Word: alfa
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...ingredient in a daring rescue raid. As early as Day One of the hostage standoff, diggers had been tunneling underneath the theater in preparation for an assault. Now in the early hours of Saturday, gunshots from inside had forced into action the waiting Spetsnaz commando troops in the elite Alfa and Vympel antiterror units of the Federal Security Service. The Chechen hostage takers, it seemed, were about to fulfill their death vow. They had sworn that if Russian President Vladimir Putin had not declared an end to the war in Chechnya by Saturday at dawn, they would start killing hostages...
Ceridwen Dovey ’03, Scott S. Lee ’03, Elizabeth Thornberry ’03 and Alfa Tiruneh ’03 are the four award recipients...
...speaker series grew out of personal concerns expressed by HASA co-president Alfa Tiruneh...
...hours are really screwed up," says Alfa Tiruneh '03, who typically goes to bed between...