President Vladimir Putin has instructed Russia's special services to do whatever necessary to seek out and destroy the criminals behind the murder of five Russian diplomats last month in Iraq.
This is a bit strange. Iraq is far away, but Chechnya is much closer. Why don't we destroy Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev first?
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