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to: Adam
from: George Sherwood
date: 2006-02-22 06:43:32
subject: Re: Another threat to national security perishes in Central Asia

From: George Sherwood 

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:55:52 +0000, Adam wrote:

> It has happened looong before the soviets. Heck Kazachstan etc were
> great game territory way back before then. where such powers could have
> been china or persia or turkey or the mongols etc.
>
> But in the brave new post soviet world, people were supposed to be
> "democratic".
>
> Little in the way of a call for a "Hariri" style UN investigation
> though. Odd. Almost like it would be vetoed by russia out of hand.
>
> Any official US condemnation or are there too many expat US oil workers
> to cause any fuss?

Now an arrest and the FBI is assisting.  Don't think that supports your
position.  And where is the UK response and help in the investigation?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/21/AR2006022101663
.html

Five members of an elite unit within Kazakhstan's national security
service, the KNB, have been arrested in connection with the killing of a
leading opposition figure last week.


George

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