 Complete the following phrase:  Jon Purnell presented his credentials as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Uzbekistan on January 28, 2004. In the aftermath of a href911911a, Uzbekistan had become an area of heightened importance to the US, owing to its border with Afghanistan, and a strategic ally in the War on Terror. His British counterpart, who had been there more than a year before him, was Craig Murray, who writes about their encounters in his memoir Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassadors Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror 2006. One of the most serious events that Purnell had to deal with was the May 2005 