Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov says the republic's presidential security service will focus on an operation aimed at detaining terrorist Shamil Basayev.

The move comes after the news that Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov has been killed.

Kadyrov says the elimination of Aslan Maskhadov will accelerate the process of establishing the whereabouts of Basayev and detaining him.

He says Basayev's main goal is blood and he wants blood to be shed at any cost.

(CRI.com March 10, 2005)