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1a.: William Blum: The Anti-Empire Report

Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff@yahoo.com rwrozoff

Wed Apr 7, 2010 12:17 pm (PDT)

http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer80.html

The Anti-Empire Report
April 5th, 2010
by William Blum

The United States takes the matter of three-headed babies very seriously.
When did it begin, all this "We take your [call/problem/question] very seriously"? With answering-machine hell? As you wait endlessly, the company or government agency assures you that they take seriously whatever reason you're calling. What a kind and thoughtful world we live in.

The BBC reported last month that doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the United States during its fierce onslaughts of 2004 and subsequently, which left much of the city in ruins. "It was like an earthquake," a local engineer who was running for a national assembly seat told the Washington Post in 2005. "After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Fallujah." Now, the level of heart defects among newborn babies is said to be 13 times higher than in Europe.

The BBC correspondent also saw children in the city who were suffering from paralysis or brain damage, and a photograph of one baby who was born with three heads. He added that he heard many times that officials in Fallujah had warned women that they should not have children. One doctor in the city had compared data about birth defects from before 2003 — when she saw about one case every two months — with the situation now, when she saw cases every day. "I've seen footage of babies born with an eye in the middle of the forehead, the nose on the forehead," she said.

A spokesman for the US military, Michael Kilpatrick, said it always took public health concerns "very seriously", but that "No studies to date have indicated environmental issues resulting in specific health issues." 1

One could fill many large volumes with the details of the environmental and human horrors the United States has brought to Fallujah and other parts of Iraq during seven years of using white phosphorous shells, depleted uranium, napalm, cluster bombs, neutron bombs, laser weapons, weapons using directed energy, weapons using high-powered microwave technology, and other marvelous inventions in the Pentagon's science-fiction arsenal ... the list of abominations and grotesque ways of dying is long, the wanton cruelty of American policy shocking. In November 2004, the US military targeted a Fallujah hospital "because the American military believed that it was the source of rumors about heavy casualties." 2 That's on a par with the classic line from the equally glorious American war in Vietnam: "We had to destroy the city to save it."

How can the world deal with such inhumane behavior? (And the above of course scarcely scratches the surface of the US international record.) For this the International Criminal Court (ICC) was founded in Rome in 1998 (entering into force July 1, 2002) under the aegis of the United Nations. The Court was established in The Hague, Netherlands to investigate and indict individuals, not states, for "The crime of genocide; Crimes against humanity; War crimes; or The crime of aggression." (Article 5 of the Rome Statute) From the very beginning, the United States was opposed to joining the ICC, and has never ratified it, because of the alleged danger of the Court using its powers to "frivolously" indict Americans.

So concerned about indictments were the American powers-that-be that the US went around the world using threats and bribes against countries to induce them to sign agreements pledging not to transfer to the Court US nationals accused of committing war crimes abroad. Just over 100 governments so far have succumbed to the pressure and signed an agreement. In 2002, Congress, under the Bush administration, passed the "American Service Members Protection Act", which called for "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any US or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by ... the International Criminal Court." In the Netherlands it's widely and derisively known as the "Invasion of The Hague Act". 3 The law is still on the books.

Though American officials have often spoken of "frivolous" indictments — politically motivated prosecutions against US soldiers, civilian military contractors, and former officials — it's safe to say that what really worries them are "serious" indictments based on actual events. But they needn't worry. The mystique of "America the Virtuous" is apparently alive and well at the International Criminal Court, as it is, still, in most international organizations; indeed, amongst most people of the world. The ICC, in its first few years, under Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine, dismissed many hundreds of petitions accusing the United States of war crimes, including 240 concerning the war in Iraq. The cases were turned down for lack of evidence, lack of jurisdiction, or because of the United States' ability to conduct its own investigations and trials. The fact that the US never actually used this ability was apparently not particularly
significant to the Court. "Lack of jurisdiction" refers to the fact that the United States has not ratified the accord. On the face of it, this does seem rather odd. Can nations commit war crimes with impunity as long as they don't become part of a treaty banning war crimes? Hmmm. The possibilities are endless. A congressional study released in August, 2006 concluded that the ICC's chief prosecutor demonstrated "a reluctance to launch an investigation against the United States" based on allegations regarding its conduct in Iraq. 4 Sic transit gloria International Criminal Court.

As to the crime of aggression, the Court's statute specifies that the Court "shall exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression once a provision is adopted ... defining the crime and setting out the conditions under which the Court shall exercise jurisdiction with respect to this crime." In short, the crime of aggression is exempted from the Court's jurisdiction until "aggression" is defined. Writer Diana Johnstone has observed: "This is a specious argument since aggression has been quite clearly defined by U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3314 in 1974, which declared that: 'Aggression is the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State', and listed seven specific examples," including:

The invasion or attack by the armed forces of a State of the territory of another State, or any military occupation, however temporary, resulting from such invasion or attack, or any annexation by the use of force of the territory of another State or part thereof; and

Bombardment by the armed forces of a State against the territory of another State or the use of any weapons by a State against the territory of another State.

The UN resolution also stated that: "No consideration of whatever nature, whether political, economic, military or otherwise, may serve as a justification for aggression."

