Byline: Associated Press
ALKHAZUROVO, Russia -- Exhausted Chechen rebel fighters fleeing Russian forces say a split with Islamic fundamentalists wrecked the insurgents' strategy of continuing the war from bases in the mountains.
The haggard fighters, many suffering from frostbite and hunger, say that Wahhabis, members of a fundamentalist sect who were supposed to prepare bases in the mountains for the rebels, betrayed them.
The Wahhabis had been deployed in the mountains since December. After the fall in February of the Chechen capital, Grozny, the rebels retreated to the southern …
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