Officials continue to warn that the country faces a growing threat of Islamic terror. However, clear corroboration of this threat seems to be in short supply. A reported call in late 2010 from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)-now largely based in northern Afghanistan-to carry jihad to the south of the Kyrgyz Republic appears to have had no effect. On April 29th the head of the National Security Service, Keneshbek Dushebayev, declared the existence of a previously unknown terrorist group, the Islamic Movement of Kyrgyzstan, made up mostly of young Uzbek men. He provided no evidence to support his claims. Mr Dushebayev has been warning about a terrorist threat since mid-2010, when he blamed the ethnic violence in June of that year on jihadists-a theory contested by the KIC report.