Suspect in Stockholm Attack Was an ISIS Recruit, Uzbek Official Says
Uzbekistan added that He repeatedly sent propagandist videos with terror content to his relatives and other contacts in Uzbekistan,
By SEWELL CHANAPRIL 14, 2017
LONDON — The Uzbek man who is suspected of steering a hijacked beer truck into a crowd of shoppers in central Stockholm last week had been recruited by the Islamic State,
and had encouraged other Uzbeks to travel to Syria to fight for the militant group, Uzbekistan’s foreign minister said on Friday.
Kamilov said that During the time he spent abroad, he was recruited by emissaries of international terror organization Islamic State,
The statement by the Uzbek foreign minister, Abdulaziz Kamilov, was the first public indication
that Mr. Akilov might have been doing the bidding of the Islamic State.
Mr. Kamilov also said that Uzbekistan had opened an investigation
and had charged Mr. Akilov with involving minors in antisocial behavior; manufacturing and distribution of materials posing a threat to public security; and participation in extremist, separatist and fundamentalist organizations, among other prohibited groups.
Mr. Kamilov said that Mr. Akilov was born in 1978 in Samarkand, in central Uzbekistan.