Russia May Become More Aggressive Against Terrorists

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Associated Press (excerpt)
MOSCOW- President Vladimir Putin led a national day of mourning Monday and pledged Russia would not surrender to terrorist "blackmail." Relatives and friends grieved for 118 captives who died in the siege at a Moscow theater, all but two from the paralyzing gas used to rescue them.

Using words remarkably similar to those of President Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, Putin pledged in televised comments to give the military broader powers to move against suspected terrorists and their sponsors.

"Russia will answer with measures adequate to the threat to the Russian Federation in all places where the terrorists, the organizers of these crimes or their ideological or financial sponsors are located," Putin said. "I emphasize; wherever they may be."

Putin has said the theater raid was planned abroad, and the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday claimed, without offering evidence, that Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist organization was involved.
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Well, maybe al-Qaeda will have more good reasons to run and hide soon. Way to go.

[Chris Alger]

Given that Russia is already more aggressive than terrorists, I think this conclusion is foregone.

[Ed Miller]

Thank God... with Russia in our camp, now is the first time since those nasty START treaties that we will have the firepower to glass the entire Muslim world...

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well then maybe the Arab world ought to seriously consider that it might be in their peoples' and governments' best interests to eliminate Muslim terrorism themselves, rather than waiting for the West to do it for them (or to them).