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2004-09-11
  • Schröder-Adoption: Kritische Fragen von Terres des Hommes - SPIEGEL ONLINE
    Terre des Hommes will kritische Fragen zu den Umständen stellen, unter denen Kanzler Schröder die drei Jahre alte Viktoria aus Russland adoptiert hat. "Nach sorgfältigen Recherchen haben wir den Eindruck, dass diese Adoption ohne fachliche Vorbereitung und Begleitung erfolgt ist", sagt Bernd Wacker, Adoptionsexperte des Hilfswerks.
  • ::KAVKAZ CENTER:: Terror and children
    On this photograph are not the children who have died in Beslan. On this photograph are bodies of the Chechen children who died by the hand of the Russian army in autumn 1999. Their deaths did not warrant the call-up of the UN Security Council, and Dr. Roshal did not rush to the scene of the tragedy with water and medicines to try and persuade terrorists to spare children’s lives. They were Chechen children, and Russia did not shudder at the horror of the crime it committed. It simply did not notice.
  • Asia Times - Rebels extend control in Iraq
    BAGHDAD - Armed groups and foreign terrorists have established new camps in central Iraq as government forces attack rebels in the north and south, officials say. The reports follow an admission by US Central Command chief General John Abizaid that more areas in Iraq are under rebel control today than there were last year. The revelations could be damning for the government of US-appointed interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who has promised to uproot armed opposition to the nascent government. New camps have been reported in the Sunni triangle zone that includes Fallujah and Ramadi. Iraqi and Western sources say the camps have been established recently and fortified in the past couple of months. Reports are coming in of new armed groups organizing themselves in parts of the country earlier thought safe, as fighting escalates in other parts of Iraq. Over the past few days fighting has erupted again in many parts of the country, including Fallujah and Mosul in the north and Sadr City in Baghdad.
2004-09-10
  • Asia Times Online - Osama adds weight to Afghan resistance
    CHAMAN, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border - Since the disintegration of the Taliban regime at the end of 2001, the Afghan resistance has endured, managing, if nothing else, to keep US-led occupying forces and the Afghan National Army engaged in small pockets. But much bigger things are planned. The Taliban are commanded from within Afghanistan by the likes of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Mullah Dadullah and Saifullah Mansoor. And significantly, according to Asia Times Online research, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, along with other senior al-Qaeda figures, are no longer in Pakistan but orchestrating the Afghan resistance from within Afghanistan, remote from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  • Sejm: Entschädigungsanspruch gegen Deutschland - SPIEGEL
    Das polnische Parlament hat festgestellt, dass Polen gegenüber Deutschland einen Anspruch auf Kriegsentschädigung hat. Polen habe bislang für die Zerstörungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg noch keine angemessenen Reparationszahlungen erhalten. Der Beschluss des Sejm hat aber keine bindende Wirkung.
  • Polen: Warum Frau Brodacka Deutschland verklagt - SPIEGEL ONLINE
    Das deutsch-polnische Verhältnis ist in der Krise. In Warschau forderte heute der Sejm die Regierung auf, in der Reparationsfrage gegenüber Deutschland angemessene Maßnahmen zu ergreifen. Bereits zuvor hatte eine polnische Bürgerin die Bundesrepublik auf Schadenersatz verklagt. Ihr Vater war im KZ. Wie viele andere fürchtet Izabela Brodacka, dass die Geschichte umgedeutet wird.
  • Asia Times - Why al-Qaeda is winning
    As nihilistic as it may be, al-Qaeda is a major success: three years after September 11, it is a global brand and a global movement. This brand does not have much to do with Islam, but it has everything to do with the globalization of the fight against imperialism. And imperialism is widely seen as having its center in Washington.
  • ABC7Chicago.com: Mayor outlines elaborate camera network for city
    From a hi-tech command center, the City of Chicago plans to monitor a vast security network. Thousands of surveillance cameras will be linked -- and authorities will be alerted to crimes and terrorist acts. The mayor unveiled the plans for this new security network at a news conference this morning.
  • Anschlag in Jakarta: Die Handschrift von Dr. Azahari und dem Genie - SPIEGEL
    Die Pullacher sehen in Südostasien derzeit das größte Aufmarschgebiet für radikale Islamisten heranwachsen. Wenn der Irakkonflikt abebbe, dann gehe der Kampf in der größten Muslimnation der Welt erst richtig los. Sicher haben die Experten recht, die immer noch mantraartig predigen, dass die Indonesier eine äußerst liberale Form des Islam praktizieren. Aber das taten die Iraker früher auch.
  • Türkei: Empörung über geplantes Gesetz gegen Ehebruch - SPIEGEL ONLINE
    Das geplante Ehebruch-Gesetz der Türkei erzürnt deutsche Politiker. Weil der Seitensprung dort künftig unter Strafe stehen soll, hält der CDU-Europaabgeordnete Brok den EU-Beitritt des Landes für ausgeschlossen. Auch EU-Kommissar Verheugen, Grünen-Politiker und SPD-Abgeordnete übten deutliche Kritik an Premier Erdogan.
  • Irak: Siegeszug der Aufständischen - SPIEGEL ONLINE
    Entgleitet den US-Truppen die Kontrolle im Irak? In Falludscha, Samarra, Talafar und Ramadi haben Aufständische die Macht übernommen. Mit einer massiven Offensive versuchen die Amerikaner und ihre irakischen Verbündeten wieder die Oberhand zu gewinnen.
  • Weltwoche.ch - Jenseits von jedem. Interview mit Bruno Ganz
    Der Schweizer Schauspielkünstler Bruno Ganz schafft es in «Der Untergang», die menschliche Seite Adolf Hitlers zu zeigen. Wie schwer kommt man in eine solche Rolle rein und – noch wichtiger – wieder raus? «Das ist so gewaltig, dass einem der Text weggeht»: Bruno Ganz. Herr Ganz, auf die Frage, ob Sie Hollywood reizen würde, sagten Sie: «Durchaus – wenn ich etwas anderes spielen könnte als einen SS-Offizier.» Nun spielen Sie Adolf Hitler persönlich. Und das finden Sie jetzt ulkig? Immerhin bemerkenswert.
2004-09-09
  • ::KAVKAZ CENTER:: Kremlin's head terrorist talking about 'international terrorism'
    So, Putin’s butchers made another bloodbath: this time to the children in Ossetian School No. 1, city of Beslan. After that happened bloody vampire named Putin, who sent his thugs/terrorists to storm the school, makes an address on TV, where he pontificates that «we will always be stronger than they are». Oh well, 600 to 800 children and adults who were killed in Beslan have just experienced it…   Did they like it?   The bloody vampire is promising to take a whole complex of some new measures on «consolidating Russia's territorial integrity». What other measures could be there that the FSB/KGB serfdom, which started since the year 2000, has not done to restore the bygone colonial empire in all of its might? There was a reason why his voice was so sad when he was talking about the collapsed 'great country', the USSR, «whose core we have preserved» by bloody cleansings, storms, tank attacks on foreign cities and by shooting Grad ('Hail') missiles at markets and columns of refugees…   This is that very 'great country', where its founding fathers from KGB were exiling entire nations to Siberia and Central Asia (some of these nations, -- like Crimean Tatars for example, -- were not allowed to return to their homelands until the very collapse of the Communist regime). To Russians the words about «the great country of the USSR» is like music to their ears, but everybody else can still remember that it was a prison of nations, and everybody else can still see that when replacing the USSR, 'democratic Russia' was fatally and tragically unable to become anything else. The pale nonentity with fishlike eyes is standing in front of the Russian tricolor and pontificating about «inhuman crimes that the bandits have committed», about «aggression of international terrorism against Russia» and about how «war was declared on Russia» by this same ill-omened 'international terrorism'.
  • ::KAVKAZ CENTER:: Russian nationalists do not believe Putin's propaganda
    This is what kind of doubts about the official version of the events in Beslan, North Ossetia, they expressed on the website of the Slavic Union: «The storm did take place, and it was planned; it is evident to anybody whose brains have not yet turned sour under the influence of the well-known substance or under the slow speeches of mister president. And this is actually what the authorities are saying indirectly too. Listen to the mass media – nothing but discrepancies between what one bureaucrat says after another. ORT TV says that the second blast was when Spetznaz (special forces) blew up a wall for the hostages to get out. NTV says that the second blast was when the gunmen detonated a bomb to kill the people. ORT again (some FSB agent) says: 3 terrorists were captured and in the morning they took part in identification of the bodies of other terrorists who were killed. NTV (Deputy Prosecutor General Fridinsky) says: there were 26 terrorists, all of them were eliminated, so far no one has been captured (yeah, right! -- and it’s followed by Putin’s order to block all borders) :)). The version about an 'accidental blast' is laughable, and its 'confirmations' are even more laughable: about 5 testimonies of former hostages, when EACH ONE OF THEM is saying a totally different thing compared to what other ones were saying (one says: a bomb fell from a basketball backboard; another one says: a female suicide bomber blew herself up; the third one says: the gunmen were messing with a tripwire mine and it went off, etc.). The version about an «argument among the gunmen» about whether to leave or to stay is a total idiocy and I’m not going to comment on it. The only thing I can say is that blowing up bombs 'right near you' is a good way to express a disagreement :). There are a few reasons why the version about an intentional blast inside the school is swept aside as well. First, why the hell would the gunmen need to blow up hostages at that moment? One o’clock in the afternoon is a very wrong time for breaking out of the surrounded perimeter, it’s even hard to imagine anything worse than that. Second, after the school compound was stormed, sappers and a couple of top FSB (KGB) officers were hanging around the TV cameras and expressing their surprise at the scale and the quality of how the school was mined. At the same time they were claiming that all explosives were connected with multi-channel wires, which allowed setting off all bombs from many locations inside the school. So why didn’t the gunmen set them off, since they decided to kill the hostages? And here is even more interesting question: how did they manage to detonate just one bomb without detonating the rest of them? And finally, in a confined space the rest of the explosives would have probably gone off by themselves from the shockwave.
