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Destro4/19/2013 2:14:36 pm PDT

re: #201 klys

The article you linked makes claims that the Tulip Revolution was funded (at least in part) by the CIA. That’s a big claim and it caught my attention. I did some quick looking around and tried to find some more sources online referencing that, came up with nothing. Hence coming back to ask for more sources for this claim. Do you have other sources that can point to this?

I also commented on the fact that you copied and pasted the entire article into your page with no commentary, which you did - second time I’ve seen you do it, so I said something this time.

re: #217 Feline Fearless Leader

I’m looking at a few reviews of Rall’s most recent couple of books. Given the sources of those it’s hard to tell since they seem to be as polarized as Rall is. But if some of their quotes of Rall himself are accurate I have the impression that Rall himself is a moonbat with a pretty loaded agenda.

So his knowledge of Central Asia might be good, but I would still be showing caution since I suspect his political outlook and polarization would be coloring his comments.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kyrgyzstan/1486983/Quiet-American-behind-tulip-revolution.html

Quiet American behind tulip revolution

“Mission accomplished,” said Mike Stone, the pudgy, bearded American in question, in his office outside the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, where just over a week ago a crowd drove out President Askar Akayev and his family.

Aged 52, Mr Stone is project director for Freedom House, a pro-democracy foundation part-funded by the American government.

It set up Kyrgyzstan’s only independent printing plant, publishing the opposition newspapers that fuelled popular discontent in the weeks prior to the so-called tulip revolution.

But he denies promoting the government’s overthrow. “When I say mission accomplished, it has nothing to do with the revolution,” he said. “We printed newspapers. The intention was to assist media development. It wasn’t to create a revolution.”

Nevertheless, Washington is keen to describe recent events in Kyrgyzstan as part of a wave of democratisation - and it is happy to take some of the credit. Aid workers admit that Freedom House and other organisations raised an awareness in Kyrgyzstan that things could be done differently. US involvement in the small, mountainous country is higher proportionally than it was for Georgia’s “rose” revolution or Ukraine’s “orange” uprising.