Uzbek Ruler: New Saddam? ("US Ally Makes Saddam Look Like Choir Boy")

[Hissyspit]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0516/dailyUpdate.html?s=yahw

Uzbek ruler: a new Saddam Hussein?
Critics of the 'tyrant of Tashkent' say US ally makes Hussein look 'like a choir boy.'

By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

He's called the "tyrant of Tashkent" in a Monday editorial by The London Telegraph.

One of the rebel leaders in his country says that he makes Saddam Hussein look like "a choir boy." And Sunday, British Foreign Minister Jack Straw said there had been a "clear abuse of human rights" in rioting in his country where the CBC reports police and troops have been accused by aid groups of killing as many as 700 people, including women and children.

But Uzbekistan's president Islam Karimov, who denies his troops opened fire on civilians, is "seen by Washington as an important ally in its so-called war against terrorism and provides it with a key air base in central Asia," and so he is unlikely to be strongly condemned, reports the Guardian.

But Radio Free Europe reports that last week State Department spokeman Richard Boucher said the US had in fact continued to criticize Tashkent's human rights record in the annual report issued by the State Department.

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[KingOfLostSouls]

1. HA, "Criticize his human right's record."

just like they do with the saudis

"yeah thats real bad, its terrible what you did."

but then mention of saddam pops up

"HE'S A DICTATOR WHO MURDERED HIS OWN PEOPLE!!!"

fucking liars and thieves is all they are

[RBHam]

2. Same old, same old...

Mass graves? Who cares!

Just don't switch to the Euro, Islam old buddy!

[carnie_sf]

3. Not surprising

when you consider Saddam was originally our man too.

[Swamp Rat]

4. This is unbearable

So much killing for the sake of American oil interests and global hegemony - the Pax Americana.

[fujiyama]

5. I think I recall hearing

that Uzbekistan recieved massive amounts of military aid after the Afghanistan operation.

Along with Karimov and Musharraf (the two dictator buddies on the admin payroll), we've set ourselves up for a nice duet (and I'm sure it's worse when ya look at the others) of war criminals that may one day be a problem for the US.