To: Frank_Discussion
The Chechens have their own issues with terror and dastardliness, but it's a matter of tools being wielded.LOL!!! Do the mullahs in Iran have a problem with their own terrorists, too?
486 posted on
09/23/2004 7:17:26 AM PDT by
sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
I don't quite get your intended meaning. Let me rephrase what I said, for clarity:
Just because the Chechens can be heinous, evil terrorists does by no means exclude the Russian government from taking advantage of the situation, or indeed guiding events, to achieve a desired domestic result.
To be honest, I think this was possibly an FSB/KGB op that went beyond its mission definition, and I think Putin has some true anger over the brutality that resulted. Threatening to kill as many children as were in school would have been enough to anger the population, and I think the whole thing unexpectedly went to hell in a handcart. I'm disinclined to blindly swallow that Putin ordered the outright death of those poor babies, but I am prepared to accept that he was negligent.
497 posted on
09/23/2004 7:55:13 AM PDT by
Frank_Discussion
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