Chechen President Alu Alkhanov hopes that the Federal Security Service\'s (FSB) steps to pay its promised reward for information on the whereabouts of separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov will help intensify the search for guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev. \"I am confident that now Basayev will hardly be able to feel safe wherever he is hiding - a region, a community, a forested area or the mountains,\" Alkhanov told Interfax on Tuesday. \"After the promise to pay most of the pledged money was kept, and the population knows that it is no myth, people will appear who will launch their own search for Basayev and his associates and inform the authorities of their progress,\" the president said. Massive funds and energy have been devoted to large-scale anti- guerrilla operations underway in the republic, he said. (Interfax)