TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 03, 2004 01:28:43 AM ] NEW DELHI: Russia on Thursday accused the West of adopting double standards in fighting international terrorism and said collective effort was needed to erase the menace from the globe.
“Terrorism is affecting all parts of the world. We hope the international community, particularly the US and western Europe, understands that it has to be fought jointly shunning double standards,” Nikolay Kudashev, first secretary in the mission, told reporters here.
Elaborating on “double standards”, he said the US and Britain were talking about combating terrorism, but two prominent Chechen terrorists were “living comfortably” in these countries and the hosts were not extraditing them.
The official, however, noted that US President George W Bush had called up his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin yesterday to condemn the hold up at the Russian school.
WASHINGTON — The Russian government will protest a U.S. decision to grant asylum to an exiled Chechen leader considered a terrorist by the Russian government, an embassy source said Thursday.
Ilyas Akhmadov, the foreign minister of the exiled leadership of the separatist Russian republic, received asylum Monday after the Department of Homeland Security lifted an appeal filed this year, Akhmadov said in an interview.
"I am very happy this is over and I want to stay here and do what I can to work towards a political resolution to the conflict in Chechnya," Akhmadov said.
Perhaps the most important taboo is the longevity of the United States as both a terrorist state and a haven for terrorists. That the US is the only state on record to have been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism (in Nicaragua) and has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law, is unmentionable.
'In the war against terrorism,' said Bush from his bunker following 11 September, 'we're going to hunt down these evil-doers wherever they are, no matter how long it takes.'
Strictly speaking, it should not take long, as more terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.
There is no terrorist sanctuary to compare with Florida, currently governed by the President's brother, Jeb Bush. In his book Rogue State , former senior State Department official Bill Blum describes a typical Florida trial of three anti-Castro terrorists, who hijacked a plane to Miami at knifepoint. 'Even though the kidnapped pilot was brought back from Cuba to testify against the men,' he wrote, 'the defence simply told the jurors the man was lying, and the jury deliberated for less than an hour before acquitting the defendants.'
General Jose Guillermo Garcia has lived comfortably in Florida since the 1990s. He was head of El Salvador's military during the 1980s when death squads with ties to the army murdered thousands of people. General Prosper Avril, the Haitian dictator, liked to display the bloodied victims of his torture on television. When he was overthrown, he was flown to Florida by the US Government. Thiounn Prasith, Pol Pot's henchman and apologist at the United Nations, lives in New York. General Mansour Moharari, who ran the Shah of Iran's notorious prisons, is wanted in Iran, but untroubled in the United States.
Al-Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan were kindergartens compared with the world's leading university of terrorism at Fort Benning in Georgia. Known until recently as the School of the Americas, it trained tyrants and some 60,000 Latin American special forces, paramilitaries and intelligence agents in the black arts of terrorism.
In 1993, the UN Truth Commission on El Salvador named the army officers who had committed the worst atrocities of the civil war; two-thirds of them had been trained at Fort Benning. In Chile, the school's graduates ran Pinochet's secret police and three principal concentration camps. In 1996, the US government was forced to release copies of the school's training manuals, which recommended blackmail, torture, execution and the arrest of witnesses' relatives.
This is a revised extract from The New Rulers of the World , by John Pilger,
This is interesting because the U.S. is obviously behind the Chechen rebels and Saakashvili of Georgia and now our two friends are becoming extremely disenchanted with one another.
If an animosity between the Chechens and Georgians does develop further this will of course be to Putin’s advantage.
It is suspected that the U.S. unleashed and armed the Muslim secessionist forces of Chechnya and clearly the timing of their periodic outbreaks has been very useful for U.S. plans in the Caspian.
