The Butcher of Beslan has been blown away, but…
Russia finally wiped out the Butcher of Beslan:
FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev said Basayev, who claimed responsibility for the 2004 Beslan school attack in which 331 people, half of them children, were killed, was planning an attack to coincide with Russia hosting the G8 summit of world leaders this weekend.
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In a televised meeting with Patrushev, Putin described Basayev’s death as “deserved retribution” for Beslan and other attacks.
“This is deserved retribution against the bandits for our children in Beslan, in Budennovsk, for all these acts of terror they committed in Moscow and other Russian regions, including Ingushetia and Chechnya,” Putin said, according to Reuters.
“Deserved retribution?”
What did Putin say after Yassin and Rantisi were assassinated by Israel? I don’t remember hearing “deserved retribution” back then.
What has Putin said about the possibility of wiping out bloody-handed Hamas warlords Khaled Meshal or Ismail Haniyeh? I don’t remember hearing “deserved retribution” about it.
And what has Putin said about keeping mass-murderer Marwan Barghouti alive? Has anyone heard “deserved retribution” regaring him?
Not to mention any attempt against Arafat before he became the AIDS-infected corpse buried in the parking lot of the Mukata in Ramallah, of course.
July 10th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Basayev the Butcher Killed In Russian Raid…
The message sent by the Russians to other terrorists: You can run, but you can’t hide. That goes especially for the terrorists who murdered the four Russian diplomats in Iraq in most gruesome fashion….
July 10th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Profile Of A Dead Chechen Warlord…
The most wanted man in Russia, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, has been killed today by the country’s special forces. While the precise circumstances of his death have yet to be publicized, one can only hope that his final breaths on…
July 10th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
From what the Russian-language online sources are saying, it may very well be a ‘work accident’ - it appears that he may have been driving a big truck full of explosives and they detonated. Russian security services may be too eager to claim the credit for the kill.
July 11th, 2006 at 9:42 am
[...] In the meantime, be happy for the Russians, who finally got their man and his henchmen, and rejoice in the death of a truly evil monster, whose legacy of the death, rape, and torture of children is all that remains. UPDATE - Also blogging the good news: Yourish, Malkin, Dave in TX, Amboy Times, Blogs of War, Pros and Cons, and Partisan Times (who has a profile of Chechen warlord Basayev) MORE: Allahpundit and Captain’s Quarters who wrote: Basayev would never have been satisfied with a strictly Chechen resolution in the Caucasus. He wanted an Islamist takeover of the entire region. Basayev no more represented nationalism than David Koresh represented an effort for religious freedom. Basayev wanted to set the entire region on fire, which this map shows would have directly threatened Georgia and Azerbaijan, the latter of which already has enough of these troubles as it is. He had the capacity for a lot more death and destruction had he continued to live. [...]