Picture taken 13 February 2007 shows soldiers of the Russian special forces searching a battle-ground site near the village of Ishkhoi-Yurt in Chechnya. Getty Pictures
Russian Death Squads ‘Pulverise’ Chechens -- Times Online
Elite commandos have broken their silence to reveal how they torture, execute and then blow captives to atoms to obliterate the grisly evidence.
THE hunt for a nest of female suicide bombers in Chechnya led an elite group of Russian special forces commandos to a small village deep in the countryside. There they surrounded a modest house just before dawn to be sure of catching their quarry unawares.
When the order came to storm the single-storey property, dozens of heavily armed men in masks and camouflage uniforms - unmarked to conceal their identity - had no difficulty in overwhelming the three women inside. Their captives were driven to a military base.
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My Comment: And we in the U.S. quibble over bitch slapping the planner of the 9/11 attacks to obtain more information.
Sigh .... we may gaze at our navel and argue that torture may or may not work .... but the Russians clearly believe that it does.