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2004-05-09 Caucasus

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Posted by tipper 2004-05-09 8:12:25 AM|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 booyakasha!

Posted by lyot 2004-05-09 8:14:55 AM|| 2004-05-09 8:14:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 wow wonder what the response from putin will be, bet hes going mad.This boom may well a 'trigger' that unleashes the big red bear much like september eleventh did for America, surly the russian public will get behind putin too and with the press being the way it is out there whos gonna protest and kick up a fuss about him unleashing thier military. Scary times too come i fear, and kinda hope.

Posted by Shep UK 2004-05-09 8:32:12 AM|| 2004-05-09 8:32:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Russia has already killed a quarter million Chechens, I fail to see how much more the big red bear could possibly awaken, or how much more the Russian military can get "unleashed" -- it's as unleashed as you can get, short of nukes.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-05-09 8:43:07 AM|| 2004-05-09 8:43:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Aris - I think a quarter million is nothing compared to what a modern military unleashed, without rules, could do. Our marines could've leveled Fallujah and the 300,000 in it within a couple days

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-09 9:14:39 AM|| 2004-05-09 9:14:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Frank> Well okay, perhaps. But since the whole of the Chechen nation was about a single million, I believe, the only thing remaining for the Russians to do is a sort of "final solution" where every single Chechen will be killed. My point remains that the Russians have hardly been restrained so far.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-05-09 9:37:57 AM|| 2004-05-09 9:37:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Aris,remember it was the Soviets that slaughtered 20 million Soviet citezens.250,000 is a drop in the bucket.

Posted by raptor 2004-05-09 9:38:02 AM|| 2004-05-09 9:38:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 250K plus the 1000 Saudi princes helping to finance the Chechen war? heh heh

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-09 9:40:01 AM|| 2004-05-09 9:40:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I suppose Russia will try to turn Chechnya into one big concentration camp, flooding the country with more soldiers in order to more strictly control people's movements.

Russia's other major alternative would be to give up and withdraw, but I doubt that'll happen.

If Russia does bring in more and more forces, then the Chechens can kiss goodbye their dreams of a Chechnya free of foreign domination, a Chechnya for Chechens. Many of the Russians militarily based in Chechnya will settle and stay there, will have and raise their children there, will establish businesses and organizations there. This is what happened in the past, and it will happen again.

The Chechens did have a great historical opportunity for a free Chechnya after the Soviet Union fell apart. Instead of working peacefully and politically to fulfill that opportunity, they allowed their nation's gangsters and Moslem fanatics to wreck their future.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-09 9:45:56 AM|| 2004-05-09 9:45:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 NorthEastern dispersal.

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-09 10:14:58 AM|| 2004-05-09 10:14:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#10

their nation's gangsters and Moslem fanatics to wreck their future

Mike - that applies to other Moslem nations as well.

Gee, I think I see a pattern.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-09 11:33:50 AM|| 2004-05-09 11:33:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Russia is equally to blaim for the fact Chechnya turned out to be a hotbed for thugs & criminals , afther Chasavyurt agreement..They didn't live up to their promises and were heavily involved in the whole abduction businness, in order to keep the country unstable..Or does anyone here really believe they intended to give up Chechnya after their 1996 defeat.. ?

Posted by lyot 2004-05-09 12:08:05 PM|| 2004-05-09 12:08:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Man Bites Dog TROLL 2004-05-09 12:42:21 PM|| 2004-05-09 12:42:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Man Bites Dog TROLL 2004-05-09 12:42:21 PM|| 2004-05-09 12:42:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 MBD seems a little trigger happy today - keeps double posting. Maybe he should switch to decaf.

Like Frank G. said, the Marines could have leveled Fallujah in about a half an hour if they had called in the Air Force.

Posted by RWV 2004-05-09 1:06:37 PM|| 2004-05-09 1:06:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Good plumbers are so hard to find on the weekends.

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-09 1:07:24 PM|| 2004-05-09 1:07:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Bomb and straffers, is there no one they can't help?

Posted by Lucky 2004-05-09 2:05:37 PM|| 2004-05-09 2:05:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Man Bites Dog TROLL 2004-05-09 12:42:21 PM|| 2004-05-09 12:42:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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