I've heard that Grozny is basicly unapproachable do to the numbers of mines layed by both forces. There is a couple of roads that have been cleared by the Russians to keep equipment mobile. But off the beaten path is pretty much a huge mine field. The 500k number was a 'low' number, and I've read that the number in the Gorge is MUCH higher with many different types of mines being dropped by the thousands on the Chechen border with Georgia to try and prevent the Chechen fighters from moving into Georgia. I bet that when this war lapses again, that Russia will have no choice but to leave Chechnya do to the fact that have restricted themselves to limited movement and they WILL NOT want to take responceability when civilians start dieing by the hundreds on their way back to their homes. I've read that thousands of buildings are still boobytrapped and surrounded by mines. Terrible situation for civilians!

Coming soon for a KISAKO SPECIAL

THE BAGEL REPORT

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reports of jew terrorism , jewish manipulation of financial markets, jew prostitution and enslavement of women from Russia, jew oppression of palestinian people etc etc

Also why Russians hate jews (can't say I blame them)

Coming soon, thanks to bagel girl, she asked for it!

To Kisako

Let me know where to send those photos too?

Oh by the way bagel girl, you can count the massacres by algerian terrorists in thousands.
You can count the terrorism by serbs in hundreds of thousands.

Now lets work out how many Palestinians have been massacred, imprisoned, had their homes demolished by Israeli terrorism.

Disaster looms for Russia in the whole of Caucasus. With the satae of affairs of the corrupt Russian military, time is on the side of the Chechen Mujahideen. I am amazed at the ignorance and lack of maturity among the stupid pro-russian thugs who seem to be completely intoxicated. The Chechen resistance for over 8 months against a far numerically superior Russian Army is in itself one of the brilliant vicories of in the history of modern warfare. The Russian overtures to Mashkhadov are tacit admission of the defeat of the Russian Army.

Russian attempts to drive a wedge between Basayev and Mashkhadov will not work. Just wait and see.

Russian colonel arrested for helping militants escape Chechnya


MOSCOW, April 12 (AFP) -
A Russian colonel was arrested after allegedly taking bribes of 25,000 dollars from militants fighting in Chechnya to help them escape the war-zone, Russian media reported Wednesday.

News reports said Colonel Alexander Savchenko was caught in the southern Chechen region of Shatoi while trying to cross a Russian army checkpoint with three Arab mercenaries and two Chechen fighters in his car.

In the ensuing shootout the three Arabs were killed, while Savchenko and the Chechens and were taken prisoners.

The North Caucasus military prosecutor's office said the colonel was paid a total of 25,000 dollars (5,000 for each rescued rebel) for the transit. The money in the car was found to be fake.

The Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB) had been investigating Savchenko for two weeks on suspicion of repeatedly using his Chechnya pass to take rebels to safety, FSB spokesman Alexander Zdanovich told state RTR television.

Savchenko's military service in Chechnya -- where he had been training Russian troops -- had expired and officers became suspicious that he was not in a hurry to return home, Zdanovich told the private NTV television channel.

There had been several such incidents involving "servicemen who either exceeded their powers or committed crimes of collaboration with rebels," he added.

This is the second scandal involving senior Russian officers in Chechnya in recent weeks.

Colonel Yury Budanov, a tank commander, was charged by Russian prosecutors two weeks ago for raping and murdering an 18-year-old Chechen woman.

Reacting to the latest arrest, President-elect Vladimir Putin issued a strict order Wednesday to the defence ministry, the military prosecutor's office and the Federal Security Service "to reveal all such cases and avoid covering them up."

The Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper said the story was the first official proof of Chechen claims that Russian forces were themselves helping the rebels fight the six-month war.

During the last, brutal conflict between the two sides, from 1994-96, there were also many stories of Chechens buying military equipment -- even tanks -- from the poorly-paid Russian soldiers.

Yawn................

He added that many Kosovo Serbs had a less than welcome reception in Serbia and would prefer to return to Kosovo ``and put their faith in the international community and the economic liftoff which will eventually happen.''

NATO sources said the alliance would be careful to check which Serbs were seeking to return, on the lookout for bogus returnees or ``people controlled by Belgrade.''

The NATO official conceded that arranging for the smooth return of Serb families to Kosovo communities where ethnic relations remain tense would be difficult.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000412/wl/yugoslavia_nato_1.html Now check out this propaganda:Serbs would prefer to go to Kosovo and Nato will screen to see if the Serbs are controlled by Belgrade.This is part of Serbia and it is not up to Nato to decide who lives there or not.Second the border is open and there are 150000 extra Albanians then there were before the conflict.Does Nato screen all these Albanian criminals?Why would Serbs want to go there when their safety can not be guaranteed?

