Dawn: US warplanes land in Uzbekistan

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sat Sep 22 23:37:17 PDT 2001


DAWN - the Internet Edition

23 September 2001 Sunday 05 Rajab 1422

US warplanes land in Uzbekistan

TASHKENT, Sept 22: US warplanes have landed in the former Soviet

republic of Uzbekistan, as Russian President Vladimir Putin, after an

extended silence, voiced readiness to cooperate with US plans to

strike Afghanistan - but only after they are approved by the UN

security council.

Uzbek military sources said on Saturday that the US jets were

stationed just outside the Uzbek capital of Tashkent and were equipped

with surveillance devices, presumably aimed at the Taliban.

Uzbek officials had previously denied that they were willing to

cooperate with the US in its fight against the Taliban.

Heavily armed US attack helicopters are still stationed on a military

base some 40 kilometres east of Tashkent, following joint NATO-Uzbek

military exercises in the region this month.

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