mr. mayor, thank you for your time on a busy day. you're welcome. i'm sure you heard the information bertha just brought us. at this point, what are you most interested in knowing? what questions do you have?
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the second issue which we have time for to examine and probably will examine over the next several days is why people from chechnya -- what's the connection? the reality is that the chechen objections are all with the russian government and they want to be a separate state, they want to be a muslim state and you get some connections to the united states because chechnya and chechens were involved in the afghan war in russia. a lot of chechens have gotten training in afghanistan and parts of pakistan this can be very interesting to see where this all emanated from. how much of this is homegrown, two disillusioned, angry kid, i think the uncle described one of them as a loser, or is this orchestrated by some is international group? i think all of those questions are open,
but the strange part here is we have -- we have not had, as far as i can recall, a chechen problem in the united states. right. and we're all getting up to speed, obviously, this morning on chechen history, russian independence. are you trying to make a connection, though, connecting the chechnya relationship to afghanistan to something that has an islamic tone, i should ask. i don't know the answer to the chechen revolution against russia is an islamic-based revolution. they want an islamic state in russia. but not inherently anti-american, right? not anti-american, in fact, here is the odd part of this, if anything, we've been, i'm not going to say sympathetic with them and we've certainly been critical of putin and how far he's gone in dealing with chechnya. if anything, they shouldn't have this anger at the united states. i would imagine there are people in russia that think we, meaning america have been somewhat unrealistic about the chechens. i was in russia a day or two after the killing in beslan that took place six or seven years ago and i talked to the russian law enforcement people occasionally and they would tell you that, you know, we see them differently than they see them. ...
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