Rice Wins Assurances on Kyrgyz Air Base

FoxNews (AP Story) ^ | Oct 11, 2005 | unattributed

[SandRat]

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The United States won new assurances Tuesday that an important air base used to support the war in Afghanistan will remain open as long as necessary.

Rice and Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev (search) signed a brief statement promising open-ended U.S. use of the Manas air base for Afghan operations.....

[SandRat]

Sect'y Rice on the Job

[Pamlico]

Great! How much did this little agreement cost? Who knows, but I think these guys should be paying us. It is in their interests that we are in their country.

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