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Last Updated: Friday, 17 September, 2004, 16:23 GMT 17:23 UK ?

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"Chechen rebel claims Beslan siege"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Shamil Basayev has a $10m bounty on his head
Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has said he organised the Russian school siege in which at least 320 hostages were killed, many of them children.

In a letter published by leading rebel websites, he said a suicide battalion had carried out the Beslan attack.

The letter also claimed bomb attacks on two Russian airliners and a Moscow metro station this summer.

Russia is offering $10m for the capture of Mr Basayev, whose reported actions a US official described as "inhuman"."

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"Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claims responsibility for recent terrorist attacks in Russia"

09/17/2004 11:43

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "According to Basayev, the attack in Beslan cost him 8,000 euros

Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for explosions in Moscow, including the recent blast near the Rizhskaya metro station, the air crashes of the Tu-154 and Tu-134 airliners and the hostage crisis in Beslan, according to a Chechen terrorist website.

"The group Riyadus-Salikhin has conducted a series of successful operations on the territory of Russia. The explosions on the Kashirskoye Highway and near the Rizhskaya metro station were organized by the Moscow regional division of Shakhids. The two air crashes were organized by the special operations department. The operation Nord-West in the town of Beslan was carried out by the second battalion of Shakhids, under the command of Colonel Orstkhoev," a statement from Basayev runs.

It was Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev, who set up the Islamic battalion of Shakhids, Riyadus-Salikhin. According to Russian special services, Basayev organized terrorist acts in Budennovsk in 1995 (when terrorists took hundreds hostage at a local hospital) and in Moscow in 2002 (the hostage crisis at the Moscow music theatre).

In the middle of July, Basayev announced that new operations were being prepared to cause serious damage to federal forces both militarily and politically."

Posted on 09/17/2004 6:03:33 PM PDT by Cindy