Uzbekistan

As-salaamu'alaikum Brother Yusuf,

There is a lot more to happen in Central Asia... Kyrgyszstan was just a preface. I have no doubt that what we see today is the continuation of The Great Game the earlier part of which was between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, taking place from Caucasus to China over Pamirs and Karakorams, thorugh the caravan roads of the old Silk Road... race for the riches of the East.

An excellent work by Peter Hopkirk ["The Great Game" The Struggle from Empire in Central Asia] continues to shed some light on the current situation. The players have not changed, they might have changed their seats, but the Game goes on... the betrayal is on, the opression... and most importantly death of innocents through beheading and slaughtering. I mentioned of the book once in this forum, but not sure if it caught anyone's attention...

Bush's "expansion on the war on terror by toppling tyrants" was a clear message that Central Asia is his next destination... And America, as history has shown, does not find it betraying to stage yet another sensational toppling of her ally and replace him with a new (and likely, english-speaking) puppet (folded in a traditional caftan), just to create an "illusion" of liberation and gain public's willing submission... 'Support' would be a softer word here, for during the last few centuries, people in this region were brought up to submit and not just support their leaders, sultans and khans.

Lookign at the area from a birds eye-view, Uzbekisan would seem "unlimited freedom" when compared to Turkmenistan...

...and these are places, with Samrakand, Bukhara, Hiva that many Muslims proudly recall to be some of the main centres of their history culture, heritage and knowledge. Now it's the land of the hungry, uneducated, misguided, opressed and tortured... not because of Communists, Tsarists, Capitalists or Jews but because of Muslims... Muslims that turned ignorant on their brothers, on their neighbors... Muslims that became distant from the basics of Islaam... Muslims that have ceased to be Muslims... but retained their Muslim names. 

And speaking of names, ever noticed Karimov's first name? The name that his mother and father called him since the day he was born, the name that he heard being called more than any other name and which he, as it seems was most ignorant of - is... Islam.

"He's our sonofabitch..."        

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1486298,00.ht ml

"Quarantine the aggressor", Franklin Roosevelt 1937.

http://www.tamu.edu/comm/pres/speeches/fdrquara.html

I discovered this speech last night listening to a discussion on the radio about a new book called "The crisis of American Democracy" by David North:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/book-d22.shtml

Kim...