Needlenose

Guest post from Spy Buddy:

Kazakhstan is now heading up the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) for 2010, which is ironic since the Associated Press has reported Kazakhstan has almost concluded a deal with Iran to export 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore .

States from Europe, Central Asia and North America to form the largest regional security organization in the
world.  According to the OSCE’s website, that Organization addresses a wide range of security-related issues such as military and human rights.  And we all know that Iran has been determined a rogue state due to its political and military policies (i.e. building nuclear weapons and holding fraudulent elections) and continues its poor human rights records with ordering death sentences to the opposition party as well as raping, torturing and murdering rounded up protesters.

While its chilling to think Iran getting hold of so much uranium its even worse seeing Kazakhstan leading the OSCE since its does little to uphold the organization’s charter. Kazakhstan is ranked 142 out of 174 by
Reporters Without Borders.  Just recently the government jailed Yevgeny Zhovtis-a prominent human rights activist, and in December Gennady Pavlyuk, a Kyrgyz opposition journalist, was apparently
thrown from the sixth-floor window of an apartment with his hands and feet bound with duct tape.

I now understand why Sacha Baron Cohen selected Kazakhstan as the home nation for Borat.

I guess defenestration is making a comeback!