Russia Lashes out at Poland Over Maskhadov Comments

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http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/03/10/polandreply.shtml

<snip>Maskhadov, the document says, had the blood of thousands of Russian people, including children, on his hands, because it’s widely known that terrorist attacks in Beslan, Moscow, and other Russian cities were committed at his direct orders. “If all this is called Maskhadov’s efforts towards a political settlement in Chechnya, Poland evidently has a distorted view of processes of this kind and the fight against international terrorism on the whole,” the Russian Foreign Ministry claims.

“A question arises: will Poland use analogous phrases to regret the elimination of murderous terrorist Shamil Basayev, who is on the UN antiterrorist sanction list, or Osama bin Laden?” the statement reads.

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1. Isn't murder wrong no matter who is the victim?

...Checko ... called the murder of the Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov “a political stupidity and a gross mistake”...