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| | Meier, Black Earth, Russia, Russian Modern History |
 | | He grieves the failure of the Chechens to establish a legitimate state during the time between the first and second Chechen wars. |
 | | He castigates the Chechen leaders - "the militarism of [Lecha] Dudayev, the romanticism of [Aslan] Mashkadov, the banditry of [Shamil] Basayev, the foreign Wahhabi virus of the [Arab] Khattab, and the venal hunger of the rest of Chechnya's warlords." He exclaimed: |
 | | Raibek Tovzayev, a Chechen war lord and a mortal enemy of Basayev. |
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