Chechen field Commander Lom Aly Shamayev, sitting in his Mercedes Benz, visits with fighters at a checkpoint at a front line position near the village of Achkhoy-Martan, some 30 miles southwest of Grozny, Russia on Saturday, Jan. 21, 1995. Russian troops are located approx. 1 mile from this checkpoint. (AP Photo/Sergey Karpukhin)