  • ::KAVKAZ CENTER:: How can 42 thousand children be killed legally?
    The events in North Ossetia caused a wild outburst of emotions in the Russian press. Even the blast in Moscow was not PR-ed by the Russian propaganda as much as the seizure of school in Beslan. And this is understandable: children were taken hostage. And everybody knows that children are holy. Here, for example, is the kind of irate philippic that super-liberal and independent Gazeta.ru, which reflects the overall sentiments in the Russian press, came up with about the gunmen who seized the school: «Even for today’s terrorist war the seizure of a school with children is out of the ordinary. It is not just a challenge. It is the last boundary. Christianity knows no blood feud. But those who put the lives of children at stake in any game are not considered to be humans in it. These beings can never have God or family. The very threat to kill a child is renunciation of belonging to the human race, it’s like killing your own mother». As we can see, the sentence pronounced to armed 'unmen' is unambiguous. Those who attempted the lives of 132 schoolchildren in Beslan have now been crossed out of the list of the human race. Let’s make a note of it – not those who killed, but who threatens to have a possibility to kill under certain circumstances. All right. On the whole, the logic is clear and emotions are explainable. But… There are a couple of trivial questions in this regard: What, for an example, can you call those who just kill children, and not threaten them? And what kind of punishment should be made for them? What kind of species of mammals or predators are those who killed 42 thousand Chechen children of school age, and who have been holding the survivors hostage for the past 10 years and threatening to kill them each minute? If «the very threat to kill a child is renunciation of belonging to the human race, it’s like killing your own mother», then what is the real murder of 42 thousand children, but not just a threat? Or Chechen schoolkids are not children? Or Chechen children do not belong to the human race? Or killing Chechen children is not a crime, but only an 'inadequate use of force'? Or Chechen children can be legally tortured in Russian concentration camps? Why the threat to the lives of 132 Russian schoolchildren raises an emergency to convene an urgent session of the UN Security Council, while murders of 42 thousand (!!!) Chechen children of school age have not been making anybody in the world outraged throughout 10 years?
  • ::KAVKAZ CENTER:: Another version
    Letter to the editor: Dear friends, why the version of experts, -- that it was a provocation orchestrated by Russian secret services, -- has never been voiced in your comments regarding the Beslan tragedy? Even from the edited materials of the Russian mass media you can see the distinctly traced legend, which was prepared in advance and later on corrected in a hurry by unable hands of the local performers, from which it became so absurd and easy to recognize. The school could have been seized by a group consisting only of FSB (KGB) agents or duped opponents of the Putin regime mixed with special agents. According to the bloody scenario, the hostages were doomed, and in the middle of the turmoil special agents were supposed to blend in with the soldiers storming the building, or under the guise of wounded hostages they were supposed to be evacuated from the scene (this is what the disorganized ‘assistance’ from the local population was needed for and some wild blasts of supporting walls for no reason whatsoever, where there were no provocateurs, of course). The example of evacuation of special agents (by the way there could have been the second backup group among the hostages) could be seen from the widely promoted footage and photos of providing first aid to a woman in a purple dress: an efficiently operating group of 4 men in uniforms brings her out of the fire zone, lays her on a stretcher face down (!) and carried her to the military medical vehicle in an organized manner.
2004-09-08
  • ::KAVKAZ CENTER:: "I served in Israeli army..."
    Letter to the editor: Shalom! Peace be upon you! It looks kind of strange: I’m an Israeli, and I’m supposed to hate you and consider you to be inveterate fanatics and murderers. But it doesn’t work, it comes out the other way around even. I served in the Israeli army, and at the checkpoint where I was stationed my buddies were often harassing the Palestinians, who were crossing into Israel to work. For example, they would make them take all four wheels of the car off: it was pretty much fun to watch how the poor guy was suffering while hammering the wheels back! It was fun to hit him or to closely inspect his wife –FOR NO REASON! Then they would raise so much noise about human rights defense that you can never get out of a military jail. And it makes you hiss at Palestine and say that they stole our country. But I came to Russia and what do I see? Russians are killing Chechens by hundreds of thousands, while referring to the Israeli experience. Did they go totally nuts or what? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to make any excuses, I’m not trying to make myself look any better than I really am, -- you just have to accept the fact that if SUCH an operation of setting hostages free, like the one in Beslan, was conducted in Israel, the whole army command would have been sentenced to life in prison!
