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...claimed responsibility for the latest atrocity, but Putin and his allies had no doubt as to who was to blame. Appearing on TV with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, a rattled Putin accused Chechnya's deposed President and secessionist leader, Aslan Maskhadov, of being behind the bombing. Putin also denounced European politicians who had earlier called for negotiations with Maskhadov. "Russia does not negotiate with terrorists," he said. "It annihilates them...
...involved in negotiations to end the first Chechen war in 1996, and since the second war began in 1999, he has regularly called for talks with the rebels, something Putin opposes). Shortly after it was published, a Chechen acquaintance proposed a secret meeting with rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov. Rybkin says he was told that Maskhadov would meet him somewhere in Ukraine, so Rybkin left for the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. Once there, he says, unknown men took him to an apartment and offered him tea and a snack while he waited. Then, Rybkin claims, he fell unconscious - for four days...
...often women. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the latest atrocity, but Putin and his allies had no doubt as to who was to blame. At a joint press conference with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, a rattled Putin accused Chechnya's deposed President and secessionist leader, Aslan Maskhadov, of being behind the bombing. Putin also denounced European politicians who had earlier called for negotiations with Maskhadov. "Russia does not negotiate with terrorists," he said. "It annihilates them." Maskhadov's main overseas representative, Akhmed Zakayev, denied responsibility for the bombing and claimed instead that Russian security had been "directly...
...fighters have reached north into the Russian heartland as far as Moscow. Suicide bombings at a Moscow rock concert and an attempted bombing on the capital's main thoroughfare in July have unnerved the public. In Chechnya the guerrilla movement is split between traditional separatist fighters loyal to Aslan Maskhadov, the last elected president of Chechnya, and newer, deeply fundamentalist militants backed by Arab money and a sprinkling of volunteers from the Islamic world. Among them are radicals affiliated with al-Qaeda, some of whom slipped across the border from their hideaway in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge after the Georgians...
...most recent bombings are different, because the people behind the attacks represent a younger generation of Chechens who, like the Palestinians before them, have known nothing but war - and who have become radicalized as a result. "We condemn the terror," says Salambek Maigov, Chechen rebel President Aslan Maskhadov's representative in Moscow, "but neither the Kremlin nor we can control the situation any longer." Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to reassert his control. "Terrorists must be plucked out of the basements and caves and destroyed," he said after the attack on the rock festival. The tough talk echoed his promise...