Monday, April 26, 2010

Investigation Links Critic’s Death to Top Chechens

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/world/europe/26chechen.html?scp=2&sq=kadyrov&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Subject: re: Investigation Links Critic’s Death to Top Chechens
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
    It seems that president Kadyrov of Chechnya is a thug, a despot and a toady of Moscow, responsible for the deaths of many of his countrymen. It seems that president Obama of the United States is a civilized man trying to extricate his country from military and crises.  In the matter of extra-judicial killings however, the two are indistinguishable.  Until mr. Israilov and mr. al-Awlaki are convicted by duly-constituted courts, they are innocent men in the eyes of the American law. For a president to order such men killed is to abandon the rule of law and the legitimacy of the presidency.
Barry Levine

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