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									Archive through April 25, 2000 - Second Chechen War				            </title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I am outta here also]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I am outta here also]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/">Second Chechen War</category>                        <dc:creator>gonzo</dc:creator>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[better, you know exactly how Jake is going to reply: &quot;this has nothing to do with you...blah-blah-blah&quot; he is &#8226;&#8226;&#8226;&#8226;&#8226;&#8226;&#8226; b-o-r-i-n-g, you know..   On t...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[better, <BR>you know exactly how Jake is going to reply: "this has nothing to do with you...blah-blah-blah" he is <FONT COLOR="ff0000">&#8226;&#8226;&#8226;&#8226;&#8226;&#8226;&#8226;</FONT> b-o-r-i-n-g, you know.. <BR> <BR> <BR>On that note I am going off line. <BR> <BR> <BR>Oh yea, All American - I expect to hear your sorano-voice t-a-m-a-r-o(how&#039;s my spelling), here for some more beating. Loser. And biatch.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/">Second Chechen War</category>                        <dc:creator>dimitri</dc:creator>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Russian tanks  www.history.enjoy.ru/outlines/t34_62.gif]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Russian tanks <BR> <BR>www.history.enjoy.ru/outlines/t34_62.gif]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/">Second Chechen War</category>                        <dc:creator>betterthanyou</dc:creator>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[&quot;We chopped off their heads using a sword. We buried their bodies and heads,&quot;  rebel spokesman Abu Ahmad said in a radio interview here. &quot;We decided to kill them because the group did not se...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA["We chopped off their heads using a sword. We buried their bodies and heads,"  <BR>rebel spokesman Abu Ahmad said in a radio interview here. <BR>"We decided to kill them because the group did not see any positive response  <BR>from the government," he said. <BR>Ahmad said those who were beheaded were school teachers who were former soldiers  <BR>and that their decapitation was carried out at 3:20 p.m.at their jungle camp in  <BR>Basilan. <BR>The Abu Sayyaf was holding 29 teachers, students and a Roman Catholic priest --  <BR>all Filipinos - <BR> <BR>..."WE DO NOT KILL WOMEN. WE WILL JUST ENSLAVE THEM," he (Abu Ahmad)said. <BR> <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/000419/asia/afp/Military_ready_assault_after_Muslim_militants__behead__hostages.html" TARGET="_top">http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/000419/asia/afp/Military_ready_assault_after_Muslim_militants__behead__hostages.html</A>]]></content:encoded>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[&quot;good place to hide from N. Korea, not a good place to watch it.&quot; thats funny but true.  Personally I don&#039;t think Russia has anything to fear from America , plus I don&#039;t want the U...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA["good place to hide from N. Korea, not a good place to watch it." thats funny but true.  Personally I don&#039;t think Russia has anything to fear from America , plus I don&#039;t want the US to think it would ever be safe from a full scale nuke strike due to some gee-wiz hi-tec system. I don&#039;t think it is or would ever be.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/">Second Chechen War</category>                        <dc:creator>gonzo</dc:creator>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Yep...Kursk. Plus Il-2 most produced aircraft of the war. One thing you can say about the germans the built some dam good tanks, probably the best of the war but in too few numbers.  US tank...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Yep...Kursk. Plus Il-2 most produced aircraft of the war. One thing you can say about the germans the built some dam good tanks, probably the best of the war but in too few numbers.  US tankers thought they had a dam good tank with the Sherman untill they got into combat and noticed there shells were bouncing off the sides of the Tigers.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Jake, we are impressed with your tough act. I guess in your eyes you are a real man hiding behind your keyboard. Jake was that really a picture of you holding that sword. Dude when I looked ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Jake, <BR>we are impressed with your tough act. I guess in your eyes you are a real man hiding behind your keyboard. Jake was that really a picture of you holding that sword. Dude when I looked up puss in the dictionary (or was that candy-ass)I found the exact same picture, what a coincidence. Can I please, please, please give you my address? I bet you were beat up everyday on the playground for being such a dork, weren&#039;t you, come on man, I mean boy, fess up?]]