Chechnya warlord claims Beslan school hostage taking
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Chechnya's most notorious warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed responsibility for the deadly school hostage taking in southern Russia, according to a letter posted on a rebel website.
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MOSCOW Sept 9 - Ten of the raiders who seized a school and took some 1,200 people hostage have been identified - and six of them came from Chechnya, where separatist insurgents have been fighting Russian forces for five years, security officials said
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, in a  statement issued on Friday, claimed responsibility for the  Beslan school siege in which more than 320 hostages were  killed, half of them children, according to a Chechen rebel Web  site.
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Chechnya's rebel leader said on Friday  he would put warlord Shamil Basayev on trial one day for the  mass hostage-seizing at a Russian school in which more than 320  people were killed, half of them children.
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BESLAN, Russia - Armed militants with explosives strapped to their bodies stormed a Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, corralling hundreds of hostages - many of them children - into a gymnasium and threatening to blow up the building if surrounding Russian troops attacked. At least two people were killed, including a school parent...
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Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who took more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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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's most notorious warlords, Russia's chief prosecutor said in an interview published Thursday.
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Chechnya's rebel leader said on Friday that warlord Shamil Basayev would go on trial for the mass hostage-seizing at a Russian school that ended with more than 320 people being killed, half of them children.
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Chechnya's rebel leader said on Friday  that warlord Shamil Basayev would go on trial for the mass  hostage-seizing at a Russian school that ended with more than  320 people being killed, half of them children.
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A heavily armed gang seized up to 400 hostages at a Russian school near Chechnya Wednesday and threatened to shoot dead 50 children for any one of their comrades killed, a senior local official said.
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The main commander of the guerrillas who seized a school in southern Russia last week shot one of his own men for balking at taking children hostage and later blew up two
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MOSCOW - Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday and were holding hundreds of hostages, including 200 children. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...
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According to a letter posted on a &quot;rebel&quot; website, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev is claiming responsibility for the Beslan school siege and other terrorist attacks on Russia.
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MOSCOW - Armed attackers, some wearing suicide-bomb belts, seized a school Wednesday in a Russian region bordering Chechnya and were holding hundreds of children and adults hostage, news reports said. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...
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Russia&#39;s foreign minister said Friday that Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Basayev directed the hostage-taking raid on a school in southern Russia last week and that Arab militants participated in the attack.
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MOSCOW, Sep 4 (IPS) - The killings at the Beslan school in Russia are  only the gravest  in a long campaign of attacks and hostage  taking by Chechen separatists.
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ATTACKERS WEARING suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday and were holding hundreds of hostages, reportedly including 200 children.