Posted on 10/27/2002 3:49:16 AM PST by Destro
Sunday, 27 October, 2002, 09:46 GMT
Questions raised over Moscow siege
By Nikolai Gorshkov BBC correspondent in Moscow
The Russian Deputy Interior Minister, Vladimir Vasilyev, acknowledged there was an extensive underground network of extremists operating in Moscow.
About 30 people have been detained and were being questioned by police, he said.
Extremists had contacts with several foreign embassies in Moscow, said Mr Vasilyev.
Security stepped up
The minister urged people to be vigilant and report anyone acting suspiciously to police.
Patrols are everywhere in Moscow, performing identity checks on the buses, in the metro system, at road junctions.
They are out in force at the gates of several hospitals where the survivors of the siege are being treated for shock and gas poisoning.
Desperate relatives are besieging the hospital with inquiries about of their loved ones.
But the doctors have been ordered to keep quiet about the nature of their patients' injuries.
Knocked out
The special forces pumped some kind of gas into the auditorium to incapacitate the rebels who had plastic explosives strapped to their bodies, ready to blow themselves up.
Judging from the pictures shown on Russian television they might have been killed in their sleep.
Some appear to have died of asphyxiation.
The rebel leader's body was shown strewn on the floor littered with ammunition and rubbish, a bottle of cognac from the theatre's bar planted neatly in his hand.
Russian media claimed he was an drunkard, like all his family.
His men were high on drugs and women smelled of alcohol, a hostage told journalists.
The authorities maintain than none of the officially confirmed deaths among the hostages occurred through gas poisoning.
They speak of health problems that were exacerbated by the three day ordeal with very little food or water, or indeed, medical attention.
But experts believe that to incapacitate the hostage-takers quickly enough before they could detonate the explosives the gas concentration must have been fairly strong.
For some of the weaker hostages that might have proved too much.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
There is no greater insult to a Wahhabi Islamist.
Extremists had contacts with several foreign embassies in Moscow, said Mr Vasilyev.
Which ones? Russians probe al-Qa'eda link as a number of Arab fighters were among hostage takers Those Chechen-Arabs were Yemeni and Suadi Arabians.
The Chechens were also talking to contacts in Turkey.
Apparently these devolved simians don't fully understand cell phone technology since they did not know they were being monitored.
Which ones?
I'm guessing Pakistan might be on that list.
Breath deeply, bitch!
Good. and I hope nobody posts how the voice-stream technologies of cellular and satellite phones work or how they can scramble their voice by placing a large magnet next to the phone's back case as they dial and talk. Or how the range can be extended by wiring the phone directly to the ignition coil of an autombile while the engine is runnig.
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The rebel leader's body was shown strewn on the floor littered with ammunition and rubbish, a bottle of cognac from the theatre's bar planted neatly in his hand. Russian media claimed he was an drunkard, like all his family.
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Tag them and bag them!
Russian media claimed he was an drunkard, like all his family.
His men were high on drugs and women smelled of alcohol, a hostage told journalists.
A bottle of booze will do in a pinch when hog guts are unavailable.
We're all ready now for some Islamic cleric or CAIR to declare, "He drank liquor... Therefore he's no true muslim."
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