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Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan

Kyrgyzstan is a perfect case for
United States
Russia
to agree to tactical cooperation
yet that is not happening
Kyrgyz implosion impacts on regional stability, given the drug mafia and the militant Islamists waiting in the wings. Ethnic strife is opening the floodgates
only way out lies in collective security. But
most contentious issue. Who
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
problem
would tax Russian resources
Second
lacks a rapid reaction force. Third
legitimacy of the Kyrgyz
yet to be clarified
Fourth
quagmire
Finally
Tashken
feel uneasy
Washington
is passionately courting Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Clinton delegated Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake to visit refugee camps in the Uzbek region of Andizhan in the Ferghana Valley
speaking from a soil
Uzbek
suppressed a bloody uprising five years ago
irony was complete
Blake voiced
US demand for ''an international investigation
into the mayhem in Kyrgyzstan
United States
viewed
CSTO
vehicle
Russian domination
Washington counts on Tashkent to circumscribe
Moscow
The US
Organization for Security and Cooperation for Europe (OSCE)
appropriate vehicle of intervention by the international community
Moscow
objected
to use the OSCE for propaganda purposes under the garb of human-rights and election-monitoring functions or media freedom. So, why is the US proposing the OSCE
propaganda plane, it highlights the failure of Moscow and the CSTO to assume responsibilities
Moscow
butt of ridicule
as a bombastic regional power. Two, the CSTO gets debunked
vainglorious airs bu
lacks substance. Three, the US hopes to drive a wedge between Russia and
Kazakhstan, which
holds the
pos
of the OSCE
is hard-pressed to choose between the CSTO and the OSCE.
deeper US game plan
when Russia is
advancing
own proposal for a new European security treaty
if the OSCE is available
what
could be the raison d'etre of Moscow's proposal
OSCE's special envoy
Kimmo Kiliunen
OSCE is leading talks with
(EU)
beefing up security in Kyrgyzstan at a time when CSTO secretary general Nikolai Bordyuzha is heading for Bishkek. The CSTO said in a statement in Moscow that a working group would evaluate the situation in Kyrgyzstan and "assist in law enforcement Russian position
Kyrgyz
should stabilize
themselves
US-Russia shadow play over a collective security
one constant
in favor of Moscow
Beijing supports the CSTO initiative
Chinese
so far
humanitarian assistance
flying out
nationals from
region of Osh
will be uneasy about the U
maneuvering
should
be consulting
SCO
first step to signal
China does not intend to sit back while the situation unravels
that Osh
an hour by flight from Urumqi
a Balkan-type crisis
nightmare to China
sensitive over the possibility of unrest among the Uyghur population
Beijing
counter the US strategy to project the OSCE into the security vacuum
first choice
CSTO
role for the SCO
SCO
statement identified that the ethnic strife was engineered with the intent of arousing a Kyrgyz-Uzbek "confrontation"
outside intervention isn't a crying need
"the stability of the situation in Kyrgyzstan is of great significance for peace and stability in Central Asia"
SCO has put its hat into the ring

60 TRUCK CONVOY

Attack on 60 truck supply convoy is dismissed, says USG as "not going to have an effect".

Well, of course not. That's a convoy only about a mile long. That's only about $11 million worth a equipment. The cargo comes for war profiteers, but even so, 10 million, tops (ok, who knows, (who cares), 20 mill, tops). $1 mill frt. charges, repair to 80 NATO Humvee's - ?, 6 killed, but they're Halliburton Filipinos, no benefits and plenty more where they come from. Of course, everybody knows we pay the Taliban to let our cargo through, don't know what happened there, but overall - super day, no effect. Feel free to do it again.

We probably attacked ourselves, except that would be a conspiracy theory. But, maybe its a criminal conspiracy, instead.

If we don't shut down the southern supply route, how are we going to open the northern supply route, and if we don't open the Northern Distribution Network, how are we going to expand the war to Kyrgyzstan. Maybe all war is a criminal conspiracy. Remember the Phoenix Operation in Vietnam. You think Afghanistan might be another Phoenix Operation? It was U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler who explain, in 1935, how War is a Racket. Maybe it is a criminal conspiracy you could call RICO capitalism, RICO warfare. Let us join the rest of the world in praying for the bankruptcy of the criminal conspiracy know as the USG.

Dang, I had better take all of that back. I think this is the thing to note: Every single statement made here is a fact. The way the facts have been strung together may be an hypothesis, and then again, maybe not. There are a million ways to tell a story. Maybe truth is determined by where you stand. That's called class consciousness. Class analysis is when you figure out who is there with you.

