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Russian media sources are running "it wasn't us" and "it was Chechens and other non-Uzebeks". Meanwhile the Uzebek dictatorship, a Washington client regime, is still keeping out all the body counters and is sticking with its "173 foreign criminals and terrorists, directed from abroad, killed by heroic forces of law and order" story.

So, there's buzz that some part of the set of actors were non-Uzebeck, and no independent body count is allowed, so my truth-in-sending meter for the Hizb ut-Tahrir higher today than it was when it sailed over the transom the afternoon of May 30th. The human rights observers active in Andijan May 12 -- 15 have stopped transmitting and the wire services are only reporting the Uzbek government, or the Russian (above) or other governmental noise sources.

John Edwards conducted a week of guest posting, opening the experimenal "TPM Cafe" sub-site-cum-b-board, I spent some time commenting. To what end? Ah! I've no idea. At least I got a former Wampum reader who'd lost his/her bookmarks after the heat (or kinetic) death of a machine, from Ohio, interested in the plume that connects Maine and Ohio (and W. Virginia and western Pennsylvania).

And we closed on the house today, picked up the tow, and are off to fetch next year's movable feast. MB will have details on Trip to Wonderful.

Posted by EBW at June 3, 2005 03:15 PM | TrackBack