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...with an élite covert unit and the next year sent him to Abkhazia, a region of Georgia on the Black Sea, where he fought with a Moscow-backed secessionist movement. But when open war between Russia and Chechnya flared in 1994, Basayev quickly emerged as one of the breakaway republic's top rebel commanders. From early 1995, he worked closely with Khattab, a Saudi-born mujahid who had fought in Afghanistan and claimed a close relationship with Osama bin Laden. "Basayev was in charge, but Khattab brought in the money," says a former senior security officer in the guerrilla...
Cornell’s ability to put senior whip Joel Sussman or senior safety Brad Kitlowski into the box on many plays hindered Dawson’s ability to burst free for one of his patented breakaway runs. He has already had four runs of 70-plus yards in his Harvard career. Saturday, Dawson averaged only 2.9 yards per carry and his longest rush on the day was just 17 yards, a far cry from the 80-yard run Dawson put up in his last Ivy League contest against Brown...
Leading 6-4 entering the final seven minutes of the game, the Crimson built up a comfortable three goal lead when sophomore Mike Garcia scored on a breakaway a minute into the last period...
...He’s got that breakaway speed, so he makes defenses play him honestly,” coach John Kerr said. “They can’t get too tight on him because he’ll blow past them. [He gives us] a number of weapons up there which is quite nice...
...last Tuesday's nearly simultaneous plane crashes seemed all too familiar: another example of President Vladimir Putin's state of denial over the unflattering reality of the war in Chechnya. The catastrophe, which killed 90 people, occurred just a few days before a disputed presidential election in that breakaway republic; the two flights had departed from the same Moscow airport; the planes crashed within a minute of each other; eyewitness reports suggested that an explosion had downed one of the planes; and a hijack distress call preceded the crash of the other plane. Yet Russia's Federal Security Service...