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| Russia: foreign intelligence agency linked to Beslan |
| 2004-11-28 |
| A foreign intelligence agency may have been involved in the Beslan school massacre, a Russian official has said. The revelation was made by Alexander Torshin, the head of a parliamentary commission investigating the killings. He said it would be premature to name the foreign government suspected of assisting the terrorists. But he added: "When we gather enough convincing evidence, we won't hide it." Russian officials initially said the attackers killed at the school included nine or 10 Arabs, but they never provided any proof of that. Shamil Basayev, a Chechen warlord who claimed responsibility for the raid, said the militants involved included two Arabs. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #18 Have to agree with Aris. I think Georgia is the winner of this dubious honor whether or not they had anything to do with it. Since it looks like Ukraine may slip away, Georgia is the next most desirable morsel on the Black Sea for reabsorption into Greater Russia. However, Georgia is only 11% muslim whereas Azerbaijan is 93% muslim. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-11-29 12:16:00 AM |
| #17 hmmm, sounds rather Byzantine |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-28 11:16:38 PM |
| #16 Lex - wrong address, your comment should be forwarded to the Cypriote minister of justice, Mr. Doros Theodourou. PS. By the way - it's makes sense more than you think - there is a large Chechen community in Turkey... |
| Posted by: Matt K. 2004-11-28 9:27:09 PM |
| #15 One way or another, it'll lead back to America and Washington - the Clintons and their cabal may covertly be for Communism, OWG, and anti-Americanism, but Left-beloved dialecticism, alternatism, alteriorism, and equalism premises/claims it doesn't matter! That one is a former POTUS, and his spouse a wannabe POTUS and current US Senator from a major US State, belies-affirms USG andor establishment involvement, no matter how surreal or aesthetic! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2004-11-28 8:36:58 PM |
| #14 "but the Soddies are extremely risk-averse." I would say they have a different modus operandi--they do things smarter, as they see it. They've been happily exporting their jihad indoctrination centers--madrassas--for half a century, like true moderates they are, bidding their time. Mullahs are juvenile hotheads from their POV (beside that them being shi'ite and thus worse than kufars). |
| Posted by: Cornîliës 2004-11-28 5:51:24 PM |
| #13 It doesn't matter whether a nation would be stupid enough to do something like this, the only thing that matters is which nation will be most useful for Russia to *accuse* of so doing it. So Georgia I'm guessing, or perhaps Azerbaijan, depending on which nation Russia will find most useful to conquer. Given how its on the verge of losing Ukraine, Russia feels the need to gain some territorial gains elsewhere. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-11-28 5:51:16 PM |
| #12 Sure is, AZ. Both are nations of mooslim moonbats, but the Soddies are extremely risk-averse. |
| Posted by: Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-11-28 5:40:19 PM |
| #11 after the buzzards have their way? not much....heh heh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-28 5:20:10 PM |
| #10 AzCat, yes, Soddies wear a white or red checkered dish towel. Mullahs wear black turbans. That's a pretty major difference, don't you agree? :-) |
| Posted by: Cornîliës 2004-11-28 5:14:52 PM |
| #9 Saudi's ain't THAT stoopid, but the Black Turbans are. There's a difference? |
| Posted by: AzCat 2004-11-28 5:04:34 PM |
| #8 Saudi's ain't THAT stoopid, but the Black Turbans are. Say, isn't Roosa supposed to ship the fuel load for Bushehr soon? I always thought that ship should be stopped and seized. |
| Posted by: Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-11-28 4:55:35 PM |
| #7 Sauds wd be my guess. The Chechens were first infiltrated years ago by wahhabis from Saudi. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-28 4:22:08 PM |
| #6 Seems kind of nuts for Turkey to do something like this. The western Europeans didn't want to do jack to defend Turkey from Iraq (remember those requests for air defense units that the French and other's turned down), what makes the Turks think that anybody in NATO (the US included) would back them up if they've had a hand in killing Russian school kids? I figured it would be Iran when I first read this. Or the Saudis. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-11-28 4:20:46 PM |
| #5 Doesn't make much sense, Matt. Unless there's been a silent revolution under our noses there, the Turkish security services remain determinedly secular. I fail to see what possible game they could be playing by fomenting jihad in the Caucasus. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-28 3:45:42 PM |
| #4 It's Turkey... http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/003346.php |
| Posted by: Matt K. 2004-11-28 3:43:05 PM |
| #3 D'oh! Belay that last comment: Russia's getting the country-to-be-named-later. Not enough caffeine yet... |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2004-11-28 11:12:19 AM |
| #2 Sounds like a sports trade: I wonder what Russia will get in return for the country-to-be-named-later. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2004-11-28 11:06:28 AM |
| #1 Ooo. Got a bad feeling about that one. I wonder who the lucky named country will be? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-11-28 9:55:46 AM |