[iwar] Russia on high alert and supporting tought response...

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-09-11 13:07:39

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Wednesday, September 12 1:46 AM SGT

Russia goes into high alert, Putin supports tough response

MOSCOW, Sept 11 (AFP) -

Russia put troops on alert Tuesday after a spate of unprecedented
attacks rocked Washington and New York as President Vladimir Putin told
his US counterpart he supported a tough response to the strikes. 

"The series of barbaric acts directed against innocent people fills us
with indignation and revolt," said Putin in a telegram to US President
George W.  Bush. 

"Such inhuman acts must not go unpunished," he said, according to the
Interfax news agency. 

Putin later telephoned US national security advisor Condoleezza Rice to
ask her to convey his condolences to Bush. 

Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, destroying
it entirely, and another ploughed into the Pentagon in Washington, in
the worst wave of terrorism to hit the United States. 

Putin convened an emergency meeting with his "power ministries,"
including foreign, interior and defence ministers and head of the
domestic intelligence agency to give them special instructions, the
RIA-Novosti news agency said. 

The country's air force meanwhile announced a series of emergency
anti-terrorist measures to protect Russian air space. 

"The Russian anti-aircraft defenses are constantly on a state of war
readiness.  In connection with the events in the United States, a series
of anti-terrorist measures are being put into action," the air force
said, as quoted by Interfax. 

Interior ministry forces were placed on a state of alert and security
reinforced around key sites across the country while Russia halted all
plane departures to the United States. 

Putin later said in a televised address that the world should unite to
combat the threat of terrorism, "the plague of the 21st century,"

These strikes are "an unprecedented aggression by international
terrorism" which "go beyond the borders of the United States," the
Russian president said. 

"This is a challenge to the whole of humanity," he added, saying the
unprecedented terrorist acts underlined "the relevance of the Russian
proposal to unite efforts to fight terrorism."

Russia is waging a military crackdown in the separatist republic of
Chechnya, which it describes as an "anti-terrorist" operation. 

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said the attacks were a
catastrophe for mankind. 

They represent "not only a national tragedy (for the United States), but
a tragedy for the whole of mankind," he said in a message of condolence
to the US administration, as quoted by Interfax. 

"In my opinion, countries and nations must unite against this folly, and
do everything to stop the escalation of terror," Gorbachev added. 

The US embassy in Moscow meanwhile sent Americans in Russia Tuesday an
e-mail advising them to exercise caution. 

And at least three money exchanges offices in the Russian capital
refused to accept dollars.  Cashiers said they had been given
instructions not to accept the US currency, universally used as a safe
haven by Russians. 

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