News Digest
RED CROSS AFGHAN JAIL ABUSE PROBE
By empty (6/9/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The US is to allow the Red Cross to visit a detention center in the Afghan city of Kandahar following accusations of prisoner abuse in US-run jails. The Red Cross was previously allowed to visit only the main holding camp at Bagram, near Kabul. Last month, the US ordered a \"top-to-bottom\" review of its detention centres in Afghanistan.TAJIK DRUG POLICE BURN HALF-TON OF HEROIN
By empty (6/8/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Police in Dushanbe burned 600 kilograms of heroin on 8 June. Faizullo Gadoev, head of the Tajik Interior Ministry\'s Drug Trafficking Department, told the news agency that the drugs were confiscated in the course of 2003-04. Senior prosecutor Rajab Tagaev told Asia Plus-Blitz that this is the third such drug burning in 2004, adding that 1,250 kilograms of narcotics have been confiscated in Tajikistan since the beginning of the year.FORMER AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER NAMED AMBASSADOR
By empty (6/8/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Vilayat Guliev, who served as foreign minister from October 1999 until April 2004, has been named ambassador to Poland. On 8 June, the online daily zerkalo.az quoted Guliev, who is 52 and a philologist by training, as saying that he considers his new appointment \"normal\" and proof that the traditions of Azerbaijani statehood are becoming stronger.SEVERAL EXCHANGES OF FIRE REPORTED BETWEEN ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN
By empty (6/8/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least four exchanges of fire between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops have been reported over the past three days. According to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, Armenian troops opened fire on Azerbaijani positions in two locations in Azerbaijan\'s Gazakh Raion late on 6 June. In addition, one Azerbaijani serviceman was killed and a second injured when Armenian forces opened fire on Azerbaijani positions in Goradiz, some 260 kilometers southwest of Baku according to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.Visit also
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