The Chechans are Coming! The Chechans are Coming!
I’ll get to the questions in a moment.
U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that 25 Chechen militants illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July.
The group, linked to separatists in Chechnya that took part in the deadly Beslan school siege last month, reportedly crossed into a mountainous part of Arizona from northern Mexico, wearing backpacks, The Washington Times reported, citing officials speaking on conditions of anonymity.
The area was said to be difficult for U.S. border guards to monitor.
The intelligence report was supplied to the U.S. government in late August or early September and was based on information from an intelligence source that has been proved reliable in other instances, one official was quoted as saying.
Never mind the veracity of the Washington Times.
Do the Chechan Separatists want to annex Arizona?
Perhaps a school sieze in Southwestern America would advance their cause in some way that I’m not seeing. (Or should I just lump them into the overall al Qaeda bag of Worldwide pre-millenial religious revival by gunpoint, and go from there.)
Or perhaps I demur to “Things that Make You Go Hm.”, the specific half of which proved to be a farce.