Kononov To Appear Before Latvia's High Court As Russian Citizen

MOSCOW, Apr 13, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Soviet partisan Vasily Kononov was to appear before a Latvian court Thursday as a Russian citizen after President-elect Vladimir Putin granted him Russian citizenship, ITAR-TASS reported.

The Latvian High Court of Appeal was scheduled to hear the case of the 77-year-old former partisan who was sentenced to six years imprisonment in January for war crimes committed during the German occupation of the Baltic country.

However, for the first time in his life, Kononov will stand as a citizen of the Russian Federation, despite having lived in Latvia all his life.

The move by Putin has ensured that the case, which has already added new tension to the brittle relationship between the two countries, becomes an international affair.

The Russian government reacted sharply to the arrest a year and a half ago and conviction this year of Kononov, who allegedly killed nine civilians in an attack on a Latvian village in 1944.

Kononov maintains he is innocent and was not in the village that year.

A statement issued by the Kremlin press service on Wednesday explains that the granting of citizenship is "not only an answer to one man's problem but a sign of respect for the forces which contributed to the overall victory over Fascism.

"This accusation of war crimes is based on groundless evidence and is historically and morally unacceptable. It is slanderous to millions of anti-Fascist veterans and is aimed at an ultimate revision of the course and result of the Second World War. Russia categorically rejects such a premise and demands the end of the political persecution of anti-Fascist fighters of the war," the statement said.

The Russian foreign ministry has accused Riga of not following international legal norms by refusing to allow Kononov to see the Russian ambassador to Latvia and doctors sent from Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to assess his health and offer him medical assistance.

Boris Malakhov, from the ministry's press service, said the "actions relating to the veteran are outrageous."

And last month, Putin sealed his support for Kononov saying: "Russia will protect all soldiers of the Great Patriotic War wherever they live."

A subject of contention for the Appeal Court is the fact that the former commander was found guilty under a law passed in 1993, 49 years after the event. Kononov's lawyer says international legal practice dictates that a person cannot be convicted by a law not in existence at the time of the crime.

Russia has tried to get international institutions to intervene, but the minorities commissioner for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has said that there should be no meddling in the case as it is still being appealed.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, also discussed the matter with Russian authorities during her recent visit.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov claims 150 such cases are pending in Latvian courts, ITAR-TASS reported.

But he is confident foreign attention will prevail.

"International pressure on Latvia is taking shape, and there is reaction already," the minister said recently.

However, Ivanov noted that Russia is prepared to enforce sanctions on Latvia in order to free Kononov.

"The question of economic sanctions on Latvia must be considered ... but we think that political methods must be used for now," he said.

Relations between Latvia and Russia have often been tense since Latvia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, with Moscow imposing sanctions on Riga in 1998 for perceived discrimination against the local ethnic Russian minority.

In February, former Russian president Boris Yeltsin refused to accept a prestigious medal from Latvia, accusing the government of violating the rights of its 2.4 million ethnic Russians and persecuting wartime members of the anti-Nazi resistance.

Latvia and its Baltic neighbors hope to win invitations to join NATO when the security alliance next considers expanding in 2002, a move Russia has vociferously opposed

Military officials took a captured Chechen field commander, Salautdin Temirbulatov, to the scene of where they said he executed Russian soldiers during the 1994-96 Chechen war.

State television showed pictures of Temirbulatov in the village of Komsomolskoye, where he confessed before the cameras that he had shot Russian soldiers in the head during the last war. Temirbulatov was arrested in March in Duba-Yurt.

Threat of Russian Air Strikes in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban warned Russia not to attack alleged terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, reported Reuters April 12. According to the same report, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Ivanov said he would not rule out the possibility of air strikes. Given Russia’s antagonistic relationship with the Taliban and its historic support of its opposition Northern Alliance, air strikes are likely.

Russia has repeatedly accused the Taliban of supporting Chechen rebels. The Taliban has offered the separatists military assistance and opened diplomatic ties. A Russian bombing campaign would send a clear message that Moscow will neither tolerate nor forgive insurgents or their supporters. More importantly, it would interrupt Iran and Pakistan’s Afghan peace initiative, which could lead to international recognition of the Taliban’s government.

