Russian Rebels Had Precise Plan
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Investigators suspect that the attackers had secreted a cache of weapons in the school weeks before their brutal attack.
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Shifting alliances raise tension with Moscow.
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Russia put a 10-million-dollar price tag on the heads of two Chechen rebel leaders accused of masterminding the hostage-taking which ended in a bloodbath at a Beslan school.
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MOSCOW -- Russia's top general threatened yesterday to strike terrorists ''in any region of the world,&quot; and the Kremlin offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the killing or capture of Chechnya's top rebel leaders.
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NAZRAN, Russia  - Russian troops killed four  rebels hiding in a house in the Russian city of Nazran, 20  miles from the border with Chechnya, in a firefight on  Saturday, officials said.
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Georgian forces seized strategic heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia Thursday and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his fractious country.
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Moscow, Sep 20. (UNI): Russian troops have launched a special operation to capture Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev and rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov wanted for a series of terrorist attacks in Russia including the Beslan school strike.
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The U.S. ratcheted up preparations for what appeared to be an imminent assault on Falluja, while rebels set up a perimeter.
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MOSCOW  - A group of Russian mothers, desperate for peace in Chechnya, told rebels in the breakaway region Wednesday they were ready to mediate peace between the government and militants fighting a decade-long battle for independence.
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Russia's top general said on Wednesday he was ready to attack "terrorist bases" anywhere in the world, as security services put a &#36;10 million bounty on two Chechen rebels blamed for last week's school siege.
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Russian troops killed at least 22 rebels in separatist Chechnya on Monday, including a man officials said was linked to the assassination of Chechnya's pro-Moscow president, media reported.
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Russia has the right to carry out pre-emptive strikes on militant bases abroad, Russia's defense minister said Sunday, citing the school hostage crisis. He said Moscow and the United States see eye to eye on fighting terrorism.
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BESLAN, Russia : President Vladimir Putin vowed to toughen national security and pledged to defend Russian unity after a bloody hostage crisis killed at least 330 people.
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NAZRAN, Russia  - Rebels in Chechnya have not  attacked Russian forces in the three days since the rebels'  fugitive leader ordered a cease-fire, a source in the  mountainous region's pro-Moscow police said on Sunday.
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MOSCOW -- Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov has ordered all Chechen fighters to observe a cease-fire in their separatist war against Russian troops in February, a rebel website reported yesterday. Kremlin officials were not immediately available to comment on the report of the cease-fire. Site www.kavkazcenter.com published a statement signed by Shamil Basayev, Russia's most-wanted man and the organizer of ...
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The Russian company wins a legal skirmish.
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Russian troops killed at least 22 rebels  in separatist Chechnya on Monday, including a man officials  said was linked to the assassination of Chechnya's pro-Moscow  president, media reported.