Russia contacted FBI ‘multiple’ times

Bryan Bender and Noah Bierman The Boston Globe 4/23/2013

Russian authorities alerted the FBI not once but “multiple’’ times over their concerns about Tamerlan Tsarnaev — including a second time nearly a year after he was first interviewed by FBI agents in Boston — raising new questions about whether the FBI should have focused more […]

Day four of ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan

Michael Schwirtz The New York Times 6/14/2010

OSH, Kyrgyzstan — Gangs of gunmen continued raids on ethnic Uzbek enclaves, and a refugee crisis grew at the border of this strategically important Central Asian nation on Monday, after four days of violence left swaths of the country’s ethnically mixed south in ruins.

The city of Osh, […]

Guess who helped overthrow Kyrgyzstan’s government?

Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 4/12/2010

It’s a darned good thing that Barack Obama signed a new START treaty with Russia that allows them to put resources into areas other than competing on upkeep of nuclear weapons. Now that Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev have that behind them, they can concentrate on more appealing projects — such […]

Kyrgyzstan: Coup in a U.S.-Allied Country?

Key Ally in Afghanistan War May Have Been Overthrown by Opposition Protestors

Jim Sciutto, Luis Martinez, Michael Murray ABC News 4/7/2010

Protests in Kyrgyzstan today were massive and frenzied. By the end of day, some reports said they had brought down the government of a crucially important U.S. ally.

The United States maintains an […]

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