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...should I repudiate a successfully conducted operation?" SHAMIL BASAYEV, Chechen rebel leader, on the school attack he plotted in Beslan, Russia a year ago last week, which killed 320 people
...record books the teachers are arranging on the shelves have bullet holes in them. And most of the teachers are survivors of the Beslan hostage siege last September, when more than 1,100 people?many of them children?were held by terrorists loyal to Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev. At least 331 people died, including 186 children, in a chaotic rescue operation during which Russian security forces hit the school with incendiary grenades and tank shells. The fire brigade waited two hours before putting out the blaze that engulfed the gymnasium in which the hostages were being held...
...Meanwhile, the war in Chechnya drags on, promising more horrors to come. Last week, a new underground government was announced with Basayev, widely believed to have planned Beslan, named first deputy premier. Asked recently if there could be more Beslan-style attacks, Basayev answered: "Of course...
...Beslan itself, there's little mention of Basayev or the government inquiry. "We will never know who was behind the raid," says one of the teachers as she makes final preparations for the start of the new school year and, hopefully, the return of at least a semblance of normality. Life goes on, but everyone in this battered, brokenhearted town knows that nothing will ever really be normal again...
...security services are embarrassed because they have spent vast sums over six years but they still can't catch Basayev, and here he is talking to a journalist." ANDREI BABITSKY, journalist, on Moscow's decision to bar U.S.-based abc News from Russia after it broadcast his interview with Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev...