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To: John Lacelle who wrote (14937)	10/12/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

John, I repeat -- what car bombings? There have not been any car bombings. You sound as if you had been hanging around in Russian internet newsgroups. Personally, if I was Boris Yeltsin I would hammer those suckers untill they bleed. I would drop an 80 mega- ton thermonuclear bomb right on Grozny...then lay down a carpet of chemical weapons and gasses on the dug in suckers in the mountains. Finish the job by dumping anthrax into their back 40, and call it a day. The Romans and Sciprio knew what it would take to end the trouble from Carthage,and they did the job. Personally, the only people I sympathize with in this whole mess are the ordinary Chechens I know -- the schoolteachers, the doctors, the farmers, the busdrivers, the secretaries...They have suffered both from the depredations of their own home-grown bandits (more Chechens, incidentally, have been kidnapped than Russians or foreigners), and from the misplaced vengeance of the Russian generals. And you would drop a thermonuclear bomb on them?!

To: John Lacelle who wrote (14937)	10/12/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Correction: True, in Buinaksk and in Volgodonsk the explosives to blow up the apartment buildings were placed in trucks, but I don't think of those two incidents as "car bombings," because the purpose was to blow up buildings. (I think of a "car bombing" as a Mafia-type method of getting rid of one's enemies.) What would you say if you were to find out that the bombings were NOT the work of "Chechen terrorists"? I hold no brief for Basayev or Khattab, but there is reason to doubt that they were responsible for these particular incidents. No proof, after all, has been presented. And there are plenty of other possible suspects. (Nine of the ten people presently being sought in connection with the bombings are from Karachaevo-Cherkessia, by the way. You may have noticed that Karachaevo-Cherkessia has been having big troubles of its own lately.)