  • Asia Times Online - Russia's second Afghanistan
    Russia's predicament in its rebellious republic of Chechnya is fast spinning out of control and is threatening to become Russia's second Afghanistan. After 10 years of trying to control Chechnya primarily by military force, punctuated by a period of withdrawal from 1996 to 1999, Russia still has not been able to realize its aim of ruling the republic through a compliant local political leadership. At present, the situation in Chechnya is deteriorating so badly that Moscow is increasingly faced with a series of options, all of which are unfavorable to its strategic and security interests.
2004-09-07
  • ND - Sicherheit Israel-Russland
    Der russische Außenminister Sergej Lawrow sprach sich am Montag bei einem Jerusalem-Besuch für eine verstärkte Zusammenarbeit mit Israel im Kampf gegen Terrorismus aus. Die israelische Zeitung 'Haaretz' berichtete, Israel wolle Rußland nach der Tragödie in Beslan eine "nie da gewesene Sicherheitszusammenarbeit" anbieten. Dies solle auch den Austausch hochsensibler Geheimdienstinformationen bedeuten.
  • russland-news - Nachrichten von russland-aktuell.RU und russland-online.RU
    18:59 – Außerordentliche NATO-Russland-Sitzung in Brüssel Am Dienstag begann in Brüssel eine außerordentliche Sitzung des NATO-Russland-Rates, berichtet RIA Nowosti. Beim Treffen werden Fragen der gemeinsamen Terrorismusbekämpfung besprochen. Die Sitzung begann mit einer Schweigeminute für die Opfer von Beslan. (ab) --- 18:38 – Putin sagt Deutschland-Besuch ab Russlands Präsident Putin hat im Zusammenhang mit der Geiselkatastrophe in Ossetien seinen Deutschland-Besuch abgesagt. (ab) --- 18:32 – Präsidentenberater in Berlin Die Putin-Berater Viktor Iwanow und Sergej Jastrschembski werden auf der Tagung "EU-Russland: Die Strategie der 4 Gemeinsamen Räume" am Mittwoch in Berlin erwartet. Viktor Iwanow soll dabei über die innere Sicherheit und die Rechtslage in Russland referieren. Die Veranstaltung wird von der Körber-Stiftung organisiert. (ab) --- 18:26 – Finanzamt will weitere 79 Mrd. Rubel von Yukos Die Steuerbehörde fordert vom Ölkonzern Yukos weitere 79 Mrd. Rubel (2,2 Mrd. Euro) für das Jahr 2001, berichtet gazeta.ru. Erst am 3. September hatten die Beamten die Steuerforderungen auf gigantische 120 Mrd. Rubel (3,4 Mrd. Euro) hochgeschraubt. Bei einer Nachrechnung stellten die Beamten dann die neue Rechnung aus. Über ein Drittel der Summe sind Strafzinsen. (ab)
  • Asia Times Online - China's 'peaceful' rise at stake in power struggle
    The power struggle in Beijing between China's military strongman, Jiang Zemin, and the country's two reformist government leaders, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, is of momentous importance to the United States and East Asia. As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prepares for its Fourth Plenum this month, reportedly on September 15, the world will get a clearer idea of which way Asia's most populous, and arguably its most powerful, state is headed.
  • Asia Times - The Bush crusade
    All of this is implicit in the word that President Bush first used, which came to him as naturally as a baseball reference, to define the "war on terrorism". That such a dark, seething religious history of sacred violence remains largely unspoken in our world does not defuse it as an explosive force in the human unconscious. In the world of Islam, of course, its meaning could not be more explicit, or closer to consciousness. The full historical and cultural significance of "crusade" is instantly obvious, which is why a howl of protest from the Middle East drove Bush into instant verbal retreat. Yet the very inadvertence of his use of the word is the revelation: Americans do not know what fire they are playing with. Osama bin Laden, however, knows all too well, and in his periodic pronouncements, he uses the word "crusade" to this day, as a flamethrower. Religious war is the danger here, and it is a graver one than Americans think. Despite its much-vaunted separation of church and state, the United States has always had a quasi-religious understanding of itself, reflected in the messianism of Puritan founder John Winthrop, the Deist optimism of Thomas Jefferson, the embrace of redemptive suffering that marked Abraham Lincoln and, for that matter, the conviction of president Dwight Eisenhower's secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, that communism had to be opposed on a global scale if only because of its atheism. But never before has the US been brought deeper into a dynamite-wired holy of holies than in President Bush's "war on terrorism". Despite the post-Iraq toning down of Washington's rhetoric of empire, and the rejection of further crusader references - although Secretary of State Colin Powell used the word this past March - Bush's war openly remains a cosmic battle between nothing less than the transcendent forces of good and evil. Such a battle is necessarily unlimited and open-ended, and so justifies radical actions - the abandonment, for example, of established notions of civic justice at home and of traditional alliances abroad. A cosmic moral-religious battle justifies, equally, risks of world-historic proportioned disaster, since the ultimate outcome of such a conflict is to be measured not by actual consequences on this Earth but by the Earth-transcending will of God. America's "war on terrorism", before it is anything else, is thus an imagined conflict, taking place primarily in a mythic realm beyond history.
