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A previously unknown Chechen group later claimed responsibility for that bombing.

A Chechen group involved in the Beslan school siege in 2004 took responsibility and its leader promised more attacks.

"Heavy battles are being fought for every house, most of which the rebels have turned into fortresses," Bislan Gantamirov, the leader of a paramilitary Chechen group allied with Moscow, told the Itar-Tass news agency.

BRUSSELS — In a series of early morning raids, the police in three European countries arrested 11 people on Tuesday, saying that some were part of an international jihadist group planning a terrorist attack in Belgium and that others were members of a Chechen group.

Nor could one such terrorist attack bring into existence a new armed conflict between the United States and the Chechen group behind the attack.

They were told by their lawyers that they needed to link Moussaoui to a formally designated terrorist organization (what they had on him in late August 2001 was only a link to a rebel Chechen group not on the official designated lists), but that was simply wrong under the law at the time.

In 2000, Chechen groups began launching suicide attacks by women.

Separately, a senior State Department official said today that the United States was considering whether to add unnamed Chechen groups to its list of foreign terrorist organizations.

Though religious, the Chechen groups in eastern Ukraine are believed to adhere to a more nationalist strain of the Chechen separatist movement, according to Ekaterina Sikorianskaia, an expert on Chechnya with the International Crisis Group.

Fired by a potent mix of blood codes, separatist yearnings and Islamic militancy, Chechen groups have staged a string of intermittent but spectacular attacks in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia since the 1990s.

On the Russian social networking site VKontakte he was a member of various Chechen groups.