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February 14, 2006
Israel Embarrasses Putin by Releasing Hamas Video Glorifying Chechen Terrorists

According to the Jerusalem Post, Israel's Foreign Ministry is distributing several documents linking Hamas to the Chechen terrorists. The Hamas brochures include recruiting posters that glorify the "resistance" of Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine and other Muslim regions against the "invaders". In a recruiting CD titled "Russian Hell", a Hamas speaker praises the great achievements of the terrorists in Chechnya and urges young Muslims to join the jihad against the Russian police and military forces. Other videos distributed by Hamas show 18 year old Russian soldiers being tortured, beheaded, and crucified. The package released by the Israelis also includes posters of terror kingpins Shamil Basayev and the recently killed Arab jihadist al-Khattab. Basayev has boasted about planning the Beslan school massacre of 350 children, and is still at large.

The Russian FSB has not responded to the evidence yet, but they are investigating the truthfulness of the documents released by the Israelis. In the meantime, RussiaBlog readers are welcome to enjoy the fine artwork of Hamas:

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The Russian government has never backed off of condeming the terrorist wing of Hamas.

There're other wings to it though that are clearly not terrorist.

The U.S. set a bad precedent by repackaging the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) as an acceptable political force. To my knowledge, that group has yet to match Hamas in terms of having a viable civilian infrastructure.

Paging Bill Kristol, Richard Perle, Paddy Ashdown and George Soros.

If only these countries, Chechnya,Palestine,Afghanistan,Iraq and etc., were coalition as you said you would be in trouble. More exactly you would not torture and terror civilians of that countries and cover it by your so called
"antiterror" operations. And InshaAllah! it will be soooon! Allahu Akbar!

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