Reply #44: on these points.. [View All]

[Aidoneus]

a) by the best reports, it was not Chechens in this. Kitaeb ash-Shuhadah Riyadh as-Salahin may have had a hand (I will wait to see if there is anything said, and will not believe it until there is), but strictly speaking there is no evidence of actual Chechens in there (despite the claim, which is opposed by more signifigant others).
b) the Chechen resistance indeed has an army, a good army, and has taken on one of the most powerful armies of the world for well over a decade and continues to inflict losses on the enemy occupation forces. Just a day or two back, 9 Russian soldiers were killed as 2 military convoys in the western outskirts of Grozny were attacked. That is a regular feature across the whole length of the land at any point.