Posted on 03/19/2002 8:46:07 AM PST by Zviadist
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Caucasus: As U.S. prepares to train republic's forces in anti-terror tactics, some analysts question motives.
DUISI, Georgia -- A band of Arab fighters in the mountains near this country's Pankisi Gorge have caused sufficient alarm that the United States is preparing to spend $64 million in part to help the Georgian military get rid of them.
Philip Remler, a senior U.S. diplomat in Georgia, said in February that dozens of fighters from Afghanistan, including Al Qaeda members, had fled to the Caucasus in recent months.
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I'm reporting you to Bill Bennett.
Please...don't do that. He'll call Tom Ridge on me again. I hate those re-education camps.
It's a shame the big snake missed the insects like you.
Don't you watch nature television? Anacondas do not eat insects.
Lordkipanidze claims that the Duisi mosque was funded by Saudi Arabian money and that the men near the mosque are Chechen Wahhabis--members of a fundamentalist Islamic movement brought here from Chechnya. Traditionally, people in Chechnya and the Pankisi Gorge have adhered to the softer Sufi tradition of Islam.
This article doesn't get it. It is about securing the pipeline. The area, not just the gorge, is a route for terrorists to Chechnya to "liberate" Chechnya and disrupt oil and gas transport there.
Call it Colombia east. But make sure to wrap it in patiotism so that the sheep won't see that their tax dollars are going to subsidize the multinational oil companies (who turn around and screw Americans at the pumps). Wonderful.
Call it Colombia east. But make sure to wrap it in patiotism so that the sheep won't see that their tax dollars are going to subsidize the multinational oil companies (who turn around and screw Americans at the pumps). Wonderful.
I don't think you get it. The premise question is WHY these pipelines haven't already been built. Why shouldn't Azerbaijan, et al. export their resources. Why must we buy our oil from Saudi Arabia, et al. In fact, Al Qaeda et al. complain about Israel, but the bulk of their operations take place in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Why's that? Saudi Arabia funds them.
Much of the terrorism IS about oil in the first place. Saudi Arabia and Iran made it so. They have successfully cut out the major competition for several years. Very profitable. The "sheep" see our reaction as American "imperialism", etc., and have no interest in understanding the hidden and express motives and policies of other countries. These "sheep" complain about our "hypocrisy" over Saudi Arabia, but do everything to challenge any policy that undermines S.A.
Visit the link scroll down to the topic of interest and then click to find articles indexed on the subject, like when you do a self search but someone put the bump list name in the to: header of a reply.
The "sheep" see our reaction as American "imperialism",
So your fix is to steal that which is not ours?
I think it's time for you to give some facts and arguments that inform your quips. "Steal"?
The oil is not ours. It belongs to someone else. We have to pay for it. If the Saudis thought we had nice trees in the Redwoods, would they be justified in coming in and getting them?
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