Washington and Moscow: Confrontation or Cooperation?
... relations formed the hidden context. The Clinton and Bush years At the turn of this century, new elected Russian president Vladimir Putin genuinely sought to enlist US support for a second Chechen war. Terrorism was the hook. President Bill Clinton ... ... just “Chechen bandits” who were involved, “but the forces of international Islamic terrorism.”2 Putin knew about the al-Qaeda attacks against US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in the fall of 1998, which had killed 224 people. Thirteen days after ...
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