Word: saydulayev
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...Basayev, the man behind terrorist atrocities like the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 and the Beslan school massacre last September. But Maskhadov rejected Basayev's terror tactics, and Basayev despised Maskhadov's calls for peace talks. Last week, the Chechen resistance quickly announced a new president, Abdul Khalim Saydulayev, the head of the Shariat, or Islamic court. In his mid-30s, Saydulayev is virtually unknown. Moscow and pro-Russian Chechens dismiss him as a Basayev puppet. Some Kremlin officials now predict the slow death of the guerrilla movement. A few veterans in the hills may well decide to make...
...European governments are moving hastily to cobble together negotiations to avert a bloodbath, although Moscow is sending mixed signals over whether it's prepared to talk to the Chechens. But with even Malik Saydulayev, head of the new Chechen puppet government created in Moscow, calling for talks with more moderate Chechen commanders, some form of deal may be in the works. Russia has plainly won this phase of the war, forcing the guerrilla army of President Aslan Mashkadov to retreat from every urban center in the country other than the capital...
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