Mask,
sounds good. Let's give it(friendship) another chance.

Revlon closed today at 8 9/16, down by 1/16. Judging by its chart, it is defenitely good time to sell it..if anyone still has it.

Chechnya, anyone?

Hey Jake B
how do you know that much about Israil?

Btw I heard it is sunny and high 60 in California?
do you like it?

Igor

Do you have any more unbiased accurate reports from your highly credible Russian sources?


lol

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By citizen of the world ( - 199.86.68.172) on Friday, March 31, 2000 - 07:27 pm:
Hey Jake B
how do you know that much about Israil?

Rhetorical question!

Btw I heard it is sunny and high 60 in California?
do you like it?


California is FANTASTIC!!!

Jake
just remember - typing on a keyboard after 5pm today would be considered work. So if I see ya here after Shabat starts, I'll have to report you to your rabbi.
lol

By Dimitri ( - 207.87.162.14) on Friday, March 31, 2000 - 07:55 pm:
Jake
just remember - typing on a keyboard after 5pm today would be considered work. So if I see ya here after Shabat starts, I'll have to report you to your rabbi.
lol

Fair enough. See you on Sunday.

ok, then..

Jake, Knight, come on guys, crawl back, feel like you're home. Sabbath just started, time to spread the word.

By Dimitri ( - 207.87.162.14) on Friday, March 31, 2000 - 06:42 pm: Mask, sounds good. Let's give it(friendship) another chance.

I'm not taking chances anymore, I'm on a mission now. I'll do my best. Let's first squash this Jake-Knight redundancy. Are you any good as a pest control?

I don't know, probably anything linked to Russia is mysterious...

Take this board - the only place where we can enjoy a show when a fake Jew accuses the real one to be a fake^(*) and anti-Semites are celebrating Sabbath.

Reality is indeed stranger than fiction.

^(*) joke is borrowed from L'menexe, thanks.

1. Chechnya isn't able to establish its independance because Basaev, Arsanov, Khattab & other bastards want to kill, plunder & kidnapp people not only in Chechnya but everywhere & they proved it many times.
2. It's awfull what is happening in Chechnya now - Russians should use more technological weapon & more advanced techniques but anyway the rebels must be severely punished & crushed.

Aster, interestingly enough, in August 19th-22nd, 1991, Basaev was one the commanders in the defense lines around Russian Parliament building against the anti-Gorbachov putsch.

The revolt against putsch was started by another ethnic Chechen – Khabalatov, the Parliament Speaker at the time, I think. (Yeltsin joined one or 2 days later).

It's an irony, but Chechens were among the midwives of the Russian democracy.

HERE IS ONE FOR YOU STINKING SLOB BERNSTEIN

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LETS HEAR YOUR RESPONSE

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BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Chechen gangs kill hostages,
release one Israeli teen-ager
By Lev Gorodetsky


MOSCOW, Dec. 27 (JTA) — As Russian troops assault the Chechen capital of Grozny, the fate of several hundred hostages, including some Jews, being held by Chechen gangs is becoming increasingly grim.

Retired Maj. Vyacheslav Izmailov, who has managed to arrange the release of dozens of hostages, puts it very simply, "They are going to kill the hostages. It is going on already."

It is believed that the gangs, part of a rebel movement desperately fighting against Russian troops for control of Chechnya, are starting to kill their captives because they no longer believe that they will receive the ransoms they once expected.

Lev Melikhov, a 52-years-old Jew from the city of Nalchik, has evidently been killed by his captors, even though the Chechens are still telling his family he is alive in order to get a ransom, said Izmailov.

Izmailov is concerned about the fate of Oleg Yemelyantsev, an Israeli citizen who has been held hostage for more than 20 months.

Recently Yemelyantsev's relatives received video footage of his finger being chopped off.

"They are transferring him all the time from one place to another," said Izmailov. "I can't locate his whereabouts now."

But the squads working to free hostages have managed during the last weeks to free several dozen hostages, including some foreigners and some children

Laura Lichtman, 18, an Israeli citizen who was kidnapped in July in the city of Nalchik, was released and expected to return home this week. Lichtman was abducted during a visit to her grandmother, who lives on the border between Russia and Georgia.

She had been held in the Chechen capital of Grozny, but after Russian troops started massive air raids of the city, her captors took her out of the city, and she spent the last part of her captivity in a mountain village of Chechnya.

Another teen-ager, Alla Geifman, 13, was freed earlier this month in the south of Chechnya.

Geifman, the daughter of banker Grigory Geifman, one of the wealthiest businessmen and an active member of the Jewish community in the city of Saratov in southern Russia, was abducted in May near her house by a gang that specializes in kidnappings of children from upper-class families.

The kidnappers demanded a ransom of $5 million. Grigory Geifman collected a part of the sum and sent a man with the money. The man was killed and the money disappeared.

When he failed to produce the next payment, the mobsters cut off two of the girl's fingers and sent them to her father with video footage of the act.

This gang, which is made up both of Chechens and individuals from southern Russia, is still holding several other children.

Jews in Saratov who are selling their apartments before they leave for Israel are particular targets.

Mikhail Zeigman, 71, a retired soldier, was murdered earlier this month in his apartment. Zeigman, who was planning to leave for Israel in several days, had sold his apartment for $10,000. He was found with his head crushed with a sharp instrument, and the money was stolen.

This was the second such case of murder in a short period, and the local staff of the Jewish Agency for Israel has even started to work with potential emigres to teach them a system of "security precautions."