Turkmenistan top build $70M monument in capital

Turkmenistan plans to build a soaring $70 million monument in the capital that will outstrip anything built during the ostentatious rule of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov.

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Was the Bush administration involved in the death of Turkmenistan's President, Saparmurat Niyazov? After all, Niyazov met all the criteria for Bush's policy of "regime change". He controlled massive natural gas reserves and he refused to take orders directly from Washington.

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The unexpected death of Saparmurad Niyazov, the repressive ruler of Turkmenistan, could unleash a power struggle in the energy-rich Central Asian republic, analysts here said, and disrupt natural gas supplies to the Russian energy behemoth Gazprom and its increasingly nervous cus …

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Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled the gas-rich Central Asian country for 21 years, has died aged 66, state television has reported. He reportedly died at about 0110 local time (2010 GMT Wednesday) of a sudden cardiac arrest, the TV said.

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