[Mb-civic] Terror Is No Answer for Chechen Terror

Fri Sep 10 10:04:59 PDT 2004

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About Chechen Terror and Putin

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Terror Is No Answer for Chechen Terror 
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By Bernard-Henri Levy
Bernard-Henri Levy's most recent book is "War, Evil and the End of History" (Melville House, 2004). This article was translated from the French by Amy Wilentz.

September 10 2004

The hostage-taking in Beslan, Russia, with its massacre of innocents, with its cruelty, its carnage and its insane decision to break this absolutely final taboo &#8212; the taboo of childhood &#8212; fills us with an almost sacred terror. It has raised international terrorism to a new level. 

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