Chechen

In 2003, August, Russia reacted with fury Friday the United States decided on granting political asylum to the self-declared foreign minister of separatist Chechnya who is viewed as "terrorist" by many.
Ilias Akhmadov, foreign minister in the self-styled but unrecognized government of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, was officially granted political asylum by authorities in Boston the same city from which terrorists began their attack on the United States by slamming airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The US Office of homeland security challenged the decision but the appeal has since been withdrawn and he now officially staying in the United States while his comrades murder and butcher innocent children.
Russia accuses Akhmadov of terrorism and of links to an armed incursion in the Russian republic of Dagestan in 1999. They have been seeking his extradition since he arrived in the United States in 2002.
He is considering a post in the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy.
Barbara Conry, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute states : says about notes that:
"NED, which also has a history of corruption and financial mismanagement, is superfluous at best and often destructive. Through the endowment, the American taxpayer has paid for special-interest groups to harass the duly elected governments of friendly countries, interfere in foreign elections, and foster the corruption of democratic movements...”
"...In the final analysis, the endowment embodies the most negative aspects of both private aid and official foreign aid – the pitfalls of decentralized 'loose cannon' foreign policy efforts combined with the impression that the United States is trying to 'run the show' around the world."
At the time of the asylum a US official in Moscow refused to confirm that Akhmadov was indeed in the United States but said granting him asylum status should not reflect on Washington's relations with Moscow.
"The US government is not allowed to interfere on decisions on asylum cases," the US embassy official said. "No decision on asylum should be misinterpreted as a statement of foreign policy."
Not long after this in LONDON, 30 November 2003 — Chechen leader Akhmed Zakayev, charged with murder and kidnapping by Russia, was granted asylum in Britain
On August 24th of this year Chechnya announced plans to boost oil production and keep the money in the breakaway republic.
British Petroleum (along with other oil companies) is currently building a new pipeline system in summer 2003, that would run from the offshore oil fields of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea, to the southern shores of Turkey on the Mediterranean via Georgia.
Starting just near Baku in Azerbaijan, running close to Tbilisi in Georgia, and finishing south of Ceyhan in Turkey, it is known as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.
The project aims to be subsidised by the British public money, through the Export Credit Guarantee Department and other financial institutions.
During the Russian Civil War in August, 1918, the south, a British naval unit arrived at Baku on the Caspian Sea after travelling overland from Baghdad to secure the oil supplies and occupy the land.
Continued protection of these Chechen men is a disgrace to the United States of America. Aslan Maskhadov has taken advantage of the laws of the United States in order to hide from his crimes against his own people. How much longer will our nation continue to aid and abet men of such intent? Is it not clear that they will do anything if they do not get what they want?
We have already had enough horror with September 11. We do not need to foster the sort of tragedy that just took place in Russia when criminal men and women – in the name of freedom – slaughtered children.
Does the United States stand for freedom and democracy or for oil and murder?