Chechnya: response to Russian invasion?

[elena]

http://www.gazeta.ru/naemniki.html (today's Gazeta)
title : Hired Soldiers for Chechnya Are Being Trained in Azerbaidzhan
(in the header summary: very rough translation):
Acc to military reconnaissance [Ru], over 50 Arab paid soldiers arrived in
just a couple
of days (3-5 Oct) and in just a single camp of Khattab's near Urus-Martan.
All of them managed to get to Chechnya passing through Georgia, which means,
that Chechnya's blockade was unsuccessful. This questions the possibility
that one of the main tasks of the military campaign will be carried out -
the physical destruction of gang formations and their leaders. Besides,
Russian reconn. services have information that semi-military camps have been
founded on the territory of Azerbaidzhan by at least 3 well-known
fundamentalist Islaamic organisations.

The only reference in Johnson's #3546 (unless i missed smth)
(#10 Russia's Sobyanin Says No Need for State of Emergency
Rossiyskaya Gazeta 2 October 1999: Interview with Sergey Sobyanin, chairman
of the Federation Council Committee for Constitutional Legislation and
Judicial and Legal Matters and chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the
Khanty-Mansiysk
Autonomous Okrug, by Anna Kozyreva under the "Standpoint" rubric; date
and place not given: "We Will Do Without a State of Emergency"
........
[Sobyanin] First and foremost, political will. Incidentally, it was
precisely
to demonstrate such will that the Federation Council met in extraordinary
session. At a time when our endurance is being tested all political
forces must forget their feuds and support the government in the fight
against terrorism. International terrorist organizations successfully
operate in many countries, including the United States. International
terrorists are extremely difficult to combat. They have their own bases
and they obtain considerable financial aid from terrorist centers.
Combating them will take us years not months. This has to be clearly
understood. What is to be done? First and foremost, it is necessary to
strengthen our own border to prevent it being possible for bandit
formations to be freely supplied here with munitions. And yet even the
Chechnya-Georgia section of our state border has not been strengthened.
There you have an open door for both gunmen and weapons to penetrate.


> What I was trying to get a handle on is
>whether anyone knew of any movement outside of the axis of Russian troops
>vs. Chechnyan rebel troops, particularly since the pending invasion is
>merely going to strengthen that axis.
>
>Peter
Not exactly an answer to your question, Peter, but, rather, a new question
added: is the "internationalising" of the Chechen-Russian conflict to be
read as a spin, or panic, or younameit else? There wasn't anything on
Stratfor last time I checked; first appeared in GazetaRu, then got mentioned
in the main news-bulletin on ORT tonight.


>I personally don't give a fig whether Chechnyans live within the Russian
>state, some independant Chechnyan state, or on Mars. That's not the
>starting point of my analysis
Not sure what you mean - do you mean that the Ru-Chechnya conflict is
ethnising a social issue and your/any analysis should dismantle that first?

Elena

moya hata s krayu....