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The Russians are in their second recent war with the Chechens, who are said to be backed in part by the Pakistani ISI services and bin Laden.

The Russians have been accused of many atrocities in Chechnya and are hoping to use the terrorism in the US to obtain the West's assent to their tactics.

Map of World Trade Centre strikes confiscated in Chechnya, 9/24 Tass

Analysis: Russia offers to work with US 9/24 UPI

Taliban threatened with US strikes in July Attacks on US may have been 'pre-emptive'  The Guardian, UK, 9/21 - Did Russians participate in Wag the Dog in order to get help on Chechnya, where they are having many problems?

Who Is Osama Bin Laden? 9/12 Centre for Research on Globalisation, Montreal. Goldmine of information, especially on heroin production in Afghanistan, originally set up by CIA backed groups, now on the order of $100-$200 billion, 1/3rd world total. Also coverage of Pak SIS involvement in Chechnya: "In a cruel irony, while the Islamic jihad --featured by the Bush Adminstration as "a threat to America"-- is blamed for the terrorist assaults on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, these same Islamic organisations constitute a key instrument of US military-intelligence operations in the Balkans and the former Soviet Union."

Jihad in Chechnya Sawt-ul-Qoqaz also www.qoqaz.de and www.kavkaz.org
Long listing of Russian defeats, including the deaths of a number of generals and senior officers.