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...Kadyrov, said he would not run in the Aug. 29 presidential election. His statement followed Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision not to respond publicly to a Chechen appeal to reduce the minimum age requirement in the constitution - set at 30 - in order to allow for Ramzan's candidacy. Warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for Akhmad's May 9 murder. Security Crackdown EGYPT Officials arrested 54 members of the Muslim Brotherhood organization on suspicion of recruiting volunteers for jihad in Iraq , Chechnya and Palestine . Officials claimed that the Brotherhood - legally banned since 1954 - was hoping to train the members...
...commander in the 1994-96 war against Russian forces. Even some foes showed grudging respect for Gelayev, who was known as a ruthless fighter but not as a terrorist. Moscow-backed Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov told the Itar-Tass news agency that fighting in Chechnya would continue despite the warlord's death...
...Karzai government has attempted to rein in recalcitrant warlords. Most recently Karzai appointed Kandahar strongman Gul Agha Sherzai, a U.S.-installed warlord who has been dogged by accusations of corruption and nepotism, to a Cabinet position in Kabul as a way of keeping him under close watch. But Afghan officials say Karzai is wary of cracking down too hard for fear that the warlords will lash back. In Kabul alone, militias loyal to former President Burhanuddin Rabbani and current Defense Minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim number nearly 50,000. That's enough to overwhelm, if they wanted...
...S.S.A. possesses between 500 and 2,000 troops?no one knows for sure. Ask a rebel spokesman how many, and he tersely replies, "Enough." Many of the S.S.A.'s fighters were previously loyal to former opium warlord Khun Sa, who surrendered to Rangoon in 1996. Today they answer to plainspoken commander colonel Yawdserk, himself a former Khun Sa man, who vehemently denies any current S.S.A. involvement in the drugs trade. On these remote hills, poppies are still grown and opium is still traded, along with millions of methamphetamine pills called yaba, or crazy medicine...
From the beginning of its Afghan campaign, the U.S. has relied heavily on electronic surveillance in a country where men on the ground can frequently outwit spies in the sky. The U.S. has apparently been close several times to killing the notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, wanted for sponsoring attacks on foreign troops and their Afghan allies. But last week he sent a gloating videotape to a news station in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar, jauntily recounting the near misses by U.S. troops tracking him. On one occasion, he says, he survived by climbing up a mountain barely 200 yards...