The 2002 Dubrovka and 2004 Beslan hostage crises : a critique of Russian counter-terrorism / / John B. Dunlop ; with a foreword by Donald N. Jensen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808939203321
• Autore: Dunlop John B.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2012
• ISBN: 3-8382-5608-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 p.)
• Collana: Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; ; 26
• Disciplina: 363.32
• Soggetti: Terrorism - Government policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents ""; ""Permissions ""; ""Abbrevations ""; ""Foreword ""; ""I Beslan: Russia's 9/11? ""; ""Sources""; ""Advance Warnings ""; ""A Trail Run for Beslan ""; ""Preparing the Raid ""; ""The Terrorist Leaders ""; ""The Terrorist Rand-and-File ""; """"The Beasts Came from their Cages"" ""; ""The Terrorists' Demands ""; ""Seeking to Elicit a Federal Response ""; ""President Putin ""; ""Activities of the FSB-Run Headquarters ""; ""One Potential Negotiator is Physically Removed ""; ""Patrushev's Coded Telegram No. 629 ""; ""Public Relations ""; ""The South Ossetiyan Dimension ""; ""Moderates from the North Caucasus Seek to Resolve the Crisis """"The Role of Former Ingush Leaders Mikhail Gutseriev and Ruslan Aushev ""; ""The Storm Begins ""; ""The Gymnasium Roof Burns and Collapses ""; ""Tanks Fire at the School ""; ""Aftermath ""; ""Bibliographical Update (December 2005) ""; ""II The October 2002 Moscow Hostage-Taking Incident ""; ""An Unusual Kind of ""Joint Venture""? ""; ""Pressure Builds For a Negotiated Settlement with the Chechen Separatists ""; ""The FSB Suppresses a Promising Peacemaking Effort ""; ""Setting the Stage ""; ""The Terrorist Action Takes Shape ""; ""The Nominal Leader of the Terrorists """"The Active Phase of the Operation Begins ""; ""The Terrorist Assault on 23 October ""; ""Blackening Maskhadov ""; ""Negotiations Leading Nowhere ""; ""Questions ""; ""Aftermath of the Hostage-Taking Incident ""; ""Conclusiom ""; ""Bibliographical Update (November 2005) ""
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains by far the most complete reports available in English concerning two major terrorist incidents in Russia: the October 2002 seizure of a Moscow theater at Dubrovka and the September 2004 taking of a large school in Beslan in southern Russia. The issues examined are as follows:- the backgrounds of the Muslim extremists who carried out these acts including the de facto leaders of the terrorist assaults, ethnic Chechen Ruslan Elmurzaev and Ingush Ruslan Khuchbarov;- the failure of Russian law-enforcement to prevent these two incidents, documenting both the massive corruption o