The beginning of the First Crusade
Posted on 11/27/2005 11:07:35 AM MST by omega4412
On Nov 27, 1095, Pope Urban II began to preach the First Crusade:
"From the confines of Jerusalem and the city of Constantinople a horrible tale has gone forth ... that ... an accursed race, a race utterly alienated from God ...
has invaded the lands of those Christians and has depopulated them by the sword, pillage and fire; it has led away a part of the captives into its own country, and a part it has destroyed by cruel tortures..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1529356/posts
Teheran 'secretly trains' Chechens to fight in Russia
Iran is secretly training Chechen rebels in sophisticated terror techniques to enable them to carry out more effective attacks against Russian forces, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
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The disclosure that Iran is training Chechen rebels will not go down well in Moscow, which regards itself as a close ally of the Iranian regime.
Russia has sided with Iran in the diplomatic stand-off over Teheran's controversial nuclear programme.
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"Just as they have orchestrated attacks against British troops in Basra to pressure Britain to drop its opposition to Iran's nuclear programme, so they are trying to put pressure on Moscow by backing Chechen fighters," said a senior intelligence official.
Link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/27/wchech27.xml
Interesting thread, if we are not very careful, we shall take a step back in time - 1,000 years.