Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrorist raid unprecedented since the Russian civil war of the 1920s, more than 80 Chechens crossed into the neighboring Stavropol territory, concealed in trucks supposedly transporting coffins from the war zone, to launch a daring assault at high noon on the city of Budyonnovsk (pop. 100,000), some 70 miles from the Chechen border. Splitting into squads of five and six, the gunmen -- armed with automatic rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers -- fanned out across the city, joining up, according to Russian security officials, with rebels already in place...
...raid came at a particularly embarrassing moment for the Kremlin. Only hours before the assault began, Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin had claimed that the government had taken measures to prevent terrorist attacks on Russian territory. With security tightened throughout Russia against more Chechen terror, President Boris Yeltsin immediately vowed to do everything possible to free the hostages, denouncing the attack as "unprecedented in cynicism and cruelty." In reality, the Kremlin had few options. It was certainly not prepared to negotiate an end to the Chechen war under such conditions, making a show of force inevitable...
...events in Budyonnovsk overshadowed good news last week for the Kremlin from the Chechen front. Russian forces seized the strategic villages of Shatoi and Nojai-Yurt, the last two major strongholds of Dudayev's forces. But the surprise Chechen raid on Russian territory signaled that for desperate fighters like Basayev, who has lost his wife and almost all his family in the war, the grudge match with Moscow is far from over. In fact, Budyonnovsk may be the opening skirmish in a new guerrilla war, waged on the streets of towns and cities across Russia...
...away. Almostevery invention or discovery--from the splittingof the atom and the discovery of DNA to televisionand the computer--can be turned against us andused to our detriment. How much easier it is todaythan it was during the First World War to destroyan entire metropolis in a single air-raid. And howmuch easier would it be today, in the era oftelevision, for a madman like Hitler or Stalin topervert the spirit of a whole nation. When havepeople ever had the power we now possess to alterthe climate of the planet or deplete its mineralresources or the wealth of its fauna...
...quick pre-dawn raid Japanese police stormed the Boeing 747 where an unidentified hijacker had held 365 hostages for fifteen hours. The hijacker was rapidly subdued, and only one woman was hurt in the attack. Officials initially said the hijacker was amember of the Aum Shinrikyocult and had threatened to blow up the plane ifcult leader Shoko Asahara was not immediately released, but those reports were later denied. It is not yet known whether the hijacker, who used an ice-pick in the attack, also had a bomb...