Word: chechenization
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...shift operations away from the hinterlands of Pakistan to Somalia and Sudan. And just last week, Pakistan's military said it launched an air and ground attack against a suspected al-Qaeda training camp in the tribal area of Waziristan, killing more than 60 recruits and their Uzbek and Chechen trainers...
...meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants, and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?" VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, sarcastically rejecting calls for dialogue with Chechen separatists following the school siege that left more than 350 parents, teachers and children dead...
...same, a new U.S.-Russia chill seems to be in the offing. Responding to Putin's remarks, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Wednesday that Washington doesn't talk to terrorists, but would continue its discussions with dissenting Chechen officials whether Moscow liked it or not. That brought an immediate rejoinder from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who called Boucher's remarks "anti-Russian...
...Meanwhile, Putin's government and its Chechen opponents have begun a strange bidding war. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) offered a reward of US $10.3 million to anyone who could help them capture Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov and his field commander Shamil Basaev, believed to be one of the architects of last week's school siege. A few hours later, Maskhadov's government-in-exile upped the ante by posting a US $20m reward for the capture of "the war criminal" Putin...
COVER STORY RUSSIA'S 9/11? A mass hostage-taking by Chechen terrorists ends in a firefight, leaving hundreds dead...