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...land in Turkey to draw attention to Chechnya's incipient independence struggle. Basayev released all the passengers unharmed, and the Turks allowed him to return to Chechnya. The Russians were strangely forgiving, too. Instead of arresting him, they gave him military training with an élite covert unit and the next year sent him to Abkhazia, a region of Georgia on the Black Sea, where he fought with a Moscow-backed secessionist movement. But when open war between Russia and Chechnya flared in 1994, Basayev quickly emerged as one of the breakaway republic's top rebel commanders. From early...
...services. According to Supyan Taramov, a Moscow-based property developer from Vedeno, Basayev has all the Russian military and intelligence installations in the region under surveillance. "Some of his relatives are in the police here," says Taramov, who once employed Basayev but in 2000 formed a pro-Russian military unit to hunt him down. Taramov claims Basayev's men routinely buy weapons, information and equipment from the Russians - and even get local officials to ferry him around. For their part, Russian élite units seem to have other priorities besides finding Basayev. Human-rights groups allege that this year alone...
...Red’s defensive unit effectively defused Dawson, holding the explosive tailback to an average of 2.9 yards per carry and 61 net yards rushing in the game. In each of the season’s three previous games, Dawson picked up three touchdowns and at least 100 yards of offense...
...Red’s defensive unit effectively defused Dawson, holding the explosive tailback to an average of 2.9 yards per carry and 61 net yards rushing in the game. In each of the season’s three previous games, Dawson picked up three touchdowns and at least 100 yards of offense...
...artistic and commercial ambitions bluntly in the album’s very first line: “We ain’t going to the town/We’re going to the city.” Antics finds the four young men just hitting their stride as a unit, knowing now what they do well and sharing an idea of where they want to go. Interpol are allowing themselves to grow naturally into their sound, gradually introducing richer shades of gray into their cloudy creations. Their patience—and ours—will pay off. Antics...