>By the way, this is the reason the Kremlin has been so in favor of the US
>actions. There are radical Islamic movements who want to establish
>theocracies in most of the Central Asian countries, and are fond of blowing
>stuff up. And of course there is the Chechnya situation. The Kremlin has
>been telling the US for years that the No. 1 threat is Islamist terrorism.
How true is this? Is it a case of Russia framing any political opposition as "Islamic terrorism," or is it really a bunch of armed religious lunatics?
Doug