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| 2004-04-26 |
| Four Russian servicemen were killed and six were wounded in a clash with rebels near the Chechen capital Grozny, an official in the Kremlin-backed Chechen administration said on Sunday. The casualties occurred as Russian troops and Chechen rebels skirmished on Saturday near Starye Atagi, 20 kilometres south of Grozny, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Four soldiers were killed and nine were wounded in rebel attacks on Russian positions over the past 24 hours, while two were killed and five were wounded when a military truck hit a land mine in the Nadterechny region of northern Chechnya, the official said. In Grozny, two Chechens working in the Moscow-supported police force were killed and two more wounded in a shootout on Saturday, the official said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 What goes around comes around. Stalin created the current "peace" movement as a means to hogtie and slander the United States to allow him to spread communism everywhere. It was kept intact by his successors, so even though the old Soviet Union dissolved,gone, but the people who followed old Joe's recipie and agenda found that it could be tweaked to serve THEIR purposes. Thus, thanks to the infrastructure laid down decades ago, nobody save americans seems to REALLY believe that the United States would hand over power to the Iraquis. Even if some do, its to their advantage to ACT as if they don't believe it. Hotheads like Tater feed on that rhetoric, reprocess it, spew it out, and act on it. He would have been better off waiting until July 4 to start his little uprising... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-04-26 9:57:47 AM |
| #1 This report sounds painfully like something out of Iraq. This war seems to go on forever with no end in sight. The Russians seem to be able to sustain the endless stream of casualties because apparently they don't face political pressure at home. Yet they haven't found a way to end the violence. The west is going to have to find a way to win these wars (Chechnya and Iraq) decisively, or the jihadis will just keep coming. |
| Posted by: virginian 2004-04-26 8:30:29 AM |