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2004-10-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russians risk reprisals for killing a rebel chief

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Posted by Steve 2004-10-26 8:21:36 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Killing the underlings would reduce the risk of reprisals substantially. Just my humble opinion submission.

Posted by CornÃ®liÃ«s 2004-10-26 9:05:17 AM|| 2004-10-26 9:05:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ooh, the Ingush are mad at me. I'm so scared! Oooh, the Ingush!

Posted by Vladimir Putin 2004-10-26 10:09:27 AM|| [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2359/sounds/Burns/germans.wav] 2004-10-26 10:09:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Deporting the clan to Siberia will also reduce reprisals.

Posted by Dallas 2004-10-26 10:22:44 AM|| 2004-10-26 10:22:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 What sort of #*%^* headline is that? You can just see the NYT weenie's hands trembling as he types this out. "Oh, dear. Now they've done it. Those Chechens might do something radical in retaliation. Who, oh who, will break this cycle of violence?"

Posted by Dreadnought 2004-10-26 11:50:36 AM|| 2004-10-26 11:50:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dallas, has been tried already and did not work that well. I say, an entirely new approach is necessary. Let's call it, euphemistically, a lead poisoning.

Posted by CornÃ®liÃ«s 2004-10-26 12:10:10 PM|| 2004-10-26 12:10:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 New intelligence methods include tracking associates and relatives of the target, creating ever closer concentric circles of affiliation. The point being that even if you can't directly trace Basayev, you can track those who have some relation to him and through them, get to him. Did the Russians get too eager?

Posted by WhiteCat 2004-10-26 12:10:50 PM|| 2004-10-26 12:10:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 WhiteKitty, ahm, am quite sure that Russkies have this method on the top of their operational agenda. Some years ago, a couple of their diplos have been kidnapped by some jihadi outfit. The KGB found relatives of the kidnappers, "acquired" them, and started to send deliveries of minor body parts (part of a digit or ear and a note saying that bigger parts would be delivered if the hostages had one hair harmed) to the suspected location for the outfit command. The two hostages were released pretty fast.

Posted by CornÃ®liÃ«s 2004-10-26 12:21:42 PM|| 2004-10-26 12:21:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 One suspects that any rights under the Geneva convention didn't come up unlike our own rather weak-wristed approach......

Posted by Cleamp Clereling9243 2004-10-26 5:44:23 PM|| 2004-10-26 5:44:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 What are they going to do --- take over a Russian school, and kill a few hundred students?

Posted by Anonymous6092 2004-10-26 10:32:16 PM|| 2004-10-26 10:32:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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