Lost Boy from Central Asia Suckered Into Militancy
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - He talks like a hard-core  Islamist, but sounds like a lost little boy.
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Many nations are hells on earth for political and religious prisoners. Among them: Iran, North Korea, Cuba and one of the very worst Uzbekistan under the ferocious rule of Islam Karimov.
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A German citizen born in Lebanon alleges that he was shackled, abused and accused of having ties to Al Qaeda while he was held by Americans in a prison in Afghanistan.
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The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse examines the dangers Islamist militancy and ruthless security force action pose in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.
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After Beslan, the Kremlin promised a massive manhunt to track down Shamil Basayev. But Chechnya's terrorist in chief still moves with ease in his home district of Vedeno. A profile of the man behind Russia's 9/11
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A German citizen, missing since the end of June, is believed to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan, Berlin says.
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Stolen then brainwashed and forced to fight, children around the world are being turned into cold-blooded killing machines. Warlords target children as recruits because of their very vulnerability, treating them as no more than "cannon fodder," one child advocate says.
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MOSCOW Sept. 16, 2004 - Some of the weapons used by militants in the deadly Russian school siege were pilfered from police posts in armed raids allegedly led by one of Chechnya&#39;s most notorious warlords, Russia&#39;s
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Tracing the elusive footsteps of the Taliban's Supreme Leaderâand bracing for what may be their bloodiest drive yet
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Key events in seizure of a school in the town of Beslan in southern Russia. Some times are approximate.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 9 -- A U.S. Air Force major who disappeared while on an off-base trip in Kyrgyzstan, where she was stationed, surfaced late Friday and reported that she had been abducted, U.S. and Kyrgyz officials said Saturday.
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Soflan Siukayev has already lived through one war in South Ossetia. Now his family has been caught up in a second.
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Yaser E. Hamdi, a US citizen captured in Afghanistan who was once deemed so dangerous that the US military held him incommunicado for more than two years as an enemy combatant
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MOSCOW -- Open conflict erupted within Kazakhstan's ruling elite yesterday as authorities issued an international arrest warrant for the president's politically ambitious son-in-law, who until Saturday was the country's ambassador to Vienna.
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A top Uzbek rebel leader wanted by authorities in his home country might be hiding in the tense tribal region that forms the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani general said Saturday.
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MOSCOW - He is Russia's homegrown version of Osama bin Laden, but with a trademark all his own: dramatic mass hostage-takings that have often turned to bloodbaths. Like bin Laden, Shamil Basayev is an elusive target who has evaded capture for years...
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- When an 18-year-old from Pakistan dismounted his bicycle a couple miles outside the eastern town of Khost, his clothes flapped up, revealing a suicide vest to an alert farmer nearby.