[lbo-talk] A Thousand Fallujahs

[Chris Doss]

A Thousand Fallujahs

By Pepe Escobar

Asia Times

Thursday 11 November 2004

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In 1999, the Russians bombed and destroyed Grozny, the
Chechen capital, 
a city of originally 400,000 people. Five years later,
Chechen 
guerrillas are still trapping Russian troops in a
living hell there. The 
same scenario will be replayed in Fallujah - a city of
originally 
300,000 people. 

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I realize Escobar is using Chechnya as an archetype,
and not a real place, but large-scale fighting has not
been taking place in Chechnya since 2000. Russian
soldiers are not doing the bulk of the fighting -- the
Chechen security forces, mostly former rebels, are.
And casualties in Chechnya are a few dozen a month --
all sides. Iraq makes Chechnya look like Switzerland.

Photos of Grozny:
http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=rus&section=photogalrus&row=21

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