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Article: Warlord was behind Caucasus attack.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- October 18, 2005
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Byline: Alex Rodriguez
Oct. 18--MOSCOW -- Russia's most wanted insurgent, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, claimed responsibility for last week's attack on the North Caucasus provincial capital of Nalchik that killed 137 people, according to a posting on a rebel Web site Monday.
Basayev has previously claimed responsibility for organizing last year's seizure of a school in the southern Russian city of Beslan that killed 362 people--186 of them children--as well as the 2002 takeover of a Moscow theater that left 129 hostages dead.
Russian authorities believe the Beslan takeover was part of his strategy to expand the war in Chechnya into ...