The following people served as chairmen of the Uzbek KGB : The SNB has been closely associated with the authoritarian administration of President Islam Karimov , and has been accused of involvement in human rights abuses and in sponsoring acts of terrorism to provide a pretext for repressive policing . Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has reported claims that the 1999 Tashkent bombings were carried out by the SNB , then led by Rustam Inoyatov of the Tashkent clan , and that the SNB may also have been responsible for a series of bombings in 2004 in Tashkent and Bukhara
1999 Tashkent bombings
1999 Tashkent bombings
National Security Service (Uzbekistan)