A message posted on the pro-Chechen separatist Internet website kavkazcenter.com says rebels commanded by Basaev had carried out a series of operations, including the hostage taking in Beslan.
No other confirmation of the claim was immediately available.
More than 320 people, about half of them children, were killed when the hostage crisis in the North Ossetian town ended in explosions and gunfire between hostage takers and Russian security forces on 3 September.
(Reuters/AFP)
No other confirmation of the claim was immediately available.
More than 320 people, about half of them children, were killed when the hostage crisis in the North Ossetian town ended in explosions and gunfire between hostage takers and Russian security forces on 3 September.
(Reuters/AFP)
