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| Hostage-takers demand Russian withdrawl from Chechnya |
| 2004-09-01 |
| The attackers who raided a school in Russia's North Ossetia autonomous republic are now demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from the republic of Chechnya, where small groups of rebels are still fighting for independence, ITAR-TASS reported Wednesday. They are also demanding the release of terrorists who were arrested in the republic of Ingushetia in June following a terrorist attack on police stations there, and that the President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov and a well-known Moscow-based pediatrician Leonid Roshal arrive at the school building for talks. Roshal represented the government as a negotiator during the siege of a Moscow theater in 2002 Earlier in the morning armed and masked attackers took up to 400 people hostage, including 200 children. The attack happened on the first day of the Russian school year when many parents escort their children to school. Russian President Vladimir Putin has cut short his holiday and returned to Moscow from the Black Sea resort of Sochi due to the hostage crisis. He held a meeting with Russia's top law enforcement officials at the Vnukovo airport in Moscow a few minutes after his arrival. Putin looked alarmed and disturbed when shown on Russian television meeting with Nikolai Patrushev, the director of the Federal Security Service. Putin did not make any statements to the media. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #7 Hostage-takers demand Russian withdrawl from Chechnya If there was one single act that could have galvanized Russian support for the extermination of all Chechen separatists, they managed to find it. #1 I think we should storm the Moskkk in Fraudi Arabia, and hold that big square rock hostage, until Islam agrees to withdraw from the rest of the world. Suicide will suffice in most cases. Let's see how they like being held hostage. I've been shouting this from the rooftops here at Rantburg for some time now. Either we declare a policy of retaliation in kind against the Saudi shrines, or we take these sites by force and hold them hostage to disrupt each and every Haj until there is a 24 month period free of Islamist terrorism. Due to the decentralized and transnational nature of global terrorism, this represents one of the only levers that will apply pressure on each and every single Islamist. Moderate Muslims will finally come to understand that there is a palpable price for inaction against the violent jihadists within their ranks. Either they do something about it or face being denied one of the five pillars of their faith. Far too many resources that rightfully should be directed towards eliminating famine, illiteracy, disease and human rights abuse are instead being squandered on combating an incredibly assymmetrical attack waged by the most heinous foes to be seen since Nazi Germany. Just as Islam remains unable to collectively condemn terrorism as a whole, it may well be time to make them suffer as a whole for this unforgivable moral lapse. All I know is that it is costing our planet TRILLIONS of dollars to fight this minuscule but virulent enemy. This is an utterly obscene diversion of vitally needed resources and requires that we find an alternative method of deterrance. As always, I'm happy to consider any other suggestions that would achieve the same end more effectively. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6166 2004-09-01 9:36:09 PM |
| #6 Perhaps now would be a good time for Secretary Powell to let it be known that the US has nearly zero interest in the rogue state of Chechnya, and yes I hear ya Aris. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-01 3:33:06 PM |
| #5 You guys are all right. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2004-09-01 12:40:15 PM |
| #4 Maybe the Russians should take their own Chechyan hostages out in front of the school when they do it, so the guys inside know exactly what and why. Hopefully the Russans improved their sleep gas. |
| Posted by: RJ Schwarz 2004-09-01 12:35:28 PM |
| #3 Maybe the Russians need to start taking out the Chechen terrorists that they have in custody if the terrorists at the school do not give themselves up. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-01 11:19:44 AM |
| #2 VNP-Motion seconded. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-09-01 9:58:16 AM |
| #1 I think we should storm the Moskkk in Fraudi Arabia, and hold that big square rock hostage, until Islam agrees to withdraw from the rest of the world. Suicide will suffice in most cases. Let's see how they like being held hostage. |
| Posted by: Victory Now Please 2004-09-01 9:55:45 AM |