From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [L-I] US to buy Kyrgyz weapons for Afghan opposition AFP. 5 October 2001. US to buy Kyrgyz weapons for Afghan opposition: source. BISHKEK -- The United States wants to buy "a lot of weapons and ammunition" for Afghanistan's anti-Taliban forces from the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, a senior Kyrgyz official said Friday. "We have received a quite unexpected offer from officials in Washington in terms of further cooperation in the fight against international terrorism," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "President Bush's administration has expressed readiness to buy in Kyrgyzstan a lot of weapons and ammunition for the Northern Alliance," he said. He said the United States would begin by purchasing cartridges for automatic weapons. Kyrgyzstan has the only weapons plant in Central Asia, built in the Soviet times, and is the only one in Central Asia. The Northern Alliance is the main opposition force to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which the United States has accused of harbouring Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US. ------------------------------------------- Macdonald Stainsby Rad-Green List: Radical anti-capitalist environmental discussion. http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green ---- Leninist-International: Building bridges in the tradition of V.I. Lenin. http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international ---- In the contradiction lies the hope. --Bertholt Brecht _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
