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Russia Reform Monitor wrote:

Russia Reform Monitor Special Issue, September 13, 2001
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC
<a href="http://www.afpc.org">http://www.afpc.org>

SPECIAL ISSUE:
RUSSIA REACTS TO TERRORIST ATTACKS ON THE U.S.

September 11:

PUTIN EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES TO PRESIDENT BUSH, VICTIMS.  Russian
President Vladimir Putin was one of the first world leaders to send a
letter of condolence to President George W.  Bush in the aftermath of
the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  In
his letter, Putin expressed his deep shock at the "barbaric terrorist
acts against innocent people," Itar-TASS reported.  The Russian
President added that his country stands ready "to work with the USA to
prevent any future terrorist attacks." In a special statement addressed
to the American people and televised by the RTR state television
channel, Putin further stressed that "the United States faced an
unprecedented act of aggression from international terrorism," and that
the tragic events transcend national boundaries and in fact are an
"arrogant challenge to all of mankind." Putin also emphasized that
Russia "completely shares America's pain," and called for unity in
efforts to eradicate terrorism, which he termed was the "plague of the
XXI century."

RUSSIA TAKES ITS OWN SECURITY PRECAUTIONS.  In the wake of the bombings,
President Putin convened a Kremlin emergency meeting of Russia's
intelligence, security and law enforcement agency chiefs to discuss the
security situation, the pro-government Izvestiya reported.  Putin
ordered all air defense systems and MVD Internal troops to be placed on
full alert and reinforced security around vital strategic locations,
especially nuclear sites. 

RUSSIAN POLITICIANS REACT.  The terrorist attacks on the U.S.  elicited
a variety of reactions from Russian politicians, Itar-TASS reports. 
Vladimir Pekhtin, leader of the pro-Putin Unity faction in the Duma,
declared that terrorism will force America to defend herself, just as
Russia already has.  Sergei Ivanenko, deputy head of the Yabloko
faction, stated that "terrorists craftily planned and carefully prepared
these monstrous acts to demonstrate to the world their capacity to
intimidate civilized mankind," and that "Russia should back the USA,"
regardless of how harsh a response is launched from Washington.  Dmitrii
Rogozin, head of the Duma Committee for Foreign Affairs, however, used
the opportunity to assert that the world faces threats different from
"the types of threats the U.S.  leadership speaks about in trying to
abandon the ABM Treaty," ORT television reported.  The U.S.  "should
show maximum patience so as not hit a wrong target" in its response,
Rogozin added. 

September 12:

WHAT DID RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE KNOW? Izvestiya has reported that a
high-ranking representative of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service
(SVR) handed over information about the possible perpetrators of the
suicide bombings to CIA officials in Langley, Virginia.  According to
SVR data, the attack on U.S.  was coordinated by Saudi terrorist
financier Osama bin Laden, but performed by a cluster of Muslim
extremist organizations headed by the Pakistani- and Saudi-based Jamiyat
al-Islamiya.  SVR also maintained that the group, which controls
approximately 400 suicide bombers, is preparing new attacks on American
nuclear and space installations.  Later, however, Tatyana Samolis, press
secretary to SVR director Sergei Lebedev, denied the transfer of
information, telling Itar-TASS that "there was no information-sharing as
there was no meeting between top officials of the CIA and SVR."

[Editor's Note: The denials by the SVR reflect growing Russian concerns
about events surrounding the attacks on the United States.  First, many
observed that the terrorist strikes coincided with the anniversaries of
the terrorist explosions in Moscow on September 8th and 13th, 1999,
which killed 128 people and sparked the second Chechen war.  Second, the
attack occurred only days after the murder of Ahmed Shah Masood, the
leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, whom
Russia, Uzbekistan, Iran and India all viewed as the last bulwark
against a thrust by Muslim extremists into Central Asia and the
Caucasus.]

- Victor J. Yasmann

Copyright (c) 2001, American Foreign Policy Council

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