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2013-04-19 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Fred 2013-04-19 13:54|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top

#1 This Artic now begs the question - WAS SOMEBODY(S) HIGH ON THE CHECHEN LIST OF TO-BE-ASSASSINATED/BOOMED RUNNING OR OBSERVING THE BOSTON MARATHON UNBEKNOWNST TO US AUTHORITIES???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-19 19:44|| 2013-04-19 19:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Russia and Spain... Rantburg article 8/8/2012

Posted by trailing wife 2013-04-19 21:30|| 2013-04-19 21:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Chechen Nationalism as you refer to it did not blossom in 1991, it is 200 years old. A little research on the first Shamil Basaev might be informational.
The second and modern Shamil Basaev was a MERCENARY. He fought with the Russians in the Abkhaz war. When the old guard was killed off (Basaev, Alaev, Maskhadov, etc.), radical foreign fighters found santuary in the Mtn.s of Chechnya and these inidviduals brought a fundamentalist Islam into a leaderless vacuum with a population of unemployed angry kids who were raised in a decade of warfare. Brutality goes both ways, I wouldn't exactly call the Russian's the "nice" guys then or now.
It seems a lot heavy on the, rather thin, Chechen ethnicity aspect of these scumbags and not enough on the radical Islamic ideology, which is nationless and the real driver, IMHO.

Posted by jefe101 2013-04-19 21:54|| 2013-04-19 21:54|| Front Page Top

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