Putin meets pro-Moscow Chechens, comments

(10 Nov 2002) 1. Kremlin exteriors 2. Russian President Vladimir Putin enters the room, shakes hands with those invited 3. Cutaway Chechen community leaders 4. Putin starts the meeting 5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President: “Today, the after tragic events in Moscow, I declare officially: those who choose (Chechen separatist leader Aslan) Maskhadov - choose war. All those people regardless of where they are - in Russia or abroad - will be viewed by us as accomplices of terrorists.“ 6. Putin meeting participants 7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President: “Those who either out of lack of understanding or on purpose, either out of fear or following a long-standing European tradition of pacifying political extremists will continue to insist on us holding negotiations with murderers - I suggest they set an example first - sit down at the negotiation table and make a deal with Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar. Those two aren’t killing hundreds and thousands of innocent