Chechen Warlord Warns NATO of Terror Attacks on Russia

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Chechen warlord who says he was behind last month's mass hostage-taking in Moscow warned on Saturday his group would launch new strikes in Russia if it did not pull its troops out of Chechnya (news - web sites).

Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev, Russia's public enemy number one, told NATO (news - web sites) leaders in an open letter that they should put pressure on Moscow to pull out of the Muslim North Caucasus territory and start peace negotiations.

"Chechen Mujahideen have a full right and possibilities to carry out strikes on the territory of the aggressor country, adequate to what the Russian military clique has been conducting and is still continuing to conduct on the territory of Chechnya," the English text of the letter said.

"We are also warning that all military, industrial and strategic facilities on the territory of Russia are legitimate military targets for us, whomever they may belong to," the statement, issued by the rebel Kavkaz Center, said.

"We also warn that the new generation is coming to take our place, the generation of orphans, whose fathers and mothers were killed on the orders by the Kremlin regime," it said.

The statement was signed by the Command of the Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion "Riyadus Salihin," the group that Basayev heads and whose units launched the attack on a theater in the south-east of Moscow late in October.

A total of 128 hostages and all 41 rebels were killed when Russian special forces stormed the theater after three days, ending a siege that traumatized Russia and shook President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) who came to power vowing to crush the rebels.

Almost all the dead hostages were killed by a strong narcotic gas used by the security forces to knock out the rebels.

The bearded Basayev, a terror figure in Russia since his group took several hundred people hostage in a Budyennovsk hospital in southern Russia in 1995, claimed responsibility for the theater operation within days of it ending.

The Kremlin says Basayev's claim was partly intended to divert blame for the attack from fugitive rebel president Aslan Maskhadov with whom it refuses to hold peace talks.

Russian forces have been battling Chechen separatist rebels in the rebellious southern province on and off since 1994.

Putin has been only partially successful in winning western support for his contention that Russia's fight against Chechen separatism is on a par with the U.S.-led war against the Al Qaedr network behind the September 11, 2001, airliner attacks in the United States.

The guerrilla statement was heavy with reproach for NATO leaders and the West whom it accused of hypocritically defending the "barbaric aggression" of Russian forces in Chechnya.

It called on the leaders of NATO and other international bodies to exert pressure on Putin to cease military operations, pull Moscow's forces back to beyond 100 km (62 miles) of the Chechnya border and start peace negotiations with Maskhadov.

A part that made me laugh is when the article quotes a guy discussing his experience at meeting Greg Dority (Fusion to freepers). Here it is (i have underlined parts i find either crazy or funny):

He took us to a restaurant called the Black Rooster, which has a courtyard with a thatched roof that was kept wet and dripped sheets of water into old stone runnels, and we ate trout from Lake Ohrid - a fish so rare, and from a lake so clear and deep that Enver Hoxha banned anyone but himself from fishing it, on penalty of thirty year's hard labor. the fish was interesting, but rather more so was the man Shaun brought as his guest - an American named Greg, who came from North Carolina, said he was a journalist working for George magazine in New York, and by his own admission paced the streets of Tirana at all hours of the night gathering, as he put it, "financial intelligence."

I never quite knew what to make of him. He was tall, languid, educated, he spoke with an elaborately courteous southern drawl and he dressed impeccably. He had a strange accent, an odd manner: He kept referring to "the province" which he claimed to visit regularly, when he was speaking of Kosovo, and on those few occasions he used the word he called it Koss-oh-vo, with a long second o. He referred to his present home as being in a nation called Alb-ah-nia.

~Page 175

He gave the impression, as I am sure he half-intended, that he was some kind of American spy - which, when I compared him with the handful of real spies I knew, he almost certainly was not - or else was an extremely inept one. His journalistic contacts were far fewer than he suggested at first, and when I pressed him he could cite only having done an occasional piece on local casinos for a Texas-based journal devoted to gambling. I was puzzled by him, and after spending half a day wandering the back streets fo the city with him and getting hopelessly lost, I concluded that he was probably one of those Walter Mittyish characters who are often thrown up by the atmospheres of strange cities like Tirana - sad men who attach themselves, limpetlike, to the journalists and other temporary figures who briefly settle during the crisis, who eke out an existence in a more drab and banal way than they pretend, and who then, and before they are discovered, pack up and move on somewhere else. I had seen such people before, in Kabul, in Beirut, in Buenos Aires, and he seemed to fit the modus operandi.

