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UzbekistanUzbekistan lies just north of Afghanistan. US bases located there support the assaults on Afghanistan in the wake of the Saudi refusal to cooperate with the US war effort. There is an active jihad, as well as a severe repression of Islam itself - 5 years for practicing Islam in unauthorized mosques, extrajudicial killings. Over 7,000 are said to be jailed for unauthorized islamic activities. See " Uzbekistan is One of the Most Repressive New Independent States ," citing Helsinki Commission Chairman Smith, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe news release, 10/18/99
The country is listed as 88% muslim
in the CIA fact book. A Central Asian jihad has been widely expected since spring of '01 and appears to
have been held in reserve... News updates: Russia Offers Strong Support for U.S. Action in Afghanistan 9/25 International Herald Tribune America
sets up its Asian launch pad 9/24 News Telegraph US jets fly to ex-Soviet bases near Afghanistan 9/23 News Telegraph Putin Consults Central Asia Leaders 9/23 AP Saudi Arabia Rejects U.S. Request 9/23 AP TASHKENT, Agence France Press: US warplanes have landed in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan as Russian President Vladimir Putin, after an extended silence, voiced readiness to cooperate with US plans to strike Afghanistan -- but only after they are approved by the UN Security Council. 9/22 More
US forces near Afghanistan 9/22 Times of India Uzbekistan
Jihad 9/22 Azzam "Uzbekistan is One of the Most Repressive New Independent States," says Helsinki Commission Chairman Smith, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe news release, 10/18/99: "Only in Uzbekistan has the state formally criminalized religious dissent, by formally amending its criminal code to impose prison terms of up to five years for unauthorized religious activity." "Paul Goble, Communications Director,
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Eurasia Net
http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/uzbekistan/index.shtml
http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blcuzbekistan.htm
Cyber Uzbekistan
http://www.advancenet.net/~k_a/uzbekistan/
Yahoo! Regional > Countries > Uzbekistan
The Uzbekistan Resource Page: Contains a wealth of information and numerous links related to Uzbekistan as well as news/analysis archives (all from a Western perspective): http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/uzbekistan/index.shtml
Short Human Rights Article: http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/uzbekistan/links/uzhr10199.html
State Department's Reports on Human Rights: http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1999_hrp_report/uzbekist.html
More links on the government's Human Rights abuses: http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/uzbekistan/links/rights.shtml
Analysis of various Central Asian conflicts: http://www.cpss.org/updates/cacupd.htm
CIA Factbook: http://geography.about.com/science/geography/library/cia/blcuzbekistan.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferghana-Valley-Daily-News
News relating to Muslim activities (such as the Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan and/or Hizb ut Tahrir) as well as the drug trafficing activities in
the Ferghana Valley and Central Asia as a whole. Wide variety of
sources.
Ambassador Walker calls Washington Post "traiterous" for revealing what was already on the Internet in numerous places, 9/27/01
On September 27, former Ambassador Walker accused the Washington Post (on CNN's Wolf Blitzer) of being "traiterous" when they published the fact that the US was going to use Uzbekistan. Mr Ambassador, is it traiterous to point out that you are getting yourselves into a very bad situation by this move? But then, if you persist in your plans which look like they will result in the slaughter of many innocents, handing a big victory to Bin Laden, you need these bases. Perhaps if you were to scale down your assault to the appropriate level rather than seeking to obliterate nations, you wouldn't need such sorry bedfellows as the government of Uzbekistan. And who are you trying to prevent from learning about the US bases there? Surely not the Taliban or Bin Laden, who can read about it on Israeli, Indian, UK, and French sites (see below)! No, it's the US public, once again, the same public who will also be asked to suffer the consequences in nuclear and biowar retaliations. -- Cristina Perez |
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