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...suddenly last month, predicted a wave of suicide bombings?saying "We have entered a new stage. It's Palestine"?he was wrong to identify that conflict with the Chechen rebellion. The Palestinians are fighting to reclaim their homeland. The Chechens call their struggle a "war of liberation." They say Chechnya never voluntarily joined Russia and was conquered only by military force. For its part, the Russian government calls the war an antiterrorist operation. Ashhad Ikram Alam Karachi...
...More than 41 people were killed and many more injured when a suicide bomber crashed a truck reportedly laden with more than a ton of explosives into the military hospital in Mozdok, the town in Northern Ossetia that is the principal rear base for the Russian war effort in Chechnya. The main hospital building was leveled. Last June a suicide bomber killed 20 people in the town, and Chechen guerrillas are known to move freely in the area. No one has claimed responsibility for the latest raid, but hard-line Islamist guerrillas are the main suspects. Other Stories: Chechnya...
...Soviet Communist Party youth organization, Komsomol, he had until recently the reputation of a secretive, careful operator who accumulated a fortune by deal making, not confrontation. Putin, meanwhile, has a proven track record of destroying business magnates who cross him. The media tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky opposed the war in Chechnya and failed to back Putin in the presidential elections. He was briefly imprisoned (though not convicted of any offenses), lost his empire and now lives overseas. The billionaire Boris Berezovsky, who helped Putin get elected but broke with him soon after, is now in restless exile in London...
Yuri Shchekochikhin could foretell the future. In May, as a wave of suicide attacks in Chechnya killed 77 people and wounded over 300 others, he made a prediction. "We have entered a new stage. It's Palestine," he told TIME. "Now suicide bombers will start hitting Russia." His grim prophecy came true on July 5, when two female Chechen suicide bombers killed 14 and injured over 60 by detonating explosive belts at a Moscow rock festival. But "Shchekoch," as he is nicknamed, wasn't around to see the attack. The crusading journalist and politician had died under mysterious circumstances...
...suicide bomber blew up a bus carrying air force servicemen and civilians from the Prokhladny air force base to the nearby city of Mozodokin. Moscow blamed the bombing on Chechen Islamic extremists. This, the third such bombing in less than a month, came after the Kremlin-backed government in Chechnya said the situation in the province was stabilizing. Peace Talks Break Down LIBERIA President Charles Taylor remained defiant as rebel forces attacked Monrovia and peace talks between the government and rebels were postponed. Taylor was indicted for war crimes by a U.N.-backed court in neighboring Sierra Leone and charged...