September 1st – Beslan
Remember September 1st to 6thToday, the children go back to school in the Russian influenced areas of Europe. However, such a joyous day:
… will forever be overshadowed by September 1st in one particular year:
The only surviving attacker, Nur-Pashi Kulayev, claimed that attacking a school and targeting mothers and young children was not merely coincidental, but was deliberately designed for maximum outrage with the purpose of igniting a wider war in the Caucasus.According to this theory, the attackers hoped that the mostly Orthodox Christian Ossetians would attack their mostly Muslim Ingush and Chechen neighbours to seek revenge, encouraging ethnic and religious hatred and strife throughout the North Caucasus . North Ossetia and Ingushetia had previously been involved in a brief, but bloody conflict in 1992 over disputed land in the North Ossetian Prigorodny District, leaving an estimated 600 dead and 50,000 displaced.
We can also guarantee a renunciation of armed struggle against RF by all Muslims of Russia for at least 10 to 15 years under condition of freedom of faith. We are not related to the apartment bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk, but we can take responsibility for this in an acceptable way.
The head of the State Duma’s security committee Vladimir Vasilyev says Shamil Basayev belonged to the very special breed of terrorists who are hell-bent on creating an Islamic Caliphate in Russia using for this purpose money donated by radical groups abroad.
Politkovskaya’s connection with Basayev was unfortunate and her mediation role in the Moscow theatre siege, by definition, shows she at least had the ear of the terrorist warlords. Of course the prosecutors claim far closer involvement. Putin claimed her murder was designed to stir up waves of anti-Russian feeling, which of course it has done. It’s far easier to believe in the Russian monster than to look elsewhere for the culprits.
The gun found near her apartment block in central Moscow was a 9mm Makarov, known as the weapon of choice for Russian hitmen.
At a time when Russia was trying for admission to the WTO and had paid off its Club of Paris debt the last thing they were seeking was world condemnation – not just at that time:
Novaya Gazeta, which is offering a reward of almost a million dollars for information about the shooting, has written that it believes her murder was either revenge by Kadyrov, or an attempt to discredit him.
The Chechens have been killing Russians, blowing up apartment buildings, opera houses, killing school children by the 1000′s, kidnapping Russians and they along with the Georgians and one other group (the oligarchs) are the keepers of the so called Russian Mafia.Thus, when this lady defended the Chechnians who are Salafi Islamists funded by the Wahabis she had as much credibility with the Russian people as a US journalist would in defending the Taliban and Bin Laden. So to say she had any impact on Putin, or on Russian policy in Chechnia is as far fetched as one could have imagined.To say Putin gave a crap about what she said or even paid much mind to it boggles the imagination. No one else cared in Russia. And the only damage Putin could have gotten because of her is if some one killed her and then blamed it on him. So alas,you see the irony here.
Basayev and one of his child killers
In the end, the people below in the narrow picture [click to zoom] are all now dead – and for what?
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Evil doers like this will get what they deserve, just not soon enough for the innocents. A pox on anyone that would target or misuse children for a cause.
It was an act of unmitigated evil by craven cowards. No apologist can spin it in any other way