Kyrgyzstan: The training center in Batken is established to respond to Uzbek military threat

«US Assists Kyrgyzstan in Constructing Anti-Terrorist Center in Batken»

headline from Eurasia Daily Monitor, the Jamestown Foundation daily network, motivated by "Uzbek threat". It is not the Americans who want to reach the Ferghana Valley, but Bishkek who asks to strengthen southern borders.

The training center in the Ferghana Valley, the Batken Oblast. this news continues to produce many questions. Eurasia Daily Monitor decided to clarification.

March 10 Petraeus and Bakiyev said the security challenges stem from Afghanistan. However some key military leaders see aggression emerging from Uzbekistan"

Kyrgyz view, Tashkent is developing its military forces and pose a threat to Kyrgyzstan’s water resource and protecting Uzbek living in Osh and Batken

WASHINGTON AND THE KYRGYZ FUTURE - SECURING THE PIVOT

Washington and the Kyrgyz future—Securing the Pivot
by F. William Engdahl*

Long-term Pentagon Plan for Central Asia
Spreading a cancer across Central Asia
Spreading War via NDN
Low Intensity Warfare and PKO
Training the police…
A dubious Community Defense Initiative
NDN is the Key
NDN and Kyrgyzstan’s Batken ‘Anti-Terror’ center
Opium in the Central Asian War
US Military as Opium Exporter?
Conclusion

To this end, the U.S. is employing the time-tested tactics of Low Intensity Warfare to generate the pretext for NATO’s permanent expansion under guise of the ‘war on terror’, with opium gainfully fueling the operations. If successful in Central Asia, Washington will have achieved a ‘checkmate’ by effectively blocking any combination of nations on earth from opposing its agenda of Full Spectrum Dominance.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 a prime strategic objective of the Pentagon and of US intelligence has been to deeply penetrate the former Soviet states of Central Asia.

PEOPLE AND POWER, REVOLUTION GONE WRONG, KYRGYZSTAN

From Michael Andersen:

Aljazeera English has decided to RE-broadcast my 2008 documentary film about Kyrgyzstan ‘Revolution gone wrong’. The film is a personal portrait of Roza Otunbayeva, now the interim leader of Kyrgyzstan. It tells the story of the failed 2005 ‘revolution’ and also describes the anger and disillusionment of the population, leading towards the overthrow of the president 7 April 2010. I believe the film gives people who may not be that well-acquainted with Kyrgyzstan a much better idea of the situation and of the country’s new leader.

It’s definitely interesting, if for no other reason than to see how things in Kyrgyzstan so often seem to just go in circles.

KYRGYZSTAN

nestled in the shadow of the towering Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges. For centuries, it was part of the main Silk Road highway that connected China to the west; the ancient bazaar city of Osh to this day bears traces of its commercial past.

In 751 A.D., near the modern day town of Talas, a vast army sent forth by the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad defeated an expeditionary force of the Chinese Tang Dynasty. Historians suggest that this decisive battle solidified Central Asia within the orbit of the Muslim cultural world rather than that of China
war prisoners taken to the city of Samarkand to produce a key Chinese invention: paper

Kyrgyz government falls

President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reportedly fleeing. Galina Skripkina, a spokesperson for the opposition Social Democratic Party. Opposition leader Temir Sariyev. Prime Minister Daniyar Usenov [said]...

Sariyev returned from a visit to Moscow. Kyrgyzstan bordering China and close to Afghanistan, relies on cash payments from the United States and Russia for the use of military bases

US airbase at Manas is logistical centers for occupation of Afghanistan. Manas airport is functioning normally.



Bakiyev, in 2005 Tulip Revolution. then-president Askar Akayev forced from office in a de facto palace coup.

frequent demonstrations protesting increased prices of basic. Bakiyev had placed Bishkek, Talas and Naryn, under curfew clamped down on independent media and Internet

Power cuts, no hydrocarbon resources, rely on remittances from workers in Russia. opposition to war in Afghanistan and the US “counter-terrorism training center” in Kyrgyzstan which is a base for CIA and Pentagon “black ops

Deputy Prime Minister Aklybek Japarov and Interior Minister Moldomusa Kongantiyev, caught and beaten by protesters. condemned the regime, violations of basic rights, journalists intimidated or killed, newspapers shut down, Prisoners abused, opposition
attacked. murder of journalist Gennady Pavluk, payback for his criticism



presidential election rigged. Washington refused to condemn. Washington’s key allies. established a base in 2001. Manas airbase crucial role for occupation and“surge” of “AfPak” war

2009, increase in rent, $17 million to $60 million. source of concern to the Russian elite. Russian government has denied involvement in events. Is now to be out of the control of Kyrgyz elite or international powers. both powers seek to impose their will on new government

China is major player, trade increasing rapidly. Beijing sees Kyrgyzstan as an important link to the energy-rich Caspian Basin