  • Asia Times Online - A lengthening trail of terror
    The responsibility for the explosions on board the two planes and outside the metro station has been claimed by the Islambouli Brigades, headed by Mohammad Islambouli, younger brother of Khaled Islambouli, both of whom were involved in the assassination of president Anwar Sadat of Egypt in Cairo in 1981. While Khaled Islambouli was arrested by the Egyptian authorities, tried and executed in 1982, Mohammad Islambouli, along with Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No 2 of al-Qaeda, and the late Mohammad Atef, the former operational chief of al-Qaeda, escaped to Afghanistan and joined the Arab mercenary force, which was trained by the US's Central Intelligence Agency and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and used against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
  • Asia Times Online - Russia forced to rethink US ties
    Already coined as Russia's September 11 by various Russian pundits and editorials, the tragic slaughter of hundreds of innocent people in a middle school in Beslan has the potential to trigger a major tremor in the foreign policy charted by President Vladimir Putin, perhaps even as far as heralding a new chapter in US-Russia relations, much to the chagrin of the so-called Eurasianists around Putin who have for a long time been advising him to steer clear of the US's "war on terrorism". In his first post-Beslan interview, Putin, in a tone reminiscent of President George W Bush's post-September 11 behavior, has declared Russia to be in a "war" with enemies that his defense minister, Sergei Ivanov, has branded as "unseen" and "borderless". Cognitively then, the mass killings in Russia, including the victims of downed Russian airplanes and Moscow subway commuters, have seemingly spurred a politico-ideological turn around vis-a-vis the US, viewed with suspicion by the Kremlin for exploiting the September 11 tragedies for geopolitical gains at Russia's doorsteps in Central Asia and elsewhere in the Middle East, prompting Russian policy-makers to rethink their cynical gaze at the US war on global terrorism, eg, the same Ivanov has been on record for making paranoid statements about a post September 11 "dense ring of military and intelligence gathering installations belonging to the US". In the light of the severity of the Chechen-led terrorist attacks, reportedly with participation by members of al-Qaeda, Ivanov and other like-minded people around Putin are likely more apt to make similar statements about the threat of Islamist terrorism. Does this mean that we are about to witness a foreign policy "re-orientation" in Russia featuring Moscow's new willingness to join Washington's war on global terrorism and to make the foreign policy adjustments deemed necessary for such an alliance? While we must await the passage of time to furnish the answer, the current milieu in Russia, wrought with a governmental crisis in combating terrorism, is clearly pregnant with such a possibility. So far, Putin has offered little beyond a "tactical" partnership with the US's "war on terror", refraining from a "strategic" alliance in the light of his criticisms of Bush's invasion of Iraq and the US military's post-September 11 base-building in Iraq, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. But adopting an evolutionary perspective, Putin has of late toned down his anti-US rhetoric, exploring the option of dispatching Russian troops to Iraq and extending the areas of security cooperation between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), notwithstanding the open agenda of the Russia-NATO Permanent Joint Council shaped in part by Putin's, and before him Boris Yeltsin's, singular emphasis on Russia's European identity. This, in turn, raises the question of what specific adjustments Putin needs to make above and beyond his hitherto difficult balancing act between the two powerful impulses of "globalists" and "Westernists" on the one hand and, on the other, the "nationalists" and the "Eurasianists"? After all, with its 20 million plus Muslim inhabitants, Russia relates to and even absorbs part of the Islamic east, most vividly reflected in Russia's recent observer status at the summits of the Organization of Islamic Conference, OIC, and Russia's recent accession to the regional organization, Central Asia Cooperation Organization; the latter initiative has been a part and parcel of a Russian "Eurasian renaissance" reflected in the development of transportation networks linking Russia to the West on the one hand and to Asia on the other. Contrary to some of his advisors, including in the military, Putin has until now hedged his bets on a multi-faceted foreign policy geared to Russia's national interests and reflective of Russia's European-Asian ramparts, whereby he could maintain Russia's independence, particularly from the undue encroachments by either NATO or the US superpower, while enhancing economic and financial relations with Western countries and, simultaneously, pursuing Russia's "eastern" objectives; the latter include low-security cooperation with China through the "Shanghai Six" and escalating arms sales to China, India and Iran, among others. Yet the anti-American confrontational edge of Putin has by all indications hit a tall wall. On the one hand, this has negatively contributed to the Western participation in the Russian oil industry, particularly in the Caspian Sea, putting a question mark on the future of oil exports from Russia's second energy hub (after Siberia). Victor Kalyuzny, who was until recently Putin's point man on the Caspian Sea, recently dismissed the notion that the US has any interests in the Caspian Sea, and Putin's removal of Kalyuzny can be fairly certainly interpreted as a sign of Putin's decrease of his anti-US tendency and simultaneous increase of his other tendency to project the image of Russia as a reliable ally of the West capable of underwriting security in the fractured Central Asia-Caucasus. Thus, without doubt the terrorist-related setbacks faced by Putin, whose confidence in his charted course of action has now been seriously undermined, underscore the need for a new era of partnership by Russia in the global campaign against terrorism. This may, in fact, lead Putin to reverse course on Chechnya, solidly regarded until now as an internal problem, by instead seeking to internationalize the problems faced by Russia in Chechnya, such as the growing role of outside forces fueling Chechen separatism. Concerning the latter, the dominant wisdom in Moscow until now has been that Chechen separatism may be motivated by religious principles, but is primarily driven by political goals. The "shock of Beslan" may be precisely in revising this perception and thus closing the mental gap between Washington and Moscow.
