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Official: Russia has right to hit bases
Russia has the right to carry out pre-emptive strikes on militant bases abroad, Russia's defense minister said Sunday, citing the school hostage crisis. He said Moscow and the United States see eye to eye on fighting terrorism. Sergei Ivanov did not say what countries might be possible targets for a strike, but Russian officials in the past have said Chechen separatists have bases in nearby Georgia, and Moscow has had friction with that country's pro-U.S. government over the issue.
If I was living in the Pantisi Gorge, I'd be filling out change-of-address cards right now.

Posted by: Steve White 2004-09-13
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=43040