The US should stop making international policy for others.

It will come a time when the obstinate US will isolate itself. But this is even unthinkable for the State Dep because they, as many american, consider the US as "The World" or the center of the world.

Tuesday August 8 11:55 AM ET
Venezuela's Chavez to Visit Iraq Despite U.S.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela said on Tuesday President Hugo Chavez
will this week become the first elected head of state to visit Iraq
since 1990 despite sharp U.S. criticism of the trip.
Reacting to the U.S. criticism Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel
said Chavez had no intention of changing his plans. ''Nobody can
influence our decision ... He's going to arrive (in Iraq), whether
it be on skates or on a camel.''
``It's absurd that people as pragmatic in politics as the Americans
cannot understand that Venezuela, as a member of OPEC, cannot
discriminate within the cartel between who is democratic and who
isn't,'' he told local Union radio.
Chavez, who started his OPEC tour in Saudi Arabia on Monday, was in
Kuwait on Tuesday where he was due to meet with Emir Sheikh Jaber
al-Ahmad al-Sabah before heading to Qatar.
``Kuwait hasn't said a word,'' said Rangel. ``In fact they are
solemnly receiving President Chavez. So why does the United States
have to take this attitude? It makes no sense.''

Igor,

I'm a Belgian living in Lithuania.

Why? How? -HOO HA!- Hrrrrmm...
Well, this will oblige me to tell all my life on this board. I have no secret but I prefer to stay neutral and that poeple on this board look at a me as someone interested in international politic without prejudice. Not that 'i will never hint from time to time...

Law-enforcements bodies in the Saratov region have detained three Chechens with "classic terrorist kit." The head of the FSB (Federal Security Service) Department for Cooperation Programmes, Alexander Zdanovich, has informed RIA Novosti that they were apprehended during joint operative and search operations conducted on Tuesday.


Officers confiscated 150 grammes of a series of plastic explosives, an electro-detonator, an army radio, a pistol, hand-grenade and ten grammes of heroin.


At the given moment, Zdanovich said that the issue of launching a criminal case was being decided. The FSB representative said that it would be premature to talk about any connection between the detained and the Moscow explosion, as the two cases only have a common date - August 8th.


Nevertheless, the incident convincingly testifies to the reality of the Chechen trail in terms of the investigation into the circumstances of those preparing terrorist attacks in various Russian towns. However, a series of media concerns, especially in the West, have been trying to justify Chechen separatists, whose guilt was long ago established in bloody acts against not only their own people, but also the population of Russia.
--I GUESS THE CHECHENS WERE JUST OUT FOR A PARTY--

where is everyone?

Where do you think?

Dimitri, see you read those Greek myths!
Need a nemesis?

At the Serbian CAfe'?

Kim,

ALWAYS ;)))))))))))))))))

Kim,

http://209.207.216.17/forums/topics/poi1.shtml

see u there?

clue: look for Real S*****h

U.K. Charity Teaching Chechens To Make Bombs, Says FSB

MOSCOW, Aug 11, 2000 -- (Reuters) Russia's FSB domestic security service on Thursday accused a British anti-landmine charity of teaching Chechen rebels explosives techniques and of spying on Moscow's military.

The allegations, which came two days after a bomb killed eight people in a Moscow underpass, were denied by the Halo Trust mine clearance agency, which dubbed them a smear campaign.

Some officials have blamed the Moscow bomb on Chechen rebels.

The FSB, a successor body to the Soviet-era KGB, said in a statement: "The FSB has reliable information about the training of mine and explosives experts for armed groups of international terrorists fighting in Chechnya.

"One group which is secretly carrying out such operations inside Russia is the international non-governmental organization, the Halo Trust."

The FSB said the Halo Trust held courses to train "specialists in mines and explosives" inside rebel Chechnya on Russia's southern rim and harbored British secret agents.

"It's a straightforward smear campaign, frankly," said the charity's director, Guy Willoughby. "If (the FSB) is trying to link Halo Trust training humanitarian mine clearance to bombs being made, then that's just sad really; it's stupid."

Speaking by telephone from Scotland, Willoughby said FSB allegations that Halo Trust workers had links to British intelligence were "ridiculous".

The trust is linked to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, who started her campaign against landmines in Angola in 1997.

