia where people always had a need to study an Islam, but there was lack of information resources. Now Hizb ut Tahrir is active all over the world, including in the USA. Its necessary to emphasize, that declared by Hizb ut Tahrir members nonviolent principles of activity have essentially influenced to favorable recognition of this sect by the United States and the West-European states, but outside of their vision was a true side of its activity (except Germany, where Hizb ut Tahrir have been forbidden for anti-Semitism). However eventually, especially on boundary of the XX-XXI centuries, leading world powers began to realize progressing danger from this extremist organization of HUT to the civilized development. Practically behind each of executed act of terrorism invariably appeared Hizb ut Tahrir ideas and force.

So, at the special seminar organized recently by the Center of R.Nikson, the international experts and law-enforcement structures have converged in opinion, that Hizb ut Tahrir is the conveyor for creating terrorists. But not all of Hizb ut Tahrir members directly have been involved in acts of terrorism. Hizb ut Tahrir makes thousand people who share the doctrine of sect and fill up numbers of the groups such as Al-Kaeda.

The facts from the international practice convincingly testify, that for example, militant of Al-Kaeda Abdu Musab al-Zarkavi who has the Jordanian origin was a member of Hizb ut Tahrir, and after training in Afghanistan, he has introduced its ideology to Iraq. One of leaders of Al-Kaeda Hamid sheikh Mohammad also has been connected with Hizb ut-Tahrir. Other known terrorist Omar Sajed Muhammad, the murderer of journalist Deniel Pearl though was not Hizb ut-Tahrir member, but this organization has provided to him access to terrorist groupings and has blessed on murder.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is not carrying out the terrorist acts directly, but it is pushing the people to commit the forcible actions. That is why the attempts of leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir to dissociate from the terrorist actions, trying to draw away the attention of the public, and making accents intentionally on its non-participation in practical realization of terrorist acts are absolutely groundless.

Generally speaking, Hizb ut-Tahrir is relatively small organization (in Uzbekistan, by some accounts, the number of its members runs to 10.000 people), but it is trying to raise the Muslim consciousness to real actions, acting as “advance guard”. Namely Hizb ut-Tahrir was calling to hijacking airplanes, but the organization did not carry out these actions itself. It sanctioned killings of Jewish, Americans, British, Russians, as “kafirs’ as well as faithless Muslims, who are not supporting their ideas, though it preferred to not “soil the hands by blood”.

It is necessary to note, that Hizb ut-Tahrir uses different strategies in different countries. For example, Hizb ut-Tahrir is appealing in USA and Europe to educated Muslims, who are holding the scientific levels, and who want to be politically active. In that way, higher intellectual level of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir is achieving, in comparison with ordinary rebels of other organizations. Besides that, the facts of appeals of Hizb ut-Tahrir to Marxist-Leninist, anti-American and anti-Jewish organizations, well known in Europe, were fixed.

The Hizb ut-Tahrir organization is counting on the youth, and namely on rural youth in Central Asia, particularly, in Uzbekistan. But one could establish the versatility in Hizb ut-Tahrir’s tactics, which is taking into account the regional peculiarities, the way of life, mentality, the demographic specificities, the social problems and even the condition of realization of economic reforms. For example, the most common activity of Hizb ut-Tahrir is conducting observations in the regions of Ferghana Valley, city of Tashkent, Tashkent, Surkhandaria and Kashkadaria regions in view of more devotion of people to religion, density of population, development of infrastructure and existence of common borders with contiguous countries.

The last circumstance allows to Hizb ut-Tahrir to provide mobility of transferences of its members, as it was at the end of 1990’s, when because of measures of law enforcement bodies of Uzbekistan on cutting short their activities, they forcedly moved to the southern regions of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and to Tajikistan.

Under conditions in Uzbekistan Hizb ut-Tahrir attempting to involve to the sphere of joint activities of different “human rights activists” and “oppositionists”, including their foreign representatives and sponsors. Manipulating skillfully on subject of human rights and persecution of believers in Uzbekistan, Hizb ut-Tahrir on the one hand, attempting to “join” to the international grants and create visibility of scale of its activities, and on other hand – using inexperience home-bred demagogues and their political failure, under aegis of “remedial” try to get mass character of its influence.

Lately Hizb ut-Tahrir permanently changing its tactics, diverges from its initial principles on seizure of power by peaceful methods, mostly inclining to the method of quick achievement of aims by any means, including armed. In this perspective, Hizb ut-Tahrir finally turns into ideological base on training of Muslims for terrorist organizations such IMU.