I doubt we will know really happened for a long time.
Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>The story that I received elsewhere was that the Moscow siege people had
>made much more minimalist demands than was reported. At the time it sounded
>as if they wanted Putin to run around with his pants down and then
>immediately get all the troops out of Chechnia. What I heard was that they
>had wanted peace talks to begin. That would make sense - maximal action,
>minimal demands is more likely to pay off than maximal action with maximal
>demands.
>
>Thiago
What I heard was that they wanted troops out of Chechnya in a week (which is clearly undoable, even if it was a viable option). Haven't heard anything since. Do you have a source?
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