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2003-12-16 Caucasus

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Posted by Steve 2003-12-16 8:54:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 wouldn't it be appropriate for the Russians to do hovel-to-hovel searches and execute any Arabs they find?

Posted by Frank G 2003-12-16 9:16:37 AM|| 2003-12-16 9:16:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Dammit, dammit, dammit: Chechen rebels who fought their way into the neighboring Dagestan region and occupied a village released all their hostages and fled, avoiding capture, Russian authorities said Tuesday. Dagestani police officials initially said that most of the dozens of rebels who entered Dagestan from Chechnya after ambushing a border post were surrounded in the tiny village of Galatli.
But Dagestani Interior Ministry spokeswoman Anzhela Martirosova later said the gunmen left the village sometime before dawn, leaving behind their 11 hostages - seven from Galatli and four they had seized in another village, Shauri.
Before leaving Galatli, the rebels told their hostages not to emerge from the village and approach security forces until after daybreak, a duty officer at the ministry said.

The old "Stick your head out and we'll pop you" routine. Must have been a piss poor job of surrounding the village.

Posted by Steve 2003-12-16 9:26:11 AM|| 2003-12-16 9:26:11 AM|| Front Page Top

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