September 01, 2004

UN poised to condemn Russia attacks

The U.N. Security Council has called an emergency meeting, at the request of Russian Ambassador Andrei Denisov, to discuss a wave of deadly terrorist attacks in Russia.

The 15-nation council planned to convene at 5 p.m. (10:00 p.m. British time) on Wednesday and was expected to issue a statement at the meeting's close condemning the attacks as a threat to international peace and security, council diplomats said.
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The call for a special session came after a heavily armed gang seized a school in southern Russia and took hostage up to 400 people, including many children, in what appeared to be a Chechen rebel operation.
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The request for a special Security Council meeting appeared unusual given Moscow's dogged insistence for years that its war in Chechnya was an internal problem which Russia would solve by itself.

Putin is about to experience the limits of the UNSC in confronting Islamist terrorism, just like we did.
Even if they vote to "condemn" the attack(s), that won't stop the killers or rescue those children.
The latest reports say that 8 civilians have been killed.
And Russia's so concerned, they've moved to protect their nuclear sites:
Russia Sends Troops to Guard Nuclear Sites
This sounds pretty serious...
The thing that bothers me (other than the obvious) is the realization that the nuke sites have been unguarded all this time!
Good Lord, save us!
Did you ever think you'd see the day when Russia would ask the rest of the world for help?