America and the Axis of Thieves
by Justin Raimondo, October 31, 2011
"Herman Cain may not know or care who is the president of Uzbeki-beki-stan-stan, but the US government surely does. With the supply route to occupied Afghanistan via Pakistan increasingly problematic, the Americans are turning to what US officials have dubbed the “Northern distribution network” (NDN) to ensure the viability of their Central Asian outpost of empire. The key link in that network is Islam Karimov, the absolute ruler of the former Soviet republic, and a killer whose human rights record is on a par with Tamerlane’s – the Mongol conqueror whom Colin Wilson rightly called “the most spectacular sadist in world history.”
From his capital in Samarkand, in present day Uzbekistan, Tamerlane’s armies cut a path of death and destruction unrivaled in its murderous ferocity: when he took Zirih, in Turkey, he ordered 5,000 prisoners rounded up and decapitated, their heads tossed on a huge pyramidal pile in the town square. In Karimov’s Uzbekistan, however, where Tamerlane has undergone a rehabilitation, he is hailed by the government as a hero and an inspirer of national pride. In words inscribed on the walls of the Tashkent museum, Karimov extols the notorious mass murderer....
If somebody wants to understand who – and what – Karimov is, then they need only look at a record that rivals Tamerlane’s in the style of his savagery: repression on a vast scale, the murder and jailing of political opponents – there is documented evidence that prisoners have been boiled alive – climaxed by the slaughter of thousands of unarmed protesters in Andijan, in 2005, when Uzbek troops fired into a crowd....
On a recent trip to Uzbekistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited an auto factory where she sang the praises of the “partnership” between the state-owned Uzbek auto company and General Motors...."
by Justin Raimondo, October 31, 2011
"Herman Cain may not know or care who is the president of Uzbeki-beki-stan-stan, but the US government surely does. With the supply route to occupied Afghanistan via Pakistan increasingly problematic, the Americans are turning to what US officials have dubbed the “Northern distribution network” (NDN) to ensure the viability of their Central Asian outpost of empire. The key link in that network is Islam Karimov, the absolute ruler of the former Soviet republic, and a killer whose human rights record is on a par with Tamerlane’s – the Mongol conqueror whom Colin Wilson rightly called “the most spectacular sadist in world history.”
From his capital in Samarkand, in present day Uzbekistan, Tamerlane’s armies cut a path of death and destruction unrivaled in its murderous ferocity: when he took Zirih, in Turkey, he ordered 5,000 prisoners rounded up and decapitated, their heads tossed on a huge pyramidal pile in the town square. In Karimov’s Uzbekistan, however, where Tamerlane has undergone a rehabilitation, he is hailed by the government as a hero and an inspirer of national pride. In words inscribed on the walls of the Tashkent museum, Karimov extols the notorious mass murderer....
If somebody wants to understand who – and what – Karimov is, then they need only look at a record that rivals Tamerlane’s in the style of his savagery: repression on a vast scale, the murder and jailing of political opponents – there is documented evidence that prisoners have been boiled alive – climaxed by the slaughter of thousands of unarmed protesters in Andijan, in 2005, when Uzbek troops fired into a crowd....
On a recent trip to Uzbekistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited an auto factory where she sang the praises of the “partnership” between the state-owned Uzbek auto company and General Motors...."
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