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...most recent bombings are different, because the people behind the attacks represent a younger generation of Chechens who, like the Palestinians before them, have known nothing but war - and who have become radicalized as a result. "We condemn the terror," says Salambek Maigov, Chechen rebel President Aslan Maskhadov's representative in Moscow, "but neither the Kremlin nor we can control the situation any longer." Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to reassert his control. "Terrorists must be plucked out of the basements and caves and destroyed," he said after the attack on the rock festival. The tough talk echoed his promise...
...approval rating, which has declined from 75% to 48% over the past three months. An increasingly violent Chechnya won't help his political fortunes. "Putin has manacled himself to a hell-bound train and can't get off," says Salambek Maigov, the official representative of rebel Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. "He has made himself a hostage to the situation." --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...London court granted bail to Chechen activist Akhmed Zakayev at the start of extradition proceedings demanded by Russia. His case has become a cause célèbre: the actress Vanessa Redgrave guaranteed his €78,000 bail. Zakayev, 43, is an envoy of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov; Moscow calls him a terrorist. He was briefly detained by British authorities upon his arrival from Denmark, where he spent more than a month in custody. Copenhagen let him go, saying there wasn't enough evidence to support Russia's accusations against...
...attack on the theater was meticulously planned and well-funded (costing some $60,000, Chechens familiar with guerrilla operations assert). It was sanctioned by top Chechen commanders, including the well-known Shamil Basayev, according to both Chechen and Russian sources. The same Chechen sources say the rebels' titular leader, Aslan Maskhadov, who distanced himself from the operation, was probably not consulted: most guerrillas feel he is irrelevant. Planning a raid like this takes six to eight weeks, a Chechen close to the guerrillas says. Another Chechen with experience in such operations thinks Movsar's people brought in their weapons from...
...from his time in one of the Russian "filtration camps" - brutal improvised prisons where, human rights groups say, torture, abuse and extrajudicial killings are common. Funding for Marsho came in part through Akhmed Zakayev, before the war a theater director and now principal deputy to the guerrillas' titular leader, Aslan Maskhadov. Other money, Mazayev says, came from charities in Turkey, which has been sympathetic to the Chechen cause. If all goes well the film will premiere in Tbilisi in the fall. Vanessa Redgrave, the Oscar-winning actress and political activist, has said that she will try to attend. After that...