Sunday, September 19, 2004

Is it just me?

Or have they given up concerning themselves with creating new legends and gone for the easier recycling of the same ones throughout the world? (Kind of like religion.)

Russia's terrorist boogeyman is a lot like our terrorist boogeyman (the previously reported dead, previously reported one-legged, ever elusive Abu Musab al-Zarqawi).

He is Russia's homegrown version of Osama bin Laden, but with a trademark all his own: dramatic mass hostage-takings that have often turned to bloodbaths.

...Basayev, 39, who lost a leg five years ago while fleeing Russian forces through a minefield in 1999, has been helped by the vast sympathy he enjoys from many Chechens, a people who have resisted Russian domination for centuries and are furious over widespread human rights abuses by Russian troops in the Caucasus republic, experts say.
  ABC article

Who says human cloning has not been perfected?

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