MARIUPOL, Ukraine - Wearing camouflage, with a bushy salt-and-pepper beard flowing over his chest and a bowie knife sheathed prominently in his belt, the man cut a fearsome figure in the nearly empty restaurant. Waiters hovered apprehensively near the kitchen, and try as he might, the man who calls himself "Muslim," a former Chechen warlord, could not wave them over for more tea.
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Fighters of the Chechen Dzhokhar Dudaev Battalion drive a vehicle.
