[lbo-talk] Nation editor KvH on Putin & Chechnya etc

[Leigh Meyers]

"The terrorists...told us that their own children 
have been killed by Russians and they have nothing to lose. I asked 
one of them how they could put the lives of our children in danger 
like this. He answered that no one asked his opinion about anything 
when his children were being killed."
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"Ordinary people find the need for violence as they lose their identities.
So it's only the threat to people's identity that makes them avowed to
terrorism... terrorists... Hijackers, these are people minus identity. They
are determined to make it somehow, to get coverage, to get noticed."
--Marshall McLuhan

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From: Doug Henwood 
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Subject: [lbo-talk] Nation editor KvH on Putin & Chechnya etc

[Chris Doss, Peter Lavelle, any comments?]

The Nation - September 27, 2004

Putin's War

by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL

The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Beslan resulted in 
unfathomable human suffering. More than 300 children, parents and 
teachers died in the gruesome fifty-two-hour siege that began when 
heavily armed Chechens--and possibly other guerrillas from the 
Caucasus--stormed Middle School No. 1. This unconscionable slaughter 
of the innocents came just days after a bomber--most likely one of 
the "black widows," women who have lost husbands, brothers or sons at 
the hands of Russian forces in Chechnya--blew herself up at a Moscow 
subway station, killing ten and wounding scores of others, and the 
August 24 crashes of two airliners, apparently blown up by terrorists.
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