Aslan Maskhadov is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
Controversial Chechen website reopens
A controversial website used by a Chechen warlord to claim responsibility for the Russian school hostage-taking in September has reopened on servers in Finland and Sweden despite demands from authorities to keep it closed, its host said on Monday. The s
Lithuania shuts down Chechen website
Lithuanias state security department said on Monday it had closed down an internet site used by a leading Chechen warlord to claim responsibility for the Beslan school hostage-taking which left at least 339 people dead.
Putin under fire
A leading human rights activist this week poured scorn over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hardline policy in Chechnya, urging him to negotiate with the Chechen separatist leader, Aslan Maskhadov.
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IRANIAN OFFICIAL KILLED IN IRAQ TEHRAN – Iran’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that an employee of the Baghdad office of the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, Labib Mohammadi, was assassinated near the central Iraqi city of Karbala.
Chechen women in Moscow victims of fear
Insults, hateful stares, and humiliating arrests: Some Chechen women say life in the Russian capital has become a nightmare following attacks blamed on female suicide bombers from Chechnya and female participation in the Beslan school terror attack.
Chechen rebel calls for talks
An envoy for Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to enter into negotiations, condemning the siege of a school in southern Russia in which hundreds died as a “monstrous act.
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NAIROBI – The trial of four Kenyans accused of murdering 12 Kenyans and three Israelis in the bombing of the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel near Mombasa in 2002 has been adjourned until January 2005.
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DAMASCUS – Nineteen Syrians suspected of belonging to the banned Al Tahrir Islamic group have been arrested near Damascus, the Human Rights Association in Syria said on Monday.
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BEIRUT – Gunmen tossed a grenade into a bank northeast of Beirut, before stealing $30,000 and fleeing, security sources said last weekend.
