The murder of an Uzbek citizen whose body was discovered in Shymkent, Kazakhstan may be linked to terrorism attacks in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan\'s Channel 31 reported on 20 August. The report quotes unidentified \"first-hand\" sources as saying that an Uzbek citizen found dead in a Shymkent sauna was an Uzbek detective who arrived to investigate reports that some of the defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir trial trained in southern Kazakhstan. In a bizarre twist, the Channel 31 report claimed that Kazakh police found near the body of the murdered Uzbek citizen \"an ordinary shoe into the sole of which a gun in the form of a ballpoint pen had been installed.\" Uzbek authorities recently stated that one of the three suicide bombers in 30 July attacks in Tashkent was Avaz Shoyusupov, a Kazakh citizen. Kazakhstan\'s Foreign Ministry and National Security Committee both stated on 20 August that they are working with the Uzbek authorities to investigate terror attacks in Tashkent, Khabar TV reported. (RFE/RL)