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First anti-Jordanian Protest: Iraqis protest against Jordan over bomber Thousands of Iraqi Shias protested on Monday after hearing reports that relatives of a Jordanian suicide bomber suspected of killing 125 people in the town of Hilla celebrated him as a martyr. After breaking into the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad and tearing down the flag, protesters called on all foreign Arabs to leave the country and denounced King Abdullah. Anti-Jordanian sentiment has been spreading since Iraqis read newspaper reports that Jordan’s Raid al-Banna blew himself up beside people lining up for jobs in the Shia town of Hilla last month in...

GROZNY. March 9 (Interfax) - Now that Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov has been killed, the republic's presidential security service will focus on an operation aimed at detaining terrorist Shamil Basayev, Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told Interfax. "The elimination of Aslan Maskhadov will accelerate the process of establishing the whereabouts of Basayev and detaining him. Now we can pay twice as much attention to this problem, as previously we had to work in several directions," Kadyrov said. Basayev is extremely dangerous to society, and "terrorism is his way of living and his way of thinking. In...

MOSCOW, March 8 - Russian special forces killed the leader of Chechnya's separatists in a raid today that gave the Kremlin a rare victory in a bloody war that has killed tens of thousands and spawned a wave of terrorist attacks across Russia in recent years. The slain separatist, Aslan Maskhadov, who from hiding led thousands of fighters following Russia's second invasion of the republic in 1999, died in a bunker beneath a house in an outwardly peaceful village, Tolstoy Yurt, only 12 miles from the region's capital, Grozny, according to Russian officials and news accounts. His death is akin...

Khankala, 19 January: Movladi Udugov, one of [Chechen separatist leader] Aslan Maskhadov's closest aides and an ideologist of Wahhabism, has once again confirmed that the Chechen extremists' leader [Udugov] was involved in the explosion at the complex of Chechen government buildings in Groznyy on 27 December last year. ITAR-TASS learnt from the headquarters of the antiterrorist operation in Chechnya that in an interview for the Georgian media Udugov "promised to continue carrying out similar acts using suicide terrorists". When two cars were blown up by suicide bombers outside Government House in Chechnya, more than 80 people were killed and about...