The real reason that aggression remains outside the jurisdiction of the ICC is that the United States, which played a strong role in elaborating the Statute before refusing to ratify it, was adamantly opposed to its inclusion. It is not hard to see why. It may be noted that instances of "aggression", which are clearly factual, are much easier to identify than instances of "genocide", whose definition relies on assumptions of intention. 5

There will be a conference of the ICC in May, in Kampala, Uganda, in which the question of specifically defining "aggression" will be discussed. The United States is concerned about this discussion. Here is Stephen J. Rapp, US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, speaking to the ICC member nations (111 have ratified thus far) in The Hague last November 19:

I would be remiss not to share with you my country's concerns about an issue pending before this body to which we attach particular importance: the definition of the crime of aggression, which is to be addressed at the Review Conference in Kampala next year. The United States has well-known views on the crime of aggression, which reflect the specific role and responsibilities entrusted to the Security Council by the UN Charter in responding to aggression or its threat, as well as concerns about the way the draft definition itself has been framed. Our view has been and remains that, should the Rome Statute be amended to include a defined crime of aggression, jurisdiction should follow a Security Council determination that aggression has occurred.

Do you all understand what Mr. Rapp is saying? That the United Nations Security Council should be the body that determines whether aggression has occurred. The same body in which the United States has the power of veto. To prevent the adoption of a definition of aggression that might stigmatize American foreign policy is likely the key reason the US will be attending the upcoming conference.

Nonetheless, the fact that the United States will be attending the conference may well be pointed out by some as another example of how the Obama administration foreign policy is an improvement over that of the Bush administration. But as with almost all such examples, it's a propaganda illusion. Like the cover of Newsweek magazine of March 8, written in very large type: "Victory at last: The emergence of a democratic Iraq". Even before the current Iraqi electoral farce — with winning candidates arrested or fleeing 6— this headline should have made one think of the interminable jokes Americans made during the Cold War about Pravda and Izvestia.
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2.: Poland To Join NATO's Baltic Air Patrol Operation

Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff@yahoo.com rwrozoff

Wed Apr 7, 2010 12:48 pm (PDT)

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90853/6942859.html

Xinhua News Agency
April 7, 2010

Poland to participate in NATO air policing

The Polish government Tuesday moved to the President to permit Poland's participation in NATO's Air Policing patrol missions over Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.

For logistic reasons, the mission, officially to last from May to the end of August, will probably begin in mid-April and wind up in mid-September

Poland plans to send 100 troops and four MiG-29 aircraft to the mission, according to the Polish news agency PAP.

NATO introduced Air Policing in 2004 as an airspace safety measure for the Baltic states, which do not have combat aircraft.

The Polish Air Policing unit will carry out patrol flights over the Baltic countries and provide emergency aid for civilian and military aircraft in the region.

This will be the third Air Policing mission for Poland. Poland previously took part in the Air Policing project in 2006 and 2008.
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3.: U.S., Polish Generals Discuss Afghan War Effort

Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff@yahoo.com rwrozoff

Wed Apr 7, 2010 12:48 pm (PDT)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/08/c_13241458.htm

Xinhua News Agency
April 7, 2010

Polish, U.S. generals discuss Afghan mission

WARSAW: Poland's Chief of the General Staff, General Franciszek Gagor and visiting General David H. Petraeus, Commander of the U.S. Central Command, met here on Wednesday to discuss the Afghan mission, troop training and experience from the operation for the Polish army.

Petraeus confirmed during a press conference that in a few months a 800-1,000 strong U.S. battalion would reinforce Poland's ISAF forces in the Afghan province Ghazni.

This will be a perfect occasion for further cooperation, the general said and praised U.S.-Polish collaboration in Iraq and in the Balkans.

Petraeus said that the U.S. troops would be placed under the Polish commander who is responsible for the province.

Currently there are some 2,000 Polish soldiers stationed in Ghanzi. Poland plans to increase the size of its ISAF (NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force International Security Assistance Force ) contingent to 2,600 soldiers in April.

Also on Wednesday Petraeus met with Polish President Lech Kaczynski who awarded the general with the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Iraq Star.

On Thursday Petraeus will meet with Polish Defence Minister Bogdan Klich and deliver a lecture at the National Defence Academy.
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4.: NATO Missile Strike Kills Five Afghan Children

Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff@yahoo.com rwrozoff

Wed Apr 7, 2010 12:48 pm (PDT)

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122729§ionid=351020403

Press TV
April 7, 2010

US-led soldiers kill five children in Afghanistan
Raids by US-led forces have left hundreds of civilians dead in Afghanistan over the past months

Missile strikes by French forces have reportedly killed at least five school children and injured three others in eastern Afghanistan, a local official says.

The fatal incident took place in the Sofian region of Kapisa Province on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Member of Kapisa's Provincial Council Najibollah Rahmani said the incident happened after French troops and armed Taliban were engaged in an exchange of fire.
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Civilian casualties in Afghanistan caused by attacks carried out by coalition forces have fueled anti-US sentiment in the country.

NATO reported Tuesday that one of its airstrikes in southern Afghanistan had accidentally killed four civilians, including two women and a child.

