Posted on 12/29/2006 12:23:33 PM PST by Man of the Right
LOS ANGELES -- In September 2004, just days after Chechen rebels raided a school in Beslan, Russia, killing 331 men, women and children, the Los Angeles Police Department summoned senior officers to its decaying downtown headquarters. The issue on the table: What would they do if a similar attack took place here?
Most of the talk that morning was about where to deploy SWAT teams if terrorists ever took over a local school. Detective Mark Severino, one of the city's counterterrorist investigators, then asked his colleagues: "Do we even have Chechen extremists in Los Angeles?" Blank stares and silence filled the room. His boss at the time, Deputy Chief John Miller, told him to go find out.
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When the LAPD identified and investigated the Chechen terrorists in its midst and approached the FBI, naturally the FBI wanted no part of it -- until the LAPD furnished photos of the clan leader with the deceased terrorist leader, the so-called Butcher of Beslan, Shamil Basayev.
Follow the money ...
If anybody takes over a school here, I doubt they'll be from Chechnya.
In this, I salute the LAPD. Good work!
What the hell is wrong with the FBI?????
"If anybody takes over a school here, I doubt they'll be from Chechnya."
Wait! Isn't the terrorist Antosama bin Villaregosa already trying to take over L.A.'s schools?
Cops I have talked to over the years have always said the same thing. Mostly, communication and cooperation with the FBI is one way - their way.
LAPD still badly needs some good press, good story.
Deputy Chief John Miller???? I knew John Miller worked for the LAPD Terrorism Unit, didn't know he was a Deputy Chief...
Clinton. Hillary replaced everyone when she came into office with friends from her school days. When they were leaving office people in appointed positions were given tenured jobs and, when Bush was elected, he kept everyone.
Why not?
I don't know.
I agree. Being a cop is a thankless job. It's especially thankless in LA.
I join you.
That's what they did, among other things. I wish every jurisdiction was as proactive.
Who knows what their intentions are? They were responsible for the deaths of 186 kids in Beslan. The U.S. has its differences with Putin. Still, if asked to line up with the terrorists or the children, I support the children every time.
Why do we let the supporters of Chechen terrorists into our country, and once we know they're here, why aren't they deported, or at least turned over to the Russians? One of the most horrible things I've seen on TV this year was a documentary about how they took over that theater in Moscow, kept all the performers and the audience hostage and finally killed some of the kids before the Russians moved in) (and accidently killed a bunch of people with gas that was suppoesd to make them sleepy). The Chechens are on a par with Al Queda and are just as unwelcome here.
They can't be everywhere.
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