Friday, July 14, 2006
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross - ' THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED Monday that its security forces had killed Shamil Basayev, a commander of the jihadist insurgency in Chechnya. The death of the man responsible for the 2004 Beslan school massacre may prove every bit as significant for Russia as the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi will be for the U.S. and allied forces in Iraq. But one detail that shouldn't be overlooked in the rush to assess the strategic importance of Basayev's death is how this man, who began his fighting career as a swashbuckling separatist, was transformed over time into an international jihadist aligned with al-Qaeda...'
