It doesn't add up. Last year I was deployed at Karshi-Khanabad. I still email Uzbek friends. Uzbekistan is secular and nearly all Uzbeks want it to stay that way. Karimov is a dictator but a far cry from the world Islamist theocracy planned by the IMU.
This morning NPR Morning Sedition interviewed a Johns Hopkins Central Asian scholar. They cut him off since his answers didn't bash Bush. He said that Islamist sentiment is minimal in Uzbekistan which is under fire simply for being a U.S. ally.
If you kill 1,000, you wound thousands more. Where is the corroborating evidence? Newsweek is quoting Al-Jazeera for crying out loud, and where is their credibility now?
Uzbekistan is our friend. Consider the source of those who condemn our friends.
It's like the funerals of the suicide bombers... hundreds of wanna be suicide bombers wanting to die for Allah.... I say, "Let's grant their wish."