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Putin seeks to start anti-terror offensive(globe-trotting spetznaz)
Washington Times ^ | 07/05/06

Posted on 07/05/2006 8:11:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Putin seeks to start anti-terror offensive

Published July 5, 2006

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin asked parliament yesterday for the right to send soldiers and special forces anywhere in the world to fight terrorists, acting just days after having pledged to "destroy" the terrorists who killed five Russian diplomats in Iraq.

Moscow confirmed early last week that terrorists had killed four abducted diplomats, beheading two of them in an Internet video, after Russia refused their demand to leave the breakaway republic of Chechnya. A fifth diplomat was killed during the abduction June 3.

Russian security services last week offered a $10 million reward for the capture of the Islamic insurgents responsible for the killings.

According to a Kremlin statement, Mr. Putin yesterday went to the upper house of parliament, known as the Federation Council, to make his dramatic bid.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiterror; putin; retaliation; spetznaz
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To: GarySpFc

Terrific news, if the Russians go worldwide after these monsters who are playing the West for the biggest fools since Neville Chamberlain.


21 posted on 07/05/2006 10:48:57 AM PDT by tkathy (The "can do" party can fix anything. The "do-nothing" party always makes things worse.)
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To: GarySpFc
My Russian wife's nephew is a helluva good soldier and Spetsnaz.

I didn't mean to imply that he wasn't. I was commenting on the well known fact that after the fall of the wall and the Soviets, many of Russias spec operators, as well as KGB, GRU folks went into more lucrative trades when the government checks stopped coming on a regular basis.

In short, I was making a joke with a basis in fact.

And it's good to hear that not all Russia's experienced spec-ops people bailed out and went to work for the mob.

22 posted on 07/05/2006 11:23:10 AM PDT by PsyOp (Fear, not kindness, restrains the wicked – Metus improbos compescit, non clementia. – Syrus, Maxims.)
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To: PsyOp
Besides, I thought all the Spetznaz troops worthy of the name went to work for the russian mafia years ago.

The Russin mafia is mainly composed of Chechens.
23 posted on 07/05/2006 11:23:25 AM PDT by GarySpFc (Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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To: GarySpFc

My estimation is that the MSM hates anything NOT soviet or Communist.
So, we get this assertion that Putin and his forces have done nothing.

Soldiers--regardless of their jurisdiction--understand each other. God be with your nephew.


24 posted on 07/05/2006 11:24:31 AM PDT by radar101 (The two hallmarks of Liberals: Fantasy and Hypocrisy)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Didn't he get that power several years ago? We have been awaiting news of successful operations worldwide, but so far there have been only a few items from Chechnya.


25 posted on 07/05/2006 11:25:51 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: GarySpFc

The Russin mafia is mainly composed of Chechens.

[ LOOK AT THE TOPIC RELIGION:Religion:Sunni muslims]

http://www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Chechenian

Norsk betegnelse:Tsjetsjener (pers. fl.t.), tsjetsjensk
Russisk betegnelse:Chechentsy, chechenskiy
Alternativt navn:
Undergrupper:
Religion:Sunni muslims
Språk:Chechen, mutually intelligible with Ingush
Språkfamilie:North Caucasian: Nakh-dagestanian group
Utdanningsnivå:
Spredning Russland:
Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetiya, Stavropol kray, Volgograd oblast, Kalmykiya, Astrakhan obl., Saratov obl., Tyumen obl., North-Osetia, Moscow.

Diaspora:
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraina.


26 posted on 07/05/2006 11:31:18 AM PDT by radar101 (The two hallmarks of Liberals: Fantasy and Hypocrisy)
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