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President Vladimir Putin's use of a sedative gas to end the tragic siege of the Moscow theater was disgraceful and inhuman [WORLD, Nov. 11]. For the sake of the hostages, the Russian authorities should have kept talking to the Chechen rebels, to the point of agreeing to their demands, even if promises would later be broken. Putin should never have decided to take the drastic step of using a potentially lethal gas and risking so many innocent lives. He should not still be in office. I fail to understand how anyone could congratulate Putin for his heartless decision. MARGARITA...
Instead of questioning whether it was legal for the Russian forces to use gas in ending the Moscow theater standoff, people should question the legality of the Chechen terrorists' action. A free world should not care what was used to get rid of a bunch of assassins and save the vast majority of nearly 800 hostages, though some 130 of those hostages were killed. Fighting terrorism requires guts and the use of every possible means. Terrorism is a disease that has to be attacked from every conceivable angle. JOSE LUIS BELMAR Stockholm...
...Turkey's candidacy for membership in the European Union and promised support for Turkey's mess of an economy. Then he was off to Russia, where he reassured President Vladimir Putin that the Americans have not forgotten that Iraq owes Russia $8 billion--and would not forget that Russian companies have signed potentially lucrative contracts to develop Iraq's oil fields when U.N. sanctions are removed...
...that al-Qaeda is planning to use 'Stinger' missiles or any type of MANPAD (MAN Portable Air Defense) weapons system against commercial aircraft in the United States," the FBI warning said. "However, given al-Qaeda's demonstrated objective to target the U.S. airline industry, its access to U.S. and Russian-made MANPAD systems, and recent apparent targeting of U.S.-led military forces in Saudi Arabia, law enforcement agencies in the United States should remain alert to potential use of MANPADs against U.S. aircraft." Pentagon officials say U.S. forces in Afghanistan have found 359 shoulder-fired SAMs during their year...
...room 800.005, the Fairy Tales room, are scenes from The Wizard of Oz, Treasure Island and a 19th century children's story about a girl who won't eat her vegetables; a copy of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are, a collection of Russian tales and volumes of other mystical stories fill the bookshelf. Diane Ackerman, an essayist and poet from Ithaca, N.Y., used to stay at the tony Carlyle and Plaza hotels when she was in town but has become a frequent guest at the Library Hotel. "I have a nomadic mind...