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Russia to Turkey: Shut Down Chechens
Russia has asked Turkey to shut down Chechen foundations there, saying they were in contact with them during the Moscow theater siege, a Turkish news agency said Wednesday. Moscow also said the Chechen charities in Turkey finance the rebels. About 25,000 Chechens live in Istanbul and western Turkey, and up to 5 million Turks trace their roots to the Caucasus region, which includes Chechnya. Anatolia quoted Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Alexander Lebedev, as saying "there was proof" that the gunmen who seized a Moscow theater last week made telephone calls to groups in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates during the siege.I would guess that they've got many of those conversations on tape, so they can pick through them at their liesure to pull out those hard-to-pronounce Arab personal and place names. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-30 |
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