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...know bin Laden. I don't get money from him, but I wouldn't turn it down." SHAMIL BASAYEV, Chechen rebel leader, responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin's allegations linking Basayev's group to al-Qaeda...
...America, yet Kerry can't bring himself to call a spade a spade. Kerry has to tell us exactly what Bush has done wrong and how Kerry will do it right. Tom Meneely Arco, Minnesota, U.S. What Iraqis Want In Michael Ware's report on fighting in a rebel stronghold in the heart of Baghdad [Aug. 30], he described the insurgents as "bearing the mark of professional soldiers and sophisticated terrorist groups." Captain Thomas Foley, the American commander on the scene, said, "I don't know who it is. I really don't know what they want." What would Foley...
Russian special forces returned the rebel fire, joined by armed locals--frantic fathers and uncles who, one general said, "got in the way." The first explosions were followed by more, until the roof of the gymnasium collapsed. Half-naked children, some burned or bleeding, streamed out of the school as helicopters directed fire at the building. Some terrorists escaped, according to police, after swapping their camouflage uniforms for warm-up suits. In the mayhem, one young woman who made it to safety, shocked and disheveled, wailed, "They are killing...
...have abducted and executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni last month after Italy failed to meet demands to pull its troops from Iraq - to free the hostages. Even Hamas, which earlier in the week claimed responsibility for a deadly double bus bombing in Israel, and an aide to Iraq's rebel Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the men's release. The reporters were on their way to Najaf to cover clashes between al-Sadr's Mahdi army and Iraqi government and American forces when they were captured on Aug. 20. Over the past five months, more than...
...suicide-bombings brought down two Russian airliners and a third wrought havoc outside a Moscow subway station, leaving more than 100 dead. The latest wave of attacks appeared calculated to mock President Putin's claim that he had defeated the Chechen separatist insurgency, and that the situation in the rebel region had was returning to normal following the election of Moscow's handpicked candidate as president of the region, in a poll widely criticized by observers. Indeed, the election was necessitated by the fact that Moscow's previous pick to lead Chechnya, Ahmad Khadyrov, had been killed by a suicide...