But even those alliances won’t be simple. For example, Konstantin Borovoi, founder of Russia’s first stock exchange, said in a telephone interview from Moscow that some forces with links to the old KGB may covertly support the new terrorists because they, too, want to destabilize the U.S., in order to give Russia time to rebuild and reestablish a bipolar world. Russian hard-liners also fear the possibility of U.S. troops in ex-Soviet republics that border Afghanistan.
The new terrorists needed special training, Borovoi said, which they could only have received with the help of organized state support from countries like Iraq, which, in turn, received military training from the Kremlin.
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