Word: chechnya
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...Yeltsin compromised their strategic interests in exchange for financial handouts from the West. The seditious grumbling over NATO's expansion onto Russia's eastern European doorstep reached a crescendo during last year's Kosovo campaign. President Putin built his election campaign around the military's brutal assault on Chechnya - a hapless attempt to restore its lost honor - and vowed to restore Russian power. Despite such humiliations as the Kursk submarine disaster, Putin has set about modernizing his armed forces by cutting their size while increasing their budget. At the same time, he's adopted an overtly competitive geopolitical stance toward...
...Saudi financier who recruited and led Arab volunteers for the jihad (holy war) against the Soviet invaders in Afghanistan. Since that war, he has sent his "Arab Afghans" to fight in Bosnia, Chechnya, Kashmir and other conflicts involving Muslims. But he also declared a jihad against the United States, and has been accused of authoring a number of bloody attacks on Americans, most notably the 1998 embassy bombings in east Africa. He's also a prime suspect in the attack on the USS Cole...
...loose network of some 3,000-5,000 men, most of them Arab volunteers who fought in Afghanistan and were either unwilling or unable to return home. They maintained training camps in Afghanistan, the Sudan, Yemen and elsewhere, where they trained fighters for Islamist armies as far afield as Chechnya and western China...
...Laden loyalists who met initially in Yemen was indicted by Jordan for plotting New Year's attacks on American and Israeli tourists. The country has also become a crossroads for veterans of the war in Afghanistan, some of whom later made their way to conflicts in Bosnia and Chechnya...
...support even more fervently than Democrats. It repeatedly mentions Russia's objections to unilateral U.S. action but then criticizes the administration for pursuing consensus-building with Moscow and others. Those contradictions, combined with breathless, vituperative language, obscure valid points, like the administration's studious disregard for Russian atrocities in Chechnya and its failure to achieve any new arms control agreements with the Russians over eight years...