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After Outbreaks of Violence, Kyrgyzstan Is Still on the Brink

David Trilling, The Nation. July 5, 2010.

Kyrgyzstan is bracing for more violence as the country prepares a referendum to legitimize the fractured group of opposition leaders that came to power during the April uprising.

Claim: CIA Sent Prisoners Abroad to Be Boiled Alive and 'Raped with Broken Bottles'

Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. November 6, 2009.

Former British ambassador alleges CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan.

The Myth of U.S. Military Dominance in the Middle East

Gareth Porter, IPS News. March 9, 2009.

The notion that U.S. military presence has definitively shaped the region has been thoroughly discredited.