Posted on 04/13/2010 6:33:53 AM PDT by edpc
JALALABAD, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) Kyrgyzstan's new rulers ordered President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to surrender by the end of Tuesday, threatening to seize him in a special operation if he continued to defy the interim government.
Bakiyev fled to the southern Jalalabad region from the capital Bishkek after troops fired on protesters in an uprising on April 7 that brought his opponents to power.
Bakiyev warned the self-proclaimed interim government that making any move against him could stoke further turmoil in the volatile Central Asian nation where the United States rents an air base used for the war effort in Afghanistan.
"There will be unpredictable consequences," he told Reuters as some 7,000 supporters rallied in Jalalabad, many waving banners and shouting: "Down with the bloody interim government."
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Getting interesting........
The opposition members are calling for the closing of the US controlled Manas Air Base, which is a significant base for Afghanistan.
Personally I hope the base moves to Almaty. It’s a much nicer place to live and work. That may be what Obama’s recent ass kissing session with Nazarbayev was about.
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