There are currently over 120,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, and the US and its NATO allies have announced the imminent deployment of 30,000 more troops.
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5.: Kyrgyzstan: Government Overthrown

Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff@yahoo.com rwrozoff

Wed Apr 7, 2010 1:00 pm (PDT)

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14999884&PageNum=0

Itar-Tass
April 7, 2010

Kyrgyzstan's opposition claims President out of town

BISHKEK: President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan is not in the Government Building at the moment, Temir Sariyev, the leader of Ak-Shumkar party said Wednesday night after a meeting with Prime Minister Daniyar Ussenov, who had tendered his resignation.

"We don't know anything about Bakiyev's whereabouts but we know for sure he isn't in Bishkek now," Sariyev said.

Well-informed sources in the Kyrgyzstani government told Itar-Tass earlier Bakiyev was working in his office in the Government Building.
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http://en.rian.ru/world/20100407/158472444.html

Russian Information Agency Novosti
April 7, 2010

Kyrgyz opposition says it has taken full power in the country

Bishkek: A government formed by opposition in the ex-Soviet Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan said it has taken full power in the country after a day of unrest in which over 40 people were killed, the opposition-nominated premier said on Wednesday.

"(Prime Minister Daniyar) Usenov has signed a resignation letter. Power is fully in the control of the opposition," Rosa Otunbayeva said.

"The whereabouts of (President Kurmanbek) Bakiyev are unknown."
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http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15000056&PageNum=0

Itar-Tass
April 7, 2010

Moscow officials do not expect Kyrgyzstani President's arrival

MOSCOW: Moscow does not expect the arrival of Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, a high-rank source in the Kremlin told Itar-Tass.

When a reporter asked him about the possibility of Bakiyev being on a Moscow-bound flight, the source said: "Unlikely so because Russia doesn't expect him."

SkyNews channel said earlier Bakiyev had left Bishkek aboard a jet. According to a France Presse report, a spokesman for Manas international airport in Bishkek confirmed that Bakiyev's jet had taken off.

In the meantime, officials at the Russian Air Navigation Service told Itar-Tass there have been no requests to permit a landing for Bakiyev's jet anywhere on the Russian territory.
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6.: Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia

Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff@yahoo.com rwrozoff

Wed Apr 7, 2010 9:37 pm (PDT)

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Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia
Rick Rozoff

Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed five years after and in the same manner as he came to power, in a bloody uprising.

Elected president two months after the so-called Tulip Revolution of 2005 he helped engineer, he was since then head of state of the main transit nation for the U.S. and NATO war in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon secured the Manas Air Base (as of last year known as the Transit Center at Manas) in Kyrgyzstan shortly after its invasion of Afghanistan in October of 2001 and in the interim, according to a U.S. armed forces publication last June, "More than 170,000 coalition personnel passed through the base on their way in or out of Afghanistan, and Manas was the transit point for 5,000 tons of cargo, including spare parts and equipment, uniforms and various items to support personnel and mission needs.

"Currently, around 1,000 U.S. troops, along with a few hundred from Spain and France, are assigned to the base." [1]

The White House's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke paid his first visit in his current position to Kyrgyzstan - and the three other former Soviet Central Asian republics which border it, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - in February and said "35,000 US troops were transiting each month on their way in and out of Afghanistan." [2] At the rate he mentioned, 420,000 troops annually.

The U.S. and NATO also established military bases in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan for the war in South Asia, but on a smaller scale. (U.S. military forces were ordered out of the second country following what the government claimed was a Tulip Revolution-type armed uprising in its province of Andijan less than two months after the Kyrgyz precedent. Germany maintains a base near the Uzbek city of Termez to transit troops and military equipment to Afghanistan's Kunduz province where the bulk of its 4,300 forces is concentrated.)

In February of 2009 the Kyrgyz government announced that it was also evicting U.S. and NATO forces from its country, but relented in June when Washington offered it $60 million to reverse its decision.

Kyrgyzstan borders China.

It not only borders China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, but is only separated from Russia by a single nation, Kazakhstan. To gain an appreciation of Russian and Chinese concerns over hundreds of thousands of U.S. and NATO troops passing through Kyrgyzstan, imagine a comparable amount of Chinese and Russian soldiers regularly passing through Mexico and Guatemala, respectively. For almost nine years and at an accelerating rate.

It is not only a military "hard power" but also a "soft power" threat that the Western role in Kyrgyzstan poses to Russia and China.

The nation is a member of the post-Soviet Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) along with Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - seen by many as the only counterpart to NATO on former Soviet space - and of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) with China, Russia and the three above-mentioned Central Asian nations.

According to U.S. officials, during and after the Tulip Revolution of 2005 not a single U.S. or NATO flight into the Manas Air Base was cancelled or even delayed. But a six-nation CSTO exercise scheduled for days afterward was cancelled.

The uprising and the deposing of standing president Askar Akayev in March of 2005 was the third self-styled "color revolution" in the former Soviet Union in sixteen months, following the Rose Revolution in Georgia in late 2003 and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in late 2004 and early 2005.

