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Uzbekistan
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- "U.S.
Evicted From Air Base In Uzbekistan." ... "Uzbekistan
formally evicted the United States yesterday from a military base that
has served as a hub for combat and humanitarian missions to Afghanistan
since shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Pentagon and State Department
officials said yesterday." ... "In a highly unusual move, the notice of
eviction from Karshi-Khanabad air base, known as K2, was delivered by a
courier from the Uzbek Foreign Ministry to the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent,
said a senior U.S. administration official involved in Central Asia policy.
The message did not give a reason. Uzbekistan will give the United States
180 days to move aircraft, personnel and equipment, U.S. officials said."
-By Robin Wright and Ann Scott Tyson-WashingtonPost
Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan
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- "Uzbek
troops enter border town after unrest." ... "Uzbek
forces retook control of the eastern border town of Qorasuv early on Thursday
after days of unrest in the aftermath of bloody clashes in nearby Andizhan."
... "Interior ministry troops rolled into the town on the border with Kyrgyzstan
at 4 a.m. and, encountering little if any resistance, quickly established
control over bridges and other key points, local people said." ... "The
small town of about 25,000 has seethed with unrest since last Saturday
when about 200 or so people rebelled and destroyed a local police headquarters."
(1, 2)
-By Dmitry Solovyov with contributions by Maria Golovnina
-Reuters
Uzbekistan
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- "Foreign
envoys visit Uzbek town: A group of foreign diplomats
is in the Uzbek town of Andijan to investigate last week's bloody crackdown."
... "The Uzbek government said 169 people died after troops fired on protesters,
who authorities say were organised by Islamic militants." ... "But witnesses
say the actual death toll was much higher, with claims that several hundred
people were killed." ... "The group of diplomats and journalists, who are
on a government-organised visit, will be keen to see the scene of last
week's violence." ... "But a BBC correspondent in Tashkent, Natalia Antelava,
says they are not particularly optimistic they will discover anything new."
... "The party's itinerary is strictly defined, and its members will not
be able to walk freely around the town or talk to local people without
supervision." -BBC
/News
- Uzbekistan
- "Uzbek
Death Tolls Are Widely Divergent." ... "The government
and opposition leaders on Tuesday offered widely diverging death tolls
and accounts of the violence in this U.S.-allied Central Asian country.
The top prosecutor said 169 terrorists and troops were killed, but opposition
activists maintained more than 700 died - most of them civilians." ...
"Prosecutor-General Rashid Kadyrov and President Islam Karimov held a news
conference in the capital, Tashkent, blaming alleged Islamic militants
for last week's unrest and denying that government forces shot and killed
any civilians." ... "``Only terrorists were liquidated by government forces,''
the prosecutor said, adding that militants killed several hostages and
innocent civilians." -By Burt Herman with contributions
by Kadyr Toktogulov and Bagila Bukharbayeva -AP
via -Guardian.co.uk
Uzbekistan
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- "Uzbeks
bury dead after troops fire on protesters." ... "Families
of hundreds killed in Uzbekistan when troops opened fire to quell protests
buried their dead on Sunday as witnesses told of bloody mayhem in which
women and children were shot "like rabbits."" ... "In a single incident
in Andizhan [Uzbekistan] on Friday, witnesses said soldiers had fired on
a crowd including women and children and their own police comrades who
were begging them not to shoot." (1, 2)
-By Dmitry Solovyov -Reuters
Uzbekistan
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- "Thousands
Flee Uzbek Violence: After the slaying of protesters,
panicky throngs gather at the border only to find the crossing closed.
Fires and rioting break out." ... "Police stations, tax offices, the prosecutor's
office and the customs terminal were set ablaze in the town of Korasuv,
on the border of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, the Russian news agency Itar-Tass
reported. About 5,000 people had fled there Saturday from Andijon, 30 miles
to the west, it said." ... "Uzbek troops and police in Andijon fired into
crowds of thousands of protesters Friday, which included armed militants
and unarmed civilians. Human rights activists in Andijon put the death
toll there at 300 to 500. This morning, a doctor told Associated Press
that she had seen about 500 corpses laid out at a school guarded by soldiers."
-By David Holley-LAtimes
Uzbekistan
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- "Uzbek
Unrest Spreads to Kyrgyz Border: Uzbek Unrest Spreads
to Kyrgyz Border As Protesters Beat Border Guards, Overrun Government Buildings."
... "Thousands of terrified Uzbeks trying to flee into Kyrgyzstan burned
a government building Saturday and attacked border guards, a second day
of violence triggered by a brazen jail break to free accused Islamic militants
and a massive demonstration against economic conditions under the iron-fisted
rule of President Islam Karimov." ... "There was no immediate word on casualties
in the latest violence in the former republic of the ex-Soviet Union, but
witnesses to Friday's mayhem said more than 200 people were killed in gunfire
after government troops confronted the huge demonstration." ... "Andijan
is Uzbekistan's fourth-largest city, about 30 miles from the country's
easternmost border in the narrow finger of territory that protrudes deep
into Kyrgyzstan, where an uprising in late March ousted that country's
only post-Soviet leader." (1, 2,
3)
-By Bagila Bukharbayeva with contributions by Burt
Herman -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
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- Kyrgyzstan
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- "Kyrgyzstan
Must Tackle Poll Irregularities, U.S. Says (Update2)."
... "Kyrgyzstan, which borders China and the Central Asian republics of
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, is a strategically important country.
Both the U.S. and Russia maintain military bases in the country, with the
U.S. using its Manas base to aid operations in Afghanistan, to the south."
... "Opposition supporters took over government offices in a third southern
town late yesterday, Interfax reported. The protesters occupied offices
in Kyzyl-Kiya, the news agency said, citing unidentified police officials.
Protests have taken place in Osh and Jalal-Abad in recent days." -By
Paul Tighe -Bloomberg
- "CIA
Jets Fly the War on Terror: Rendition Program Ships
Suspects Abroad." ... "It is supposed to be top secret, but ABC News found
plenty of people who said they knew the true purpose of the airplane hangars
at the end of a private two-lane road in rural North Carolina." ... ""That's
the CIA hangar," said one airport maintenance worker, pointing out one
of the two operating bases in North Carolina for the executive jets used
by the CIA to move dozens of suspected terrorists over the last few years
to countries well-known for using brutality and torture." ... "The two
jets, one a Gulfstream V and the other a Boeing 737, have been spotted
at airports around the world, and flight logs shown to ABC News show trips
to Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and
Uzbekistan." ... "The CIA would not officially comment on its operation,
known as "extraordinary rendition." The program began under an executive
order signed by President George H.W. Bush in December 1992. Former senior
government officials say the program initially involved only a select few
terror suspects, but was vastly expanded after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks."
(1, 2)
-By Brian Ross with contributions by David Scott,
Vic Walter and Hoda Osman -ABCNEWS.com
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- "State
Department Noon Briefing Transcript [List of the 30 Nations Supporting
US Disarmament of Iraq]." ... "BRIEFER: Richard
Boucher, Spokesman." ... "MR. BOUCHER: There are 30 countries who have
agreed to be part of the coalition for the immediate disarmament of Iraq.
I'd have to say these are countries that we have gone to and said, "Do
you want to be listed?" and they have said, "Yes."" ... "They are: Afghanistan,
Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark,
El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy,
Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua,
the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom,
and Uzbekistan." ... "In addition to these countries, there are actually
another 15 or so that we know of, probably more than 15, that are cooperating
with us in -- and the coalition, or perhaps offering defensive assets in
the event that Saddam resorts to the use of weapons of mass destruction."
-Washington
File -State.gov
