Yeah, it only took four years, very easily. God, but you sound just like our leftists and the French on the issue of Bin Ladin. Reading down the posts, I was wondering how long it would take you to start the negative slant, not long.
Folks--before starting another useless brawl, let's remember a simple thing. Those who take kids as hostages in Beslan or Moscow Theatre are terrorists. Those who blew up airlines with passangers on board are terrorists. I don't care how noble or ignoble their goals are--if you deliberately attack innocent people you no longer a rebel or insurgent--you are terrorist.
Definitely, Basayev and other Chechen warlords terror is no excuse for despicable behavior of various Russian Federal/pro-Federal units (like that of Kadyrov or Yamadaev). When citizens of Chechnya are arbitrarily kidpanned and either murdered or released for ransom to their relatives often physically harmed, that means the lines between terrorists and legitimate authorities has been blurred. But terror is a terror and there can't be no excuse for this.
I’m sorry for you if you don’t see the difference between rich Bin Laden chief of Al Quaida and dirty Chechen Basaev. Basaev is moving around the North Caucasus and Russia like a king but Kremlin is unable to catch him!
Yeah, the terrorist butcher and child-murderer Basayev is in the Chechen "government".
At the same time, the Kosovo "government" is infested with KLA terrorist butchers!!!!