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TERRORISM AND THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES

Scanning the Spring 2000 news from Russia&#039s North Caucasus region might suggest that terrorism and insurgency there are on the run: Chechen resistance leader Shamil Basayev lost a leg to a mine while fleeing a Russian assault; Chechen &#039president&#039 Aslan Maskhadov and Chechen Mujahedin leader Ibn al-Khattab are at large; and Chechen warlord Salman Raduyev suffered an inglorious capture by Russian special forces. Russian authorities under President Vladimir Putin have dealt &#039terrorism&#039 a serious blow, no? No, actually, they haven&#039t. TRC Analysis