A photo of her posing for the world's media wearing Halo Trust protective gear became an enduring image of her following her death in a car crash later the same year.

The FSB said it had found 15 Halo Trust workers inside Chechnya last November when searching for rebels as part of its now 11-month-old war against separatist guerrillas in the region.

FSB SAYS MINE CLEARERS GATHER INTELLIGENCE

"We have information that most of them are members of various British military structures and the leader, Matthew Middlemiss, is a staff military spy," the FSB said, adding that it was holding an unspecified number of the charity's workers.

Willoughby said Middlemiss had worked for the Halo Trust briefly but left the charity in 1996.

"He has never ever been to Chechnya, nor has he had anything to do with any Halo Trust program in Chechnya," he said.

He said he had no knowledge of any of the trust's workers being detained. He said some staff had formerly worked in the military, but accusations that they gathered military intelligence were "completely untrue".

He also denied the possibility of Chechens applying mine clearance training to mine laying. Mine cleaners were taught to find the mines and blow them up.

"You could say you gain knowledge (of explosives) but it would be a bit like saying: by training someone to pass their driving test, you're training them to be a getaway driver in an armed robbery," he said.

Russia has seized most territory in Chechnya, but has suffered mounting losses from landmines planted in roads in areas it says it controls. The rebels have vowed to step up their mine warfare.

The Halo Trust started working in Chechnya after the 1994-96 war which ended in a Russian rout and left much of the land scattered with deadly anti-personnel mines.

The charity said it was not working in Chechnya now and only did so with proper Russian visas and documentation. It said it had trained 150 Chechens to clear mines. The FSB said 100 had been trained as specialists in mines and explosives.

Ha! You all spend your time at Serbian Café!

DRUNKARDS!

LOL! FRED, WHAT CAN I SAY. I LOVE THE WOMEN AND I LOVE THE VODKA. THEY ALSO MAKE REAL TASTY DELIKATESSEN'S. AS WELL AS MY FAVORITE PLATE. IT CONSISTS OF FRIED POTATOES, FRIED FRANKFURTERS, SOME SALAD, SOME SAUCES ON THE SIDE, FRENCH BREAD WITH BUTTER, AND ANOTHER SLICE OF FRENCH BREAD WITH SOME CAVIAR. OOOH, AND SOME WHITE WINE OR SOMETHING OF THE SORT. HEHEHE.

Lol
Ultra,
Of course, as a communist, naturaly, you must like caviar.

In Belgian we call that the caviar-leftwing!

LOL, Ultra,

I'm hungry...mmm! As a communist you naturaly like caviar. Of Course the caviar leftwing! Hahaha!

But me too. And tought i 'm an ultra belgian capitalist (could be my second name) I like East European food as well. And caviar!

HO! It will be the oficial reason -HOO HAH!- why I came to setlle down in Lithuania.

It seems the Chechnyan conflict is shifting eastward to Kyrgystan, Uzbekistan...
The same actors in the same play...


August 12 8:23 AM ET
Four Killed in Kyrgyzstan Clashes with Rebels
By Olga Dzubenko
BISHKEK (Reuters) - At least four Kyrgyz soldiers have died in a day
of battles with rebel insurgents near the country's borders with two
neighbors, a provincial official said on Saturday.

...

Uzbek forces have been in action in Uzbekistan's own southern
mountains this week, fighting other rebels that the country says
attacked from Tajikistan.
Worst Violence In A Year
Tajikistan, where Islamic guerrillas and a secular government have
maintained a shaky peace for three years, denies that the Uzbek
rebels are based on its territory.
The mountains where the three states share borders are a mix of tiny
ethnic enclaves where rugged terrain provides an easy foothold for
guerrilla activity.
Also on Friday, Russian forces guarding Tajikistan's border with
Afghanistan said they repelled a group of 40 fighters trying to
cross the frontier.
The violence has been the worst in the central Asian region since
last year, when several hundred well armed men poured into
Kyrgyzstan from Tajikistan, holding four Japanese geologists and
several Kyrgyz soldiers hostage for a tense two months.
Regional leaders, Russia and the West all accuse Afghanistan's
ruling Taliban of harboring Islamic guerrillas bent on toppling the
secular rulers of neighboring former Soviet states.
Western diplomats and analysts also say poverty in the region and
the strong-arm tactics of some of its rulers are helping to stoke
religious unrest.