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| Caucasus |
| Danes jug Chechen mouthpiece... |
| 2002-10-30 |
| Denmark arrested a senior Chechen rebel on Wednesday at the behest of Russia, which said it suspected him of helping plot last week's Moscow theater siege in which at least 119 hostages died. A Danish judge ordered Akhmed Zakayev detained for 13 days, to make sure he did not flee. The justice minister said he might be extradited if Russia promised not to use the death penalty. So promise not to use it. A life term someplace unpleasant 60 miles east of Blagoveshchensk shouldn't take too many years... Zakayev, a top aide to the region's fugitive separatist president, Aslan Maskhadov, had attended a long-planned Chechen exiles' gathering this week in Copenhagen. Denmark's agreement to allow the meeting enraged Russian President Vladimir Putin, who canceled a state visit next month in protest. That's only because it was stupid and tactless... Police said they received information from Russia on Tuesday that Zakayev was suspected of helping prepare the theater siege and of taking part in other "terrorist" acts from 1996-99. By "terrorist" acts, ABCNews means acts that "killed" people or "multilated" them, or even otherwise caused them "pain." Maskhadov and Zakayev have both condemned the raid in Moscow as the work of an extremist rebel faction outside their control. That said they were operating on Maskhadov's orders... Thanks to Steve for the link... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Give him a life sentence with no clothes in Siberia. |
| Posted by: PJ 2002-10-30 23:23:13 |