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All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington, but 
this effort is not over''-- President Obama in the Rose Garden denouncing 
the bipartisan Senate vote to block expanded background checks for firearms 
purchases.An angry President Obama vented his frustrations with Congress 
after several of his fellow Democrats helped block gun-control legislation 
in the Senate. Denouncing the lies of his political opponents and calling 
the day shameful, Obama vowed to fight on.But there seems to be 
little fear of Obamas anger.The president promised that he would mobilize 
his supporters to push his agenda, defy history to make midterm election 
gains and thereby avoid lame-duck status. But its apparent that many of 
his fellow Democrats either dont think he is serious or dont believe 
he can make it stick.Theres reason for them to disbelieve.Obamas strategy 
of battering Republicans with a series of painful votes to make midterm 
gains for his party depends on getting Democrats to take politically risky 
stances. If Obama cannot threaten or entice Democrats to vote his way, 
though, the plan cannot work.As the vote on gun control approached, Obama 
did hit the campaign trail as promised to speak in support. But 
it was a muted measure. Obama didnt visit the home states of 
Democratic holdouts or use his online network to hold major rallies or 
organize his community to knock on doors.After the first test of Obamas 
new model, he has nothing to show. Had 
e also indicated they have a connection with Dagestan, another restive 
Russian region where Islamic militants have gone after Russian targets.The 
uncle of the suspects told reporters late Friday morning that one of 
the suspects was in fact born in Dagestan, saying this has "nothing 
to do with Chechnya" and "Chechens are peaceful people."Craig Albert, an 
expert on Chechnya and associate professor at Georgia Regents University, 
said any connection between these suspects and the jihadist movement in 
Chechnya would have "severe" implications for the U.S.But he also said it 
might just be "isolated individualized terror" where the suspects are using 
Chechnya ties to "rationalize" violence.The ties between major Islamic extremist 
groups and Chechnya, though, are well-documented, particularly pertaining 
to extremists' support for the separatists in Chechnya.The Taliban, when 
it was in power, was one of the only governments to recognize 
Chechnya's independence.An Al Qaeda-tied Chechen warlord named Ibn al-Khattab 
was, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, said to have met 
with Usama bin Laden during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. He was 
killed in 2002 by the Russians.Signs of Islamic radicals fueling unrest 
in Chechnya continued to surface. According to the report by the George 
Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute, foreign fighters 
have flocked to places like Chechnya, Bosnia and others with a jihadi 
presence.

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