Vladimir Putin with some stunning admissions today:
Speaking to his nation in a televised address Saturday, the Kremlin leader said the Soviet Union's collapse had left the country unable to react to attacks and warned: "Weak people are beaten."
Putin said the government must develop more effective ways of securing itself and improving its actions against terrorists.
"Here, it would have been more effective if we acted in time and more professionally," he said.
"We have to admit we did not pay much attention to the complexities and to the dangers of this process of what was going on in our own country and the world as a whole."
Sounds like a conclusion of the 9/11 Commission in the USA.
He also said security forces handled the situation inadequately and must be better prepared in the future.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/04...utin/index.html
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