[Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] Subject: US-Uzbek Military Cooperation Pact [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [This has been long underway. Early this year the U.S. and Tajikistan held a joint NATO-Partnership for Peace military exercise in Tajikistan, and efforts have been afoot to recruit all five CIS Central Asian nations - in fact all 14 non-Russian CIS countries - into NATO's Partnership for Peace entry program. With the events of September 11 serving as cover, NATO has now spread its tentacles from Russia's Northwest to its Southeast borders, absolutely ringing it in, and has now moved right up to the Chinese border.] The Hindustan Times US, Uzbekistan confirm anti-terror military pact AFP (Washington, October 13) The United States and Uzbekistan have said they had reached a formal counter-terrorism agreement that will allow US troops and warplanes to use Uzbek airspace and military bases. The announcement of the pact, which also pledges "urgent" bilateral security talks if Uzbekistan faces direct threats from terrorists, came as Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia said it had deployed thousands of troops to its border with the former Soviet republic. In a joint statement released simultaneously in Washington and Tashkent, United States and Uzbekistan said they had committed themselves "to eliminate international terrorism and its infrastructure." "For these purposes, the Republic of Uzbekistan has agreed to provide the use of its airspace and necessary military and civilian infrastructure of one of its airports, which would be used in the first instance for humanitarian purposes," the statement said. The statement said the formal agreement had been reached on October 7, the same day the United States and Britain launched airstrikes against targets in Afghanistan aimed at Saudi militant Osama bin Laden, his al-Qaeda network and their hosts, the Taliban militia. Bin Laden is the US government's prime suspect in last month's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, and has been linked to the radical Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) which aims to overthrow the secular regime in Tashkent. Dr. A.Q. Khan, head of the Khan Research Laboratory, poses with Pakistani nuclear scientists. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
