Posted on 05/09/2004 1:52:42 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Blast Kills Chechen Leader, Russian Gen.
2 minutes ago
By SERGEI VENYAVSKY, Associated Press Writer
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia - A land mine exploded in Chechnya (news - web sites) Sunday during a World War II ceremony, killing Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov and a senior Russian military commander, the Chechen Interior Ministry said.
An Interior Ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity said at least 10 people were killed and up to 100 wounded in the blast in Grozny, the Chechen capital.
A Chechen Interior Ministry officer said that Kadyrov the Moscow-backed leader of the rebel region died of wounds 30 minutes after the explosion, and that Gol. Gen. Valery Baranov, head of the Joint Army Command of the North Caucasus, died at the scene.
The explosion happened underneath a VIP-seating area during a Victory Day ceremony in a stadium in Grozny, the capital, that was attended by senior Chechen officials. An Associated Press photographer at the scene said numerous people were injured.
Russia's NTV television broadcast footage of the seating section collapsing into a jagged hole of torn wooden planks, sending up a plume of brown smoke.
Panicked people dressed in their Sunday best clambered over the seating bleachers. One man was shown carrying a bloodied child, while men in uniform dragged a man covered in blood away from the broken seating area. Shots rang out into the air.
Sergei Kozhemyaka, a duty officer at the Emergency Situations Ministry in southern Russia, said the stadium was quickly evacuated. Kozhemyaka said that a second land mine was found near the VIP seats. Russia's Echo of Moscow radio reported that numerous people were detained.
Russia marks the Allied victory over the Nazis every May 9 with military parades and fireworks around the country.
Security was especially tight across Russia. In 2002, a bomb exploded during a Victory Day military parade in the Caspian Sea port of Kaspiisk, killing 43 people, including 12 children.
Russian troops have been fighting Chechen insurgents from much of the last decade. The latest war began in September 1999. Despite superior numbers and fire power, Russian troops have been unable to uproot the rebels from their mountainous hideouts or banish them entirely from Grozny.
Wrong - Russian moved the troops back into Chechnya AFTER multiple hostage taking (for profit), blowing up apartment building and the invasion of Dagestan.
At least a worldwide ideologic cleansing.
islam needs to be killed.
Let there be Walmert.
And don't forget the human slave trade market running in Grozny at the time either.
I think that six year old girl who was kidnapped from Moscow and had her fingers cut off one at a time, the videos taken were sent to her father in Moscow, was in about 95 as well.
yes poor innocent chechens....sniff, sniff. Just good guys trying to break free. NOT.
Dont throw Chechen guerilas into the same pot as Hezbolah or Hamas.
Why not? They all are trying to change the actions of a government by killing innocent people.
They drink wine, women dont wear scarfs to cover their faces, imams have next to no power.
So... Just because they don't follow the extreme Islamofacist of the middle East, does this make them better people or less Islamic?
They are more of an extremely nationalist people(kindof like Irish and IRA) rather then your typical muslim terrorists.
Only because the Saudis have been funding and controlling their operations for the past decade. At one time before Saudi involvement, I could understand how you could have sympathy for them. Now, not one bit!!!
If russians werent so stupid, they would have never went into Grozny and would have saved lives of tons fo their own people.
Do you have any idea what a independent nation of Chechyna would mean for the Caucasus region? You think a Taliban controlled Afghanistan was bad... This would be only the first country to fall to radical Islam. Others would soon follow, including nations that are majority Christian.
Its not like Chechens were attacking anyone.
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!
Their mafia was active in russia but it was a criminal organisation that had no political goals and did not attack russian establishment.
Where do you come up with this crap! Have you spent any time in Russia at all?
The "president" who got killed was figure head elected in the elections rigged by russians. Good riddance.
Wow, the killing of a person who could bring peace to the region is a good thing? Are you an indy.media poster???
They want to take over the world and have a spectrum of tactics and stretegies to accomplish this. They will have to cross the line somewhere - use of a nuclear weapon - before we gain the resolve to fight them in a decisive manner.
Oh,really? Have you forgotten?
Female Islamic Terrorist back right, The Moscow Theater.
You think we were born yesterday?
Oh, and in that Oklahoma Bombing justified by US invasion of Waco Texas, same difference. I love how moral limp Canadians so judgemental. I guess such is easy when such as you just allow every islamic free rent and visa as long as they move along to kill others then you. Canada is new world France...oh wait, it almost is is it not? Hahah, how fitting.
Dont throw Chechen guerilas into the same pot as Hezbolah or Hamas
Why not? They proclaime solidarity and send soldiers. Chechin blew up American ship off Yemen. Chechin sit in Cuba. Chechin die on Pakistani border...but what is it about such as you to make excuse. Chechin women wear head scarf same as Palistinian and Egyptian...no not eyes and face but head. Still kill same. Chechin drink as much as Bosnian and Albanian muslim and still kill same as they.
Russia have every right to keep every inch of own land. Just because Canada ready to break up when ever whoring French decide to bulk, does not mean other nations such weakness.
Its not like Chechens were attacking anyone.
Yes how convinient you miss 3 apartment bombings, Victory day parade bombing, several villages of Daghistan exterminated by Basheyov invasion one month before 2nd War start, Basheyov (who was Mashkidov defense minister) attack and murder people of maternity hospital in Ingushia...how funny you miss all that. Bet you say same of Jews...if only they not go to Jerusalem, Palies would just live with them in peace.
Is it French culture or genetics that make all who have so much in their country to become political whores and Islamic useful idiots?
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