--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
Third, suicide terrorist campaigns are directed toward a strategic objective: From Lebanon to Israel to Sri Lanka to Kashmir to Chechnya, the sponsors of every campaign -- 18 organizations in all - are seeking to establish or maintain political self-determination.
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What ignorant crap. The (apparantly for the moment defunct) "let's blow up widows!" wing of the Chechen "resistance" is motivated by greed and Islamism, with the corresponding desire to "liberate" the pro-Russian Muslim territories from Russian "oppression," probably in that order. Radical Chechen nationalism has been dead for some time, killed by the disaster of 1996-1999 when Ichkeria became a gangster state.
Actually the whole idea is ridiculous. "Chechnya" is an administrative district arbitrarily created by the Bolsheviks, and Chechens are not indigenous to large sections of it. Naursky district (which is very big) has been the territory of the Terek Cossacks since the 16th century. Several Chechen clans fled to join the Tereks when Chechnya was islamized, due to their centuries-old ties of intermarriage. But who needs knowledge when you can just write bullshit.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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