Posted on 08/15/2003 2:08:42 PM PDT by Fusion
A remote mine allegedly triggered by Chechen rebels killed five Russian soldiers Friday while troops were conducting a search operation in the breakaway republic, the Interior Ministry said Friday.
The radio-controlled mine was detonated in the Vedeno region of southern Chechnya when an armored personnel carrier full of Interior Minister troops rolled over the explosive device. The soldiers were killed immediately by the force of the blast, the ministry said. Five others were wounded.
The Interior Ministry said it had stepped up control of its operations in Chechnya.
Meanwhile in the Chechen capital Grozny, local police said that a small passenger car was blown up in the center of the city, wounding the head of a district pension fund and his three bodyguards. One of the bodyguards was seriously injured.
Russian forces withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 after a devastating 20-month war, leaving separatists in control. The Russians returned in September 1999 after Chechnya-based insurgents mounted incursions into neighboring Dagestan and after some 300 people died in apartment explosions that authorities blamed on the rebels.
Attacks by rebels against Russian forces occur daily, and the Russians have been accused of brutal treatment of Chechens, especially civilians.
The Russian government hopes that presidential elections this fall in the republic will bring political stability. However, the rebels have given no indication they intend to stop their efforts to drive the Russians out of Chechnya.
Russian death squads roam the Caucuses with impunity -- raping and pillaging innocent Chechen women and villages in a wanton bloodlust unlike Europe has seen in three score years. Only Shamil Basayev and his seven thousand resistance fighters stand between Moscow and a hundred thousand innocent civilians. Yet stand they do -- and bloody Moscow each and every day.
If Hitler had been successfully neutralised in July 1944 millions of human beings would have survived the war. Now as the Chechen High Command prepares to stun the world it must be remembered that, like Hitler, Putin is a war criminal -- merely another Moscow thug in a cheap suit and bad haircut.
Dry is good and wind is better...
Moscow must withdraw from Chechnya or be destroyed. The Russian Federation soon to know the fate of all rogue states that fail to honour the basic human rights of all mankind...
The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.
So you American jihader terrorist supporter? How you not banned or tracked by FBI since you now openly support enemies of America, to include Chechins....hmmmm, where is American FBI now? You betray own country and advertise....I'll give you this, you have balls, no brains but balls.
"Fusion" is nothing but Al-Quaida dog squat. His friends in Chechnya, Russia are nothing but murderous dung as well.
Thanks for the very long laugh!!
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