Back in April, the Russian government threw in the towel as to maintaining their counter-terrorism efforts against the islamists in Chechnya...and since then, it's been a bloody hell of a place. Today, when 15 jihadists went up against police and soldiers, the jihadists came out on top leaving 4 dead and several wounded.
I've said it before...Russia's radical islamic terror problem is growing exponentially and the Russians' track record against jihadists sucks - remember Afghanistan and now Chechnya. Putin is supposed to be such a hard ass, but the facts of the matter are that his military and security forces are a shambles (as far as I can tell). Here's the brief story from Ria Novosti:
I've said it before...Russia's radical islamic terror problem is growing exponentially and the Russians' track record against jihadists sucks - remember Afghanistan and now Chechnya. Putin is supposed to be such a hard ass, but the facts of the matter are that his military and security forces are a shambles (as far as I can tell). Here's the brief story from Ria Novosti:
Four officers killed, six wounded in Chechnya clash
MOSCOW, July 15 (RIA Novosti) - Two police officers and two servicemen were killed during a shootout with militants in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a police source said on Wednesday.
The clash occurred in the southeast Chechen Vedensky district on Tuesday when police located a group of up to 15 gunmen in the forest near the village of Kirov-Yurt.
Another six officers and servicemen were injured and subsequently hospitalized. The search for the militants will continue on Wednesday.
The Kremlin announced a formal end to its 10-year counter-terrorism operation in the troubled region on April 16, but violence has continued in Chechnya and neighboring republics.
2 comments:
"Remember Afghanistan"? Russia invaded Afghanistan without cause (they were not attacked like we were) in order to make that country Communists - that's OK with you? The Red Army got what they deserved in Afghanistan.
Russia has no business in Chechnya either - let Russia rule the Russians, not everyone else. Police and soldiers dead is the cost of an empire. If Russian troops patrolled your neighborhood, what would you do?
rita,
I made no mention of whether or not Russia's operation in Afghanistan was valid or not - I was pointing out that their ability to fight the jihadists of the Taliban in that theater was piss poor. America protested the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and I supported that.
As for Russian troops in my neighborhood...well, I'm not as scared of that as I am of an ACORN person coming to my door to do the "Census."
:Holger Danske
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