Now is the opportune time for Russia to attack Afghanistan. Russia’s near victory in Chechnya has spurred Chechen leaders to look elsewhere for asylum. Sorties over Afghanistan might discourage more Chechen rebels from fleeing there. Moscow has repeatedly decried involvement by other countries in what it considers an internal insurgency. Georgia, Iran, the United States and Turkey have allegedly given aid to the Chechen rebels, but Russia can’t respond militarily to these diplomatic measures. It can, however, assault Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is the only country to openly support the Chechen rebels. Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin accused Afghanistan of not only supporting but also training the Chechen rebels. Attacking Afghanistan would show the rest of the world that Russia will not tolerate outside interference in internal matters. This would also provide fodder for Russia’s nationalistic rhetoric, momentarily distracting the populace, which is growing weary from the continuing battles in Chechnya.

Also, the international community isn’t likely to condemn a Russian attack on Afghanistan. First, the United States has already bombed Afghanistan for its support of terrorism. Second, only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates recognize the legitimacy of the Taliban rule. Finally, and more importantly, with Afghanistan openly supporting the Chechen rebels, the international community will be hard pressed to criticize Russia for protecting its national security. Similar to its justification for possible air raids over Georgia, Russia can attack Afghanistan without fear of reprisal.

Even Iran and Pakistan, who are initiating peace talks between the Taliban and its opposition Northern Alliance, will not oppose a Russian offensive. In an unprecedented move of cooperation, Iran and Pakistan are hoping to bring about some level of stability in the region in order to encourage foreign investment, regional cooperation and trade and to strengthen their respective economies. Despite the fact that air strikes could destabilize the Taliban and deter the Northern Alliance from considering peace talks, neither Iran nor Pakistan has the political or military might to counter Russia.

Air strikes would satisfy two separate Russian objectives. One, Russia would limit the Chechen rebels’ options for retreat and send a warning to future insurgents. Two, Moscow would, at the very least, stall peace talks in Afghanistan. This would further delay the Taliban’s chances for international recognition. Launching air strikes would be a less costly and more effective way to punish Afghanistan than resuming support for the Northern Alliance

http://www.serbia-info.com/ SITE HAS BEEN ALTERED BY ALBANIAN HACKERS

Once more the mad goy Igor is BORING this board to death by his idiotic cut and pastes.

This unemployed man has nothing better to do

Israel will not be destroyed so much by the Palestinians than by these so called secular/progressive 'jews'. They are filthy traitors, many have sided with the palestinian enemy.

All American,
How's NASDAQ doing today, moron?
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Russia, Belarus plan
military build-up
Anti-NATO show of
force on Polish border

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By I. J. Toby Westerman
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko will meet this Sunday to discuss a military build-up on the Belarussian border with Poland, according to official Russian sources.
Poland is one of the newest members of the NATO alliance.

Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, external relations official for the Russian Defense Ministry, stated that the leaders of Russia and Belarus will discuss an increase of their forces opposing NATO on the Belarussian border.

The report was carried by the Voice of Russia World Service, the official broadcasting service of the Russian government.

Though Poland is currently the only official member of NATO bordering Belarus, the increase in military forces could have significant implications for Latvia and Lithuania, which also border Belarus, and which have expressed their interest in joining NATO. Ukraine, another neighbor of Belarus, is split on the question of membership in NATO.

Ivashov stated that the discussion of the two presidents regarding a military build-up was a response to "American-led aggression against Federal Yugoslavia."

Russia has also consistently voiced its opposition to NATO expansion eastwards.

Ivashov said the forces to be stationed on the border would be defensive in nature, and consistent with the new military policy adopted by the Union of Russia and Belarus.

Russia and Belarus have grown increasingly close since the signing of a treaty combining the two states into a community on April 2, 1996. On December 8, 1999, Russia and Belarus declared a union of the two states. Defense is one of a number of national functions that Russia and Belarus are placing under the control of the union.

Lukashenko, a former collective farm manager and admirer of Josef Stalin, is the president of the union.

As reported in WorldNetDaily, Ivashov recently warned that Russia was drawing up plans for military intervention into Kosovo, should Moscow determine that NATO's forces will not properly protect the Serb population in the province.

Moscow and Minsk have been planning a combined military command on the western border of Belarus for some time. Ivashov's statement, however, puts the new military structure within the context of Russia's continuing bitter hostility to NATO's activities in Kosovo.

Lukashenko is enthusiastic in his support of using Belarus' western borders for the defense of Russia. In the past, he has called for the re-establishment of the Soviet Union, and has retired the national flag of Belarus in favor of the flag of Belarus used in the Soviet era.

A return of Russian military to the Polish border opens a second point of tension between Russia and NATO over the Kosovo question.

It is also reminiscent of the alignment of forces in Eastern Europe immediately prior to the Second World War when Soviet Russia invaded Poland following Hitler's initial assault.

Poland could again find itself on the front line facing massed Russian -- and Belarussian -- divisions