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...Indeed, just several days after the Beslan tragedy, Akhmed Zakayev, then the Chechens' chief rebel envoy in London, told TIME in a phone interview that on September 2, then rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov (killed by the Russian forces in March, 200 5) gave him orders to do everything possible to save the children." Zakayev said they both "were horrified at this atrocity." Though Maskhadov and Zakayev were not part of the faction that initiated the school operation, they wielded sufficient authority and moral weight to order them to release the hostages in exchange for their safe passage...
...time, Zakayev revealed that he had been in communication with then President of North Ossetia Alexander Dzasokhov, head of the Beslan crisis task force. They nearly worked out the details for Maskhadov and Zakayev to come to Beslan and help win the release of the hostages. In fact, just shortly before the assault started, Dzasokhov told the relatives of the hostages that there would be no assault, and that the crisis would be resolved without the use of force. Such an outcome, however, would have legitimized Maskhadov and won him lots of goodwill in both Russia and abroad, something Putin...
...regional center last week gave a suspended two year sentence to Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, Chair of the local Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, and editor of Rights Defense bulletin. Dmitriyevsky was found guilty of fomenting ethnic hatred, simply because in March 2004, he published an appeal by Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov - later killed by Russian security services - and Maskhadov's envoy in Europe, Akhmet Zakayev...
...Maskhadov, you see, is officially a terrorist in the eyes of the Kremlin. Hamas, however, isn't. Putin said so at his Kremlin press-conference on Thursday, where he extended an invitation - eagerly accepted - to Hamas's leaders to Moscow for an official visit...
...hailed what they called a successful operation by the "Kabardino-Balkaria section of the Caucasus Front," praising it as proof that the strategy introduced by the Chechen insurgency's new leader, Abdul Khalim Sadulayev, was working. The 37-year-old cleric took over after his more moderate predecessor, Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in March. Since then, the tone and tactics of the conflict have taken a firmly radical turn. Rebel leaders go beyond criticizing the West's failure to denounce Russia's brutal tactics in Chechnya; they increasingly reject Western values based, they say, on "materialism and atheism." A "discussion...