Well, we have our own Chechen right here in the US that the Russians are looking for. We gave him asylum last month. Here's an excerpt from a story in the Washington Post:
"Tuesday, August 10, 2004; Page A18
LAST WEEK, the U.S. government granted political asylum to Ilyas Akhmadov, who was the foreign minister of an elected, moderate, separatist Chechen government and has been in exile since 1999. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that last month, one part of the government, the Department of Homeland Security, dropped its appeal against another part of the government: the immigration court in Boston that granted Mr. Akhmadov asylum months ago. The DHS appeal had little foundation. After hearing Mr. Akhmadov's case, the immigration judge pointed out that if he were returned to Russia, there was little doubt the Chechen leader would be "shot without being afforded the opportunity to defend himself in a trial, as has happened to other members of the Chechen government." The subsequent appeal was widely believed to have been made not on the merits of the case, but as a favor to the Russian government, which considers Mr. Akhmadov a terrorist.
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GOT ROPE!!!!
Soooo.....we are harboring a terrorist. Thank you State Dept....especially Boucher, a hanger on from the clinton administration