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| Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
| Chechen hard boyz are also crooks, wotta surprise |
| 2004-11-17 |
| Militants of Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev have been increasingly engaged in extortion rackets against local officials, federal forces spokesman Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax on Wednesday. "They have sent letters to some of the district officials, signed by the ringleader Asadulla, ordering them to gather several thousand U.S. dollars from local residents and pass them over to illegal armed groups," Shabalkin said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Think of these payments as taxes. Or you could think of taxes as an extortion racket (which it kind of is - a request you can't refuse). |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-11-17 5:14:22 PM |