[lbo-talk] Weir on Chechnya

[Michael Pugliese]

<URL: http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/08/news2.shtml >
> ...Virtually all of Chechnya is now occupied by Russian troops, who fight 
> against a vicious insurgency campaign led by Maskhadov that continues to 
> kill about a dozen Russian soldiers weekly.  “Chechnya has become a 
> chronic problem for us, like Northern Ireland or Palestine, and the 
> Russian elite appear incapable of even understanding this,” says 
> Alexander Iskanderyan, director of the Center for Caucasian Studies in 
> Moscow.  “The situation is growing harsher and more hopeless with every 
> passing month.”

   A vicious insurgency. Is that agitprop as found on the Islamist websites 
or this from an org. w/ Brzezinski as a member, 
http://www.peaceinchechnya.org/index.htm ???
http://www.jamestown.org/pub_chechnya.htm Jamestown is a conservative think 
tank w/ useful info. John Dunlop edited their Chechnya Weekly for a few 
yrs. Going through microfilm of The Nation recently from the early 50's, 
Dunlop was a semi-frequent reviewer. Soldiers' Mothers committee estimates 
Russian deaths at 12,000 Agence France Press: August 11, 2003

More than 12,000 Russian soldiers have died in the nearly four-year war in 
separatist Chechnya, almost triple the officially disclosed figure, the 
Soldiers' Mothers Committee rights group said yesterday.

http://www.chechnya.nl/news.php?id=5619&lang=eng
Combat operations of the mujahedeen in Grozny and Shali districts
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Michael Pugliese