As the Kyrgyz version was underway Western news media were asking the question "Who's next?" Candidates included other former Soviet states like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Uzbekistan. And Russia. Along with Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan those nations accounted for ten of the twelve members of the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

As Agence France-Presse detailed in early April of 2005: "The CIS was founded in December 1991 on the very day the Soviet Union disappeared....But over the past year and a half, three faithful Kremlin allies were toppled in...revolutions: Eduard Shevardnadze in Georgia, Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine, and, last week, Askar Akayev in Kyrgyzstan....Even though Kyrgyzstan's new interim leaders have vowed to continue their deposed predecessor's Moscow-friendly policies, the lightning toppling of the government there has spawned speculation that the CIS would soon collapse." [3]

The leader of the "color revolution" prototype, Georgia's Mikheil Saakashvili, gloated over the Kyrgyz "regime change," attributing the "brave" actions of the opposition in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan "to the Georgia factor," and added, "We are not waiting for the development of events, but are doing our best to destroy the empire in the CIS." [4]

Shortly after the uprising former Indian diplomat and political analyst M.K. Bhadrakumar wrote of the then seemingly inexorable momentum of "color" revolts in the former Soviet Union:

"[A]ll the three countries [Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan] are strategically placed in the post-Soviet space. They comprise Russia's 'near abroad.'

"Washington has been expanding its influence in the arc of former Soviet republics — in the Baltics...the Caucasus, and Central Asia —
in recent years with a tenacity that worries Moscow.

"Ever since 2003 when Mr. Akayev decided on allowing Russia to establish a full-fledged military base in Kant he knew he was on the American 'watch list.' The political temperature within Kyrgyzstan began to rise.

"The Americans made it clear in many ways that they desired a regime change in Bishkek....The 'revolution' in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan has already thrown up surprises. A comparison with the two earlier 'colour revolutions' in Georgia and Ukraine will be a good starting point.

"First, the striking similarities between the three 'revolutions' must be duly noted. All three are meant to signify the unstoppable spread of the fire of liberty lit by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq in the aftermath of 9/11.

"But behind the rhetoric, the truth is that the U.S. wanted regime change in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan because of difficulties with the incumbent leadership. The leaders of all the three countries — Eduard Shevardnadze in Georgia, Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine, and Askar Akayev in Kyrgyzstan — had enjoyed the support of the U.S. during most of their rule.

"Washington had cited them repeatedly as the beacons of hope for democracy and globalisation in the territories of the former Soviet Union.

"Their trouble began when they incrementally began to edge towards a resurgent Russia under Vladimir Putin." [5]

Seven weeks after Bhadrakumar's column appeared his analysis would be confirmed by no less an authority on the matter than U.S. President George W. Bush.

Visiting the capital of Georgia a year and a half after its "Rose Revolution," he was hosted by his counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili, former State Department fellowship recipient and U.S. resident, who seized power in what can only be described as a putsch but nevertheless said:

"Georgia will become the main partner of the United States in spreading democracy and freedom in the post-Soviet space. This is our proposal. We
will always be with you in protecting freedom and democracy."

Bush reflected Saakashvili's inflated estimate of himself: "You are making many important contributions to freedom's cause, but your most important contribution is your example. Hopeful changes are taking places from Baghdad to Beirut and Bishkek [Kyrgyzstan]. But before there was a Purple Revolution in Iraq or Orange Revolution in Ukraine or a Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, there was a Rose Revolution in Georgia." [6]

A few days after the Kyrgyz coup Bush welcomed Ukraine's "orange" president Viktor Yushchenko - who this January only received 5.45 per cent of the vote in his reelection bid - and applauded his U.S.-assisted ascent to power, saying it "may have looked like it was only a part of the history of Ukraine, but the Orange Revolution represented revolutions elsewhere as well....We share a goal to spread freedom to other nations." [7]

Beyond the threat of the dissolution of the CIS and of the CSTO, in April of 2005 Der Spiegel featured a report with the title "Revolutions Speed Russia's Disintegration."

In part it revealed the prime movers behind the events in Kyrgyzstan:

"As early as February," Roza Otunbayeva - now the apparent head of the provisional government - "pledged allegiance to a small group of partners and sponsors of the Kyrgyz revolution, to 'our American friends' at Freedom House (who donated a printing press in Bishkek to the opposition), and to George Soros, a speculator who previously helped unseat Edward Shevardnadze's government in Georgia.

"Trying to help the democratic process, the Americans poured some $12 million into Kyrgyzstan in the form of scholarships and donations - and that was last year alone. Washington's State Department even funded TV station equipment in the rebellious southern province town of Osh." [8]

In June George Soros was obliging enough to confirm Otunbayeva's gratitude was not without foundation by stating, "I provided for Georgian public servants to get $1,200 a month....And now I am ready to support the creation of a fund like this in Kyrgyzstan." [9]

The two Georges - Bush and Soros - were not alone in fathering the "color" geostrategic transformations from the Balkans to the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. They received generous assistance from the likes of Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute and other alleged non-governmental organizations.

