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Hmmmm, well, ok.
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http://news.uzreport.com/mir.cgi?lan=e&id=15255

SCO: Bin Laden is not in Central Asia
19.07.2006 17:57:31
Director of the Executive Committee of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS SCO) Vyacheslav Kasymov refuted the statements published by the western media suggesting that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was hiding in Central Asia.

Several western media have recently published a statement by former U.S. anti-terrorist coordinator Richard A. Clarke who claimed that Osama Bin Laden might be hiding in one of the Central Asian states of the former Soviet Union, Somalia or Iran.

"The analysis of materials available at the SCO RATS indicates that the statement about Osama Bin Laden's possible presence on the territory of Central Asian region is unfounded," Kyrgyz state information agency Kabar quoted Kasymov.

The Head of the Anti-Terrorist Center said information available to RATS was confirmed by the heads of special services of the SCO member states. According to Kasymov, the representatives of the SCO security services think that Clarke's statement "aimed at discrediting the work of the anti-terrorist centers supporting security in Central Asia."

The Director of the RATS Executive Committee said the main threat for the region today were "the growing terrorist aspirations of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, particularly in the Ferghana Valley."

"Special services of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are taking all the necessary measures to prevent terrorist attacks on the territory of the whole region," he said.