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To: MarMema
"I don't care."

No you don't...you don't care about the blood on Putin's hands or that he will drag Russia back into the darkness...you've made it plain that you don't care.

208 posted on 09/16/2004 11:12:58 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: CWOJackson
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"Another memorable case took place in late 1999, when then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin played a gruesome tape at a special screening for Western journalists during a visit to Oslo, Norway. One journalist fainted during the screening and made himself a laughingstock for some of the Russian media."

211 posted on 09/16/2004 11:22:08 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: CWOJackson
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"During its three years of independence, Chechnya launched upon Russian territory numerous apartment block bombings, cross-border kidnappings and a full-fledged invasion of sovereign Russian land by an army of Chechen militants in 1999. Meanwhile, internally, Chechnya deteriorated into an economically stagnant and ubiquitously criminal morass. The second phase of the current Chechen war started in 1999 as a direct result of Chechen aggression against Russia. There was no grand cause of fighting for independence, neither was there any Russian subjugation or domination of Chechens.

In fact, the only Russians consistently present on Chechen territory during that time were those sitting as hostages, covered in chains and missing fingers. The decision by Chechen militants to engage in hostilities with Russia throughout 1996-1999 was not simply dumb, it was irrational and fanatical."

213 posted on 09/16/2004 11:26:38 PM PDT by MarMema
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