![From Fergana Valley to Syria-the Transformation of Central Asian Radical Islam](http://carnegieendowment.org/images/article_images/83416281_terrorists_605.jpg)
The radical jihadi group known as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A little bit more than twenty years after it first appeared, this on-going transformation has made it less connected to Uzbekistan, and more to a global jihad.