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2011-08-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
File under: Global Jihad

#1 Uzbeks drank my battery acid!

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-08-10 08:52|| 2011-08-10 08:52|| Front Page Top

#2 In all fairness, the US and Uzbekistan were getting very friendly, and the US was jump starting a bunch of businesses there (I bought a bunch of very high quality Uzbekistan made t-shirts at a nonsensically low price), as well as lots of talk of US military bases and NATO membership.

However, a whole bunch of hardcore Islamists decided to overthrow the government, starting with violent riots, and the Uzbek government responded by putting them down, HARD. They are secular and mean it, and have zero tolerance for Islamic state b.s.

In any event, the killed a bunch and imprisoned a bunch more, that got the typical pro-Islamist whiners complaining. But then, a single incident, true or not, totally soured the milk with Washington.

Allegedly, the Uzbek secret police took one of the top leaders of the Islamists, and boiled him in a cauldron.

That was just a tad too primitive, which is a damn shame, because otherwise, Uzbekistan would have made a fine ally. To write off an entire country because some Islamist got what was coming to him in a less conventional way is just sad.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-10 10:41|| 2011-08-10 10:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Funny, I just saw a Uzbekistani restaurant the other day, for the first time ever. Cool decor, unique menu. I got the namecard to return later. Wow, what a spiffy find! Authentic cuisine, straight from Tashkent.

I showed my friend the namecard, and he quizzed me about the location of the place. Turns out, it's the local place where you go to buy hashish. I felt like a moron.

Posted by gromky 2011-08-10 11:24|| 2011-08-10 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Gromky:

"Everybody goes to Rick's."

Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-10 11:26|| 2011-08-10 11:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Not surprisingly, there are several Rick's cafes in Morocco, though none serve alcohol. One, at least, has gone for the entire look and feel of the Cafe Americain seen in the movie, except not called Cafe Americain, for obvious reasons.

Though in an oversight, nobody has opened a cafe in Morocco fashioned after Sidney Greenstreet's Blue Parrot.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-10 11:48|| 2011-08-10 11:48|| Front Page Top

#6 "Uzbeks drank my battery acid!"

CCCP-1....SCTV...nice :)

Posted by Shakey Steve 2011-08-10 22:17|| 2011-08-10 22:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Uzbeks.

Posted by tu3031 2011-08-10 22:30|| 2011-08-10 22:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Probably the single funniest SCTV episode of all time :)

Posted by Shakey Steve 2011-08-10 22:34|| 2011-08-10 22:34|| Front Page Top

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