"dxAce" wrote in message
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Additionally, Fat Boy... the school children were not taken hostage in
Chechnya... it was in North Ossetia-Alania...

dxAce



Good work Steve. Its unlikely they would hold their own as hostage. The
Chechens have been fighting for their independance from Russia for ever and
a day. They were an independant state then I think Stalin ran them all off
in WWII? The Chechen are Sunni Muslim, and speak a Caucasian language. In
1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, 14 regions become independent nations
again. Dzhokhar Dudayev elected president of Chechnya. Dudayev declares
Chechnya independent. Russian President Boris Yeltsin refuses to recognize
Chechen independence, sends troops. Confronted by armed Chechens, troops
withdraw. Russia is playing big bully and wants the fertile land and oil
deposits I'm sure?


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