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...Russians say they found him, hiding out in a bunker equipped with a bed, heating and not much else. During the conflict with Russia, an increasingly isolated Maskhadov had seen many of his closest allies either die or give up. He occasionally met with radical guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev, the man behind terrorist atrocities like the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 and the Beslan school massacre last September. But Maskhadov rejected Basayev's terror tactics, and Basayev despised Maskhadov's calls for peace talks. Last week, the Chechen resistance quickly announced a new president, Abdul Khalim Saydulayev, the head...
...military officers are being sought in connection with the Beslan school siege, the Russian government's chief investigator, Alexander Torshin, announced. At least 330 people, many of them children, died last September during the storming of School Number 1 in Beslan, where guerrillas loyal to the Chechen rebel Shamil Basayev were holding more than a thousand hostages. The two men, whose identities were not revealed, are "a little above the rank of major or lieut. colonel," Torshin declared. If the men are guilty, their high rank would be more surprising than the fact that the rebels had penetrated law-enforcement...
...EUROPE RUSSIA: Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev is proving hard to catch...
...vast majority of Chechens oppose Basayev's murderous tactics, even while they share his goal of independence from Russia. But the fact that Basayev can roam around Vedeno with impunity and seemingly unleash strikes at will in Russia perfectly illustrates how the Chechen conflict has degenerated from a struggle for self-determination into a vicious war of terror in which Russian and Chechen civilians have become the targets. As the traditional 40-day mourning period in Beslan came to an end last week, people across Russia were left worrying where Basayev will strike next. Basayev, a short, wiry 39-year...
...doze through a sticky, mosquito-filled night. The men guarding this apartment building are signaling to one another that all is clear. They're not police or regular soldiers but lookouts for a Wahhabi Jamaat, an urban guerrilla group of about 20 men loyal to Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev. Unlike other Chechens fighting purely for their republic's independence, the Wahhabis want to create an Islamic state across the Caucasus and are almost fundamentalist in their outlook. They are deeply critical of the easygoing approach of more secular Chechen Muslims - and they are feared for their ruthlessness. The leader...