"Osama Bin Laden had links to the Chechen guerrillas thought to be behind the murder of three British telecoms workers, the BBC has learned.
The three men and a colleague from New Zealand were kidnapped and found beheaded in the strife-torn Russian republic in 1998.
The authorities believed the guerrilla gang responsible were led by Muslim fundamentalist warlord Arbi Barayev."
"Darren Hickey, 26, Rudi Petschi, 42, 46-year-old Peter Kennedy and New Zealander Stan Shaw, 58, were kidnapped in October 1998 while installing a telephone system in Chechnya.
The bodies of the men were found at the end of that December with speculation rife they had been beheaded as an act of defiance after a failed rescue attempt.
The engineers were installing a phone system Barayev had been negotiating a ransom with BT and Surrey-based Granger Telecom, the companies which employed the men.
But Mr Adukhov, tracked down by the Money Programme, said Barayev had told him that by killing them, he stood to receive "not $10m, but $30m" from "Arab friends".
Barayev is reported to have said: "We're waging holy war. And we're involved in big politics.
"We ourselves will answer for everything before Allah."
Barayev told Mr Adukhov money from kidnappings would be used to help the fundamentalist Islamic cause across the region."
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That's a lot of evidence to go through, MarMema.
Thanks for taking the time to post it.