Via Gateway Pundit, I see that the BBC has some video of the Shamil Basayev interview, which aired on ABC last week. It clearly contains edited highlights of the original interview but, not having seen the original Nightline broadcast, I’m not sure if it is a further edited version of the Nightline piece.
Check it out yourself, and make up your own mind on what he has to say.
August 4th, 2005 at 12:31 am
Basayev has long been a figurehead and terrorists exist to court the media, but I’m surprised by the way he’s now facing the media in such a personal way. They of course can’t get enough of it, I think it’s hurting Russia’s credibility quite seriously.
I guess I just find it strange that suddenly he’s been interviewed by two major western new media organisations in six months. What next?