Posted on 09/04/2004 10:05:23 AM PDT by TrebleRebel
Russia blasts EU siege statement
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has described as "blasphemous" a request by the European Union for an explanation to the bloody end to a mass hostage seizure at a school by Chechen gunmen.
More than 320 people, almost half of them children were found dead after troops stormed a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan, where the separatists held more than 1,000 hostages for 53 hours.
In a statement in the name of the presidency of the 25-nation EU, Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot said on Friday that all countries should work together to stop such tragedies.
"But we also would like to know from the Russian authorities how this tragedy could have happened," he added.
The Russian Foreign Ministry reacted with outrage on Saturday.
"Mr. Bot's elaborations are an absolute contrast with the wide international support and solidarity with Russia in these tragic days," the ministry statement said.
"Inappropriate statements by the Dutch minister look odious ... and blasphemous," it added. "We expect explanations from the Dutch side."
Interfax news agency later said that the Dutch ambassador had been summoned to the Foreign ministry over Bot's statement.
Elect sKerry and the EU will be his puppetmaster.
OMG
'Blasts' is an awful word to use in the headline of this story.
"Mr. Bot's elaborations are an absolute contrast with the wide international support and solidarity with Russia in these tragic days," the ministry statement said.
"Inappropriate statements by the Dutch minister look odious ... and blasphemous," it added. "We expect explanations from the Dutch side."
Ouch.
Talk about big, giant brass ones, huh?
Well, I believe Russia should expell a couple of these morons' ambassadors to sens a real message... as in we are not cowards if you are!
Are we missing something?
...As he stumbled back into the hash bar.
And now I wish Putin would send someone over to kick Bernard Bot's a**. I swear that's what these people need.
We're with you on this one, Putin. Let's work together and kick some Islamofascist ass. Now about your planned sale of reactor equipment to Iran...
Did you see the scores of civilian EMTs, fire fighters and ordinary Ivans rushing the buildings to rescue children and fight the fires, just yards behind the commandos, under direct terrorist machinegun fire?
RUSSIANS ARE NOT COWARDS! GOD BLESS THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE!
Photo of Bernard Bot, the idiot:
http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=32&par=1004
The EU needs to take their opinion, write it carefully on good paper, place it gently in a large German sausage coated with French pate, and...hmm, better not say that.
Let's just say that european homosexuals would enjoy the experience.
Yeah, but they are hollow. I have a feeling Putin's are solid. He's not going to take any guff from the EU. He's not a member; he's not answerable to them, or to anyone else.
I'm sure they asked Spain the same thing the day after those trains were bombed. </sarcasm>
Hope the Russians wait until we pull out of Germany before they come through the pass.
EU don't like us ?
Let em deal with the next invader themselves.
Under what authority does the EU make these demands? By 'authority', I mean what action can the EU possibly make to enforce their demands if Russia simply ignores them?
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