Texas_Jarhead: "The most troublesome thing is that CNN is not alone in its sympathy for Caucasian bandits..."
what is the inference here? what does 'Caucasuan' have to do with it? Is this an insinuation of race favoritism in the media? I don't get it. "
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Just a bit got lost in translation from Russian to English. They aren't referring to Caucasians, the way we use the word, to mean "white". They are referring to the geographic region of these terrorists, as "bandits from the Caucasus Mountain" region.
Map of Cechnya:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/chechnya_rel01.jpg