Posted on 08/06/2004 2:40:53 PM PDT by A. Pole
Ilyas Akhmadov, one of Chechnya’s separatist leaders, has officially been granted asylum in the United States, RIA Novosti has learnt from the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, co-chaired by former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinskiand former US secretary of state Alexander Hague.
According to the committee, the decision on granting asylum to Akhmadov was taken by an immigration court in Boston, Massachusetts, which was immediately appealed by the US government. “The appeal has now been rejected and the decision on granting asylum is now final,” the committee said.
The committee confirmed that not long ago Akhmadov was appointed to a post at the US non-governmental foundation National Endowment for Democracy and now plans to move to Washington for permanent residence and work.
National Endowment for Democracy confirmed that Akhmadov has been awarded a research grant under the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program and hence is entitled to monthly allowance, medical insurance as well as reimbursement of transportation costs.
In December last year Russian Foreign Ministry urged the US to take Russia’s position in consideration by examining Akhmadov’s application. “The US side is informed about our attitude towards that terrorist accomplice,” the ministry’s spokesman Aleksandr Yakovenko told the press then.
Russian law enforcers claimed to have evidence of Akhmadov’s ties to Chechen separatist leaders Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev, who has been placed on the international wanted list. In the Aslan Maskhadov government Ilyas Akhmadov held the post of the foreign minister of the self-styled republic of Ichkeria.
The US administration refused to comment on the decision of the Boston court on granting asylum to Ilyas Akhmadov, saying it was a private matter.
Ping
(To add torment to misery - your TAX DOLLARS are paying him a bonus. Free salary + medical benefits!)
This guy needs to be the "victim" of a random street mugging, which "tragically" leads to his death. And soon. What a wrong decision.
Alexander "Hague"?
Who is the "neocon scum", the immigration judge/court who granted the asylum or the "U.S. Government" which appealed and lost?
Come and get him.
Sincerely,
ItsForTheChildren
"We," as in the Bush administration/government didn't want to grant asylum to him, a court in Boston, Massachusetts of all places, granted the asylum.
Hey, was this one of the "world leaders" that Kerry was talking about?
The 90s showed a clear sign of this with Muslim liberation wars being fought from the Balkans all the way to China along the so called Muslim or Green belt which also coincides with areas where you have important energy resources/energy routes.
Most of these types are neocons but that is not always the case.
S & S & S
It could be time for another ricin-laden "tip o' the umbrella".
The USA is just a bunch of jokes --- no wonder we really don't have too many allies in this fight --- this kind of thing makes us laughing stocks of the world --- but it's nothing new --- much money for terrorism is being collected in the mosques set up for that purpose right here in the USA.
I was just thinking the same thing. It's outrageous, simply unbelievable. How can this happen? What a shame, and oddly coincidental, too, in light of last weeks tragedy in Russia. When will we learn? Of course, to hear the alphabet news people tell it, the Chechen 'separatists' (I prefer the term Terrorists) are real freedom fighters. Barf.
LOL!
WHY? This is ridiculous. If I was in charge, I'd hand deliver him to Putin and tell him to do what he has to do.
It is like America granting asylum to Nazis or Communists.
For me its not hatred, its merely justice. We are expected to love our enemies. I love dogs, but if one of them contracts rabies you don't hesitate to put him down.
No one who is driven by love could hesitate to pull the trigger on the authors of this crime. Remorse would be misplaced. An appreciation of the tragic would be in order for any innocents who die in the course of delivering justice to these men, as well as for the innocents who have already died.
But not remorse, I think.
The authors of the crime at Beslan have already signed their own death warrants and there is no reason to flinch at what has to be done.
It gives some insight into the implacable enmity against the Amelekites in the Old Testament.
The Chechens are begging to be Russia's Amelekites.
Well, who says he can't have asylum in Gitmo?
I wish your hypothetical Russian assassin good aim.
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