A week after the "tulip" takeover the project director for Freedom House, Mike Stone, summed up the role of his organization with two words: "Mission accomplished." [10]

A British newspaper that interviewed him added, "US involvement in the small, mountainous country is higher proportionally than it was for Georgia's 'rose' revolution or Ukraine's 'orange' uprising. [11]

Assistance also was provided by Western-funded and -trained "youth activists" modeled after and trained by those organized in Yugoslavia to topple the government of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000:

Compare the names:

Yugoslavia: Otpor! (Resistance!)
Ukraine: Pora! (It's Time!)
Georgia: Kmara (Enough)
Kyrgyzstan: KelKel (Stand Up and Go)

Behind them all, deposed Kyrgyz president Askar Akayev identified the true architects of his ouster. On April 2 he stated "There were international organisations who supported and financed the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan.

"A week before these events I saw a letter on the internet signed by the US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan. It contained a detailed plan for the revolution." [12]

The Kyrgyz Tulip (formerly Lemon, Pink and Daffodil) Revolution was as unconstitutional and as disruptive to the nation as its Georgian and Ukrainian predecessors were, but far more violent. Deaths and injuries occurred in the southern cities of Osh and Jalal Abad (Jalalabad, Jalal-Abad) and in the capital of Bishkek.

It was also the first "color" revolt in a nation bordering China. Not only did Russia and China voice grave concerns over the developments in Kyrgyzstan, Iran did also, seeing where the trajectory of "regime change" campaigns was headed.

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In the four decades of the Cold War political changes through elections or otherwise in any nation in the world - no matter how small, impoverished, isolated and seemingly insignificant - assumed importance far exceeding their domestic effects. World political analysts and policy makers asked the key question: Which way would the new government align itself, with the U.S. or the Soviet Union?

In the post-Cold War period the question is no longer one of political philosophy or socio-economic orientation, but this: How will the new administration support or oppose U.S. plans for regional and global dominance?

With Roza Otunbayeva as chief spokesperson if not head of a new Kyrgyz "people's government," there is reason to believe that Washington will not be dissatisfied with the overthrow of her former "tulip" partner Bakiyev. She has already confirmed that the American base at Manas will not be closed.

Less than two months after the 2005 coup Otunbayeva, then acting foreign minister, met with her U.S. counterpart Condoleezza Rice in Washington during which the latter assured her that "the U.S. administration will continue to help the Kyrgyz government promote democratic processes in the country." [13]

Shortly after the March "democratic transformation," its patron saint, Georgia's Mikheil Saakashvili, boasted that "Roza Otunbayeva worked in Tbilisi in recent years and was the head of UN office in Abkhazia. During the Rose Revolution she was in Georgia and knew everything that was happening...the Georgian factor was a catalyst of many things going on there [in Kyrgyzstan]."[14]

From the U.S. perspective she appears to have reliable bona fides.

Russia has put its air base in Kyrgyzstan on high alert, though comments from leading Russian government officials - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in particular - indicate an acceptance of the uprising which has already caused 65 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

But Russia attempted to put the best face on the revolt five years ago also.

Which direction the next Kyrgyz government takes will have repercussions far beyond the nation's small size and population (slightly over five million).

It could affect U.S. and NATO plans for the largest military offensive of the Afghan war scheduled to begin in two months in Kandahar province.

It could determine the future of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the two major potential barriers to Western military penetration of vast tracts of Eurasia.

The stakes could hardly be higher.

1) Stars and Stripes, June 16, 2009
2) Agence France-Presse, March 4, 2010
3) Agence France-Presse, April 3, 2005
4) The Messenger, March 31, 2005
5) The Hindu, March 28, 2005
6) Civil Georgia, May 10, 2005
7) Associated Press, April 4, 2005
8) Der Spiegel, April 4, 2005
9) Russian Information Agency Novosti, June 16, 2005
10) The Telegraph, April 2, 2005
11) Ibid
12) Associated Press, April 2, 2005
13) Interfax, June 15, 2005
14) Civil Georgia, March 30, 2005
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7.: Russia Deploys Two Companies Of Paratroopers To Kyrgyz Air Base

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Thu Apr 8, 2010 5:12 am (PDT)

http://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20100408/158481793.html

Russian Information Agency Novosti
April 8, 2010

Russia sends some 150 paratroopers to its airbase in Kyrgyzstan - General Staff

Prague: Russia has sent some 150 paratroopers to its Kant airbase in the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan to ensure the safety of families of Russian military staff, the General Staff chief Nikolay Makarov said.

Protests in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek have left at least 74 people dead and more than 500 injured.

"The president has decided to send two companies of paratroopers there and some 150 people have arrived in Kant," Makarov, who is with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague for the signing of a new arms cut deal, said.

Earlier a source in Russia's Defense Ministry said the Russian airbase was put on high alert, while the U.S. said its Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan was continuing to function normally.

Russian Air Force spokesman Vladimir Drik said the Russian airbase in Kant, around 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, is also continuing to function normally.
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8.: NATO Month In Azerbaijan: Military Deployments, Energy Security

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http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=119513

Azeri Press Agency
April 8, 2010

Azerbaijan University of Languages hosts meeting on NATO-Azerbaijan relations
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Baku: Romanian ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolae Ureki, who is representing NATO in Azerbaijan, has met with students of the Azerbaijan University of Languages (AUL) on Thursday within the framework of the NATO month in the country.

AUL rector Samad Seyidov spoke about the relations of Azerbaijan with international organizations and said NATO took a special place in these relations. "Today we have different ideas about NATO. It is a guarantor of democratic development, security and stability in Europe".

