13.02.2004, 08:06
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Zitat:Zealot's star rises in Chechnya
By Judith Ingram
The Associated Press
MOSCOW -- A Saudi-born warrior so zealously Muslim that he is traumatized by even touching nonbelievers has risen to the top echelon of rebels in Chechnya, Russian officials and rebel sources say, a symbol of how a once-secular fight has come under the influence of radical Islam.
To the Russian security services, the rebel commander known as Abu Walid embodies Chechnya's place in the chain of international terrorism...