Posted on 04/19/2013 1:22:53 PM PDT by knighthawk
On September 1, 2004, a group of Chechen terrorists took hostage and two days later murdered at least 335 schoolchildren and parents in Beslan, a town in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. The atrocity focused world attention on Chechnya. The Russian government used the event to reiterate its arguments that Chechen terrorists and foreign jihadists supporting them have ideological, financial, and operational ties with Islamist terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda.[1] Although President Vladimir Putin and top Russian security officials provided evidence of links between Chechen fighters and Al-Qaeda, European politicians and mainstream Western journalists focused instead upon the Russian army's brutality and dismissed Putin's claims as an attempt to gain sympathy in the West and deflect criticism of Russia's handling of a nationalist insurgency.
Putin may have been opportunistic, but he was also correct. A close examination of the evolution of the Chechen movement indicates that Islamists and followers of Al-Qaeda have increasingly sought to co-opt the Chechen movement as their own.
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What percent of Americans know what happened in Beslan?
Too late.
And the western press critiqued the Russian army for going to to try to save the children.... Maybe gun control wasn't an issue for them back then...
One tenth of one percent.
Al-Qaeda has long seeked out Caucasians, like Chechens and Bosnians, who can pass for normal whites to commit terrorist acts, this is not news.
terrorism is built in feature of this pedophile cult.
The word assassin comes from the name from professional Islamic terrorists during Crusades.
And guess what, UKUSA wanted to use them as guided weapon. What an idiotic idea.
UK established Muslim Brotherhood, USA established AQ.
Even blowback of 9/11 was not enough to bring UKUSA services to the senses. London and Madrid followed. UKUSA madness continued. Elimination of Gaddafi to make room for AQ in North Africa, like they made in Bosnia and Serbian province of Kosovo is prime example. Helping terrorists in Syria another.
Fort Dix was not enough. Frankfurt airport was not enough.
Now chicken came home to roost again.
The real task is to find who is feeding them.
I doubt a lot. Over here in Europe it was big news though.
Will do m8!
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