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Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, wearing grey jacket, poses with unidentified men under a flag of independent Chechnya, somewhere at an undisclosed location in the North Caucasus, in this 1994 photo. Maskhadov, blamed by Russia for last year's school hostage crisis and other terrorist acts, has been killed during a raid, the head of the Federal Security Service told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo)