"""I see some people have been speaking about me. How naughty! Who else joins besides you two?"""

well, Allam..since you asked..in that case, I guess,I gotta something to confess too - while them two bastards were doin' it to ya, I took a liberty to take a piss on your shoe. The left one. Is it wrong?

lol..just messing, Allam. Keep it real and send my shoe(remember Khruschev?)and my regards to good'ol Mr. McCarty.

Zdorov, Igor.

Privet Dima I was out with the beast ,just got back in and checked out video.Watching Dallas vs Edmonton ---great game.

The CIA operation, code-named TP-Ajax, was designed to maintain the West's control over Iranian oil. But the agency found the shah ``a reluctant warrior'' when it came to issuing royal decrees dismissing Mossadegh and replacing him with the more tractable Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi, the Times said.

``The history says agency officers ... worked directly with royalist Iranian military officers, handpicked the prime minister's replacement, sent a stream of envoys to bolster the shah's courage, directed a campaign of bombings by Iranians posing as members of the Communist Party, and planted articles and editorial cartoons in newspapers,'' the newspaper reported.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000416/ts/iran_usa_1.html

THE RATS HANG OUT WITH THEIR ALBANIAN KIN

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Saturday April 15 2:37 PM ET
Kosovo Being Overrun by Rats
By ALISON MUTLER, Associated Press Writer

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - Kosovo's leaders joined hundreds of people in a trash pickup Saturday that highlighted growing health concerns about the province's burgeoning rat population.

No one is really quite sure how many rats have invaded the city, but rodents have become more visible in recent weeks, crawling along major streets and foraging through piles of refuse.

Bernard Kouchner, the United Nations' top administrator in Kosovo, warned that the problem would only get worse if people do not start disposing of trash properly. Rats feeding off the rotting waste strewn around the provincial capital, Pristina, have become a threat to the population's health.



``It is not the plague yet,'' Kouchner said. ``But there is a growing rat population. I can't tell you how many there are.''

The garbage in the capital and the countryside has been accumulating in the 10 months since NATO took control of the province after a war aimed at stopping Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's repression of ethnic Albanian militants. U.N. authorities recognize the problem, but say they lack the money needed to clear the garbage away.

Now that the weather is getting warmer here, health officials say they are starting to see the impact of the trash - and the rats - on Kosovo's people.

At Pristina's hospital, doctors say they see 10 people a day who have gotten sick from diseases transmitted from the rats and rodent droppings.

``Before, we didn't have this problem,'' said Dr. Nadire Maqedonci at the hospital's infectious disease department. ``Now all the doctors are discussing this.''

The wards are full of cases related to the rodents. One victim, a 33-year-old woman who had given birth four days ago, was receiving treatment for an infection.

``I have many rats in my house, but only recently,'' said Elezaj Xherahire, who had been separated from her newborn because her disease is infectious.

Saturday's NATO-led cleanup was billed as a way to educate people to be more careful about how they get rid of their waste. People in Kosovo tend to simply throw trash in the street, in empty lots, in rivers - anywhere there is an untended empty space.

``We just want to set an example,'' said Gen. Klaus Reinhardt, the German commander of the NATO troops in Kosovo.

Reinhardt led a contingent of peacekeepers in combing across grassland at Pristina's university, picking up cigarette butts, orange peels, broken glass and plastic spoons.

Students also joined the effort.

``New York has rubbish too, but not like Pristina,'' said Gent Uka, 14, who lived in New York for a short time while living as a refugee from Milosevic's forces. ``We want our city to be clean.''


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Excellent article shows the wanton destruction of once beautiful Russian city. Also throws light on the sinister plot to bring former spy to power.


Welcome to Mr Putin's Grozny

By Patrick Cockburn
18 April 2000

It is the first large city to be destroyed by military action in Europe since 1945. Two months after the Russian army captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya and once home to 400,000 people, its ruins look like pictures of Stalingrad or Dresden immediately after the Second World War. Russian shells and bombs have turned apartment blocks into grey concrete sandwiches, one floor collapsed on top of another. The bombardment blew apart even the smallest shed, leaving only a few tattered pieces of corrugated iron hanging from charred beams.

I drove back into Grozny last week sitting on top of a Russian armoured personnel carrier. Its driver manoeuvred agilely between the heaps of rubble and the deep bomb craters which punctured the road every few hundred yards. For mile after mile not a single building was intact. The only place where I have ever seen this level of destruction was the front-line in Beirut during the war in Lebanon, where for years the divide between the Christian and Muslim sides of the city was a no man's land of blackened ruins, guarded by snipers and mines.

Grozny is much worse. It is not just the front-line but the whole city that has been torn apart. I was last here in October, when it was still held by the Chechens. Then, the city centre had already been badly damaged by Russian artillery and air attack during the last Chechen war in 1994-96, but saplings and grass sprouted out of the tops of the walls of wrecked buildings. Now the foliage that colonised the wreckage is shrivelled and burned. The devastation even extends below ground: deep penetration bombs have torn up water pipes once buried six feet deep, which now stick out at crazy angles into the air, like the guts spilling out of a corpse. On the streets of Grozny, Russian soldiers outnumber the civilians, though by how many it is impossible to say. Fortified concrete-block checkpoints, usually supported by a light tank, guard every crossroads.

The few Chechens I could see on the streets were women, children or old men, with shocked, blank expressions on their faces, wearily picking their way through the rubble. Many were clutching empty plastic bags, and I thought they must be on their way to buy bread or water at one of the little street stalls that used to spring up in Chechnya during any lull in the fighting. But even these had been destroyed in the siege. We could see their scorched and twisted metal frames beside the road.

The survivors of the four-month-long bombardment turned out to be making for a Russian soup kitchen where several hundred people were jostling to receive a small ration of food. "It is a total disaster," said Zura Tukaeva, who is 59 but looks older, and who was clutching five small loaves of bread. "I have no money, no job, no gas and little food." Glancing around at the crowd, she added: "You only see women and old people here. The day before yesterday some young men came here to get food and the Russians immediately arrested them and beat them just because they were young and male and might be rebels."

Russian soldiers were standing close to where the Chechens were queuing for their rations, but this did not stop one old woman explaining what she thought should happen. "The Russian army must go home," she said. "We support the rebels. We just want to live peacefully." Other Chechens spoke bitterly about their own leaders. A woman who gave her name as Kulsum said: "Both sides are responsible." Asked if she expected anything from Aslan Maskhadov, the elected Chechen president, now hunted by the Russians in the mountains, she said: "No, he is a dead loss. We will have to start our fight for independence again."

Nothing angers the Chechens so much as to hear that Vladimir Putin, the Russian president-elect, who yesterday met Tony Blair and the Queen in London, claim that the war, of which he is the architect and beneficiary, is directed against "terrorists" and not the Chechen people as a whole. From the moment the Russian army invaded Chechnya at the beginning of last October, it relied on the firepower of its artillery, rocket launchers and aircraft to devastate towns and villages. When several long-range, ground-to-ground missiles plummeted into a Grozny marketplace last October, killing some 200 people, Mr Putin simply denied that it had happened. He showed no signs of embarrassment when the official Russian military spokesman blithely confirmed the attack a few hours later.

The small efforts at reconstruction in Grozny only emphasise the utter devastation. As our APC drove down a broad avenue, with shell-blasted trees in the middle and ruined offices on either side, a party of workers was clearing rubble from a walkway – as if the first priority for the shell-shocked inhabitants of the city would be to enjoy an evening promenade. Some workers were burning blackened branches, lopped off the trees by shrapnel, on a bonfire. A group of women were sweeping the road with broomsticks in an effort to clear away lumps of concrete that would take a dozen bulldozers a week to shift.

