Word: bishkek
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...enemy No. 1. On Feb. 22, Iranian agents allegedly intercepted Abdolmalek Rigi, leader of Jundallah, a Sunni extremist group that has waged a low-level war against Tehran for the better part of a decade, killing hundreds. According to state media, Rigi, 27, was on a flight bound for Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, from Dubai when the Iranians forced the plane to land at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. A day later, Iran's Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi hailed Rigi's arrest as proof of "the power of the Islamic Republic." Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar announced on state radio...
...know when you've arrived by the number of American military aircraft lining the runway. Located 25 km north of the capital Bishkek, the U.S. air base at Manas - Kyrgyzstan's main airport - briefly hit international headlines after the Kyrgyz parliament, under pressure from Russia and China, voted to shut it down in 2009. The U.S government's offer to pay much higher rent meant that the base (now officially called a Transit Center in deference to local sensibilities) survived the threat of closure. It remains today as an embarkation point for troops bound for Afghanistan, and a reminder...
...SATURDAY Take a morning stroll round central Bishkek, a time capsule of Soviet-era architecture. Half close your eyes in the vast Ala-Too Square and picture the Red Army parading through the plaza in Stalin's day. History buffs should visit the Frunze House Museum, tel: (996-312) 66 06 07, a thatched cottage once home to Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze, the Bolshevik general who led his forces to victory against the region's basmachi (Muslim guerillas) in 1920. The State Historical Museum, tel: (996-312) 62 61 05, with its outlandish shrine to Lenin, is a must...