TURKMENISTAN
Estimated to have largest gas reserves in the world (undiscovered reserves up to 37 billion barrels)
UZBEKISTAN
Like Kazakhstan supports bombing Afghanistan
KYRGYSTAN
Favours pre-emptive bombing as does Russia
IRAN
Second largest gas reserves in the world.
Mazar-e-Sharif
is the centre of terrorist training camps. Uzbek, Chechen and Uighur (Chinese) separatists operate from here.
Major opium cultivation centre
Another centre of terrorists. Osama bin Laden currently based here. Iranian dissident groups seeking base too.
PAKISTAN
Supports Afghan terrorists, sending them to Kashmir through their borders
Secessionist movements in neighbouring countries and Russia
