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If the Russian people don't understand there's a war in Chechnya, we'll bring it to them.

Russian forces stormed a Moscow theater that had been taken over by Chechen rebels demanding an end to the war in Chechnya. Some hostages, like these, escaped alive, but gas used by the Russians killed 117 others
Related Photo Essay: Theater of War
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