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| Russia vows 3 Chechens for every soldier killed |
| 2005-02-23 |
| The commander of the 42nd motorized rifle division General-Major Sergei Surovikov said he would kill three rebels for every soldier killed on Monday in an attack in Grozny, Interfax reported. Nine servicemen were killed and three more injured in the rebel attack on Monday, the military prosecutor's office reported earlier. The servicemen died in an exchange of fire with gunmen. According to some sources, grenade launcher fire caused a building to collapse that killed the servicemen. The attackers numbered at least five. One of them was killed by return fire. Earlier reports said that nine servicemen were killed when a roof collapsed at a poultry farm on the outskirts of Grozny. It occurred at about 19:50 local time on Monday, a source in the military prosecutor's office for the troops deployed in Chechnya told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. Six servicemen of the Defense Ministry died in the incident, and another three died on the way to hospital. Surovikov also said that, according to his information, his servicemen eliminated two rebels and wounded another one. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 The general should shut his mouth and then repudiate what he said. He is only allowed reprisals on a one for one basis. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-02-23 4:04:53 AM |
| #1 American soldiers' lives trade at about 20 to 1. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-02-23 3:25:50 AM |