Saturday, July 01, 2006
Putin Orders Murder of Islamic Terrorists; World Yawns
This week, the US Supreme Court ruled that the terrorists held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have rights - to a trial like that of an American citizen, to being treated like the soldier of a country. In short, terrorists now have rights.
The world has been bitching since 2001 that we are making ourselves look bad by having terrorists imprisoned - humanely, of course - in Gitmo. They call on us to close the place, and treat the terrorists with kid gloves and give them rights.
However, when 4 Russian embassy workers were kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq this past week, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian Special Forces into that country to find the killers and execute them.
Wait a second...Putin is not imprisoning them? Giving them rights? Making sure their diapers are clean and their Koran nice and spiffy? He wants them dead?
Won't the world be shocked? Won't they protest this obviously lawless move?
Of course not - because Putin will tell them all to fuck off...something President Bush should have told the world a long time ago about Gitmo.
Opinion: Putin's License To Kill
We applaud Putin's move. President Bush should order CIA and other SpecOp forces worldwide: no more nice guy. The world does not want us to hold these terrorists. Kill them, behead them, cut off their testicles, treat them like the refuse that they are. Then bury them - deep.
Unless The New York Times reports on it, this should quiet the world's insatiable appetite to protect terrorists - because there won't be any more to hold.
This week, the US Supreme Court ruled that the terrorists held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have rights - to a trial like that of an American citizen, to being treated like the soldier of a country. In short, terrorists now have rights.
The world has been bitching since 2001 that we are making ourselves look bad by having terrorists imprisoned - humanely, of course - in Gitmo. They call on us to close the place, and treat the terrorists with kid gloves and give them rights.
However, when 4 Russian embassy workers were kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq this past week, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian Special Forces into that country to find the killers and execute them.
Wait a second...Putin is not imprisoning them? Giving them rights? Making sure their diapers are clean and their Koran nice and spiffy? He wants them dead?
Won't the world be shocked? Won't they protest this obviously lawless move?
Of course not - because Putin will tell them all to fuck off...something President Bush should have told the world a long time ago about Gitmo.
Opinion: Putin's License To Kill
This week Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is hosting Saudi prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz al Saud in Moscow. On Wednesday President Putin personally met with the prince and chose this particular meeting to announce to the world Russia's response to the jihadists who murdered five Russian diplomatic workers last week in Iraq: "find and destroy."
Not many people in the world are aware that since Putin was appointed President in 1999, Russia has revived its tradition of hunting down terrorists abroad. Given the traditional centralization of powers in Russia and the common national goal of revenge, there will be no Russian newspapers posting details about ongoing counterterrorist operations on their front pages, as happens with the New York Times in America. The Russian Duma is also not the U.S. Congress; Putin's order to kill has elicited nary a word of dissent.
In 2002, Ibn Khattab, an Arab veteran of the Afghan war operating in Chechnya, was killed by Russian forces. Khattab, who had been fundraising from the Persian Gulf states for the Chechen jihad, was poisoned by an under-cover Russian agent. In 2004, Zelimhan Yandarbiyev, a Chechen terrorist leader who claimed to be president of the non-existent "republic of Ichkeria" was hunted down by Russian operatives in Doha, Qatar (the same country where the Al-Jazeera satellite news network is based). Yandarbiyev's car was blown up by two under-cover agents who were carrying Russian diplomatic passports. During this operation, Yandarbiyev's twelve year-old son was severely injured. The attack outraged the Qatari government and both "diplomats" were captured and sentenced to death. Later they were extradited back to Moscow, and the Kremlin promised to punish and imprison them. No one knows what has happened to the agents since, but rumor has it that they were secretly decorated for a successful operation.
We applaud Putin's move. President Bush should order CIA and other SpecOp forces worldwide: no more nice guy. The world does not want us to hold these terrorists. Kill them, behead them, cut off their testicles, treat them like the refuse that they are. Then bury them - deep.
Unless The New York Times reports on it, this should quiet the world's insatiable appetite to protect terrorists - because there won't be any more to hold.
