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Although the GW Bush [[White House]] issued a condemnation of the Beslan hostage-takers, its official view remained that the Chechen conflict must be solved politically. According to ACPC member Charles Fairbanks of Johns Hopkins University, US pressure would then increase on Moscow to achieve a political, rather than [[military]], solution - in other words to negotiate with terrorists, a policy the US resolutely rejected elsewhere.
Although the GW Bush [[White House]] issued a condemnation of the Beslan hostage-takers, its official view remained that the Chechen conflict must be solved politically. According to ACPC member Charles Fairbanks of Johns Hopkins University, US pressure would then increase on Moscow to achieve a political, rather than [[military]], solution - in other words to negotiate with terrorists, a policy the US resolutely rejected elsewhere.
Allegations were even made in Russia that [[the West]] itself was somehow behind the Chechen rebellion, and that the purpose of such support was to weaken Russia, and to drive her out of the [[Caucasus]]. The fact that the Chechens were believed to use as a base the Pankisi gorge in the neighboring [[Republic of Georgia]] - a country which aspired to join Nato, had an extremely pro-American government, and where the US already had a significant military presence - only encouraged such speculation.<ref>[https://archive.fo/nbTeU#selection-2287.575-2333.17 The Chechens' American friends], John Laughland, 8 September 2004.</ref>
Allegations were even made in Russia that [[the West]] itself was somehow behind the Chechen rebellion, and that the purpose of such support was to weaken Russia, and to drive her out of the [[Caucasus]]. The fact that the Chechens were believed to use as a base the Pankisi gorge in the neighboring [[Republic of Georgia]] - a country which aspired to join Nato, had an extremely pro-American government, and where the US already had a significant military presence - only encouraged such speculation.<ref>[https://archive.fo/nbTeU#selection-2287.575-2333.17 The Chechens' American friends], [[John Laughland]], 8 September 2004.</ref>
===Baltic states join NATO===
===Baltic states join NATO===