... Our war on terrorism lacks comprehensive approaches and professionalism. We are reacting to situations, striking at the evading tail of the beast. Instead of stating facts and searching for the culprits, we should take pro-active measures.
Y'mean like having a competent intel organization identify the Bad Guys and their location and then having a competent military organization hunt them down and kill them? I dunno. It's never been tried in Mother Russia, but it just might work...
There are culprits, though, because the heads and the staff of the law enforcement and security structures do not feel that they are fighting a round-the-clock war against terrorism. But war is war; it does not tolerate the smallest fraction of self-complacency. We must try to act before the enemy, think what he may do and where he may strike, and prevent these strikes with countermeasures.
Killing them first would help, too...
These may be different countermeasures, including the use of agents and bribing bandits. And we should not be ashamed of the latter, as money is a potent instrument, especially among bandits.
If that doesn't work, use boiling oil or drugs. Or boiling drugs...
I also think that we should launch large-scale special operations in the mountains where the bandits are hiding, and comb the settlements where they are given shelter and support more energetically and carefully. And we need not take into account all the recommendations forced on us by politicians from PACE, the OSCE and other organisations. It is easy for them to be liberal and democratic, as they are not the ones getting snuffed responsible for anything, while we see people killed every day. How long will we tolerate this?
I'm surprised you're tolerating it now, but we have the same problem, so I shouldn't be surprised...
We should tighten the regime for identification papers in Moscow, the registration of non-residents and inspection of all suspects - the authorities can certainly do this. The life of ordinary Russians is the greatest value and the authorities must do everything humanly possible to protect it.
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On Aug. 24, two planes crashed in the Tula and Rostov regions, killing all 90 people on board. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, only figured out that terrorists were to blame for the crashes last Friday. A Chechen woman was among the passengers on each plane, and no one was waiting for them in Volgograd or Sochi, where the planes were headed. The FSB should have gotten hold of the passenger lists immediately. Ground control received a hijack alert from the Sochi-bound plane. Eyewitnesses in the village of Buchalki spoke of a midair explosion. The tails of the planes fell before the fuselage, which only occurs after an explosion. U.S. experts were the first to attribute the crashes to terrorism. Meanwhile, Russian authorities were telling relatives of the dead that if terrorism were to blame, they wouldn't collect the insurance.
On Wednesday, state-owned Rossia television led its 8:00 p.m. newscast not with a story on the crashes, but with an emergency meeting between President Vladimir Putin and top government officials. Putin said nothing about the attacks. Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov assured the president that his office had not ruled anything out, including terrorism. As I watched Putin's dismayed face, I was reminded of June 22, 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Generalissimo Stalin gave the order to destroy the enemy but not to cross the border without permission. Then he retreated to his dacha for several days and fell silent. Stalin couldn't comprehend that the picture of the world that he had created, in which Hitler would never attack, had crumbled. Putin seemed similarly unable to accept the facts at first. As a result, the entire chain of command froze, having no idea what to say.
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Putin seemed similarly unable to accept the facts at first. As a result, the entire chain of command froze, having no idea what to say.
Of course they won't have any idea. Someone who was an official Commie at one time isn't going to have much experience in being forthright and telling the public the truth when necessary. Old habits do die hard.
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