<DIV>I believe goal was the following: willing to die to embarrass Putin and his Chechen policy. In an odd way they achieved their aim. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I doubt we will know really happened for a long time. <BR><BR><B><I>Chris Doss <itschris13@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"><BR>><BR>>The story that I received elsewhere was that the Moscow siege people had<BR>>made much more minimalist demands than was reported. At the time it sounded<BR>>as if they wanted Putin to run around with his pants down and then<BR>>immediately get all the troops out of Chechnia. What I heard was that they<BR>>had wanted peace talks to begin. That would make sense - maximal action,<BR>>minimal demands is more likely to pay off than maximal action with maximal<BR>>demands.<BR>><BR>>Thiago<BR><BR>What I heard was that they wanted troops out of Chechnya in a week (which is <BR>clearly undoable, even if it was a viable option). Haven't heard anything <BR>since. Do you have a source?<BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* <BR>http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail<BR><BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!?<br> Free <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/tag/*http://calendar.yahoo.com">online calendar</a> with sync to Outlook(TM).