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Russia stages anti-terror drills in south


Background:
There are indications the United States is promoting this war between Russia and the Chechens. This is a well documented past behavior of the US.
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In addition on April 18, the Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador in Moscow Tuesday to hand him a note of protest against a seminar in Washington which it said called for new terrorist attacks in Russia.
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This is interesting that China, which faces a Muslim separatist movement in its western Xinjiang region also being promoted by the United States, sent a delegation to observe the exercises. China has already protested the establishment of a Uighur Government-in-Exile in Washington and Beijing has repeatedly made it clear that it will not tolerate any political interference from abroad, where pro-independence Uighur organizations exist. This means us. It would seem we are orchestrating a riot in the Uigher/Xinjiang province of China.
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Moreover Chinese troops will take part in a military exercise with Russia in the same area next spring.

With Peace Mission 2005 behind them, Russia and China are planning for new military exercises, this time to take place in southern Russia. Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev stated on March 2 that Russia and China have "made plans to conduct exercises in spring 2007 in [Russia's] Southern Federal District". According to Nurgaliyev, the joint exercises will include special forces from China's Public Security Ministry, in addition to special forces and regular troops from Russia's Interior Ministry. The exercises, described by Nurgaliyev as large-scale, will "develop skills for cooperation in accomplishing objectives to counter the threat of terrorism". #msg-10248118
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Russia stages anti-terror drills in south

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, April 24, 2006 · Last updated 10:42 a.m. PT

MOSCOW -- Russia on Monday launched one of the largest anti-terrorism drills in recent years in its troubled south, involving 32,000 personnel from the police, intelligence and military branches of the security forces, media reports said.

The exercises began in the Rostov region with a simulated terror attack by militants on a population center.

Television pictures showed helicopter gunships firing from above as masked rebels ran on the ground with a group of pretend hostages.

The NTV channel said that the drill aimed to test the ability of police, Federal Security Service and Defense Ministry units to coordinate their actions during special operations.

The TV report said that after Rostov, the exercises would move to Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkariya in the next few days. China, which faces a Muslim separatist movement in its western Xinjiang region, sent a delegation to observe the exercises, news agencies quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying.

Russia has battled with a separatist insurgency in Chechnya for more than a decade, and the violence increasingly has afflicted other regions in the impoverished and largely Muslim North Caucasus.






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