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Following a number of continued [[terrorist]] attacks from Chechen [[jihad]]s against non-Muslims, the Russian government launched a new military campaign into Chechnya in 1997. By spring 2000, federal forces claimed control over Chechen territory, but fighting continued as jihadis regularly ambushed Russian forces in the region. Throughout 2002 and 2003, the ability of Islamists to battle the Russian forces waned but they claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist acts. In 2005 and 2006, key terrorist leaders were killed by Russian forces.

Following a number of continued [[terrorist]] attacks from Chechen [[jihad]]s against non-Muslims, the Russian government launched a new military campaign into Chechnya in 1997. By spring 2000, federal forces claimed control over Chechen territory, but fighting continued as jihadis regularly ambushed Russian forces in the region. Throughout 2002 and 2003, the ability of Islamists to battle the Russian forces waned but they claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist acts. In 2005 and 2006, key terrorist leaders were killed by Russian forces.

The leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC) — founded in 1999 and housed at the partly government-funded Freedom House, chaired by former [[national security adviser]] [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]]. The list of the self-styled "distinguished Americans" who are its members, is a rollcall of the most prominent [[neoconservative]]s championed the Chechen separatist cause, by its critics’ account, as a lever to weaken Russia and pry open the resource-rich Caucasus and enthusiastically support the "[[war on terror]]".

The leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC) — founded in 1999 and housed at the partly government-funded [[Freedom House]], chaired by former [[national security adviser]] [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]]. The list of the self-styled "distinguished Americans" who are its members, is a rollcall of the most prominent [[neoconservative]]s championed the Chechen separatist cause, by its critics’ account, as a lever to weaken Russia and pry open the resource-rich Caucasus and enthusiastically support the "[[war on terror]]".

They include [[Richard Perle]], the notorious [[Pentagon]] adviser; [[Elliott Abrams]] of [[Iran-Contra]] fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged on the invasion of [[Iraq]] by predicting it would be "a cakewalk"; Midge Decter, biographer of [[Donald Rumsfeld]] and a director of the [[Heritage Foundation]]; [[Frank Gaffney]] of the Centre for Security Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military intelligence officer and one-time vice-president of [[Lockheed Martin]], later president of the US Committee on [[NATO]]; [[Michael Ledeen]] of the [[American Enterprise Institute]], a former admirer of [[Italian]] [[fascism]] and later a leading proponent of [[regime change]] in [[Iran]]; [[William Kristol]], [[Robert Kagan]], and R [[James Woolsey]], the former CIA director and leading cheerleaders behind [[George Bush]]'s plans to re-model the [[Muslim]] world along pro-US lines.

They include [[Richard Perle]], the notorious [[Pentagon]] adviser; [[Elliott Abrams]] of [[Iran-Contra]] fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged on the invasion of [[Iraq]] by predicting it would be "a cakewalk"; Midge Decter, biographer of [[Donald Rumsfeld]] and a director of the [[Heritage Foundation]]; [[Frank Gaffney]] of the Centre for Security Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military intelligence officer and one-time vice-president of [[Lockheed Martin]], later president of the US Committee on [[NATO]]; [[Michael Ledeen]] of the [[American Enterprise Institute]], a former admirer of [[Italian]] [[fascism]] and later a leading proponent of [[regime change]] in [[Iran]]; [[William Kristol]], [[Robert Kagan]], and R [[James Woolsey]], the former CIA director and leading cheerleaders behind [[George Bush]]'s plans to re-model the [[Muslim]] world along pro-US lines.