Summary: Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs: On Oct. 23, 2002, members of the battalion, along with two other Chechen groups seized more than 800 hostages at Moscow's Dubrovka Theater in a dramatic debut for the previously unknown group. The attackers wired the theater with explosives, threatening to blow it up, killing themselves along with the hostages.
