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| Caucasus |
| We Kill Our Rebels The Israeli Way, Says Russia |
| 2003-01-07 |
| Source: smh.com.au The Russian army has switched tactics in combating Chechen separatist rebels and is now using the "Israeli method" to eliminate them, the Defence Minister, Sergei Ivanov, said yesterday. "The tactics of the federal forces have changed. It is now a precise operation during which we kill those who ought to be killed," Mr Ivanov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying. "We use the wholly Israeli method when we know the exact composition of a cell, and we do not let go until the entire cell has been eliminated. "If there is a cell of 10 people and we have eliminated nine out of the 10, we will pursue the 10th until his elimination." That's a lot more elegant than killing everybody in sight on the assumption the people you were looking for were among them... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Yes, Meryl, we're not in Kansas anymore. Unfortunately, its going to take more than clicking our heels, and chanting "There's no place like home. There's no place like home." to get us back. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-01-08 07:47:09 |
| #3 Okay, now I know I'm in Bizarro World. These are the same people who wouldn't let Russian Jews emigrate to Israel, who supplied all of Israel's enemies with arms and weapons, and who actually sent their pilots to war against Israel, and now they're imitating and crediting Israeli anti-terrorist tactics. Isn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse? |
| Posted by: Meryl Yourish 2003-01-07 23:32:48 |
| #2 I guess that this is a good thing, something from the forward march of civilization, compared to what transpired in Russia from the Mongol invasions onwards. Not that it warms my rather cold estimate of Russian political motivations in Chechnya. |
| Posted by: Tom Roberts 2003-01-07 17:48:01 |
| #1 "We shall give them - a good killing!" |
| Posted by: Tripartite 2003-01-07 16:31:36 |