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American forces not too long ago. >> i think a foreign fighter al qaeda dimension of the chechen insurgency is really something that was more historical and really more of a problem before 9/11. al qaeda, you know, had members that would go to chechnya recently. and talking about ayman al zwari who is the leader was arrested in 1996 and spent six months in jail. he told the russians some story that wasnt true and they released him. so thats an indication that al qaeda certainly knows part of thi...

Influence it in the sense of does terrorism by these two men with all the questions it raises and one was a united states citizen, both have been here legally for years, neither were even involved in the check -- chechen war there is nothing to make these kids any different from any two kids in the neighborhood i used to live in. we have a lot of questions but i do hope we are making progress on immigration. we are talking about people who have been unlawfully in this country, who have been work...

Joshua, thats where the early speculation. if indeed the suspect apprehendsed is the person who did this, hwe have no idea his motives. the context does strike me as important. theres a context of radicalization in chechnya even if it has no connection to these boys. >> right. it goes back even to the first chechen war. they let him go when the war ended. this family, the tsarni family has experienced the same displacement since the second world war.

Chechen war for independence against russia in the 1990s. that was brutally squashed by vladmir putin. >> the status was left unresolved in the region. he decided he was going to squash the radical segment. how we have the consequences of the radicals. >> there was a secular nationalist uprising. what has happened is the spread of the resistance.

Olympics and world cup and whats going to happen to 2014 and 2018. >> pat, theyre worried about the north caucus -- >> as i understand, chechnya, even north -- problems in all of them, violence, assassinations and things. russias increasingly islamicizing, the population falling to half a million a year. >> in the 1980s, people were talking not about a threat from a polish pope, they were talking about a threat from a growing muslim insurgency. and we are seeing that 25 years later. >> theyll be...

Russ russia? >> put it differently, whats russias problem with iran? why wont they sign on to these tough sanctions? again, i made the point before, russia is bee leagleaguered, be by islamic terrorists. ru iran sa-s an islamic country. since the troubles began if russia with islamic terrorism, going back to the chechen war in the 1990s, more than 50 15 years a ago, iran has never done anything to abet, aid or help terrorists in russia against the kremlin. they could easily do so. so from russia...

The first one underneath the headquarters of the federal securities service. when the train pulled in just before 8:00 a.m., the attacker detonated about 8 pounds of explosives. more than two dozen people were killed on the train and platform. 42 minutes later at the metro also a hub for morning commuters, the second bomber, also a woman, detonated a slightly smaller explosive, killing more than a dozen people there. tonight president medvedev toured the subway site. he called the bombers animal...

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Key posts. but on closer examination, it shouldnt be that surprising. mohammed bin salman is now applying to saudi arabia what has become the new standard operating procedure for strong men around the world. the formula was hone the by vladimir putin. first amplify on foreign threats as to rally the country around the regime and give it extraordinary powers. putin did this with the chechen war and the danger of terrorism. then move against rival centers of influence within the society, often usi...

Accounts and dismiss them from key posts. but on closer examination, it shouldnt be that surprising. hes now applying to saudi arabia what has become the new standard operating procedure for strong men around the world. the formula was honed by vladimir putin, first focus on and amplify foreign threats so as to rally the country and give it extraordinary powers. putin did this with the chechen war and danger of terrorism. then move against rivals influence within the society often using anti-rup...