Ed Pilkington in New York
Saturday September 30, 2006
The Guardian
The president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, met George Bush in the White House yesterday vowing to continue to push for the modernisation of his central Asian country. "Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats, and age of consent has been raised to eight years old," he said.
Wow, interested enough in reform to meet with Cap'n Crusades anyway.
Update: I knew there was more to this than met the eye:
China to build billion-dollar pipeline
Wednesday 27 September 2006, 17:27 Makka Time, 14:27 GMT
China has approved the construction of a multi-billion dollar pipeline to carry gas imported from Turkmenistan to China's southern business city of Guangzhou.
...The pipeline would have to go through either Kazakhstan or a combination of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan...
Um, yeah, make that oily and gassy and ready to torture Cap'n Crusades.Think the Cap'n is taking advice from Kissinger?
Reading it up.
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