Word: budennovsk
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...back, see you were offended and say it was a joke. I was never convinced." (About a year ago, Sultan was detained by the Russians and has not been heard from since.) Kazbek, a deeply religious young fighter who joined Basayev for the 1995 siege of a hospital in Budennovsk in the Russian region of Stavropol in which 120 people died, discounted religious fervor as Basayev's prime motivation: "He is a man of war." (Kazbek has also since disappeared.) The Budennovsk hospital siege - and the live televised negotiations with then Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin - confirmed Basayev as a folk...
...hostages were killed by Russian knockout gas, Basayev declared himself to be the commander of the Chechen "martyrs" who will carry out more attacks. There is no reason to doubt him. He became infamous for the seizure of over 1,000 hostages in the southern Russian town of Budennovsk in 1995 - a raid from which he did not expect to return, though he did manage to escape with most of his men and a human shield of 100-odd hostages who were later released. Basayev may feel this is a good time for martyrdom. He lost a leg in early...
...that the action was planned in a "foreign terrorist center," its roots more likely lie in a long-established tradition among Chechen insurgents of mounting dramatic terror strikes aimed at tilting the balance of power back in their favor. The latest siege is reminiscent of the hostage drama at Budennovsk in 1995, when Chechen rebels led by Shamil Basayev seized a Russian hospital in order, he later said, to make Russians suffer the way Chechens had suffered. Although 166 hostages died when the very same Russian anti-terrorism unit that is currently surrounding the Moscow theater stormed the Buddenovsk hospital...
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