Comments on: Trouble in Tashkent

By: guest

guest — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:28:13 +0000

As it turns, it was not an attack as reported. Security forced carried out special operation against armed bandits.
http://news.uzreport.com/uzb.cgi?lan=e&id=66369

The picture of officer sticked to news is provocative and irrelevant. It is unlikely that this road police officer had anything to do with this event.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:11:00 +0000

As it turns, it was not an attack as reported. It was special operation carried out by security forces against armed bandits.

The funny picture of officer sticked to news is irrelevant. It is unlikely that this road police officer had anything to do with this event.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:07:21 +0000

so it was not an attack as reported. It was special operation carried out by security forces against armed bandits.
The funny picture of officer sticked to news is irrelevant (it is unlikely that this road police officer had anything to do with this event).

By: BoZz

BoZz — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:14:06 +0000

Uzbek policemen kill two armed men during special operation

Special operation of the Uzbek enforcement bodies took place near Kukcha mosque not far from the city hospital No.1 in Tashkent at 6.30pm on 29 August, reported citing a source close to the Internal Affairs Ministry.

Two armed men were found out during the raid in one of flats of two-story house building. The police offered to surrender in order to avoid bloodshed. The gangsters tried to put up a resistance. After a short skirmish both offenders were killed.

The source said these bandits are connected with a number of grave crimes committed recently in Tashkent. At the same time, the information circulating in the Internet on some incidents in other districts of the capital have not been approved.

By: BoZz

BoZz — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:11:03 +0000

update –

Uzbek policemen kill two armed men during special operation

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:17:56 +0000

I’ve heard that you can get weapons at the Alaiski Bazaar and have seen that locals in the neighborhoods do posses weapons sometimes, but still nothing like in Afghanistan or the USA.

By: AJK

AJK — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:12:15 +0000

Just an innocent question from someone who doesn’t know: how easy is it to get a gun in Uzbekistan. I know it’s not Afghanistan (or Missouri, for that matter) in terms of availability, but is it safe to assume that the only folks who have guns in Tashkent are either gov’t or Serious Bad Dudes, or are they available to any drug runner, human trafficker, etc?

By: Oldschool Boy

Oldschool Boy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:19:53 +0000

The latest Ferghana gives only one location. Let’s see what Ferghana commentators will have to say. In Centrasia.ru there are arguments whether there was shooting in one or several places.

By: Schwartz

Schwartz — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:17:02 +0000

The comparison to LA is dead-on. You could have also said Philly or Camden.

My own guess is that it could very well be “bandits” in the sense of drug/human smugglers. neweurasia’s on the case!

By: michaelhancock

michaelhancock — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:17:35 +0000

One more thing – this isn’t LA we’re talking about. It’s Tashkent. While shootings and shooting deaths are [regrettably] more common in certain large megalopolises, they are something else entirely in Tashkent. I mention this for any visitors who think that jumping at a shooting in a foreign city is uncalled for. In our defense, Tashkent is more police-patrolled than any other Karimov town, and when shooting happens, one tends to assume it was planned.

Which is not to say that I have any clear ideas as to the shooters’ identities, plans, or manifestos. But… neither does anyone else contributing/commenting on this blog, I think.