Analysis from the BBC on Chechnya

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Enemies catch up with Kadyrov

By Stephen Mulvey
BBC News Online Russian affairs analyst



Kadyrov's allegiance with Putin made him a target for the rebels
There have been many attempts to kill Akhmad Kadyrov. Few people who know Chechnya would have predicted that he would survive so long.
Bombers have come close in the past - this time they got a direct hit.

The attack was probably carried out by Chechen rebels, who view him as a traitor.

He was on their side in the first Chechen war of 1994-96, as a religious leader with his own armed detachment.

But later he switched sides, eventually becoming the Russian government's puppet president in what was widely seen as a rigged election.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3697987.stm