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| The Jihad |
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The Jihad means zealousness in noble deeds.
According to one’s possibilities the Jihad is carried on by life, by property, by word.
Those who reduce the “Jihad” notion to trivial war of Islam supporters against “Disbelievers” are wrong. »»» |
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| Moscow. October 1999 |
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 You are standing at the ruins torpidly. People in uniform, policemen are flapping around, machines are working, reporters are darting in and out. You see familiar faces in the crowd: somebody has become stock-still benumbed like you; somebody weeps and curses no one knows whom; somebody searches either for bodies of his nearest and dearest or for valuable things.
The explosion occurred at night, you had a narrow escape. Somebody wished your house to crush, your family to die, you TV set to blink off. The question “What for?” is pulsing in your brain resonantly. »»» |
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| Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin |
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 As I entered the prison bus from sunlight I couldn’t see anything like in a hole. But… As usual men have already been driven in the next-door cage. I can’t see their faces but pass them letters through the bars as soon as possible. There are good guards, not Mordovian. They are smiling only and pushing me to the next cage. First it seems to me there is nobody there. But… My eyes get used to darkness and I see the following. »»» |
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| Ulman’s Case: A Sentence to the Authorities |
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 In the recent years captain Ulman has become a byword. Some people compare him to colonel Budanov. Somebody reminds the Songmi executor lieutenant Kelly. the only detail associating him with both of them is that all they have under different circumstances become the order of the day and showpiece victims of the judicial machine. But here the similarity comes to end. »»» |
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| Only Bullet Never Betrays |
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 The hearings on the case of Russian officers Sergey Arakcheev and Eugene Khudyakov twice acquitted by jury go on in the North Caucasus command military court in Rostov-on-Don.
On January, 15, 2003 Khudyakov and Arakcheev were leading an engineer reconnaissance group executing a special operation near the “Northern” airport in the city of Groznyy. »»» |
