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For all the gestures and symbols borrowed from extremist Islam, the Chechen operation differed fundamentally from the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, or from the bombing this month in Bali.

The Federal Security Service, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, took over command of the Chechen operation in January, in part to address reports of human rights violations.

Two other Mi-26 helicopters have crashed in Chechen operations since 1999.

That plan, combined with an order turning over control of Chechen operations to his domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, suggests that the Kremlin considers its war against the separatist rebels largely won.

In their best-known operation, Chechen separatists seized control of a hospital in the southern Russian town of Budyonnovsk in 1995 and fought off Russian counterattacks.

Now the center also serves as the Moscow headquarters for the Chechen rescue-and-shelter operation.

The Russian Interior Ministry said the Stavropol police notified Chechen counterparts of the operation, who in turn offered assistance.

Twelve people were detained during the operation — two Chechens, two Azeris and eight Turks.

But senior officials also say that any military operation will endanger Chechen refugees and risk bringing Russia's war in Chechnya to Georgia.

Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov said Georgia had agreed to a joint search operation to find Chechen rebels hiding in the Pankisi Gorge, but officials in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, quickly denied a deal had been made.

"Extraction," written and directed by Tony Giglio ("Death Race: Inferno") and posted last month, is a thoroughly routine, video-game-style low-budget actioner in the Michael Bay mold, starring a somewhat blank actor named John Foo as a special-ops soldier on a botched operation in a Chechen prison.