Posted on 08/24/2004 9:03:09 PM PDT by Destro
Prayers for all their families.
Putin has been giving aid to the Iranians who have been giving aid to these terrorists. What goes around comes around , I guess.
"...possible political motivation..." = Muslim terrorists.
Bush has probably already been on the phone to Putin...and not just gee, I'm glad you're okay.
"Local news agencies reported that security had been tightened at all the country's airports after the incidents."
"AFTER" the incidents??? What, they haven't heard there is global terrorism out there? May be this was just an wrong transulation... please, tell me they follow security protocols and if not, ban them from the airspace!
Wow.
"...Scorched earth! They blew up everything. Schools, hospitals, Mosques, Churches, Synagogues, apartment buildings, everything. And when the fires went out, they sent the giant earth movers to bulldoze everything into the ground. Never even looked for survivors."
Wake up in Najaf and Falluja... not a bad scenario...
Why on earth aren't they fighting a sensitive, politically correct war?
Thank you for keeping us on track. Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion.
Does anyone read Russian? I'm on the Sibir website (www.s7.ru) and while they have English translations, they're horrible. Like they ran the page through Babelfish or something. Anyone want to try and see if they can do better?
"Thank you for keeping us on track. Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion."
Indeed. Islam is doubleplusgood. Bush is ungood. Long live Big Brother Kerry.
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One of the planes was headed for Sochi .. Putin is, I believe presently in Sochi ... hmmm
About 2300 miles. Quick look at atlas & I think they'd need a very strong tail wind to make Greece !
I responded: "Well, they do not hide their battle with Chechnyan rebels - Islamic terrorists by any other name, of course".
You asked the right question; and I was wrong:
DRUDGE HEADLINE:
OFFICIAL: WRECKAGE FRAGMENTS SHOW 'NO TERRORIST ACT' IN RUSSIA PLANE CRASHES...
9-11 would probably have been covered up if the entire world wasn't watching on TV.
Presumably the bad guys would want to reach their targets with large amounts of jet fuel still in the tanks. How does that tighten the radius of potential targets? (Moscow, of course, would remain, particularly given how quickly signals were lost, but where else?)
NOT ALWAYS TRUE!
The news segment I saw showed the complete destruction of a city. It wasn't Grozny, though my Russian friends tell me there isn't much left of Grozny, either.
Besides exhibiting no consideration for schools, apartment buildings, and houses of worship, no care was shown to avoid historical or heritage sites.
All this while the rest of the Europeon television was wringing their hands decrying the "barbaric" American bombing campaign in Afghanistan.
In the Summer of '03, I read in lenta.ru that there were tens of thousands of Chechens in refugee camps throughout Chechnya and border Republics in the region, having no medicine, little water, no sanitation, little food, and little shelter.
Not a word from Koffi Anan and the UN decrying the humanitarian crisis in Chechnya.
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