http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/04/19/ap2682604.htmlKyrgyzstan's president threatened Wednesday to expel U.S. troops if the United States does not agree by June 1 to pay more for stationing forces in the Central Asian nation.
About 1,000 troops are stationed at an air base set up in December 2001 at Kyrgyzstan's main civilian airport near the capital, Bishkek. Most are American but there are also small French and Spanish contingents.
The facility is used as a transit point for troops going to or coming from Afghanistan and is a base for tanker planes that refuel military craft in Afghanistan. snip
Bakiyev's statement sends a worrying signal to Washington, which lost its other base in former Soviet Central Asia last year when Uzbekistan expelled U.S. troops following Western criticism of the government's bloody May 2005 crackdown on demonstrators.
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