A little further on we met Leila Khamidovaya, a burly Chechen woman who once worked on the railways, who is trying to rebuild Grozny railway station. Almost all her workers were women, four of whom were mixing plaster in an old white bathtub on the station platform. Others sat on scaffolding to apply the plaster to the front of the once-pretty 19th-century station building. Fifty yards away were the incinerated remains of carriages and freight cars. One track of the railway is working, but is used exclusively by the Russian army. "We are rebuilding so people can come back to the city," said Mrs Khamidovaya. "I know they want to come." She added that neither she nor the other workers were being paid, but they hoped to get money from the local Russian administration.

It may be a long wait. Outside one of the few office buildings still habitable – though its walls are pockmarked with bullet holes – stood Ramzan Shapukayev, the Russian-appointed deputy mayor of the city, wearing green military fatigues. He denied reports that the city was to be abandoned and the capital moved to the neighbouring town of Gudermes, and added confidently: "We will rebuild Grozny. It took them nine years [since the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991] to destroy it. We will rebuild it in a shorter time." He seemed unconscious of the grotesque hypocrisy of blaming the Chechens for the destruction of the city pounded into ruins by unrelenting Russian artillery fire and air attack in Moscow's two wars in Chechnya.

"We estimate that there are 80,000 Chechens back in Grozny," said Mr Shapukayev, in what sounded like a gross exaggeration. He claimed buoyantly that electricity would be restored by mid-May, but admitted that he had no budget. He added vaguely that the administration would provide building materials free of charge to anybody who wanted to rebuild their house. It is doubtful if Grozny (its name means "terrible", or "menacing"), founded as a military outpost in 1818-19 during the first Russian conquest of Chechnya, will ever be rebuilt. Russian resources are too limited and what there are of them go to support the army. Soldiers say that for every three pieces of heavy equipment they send out of Chechnya for repair, they get one back in working order. The number of checkpoints in Grozny itself must mean that the Russian high command fears the guerrillas might successfully counter-attack into the city, as they did in 1996.

Ironically, Grozny was never wholly or even largely a Chechen city. In the last years of the Soviet Union, almost two-thirds of its population were Russians, while Chechens working in Grozny were often bussed in from nearby villages. Many non-Chechens left after 1991, but some stayed. Among the most pathetic and defenceless of those who crouched in their basements during the siege that has just ended were Russian pensioners who had nowhere else to flee.

There are few signs that Russians feel any remorse at the systematic destruction of one of their own cities. At the sprawling military base at Khankala, just west of Grozny, an army press officer showed us a gruesome video of masked Chechen kidnappers cutting the throats of their victims, or ritually beheading them with an axe (the kidnappers shot these horrific films to extract higher ransoms for the captives they still held). "Why don't you show this on Western television?" the officer asked assertively.

The video helps explain why so many Russians – soldiers and civilians alike – feel that the only good Chechen is a dead one. But Moscow did not destroy Grozny because Chechnya had become a bandit stronghold, as Mr Putin now claims. The invasion last year was rather the outcome of the fierce struggle waged by the Kremlin to elect its own man as successor to Boris Yeltsin. It finally chose Mr Putin as the prime minister who would guarantee that Mr Yeltsin's family and associates did not end up in jail for looting state property during their years in power. As a political gambit, the war succeeded brilliantly in making Mr Putin a nationalist hero and winning him the presidency.

Critics of Mr Putin during his visit to Britain have focused on killings and torture by Russian forces in Chechnya. This tends to obscure the fact that for the first time in 55 years, a whole European city has been destroyed –deliberately, by its own government. At the end of 1998, I was in Iraq watching US and British missiles and bombs fall on Baghdad. Then, Tony Blair and Robin Cook justified the air attacks as a response to the danger that Saddam Hussein might build weapons powerful enough to threaten his neighbours. Yet, only 15 months later, after Mr Putin has fired hundreds of thousands of shells and missiles into Grozny, a city he claims as his own, he is welcomed as a guest to Downing Street and Buckingham Palace.

But when he returns home, Mr Putin may find that Chechnya is a conflict which was easier to begin than it is to end. Many of the elderly Chechens I met queuing for rations in central Grozny last week blamed their own leaders as much as they blamed the Russians for starting the war. But they also felt that if Moscow was going to treat them all as Wahhabites (Islamic militants) they might as well support the rebels. "It is ordinary Chechens like us who are the targets," explained an old man called Issa, as he waited to collect some bread. "We are the ones who suffer. Russian shells didn't kill any of the Wahhabites – so this war will go on a long time."

