Word: chechenization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Luis Rodríguez Zapatero claimed that "sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength" [Sept. 27]. To repeat an old saying, That's like comparing apples to herrings. There is a reverse spin on Zapatero's view: only a few weeks ago, two female Chechen terrorists blew up two airliners over Russia, possibly to avenge the deaths of family members killed by Russian soldiers in a war of independence. What on earth does terrorism have to do with gender equality? Also, Zapatero said he didn't want "to be a great leader" but "a good...
...hardly notice the system. Asked to locate a corridor camera, a 13-year-old student fails to find it until another points upward. "I like it," he says. "It protects us." Protection has been on parents' minds this school year. The hundreds of children who died after Chechen insurgents seized Beslan's School No. 1 set new and terrible records, but students have, of course, been caught in the crossfire before. A series of violent attacks in the past decade has forced school administrators to take preventive action against an array of threats - from vandals and burglars to murderers...
...last week that two female suicide bombers who carried out the attacks that brought down two passenger jets in August had actually been stopped at the airport by counterterrorism officers and then released without being searched. The unspoken assumption is that they bribed their way onto the planes. And Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev posted a message on a website last week claiming responsibility for the plane bombings and the school attack, noting that Beslan had cost a total of just $9,700. The government promptly blocked access to the site...
From day one, my trip to Russia was marked by tragedy. As I left my home in Los Angeles, I got word that two Russian planes had exploded simultaneously on their way to Black Sea resorts. Chechen terrorists were the likely suspects. Six days later, a car bomb destroyed the entrance to a Moscow subway station—on the same line I had taken the day before. The day I arrived in St. Petersburg, a band of terrorists took over a middle school in Beslan, a small southern town. And by the time I left the country, 360 children...
...stopped by the military, probably out of concern that he might be taken hostage. Dzasokhov told TIME: "A very high-ranking general from the Interior Ministry said, 'I have received orders to arrest you if you try to go.'" Meanwhile, Putin--who has long refused to negotiate with Chechen separatists--apparently sanctioned an effort to enlist an intermediary to help resolve the crisis: Aslan Maskhadov, the deposed successionist President of Chechnya. Dzasokhov told TIME that he talked to Maskhadov's London-based representative Akhmed Zakayev, and asked them to intervene. Zakayev, who says Maskhadov was "horrified at this atrocity," pledged...