Blinded with their hatred, the constant whinings of the pro-Moscow apologists increase in volume with each spectacular Chechen victory in the Second War of Liberation. As the Argun Gorge swarms with veteran Chechen freedom fighters backed by newly established Eastern Holy Warrior kampfgruppen, democratically elected president Aslan Maskhadov seeks once more to permit the madman Putin an honourable surrender...

In the Kremlin they know they are beat. Chechen Nationalism now reaching the gates of Moscow, where the capitol dwellers shake in fear. Like Adolf Hitler before him, Putin the only member of his staff still believing victory in the Chechen War possible...

Abandoned by the entire world -- save conservative American hawks -- in their epic battle to throw off the steel grip of Russian Federation hegemony, Chechen freedom fighters have indeed accepted limited help from the East as they are abandoned by the shattered economies of the West. Short sighted EU liberals seek to clump Chechnya into "New Markets" -- depressed economic zones to be raped and pillaged by the euro-starved economies of Paris and Berlin.

Thus they turn their backs on the Russian genocide in Chechnya. Pregnant Chechen women incinerated by Russian flamethrowers, teenage boys crushed beneath tank tracks, entire villages rounded up and shot down in cold blood...

This is life in Chechnya as the state sponsored Russian genocide increases its grisly toll of civilian deaths each month. The ex-KGB thug Putin has emptied the prisons of Russia and flooded Chechnya with armed convicts bent on rape and pillage...

Just as in 1836, when Texas freedom fighters stood tall at the Alamo, "fashionable Europe" seems to have sold out the Chechens to stand alone. One can almost hear the misguided rhetoric of today in the same London drawing rooms some century and a half ago...

"Those Texican terrorists should be crushed by Santa Anna..."

"Mexico has the right to destroy these terrorists. Mexico City is soveriegn in San Antonio...

"Crockett and Bowie are nothing but international terrorists financed by American zealots in Tennessee and Arkansas. We must show Santa Anna our support..."

Fortunately, just as Sam Houston did in 1836, the Chechen freedom fighters of today receive extensive financial and political support from high placed Texans. American foreign policy fears not two dollar a gallon gas in 2003 but instead seeks to embrace fifty cent a gallon gas by 2008.

The pipeline is as the pipeline does. Russia cannot be permitted to sustain any form of hegemonism South of the Terek River -- Putin already measured for the long drop by the West...

Russian propagandists seek to turn America's 9/11 tragedy into their own gain. Realising the American public's lack of sophistication concerning foreign policy matters, Moscow seeks to link Chechen Nationalists with Islamic Entente terrorists. The knee-jerk reaction of fear in America today makes the Chechens appear to be easy targets for these lies and mistruths...

Meanwhile US foreign policy hawks continue to supply the government of democratically elected president Maskhadov with weapons and funding. The Chechens must only hold their own until the Spring to realise the Russian withdrawl and final victory...

Thus the greatest fighter on the face of the earth -- Shamil Basayev -- continues to shift the battlefield North. Armed with the ultimate weapon and an unshakeable faith, he seeks to collapse the Russian Federation with one spectacular blow...

Moscow must yield or be destroyed...

The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.

Hey Greg (aka Fusion), I hear your silly campaign for election FAILED and that you have very few funds left for further election campaigns! That is great because it means your pathetic little rants will not be proliferated and instead will be seen by just the few Freepers who chose to humor themselves taunting you!

However just know that soon even us few freepers who enjoy making fun of you will grow tired of poking fun at your silly posts, and when that eventually happens then you will then have absolutely no one who even pays attention to your asinine statements.

Until that time i will have a lot of fun laughing at your posts.

The sanity of Fusion is on the lose .....the whole world laughs!

P.S: By the way say hi to the Marines at Gitmo .....however i am shocked they let you lose yet again! Darn .....and i thought security there was tight!

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