February 5, 2000

REBELS RELATE HORROR OF LEAVING GROZNY AMID DEADLY TRICKERY

ALKHAN-KALA, Russia ---
     Tears fell from the Chechen fighter's eyes as he recalled escaping from
a Russian minefield by walking on the bodies of friends who had been torn apart by vicious explosions.
     The carnage left at least 600 militants, including several prominent warlords, killed or badly wounded. It was the bloodiest loss for the rebels since Russian forces invaded Chechnya in late September.
     The Russians claim they lured the rebels into a trap by pretending to accept a $100,000 bride in exchange for safe passage out of Grozny, then finished them off with artillery barrages.

The Associated Press


February 6, 2000

RUSSIANS WIN CHECHEN BATTLE BUT NOT THE WAR

GROZNY --
     The last of the estimated 2,000 Chechen rebels who had been holed up in Grozny finally left last week, abandoning the city to the Russian invaders.
      As the generals celebrated the fall of the Chechen capital by raising the red, white and blue flag in front of the camera crews, it was difficult to disguise the fact that they had conquered a city that no longer exists.
    (A civilian states,) “We live in terror scared of Russian bombs and Chechen alike. We have nowhere to go; no money, no car. Please let this be the end. I don't care where, just let me out of this hell.”

LONDON SUNDAY TIMES

AND SO THAT IS HOW IT WILL END IN JUST A FEW YEARS TIME
RUSSIA WILL SURROUND AND INVADE AND LEAVE NOTHING BUT HELL
THE EARTH WILL GO UP IN FLAMES BECAUSE ONE COUNTRY CHOSE TO CONQUER
THE BATTLE WILL BE WON FOR THE RUSSIANS
BUT EVEN THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LIVE IN THE WORLD
FOR WHICH THEY DESTROYED TO MAKE THEIR OWN
THE BATTLE WILL SURELY BE WON BY THE RUSSIANS
BUT I ASSURE YOU
I WILL WIN THE WAR!
AND A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH I WILL CREATE.....

REVELATION 21

FATHER GOD


February 10, 2000

THE NEW RUSSIA LOOKS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE THE OLD
 
     If you want to know what the “new Russians” under president-in-waiting Vladimir Putin are really like, consider the grave warning of Andrei Babitsky's case.
     This 36 year-old Moscow journalist was relentless. He was one of those special handful of foreign correspondents who somehow survive their crazy-man courage because they also have street sense....... everybody knows by now that, after detaining Babitsky for 10 days in late January and early February, Russian troops in Chechnya committed an act that could only be explained as politically wanton. Film has even by now been broadcast on Russian television showing Babitsky being 'swapped' for Russian soldiers ....... nothing has been heard of him since.
     In short, the order came directly from Vladimir Putin and from the Kremlin itself.
     Meanwhile, just what kind of government is it that is taking clearer form every day in Moscow?  Soviet scholar Arnold Beichman of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University says his research shows that of the 24 Putin appointees, 10 have secret police backgrounds. It is these guys who say they are seeking Babitsky for a “psychiatric examination.” (Reminds you of the “old days,” doesn't it?)  Other reports show that Putin has especially promoted the worst of the old security men, the so-called “dissident hunters,” with their special appetite for destroying anyone with “wrong ideas.”
     Indeed, Russia is returning more rapidly to many of its old habits.
     Mr. Putin expands the Stalin doctrine of “no man, no problem."

THE OREGONIAN


February 22, 2000

RUSSIA SAYS IT INTENDS TO LEAVE NO REBELS ALIVE IN CHECHNYA

MOZDOK, Russia --
     Waves of Russian bombers Monday slammed the entrance to a gorge where thousands of Chechen fighters are holed up, while Moscow promised to press the offensive until the last rebel is wiped out........
      Acting President Vladmir Putin said the offensive would continue until
the rebels are annihilated.

THE OREGONIAN

SUCCESSOR TO KGB SPYING ON INTERNET

MOSCOW --
     The successor to the KGB is now also spying on the Internet, raising fears that the information it collects could be used for blackmail and business espionage.....
      Free speech activists fear that Net surveillance is evidence of the security service's resurgence under acting President Vladimir Putin, a 15-year KGB veteran. They have accused him of chipping away at media freedoms championed by former President Boris Yeltsin.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


February 23, 2000

RUSSIANS ACCUSED OF CIVILIAN MASSACRE

MOSCOW --
     Russian soldiers went on a deadly rampage earlier this month in a neighborhood of the Chechen capital of Grozny, killing at least 60 civilians in the worse case yet disclosed of Russian military
atrocities, an international human rights group charged Tuesday.

THE FUTURE . . .