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
Debka Alert (Do you have your grain of salt?)
DEBKAfile reports: Shimon Peres decides to cross the floor from Labor to Sharon’s Kadima
November 27, 2005, 11:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Last week, the former vice premier Shimon Peres told the new Labor leader Amir Peres he did not plan to leave the party. Sunday, Nov. 27, while declaring himself still undecided, he has in fact finalized terms with prime minister Ariel Sharon. Peres will not formally join Kadima, but attach himself to Sharon’s new venture.
This will happen in either of two ways:
1. A senior cabinet appointment. If the prime minister wins the March 28 election and forms the next government, he will name Peres as a kind of peace envoy to lead future negotiations with the Palestinians on the future of the West Bank. This fits in with Sharon’s declared intention to continue the pullbacks and evacuations he began in the Gaza Strip.
2. Twenty-eight years ago, the late Menahem Begin pulled Moshe Dayan over from the Labor party as his foreign minister for peace negotiations with Egypt. Sharon and Peres are duplicating that exercise. Sharon is signaling his intention of signing peace and drawing Israel’s final borders. Peres is offering himself up as the only pragmatic statesman capable of bringing this goal to fruition. He lacks electoral support but seeks this missing element from the founder of Kadima.
Sharon is banking on this partnership and plan to leave Peretz’s social-economic-focused campaign in the dust. He and Peres believe Peretz was caught short by his victory and unready both with the machine for a national campaign and a broad platform that covers vital defense and foreign policy issues. They also believe that, by following in Begin’s footsteps, they will rebut Binyamin Netanyahu’s declaration that he represents “the real Likud” while Sharon is a defector.
The way Israel fights the terrorist Palis (give them more land) is even crazier than how we fight our WOT--by leaving our borders wide open.
Speaking of Russia, this needs to be archived on TM.
Saddam Planned Pre-war Attacks on U.S.!!!
The Washington Post ^ | June 19, 2004 | Walter Pincus
Posted on 11/27/2005 2:47:48 PM MST by redvers llewellyn
WHY HAS THIS DAMNING REVELATION BEEN FORGOTTEN? _________________________________________________________
Russia Warned U.S. About Iraq, Putin Says
By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 19, 2004; Page A11
Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that his intelligence service had warned the Bush administration before the U.S. invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein's government was planning attacks against U.S. targets both inside and outside the country.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1529447/posts