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2005-10-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by phil_b 2005-10-13 05:08|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 CNA/AFP is now reporting 60 dead.

Posted by phil_b 2005-10-13 06:18|| 2005-10-13 06:18|| Front Page Top

#2 This post from some local boy at RFERL quoted a local hospital as saying that at least twenty cops were dead, but I notice the link has since been yanked from their front page. Still, the current post makes it sound like hundreds of turbans were involved in this.

Posted by The Caucasus Nerd (Rex Rufus) 2005-10-13 06:46|| 2005-10-13 06:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Ol' Puttyputz doesn't need to go looking for terrorism, to lampoon his infamous tough-guy blather, it's right there under his nose, stompin' on both feet and thumpin' his family jewels at will. The Russians' record sucks. I keep hearing defenses of Puttyputz, but see nothing, zero zip zilch nada, that would make me a believer that he's anything but a media creation and thug of the same sort as his Chechy opposition, except less capable. Hell, his own people killed more Russian civilians (at the Moscow theater) than the Chechens.

So, Puttyputz, whatcha gonna do, eh?

Posted by .com 2005-10-13 07:05|| 2005-10-13 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 The attacks in Nalchik on Wednesday were the most spectacular since the Beslan school hostage seizure last year

A sane world would call it "the Beslan massacre", but then that would be taking a side.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-13 08:23|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-13 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Old nasty Pegleg Basayev may have had a hand in this but it seems to lack his single minded sociopathic focus on pure mass brutality. Kavkaz claims the thugs as their own but no direct credit is attributed. Putin's going to have a busy week.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-10-13 08:45|| 2005-10-13 08:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Reminiscent of the mass city wide attacks in Ingushetia last year.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-10-13 09:13|| 2005-10-13 09:13|| Front Page Top

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