Re: The Chechens US friends

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Babitsky's a journalist in name only (not to say that
that means he should have been drugged/detained). So
is Politkovskaya.

--- "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> how about the drugging of journalists?
>
> it sure seems that the Russian govt is extremely
> heavy-handed in
> its approach... They might learn tact from Ariel
> Sharon or Silvio
> Berlusconi...
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &
> http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: PEN-L list [mailto:PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of
> > Chris Doss
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:27 AM
> > To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The Chechens US friends
> >
> >
> > --- "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > in another post, Chris Doss writes: >Now, if the
> > Russian government had
> > been responsible for Beslan, we would never hear
> the
> > end of it.<
> >
> > Of course, the Russian government seems to share a
> > bunch of the
> > responsibility for how Beslan ended. Not to
> mention
> > the doping of two Russian
> > journalists.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Their main fuckup was not keeping the (heavily
> armed)
> > townspeople away from the scene. (Then again, if
> they
> > had tried, the townspeople might have stormed the
> > school themselves.) Most of the chaos was the
> result
> > of the Beslanians trying to lynch the
> hostage-takers
> > at the same time as Special Forces were trying to
> > rescue the hostages. (I don't know how extensively
> > this has been covered in the States.)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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