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Details from the interrogation of the terrorist taken alive by SpetsNaz in the wake of the attack on the school in Beslan, from Monday's edition of Gazeta.Ru: At least four of the attackers are from Stari Engenoi in Nozhai Yurt region of Chechnya. Among them is the surviving member, 24-year-old Nur-Pasha Kulayev, who was previously misidentified as Kulov. The group also included Kulayev's elder brother, 31-year-old Khan-Pasha Kulayev, who was killed on September 3rd. The two other terrorists from the same town were Arsen Merzhoev and Mairbek Shibikhanov. The Kulyaev brother were reported to be bodyguards to Shamil Basayev. The Kulyaevs were also connected with Rustamom Ganiyev, who was captured last year, and was responsible for recruiting killers to take part in terror acts in Russia proper. Two of Ganiyev's sisters were killed in the Nord Ost Theater incident in Dubrovka.
Another of the liquidated terrorists was identified as Anatoly Khodov, alias Abdullah, from the Ruslan Gelyaev group. He was involved in the 3 February 2004 bombing in Vladikavkaz. He was also involved in the 15 May attack on the Moscow-Vladikavkaz train.
The chief of the bandits was reported to be Magomed Yevloyev. His body has not been found. According to Vremya Novostei, among the dead gunmen was Magomed Aushev and a certain Umarov. However, this is not believed to be the field commander, Doku Umarov, who was reported to have organized the operation in the Beslan school. The bodies of seven gunnies did not have identification. Among them is one woman, who killed herself with a suicide belt. |