2004-09-06
  • JUS - Mujahideen: Responsibility For Beslan
    JUS has learned from reliable sources that Chechen Mujahideen have claimed responsibility for both the Beslan School incident and the attacks on two Russian planes that crashed ten days ago. In a soon to be released statement, Chechen Mujahideen also indicate another attack is already in process. Our sources tell us that the statement will contain a much different version of the events at Beslan School than what is being reported. The total number of casualties the Mujahideen claim is approximately 700 however they state that the majority of casualties were adults. The school was filled with teachers, staff, parents and children at the time of the incident. They claim that the majority of children were released in the initial siege. Ten were killed in the cross fire and 30 were released shortly after the incident began, leaving only 25 inside. The statement is also said to counter claims that the children did not receive food and water which apparently was available inside the school due to the commencement celebrations. Our sources also claim that, contrary to press reports that have so far shown only one capture attacker and none of those it says were killed, several Mujahideen escaped with approximately 200 hostages and that fighting is still going on. Russian authorities sealed off the town early in the siege, cutting telephone communications and imposing a media blackout. Our sources also claim that the actual demands of the Chechen Mujahideen were not ever made public. In addition to the Russian withdrawal from Chechen and release of Chechen prisoners, the Mujahideen issued a demand that Vladimar Putin to be brought to trial for war crimes against Chechens. This of course is not a demand that would ever be made public on Kremlin controlled media and certainly not one that Putin himself would consider. The statement is said to contain a warning that “we will make every Russian pay with our next operation such that they will be forced to release their grip on Chechnya”. The sttment is expected to be released to the press tomorrow.
2004-09-05
  • Monument in memory of Russian Germans unveiled in Russia's North - PRAVDA
    The monument symbolizes the memory of all foreigners, who had contributed to the history of Arkhangelsk. Spokespeople for the German public organization "The House of the Fatherland" ("Dom Rodini") arrived in the city of Arkhangelsk in northern Russia to participate in the ceremony. The memorial represents a 200-year-old stone wall. The wall used to be a part of the family necropolis of the Arkhangelsk industrialists, the Shergoldts. The names of European emigrants are carved in the Gothic style on eight memorial boards. The monument was consecrated according to traditions of the Lutheran church. The project of the monument in the memory of Russian Germans has been executed at the expense of the German public organization "The House of the Fatherland." Nuernberg guests arrived in Arkhangelsk to see the monument being unveiled.
  • ::KAVKAZ CENTER:: Beslan: 80 percent of hostages killed or injured
    Russian propaganda claims that the assault of Russian security forces on the school in Beslan, where children and their parents were held hostage, was successful. This statement is just as surprising as a similar statement that was made two years ago, when after the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 129 hostages were put to death by the knockout gas and when about 70 Muscovites disappeared without a trace. You don’t have to be an antiterrorist expert to expose the unsound lies of the Putin regime: all one needs to do is just compare the figures quoted by the same Russian propaganda. So, according to the reluctant admission of the Russian authorities, at least 1,000 people were being held hostage in the school. After the storm Russian and Ossetian authorities started claiming that over 200 hostages died and at least 600 were injured. Many of them are in critical condition. Including 300 injured children. Thus, according to the Russian figures, Moscow claims that 800 hostages out of 1,000 were killed and injured when the school was being stormed, i.e. 80 percent out of the total number. If such a bloody act is called a success, them what would be a failure for Putin and his circle? And here is another discrepancy in the Russian propaganda: the ethnicities of the gunmen who seized the school. Virtually all hostages claim that the hostage-takers were of various ethnic backgrounds: Russians, Ossetians, Ingushetians and possibly Chechens (which none of the hostages has said for sure). At the same time the Russian side was claiming that the armed group was under the command of Chechen General Doku Umarov. But after the school was stormed and after many hours of gun battles with the armed group that seized the school, a totally unexpected report came in: 10 Arabs were allegedly among the hostage-takers, and even one Black person. A pretty unexpected turn in the propagandistic thought of the KGB pros, especially when not a single hostage even hinted that there were Arabs or Blacks in that group of gunmen. You have to admit that it would have been impossible not to spot a Black person even in a stressful situation. Especially when, as the Russian side claimed a day before the storm, «all militants took their masks off, which is a bad sign…», -- as crisis headquarters of the Russian authorities explained.