It is also well acknowledged that Bush is backing Saakashvili of Georgia in his efforts to instigate a war in the regions of South Ossetia in the northern mountains and Abkhazia on the southwest coast to keep Russia busy in another smoldering but manageable armed conflict. The best-case scenario for the United States would be a reintegration of Abkhazia and South Ossetia into a Georgian state with a pro-Western government which would better protect the U.S. backed, east-west Baku-Tbilissi-Ceyhan pipeline. #msg-3953878
I did not write this and it may have gained a little something in the translation and/or the Chechens are also exaggerating about the Russian atrocities committed against them although I believe them to exist in some degree.
-Am
The Bloody Massacre in Pankisi
There is one more black page in Chechen-Georgian attitudes for the period of Saakashvili's regime. The Georgian authorities kill two ethnic Chechens-Kists, inhabitants of Georgia , members of the local Kists' Djamaat. One week ago one more Pankisi Chechen, Margoshvili, was killed, who ostensibly wished to pass the frontier of Georgia .
At five o'clock in the morning (06.07.2005) the Georgian special troops approached the house of Sultan (Vaha) Gumashvili, an inhabitant of Duisi, who lived in the center of the village. Nobody knows the further development of events. It is known only, that for the moment of the beginning of the fight a relative of Vaha, Avto, was together with him in the house, who did not want to leave Gumashvili alone.
It is also known a little about the reasons of the arrival of the Georgian special troops. According to some information several days before Gumashvili had shot at the criminal, who earlier attacked his wife, but the wounded man managed to escape. However, it is not clear yet, what actually was the reason for the retaliatory expedition of the Georgian armies in Duisi.
The fight began at five o'clock in the morning. The last shot sounded at five o'clock in the evening. 12 hours went the fierce battle of two Kists with several hundreds of Georgian special troops' soldiers.
During the break from the house Vaha Gumashvili was wounded and taken to hospital where he soon died. His relative Avto could be killed only after the house was set up fire. He burned down alive, watering the Georgian special troops with lead up to the last gasp.
Three children and women were wounded by Georgian armies, when local residents tried to prevent the war in the center of the village.
According to the Georgian authorities, as the result of the fight one Georgian special troops' soldier was killed and two of them are gravely wounded. Nobody knows the real losses of Saakashvili's formations.
For now there are thousands of soldiers and military techniques in village Duisi. There are more military men there, that the local population taken together with babies. People are extremely disturbed and anxious with bloody massacre arranged by authorities of Georgia .
Chechen muhajirs are packing their suitcases. None of them is going to stay there. Probably this bloody massacre against two Kists, members of the local Islamic Djamaat, was organized by special services for this purpose.
There are tens of ways to arrest people without any shot. However the Georgian authorities purposefully organized the indicative action by means of which wished to show their force. Everything turned out to be on the contrary. Hundreds of soldiers of the elite Georgian armies, all these years prepared by Americans for a war in the South Ossetia and in Abkhazia, were at war with two Kists for more than 12 hours.
The bloody massacre in Duisi took place on the background of the proceeding recruiting activity of a group of Chechen munafiks in Pankisi, who by hook or by crook try to take out the refugees, who have remained there, to the occupied Chechen Republic .
This group is led by certain Vaha Mahashev, who offers people a single financial help – for singles - 15 dollars, for a family - 30. But for this purpose it is necessary to write the following application - "I ask to help to a citizen of Russia …"
It is necessary to notice that the attack at the village Duisi took place two days later after the street fights in Tbilisi . In this connection some Georgian oppositionists do not exclude the version that the Georgian authorities search for the reasons for scale provocations in order not only to begin reprisals, but also to distract attention of the public from the constant failures in Abkhazia and the South Ossetia. And also from the railway, which should be opened through Abkhazia under the pressure of Russia without preliminary conditions. Also Georgia hurries up to sign a large frame contract with Russia .
And there is one more important detail. Bloody massacre in Pankisi Georgian authorities dated for the day of pleasure actions in Tbilisi , where since Sunday morning in the Rustaveli Avenue there were concerts and also a salute in the evening.
Maybe, the Georgian authorities, thus, celebrated their victory over two Kists?
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