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We Kill Our Rebels The Israeli Way, Says Russia
Source: smh.com.auThe Russian army has switched tactics in combating Chechen separatist rebels and is now using the "Israeli method" to eliminate them, the Defence Minister, Sergei Ivanov, said yesterday. "The tactics of the federal forces have changed. It is now a precise operation during which we kill those who ought to be killed," Mr Ivanov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying. "We use the wholly Israeli method when we know the exact composition of a cell, and we do not let go until the entire cell has been eliminated. "If there is a cell of 10 people and we have eliminated nine out of the 10, we will pursue the 10th until his elimination." That's a lot more elegant than killing everybody in sight on the assumption the people you were looking for were among them... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-07 |
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