Chechen rebel leader denies responsibility in Russian air crashes
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Russian authorities said Wednesday they had not ruled out terrorism as they investigated what caused two commercial airliners to crash within minutes of each other, killing 89 people.
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MOSCOW - A top Russian official on Thursday said that flight recorders failed to provide reliable information about what brought down two jetliners nearly simultaneously, killing 89 people, but that terrorism remained a leading possibility.    Vladimir Yakovlev, the Russian president's envoy for the southern region, where one of the planes crashed, said despite the lack of information, the main theory about the catastrophe "all the same remains terrorism," the ITAR-Tass news agency said...
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Dubai - An Islamist group has claimed that it hijacked two Russian planes that crashed this week, killing at least 89 people, and threatened more attacks, according to an Internet statement posted on Friday.
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Chechen rebel Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for this month&#39;s hostage-taking at a Russian school, in which at least 339 died, and for four other terrorist attacks in recent weeks, according to a rebel Web site.
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Russian investigators have finally admitted that terrorists were almost certainly responsible for the destruction of the two passenger planes which crashed on Tuesday, five days before the Chechen presidential election.
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Russian investigators doubt whether the flight data recorders can yield any clues about what caused the double air crash which killed 89 people.
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Radical Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev purportedly took responsibility Friday for a recent series terrorist attacks in Russia but put ultimate blame for a school massacre on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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An Islamic group calling itself the Islambouli Brigades claimed responsibility for the crashes of two Russian planes that killed 90 people, hailing it as a first strike to stop Moscow's fight against separatists in Chechnya.
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One of the rebels involved in the attacks on East Timor's two top leaders denies trying to assassinate them.
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Georgian Defense Minister Georgy Baramidze Friday denied the Russian reports that there are Chechen bases and groups on the territory of Georgia, the Itar-Tass reported.
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Chechnya&#39;s rebel leader says militant Shamil Basayev will go on trial for masterminding the hostage siege in Beslan after fighting in the breakaway Russian republic comes to an end.
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MOSCOW - Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev purportedly took responsibility Friday for a bloody school siege and other recent terrorist attacks that have killed more than 430 people, but put ultimate blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin.    In an e-mail posted Friday on the Kavkaz-Center Web site, Basayev defended the Sept...
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A claim of responsibility for the downing of two Russian planes appeared on a Web site known for militant Muslim comment Friday.
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Islamist rebels claim they shot down a Russian military helicopter, killing 11 people, including two generals.
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Two Russian passenger planes that crashed almost simultaneously last week killing 90 people were blown up in a &quot;terrorist attack&quot; but not by hijackers, investigators said Monday.
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Police killed the Chechen rebel leader Saturday allegedly acting on a tip from within his network and dealing a possible blow to efforts to spread the increasingly Islam-inspired insurgency throughout southern Russia.
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MOSCOW - The discovery of traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of two airliners that crashed almost simultaneously this week has confirmed a widely suspected terrorist connection and stoked speculation that the disasters were linked to bloodshed in Chechnya.    A Web site connected to Islamic militants claimed the crashes, which killed 90 people, were retaliation for Russia's protracted civil war in the troubled republic, which holds an election Sunday to replace its assassinated Kremlin-backed president...