Posted on 11/18/2004 3:39:16 AM PST by Ginifer
Russian authorities have detained two people on suspicion of being linked to terrorists who held more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in September.
Nikolai Shepel, Russia’s deputy prosecutor general and head of the investigation into the September 1 to 3 seizure of the school in Beslan, North Ossetia, said a 16-year-old resident of neighbouring Ingushetia has been detained on charges of possible links to the terrorists.
Shepel wouldn’t elaborate, but the daily Gazeta identified the suspect as Marina Korigova, a college student, and said she had been in custody for about two weeks.
Investigators said Korigova had had 16 telephone conversations with a man who had taken part in the school seizure, Gazeta quoted Korigova’s lawyer as saying.
The lawyer, Sharip Tepsayev, said that Korigova said the man was her neighbour and insisted that she had done nothing wrong.
The daily Vremya Novostei said that another resident of Ingushetia, Akhmed Merzhoyev, 28, had also been detained on charges of involvement in the school seizure.
It quoted investigators as saying that Merzhoyev had delivered food to the assailants at their camp in a forest before the attack and that he knew about their plans.
Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed responsibility for the school seizure, which ended in a hail of gunfire and explosions, killing more than 330 hostages.
Russian officials have said that 32 raiders took part in the attack and that 31 were killed and one captured. Media reports have suggested there were more attackers and that some escaped.
Its the shock value that they believe aids their cause......Whether throwing wheel chair invalids overboard, killing children in their classroom, cutting heads of perfectly innocent westerners, or shooting tied up aid workers on camera.......it is their way of political and religious argument.
Civilized people can find no Muslim religious leaders willing to stand up and stop the horror....they promote it by fiat.
Its the shock value that they believe aids their cause......
Whether throwing wheel chair invalids overboard,
killing children in their classroom,
cutting heads of perfectly innocent westerners,
or shooting tied up aid workers on camera.......
it is their way of political and religious argument."
These are things that bring a very big smile
to Jennings, Rather, Brokaw and McNeil (American traitors)
16 and already a college student?
Korigova was just one of the terrorists little honey. Probably nothing more nothing less. Even Russian girls are attracted to the bad boys.
They are merely puppets doing the political bidding of their handlers, long ago having exchanged their personal honor for money, power, and (now fading) "Prestige"
Ping
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