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To: John Hunt who wrote (16252)	8/26/1998 9:05:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Is Yeltsin "Wagging the Dog?" stratfor.com << As Russia's economy crumbles, options for salvaging the situation dwindle, and calls for his ouster intensify, Russian President Boris Yeltsin may be brewing a "Wag the Dog" scenario, in a last ditch effort to save himself. Recent incidents in the Russian republic of Dagestan, which borders on Chechnya, have the Kremlin drumming up a war on Wahhabism in the region. The Wahhabi are a sect of Sunni Islam originating in Saudi Arabia, who have come to be equated with the threat of fundamentalist Islamic militance throughout the former Soviet Union. >> Taking a lesson from Slick's book of tricks?