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...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...
...time it was over, more than 300 hostages had died, and more may lie buried in the rubble. The massacre was the most ghastly episode in a terrorist spree that has shattered public confidence in the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had built an image as a leader whose uncompromising toughness could bring security to Russians. For more than a decade, the Kremlin has waged a brutal war to prevent the secession of the republic of Chechnya. But it has done little to defuse the lethal determination of Chechen terrorists, who Moscow says have links to Islamic fundamentalist...
...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...
...identities of the hostage-takers. Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov says authorities so far believe there were 32 hijackers, including two women, who hid in a forest near the school building the evening before. They drove to the school in three cars packed with weapons and explosives, Ustinov told Putin in a briefing carried on Russian...