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To: Just_Observing who wrote (1202)	3/22/2003 1:48:43 PM
From: Just_Observing	Respond to of 21614

News from the Front: "Russia fears spreading instability; U.S. active in Central Asia" Printed on Saturday, March 22, 2003 @ 03:40:33 EST Report by YellowTimes.org NewsFromtheFront.org (YellowTimes.org) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his fear Friday that Middle Eastern instability could spill over into many of the former Soviet republics, most notably those in Central Asia. This came during a day filled with massive anti-war demonstrations and riots the world over. Putin said, "The crisis has spilled beyond a local conflict and today has become a potential threat to the stability in other regions, including the Commonwealth of Independent States. The decision to launch the war has severe unforeseeable consequences, including increased extremism." The five Central Asian nations -- Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan -- are now some of the most geopolitically vital states in the world, forming the center of a region that contains Russia, China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan; they also played, and still play, a vital role in the continuation of Operation Enduring Freedom. Despite the war raging in Iraq, the U.S. has remained militarily active in much of Central Asia. U.S paratroopers conducted Exercise Balance Knife on March 16th in Kyrgyzstan, also the site of Manas airbase where both U.S. and Russian aircraft and personnel are currently stationed. Simultaneous with the beginning of the war in Iraq, U.S. forces also launched Operation Valiant Strike, which, as described by the Pentagon's American Forces Information Service, "is aimed at villages and cave complexes east of Kandahar in the Sami Ghar Mountains … a direct result of intelligence gleaned over the past few weeks, including interrogations of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a top al Qaeda lieutenant captured in Pakistan March 1." YellowTimes.org correspondent Matthew Riemer drafted this report. yellowtimes.org