  • ::KAVKAZ CENTER:: Press condemns Putin's slaughter worldwide
    Swiss newspaper Basler Zeitung (Basel, Switzerland) writes: The demands of hostage-takers that Russian troops pull out of Chechnya are absolutely legitimate. At least, negotiations about ending the war could be conducted. Even negotiations about Chechnya's complete withdrawal from the Russian Federation is not a forbidden subject. In spite of obvious fraud, Gerhard Schroeder did not see any «considerable shortcomings during the elections in Chechnya». These statements made by the German Chancellor, who appeared in the role of an apostle of peace during the war in Iraq, do not fit for dialogue in Chechnya, - the newspaper complains. Danish newspaper Politiken sticks to even more irreconcilable position concerning the crimes against humanity that Putin’s Russia is committing: It’s far from being the matter of «Russian fight against international terrorism», as Putin is declaring. Arabs used the restless situation in Chechnya, but international terrorism is not the reason for the conflict. If international terrorism must be fought, the same should be done to Russian state terrorism too.
  • ::KAVKAZ CENTER:: Putin, you are a murderer
    Russian special forces storm the school. Untalented head-on assault at the wrong time. The tactics was extremely idiotic: commandos in vehicles belonging to the Emergencies Ministry break into the schoolyard in Beslan, while the gunmen who seized the school compound agreed to hand the dead bodies over. It is clear that at that moment they were ready to do anything. Sure, they were waiting for some dirty trick to be pulled off. And this is why they met the Spetznaz commandos with heavy gunfire. Then explosions occur and a long, two-hour long gun battle and hundreds of children (hostages) get killed. Right now they say that over TWO HUNDRED people died! It’s more than the number of victims during the Moscow theater siege in October 2002. It’s more than the number of victims in Budennovsk. And they were children. Nobody ever believed that the school would be stormed. And not because Putin was speaking somewhat differently this time, as if human lives were his number one priority. Nobody believes Putin anymore, even the most faithful of his dogs. He is always lying, this is how he was taught in his higher KGB school. He lies even when he tells the truth.
  • Aktuell.ru Putin: Nationale Mobilisierung gegen Terrorismus
    Mit organisatorischen Konsequenzen und einer nationalen Mobilisierung will Putin gegen den internationalen Terrorismus antreten. In einer TV-Ansprache an die Nation bezeichnete Wladimir Putin die Geiselnahme als „direkte Intervention des internationalen Terrors“. Der Kampf dagegen sei ein langer und schwerer Prozess. Wer schwach ist, werde geschlagen, sagte er. aktuell.RU dokumentiert die Rede hier in deutscher Übersetzung.
  • ::KAVKAZ CENTER:: Reflections on...
    Another wave of war operations has splashed out of the Chechen boiling cauldron. In spite of desperate attempts made by Putin and his friends in the West to press on the lid of Ichkeria, boiling with bloody bubbles, Chechen blood is still pouring overboard more and more often and the international community has felt the taste of it. And this fact gets the esthetic Europeans pretty outraged. When blood and tears, concentration camps and hostages, murders and kidnappings do not get outside of Chechnya, the international community is satisfied and calm. This is when political life in Europe goes on calmly and steadily. This is when vital problems of the mankind are being discussed, such as the problems of egg-laying hens. The European Commission is extremely concerned about this problem and is now threatening to file a complaint with the European Court about Italy, Belgium, Austria and Greece. The reason for this is inhumane conditions that the chickens are held in these countries. (This is what the document actually says, -- 'inhumane conditions'). Chickens are getting oppressed: they are living in very small cages. By 2012 the European Union is planning to impose a full ban on keeping the egg-laying hens in cages. By the way, Europe is also concerned with the cows for milking, on the top of the problems with chickens. Not too long ago the same European Commission announced that it was going to publish the proposals on making stricter standards for transporting cattle. For example, the number of livestock on a truck must be reduced from 29 to 9. Also, the permissible number of animals in transporters must be reduced in order not to expose cows to any excessive stresses. And this summer international human rights court in Strasbourg censured Austria for discrimination of homosexuals. The reason why Austria was censured was the specific case considered by the Strasbourg Court. After the death of cohabiter, some Sigmund Karner was not allowed to inherit the ownership of the condominium belonging to the deceased, since their marital relations were not registered in proper order. The lawsuit in Strasbourg was filed by Homosexual Initiative organization, registered in Vienna. And now that organization wants to present to the public a number of decisions made by the Austrian justice, which show violations of rights of gays and lesbians in that Republic. So, the Strasbourg Court has no time to bother with the suits from Chechen children, widows and mothers who lost their families in occupied Chechnya. Chechnya with its 250,000 dead bodies does not fit into the framework of civilized Europe. But had that Russian Spetznaz squad shot a Belgian chicken instead of a pregnant woman, a disabled man and a school principal, that would have been a good pretext to interfere. Stress of milked cows is a lot bigger of a problem for Europe than some 250,000 dead bodies of a nation of just 1 million.
  • Russische Medien: Kritische Journalistin vergiftet? - SPIEGEL ONLINE
    Anna Politkowskaja gehört zu den renommiertesten Journalistinnen in Russland. Für ihre kritische Tschetschenien-Berichterstattung erhielt sie internationale Preise. Auf dem Weg nach Beslan wurde sie möglicherweise Opfer eines Giftanschlags. Möglicherweise wolle jemand verhindern, dass aus der Krisenzone Berichte veröffentlicht werden, die nicht der offiziellen Version entsprächen. Die Journalistin erhielt schon mehrfach Mordrohungen und wurde zeitweise unter Polizeischutz gestellt.
  • WELT - "Koste es, was es wolle"
    Das Geiseldrama in Beslan ist beendet. Welchen Blutzoll die Befreiung der Kinder, Eltern und Lehrer endgültig gefordert hat, ist vorläufig unklar. Bilder und erste Kommentare im russischen Fernsehen konnten am Freitag darüber noch keinen exakten Aufschluss geben: Wie viele Opfer der Sturm der Spezialkräfte genau gefordert hat, wie viele Kinder unter den offensichtlich mehreren hundert Toten sind, bleibt vorerst unklar. Klar ist lediglich, dass ohne eine Grundsatzentscheidung aus dem Kreml auch in Beslan nichts passiert wäre. Die wesentlichen Beschlüsse wurden und werden in derlei Krisensituationen von einem kleinen Kreis Eingeweihter unter dem Vorsitz von Präsident Wladimir Putin gefasst. Die Krisenstäbe sind dann nur noch ausführende Organe, die bei Fehlschlägen dann die Rolle des Sündebocks zu übernehmen haben. Auch wenn die Folgen des gestrigen Gefechts um die Schule in Nordossetien noch nicht zu übersehen sind, steht doch eines fest: Kremlchef Putin ist sich treu geblieben. Mit Separatisten und Terroristen werde nicht verhandelt, sie würden vernichtet, wo immer sie sich auch aufhielten, hatte er erst kürzlich noch einmal bekräftigte. Putin, der vor über vier Jahren auf der Welle der Angst vor tschetschenischen Terroranschlägen im Verlaufe des zweiten Tschetschenien-Krieges ins Amt gelangt war, bleibt bei seiner Politik der harten Hand. Und das hat seine innere Logik. Nachdem er jahrelang die Vernichtung der tschetschenischen Rebellen gepredigt hat, bei insistierenden Anfragen im Ausland sogar ausfällig geworden war, konnte er hinter diese Position nicht zurück, ohne seine gesamte Politik in Frage zu stellen. Auch waren die Forderungen der Terroristen aus der Sicht Putins einfach absurd. Niemals hätte er sich bereit erklärt, Tschetschenien in die Unabhängigkeit zu entlassen, die Kämpfe einzustellen und die Truppen abzuziehen. Auch in der ganz konkreten Situation in Beslan verbot sich ein Nachgeben gegenüber den Terroristen, die zu allem entschlossen schienen. Dem Vorwurf, sie würden sich an unschuldigen Kindern vergreifen, begegneten einer der Geiselgangster kalt mit der Antwort: Als die Russen meine Kinder umgebracht haben, hat mich auch niemand gefragt - so der Bericht einer der Geiseln.
  • WELT - Deutscher Regierungschef besucht Gaddafi
    Schröder legt im Oktober einen Zwischenstopp in Libyens Hauptstadt Tripolis ein. Der Sohn des Staatschefs Gaddafi lockt mit lukrativen Geschäften. Berlin/Hamburg - Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder (SPD) reist am 15. Oktober nach Libyen. Auf einer Reise von Ungarn nach Algerien will der Kanzler einen Zwischenstopp in Tripolis einlegen. Dies ist nach Angaben von Nachrichtenagenturen aus der Bundesregierung bestätigt worden.
  • Aljazeera.Net - Putin vows reform of security service
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for a new approach to law enforcement in the wake of the school hostage crisis that has killed more than 340 people. He also pledged on Saturday that the reform would be in accordance with the nation's constitution. Putin said "international terrorists had declared a full-scale war" against Russia, and that due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the nation was weakened and unable to respond as effectively as it must. "In general, we need to admit that we did not show an understanding of the complexities and dangers of the processes occurring in our own country and in the world," he said in a grim televised address to the nation. "In any case, we couldn't adequately react ... . We showed weakness, and weak people are beaten."

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