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...Even if the Moscow standoff is resolved without serious casualties, it's unlikely to be the last such attack by a separatist movement increasingly desperate to break Russia's stranglehold on its home turf. But Moscow is unlikely to be forced back to negotiating by terror attacks. The standoff is more likely to amplify Russia's demand for a green light from the West to act against NATO-friendly Georgia, where many Chechen fighters continue to find sanctuary...
...Security concerns, too, continue to dog foreign operators, who are targets for myriad Indonesian groups with grievances and agendas. Last year, ExxonMobil closed its gas field in Aceh for four months due to safety concerns as violence escalated in the region, where separatist rebels are fighting a guerrilla war against the government. Now 3,000 government troops guard the site, but turmoil continues. Earlier this year, a bicyclist carried a pipe bomb to within a few hundred meters of the front gate of the gas field operation when the bomb detonated prematurely, killing him. "Indonesia is becoming the Nigeria...
...sensitive, because in their heart of hearts, many Kurds would prefer to live in their own state rather than to be a minority in a post-Saddam Iraq. There is a strong sense of solidarity with Kurds in neighboring countries, but they're very careful about links with any separatist groupings because they don't want to provoke the Turks...
...sensitive, because in their heart of hearts, many Kurds would prefer to live in their own state rather than to be a minority in a post-Saddam Iraq. There is a strong sense of solidarity with Kurds in neighboring countries, but they're very careful about links with any separatist groupings because they don't want to provoke the Turks...
...flight from Marrakesh, Morocco. French antiterror officials said the find may have thwarted a two-step plot, in which one operative planted the bombing material for an accomplice to outfit with a detonator and explode during a later flight. RUSSIA Bloody Ingush Dozens of Russian servicemen and Chechen separatist rebels died in heavy fighting in Russia's republic of Ingushetia, which borders Chechnya to the west. Rebels shot down a Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter during the battle around the village of Galashki, about 20 km from Chechnya. Russian officials said that a group of about 300 fighters crossed into...