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Major Found in Kyrgyzstan Is 'Stable' - Kyrgyz spinning fable???
Something about this story makes me think "dipsy doodle." I'm not sure what, but the smell's wrong...
A U.S. Air Force officer who went missing for three days says someone stuffed an object in her jeans pocket with a note saying it was bomb and telling her to go to a site in Bishkek, where kidnappers grabbed her, Kyrgyz authorities said Saturday.
Ah yes, Kyrgyz authorities. The very essence of probity. If you can't trust the ex-Soviet officials in the 'Stans, who CAN you trust???
They said Maj. Jill Metzger reported feeling as if she were in a trance as she followed the instructions.

U.S. officials said the 33-year-old officer was in "stable condition" after she turned up Friday night and had been moved to another American base in the region. Metzger disappeared Tuesday in Bishkek, capital of this former Soviet state in Central Asia, while shopping at the TsUM department store for souvenirs before a scheduled departure from the country on Friday. Her disappearance touched off an extensive search by Kyrgyz police and by U.S. military personnel, including 22 special agents. But no trace was found until late Friday when Metzger knocked on the door of a house in Kant, a town about 22 miles from Bishkek, and told its residents she had been abducted, Kyrgyz Deputy Interior Minister Omurbek Suvanaliyev said.

Military officials said Metzger was a newlywed and had been scheduled to travel with her husband to Jamaica for a belated 10-day honeymoon in the Caribbean. (The Kyrgyz insist that) Metzger told Kyrgyz police she had been abducted by three young men and a woman in a minibus and held in a rural area about 30 miles from the capital, Suvanaliyev told The Associated Press. Kemilbek Kiyazov, chief of the Chuysk regional police department, said, "Her first testimony was that when she split up with her group in the department store, someone put a hard object and a note saying it was an explosive in a back pocket of her jeans. "In the note there were also detailed instructions about where to go and what to do. Metzger says it was as if she were in a trance and fulfilling someone else's wishes."
Read the rest of the article -- US officials are telling a very different story.

Posted by: Fred 2006-09-10
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=165453