Ambassador Nikolae Ureki spoke about the 61-year activity of NATO. He noted that NATO-Azerbaijan relations are at a high level. He especially emphasized NATO's attention to the energy security.

In the end, a film about the NATO missions was shown.
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9.: Why Large-Scale Riots In Kyrgyzstan?

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Thu Apr 8, 2010 5:28 am (PDT)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-04/08/c_13242301.htm

Xinhua News Agency
April 8, 2010

Why large-scale riots in Kyrgyzstan?

-The United States recently decided to allocate 5.5 million U.S. dollars for the construction of a counter-terrorism training center in Kyrgyzstan.
One of the issues raised by the opposition during the unrest is to ask the United States to withdraw troops from the country's Manas air base.

BISHKEK: Large-scale riots broke out Wednesday in a number of cities and regions in Kyrgyzstan, including the capital of Bishkek.

Tens of thousands of opposition supporters in the small central Asian nation took to the streets, storming government buildings, besieging and eventually taking over the Presidential Palace, occupying the Parliament Building, and violently clashing with military and police forces.

Officials said more than 60 people were killed and about 400 others were injured during the riots.

Members of the Kyrgyz opposition said the immediate cause that triggered the large-scale unrest was the government's arrest of Bolotbek Sherniazov, a vice chairman of the opposition Ata-jurt (Fatherland) movement. On Tuesday afternoon, about 1,500 demonstrators besieged and then took over the state government building in Talas, taking the governor hostage and demanded the release of Sherniazov.

The government immediately dispatched a large number of police officers, who drove the crowds out of government buildings and freed the governor.

Kyrgyz Prime Minister Daniyar Usenov said Wednesday that 85 police officers were injured during the Talas incident, and 15 others were still missing.

The opposition had planned to hold a "People's Assembly" around the country on Wednesday, but the initiative was not approved by the government.

Kyrgyz authorities warned that if the opposition insisted on holding the so-called "People's Assembly," which was contrary to the Constitution and beyond the law's boundaries, security agencies will take resolute measures against them.

On Wednesday morning, opposition supporters launched large-scale protests near government buildings in many states and cities.

In Bishkek, thousands of demonstrators broke through security lines set up by the police in the suburbs, and gathered around the Presidential Palace.

They asked President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and Prime Minister Usenov to come out and talk to them face-to-face.

After the request was rejected, opposition supporters stormed the building, and clashed with police.

Meanwhile, opposition supporters in Talas, Narynskaya, Chu and other states also attacked and occupied local government buildings.

In Naryn, the state capital of Narynskaya, opposition supporters ousted the governor, throwing documents and flags out of the window of the governor's office. Azimbek Beknazarov, the country's former attorney-general and now one of the opposition leaders, declared in Naryn that the ultimate goal of the opposition is to take over the government.

On Wednesday afternoon, TV signals from the first and fifth channels of the state television were interrupted, and their programs were then completely shut down.

It was later confirmed that the headquarters of the national television had been took over by opposition supporters.

In addition, a staff member at Bishkek Manas International Airport told Xinhua that the airport will be temporarily shut down between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, and all flights were suspended.

Due to the tense situation, neighboring Kazakhstan and Tajikistan have strengthened security along their borders with Kyrgyzstan.

By Wednesday evening in Bishkek, Xinhua reporters saw the buildings of the Defense Department and the attorney-general's office engulfed in big flames, and constant shootings could be heard at city center.

Subsequently, a large number of protesters stormed the parliament building and damaged facilities there.

Upon the time when the story is released, most of the opposition leaders who were detained by the government have been released.

Omurbek Tekebayev,chairman of the opposition Atta-jurt movement, asked the government to resign.

Analysts say that since it seized power through a "color revolution," the current government has failed to properly address the economic and livelihood issues. With rampant corruption and nepotism, public discontent was growing.

Later last year, the government decided to double electricity and heating fees, and sharply raise water prices, which led to strong public dissatisfaction.

On March 10, demonstrators held massive rallies in Naryn, asking the government to withdraw its decision on price increases and large-scale privatization.

On March 17, the opposition decided to hold rallies across the country, demanding implementation of economic and political reform.

External factors also played a role in the unrest as the government's growing relations with the West caused concern and dissatisfaction from the opposition.

On Dec. 3 last year, France announced that it would open an embassy in Kyrgyzstan. On Feb. 10 this year, the European Union opened an embassy in Bishkek.

The United States recently decided to allocate 5.5 million U.S. dollars for the construction of a counter-terrorism training center in Kyrgyzstan.

One of the issues raised by the opposition during the unrest is to ask the United States to withdraw troops from the country's Manas air base.

(Xinhua writers Shadati, Li Bin, Zhao Yu, and Zhou Liang contributed to the story)
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10.: NATO Suspends Flights To Kyrgyz Air Base

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http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-47530920100408

Reuters
April 8, 2010

Afghan supply flights suspended from Kyrgyz base - NATO

KABUL: Flights supporting NATO operations in Afghanistan from a Kyrgyzstan air base have been suspended, but Kyrgyz political unrest has not seriously disrupted Afghan military operations, the NATO-led force in Afghanistan said.

