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...real test of Gilchrist's political smarts will be whether he knows how to quit when he's ahead. Public sympathy is not an inexhaustible reserve; post-strike polls showed most people were opposed to another walkout. - By Aparisim Ghosh. With reporting by Amanda Bower and Hugh Porter/London CHECHNYA A Guerrilla's Last Stand They slipped into Chechnya last week, a group of Russian commandos from the secretive Alpha antiterrorist unit, the same ?lite troops that stormed the Moscow theater last month. Their number is not known, but their mission is: to kill Shamil Basayev, the guerrilla "emir" who approved...
...said he thought Chechnya should “be a republic within Russia but it should have a special autonomous status...
...Qaeda is plotting one spectacular, centrally organized attack or a series of small-scale ad hoc strikes. Or both. Several months ago intelligence services discovered that dozens of Europe-based Arabs trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan were wending their way back to the Continent via Azerbaijan, Chechnya and Turkey. But "there seems to be a lot of debate on where those fighters are right now, and that, too, is scaring authorities," French expert Jacquard claims. How do governments prepare citizens for so diffuse a threat? Perhaps by scaring them, as the British Home Office did last week. Like...
...distanced himself from the operation, was probably not consulted: most guerrillas feel he is irrelevant. Planning a raid like this takes six to eight weeks, a Chechen close to the guerrillas says. Another Chechen with experience in such operations thinks Movsar's people brought in their weapons from Chechnya since they wouldn't have wanted to undertake an operation like this with new, unproved firearms bought on the Moscow black market. A few days before the attack, say knowledgeable Chechens, Movsar's group bought the vehicles they needed. Moving into and around Moscow in the days before the assault would...
Movsar was close not only to his uncle Arbi but also to Khattab, the late Saudi-born guerrilla commander who U.S. officials claim represented Osama bin Laden in Chechnya. In an interview with the BBC, one of Movsar's men denied any link to al-Qaeda. Still, Movsar seemed to embrace that group's concept of martyrdom. At the start of the action, a rebel website quoted Movsar, saying the hostage takers were there "to die, not to survive." A colleague remarked, while Movsar was still in the theater, "These are the happiest days of his life." --By Paul Quinn...