US "Antiterrorists" Involuntarily Praise the Chechens
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posted by zaina19 on September, 2006 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
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
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Ritual Murder of Children by Jews in Russia Reported by Russian Paper
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/23/2006 6:03 AM Ritual Murder of Children by Jews in Russia Reported by Russian Paper Publication time: 21 September 2006, 15:20 On April 16, 2005, just a week before the beginning the the Jewish Passover on April 23, five children, Muslim and Christian, "disappeared" in the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Four weeks later their burnt bodies were found in a sewage pit. A popular Russian daily, Komsomolskaya Pravda, writes today that many Russians in the city are convinced that the children were ritually murdered ba local Jews who later burnt their bodies to conceal the crime and prevent experts to find in the bodies the lack of blood which is used by Hasidic Jews for ritual purposes. Few people in the city believe that the Jewish murderers ever come to trial and that the murders would be properly clarified by police investigaters in present-day new democratic Russia. Vladimir Salamatov, the lawyer representing the interests of the parents of the murdered children told the paper ... >> full
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Fourth issue of the monthly Chechen Society Today released
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/23/2006 6:08 AM September 19th 2006 · Prague Watchdog Fourth issue of the monthly Chechen Society Today released Prague, September 19 - The fourth issue of the monthly Chechenskoye obshchestvo segodnya (Chechen Society Today) has been released. Visit this page to see the latest issue of the journal (3/2006). This issue appears with a delay of several months. We apologize to our readers for it. We believe that the next issues will be published according to schedule, also thanks to the appointment of the new editor-in-chief of the magazine. The black-and-white Russian-language publication is a joint project of Prague Watchdog and the Moscow-based Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations, which is being implemented thanks to support from the US-based National Endowment for Democracy. The journal’s aim is to strengthen Chechen civil society, promote independent media in Chechnya, and provide objective information to Chechens living in Russia and Europe. A thousand copies are published in Moscow; additional copies are printed and distributed ... >> full
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Bloody incident between Chechen and Ingushetian police assessed differently in the two republics
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/23/2006 6:17 AM September 22nd 2006 · Prague Watchdog / Umalt Chadayev · Bloody incident between Chechen and Ingushetian police assessed differently in the two republics By Umalt Chadayev The armed conflict between Chechen and Ingushetian police that took place near the Ingush village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya on September 13, leading to numerous casualties, may have a sequel. Chechen OMON officers who lost seven of their comrades, including the unit’s deputy commander, as a result of a clash on the administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia are convinced that the killing of their colleagues was carried out deliberately. They dismiss completely all the arguments by the Chechen and Ingushetian authorities that the reason for the bloodshed was a lack of operational co-ordination on the part of the law enforcement agencies of the two republics. "What sort of ‘lack of co-ordination’ could there have been? When they entered the republic of Ingushetia at that Ingushetian traffic police post No. 20, our colleagues went through all the necessary ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/24/2006 6:47 AM Russians Die Out Publication time: Today at 09:44 Djokhar time In an effort to boost their perennially low birthrate, Russia is debating a parliamentary act to introduce penalties to childless families. Russia's Duma, the lower house of parliament, demanded that a 6 percent tax on the income of childless families should be reinstatement, which was in effect during the Soviet era. The childless tax, which was levied in 1941 by Stalin, aimed to ensure a rapid increase in the Russian population. According to the law, men between ages of 20 and 50 and women between ages of 20 and 45 had to pay a tax equal to 6 percent of their income if they had no children. The upper chamber of the Russian parliament, objected to the Duma proposal, claiming a reinstatement of a childless tax would not contribute to the demographic problem of the country. Low salaries of young households and the fact that they did not own their houses act as the ... >> full
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