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More on Chechen ties to al-Qaeda
THE links between Chechen rebels and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda go back to the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist-training camps of Afghanistan. For the Chechen rebels, this was more a marriage of convenience than a meeting of religious soulmates. After Russian troops poured into Chechnya in 1994 to crush the anarchic republic, Chechen fighters put up a furious resistance in the streets of Grozny, killing hundreds of Russian troops in vicious house-to-house fighting. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-09-04 |
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