The opposition in Kyrgyzstan - a poor, land-locked central-Asian state north of Afghanistan -- said on Thursday it had seized power and dissolved parliament after deadly protests forced President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to flee the capital.

The United States operates Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan as one of the main regional hubs for logistical operations to support the war in Afghanistan.

"Our understanding is that Manas relocated some aircraft and temporarily suspended flights in and out of the base. Those actions had no significant impacts on operations or logistical support in Afghanistan," said Lieutenant-Colonel Tadd Sholtis, spokesman for the NATO-led force in Afghanistan.

Manas is one of the main way-stations for troops and supplies to be flown into Afghanistan, and has been particularly busy this year as Washington deploys 30,000 extra troops ordered to Afghanistan by U.S. President Barack Obama in December.

(Editing by Alex Richardson)
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11.: Kandahar: NATO Commander Visits Upcoming Battle Site

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Thu Apr 8, 2010 5:37 am (PDT)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8608256.stm

BBC News
April 8, 2010

Nato Commander on Kandahar operation plans

Nato's top Commander in Afghanistan, US General Stanley McChrystal has accompanied Afghan President Hamid Karzai to Afghanistan's second city, Kandahar in the south.

Nato is in an advanced stage of planning for a major operation to end the significant Taliban presence there.

Lyse Doucet spoke to General McChrystal in Kandahar, and first asked him about Nato's plans.
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12.: New Kyrgyz Junta Leader: No Change With U.S., NATO Air Base

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Thu Apr 8, 2010 5:39 am (PDT)

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=119504

Azeri Press Agency
April 8, 2010

Roza Otunbayeva: "Nothing will be changed in the agreement between the Bakiyev administration and the United States regarding the presence of the US airbase"

Baku: Roza Otunbayeva, designated the head of an interim government, said separately that a key US airbase outside Bishkek vital to the NATO campaign in Afghanistan would remain open despite the chaotic shift in power in the capital, APA reports quoting Agence France-Presse.

"Nothing will be changed in the agreement between the Bakiyev administration and the United States regarding the presence of the US airbase", Otunbayeva said.
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13.: 750 More U.S.-Trained Georgian Troops Leave For Afghanistan

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Thu Apr 8, 2010 5:42 am (PDT)

http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=22159

Civil Georgia
April 7, 2010

Georgian Battalion Departs for Afghanistan

Tbilisi: Georgia sent 31st infantry battalion to Afghanistan on April 7 to serve alongside with the U.S. marines in the province of Helmand, the Georgian Ministry of Defense said.

A departure ceremony for 750 Georgian soldiers was held in the Vaziani military base outside Tbilisi, attended by Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia and other senior defense officials, as well as by U.S. ambassador in Georgia, John Bass; Lt. Gen. Richard F. Natonski, Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command and Brig. Gen. Paul W. Brier, Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe.

Before the departure, the 31st battalion underwent a six-month training course led by the U.S. marines.

Deployment of 31st infantry battalion will mark increase of number of Georgian troops in Afghanistan up to 950, making Georgia the largest per capita contributor to the Afghan operation. Georgia sent 175 soldiers to Afghanistan to serve under the French command last November.
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14.: Wesley Clark Sets Up "Consulting Firm"

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Thu Apr 8, 2010 5:44 am (PDT)

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EUDA300.htm

Associated Press
April 7, 2010

Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark starts consulting firm

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Retired Army general and former presidential candidate Wesley Clark is in a partnership to start a consulting firm that will work with businesses and governments.

Clark and Stephen R. Bova announced Wednesday that the Clark Bova Group LLC will be headquartered in Little Rock.

Clark says that the firm is designed to help local businesses or global enterprises with networking, finance, developing strategy and support services.

The firm will tap a network of experts that will help clients in the U.S. and abroad in specific areas.

Clark was Supreme Allied Commander Europe, where he led NATO forces. He ran for president as a Democrat in 2004.
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15.: Kyrgyz Upheaval Affects U.S. Military Supply Route To Afghanistan

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Thu Apr 8, 2010 5:48 am (PDT)

http://en.trend.az/regions/casia/kyrgyzstan/1665925.html

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April 8, 2010

Report: Kyrgyzstan upheaval endangers US route to Afghanistan

The US military is keeping a wary eye on the uprising in Kyrgyzstan, as it may affect a US military base in the Central Asian nation that supplies troops in Afghanistan, the US daily New York Times reported Thursday.

The newspaper said that US President Barack Obama had long courted now-deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to allow the continued use of the Manas military air base near the capital Bishkek, which houses 1,500 soldiers, DPA reported.

Bakiyev had initially cancelled the arrangement last year, but revived it after the US offered to pay 60 million dollars instead of the previously agreed-upon 17 million dollars.

Observers had deemed the initially planned closure of the base a concession by Kyrgyzstan to Russia and neighbouring China. Moscow granted the impoverished former Soviet republic loans shortly after.

Russia, however, also supports the US in its Afghanistan mission.

It had nevertheless opposed the idea of the US base, along with the Kyrgyz opposition, the newspaper reported. Opposition leaders had criticized the US for courting an authoritarian president while also hailing democracy, a situation they called embarassing.

