LONDON (Reuters) - Provided Kyrgyzstan does not descend into total chaos, its ethnic violence is unlikely to hand gains to militant Islamists whose creeping influence in central Asia is testing nerves from Moscow to Beijing. Ethnic Uzbek refugees, fled from clashes in the city, gather on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border, while waiting for permission to escape to Uzbekistan, near Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan, June 15, 2010. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov) Radical groups sympathetic to the Taliban or al Qaeda have had nothing to do with the unrest that has cost at least 176 lives since June 10 in the country's worst clashes for 20 years. But analysts say any radical Islamist attempt to use the strife to impose...
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