Qatar on Wednesday charged two suspects in the assassination of former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. Yandarbiyev, 51, was killed Feb. 13 when a bomb destroyed his car after he left a Doha mosque where he attended Friday Muslim prayers. His teenage son was wounded. The Interior Ministry said Wednesday that two suspects detained for questioning since Feb.19 were charged with murder. The two suspects were not identified.
| Arabs? Russers? Chechens? Samoans? Esquimaux? Veps? C'mon! At least give us a clue! |
Yandarbiyev, Chechnya’s acting president in 1996-1997, had lived in Qatar since 2000 and was wanted by Russian authorities for suspected terrorism and links to al-Qaida. Moscow had been seeking his extradition. His assassination occurred one week after a bombing in a Moscow subway killed 41 people and wounded more than 100. President Vladimir Putin blamed Chechen rebels for the bombing.
| That kinda sorta makes me lean toward the Russers as the probable culprits, but there are lots of others with reasons, some of them frivolous, to want him to go "boom!" |
An aide to Yandarbiyev, Ibrahim Gabi, has blamed the Kremlin for Yandarbiyev’s killing, a pro-rebel Web site reported. Last year, the United Nations put Yandarbiyev on a list of people with alleged links to al-Qaida. Washington also put him on a list of international terrorists subject to financial sanctions.
| Guess it could even have been us. Steve? Was that you? Dan? Frank? 'Fess up... |
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