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On November 27, as American and Afghani forces laid siege to the last remaining Taliban strongholds, a small group of officials and executives presided over what may be an even more important milestone in central Asian history. Gathered in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, the VIPs inaugurated the first major pipeline linking the rich new oil fields of the Caspian basin to western markets. Yet as the ministers and businessmen sought to highlight the contribution the new pipeline would make to regional stability, the country at the other end of the $2.6
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