Shakespeare aptly wrote: Lord, how subject are we to the vice of lying?
And so, it is with great disdain that I recollect the title quote which so fits the article below. It is insluting to me, to the veterans of the Chechen war, and to the struggle against international terrorism. It comes from the website www.crimesofwar.com, a well-known "news agency" which actually does the opposite of what it is supposed to do, enflaming the passions of many and fueling world-wide conflicts. Yes, the site's reach and effect are quite extensive, so with in a fit of indignation I post the article shameless and blasphemous in its lies:
"...Russian soldiers and their commanders in Chechnya are undisciplined, unprofessional and irresponsible. Putin should have also added: rampantly corrupt. As their chiefs steal big, Russian soldiers and officers also do their best to make some money on the side. A regular racket of kidnapping Chechens as "terrorist suspects" for ransom has been established by Russian military personnel, who also collect bribes from anyone passing a checkpoint, take part in illegal extraction and export of oil in Chechnya and so on...[so my friends who serve there and the one who has died there for his country is a mere thief...]
...The Russian forces in Chechnya have no radar-equipped attack planes or helicopters, capable of providing close air support in fog or at night...
[this part makes no sense at all as ALL Russian aircraft are equiped with radar systems, ESPECIALLY close-support aircraft ]
It was Thursday, 24th October - the second day of the Nord-Ost hostage crisis. Around three in the afternoon, six men in balaclavas kicked down the door and burst into our home. They were armed and wearing camouflage fatigues with the insignia of the Russian interior ministry. Without a word they seized Ahmed, my twenty-two year old eldest son, and dragged him outside. They tied him to a telegraph pole. Then they blew him up and vanished. I had to go and pick up scattered bits of his brains." The hollow-voiced speaker is Fatima, thirty-seven, a mother.
[And what of the thousands killed and raped by the Chechen forces. The Russian Ministry would waste no time simply killing off "innocent" "civilans". While there are cases of brutality, I do recollect that it is the Chechen sepratists who rape and pillage and murder. While I feel for that woman's son, he must have been engaged in some gang actavity, and his compatriots disguised as Russian serveicemen killed him in such plain view ]
"...Russian soldiers and their commanders in Chechnya are undisciplined, unprofessional and irresponsible. Putin should have also added: rampantly corrupt. As their chiefs steal big, Russian soldiers and officers also do their best to make some money on the side. A regular racket of kidnapping Chechens as "terrorist suspects" for ransom has been established by Russian military personnel, who also collect bribes from anyone passing a checkpoint, take part in illegal extraction and export of oil in Chechnya and so on...[so my friends who serve there and the one who has died there for his country is a mere thief...]
...The Russian forces in Chechnya have no radar-equipped attack planes or helicopters, capable of providing close air support in fog or at night...
[this part makes no sense at all as ALL Russian aircraft are equiped with radar systems, ESPECIALLY close-support aircraft ]
It was Thursday, 24th October - the second day of the Nord-Ost hostage crisis. Around three in the afternoon, six men in balaclavas kicked down the door and burst into our home. They were armed and wearing camouflage fatigues with the insignia of the Russian interior ministry. Without a word they seized Ahmed, my twenty-two year old eldest son, and dragged him outside. They tied him to a telegraph pole. Then they blew him up and vanished. I had to go and pick up scattered bits of his brains." The hollow-voiced speaker is Fatima, thirty-seven, a mother.
[And what of the thousands killed and raped by the Chechen forces. The Russian Ministry would waste no time simply killing off "innocent" "civilans". While there are cases of brutality, I do recollect that it is the Chechen sepratists who rape and pillage and murder. While I feel for that woman's son, he must have been engaged in some gang actavity, and his compatriots disguised as Russian serveicemen killed him in such plain view ]