The present Uzbek government is loaning an airbase to the U.S.
Report: Armed crowd in eastern Uzbekistan surrounds police, talks underway
Armed crowds in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan surrounded police in two city districts on Friday and talks are underway to free them, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported, citing President Islam Karimov's office.
The report came amid a surge of unrest in the town, as well as in the capital Tashkent, where a suicide bomber was shot and killed outside the Israeli Embassy on Friday morning.
And the people opposed to him are linked with radical muslim/terrorist groups.