Upcoming Election Raises Specter Of Terror In Kyrgyzstan -- Washington TimesBISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The foiling of a terror plot by Islamic extremists in southern Kyrgyzstan over the weekend has underscored ethnic and regional tensions before presidential elections in Central Asia’s only parliamentary democracy.
The National Security Committee of Kyrgyzstan (GKNB) detained 11 members of the Islamic Jihad Union on Oct. 8 as part of a security operation in the southern province of Osh, according to GKNB leader Keneshbek Dushebayev.
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My Comment: The sentence that caught my eye was the following description of Kyrgyzstan ....
.... ethnic and regional tensions before presidential elections in Central Asia’s only parliamentary democracy.
Sighh .... it is a sad realization that there is only one parliamentary democracy in the whole of Central Asia, and it is now under threat from Islamic radicals.
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