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FSB director sez West has double standard when it comes to Chechen leaders
The policy of double standards of some countries has a negative effect on interaction and cooperation of the world community in the fight against international terrorism, Nikolai Patrushev, the director of Russias Federal Security Service (FSB), said on Wednesday, addressing deputies of the State Duma lower house of parliament.For instance, odious leaders of band formations, such as Zakayev, Nukhayev, Udugov, who are on the international wanted list travel feely in many countries. An ideologist of militants, Vychigayev, staying in the US, makes no secret of his ties with Basayev, who is officially recognized as an international terrorist, also by the United States, Patrushev said. He said the United States, in the fight against terrorism, acts tough, when this suits it, disregarding generally-recognized norms involving citizens rights and liberties. At the same time, the FSB director noted progress in interaction with the security services of the United States. A Lebanese citizen who participated in combat operations in Chechnya has been detained in the US. His extradition to Russia is presently considered, Patrushev said. The FSB presently interacts with 104 security services in 67 countries. This cooperation rests on both a bilateral and multilateral basis. Its main trends are fighting international terrorism and extremism, illegal narcotics trafficking and illegal immigration, Patrushev said. Citing examples of such cooperation, he said security bodies carried out, in 2005 alone, 140 operations to detain terrorists and extradite them to the countries where they had committed crimes. Thus, eight members of Uzbekistans Islamist movement were detained and extradited to Uzbekistan last year. At Russias request, officials of Kazakhstans National Security Committee detained a participant in the raid on an administrative building in Nazran. A participant in the raid on Budennovsk in 1995 was extradited to Russia from Sweden. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-06-08 |
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