Sunday, September 20, 2009

Dirty War Rages On Russia's Doorstep


From Times Online:

WHEN Arsen Butayev was seized on a street in broad daylight last month and held captive with four other men, including his younger brother, he must have known a terrible fate awaited them. The witnesses to his abduction knew it too. Nobody intervened.

Butayev, 23, and his comrades had fallen into the hands of a death squad operated by the security services in Dagestan, a small, mountainous republic of 3m souls riven by growing conflict in the southernmost part of Russia.

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My Comment: This is one of the unreported wars in the world today. But as the bloodshed and carnage continues and escalates .... and it is escalating .... this is all going to change .... as the Times article accurately articulates.

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