EDITORIAL: BUSH FIGHTS FOR ANOTHER CLEAN SHOT IN HIS WAR
Robert Fisk, Independent (UK), 11/13/02
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=349952
I'm a cynical critic of the US media, but last month Newsweek ran a brave
and brilliant and terrifying report on the Chechen war. In a deeply moving
account of Russian cruelty in Chechnya, it recounted a Russian army raid on
an unprotected Muslim village. Russian soldiers broke into a civilian home
and shot all inside. One of the victims was a Chechen girl. As she lay
dying of her wounds, a Russian soldier began to rape her. "Hurry up Kolya,"
his friend shouted, "while she's still warm."
Now, I have a question. If you or I was that girl's husband or lover or
brother or father, would we not be prepared to take hostages in a Moscow
theatre? Even if this meant - as it did - that, asphyxiated by Russian gas,
we would be executed with a bullet in the head, as the Chechen women
hostage-takers were? But no matter. The "war on terror" means that Kolya
and the boys will be back in action soon, courtesy of Messrs Putin, Bush
and Blair…
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