[AdmSmith]

Destro,

Yes, Basayev is today related to AQ. But you fail to accept the fact that he was trained and equipped by the Russian services to operate in Abkhazia and afterward did the same thing back home, i.e. in Chechnya. Basayev turned against his creators.

As I wrote earlier the opposition to the Russian domination in Chechnya is now hijacked by the Wahhabis. Both the Russians and the Wahabbis have killed almost all moderate leaders. What remains is just full scale violence.

The world around us is complex but that does not justify a simplistic description for simple minds.

It is important to be economical, but one should not be economical with the truth.

[LiberalBassTurds]

I believe it's true AdmSmith.

LBT

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[MarMema]

the late Dzhokar Dudayev, who proclaimed Chechen independence and eventually died in the war, took his oath of office on the Koran and made Friday the legal day off, but was a former Soviet Air Force general who does not seem to have had a primarily Islamic agenda.

I wonder if you have Basayev confused with Dudayev?

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[MarMema]

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"In Moscow in the late 1980s, Basayev moonlighted by building and selling homemade computers, and supposedly did moderately well at it. (His business partner, Supyan Taramov, later outfitted a unit of pro-Russian Chechens dubbed "Shamil Hunters.") He first cut a figure on the national stage, however, in August 1991, during the hardline putsch by Soviet dinosaurs. Basayev reportedly appeared near the White House, grenades under his arms, swearing to protect Chechen professor Ruslan Khasbulatov, then chairman of the Supreme Soviet."

Doesn't look like Basayev ever trained with the soviets. I think Des was correct on this after all.

[amom]

Thanks for the ping. I read the rest of this thread. The information is excellent. Please continue.