Word: kyrgyz
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...From first light on Sunday, women in thick brown veils, families on donkey carts and men dangling chickens from bicycle handlebars throng the streets. A riot of headgear?Mao caps, white Kyrgyz ak-kalpaks, woolly Turkmen telpeks and the black-velvet hats of local Uighurs?reveals the diversity of the traders. Behind food stands, cooks dish out noodles; grinning barbers with wicked blades offer death-defying shaves. This is the place to buy a fur coat or an intricately inlaid knife. Or, less exotic but well traveled, a bottle of Head & Shoulders shampoo...
AFGHANISTAN Al-Qaeda Escape Thirteen men killed in a gun battle with Afghan security forces were high-ranking al-Qaeda members who had hours earlier escaped from prison, said Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. He said that the men - 12 Pakistanis and one Kyrgyz national - had been caught late last year, but they had apparently sawn through bars on a prison window and fled the capital Kabul. The firefight took place at an isolated police post at Binizar about 15 km southeast of Kabul. Two government soldiers and one civilian also died in the fighting...