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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (11818)	2/23/2002 6:16:11 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Cutthroat and beheaded... like the Norwegian kidnapped in 1995 by Harkat-ul-Ansar. Derek

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (11818)	2/23/2002 6:21:34 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

We seem to have hit a nerve! dailytelegraph.com ---------------------------------------------------------- Moscow angry over US offer to help Georgia By Marcus Warren in Moscow (Filed: 23/02/2002) RUSSIA has reacted angrily to an American offer to help Georgia expel suspected al-Qa'eda fighters from an isolated gorge in the Caucasus mountains. Bristling at the threat of increased US influence in yet another former Soviet republic, Moscow said it was ready to move against what it called a "terrorist centre" - but without the Americans. Nikolai Patrushev, a close ally of President Putin and the head of Russia's domestic intelligence service, the FSB, held talks in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, with the Pankisi Gorge high on his agenda. "Russia and Georgia should destroy this terrorist centre in the Pankisi Gorge together," Gen Anatoly Kvashnin, the Russian army chief of staff, said in Moscow. A US role was "unlikely", he added. Russia has long complained that the narrow valley south of the Caucasus mountain range is a base for rebels from neighbouring Chechnya and insisted on firmer action from Georgia to counter terrorism. Senior Russian officials have even hinted that Osama bin Laden may have found refuge in the region, a suggestion dismissed by Georgia. Moscow's allegations won new credibility recently when America said al-Qa'eda fugitives were sheltering in the gorge. America has proposed helping to create an anti-terrorism force in Georgia which could restore law and order in the valley, already notorious for kidnapping and its role in the drugs trade. Since September 11, America has opened military bases in two former Soviet republics in Central Asia. While Moscow would applaud an offensive against Chechens in the gorge, it would be appalled if America were actively engaged in it. "This is not just about the Pankisi Gorge," Mr Patrushev said. "It would be more correct to say that it was about the struggle against international terrorism as a whole."

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (11818)	2/23/2002 4:01:54 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23908

I am suspicious of a good portion of that story also. It would convenient to add spicy details that did not happen to enflame emotions. Such as that statement that he was killed because he was Jewish, if he was a Jew at all. The story as reported by the Government, stated that his Father is a Jew and he is also a Jew. We do not know if he converted or just assumed he was a Jew because his Father was. Details, details... That is not say that I am not open to more information, but I am not going to just jump to conclusions knowing the accuracy or lack thereof, and power that that media wields.