CHECHEN PIG BASAYEV DEAD

[Phrygian]

Hehhehehe, the coward who escaped from our boys in Artsakh is finally dead.

Wrap his body in pig skin FSB

http://www.gazeta.ru/2004/03/30/oa_116302.shtml

Shamil Basayev, Russia’s most wanted Chechen warlord, has been killed in the Chechen highlands. This report has just arrived. He was killed during a successful security raid carried out jointly by the GRU, the Main Intelligence Department, and the FSB, the Federal Security Service.

Security forces tracked down Basayev in a remote mountainous village where he was spending a weekend with his relatives, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, the Kremlin’s mouthpiece for Chechnya, told a news conference, convened urgently for the occasion.

That weekend proved to be the last one in the life of the field commander notorious for his murderous deeds. He had just climbed into his Land Cruiser when the vehicle was hit by a high-precision remote-controlled missile. Basayev died immediately, his head being torn off by the blast.

Five of his bodyguards were also killed, as well as a flock of some twenty sheep that had been peacefully grazing near the site of the anti-terror strike. The sheep belonged to Basayev’s relatives.

The owners will certainly receive compensation in full for the loss of the flock from the federal budget, Sergei Yastrzhembsky assured the press. Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, seated at his side, readily confirmed the pledge.

The Chechen government also solemnly pledged to donate a new flock of pedigree sheep to the village where Basayev was killed, since the villagers came over to the federals’ side immediately following the killing.

Meat and wool produced by that flock will be supplied directly to the president’s court, the authorities said. Meanwhile, the shepherd will be paid a temporary unemployment allowance and provided with a first-class apartment.

Now, let’s imagine that everything stated above, including the tragic demise of the sheep, is true.

What should one expect then from, let’s say, the world community? Will it express its enthusiastic and unanimous approval of the extra-judicial execution of Shamil Basayev by Russian security forces, an execution carried out without an open trial, preceded by a thorough investigation without Basayev’s defence lawyers in attendance?

Will it submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council condemning the execution as an action further aggravating the situation in rebellious Chechnya? And if it does, what will Moscow’s response be? Will Russia veto the resolution?

If anyone still has no clear answers to those questions, we can, to make things easier, consider replacing the name of the strong and fully-sighted Basayev with the name of the wheel-chair bound, blind Palestinian Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

The point is that the death of Sheikh Yassin bears a distinct similarity to the imagined death of Basayev outlined above. Although, in Yassin’s case no sheep fell prey to the missile that hit the sheikh’s car.

After the photos of the dead spiritual leader of Hamas, with half of his skull literally blown off in the missile attack, appeared on newswires around the globe, almost the whole world joined in condemning Israel.

None of Europe’s major politicians, still mourning the victims of the Islamist terrorist attack in Madrid, expressed even the slightest approval or understanding of the motives for the killing.

At the same time, none of those politicians who condemned the actions of Israel even bothered to deny that Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was the mastermind of Palestinian terrorism, Israel’s bitterest enemy, with no chance whatsoever for any form of reconciliation with him at the negotiating table.

It is possible to understand the Palestinians, hundreds of thousands of whom took to the streets weeping and cursing Jews, driven by their hatred of Israel and vehement desire to avenge the death of their leader.

But on the other hand, is it not just as possible to understand the Jews, who proceeded namely from the fact that Sheikh Yassin was the inspirer of the ‘martyrdom’ terrorism against peaceful Israeli civilians, issuing orders for the attacks which claimed tens of dozens of innocent lives?

And while for some he was almost a saint or a prophet, for others he was none other than the “Palestinian Goebbels”, who preached that the Jewish state must be wiped off the face of the earth along with all its citizens.

And now it transpires that in line with the new policy of the politically correct anti-terror era, the new Goebbels should not be killed, but instead must be taken alive, brought before an international tribunal in the Hague where guilt has to be established in a fair trial dragging on for years, with expensive defence lawyers fighting for an acquittal.

Better still, instead of arresting them, such people should simply be brought to the negotiating table and, with great patience, talks should be held, with hints that they could be awarded a Nobel peace prize provided they comply.

The US was the only country to vote against the UN resolution condemning the assassination of Yassin by Israel. They vetoed the document even despite the deceased Hamas leader’s earlier statement that he had no intention of moving his terrorist war to US territory.

Russia, unlike the US, backed the resolution. At the same time, in private high-ranking Russian officials tried to justify their actions, saying, well, you know, two of our chaps are now in prison in Qatar held on suspicion of killing another sheikh, another spiritual leader of terrorists, Chechen terrorists though – Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. That is why we ought to be more lenient towards THEM.

Following Sheikh Yassin’s assassination, Moscow, too, censured – albeit rather reservedly – that extra-judicial execution, which made it sound as if Russia, along with other European nations, was against extra-judicial reprisals.

And inwardly Russia must be strongly condemning the assassination not only of Sheikh Yassin, but also of Sheikh Yandarbiyev. Moreover, Moscow is convinced that neither Basayev nor Maskhadov or any other Chechen terror leader must be dealt with that savagely. On the contrary, the suspects must be arrested in a polite and civilized manner, informed of their rights and provided with legal counsel.

This probably means that before they are arrested and their rights are read to them, they might even be invited to the negotiating table. For Europe, too, has in fact already recognized terrorists as “a party to the talks”, be it Arafat, Hamas or Basayev, since Europeans suggest looking into the motives of their terrorist activities, citing the Palestinians’ poverty or the Chechens’ unquenchable craving for independence and freedom. And to understand means almost to forgive.

But then there is a certain shrewdness in Russia’s position: no one in Moscow seriously considers holding talks with Basayev. Ironically, at the same time Moscow is reluctant to admit that it killed Yandarbiyev, whose involvement in the hostage-taking at the Nord-Ost musical theatre has, by the way, already been established.

Nonetheless, Basayev and Maskhadov are still alive and at large. Maybe, Moscow is planning on holding talks with them, after all.

The policy of double standards towards terrorists is Russia’s weakness. If the wolves refuse to comply it is not worth portraying them as innocent lambs. At the same time, posing as innocent lambs is just as dangerous – you risk being devoured.

30 МАРТА 17:59

[ARTS]

Phrygian, не забывайте, что в России уже наступил День Дураков....

Edited March 31, 2004 by ARTS

[AriaMArd]

Das KGB nachal rabotat.

Mochat vsex napravo nalevo

[Phrygian]

Phrygian, не забывайте, что в России уже наступил День Дураков....

Ahhhhh

Vse ravno ya nadejus chto eto pravda.

[Celtic]

Dai Bog...