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Ex-Guantanamo prisoner detained in Russia
AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/11/05 | Fatima Tlisova

Posted on 11/11/2005 8:46:58 PM PST by NormsRevenge

NALCHIK, Russia - A man who was held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been detained on suspicion of involvement in attacks on police last month in southern Russia, a senior prosecutor said Friday.

Relatives and lawyers confirmed that Rasul Kudayev, a Russian who was released from Guantanamo last year, had been detained and insisted the charges have been fabricated.

Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel said witnesses, along with Kudayev's own confessions, confirmed his involvement in preparing and carrying out the Oct. 13 attacks on government and law enforcement offices in Nalchik, the capital of the troubled Kabardino-Balkariya region.

At least 139 people died in the nearly simultaneous daytime assaults on law enforcement offices, including the 94 accused attackers, according to official tallies. Shepel said more than 40 people have been detained on suspicion of involvement.

Alexandra Zernova, a lawyer for Kudayev, said that her client was physically too weak to participate in the attacks and said he had been tortured into confessing.

Kudayev was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay after being captured in Afghanistan and linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a terror group with alleged ties to al-Qaida. Since his release last year, he and his family have been repeatedly harassed by police, said his mother, Fatimat Takayeva.

Shepel also said that Ruslan Nakhushev, a respected Islamic expert and well-known government critic who has been missing since being questioned by security officers Nov. 4, has been charged with instigating the attack.

Kabardino-Balkariya is one of several North Caucasus regions that has long been plagued by endemic corruption and violence — some of it stemming from criminal gang feuds and some spilling over from nearby Chechnya.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedarussia; captured; detained; detainees; exguantanamo; gitmo; guantanamo; gwot; prisoner; russia; terrorism; terrorists; waronterror; wot
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1 posted on 11/11/2005 8:47:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Wonder if Sen. McCain approved of the Russian interrogation techniques?
2 posted on 11/11/2005 8:50:02 PM PST by bybybill (remember, the fish come first)
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To: NormsRevenge

I suspect the Russians will do a bit more than pull some underwear over his head.


3 posted on 11/11/2005 8:51:31 PM PST by Heatseeker ("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
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To: NormsRevenge
Oh durbin! senator durbin! One of your misunderstood children is out there attacking police....umm er being misunderstood again!
5 posted on 11/11/2005 8:56:54 PM PST by GloriaJane (http://music.download.com/gloriajane "ACLU Christmas")
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To: NormsRevenge

If they're going to release prisoners from Gitmo at all, they should release them in Havana.


6 posted on 11/11/2005 8:58:20 PM PST by KarinG1 (Some of us are trying to engage in philosophical discourse. Please don't allow us to interrupt you.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I thought Guantanamo was one of those prisons you only enter and never exit.


7 posted on 11/11/2005 9:01:09 PM PST by Firefigher NC (Volunteer firefighters- standing tall, serving proud in the tradition of Ben Franklin.)
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To: ArizonaPatriot
Because we are in the middle of the Tag on Terror not the War on Terror...Tag you're it...ok, now go and tag someone else...fly free my little birdy.

Club Gitmo, where we take deseperate low life terrorists, feed them, comfort them, cloth them, exercise them and even fix their rotting cow dung covered teeth so that they can go out and fight against the West even harder....all in the name of purity and PCdom.

8 posted on 11/11/2005 10:24:04 PM PST by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: KarinG1

"If they're going to release prisoners from Gitmo at all, they should release them in Havana."


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I don't think so, I have a better place for them: make the loud-mouthed Dems adopt them and care for them.


9 posted on 11/11/2005 11:14:56 PM PST by FairOpinion (CA Props: We may have lost the battle, but the war is not over. Support reform in CA.)
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To: jb6

> Club Gitmo, where we take deseperate low life
> terrorists, feed them, comfort them, cloth them,
> exercise them and even fix their rotting cow dung
> covered teeth so that they can go out and fight
> against the West even harder....
It is not necessarily a joke.
Some of us Russian paranoics suspect that the Guantanamo prison is, in fact, a camp where future Islamic terrorists are brainwashed and trained. And then are let loose to molest countries that the US want to molest.

Islamic terrorism is under suspition of being the creation and instrument of America.

Is there any definite proof of the opposite?


10 posted on 11/12/2005 12:16:37 AM PST by A Russian
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To: A Russian
Islamic terrorism is under suspition of being the creation and instrument of America. Is there any definite proof of the opposite?


You are quite a loon, eh?
11 posted on 11/12/2005 4:24:18 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: A Russian
Islamic terrorism is under suspition of being the creation and instrument of America. Is there any definite proof of the opposite?




12 posted on 11/12/2005 4:26:52 AM PST by tiredoflaundry ("Youth" - French for Muslim Rioters)
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To: A Russian
Did we also train your Chechnyian terrorists?

Why don't you be one of the ones who thinks for himself and doesn't buy into the America-hating, terrorist loving leftist lie campaign?

13 posted on 11/12/2005 4:31:05 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: Grzegorz 246
Seems like „A Pole“ at last changed his username as you wished.
14 posted on 11/12/2005 7:13:30 AM PST by Lukasz
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To: A Russian

"Is there any definite proof of the opposite?"

Common sense ?


15 posted on 11/12/2005 8:00:21 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Lukasz; A. Pole

Heh.


16 posted on 11/12/2005 8:01:00 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: jb6
Club Gitmo, where we take deseperate low life terrorists, feed them, comfort them, cloth them, exercise them and even fix their rotting cow dung covered teeth so that they can go out and fight against the

So I understand that you agree with “A Russian” theory about US training terrorists? Could you clarify your point?

17 posted on 11/12/2005 8:24:41 AM PST by Lukasz
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To: A Russian
Am I in before the ZOT???


18 posted on 11/12/2005 8:28:51 AM PST by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: Lukasz; GarySpFc
So I understand that you agree with “A Russian” theory about US training terrorists?,

Nice try, your propaganda angle will work about as well as ever, which means none. If you had any idea what was going on in our WOT, that is, if you bothered to go on any US threads and not just post anti-Russian stuff, you'd know exactly what I mean. We conservatives are sick and tired of our government cuddling the terrorists at Club Gitmo.....but why would you know that at a US forum when you're on a one agenda purpose here?

19 posted on 11/12/2005 9:00:22 AM PST by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: A Russian
Gitmo is not a training camp, it is a prison, but to show the world how humane we are, we provide better medical care and better food for this scum then the soldiers who guard them get. Furthermore, since our leftists can't figure out they're in a war, they won't let us exterminate this vermin, so the less guilty are eventually released and released in better health then before they were caught. Several have been killed or recaptured in Iraq and Afghanistan, again shooting at Americans.

Islamic terrorism is under suspition of being the creation and instrument of America

This comment is just as stupid as the same comments made here about Russia sponsoring terrorism and the Chechens.

20 posted on 11/12/2005 9:04:24 AM PST by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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