Word: chechen
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...court on charges of leaking state secrets. Paksas was impeached in April after just 15 months in office; if found guilty, he faces a possible three-year jail sentence. The trial was adjourned until September. Living Dangerously CHECHNYA In an escalation of ongoing violence, at least 20 pro-Moscow Chechen security forces and Russian soldiers died across the province in fighting that reportedly left several dozen militants dead. Acting President Sergei Abramov survived a mine attack on his motorcade in Grozny, but 12 members of the presidential security service were later abducted by the rebels. School Inferno INDIA Police arrested...
...dead, among them the republic's Interior Ministry leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed for years that the war in Chechnya was over; last week, a new front opened up in Ingushetia. Until 2002 Ingushetia's President, Afghanistan war vet Ruslan Aushev, kept his republic out of the Chechen crossfire. He was sympathetic to the Chechens, even offering guerrillas medical treatment. He refused to send Ingush paramilitary police to Chechnya. In April, though, Aushev was replaced at Moscow's instigation by a former Russian Federal Security Service general, Murat Zyazikov, who toed the Kremlin hard line. Ingush and Chechens...
...DVDs of him appeared in the bazaars, showing him presenting a rusty sword to Pakistani officers during the cease-fire ceremony, his only compliance with his promise to disarm. Mohammed rumbled around in a pickup truck mounted with a machine gun and appeared in public with a brace of Chechen and Arab bodyguards, on loan from al-Qaeda, say tribesmen. Two weeks ago, Mohammed took a second bride, a teenager...
...member of al-Qaeda's European operation. The former Algerian army lieutenant "is a survivor of uprooted al-Qaeda networks in Europe. His arrest and extradition from Syria is a very big blow to jihadists," says one French counterterrorism official. The French say Arif, a veteran of Afghan and Chechen camps, is implicated in a foiled December 2000 plot to bomb the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral. Arif's alleged role involved recruiting, organizing and oversight. French antiterror magistrates Jean-Louis Bruguière and Jean-François Ricard are also holding Arif for alleged similar involvement with...
...clear last Tuesday. Close to midnight, Russia's NTV television station abruptly fired star newsman Leonid Parfyonov and canceled his flagship Sunday night show, Namedni (The Other Day), which had run for 11 years. Two days earlier, the program had carried an exclusive interview with the widow of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, killed in Qatar last February, allegedly by two Russian agents now on trial in Doha . NTV ordered Parfyonov not to rebroadcast the segment. Parfyonov complied, but daily newspaper Kommersant ran both the interview and NTV's written order to kill it. The channel didn't hesitate to cancel...