Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:16:38 +0300
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From: aaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A CHECHEN VICTORY!
Assalaamu alaykum
We must thank Allah ta'ala for this victory, but at the same time remember the heavy cost we have suffered in terms of tens of thousands of women, children and men lost both in this current campaign and the 1994-96 war in which 80,000 Muslims are estimated to have died!
ource:
Reuters
Wednesday December 15 6:33 PM ET
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Russians, Chechens Clash in Grozny, Many Dead
By Maria Eismont
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Russian troops clashed with rebel fighters near
the center of Chechnya's capital Grozny late Wednesday but it was not
immediately clear whether th!
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is marked the start of a full-scale storming
of the city.
I saw more than 100 Russian soldiers lying dead after their column of
tanks and armored personnel carriers was surrounded and attacked by as
many as 2,000 Chechen guerrillas.
The armored column had advanced deep into Grozny from the direction of
Khankala on the eastern edge and almost reached the central Minutka
district before turning back. Russian troops occupied Khankala, site of a
military airport, over the weekend.
It was the first Russian tank attack on Grozny since the disastrous
1994-1996 Chechen war and could stir up grim memories among Russia's
voters ahead of Sunday's parliamentary election.
Russians allegedly suffered heavy losses
GROZNY, Russia (CNN) -- Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev denied
Thursday that there had been any tank assault on Grozny, and said Russian
forces had not suffered any casualties.
But correspondents for Reute!
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rs and The Associated Press said Russian armored
personnel carriers and tanks attacked central Grozny on Wednesday, where
they were beaten back during three hours of fighting by about 2,000 Chechen
rebels armed with grenade launchers.
The blackened hulks of seven Russian tanks and eight APCs stood in Minutka
Square, where an Associated Press reporter counted the bodies of 115 Russian
soldiers, many of them mangled by gunfire and badly burned.
Chechen commanders claimed at least 220 Russian soldiers were killed.
There was been no video immediately available to document the reports.
Earlier Wednesday, a senior Russian commander predicted that Grozny would
fall within days.
The alleged attack appeared to be the worst defeat the Russian military has
suffered since its forces entered Chechnya in September to try to restore
Moscow's control over the breakaway province.
Meanwhile, Russian forces shelled Grozny !
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through the night and into Thursday
morning, laying down indiscriminate salvos of shells on the city as they
have done for weeks.
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