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An article published in the New York Times described Abdul Jabar as a 26-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, from Tashkent. Abdul Jabar told the New York Times that he had been in Afghanistan"s north for approximately a year prior to al Qaeda"s attacks on America on September 11, 2001. He said he had been working in Kabul working with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan—part of a group of 150 Uzbeks.
Jabar added that the uprising was a reaction to the Afghan Northern Alliance not honoring assurances it had made that foreigners who surrendered their weapons without resistance would be set free.
He said the leader of his group, Juma Namangani, had led the uprising:
He was interrogated by Luke Harding, whom he told that "lieutenant was our commander who began the fighting", presumed to be a reference to Tahir Uldosh, who was believed to be killed in the uprising. There is no record that Abdul Jabar was sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
