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...Moscow theatre hostage drama is a dramatic reminder that Chechen separatists are capable of desperate cruelty when they're up against a wall. Some 700 hostages remain captive in a large theater complex Friday, cowering for a third day under the guns of 30 or 40 Chechens - half of them reportedly women in headscarves; all of them reportedly wearing the explosive belts of the suicide bomber - who have threatening to blow the building unless Russian forces withdraw from Chechnya. The Chechens have reportedly set a deadline of 6am, Moscow time (10pm, EST) for their demands to be met, after which...
KILLED. RODDY SCOTT, 31, intrepid British freelance journalist and cameraman who chose a hazardous career documenting neglected conflicts in such places as Sierra Leone, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ethiopia; by a bullet in the eyepiece of his camera while filming a firefight between Chechen rebels and Russian troops; in Ingushetia. Russian forces discovered Scott's body among dozens of dead Chechen rebels...
...time: late last year. The scene: the Pankisi Valley, a lawless corner of Georgia just over the mountains from Chechnya that is a safe haven for drug dealers, kidnappers, Chechen guerrillas and, if U.S. officials are right, a small number of al-Qaeda operatives. A Russian military jeep drives up a narrow, winding track and is ambushed by bearded gunmen. In the resulting firefight, one of the attackers is killed. Such skirmishes happen almost daily in Chechnya, where Russia is fighting a war against separatist guerrillas. Just last week Chechen rebels shot down a Russian helicopter in neighboring Ingushetia, after...
...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...
...Georgians fear that the object of any Russian military retaliation will be not simply to punish them for harboring Chechen rebels, but also to weaken Shevardnadze, already unpopular at home because he presides over a corrupt regime. Moscow's ideal outcome is Shevardnadze's ouster and replacement by a more pro-Russian leader...