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...battlefield; in death, by the manner of their dying. When Russian special forces cornered Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov in a basement in the village of Tolstoy Yurt, Chechnya, last week, they offered him the chance to surrender. When he refused, the Russians say, they blasted the concrete bunker in which he was hiding, killing him in the process. That final gesture of defiance has transformed Maskhadov's reputation. For years, many former comrades disdained him as a weak political leader who, after a victorious war of secession against Russia in the mid-1990s, allowed thugs and religious fanatics...
...Tolstoy Yurt has a long history of opposition to secessionist leaders, and to get there Maskhadov would have needed to pass through several major Russian military checkpoints. It was there, in a house in in the village center that the 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...
...reveals a remarkable consistency in the way the president has been characterized by journalists and commentators. The Los Angeles Times, for instance, referred to him as “abrasive” in the opening line of their Feb. 26 report, while the Weekly Standard compared him to Archie Bunker in a write-up about student protestors at Harvard. The Boston Globe has made several references to Summers’ “confrontational” nature over the course of their recent coverage, and the Washington Post, in their Jan. 19th report, mentioned his “reputation...
...data was pilfered, but the news sets a scary precedent. While most of us aren't toting around numbers for Anna Kournikova or Eminem in our address book, phones are often used to store sensitive information, says Adam Laurie, chief security officer for the London-based security firm The Bunker?including PIN numbers, alarm codes, and even safe combinations that could be lifted by a determined hacker...
Crichton has already adopted a bunker mentality. “We’re in the middle of a war—a global war of information versus disinformation,” he writes. “The war is fought on many battlegrounds. Newspaper op-eds. Television reports. Scientific journals. Websites...