Russia Upper House Gives Putin Wider Powers To Hunt Down Terror Suspects Abroad

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Russia’s Upper House Gives Putin Wider Powers To Hunt Down Terror Suspects Abroad

Created: 07.07.2006 12:29 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:29 MSK, 16 hours 14 minutes ago

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Russia’s upper house of parliament — the Federation Council — approved an act investing the president with wider power in hunting and eliminating terror suspects across the globe, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.

The resolution gives the country’s president the right to use the armed forces and secret services abroad to fight international terrorism. In line with the document, the armed forces and secret services can act abroad to stop terrorist activity in order to protect citizens’ rights and freedoms, Russia’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.

Russia’s lower house of parliament passed the draft law Wednesday. With 226 votes necessary to pass the bill, 429 State Duma deputies backed the initiative, after which President Vladimir Putin submitted it to the Federation Council.

Putin had asked parliament for broader anti-terrorist powers in the wake of the killings of five Russian diplomats in Iraq, allegedly by an al-Qaeda-linked group. One was shot on June 3 and the other four were abducted in the attack and later executed.

Last week, Putin ordered the secret services to hunt down and eliminate the killers, and offered a $10 million reward for information leading to their capture.

President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that using special services overseas to combat terrorism was not a breach of international law. “I see no violations here. Under Article 51 of the UN Charter, states can individually or jointly rebuff an aggression. It does not say that this aggression should come from one state against the other,” Putin said Thursday.

Russia’s Upper House Gives Putin Wider Powers To Hunt Down Terror Suspects Abroad

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I can see trouble here, Russia has used the term "terrorist" against Israel in the past. 

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For those of you who don't believe...............

Israel commits State Terrorism

28.06.2006

The flagrant practice of State Terrorism perpetrated by Israel, replying to terrorist acts with terrorism, can only be counter-productive. If Tel Aviv thinks that destroying civilian infrastructures will being Cpl. Shalit back, it is right – in a body bag.

If the UK had replied to terrorist acts by the IRA by massacres of civilians in Belfast, the whole world would have shouted out in horror.

When Moscow launches an operation to liquidate terrorist elements or to exterminate bandits in Chechnya, a hail of criticism falls on Moscow from those countries which protect the leaders of the “rebels” or “freedom fighters”, the international terrorists whose main aim is to destabilise the State of the Russian Federation.

When the Russian authorities acted in Beslan to free the children being held by these pigs, the European Union even asked for explanations. Yet when the State of Israel massacres Palestinians enjoying a picnic on the beach or when great destruction is caused to free a hostage, the world is quiet.

How can Tel Aviv expect to win the propaganda war, claim the moral high ground and win the hearts and minds of the international community by destroying civilian infrastructures in Gaza with military hardware, namely an act of State Terrorism? However wrong, criminal and unacceptable the kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit was, an action carried out not by “militants” as some say but rather by terrorists, it is equally unacceptable to target bridges and power stations with military hardware.

This is a war crime and it is State Terrorism However Tel Aviv will never figure on the US State Department’s black list on terrorism basically because Tel Aviv does what it wants. It is one of the foundations of the New World Order, where disrespect for the law seems to be a rule and not an exception.

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