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...that this was terrorism. Villagers in the Tula region, where 1303 fell, heard explosions before the crash. Siberia Airlines said 1047 had put out a "hijack alarm" as it went down. To a country that has become used to terror attacks large and small, the culprits seemed obvious: the Chechens again. Elections for Chechnya's President - replacing Akhmad Kadyrov, blown up last May - were due in a few days, and had been denounced by the rebels as a farce. Chechen guerrillas had demonstrated their power by occupying parts of the republic's capital, Grozny, a few days earlier. The Kremlin...
...planners have been captured, the French favor an official code of silence, reasoning that talking too much can give accomplices who may still be out there some scrap of information they need to continue eluding capture. In 2002, for example, officials withheld information discovered in a sweep of Chechen-trained jihadists planning to bomb the Russian embassy in Paris. Investigators used the undivulged leads to chase down additional members of the plot and uncover details of far greater planned violence...
...Kosovo in 1999--will patrol the country. Security personnel will outnumber athletes 7 to 1. Publicly, the international community has gone out of its way to praise the Greeks for their willingness to accept advice (from Israelis on suicide bombers, the Czechs on chemical weapons, the Russians on Chechen rebels) and for ponying up $1.5 billion--15 times as much as Atlanta--in security costs...
...ethnic minorities] and for a strong Russia," Belyayev says, "and so are we." Back in the fall of 1999, Putin pledged "to rub out the terrorists on the john" in response to the bombings of apartment buildings in Moscow and other Russian cities that were attributed to Chechen separatists. Sick of the war in Chechnya - in which more than 10,000 Russian soldiers have died over the past 10 years - and encouraged by nationalist propaganda, many Russians blamed people from the Caucasus as a whole. Though Putin was clearly referring to terrorists in his remarks and has repeatedly said...
...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...