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Rumors Abound about Uzbek Role in U.S. Attack Plan
Monday, October 1, 2001
(21:20)
Reuters

On Friday, an aviation official in neighboring Kazakhstan told Reuters a U.S. C-37 military plane carrying a government delegation had overflown Russia and Kazakhstan on its way to Uzbekistan. The Uzbek Foreign Ministry would not comment, and the U.S. embassy denied a delegation was in Tashkent at all.

Text: Reuters
U.S. aircraft flying in – and then flying out before anyone can spot them. Mystery top-level delegations nobody sees.

As Washington prepares military action against targets in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan following the suicide attacks on New York and Washington, neighboring Uzbekistan is a-swirl in rumor that suggests destiny has marked it out for a key role.

But no one in this secretive state will say what.

Lying directly north of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan was the launch pad for the Soviet Union's ill-fated 1979 intervention.
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