U.S. policy shifts in Central Asia
Late in the afternoon of Jan. 24, a U.S. military plane landed in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, carrying Admiral William Fallon, the commander of the U.S. Central Command.
Fallon, who oversees the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, had arrived for an introductory meeting with the Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, one of the post-Soviet world's durable strongmen.
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