However, it would appeal to a wider audience...
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| russia preparing for preventive strikes |
| 2004-09-17 |
| President Vladimir Putin says Russia is "seriously preparing to act preventively against terrorists," the Interfax news agency reported. Putin did not explain what those actions would be or where but said Friday the steps would be "in strict accordance with the law and norms of the constitution, relying on international law." Since terrorists set off a hostage drama that ended with the deaths of at least 335 people at Besland, Russian officials including Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov have said Russia might launch pre-emptive strikes against terrorists in the region. Putin's remarks came on a day that a Chechen rebel leader claimed responsibility for that attack and others. more... |
| Posted by:muck4doo |
| #12 AP, I think the Islamists get many of their plotlines and all of their "brigade" names from comic books and sci-fi movies. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-09-17 5:41:07 PM |
| #11 What action post-Beslan would be considered pre-emptive? |
| Posted by: Rawsnacks 2004-09-17 5:31:13 PM |
| #10 Caucasus Nerd---All these nefarious connections are starting to sound like the names of hostile civilizations on a Star Trek episode. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-17 3:09:02 PM |
| #9 Yes, trailing wife, and Paul Dukas would be spinning in his grave... However, it would appeal to a wider audience... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-17 2:42:51 PM |
| #8 There may be another angle to this. RFE/RL posted yesterday (no permalink, sorry) a rumor of a pending Russian black ops strike against Islamists in Kabardino-Balkaria (the autonomous republic to the west of North Ossetia). Admittedly, the "source" they cited was kavkazcenter.com (pro-Chechen, pro-jihad) who, in their turn, were quoting an unnamed source within a Kabardin opposition group. However, there's been a lot of chatter about K-B in the last few days (some of which I've posted here). To recap, some of the Beslan terrorists were Kabardins, and the attack may have been funded/organized from Nalchik, the Kabardin capital. Such an operation by Putin would be "in the region" but also, strictly speaking, a domestic operation. Like Chechnya. Yeah, I know. As Detectives Riggs and Murtaugh would say, "Pretty f**kin' thin." I'm just tossing it out there. |
| Posted by: The Caucasus Nerd 2004-09-17 2:40:16 PM |
| #7 About friggin time! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-09-17 2:33:18 PM |
| #6 It always seemed to me that Mickey Mouse should have taken a flame thrower to the brooms. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-17 2:10:50 PM |
| #5 Let the LLL rant and rave about the "unilateral" actions. Until nations finally get together, share intel, and plan snd execute joint actions, 'unilateral' will be what has to be done to get the job done. The Mullahs need a pop. They are instigating the hatred. But we NEED to go after the financers that make the madrassas and mullah hate factories happen, and that leads back to Saudi. It all leads back to either Saudi or Iran. There is simply too much oil money getting into the hands of psychopaths. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-17 2:05:23 PM |
| #4 let the bear rampage and chips fall where they fall...it will be EU security issue they will have to deal with alone.... |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-09-17 1:02:39 PM |
| #3 crikey. 2..1..0: good link, mucker g'day Sunny http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/17/russia.putin/index.html ~~~"seriously preparing to act preventively against terrorists,"~~~ Preventively!......preventively??????? Now look what "our" neocons got the Ruskies spouting! 'If it's good enough for da americanski cowboys, then it's good enough for us good Rooski KGB types!' Posted by: ******* at September 17, 2004 10:46 AM I understand that you have to deal with terrorism, and Putin certainly has to do SOMETHING. But you can't bomb terrorists. You have to take them out one by one using intelligence, spies, special ops, etc. I heard it compared to the broom in "The Sourcerer's Apprentice". Take an axe to the broom and it splinters into many more, them more and more until the problem is insurmountable. Posted by: *** at September 17, 2004 10:49 AM just the name are been changer protect em posters. |
| Posted by: crude and vishous zionist 2004-09-17 12:20:26 PM |
| #2 Granted, the Russian need to take down some neglected bad boyz on their turf, by why won't someone, anyone, think of the mullaz? Seriously, until the world gets a pandemic infection of radical mullahpox(*), that wipes hundreds of these instigators out, they'll just keep inspiring an endless stream of lackwits to go out and get killed for them. (*) symptoms include feeling fine until an outbreak of large, red splotches rapidly appear on the head and torso, followed by shortness of death. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-09-17 12:17:51 PM |
| #1 Democrats blaming Bushitler for unleashing this evil "pre-emptive strategy" in 5...4...3... |
| Posted by: Crikey 2004-09-17 12:10:08 PM |