Word: chechenization
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...senior police or military officers are being sought in connection with the Beslan school siege, the Russian government's chief investigator, Alexander Torshin, announced. At least 330 people, many of them children, died last September during the storming of School Number 1 in Beslan, where guerrillas loyal to the Chechen rebel Shamil Basayev were holding more than a thousand hostages. The two men, whose identities were not revealed, are "a little above the rank of major or lieut. colonel," Torshin declared. If the men are guilty, their high rank would be more surprising than the fact that the rebels...
...Shevtsova, an independent analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, says, "There is no doubt that many intelligence and security specialists share [Belkovsky's] views." Shevtsova thinks things really started going wrong last year. The massacre in Beslan in September, in which over 300 children and adults died after pro-Chechen rebels seized a school in North Ossetia, "underlined the failure of the Kremlin's Chechnya operations," she says. The final destruction of Yukos in December, when Baikal Finance Group, a consortium linked to the state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft, bought its main oil producing unit, Yuganskneftegaz, for a knockdown...
Since September 22, when the new rules took effect, the TSA has already received 250 official complaints, although personal accounts suggest the number may be underreported. The rules were implemented after two Chechen women boarded planes in Russia with bombs at the end of August, killing 90 people. Previously, passengers were randomly selected for secondary screenings, which consisted of having a magnetometer run around the body. Under the new rules, screeners have the discretion to select whomever they want based on “visual observation,” and conduct more intrusive searches...
...strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, which would cause worldwide outrage among Muslims. But a grand bargain welcoming Tehran back into the international community has so far failed to interest Bush. RUSSIA/CHECHNYA Bush has been a stalwart friend to Vladimir Putin, who has sold Bush on his view that Chechen rebels are part of global jihad. Bush offered little complaint as Putin cracked down in Chechnya and at home. Putin repaid the favor by openly backing Bush's re-election, and is further strengthened by oil at $50/bbl. Even so, no U.S. Administration will keep smiling if the Kremlin continues...
...EUROPE RUSSIA: Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev is proving hard to catch...