Word: chechenization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...know bin Laden. I don't get money from him, but I wouldn't turn it down." SHAMIL BASAYEV, Chechen rebel leader, responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin's allegations linking Basayev's group to al-Qaeda...
...latest terrorist onslaught began two weeks ago with some 150 rebels briefly taking over two districts of Grozny, the Chechen capital, and killing at least 120. Three days later, a blast at a Moscow bus stop injured four. The explosion of two passenger planes the same day, believed to be the work of two Chechen suicide bombers, left 90 dead, and finally, on Aug. 31, a woman blew herself up outside a busy Moscow metro station, killing eight others...
...rebels were furious that Putin would not negotiate with them. "No one will have a single mouthful of water until he contacts us," the Chechen leader announced. Finally, he allowed a bucket of water to be brought in. People dunked boys' white shirts and girls' pinafores into the bucket and passed the wet clothes down the rows so each hostage could squeeze and suck a little water out of them. But the children would not stay quiet as ordered. The fighters stood a male hostage against a wall. "If you don't shut up, we'll kill him. After that...
...Americans until Sept. 11, 2001, but it has burned in the Islamic world for decades. On one side are the proselytizers of radical Islam, many of whom celebrate the hateful vision of Osama bin Laden. The slaughter last week of hundreds of schoolchildren in Russia by a group of Chechen rebels that Russian officials say may have included foreign Islamic militants was the latest reminder of the terrorists' depravity. On the other side are Islamic moderates, those who believe Muslims can coexist peacefully with people of other faiths, or of no faith at all, because they do so every...
...officials tell TIME that the new measures, which may be instituted as early as this week, come in part as a response to the terrorist bombings of two airplanes that took 90 lives in Russia last month. In those cases, investigators presume, the suicide bombers--thought to be two Chechen women whose names were on the flight manifests--strapped explosives to their bodies. Says a U.S. bomb expert: "Considering how sophisticated the bombmakers have become and how real the threat is, this is a prudent reaction...