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Russian Mother Pleads for Son to Stay in Guantanamo
Yahoo News / Reuters ^ | August 08, 2003

Posted on 08/08/2003 5:51:13 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian mother said that conditions in Russian jails are so awful that she would prefer her son remain in the "humane" conditions of the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay.

A number of governments, including Russia's, are in talks with the United States to extradite their nationals from the prison camp in Cuba, which was set up to house Taliban and al Qaeda suspects after the war in Afghanistan (news - web sites).

"I am terribly scared of a Russian prison or Russian court for my son," Amina Khasanova was quoted as saying by Gazeta newspaper on Friday.

"At Guantanamo they treat him humanely, the conditions are fine."

Her son Andrei Bakhitov is one of eight Russian detainees, and the newspaper quoted a letter he wrote to his mother.

"I think that there is not even a health resort in Russia on the level of this place," the letter said.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Russia
KEYWORDS: gitmo; guantanamo; humane; prison; russia; russian
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich should be read by all those who admire Jane Fonda and despise Ronald Reagan.
1 posted on 08/08/2003 5:51:14 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
We should keep the little P.O.S. until we have squeezed him dry.

Then we hang him. Shooting is too honorable.

"Hanging is suitible for the bootless and unhorsed."

2 posted on 08/08/2003 5:57:17 PM PDT by LibKill (The sacred word, TANSTAAFL.)
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Russian citizen of Chechen ethnicity
3 posted on 08/08/2003 6:10:20 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
This deserves to be as widely publicized as possible being much too surreal for words. Too bad nobody like Scrappleface thought of making it up in the first place being most deserved of the phrase "you just can't make this stuff up".
4 posted on 08/08/2003 6:11:35 PM PDT by the_greatest_country_ever (Shudder the dystopian nightmare of a world without the greatest country ever.GBA.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
"At Guantanamo they treat him humanely, the conditions are fine."
The wine is never properly chilled. Sometimes there is a line at the omelet bar. But you get by.
5 posted on 08/08/2003 6:22:41 PM PDT by Asclepius (karma vigilante)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
 CL¡?ing the cold war, a former citizen of the USSR was on TV, I think on CSPAN. She had worked in the publishing industry in the USSR. She claimed that when Angela Davis' (communist in California) book was translated into Russian, they had to edit out the description of her jail . You see, it sounded too nice, what with being able to view a color TV occasionally, etc.
6 posted on 08/08/2003 6:23:18 PM PDT by RickGee
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To: Destro
Russian citizen of Chechen ethnicity.

I promise I won't hold any hatred against the Russians or the Chechens.

I hope that when we execute this P.O.S. that the Russians and Chechens will not hate us for executing a murderer.

I also will not hold my breath while waiting for a friendly response.

7 posted on 08/08/2003 6:23:39 PM PDT by LibKill (The sacred word, TANSTAAFL.)
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To: Asclepius
LOL

and putting green's seen better days, but whatta ya goin do?

8 posted on 08/09/2003 8:09:02 AM PDT by dagnabbit (Shielding Guilty Saudis = Accessory After the Fact.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
"...there is not even a health resort in Russia on the level of this place"
     -- Russian mother commenting on her son's incarceration at Gitmo

hehehe
9 posted on 08/09/2003 1:45:53 PM PDT by polemikos (Ecce Agnus Dei)
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To: Destro
Russian citizen of Chechen ethnicity

What is bad is Russian - Russian extremists in Guanatanamo, Russian mafia in New York etc ...

10 posted on 08/09/2003 2:39:41 PM PDT by A. Pole
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To: Destro
EXACTLY!
11 posted on 08/09/2003 2:47:07 PM PDT by RussianConservative (Hristos: the Light of the World)
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To: Destro
American Jail: low, medium, maximum security
Russian Jail: low, medium, maximum LABOR!
12 posted on 08/09/2003 2:48:01 PM PDT by RussianConservative (Hristos: the Light of the World)
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To: LibKill
Why would Russians hate you? It save Russian cost of bullet...ahh but Putin make death penalty illegal...so must have accidental beating to death to rid jails of such scum.
13 posted on 08/09/2003 2:49:34 PM PDT by RussianConservative (Hristos: the Light of the World)
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To: LibKill
I promise I won't hold any hatred against the Russians or the Chechens.

It isn't the Russians or the Chechens that are the problem. It is the aggressive minority of Chechens who are Islamists and who have taken over what was once a nonreligious movement for Chechen independence from Russia. (During the old Soviet Union, a number of these ethnic regions enjoyed a special status with a degree of home rule. The Soviets could afford to do it because the power was all illusory anyway.. all the real power was in the hands of one man, the chairman of the central committee of the CPSU in Moscow. With one very unpleasant exception, this guy was always a Russian).

In the Soviet system, leaders of these little republics and autonomous zones could get some power by sucking up to the Russian power structure. With the end of Communism, the people in the republics (like the Baltic States and the Stans) got their freedom (although in some places like Uzbekistan only the picture of the leader changed; the "president" wins reelection by 98% to 0). In the autonomous zones, well they were at the mercy of the republic in which they were located. For many (Chechnya, Dagestan, Nagorno-Karanakh) autonomy was at an end.

But whatever the Chechen resistance started as, it became an Islamist totalitarian movement. Geez, the presence of this guy fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan is proof enough of that.

The Chechen Islamists have been guilty of the most appalling acts of terror in Russia. They love death... if we are going to beat nihilistic Islamism then we must stand with the Russians against Chechen terrorism.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

14 posted on 08/09/2003 3:38:30 PM PDT by Criminal Number 18F
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To: Criminal Number 18F
I do not deal with terrorists. Death is too good for them.
15 posted on 08/09/2003 3:45:57 PM PDT by LibKill (The sacred word, TANSTAAFL.)
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To: Asclepius
LOL!
16 posted on 08/10/2003 8:22:21 PM PDT by apackof2
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