Alamane:
And the One Place Madilene Halfbrite hasn't Visited is
the Oval Office of Ubangistan. No wonder the U.S.S.R.
Fell Apart. Who what's to live in Satelite Country's that
Sound like Dupont Carpet Commercials??? Especially
Like the name of the Last Country Mentioned Sounds
Like "Trashkent". Then you have what sounds like
"Smartland" and "Bruhaha". Which none of them had
visited first and seems much about the last. It Seems to
me, We as the "one's" stuck with the Bills for all the "Trips"
these people are making, to Recall Them Home. Instead
of Involving Us in Moronic Foreign Policy that pulls us into
Future Foreign Conflicts. Finally, Why do we have Freeh
[oxymoron] Establishing Satelite Offices of the FBI in all
these Foreign Countries, When the Congress established
the FBI as a Domestic Agency Only?They are in Violation
of the Constitution. Reno should be Retired and sent packing
back to "Disgraceland" along with the rest of the Klintonestas.
Keep up the Good Work.
~ Mike ~
U.A.I.C.-VT.
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> WED APR 12 2000 12:04 P.M. G.M.T.
Albright set to plant US firmly in Central Asia's new 'Great Game'
by Matthew Lee
WASHINGTON, April 12 (AFP) - When Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
arrives
in Central Asia on a three-country tour this weekend, she will be placing
the
United States firmly in the middle of a new "Great Game" -- a battle for
influence in the region once waged by imperial Britain and Russia.
Though access to India, control of overland Euro-Asian trading routes,
including the fabled Silk Road, and territorial gain have been replaced as
prizes in the 21st-century version of the game, US officials believe the
stakes
are just as high now as they were when Victorian Britain and Czarist Russia
waged their war of espionage and skullduggery.
Keen to be a player in the region with massive oil reserves as well as to
check
the spread of drugs and Islamic terrorist groups, the United States has
dispatched three top officials to Central Asia's former Soviet states in the
past month.
Albright -- who will visit Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan after a
stop
in Ukraine -- is following in the steps of CIA director George Tenet and FBI
director Louis Freeh, who met with regional officials in the region to
discuss
intelligence and law enforcement issues.
Albright will bring with her a slightly different, but equally critical
focus,
closing the triangle begun by Tenet and Freeh with a diplomatic mission
billed
as a visit centered on regional security, democracy building and promoting
rule
of law.
She will be offering about three million dollars in border enforcement aid
to
each of the three nations, US officials say.
"These countries are located in an area of great challenge and we've got a
tremendous interest in helping them guard against the problems endemic to
the
area," said one senior official.
The official downplayed the significance of the three trips coming so close
together but allowed that the importance of the region made it "only natural
that we would have a lot of visitors out there."
"The key is to keep this area stable and keep it from becoming infected with
the kinds of viruses coming out of, say Afghanistan," said the official who
later added Pakistan and Iran to the list of countries from which Islamic
terrorism is being exported.
After leaving Ukraine on Saturday, Albright is to travel to Astana where
fierce
competition over the huge petroleum deposits on Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea
coast
has long engaged US oil firms despite recurrent complaints of corruption and
other hitches in the privatization process.
"They still haven't done enough to create the right environment to keep
investment coming in instead of scaring it away," the official said,
describing
the Kazakh stop as the most commercial of the three.
Central to Albright's message will be the removal of business restrictions,
particularly a cap of exports of oil by foreign companies, which has vexed
US
firms, the official said.
"We would like to see that cap lifted either before or during the
secretary's
trip, if not after," the official said.
>From Kazakhstan, Albright will make her way to Kyrgyzstan on Sunday -- the
smallest of her three destinations and the only one where she will not stay
overnight.
The once-burgeoning new democracy there is now challenged by repressive
government measures as well as the threat of terrorism.
Washington has condemned the arrests of several opposition figures and
deplored
fraud in Kyrgyzstan's February elections which US officials have termed
"disappointing."
"Kyrgyzstan was one of the leading lights in Central Asia but it has kind of
slipped off the path," the senior official said. "It is susceptible and we
want
to make that point to the Kyrgyz."
Terrorism is a credible threat there. Last fall, some 1,000 Islamic rebels
took
four Japanese geologists hostage for two months there before releasing them
unharmed and retreating south through Tajikistan into Afghanistan.
Washington believes those rebels have now relocated in the valleys along the
Tajik-Kyrgyz border, officials said.
Albright's last and longest stop beginning late Sunday will be Uzbekistan,
arguably the most brutal Great Game playing field after Afghanistan and the
only country on her itinerary that shares a border with that shattered
state.
Terrorism fears have also run high in Uzbekistan following a series of
explosions that rocked the capital of Tashkent in February 1999, killing 16
people, and Washington is urging the Uzbeks to step up border control
cooperation with the Kyrgyz.
"They need to cooperate if they are going to combat this," the official
said.
Side trips from Tashkent will take Washington's top diplomat to Samarkand,
key stop on the Silk Road, and Bukhara, made famous in part by its murderous
emir who in 1842 ordered the public executions of two British emissaries as
the
Great Game got underway.
Copyright (c) 2000, AFP
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