Chechens in Afghanistan

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Matthew Fisher, CanWest News Service
Published: Sunday, September 23, 2007

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The toughest fighters confronting Canada's Van Doos in Afghanistan are not Afghans but guerrillas from the volatile Russian republic of Chechnya.

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This kinda casts doubt on the progressive belief that NATO is just out
to harrass Afghan farmers. In fact it frames the Taliban as an foreign
influence rather nicely.
I found this linked to the Edmonton Journal somehow....

 

[MG34]

This is nothing new, the Chechnyans have been there since the '80s

 

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MG34,

I don't doubt that.

What's new is that it's in the media.
The voting public form their opinions on what
they read,  not on what's true......