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...average. Apache pilots sometimes see angry red arcing lines of tracer bullets rising toward their choppers from unseen gunners hidden in Afghanistan's saw-blade ridges. Roads frequented by special forces are often mined with remote-controlled explosives, a new tactic al-Qaeda fighters picked up from their Chechen comrades fighting the Russians. With phantom enemy fighters stepping up attacks and U.S. forces making little headway against them, General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, felt compelled to acknowledge last week, "We've lost a little momentum there, to be frank...
There are plenty of potential rifts lurking behind the unanimity of the 15-0 vote. Russia, for instance, claims that it is worried inspections will not be sensitive to sovereignty and culture. Perhaps Russia’s leaders, who ordered a 1999 assault on the Chechen capital of Grozny that turned an entire Muslim city to rubble, really are concerned about sensitivity. More likely they want to water down the inspection process to avoid conflict between the inspectors and Iraqi officials...
...into Chechnya last week, a group of Russian commandos from the secretive Alpha antiterrorist unit, the same ?lite troops that stormed the Moscow theater last month. Their number is not known, but their mission is: to kill Shamil Basayev, the guerrilla "emir" who approved and probably thought up the Chechen hostage-taking operation. Basayev's recent statements seem to be challenging Moscow to come and get him, and some Chechens believe he would welcome a last stand where he would take as many Russians as possible with him. After the theater siege, in which at least 128 hostages were killed...
...response to a question on Russia’s three-year war with Chechen separatists, Gorbachev said, “If I were president of my country, there wouldn’t have been this war in the first place...
Russian authorities say the attack on the theater was meticulously planned and well-funded (costing some $60,000, Chechens familiar with guerrilla operations assert). It was sanctioned by top Chechen commanders, including the well-known Shamil Basayev, according to both Chechen and Russian sources. The same Chechen sources say the rebels' titular leader, Aslan Maskhadov, who distanced himself from the operation, was probably not consulted: most guerrillas feel he is irrelevant. Planning a raid like this takes six to eight weeks, a Chechen close to the guerrillas says. Another Chechen with experience in such operations thinks Movsar's people brought...