What Do We Need To Know About Uzbekistan?

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Published November 1, 2017 at 9:06 AM CDT

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An investigator walks past a crashed pickup truck following an attack in New York City. The pickup's driver killed eight people on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians, before striking a school bus in what officials branded a "cowardly act of terror."

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Officials were quick to declare the attack that left eight people dead in New York City Tuesday an act of terror.

The suspect, it was revealed, comes from Uzbekistan, a country that has been both a U.S. partner in fighting terrorism, and the home to several suspects who have threatened the U.S. and Europe.

What do we need to know about Uzbekistan?

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Frederick Starr, Founding chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; author of “Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane”

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