| The State Department said Tuesday it has information that terrorists may be planning attacks in Uzbekistan in early September during the country's Independence Day celebrations. The warning to Americans traveling or living in the Central Asian nation comes less than a month after triple suicide bombings at the U.S. and Israeli embassies and the general prosecutor's office in Tashkent. Uzbek authorities in the predominantly Muslim nation blamed the July 30 attacks on al-Qaida-linked radical Islamic groups based outside the country. They said the same groups were responsible for a series of explosions and assaults on police in late March and early April in Tashkent and the central Bukhara region that claimed 47 lives. |