(((These comments by Saakashvili are especially narrow and
dumb because a few months ago, he and his Rose-Red
cavaliers WERE non-state actors. They broke the government
of Georgia like a cheap fortune cookie. Boy, the Al Qaeda
recruits in the ravines of Chechnya must be having a
big chuckle over their laptops right now.)))
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/23/wgas23.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/23/ixworld.html
'Attack on gas pipeline is 'sabotage by Russia'
By Nick Allen in Moscow (Filed: 23/01/2006)
'President Mikhail Saakashvili accused Moscow of serious acts of "sabotage" yesterday after explosions ripped apart gas pipelines cutting off supplies to Georgia and neighbouring Armenia.
Mr Saakashvili said the blasts were the "attempted sabotage" of his country's energy system and dismissed Russia's explanation - that the attacks were the work of "extremist groups" intent on causing "material damage" - as "unconvincing and contradictory".'
(((Okay, even given that Putin might, conceivably, expensively
blow up his own pipelines instead of just turning the tap,
has he been blowing up his own pipelines FOR YEARS NOW?
Look at the facts on the ground here.)))
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
THE CHECHEN ECONOMIC ASSAULT ON RUSSIA
There are strong signs that Chechen guerrillas have made the shift to become global guerrillas. Commanders such as Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev have expressed their intent to conduct acts of sabotage against Russian targets and guerrilla entrepreneurs such as the Dagestani, Rabbani Khalilov, have acted on this direction. The Chechen campaign against Russian infrastructure systems is off to a fast start. This year's assaults include:
February 18. Moscow. 2 gas pipelines were blown up with IEDs made from rocket propelled grenades.
March 15. A power transmission line was severed. A Chechen flag was found at the blast site.
April 5. Dagestan (southern Russia). The Russian gas export pipeline to Azerbaijan was interdicted for several days.? Additionally, the Baku-Novorossiisk oil pipeline was damaged due to collocation vulnerability with the gas pipeline.
April 24. Volgograd. The Samara-Lisichansk long-distance pipeline was blown up.
May 24. Dagestan. The Mazdok-Gazimagomed gas pipeline was damaged.
June 5. Stavropol. The Baku-Novorossiisk oil pipeline reservoir was bombed.
July 5. Chechnya. The Mazdok-Gasimagomed pipeline was damaged again.
November 28. Moscow. A circular gas pipeline was severed.
December 8. Dagestan. The Russian gas export pipeline to Azerbaijan was blown up.
((Given the trends, what does this seem to be leading to?)))
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2006/01/the_guerrilla_o.html
