World News 04-02-2005 who: `Warlord` Shamil Basayev what: Threatens repeat of Beslan outrage where: Chechnya when: This week snippet: In an interview broadcast by Channel 4 News on Thursday, the bearded 40-year-old - believed to be hiding in the mountains of southern Chechnya - blames the Russians for the massive loss of life at the school in North Ossetia, says The Times. "We are planning more Beslan-type operations in the future because we are forced to do so," he says. He says Chechnya is at war with anyone who supports the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin or pays the taxes Mr Putin spends on suppressing the Chechen people. "How can [those people] be innocent?" he sasks. "They are just without weapons. Russian citizens are accomplices of this war, it just may be that they have no weapons in their hands. Peaceful people for us are those that don`t pay taxes for this war, people who don`t participate, and who speak against this war." [... more]

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