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Uzbekistan: the next apartment over

ARTICLE: Militant attacks strike eastern Uzbekistan, Jane's, 03 June 2009

When you indulge in your opponents' desire for a "central front," you do the region a favor by drawing in a lot of violent extremists. But when you spray that apartment, in hopes of killing and/or driving off the cockroaches, then the next apartments over are forced to deal with the flow (up to now, Pakistan, but here, Uzbekistan too).

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But you also try to use slow IW poison bait that they bring to the new apartment. Also, as we did in Iraq, you get computer networked fingerprints, pictures and DNA samples of possible foreign terrorists that want to leave the old nest. That can make them pariahs. The terrain and lack of real national boundaries around some parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan make those methods more difficult ... but there are other techniques ... like the subtle identity info collection methods shown in CSI shows.

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