The passive voice is on the march

The US State Department checks in today with their usual impeccably timed post-catastrophe travel warning for a country, and with an interestingly neutral version of what happened in one of their allies in the Global War on Terror, Uzbekistan:

In addition, on May 13, armed militants stormed a local prison, released its prisoners, and then took control of the regional administration and other government buildings. By the end of the day fighting broke out between government forces and the militants. There were reports indicating that several hundred civilians died in the ensuing violence. There were no reports of U.S. citizens who were affected by these events.

The geniuses in the State Department should follow Dubya's own theory of terrorism and have terror warnings ready to go for every undemocratic ally in the GWoT.