></content:encoded>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Gonzo, if you&#039;re interested..the second most important battle after Stalingrad and the GREATEST Tank battle EVER was the battle of Kursk..check it out:]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Gonzo, <BR>if you&#039;re interested..the second most important battle after Stalingrad and the GREATEST Tank battle EVER was the battle of Kursk..check it out: <BR><A HREF="http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/vy75/" TARGET="_top">http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/vy75/</A>]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/">Second Chechen War</category>                        <dc:creator>dimitri</dc:creator>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[New US radar site threatens ABM treaty   Julian Borger in Miami Tuesday April 25, 2000 The Guardian  The United States was thrown on to the defensive as the UN nuclear disarmament talks bega...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[New US radar site threatens ABM treaty  <BR> <BR>Julian Borger in Miami <BR>Tuesday April 25, 2000 <BR>The Guardian <BR> <BR>The United States was thrown on to the defensive as the UN nuclear disarmament talks began yesterday by allegations that it had installed a new anti-missile radar in northern Norway, a few miles from the Russian border.  <BR> <BR>Moscow has denounced the installation, believed to be the world&#039;s most advanced tracking and imaging radar, as a covert step towards the controversial US plan to develop a shield against incoming missiles, and therefore a potential breach of the 1972 anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) treaty.  <BR> <BR>"Everyone should be aware that the collapse of the ABM treaty would have a destructive domino effect for the existing system of disarmament agreements," the Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, argued in yesterday&#039;s New York Times. "We would be back in an era of suspicion and confrontation."  <BR> <BR>The Norwegian government said the radar, in the border village of Vardo, was designed to keep an eye on potentially dangerous space debris, but that explanation was derided as implausible by several independent scientists.  <BR> <BR>The revelations emerged as talks began at the conference on the 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) at the UN&#039;s New York headquarters, and US-Russian talks on a new disarmament treaty, Start III, entered their second week in Geneva.  <BR> <BR>The US and the Russia have both been under fire from disarmament watchdogs for negotiating in bad faith. Both have opted to stockpile and upgrade - rather than destroy - the warheads they have removed from missile silos.  <BR> <BR>The Vardo radar could have an even more damaging impact on the already precarious east-west nuclear balance. It was built in 1995 and moved to Norway in 1998, according to the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a US journal which monitors nuclear proliferation issues.  <BR> <BR>When a Norwegian journalist, Inge Sellevag, asked the Norwegian government the purpose of the new installation, he was told it was to be used by Nasa to monitor "space junk". But Nasa knew nothing about Vardo. John Pike, director of the Space Policy Project at the Federation of American Scientists, said yesterday: "One of the standard parts of creating a cover story for an intelligence operation is that the story is plausible and this cover story was not.  <BR> <BR>"This is a type of radar that was developed as part of the national missile defence  network, and I assume the reason they put it up there is to monitor Russian missile-testing."  <BR> <BR>The proposed NMD system is a successor to Ronald Reagan&#039;s Star Wars scheme. It is intended to create a nuclear umbrella over the US by coordinating an array of satellites, radars and missiles which would track and intercept any incoming missiles. Such a system is banned by the ABM treaty.  <BR> <BR>Tests on NMD technology are still under way and President Clinton has yet to give the system a green light, but the Vardo radar - along with the proposed upgrading of the early-warning radars at Fylingsdales in Yorkshire and Thule in Greenland - suggest that the Pentagon is already committed to the strategy.  <BR> <BR>Critics of the system believe the placing of the radars con firms that its main target is Russia, not rogue states like Iran, Iraq and North Korea as US officials have assured their counterparts in Moscow.  <BR> <BR>The Ministry of Defence&#039;s claim that the Fylingsdales radar was aimed at monitoring North Korea were dismissed by Mr Pike, who said: "Last time I checked England was on the other side of planet from North Korea. It might be a good place to hide from North Korea but not to watch it."  <BR> <BR>Meanwhile, US plans to upgrade its nuclear stockpile and develop "new nuclear options for emergent threats" were revealed in energy department documents made available to a court after a legal challenge by disarmament and environmental groups.  <BR> <BR>Greg Mello, director of one of the groups, the Los Alamos Study Group, said they revealed "a shocking disregard for US commitments, especially those enshrined in the NPT, to end the nuclear arms race."  <BR> <BR>"It&#039;s imperative that these plans be stopped. If we don&#039;t abide by the treaties we&#039;ve signed, how can we get other countries to do so," he said.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/">Second Chechen War</category>                        <dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[..since we were talking about WWII.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[..since we were talking about WWII.]]></content:encoded>
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