Russia: Bounties Sow Distrust Among Chechen Rebels

Russian security services said March 15 that they had paid a $10 million bounty for information revealing the whereabouts of moderate Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov. The fact that Maskhadov died because insiders gave up his location poses a new problem for Chechen militants, who are still adjusting to new leadership and deciding their future activities; they now will have to worry about the added threat of one of their own selling them out.