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"Publicly, muslims issued the following statement...

Privately...the opposite"

SOP for Leftists in general and Russians (and before them, Soviets) in particular. That's right, I believe, the Islamacists function as an element of the Worldwide Left. I don't believe that their actions mesh perfectly with the rest of the Worldwide Left by chance. When I see an army making maneuvers, I don't have to observe the command structure to know that there is one.

A big fuss is made about the idea that the Russians, having created 20th-century terror, are now such big anti-terrorist warriors. They parade the Chechen thing (by the way, in his 1993 book, Golitzyn analyzed the first Chechen war and decreed it a complete fake.) When the first Chechen bomb went off in Moscow, there were numerous reports from inside Russia that the FSB was suspected to be the people who actually set off the bomb. Similar reports came about when the second Chechen bomb went off in Moscow.

Then the Beslan thing happened and everybody "knew" that it was real. The FSB would never set up something that caused children to be killed. No one thought it was odd that, even though the Spetnaz had many days to set up a perimeter, terrorists still broke through the promoter and escaped. And besides, the Russians assured us that they had run down and killed all the terrorists who did escape outside the perimeter. Conveniently, we have to take the word of the Russian security forces for these killings, as they happened outside the view of the many witnesses present your perimeter.

Now the public has become aware of the fact that the Russians are both building the nuclear reactors that supply Iran with material that can be made into atomic weapons and are providing them with the technology for intercontinental ballistic missiles. Iran, the country in the world that is most supportive to terrorism. Yet, we are supposed to believe that these things are unconnected.