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...make a brief, tightly controlled visit last week, but they saw little. "There are still lots of troops on the streets," says Abdukadir Sattarov, an Andijan resident. Andijan could be a turning point in the resistance to Karimov's rule. Prominent local businessmen took up arms, and the revolt could also attract the involvement of battle-hardened Uzbek fighters from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ( imu). "Andijan has in a single stroke revitalized the imu," says Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. A senior U.S. diplomat in Moscow says Karimov should "turn toward a course of reform and democratization...
Cook’s two ships returned to England sans Cook, and Ledyard went back to his garrison. Feeling trapped in the rigid military, Ledyard deserted when his unit was stationed in Long Island for the Revolution. “Bound by the conventional and the ordinary, he would revolt,” Zug writes. Having quickly spent his navy pay, the poor Ledyard wrote a popular memoir of his voyage with Cook in an effort to drum up support among potential donors for a fur-trading expedition. Ledyard stirred up an interested group, but corruption abounded and Ledyard...
...local military base for weapons, then hit the local jail. There they freed inmates, including 23 well-known local businessmen accused of belonging to Akromiya, an offshoot of the banned Islamist party Hizb ut Tahrir. The men, who denied charges of extremism, quickly emerged as leaders of the revolt. Addressing the nation Saturday, Karimov said the rebels were Islamic extremists. Ten policemen had been killed, while the "criminals" had suffered "many more" casualties, he added. Meanwhile, Saidjakhon Zainabitdinov, a lawyer and leader of a human-rights group in Andijan, told Time that "hundreds" of civilians had been killed. Several thousand...
Cook’s two ships returned to England sans Cook, and Ledyard went back to his garrison. Feeling trapped in the rigid military, Ledyard deserted when his unit was stationed in Long Island for the Revolution. “Bound by the conventional and the ordinary, he would revolt,” Zug writes. Having quickly spent his navy pay, the poor Ledyard wrote a popular memoir of his voyage with Cook in an effort to drum up support among potential donors for a fur-trading expedition. Ledyard stirred up an interested group, but corruption abounded and Ledyard...
...TIME: In your long career you've survived things that would've destroyed lesser leaders. Recently you've had legal investigations, a revolt in your party, Yasser Arafat and the intifadeh. Do you feel that destiny is preserving you for some great moment that's coming...