1. Another person on the list was Abu Hamza Al-Masri, an influential Egyptian sheik who lost both hands and an eye fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan. 2. Authorities suspect that bombings are the work of terrorists aligned with Muslim insurgents fighting federal troops in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan. 3. After the last war in Afghanistan, when US-funded rebels fought invading Soviet troops, Pakistan was left alone to cope with millions of Afghan refugees. 4. Each soldier endorsed the fragile peace that settled this week over the sweltering battlefields of the Caucasus, where Chechen separatists have been fighting Russian troops. 5. For many people here, the model of resistance is now Hezbollah, the militant Muslim group whose guerrillas fought Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. 6. Islamic rebels based in Chechnya have been fighting Russian troops in Dagestan, a neighboring Russian republic in the Caucasus. 7. Russian military spokesmen say that the bodies were of victims of the Chechen separatists, or of Chechen rebels who died fighting Russian troops. 8. Several parties have organized military affiliates that have fought government troops, particularly in the east. 9. Since then, the communist government has collapsed, giving way to a civil war among the Muslim rebel groups that had fought Soviet troops. 10. Staring at them from across the border are Serbs, who fought Nazi troops to a standstill. |