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By Claude Zullo (4/23/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: During the past year, NGOs have been a target of the international war on terrorism in Azerbaijan and Georgian because of the watchdog role they play in these fledgling democracies. In 2001, during a series of high-profile court hearings in Azerbaijan over one environmental NGO’s attempt to register, the Chief of the State Registration Department of the Ministry of Justice, Fazil Mamedov, noted that all NGO applications would be checked for possible connections with international terrorist organizations. In April 2002, Georgian President Shevardnadze argued in a speech that international terrorists might be supporting Georgian NGOs.
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By Stephen Blank (4/9/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: In November 2002, Turkmenistan announced that it had uncovered an attempted coup against its government that Russia had facilitated. Notwithstanding the neo-Stalinist grotesqueries of this coup and subsequent repression, there is good reason to believe this charge was not unfounded. It occurred just before a meeting of heads of state of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in Ashgabat to initiate a feasibility study on a gas pipeline originating in Turkmenistan that would flow through these two countries to Pakistan’s port of Gwadar in the Arabian Sea.
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By Daniel Linotte and Megumi Yoshii (4/9/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: Central Asian States are facing water problems that may still worsen due to climate changes, ineffective and wasteful water use due to poor infrastructure as well as poor maintenance, and inadequate development strategies relying on ambitious hydraulic schemes (e.g. the Lake of the Golden Century in Turkmenistan).
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By William D. O’Malley and Roger N. McDermott (4/9/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: Since 1999, Kyrgyzstan has been struggling to effectively confront a growing terrorist threat. Bishkek early on embraced the idea of forming rapid reaction forces within the CST, created in 2001, which it hoped would boost its neighbors’ commitment to provide military assistance in the event of crisis or conflict. It soon became clear that Moscow placed great emphasis on the potential for the CRDF to enhance regional security, and in the aftermath of the deployment of U.

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The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.

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