Nice post Saladin backs up what I said before

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There are few signs that Russians feel any remorse at the systematic destruction of one of their own cities. At the sprawling military base at Khankala, just west of Grozny, an army press officer showed us a gruesome video of masked Chechen kidnappers cutting the throats of their victims, or ritually beheading them with an axe (the kidnappers shot these horrific films to extract higher ransoms for the captives they still held). "Why don't you show this on Western television?" the officer asked assertively. There are few signs that Russians feel any remorse at the systematic destruction of one of their own cities. At the sprawling military base at Khankala, just west of Grozny, an army press officer showed us a gruesome video of masked Chechen kidnappers cutting the throats of their victims, or ritually beheading them with an axe (the kidnappers shot these horrific films to extract higher ransoms for the captives they still held). "Why don't you show this on Western television?" the officer asked assertively.

Here is the video Saladin

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http://www.chechnya.ru:8080/asp/query.asp?lang=e&part=video&id_news=3 Also from your last post

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Ironically, Grozny was never wholly or even largely a Chechen city. In the last years of the Soviet Union, almost two-thirds of its population were Russians, while Chechens working in Grozny were often bussed in from nearby villages. Many non-Chechens left after 1991, but some stayed. Among the most pathetic and defenceless of those who crouched in their basements during the siege that has just ended were Russian pensioners who had nowhere else to flee. WHY DID ALL RUSSIANS LEAVE IF THEY WERE MAJORITY

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ANSWER THEY WERE FORCED OUT BY BANDITS.

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Militiamen of the combating organised crime squad arrested Arbi Khamurzayev, right-hand man of warlord Abdurakhman, Wahhabite emir. Khamurzayev was known as butcher of POWs and kidnapped people.


Federal advance made him shave off his ghazi beard and live a quiet life in civilian disguise in Gudermes, his prewar place of residence. The militia got wind of his presence a month ago. Khamurzayev had a narrow escape from several traps, and was eventually caught after one of his victims, a combating organised crime squad man named Islam, who had miraculously survived Khamurzayev's tortures, recognised him in a bus stop crowd.


Islam was kidnapped August 12, 1999, when he was guarding a North Ossetian oil pipeline. Gangsters were never caught as they were crossing Ingushetia with their captive, who was then removed for a long time from cellar to cellar in Chechnya. No ransom was demanded for him - Islam was seized to be killed as he had been the Chechen Prime Minister's bodyguard during the previous hostilities.


Another captive militiaman attempted to escape, was caught and beheaded before other captives' eyes. Bandits later used his severed head as a football.


The bandits were using a basement room as torture-chamber, walls sprinkled with blood from floor to ceiling, and decorated with an arrangement of sinister tools. Khamurzayev was a virtuoso of his trade, says Islam.


Our correspondent saw the militiaman last December, shortly after he escaped - his fingers were injured too badly to hold a pen. Emaciated, he looked like a walking corpse.


Khamurzayev is cooperative, and giving ample evidence about his appalling atrocities.

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Here is a great joke,

An old Jewish man was reading the Torah in Groky park in moscow, when a KGB agent saw him and asked what are those strange characters? The old man replied
"ah this is Hebrew the language of israel

The KGB man laughed, "old man at your age - you are never going to Israel!"

The old man" ahh but I hear they speak Hebrew in heaven too"

The KGB agent replies" what makes you think you will go to heaven old man?, you may go to hell!"

The old man thinks and replies:

"WELL I ALREADY SPEAK RUSSIAN"

"Baghdad, Belgrade and Moscow Collaborate Against Washington"
14 April 2000

What wonderful company you keep. Its a shame Idi Amin and Pol Pot are no longer around. You could throw a mass murderers banquet.

Just messing, of course.

L'menexe,

How do you Type like an Arab? Exactly?

Good Morning to you.
Kim