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Putin's Adviser Claims Participants in Attacks on United States Trained in Chechnya
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| Oct 2, 2001
| Vladimir Isachenkov
Posted on 10/02/2001 7:20:40 AM PDT by Movemout
MOSCOW (AP) - A senior aide to President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that some of the perpetrators of terror attacks on the United States had trained in the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
"At least four of the suicide perpetrators of the terror attacks on the United States passed through Chechnya," said Sergei Yastrzhembsky, an aide to Putin and Russia's chief spokesman on Chechnya.
"The people who sent suicide attackers against New York and Washington conducted dress rehearsals for terror attacks in Chechnya," Yastrzhembsky told a news conference, according to the Interfax news agency.
Since the attacks, Russian officials have repeatedly claimed there is a Chechen connection to the New York and Washington attacks, but they publicly have offered no proof.
Yastrzhembsky reasserted that Russia was providing the United States with intelligence information about terrorists' whereabouts and financing and receiving similar data in return. "Never before Russian and U.S. special services have had such close cooperation," he said.
"Russia has experience in fighting the terrorism which the West still lacks," he said in a reference to Chechnya.
Putin has urged Chechen rebels to sever all ties with Osama bin Laden, the main suspect behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
The United States and other Western nations have tempered their criticism of the Russian military campaign in Chechnya amid evidence that some rebels in Chechnya had links with bin Laden. They welcomed Putin's recent offer to Chechen rebels to start negotiations on disarming.
Putin's envoy for talks with rebels, Viktor Kazantsev, voiced confidence that rebels would be quickly defeated now that "the West has stopped helping and coddling the bandits."
"The Americans have finally started to distinguish who is who," he said in an interview published Tuesday in the weekly Moscow News.
Kazantsev said he was ready to meet with Chechnya's rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov to set terms for disarmament, but reasserted that Moscow would never accept the breakaway republic's bid for independence. "There will be no dialogue if the Chechens start drumming again" about their independence, Kazantsev said. "The Chechen Republic is part of Russia."
He said those rebels who hadn't committed grave crimes would be pardoned, but "the wild beasts will be put in cages."
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Anybody see a pattern emerging? First the Russians find documentation of the WTC attack in a Chechen terrorist hideout. Now they find evidence of terrorist training. I think they very much want our approval of their attacks on the Chechen Republic. They have my approval.
1
posted on
10/02/2001 7:20:40 AM PDT
by
Movemout
To: Movemout
unleash hell, mr putin. one less spot for us to clean out later. first afghanistan, then iraq and somalia.
2
posted on
10/02/2001 7:27:39 AM PDT
by
mgc1122
To: Movemout
Methinks that any government that wants a license to firmly deal with terrorist elements has it. Just say "with suspected links to OBL" and the public will applaud...
3
posted on
10/02/2001 7:27:55 AM PDT
by
eureka!
To: Movemout
Russia has experience in fighting the terrorism which the West still lacks," he said in a reference to Chechnya.Not for long, Mr Putin.
To: Movemout
The Chechen rebels bombed an apartment building in Moscow, killing hundreds of people who were just as innocent as the WTC victims.
Chechnya has always been a part of Russia. I don't see any reason why Russian troops shouldn't put the rebellion down.
5
posted on
10/02/2001 7:42:26 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
I remember seeing some of the grisly photographs from that cowardly attack. I also remember thinking that I hoped that the Russians avenged the dead and wounded. Our patsies in the State Department then began the usual rant about human rights being of paramount importance. As far as I'm concerned you have checked your rights, human or otherwise, at the door when you indiscriminately kill people. If I were a terrorist I would choose my targets with precision so as to maximize the effect of the message. But they wouldn't be every day kind of people.
Now that I have typed all of that I realize that the WTC terrorists have delivered a message. They just want Americans dead. Any old American will do.
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posted on
10/02/2001 7:52:37 AM PDT
by
Movemout
To: Walkin Man
"Russia has experience in fighting the terrorism which the West still lacks,"
Sure, the Russians lost in Afganistan and the first Chechen war.
The Russian army is bleeding to death in Chechnya right now.
They lost 10.000 soldiers in 2 years and are nowhere near their objective of crushing the Chechen resistance.
They have notting to learn to the West.
By the way, Yastrzhembsky is no Putin advisor. He is Putins main spin doctor and is spitting KGB propaganda all the time.
7
posted on
10/02/2001 8:05:32 AM PDT
by
konijn
To: Dog Gone
I wonder if OBM realizes that he torpedoed the Chechens?
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posted on
10/02/2001 8:09:54 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Movemout
They DON'T have my approval, although I seriously doubt whether or not it matters in the big picture. Have you heard rumors that in point of fact, the "leadership" of the "Chechen Rebels" may have been planted their by the FSB? Also, there have been assertions that the whole Chechnya set of "activity" is nothing more than a smoke screen to mask massive Russian deoployments destined for "other purposes". Just some food for thought...
To: Dog Gone
How sure are you that those bombs were set off by "rebels" and not the FSB?
To: belmont_mark
If that is food for thought then it is empty calories. Terrorists are terrorists, whether they are bombing Russian apatment buildings or 110 story office buildings. Think about it!
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posted on
10/02/2001 9:04:08 AM PDT
by
Movemout
To: Movemout
That's where we obviously differ.... you chose to believe that the "terrorist attack" was conducted solely by a renegade NGO or perhaps, worst case, solely by Taliban, while I chose to hold off on judgment and keep my mind open to the possibility of strategic deception and state sponsored asymmetrical warfare. So if I turn out to be right, and you turn out to be wrong, then the only question remaining is which state, or states, and what to do about it. That's the "food for thought" that I was hoping to spark. Sorry if you find this train of thought disturbing. I would be the first to admit that many would, and should, find this scenario to be very disturbing
To: belmont_mark
Renegade NGORenegade NGO is not in the normal lexicon. That tells me all I need to know.
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posted on
10/02/2001 10:10:38 AM PDT
by
Movemout
To: belmont_mark
How sure are you that those bombs were set off by "rebels" and not the FSB? Is there evidence that the FSB did it? I didn't think this matter was in dispute.
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posted on
10/02/2001 10:16:00 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Movemout
Yah, Mahn. I am a card carrying member of the dreaded ..... NWO!.... (NOT!)
Belmont Mark - Hardcore Nationalist Conservative.
"BORDERS, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE" = M. Savage
To: Dog Gone
I'll try to dig up the reference. Yes, it's in dispute. I believe there has even been a book written by an FSB guy who defected during the last couple of years to the UK.
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