That same opposition movement now appears set to take over power, placing the future of the base in doubt. Kyrgyz media had previously reported that the US planned to expand its presence in the country, which dates back to 2001.

Washington also secured transit agreements with the Central Asian republics of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan last year to supply its troops in Afghanistan.
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16.: Obama Meeting To Advance Bosnia Toward NATO Membership

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http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/2010-04-08/10181/Kosor_will_ask_for_NATO_Membership_Action_Plan_for_Bosnia

Croatian Times
April 8, 2010

Kosor will ask for NATO Membership Action Plan for Bosnia

Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor will ask for a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) for Bosnia and Herzegovina when she meets US President Barack Obama in Prague today (Thurs).

MAP, which is a guide book and advice programme for aspiring NATO members, will serve as another set of obligations that would help trace a new reform path in that country, the Croatian government said.

Kosor will meet the heads of ten other NATO member states from Central and Eastern Europe - Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania and Czech Republic.

Albania, which became a NATO member the same year as Croatia, was not invited, the Croatian daily Vecernji List reports.
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17.: No to NATO! Enters the Political Agenda

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Thu Apr 8, 2010 5:59 am (PDT)

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No to NATO! Enters the Political Agenda

07.04.2010

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The murmurs against NATO have been growing into a crescendo in recent years,
especially after the lies to Russia, the murderous campaign against Serbia
and the free hand given to the drugs growers in Afghanistan where under
NATO's guidance heroin production has increased not by four, but by forty
times. Now a worldwide anti-NATO wave has entered the political agenda.

Thirty-three political parties from twenty-seven countries representing all
the continents of the world have signed a declaration against NATO,
denouncing it as an imperialist and intrusive, meddlesome organism which
panders to the interests of those who control the arms lobby and does
nothing to solve real issues, while at the same time it is a supra-national
unelected body which controls the foreign policy of its member states (is
this constitutional?) and siphons off funds which are much needed for social
issues.

In a document entitled "For Peace! Against NATO!" the movement was launched
on April 1, undersigned by workers' and communist parties, declaring that
military expenditure in the USA and EU have reached record levels, while the
EU hides behind the Treaty of Lisbon as it implants itself as the military
block of NATO in Europe. Moreover, what exactly does NATO do?

"The Palestinian question is still unsolved, as is the question of Western
Sahara while imperialist crimes go unpunished," declares the declaration
while attempts have been made to draw lines on maps (Kosovo being a prime
example of the violation of international law and one of the power of NATO
over national legislative procedures).

In the name of fighting terrorism, NATO has launched a wave of intolerance
which has committed crimes against humanity, economic crimes, crimes against
democracy as its real objective is reached: using the alliance as a means
for the USA to grab the reins of power contained in the world's energy
resources, to control new technologies and to complete military and
geo-strategic domination of the globe while markets and peoples are
controlled, moulded and used.

NATO has managed to perpetuate itself under the falsity "new global
challenges" after the "reds under the beds" myth disappeared with the
voluntary institutional dissolution of the Soviet Union (against the wills
of its peoples). And it is this new strategy that NATO will take to Lisbon,
Portugal for its Summit in November.

NATO intends to reaffirm itself as a nuclear military block, while it talks
about nuclear disarmament. NATO intends to continue its expansion while it
talks about peace.

As NATO spends trillions of dollars in developing new weapons systems while
it looks for new wars to test them out (the Pentagon gives contracts for
weaponry tested in battle), a new political wave has taken shape and is
visible today on the political agenda.

Against NATO stands a determined new political order which fights for social
justice, which fights for a future international community living side by
side in peace, with the community of nations respecting each others'
cultures. Against NATO stands a demand for true nuclear disarmament and the
complete destruction of chemical and biological arsenals.

Against NATO stands an appeal for the end of all military bases on foreign
soil.

Against NATO stands a demand for the total dissolution of this organization,
for the end to provocation and interference in Latin America and the
Caribbean.

In short, NATO is at the basis of all the evils we see today in the
international community. NATO lied to Russia, proclaiming it would not
expand eastwards. It promptly did. If there is one universal lesson that the
history book taught us, it is never trust a liar.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY

PRAVDA.Ru

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18.: Central Command's Petraeus In Uzbekistan

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Thu Apr 8, 2010 6:12 am (PDT)

http://news.uzreport.com/uzb.cgi?lan=e&id=73988

UzReport
April 7, 2010

President of Uzbekistan receives head of US Central Command

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov received Commander of the US Central Command General David Petraeus at Oqsaroy residence in Tashent on 6 April.

Welcoming the guest, the head of the state said the level of current Uzbek-American relations was strong and stable, and are developing on a constructive and equal basis.

Uzbekistan and the USA are interacting in stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan....

At the meeting in Oqsaroy, General David Petraeus expressed sincere gratitude to the President of Uzbekistan for the warm welcome and noted that the US administration was interested in strengthening bilateral relations, UzA reported.

He also highlighted the importance of the initiatives of the leadership of Uzbekistan in stabilizing the situation in the neighboring Afghanistan.

During the talks, the sides exchanged opinions on the issues of further development of Uzbek-US cooperation and other areas of mutual interest. ===========================
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