Word: uzbekistan
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...UZBEKISTAN The government has pledged support for a U.S. war. As a host to U.S. forces engaged in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan has enjoyed warming relations with the U.S.-which help secure its independence from Moscow, and ward off mounting attacks by Islamic radicals...
...power is extraordinary. At the end of 2001, the U.S. had 255,000 active-duty troops overseas based in 148 nations. Since then, some 60,000 troops have been prepositioned for a possible invasion of Iraq, and the U.S. has developed major new bases in Qatar, Djibouti, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The worldwide military machine does not come cheap. The war in Afghanistan has so far cost an estimated $15 billion, and respectable guesses at the cost of a campaign in Iraq range from $100 billion to $200 billion. But the military's precise role in support of the President...
...Over the years, the former guerrilla says, Ukhia has hosted militant visitors from the southern Philippines, Indonesia, southern Thailand, Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan, even Uzbekistan and Chechnya. Videotapes showing al-Qaeda in training that were unearthed by CNN in August include footage from 1990 that feature Rohingya rebels. And one of the five signatories to bin Laden's Feb. 23, 1998 call for a jihad against America was Fazjul Rahman, who signed in the name of "the Jihad movement of Bangladesh." Fighters trained and given new identities in Bangladesh also regularly find their way to conflicts in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Indian...
...Uzbekistan, Kirill said, he and nearly all of his friends belonged to leagues and built and raced their own go-karts...
...team racing back home in Uzbekistan, and I was surprised to find that go-kart racing wasn’t popular among college kids in the States...