I never said I had any sources, I was just making an observation on the well known proclivities of some people from that part of the world.
""The release also says that calls were made *to* her phone, and the location of the phone was near the bus station. Possible translation problems, but she could very well have been forced to make calls."
I meant the release you are quoting here, it is a source I can't find, but it would conflict with the New York Times article I quoted.
I found the one about the phone calls, it is from the first news of last thursday, in later stories they only mention the outgoing calls.
"Sutalinov said that other witnesses had reported seeing Metzger talking on a public phone at the bus station, according to local news reports.
The ministry has said that cellphone records showed that Metzger made calls to a former Soviet farm in the afternoon, before disappearing, and that her phone was called twice in the evening before being shut off.
At the time of one of the calls, the cellphone was located near the city's eastern bus station, the ministry has said.
The city police said they had also reviewed the phone records, but said their review showed that Metzger had called the bus station and a residential district in Bishkek.
It was not clear whether the two police agencies were discussing the same calls, and why their public statements differed. It also was not clear whom the major might have called. Carpenter said the major did not speak Russian, Kyrgyz or Uzbek, the predominant local languages."