 One of the suspected organizers of a deadly attack on a military bus in North Ossetia in 2003 told a court on Wednesday that he sheltered Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev in a house for two weeks that year. Speaking in the North Ossetian Supreme Court, Arkady Arakhov, who is from Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria, accepted the charge that he and Issa Iliyev, another of four defendants in the bus attack case, bought two houses with Basayev's money in Baksan, Kabardino-Balkaria, for Chechen militants to rest and take medical treatment, a courst source told Interfax. Arakhov said he secretly put up Basayev, his wife and two bodyguards in one of the houses in August 2003. Basayev stayed in the house for two weeks. |