Suspect in Stockholm Attack Was an ISIS Recruit, Uzbek Official Says<br />Uzbekistan added that He repeatedly sent propagandist videos with terror content to his relatives and other contacts in Uzbekistan,<br />By SEWELL CHANAPRIL 14, 2017<br />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,<br />and had encouraged other Uzbeks to travel to Syria to fight for the militant group, Uzbekistan’s foreign minister said on Friday.<br />Kamilov said that During the time he spent abroad, he was recruited by emissaries of international terror organization Islamic State,<br />The statement by the Uzbek foreign minister, Abdulaziz Kamilov, was the first public indication<br />that Mr. Akilov might have been doing the bidding of the Islamic State.<br />Mr. Kamilov also said that Uzbekistan had opened an investigation<br />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.<br />Mr. Kamilov said that Mr. Akilov was born in 1978 in Samarkand, in central Uzbekistan.
