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| | A FACE OF FUTURE BATTLE: CHECHEN FIGHTER SHAMIL BASAYEV [Long, Good Read. Background: Beslan Leader] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Among his countrymen, however, Basayev is a great hero; a composite mix of Robin Hood, George Washington and his 19th Century namesake, Shamil.(7) On more than one occasion, when Russian forces were on the threshold of destroying the remnants of Chechen resistance, Basayev managed to strengthen Chechen resolve and strike the Russians where it hurt. |
 | | In August of this year, Chechen forces, again led by Shamil Basayev, conducted a successful three-pronged attack and regained possession of the capitol, Grozny.(40) Russian forces retaliated by threatening to bombard the city again. |
 | | Shamil Basayev attracted the attention of the GRU through his active role in the defense of the so-called Russian White House in August 1991, when he, together with other Moscow-based Chechens, supported Boris Yeltsin's struggle against communist hard-liners. |
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