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To: gdyniawitawa
"It is believed he was involved in the seizure of more than 800 hostages at a Moscow theatre in October 2002 where 129 hostages died. Yandarbiyev was interim president after Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed by Russian forces..."

I don't know if I'd call this a terror alert.
More of a 'get even with terrorists Alert', or 'Russia gives terrorists a taste of their own medicine, Alert'
(I've got more.......)
9 posted on 02/13/2004 4:56:57 AM PST by nuconvert ("Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?")
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To: nuconvert
"[...] Yandarbiyev was interim president after Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed by Russian forces..."

"President" Dudayev was killed by a stray missile. Read about at Space: Warfare’s Ultimate High Ground

11 posted on 02/13/2004 5:12:41 AM PST by A. Pole (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain , the hand of free market must be invisible)
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To: nuconvert
I agree. This was a bit of "international justice" by the Russians.
16 posted on 02/13/2004 6:46:33 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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