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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14420)	9/14/1999 9:19:00 AM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

Gus you can post me in any Roman or Cyrillic language....<VBG> Also, if the question was "Did I get it? "-you should try to give people some credit..<VBG>

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14420)	9/14/1999 8:02:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

What happened to the Moscow vilent criticism of the inhumane Zionist blockades of the West Bank after terrorist events? and what about option to withdraw? Yeltsin Criticized Over Blasts, Church Urges Calm MOSCOW, Sep 14, 1999 -- (Reuters) Opponents of President Boris Yeltsin on Monday attacked him and his government for not being prepared to prevent two devastating bomb blasts, while they and others condemned the explosions as "terrorism". A bomb razed an entire eight-story apartment block in a Moscow suburb early on Monday, killing at least 45 people. It came just days after a similar blast killed more than 90. The explosions and allegations of a lack of preparedness became extra fuel for Yeltsin's opponents in the run-up to December's parliamentary elections and a presidential vote in mid-2000. "There is neither a strategy nor battle tactics - we do not have a clear plan of action," Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov, Yeltsin's fiercest opponent, was quoted as saying by RIA news agency. He also called for citizens' night patrols, like those carried out during World War Two air raids. No-one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, although some politicians have been quick to blame the rebel region of Chechnya as well as Moslem militants who have been fighting Russian forces in another North Caucasus republic, Dagestan. Chechnya and the self-proclaimed prime minister of the Dagestan rebels have denied responsibility. Former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, rated as Russia's most popular politician and the head of a party expected to do well in the December polls, said the blasts heralded the start of a "terrorist war" and also made a jab at Yeltsin. "This (war) was declared against us several years ago. And we were not completely prepared - or completely unprepared," he said in televised comments. Russia fought a disastrous war in 1994-96 to stop Chechnya's bid for independence. The region now calls itself independent but is not recognised as such by Moscow or any other state. "If the government does not quickly take extreme, effective measures to stop terrorism and end (military) operations in Dagestan, this nightmare with blasts at residential buildings and the death of young men will continue," Eduard Rossel, the influential governor of the western Sverdlovsk region, told Itar-Tass news agency. Several politicians called for tough action against Chechnya, despite its denials of responsibility. Alexei Podberyozkin, head of left-leaning political group Spiritual Inheritance, was quoted by RIA as calling for "strikes on terrorist bases" in Chechnya and a blockade of the region. Religious leaders expressed sorrow and urged calm. "Muslims, as all good-willed people, condemn these serious, anti-human acts of killing innocent people," Russia's chief Muslim, Sheikh Nafigulla Ashir, said in a statement. "Muscovites need to close ranks so that more acts of evil do not take place," said a statement by the Patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church, Alexiy II, which was quoted by Tass. He also called for people to be alert and not to panic. Zyuganov and Primakov, like many powerful regional governors, said they were against declaring a state of emergency, which would have to be approved by the upper house of parliament, and which might be used to delay elections. A law on a state of emergency does not actually exist at the moment, although a law on preventing terrorism could be used to tighten security and impose some curbs on civil liberties. "A state of emergency could be used by various powers for political motives," Primakov said. (C)1999 Copyright Reuters Limited.Limited.