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...enough. Smit particularly likes the idea of deporting criminal offenders of Turkish or Moroccan origin, even if they were born in the Netherlands and have Dutch passports. "We grant nationality too easily," he says. "We should make it easier to take it away." The idea offends Ali Aslan, 24, a Rotterdam-born steelworker whose father came from Turkey 35 years ago to work. "If you break the law, you should be punished," he says. "But send me back to my own country? That's Holland, whether they like it or not." So far a proposal for such expulsions from...
...situation is no better on the political front. When Akhmad Kadyrov, once a close ally of separatist President Aslan Maskhadov, was appointed head of the Russian-backed administration last year, Kremlin officials predicted he would split the enemy, enticing top commanders to surrender or rally to the Russians. He has made no headway with the separatists, but has alienated the old guard of pro-Russian Chechens. The one area where Kadyrov has shown any zeal is private business, the Kremlin-backed website strana.ru noted in a biting attack on him. Last week, in a further sign of Moscow's unhappiness...
...Kerimov is, like Putin, a graduate of Leningrad University. He and his colleagues are hardly wild-eyed secessionists. "I hated Maskhadov, Basayev, Khattab," he said, referring to Aslan Maskhadov, the President of independent Chechnya, and his most controversial commanders. "Now I am ready to pray to them." Other lecturers just want to leave. In 1944 the Soviets deported all Chechens to Central Asia. Thousands died, and the survivors were allowed home only in 1957. This time, said Kerimov's colleague Said Yushaev, the Russians want to force Chechens to go, "like the [Jewish] diaspora...
...expected, however, Aslan Mashkadov, the popularly elected president of what remains of Chechnya and a leading commander of the Chechen resistance, issued a statement through an envoy condemning the hijacking and denying any responsibility. There's a sea of conflicting reports about what transpired on the plane. But the motive is clearly as we suspected - to bring world attention to the plight of Chechnya at the hands of the Russians...
...coordinated series of attacks bore all the hallmarks of Aslan Maskhadov. Ineffectual and indecisive as Chechnya's President, the former Soviet army colonel is a formidable tactician in wartime. Unlike many of his field commanders, who are fighting for Allah or because it is the thing they do best, Maskhadov views the struggle as a way of forcing the Russians back to the negotiating table, where he wants to win recognition of Chechnya's independence. He is waging a classic guerrilla struggle, aimed at public opinion and the political elite in Moscow. The objective is to undermine Russia's confidence...