MERIT PROMOTION

In today's competitive world it's performance that counts:

Shamil Basayev, the man behind Russia's Beslan school siege last year, has been appointed deputy leader of Chechnya's separatists, the outlawed movement said on Friday in a sign of its growing radicalism.

Basayev, Russia's most wanted man, describes himself as "a bad guy, a bandit, a terrorist". If the Russians capture him he'll be a mangled, dead, buried slathered in lard and wrapped in pig skin, piece of shit.