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| Officer arrested for negligence in Russian jet bombings |
| 2004-09-23 |
| As lawmakers here debated how to respond to terrorist attacks, Russian investigators on Wednesday arrested an airport police supervisor who briefly detained two women suspected of killing themselves and 88 others aboard two passenger airliners last month, the Prosecutor General's Office said. The officer, Capt. Mikhail Artamonov, has already lost his job overseeing counterterrorism activities at Domodedovo International Airport outside Moscow. He now faces criminal charges for failure to take a simple action that may have prevented the country's worst act of terrorism in the air, a spokesman for the office said in a telephone interview. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |