OCTOBER 2006

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 9/11/2006 1:48 PM
Said Minkailov: 'New order' crumbles away
Publication time: 10 September 2006, 18:16
Kavkaz Center correspondent Vaha Hasanov recently got in touch by e-mail with Chechen political scientist Said Minkailov and asked him a few questions.

V. H: World events are moving swiftly. There is a number of questions which I would like to discuss.

Last Lebanon -Israeli conflict gave rise in western and prowestern mass media cascade of publications of the very different sense. It's seen that to the usual arrogance and lies of democratic aggression apologists have added pessimism and confusion.

But there are attempts of the objective analysis. I'll cite one article:

"War in Lebanon whatever ends demonstrates another peculiarity of political situation in Middle East: state crisis as institute which is able to ensure the stable development of the Muslim nations. Neither Talibs in Afghanistan, nor Saddam Husein in Iraq, neither Lebanon, nor Palestine politicians cannot resist outer threat, leaning on own state."

It has almost common with said in "Mujahid's ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 9/15/2006 12:30 AM
Angus Reid Global Scan : Polls & Research
Time for Peace in Chechnya, Say Russians
September 15, 2006

- Many adults in Russia believe their federal government should negotiate with Chechen rebels, according to a poll by the Yury Levada Analytical Center. 68 per cent of respondents believe their country should attempt to begin peace talks.

Chechen rebels have tried to secede from the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Several terrorist incidents in Russia have been blamed on the loose group, including two airplane crashes, a suicide bombing in Moscow and the assassination of Chechnya’s president Akhmad Kadyrov in May 2004.

In September 2004, militants took control of a middle school in Beslan, North Ossetia. The three-day siege left 344 civilians dead, including 172 children. Chechen separatist leader Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the attack.

Basayev—who served as vice-president of the Chechen separatist government—died on Jul. 10. While Chechen sources reported that Basayev perished accidentally after a ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 9/17/2006 1:13 AM
Global popular power
George Galloway
The struggle for justice and prosperity in the Arab world and everywhere depends upon popular resistance to US imperialism and its local clients, writes George Galloway*

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" reads the eponymous statue's inscription in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias. But it is the boastful tyrant's monument, not the self-confidence of his enemies, that lies splintered in the sands.

Five years on from the atrocities of 11 September 2001, George W Bush and the neo- conservatives have managed to turn much of Afghanistan and Iraq into desolation, full of now lifeless things.

Amid this carnage lies another, unlamented casualty -- the colossal wreck of US and British foreign policy. The authors of that wreckage cannot conceivably claim they were not warned of the calamities they would unleash.

Millions of us told them what would happen if they seized on the events of five years ago to launch what the Pentagon now calls the ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 9/17/2006 4:01 PM
Pope Only «Sorry» for Muslim Reactions, Not for His Remarks
Publication time: 17 September 2006, 18:13
The following is the text  of Pope Benedict XVI's remarks about his remarks causing offence to Muslims in his 12 September speech in the Bavarian city of Regensburg.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The pastoral visit which I recently made to Bavaria was a deep spiritual experience, bringing together personal memories linked to places well known to me and pastoral initiatives towards an effective proclamation of the Gospel for today.

 I thank God for the interior joy which he made possible, and I am also grateful to all those who worked hard for the success of this Pastoral Visit.

 As is the custom, I will speak more of this during next Wednesday's general audience.

At this time, I wish also to add that I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 9/23/2006 5:49 AM
US "Antiterrorists" Involuntarily Praise the Chechens
Publication time: Today at 14:09 Djokhar time
A new US "antiterrorist" propaganda book, Insurgents, Terrorists and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat, by certain Richard Shultz and Andrea Dew, both of the International Security Studies Program at Tuft's University Fletcher School, in Boston, describes the Chechens as follows:

"From an early age, a Chechen boy is taught he is a warrior, fighting is part of life, courage is a supreme virtue, honor is precious, cruelty toward enemies is no sin, and cowardice brings shame on family and clan." When he turns 15 the Chechen boy is given his own dagger.

Chechens identify with the wolf, an animal invoked in their national anthem. As one ethnographer, quoted by Shultz and Dew, explains, the Chechens celebrate the wolf as the "only beast that dares to attack a stronger animal, [and if he dies], dies silently without expression of fear or pain."

Source: Ottawa Citizen
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/09/23/5679.shtml