Russian intelligence sure works fast.
taking all this with a grain of salt.
utter the magic word Al Qaeda and immediately you get all sorts of support to do all sorts of nasty things to people.
To be sure, the subhuman trash that did this need to be dealt with as one would deal with a rabies outbreak. Kill all the dogs to be sure. Seems like these dogs hide in mountains and regions the Russians don't have direct control. Wouldn't want this to turn into a ethnic war in regions where the people are not directly involved. Seems like Georgia is a problem since the worst of the worst are hiding out in that great gorge there. Does Georgia still have nukes?
There have been stories for years about AlQueada cooperating with Chechen muslims. They also have 3 live (for now) terrorists to extract information from. I'm guessing that the KGB types are really good at getting people to talk. They don't exactly have a reputation for congeniality.