What we have done is pushed back the Taliban and what we have done also is start to break that chain of terror that links the mountains of Afghanistan and in Pakistan to the streets of Britain,"
VOA: standard.2009.07.27
Extreme Chechen groups turned to guerrilla warfare in the mountains, and horrific acts ofterror in Russia, including the Beslan elementary school siege that ended with 334 people dead, including 186 children.
On Saturday, Chad's troops, fighting inside the boulder-pocked mountainsof Mali's north, reportedly caught up with terror fugitive Mokhtar Belmokhtar, killing the bearded, one-eyed mastermind of January's hostage raid on an Algerian natural-gas plant.