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To: LindyBill who wrote (38799)	4/10/2004 4:34:39 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793912

Al-Qaeda linked to Uzbekistan violence Jang Group TASHKENT: Uzbekistan’s Prosecutor General Rashid Kadyrov on Friday said there was evidence of a link between the al-Qaeda terror network and a recent wave of blasts and shoot-outs in the Central Asian country. Among 54 people detained in connection with the four straight days of attacks that began on March 28, a number "were prepared and trained by Arab instructors who were in turn trained in al-Qaeda camps," Kadyrov said. "Group members were trained in militia camps abroad. Their head is called Emir and is in a location outside the country, although we cannot currently reveal" its whereabouts, Kadyrov told journalists. Computer files seized by the authorities contained instructions resembling those found in radical Islamic training camps in Pakistan, Kadyrov added. Those behind the latest attacks were also "ideologically" connected to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which led a number of raids into the country from neighbouring Afghanistan between 1999 and 2001, and also to the non-violent radical group Hizbi-Tahrir, he said. The recent spate of violence started with a blast at an alleged illicit bomb-making factory near the ancient city of Bukhara and was followed by a series of shoot-outs and suicide bombings in the capital Tashkent. The death toll included 33 insurgents, 10 policemen and three children, Kadyrov said earlier. In 2001 Uzbekistan became a controversial ally in Washington’s anti-terrorism campaign, giving US forces the use of a major airbase for their overthrow of neighbouring Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership. The alliance with Uzbek President Islam Karimov’s hardline leadership sparked charges that Washington was propping up a regime that systematically contravened US standards on human rights and democracy. However on Friday Kadyrov rejected assertions by campaigners that the security forces had used the latest attacks as an excuse to clamp down on dissidents, as happened after a series of bomb blasts in 1999.

To: LindyBill who wrote (38799)	4/10/2004 4:37:22 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793912

FOX is reporting Kimmitt is calling for a "bilateral ceasefire". foxnews.com BAGHDAD, Iraq — A U.S. general on Saturday called on Sunni militants in the besieged city of Fallujah (search) to join in a bilateral cease-fire. "Today what we are seeking is a bilateral cease-fire," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt (search) told reporters in Baghdad. "This is an aspiration." He added that he was "hoping to get this message to the enemy through this press conference so they can join the cease-fire." U.S. Marines besieging Fallujah this week called a unilateral halt in offensive operations on Friday. There was no immediate response from insurgents to Kimmitt's call to join a bilateral cease-fire. During Friday's halt in fighting, members of Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council met with representatives from Fallujah to discuss a way to reduce the violence. U.S. officials did not take part in those meetings. Kimmitt's call came after the council passed a unanimous decision calling for a cease-fire. Anger has been growing on the council over the U.S. assault on Fallujah, where more than 280 Iraqis and at least five Marines have been killed in heavy fighting.