To: McGruff
Muslim members of the audience attending the production of "North-East" were also allowed to leave, Interfax said.
What? Do the moose-limbs carry secret ids just in case of
a hostage situation??
13 posted on
10/23/2002 11:22:04 AM PDT by
texson66
To: Fred Mertz; aristeides; Miss Marple
FYI!
17 posted on
10/23/2002 11:22:55 AM PDT by
Dog
To: texson66
The gunmen (suicide bombers?) could probably ask the Muslim members to recite the Islamic confession of faith in Arabic. While there are Muslims who don't speak Arabic, the Chechens are Wahhabi Muslims, so all Muslim hostages who couldn't recite the confession of faith in Arabic wouldn't be "true Muslims" by their standards.
Also, one of the main bankrollers of the Chechen rebels is Global Relief, and Barayev is one of bin Laden's lieutenants in the Chechen campaign (I think the Russians killed Khattab, one of his other lieutenants, earlier this year).
So if these are Barayev's men inside, these guys are almost certainly al-Qaeda.
To: texson66
What? Do the moose-limbs carry secret ids just in case of a hostage situation?? Maybe you get a pass if you can recite the right words in Arabic.
To: texson66
What? Do the moose-limbs carry secret ids just in case of a hostage situation?? Maybe they wear a collar patch or something...
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