>
> >From The Jamestown Foundation:
> Eurasia Daily Monitor --
> Thursday, August 4, 2005 Volume 2, Issue 152
>
> BASAEV INTERVIEW ENRAGES RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES
Talking about
> the Beslan and Nord-Ost terrorist attacks, Basaev
> pointed out that most of the hostages died because
> of gas (in Moscow) and flame throwers and tanks (in
> Beslan) used by federal forces during so-called
> "rescue operations" rather than because of actions
> by his men.
"So-called"?
Was it federal forces who held 800 people hostage in a theater and strapped bombs all over the place? Was it federal forces who kidnapped hundreds of children?
By the way, the children has been trapped in the school without water for three days. Anybody out there know what happens to children after three days without water? It is called DEATH.
>
> To take at least part of the responsibility for the
> Chechen war means the Kremlin would partly open the
> door for negotiations with the rebels, which the
> Russian government is very afraid to start.
Basaev is not interested in negotiations. Basaev wants to reestablish the caliphate.
> Meanwhile, to have Basaev or somebody else reveal
> the truth about operations in which Moscow's
> representatives all but ignored the lives of
> hostages could unleash anger among Russian society
> and give another strong argument to the anti-Putin
> opposition movement.
1) There is almost no anti-Putin opposition movement. 2) Methinks that if the US had saved 80% of the people in the World Trade Center it would have been trumpeted as a great success.
At the same time, the Russian
> government is unhappy with the fact that major
> Western media sources are queuing to interview
> Basaev but almost ignore President Alu Alkhanov,
> First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, and
> other pro-Russian Chechen leaders handpicked by
> Moscow.
For the love of god... Kadyrov is not "handpicked."
>
> Basaev was interviewed by Andrei Babitsky, a
> well-known Radio Liberty correspondent who had
> worked on the rebels' side at the start of the
> second Chechen campaign in mid-1999.
Radio Liberty, note, owned and operated by the US government.
>
> The details of Babitsky's journey show how weakly
> federal officials control the North Caucasus and
> revealed lies told by the generals. Just four months
> ago Nikolai Rogozhkin, the commander of Russia's
> Interior troops, had said that Basaev was lying low
> because was scared. "Hardly anybody has heard
> Basaev's voice recently," Rogozhkin added
> confidently (RIA-Novosti, April 15).
Actually, maybe being scared might have something to do with giving the interview?
The Ingush police were
> ordered to lie to the media.
Evidence?
The Kremlin is angry because a mass murderer was allowed to spread disinformation, counting on the utter ignorance of the audience, and appeal for funding.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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